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Family memoirs

A RECORD OF ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OF THE HUDSON AND
MOHAWK VALLEYS IN NEW YORK STATE, INCLUDED WITHIN THE PRES-
ENT COUNTIES OF ALBANY, RENSSELAER. WASHINGTON. SARATOGA,
MONTGOMERY, FULTON, SCHENECTADY, COLUMBIA AND GREENE.

PREPARED UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF

CUYLER REYNOLDS

Curator of The .Albany Institute and Historical and -Art Society, since 1S98; Director of New-
York State History Exhibit at Jamestown Exposition, igo7; .Autlior of ".Albany
Chronicles," "Classified Quotations," and several other published works.

VOLUME IV.

LLUSTRATED

NEW YORK

LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY

COPYRIGHT

LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY

1911

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HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS.

The family name of Dix is of the

DIX same significance as the name Dicks
or Dickens, the letter "s" being a
contraction of "son," meaning the son of Dick
or of Richard. Dick, the familiar abbrevia-
tion of Richard, is thought to be derived from
the Dutch word "Dyck" or "Dijck," a bank
or dike (also dyke), mound or ditch, of earth,
sand or stones reinforced, thrown up to pre-
vent low land in Holland from being inun-
dated by the sea or river. The reason for
including the meaning "ditch" in connection
with "mound" is because in the act of cre-
ating a barrier, or diking, a ditch is created
at the selfsame time ; but the intention being
to create a wall of earth, chief thought is
therefore directed to that meaning of the
word. Based accordingly on this idea of the
significance of the name's derivation, the con-
clusion cannot be otherwise that this family,
"before coming over to America, dwelt near a
■dyke in Holland, in the lowlands as they are
called, undoubtedly along the coast.

The name is therefore found in the spellings
Di.K. Dikx, Diks, Dicks, Dyck, Dyk, Dijck
and Dyke, and some families in America
show that they came originally from such a
locality in Holland by employing the prefix
"van" or "von," as Van Dyke.

The Dix coat-of-arms, of the Amsterdam
"branch, was as follows: D'azur a trotis tetes
et cols de cygne d'argent, accompagne de
debx roses d'or en fiancs. That of the Har-
lem line was as follows : D'or a la fasce
d'azur, accompagne de trois corneilles de
sable, souvent ecarteie de gules au chevron,
accompagne en chef de deux etoiles et en
pointe d'un croissant tourne, le tout d'or.
Crest: Une corneille de sable entre un vol
■d'or et d'azur.

Four distinct branches of the Dix family
were started in .America in early times. These

Watertown, Massachusetts, and the Dix fam-
ily of Accomac county in Virginia. It is not
known that anybody has been able to demon-
strate the relationship reliably. Undoubtedly
they were connected by the generation just
previous to any one of them coming to
America.

Edward Dix and his wife, Deborah, canie
from England and settled at Watertown,
Massachusetts. They were in the fleet with
Governor Winthrop, in 1630. He appears
to have died at that place, prior to the re-
moval of his immediate family into Connecti-
cut, leaving a widow and three children. The
widow, Deborah, married (second) October
16, 1667, Richard Barnes, of Marlboro,
Massachusetts, by whom she had five chil-
dren, between 1669 and 1683, according to
certain published records ; but the dates seem
somewhat averse to the fact. Children: i.
Leonard, see forward. 2. John, who was in
Hartford, Connecticut, in 1676; was taxed
there in 1683 : sold his house and land in
1686: owned land in Hoccanum, near the
mouth of the river bearing that name, in
1679; joined the Second Church of Hart-
ford, September 10, 1686: married Mary Bid-
well ; children : Sarah, John, Margaret, Dan-
iel, Elizabeth, Susanna and Joseph. 3. Wil-
liam, died in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1676.

(H) Leonard, son of Edward and Deborah
Dix, was known to be in Wethersfield, Con-
necticut, after which he was in Branford,
Connecticut, where he receive<l a grant of
land; soon afterwards was again at "VVethers-
field, where he also had grants of very good
land and a lot in the village on which he re-
sided from about 1650 until the time of his
death. He was a prominent man of the place,
constable in 1672, and surveyor of highways
in 1684. On his death he left considerable
land on the east side of the Great River, "be-

Avere the lines instituted by Leonard Dix, of ing the Indian Purchase," a horse, two cows,
Wethersfield. Connecticut; Anthony Dix, of a heifer, swine, agricultural implements, me-
Plymouth, Massachusetts ; Edward Dix, of chanical tools, a "great musket," a long fowl-

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ing-piece, swords, belts, etc., appraised at
fifty-three English pounds. He died Decem-
ber 7, 1696, and his will bore date March 24,
1696-97. His wife was named Sarah, and
she died in 1709. Children : Sarah, born 1658,
died -April 3, 1682, married. February 10,
1680, John Francis; John, born in 1661, see
forward; Mercy, died, December 20, 171 1.
married, 1687, Moses Gofif; William, married

\^incent; Hannah, died April 7, 1733,

married, November, 1693, John Rennals, or
Reynolds ; Samuel ; Elizabeth.

(HI) John, son of Leonard and Sarah Dix,
was born at Wethersfield, Connecticut, in
1661. He was hayward in 1686, and sur-
veyor of highways in 1704. He died Novem-
ber 2, 171 1, and his sons, John and Leonard,
were administrators, who inventoried his es-
tate, reporting on January 27, 1711-12, that
it amounted to eighty-three dollars. His wife
was named Rebecca, and she died November
17, 171 1, aged sixty years. Children: John,
born February 17, 1684, see forward; Re-
becca, March 17, 1686-87; Leonard, January
27, 1688: Elizabeth, April 3, 1691.

(IV) John (2), son of John (i) and Re-
becca Dix, was born February 17, 1684. He
married. June 9, 1709, Sarah, daughter of
John Waddams. Children : Samuel, born
February 28, 1710-11; John, August 6, 1713;
Sarah. March 30, 1721, married, December
2, 1741, Joseph Smith; Moses, March 15,
1723-24, see forward ; Benjamin, May 27,
1729, died September 4, 1755.

(V) Moses, son of John (2) and Sarah
(Waddams) Dix, was born March 15, 1723-24,
died September 25, 1798. Letters of admin-
istration on his estate were issued to his son
Moses, of Farmington, Connecticut. He mar-
ried, September i, 1744, Hannah Dickinson.
Children: Jerusha, born November 11, 1745;
Rhoda, August 13, 1746, married, December

19, 1764, Rhodes; John, September

26, 1748; Ozias, December 6, 1750, see for-
ward; Hannah, May 26, 1753, died Septem-
ber 30, 1753; Hannah, December 3, 1754;
Rebecca, baptized September 23, 1759; Mary,
baptized May 9, 1762; a son, buried October
2,3, 1776, aged twelve years; a daughter
(probably named Mary), buried December 3,
1776, aged thirteen years; Moses, married
Ruth Crane, November 7, 1792.

fVI) Ozias. son of Moses and Hannah
(Dickinson) Dix, was born December 6, 1750,
in Wethersfield, Connecticut. He was a .sol-
dier in the revolution, and later removed to
P.rattleboro, Vermont. He married, October
22, 1 77 1. Lucy ILitch. born May 6, 1753.
The baptisms of their first five children were
recorded at Wethersfield. Children : ,

born March 25, 1773, baptized May i, 1774;
Ozias, baptized May i, 1774, died September
8, 1775 (family record, died October 7, 1775) ;
Lydia (Lucy), born July 18, 1776, baptized
July 21, 1776; John, born July 5, 1778, bap-
tized July 19, 1778; Samuel, born February
23, 1781, see forward; Ozias, born October
15, 1783, died October 17, 1783; Jerusha,
born October 23, 1784, baptized, Wethersfield,
Febniary 13, 1785 ; Mary, born February 23,
1787; Zephanah, born May 10, 1789; Ozias,
born May 6, 1791 ; Daniel, born February 16,.
1796; Moses, born February 12, 1798; Jus-
tice, born November 9, 1802.

(VH) Samuel, son of Ozias and Lucy
(Hatch) Dix, was born at Wethersfield, Con-
necticut, February 23, 1781, baptized there
March 11, 1781. He died at Glens Falls, New
York, July 4, 1857. He married, at Wilming-
ton, Vermont, Deceml^er i, 1814, Mersylvia,
born May 25, 1788, died September 8, 1853,
daughter of Israel Lawton, born January 30,
1758, died September 26, 1844, and Dolly
(Billings) Lawton, born January 8, 1764, died
February 12, 1816. Israel Lawton and Dolly
Billings were married August 14, 1783. Chil-
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Dix: James Lawton,
see forward ; Samuel Billings, born at Mor-
eau. New York, February 16, 1819, died, un-
married, at Glens Falls, New York, Septem-
ber 25, 1898; Harriet, born at Glens Falls,
April 12, 1821, died at Glens Falls, |ulv 25,
1826.

(VIII) James Lawton, son of Samuel and
Mersylvia (Lawton) Dix, was born at Mor-
eau. New York, September 19, 1816, died at
Glens Falls, New York, May 17, 1888. He
received his education at Easton, New York,
and afterwards engaged in farming in north-
ern New York. He was a member of the
Methodist church, and in politics acted with
the Democratic party.
He married, at Schenectady, New York. June

25, 1857, Laura Ann, daughter of Lewis and
Katharine (Fort) Stevens, the latter born at
Scha^ticoke, November 21, 1800, where they
were also married. Children: i. Walter
Lewis, born at Glens Falls, New York, Au-
gust 8, 1858; married, at Glens Falls, April
12, 1882, Julia Ann Wheaton ; children: Law-
ton .Mien Dix, born .'\pril 9, 1885 ; Howard
Wheaton Dix, born September 3, 1887; Ger-
trude .Mice, born September 22, 1890; Marion,
born July 25, 1892. 2. Anna Mersylvia, born
at Glens Falls, New York, November 25,
1859; married. Glens Falls, December 21,
1882, Henry Wing, son of Sanford and Cath-
erine (Wing) Coffin ; children : John Dix Cof-
fin, born June 15, 1884; Fenwick, born March

26, 1889; Laura, born December 8, 1892;;

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Alargaret, born August i, 1895: all at Glens
Falls, New York. 3. John Alden, see for-
ward. 4. Charles Billings, born at Glens Falls,
August 5, 1863 : married. Glens Falls, Decem-
ber 29, 1892, Mary Lydia, daughter of George
and Mahala (Sherman) Rugg : no children.
(IX) John Alden Dix, son of James Law-
ton and Laura Ann (Stevens) Dix, was born
at Glens Falls, New York, December 25,
i860. He studied at the Glens Falls Acad-
emy, graduating in 1879, and then entered
Cornell L'niversity, graduating in 1883. He
began the practical duties of life by working
first as a farm hand and then in the machine
shops of his native town, thereby securing a
valuable experience which benefited him in
his later career. He then engaged in the
lumber business with Lemon Thomson, of
Albany, at Thomson, New York, under the
firm name of Thomson & Dix. On the death
of the senior partner, in February, 1897, the
firm was dissolved, and Mr. Dix was appoint-
ed executor of his deceased partner's estate.
He purchased the latter's interest and devel-
oped a paper mill at Thomson, where his
chief business is centered, gradually building
up one of the most efficient wall-paper plants
in the country, and at the same time turned
his attention to the conservation of natural
resources. Mr. Dix realized that much of
New York's wealth lay in her trees, and to
protect himself he acquired a tract of seven-
teen thousand acres for his own mills, and
made it a rule that for every tree which was
cut down another should be planted. His
relations with his workmen have always been
happy, owing to the fact that he shows some
consideration for their welfare: his factories
have always been built with the utmost re-
gard for hygiene, and he has given his work-
m.en a half-holiday every week during the
months of July and August. As a business
man he is scrupulously honorable in all his
dealings, bearing a reputation for integrity,
and as a banker he has achieved the increase
of the rate which the state earns on its de-
posits. A stockholder in the Exchange and
the First National Bank, he brought about
the amalgamation of the two and became first
vice-president of the enlarged First National
Bank. In addition he is serving as president
of the Iroquois Paper Company, vice-president
of the Blandy Paper Company, treasurer of
the American \\'oodboard (Zompany, manager
of the Moose River Lumber Company, and
director of the National Bank of Schuylerville.
In politics Mr. Dix is a Democrat, adher-
ing to the sound and long-tried principles of
Democracy of which the Nation has need in
the direction of its affairs. At the National

Convention at St. Louis Mr. Dix met and
became acquainted with many of the leading
men of the Democratic party. In 1906 he
was a candidate for the gubernatorial nomina-
tion at Buffalo, New York; in the fall of
1908 was placed on the ticket as lieutenant-
governor; in the spring of 1910 was chosen
chairman of the state Democratic committee,
and in the fall of 19 10 became the Demo-
cratic nominee for governor and was elected.
His method in discharging the chairmanship
of the state Democratic committee was the
method of a man of conscience and right in-
tentions, seriously desiring to ascertain what
was best for those who had placed their trust
in him. He called in conference the leading
men of his party, and in the summer he made
a tour by automobile for the purpose of hold-
ing a series of conferences in as many coun-
ties as he could visit, to which he invited
members of every faction with the object of
coming to a complete understanding of the
situation. He has inspired his party with a
new feeling, has put new life into it. and has
won the respect and confidence of those whom
he has consulted of the mass of Democratic
voters. Upon public questions Mr. Dix has
made declarations which show him to be in
accord with the principles of the platform
upon which he stands. He is an advocate of
an honest revision of the tariff', of a reason-
able and conservative, not a destructive re-
vision, of a revision that will strip the un-
worthy beneficiaries of the protective tariff
law of privileges of extortion of which no
men, and least of all they, should have the
enjoyment, a revision that will, so far as pos-
sible, tend to reduce the present high cost of
living. He is an advocate of an economical
administration of the affairs of the state, and
of a cutting off of the useless expenditures
which have so multiplied during the past
years. Mr. Dix is in the best sense a repre-
sentative of the intelligent, active, sober-mind-
ed, conservative and successful citizenship of
the Empire State. He is a man to whom his
fellow-citizens would readily turn for coun-
sel, to whom they would with confidence in-
trust the conduct of affairs demanding fore-
sight, sound judgment, ability and uprightness.
He was one of the founders of the Democratic
League and as such stands for personal free-
dom. National and .State economy, the re-
vision of the tariff and revenue laws, and the
abolition of protection for gigantic "infant in-
dustries."

Mr. Dix is a warden of St. Stephen's Epis-
copal Church of Schuylerville, and a member
of Glens Falls Lodge, Free and Accepted
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Country Club. Fort Orange Club, Albany In-
stitute and Historical and Art Society. His
city residence, No. 491 State street, Albany,
is an attractive one, where he and his wife
entertain many friends, but his summer resi-
dence on the bank of the Hudson river and
the Battenkill creek, at Thomson, is a charm-
ing place, and he is accustomed to making
weekly trips between the two places in his
automobile.

Mr. Di.K married, at Albany, New York,
April 24, 1889, Gertrude Alden Thomson,
born at Albany, third child of Lemon and
Abby Galusha (Sherman) Thomson. Lemon
Thomson was born at Athol, Warren county.
New York. January 22, 1822; graduated from
Union College in 1850, and then engaged in
the lumber business, establishing the firm of
L. Thomson & Company, which became
known all over the country; removed to Al-
bany in 1855, and died at Thomson, New
York, February 24, 1897. His wife, Abby
Galusha (Sherman) Thomson, was born Sep-
tember 9, 1828, died in New York City, June
13. 1896, daughter of Augustus Sherman, of
Glens Falls, New York, a descendant of
Roger Sherman, a signer of the Declaration
of Independence. Lemon Thomson was son
of Charles C. Thomson, grandson of Charles
Thomson, and great-grandson of Benjamin
Thomson, the emigrant ancestor of the fam-
ily, coming to this country from Scotland.
Charles C. Thomson was born at Elizabeth.
New Jersey, July 8. 1788, died at Johnson-
burg, New York, March i, i860; married,
about 1819, Susanna Harris Williams, daugh-
ter of Joseph Williams, a revolutionary
soldier.

This name first appears in
CR.XNNELL early American records in
1690. It is spelled Crennel,
Crenel, and in later years Crannell. Through
the marriage of the founder of the family to
Molly, granddaughter of Governor Edward
Winslow, they are connected with one of the
most illustrious of the "Mayflower" families.
The Albany family dates back to an early
period in the history of that city, and its de-
scendants are numerous.

(I) Robert Crannell, son of William Cran-
nell, of Devonshire, England, came to Amer-
ica prior to 1690, and was at New Amster-
dam (New York) in 1703. There were sev-
eral of the name resident of New York, and
there are some of them buried in Trinity
churchyard on the north side of the church.
He married, in i6(j3. .Molly Winslow, daugh-
ter of Governor Josiah an<l granddaughter of
Governor Edward Winslow, of Plymouth Col-

ony (see Winslow VHI). Children: Two
sons and a daughter.

(II) William Winslow, son of Robert and
Molly (Winslow) Crannell, was born in New
York City. He removed to Albany, New
York, where he died aged fifty-five years,
and is buried in the ^Middle Dutch burying
ground on Beaver street. He married, June
4, 1726, Margarita Bennowe (Bennoit).
Children: Robert, baptized July 10, 1727;
Petrus, baptized February 10, 1728; Petrus
(2), baptized January 9, 1732; William Wins-
low, baptized January 29, 1739. (Daughters
not in record; there were two or three.)

(III) Robert (2). son of William Wins-
low and Margarita (Bennowe) Crannell, was
born in Albany, New York, in a house on
Broadway between Steuben street and Maiden
lane. He was baptized July 10, 1727. He
married, November 13, 1748, Ariantje Bovie.
Children: William Winslow, see forward;
Mattheus, baptized August 4. 1751 ; Petrus,
baptized November 14, 1756; Petrus (2),
baptized March 11, 1759.

(IV) William Winslow (2), son of Rob-
ert (2) and Ariantje (Bovie) Crannell, was
born September 26, 1749, in Albany, New
York (in a house that then stood on the cor-
ner of James street and Maiden lane), and
died December 27, 1828. He owned a sloop,
"The Rising Sun," and for nineteen years
navigated the Hudson river, carrying freight
and passengers from Albany to points below.
He married Maria Eainan, of Catskill, born
April 8. 1759, died October 8, 1825. Chil-
dren : William Winslow, see forward ; John,
died January 11, 1863; Harriet, died August
24, 1854; Maria, died February i, 1870.

(V) William Winslow (3), son of William
Winslow (2) and Maria (Eaman) Crannell,
was born in Albany, New York, November
29, 1795 (at the building on the corner of
Dean and Steuben streets), died January 20,
1847. ^^^ married, November 27. 1825. Mar-
garet Laramee, born at Waterford, New
York, June 28, 1808, died December 8, 1884.
Qiildren: Robert Winslow, born 1826; Fran-
cis Franklin, see forward ; William Winslow
(4), 1829. died young; Maria, 1831 ; Robert,
1833; William Winslow (5), 1835; Edwin,
1838; Monroe, 1840. died 1841 ; Monroe (2),
1842, died 1893, he graduated from Albany
Law school before he had attained legal age,
and continued his studies in the law offices
of Judge Wolford and Worthini^ton Froth-
ingham until he was admitted to the .Mbany
county bar ; he was a member of the .Mbanv
Zouave Cadets, an influential Republican, and
an untiring worker for the improvement and
development of Albany, he died unmarried,

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April 26, 1893; Delavan, 1844, died 1879;
Margaret, 1847, died in infancy.

(VI) Francis Franklin, second son of Wil-
liam \Mnslo\v (3) and ^Margaret (Laramee)
Crannell, was born in Albany, New York
(corner of Dean and Steuben streets — the
New York Central depot now occupies the
site), July 21, 1827, died December 24, 1907.
He was educated at the "Boys' Academy,"
where he won many honors, and was engaged
all his business life in the lumber trade at Al-
bany, and was one of the pioneers in that
business, retiring at an advanced age. He
was a member of the \'eteran \'olunteer Fire-
men's Association. He was a lifelong mem-
ber of the Fourth Presbyterian church, and
was an active worker in both church and Sun-
day school. With one exception he was the
oldest member of the congregation at the
time of his death. With a quiet disposition,
gentle and unassuming, he was greatly be-
loved. He was an upright, energetic busi-
ness man, and a citizen of the highest order.
He married, April 24, 1856, Harriet Emmet
Adams, born February 11, 1832, died Janu-
ary 16, 1889, daughter of Christopher Adams,
architect and builder of the State House, the
old Delavan hotel, and many other prominent
buildings in Albany. Children : Harriet
Adams, married Elmer Llewelyn Peters, of
Syracuse, April 24, 1895; Elizabeth Wins-
low, married Robert Jump, of Jonesville, De-
cember 18, igoo; Francis Franklin (2), see
forward ; Julia Laramee, married, July 8,
1908, William Henry Harrison Hogle, of
Newtonville, whose ancestors on the maternal
side were among the first Dutch settlers of
Albany ; William Winslow, see forward ;
Charles Reno, see forward ; Edward Grant,
see forward; Lillian Belle, married (first),
Augusta Joseph Latham, of Lake George,
June I, 1898, (second) Belden Noble Bene-
dict, of Troy, April 27, 1908; Frederick Win-
field, died May 16, 1880, at the age of two
years, eight months.

(VH) Francis Franklin (2), eldest son of
Francis Franklin (i) and Harriet Emmet
(Adams) Crannell, was born in Albany, New
York, August 12, 1861. He was educated in
the public schools of Albany, and pursued a
course at a business college. He has been
continuously engaged in the lumber business
in Albany, starting as tally boy for Rodney
\'ose; then as bookkeeper, and later as suc-
cessor and proprietor of the same business
to which he succeeded by purchase, and at the
present time is president of the F. F. Cran-
nell Lumber Com])any. He is a member of
the Albany Chamber of Commerce, Albany
Club, Aurania Club, and stands high in the

Masonic order, being a life member of Tem-
ple Lodge, No. 14, of Albany, and is also a.
member of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, and has held many prominent offices
in the Patriarch Militant branch of that order.
He married, February 21, 1887, Anna Louise,
daughter of William Wilbur, of North Ad-
ams, Massachusetts. Children: Wilbur Har-
rison, born July 3, 1888; Mabel Elizabeth,
September 13, 1892.

(VII) William Winslow (4), .second son
of Francis Franklin ( i ) and Harriet Emmet
(Adams) Crannell, was born at Albany, New
York, March 8, 1865. He was educated in
the public schools of Albany, and later pur-
sued a course at the business college. He
received his early business training in the
Albany lumber district, and was employed
by David Whitney, Jr.. and H. W. Sage &
Company for many years, and later was with
the New Rochelle Coal and Lumber Company
at New Rochelle, New York, after which, in
1894, he and his three brothers organized at
Voorheesville, New York, and Altamont, New
York, the firm of Crannell Brothers, who
for several years conducted a lumber busi-
ness at Voorheesville, and a lumber and coal
business at Altamont. Later he and his
brother, E. G. Crannell. bought out the inter-
est of F. F. and C. R. Crannell, and one year
later W. W. Crannell bought out the remain-
ing interest of E. G. Crannell. He is now
the sole proprietor of the Voorheesville yard,
and E. G. Crannell. of the Altamont yard. He
is an active Republican, and a member of the
Grant and Invincible clubs of Albany. He is
an Odd Fellow, a member of Voorheesville
Lodge. No. 668, and a member of Sanford
Camp, Modern Woodmen of America, No.
8491, of Albany. He has done much for the
advancement and improvement of the pretty
village of Voorheesville. He married, Sep-
tember I. 1898, Ro.se Van Wormer, of Voor-
heesville. New York. Children : William'
Winslow, born July 26. 1900: Charles Emer-
son, March 8, 1903. Rose (Van Wormer)
Crannell was born in Guilderland, Albany
county, April i, 1879, daughter of William
Helmus and Jennie (\'an Slyck) Van W^or-
mer. W'illiam H. \'au Wormer was born in
Guilderland, November, 1845. His wife, Jen-
nie Van Slyck, was born in Colonic, Albany
county. October 7, 1845. Both were of old
Dutch families, prosperous early settlers of
the county. William H. was a son of Jacob,
of Guilderland, farmer, who died aged eighty
years. He married Elizabeth Houghtaling,
who (lied over sixty years of age. They were
members of the Reformed church. Children
of W'illiam H. and Jennie Van Wormer: i.

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Robert, unmarried. 2. Sarah, married Charles
E. Scott, of Schenectady ; has a son, Russell
\'an Slyck Scott, born November 7, 1908.
3. Jane E., born July 26, 1875 ; married John
Becker, of Altamont; has Mary E., born No-
vember 17, 1899. 4. Rose, married William
Winslow Crannell. 5. Ethel, born April 26,
1889, unmarried.

(\'llj Charles Reno, third son of Francis
Franklin (1) and Harriet Emmet (Adams)
Crannell, was born in Albany, January 22,
1867. He was educated in the public schools
of Albany, and graduated from Albany Busi-
ness College. Commencing in minor capaci-
ties in the lumber business in Albany, he
afterward took a position with the New York
Central railroad in New York City, and was
also connected with a large New York and
Buffalo lumber company. Later he returned
to Albany and succeeded his brother, Francis
F., who had become general manager for
Rodney \'ose, as bookkeeper. He and his
brother, Francis F., incorporated the Crannell
Lumber Company, for which he is vice-presi-
dent and treasurer. He is a trustee of Odd
Fellow's Temple, and has been such for the
past eight years. He is a life member of
Temple Lodge, No. 2, and also a life member
of Cyprus Temple and other prominent organ-
izations. He resides at Loudonville, a hand-
some suburb of Albany, where he erected a
beautiful villa. He married, December 31,
1896, Mary Florence McGraw, of Albany,
who is the sixth lineal descendant of Hendrik
Hollenbeck, who sailed up the Hudson river
with Hendrik Hudson in 1609 when that river
was discovered. Children : Florence Lan-
sing, born September 10, 1897; Charles Rus-
sell. March 30, 1899.

(VH) Edward Grant, fourth .son of Fran-
cis Franklin (i) and Harriet Emmet
(Adams) Crannell, was born October 23,
1871. He received his early education in the
public schools of Albany, graduated from the
Albany high school in 1892, and a year later
from the Albany Business College. After
finishing college, he acceptefl a position as
stenographer and bookkeeper with the Jasper
Van Wormer Stove Company. He left there
to go into the lumber business with his
brothers. He now conducts a lumber and
coal yard at .-Mtamont, New York, a beauti-
ful town near Albany, which with its pictur-
esque and beautiful mountain scenery, to-
gether with its invigorating atmosphere, is a
noted summer resort. He has been president
of the village several terms, chief of the fire
department, past master in Noah Lodge,
treasurer of the Albany County Agricultural
Society for several years, and in 1909 was

elected president, which office he now holds
(1910). He is also trustee of the Reformed
church at Altamont. He is a progressive
and energetic citizen of that town, and re-
sides in one of the handsomest residences
there, which he erected. He married, April
20, 1898, Evelyn Lee, of Albany. Children :
Harriet Evelyn, born December 20, 1898; Ed-
ward Winslow Lee, August 15, 1907.

(The Winslow Line).

The English ancestry of Governor Edward
Winslow, from whom the Crannell family of
Albany descend through maternal lines, is
traced in this review to about the middle of
the fourteenth century.

(I) William Winslow, or Wyncelow, the
first of the lineage as traced in England, had
two sons : John, of London, afterward of
Wyncelow Hall, married Mary Crouchman,
who died in 1409; William (2), see forward.

(H) William (2), son of William (i)
Winslow, married and had issue.

(HI) Thomas, son of William (2) Wins-
low, was of Burton county, Oxford, having
lands also in Essex, where he was living in
1452. He married Cecelia Tansley, one of
two daughters and an heiress. She was
called "Lady Agnes."

(IV) William (3), son of Thomas and Ce-
celia (Tansley) Winslow, was living in 1529.
Children: Kenelm, see forward, and Rich-
ard, who had a grant from Edward VI. of the
rectory of Elksley, county of Nottingham.

(V) Kenelm, son of William (3) Wins-
low, purchased in 1559 of Sir Richard New-
port an estate called "Newport's Place," in
Kempsey, Worcestershire. He had another
and an older extensive estate in the same
parish, called "Clerkenleap." He died in 1607
in the parish of St. Andrew. He married

Catherine . His will, dated April 14,

1607, is still preserved in Worcester. Child,
Edward, see forward.

(VI) Edward, only son of Kenelm and
Catherine Winslow, was born in the parish of
St. Andrew, county Worcester, England, Oc-
tober 17, 1560, died before 1651. He lived
in Kempsey and Droitwich, county Worces-
ter. He married (first) Eleanor Pelham, of
Droitwich; (second) at St. Bride's church,
London, November 4, 1594. Magdalene Oli-
ver, the records of whose family are found
in the parish register of St. Peter's, Droit-
wich. Children: i. Richard, married Alice
Hay, daughter of Edward Hurdman ; re-
mained in England. 2. Edward (2), see for-
ward. 3. John, born in England, 1597, died
in Boston, Massachusetts; married, 1624,
Mary, daughter of James and Susanna Chil-

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1415

ton. 4. Kenelm, born in Droitwich, 1599,
came to America about 1629. He was an im-
portant man in the Plymouth Colony, filled
various town offices, and was deputy to the
general court eight years. He married
Eleanor Adams, widow of John .A.dams of
Plymouth, and is the immigrant ancestor of a
long line of descendants. 5. Gilbert, born
October 26, 1600, in Droitwich, England,
•came to America in the "Mayflower" with
his brother. Governor Edward Winslow,
signed the "Compact," returned to England
after 1623, where he died. 6. Eleanor, re-
mained in England. 7. Josiah, born in Eng-
land, was sent to America in 163 1 as ac-
countant to William Shirley; lived at Marsh-
field. Massachusetts : married, 1636, Mar-
garet Bourne, died December i, 1674. 8.
Elizabeth, remained in England. 9. Magda-
len, remained in England.

(VH) Governor Edward (2), eldest son
of Edward (i) and his second wife Magda-
lene (Oliver) Winslow, was born October
18, 1595, at Droitwich, England, died and
was buried at sea, ]\Iay 8, 1655, with the
honors of war, forty-two guns being fired
by the fleet that he was accompanying from
Hispaniola to Jamaica, West Indies. After
Governor Bradford and Edward Brewster,
Plymouth Colony owed no man so much as
Edward Winslow. Always intelligent, gener-
ous, confident and of untiring energy, he was
trusted for any service, at home or abroad,
which the necessities of the infant colony
happened to require. Were the North East-
ern fisherman to be sought for a supply of
food in a famine, or the Indian chief needed
watching, or the governor's place to be taken
temporarily, or ^^lassachusetts dissuaded from
an act of too-severe austerity, or finally were
the rulers in England to be made propitious,
the natural resort was to the agency of Ed-
ward Winslow. For foreign employment
his gentle birth and breeding gave him an ad-
vantage, and among the gentlemen of the Bri-
tish parliament he moved as one of them-
selves. He was highly esteemed by Gover-
nors Winthrop and Bradford, while the great
Protector Cromwell saw at once the worth of
the honest, religious, capable, strenuous en-
voy from North America, and took care never
to lose his services while he lived, which was
for nine years after he finally left Plymouth.
At the time of his death he was superintend-
ing the attempt upon Santo Domingo under
Cromwell's appointment, and distress at the
failure, through military mismanagement, is
believed to have brought on his last illness.
He met at Leyden, Holland, his first wife,
Elizabeth Barker, of English birth and edu-

cation. They were married in Leyden, and
together came in the "Mayflower" to Amer-
ica. He was the third signer of the immortal
"Compact," and probably was one of the
authors. His wife died during the first win-
ter. William White, one of the chief men
of the colony, died, leaving a widow, Su-
sanna (Fuller) White, with two little boys to
care for, one of them Peregrine White, who
was born while the "Mayflower" was lying
at Cape Cod, the first English child born in
New England. Edward Winslow married
the widow, and theirs was the first wedding
ceremony performed in the new colony. They
were married before the magistrate. Gover-
nor Bradford, and with public solemnities en-
tered into the covenant of marriage. At the
annual election in 1624 he was chosen assist-
ant to the governor, holding by successive
appointments until 1647, excepting 1633,
1636 and 1644, when he was chosen governor.
In these and many other public trusts he ac-
quitted himself with distinguished ability and
credit. He was also the author of several
valuable works relating to the interests of the
colony. He made several trips to England
in the colony's interest and in 1635 was ar-
rested and tried on the charge "that not being
in holy orders, he had taught publicly in the
church and had officiated at marriages," to
which he could only plead that he had spoken
in the churches and in the capacity of magis-
trate performed the marriage ceremony. For
this honest avowal he was pronounced guilty
of the crime charged by the archbishop, com-
mitted to the Fleet prison, where he was kept
in confinement seventeen weeks. He was
chosen governor for the last time in 1644, and
subsequently was first on the list of magis-
trates. He was soon after engaged in the
English public service abroad, and never re-
turned to New England. By his second wife,
Susanna (Fuller) White, to whom he
was married May 12, 162 1, he had a
daughter Elizabeth, who married Gilbert
Brooks, of Scituate. His only son was Josiah,
see forward.

(VIII) Josiah, son of Governor Edward
(2) and his second wife, Susanna (Fuller-
White) Winslow, was born in Plymouth,
1629, died in Marshfield, Massachusetts, De-
cember 18, 1680. In 1657, two years after
the death of his father, he was chosen assist-
ant governor, which post he filled until his
election as governor in 1673. This last office
he held until his death. He was active and
prominent in colony affairs all his mature life.
In 1652 he commanded the military company
of Marshfield; in 1659 he was appointed mili-
tary commander of the colony, and in 1675

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was elected general-in-chief of the whole mili-
tary force of the United Colonies, being the
first native-born general, as well as governor
in New England. In 1658 he was chosen one
of the commissioners of the United Colonies
and re-elected for fourteen years. On Sep-
tember 5, 1672, he was one of the six signers
of the new articles of confederation of the
New England colonies, and on September 9.
1675, he signed the declaration of war against
King Philip, made by the commissioners.
While he was governor in 1674-75. the first
public school in the colony was established,
and in 1680 the first lieutenant-governor was
elected. The general court ordered in 1675
that four halberdiers should attend the gover-
nor and magistrates at elections, and two dur-
ing the court sessions. Under him the gov-
ernment maintained a state hitherto unknown
in the colony. He resided at "Careswell,"
the family seat at Marshfield, and enjoyed the
distinction of being the most accomplished
gentleman in the colony. When first a com-
missioner in 1658, he refused to sanction the
"horrible recommendation" of that year
against the Quakers. His capture of Alexan-
der in 1662, the brother of Philip, and for
two years sachem after Massasoit's death,
illustrates his courage and personal daring as
a soldier. His last public act on September
5, 1680, was to solicit a charter for Plymouth
from the crown. He married, in 1658, Pene-
lope, daughter of Herbert Pelham, of Eng-
land, who came to Boston in 1645. He was
the first treasurer of Harvard college, and
assistant governor in 1646-1649. There were
four children born of this marriage, two sons
and two daughters; only one of his sons,
Isaac, survived childhood. He married Sarah,
daughter of John and Elizabeth Paddy Wens-
ley, of Boston. One of the daughters, Molly,
married Robert Crannell, and they were the
progenitors of the Albany family of that name
(see Crannell I). Another daughter, Eliza-
beth, married Stephen Burton. There is no
one bearing the name of Winslow who can
claim lineal descent fl-om Governor Edward
Winslow, third signer of the "Compact" and
third governor of New Plymouth, the first
by elective voice of the people. "Careswell,"
the coimtry seat of Governor Josiah Winslow.
subsequently became the residence of Daniel
Webster. Governor Josiah's portrait and that
of his wife hang in Plymouth Hall, Plymouth,
Massachusetts. She is said to have been a
most beautiful and accomplished lady. The
coat-of-arms of the Winslow family is a tree
with its branches cut down into a knight's hel-
met. Motto: "Floreo decarpius," ("Though
plucked, I flourish.")

The Sherman family is of
SHERMAN German origin. The name
was spelled S h e r r m a n,
Schurman, Schearmaun and Scherman. As
early as 1635 the family was located in Eng-
land, in Dedham, county Essex. The name is
derived from the original occupation of the
family, when they were cloth dressers, or
"shearers" of the cloth, and the family at
Dedham continued the family occupation. In
New England there are two distinct families
of this name. One is descended from William
Sherman and the other from Henry Sherman.
The arms of the Yaxley family are : Or a
lion rampant sable charged on the shoulder
with an amulet for difference between three
oak leaves vert. Crest : A sea lion sejeant
argent guttee de poix fumed or.

(I) Thomas Sherman died in 1550. He
was probably at least fifty years old at the
time as three of his sons were of age. His
will gives among his property the manors of
Royclen and Royden Tuft with appurtenances
at Royden and Besingham, as well as property
in other parts of the counties of Norfolk and
Suffolk. England. He lived a part of his
life, doubtless, in Diss, which is on the river
Waveny. between the two counties. His will
mentions his wife Jane, a sister and children.
He married Jane, daughter of John Waller,
of Wortham, Suffolk. .She was probably not
his first wife. Children : Thomas, Richard.
John, Henry, mentioned below, William, An-
thony, Francis, Bartholomew, James.

(II) Henry, son of Thomas Sherman, wa.s
born in Yaxley about 1530. He is mentioned
in his father's will, as well as several broth-
ers' wills. His wife Agnes was buried Octo-
ber 14, 1580. He married (second) Margery
Wilson, widow. His will was dated January
20, 1589, and proved July 25, 1590. He died
in 1589. Children, born doubtless at Colches-
ter where they lived: Henry, mentioned be-
low ; Edmond, died 1601 : Dr. Robert, baptized
February 6. 1560, died 1602: Judith, married
William Pettfield ; daughter, married Nicholas
Fynce; John, died without issue, October 15,
1576.

(Iin Henry (2). son of Henry (i) Sher-
man, was born in Colchester, England, about
1555, and lived at Dedham, county Essex,
England. He was a clothier by trade. He
made his will August 21, 1610, and it was
proved September 8, 1610. He married Susan
Hills, whose will was dated August 31, and
proved in September. 1610. Children: Henry,
born 1571. died 1642; Daniel, married (first)
1601, Christian Chapman, (second) Sarah

, died August 17, 1585; Nathaniel.

died 1615; John, mentioned below"; EzekieU

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1417

married twice: Samuel, born 1573; Edmund,
married Judith Angier ; Anne, married
Thomas Wilson ; Phebe, married Simeon
Fenn.

(IV) John, son of Henry (2) Sherman,
was born in Dedham, England, August 17,
1566. He was the immigrant ancestor, and
came in 1634 to Watertown, Massachusetts.
Child: I. John, mentioned below.

(V) Captain John (2), son of John (i)
Sherman, was born in 1604 at Dedham, Eng-
land. He came to Watertown, Massachusetts,
with his father, in 1634. He was made free-
man May 17, 1637. He was a land surveyor
and a selectman many times from 1637 to
1680. In 1648 he was town clerk, and after-
wards representative to the general court in
1651-53-63-82. In 1662 he was steward of
Harvard college. In June, 1654, he was made
ensign of the Watertown Company, and in
1680 he was made captain. His son Joseph
received his land in Watertown. He was with
Governor Winthrop when the northern boun-
dary of Massachusetts was surveyed and when
the lines were established at Wier's landing,
Lake Winnepesaukee. He was an educated
man, and was often called upon to manage
town affairs. He married Martha, daughter
of William and Grace Palmer. He died Jan-
uary 25, 1690-91. His wife died February
7, 1700-1701. Children: John, born Novem-
ber 2, 1638: Martha, February 21, 1640-41;
Mary, March 25, 1643; Sarah, January 17,
1647-48; Elizabeth, March 15, 1648-49: Jo-
seph, May 14, 1650, mentioned below: Grace,
December 20. 1653.

(VI) Joseph, son of Captain John (2)
Sherman, was born in Watertown, May 14.
1650, died in Watertown, June 30, 1731. He
was a blacksmith by trade : he was often
chosen selectman and assessor ; he was repre-
sentative to the general court from 1702 to
1705. He served under Captain Jonathan
Poole and Captain Thomas Brattle in King
Philip's war during 1676. He was a leader
in the church controversy which resulted in
the final separation of Waltham from Water-
town.

He married, in Watertown, November 18.
,1673, Elizabeth, daughter of Lieutenant Ed-
ward anfl Elizabeth (Wilkinson) Winship, of
Cambridge. Children: John, January 11,
1675, mentioned below ; Edward, September
2, 1677; Joseph, February 8, 1679-80: Sam-
uel, November 28, 1681 ; Jonathan, February
24, 1683-84: Ephraim, March 16, 1684-
85: Elizabeth, July 15, 1687: Martha, bap-
tized September i, 1689: William, June 28,
1692: Sarah. June 2, 1694: Nathaniel, Sep-
tember 19, 1696.

(VII) John (3), son of Joseph Sherman,
was born in Watertown, January 11, 1675,
and was one of the first settlers of Marlbor-
ough, Massachusetts. He married Mary Bul-
len. Children : Mary, born August 16, 1699 ;
Joseph, March 25, 1703, mentioned below;
John, December 31, 1705, died young; Grace,
September 13, 1707; Ephraim, March 3, 1710;
John, February 17, 1713; Elizabeth, October
15, 1715: Samuel, May 12, 1718.

(VIII) Joseph (2), son of John (3) Sher-
man, was born at Marlborough, March 25,
1703. He settled in Shrewsbury, Worcester
county, Massachusetts. He married, Decem-
ber 25, 1728, Sarah Perham, of Sutton, in
that county. -She died March 2, 1772, aged
sixty-nine. Children, born at Shrewsbury :
Joseph, baptized February 8, 1736, died
young; John, mentioned below; Sarah, June
27, 1739. married Thomas Grover : Joseph,
baptized August 15, 1742; Lydia, August 29,
1744, married Israel Rice.

(IX) John (4). son of Joseph (2) Sher-
man, was born at Shrewsbury, April 8, 1737.
He settled about 1760 in Conway (History
p. 672 in Conn. Valley). In 1772 he bought
a pew in the First Congregational church.
He married (first), in 1761, Chloe Thayer,
of Bellingham, a descendant of the Thayer
family of Weymouth. She died May 2, 1766,
aged twenty-five. He married (second),
about 1770, Gratia Allis, born 1745, daughter
of Abel Allis, and granddaughter of Samuel
Allis. (Deerfield History p. 27.) (P. 19 old
history of Conway.) John was a soldier in
the revolution from Conway in Captain Joshua
L. Woodbridge's company. Colonel Nathan
Tyler's regiment. July 22, 1779, to December
25, 1779, in the Rhode Island campaign. Also
in Captain Isaac Newton's company. Colonel
S. Murray's regiment, July 30 to October 10,
1780, in the continental army; also in Captain
Oliver Shattuck's company, Lieutenant-Col-
onel Baranabas Sears's regiment, August 12
to November 8, 178 1 ; also second lieutenant
in Captain Joseph Browning's fourth com-
pany. First Hampshire regiment ; also captain
in Colonel Gideon Burt's regiment, commis-
sioned July 16, 1782. In 1790 the first fed-
eral census shows that John Sherman was liv-
ing at Conway and had two females in his
family: John, Jr., had a separate establishment,
but no family, and Caleb had three sons under
si.xteen and two females in his family. John
Sherman lived on a farm beyond the river
in Broomshire village, now known as the John
B. Stearns place. \'arious other Grafton and
Shrewsbury men also settled in this vicinity.
Children of first wife, born at Shrewsbury:
Caleb, May 14, 1762: John. March 27, 1764;

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Chloe, August 4, 1765. Child of second wife :
Ware Darwin, mentioned below.

(X) Ware Darwin, son of John (4) Sher-
man, was born at Conway, Massachuetts, Oc-
tober 3, 1 77 1, died about 1842. When a young
man he removed to Arlington, Vermont, prob-
ably as early as 1790, and he married there
Anna D. Canfield, of Arlington, daughter of
Ezekiel and Mary (Sackett) Canfield. They
settled at Kingsbury, New York, about 1806,
and subsequently removed to Luzerne. He
Avas a farmer and lumberman. Children :
John Sackett, born 1790; Lydia, 1792; Rich-
ard. 1795; Augustus, mentioned below; Abi-
gail, 1807; Anson, 1808: Avery, 1810: Anna,
1813.

(XI) Augustus, son of Ware Darwin Sher-
man, was born in Arlington, \'ermont, Feb-
ruary II, 1801, died December 3, 1884. When
he was five years old his parents went to
Kingsbury, and shortly afterward to Fairfield,
now Luzerne, New York. About 1823 the
family migrated to Pennsylvania, going in a
covered wagon, and covering a distance of
forty miles in a day between Schenectady and
Buffalo, New York, they claiming to have
the fastest team in the State. Augustus Sher-
man attended the winter terms of the common
school, but the schools were crude and the
terms short. Early in life he became familiar
with the hard work of the farmer and lum-
berman. Before the Glens Falls feeder was
constructed he used to draw lumber across
from Corinth or Big Falls, raft it on cribs to
the bend and thence take it across Deadman's
I'oint above Fort Edward, and after the big
dam at that place was built he had to carry
the timber still farther down the river to
Rogers's landing opposite Schuyler's Island,
whence it was rafted to market. With the
■opening of the Glens Falls feeder he was
among the first to place a boat on its waters
for the transportation of lumber. When he
was but fifteen years old he had to drive a
lumber wagon alone to .Albany and attend to
sales and purchases, a task he performed with
all the good judgment and faithfulness of a
man of experience. In the following year, in
consequence of his father's financial troubles,
he was obliged to take entire charge of the
business, and he worked early and late with
untiring perseverance and energy in order to
help his father out of debt. His venture in
the lumber business on his own account was
in operating an old English saw mill with
two saws, located on a small stream which
empties into the Hudson river, and at the
same time he operated a grist mill in tiie vicin-
ity. In addition to this laborious task, he
<irew and rafted his lumber to the market.

Here he laid the foundation of the large
fortune that he subsequently accumulated.
After three years he took the Buttolph mill
farther down the river. Having disposed of
his property in Luzerne, in the winter of
1840-41, he made his home near the feeder-
dam and resumed the manufacture of lumber
on a large scale with greatly increased facili-
ties. Two years later lie went to Glens Falls,
where he made a permanent home. Year by
year, with increased means at his command,
his lumber operations became more and more
extended until they reached colossal propor-
tions. He began to invest heavily in lumber
lands by purchasing in the sixteenth township
and he secured prompt and substantial profits.
He had the thorough knowledge of business
and values, and uncommon shrewdness in
buying and selling. All his investments
turned out well, and his fortune became in
the end second to none in the county. His
career was a notable example of the Ameri-
can self-made business man. He was asso-
ciated with nearly all the financial corpora-
tions of Glens Falls, either as trustee, direc-
tor, manager or president. He was the first
president of the Glens Falls Paper Mill Com-
pany and also of the Bald Mountain Lime
Company. In the early seventies he interested
himself in erecting handsome business build-
ings in Glens Falls. In politics he was a Re-
publican, and in religion a Presbyterian. He
married (first), March 4, 1824, Nancy Weed,
born March 27, 1802, died June 12, 1848. He
married (second), September i, 1856, Char-
lotte H. Conkling, of Martinsburg, Lewis
county. New York, born March 18, 1825, died
July 10, 1889. Children: i. Mercy M., born
May 17, 1825, died June 17, 1856; married,
July 4, 1844, Alexander Canfield. 2. Anner
D., born March 29. 1827, died March 28,
1889; married William Wolsey Weed. 3.
Abby G.. born September 9, 1828, died Jime
13, 1896; married Lemon Thompson. 4.
Martha Mahala, born January 21, 1831, died
April 10, 1902; married, December 15, 1850,
George Rugge. 5. Lydia L., born February
29, 1832, died October 4, 1892; married, Oc-
tober, 1862, Henry G. Lapham. 6. William
A., born November 20, 1834, mentioned be-
low. 7. Darwin Ware, born March 31, 1837,
mentioned below.

(XII) William A., son of Augustus Sher-
man, was born November 20, 1834. died May 7,
1883. He was educated in the public schools.
For many years he was a prominent lumber-
man, a partner in the firm of Rugge, Sherman
& Company. He was a member of the Bap-
tist church. He married, January 13, 1862,
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1419

5829, died November 13, 1895, daughter of
David and Mary (Billings) Newland. Her
father was born June 23, 1788; married, May
.4. 1 8 14, Mary Billings, born October 26, 1792,
died December 15, 1840. Children: Carrie
Louise, born July 13, 1863, died June 4, 1875 ;
Eddie Darwin. June 7. 1867, died December
19, 1867: Arthur William, mentioned below.
(XHI) Arthur William, son of William A.
Sherman, was born at Glens Falls, February
23, 1869. He was educated in the public
schools, at Glens Falls Academy and River-
view Academy of Poughkeepsie, New York.
In 1905 he became vice-president and cashier
•of the First National bank. He is interested
in numerous other enterprises. He is treas-
urer of the Glens Falls Portland Cement
Company, vice-president of the Kendrick &
Brown Company, treasurer of the Sherman
Lime Company and of the Glens Falls hospi-
tal. In politics he is a Republican, and he
attends the Presbyterian church. He is a
member of Senate Lodge. No. 456, Free and
Accepted Masons, of Glens Falls. New York ;
Glens Falls Chapter, No. 55, Washington
Commandery, No. 33. of Saratoga Springs ;
Oriental Temple. Ancient Arabic Order,
Nobles Mystic Shrine, of Troy, New York.
He married, October 18. 1893. Gertrude Cool-
idge. born March 30. 1869. Children :
Thomas Coolidge, born September 29. 1894;
Harriet Newland, April 7, 1899, died June 26,
1908; Georgianna Coolidge, April 28, 1901 ;
Arthur William, Jr.. May 6, 1903.

(XII) Darwin Ware, son of Augustus
Sherman, was born in Hadley, New York,
March 31, 1837, died December 13, 1894. He
was educated in the common schools of Had-
ley and Glens Falls, and when a young man
he engaged in the lumbering business for his
father, and upon the death of his father he
continued to operate the industry established
by his father and he became one of the repre-
sentative business men and capitalists of the
section. He married. October 13, 1856, Ma-
rion Robbins, born July 16, 1838, died June
28, 1890. Children: William A., born Janu-
ary 7, 1861, married, October 31, 1882. Ger-
trude Snow ; children : Ruth and Richard ;
Henry L., mentioned below.

(XIII) Henry L., son of Darwin Ware
Sherman, was born at Glens Falls, May 5,
1865. He was educated in the public schools
and the Glens Falls Academy. He has been
for many years engaged in the lumber and
lime business and is at present secretary of
the Sherman Lime Company. For sixteen
years he was interested in the hotel business,
conducting the Marion House on Lake
George. He was trustee of Glens Falls vil-

lage for two years before it was incorporated
as a city, and he served on the board of edu-
cation for six years and was secretary of the
Glens Falls Hospital Association for ten
years. He is a life member of the following
Masonic organizations : Senate Lodge No.
456, Free and Accepted Masons, Glens Falls;
Glens Falls Chapter, No. 55; Washington
Commandery No. 33, of Saratoga Springs,
New York; Oriental Temple, Ancient Ar-
abic Order, Nobles Mystic Shrine, of Troy,
New York, and Scottish Rite, thirty-second
degree, of Troy and Albany. He married.
May 12, 1885, at Glens Falls, Jennie Wait,
born January 30, 1864. They have one child,
Darwin Wait, born February 5, 1890, who
is a sophomore (1910), Yale.

The family is of English ori-
LOOMIS gin. and for a long period the

principal home of the family in
England has been in the vicinity of Derby-
shire. For more than a century the name
has been spelled Lomas in England, but ear-
lier Lumas, Lommas or Lomes were used.
Other variations are Lomys, Lomis, Lomas,
while the American spelling is generally
Loomis. The name occurred in England in
the early part of the fifteenth century, and is
supposed to have been a place name. In
France and Switzerland, Lomis is a common-
place name. The Lomas coat-of-arms is :
Argent between two palets. gules three fleurs
de lis in pale sable a chief azure. Crest : On
a chapeau a pelican vulning herself proper.

(I) Joseph Loomis, immigrant ancestor,
was probably born about 1590. He was a
woollen draper in Braintree, county Essex,
England, and sailed from London, .A.pril 11,
1638, in the ship "Susan and Ellen," arriving
at Boston, July 17, 1638. He settled at
Windsor, Connecticut, and February 2, 1640,
was granted twenty-one acres of land adjoin-
ing the Farmington river, on the west side of
the Connecticut river, and also had several
large tracts on the east side of the Connecti-
cut river, by purchase and grant. He is sup-
posed to have come to Windsor in company
with Rev. Ephraim Huet, who arrived there
August 17, 1639. Joseph Loomis brought
with him five sons and three daughters. His
house was near the mouth of Farmington
river on what was known as the Island, be-
cause at every freshet it became temporarily
one. His wife died August 23. 1652. and he
died November 25, 1653. Children : Joseph,
born in England about 1616; daughter, mar-
ried. 1640, Captain Nicholas Olmstead ; Eliza-
beth, married. May 20. 1641, Josiah Hull;
Deacon John, born 1622. in lingland ;

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Thomas, born in England, married, Novem-
ber 1. 1653, Hannah Fox; Nathaniel, men-
tioned below; Mary, died August 19, 1680;
Samuel, born in England.

(H) Nathaniel, son of Joseph Loomis, was
born in England, and came to America with
his father in 1638. He married, November
24, 1653, Elizabeth, daughter of John Moore.
He was made a freeman in 1654, and admit-
ted to the church. May 3, 1663. He died
August 19. 1688, and his will was dated Au-
gust 17, 1688, signed Nathaniel Loomys. His
wife survived him. Children: Elizabeth,
born August 7, 1655 ; Lieutenant Nathaniel,
March 20, 1657; Abigail, March 27, 1659;
Josiah, February 17, 1660-61 ; Jonathan,
March 30, 1664; David, January 11, 1667-68;
Hezekiab, February 21, 1668-69, mentioned
below; Moses, May 15, 1671; Mindwell, July
20, 1673; Ebenezer, March 22, 1675; Mary,
January 5, 1680; Rebecca. December 10, 1682.

(HI) Hezekiah, son of Nathaniel Loomis,
was born February 21, 1668-69, died in 1758.
He married. April 30, 1690, Mary Porter,
born November 20, 1672, died August 12,
1752. Children, born in Windsor: Noah,
April I, 1692; Mary, November 15, 1694;
Hezekiah, November 7, 1697 ; Ensign Solo-
mon. July 14, 1700, mentioned below; Joanna,
December 4, 1702; Jonah, April i. 1705;
Elizabeth. August 13, 1708; Ann, February
20, 1710-11.

(IV) Ensign Solomon, son of Hezekiah
Loomis, was born at Windsor, July 14, 1700.
He married, June 28, 1727, Abigail Strong,
who died May 6. 1773, aged seventy-two. He
bought land in Tolland in 1724. and died in
Tolland, August 26, 1772. Children, born
in Tolland: Abigail, April 18, 1728; daugh-
ter, May 20, 1730, died same day; Michal,
a daughter. May 20, 1730; Solomon, Novem-
ber 4. 1732, mentioned below; Anna, March
29, 1735; Esther, July 8, 1738.

(\') Solomon (2), son of Ensign Solomon
(i) Loomis, was born in Tolland, November
4, 1732, died there August 5, 1805. He mar-
ried (first) Mary Chapman, who died Feb-
ruary II, 1774. aged forty-two. He mar-
ried (second), December 21, 1775, Mary
Johnson. Children, born in Tolland : Simon,
March 7, 1758; Solomon, September 27, 1760;
Luke, April 11, 1764, died April 27, 1764;
Nathaniel, January 5, 1766; Rpaphras, Sep-
tember 20, 1768; Jcduthun, November 10,
1777, mentioned below; Elisha, January 27,
1779; Mary. November 5, 1780; Justin, July
10, 1783; Ralph. February 28. 1785; Ruth,
April li, 1787; Joel, August 18, 1789.

(\T) Jeduthun, son of Solomon (2)
Loomis. was born at Tolland, November 10,

1777. He removed to Cambridge, Washing-
ton county, New York, in 1800, antl died
there, October 22, 1838. He married, July
26, 1801, Abigail Adams; she died January
14, 1868, aged eighty-six. Children, born in
Cambridge: Son. May 25, 1802, died July
16, 1802; Alanson D., June 20, 1803; Leon-
ard M., December 18, 1804; Benjamin M.,
November 23, 1806; son, August 14, 1808,
died August 28, 1808; Abigail S., September

23, 1809; Jeduthun, June 9, 181 1 ; Ezekiel A.,
July 4, 1813, mentioned below; son, June

24, 1815, died July 4, 1815; Joel, April 13,
1817; Mary A. W., July 8, 1819; Nathaniel
S. P., July 15, 1821 ; Syla Ann, June 25,
1825.

(\ H) Ezekiel A., son of Jeduthun Loomis,
was born July 4, 1813, at Cambridge, died
November 18. 1858, at Granby, Oswego
county. New York. He married, April 6,
1839, ^^^ Rice. Child, John R., mentioned'
below.

(VTH) John R., son of Ezekiel A. Loomis,
was born January 15, 1846. He lived in Jer-
sey City, New Jersey. He married, October
6,' 1868, Emma" Little. Children: Kate L.,
Russell M. L., John R. Jr. and George L. ;:
all but John R. being deceased.

(IX) John R. (2), son of John R. (i)
Loomis, was born January 25. 1873. He was
educated in the public schools and at Glens
Falls Academy. He has been engaged in
the insurance business at Glens Falls since-
leaving school and is now a member of the
firm of Little & Loomis, doing an insurance
business in Glens Falls. New York, and in
Montreal, Canada. He is a member of Glens-
Falls club. In politics he is a Republican,
and in religion a Presbyterian. He married,
March 2, 1897, Alice E. Rugge, daughter of
George and Martha Mahala (Shermnn)
Rugge. They have one child, Martha Ma-
hala, born November 26, 1902.

The earliest record of the-
OSTROM name, which is of good old

Holland Dutch origin, was one
Gerret Willemese Oesteroem (notice the
spelling, which is one of the most peculiar
and puzzling of the Dutch characteristics),
who came to this country and settled in Bev-
erwyck (Albany), 1631, but all record of
his descendants is lost. Hendrick Janse Oes-
teroem, of Bushwick (Flatbush), Long
Island, 1660. had descendants who went to-
Bergen, New Jer.sey. and thence up the Hud-
son river to Kingston, I'ouglikeopsie and else-
where. An Ostrom in the Netherlands pos-
sessed a coat-of-arms. They were banished"
from Holland on account of their religion.

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

either in 1600 or 1620. There is a town by
the name "Ostromdorp" (village) in the prov-
ince of Friesland, Holland.

(I) Captain Henry Ostram was born in
Holland, November 26, 1741, died near Al-
bany. New York, January 14, 1797. He came
to America and settled in Schenectady
county. New York, about the year 1765. He
unlisted in the war of the revolution, and
was a captain in the Third Regiment, Albany
county. New York, militia. He married Abi-
gail Davenport, born May 12, 1748. They
were residents of Ulster county, New York,
for a time. Children: i. John, see forward.
2. Thomas, born October 8, 1765, died Feb-
ruary 16, 1848. 3. Joshua, twin of Thomas.
4. Stephen, October 30, 1767. 5. Daniel, Sep-
tember 17, 1769; married, January, 1796,
Elizabeth Bombsby, and lived in West Qiarl-
ton, Saratoga county, New York. Children :
i. Phoebe; ii. Maria (wife of David L Os-
trom ) ; iii. Henry, born April 22, 1809, died
March 19, 1884, married Grace McCredie,
February 2, 1832; children: Daniel H., born
August 14, 1833; Jane Maria, wife of Rev.
Joshua R. Kyle, born August 28, 1836, died
fall of 1877 ; Elizabeth Johnston, wife of Dr.
Carson, of Canandaigua, born October 6,
1841 ; William Henr}^ born February i, 1844,
deceased; Harriet, second wife of Rev. J. R.
Kyle, born September 7, 1848. iv. Daniel H.,
married Annie F. Gilchrist, December 22,
1858; children: Grace, wife of Edward
Whiteside, of South Cambridge, New York,
born July i, i860; Mary Bell, born July 24,
1864, married P. A. Finley, died March 7.
1901 ; John H., born March 5, 1867, married
Cornelia Chalmers, November 22, 1898. 6.
Abigail, January 4, 1782. 7. Hendrick, Oc-
tober 10, 1784. 8. David, January 17, 1787.
9. Oliver, born November i, 1790, died in
Schenectady, September 17, 1896.

(II) John, eldest son and child of Captain
Henry and Abigail (Davenport) Ostrom, was
born April i, 1764, in Ulster county, New
York, died in the town of Glen, December 20,
1846. He was a militiaman under General
Van Rensselaer in the pursuit of Sir John
Johnson and of whom reference is made by
Jeptha R. Simms, author of "History of Scho-
harie County," and "Border Wars of New
York." also "Frontiersmen of New York."
He was attached to the company of which his
father was captain, having joined the Albany
troops. He came with a brother in 1785 to
Montgomery county, where they located a
tract of two hundred acres of unbroken land
lying in the town of Glen, west of Auries
creek, where they cleared the farm of timber
and erected a house. This has been brought

to a high state of cultivation and still remains
in the possession of the family. It is being
occupied by the third generation of Ostroms,
covering a period of one hundred and twenty-
five years. He married, in Montgomery
county, February 8, 1787, Anne Lane, born
April 14, 1765, died November 4, 1830. Chil-
dren: I. Henry, born June 30, 1789, died
January, 1792. 2. Elizabeth, born August,
1791, died January 13, 1858; married John
Vedder: children: i. Abigail Vedder, mar-
ried John P. Yates, of Root ; children : Peter
Yates, born October 19, 1814; Catherine Ann
Yates, married Dr. Hezekiah Leonardson;
Oliver Yates ; Sarah Yates, married James H.
Pettingell; Dr. David H. Yates; Elizabeth
Yates, married C. J. Lansing, state senator of
CaHfornia ; Maria Yates, second wife of Sena-
tor C. J. Lansing; Stephen Ostrom Yates, ii.
Maria Vedder, married John D. Still ; chil-
dren: Daniel O. Still; David V. Still, a
prominent physician of Johnstown, New
York ; Anna Still, married Jesse Swabe, of
Albany, iii. Nancy Vedder, born October i,
1814, married Peter Yates, a kinsman; chil-
dren: J. Ostrom Yates, born May 18, 1838;
David H. Yates, born July 5, 1841 ; Theo-
dore Yates, born September 30, 1844; Sarah
M. Yates, born April 25, 1846, married,
February 7, 1871, Milton Pruyn ; Hezekiah
Yates, born May 21, 1848; Vedder Yates,
born April 17, 1850; Edmond Yates, born
November 24, 1851 ; Elizabeth Yates, born
August 12, 1853; Oliver Yates, born April
6, 1855. iv. David Vedder, married Anna
Schuyler; child: Dr. John D. V^edder, of
Johnstown, v. John Ostrom Vedder, married
Jane A. Lasher, of Sprakers. New York;
children : Elizabeth, married AL Mount Ed-
wards ; Anna M., married William B. Dieven-
dorf. of Sprakers, New York. 3. John, born
November 30, 1797, died June 23, 1843; mar-
ried Anna Maria Enders ; no issue. 4. Dan-
iel, born February 28, 1800, died February
13, 1801. 5. David L, born December 15,
1801 ; married Maria Ostrom, a kinswoman,
May 15, 1823; children: i. Elizabeth, born
May 19, 1824; ii. Ann Maria, November i,
1825; iii. John, April 28, 1828; iv. Daniel
D., Februan,' 21, 1830; v. John, July 23, 1832;
vi. Phoebe, October 11, 1834; vii. David
Henry, May 10, 1836; viii. Emma, November
4, 1838; ix. Abigail, December 28, 1839; x.
Abigail Yates, March 6, 1842 ; xi. Stephen,
June 25, 1848. 6. Ann. born August 28,
1804, died in October, 1830; married Rynear
Van Evera ; child, Ann \'an Evera. 7. Ste-
phen, see forward. John Ostrom married
(second), September 21, 1832, Mrs. Nancy
Banker, who died September 27, 1832, just

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one week after her marriag:e ; cholera was
then epidemic in Schenectady, and she was
one of its victims. He married (third) Mrs.
AHda Van Dorn, born December i6, 1834,
died June 12, 1842; no issue.

(HI) Stephen, seventh son and youngest
child of John and Anne (Lane) Ostrom, was
born Februan,- 13, 1812, died .Xugust 19,
1886. He was born, lived and died on the
homestead farm. He married (first), October
31, 1832, Mary Antoynette Schuyler, Rev.
Alanson B. Chittenden, of Glen, officiating;
she was born February 10, 1816, died May

18, 1839. Children: i. John H., born June
9, 1834; married, March 3, 1857, Rev. Adam
H. Van Vranken. of Glen, officiating, Julia
C. Quackenbush, bom November 25, 1836,
died July 28, 1901 ; children: i. Jacob Schuy-
ler Ostrom, born March 27, 1858, died May
7, 1859; ii. Estella Ostrom, born January 11,
i860, married Harvey D. Shelp, September
I, 1880, Rev. Richard L. Schoonmaker. of
Glen, officiating; iii. Eugene Ostrom. born
Mav 22, 1863. married Winona Van Derveer,
July 3, 1884,"^ Rev. C. D. Hainer, of Randall,
New York, officiating; iv. John Schuyler Os-
trom, born June 15, 1874, died December 31,
1909, married Ella Van Valkenburg, January

I, 1896, Rev. Edward C. Hall, of Charleston
Four Corners, officiating. 2. Mary Antoy-
nette, bom March 26, 1836, died November

19, 1841. Stephen Ostrom married (second)
in the town of Glen, October i, 1839, Rev.
Charles Jukes, of Glen, officiating, Anna ^la-
ria Edwards, born March 9, 1818, died Sep-
tember 26, 1899. Children: 3. Charles
Jukes, born November 5, 1840; unmarried;
is an invalid and resides on the home farm ;
is a man of unusual mental attainments ;
member of Free and Accepted Masons. 4.
Anna M. Enders, bom January 12, 1843;
married, March 15, 1882, Richard Winne,
Rev. Francis M. Kip Jr., of Fultonville. offi-
ciating ; Richard Winne was born November
3, 1830, died June 15, 1902, son of Major
James and Jemima (Van Cise) Winne; no
issue. 5. Elizabeth, born May 19, 1845; mar-
ried, December 29, 1896, Rev. Frank V. Van
Vranken officiating, Walter B. Cross, justice
of the peace at Fultonville, New York ; chil-
dren : i. Susan Brown Cross, married Dr.
Frederick T. Janscn, January 11, 1899, Rev.
William Schmitz. of Fultonville, officiating;
now residents of Salt Lake City, Utah ; ii. An-
toinette Edwards Cross, born March 4, 1873,
married, October 15, 1902, Rev. I. J. Van
Hee, of Fultonville, officiating, C. Van Dyke
See, of New York City; iii. Edward Ostrom
Cross, born January 2, 1876, married, July

II, 1903, Florence Anderson, of Midland,

Michigan, Rev. G. F. A. MacKelcan officiat-
ing; children: Frederic S. Cross, born March
18, 1804; Elizabeth Ostrom Cross, born Sep-
tember 23, 1905; Ruth E. Cross, born Sep-
tember 16. 1907. 6. Miriam Collins, born
in town of Glen, November 29, 1847, see for-
ward. 7. Margaretta Edwards, born Novem-
ber 10, 1850, died November 8, 1876, unmar-
ried. 8. David I., born May 30, 1853, died
April 5, 1900; member of Free and .Accepted
Masons : married Man,- \'an Epps, September
20, 1876, Rev. Francis M. Kip Jr., of Fulton-
ville, officiating; children: i. Victoria Ostrom,
born July 31, 1881, married John W. Brill,
June 6, 1907, Rev J. Edward Grant, of Ful-
tonville, officiating; ii. Earl, born March 19,
1883, married Ruamy Olmstead Lehman, Jan-
uary 2, 1905, Rev. J. C. Gould, of Northville,
officiating. Mrs. Mary (Van Epps) Ostrom
married (second). October 19, 1907, Rev. J.
Edward Grant officiating, N. V. Lasher, a
farmer of Crescent, Saratoga county. New
York, and occupies the old Van Epps home-
stead farm. 9. Stephen, born December g,
1855. resides on the Ostrom homestead ; un-
married. ID. Ella Louisa, born September 7,
1858; married, February 21. 1883, Rev. Sid-
ney O. Lansing and Rev. Frank \'. \'an
Vranken officiating, Jacob H. Nellis, of Cana-
joharie, now of Paterson, New Jersey; chil-
dren: i. Clara Louise Nellis, born March 15,
1885, married. Rev. George W. Labaw offi-
ciating, October 18, 1909, Bird Berdan ; child:
Dorcas Louise, born August 5, 1910; ii. ]Mar-
garet Antoinette Nellis, born February 9,
1887; iii. Joseph I. Nellis, born January i,
1892; iv. Grace Van Derveer Nellis, born
August II, 1896, died September 21, 1897;
V. Anna M. O. Nellis, bom September 14,
1898. Anna Maria (Edwards) Ostrom. sec-
ond wife of Stephen Ostrom. was the daugh-
ter of John and .Ann (Van Schaick) Ed-
wards, and one of nine children: i. William
H., born January 2, 1817, died June 25, 1881.
2. Anna Maria, married .Stephen Ostrom. 3.
Margaret Lord, born October 17, 1819, died
January 23, 1908. 4. John \\ S., bom Feb-
ruary 17, 1822, died July 2, 1887; married
Mrs. Mary M. Horsford ; children: J. S. Glen,
a prominent citizen of Glen, now on a tour
round the world ; Edward, Mar>- and Geddes
H. 5. Eleanor E., born July 'i, 1824. died
October 5, 1896; unmarried. 6. Thomas V.
S., born July 9, 1827, died May 12, 1852;
unmarried. 7. James W., bom June 18, 1829,
died June 17, 1830. 8. .Antoinette, born May
22, 183 1, died \\ugu.st 25, 1899; married
James H. Barhyte, of Schenectady. 9. Jane,
born July 9, 1833 ; married Newton Van Der-
veer, now of St. Joseph, Michigan. Ann

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i4-\v

(Van Schaick) Edwards, wife of John Ed-
wards, was the daughter of John and Eleanor
(Geran) Van Schaick.

(IV) Miriam Collins, fourth child of Ste-
phen and Anna Maria (Edwards) Ostrom,
was born in Glen. New York, November 29,
1847. She married, September 29, 1875, Rev.
J. P. Dysart officiating and Rev. Frank V.
Van Vranken assisting, W. Hoagland Baird,
born in Charleston, Montgomery county. New
York, February 10, 1849, see forward. Chil-
dren : I. Nellie Ostrom, born October 29,
1877; member of Cayadutta Chapter, Order
of the Eastern Star, of Gloversville. 2. Ben-
jamin H., born June 23, 1884; member of
Fultonville Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma-
sons, and Johnstown Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons ; he is a Democrat in politics. Alar-
ried, December 23, 1910, Grace Catherine
Mead, Rev. Henry B. Kimmev, of Albany, of-
ficiating. Both children reside at home. Mr.
Baird, Sr., is a member of Fultonville Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons ; he is a Democrat
in politics, and served two terms as super-
visor. Mrs. Baird is a charter member of
Caughnawaga Chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolution, also charter member of
Mohawk \'alley Order of Eastern Star.

(The Baird Line).

Major William Baird, great-grandfather of
W. Hoagland Baird, was bom in Scotland,
February 24, 1704, died 1793, son of Scotch
parents who settled in New Jersey directly
on their arrival from Scotland. During the
war of the revolution Major Baird served
in the Second Battalion Somerset County Mi-
litia or State Troops. He was cajitain of the
battalion, afterwards first major. He mar-
ried and reared a family.

(H) William (2), son of Major William
( I ) Baird, born in Somerset county,
New Jersey, December 22, 1742, died Octo-
ber 5. 1830: married, July 23, 1775, Cathnah
Hoagland, born Februarv 27, 17S3, died July
II, i887.

(HI) Hon. Iknjamin, son of William (2)
Baird, was born October 11, 1787, died 1873.
He was elected a r^iember of assembly in
1846. He married. November 13, 1817,
Eleanor Miller, born May 4, 1798, died June
20, 1882.

(IV) William (3), son of Hon. Benjamin
Baird, was born September 23, 1818, died
July 19, 1893. He married D. Malina .\he\,
born in Glen, May 10, 1816, died December
6, 1904, Rev. Christian Zabriskie Paulison
officiating. Children: i. Mary E., married
John H. Serviss, and resides in Closter, New
Jersey; child, Ethel, married David D. Ack-

erman. 2. Hepzibah Abel, married M. Mount
Shelp ; child, Willis Baird, a resident of Am-
sterdam. 3. W. Hoagland, mentioned above.

The Scott family of Saratoga
SCOTT Springs, New York, descend

from an English ancestor, Ben-
jamin Scott, who settled in Ireland in the
reign of James I.

(I) George Scott, born in Londonderry
county, Ireland, came to the American colo-
nies in 1773 and located on a farm in the
town of Ballston, Saratoga county. New
York, near the Milton line, on the "Middle
Line Road." This was then but a clearing
in the great northern wilderness, and the in-
habitants were in a state of constant watch-
fulness against the wild things of the forest.
The danger from the Indians was very great,
and in October, 1780, a band of Tories and
Indians, under the leadership of Captain
Munro, attacked the Scott homestead, which
they pillaged and left the owner supposedly
dead from a blow on the head from a toma-
hawk. It was during this raid that General
James Gordon and almost every settler along
the "Middle Line," was captured and taken
to Canada, some being killed. George Scott
married a sister of General Gordon. She
was born and married in Kilcaid county, An-
trim, Ireland, and was of Scotch ancestors on
both sides. Her brother, General Gordon,
born October 31, 1739, came to America when
a boy of seventeen, went back to Ireland, then
came again to America, and after being in
the Indian trade at Albany and army con-
tracting, settled in Ballston in 1771-72. He
was active in the revolutionary service, and
was promoted through successive rank to that
of brigadier-general by Governor Clinton in
1785. On October 3, 1780, he arrived at his
home in Ballston from Poughkeepsie, where
he had been attending an extra session con-
vened by Governor Clinton. Some of the
Tories in the neighborhood informed Munro,
and the raid was made for the purpose of
capturing the general. He was awakened by
bayonets being thrust through the windows
of his home. After his capture the mau-
rauders went to the house of George Scott,
who was felled by the blows from three toma-
hawks. The Indians rushed forward to take
his scalp, but were prevented. General Gor-
don was carried to Quebec, thence to the
Isle of Orleans, from whence he escaped with
some of his old neighbors taken in the second
raid of 1781. He was a large land owner and
erected mills in Ballston. It was through his
efforts that his brother-in-law, George Scott,
located in that section. He married, March.

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16, 1775, Mary, daughter of Rev. Eliphalet
Ball, who came from Bedford, Westchester
■county. New York, in 1700, purchased four
hundred acres of land and established the
first Presbyterian church. The town of Balls-
ton is named in his honor. Rev. Eliphalet
Ball was a second cousin of Mary Ball,
tnother of General Washington. He had
three sons, Stephen, John a colonel in the
revolution, Flamen, and a daughter Mary,
who married General James Gordon. Gen-
eral Gordon had a distinguished civil as well
as military career. He was the first super-
visor of the town of Ballston, a member of
the assembly, state senator for nine years,
and representative in the second and third
United States congresses. He was honored
by a visit from President Washington at his
home in Ballston when the president visited
northern New York. He was judge of the
Saratoga court of common pleas. He died
in Ballston, January 17, 1810, leaving a
daughter Melinda. Children of George Scott:
James, see forward ; Mary, married William
Marshall ; Margaret, unmarried ; Susan, mar-
ried Daniel Starr.

(H) James, only son of George and

(Gordon) Scott, was born at the Gordon
homestead in Ballston, New York. January 31,
1774, died in the same town in 1857. He was
a well-known surveyor of his day. He mar-
ried Mary Botsford, born in Derby, Connecti-
cut, died the year of her marriage, leaving
an only child.

(HI) Judge George Gordon, only son of
James and Mary (Botsford) Scott, was born
in the town of Ballston, Saratoga county.
New York, May 11, 181 1, died September
7, 1886. He prepared for Union College,
where he was graduated in 1831, being then
twenty years oif age. He embraced the pro-
fession of law, for which he prepared with
Palmer & Goodrich, at Ballston, finishing his
■course of preparation with Brown & Thomp-
son, of the same village. He was admitted
to the bar in 1834, and at once began the
practice of his profession in Ballston. He
soon became well established in business and
commanded universal respect for his legal
ability and manly, upright character. In
1838 he was commissioned judge of the
•county courts by Governor Marcy, but re-
signed before the expiration of his term. He
was an active Democrat, and was elected to
the state assembly in 1856, and re-elected in
1857. In the latter year he was elected state
senator from the fifteenth district, and served
his term, but declined re-election. In 1861
he was the nominee of his party for the high
•office of state comptroller, but was defeated

by Lucius Robinson. In 1859 he removed
from the Milton part of Ballston Spa into his
native town, and in i860 was elected super-
visor, being re-elected each year for twenty-
one years, generally without opposition. In
1863 and 1876 he was chairman of the board.
He delivered the historical address at Balls-
ton Spa in 1876, and in 1877 was presiding
officer at Bemis Heights upon the occasion
of the celebration of the one hundredth anni-
versary of that decisive battle of the revolu-
tion. He survived all his associates on the
bench, and was the last of fifteen senators
of Saratoga county who were contemporaries.
He married Lucy, daughter of Joel Lee, of
Ballston Spa, and left issue.

(I\') James Lee, son of Judge Gordon
and Lucy (Lee) Scott, was born at Ballston
Spa, New York, January 9, 1856. He pre-
pared for college at Greylock Institute, South
Williamstown, Massachusetts, and entered
Williams College in 1872, and was graduated
from there in 1876. He prepared for the
profession of law, and was actively engaged
in legal practice at Ballston Spa until 1900,
when he removed to Saratoga Springs. In
1886-87 he was county clerk of Saratoga
county, and in 1898 was appointed referee
in bankrutpcy for the counties of Saratoga,
Schenectady and Warren, and held that office
for twelve years. He has many important
business interests. He is president of the
Congress Spring Company ; president of the
Ballston Refrigerating Storage Company, of
Ballston; first vice-president of The Adiron-
dack Trust Company, of Saratoga ; vice-presi-
dent of the Security Steel & Iron Company,
of Troy. His clubs are the University and
Manhattan of New York City, the Maganas-
sippi Fish & Game of Canada, the Saratoga
and Saratoga Golf. Politically he is a Re-
publican. He married a Miss Boone, of
Louisville, Kentucky, a direct descendant of
Squire Boone (brother of Daniel), and of
Judge John Rowan, formerly United States
senator from Kentucky. He has two sons,
Brcnton and Gordon.

The name Silliman, Sille-
SILLLM.AN mant or Sillivant is derived
from a silly man not silly or
witless, as useil in modern times, but inno-
cent, free from guile, a good man. About
1690 the name came to be spelled Silliman.
It has been suggested by persons familiar
with the pronunciation of family names that
this family was of Irish extraction, but there
has been no proof yet found.

(I) Daniel Silliman was in Fairfield in
1658. He married (first), in July, 1661, Peac-

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able Eggleston, widow of John Eggleston.
He bought of Joseph Middlebrook, "adminis-
trator of John Eggleston's estate, ten acres of
land left for the use of Eggleston's son. This
lot was southwest of the present Black Rock
bridge. He married (second) Hannara, Hen-
ichy or Hannah Hendrickson, widow of
••Hendrick" or "Henry Hendrickson." He
was one of the land dividend holders of the
town. He died intestate in 1690, and the in-
ventory of his estate, valued at three hundred
and two pounds, was made January 13, 1690-
91. His property was divided between his
wife Hannah and his three sons. It has not
been determined whether he was related to
Daniel Sillivant or Selevant. of New Haven,
who married, before 1654, Abigail Cole, only
daughter of 'James Cole, of Hartford, and
who married, October 17. 1654, Eliza Lam-
berton, daughter of Captain George Lamber-
ton. master of the famous phantom ship, or
the ship in the air, lost in 1646. In the New
Haven records, it says that a William Trow-
bridge married, March 9, 1667, at Milford,
Elizabeth, widow of Sillivant and daughter
of George Lamberton, but before this Eliza-
beth deeded the house and lands given to her
husband and his former wife, Abigail, by
James Cole, her father, in his will, and it
also says that the said Daniel died in Vir-
ginia in 1655, and he left a will, proved June
1655, naming his widow. Tradition says that
Daniel of Fairfield was from Holland. Chil-
dren by first wife: Daniel, Thomas, Robert,
mentioned below.

(II) Robert, son of Daniel Silliman, mar-
ried Sarah, daughter of Cornelius Hull. He
died in 1748. Children: Sarah, baptized
September 16, 1694; Nathaniel, September
27, 1696; Anne, March 12, 1698-99; Martha,
August 24, 1701 ; Robert, March 19, 1703-04,
mentioned below; Rebecca, April 8, 1705;
Ebenezer, September 21, 1707.

(III) Robert (2), son of Robert (i) Silli-
man, was baptized Alarch 19, 1703-04. He
married (first), October 20, 1715, Ruth,
daughter of Samuel Tredwell, of Pequonnock.
She died March 15, 1756. He married (sec-
ond), Mary Morehouse, December 14, 1756.
Children by first wife : Robert, born Septem-
ber 26, 1716, mentioned below; Ruth, bap-
tized August 24, 1718; Daniel, born Decem-
ber 31, 1722; Sarah, February 17. 1728-29;
John, April 9, 1731. By second wife: Ruth,
born August 19, 1760. There were perhaps
other children bv second wife.

(IV) Rev. Robert (3) Silliman, son of
Robert (2) Silliman, was born September 26,
1716, at Fairfield, died in 1781 at Saybrook.
He married Annie, daughter of Samuel

Cooke, granddaughter of Thomas Cooke and
great-granddaughter of Thomas Cooke. Sam-
uel Cooke was born November 22, 1687. and
became a Congregational minister: settled in
Stratfield, Connecticut, now Bridgeport, with
a salary of a hundred pounds a year with his
firewood. He is described as of dignified ap-
pearance and manner, wearing a particularly
careful ministerial dress. He married Anne
Trowbridge, a girl of twenty, only daughter
of John Trowbridge, of New Haven. For
a time Cooke was the principal of the Hop-
kins grammar school. The wife of John
Trowbridge was a daughter of GoveVnor
Leete, a distinguished member of an old Eng-
lish noble family. Anne was the youngest
child of seven. Robert Silliman moved to
New Canaan, Connecticut, to succeed Rev.
John Eells, as pastor, and continued there for
thirty years. He accepted a call to Say-
brook, Connecticut, January 8, 1772. Solomon
A. Silliman has in his possession a copy of
the old church record of Saybrook, which
contains the proceedings of a meeting of the
society to give a call to Rev. Robert Silliman.
and his letter of acceptance. It was voted
at this meeting to give him a salary of sixty
pounds and twenty cords of firewood a year,
the sixty pounds to be one-third in cash, and
two-thirds in food products at the market
price in that town. His wife died two years
and a half before him. His own death came
unexpectedly while he was visiting. Among
his children were: i. Samuel Cooke, died
February 14, 1798; married Elizabeth Strat-
ton and Dinah Comstock. and lived on the
homestead. 2. Dr. Joseph, mentioned below.
3. John, who built the first boat that
navigated the Connecticut river propelled
by any power but the wind, namely horse-
power; he loaded it with grain to go up and
down the river, and, running against a
"snag," it sank. He afterward left that part
of the country and moved to a place north of
Troy, called Half i\Ioon, and from him have
come three or four generations who have lived
along the Hudson in this vicinity, some of
whom have been prominent business men in
Troy; one each of the third and fourth gen-
erations are still living here, also some in
West Troy, now called Watervliet. In the
census of 1790, the only heads of families of
this surname at Stamford and Norwalk.
which are reported together, were Dr. Jo-
seph, who had two sons under sixteen, and
three females, and Samuel Cooke, who liad
one son under sixteen and one female.

(V) Dr. Joseph Silliman, son of Rev. Rob-
ert (3) Silliman, was born about 1760. He
removed from New Canaan at the age of fif-

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HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

teen, but returning later settled there. He was
a prominent physician and held various offices
of trust and honor. He died in Bedford, New
York, aged seventy-one. He married, No-
vember 23, 1785, Martha Leeds. Children:
Joseph, born August 13, 1786, graduate of
Yale, married Martha Mitchell; William,
January 17, 1788, graduate of Yale, married

St. John : Eliabeth Leeds, October 22,

1789, married Hon. Minot Mitchell; Samuel
Cooke, January 11. 1792, graduate of Yale,
married Uriah Reeds' daughter: Elisha, De-
cember 22, 1793; Ann, October 2},, 1795, died
young ; John Leeds, mentioned below.

(VI) John Leeds, son of Dr. Joseph Silli-
man, was born at New Canaan, Connecticut,
June 14, 1798, died at White Plains, New
York, May 2, 1879. He was a farmer. Orig-
inally a Whig, he supported the Republican
party after it was established. In religion he
was a Presbyterian and active in good works.
He married, December 24, 1822. Catharine
Mary, born at Poundridge, Westchester
county. New York, October 13, 1802. daugh-
ter of Solomon Lockwood (see Lockwood
VI). Children: William, Joseph. John. Mi-
not M., Ann Eliza, Chauncey M., Solomon
Augustus. Charles H., Charles H. M. and
Caroline M.

(VII) Solomon Augustus, son of John
Leeds Silliman, was born in Brutus, Cayuga
county, New York, November 5, 1837. He
was educated in the public schools of his na-
tive town and the Union School at Weeds-
port, New York. He also took a private
course in accounting and commercial
branches at Auburn, New York. He came
to New York City in November, 1858. and
engaged in temporary business for a year,
then entered a firm dealing in trimmings and
millinery goods. The firm imported goods
extensively. He was in charge of the finan-
cial part of the business and of the accounts.
In 1888 he came to Troy. New York, and
since that time has been virtually retired from
business, though he has taken some engage-
ments as an expert accountant. He enlisted
in the Twenty-third Regiment (Brooklyn
regiment). New York National Guard, in the
civil war, in 1862, and served from Octfiber
6, 1862, to May i, 1867. He was for four
years a member of the State National Guard
Association. In politics he is a staunch Re-
publican, and his first vote was cast for Abra-
ham Lincoln. In religion he is a Presby-
terian. He was formerly a member of the
Union League club of New York City. He
married June 26. 1879. Martha Ann. born at
Troy, daughter of Henry Ingram (see Ingram
VIII).

The surname Lockwood
LOCKWOOD is of very ancient origin

and is mentioned in the
Domesday Book. It is a place name, and the
family has several branches in England, in
Staffordshire, Yorkshire, county Essex and
Northampton. The coat-of-arms borne by
Rev. Richard Lockwood. pastor of Dingley,
Northampton, was : Argent, a fesse between
three martletts sable.

(I) Robert Lockwood. immigrant ancestor,
came to New England about 1630 and set-
tled in Watertown. Massachusetts. He was
admitted a freeman, March 9, 1636-37, and
was the executor of the estate of one Edmund
Lockwood, supposed to have been his brother.
He removed to Fairfield, Connecticut. He
was recorded as a settler there as early as
1641 and died there in 1668. He was admit-
ted a freeman of that state. May 20. 1662.
He was appointed sergeant at Fairfield in
May, 1657. He is said to have lived for a
time in Norwalk, Connecticut. He married
Susannah , who married (second) Jef-
frey Ferris, and died at Greenwich. Chil-
dren: Jonathan, mentioned below; Deborah,
born October 12, 1636; Joseph. August 6.
1638; Daniel. March 21. 1640; Ephraim. De-
cember I. 1641 ; Gershom. September 6. 1643;
John ; Abigail, married John Barlow, of Fair-
field; Sarah; Mary, married Jonathan
Heusted.

(II) Lieutenant Jonathan, son of Robert
Lockwood. was born in Watertown. MassH-
chusetts. September 10, 1634. died May 12.
1688. in Greenwich. Connecticut, in his fifty-
fourth year. He married Mary, daughter of
Jeffrey Ferris, who married, late in life, Mrs.
Susannah Lockwood. widow of Robert Lock-
wood, and Jonathan's mother. Jonathan
signed a paper on January i. 1657. at East-
towne, in the New Netherlands, in which
he promised allegiance to the Dutch gover-
nor as long as he lived within his jurisdic-
tion. He lived in Stamford, Connecticut, Oc-
tober 16, 1660, and in 1665 he sold his es-
tate there and moved to Greenwich. He was
made a freeman here in 1670. He was assis-
tant in May, 1671, and in 1672 was "one of
the twenty-seven proprietors." He repre-
sented the town in the legislature for four
years. At his death, the people met in town
meeting and pas.sed resolutions deploring the
loss of so valuable a citizen, and he was
greatly mourned. He w-as deputy to the gen-
eral assembly several times. He was ap-
pointed by the court, with three others, to
determine the boundary line between Green-
wich and the colony of New York, from
Mamaroneck river to Hudson river. On May

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1427

9, 1688, he made a deed, a division of prop-
erty, and named his wife and children. This
was three days before his death. His wife,
after his death, made provision for her chil-
dren, when about to marry Sergeant Thomas
Merritt, of Rye. June 5, 1696. Children:
Jonathan, born about 1663 ; Robert ; Gershom ;
Still John, about 1674; Joseph, mentioned be-
low ; Sarah ; Abigail.

(HI) Joseph, son of Lieutenant Jonathan
Lockwood, was bom in 1675, in Stamford,
Connecticut, died 1759, aged eighty-four, at
Poundridge, Westchester county. New York,
where he moved in 1743. He was admitted
a freeman, February 7, 1697. He married
(first). May 19, 1698, Elizabeth Ayres, who
died December 16, 171 5. He married (sec-
ond), August 10, 1716, Margery, born Oc-
tober 4, 1683, died January 2, 1736-37,
daughter of James and Hannah (Scofield)
Webb. Children by first wife: Joseph, born
March 15, 1699, mentioned below; Hannah,
March 24, 1701 ; John, September 18, 1703;
Nathaniel, April i, 1706, died young; Eliza-
beth, May 15, 1708; Israel, June 4, 1710;
Mary; Reuben, December 15, 171 5. By sec-
ond wife: Nathaniel, May 20, 1717; Nathan,
March 25, 1719; James, July 15, 1722.

(IV) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (i) Lock-
wood, was born March 15, 1699, at Stam-
ford. He moved with his father to Pound-
ridge in 1743, and here he died June 15, 1757.
He was one of the proprietors of the Stam-
ford Patent, which was granted in 1685. He
married Sarah, born April i, 1706, died in
1790, daughter of Joshua and Mary (Pickett)
Hoyt. Children : Eliakim, born February
28, 1728-29; Joseph, June 30, 1731, men-
tioned below; Elizabeth, March 7, 1733: Gil-
bert, 1736, died 1740; Ebenezer, March 31,
1737: Rachel, January 19, 1739; Mercy;
Hezekiah, killed by a fence rail, aged seven
years ; Prudence.

(V) Captain Joseph (3), son of Joseph (2)
Lockwood, was born June 30, 1731, in Stam-
ford, died March 17, 1792, at Poundridge.
Joseph Lockwood was elected town clerk of
Old Poundridge in 1760. He was chosen
captain of a military company, and his com-
mission was issued September 13, 1775. On
June 10, 1775, a list of men who went from
Manchester to Ticonderoga under him is
given by him. He was chosen as one of the
competent officers by the committee of safety
at New York. He was unanimously chosen
chairman of the first meeting of the congre-
gation of the Presbyterian Society at Pound-
ridge in 1760. He married Hannah Close,
who died December 22, 1806, daughter of
Solomon Close, of North Salem, New York.

She married (second) Captain James Rich-
ards, of New Canaan, Connecticut, a wealthy
man, who died at New Canaan, May 17, 1810,
aged eighty-seven, after being blind for sev-
eral years. Qiildren : Hannah ; Sarah, born
1761 ; Joseph, December 3. 1764; Solomon,
August 28, 1766, mentioned below; Prudence,
1767; Mindwell, married Jotham Waring;
Mercy; Matilda, died young; Matilda, mar-
ried Seth Kellogg; Nancy, married Henry
Jones.

(VI) Solomon, son of Captain Joseph (3)
Lockwood, was born August 28, 1766, at
Poundridge, died March 19, 1841. He mar-
ried Mary Close, of Greenwich, born April
16, 1770, died May 6, 1848, daughter of Odle
Close. Children: Bethia, born June 21,
1791 ; Odle, May 4, 1793; Leander, Novem-
ber 21. 1794; Joseph. September 23. 1796;
Hannah. Alarch 9, 179S: William, September
14, 1800: Catharine Mary, October 13, 1802,
married John L. Silliman, died April 17, 1879
(see Silliman VI) ; Sarah Elizabeth, Septem-
ber 10, 1805; Solomon, September 5, 1810,
died September 22, 181 1.

Randolph, son of Ingel'ram or

INGRAM Ing'ram, was the sheriflf of

Nottingham and Derby in the

reign of Henry II, 1133-89. He had two

sons, Robert and William.

Robert Ingram, knight, son of Randolph,
was of such importance in the reign of Henry
III that the Prior and Convent of Lenton
granted to him a yearly rent out of their
lands in Sheynton and Nottingham, in recog-
nition of his military service in their defense.
His arms are painted in Temple Nevvsham,
or Newsam, England, which is an immense
estate, six miles long and four wide, about
four and a half miles east of Leeds. It is now
called the Ingram Estate, and at first it was a
settlement of Knights Templar in the twelfth
and thirteenth centuries. After their disper-
sion, it was granted by Edward III to Sir
John Darcy, and descended to Sir Thomas
Darcy, who was beheaded by Henry VIII,
and the estate was forfeited to the crown.
In 1354 it was again granted by Henry Ylll
to Mathew, Earl of Lennox, and here was
born his .son, Henry Darnley, who later mar-
ried Mary, Queen of Scots. The estate de-
scended to their son, James I, of England,
and from him to his kinsman, Esme Stuart,
Duke of Lennox, from whom it passed to
Sir Arthur Ingram, the first of the Lords
Viscount Irwin, one of the conditions being
that the room in which Lord Darnley was
born in should remain unaltered, and this
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HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

Sir Arthur Iiitjram, who is supposed to
have been born about 1570, was celebrated
for his valor as a cavalier. He was a near
relative of Wentworth, the celebrated Earl
of Stafford. He was twice married ; first to
Eleanor, daughter of Sir Henry Slingsby, of
the "Red House," and second to Lady Kath-
erine, daughter of Thomas, Lord Viscount
Fairfax of Gilling. Sir Arthur died in 1655.
His portrait in cavalier costume, that of the
First Viscount Irwin in full armor, and of
Henr>', the second Viscount Irwin in half ar-
mor, all nearly full length, were in the col-
lection of the Bishop of California, William
Ingraham Kip, D. D., LL. D., who died in
1894. His children were Henry and Arthur.
Henry, son of Sir Arthur Ingram, was
born between 1595 and 1600. At the time of
the restoration, six years after the death of
his father, he was created a peer of Scot-
land by Charles II, with the title of Viscount
Irwin, by letters patent, dated May 23, 1661,
as a recompense to the family for their loy-
alty. He married Anne, daughter of Mon-
tacute. Earl of Manchester, a leader in par-
liament. The male branch in England, as
descended from Sir Henry, the second Vis-
count Irwin, became extinct with Charles
Ingram, ninth Viscount Irwin, who died in
1778. His daughter, the Marchioness of
Hertford, and Lady William Gordon, suc-
cessively inherited Temple Newsam, and from
them it passed to their sister, Mrs. Hugo
Maynell, whose son took the name of In-
gram, and his descendants are the present
owners of the family estate.

Arthur, of P.arrowby, son of Sir Arthur
Ingram, and brother to Henry Ingram, was
born between 1595 and 1600. He married a
daughter of Sir John Mallory about 161 5. and
genealogists agree that it was from him that
the Ingram family in America is descended.
(I) Richard, dovibtless son of Arthur In-
gram, came to America between 1638 and
1642. He settled in Rehoboth, Massachusetts,
where he was a proprietor in 1645. Some
years later he moved to Northampton, Massa-
chusetts, where in 1668, late in life, he mar-
ried, probably his second marriage, Joan
Rockwell Raker, daughter of William Rock-
well and widow of Jeffrey Raker, of Wind-
sor, Connecticut. He contributed a sum at
the time of the general sul)scription for the
support for Harvard college in 1672-73. He
died in August, 1683, and his widow died
September 16. 1683, both at Northampton.
He is thought to have been a brother of
Jared and Edward Ingram, as they all lived
near together at times, and the name is the
same. F.dward came to America in 1635, and

Richard between 1638 and 1642, and Jared
in 1635. There is also a John Ingram, who
settled at Roston and Hadley, who is thought
to have been Richard's son.

(II) John, very likely son of Richard In-
gram, was born in England about 1642. He
come to New England when a young man,
and settled first at Roston, Massachusetts.
He removed to Hadley, Massachusetts, with
two others in 1661, and was admitted a free-
man in 1663. He was a member of Joseph
Kellogg's company of Hadley, under Captain
William Turner, and was engaged in the fight
at Turner's Falls, during King Philip's war.
May ig, 1676. He died June 22, 1722. He
married, 1664, Elizabeth, daughter of Sam-
uel and Elizabeth Gardner, of Hadley, and
she died November 29, 1684. Children:
John, born June 29, 1665; Jadiah, August 16,
1668; Samuel, October 8, 1670; Ebenezer,
February 3, 1673; Nathaniel, October 8,
1674, mentioned below; Jonathan, 1676;
Elizabeth, Mav i, 1679; Abigail, January 12,
1683.

(III)Nathaniel, son of John Ingram, was
born at Hadley, October 8, 1674. He mar-
ried, October 20, 1696, Esther, born March
31, 1674, daughter of Chileab and Hannah
(Hitchcock) Smith, of Hadley. He and his
son Nathaniel had a grant of land at South
Hadley, which the Ingram family retained
and occupied one hundred and seventy-five
years. It was sold in the spring of 1904.
Children: Esther, born July 23, 1697; Eliza-
beth, April 6, 1699; Abigail, August 24, 1700;
Alercy. April 15, 1702: Ebenezer, November
18, 1703; Nathaniel, May 18, 1708; Hannah,
April 14, 1711; Jonathan, June 5, 1713, men-
tioned below: Sarah, October 2, 1717.

(IV) Jonathan, son of Nathaniel Ingram,
was born June 5, 1713, died November 12 or
14, 1748. He married. May 18. 1743, Mary,
daughter of John Montague, Jr. Children :
Jonathan, born January 5, 1745, mentioned be-
low; John, August 9, 1746; Mary, Novem-
ber 21, 1748.

(V) Jonathan (2), son of Jonathan (i)
Ingram, was born January 5, 1745. Children:
Jonathan, mentioned below; Samuel, March.
1781 ; son, April 20, 1783; Joanna, baptized
April 17, 1785; Ira, baptized December 31,
1786; Elisha, baptized April 17, 1789.

(VI) Jonathan (3), son of Jonathan (2)
Ingram, was born at Hadley, May 2, 1779,
died at Marlborough, Vermont, August
ir, 1855. He was a farmer. He moved to
Marlborough among the early settlers. He
was a deacon of the Congregational church
there. He married, August 25, 1802, Polly,
daughter of Jonathan Underwood. Children :

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Henry, William, Jonathan, Porter, Harriet,
Polly, Joanna, Lucy, Ira.

(VH) Henry (2), son of Jonathan (3)
Ingram, was born at Marlborough, Vermont,
December 7, 1803, died at Troy, New York,
August 10, 1890. He was educated in the
Marlborough public schools, and worked dur-
ing his youth on the homestead. He went
to Northfield, Massachusetts, when he came
of age, and in 1830 removed to Troy, New
York, where he embarked in the grocery
business. Subsequently he was engaged in
manufacturing and in the wholesale liquor
trade in the firm of H. Ingram & Company,
in which his brother William was his partner.
He was one of the organizers of the National
State Bank and vice-president and president
for many years. He retired a few years be-
fore he died. In politics he was a Democrat,
and greatly interested in public affairs, but
never sought office for himself. He was a
member of the Universalist church, and was
one of the first of the family to leave the
Presbyterian church and join the liberal de-
nomination. He married, October 12, 1836,
at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Martha, daughter
of Simeon and Lucy (Deming) Butler. Chil-
dren: I. James Henry, born at Troy, Feb-
ruary 13, 1838, died at Brooklyn, New York,
February 27, 1900; enlisted in the civil war
in the Sixth New York Independent Bat-
talion and served three years ; promoted to
rank of sergeant; was in the mounted artil-
lery in the Army of the Potomac and took
part in nineteen important battles ; was for a
time under General John A. Logan ; captured
and confined in Libby prison and paroled.
Soon after he engaged in business with his
father and continued until the eighties, when
his father retired, and he went into business
in Brooklyn ; was chief of the fire department
for years and captain of Read Steamer Com-
pany ; was sheriff of the county ; was a Demo-
crat; married, but left no children. 2. Jona-
than E., born July 15, 1839, died April i,
1844. 3. Charles, December 7, 1841, died
October 21, 1842. 4. Francenah J., July 10,
1843, died April 8, 1844. 5. Martha A., April
18, 1846. 6. Emma, June i, 1848. 7. George,
October 17, 1851, died November 18, 1851.

(VIII) Martha Ann, daughter of Henry
(2) Ingram, was born at Troy, New York,
April 18, 1846. She married S. Augustus
Silliman (see Silliman VII). She was edu-
cated in the public schools and private
schools, graduating from the Troy high
school in 1863 and from the Troy Female
Seminary in 1865. She is a member of the
Alumni Associations of the Troy high school
and of the Troy Female Seminary, now Emma

Willard school, and has been president of the
Troy Chapter of the Emma Willard Alumnae
Association for ten years. She has been presi-
dent of the Young Women's Association for
the past nine years, and on the board of man-
agement for nearly twenty-five years. She
was a charter member of the Samaritan Hos-
pital 'and its treasurer for several years ; is
vice-president of the board of women man-
agers. She is regent of Philip Schuyler Chap-
ter, Daughters of the American Revolution,
and had been vice-regent for several years
previously. She is a director of the State
Board of New York, of the Federation of
Women's Clubs, and is vice-president of the
Stephen Van Rensselaer Chapter of the
Daughters of the Empire State. In religion
she is a Universalist, and she is the active
president of the Mission Circle of the church.
She was formerly vice-president of the New
York State Universalist Missionary Society.
She is one of the managers of the Women's
League of the Universalist church. She ia
the tnistee of the William Ingram estate.
During Troy Home Week Celebration, in
1908, Mrs. Silliman was chairman of the
Women's Day celebration, and in 1909 she
was appointed general chairman by Mayor
Mann, of Troy, of the women's committee of
the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, held at Music
Hall, October 8, 1909.

(The Kellogg Line).

(III) Nathaniel Kellogg, son of Lieutenant
Joseph Kellogg (q. v.), was born October 8,
1669, in Hadley, died October 30, 1750, aged
eighty-one. About 1739 he removed to Am-
herst. He married, June 28, 1692, Sarah,
daughter of Samuel Boltwood. She was liv-
ing January 26, 1761. Children: Nathaniel,
born September 22, 1693; Ebenezer, May 31,
1695 ; Ezekiel, April 15, 1697 ; Samuel, April 4,
1699, mentioned below; Sarah, March 12,
1701 ; Abigail, March 19, 1703; Mary, March
9, 1706; Ephraim, August 2. 1709; Experi-
ence, married October 15, 1736.

(IV) Samuel, son of Nathaniel Kellogg,
was born April 4, 1699, died in South Had-
ley, about May. 1741. He married. May 22,
1724, Sarah, daughter of Deacon John Smith.
She married (second) January, 1749, William
Montague. Children: Samuel, horn March
17, 1725 ; Joanna, married Jonathan Ingram ;
Gad; Dan; Huldah, died October 3, 1756;
Mary; Lucy; Sarah, died June 12, 1747.

Captain Richard Bracket!

BRACKETT was one of the first of the

name in America. It is

known that he was in the colony of Massa-

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cluisetts Bay as early as 1630. Other Brack-
etts in the Bay Colony at an early date were
Peter Brackett, of Boston, and Thomas
Brackett, of Salem. Captain Richard Brack-
ett testified by affidavit on July 2, 1668, that
the year of his birth was 1612. His tomb-
stone says "aged 80 years," deceased March
5, 1690. If this be so, he was born in t6io,
which would make him nineteen years of age
in 1629, the year he came to America. On
August 27, 1630, he was among the colonists
with whom Governor Winthrop organized the
first church of Boston. With this church he
remained twelve years, when he removed to
Braintree. He was made a freeman of Bos-
ton, 1636, and November 23, 1636, he be-
came a member of the Ancient and Honor-
able Artillery Company. While in Boston
he was appointed by the general court keeper
of the prison, and was jailer for several years.
It is stated that the jailer described in Haw-
thorne's "Scarlet Letter" was Richard Brack-
ett. Captain Richard Brackett was one of
the early settlers and incorporators of Brain-
tree. He sold his Boston property and re-
moved to Braintree in 1641-42. He was or-
dained deacon of the Braintree church. July
21, 1642, and this office he held until his
death. He was the first town clerk and held
office several years. In 1652-70-72 he was
selectman; in 1654 he was elected represen-
tative to the general court : was also deputy
in 1655-66-67-71-72-73-74-75-80. He was
sergeant of the train band, lieutenant, and
about 1654 was attacked by the Indians dur-
ing King Philip's war; Captain Richard
Brackett and his men were constantly em-
ployed in that war, but there is little record
of their doings. As he advanced in years he
sought to unburden himself of some of his
public duties. In 1684 the general court al-
lowed him to resign liis place as "chief mili-
tary commander" of Braintree, after forty-
three years of service, and thirty as captain.
His business in Braintree was farming ; he
had choice of the best land in the town, and
acquired a considerable estate. When Bille-
rica, Massachusetts, was incorporated, he be-
came a freeholder; two of his sons and two
daughters later settled there. It is said that
at one time he taught the Braintree school.
He was a busy man, highly honored and re-
spected. He is buried in "the north precinct
of Braintree, now Quincy.

His wife's name was Alice . She

was his lifelong companion after their mar-
riage, she preceeding him to the grave but one
year, in 1689. A silver cup inscribed B
used in the Unitarian church in R and A
i'.raintrce (in -early days Congregational) at

communion service is the gift of Captain
Richard Brackett and his wife Alice to the
church. He made his will January 29, 1689,
remembered all his children, and nominated
his son James to be sole executor. The will
was approved at Boston, December 19, 1690.
Children: i. Hannah, killed by the Indians at
Dunstable, now Nashua, New Hampshire;
married (first) Samuel Kingsley; (second)
Deacon John Blanchard. 2. John, married
(first) Hannali French; (second) Mrs. Ruth
(Morse) Ellis. 3. Peter, twin with John,
married (first) Elizabeth Bosworth ; (second)
Mrs. Sarah (Parker) Foster. 4. Rachel, mar-
ried Simon Crosby. 5. Mary, married Jo-
seph, son of Rev. William Thompson. 6.
James, see forward. 7. Sarah, married Jo-
seph Crosby. 8. Josiah, married Elizabeth
Waldo. All of these reared families, some of
them very large ones.

{ H) James, son of Captain Richard and
Alice Brackett, was born in Braintree, Mas-
sachusetts, about 1645. In deeds he is de-
scribed as a "Cooper." In 1673 he removed
to Boston, as shown by his letter of dismissal
from the Braintree church to the Third (Old
South) Church in Boston, where he was ad-
mitted a member, March 2, 1673. In 1682 he
returned to Braintree, according to similar
evidence. He was admitted a freeman in
Boston, May 12, 1675: clerk. 1689-94; was
sergeant of the Braintree military company,
1695 ; selectman, 1701-03. He seems to have
bought and sold a good deal of land and to
have been a man of some distinction. He
married, in Braintree, about 1674, Sarah,
born in Hingham, Massachusetts, December
22, 1649, died October 6, 1727. daughter of
Thomas and Sarah (Beal) Alarsh, and grand-
daughter of George and Elizabeth Marsh,
who came to America in 1635. Children:
Joseph, of Braintree, married Mehitable
Belcher; Nathan, see forward; Sarah, mar-
ried Edward Adams, of Milford ; Mary, un-
married ; Deborah, married Samuel Baxter, of
Braintree; Anne, married Deacon Richard
Paxon, of Braintree ; Abigail, baptized Octo-
ber 20, 1689, in Braintree, married August 6,
1719, Gregory, son of Deacon Gregory.

(Ill) Nathan, son of James and Sarah
(Marsh) Brackett. was baptized in Braintree,
Massachusetts, September 29, 1678. in the
First Church. His birth occurred on the 23rd.
He lived continuously in Braintree from 1683
until his death, in May, 1743. He led the
quiet life of a farmer, and never held public
office. In 1723 he was chosen constable, but
prevailed upon his brother-in-law to accept
the office in his stead, the selectmen giving
their con.sent. Neither he nor his wife united

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^\■ith the church until well along in years. His
farm is referred to as "at Mount Wollaston."
He married, March 27, 1707, Hannah Veazy,
baptized January 21, 1685, died before March
31. 1753. Children: James, married (first)
Abigail Belcher, (second) Alary Brackett ; Jo-
siah. married Anna Beale; Samuel, married
Elizabeth Gomary ; Mary, married Silas Stet-
son ; John, married Demaris Dean ; Sarah,
married Jonathan Hayward ; Nathan, married
Hannah Owen, served in French war ; his
5on Nathan served in the revolution.

(IV) Nathan (2), youngest child of Nathan
(i) and Hannah (V^eazy) Brackett, was born
in Braintree, Massachusetts, July i, 1724.
Farmer, removed to LTpton, Worcester county,
Alassachusetts, in 1754. Name on list of Up-
ton train band, dated March 23, 1757. Before
the revolution he removed to Buckland, Frank-
lin county, Massachusetts, where he died in
1795. He married. September 5, 1749, Han-
nah Owen. Children : Nathan, was in almost
continuous service in the revolution from the
"Lexington Alarm" until August 8. 1780, and
in 1831 was allowed a pension, no marriage
recorded : Hannah, died young ; Jonathan, un-
married ; Betsey ; Samuel, served in revolution
from the "Alarm" of April 19, 1775, until
(October 12, 1780, granted a pension in 1833,
■married Betsey Leonard: Sally; Benjamin,
revolutionary soldier, under different enlist-
ments, pensioned in 1833, married Susannah
^^'ashburn ; Hannah, married Thomas Wilson ;
James, see forward ; Rebecca ; Lois.

(V) James (2), son of Nathan (2) and
Hannah (Owen) Brackett, was born in Upton,
Alassachusetts, January 27, 1765, died at
Delhi, New York, 1812. It is traditional that
he served in the .A,merican army during the
last year of the revolution. He was a farmer,
and after the war ended removed to Buckland,
thence to Ashland, Massachusetts, and later to
Delhi, New York. He married, in Ashland,
January i, 1798, Anna Watson Flower, died
February 14, 1866, in Hannibal. New York,
daughter of Major William (died at age of
ninety-five years) and Hannah (Flower)
Flower, his first cousin. Children: i. John
Adams, see forward. 2. James Alanson,
settled in Hannibal Center, New York ; miller
and farmer ; class leader in the Methodist
Episcopal church ; superintendent of Sunday
school : largely through his liberality and ef-
forts the Methodist church was built in that
village : married Sarah Sherman, of Rhine-
beck, New York. 3. William, merchant in
Hannibal Center: married (first) Julia Flow-
er; (second) Sally Ann, daughter of Rev.
Isaac Teller. 4. Hannah, married Daniel Has-
kins. S- Truman F., farmer; married Phoebe

Perkins. 6. Harry A., farmer; married (first)
Adaline Brown; (second) LoceUa Austin. 7.
Harriet, married William Perkins, of Hannibal
Center. 8. Fidelia A., married James A.
Knowlton, of Hannibal, New York.

(VI) John Adams, son of James (2) and
Anna Watson (Flower) Brackett, was born in
Ashfield, Massachusetts, September 16, 1798,
died January 4, 1871, in Saratoga Springs,
New York. He was a cooper and farmer.
He resided in Pittstown, Wilton, Bald Moun-
tain and Saratoga Springs, New York. He
married (first) at Grafton, New York, Eliza
Chase, died January 14, 1833; married (sec-
ond) Abigail M. Sturges, died 1855. Chil-
dren by first wife: James Sylvester, miller, of
Mt. Vernon, Iowa, married Nancy Sherman ;
William Watson, see forward ; Henry Russell,
died 1904, married Mary L. Ott ; John, died
in infancy : George Russell, died 1901, married
Mary J. Perry; Polly, died 1866, married
Elisha Sherman ; Eliza M., married Cornelius
H. Ott; Harriet, died 1883, married John
Fryer ; John Adams, Jr., enlisted in the civil
war in the One Hundred and Forty-fourth
Regiment. New York Volunteer Infantry
("Ellsworth's Avengers"), was promoted cor-
poral, then sergeant ; at Gettysburg, when the
regimental color bearer was shot. Sergeant
Brackett seized and bore the colors until him-
self shot. July 2, 1863 ; he lay on the battle-
field until July 9, and died either on the
19th or 22nd day of July, 1863.

(VII) William Watson, son of John Adams
and Eliza (Chase) Brackett, was born in Pitts-
town, New York, January 14, 1825, died in
Mt. Vernon, Linn county, Iowa, June 15,
1891. He was a railroad bridge builder and
followed his calling over a wide territory. In
1857 he went to Linn county, Iowa, on a visit,
but made it his permanent home until his
death. He married, in Wilton, Saratoga
county. New York, March 4, 1846, Elizabeth
A., daughter of Sylvanins and Clarissa (Slat-
er) Sherman. Children: i. .Xnna Eliza, born
October 24. 1847, in Wilton, New York; mar-
ried, December 31, 1868, Myron K., son of
Zebulon J. and Roxanna S. (Kibbe) Neff;
children : Fred B.. Charles W. and Elizabeth.
2. Edgar T., see forward. 3. Clara .Ada, born
September 9, 1859, at Ely, Iowa ; married Wil-
liam Smith, deceased.

(VHI) Edgar Truman, only son of William
Watson and Elizabeth A. (Sherman) Brack-
ett, was born July 30, 1853, at Emersons
Corners (now Green Spring), in the town of
Wilton, Saratoga county, New York. He was
an infant when his parents removed to Iowa,
where he was educated and grew to manhood.
In 1872 he was graduated from 'Cornell Col-

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lege, a Methodist institution of learning at
Mount Vernon. In September, 1872, he lo-
cated in Saratoga Springs, New York, where
he began the study of law in the office of Pond
& French. In June, 1875, he was admitted to
the New York bar, at the general term of the
supreme court held at Elmira, and the same
month his Alma Mater conferred upon him
the degree of A.M. In the spring of 1876
he became the junior member of the law firm
of Pond, French & Brackett, continuing this
association for twelve years, when the firm be-
came Pond & Brackett. He became the senior
member of Brackett, Butler & Baucus; since
1891 he has practised his profession alone.
He is a very able and successful practitioner,
learned in the law, skillful in its application,
wise and safe as a counselor. His advice and
assistance is often sought by his legal breth-
ren in the trial of cases, or in argument before
appellate tribunals. In the year 1895 he began
his public political career that continues to the
present time (1910). In that year he was
elected state senator from the district, com-
posed of Saratoga, Schenectady and Wash-
ington counties. He at once took prominent
rank in the councils of his party (RepubH-
can) and in the work of the senate. He has
been in continuous service in the senate
through successive re-elections, except the
years 1907-08. His course as a legislator has
met with the approval of his district, and has
attracted a great amount of favorable com-
ment outside district and state. He is inde-
pendent in thought and action, and neither
threats nor promises have induced him to
swerve from his privately formed opinion.
The undue promotion of private interests at
the expense of the people has always had in
him a vigorous opponent. To no one man
is more credit due for recent legislation in
regard to the control of insurance and other
companies than to the fearless, upright Sen-
ator Brackett. In 1898 he received a further
evidence of the high esteem in which he is
held by his "Alma Mater" by the conferring
upon him of the degree LL.D. He has always
taken a great interest in educational matters,
has served for several years upon the com-
mittee of public education, and most gener-
ously aided Cornell College with his influence
and financial aid. His business interests be-
yond law and politics are largely in Saratoga
Springs. He is president of the Adirondack
Trust Company and other of the village's en-
terprises. He finds relaxation at the Saratoga
Club, of which he is a member. He belongs
to Rising Sun Lodge, No. 103, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, Chapter and Washington
Commandery. Senator Brackett's deepest in-

terest is in the law. Valuable as his services
have been to the state as a legislator, and
apparently deeply engrossed in public affairs
as he is, it is to the law that he has given
his life's best thought and most earnest ef-
fort, and it is as a lawyer that he prefers to
go down in history. Still in the vigor of his
manhood, he is actively engaged in his pro-
fession, ranking with the most eminent in
the state. He married, November 22, 1882,
Mary Emma, daughter of Charles and Anna
(Laing) Corliss. Children: Edgar Truman,
Jr., born March 25, 1890, died July 10, 1899;
"Charles William, November 26, 1892.

The house of Argyll, head
CAMPBELL of the Scottish Clan Camp-
bell, have an authenticated
history extending back to the great Diarmid
'Mac Dwibhne, who was contemporary with the
79th King of Scots, Anno Domini, 977. From
him through lyric odes of the bards and tra-
dition they trace thirteen generations further
back into antiquity to Constantine, who came
over from France in the year 404 and died
Anno Domini, 420. In the seventeenth gen-
eration from Constantine the whole clan
O'Dwibhne in Argyllshire assumed the sur-
name Campbell in courtesy to their chief, Ar-
chibald, whose name or title was translated in
the Latin Campus Bellus, and Campbell the
name has since been. The family were noble
for ten generations to Archibald, the tenth
earl, who in 1701 was created by William the
Third, Duke of Argyle. He was of the for-
tieth generation. The present Duke of Argyle
is the thirty-first Campbell in direct descent
to hold the title.

The first of the clan to come to America and
settle in northern New York was Captain
Laughlin Campbell, a soldier of great courage,
who visited Washington county in 1737 in
response to the invitation of the New York
authorities to Scotch Highlanders to settle
here. Laughlin Campbell was a younger
brother of the then Duke of Argyle. Being
pleased with the country, he was promised a
grant of thirty thousand acres for colony use,
for survey fees and quit rent, by Lieutenant-
Governor Clark. He returned to Scotland,
sold his property, raised a colony of four hun-
dred and twenty-three adults, and with a part
of them came the next year (1738) to New
York, where Governor Clark insisted on full
fees and a share in the land. Campbell re-
fused his demands, and Clark recommended
the legislature to grant the colony assistance,
but that body, then at war with the governor,
declined to respond, as they suspected the
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HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

fees. The colonists were obliged to separate
to earn their living, and Campbell, with the
remains of his broken fortunes, purchased and
settled down upon a small farm in the prov-
ince. A few years after, in 1745, when the
rebellion broke out in Scotland, he went back
to that country and served under the Duke of
Cumberland until the close of the war. He
then returned to his family here, and died
soon after from the effects of wounds received
in the war. His children were afterward
granted, in 1763, a tract of ten thousand acres
in Washington county, in the town of Argyle,
now Greenwich.

(H) Duncan, son of Captain Laughlin
Campbell, settled in the town of Argyle,
Washington county, New York, on the "Camp-
bell Patent," near the Batten Kill, in 1765. In
1803 the town of Greenwich was created from
Argyle and his farm was in the new town.
It contained four hundred and fifty acres.
From 1772 to 1780 Duncan Campbell was
supervisor of the town. He married and had
.issue. In the old burying ground at. Fort
Edward, New York, may be seen an old tomb-
stone, which must not be confounded with the
burial place of Duncan Campbell, although he
was a kinsman. "Here lyes the body of Dun-
can Campbell of Invershaw Esq. Major to the
old Highland regiment ; aged 55 years who
died the 17th of July 1758 of the wounds he
received in the attack of the Retrenchments of
Ticonderoga or Carillon 8th of July 1758."

(HI) Archibald, son of Duncan Campbell,
was born on the farm in Argyle in 1739, died
at Jackson, New York, January 31, 1808. He
was a merchant, and one of the five trustees
appointed to divide and distribute the land to
the grantees under the Campbell patent. In
1772-73-74 he was town clerk. In 1789 his
name heads the list of subscribers to the fund
for erecting a church building for the United
Presbyterian congregation, of which he was
one of the original members. He married
Flora McNeil, born 1755, died in Jackson,
New York, November i, 1825. They are
buried on the old farm near Salem, New
York. Children : Catherine, born January 4,
1772; Ann, April 27, 1774; John, June 15,
1776 ; Alexander, see forward ; Ellen, June
12, 1783; Duncan (2), September 26, 1785;
Margaret (twin), October 8, 1787; Ann
(twin) ; Archibald, Jr., 1790 (q. v.).

(IV) Alexander, son of Archibald and
Flora (McNeil) Campbell, was born at Jack-
son, Washington county. New York, February
^9' 1779- He married, February 22, 1812,
Eleanor, born 179 1, in Center Falls. Wash-
ington county. New York, daughter of J. Ezra
Dyer. Children: Angeline, born January 13,

18 13 ; Catherine, January 22, 1815 ; Alexander,
October 19, 1817; Ezra Dyer, September 12.
1819; Melancthon Wheeler, see forward ?
Nancy E., September 27, 1827; Esther Ann,
April 21, 1830.

(V) Melancthon Wheeler, son of Alex-
ander and Eleanor (Dyer) Campbell, was-
born in Jackson, Washington county. New
York, November 9, 1822, died March i, 1894,
at Troy, New York. He married Adelia Caro-
line Schoonmaker, born in Stillwater, Sara-
toga county, New York, June 12, 1825. Chil-
dren: Alexander F.. born November 9, 1856,
he is a lawyer of New York City, unmarried,
Charles Dunning, see forward ; William-
Melancthon. November 21, 1861, a physician
of Cohoes, New York.

(VI) Charles Dunning, second son of
Melancthon Wheeler and Adelia C. (Schoon-
maker) Campbell, was born in Stillwater,.
Saratoga county, New York, March 17, 1859.
He was educated in Troy, New York, and re-
sided there until 1907, when he removed to-
Newark, New Jersey. He is engaged in busi-
ness in New York City and Troy. He mar-
ried, April 27. 1886, in Troy, New York,
Georgianna Sumner (see Sumner VIII), born
February 22, 1863. Children: Sumner E.,
born January 30, 1887, a student at the Rens-
saeler Polytechnic Institute ; Dorothea Adelia,
July II, 1892.

(The Sumner Line).

The princijjal family of this name in the
United States trace their ancestry to Roger
Sumner, of Oxfordshire, England, a husband-
man. He married, at Bicester, November 2,
1601, Joane Franklin, and died there Decem-
ber 3, 1608. His widow married, January 10,
161 1, Marcus Brian, of Merton, a neighbor-
hood parish, who died in 1620. Roger Sumner
had a brother William, who died at Bicester in
1597. The only child of Roger and Joane
Sumner was William.

(I) William, only child of Roger and Joane
(Franklin) Sumner, was born at Bicester,
England, 1605. He married there and in 1636-
emigrated to New England, settling at Dor-
chester, Massachusetts. He became a man of
importance there, holding many offices. He
was made a freeman May 17, 1637, and was
selectman of Dorchester for more than twenty
years. From 1663 to 1680 he was one of the
feoffes of the school fund, and from 1663 to-
1671 commissioner to try small causes. He
was a member of the train band and clerk.
In 1658-66-70-72-78-81-83-86 he was deputy
from Dorchester to the general court. He-
married, at Bicester, England, October 22,
1625, Mary West. Children, first born in

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Bicester : William ; Joane, married Aaron
Way, of Dorchester, and after his death went
to South Carolina with two of her brothers ;
Roger ; George, see forward ; Samuel ; In-
crease.

(H) Deacon George, fourth child of Wil-
liam and Mary (West) Sumner, was born in
Bicester, England, in 1634, died at Milton,
Massachusetts, December 11, 1715. He formed
part of the family emigration in 1636. He
was made a freeman of Massachusetts May
6, 1657. He removed to Milton, Massachu-
setts, where he was lieutenant of the train
band. In 1693-1703-08-09 he was deputy to
the general court from Milton. He was or-
dained a deacon of the church July 30, 1699.
He married, at Northampton, Massachusetts,
November 7, 1662, Mary, died April i, 17 19,
daughter of Edward Baker, of that town.
Children : Mary, married Joseph Swinerton ;
George (2), married Ann Tucker: Samuel,
was sergeant in Captain Withington's com-
pany in the Canada expedition of 1690 and
was never heard from later ; William, lost on
the same expedition as Samuel ; Ebenezer,
married Abigail Lovett ; Edward, see forward ;
Joseph, married Sarah Lovett ; Benjamin,
married Elizabeth Babcock.

(III) Edward, sixth child of Deacon
George and Mary (Baker) Sumner, was born
at Milton, Massachusetts, August 29, 1676,
died in Roxbnry, Massachusetts, 1763. He
removed from Milton to Roxbury early in
life, and was a useful citizen. He married, at
Roxbury, September 25, 1701, Elizabeth, died
September 26, 1758, daughter of Samuel Clap,
of Dorchester. Children, all born in Rox-
bury: Edward (2), see forward: Elizabeth,
died in infancy ; John, was a Harvard grad-
uate, A.B., in 1723, married Susanna Stevens:
Elizabeth, married Benjamin Boylston, of
Brookline and Mendon, Massachusetts: Sam-
uel, married Abigail, daughter of Increase
Mather, of Boston ; Increase, married Sarah,
daughter of Robert Sharp, of Roxbury ; Han-
nah, married (first) Rev. John Newman, of
Edgartown, (second) Jonathan Metcalf, of
Dcdham ; Mary, married Rev. Thomas Balch,
of Boston: Nathaniel, graduated A.B. from
Harvard, class of 1739, resided in Dedham,
where he was captain of militia, deacon of the
church, selectman, and in 1757-62-69-70 deputy
to the general assembly of Massachusetts
fnim Dedham, married Hannah Bullard, of
Walpole : Ebenezer, was a lieutenant in the
expedition against I^uisburg in 1745 : Benja-
min, lived at Ashford, Connecticut, where he
was captain, deacon and deputy, married
Bridget Perry.

(IV) Edward (2), eldest child of Edward

(i) and Elizabeth (Clap) Sumner, was born
at Roxbury, Massachusetts. He removed to
Ashford, Connecticut, where he died in 1780.

He married Sarah . Children, all born

in Ashford: Edward (3), married Experi-
ence : Sarah, married Solomon Keyes ;

Elizabeth, born in 1732 ; Mary, died in child-
hood ; John, see forward ; Hannah, married
Christopher Webber; Mary, married Daniel
Allen ; Bridget, was of Corinth, Vermont, in
1819; Clap, removed to Corinth, Vermont,
where he was a captain of militia, he mar-
ried (first) Keziah , (second) Mehit-

able Lassel, (third) Mary Stevens, who sur-
vived him and was afterwards twice married.

(V) John, fifth child of Edward (2) and
Sarah Sumner, was born at Ashford, Con-
necticut, in 1736, died in Edinburg, New
York, August 6, 1804. He served in the revo-
lution, attaining the rank of captain. Prior
to 1800, with wife and family, he removed
to the town of Edinburg, Saratoga county.
New York, settling near Batchellerville, on the
north side of the river. The sons, John, Rob- .
ert, Amasa and Benjamin, all took up farms
in the neighborhood. John Sumner built the
first saw mill on Batcheller creek. Two of his
sons, Robert and Benjamin, served in the
revolution : Benjamin was taken prisoner and
conveyed to England in chains. The long
confinement and galling chains broke down his
health and he never recovered. He is buried
on his farm in Saratoga county. John Sum-
ner was a cousin of the father of the illustri-
ous Charles Sumner, United States senator
from Massachusetts. He married, January i,
1761, Mehitable Perry, of Ashford, whefe all
his children were born : Robert, see forward ;
Mary (Polly), married Jonathan Smith, of
Edinburg, she lived to be one hundred years
old, dying in 1862 ; Benjamin, the revolution-
ary soldier of previous mention, married Ruth
Palmer : Amasa, married and had issue ; Me-
hitable, married Milliard Trowbridge : Jane,
died in childhood : Sarah, married Steelson
Benson ; John, married and had issue : Eliza-
beth (Betsey), married George Bradford and
lived to the age of ninety-four years : Piercy,
married James Perry ; Ebenezer, married and
had issue.

(VI) Robert, eldest child of John and Me-
hitable (Perry) Sumner, was born in Ash-
ford, Connecticut, September 18. 1761, died at
Edinburg, New York, November 19, 1845.
He served in the revolution, and was the first
supervisor of Edinburg, serving four years.
He married, December 22, 1784, Jemima,
daughter of John Younglove, of Thompson,
Connecticut, and later removed to Kdinburg,
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5. 1849. Children, first four born in Connec-
ticut, the last five in Edinburg: Clarissa, mar-
ried Peter Thompson ; Elsie, married David
Page, of Northampton, New York; Abigail,
married Lebbeus Olcott, of Fabius, New
York; Sarah, married (first) Good-
win, (second) Elias Sheldon, of Fabius, New
York ; Amasa, see forward ; Jane, married
David Benson, of Fabius ; Robert, died in
childhood; Alanson, married (first) Emily D.
Beecher, (second) Diadama B. Fay, he re-
moved to Albany, New York, where he died ;
Jemima, married Joseph Covell.

(VH) Amasa, fifth child and eldest son of
Robert and Jemima (Younglove) Sumner,
was born in Edinburg, New York, February
10. 1794. He lived in Edinburg all his days
and died there May 2, 1871. He married,
February 10, 1816, Abigail Ellithorp, who died
in 1848. Children, all born in Edinburg:
Emily, died in infancy; Elsie, born in 1821 ;
Robert T., born March 12, 1824, married
Mary Smith and removed to Brewerton, New
York ; children : Courtland L., David C,
Emma A. and Emily E. ; Solomon, born in
1827, married Mehitable Sumner, a kins-
woman ; Alamson A., born February, 1829 ;
Jackson A., see forward: Cyrus, born in 1833,
married Mary Pullen; children: Charles M.,
William C. and Emma Helena ; Helena, born
in 1835, married B. R. Jenkins, of Batcheller-
\ille. New York.

(VHI) Jackson Amasa, sixth child of
Amasa and Abigail (Ellithorp) Sumner, was
born in Edinburg, New York, October 16,
1831, died in Albany, New York, March 13,
1870. Fie was actively engaged in the lum-
ber business in Albany. He was of political
prominence in the Democratic party. He mar-
ried, January 29. 1862, Katherine Elizabeth
Smith, of Troy, born at Clifton Park. New
York (see Smith HI). Children: Georgi-
anna. born February 22. 1863, married Charles
Dunning Campbell (see Campbell VI) ; Rob-
ert, born June 30, 1868. died July 31, 1869.

(The Smith Line).

The family line of Katherine E. Smith
(Mrs. Jackson A. Sumner) was founded in
America by Johannes Schmidt, of Germany,
son of Ludwig. Smith's "History of Rhine-
beck, New York," records one Johannes
Schmidt who was baptized there April 5. 1730,
and married Elizabeth Zipperlee, February 3,
1 761, and had a son Frederick. The name
being the same and the dates bfing nearly so,
it is strongly probable that Johannes of Rhine-
beck and Johannes of Brunswick are the same.

(I) Johannes Schmidt, son of Ludwig
Schmidt, was born in Germany, emigrated to

America, and is found associated in Rensselaer
county. New York, at an early date with the
Wager family, with whom he is said to have
emigrated. He married and had issue.

(II) Frederick, son of Johannes Schmidt,
was born in the town of Brunswick, Rens-
selaer county, New York, February 19, 1783.
He was a farmer there all his days. He mar-
ried Eva File, born September 9, 1783. daugh-
ter of an early settler of the town. Children :
Katherine. John F., see forward, David, Bet-
sey, Jonas, Sarah. Moses, Daniel and Silas.
The File family are frequently found in the
early records of Brunswick. The Schmidts
were members of Gilead Lutheran church,
where their family records are found.

(III) John Frederick, eldest son of Fred-
erick and Eva (File) Schmidt, was born in
Brunswick, Rensselaer county. New York, De-
cember 6, 1804, died at Clifton Park, New
York, November 16, 1846. He was a farmer
of the town and a member of the Lutheran
church. He married Lanah Wager, born in
Brunswick, Rensselaer county, "New York,
November 3, 1810. Children: Mary Savilla,
born October 6, 1831, married Francis A.
Fales, of Troy; Evelyn, born May 7, 183—,

married Fales, brother of Francis A.

Fales; children: Louis H., a practicing phvsi-
cmn of Madison, Wisconsin, and Ida B. Fales ;
Katherine Elizabeth, married Jackson A. Sum-
ner (see Sumner VHI) ; Francetta, married
Richard James Richardson.

(IV) Archibald (2),young-
CAMPBELL est son and child of Archi-
bald (q. v.) and Flora (Mc-
Neil) Campbell, was born in 1790, died in
Schenectady, New York. He was prominent
in politics, and served the county of Sche-
nectady as county clerk from 1837 until 1843.
He was a successful man of business, dealing
in wholesale tobacco, and a leading member
of the Episcopal church. His residence in the
city was the finest at the time of its erection,
located on LTnion near Center street. Fle mar-
ried and had issue.

(V) Jacob, son of .\rchibald (2) Campbell,
was born in the city of Schenectady, New
York, May 3, 1818, died September 12, 1845.
He succeeded to the business established by
his father, which he enlarged and extended
(wholesale tobacconist). He was a member
of St. George's Episcopal Church. He was
buried in the churchyard of that church ;
when the church was enlarged the extension
covered his grave so that it cannot be seen.
He married, December 10. 1840, Sarah H.,
born January 26. 1820. died March 20. 1897,
daughter of Elias Lyon, born January 27,

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1796, died January 25, 1857, a contractor and
builder of Schenectady, son of Jacob Lyon,
born in England, died in Schenectady, Febru-
ary 27, 1826, and his wife Catherine Von Ant-
werp, born in Schenectady, December 27,
1799. Jacob and Sarah H. (Lyon) Campbell
were the parents of an infant, Elias L., born
July 7, 1841, died December 11, 1845, and
Charles J., see forward.

(VI) Charles Jacob, youngest child of Ja-
cob and Sarah H. (Lyon) Campbell, was born
in Schenectady. New York, May 31- 1844- He
was educated in the public schools of Schenec-
tady and the Business College of Bryant and
Stratton at Albany. He is connected with
some of the business interests of the city, and ■
devotes his time to the care of his personal
estate. During the war of the rebellion he
enlisted at age of sixteen as drummer boy in
the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regi-
ment. New York Volunteer Infantry. He
served with the Army of the Potomac up to
and including the battle of Gettysburg. He
is a member of St. George's Episcopal Church,
and St. George's Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons. He married. May 27, 1869. Annie
Elizabeth, born in Schenectady, daughter of
Joshua Barker, of that city. Children, all born
in Schenectady: i. Maud, April 7, 1870, died
March 12, 1874. 2. Bertha, July i, 1871, died
October 15, 187 1. 3- Elias Lyon, April 11,
1873, died June 7, 1873. 4. Charles Tracy,
April 22, 1874, died January 6, 1875. 5.
Madge E., February 14, 1876; married Ar-
thur Savage; children: Elizabeth, Mary,
Kathlenn and Charles Campbell Savage. 6.
Leah B., June 8, 1880; married John J. Mc-
Mullin; children: Marjorie C. and Douglass
E. McMullin.

The Baxters are of English
BAXTER descent and first appear in

America in 1630. They were
numerous in all the New England states, many
settling in Cape Cod, where they were sea-
faring men and masters of ships. There was
a numerous branch in Connecticut, but the
emigrant cannot be stated. As far as can be
learned, the progenitor of the branch herein
recorded was Elihu Baxter, born December
18, 1750, at Norwich, Connecticut, died Au-
gust 6, 1836, at Norwick, Vermont. He mar-
ried, October 24, 1777, Triphena Taylor, born
at Pelham, Connecticut, September 24, 1762,
died at Norwich, Vermont, March 14, 1825.
Children: i. William, a lawyer; married
Lydia Ashley; had eight children. 2. Ira,
married Arsena Sprague ; nine children. 3.
Elihu (2), a physician; married Sarah Cone;
died at Portland, Maine, 1863; six children.

4. Chester, married Hannah Root; died at
Sharon, Vermont, October 16, 1865 ; one child^
Hannah. 5. Triphena, married Josiah Root,
brother of Hannah Root, who was the wife of
Chester Baxter. 6. Lavenia, died young. 7.
Erastus, of whom further. 8. Lavenia, died in
infancy. 9. Elimena, twin of Lavenia, died at
Norwich, Vermont, aged twenty years. 10.
James, a merchant of Stamstead Plain, Can-
ada, a member of the Canadian provincial par-
liament, 1829 ; member legislative council,
1832; married his cousin, CaroHne, daughter
of William and Deborah (Buett) Baxter, of
Rutland; eight children. 11. John, married
Harriet Baxter. 12. Zilpah, married Dr.
Sweet; died at Unionville, Vermont. 13,
Harry, married (first) Sophronia Steele;

(second) Avaline . 14. Hiram, died

young. 15. Statira, married ■ — Shepard.

Of the eight sons of Elihu Baxter reaching
maturity, seven became men of great wealth
for their day, although each started with little
capital except muscle and brain.

(II) Erastus, seventh child and fifth son of
Elihu and Triphena (Taylor) Baxter, was
born at Norwich, Vermont, December 14,
1787, died at Gorham, New York. He mar-
ried Lucy Freeman; children: i. John F.,
married Elizabeth Russell ; died without issue.
2. Caroline, born January 10, 1815; married
Stephen Brown, of Thetford, New York ; no
issue. 3. George, of whom further. 4. James,
born 1822 ; married Eliza Hazard, of Penn-
sylvania; six children. 5. Statira, born 1825;
married Charles W. Fish, of Weymouth, Mas-
sachusetts. 6. Marcia, died unmarried. 7.
Mary, married Thomas McCullough, of Ban-
gor, New York. 8. Morris, married Julia
Renwick, of Elgin, Wisconsin. 9. Heartley,
married Belle Mcintosh, of Malone, New
York; eight daughters.

(HI) George, second son and third child
of Erastus and Lucy (Freeman) Baxter, was
born at Norwich, Vermont, September 14,
1818. He married, 1850, .A.daline Peray. of
Chateaugay, New York. She died at Goshen,
New York, 1878. Children: Marice, born
185 1 ; Charles M., of whom further; Lucy,
born 1854; John, 1856, died January 18, 1871 ;
William, 1858, died January 23, 1871 ; Henry,
i860, died January 8, 1862; Adaline, 1862;
Ella, 1864; Bertha, 1865; Heartley, 1868;
Elmer. 1871.

(I\') Charles M., son of George and Ada-
line (Peray) Baxter, was born at Fort Ann,
New York, in. 1852, died November 8, 1906,
at Fort Edward, New York. He was a well-
educated man and began business life as a
farmer, operating a farm near Fort Ann, New
York. Later he purchased and conducted a

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hotel at Argyle, Washington county, for sev-
■eral years, after which he purchased a farm
near there on which he hved for a time ; later
he lived at Fort Edward, where he enjoyed
the life of a retired g-entleman of wealth. He
was a big, generous-hearted man and gave
freely of his abundance to those less fortunate.
He was a member of the Masonic order and
was buried with full Masonic honors at h'ort
Ann. his birthplace. He was a Democrat in
politics, and an attendant of the Baptist
church, of which he was a most liberal sup-
porter. He was highly respected by all who
knew him and left a memory yet tenderly
cherished. He married Jane Ann Allen, who
died December 15, 1905. They had two chil-
dren who died in infancy, and an adopted
daughter, Mary J. Allen, whom they took
when she was a young girl and reared and
educated as their own. She married, but her
husband only lived about a year, and she re-
turned to the Baxter home and remained with
them until both died. Although never taking
the Baxter name, she was regularly adopted
and had for her adopted parents the deepest
affection and received from them the utmost
kindness, Mr. Baxter also generously provid-
ing for her futirre.

(The Allen Line).
Mary J. Allen was a daughter of Samuel
Allen and granddaughter of George Allen,
born in England, a soldier in the English
army. He came to the United States when a
young man and settled in New York state.
He married Charlotte McArthur ; children :
Mary, Jane Ann, John, George, Richard,
Samuel and Abijah. George Allen, the father,
was a tailor by trade, settled in Dellii, New
York. Both he and his wife were attendants
of the Scotch Presbyterian church, she being
a member. He was a well-informed, intelli-
gent man and stood well among his acquaint-
ances. His wife was a native of Scotland.

(H) Samuel, son of George and Charlotte
(INIcArthur) Allen, married Agnes, daughter
of Colonel John Fulton, an ofificer in the Brit-
ish army, "The Queen's Own." He died near
Ayrshire. Scotland, a pensioner of the British
government. They had three children : Mary
J., of whom further; a son who died in in-
fancy; Ruth, born in New York City, July,
1879. died August 9, 1908, was adopted by a
member of the Fulton family who reside near
\\'ashington, D. C.

(Ill) Alary J., daughter of Samuel and
Agnes (Fulton) Allen, was born in New
York City, April 15. 1872. When about twelve
years of age she was adopted by Charles M.
Baxter, who had married her aunt, Jane Ann

Allen. She received a good education and
remained with the Baxters until her marriage,
November 11, 1897, to Oscar C. Burritt, born
at Hydeville, Vermont, July, 1864, died at Ar-
gyle. New York, May, '1899. He was a civil
engineer, being a graduate of a technical
school, and later he took up railroad engineer-
ing, and while in the employ of the Delaware
& Hudson railroad received an injury that
caused his death six months later. He mar-
ried (first) Mary Sadler, who bore him three
children, two deceased, and Nelson Burrilt, a
resident of Saratoga, New York. Oscar D.
was a son of Oscar D. and Abigail (Grey)
Burritt. Children : Richard Nelson, Oscar D.,
Bertha and William L. The Burritts were
early in New England, and Rev. Blackleach
Burritt was a soldier of the revolution. Oscar
D. and Mary J. (Allen) Burritt had one child
(posthumous), Ruth J., born August 9, 1899,
who resides with her mother in Albany, New
York, in attendance at the public schools.

The branches of the .Amster-
HOWGATE dam branch of the Howgate
family were founded by Jo-
seph Howgate, who was born in England. The
family in that country is a large one, and is
found all over the kingdom. They are farm-
ers, manufacturers, business and professional
men of standing in these localities.

(I) Joseph Howgate came to Florida,
Montgomery county, from England, early in
the nineteenth century. When a young man
he married Ann, daughter of David Brown,
one of the old-time school masters of the
county. Joseph and his wife settled on a
farm in Saratoga county, where she died. .'Vf-
ter her death Joseph removed to Grand Rap-
ids. Michigan, where he died at an advanced
age. He was a man of prominence in both
communities. He had one son and four
daughters, all now deceased.

(H) John A., -son of Joseph and Ann
(Brown) Howgate, was born in Florida,
Montgomery county. New York, February 7,
1S49, died at his home in Rockton, a suburb of
Amsterdam, New York, November 17, 1893.
He received his education in tlie town schools,
and at the age of seventeen entered the em-
ploy of Stephen Sanford in the carpet mills.
He became an expert in rug manufacture, and
after twenty years of faithful service with the
Sanfords, left their employ to become the head
of his own company, Howgate & McCleary,
rug manufacturers. Toward tlie successful
development of this business he devoted all his
wonderful skill and enterprise. He brought
to the company a lifelong experience and a
determination to succeed. He was successful

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in his efforts, and the company is to-day one
of Amsterdam's solid and prosperous con-
cerns. Under the strain of excessive effort.
both mental and physical, his health broke and
caused his death at the early age of forty-
four, just at the time when the business was
firmly established on a sure and profitable foot-
ing. His loss was a severe one to both the
company and his family. He was a man of
devout religious principles, being an elder in
the church and superintendent of the Sabbath
school. In politics he was a Republican, but
beyond exercising his right as a citizen, took
little part in public affairs. He married, in
Troy, New York, October i8, 1872, Josephine
Shadbolt (see forward). She bore him four
children, one of whom, Jessie, died in infancy.

1. Fred, born May 30, "1876; was educated in
tlie public schools, attended Troy Conference
Academy at Poultney, Vermont, and Albany
Business College : engaged in the automobile
business : married Jessie Wilkes, born at Syl-
van Beach, Oneida county. New York, March
14. 1877, of an old Mohawk Valley family.

2. EflSe May, August 14, 1878; married Rev.
Putnam Cady, D.D., F. R. G. S., pastor of
Emanuel Presbyterian Church in Amsterdam,
New York. 3. Archer, May 9, 1883: was
educated in Amsterdam common and high
schools and at Union College, Schenectady,
New York; he is with his brother Fred in
the automobile business ; unmarried. Mrs.
Josephine (Shadbolt) Howgate survives her
husband and resides in Amsterdam. She is a
member of the Presbyterian church.

(The Shadbolt LineV
Israel Shadbolt. grandfather of Mrs. How-
gate, was of Welsh parentage. He was prob-
ably born in the city of New York. He
settled in Troy, New York, where he became
prominent in the public life of that city. He
was an educated, well-read man. dignified and
manly in appearance, a gentleman of the old
school. He represented Troy in the state
legislature and was a justice of the peace. He
died in 1858. at the age of sixty-four. He
married Marilla Stevenson, who died in Troy
about 1869, aged eighty. She was active in
the Baptist church of Troy. Their children
were: Charles, Maria, Martha Jane, La Fay-
ette and James.

(II) James, father of Mrs. Howgate.
youngest son of Israel and Marilla (Steven-
son) Shadbolt, was born in 1816, while his
parents were residents of Dutchess county.
New York, and died in Troy in 1889. He
was known for his honest, upright character.
He married, at Clinton Hollow. Effie Eighma,
of an old Dutchess county family ; she died in

Troy, in 1895, aged eighty-three years. She-
was a member of the Christian Church, and
mother of Mrs. Josephine Howgate, her only

daughter.

The founder of the Fryer family
FRYER in Albany county, and of the

present day fortunes, was John
Fryer, born October 4, 1759. Tradition has-
different stories to tell of him. One is that
he was a fisherman and rendered some one
high in authority a specially valuable service.
For this he received a grant of several hun-
dred acres of choice land lying at the gate-
way to the Helderburgs, near the "Indian
Ladder." Why the grant was allowed is tra-
dition, but the grant of land is a fact. The-
tract allowed John Fryer is the only land
that was not leased to the early settlers by
the Patroon, and later acquired by "soil title."
The Fryer properties have never been held
under lease, but title has always been held and
passed from father to son down to the pres-
ent. John Fryer built a log cabin on his prop-
erty, and with the aid of his sons, who came-
with him, cleared away the timber, broke the
fields, and brought a good part of it under
cultivation. The land in turn passed to his
descendants, and the "Fryer farms" are noted
all through the Helderburg section. He was
strict in his observance of his church duties,
and reared his sons to habits of industry and
thrift. They have always been a hard-work-
ing race, and have been richly repaid, as their
well-kept fields and bountiful orchards tes-
tify. John Fryer married. May 25, 1783,
Maria Volweider, born February 16, 1764.
Children: Maria, born .-\pril 14, 1786; John,
January 7, 1788, settled on a farm in Ohio;
Hannah, October 3, 1790, married Jan-ies
Mesick; Elizabeth, September 12, 1793, mar-
ried Frank Crounse ; Jacob, born July 18, 1797 ;
Abram. see forward ; Alexander, born June 23,
1802. married Fanny Dollar; Barbara (twin
of .Alexander), married Peter \'an Schaick,
and lived in Berne, Albany county ; Richard,
born .April 6, 1805, married Iluldah Beebe ;
\\'illiam, August i, 1808, became a merchant
of Amsterdam, New York.

(II) .-\bram, son of John and Maria (\'ol-
weider) Fryer, was born October 23, 1799,
and lived to a very old age. He inherited the-
farms granted to his father under the Helder-
burgs, which he still further improved and
brought under successful cultivation. These
properties now came to be known as the
"Fryer Farms." a name they still retain, and
were among the most productive of that sec-
tion. .Abram Fryer voted with the Whig
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life with the Republican. He married Nancy
Crounse, born in the town of Bethlehem, Al-
bany county, died in Bethlehem at the age
of ninety-five years. She was an active mem-
ber of the Lutheran church, as was her hus-
band. Children : Conrad, a farmer of New
Scotland ; John F., see forward ; James, a
farmer of Guilderland ; Richard, a farmer of
Schenectady county ; Harrison ; Margaret,
married and had issue; Ellen, married An-
drew McCard and left issue.

(HI) John F., son of Abram and Nancy
(Crounse) Fryer, was born in Guilderland,
Albany county, New York, June 23. 1827,
died in the same town in June, 1880. He in-
herited a large portion of the Fryer proper-
ties, to which he added and still further im-
proved. He was a man of few words, but of
great energy and untiring industry. He spared
neither himself nor those around him. Idle-
ness was to him a sin, and no one on the
Frj'er farms sinned in that particular. He
demanded no more of others, however, than
he himself performed. He accumulated a
substantial competence, which was willed to
his children. He was a member of the Luth-
eran church, and displayed the same activity
in religious affairs as in temporal. He was a
trustee of the church, and worked hard for its
upbuilding. He was a Republican in politics.
He married, in Guilderland, November 3,
1847, Eliza, born in that town, March 10,
1824, died February 14, 1907, daughter of
Peter Crounse, born in Guilderland, where he
died at the age of ninety-six years. He mar-
ried Margaret Smith, born in Dutchess county,
died in Guilderland. in her eighty-fifth year.
They reared a large family, one of whom,
William P. Crounse. a farmer of Guilderland,
is one of two survivors (1910). Peter
Crounse and his wife were active members of
the Lutheran church, helpful and earnest in
their religion. Children of John F. and Eliza
(Crounse) Fryer: Abram. see forward; Peter,
October 9, 1852, died aged sixteen years ;
Emma, born May i, 1855, marriefl Seward
Waggoner, now a retired farmer and justice
of the peace of Guilderland Center ; Margaret,
November 22, 1859, died in 1888, married
Abram Tygert : Alburtus, see forward ; John
H.. born July 15, 1867, since 1888 has been
mechanical engineer in the employ of the
General Electric Works, Schenectady, New
York ; married Clara Norman ; child. Leroy.

(IV) Abram (2). eldest son of John F. and
Eliza (Crounse) Fryer, was born on the
Fryer homestead in the Helderburgs, in the
region known as the "Indian Ladder," Au-
gust 8, 1848. He inherited three hundred
acres of the farm, to which he has added

property in various locations. He has been
an industrious farmer all his days, and the
success he has achieved has been fairly won.
He followed the footsteps of his father, and
has always displayed the same energy that
characterized him. The Fryer boys are noted
throughout the entire section not only for their
indu.strious habits, but for their fair dealing
and honorable lives. Mr. Fryer attends the
Lutheran church, and is a Republican in poli-
tics. He married, in Guilderland, February
10, 1887, Mary, born in that town, daughter
of Jonas and Evaline (Vroman) Smith. Jonas
Smith was a native of Guilderland. a farmer
and a carpenter, member of Reformed church
and a Republican. They had six sons and
six daughters, all married and living, except
one. Children of Abram and Mary (Smith)
Fryer: Frank, died in infancy; Ethel, born
March 6, 1893, educated in the public schools,
a graduate of the State Normal School at Al-
bany, class of 1912 ; Annie E., October 4, 1900,
student of music.

(IV) Alburtus, third son of John F. and
Eliza (Crounse) Fryer, was born on the Hel-
derburg farm of his father, October 26, 1861.
He inherited one hundred and ten acres of the
homestead farm, which he yet occupies. He
has never departed from the habits of indus-
try so sternly impressed upon him in his early
days, but has been a worker all his life. The
home which he occupies is built near the spot
where the original log cabin stood, built by his
ancestor who first occupied the land. This
house he built after acquiring the property.
He attends the Lutheran church, is a Repub-
lican in politics, member of Independent Order
of Odd Fellows. Lodge No. 668. of \^oor-
heesville. He married, in (Juilderland, Febru-
ary 15, 1882, Agnes .'\., born in the town of
Guilderland, January 25, 1863, daughter of
John and Elizabeth (Hallenbeck) Spoor, and
granddaughter of Jacob and Hannah (Smith)
Spoor. John Spoor was born in Guilderland.
May 9, 1827, died May 15. 1905. He was a
prominent farmer and dealer in real estate in
the town of Niskayuna. Schenectady county.
New York. He married Elizabeth Hallen-
beck, born November 30, 1830, who survives
him, now aged eighty years, a resident of
Schenectady, active both mentally and physi-
cally. She is a daughter of Tennis and Mar-
garet (Crounse) Hallenbeck. Her family
were members of the Lutheran church, and the
men voters of the Republican party. Chil-
dren of John and Elizabeth (Hallenbeck)
Spoor: I. Jacob, born .August 12. 1849: now
living retired at Lisha's Kill. Albany county ;
he married Alida \'an \'ranken : children :
Peter, Lloyd and Arreta. 2. Isaac, Novem-

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ber 20, 1851; a real estate dealer of Schenec-
tady, New York ; married Jane Hallenbeck ;
children : Lulu and Anna. 3. Agnes, Sep-
tember 10, 1857, died April 21, 1861. 4. John,
October 23, i860, died 1861. 5. Agnes A.,
January 25, 1863 ; married Alburtus Fryer.
6. Annie, June 17, 1868; married Ira Hurst,
a retired farmer; children: Mildred and John
J. 7. Margaretta, September 13, 1877; mar-
ried Abram J. Pangborn, who is connected
with the General Electric Works at Schenec-
tady, New York. Children of Alburtus and
Agnes A. (Spoor) Fryer: i. Grace M., born
!March 9, 1884; received her early education
in the public schools, and graduated with
honor from the State Normal School at Al-
bany ; married Cyrus Hilton, of Schenectady,
connected with the Locomotive Works of that
city. 2. Grant, April 26, 1886; a machinist at
the General Electric Works, Schenectady,
■where he holds a good position.

Jacob Fryer, second son of John
FRYER '(q. v.) and Maria (Volweider)

Fryer, was born July 18, 1797,
died in Guilderland, Albany county, in 1873.
He inherited part of the original Fryer grant
from his father and spent his days engaged in
agriculture. He was a prosperous man, and
passed his farm along to his sons improved
and enlarged. He was a Lutheran in religion,
and for many years acted with the Whig
party ; later with the Democratic. He married
Margaret, who died about i860, daughter of
Peter Livingston. Children: i. Mary, mar-
ried Peter Barkofif, who located in Noahsville,
now Altamont ; both deceased ; children : Wil-
liam, Peter, John and Magdaline. 2. Eva Ann,
married Peter McChesney, of Schenectady,
New York; died November 6, 1910, in nine-
tieth year. 3. John, see forward. 4. Peter, a
retired farmer, now living in Voorheesville,
New York; married Amanda Weaver; child,
Emma, married Henry Relyea. 5. Magdaline,
deceased. 6. Fanny. 7. William, died a young-
man.

(HI) John, son of Jacob and Margaret
(Livingston) Fryer, was born on the old
"Fryer farm," April 12, 1829, died August 25,
1888. He inherited a farm, and on it built
the farmhouse now occupied by its owner. He
was a man of industry and thrift, and proved
a successful farmer. He was a member of the
Lutheran church, active and useful, holding
official position. He was a Republican in
politics. He married, in Guilderland, Mary
Crounse, born October 15, 1828. She sur-
vives her husband, and is spending the latter
days of an active, useful life with her son Wil-
liam, who succeeded to the farm that has

so long been her home. She is a daughter 01
Peter and Margaret (Smith) Crounse, of
Guilderland, who died eighty and seventy
years, respectively. She is a granddaughter
of John and Elizabeth (Livingston) Crounse,
also of Guilderland. John Crounse was seven
years old when his parents came to America
and settled in Guilderland at the foot of the
Helderburgs. The settlement in that section
was not intended, but the mother, worn out
by weeks and months of travel by sea and
land, refused to go any further. Land was
leased of the Rensselaer estate, to which "soil
title" was afterward obtained. The family
was a large one, and is still well represented
in Albany county. Children of John and Mary
(Crounse) Fryer: i. Margaret, born March
14, 1852, died May 14, 1884; unmarried. 2.
Sarah E., June 30, 1855 ; married in Rotter-
dam, Schenectady county. New York, October
10, 1873, William G. Becker; child, George.
3. William, see forward. 4. Ida, born De-
cember 14. 1858, died 1906; married Dr. A.
M. Oliver, a practicing physician of Voor-
heesville, New York ; children : Stanley, Wil-
liard, Florence and Mildred. 5. Ada (twin of
Ida), unmarried; resides on the home farm in
Guilderland. 6. Peter E., born July 3, 1861 ;
married Sarah Kelley ; resides in Schenectady.
7. Edna A., November 30, 1864; married
Frank Spawn ; children : Eugenia, Ella, Edith,
Leslie. 8. Schuyler C, March 23, 1868 : mar-
ried Mary Green and resides in Rutherford,
New Jersey ; children : Lulu, Marion and Wil-
liam. 9. Mary, October 18, 1871, died No-
vember 30, 1885. 10. Jennie, March 12. 1876;
married Melvin L. Elsass, of Altamont ; no
living issue.

(IV) William, eldest son of John and Mary
(Crounse) Fryer, was born on the homestead
farm in Guilderland, October 27, 1857. He
was educated in the public schools, reared a
farmer, and for the past twenty-five years has
owned and cultivated the homestead farm of
one hundred and thirty acres. He has in-
stalled many improvements and made farming
a successful, prosperous business. He has
been a member of the Lutheran church from
boyhood, and for many years a deacon. He
is a Republican in politics. He married. De-
cember 2, i8qi, in Guilderland, Grace Wag-
goner, born October 14, 1869, in the town of
Guilderland, daughter of Peter G. and Eva-
line (Livingston) Waggoner, natives of
Guilderland, and members of the Reformed
church. She was the eighth child of a family
of nine. i. Magdalene, married Judson Law-
son, of Coeymans, Albany county ; children :
Ada, Eva, Harriet, Grace, Homer. 2. W.
Seward, a farmer of Guilderland ; married

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1441

Emma C. Fryer. 3. George, died in infancy.
4. ^\'innie, died in infancy. 5. Rollin, of
Giiilderland Center; married Sabina Wiltse ;
children : Jennie I\L and Roy. 6. Anna, de-
ceased ; married Howard Lasher, a farmer of
the town of Coevmans ; children : Eleanor,
Effie W., Margaret V., Pearl. 7. Elon M.,
deceased ; married Blanche McKinney ; chil-
dren : Annie, Peter G., Pearl M. 8. Grace,
married William Fryer. 9. Earl W., born
February 5. 1893, died December 4, 1894.
"William and Grace (Waggoner) Fryer have a
son, William Seward, born October 23, 1903.
Mrs. William Fryer is a member of the
Lutheran church with her husband.

The Sweet family of Amsterdam,
SWEET New York, descends from Dr.

Samuel Sweet, immigrant an-
cestor, who came to America from Wales,
where the family name is not uncommon. A
remarkable fact connected with the family is
that each of the four generations in the
United States has produced one or more mem-
bers who have been noted for their skill in the
treatment of diseases of the bones and joints.
Their methods have been handed down from
father to son, and while dififering from the
regular prescribed treatment for such diseases
laid down by regular schools of medicine,
have been very successful. Each generation
of the four has had a Dr. Sweet who enjoyed
more than a local reputation for skill in bone
surgery, that is described as a "simple, natural
treatment."

( I ) Dr. Samuel Sweet was born in Wales.
He settled in Rhode Island at a date previous
to the revolutionary war, and was then a com-
paratively young man. He was noted around
Providence for his skill in bone treatment and
must have had the method taught him by his
father in Wales. By his "natural treatment"
he was able to perform some cures of dis-
located bones and joints that were considered
very remarkable. Leaving Providence. Rhode
Island, he journeyed north and westward with
his wife, whom he married in Rhode Island,
using the method of transportation then avail-
able— the covered wagon drawn by horses or
oxen. He settled at Bullshead, Montgomery
county. New York, on a farm where he re-
sided until his death at an extreme old age.
He was often called upon by his pioneer neigh-
bors to treat their disabled or disjointed limbs
and gained a reputation that extended far be-
yond local limits. He reared a family and it
is a matter of regret that the name of his wife
has not been preserved.

(II) Dr. Waterman, son of Dr. Samuel
Sweet, was born in Providence, Rhode Island,

April 8, 1776, died 1849. He inherited the
method of bone treatment followed by his
father. His fame extended over a large sec-
tion of country, and he was much sought after
by those afthcted with diseases he was reputed
to successfully cure. To his business of a
healer he added that of farmer, and was an
active worker in the Baptist church. He
studied theology and was licensed to preach,
which he often did, in fact was known as
widely as a preacher as a healer. During his
latter years his eyes failed and he became
totally blind. So skilled was he and of such
delicate touch that his blindness did not in-
terfere with his work of healing. He was
greatly respected all over Montgomery county.
At the time of his death, 1849. he was living in
Amsterdam, New York. Rev. Waterman
Sweet married, in New York, Elizabeth
Hodges, born in New England, died in Ams-
terdam, and buried in Florida, Montgomery
county. New York.

(III) Dr. Waterman (2), son of Dr. Water-
man (i) and Elizabeth (Hodges) Sweet, was
born in Florida, Montgomery county, New
York, August 12, 1809, died August 20. 1886.
He also became famous as a "bone healer,"
having succeeded to his father's practice. He
cultivated a small farm successfully and died
possessed of considerable property. He and
his wife were members of the Baptist church.
He married, in Florida, New York, Ruth Mal-
lory, born in Florida, June i, 1815. died March
28, 1902. Children: i. Elizabeth, born Au-
gust I, 1839, died July 25, 1859. 2. and 3.
Twins, died in infancy. 4. Waterman (3),
April 17, 1843. 5- David M., see forward.
6. Ira S., March 14, 1849; resides in Utica,
New York, and is a successful practitioner of
the family method of bone treatment : married
Martha Brown and has five children. 7.
Sherod L., November 6, 1850. died aged three
years. 8. Leonard G., November 21, 1852,
died Tanuarv 21, 1890.

(IV) Dr.' David M., son of Dr. Waterman
(2) and Ruth (Mallory) Sweet, was born in
Florida, Montgomery county. New York, June
4, 1845. He quite naturally adopted the pro-
fession of his father, in which he has achieved
remarkable success besides a local patronage,
peo])le from all over the United States coming
to consult him concerning their bone ailments.
He has resided for many years in .\msterdam,
New York, where he is a highly respected
citizen and professional man. He has now
(1909) largely withdrawn from active prac-
tice, surrendering it to his son, who is the
fifth of his name to follow the particular
methods employed. The "Old Original Sweet's
Liniment" was made by the emigrant who

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settled in Rhode Island, and the same liniment
is used to this day. Dr. David M. Sweet mar-
ried, December 23, 1863, Hannah M. Greene,
born June 11, 1843, in Greenfield, Saratoga
county, New York. Children: i. Emma L.,
born November 11, 1864; married John S.
Sterling, of Pattersonville, New York ; they
have a son, Lincoln S., born October 11, 1894.
2. Harry L., November 30, 1869; was edu-
cated in the public schools and is rapidly suc-
ceeding to the business of his father, whom
he will succeed as the fifth in direct line to
follow the "natural method" ; married Harriet
M. Ransler, born in Schenectady, New York,
June 13, 1874; has one child, Vinnie M. 3.
Vinnie E., August 21, 1873, died February 3,
1885. 4. Infant, deceased. Mrs. Hannah M.
(Greene) Sweet is a daughter of Anson
Greene, born in Saratoga county, New York,
January 23, 1814, died June i, 1891, and
Lucinda (Lincoln) Greene, born in Saratoga
county, March 7, 1818, died November 9, 1851.
Anson Greene was the son of James Greene,
born in Rhode Island, died in Saratoga county.
New York, aged seventy-seven. James Greene
married Pamelia Hendrick, who died in May,
1868, aged seventy-one. Lucinda Lincoln,
wife of Anson Greene, was daughter of Henry
and Hannah (White) Lincoln, who were mar-
ried in Rhode Island, settled in Saratoga
county. New York, where they died, both
having passed their eightieth year.

The American ancestor of the
RUDD Ruds of Bennington, Vermont,

and Hoosick, New York, is Lieu-
tenant Jonathan Rudd, who came from Eng-
land, settled in New Haven, Connecticut,
1640; was freeman of Saybrook, 1644, took
oath of allegiance in Hartford, 165 1, was of
importance in the town of Saybrook, assistant
to Captain Mason in the fort there, 1652,
leather sealer, 1656, and held main public of-
fices of trust. He married, 1646-47, the name
unknown, but she was one of the principals in
the most romantic marriages ever performed
in Connecticut. The wedding day was fixed
and a magistrate engaged to perform the cere-
mony, but a great snowstorm prevented his
coming. Application was made to Governor
Winthrop, but he, deriving authority from
Massachusetts, could not legally marry in
Massachusetts, but proposed that the contract-
ing parties come to the boundary of the col-
ony, a narrow stream, and he would marry
them from the Massachusetts side. This was
done, and Winthrop and his friends from
Pequot met the bridal party from Saybrook.
Here the ceremony was performed "under the
shelter of no roof, by no hospitable fireside,

without accommodations, but those furnished
by the snow covered earth, the over-arching
Heaven and perchance the sheltering side of a
forest of pines or cedars," never perhaps was
the legal rite performed in a situation so wild
and solitary and under circumstances so pecu-
liar and interesting. From that day the little
stream has been known as Bride Brook. Win-
throp in his deposition says : "And at that
time, the place had (received) the denomina-
tion of Bride Brook." That a considerable
party had assembled is evident from the nar-
rative, and he further says, "all were well,
satisfied with what was done."

(II) Nathaniel, believed to be son of Lieu-
tenant Jonathan Rudd, was born in 1660, died
April, 1727. He settled at West Farms, in
what is now the town of Franklin, where he
was one of the organizers of the first church
there. He married (first) April, 1685, Mary
Post, died November, 1705; (second) Abigail
Hartshorn, January 21, 1706. Children by
first marriage: Jonathan, born May 22, 1693,
married Joanna Gregory ; Mary, February 3,
1695, married Ebenezer Wood ; Lydia, died
young. Children by second marriage : Na-
thaniel, born April 6, 1707; Joseph, of further
mention; Daniel, March 12, 1710, married
Mary Metcalf; Sarah, January 23, 1712; .\bi-
gail, August 6, 1713; Lydia, April 12, 1715;
Anna, February 7, 1717; Susanna, March 15,
1719: Gideon, February 2, 1722; Patience, No-
vember 6. 1723.

(III) Joseph, son of Nathaniel and Abigail'
(Hartshorn) Rudd. was born in Windham,
Connecticut, October 31, 1708. He probably,
died there shortly after the revolution. He
married and h'ul several children, as Joseph his
son says in this letter, written after the battle
of Bennington that "Brother John and my-
self," and closes by sending love to his broth-
ers and sisters.

(IV) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (i) Rudd,
was born in Connecticut, 1740, died 1818. He
settled in Vermont, married and was living in
Bennington at the time the battle was fought
with the British, in 1777. The following let-
ter was written to his father :

"Bennington, August 26, A. D. 1777.
Honored Father:

After my duty. I take this opportunity to write
yon. hoping these line.'; will find you well, a.s
through the goodness of God, they leave me and'
my family. We met with a great deal of trnuhle
on the i6th inst.. Myself and brother John were
preserved through a very hot battle. We killed'
and took according to the best account we can
get, about one thousand of the enemy. Our loss
was about thirty or forty. We marched right
up against their breastwork with our small arms,
while they fired upon us with their field pieces
every half minute, yet they never touched ai

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'443

man with them. We drove them out of their
breastwork, and took their field pieces and pur-
sued and killed a great number of them. We
took four or five of my neighbors, two Snyders
and two Hornbecks. The bigger part of Dutch
Hoosac was in the battle against us. They went
to the regulars a day or two before the fight.
While I was gone, my wife and children went
down to Williamstown. After I came home, I
went after them and found them at Landlord
Simons. I now have them home again. We
soon expect the inemy will come upon us again
and what I will do with my family, I know not.
I want to inform you, that I received your
letter, dated August i8. I want to come and
see you very much, but when I shall I know
not. Remember me to brothers and sisters and
inquiring friends. Ko more at present, but I re-
main,

"Your dutiful son, until death,

"Joseph Rudd."

This letter is preserved in the Historical
Museum at Bennington, Vermont. He was
one of the signers of a petition sent to Eng-
land and presented to the court of Great Brit-
ain in 1767; this petition represented the
grievance of the settlers against the govern-
ment of New York, and prayed for a confir-
mation of the New Hampshire grants held or
occupied by them. At the raising of the
Hubble house in 1769 a demand was made
for a wedding. It was known that Joseph
Rudd and Miss Story were engaged. She lived
near by. Rev. Mr. Dewey said to Joseph : "If
you go and lead Sarah over here I will marry
you for nothing." "It's a bargain." Timbers
were laid down and the ceremony performed.
Joseph Rudd married Sarah Story, who died
1842. aged ninety-eight years. Sarah Story
was of revolutionary stock and was acquainted
with Colonel Ethan Allen. One of her broth-
ers, a boy of sixteen, was taken prisoner with
Allen. Another brother was captured by In-
dians in Connecticut and the second night he
made his escape. (The following record is
taken from a paper written by a grand-
daughter. Mrs. Elizabeth Harris, when over
seventy years of age. The manuscript is
neatly and plainly written.) Children: i.
Celinda. married Zachary Brown, died at
"Grand fathers place," leaving four children :
i. Celinda, married Reuben Armstrong; ii.
Harriet, married William Gould ; iii. Story : iv.
Enos B. 2. Sally, married a Mr. Potter, and
removed west. 3. Joseph, married a Miss
Smith, and removed to western New York.
4. Lucy, married a Mr. Boice and lived in
western New York. 5. Enos, married Abigail
Wood, sister of Betsey, wife of David Rudd.
Enos lived and died on "Grandfather's old
place." 6. Patty, married Samuel Wadsworth,
and lived in Bennington, Vermont. 7. David,
of whom further.

(V) David, youngest child of Joseph (2)

and Sarah (Story) Rudd was born in Ben-
nington, Vermont, 1786, died 1854. He was
a farmer of substance and prominence, and
a Democrat. He married Betsey Wood, born
1791, died 1856, daughter of Andrew and Abi-
gail (Adams) Wood, who were the parents
of : Aaron ; Wealthy, married Daniel Hamil-
ton, and lived in the west; Abigail; Betsey,
married David Rudd. Mr. and Mrs. Rudd
had thirteen children, nine of whom reached
the years of maturity, and all married except
one: i. Sabrina, born May 27, 1814; mar-
ried Luman Norton, whom she survived ; chil-
dren : David and Marshal. 2. Elijah, born
April 8, 1816; married Jane Maynard; chil-
dren living: Fayette, Frank and Ella. 3.
Martha, born April 23, 1818, died at age of
forty-four years ; she married Andrew Saw-
yer; had eleven children, eight of whom are
living, mostly resident of the state of Michi-
gan: Martha, Mary, Andrew, David, Sarah,
deceased. Harriet. Romanzo, deceased, Salome,
Laura, deceased, Sabrina, Addie. 4. John W.,
born July 22, 1820; married Charlotte .Andrews ;
children living : George, Martha and Florence.
5. David, born June 29, 1822, died aged forty-
three years: married Harriet Maynard: child
living, Jessie. 6. Elizabeth, born October 19.
1825, married E. Stearns Harris; child,
Emory ; at the age of seventy Mrs. Harris
prepared a family record, to which this rec-
ord is due. Besides her own son, Emory, she
reared two girls, Laura Sawyer (deceased)
and Mary Chase, "both good girls." 7. San-
ford Highville, of whom further. 8. Ira, born
July 15, 1831 ; unmarried. 9. Harriet, born
October 11, 1832; married Edward Kinsley;
they have no children, but adopted a daughter
Addie, who married Sanford Rudd (2), whom
she survived with two children : Allura and
Kinsley. The four deceased children of David
and Betsey (Wood) Rudd were: Abbie. the
first born child, died aged two years; Cather-
ine, born June 2, 1837, lived five years and
three months ; Forrester, lived two j'ears ;
Aaron, died aged two years.

(YD Sanford Highville, seventh child of
David and Betsey (Wood) Rudd, was bom
in Bennington, \^ermont. March i, 1827. He
was educated in the public schools and reared
a farmer. In 1876 he settled on a large farm,
which he purchased in Hoosick, Rensselaer
county. New York, which he has since most
successfully operated. He served the town
as assessor for seven years, and has always
been a man of influence. He is a Democrat
in politics. He married (first) Fanny Wat-
son, who bore him eight children : Ebb : Da-
vid, deceased; Harriet; Bessie; Sanford (2),
deceased; Edward, deceased; and Zoe, de-

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ceased ; Joseph D.. deceased. He married
(second) Celestia, daughter of Joseph Matti-
son, born in Rhode Island, July 25, 1795, died
September 13, 1870; married, 1845, Phoebe
Gates, born in Belchertown, Massachusetts,
died June, 1858. Children of second mar-
riage : Warren, Ernest and Archie L. Of these
children all married but two, and there are
thirty-one grandchildren and twelve great-
grandchildren in the family.

Settlement was made in the ;\Io-
LEVEY hawk Valley by the founder of
this family prior to 1804. James
Levey was born in Schenectady county, New
York, 1804, son of Dutch parents. He was
a farmer of Amsterdam; late in life he re-
moved to the city of Amsterdam, where he
died January 22, 1884. He married, Oc-
tober 29, 1829, Katherine Cain, born in
Princetown, Schenectady county, December 24,
1806, died February 20, 1880. Children: i.
Hiram, see forward. 2. John, born March
16, 1833; married Amanda j\L Lepper; they
reside in Amsterdam, New York. 3. Wil-
liam H., February 17, 1835; married Lydia
Van Dyke, who survives him, with daugh-
ters, Maggie and Lulu. 4. Paul, December
22, 1837, deceased; married Jane Ann Bunn
and had Lydia. 5. Benjamin, December 20,
1839; removed to Rockford, Illinois; married
Margaret Lepper, who survives him ; resident
of Stillman Valley ; no issue. 6. Catherine,
March 11, 1842, deceased; married Edward
Hamm, of Amsterdam, and had Freeman
and Jennie. 7. Margaret, May 12, 1844, de-
ceased ; married Johnson Banta ; no issue. 8.
Barbara, October 12, 1846, deceased; married
Orvin Wessell, of Amsterdam ; no issue. 9.
Maria, October 12, 1848; married Newton
Merry, of Merry Brothers, truckmen, Amster-
dam ; has a son. Earl Merry. 10. Susan, Oc-
tober 17, 1852; married Jay Merry, brother
of Newton; has Bertha and Anna Merry. 11.
Nicholas, September 21, 1854; married Belle
Hayes, of Troy, New York ; has a daughter
Hazel.

(II) Hiram, eldest child of James and
Katherine (Cain) Levey, was born in Mont-
gomery county. New York, August 29, 1830,
died October 19, 1905. Early in life he re-
moved to Fulton county. New York, where
all his subsequent life was passed. He was
a farmer. He married, at Broadalbin, Ful-
ton county, Rachel H. Ockart, born in Al-
bany, New York, June 14, 1839. She sur-
vives her husband and resides with a daugh-
ter. Carrie B., in Troy, New York. She is
the daughter of Anthony and Elizabeth
(Ruben) Ockart, who were born in France,

reared in Germany, came to the United States,
to Albany, New York, where they were mar-
ried; following the birth of their second child
they removed to Mayfield, Fulton county,
where they died. Children of Anthony and
Elizabeth Ockart: i. Joseph Samuel F. C,
resident of Gloversville, New York; by first
wife has Philander and Alice. 2. Rachel H.
(Mrs. Hiram Levey). Children of Hiram and
Rachel H. (Ockart) Levey: i. James, born
1855; of Amsterdam; married Christina
Beck, and has Laura B., married Marcus
Rasmussen, and Urban. 2. Frank LI., see
forward. 3. Carrie B., 1871, married Walter
McClellan, of Troy, New York; has a son,
Ockart McClellan, born January 25, 1897.

(HI) Frank H., son of Hiram and Rachel
H. (Ockart) Levey, was born in Amsterdam,
Montgomery county. New York, September
30, 1857. He grew to manhood and was
educated in his native town. On reaching
man"s estate he removed to the city of Am-
sterdam and obtained employment in a box
factory, remaining until he became an expert
workman and thoroughly understood every
detail of box manufacturing. Having only a
limited capital, he erected a small factory and
began business for himself; without machinery
he operated in a small way, making all his
boxes by hand labor. He was industrious,
ambitious, and bound to succeed. In a few
years he had a large factory fully equipped
with modern box-making machinery. After
sixteen years close application to business,
having an opportunity, he disposed of his
entire business in 1900 and retired from ac-
tive business life, to his beautiful home in
Amsterdam, which he built. He is a mem-
ber of the Methodist Episcopal church, as is
Mrs. Levey. Never taking an active part
in politics, he has always been a stalwart
Republican. He is fraternally connected with
.Amsterdam Lodge, No. 134, Independent Or-
der of Odd Fellows, and Chuctenunda Lodge,
No. 100, Knights of Pythias. In the days
of the volunteer fire department in /Vrnster-
dam he was a member of the "Bronson Hose
Company," now known as the Bronson Social
and Benevolent Association. He is an exempt
member of Bronson Hose Company. He
married, February 22, 1880, in Amsterdam
city. Christina Miller, born in Saratoga
county. May 24, 1858. She has been an ac-
tive and important factor in his business
career, assisting him in the earlier days by
personal work, laboring by his side in the
little shop until a safe start was secured,
and now enjoying, with him. their well-earned
competence. She is a daughter of Augustus
and Mary (Saunders) Miller, born in Ger-

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many, he in Berlin ; she in Pommern, West-
plialia. They came to the United States be-
fore their marriage, which occurred in Sara-
toga county. New York, where they resided
for several years, afterward removing to
Rockton (now part of the city of Amster-
dam) where he was a farmer and where he
died May 19, 1893, aged seventy-four. His
wife Mary survives him at the age of seventy-
seven. The Millers were members of the
German Lutheran church, as were their fore-
bears. Children: i. Frederika, married Wil-
liam Kernan. 2. Christina (]\lrs. Frank H.
Levey). 3. Augustus, farmer of Perth, Ful-
ton county : married Minnie Strumz. 4. John,
of Red River, New York; married Marga-
ret Pargo. 5. Charles, of Amsterdam : mar-
ried Annie AI. Lebeahn. 6. Mary, married
George Shuler, of Amsterdam. 7. Lizzie,
married Nazarre Ross, of Broadalbin, New
York. 8. George, of Amsterdam, unmarried.
9. Frank, married Jessie Ross. Children of
Frank H. and Christina (Miller) Levey: i.
Harriet, born April 7, 1881. 2. Francis, Oc-
tober 5. 1894; both residing at home.

The Wayne family are men-
WAYNE tioned in the early records of
Yorkshire and Derbyshire, Eng-
land, where for centuries they held position
among the lesser gentry. These old Waynes
bore the Qiristian names of Anthony, Gabriel
and Francis, and many of them were soldiers
by profession, some of them in the "War
of the Roses." and mostly upon the side
of their king. Among them was Captain
Gabriel Wayne, apparently a near kinsman of
Captain Anthony Wayne, the founder of the
Waynes in America. The family in Eng-
land bore arms : "Gules a chevron ermine
between three inside quantlets or." Anthony
Wayne was born near the border line of
Yorkshire and Derbyshire in the year 1666.
He early became a soldier, and while yet a
lad saw service in the low countries, it is said,
under John Churchill, later the great Duke
of Marllx)rough. He was with the English
army in Ireland, and commanded a troop
of horse at the "Boyne Water." in company
with his lifelong friend. John Hunter, both
of whom later settled down as farmers in
county Wicklow, one having married a French
woman, the other a native of Holland. .'An-
thony Wayne settled near Rathdrum, Wick-
low, Ireland, after 1690. His wife was named
Faulkner, and he had seven sons, five of
whom came to America. .Anthony Wayne
and family landed near Boston. Massachu-
setts, in 1723, and almost immediately pro-
ceeded to Pennsylvania, where they settled

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in Chester county. Here he found his old
companion-in-arms, John Hunter, who had
settled there in 1722. He purchased land
at Easttown, Chester county, and is described
in the deed as "Anthony Wayne, gentleman."
Captain Anthony Wayne died in Easttown,
December 2, 1739, and was buried in old St.
David's, Radnor, where he was a vestryman
and pewholder. Children: Francis, Gabriel,
Isaac, Humphrey, Jacob, William, John,
Sarah, Ann and Mary. The home Captain
Anthony Wayne founded in Chester county
was called Waynesborough. and is yet the
home of descendants.

(II) Isaac, third son of Captain Anthony
Wayne, was born in Ireland, and died in
Chester county, Pennsylvania. He was a cap-
tain in the colonial wars, 1755, and is said
to have been at Braddock's defeat. He served
with honor all througli his military career,
and died on the eve of tiie American revolu-
tion, leaving a son wiiose brilliant record, cov-
ering the entire period of the war, and ex-
tending from the frozen Canada's to the tropic
Florida, fills some of the most important pages
of the history of our country.

(III) Anthony (2), son of Isaac Wayne,
and known as "Mad" Anthony Wayne, the
hero of everywhere, was brigadier-general
in 1777; major-general by brevet, 1783-92;
nominated by Washington as commander-in-
chief of the army, which position he held un-
til his death, near Erie, Pennsylvania. Decem-
ber 15, 1796. The Wayne family, of New
Scotland, Albany county, New York, herein
recorded, were planted in that county by
Anthony Wayne, a grandson of Captain .-\n-
thony, the American founder. He was a
cousin of General Anthony Wayne, and was
of the third generation of Waynes in .Amer-
ica, and one of the early settlers in the town
of New Scotland, the date of his settlement
being during, or immediately after, the revolu-
tion. He was an active patriot, and did not
fall one whit behind his illustrious relative
in devotion to the colonial cause. New Scot-
land then had few inhabitants, and among the
loyal ones were William McCullock, Anthony
Wayne. John Furbeck. John Wanrls. Robert
Hilton, Albert Bradt. and the La Grange fam-
ily. He married and had issue.

(IV) George, son of Anthony (2) Wayne,
was born on the home farm in New Scotland,
Albany county, New York, December 8. 1779,
died May 10, 1837. He spent his life as a
farmer of the town, prospered, and was a
man of influence. He married. January 27,
1805, Elizabeth Couglitry. born August 17,
1783, died October 11, 1842. Children: I.
Anthony, born January 19, 1806. died .\ugust

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14, 1877; married, September 22, 1842, Mrs.
Elizabeth Fuller. 2. James, August 12, 1808,
died March 28, 1873; married, September 12,
1833. Judith Russell. 3. John Haswell, see
forward. 4. Sarah Ann, September 12, 181 3,
died April 18, 1848; married, March 26, 1834,
George W. Bender. 5. William, June 19,
1 81 6, died April 13, 1892; married, Decem-
ber 28. 1843, xMary Cook. 6. Elizabeth, De-
cember 30, 1818, died May 25, 1868; married,
November 23, 1842, William H. Slingerland,
who died in 1910, an honored citizen of the
village of Slingerland. 7. Jane, November
16. 1821, died March 22, 1902; became the
second wife of her brother-in-law. George
W. Bender. 8. Adaline, July 9, 1824, died
July 23, 1869; married George M. Blodgett.
9. Susanna, julv 22. 1826, died October 2,
1828.

(\') John Haswell. son of George and
Elizabeth (Coughtry) Wayne, was born in
the town of New Scotland, Albany county.
New York, January 12, 181 1, died February
20. 1893, on the farm which had been his
home for fifty-six years. He was a man
of high character and purest purpose, and he
commanded the respect of the community of
which he was for so long a most prominent
figure. He was a member of the Presbyterian
church, and a Republican in politics after
the formation of that party. He married
Catherine Stanton, born in Coeymans, Albany
county. New York, October 19, 1823. died
in New Scotland, same county, December 17,
1887. She was a devout Presbyterian, and
reared her family of five in conformity with
the tenets of that faith. Children: i. George,
born August 10, 1846; after three attempts
he succeeded in eluding the vigilance of his
parents, ran away to camp, and enlisted (be-
ing only eighteen years old) in the Union
army; he saw some active service, sickened
and died in the hospital at Washington, Dis-
trict of Columbia. 2. Helen, August 23,
1848, died February 27, 1871 ; unmarried. 3.
James, see forward. 4. Sarah Ann, born Sep-
tember 4. 1852, died August 16, 1861. 5.
Marv Jane, October 8, 1856, died August 19,
1861. ■

(\"l) James, son of John Haswell and
Catherine (Stanton) Wayne, was born in the
village of Slingerlands, Albany county. New
"S^ork, September 6. 1850, died in New Scot-
land, same county. May 23, 1910. He received
a good education, and was a high-minded,
public-spirited citizen. He was a leading
farmer and stock raiser of the county, and was
officially connected with the Albany County
Agricultural .Association. His farm, well
stocked and beautifully situated, was noted

for its fine orchards and well-kept, highly-cul-
tivated condition. He was an active man in
politics, but never worked for his own private
advancement, and never accepted office. He
was liberal and helpful, always lending the
hand of assistance to those in misfortune. He
attended the Presbyterian church, and was
a Republican in politics. He married, Decem-
ber 23, 1875, in New Scotland, Alice, born
December 9, 1856, daughter of David (2) and
Lucretia (Reamer) Bradt, and granddaughter
of David (i) Bradt, of New Scotland, a
farmer, member of the Dutch Reformed
church, and a Republican. He married

Winne, a member of the old Dutch

Winne family, so prominent in Albany county
annals. David (2) Bradt was born in Knox,
Albany county, New York, in 1818, and died
in 1902. He married Lucretia Reamer, born
June 25, 1830. Still lives in Voorheesville,
and is very smart for her eighty years.
These families date from the earlier Dutch
settlement of Albany county. Children of
David (2) and Lucretia (Reamer) Bradt:
I. Catherine, born October 10, 1850, in the
town of Knox, died in the village of Voor-
heesville, July 29, 1895 ; married James Good-
fellow, who survived her, and who married
(second), a widow, Louisa (Hungerford)
Taylor, who bore him a child, George. 2.
Alice, married James Wayne. Children of
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne: i. Jennie W., born
January 6, 1877; married Professor Newton
J. Ferguson, principal of a Brooklyn, New
York, school ; child, Helen O., born August
23. 1903. 2. Bertha, May 30. 1880; married
De Forest S. Dunlap, now of RaVena, New
York. 3. Dorothy C, November 18, 1883;
unmarried ; prominent in local and church
work. 4. David H., July 9. 1887; a gradu-
ate of Albany Business College; was two
years page in the New York state legislature;
now department clerk ; married Jeane Wayne
Bender, a graduate of Albany high school ;
child, James Edward, born October 4, 1909.
5. Helen P., May 13, 1891 ; received a musi-
cal education ; resides at home. 6. Catherine
Stanton, February 16, 1895; a student at Al-
bany high school. Airs. Alice Bradt Wayne
survives her husband, and resides on her
beautiful estate in New Scotland with her
unmarried children. They are all well known
in the social life of the town. Mrs. W'ayne
attends the Presbvterian church.

The first of this branch of the Rich
RICH family in America was John Rigji,

born in Kentmoor parish, England,
754. lie married there Elizabeth .\iken,
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date of their coming to the United States
is not given, hut they were residents of the
town of Chatham, Hartford county. Connecti-
cut, before they came to New York state in
1810. They settled in the town of Starkey,
Yates county, New .York, w^here John Rich
died, May 10, 1815; EHzabeth survived him
initil December 17, 1837. Both are buried in
the town of Starkey. Children: i. Richard,
of whom further. 2. Ansel, born March 4,
1784, died July 30, 1852: married Rhoda Gris-
wold, born November 14, 1786, died April
12, 1853; children: i. Minor, born January
2S. 1805, died January 14. 1819; ii. John, born
August 3, 1808, died June 15, 1848, and
married Lany Horning, 1823; iii. George,
born August 5. 1810, died March 6,
1821 ; iv. Milo, born August 13, 1813, died
1886. married, December, 1832, Elizabeth
Sutphen; v. Richard, born August 24, 1816,
died February 23, 1838; vi. Henry, born No-
vember 30, 1820, died 1878, married, Febru-
ary 14, 1841, Sarepta Rich, a widow: vii.
Sanford, born January 9, 1824; viii. Philann,
born August 11. 1826, died October 5, 1800,
married, December 5, 1841, Simpson Hal-
lock. 3. Alfred, born April 21, 1786, died De-
cember 10, 1847; married (first) Sarah Gris-
wold, born 1785, died November 12, 1823:
children: i. Harriet, born February 2, 1805,
married Addison Lewis, and has a daughter
Adaline: ii. Erastus, born May 7. 1808, killed
•when young while engaged in a wrestling
match: iii. Polly Ann, born October 10, 1809,
died October 9, 1886, married, October 29,
1829, Joseph Reynolds, who died in Dundee,
New York, a very old man : iv. Sarah Ann,
born January 7, 1821, died 1852; married
James' Hawley; had a son Erastus. Alfred
Rich married (second) Almy Roberts and
had a son Alfred, born December 7, 1824, died

January, 1888; married Drake; they

were both killed by a runaway team; chil-
dren : Charles B.. and a daughter. 4. Elias,
married, and had Richard and Amanda ; this
family removed to Michigan, where all died;
Amanda married and left children. 5. Clara.
(H) Richard, eldest child of John and
Elizabeth (Aiken) Rich, was born, probably
in England, November 4, 1778, died July,
1839. He settled at Mason's Hollow, near
Comstock's Landing. Washington county.
New York. He married Amy Mason, horn
1782. died 1862. Children: i. Lyman, mar-
ried Kate Dailey : children : Sarah Jane, mar-
ried Ogden; Richard Henry; Owen:

Mary Ann; Leonard: Emma, married

Livingstone; Olin : Kate, married and removed
to Canada. 2. Warren, married Helen
Dailev; children: i. Cornelia, married War-

ren Wilson ; ii. Scyniour. 3. Rosanna, mar-
ried Barker Mason; children; Addison,
George. Edgar, and three others. 4. Diana,
married Cyrus Ferris ; children : i. Charles

Edward, married Rogers, and removed

to Milwaukee, Wisconsin; ii. Marian, married
Rufus Gardiner; iii. Walter, married Eliza
Kingsley: iv. Maria, married Noble Clark;
children : Nellie, William and Sophia ; v. Leti-
tia. married Russell Hall: children: .Anna
Sweet, Harriet. Charles and Kitty; vi. Lyman,
married Minerva Miller; children: George,
Noble and James. 5. Maria, married Bel-
den Rich, a kinsman, and removed to Michi-
gan. 6. Jane, married John Gillette; chil-
dren : Charles, Melvin, .'\very, and a son set-
tled at Clyde, Warren county. New York. 7.
Lucy, married Charles C. Rich, a kinsman;
children: Charles, Henry, Cyrus. Amy, Jane
and Alice. 8. Ellen, married Adolphus
Hawes; children: i. Ada; ii. Cora E., died
Februarv 14, 1905; iii. Clinton; iv. Ida; v.
Lina. married H. F. Woodward: vi. Amy,
married B. F. Irish, and removed to Fergus
Falls, Minnesota, thence to Wapato, Washing-
ton; has daughter Nina. 9. Cyrus Ferris, of
whom further.

(III) Cvrus Ferris, youngest child of Rich-
ard and Amy (Mason) Rich, was born at
Comstock. Washington county. New York,
December 23. 1826, died at Saratoga Springs,
New York, "November i, 1897. He was edu-
cated in the public schools, and, after com-
pleting his school years, began the stud^v
of dentistrv. He was regularly aldmitted to
practice and followed this profession in
Schuvjersville until 1865, when he removed
to Saratoga Springs, his business home and
residence until death. He was master of his
profession and was well known and highly
regarded. During the civil war he enlisted
in*^ Company K, Seventy-seventh Regiment,
New York Volunteer Infantry, with the rank
of lieutenant. He was a Republican in poli-
tics He married, November 11, 1852, Har-
riet E. Cooke, born 1835, died June, 1872,
daughter of Peter J. Cooke, of Edinburg,
Saratoga county, New York. Children:
Waldo" Leon, of whom further ; Amos Cooke,
born April 5, 1856, married Ella Bristol ;
Leigh, August, 1859, fl'^'l October, 1861 ; Guy
Cyrus. Tilly, 1861, married Mrs. Katherine
Nason; Lviin Richard, September 11, 1864.

(IV) Waldo Leon, eldest son of Cyrus Fer-
ris and Harriet E. (Cooke) Rich, was born
in Schuylersville, Saratoga county. New
York, November 11, 1853. His early and
preparatory education was obtained in the
public schools of Schuylersville and Saratoga
Springs after which he entered Williams Col-

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lege, where he was graduated A.B., class
of 1876. He decided upon the profession of
law and pursued a course of legal study under
Judge Lester, of Saratoga, was admitted to
the bar, but never practised. In 1876 he en-
tered the employ of the old Commercial Bank
(now out of existence), from there going
to the First National Bank of Saratoga, where
he remained until 1894. Then he formed
a connection with the Adirondack Trust Com-
pany, of Saratoga, and is now (1910) paying
tell of that institution. Li politics he is a
Republican. His social club is the Saratoga,
and he holds fraternal membership in the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He
is also a member of the Saratoga Business
Men's Association. He married, April 25,
1883, Sarah W., daughter of Alembert and
Elizabeth (Lester) Pond.

The founder of the McKin-
]\IcKINXEY ney family was Calinas Fitz-
gerald, of Ireland, who as-
sisted Alexander III, of Scotland, to repel
the invasion of Haco, of Norway, 1261, and
was rewarded by a grant of the lands of Kin-
tail, county of Ross, in the north of Scot-
land, and which was erected into a barony.
The third baron assumed in name (in Gaelic),
Kenneth McKenneth, hence the names Mc-
Kennie, McKinney, and McKenzie. Members
of the family bearing the last two names
have been able, in this century, to trace their
ancestry to an identical source.

Alexander McKenzie, of Inverness, Scot-
land, in his genealogies, traces the family back
to the beginning of the ninth century. He
finally states : "It scarcely needs to be pointed
out that, through intermarriages the McKs.
are also descended from the ancient Celtic
McAlpine line of Scottish kings, from the
original Anglo-Saxon kings, of England, and
from the oldest Scandinavian, Charlemagne
and Capetian lines, as far back as the begin-
ning of the ninth century, forming a network
of cousinship which ultimately included all
the leading families in the Highlands, every
one of which, through these alliances, have
the royal blood of all the English, Scottish and
Scandinavian kings, and many of the earlier
foreign monarchs, coursing through their
veins."

Passing along the centuries, we come to
that rcmarkalile man, the Rev. James McKin-
ney, grandfather of James McKinney. He was
born in Cookstown, Tyrone county, Ireland,
in 1759. This county was included in that
portion of Ulster made "Sword-land" by the
Scots. He entered Glasgow College, where
he took the regular course, and remained

there several years after, engaged in the
study of theology and of medicine. In due
time he was ordained and installed pastor of
Kirkhills, or Dervock congregations, in the
county of Antrim, a county exposed to the
inroads of the Danes, and also of the northern
Scots, who ultimately effected permanent set-
tlements. Antrim has always been one of
the most decidedly Protestant counties in Ire-
land, and of the Protestants a very great pro-
portion are Presbyterians.

(I) The last decade of the eighteenth cen-
tury was pre-eminently distinguished for its
revolutionary character in several European
nations. Rev. James McKinney lived in revo-
lutionary times. He came to America in
1793. As a friend of liberty, civil and re-
ligious, he saw and felt with disapprobation
the oppression of his native land, and, though
he did not belong to the Society of United
Irishmen, yet he was charged with influencing
and encouraging them to throw ofif the Brit-
ish yoke. The true cause of his leaving his
native land was his sermon on the "Rights of
God." This was denounced as treasonable by
the secret spies of the British government.
An indictment was found against him, and
being feared by the government and an ob-
ject of jealousy, they determined to seize and
imprison him. He was providentially away
from home when the soldiers came to arrest
him, and as bail on a charge of treason would
not be accepted, he escaped to America in
the summer of 1793.

'i'hough not sent immediately by the church
in Ireland to aid in promoting the Covenant-
ing cause in this country, it is evident that
lie was sent by the Head of the Church him-
self. In an article on "The Life and Times
of Rev. James McKinney," by Rev. S. Car-
lisle, he .says: "We do not state too much
when we assert he was the founder, under
God, of the Reformed Presbyterian Church
in the L'nited States, after the secession and
backsliding in 1783." Dr. (jlasgow, in his
"History of the Reformed Presbyterian
Church in America," and Sprague's "Annals
of the American Pulpit." state that "for schol-
arship and eloquence combined, he was not
only the greatest man in the Covenanter
Church in his day, but he was a great man
among men of that age. His sermons were a
continuous stream of thought, and for
grandeur of conception and impressiveness of
delivery such displays of eloquence were sel-
dom heard." They also quote an eminent
divine as .saying, "I have met with many con-
siderable and some great men, Init not one
equal to James McKinney." .Anotlier said,
"He is like Leviathan — made witinnit fear."

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Such are the testimonies of men on both sides
of the Atlantic to the character of Rev. James
McKinney.

Prior to 1812 four brothers of Rev. James
McKinney had emigrated to America : Rev.
Samuel McKinney, D.D., of Texas; Dr.
Archibald JMcKinney, who was for some time
partner of Dr. Rush, of Philadelphia, and
died at Cincinnati, Ohio; Robert McKinney,
who located, and died near Pittsburg, Penn-
sylvania; and Hon. John A. McKinney, one
of the framers of the constitution of Tennes-
see, and who died at Rogersville, East Ten-
nessee.

Rev. James McKinney was called to the
congregation of Rocky Creek, Chester Dis-
trict, South Carolina, whither he removed,
died in a few months, away from his family,
and was buried in the old graveyard on Rocky
Creek. It may be said of this family that
they inherited and illustrated all the noble
qualities of their heroic ancestors, and veri-
fied the promise, "I will be a God to thee and
thy children after thee." Freedom, civil and
religious, was dearer to them than titles and
wealth.

(H) Four years later, in 1797, Mary
(Mitchell) McKinney, wife of Rev. James
McKinney, followed, with their five children,
one of whom was James (2) McKinney,
father of James (3) McKinney of this re-
view. He was born in 1792. He was edu-
cated for the ministry, but was not ordained.
He lived a quiet, uneventful life, was se-
dentary in his habits, and devoted to his
books.

James McKinney's maternal grandfather
was John I. Netterville, who forfeited his
succession to the peerage by coming to
America. The family of Netterville is of
Norman descent, and of considerable an-
tiquity ; it took from an early period an im-
portant and historic position in Ireland, and
made high connections and alliances. It was
settled at Douth, county Meath, in the reign
of Henry II. During the persecution of the
Protestants this family left France for the
North of Ireland, and sailed up the coast.
His maternal grandmother was Lady .Vnn
Whitely, daughter of Lord Edward Whitcly,
North of Ireland. Jane Frances (Netter-
ville) McKinney. mother of James McKinney,
came to America in 1802, when nine years of
age. Such were the forebears of James Mc-
Kinney, indicating that the blood flowing in
his veins was of that sturdy, self-reliant qual-
ity which knew no discouragement and feared
nothing so much as untrustworthiness.

(Ill) James (3), son of James (2) and
Tane Frances (Netterville) McKinney, was

born August 29, 1825, in Duanesburg, Sche-
nectady county, New York. In 1838 he went
to Canajoharie, Montgomery county, where
for some years he attended Canajoharie
Academy, making his home with his maternal
grandfather, John T. Netterville, of the same
place. In 1844 he accepted a position in the
iron works conducted by Colonel George G.
Johnson, of Palatine Bridge, New York, re-
maining three years. In 1847 Mr- McKinney
went to New York and sought employment
with several concerns in different lines of
the iron business in order to perfect himself
in the industry, for, like many other young
men, his aim wms to ultimately engage in
business for himself, and he desired to obtain
all the information and experience possible,
with that end in view. In 18510 he came to
Albany, and in 1857 began business
for himself, forming a co-partnership
with Abram Mann, under the firm name
of McKinney & Mann, in a small foun-
dry located on Lower Livingston avenue
(then Lumber street). This foundry was
demolished when the fir.st bridge was con-
structed across the Hudson river at Albany,
and the business was removed to buildings
especially constructed for the firm at i8-20'
De Witt street. In 1867 the partnership was
dissolved, and Air. McKinney continued the
business alone. About this time he observed
the growing demand for structural and archi-
tectural iron work for building purposes, and
he decided to devote practically his whole
attention to this branch of the iron industry.
The business grew so rapidly that larger
quarters were soon a necessity, and in 1872-
he erected the works on upper Rroadway,
where the business has since been conducted.
In 1884 he admitted his son, Edward N. Mc-
Kinney, into partnership, and this firm has
ever since continued under the name of James
McKinney & Son. When Mr. McKinney
first engaged in business, he resolved to manu-
facture only first-class work, for he realized
that whatever was worth doing at all was
worth doing well, and the result was that
the reputation established at the beginning,
for first-class work, was continued during
all the years of his business career. He was
a man of the highest ideals in honesty and in-
tegrity, and as to what was due his fellow-
men, and these qualities, combined with a
genial disposition and a heart warm with
generous impulses, attracted not only custom-
ers and friends, who remained with him dur-
ing his entire business life, but also the loy-
alty and friendship of the men in his employ.
In 1872 Mr. McKinney was elected a mem-
ber of the board of aldermen and served

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two years. In 1856 he joined the Fourth
Presbyterian Church of Albany, and in 1874
was elected to the eldership, which office he
retained until the close of his life. He was
devotedly attached to this church, and every
branch of its work received his earnest sup-
port. He was particularly interested in young
men who wished to devote their lives to the
Christian ministry, and was always a liberal
■contributor in aiding such to secure an edu-
cation with this end in view, when their
private means were inadequate for the pur-
pose. He was elected a trustee of the Albany
Exchange Savings Bank in 1886, and became
its second vice-president in 1893.

Mr. McKinnev married, in 1850, JuHa A.,
Poole, of Albany. Children : Ella F. ; Ida A.,
married David B. Hunt, of Montclair, New
Jersey; Edward N. Mr. McKinney died Feb-
ruarv 10. 1907. The worth of his character
and the loss to the community in his death
were attested by the local press in the fol-
lowing :

Albany Evening Journal, February II. 1907:
■"James McKinney's long career of usefulness
came to an end about three weeks ago, and yes-
terday death ensued. From the time he laid
•down the cares of busine,ss life, which had ex-
tended over half a century, his vigorous consti-
tution gave way gradually, and in a compara-
tively short time the vital spark went out. It
was like passing to a peaceful sleep, and was in
keeping with his gentle nature. His presence
was like a healing balm, his counsel always on
the right side, and his charity unostentatious.
Mr. McKinney's record in the business circles of
Albany, in the city's welfare and in church
work, stands out a bright page. His genial
■disposition, his wise judgment in all matters in
which he was enlisted, and his business acumen,
will be missed by those who were thrown into
his companionship."

Ibid, same date: "The death of James Mc-
Kinney, which occurred yesterday, makes an-
■other vacant place in the ranks of the old guard
of Albany's business men — the men to whose
activity and energy is due in gerat measure the
city's very solidly founded prosperity. Fifty
years of successful business activity, always char-
acterized by strict integrity, made a record most
honorable, a source of pride to those who mourn.
Mr. McKinney's life is an example for emula-
tion to those who are just beginning their busi-
ness careers."

Albany Times-Union, February 11, 1907: "In
the death of James McKinney, .Mbany loses one
•of its most progressive citizens. His splendid
•efforts to promote the welfare of the large in-
stitution over which he presided were crowned
with success, and the iron works which bear
liis name are known throughout the length and
"breadth of the land. He was a generous em-
ployer, a good citizen and a faithful friend, and
a splendid type of virile manhood."

Knickerbocker Express. February 11, 1907:
"The close of Sabbath witnessed the death of one
of those sweet, lovable gentlemen of the old
■school, of whom the world to-day has too few.

A gentleman whose integrity was unimpeachable;
in whom the milk of human kindness abounded
in rich supply: whose optimism was ever most
pronounced; whose life of four-score years and
two speaks eloquently his own epitaph; whose
love for humanity was as sweet as the perfume
of incense — such was James McKinney, one of
Albany's best-known business men."

The paternal descent of the Daw
DAW family of Troy is through French
Huguenot ancestors, who fled from
the city of Rochelle in France and came to
America, where a large settlement of people
of the same religious convictions founded
New Rochelle, near New York City. The
names of two of the Daw ancestors are on
the Huguenot monument at New Rochelle as
founders of New Rochelle. Through inter-
marriage with the Denisons they obtain de-
scent from Captain George Denison, a noted
Indian fighter of Connecticut, whose wife,
Ann Boradaile, was an English lady of rank.
His father was William Denison, who came
to America in 163 1 and settled in Roxbury,
Massachusetts.

Captain George Denison returned to
England after the death of his first wife,
joined the army of Cromwell, was wounded
at the battle of Naseby. was nursed back to
life at the home of John Boradaile by his
daughter Ann, whom he afterward married;
he returned to America and settled at Ston-
ington, Connecticut, where he died in 1694.
As a leader of the volunteer forces, he broke
the power of the Indians and gave peace to
the harassed settlers. The descent is through
Captain John, eldest son of Captain George
and .\nn (Boradaile) Denison: Daniel, child
of Captain John and Phoebe Denison ; Daniel
(2), who was the ninth child of Daniel (i)
and Mary Denison; Daniel (3), second child
of Daniel (2) and Esther Denison; Esther,
born 1776, third child of Daniel (3) and
Elizabeth Denison, who married Miner Wal-
den, of Pawlet, Vermont ; removed to Albany
county. New York, where the mother of
George W. Daw, of Troy, was born.

(I) Peter Ferris Daw was born October
22, 1808, at Ridgcfield. Connecticut. He em-
braced the profession of law and practiced in
Cohoes until his death. May 27, 1876. He
married Sophia M. Waldcn. of Albany. New
York, born November 19, 1815, at Berne,
Albany county. New York.

(II) George Weidman, son of Peter Fer-
ris and Sophia M. (Walden) Daw, was born
in Cohoes. New York. March 24, 1856, He
attended the Cohoes public scliool until at-
taining the age of fifteen, when he went to
Albany to prepare for college. He entered

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the high school in that city, from which he
graduated, but the death of his father pre-
vented the carrying out of his college plans.
In 1877 he went to Troy, entered the law
offices of Smith, Fursman & Cowen, where
he studied law and was admitted to the bar
in 1S80. After two years of private practice,
he formed a partnership with Eugene L. Pel-
tier, which existed until 1890, since which
date he has continued alone in his legal busi-
ness. He is well known and prominent among
the lights of the Rensselaer county bar. He
lias held several important public positions
in his profession, among them that of attor-
nev for the excise board of Troy, for the years
1883-84-85.

He has allied his energy and ability with
•other enterprises not connected with his pro-
fession. He was one of the organizers of
the Union National Bank of Schenectady,
New York, of the Albany Trust Company,
of Albany, New York, of the Peoples Bank
of Troy, and of the Troy Trust Company,
in the last two of which he is a director at
the present time (1910). He is also a direc-
tor of the Pittsburgh-Eastern Company, of
the R. T. French Company, of Rochester,
New York, and of the Beacon Electric Light
Company, and other local business enterprises
•of importance.

In the political life of Rensselaer county
Mr. Daw has ever been active. From
1880 to 1884 he was secretary of the Re-
publican county committee and acting chair-
man during the Blaine campaign of 1884. He
is interested in real estate operations, and in
California plotted and promoted the now
thriving town of \'ernondaIe. He was one
of the organizers of the Rensselaer Union
Club, now known as the Troy Republican
Club. and member of the Troy Club, director of
the Riverside Club, which he helped to organ-
ize. He is a member of Trinity Protestant
Episcopal Church, which he has .served many
years as vestryman. He is a member of the
New York State Bar Association, the Ameri-
can Bar Association, the Rensselaer County
Bar Association, the Huguenot Society of
America, the Sons of the .\merican Revolu-
tion, the Fort Orange Club, Country Club of
Albany, New York, and Rensselaer County
Society of New York City, New York. He
•continues his legal practice in Troy, where he
has an established clientage. He married.
May 10, 1882, E. Eugenia, oply daughter of
Daniel Wiedman. of Albany. Children : Elma
F.lmina, a graduate of Emma Willard School
•of Troy, and Bryn Mawr College. Pennsyl-
vania : Georgena, also a graduate of the Emma
Willard .'School.

George Allen Ross, son of Adam
ROSS Ross, was born November 10, 1870,

at Troy, New York. His educa-
tion was obtained in the common and high
schools of Troy, after which he entered the
Albany College of Pharmacy. He was regis-
tered under the laws governing pharmacists
in New York state in 1895. He was with
Edward F. Leahy, druggist, of Troy, for
nearly five years, then with his successor until
1890, when he removed to Hoosick Falls.
He here entered the employ of Henry W.
Stone, with whom he remained as prescrip-
tion clerk and a.ssistant for five years. In
1895 he purchased the drug business of
Henry W. Stone and opened under the firm
name of Geo. A. Ross & Company, contin-
uing under that name until 1900, when he
purchased his partner's interest, and since
then has conducted the business as George
A. Ross. In 1905 he added to his store in
Hoosick Falls the adjoining building, which
he converted into a confectionery and ice
cream store, wholesale and retail. He has
been very successful. He was appointed by
Colonel Lloyd and Captain F. R. Hudson,
hospital steward of the Second Regiment,
New York National Guard, with headquar-
ters at Troy. He held this position four
years, seven months, when he received an
honorable discharge from the service. He
had been active in the National Guard for
several years, being on duty during the trol-
ley strike of 1903 at Glens Falls, New York.
He is an active Republican. He served as
auditor of the Hoosick Falls village corpora-
tion from 1899 until July, 1910, when he
resigned. He is a member of the Presby-
terian church, of Rensselaer Lodge, No. 400,
Free and Accepted Masons, Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, and for four years
(1896 to 1900) secretary of the Hoosick
Falls Lodge, No. 178; member of the
Hoosick Club since 1895, and of the Country
Club, member of the New York State Phar-
maceutical Association, and of the Ice Cream
Men's Association of New York state.

Mr. Ross married, June 14. 1899, ^I''^- Jo'
sephine (Burtt) Cusson, daughter of Row-
land Thomas Burtt, of Greenburg. New
Hampshire. Rowland Thomas Burtt was horn
December 2, 1821, died February 4, 1907, at
Hoosick Fails. He was a well-known musi-
cian and dancing master, and for fifty years
leader of Burtt & Whitcomb's Orchestra, of
Cambridge, New York. He was a most ex-
cellent instructor and was well known and
highly regarded all through that section of
New York state. He was an accomplished
performer on the violin and composer of a

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great amount of the music which was played
by his own orchestra exclusively. In addition
to his musical engagements he was an expert
grainer and painter. In middle life his
sight became impaired by cataracts forming,
and at the age of fifty-seven he became totally
blind. He continued playing in public until
he was seventy-five, rendering his selections
from memory. Until he was eighty-five he
retained his musical skill and kept up his
playing, although not appearing in public.
His musical memory was wonderful, having
a repertoire of sixty quadrilles and about
thirty other compositions for dance and con-
cert that he recited from memory without a
discordant note, excelling in dance and popu-
lar music, in which he delighted. After his
dissolution of interest with Mr. Whitcomb,
the organization was known as Burtt's Band.
He removed to Hoosick Falls in 1899. He
married Caroline Adelia. born in Pittstown,
New York, daughter of Samuel S. Hastings,
born April 25, 1812, at Pittstown, died June
20, 1887. He was a cooper and lived most
of his life at Arlington, Vermont. He mar-
ried Clarissa Baird, born 1814, at Allenville,
Dutchess county, New York, died at Shushan,
New York, May 6, 1862. They had thirteen
children, of whom Caroline A. was the sixth.
A son, Zechariah Hastings, enlisted in Com-
pany E, One Hundred and Twenty-third
Regiment, New York Volunteers, and died
in an army hospital. Another son, Abraham
B. Hastings, was sent home from the army
and died. He was a member of the same
re.giment as his brother and father, who came
through unscathed. The Hastings are of
English descent, the father of Samuel S. hav-
ing been born in England. Mrs. Josephine
B. Ross is a skilled performer on the b-flat
cornet, having been playing since the age of
seven years. Prior to her marriage she
toured the United States in concert accom-
panied by her brothers, Neil and William.
She now plays only in private or occasionally
in church. All the children of Rowland T.
Burtt inherited musical talent and are per-
formers of high merit. Rowland T. Burtt
was a son of Thomas Burtt, of New Hamp-
shire, also a noted musician and violin per-
former. He owned a genuine Cremona violin
that is now in possession of a great-grandson,
Harold John Cusson. The instrument has
been in use by each generation owning it and
it is of rare tone and beauty. Josephine Burtt
married (first) December 16. 1884, John
Lewis Cusson, born in Canada, November 19,
1858, died at Glens Falls, New York, Octo-
ber 24, 1892, of French-Canadian parents. He
was a professor of music, taught both vocal

and orchestral music; was also a composer
and performer on the violin. Of the four
children of the marriage three died in infancy.
Harold John Cusson, the only surviving child,
was born in Newark, New Jersey, April 17,
1887. He is now (1910) in the senior class
at Albany College of Pharmacy. He was a
student at Troy Conservatory of Music four
years under Professor Robert E. Fbote, and
for two years under instruction on the violin'
with Professor Harris, of Boston. He is the-
leader of his own orchestra, located at Hoosick
Falls and very popular over a large circuit.
He owns the Cremona used by his great-
grandfather, also the violin (a Stainer made-
in 1775) used by his father, Mr. Cusson. He
is an expert performer and does much concert
work besides leading his orchestra.

Jonathan Ruff was born in New
RL'FF England in 1759, died May 13,
1804. He took an active part in
the war of the revolution. He is credited'
by tradition with being one of the active par-
ticipants at the "Boston Tea Party." He-
served in various commands during the war
and ranked as major. Many stories are told'
of his prowess that records fail to show.
Shortly after the war closed Major Ruft' re-
moved to New York state, settling at McKin-
ney hill, town of Florida, Montgomery county,
finding employment on the farm of Jesse-
Price, whose daughter he married. After
marriage he settled on a farm in the south-
west corner of the town, later purchasing an-
adjacent property upon which he lived until
his death. He married Sallie, daughter of
Jesse Price, who settled in Florida previous
to the revolution. She was noted for her
fleetness of foot and never was afraid of In-
dians, saying she could outrun any red man
in the valley. Both Jonathan and Sallie-
(Price) Ruff are buried in the County Line-
cemetery. Oiildren : Daniel. Jesse, Jonathan,
Jesse (2), Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin,
twins ; Nancy, Priscilla and Sallie.

(II) Benjamin Franklin, twin brother of
Jefferson, son of Jonathan and Sallie (Price)
Ruff, was born in 1803. died November 5,.
1876. He was a farmer of the town of
Florida. While engaged with others in the
patriotic celebration of July 4, 1826, he lost
a portion of both arms by the premature
discharge of a cannon, while he was ram-
ming home a charge of powder. Despite this
handicap he successfully conducted his af-
fairs and performed farm labor. He was
twice married. His first wife was Polly
Merry. Iiorn in 1808, died October 4, 1830,.
daughter of an early settler of the coiuity.

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1453

■Children: i. ^^'illiam Alonzo, see forward. 2.
Sarah, died June 12, 1895; she married James
\"ander Pool and hafl a son, J. Franklin Van-
der Pool, who married Louise Groat, of Sco-
tia, Schenectady count}'. Children : Frank,
James, Bessie and Rose \'ander Pool. 3.
Joanna, lives in Schenectady, unmarried. Ben-
jamin F. Ruff married (second) Lavizer
Chauncy : children : Albert and Lewis.

(HI) William Alonzo, only son of Benja-
min F. and Polly (Merry) Ruff, was born in
August, 1827, died April 2, 1907. After his
marriage he settled on the farm of his grand-
father, where he resided until his death, a
•well known and respected citizen. He was a
deacon of the Baptist church for thirty years.
He married (first) Mary J. Ladd, born in
Duanesburg, Schenectady county, New York,
died at the age of sixty-five, daughter of
Ephraim Ladd. Children : William F., see
forward, and Nettie E., born September 29,
1863 ; married James L. Dusler, pastor of the
Baptist church at Springfield Center, New
York. By a second wife William Alonzo Ruff'
had Jessie, Mabel, William A. and Charlotte.

(IV) William F., son of William Alonzo
and Mary J. (Ladd) Ruff, was born Novem-
ber 25, 1853. He received his early education
in the town public schools and qualified as
an instructor at the State Normal School in
Albany, New York. He was engaged in
teaching for several years. He had been
reared on the farm, and after his years of
teaching returned to the pursuit of agriculture,
having a fertile farm of one hundred and
forty acres near Minaville. L^pon it is a
substantial brick house built in 1804, that is
in perfect condition, giving no indication of
having been built one hundred and six years
ago. He is actively interested in the affairs
of his town and has served repeatedly as su-
pervisor and town clerk. He is a member
of the Baptist church, and holds fraternal
relations with Welcome Lodge, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, of Amsterdam, and Ticonde-
roga Tribe, No. 176, Red Men, which he has
represented in the state council. He married,
in Duanesburg, November 22, 1876, Anna B.
Filkins, born in the adjoining town of Prince-
town, November 25, 1850. She was educated
in the public schools. Miss Coley's Private
Seminary at Albany, and for some time pre-
vious to marriage was a teacher. Children :
I. Lena M., born December 27, 1877; mar-
ried William G. Ernest, a farmer of Florida ;
children: Helen H., born June 15, i8gg, and
Robert M., July 7, 1903. 2. Catherine, born
.'^eptember 2, 1879; married Albertus Van
Wie, a merchant and postmaster of Clarks-
ville, Albanv countv, New York.

Anna B. Filkins (Mrs. William F. Ruff)
is a daughter of James and Selina (Holmes)
T'ilkins, of Schenectady county. James Filkins
was born in Schenectady in 1823, and died
there in 1858; son of Benjamin and Susan
( Ijond ) Filkins. Selina Holmes is the daugh-
ter of Thomas Holmes, born August i, 1788,
died June 16, 1866. He married .Ann Miiner,
born August 29, 1792, died April 18, 1881.
Thomas Holmes was of English birth, his
father being esquire of Staffordshire and of
the gentry. Thomas was reared as an l£ng-
lish gentleman's son, but he was independent
and ambitious to make a name for himself.
In 1830 he emigrated to the United States,
bringing a wife and eight children. He set-
tled first in Albany county, then in Duanes-
burg, where he lived until his death, engaged
in farming. Children of Thomas and Ann
(Miiner) Holmes: i. Anna, born June 18,
1815, died June 29, 1904; married Alexander
Sproul, a Scotchman. 2. Thomas, November
21, 1816, died March 21, 1885; married Har-
riet Cooley. 3. John, June i, 1818, died
March 16. 1887; married Emily C. Darling.
4. Pamelia E., July 7, 1820, died September
15, 1894; married Henry Quick. 5. Cathe-
rine J., August I, 1822, died November 6,
igo6, unmarried. 6. William G., April 11,
1824; married Sarepta Schofield. 7. Ann, De-
cember 26, 1825, died September 8, 1849;
unmarried. 8. Selina, April 11, 1826; widow
of James Filkins, and mother of Mrs. William
F. Ruff, with whom she resides. 9. Sarah L.,
June 25, 1831, died August 9, 1832. 10. Al-
fred A., March 9, 1834, died May 29, 1905;
married Sarah Waite. 11. Mary E., July 27,
1836; married Thomas Harden, of Loudon-
ville. New York. Children of James and Se-
lina (Holmes) Filkins, parents of Mrs. Wil-
liam F. Ruff; Anna B. (Mrs. Ruff), and
Alfred Allen Filkins, born October- 7, 1854,
died in 1878; married Nettie McCulIom. Both
the Holmes and Filkins families like the Ruffs
were identifiecl with the Baptist church.

The first of the Phelps family
PHELPS to appear in the Mohawk Val-
ley was Oliver Phelps, born in
Hartford county, Connecticut, where he grew
to manhood and married Abigail Brown. He
removed to New York state and settled on a
farm in Montgomery county. He was a pros-
perous and prominent man. The site of his
farm and burial place is now in the town of
Johnstown, Fulton county.

(II) Chester, son of Oliver and Abigail
(Brown) Phelps, was born June 15, 1792,
died March 13, 1870. He inherited lands
from his father to which he added other farms,

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becoming one of the largest general farmers
in the county besides devoting special atten-
tion to fruit and dairy farming. He was a
prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal
church and a man of high character. Phelps
street near Gloversville was at one time owned
and occupied by thirteen families of the Phelps
name. He married, June 28, 1816, Sally A.
Powell, born Alarch 4, 1796, died September
II, 1857. Children: i. Charles A., born
August 22. 1817, died September 28, 1847.
2. Gilbert, February 9, 1819, died November
16, 1900; married, September 30, 1845, Anna
C. Van Nostrand ; child, Margaret, married
Charles D. Massey. 3. Lucius A., March 20,
1821, died February 16, 1837. 4. Eliza Ann,
February 24, 1823, died October 12, 1908;
married. June 10, 1847, Hart A. Massey. born
April 27, 1819, died February 20, 1896; six
children : Charles, George, Chester, Lillian,
Walter Hart and Fred Victor. 5. Sylvia
Adelia, February 4, 1825, died November 3,
1901 ; married, October 7, 1845, Horace W.
Porter; child, Mervin A., married Helen
Frank and has Lottie Ann. married Arthur
Adams. 6. William Henry, October 8, 1827,
died January 24, 1899; married, August 31,
1849, Louise Deming ; children : i. Charles
Edward, married Clara Wilcox ; ii. Albert,
married Margaret Wells, whose daughter
Brena married Charles Schoolcraft, also a
son, Floyd ; iii. Nettie, married William
Ballinger. 7. George R., of whom further.
8. Chester Powell, December 16, 1832; mar-
ried Alice Brown ; children : i. David, mar-
ried Cora ; children : Alice, Arthur and

Floyd ; ii. Arthur. 9. Sarah Jane, July 6,
1835, died April 29, 1890; married, January
18, i860, Lehman Edwards.

(HI) George Roswell, son of Chester and
Sally A. (Powell) Phelps, was born in Johns-
town, Fulton county. New York, June 2,
1830, died May 19, 1903. He was born and
reared on the old homestead first settled by
Oliver Phelps. He was educated in the public
school, and always followed the occupation of
agriculture. He succeeded his father in the
ownership of the farm, which he converted
into a veritable garden and orchard. He
specialized in small fruits and berries, raising
them in very large quantities, and continued
the personal oversight of his farm until his
death. Jn i89<) he purchased a city home in
Gloversville and removed there, traveling back
and forth each day to the farm. His heart
was in his work and success came to him
abundantly. He had business interests in
Gloversville and always had a lively concern
for the advancement and welfare of that city.
He was a Prohibitionist in party principle and

an out-spoken man on the subject of temper-
ance. He married, March 17, 1858, Joseph-
ine Matilda Whitney, born April 18, 1838,
daughter of Asa Hervey Whitney, born 1812,
died May i, 1846; married, September i, 1836,
Almira RIatilda Wait, born February 8, 1815,
died February 7, 1897. Asa H. Whitney was
engaged in the lumber business but contracted
consumption and died a young man. Children
of George Roswell and Josepliine M. Phelps :
I. Inez Marian, born July 15, 1859. died June
10, 1887. 2. William Edwin, born November
12, i860; married (first) December 27, 1882,
Emily Ann Banks, born December g, i860,
died May 29, 1888; children: i. Jessie Marian,
born July 6, 1885, married, December 25,
1908, 'Walter A. Deford and has William
Phelps, born January 26, 1910; ii. Harry
Chester, June 24, 1887, died July 20, 1888.
William Edwin married (second) April 6,
1898, Jane Munns, born November 9, 1862 ;
child. Raymond Qiester, born December 28,
1900. 3. Warren Whitney, born August 23,
1863; married, August 30, 1884. Abbie Lan-
sing, born September 21, 1867. died March 9,
1903; child, Florence Catherine, born May 31,'
1895. 4. Emma Belle, born December 28,
1865; married, February 15, 1884, Elmer J.
Staley, born March 19, 1861. died February
20. 1900; child, Harold Phelps, born August
20, 1899. 5. Lillian Almira, born January 11,
1870; married, April 7, 1899, John AI. Smith,
born February i, 1869. 6. Alma Leona, born
October 26, 1877; married, September 15,
1910, Clifton Elliot Sanborn, born September
4, 1877. Mrs. Josephine M. Phelps survives
her husband, a resident of Gloversville, New
York. Mr. and Mrs. Phelps were active mem-
bers of First Methodist Episcopal church, in
which Mr. Phelps was steward several years
and i\Irs. Phelps was active for over forty-
five years in every department, in Sabbath
school work as well as in church work.

Tracing the gene-
SCHIFFERDFCKER alogy of this 'fam-
ily back brings the
searcher to the Duchy of Baden-Baden, now
empire of Germany. There for generation
after generation the family of Schifferdecker
were prosperous and influential. They were
intimately associated with public afifairs and
furnished soldiers that made reputations for
bravery on the field of battle. The first of
the family to arrive in the United States was
Henry Schiflferdecker, born in Baden-Baden
in 1798. He was a butcher and dealer in
meats, etc. This has been the i)revailing
family occupation and business down to the
present generation. He married and had a

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family of eight children, all born in Baden-
Baden. He remained in business in Germany
until his family were well grown and his
sons liable to conscription for military duty
in the Germany army. In 1849, '^^'^^^'' ^'''s wife
and entire family, he took passage for the
United States, where they arrived eight
weeks later. The family settled in Albany
where Henry began business anew, following
the same line as in Germany. He continued
the butcher business, assisted by his son, until
his death in 1858. He was thrifty, indus-
trious and highly respected. His widow sur-
vived him until October 17, 1890, dying on
her birthday, which was October 17, just
eighty-four years earlier in the century, 1806.
Children: Carl, deceased; Frederick A., see
forward ; Morris ; Henry, deceased ; Louisa,
deceased : Caroline ; Lizzie, deceased ; Rosa.

(H) Captain Frederick A., second son of
Henry Schiflferdecker, was born in Baden-
Baden, Germany, February 2, 1836, died in
Albany, New York. November 24, 1908. He
came to Albany with his father in 1849, ^"d
assisted him in the meat business until he
arrived at the age of twenty-one, when he
began business for himself. He w-as a suc-
cessful business man and became prominent
in city politics. In 1862 he responded to Presi-
dent Lincoln's call for men to crush out the
rebellion then existing in the southern states.
He enlisted as a private in the Forty-sixth
Regiment, New York \^olunteer Infantry, and
came home after three years valiant service
as captain. He won his commission for
bravery on the field of battle and demon-
strated the quality of his courage on more
than one hard-fought battlefield. A proof of
his valor now decorates the Hall of Flags
in the State Capitol at Albany. It is a
battle-flag captured from the enemy in battle
and is a special credit to his company. He
represented his ward in Albany as supervisor
several terms, and in 1874 was elected a
member of the state assembly of New York.
He was a stalwart Republican and always
active in politics. He was a member of Ver-
non Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and
a highly respected citizen. He was a Luth-
eran in religious faith. He married, Anna
Rapp, of Hanover, Germany. Children: i.
Charles F., see forward. 2. Frederick A.,
born July 19, i860; was well educated in
the public schools of Albany ; became an as-
sistant in his father's meat market ; was su-
pervisor of his ward several terms ; president
of the first ward Republican committee for
sixteen years, and was slated for the Re-
publican party nomination for treasurer of
Albany county, an intention frustrated by his

death ; he was a rising and most promising
young man, whose death was keenly re-
gretted; married Louise Heidrich, who sur-
vives him, living in Albany with children:
Edna, Dorothy, Anna, Charles F. and George
N. 3. Anna, married John Heidrich, of Al-
bany; children: John, Frederick, Irene. .Anna
and Arthur. 4. Loisetta, married Henry H.
Wadbil, a gaugcr in the United States inter-
nal revenue service, stationed at Plattsburg,
New York; children. Jeannette, Elizabeth
Doris, William, Mildred and Marvin.

(Ill) Charles F., eldest son of Frederick
A. and Anna (Rapp) Schifferdecker, was born
in Albany, New York, April 4, 1858. He was
educated in the public schools, worked with
his father in the meat business until 1877,
when he and his brothers established the ice
business under firm name of Schiflferdecker
Brothers. He has developed this to large
proportions and is one of the largest dealers
in Albany. He has a cold storage plant in
Albany with a capacity' of twenty thousand
tons. He is a prominent and active member
of the Republican party. In 1897 he was
elected sheriff of Albany county, and gave a
practical business administration of the aflfairs
of that important office. He was a member
of the Republican committee of the first ward
for six years. He is a member of the Ma-
sonic fraternity, belonging to lodge, chapter
and commandery. His position in the city of
Albany is an enviable one and has been gained
by earnest, conscientious effort, doing well
whatever came in his line of duty. His private
aflfairs were no more carefully conducted than
have been the public trusts committed to
him. He married. May 16, 1883, in Albany,
Elizabeth Bildhauser, born in Albany, Octo-
ber 17, 1859. daughter of Frederick and Cathe-
rine (Damm) Bildhauser, who came to the
L'nited States from Laubauch, Hesse-Darm-
stadt, Germany, and were married in Albany.
Frederick Bildhauser died in Albany, June 24,
1909, at the age of seventy-four, after a life
of fifty years in West Albany, His
widow Catherine survives him, residing at 174
Broad street. Albany. Charles F. anil Eliza-
beth Schiflferdecker have one child, Fred-
erick G., born September 21, 1884, educated
in the common and high schools of Albany;
associated in business with his father.

The Rose family that first settled
ROSE in Stephentown, Rensselaer county.

New York, came from Connecti-
cut and were descendants of Robert Rose, of
Scotch birth and ancestry, who was born in
1594. came in the ship "Frances" from Ips-
wich, Suffolk county, England, in 1634. and

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settled in Wethersfield, Connecticut, where he
■was hsted a resident in 1639. The ages of
his children were given to the officers of the
Crown upon his receiving license to emigrate
to America. Had wife Margaret and chil-
•dren : John and Robert (twins), born 1619;
Elizabeth, 1621 ; Mary, 1623; Samuel, 1625;
.Sarah, 1627; Daniel, 1631 ; Dorcas, 1632. It
is from this family that Nathaniel Rose, the
founder of the family in Rensselaer county,
New York, spriuig. Nathaniel shares with
others the distinction of being the first set-
tlers of the town of Stephentown, Rensselaer
county, prior to the revolution. He settled
about two miles from the village of Stephen-
town and planted a homestead in what was
then a wild and uncultivated region. He was
a man of energy and possessed the attributes
of character that successful pioneers must
liave. He married and had issue.

(H) Charles, son of Nathaniel Rose, "the
pioneer," was born about the year 1770. He
was a farmer of Stephentown and was pos-
sessed of considerable land. He was a mem-
iDcr of the Presbyterian church. He later
removed from Rensselaer to Fulton county
-where he owned and operated a farm of one
liundred and sixty acres. He married and
liad Willard, Charles, Rhoda, Molly and
Sarah.

(HI) Charles (2), son of Charles (i)
Rose, succeeded to the family homestead in
Fulton county, which he successfully operated
as a grain, stock and dairy farm all his life.
He was a Republican in politics and a Pres-
byterian in religion. He married Christy Ann,
daughter of John and Oiristy Ann (McNab)
Carmichael. Children : John C, went west
-where he was twice married and had issue;
Charles W., of whom further; Mary E., born
June 5, 1836, married George Rrownell, born
1827, died 1871 ; child, Frank R., married
Emma Newkirk and had Helen, born July 17,
1872; Helen, married George Worcester; Wil-
lard, a farmer and glove manufacturer, mar-
ried Fanny Washburn ; Thomas Scott, died
aged two years ; Anna ; Jennie, born Septem-
ber 28, 1848; Simon Scott, married Ella Tim-
merman ; children : Scott, Fred, William, John,
Jennie and Katherine.

(IV) Charles W., son of Charles (2) and
Christy Ann (Carmichael) Rose, was born on
the Rose homestead in Fulton county. New
York, January 18, 1833. He was educated
in the public schools and Kingsboro Academy.
He worked on the farm for a time, then in
i860 began his long career as a glove manu-
facturer. He first began cutting at Bennett's
Corners. Fulton county, at which place his
uncle, Willard Rose, had been engaged as a

glove manufacturer and farmer for many
years. He first occupied a shop in Glovers-
ville in 1862. In 1872 he erected a factory
building at the corner of Pine and Mill streets,
to which frequent additions have been made
as the demands of his growing business
needed. He has always made a specialty of
fine goods for ladies' and gentlemen's wear,
using principally imported kid leather. From
a small beginning he has built up a very large
business and is one of the oldest manufac-
turers in his city. He is also a director of
Gloversville Knitting Company. He was trus-
tee of the village, and in his quiet way bore
his full share in the development of Glovers-
ville. He is a Republican in politics and a
member of the Presbyterian church. He mar-
ried, February 7, 1861, Ann Eliza Benedict,
born July 7, 1835. Children: Ida. born May

3, 1863, died 1873; Charles, born and died
1867 ; Henry, born May 3, 1874, died October

4, 1910, married Eva Place; Harriet, June 5,
1878.

Ann Eliza (Benedict) Rose is a daughter
of John M. Benedict, and a granddaughter
of Ira and Agnes (Mitchell) Benedict, of
the Rhode Island family. John M. Benedict
was born June 6, 1791, died June 12, 1880.
He married, January 31, 1828, Bridget Tabor,
born August 18, 1803, died April 7, 1866,
daughter of Gideon and Rachel (Durfee) Ta-
bor, of Rhode Island. Children of John M.
and Bridget Benedict : Ira, born November
28, 1828; Gideon, March 21, 1830, died Sep-
tember 5, 1858; Thomas Scott, j\iarch 8, 1833.
died January 30, 1845; Ann Eliza, married
Charles W. Rose ; Ira, born December 30,
1836, died April 24. 1858; Rachel .^gnes, born
May 31, 1838, died August 6, 1866, married
George B. Smalley ; Harriet, born September
9, 1839, died October 1, 1839; Sophia, born
October 19, 1840, died February i, ^1843;
Catherine Jemime, born January 13, ' 1842,
died April 5, 1844; Francis, born March 27,
1844, died September i, 1844; Harriet Newell,
born April 24, 1846, died January 24, 1875;
Angelica, born January 12, 1848.

The first authentic record of
PALMER Walter Palmer, born 1585, (the

American ancestor of the
Palmers of Troy, herein considered) is found
in Charlestown, Middlesex county, Massachu-
setts. January 26, 1638, Abraham Palmer
was chosen by the town "for keeing the Tovvne
Booke." In his "Book of Possessions," page
31, was recorded "The possessions of Walter
Palmer within Charlestownc." His acres were
described as "Two acres in the East Field,"
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HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

January 6, 1637, Walter and son John shared
in a division of lands on "Mystic Side." He
and his close friend, William Cheseborough,
were among the original proprietors and set-
tlers of '"Seacuncke" (Rehoboth), until in 1645
Walter Palmer represented the new town at
the general court of Plymouth Colony. In
1643 he gave in the value of his estate as
£419. In 1645 3'oung John Winthrop induces
A\'illiam Cheseborough to New London to
begin a settlement there. He viewed the land
and selecting a large tract in the Pequot
county called "Wequeteguoc" quickly induced
Walter Palmer to join him. With his entire
family excepting son Jonas, he started south
in 1652-53, buying land on the east bank of
Wequeteguoc Cove. He secured twelve hun-
dred acres in the neighborhood. Troubles
arose between Massachusetts and Connecticut,
which were unsettled for years, but finally in
1665 the name was changed to Stonington
and the territory awarded to Connecticut. In
1668 an act for the census was passed and
on this were the names of Gershom. Closes
and Benjamin Palmer, Gershom signing for
Mrs. Rebecca Palmer. Walter Palmer's will
was made May 19, 1658. At the general court
heard May 11. 1762, the will was filed and
approved.

Walter Palmer married ("first) in England,

Ann • (called Elizabeth to distinguish

her from her mother). He married (second)
(it is thought in Roxbury, Massachusetts,
where she had been admitted a member of
the Rev. John Elliot's First Church) Rebecca
Short. They both joined the First Church
of Charlestown in 1632, and his daughter
Grace was admitted the same date. He died
in Stonington, November 10, 1661. Children
by first wife: i. Grace, married Thomas Mi-
nor : ten children. 2. John, died unmarried.
3. William, died unmarried : removed to Kil-
lingworth, Connecticut. 4. Jonas, married
(first) Elizabeth Griswold ; (second) Mrs.
Abigail Titus. 5. Elizabeth, married (first)
Thomas Sloan; (second) Thomas Chapman.
Children by second wife: 6. Hannah, married
(first) Thomas Hewitt; (second) Roger
Sterry; (third) John Fish. 7. Elihu, died aged
twenty-nine years. 8. Nehemiah, deputy fif-
teen sessions ; married Hannah Stanton. 9.
Moses, a founder of the first church of Ston-
ington ; married Dorothy Gilbert. 10. Captain
Benjamin, married, August 10, 1691. but
wife's name not known. 11. Gershom, see
forward. 12. Rebecca, married Elisha Chese-
borough, her father's most intimate friend ;
(second) John Baldwin.

fll) Deacon Gersliom, eleventh child of
Walter Palmer and sixth by his second wife,

Rebecca (Short) Palmer, was baptized in
Charlestown, Massachusetts. He acquired a
large amount of land, most of which he
deeded to his sons before his death. He
married (first) in Stonington, November 28,
1667, Ann, daughter of Ca'ptain and Ann (Bo-
rodel) Denison. Her mother was of a good
English family and from her Mrs. Palmer
inherited such stately and gracious manners
that she was commonly styled "Lady Ann."
She was born May 20, 1649, cl'ed in Stoning-
ton, 1694. He married (second) Mrs. Eliza-
beth Mason (maiden name Peck), of Reho-
both. Massachusetts. Children by first wife:
I. Mercy, married John Breed; he died at
ninety years of age, and she at eighty-three;
they were the parents of twelve children. 2.
Gershom. married Sarah Palmer. 3. Captain
Ichabod, married Hannah Palmer. 4. William,
married Grace Minor. 5. George, see for-
ward. 6. Rebecca, died young. 7. Ann, mar-
ried Benjamin Hewitt. 8. Walter, married
Grace \^ose. 9. Elihu, died young. 10. Mary
married her cousin, Joseph Palmer. 11. Re-
becca, baptized July i, 1694.

(HI) George, son of Deacon Gershom and
Ann (Denison) Palmer, was baptized in Ston-
ington, May 29, 1680, died May 28, 1728. He
married, March 11, 171 1, in Stonington, Han-
nah, born May 31, 1694, daughter of Joseph
and Frances (Prentice) Palmer. She sur-
vived him and married (second) William
York. Children: i. Ensign Christopher, mar-
ried E.sther Prentice. 2. Zebulon, married
(first) Comfort Fairbanks; (second) Deborah
York. 3. Joseph, married (first) Zipporah
Billings; (second) Mrs. Elizabeth (Stevens)
Stewart. 4. George, removed to Stillwater,
Saratoga county, New York, where he bought
five hundred acres of land on which there were
mills, his farm was about three miles from
the scene of Burgoyne's surrender ; he mar-
ried (first) Hannah Marsh; (second) Amy
Blodgett. 5. Gershom, see forward. By her
second husband, Mrs. Hannah Palmer had
Amos, Molly and Jonathan York.

(IV) Rev. Gershom (2) Palmer, .son of
George and Hannah (Palmer) Palmer, was
born in Stonington, October 12, 1725, died
November 6, 18 10. He was a minister of the
Gospel. He was located at what is now Gris-
wold, New London county, Connecticut. He
married, November 5, 1747, Dorothy Brown,
born in Preston, Connecticut, where she died
March i, 1808. Children: i. Prudence, mar-
ried (first) William Breed: (second) James
Thompson. 2. Dolly (Dorothy), married Na-
than Randall ; they removed to Paris. New
York. 3. Zeruiah, born in Preston, 1756. 4.
Naomi. 5. Esther. 6. Reuben, see forward.

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7. Lois, born April 23, 1761. 8. Lucretia. 9.
Keturah. 10. Amy.

(\') Rev. Reuben Palmer, son of Rev.
Gershom (2) and Dorothy (Brown) Palmer,
was born in Stonington, June 12, 1759. He
was ordained first an elder of the Baptist
church of Preston and while there called to
the old Baptist church in Montville, New
London county. Connecticut. He served
'until he was publicly installed. December 25,
1798, and from then until his death,
April 22, 1822. He married, November
16, 1780, Lucretia, born in Preston, No-
vember 12, 1764, died in Montville, Au-
gust 15, 1855. daughter of Caleb and Han-
nah (Barnes) Tyler. Children: i. Hannah,
born December 25, 1781. 2. Sally, October 16,
1783. 3. Rev. Reuben, December 26, 1784.
4. Lucretia, April 25, 1786. 5. Mary, De-
cember 17, 1787. 6. Caleb, June 29, 1790. 7.
Tyler, March 4. 1792. 8. Gideon, October
23. 1793. 9- Joshua, October 15, 1795. 10.
Gershom, August 6, 1796. 11. Samuel, Feb-
ruary II, 1798. 12. Rhoda, October 18, 1799.
13. Peter Avery, see forward. 14. Achsah,
May 12, 1803. 15. Lois, December 30, 1804.
16. Emma, December 30, 1807. 17. Thank-
ful, January 29, 1809.

(VI) Peter Avery, son of Rev. Reuben
and Lucretia (Tyler) Palmer, was born in
(Montville), New London county, Connecti-
cut, May II, 1801. died at Lansingburg, New
York, January 28, 1892. He removed from
his Connecticut home when twenty-two years
of age, and located at Le Roy, New York, as
one of the first settlers and took a prominent
part in the building up of the town. While
here he became interested in the stove busi-
ness and invented various types of stoves and
appliances, among which were the elevated
oven stove, and the rotary grate. In 1858 he
removed to Troy on account of the manu-
facture of his stoves and established the firm
of Peter A. Palmer. He was a Republican
in political sympathy and a citizen held in
high esteem. In 1875 he removed to Lansing-
burg, where he resided the remainder of his
life. He married, September 2, 1821, at New
London, Connecticut, Naomi Caulkins, born
December 5, 1803, died in Lansingburg. New
York, May 27, 1892. Children: i. Eliza-
beth A., born August i, 1823, at New Lon-
don, Connecticut, died May 11, 1844, at Le
Roy. New York. 2. Frances White, born
September 20. 1825, died July, 1828. 3. James
Thomas, born December 3, 1827, died June 12,
1871 : married Julia Starbuck, April 26, i860,
and had one daughter. May Evelyn, born
.April 27, 1868. 4. Frances Wright, born Jan-
uary 31, 1830; married (first) Walter Smiji-

son, October 13, 1852; (second) David Link,
February 22, 1895. 5. Etzler, born September
20. 1832, died May 25, 1842. 6. Caleb Win-
slow, born November 10, 1834; married,
Grace Boynton, June 10, 1869 : children : Flor-
ence S., born April 3. 1873, and Robert Clin-
ton, born May 18. 1875. 7. CHnton E.. born
December 6, 1838, died May 4, 1845. 8. Wil-
liam B., born November 28, 1840, died Janu-
ary 26, 1892. 9. Grace Greenwood, born
August 25, 1849; married Herbert Bellows
Millard, May 18, 1870; children: Maud Lovell,
born September 2, 1871 ; Bertha Grace, born
August 2, 1884; Herbert Palmer, born Feb-
ruary 2, 1886.

The family of Millard came
MILLARD originally from the county of

Southampton. England, wliere
they possessed considerable estates now in the
occupation of John Millard, of that county.
The name first appears in .American colonial
records in 1654 when lands in Massachusetts,
and afterwards in New Hampshire, were
granted to Luke IMillard. In 1670 John Mil-
lard had a grant of land from William Penn
in Pennsylvania, and another brother had
lands in Virginia. John Millard, of South-
ampton, England, was admitted a freeman of
Newport, Rhode Island. He married Eliza-
beth - — ■ ■. He later was of Rehoboth, Mas-
sachusetts, and had issue. Through intermar-
riages, the Millards are connected with the old-
est English, Scotch and Dutch families of the
United States, notably the Coffins. Folgers and
Starbucks of Nantucket, and Massachusetts ;
the Greenes and Brownes of Rhode Island, the
Akins of Dutchess county. New York, the
Ten Eyckes of Albany, the Bellows and Goulds
of New Haven, and many others.

(II) Robert, son of John Millard, was born
in 1632. died in Rehoboth, Massachusetts,
March 16, 1699. He married, November 24,
1663, Elizabeth, second child of William Sa-
bin, the jirogenitor of the Sabins of America.
William Sabin first apjjears in 1643, at the
organization of the county of Rehoboth. Ma.s-
sachusetts. It is not known when or how
he came to America. He was a Hugxienot,
and it is believed that after his flight from
France he found refuge in Wales or the South
of England. He was a man of wealth and
culture, and of an exceedingly kind, generous
nature if one can judge from his gifts to re-
lieve the wants of those who suffered from
Indian raids. He was a leader in Plymouth
public affairs and in the church and schools
of Rehoboth. His first wife died in 1660. Her
name is not known. lie married (second)
Martha, born December 11, 1641. (twin of

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[459

I^Iary) daughter of James and Anna Allen,
of j\iedfield. William Sabin died about 1687.
His will was probated in Boston, July 17, 1687.
In it he names sixteen of his twenty chil-
dren. His eldest daughter and second child
died February 7, 1717; married (first) Robert
Millard.

(HI) Nehemiah, son of Robert and Eliza-
beth (Sabin) Millard, was born in Rehoboth,
Massachusetts, June 8, 1668. died July 23,
1751. He married (first) Judith Mason: (sec-
ond) Phoebe Shore, who died March ir, 1717.
She bore him three sons, and two daughters.

(lY) Rev. Robert (2) Millard, fourth child
of Xehemiah and Phoebe (Shore) Millard,
was born in Rehoboth, April 2, 1700, at Nine
Partners, New York, died March 7, 1780.
He was a minister of the Baptist church, his
last charge being Pawling. Dutchess county,
New York, where he continued until a short
time before his death at the age of eighty
years.

He married, March 7, 1726, Hannah,
born in Bristol, Rhode Island, daughter of
Eleazer and Elizabeth (Cobb) Eddy, grand-
daughter of John and Deliverance (Owen)
Eddy, great-granddaughter of the American
ancestor, Samuel Eddy, and his wife, Eliza-
beth. Samuel Eddy was the son of Rev. Wil-
liam Eddye, vicar of St. Dun^tans, Cranbrook,
England.

(V) Jonathan, son of Rev. Robert (2) and
Hannah (Eddy) Millard, was born at Pawl-
ing, Dutchess county, New Y^Ork, May 27,
1748, died 1785. He was of good education
and in his younger days taught school in Con-
necticut. He returned to Dutchess county,
where he established and operated a tannery
until his death at Nine Partners. He mar-
ried Mary Akin, born September 24, 1747,
died July 25, 1795, at Pawling, New York.
She was of the family of John Akin, born in
Scotland, 1663, founder of the Akin family in
America. He was a Quaker and fled from
Scotland in 1680 to escape the persecution his
sect had to endure under English rule. He
settled in Massachusetts, and after seeing four
of his faith hanged on Boston Common, left
that colony and went to the New Netherlands
where the Dutch really allowed religious free-
dom. David, son of John Akin, settled on
"Quaker Hill." Pawling, Dutchess comity.
New York, a locality that has long been the
headquarters for those of the name. William
.Akin, of the same family, moved from Quaker
Hill to Rensselaer county. New York, where
he purchased (with two others) a square mile
of land from the Van Rensselaers, upon which
in 1810 he founded the village of Greenbush,
now the citv of Rensselaer. He was foremost

in its upbuilding and has descendants still liv-
ing there.

(VI) Timothy, son of Jonathan and Mary
(Akin) Millard, was born in Pawling. New
York. He married Charlotte Roswell. who
died in Ulster county. New York. The Ros-
well family were of Vandy Hall, Ireland. They
had issue.

(VII) John Akin, son of Timothy and
Charlotte (Roswell) Millard, was born in Del-
hi, New York, October 10, 18 10, died in Troy,
New Y'ork, January i, 1869. He was educa-
ted for the law, and soon after his first mar-
riage settled in Troy where he rose rapidly
in his profession and became one of the leaders
of the Rensselaer county bar. He was an ac-
tive, public-spirited citizen, but would never
accept public office, preferring to serve the in-
terests of his fellows in rther ways. He was
of fine physique, standing six feet in height
and weighing two hundred and fifty pounds.
He married, in Albany, February 6, 1840,
Frances Mary, born in Rockingham. \^ermont,
October 19, 1816, died in Troy, New York,
June 14, 1853, daughter of Roswell and Mar-
tha (Lovell) Bellows, granddaughter of Colo-
nel John and Rebecca (Hubbard) Bellows, of
Walpole, great-granddaughter of Benjamin
Bellows, founder of Walpole, New Ilamp-
shire, who died July 10, 1777, aged sixty-five
years, and his first wife, Abigail (Stearns)
Bellows, born in Watertown, Massachusetts,
June 2 or 3, 1708, died November 9, 1757.
Colonel Benjamin Bellows was the only son
of Benjamin and Dorcas (Cutter) (Millard)
Bellows, of Concord, Massachusetts, and
grandson of John and May Wood, the~ pro-
genitors of the Bellows family of Walpole,
New Hampshire, the "Boy Emigrant," who
came from England to America in the "Hope-
well," April 6, 1635, aged twelve years. Chil-
dren of John A. and "Frances M. (Bellows)
Millard: i. Mary Lovell. born February7. 1841,
married Tyrus C. Dickinson : children : Mary
Hasting, Herbert Millard, Willis Clayton. 2.
John Akin, born in Troy, January 13. 1843;
served during the civil war in the Eighth
Regiment, New York Artillery ; was comman-
der and third lieutenant ; served with the .\rmy
of the Potomac : practiced dentistry in Dinard,
France; married (first), Sarah Wentworth
Brown: (second) Mary Crocker Sears. 3.
Anthony Gould, see forward. 4. Edward
Walter, see forward. 5. Herbert Bellows,
born in Troy. May 18, 1849: was of Lansing-
burg, New York, and Newtown, Massachu-
setts; married Grace Greenwood, daughter of
Peter and Naomi Palmer, of Troy ; children :
Maud Lovell, Bertha Grace, Herbert Palmer.

(VIII) Anthony Gould, second son of John

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A. and Frances Mary (Bellows) Millard, was
born in Troy, February 10, 1845, died April
19, 1902. He was educated in common schools
of Troy, attended a preparatory school
(Brookside Institute), Sand Lake, New York
and graduated from Professor Charlier's
School, New York City. He engaged with
John Warr in the grocery business ; in 1880
he entered the employ of Rathbone, Sand &
Company of Albany, and continued with them
twenty-one years. He married, November 6,
1872. Adelaide Elizabeth Greene. Children: i.
Elizabeth Virginia, born January 5, 1876. 2.
Chauncey Stuart, born June 8, 1879; grad-
uate of Troy Academy : superintendent of rail-
road signal department of the Federal Signal
Company ; residence. Troy : married Pearl
Holt, of Oneida, New York, daughter of John
and Margaret (Boylan) Holt, July 22, 1908.
3. Leonie Adelaide, born May 4, 1884.

(VHI) Edward Walter, son of John A. and
Frances Mary (Bellows) Millard, was born
in Troy, New York, June i, 1847. He re-
ceived a good preparatory and academic edu-
cation in the public schools and at Troy Acad-
emy. After leaving school he began the study
of law with his father. Early in the civil war,
despite his youth, he enlisted in Company B,
Twenty-first Regiment, New York Cavalry.
This regiment fought hard with the Army of
the Potomac and was under the command of
the gallant Sheridan. Mr. Millard was en-
gaged in all the battles of his regiment, includ-
ing F"re(Iericksburg. Winchester and all
through Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley cam-
paign, .^t Winchester he was shot in the leg
and still carries a bullet. He served nearly
three years, and was mustered out with his
regiment at the close of the war. After his
return to Troy, as one of the' firm of Fox-
hall, Jones & Millard, he engaged in the manu-
facture of kitchen utensils, continuing for two
and a half years. He spent the following year
in Bennington, Vermont, regaining his health
(badly shattered by his army life). Returning
to Troy he resumed his former business. In
1870 he engaged in business in Troy as Fu-
neral director, in which he still continues
(1910). He is an attendant at the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian Church, and is affiliated
with the Republican party. After the war he
enlisted in Battery B, Troy City Artillery, and
served three years as lieutenant.

Me married, February 9, 1870, at Troy, Am-
elia M. Young, born in Troy, August 13, 1847,
died in that city, January 16, 1909, daughter
of Dr. Orange R. Young, born in 1816, at
Williamstown, Massachusetts, died in Troy,
March 17, 1892. He practiced dentistry in
Troy until his death. He married Maria M.

Bardwell, born and died in Troy. Children
of Edward Walter and Amelia M. (Young)
Millard, all born in Troy: i. Frances Mary,
born March 8, 1871, died 1873. 2. Rufus
Gould, born November 30, 1874; educated in
the Troy public schools ; is engaged in the
undertaking business ; married, Mary E. Ber-
ger. 3. Edward Walter, Jr., born June 21,
1877, died December 17, 1909; he was an elec-
trician : a thirty-second degree Mason of the
Scottish Rite, an Elk and a member of the
Masonic Club.

(The Folger Line).

Closely allied with the Coffin family of Nan-
tucket Island was the Folger. When the
first English settlement was effected on the
island, July 16, 1661, the first great need of
the colonists was for an interpreter through
whom they might speak with the Indians who
peopled the island. So they sent to the island
of Martha's Vineyard, and offered to give a
half of one share of their estate to Peter Fol-
ger if he would come over to Nantucket and
live with them. John Folger came from Eng-
land in 1656 and as a surveyor laid out the
town of Norwich, Suffolk county, Massachu-
setts. He afterward settled on Nantucket. He
married Meribah Gibbs and had issue.

(II) Peter, son of John Folger, was an
Englishman. He was a teacher to the Indians
of the Vineyard. He knew how to measure
and survey lands and laid out the original
lots on Nantucket. He took up his residence
on Nantucket, and in 1673 was clerk of writs
and recorder of the court. There was a great
deal of dissension and bad feeling in 1675-76
over the election, which seemed to be a tri-
umph for the younger men over the older.
Peter Folger in his letter of complaint to Gov-
ernor Andros at New York speaks contemptu-
ously of "our new young chief magistrates,"
whereupon he was put under arrest. He was
ordered to produce the "Court Booke," but al-
though he came to the court, answered not to
the summons as required. Another was chosen
clerk of the court and an indictment found
against Peter for contempt of court. He was
placed under £20 bail and not finding an im-
mediate bondsman was locked up in a place
which he describes as "A place where never
any Englishman was put and where the neigh-
bors hogs had laved but the night before and
in a bitter cold frost and deep snow," but
friends brought him bedding and food. His
name aj^pears as a witness on the Indian deed
of Nantucket, "Recorded for Mr. Tristram
Coffin and Mr. Thomas Macy ye 29th day of
June, 1671, aforesaid" (Deeds 11 1954, secre-
tary office). Also on the Indian deed of

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\\'onockmamack and other early official papers
of the island. Peter Folger was a Baptist
and helped to Christianize the Indians. When
the Rev. Thomas Marpen went back to Eng-
land he left his church in charge of Peter
Folger. He married Mary Morrell and had
issue.

(HI) Elezer, son of Peter Folger, married
Sarah, daughter of Richard Gardner. She
died 1729. leaving issue.

(IV) Peter (2), son of Elezer and Sarah
(Gardner) Folger, born 1674, married Judith,
daughter of Stephen Coffin, and granddaugh-
ter of Tristram Coffin. She survived him and
married a second and a third husband (see
Coffin III).

(V) Daniel, second child of Peter (2) and
Judith (Coffin) Folger, was born November
13, 1700. He married Abigail Folger, born
April 8, 1703. at Nantucket, died there No-
vember 21. 1787. Daniel Folger was lost at
sea, October 30, 1744, while going to Martha's
Vineyard.

(VI) Daniel (2), son of Daniel (i) and
Abigail (Folger) Folger, was born March 25,
1736. He married, 1757, Judith Worth. They
removed to Dutchess county. New York,
where Daniel Folger was engaged in farming.
They were members of the Society of Friends.

(\TI) Clarinda, second child of Daniel (2)
and Judith (Worth) Folger, was born at
Northampton, Dutchess county, New York,
.August 20, 1762, died May 22, 1804 (or 44),
at Peru. Clinton county. New York. She
married, October 23, 1783, Nicholas Barker,
died in Peru, September 9, 1849.

fVIII) Phoebe, daughter of Nicholas and
Clarinda (Folger) Barker, was born in New
York, March i, 1789. She married at Danby,
Vermont, William (2) Greene, born at Gro-
ton. Massachusetts, December 22, 1801, died
at North Bridgewater, Massachusetts, Decem-
ber 2, 1862. William Greene was a son of
William Greene, born in Rhode Island, was
of Groton, Massachusetts, then removed to
Randolph, Vermont, afterward to Danby, Ver-
mont, where he died. He was a stone cutter
by trade. He married Betsey Hudson, of Mas-
sachusetts, and had issue.

(IX) Chauncey O., son of William (2) and
Phoebe (Barker) Greene, was born in Weeds-
port. New York, April 2, 1825. He was
of Watervliet, New York, and for a time
was in business in Canada. He soon returned
and located in Troy, New York. He was
of the firm of Sheldon & Greene, stove manu-
facturers ; he retired from that firm in 1873,
to engage in the insurance business, which he
continued until he died. February 15, 1910.
He was a Republican in politics and repre-

sented the third ward in Troy common coun-
cil. He married in Danby, Vermont, Novem-
ber 6, 1847, Elizabeth Eggleston, born in
Danby, May 28, 1828. Now (1910) resident
of Troy.

Elizabeth (Eggleston) Greene, wife of
Chauncey O. Greene, was a daughter of An-
drus Eggleston, born in Stonington, Connec-
ticut, November 5, 1785, died at Danby, Ver-
mont, April 18, i860. He was a school teach-
er and for many years postmaster of Danby.
He married, September 5, 181 1, at Dorset,
Vermont, Nancy Curtis, born at Dorset, No-
vember 28, 1787, died January 28, i860,
daughter of Joseph and Delia (Mead) Curtis,
of Manchester, Vermont. Timothy Mead,
father of Delia (Mead) Curtis, prior to 1800
was the owner of about all of the present
site of iManchester Centre, Vermont. The
original proprietors in 1780 gave him a grant
of five hundred acres in consideration of his
building and maintaining a grist mill in the
town. Joseph and Delia (Mead) Curtis are
buried in the old Curtis burying ground at
East Dorset. Their gravestones read : "Joseph
Curtis died December 17, 1833, aged 75 years,"
"Delia, wife of Joseph Curtis, died March i,
1848, aged 81 years, 9 months." Andrus Eg-
gleston was son of Benedict Eggleston. who
during the revolution enlisted in the Second
Connecticut Regiment when he was so young
and undersized that he put on false heels to
bring him up to hei.ght and perhaps did some-
thing similar to bring his age up to the re-
quirements. He was in receipt of a revolu-
tionary pension for forty years. Born at IIop-
kinton, Rhode Island, June 18, 1764, died at
Dorset, Vermont, December 16, 1859, aged
ninety-five years. He married, 1785, Con-
tent Brown, born in Stonington, Connecticut,
February 21, 1767, died 1808.

(X) Adalaide Elizabeth, daughter of
Chauncey O. and Elizabeth (Eggleston)
Greene, was born in Brockville, Ontario, Can-
ada. Her parents returned to the United
States and located in Troy, New York, when
she was an infant of three months. She
was educated in Troy and was graduated from
the Emma Willarrl School (Troy Female
Seminary), class of 1868. She married. No-
vember 6. 1872, Anthonv Gould Millard (see
Millard VIH). Children: Elizabeth Virginia,
Chauncey Stuart and Leonie .'\dalaide Millard.

(The Coffin Line).
The most ancient seat of the name of Coffin
in England is now called Portledge in the
county of Devon. The earliest mention of the
name in any "Visitation of Devon" is in 1620.
The family has been allied by intermarriages

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with many of the honorable families of Eng-
land and even with royalty. Probably the
most eminent of the name in England was Sir
William Coffin. Knight in the reign of King
Henry \'nL Tristram Coffyn, the American
ancestor, was of the landed gentry, son of
Peter, and grandson of Nicholas. According
to his father's will he was to be provided
for "According to his degree and calling."
Therefore he must have had a calling or pro-
fession, although he never in America made
any pretentions.

(I) Tristram ("Tristem") Cofifyn, as he al-
ways signed his name, the founder of the
family line in America, was born at Buxton,
a small parish and village near Plymouth, in
Devonshire. England, in the year 1605. He
married Dionis Stevens, daughter of Robert
Stevens, Esq., of Buxton, and in 1642 emigra-
ted to America with his wife, five small chil-
dren, his widowed mother and two unmar-
ried sisters. He lived alternately in Salis-
bury, Haverhill and Newbury, Massachusetts,
until 1659, when he went to Nantucket Island
and arranged for the purchase of the island
by a company which he organized in Salis-
bury. The island was then under the juris-
diction of New York. He returned to Nan-
tucket with his family in 1660, where he lived
until his death, October 2, 1681, at his new
residence on the hill at Northam, near Ca-
paum pond. Tristram Coffyn was thirty-seven
years of age upon his removal to America
and fifty-five when he settled in Nantucket.
Joan, his mother, died in Boston, May, 1661,
aged seventy-seven years, "a woman of extra-
ordinary character." Of his two sisters who
came to America with him, Eunice married
William Butler, Mary married Alexander
Adams. Three of his children, Peter, Tris-
tram (2), and Elizabeth, were inarried at
the time of the removal to Nantucket.

Tristram Coffyn was the leading spirit
among the early islanders, and the large fam-
ily interest gave him power to control in a
great measure the enterprises of the island.
During the first years he was the richest pro-
jirietor except his son Peter, who possessed
a large estate. He was very generous, public-
sjjirited, and did not seek his own advantage
in an unreasonable degree. He assisted in de-
veloping the resources of the island, was
friendly with the Indians and had great influ-
ence over them. The first general court for
Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard was com-
prised of Tristram Coffyn, first chief magis-
trate of Nantucket; Thomas Mayhevv, first
chief magistrate of Martha's Vineyard, and
two associates from each island. At their
first session a law prohibiting the sale of in-

toxicants to the Indians was passed. This
is probably the first prohibitory law on record.
His commission as chief magistrate of the isl-
and bears date of June 29, 1671, and is signed
by Governor Lovelace of New York. While
he was reputed to be quite wealthy in goods
and lands, owning together with his son one-
fourth of the island of Nantucket and all of
Tuckernuck island, he did not die rich. He
made no will, but disposed of much of his
land while he lived, by deeds, the consideration
being, "regard and natural affection." Most
of the remainder of his estate he deeded to his
two youngest sons, John and Stephen, they to
take possession after the death of Tristram
and his wife. To each of his grandchildren
he gave ten acres upon the island of Tuck-
ernuck or to such of them "as would plant
it." He was a man of strict integrity and
generous kindly nature. He was buried in
Nantucket, probably upon his own estate. His
wife survived him and was tenderly cared for
by her large family of children and grand-
children.

Children of Tristram and Dionis (Stevens)
Coffyn: i. Hon. Peter, born in England;
lieutenant in King Philip's war ; deputy to
general court of Plymouth three sessions : re-
moved to Exeter, New Hampshire, where
from 1692 to 1714 he was at different times
associate justice and chief justice of the su-
preme court of New Hampshire, and member
of the governor's council ; he married Abigail,
daughter of Edward and Katherine Starbuck,
of Dover, New Hampshire, and had ten chil-
dren. 2. Tristram, born in England : was dea-
con for twenty years of the First Church of
Newbury, and filled many positions of trust;
he was a merchant tailor; he married Mrs.
Judith (Greenleaf) Somberly, daughter of
Edward and Sarah Greenleaf, and had ten
children. 3. Elizabeth, born in England ; mar-
ried Captain Stephen Greenleaf and had ten
children. 4. James, born in England ; was
judge of the probate court and filled several
of the important offices of Nantucket; this
branch furnished the families that remained
loyal to Great Britain ; General John Coffin
and Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, two sons of
General John, afterward held admiral's com-
missions in the Royal navy ; one of America's
most illustrious women. Lucretia Mott. was a
descendant of James Coffin ; he married Mary
Severance, of Salisbury. Massachusetts, who
bore him fourteen children, all except two
grew to maturity and married ; Delx>rah Cof-
fin, the sixth child and third daughter, born
on Nantucket, married, October 10, 1695,
George, son of William P)unkcr. 5. John,
born in England, died in infancy. 6. De-

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Lorali, tlie first Coffin born in America,
died at Haverhill, Massachusetts (the town
of lier birth) in infancy. 7. Mary, born in
Haverhill, Massachusetts, February 20, 1645,
married, at age of seventeen, Nathaniel Star-
buck : their daughter ^lary was the first white
child born upon Nantucket Lsland ; Mrs. Mary
(Coffin) Starbuck was a most extraordinary
woman, participating in the public gatherings
and town meetings, where her words were
listened to with marked respect ; she antici-
pated the Woman's Rights and Suffragette
movement by more than two centuries ; she
was consulted upon all matters of public im-
portance because her judgment was superior,
and as the Rev. John Richardson says: "The
Islanders esteemed her as a judge among
them, for little of moment was done without
her:" in town meetings she took an active
part in debates, usually commencing her re-
marks with: "My husband thinks" or "My
Inisband and I, having considered the subject,
think :" she was possessed of sound judgment,
clear understanding, an eloquent, easy and
natural mode of expression: in 1701, at the
age of fifty-six, she became interested in the
religious faith of the Society of Friends or
Quakers, and took the spiritual concern of the
whole island under her care : she held meet-
ings at her own house, wrote the quarterly
■epistles and preached in a most eloquent and
impressive manner and withal was as noted
for her good housekeeping as for her ability
as a preacher : says the same Rev. John Rich-
ardson : "The order of her house was such in
all the parts thereof, as I had not seen the
like before :" she was the mother of ten chil-
dren. 8. Lieutenant John, born in Haverhill :
removed to Edgartown. Martha's Mneyard,
after his father's death : he married Deborah,
daughter of Joseph and Sarah .Austin : he had
•eleven children, among them Enoch, who was
judge of Dukes county, and had ten children,
all of whom lived to be over seventy years of
age, six above eighty years and two of them
-to ninety years. 9. Stephen, see forward.

(H) Stephen, youngest child of Tristram
and Dionis (Stevens) CofYyn. was born in
Kevvbury. Massachusetts, March ro, 1652, died
November 14. 1734. He remained upon his
father's estate and was helpful to his parents
in their old age. He married Mary, daugh-
ter of George and Jane (Godfrey) Bunker.
They had ten children.

(in) Judith, fifth child and second daugh-
ter of Stephen and Mary (Bunker) Coffin,
died December 2. 1760. She married (first)
Peter Folger (see Folger I\') : married (sec-
■ond) Natlianiel Barnard: married (third)
'Stephen Wilcox.

Gillett is the surname from

GILLETT Guillot, the French diminutive
for William. The family may
have come with William the Conqueror into
England from Gillette, a town in Piedmont,
France. Gillette, the son of Giles. (Arthur's
"Dictionary of Family and Christian Names,"
1857, p. 140.) Another authority says Gillet
(in pronunciation Jillet). The name is sup-
posed to be derived from Gilleste. a town on
the borders of France and Piedmont. When
the "g" is hard, the name is probably a deriva-
tion of Gillaume, William. (Sower's "Patro-
nymica Brittanica," i860, p. 128.) According
to Guppy. in his "Homes of Family Names,
1890." the name Gillett is now found chiefly
in Oxfordshire, with a small representation in
Kent and Somersetshire. In Lincolnshire it
is found changed to Gilliart and Gillyett. In
the thirteenth century the name took the
forms in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdon-
shire of Gillot, Giilote and Gilot. Gillett.
French, Gillot, French Huguenot. ("British
Family Names," Barber, 1894, p. 131.)

"Burke's General .A.rmory," 1878, p. 400,
noted the following grants of arms, omitting
the date except in one instance : Gillet, alias
Chandler (Ipswich, county Suffolk). .Arms:
Ermine on a bend engrailed sable, three lucies
heads erased or, collared with a bar genel gu.
Crest: A lucy's head erased and erect, gu.
Gillet, or Gillot (Broadfield, county Norfolk).
Arms, same as above, lucies, heads or. Crest:
A lucy's head erased and erect or, collared as
in arms. Gillett (Halvergate, county Nor-
folk). Arms: Same. Crest: .A lucy's head
erased and erect or. collared gu. Motto:
"Spes mea in Deo." Gillett (Visitation of
Nottinghamshire. 1614). Arms: Erm on a
bend sable, three lucies ; heads erased or.
Crest: A lion ramp., holding in the dexter
paw a battle axe ppr. The first of these grants
is probably explained by "A Roll of Arms,
1673," contributed by .Arthur Schomberg to
"The Genealogist," new series, 24: 261. On
this roll appears "Gillett, Phillip, alias Chand-
ler, of Woodbridge, gent." Arms: Ermine,
on a bend engrailed three lucies' heads erased,
collared with a bar gemel.

Sir John Gyllot, K. B.. is mentioned (looi)
in "Musgrave's Obituarym," published as vol-
ume 46, Harleian Society Publications (p.
109). John Gyllot, Knight of the Bath. 14
Nov. 1501. mentioned in "Tiie Knights of
England," by William A. Shaw, i ; 147.

The will of Sir John Gilliot, "knight and
alderman of the citie of York," made Decem-
ber 28, 1509, proved March 4, 1509-10
(printed in Surtees Society Publications, 79:
12) mentions three sons, Lawrence, William

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HUDSON AND IMOHAWK \'ALLEYS

and Peter; and two daughters, Maude and
Margaret ; both daughters and Peter are under
tutors. He had two wives, Katherine and
"Dame Mawde," who survived him. The sec-
ond wife, Maude, was a daughter of Sir
Henry Vavasor, of York (Harleian Society
Publications. 16:330).

Peter Gilliott, citizen and merchant of the
city of York, made his will in July, 1525, men-
tioning his wife Alicia and daughter Matilda ;
his brother's children, Robert and Maude, and
other people not so nearly connected. (As the
foregoing is published as a footnote to Sir
John's will, it is to be supposed they were
father and son. The inference is that Peter
had no son. The male lines then have been
continued, if at all, by Lawrence or William,
one of whom was the father of Robert, alive
in 1525.)

Maude Gilliott, daughter and heir of Sir
John Gilliott, Knight, mayor of the city of
York, married John Langholme. (Langholme
pedigree from Visitation of Lincolnshire, pub-
lished in the "Genealogist," old series, 4: 187.)
Sir Thomas Gilliott, of York, Knight, 1460,
who married Martha, daughter of Sir Henry
Vavasor, of Haselwood, high sheriff of York-
shire (10 Ed. IV), may have been an ances-
tor of Sir John, previously mentioned. Sir
Henry \'avasor died 1460. (Betham's Bar-
onetage, 1 : 356. This work is not, however,
responsible for the suggestion of kinship be-
tween Sir Thomas and Sir John.)

Catherine, daughter and heiress of Peter
Gilliot, of Broughton, married Roger, sec-
ond son of Sir Richard Tempest. Living
temp. Hen. VH. (Betham's Baronetage, 2:
346.) In Visitation of Yorkshire, 1584-85, p.
293, it is stated that Roger Tempest, of
Broughton, married a daughter of Sir Piers
Gilliot, whose wife was the daughter and

heiress of Thorpe.

Robert Gillett, of Thorp Arch, had a daugh-
ter Isabel who married Matthew Usher, of
Featherstone ; their son Robert Usher was
seventeen years old in 1585. (Yorkshire
Visitations, 1584-85 and 1612, p. 350.)

Administration on the estate of Richard Gil-
lott, of Treston, was granted December 17,
1656, to his widow Mary (Yorkshire Archjeo-
logical Asso. Rec, ser. i: 166).

Thomas Gillott, of Brighton See, parish of
Bradfield, left a will, dated May 28, 1640, and
proved in August, 1641. (Same 4) Visi-
tation Yorkshire, 1653-54. (Harleian Society
Publications, 16:315) show that Roger Tem-
pest, above mentioned, and his wife, daughter
and heiress of Pyers Gyllot, Knight, had
great-grandchildren then living. (The an-
nalist quaintly remarks that the jjcdigree docs

not show whether Roger and his wife were
in this world or the ne.xt. )

"Memoranda relating to the Gillet and Hol-
combe Families, copied from an old Bible,
printed 1599." Communicated by W. F. Hol-
combe, Esq., M.D., to "Miscellanea Genea-
logica et Heraldica." new scries, 2: 115.

Records copied from an ancient Bible now
in the possession of Deacon Anson Cooley. of
North Granby, Connecticut. He received it
from his grandmother. Lois Ilolcombe Cooley,
born July 5, 1748, daughter of Deacon Azariah
Holcombe, who was born about 1708, son of
Jonathan Holcombe, born 1678, who was son
of Nathaniel Holcombe, born in Windsor,.
Connecticut, November 4, 1648, son of Thom-
as Holcombe, the Puritan, who died in Poy-
nonnock, Windsor, Connecticut, September 7,
1657. Jonathan Holcombe married (second)
June 22, 172 1, Widow Mary Gillet, who had
the Gillet Bible from her husband, who re-
ceived it from his ancestors.

Page first of Family Records : "June 30th,
'^7n> Jonathan Holcombe, son of Jonathan
Holcombe, Departed this Life ages 35 yrs
seven months and five days." "July 29 Day
ye year 1737 Jacob Holcombe my son died in
the 22nd year of his Life aged." Page 2nd>
"There was a flood in Conn, in the year i66r
in June." "My father Gillet came into New-
England the second time in June in the yeare
1634 and Jonathan his sonne was born about
halfe a year after he came to land." Page 3rd.
"(My) father Gillet died in 1677" and that
"Jonathan Gillet his first maredge Apr. 22,.
1661, Mary, b. Oct. 18, 1667." "Jonathan b.
Feb. 18, 1670." "William b. Dec. 4, 1673." "My
second maredg in Decem. 14, 1676, my sonn
Thomas born by second wife in May the last
16, 1678." "Ebenezer born in the year '80'
Decem 17 his grandmother dyed in May 14,
'81. Anna born September 18, 1682. 'A ^lan
of words and not of deeds is like a garden
full of weeds.' Jonathan born to me by my
secon wife was born October 10, 1685. Mer-
riam born in 1688 March 14." The history of
this branch of the American family is traced
through eight generations.

(I) Jonathan Gillet, progenitor of this
branch of the family, belonged to the com-
pany of about one hundred and forty Puri-
tans which was formed in the counties of
Devonshire, Dorsetshire and Somersetshire,
England. They sailed with Rev. John War-
ham and Rev. John Maverick as pastors in the
"Mary and John," March 20, 1630. and ar-
rived off Nantasket, May 30 following, settle-
ment being made at Dorchester. He was made
a freeman there May 6, 1635, and had vari-
ous lots of ground granted to him. With the

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Dorchester church and Rev. Mr. Warham he
and Nathan removed about 1636 to Windsor,
Connecticut, where he had a lot granted to
him near Mr. Warham. He and his wife
Mary are included in Matthew Granfs church
list, made thirty-seven years after the settle-
ment, of twenty-one "members who were so in
Dorchester and came up with Mr. Warham
and arc still of us." They were also privi-
leged, having paid six shillings, to sit in the
long seats in the church. He gave four shil-
lings six pence to the fund in aid of suffer-
ers by the Indian war at Simsbury and
Springfield, and was one of the committee of
distribution. He died August 23, 1677, and
his wife January 5, 1685. Their children
were: i. Cornelius, born at Dorchester, died
June 26, 17 — ; married Priscilla Kelsey. 2.
Jonathan, born at Dorchester; married (first)
April 23, 1661, JNIary Kelsey, who died April
18, 1676; married (second) December 14,
1676, Miriam Dibble, who died April 18, 1687;
eight children. 3. Mary, married Peter Brown.
4. Anna, born December 29, 1639; married,
October 29, 1663, Samuel Filley. 5. Joseph,
baptized July 25, 1641 ; married, 1664, Eliza-
beth Hawks. 6. Samuel, born January 22,
1642. 7. John, born October 5, 1644; married,
July 8, 1669, Mary Barker. 8. Abigail, bap-
tized June 28, 1646, died 1648. 9. Jeremiah,
born February 12, 1647; married, October 15,
1685, Deborah Bardett. 10. Josiah, see for-
ward.

(II) Josiah, son of Jonathan and Mary
Gillet, was born in Windsor, Connecticut, and
was baptized July 14, 1650. He died Octo-
ber 29, 1736. He married, June 30. 1676,
Joanna Taintor, born April, 1657, daughter of
Michael Taintor, of Branford, Connecticut.
She died January 23, 1735. He moved to
Colchester in 1702, being one of the first set-
tlers. Children : Josiah, Joanna, Elizabeth,
Jonathan, Mary, Dorothy, Samuel, Joseph,
Mindwell, Aaron and Noah.

(III) General Jonathan, second son of
Josiah and Joanna (Taintor) Gillet, was born
in Windsor, Conneticut, June 28, 1685, died in
Colchester, January 3, 1755. He married,
January 3, 1717, Sarah Ely, of Lyme, who
died July 4, 1759. Children: Sarah, Jona-
than, Mary, Joseph, Nehemiah, Jonah, Aaron
and Joanna.

(IV) Aaron, son of General Jonathan and
Sarah (Ely) Gillet, was born May 23. 1732,
died June 14, 1786. He served in the revo-
lutionary war. He married, March 31, 1757,
Anna Pratt, who died January 22, 1827. Chil-
dren : Aaron, Anna, Joanna, Mary, Aaron,
Ely, Russell, Hannah, Solomon, Mercy and
Anna.

(V) Ely, son of Aaron and Anna (Pratt)
Gillet, was born May 14, 1767, died Decem-
ber II, 1846. He married, April 8, 1790,
Phebe Hall, born April 24, 1773, died March
24, 1859. Children: Ely Hall, Phebe and
Sarah Ann.

(VI) Ely Hall, son of Ely and Phebe
(Hall) Gillet, was born October 6, 1794, died
December 23, 1863. He married, September
30, 182 1, Mary Williams, daughter of bred-
eric W. (5), Ebenezer (4), Park (3), Deacoa
Samuel (2), Robert (i), who was the progen-
itor of the Williams line, and a prominent
citizen of Roxbury, Massachusetts, whither
he came about 1638, probably born in Xor-
rick, England, who was born December 28,
1788, died November 10, 1864. They resided
in Colchester, where their children were born :
Children: i. William Ely, born June 21,
1822; married, in Colchester, May 9, 1848,
Bethiah Backus, born in Lebanon, April 22,
1829 ; four children. 2. Ezra Hall, born July
15, 1823, died September 2, 1875; graduated
at Yale College, 1841, and Union Seminary,
1844: pastor at Harlem, New York, 1845-70;
Hamilton College conferred upon him the de-
gree of D.D., 1864 ; was professor of political
economy and ethics at University of the City
of New York, 1870-75 ; a voluminous writer
and author; married (first) October 15, 1851,
Maria II. Ripley, who died March 28, 1853 ;
married (second) June 19, 1854, Mary J. Ken-
dall, who died September 10, 1881 ; three chil-
dren. 3. Mary Williams, born December 24,
1824, died in Hartford, Connecticut, Sei)tem-
ber 3, 1888; married. May 12, 1846, Hon.
Henry Alvord, born February 8, 1819, died
May I, 1877; eight children; he was a mem-
ber of the Connecticut senate. 4. Emma
Louisa, born May 9, 1826, died April 29, 1856;
married, August 10, 1852, Stephen H. Mat-
thews. 5. John Elbert (see forward). 6.
Salmon Cone, born June 12, 1830, died in his
native town, June 5, 1890; he was president
of the Colchester Savings Bank ; it is due to
his painstaking genealogical research that the
Gillette family history from which this record
is compiled has been so faithfully and accur-
ately preserved. He married (first) Novem-
ber 14, 1852, Adelaide Huntington, who died'
November 19, 1868; married (second) March
9, 1870, Mary Williard, of Wilton : two chil-
dren. 7. Jane, bom June 19, 1834: mar-
ried (first) May 9, i860. Stephen H. Mat-
thews, born January 18, 1822, died May 14^
1875: married (second) April 13, 1880. Darius
M. Linsley, born July 21, 1820; four chil-
dren by first husband, who was also the hus-
band of her sister. Emma Louisa.

(VII) Hon. Jolin Elbert Gillette, son of

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Ely Hall and Mary (Williams) Gillette, was
born October 4, 1828. He was a member of
the New York Assembly. 1880-81. He mar-
ried, June 19, 1854. Sarah Amanda Westfield.
Children: Fannie Westfield, born April 3,
1855, died February 21, 1856: John Westfield
(see forward) ; Grace Gatzmer, born June 21,
1865, died September 23, 1868; Ernest Simp-
son, born September 18, 1873, died August
•13, 1874.

(V'HI) John Westfield, eldest son and sec-
ond child of Hon. John Elbert and Sarah
Amanda (Westfield) Gillette, was born March
■9, i860. He married, October 31, 1888, Grace
Fidelia, daughter of Lyman D. and Helen
(Field) Tames. Children: Helen Field, born
December 19, 1889; John Westfield, August
26, 1892.

(The James Line).

(I) Grace Fidelia (James) Gillette de-
scends through paternal lines from Philip
James, who came to New England in 1638
"with wife, four children and two servants,
from Hingham, England. They settled in
Hingham, Massachusetts, where Philip "dyed
soon after." He married Jane :

(H) Francis, son of Philip James, married
Elizabeth .

(HI) Thomas, son of Francis James, mar-
ried a widow. Patience (Tower) Farrow.

(IV) John, son of Thomas James, married
a widow, Deborah (Bates) Stodder.

(V) John (2), .son of John (i) James, was
in Captain Christopher Bannister's company,

■Colonel John Dickman's regiment, and
marched to Bennington in August, 1777. He
•engaged in the battles of Stillwater and Sara-
-toga in the same company, with Colonel Ezra
May. He married, .April 4, 1765, Lois Beal.

(VI) Malachi, .son of John (2) and I-ois
(Beal) James, married Elizabeth Lyman.

(VII) Enoch, son of Malachi and Eliza-
'beth (Lyman) James, was a merchant and

manufacturer of Goshen, Massachusetts. He
•married Armanilla Dwight.

(VIII) Henry Lyman, son of Enoch and
Armanilla (Dwight) James, was a merchant,
manufacturer, and one of the industrial lead-
ers of the Connecticut Valley. He was for
twenty-five years postmaster of Williamsburg,
Massachusetts. He was an extensive traveler,
and wrote much for the press under the nom-

'de-plume of "Peter." He married Maria
Louise, daughter of Dr. Eldridge Timpson, of
Hudson, New York.

(X'lH) Lyman Dwight. son of Enoch and
Armanilla (Dwight) James, was born in Wil-
liamsburg, Massachusetts, January 21, 1836,
-died there May 30, 1902. He was well edu-
'Cated, and was first a clerk for his brother,

Henry Lyman James, in the Williamsburg
store, then a partner, and finally sole owner,
retiring in 1898. He was a director of the
First National Bank of Northampton for
twenty-five years, and at the time of his death
vice-president ; also trustee of the Nonolusk
Savings Bank, and trustee of the Northamp-
ton Insane Asylum, serving until his death.
A beautiful club house erected on the asylum
grounds has been constructed by his widow as
a memorial. He was most kind-hearted, and
at the age of seventy his warmest friends were
the young men. He stood the test of close
acquaintance, and his death was universally
regretted. He married, September 10, 1857,
Helen Eliza, daughter of John and Fidelia
(Nash) Field, and sister of Marshall Field,
the greatest of merchants and princely philan-
thropists, and a lineal descendant of Zechariah
Field, who arrived in Boston from Bristol,
England in 1629. (For complete Field and
James genealogy see "Massachusetts Genea-
logical and Personal Memoirs," by William
Richard Cutter and William Frederick Adams,
vol. I, pp. 312-319.) Children of Lyman
Dwight and Helen Eliza (Field) James:
Henry Dwight, of Haydenville, Massachu-
setts : Howard, of St. Paul, Minnesota ; Grace
Fidelia, married John W. Gillette, of Hudson,
New York (see Gillette Mil) : Philip Lyman,
of Chicago, Illinois.

The Ashtons of Saratoga, New
.\SHTON York, descend from Major

James Ashton, born in Ireland
about the year 1728. His wife Elizabeth was
also of Irish birth and parentage. James had
a brother, Thomas .Ashton, who with wife,
Elizabeth, was the first of the Ashtons to settle
in Washington county. New- York. Thomas
Ashton came to America in 1769 and settled
in what is now White Creek, Washington
county. He cleared a farm from the wilder-
ness and became a founder and a leader of
the Methodist church. Both Thomas and
Elizabeth were noted for their devoted piety
and exerted a wide influence for good, adding
greatly to the strength and usefulness of their
church in Washington county. They died
without issue. In 1772 James .\shton, wife
Elizabeth, and children, Rebecca, John, Mar-
garet, with a relative, Thomas Gee Ashton,
then seventeen years, left Ireland and came
to the colonies and settled at Ash Grove, now
in the town of White Creek, Washington
county. New York, where he purchased land
adjoining his brother, Thomas Ashton. who
had preceeded him by three years. No doubt
he was influenced by his brother in making
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the town, was active in town and church and
warmly espoused the cause of the colonies in
their struggle for independence. It is related
that he was a member of the "Vigilance Com-
mittee" that kept watch over the doings of the
Tories in their locality and that he was the
recognized leader, dealing at times quite
Tiarshly with those who were disposed to side
•with the King. Needing some information
that he thought a Tory neighbor could but
-would not give him, James threatened to hang
Tiim if he did not reveal the needed facts. The
Tory was stubborn and neither gave the de-
sired information nor did he hang, but es-
caped to the British camp at Stillwater. Soon
after James Ashton was captured by the In-
dians who brought him to the British camp in
a badly battered condition. His Tory neigh-
tor saw him and successfully interceded with
General Burgoyne to have him kindly treated.
This "heaping of coals of fire" upon his head
caused the sturdy patriot to have a more
"kindly feeling for Tories ever afterward. Dur-
ing the progress of the battle of Saratoga he
was confined in a building near by, but soon
after the retreat of the British he was re-
leased and returned home. His service to the
revolutionary cause must have been valuable,
as on April 4, 1778. Governor Clinton issued
him a major's commission: "We reposing es-
pecial trust and confidence as well in your
patriotism, conduct and loyalty as in your
valor and readiness to do us good and faith-
ful service." "With the advice and consent of
our said Council of Appointment at Pough-
keepsie, do appoint and constitute you the said
James Ashton, First Major of the Regiment
of Militia in the county of .Albany, whereof
Lewis \'an Woert, esquire, is Colonel." Passed
the secretary's office, July 4, 1778, by his ex-
cellency's command. Abraham B. Banker, sec-
retary. He probably held a lower rank in
the volunteer army, although there is no rec-
ord of rank or service in battle. He was a
member of the Associate Reformed church, as
was his wife, two daughters and their hus-
bands. The meeting house was on the "Old
Turnpike." near the "Old Graveyard." Major
Ashton died October 9, 1802, in his seventy-
third year.

His wife. Elizabeth Ashton, died Novem-
ber I, 1809, in her eighty-first year. Chil-
dren: Rebekah, born in Ireland about 1760,
died January 6, 1804; married her cousin,
George Barbar (second wife) : he died June
14, 1832, in his seventy-ninth year; they left
numerous descendants : John, of whom fur-
ther ; Margaret, born in Ireland about 1765,
died June 14. 1841, aged seventy-six years;
married William \'an Kirk, from New Jersey,

born of Dutch parents ; he died September 7,
1836, aged seventy-five years.

Thomas Gee Ashton, the relative who came
from Ireland with Major .Ashton, married
Amity Pierce, of that vicinity. He died Au-
gust 2. 1840, in his eighty-eighth year. She
died August 18, 1830, in her sixty-seventh
year. They have many descendants. He
served in the war of the revolution and was
a pensioner. Thomas Gee Ashton, private in
the revolutionary war, received "Twenty-one
Dollars and forty-four cents per annum dur-
ing his natural life, commencing on the fourth
of March, 183 1." His revolutionary claim is
signed, "Lewis Cass." secretary of war.

(II) John, only son of Major James and
Elizabeth Ashton, was born in Ireland, July
8. 1763, died December 8, 1837, on his farm
in the town of White Creek, Washington
county. New York. He was nine years of
age when his parents came to America. His
after life was spent in agriculture, on the
White Creek farm, first his father's, later his
own by inheritance, which contained three
hundred acres. When a boy he witnessed the
after scenes of the battle of Saratoga, saw the
dead buried and said, "They were scattered
like shocks of wheat in the harvest field." He
was prosperous, benevolent and charitable,
giving one-tenth of all his crops to the worthy
poor of his neighborhood. Of him it was
written, "He was a man of good judgment
and sound mind, and for honesty and sincerity
had no superior." He was a member, with
his wife and family, of the Associate Re-
formed church and worshipped at the meeting
house in Coila. He married Lydia Morford,
born Monmouth county. New Jersey, died
February 11, 1841, in her eightieth year. Chil-
dren : James. John, William, Isaac, Thomas,
Benjamin, Elizabeth, Rebecca and Sarah.
There are many descendants of John Ashton.

(III) Thomas, son of John and Lydia
(Morford) Ashton. was born in the town of
White Creek, Washington county. New York,
in 1794. died in the town of Argyle, same
county, March 21, 1869. He was a farmer all
his life, which was lived in Washington
county, and left an honored name behind him.
He married Elizabeth Stewart, born 1793, died
October 9, 1869. They had seven children.

(I\') David B.. sixth child of Thomas and
Elizabeth (Stewart) .Ashton, was born in
Argyle, Washington county, December 9, 1824,
died at Saratoga Springs, New York, May
23, 1891. He was well educated in local
schools and learned the trade of carriage
maker. He established in business in his na-
tive town and carried on the manufacture of
wagons and carriages there for many years,

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until his retirement from active life several
years before his death. He was a member of
the Presbyterian church, and a Republican in
politics. He married, January 29, 1852, Eliza-
beth Stewart, born September 12, 1833, at
Sterling, New York, daughter of George and
Eva (Kilmer) Stewart. Children: Frances,
Emma, Lydia Eva, William A., George F.,
Edward B., of whom further.

(V) Edward B., son of David B. and Ehza-
beth (Stewart) Ashton, was born in Argyle,
Washington county, New York, August 7,
187 1. He was educated at Fort Edward Col-
legiate Institute and Haley's Business College,
Fort Edward, New York. He early entered
active business life and was for a few years
engaged in the grocery business in Fort Ed-
wa'rd, later locating at Saratoga Springs. He
established there in the grain trade and
founded the business which he now conducts
under the firm name of the Saratoga Milling
& Grain Company, of which he is treasurer.
He has acquired other important interests in
Saratoga and vicinity. In 1900 he engaged
in the coal trade and in 1904 organized the
Saratoga Coal Company, which is a consoli-
dation of the coal companies of Saratoga. He
is actively interested in the management of the
company, holding the offices of president and
treasurer. In 1906 he organized the Ballston
Coal Company, of Ballston Spa, New York,
of which he is treasurer. In that year he ac-
quired the ownership of the Saratoga Baggage
& Express Company, of which he is treasurer.
He is a member of the executive board of the
Eastern and Central New York Retail Coal
Merchants Association and is also interested
in the coal trade at Albany, New York, being
secretary of the New York & New England
Coal Company of that city. He is a promi-
nent member of the Masonic order, holding all
degrees of lodge, council, chapter and com-
mandery in the York Rite and is a thirty-
second degree Mason, member of Oriental
Temple. A. O. N. M. S. He is also
affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, Royal Arcanum, Modern
Woodmen, and the Independent Order of
Foresters. His club is the Saratoga. He
married, September, 1895, Harriet Lohnas, of
Saratoga, daughter of D. L. Lohnas. Child,
Lohnas, born May 7, 1897.

Coat-of-arms granted lohn
WRIGHT Wright in 1590. "Azure, two

bars argent in chief, a leopard's
face or ; crest, out of a ducal coronet or, a
dragon's head and neck pr." The English
surname Wright is of pure Anglo-Saxon ori-
gin, and is derived from the old word

"wyrtha," meaning a workman of any sort.
In England the name is quite frequent, ancf.
there were many adventurers of this great
family who came to America in colonial days-
and identified the name with American prog-
ress and improvement. English history says:
"John Wright, Lord of the Manor of Kelve-
don. Hatch, county Essex, England, accrued'
Kelvedon by purchase in 1538."

(I) John Wright, of Kelvedon Hatch, mar-
ried Olive . He died October 5, 1551,

and is buried with his wife in Kelvedon*
church.

(II) John (2), son of John (i) and Olive

Wright, married Joane , of Kelvedon

Hall. He died October 10, 1563.

(III) Robert, son of John (2) and Joane
Wright, was of Brook street, county of Es-
sex, England. He married Mary, daughter
of Robert Green, of Naverstock.

(IV) John (3), of Wrightsbridge, son of
Robert and Mary (Green) Wright, married
Abis, daughter and sole heiress of Robert
Rooke. of Havering, Essex.

(V) John (4), son of John (3) and Abis
(Rooke) Wright, of Wrightsbridge, anno*
1590, in thirty-second year of Queen Eliza-
beth, gentleman ; married Emfell, or Linsell,
for first wife. Arms were granted him June
20. 1590.

(VI) Nathaniel (Sir Nathan), son of John
(4) Wright, was a merchant of London, and
member of Massachusetts Bay colony. He
married Lydia, daughter and heiress of Ed-
ward James, of London. A daughter Eliza-
beth married Sir James Oglethorpe of His
Majesty's forces ; six children.

(VII) Samuel, son of Nathaniel (Sir
Nathan) and Lydia (James) Wright, was of

London. He married Margaret . They

emigrated to America with the Winthrop col-
ony in 1630. and settled in Springfield. Massa-
chusetts. He was a deacon in the church in
1639 ; also in Northfield church in 1655. He
died October 17. 1665. His wife, Margaret,
died July 25, 1681. They had nine children.

(VIII) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (i) and
Mlargaret Wright, was born in England in
1629. He was brought to America by his
parents in 1630, grew up in Springfield. Mas-
sachusetts, and later was of Northfield. He
was sergeant and lieutenant in command of
the militia forces. He was one of the first
three selectmen of Northfield, and met his
death in the Indian attack on the town, Sep-
tember 2, 1675. He married, November 24,
1653, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Burt.
They had eight children.

(iX) Ehenezer, son of Samuel (2) and
Elizabeth (Burt) Wright, was born March

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30, 1663, died 1742. He was one of the
grantees of Northfield, 1682. He married
(first) September 26, 1684, Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of Jedediah Strong, died February 17,
1691. He married (second) Hannah, daugh-
ter of Jonathan Hunt, December 19, 1691.
They had nine children.

(X) Captain Noah, fifth child of Ebenezer
and Hannah (Hunt) Wriglit, was born No-
vember 29. 1699, died June 27. 1775. at North-
ampton, Massachusetts. He married, Decem-
"ber 12, 1721, Sarah, daughter of Major Eben-
ezer and Sarah (King) Pomeroy, born Febru-
ar}- 12, 1700, died April 3, 1777. They were
the parents of two children.

fXI) Captain Caleb, son of Captain Noah
and Sarah (Pomeroy) Wright, was horn
April 24, 1722, died February 12, 1780. He
was a soldier of the revolution. (See "Massa-
chusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolu-
tion," p. 919, Vol. X\TI) : "Wright. Caleb,
New Marlboro ; captain of a company of min-
ute men. Colonel John Fellows' Third Regi-
ment: marched April 21, 1775, in response to
the Alarm of April 19, 1775, to Lexington ;
service, one month, three days." There is
also proof of his service at the battle of Ben-
nington. He was a farmer of New Marl-
boro, Alassachusetts. He married, Septem-
ber 6. 1745. Sarah, daughter of Jonathan and
Mehitable (Stebbins) Strong. He had sons
and several daughters.

(XH) Caleb (2), son of Captain Caleb (i)
and Sarah (Strong) Wright, was born April
24. 1747. died in Cambridge, New York, Feb-
ruary, 1787. He was a farmer of Northampton,
Massachusetts, until 1777, when he removed to
the town of Cambridge. New York, where he
■engaged in farming until his death. He
served in the war of the revolution. See
Archives of the State of New York in the
Revolution, Vol. I, Roster of State troops, p.
522.) "Caleb Wright, sergeant (Colonel
"Lewis Van Woert's regiment), enlisted for
short service four times in Van Woert's,
Doty's. Well's and Gilmore's and Well's com-
panies, 1 6th regiment of Albany county militia
from August 13, 1777, to November 30, 1780."
On page 373 it is found that Van Woert was
also colonel of Cambridge regiment, that town
then being in old Albany county. (These
records of Captain Caleb and his son Caleb
have been accepted by the Society D. A. R.
and membership granted under national num-
ber 37,414.) During the battle of Bennington
the militia was ordered out : as there was a
scarcity of ammunition, each man was ordered
to procure his own as far as possible. Caleb
removed the weights from the old "grand-
father's clock," substituting pails of sand, then

melted and moulded the weights into bullets,
which he next day fired at the British. The
old clock is still in the possession of his great-
grandchildren, a highly prized revolutionary
relic, and still measures the correct time.
Caleb Wright married, about 1767, Elizabeth,
daughter of Josiah Stillman, of Wethersfield,
Connecticut. She survived him and married
(second) William Hammond, of Pittstown,
New York. She died August 4. 1824; no
issue by her second marriage. Children of
Caleb and Elizabeth (Stillman) Wright: i.
Elijah, born in Sandisfield, Massachusetts,
September 4, 1769, died May 25, 1832 ; mar-
i-ied (first) Lavina Barber, of Cambridge,
New York, and had issue. He married (sec-
ond) Sara, granddaughter of Thomas Adkins
(2) (a revolutionary soldier) and Mercy
(Clark) Adkins. also granddaughter of Dea-
con Robert (a revolutionary soldier) and
Lydia (Parmalee) Griffing; children: Zalmon,
Stillman, Lavina, Caleb, Daniel. William,
Royal, Betsy, Harriet, De Witt, Jolin. Kirk-
land. Griffin, Prudence, Jane. Elijah. 2.
Lauchlin, see forward. 3. Elizabeth, born
March 13, 1772: married, 1790. Joseph Slo-
cum : children : Elizabeth. Reuben. Rachael,
Caleb Wright, Azuba, Sarah. Humphrey,
Annice. Joseph, Elias. 4. Sally, born March
2, 1774; married Ebenezer Moscley. who died
September. 1850: children: Alvin, Betsy,
Sally, Zenia. 5. Caleb, torn March 19, 1776,
died December 30, 1838; married (first)
Eunice Sprague, of Greenwich, New York,
died May 20. 1812, who bore him five chil-
dren: married (second) Mary Hanks, who
died January, 1862; children: David, John
Franklin, Sophia, Anne, infant daughter; by
second marriage: Benjamin, Morgan, Leroy,
Eunice, Mary. 6. Rachael, born April 26,
1779 ; married Increase Moseley, of Hoosick,
New York ; children : Pardon, Betsy, Mary,
Lucina, Rachael, Sally, Esther. Alvina, Polly,
Stillman. 7. Josiah, born November 17. 1780,
died June 22, 1835 ; married Freelove Wood-
worth, of White Creek, New York : children :
William, Maria, Eliza. Josiah, Freelove. John,
Roxanna, Solomon Warner, M.D. 8. John
Stillman, horn March lo. 1782. died October 5,
1849: married .A.senath Arnold, born August
20. 1785, of Hoosick, New York; children:
Emily, Elizabeth. Mary. Flavona, Mordan.
Victor Moreau, Wellington, Mary Eliza, Sarah
Asenath.

(Xni) Lauchlin. second .son of Caleb (2)
and Elizabeth (Stillman) Wright, was born
in Sandisfield, Massachusetts, December 5.
1770, died January 9, 1854. He was a farmer
of U'ashington county, New York, where the
familv are mentioned as "old and earlv" set-

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tiers of the town of Cambridge. They were
closely allied to the Wells family, descendants
of one of the original patentees, Edward
Wells, of Worcester, England. He married
Roxanna, died July 14, 1855, daughter of
David and Rachael (Griffing) Parks, grand-
daughter of Robert and Rhoda (Parmele)
Griffing, and also granddaughter of Nathaniel

and (Clark) Park. (David added the

"s" to the name.) David Parks enlisted in
Amos Staunton's company, December 23,
1777, was transferred to S. B. Webb's regi-
ment. May I. 1780, discharged December 23,
1780. He was borne on the rolls of revolu-
tionary pensioners. Both Nathaniel and David
Parks served in the revolution ; Nathaniel en-
listed May II, 1776, discharged October 17,
1776: they served from Connecticut. Robert
Griffing, while not a combatant, rendered the
cause good service in bringing in salt and
food to the army. He was working under'
the orders and authority of the Connecticut
governor and council. He was the great-
great-grandfather of Dr. Wright. Children of
Lauchlin and Roxanna (Parks) Wright: i.
David, born February 8, 1794, died March 16,
1870: married, August 18, 1821, Betsey,
daughter of Captain Lott Woodworth, of
White Creek, New York : children : William
Alfred, Jane Maria, Maurice Lauchlin, who
served in the civil war. Eighty-fifth Regiment,
New York Volunteers. 2. Elizabeth, born
August 14, 1795, died February 3, 1863 ; mar-
ried. May, 1 82 1, Alden Bennett, settled in
New Haven, New York, died September
25, 1854: children: i. Charles W., born Sep-
tember 25, 1822, killed in the civil war, 1864 ;
married. May, 1845, Louise Dean ; ii. H. Veil,
born December 23, 1825 ; died, unmarried,
September 18, 1874; iii. Alfred Piatt, born
May 7, 1829, died April 24, 1888; married
Miranda Covert, in 1855, who survived him
and married (second) B. Stout, who died May
30, 1896; iv. Walter Smith, born April 12,
1832 ; married Blanche Coryelle ; v. Julia Ann,
born January 14, 1836, died April 14, 1864:
married Delos Townsend, 1858. 3. James
Harvey, born July 9, 1798, died in Saugatuck,
Michigan, September 12, 1873 ; married, Octo-
ber 3, 1826, Eunice, daughter of Hon. David
Bradley, of Marcellus, New York. She died
January 23, 1888; children: i. Edwin Brad-
ley, born September 17, 1827, died January
2T, 1879; married (first) June 7, 1863, Lvdia
M. Pratt, died October 7, 1864; (second)
Phoebe Maris, October 23, 1865 ; child : Hat-
tic, an adopted daughter, married, 1876,

— ' Bird ; ii. James Harvey, born August

5, 1829: married, April, 1864, Jessie Sm'ith ;
children : George Edwin, born December 28,

1865 ; Eugene Harvey, August, 1869 ; Ida',.
August 3, 1871, died 1888; Simeon, August i,
1874; iii. Jessie, January 13, 1832, married,
June 4, 1856, Harvey L. House, who died
July 7, 1896, lived in Saugatuck, Michigan ;
children : Dr. Walter B., born June 4, 1857,
married Florence M. Lacey ; Rev. Herbert E.,
June 12, i860, married Alyrtle Ruggles, of
Oak Park, Illinois, was missionary to Tien
Tsin, China, came home in 1897 at the time
of the great Boxer uprising: Alice L., born
.•\pril 3, 1862, died June 11, 1889, married
Fred G. Truscott ; two children ; Jessie M.,
June 15, 1865; Edwin H., May 16, 1875, mar-
ried. May 23, 1900, Philanda H. Davis, both
being graduates of Columbia School of Ora-
tory ; iv. Cordelia, June 10, 1843, died March
12, 1844. 4. Walter, born July i, 1801, died
January 30, 1875 : married, September 5,
1826, Frances Crane, of Marcellus, New
York, died April 15, 1883; lived in Adrian,
Michigan ; child : Ann Elizabeth, born April
I, 1828, died December 30, 1899; married
Nicholas Van Brunt, died October 20, 1896.
5. Dr. Albert, born April 14, 1804. died De-
cember 10, 1874 ; married, June 6, 1832, Jane
A. Barker; graduated from Vermont Acad'
emy of Medicine, in 183 1, and located in
Brooklyn, New York. His wife died Decem-
ber 21, 1878; child: Annie Southwell (by
adoption), born October 4, 1834. died May 30,
1890. 6. Dr. William, born September 24,
1806, died September 23, 1880; married, No-
vember 27, 1835, Eliza Ann, daughter of Hon.
Martin Lee, of Granville, Washington county.
New York. He graduated from Vermont
Academy of Medicine in 1833, and practiced
his profession in Brooklyn, New York : chil-
dren: i. Helen Mary, born September 13,
1836, died in infancy; ii. William H. Seward,
January 17, 1839; married. July 5, 1863. Car-
rie L. Willets, died November 12, 1901 ; mar-
ried (second) Anna Hagedorn, and had an
adopted daughter Bessie ; iii. Cornelia, born
March 4, 1842. died November 2, 1903 ; iv.
Martin, July 18, 1844, died in infancy; v.
Albert James, March 16, 1848; married. Octo-
ber I, 1879, Lillie Ames. He is a practicing
dentist in Brooklyn, New York. 7. Morris
Lauchlin, December 4, 1808, died June 14,
1884; married, February 22, 1849, Maria E.,
daughter of Captain Samuel Ruste. She died
November 11, 1866. They lived on the old
homestead in Cambridge, owned by his father
and grandfather before him ; children : i.
Helena Maria, born January 11, 1850: ii.
Sarali Jane, May 4, 1852 ; married, March
28, 1893, Edward Payson Cramer, a widower,
who died July 29, 1903. 8. Julia A., born
March 28, 1812, died INlarch 6, 1897; married,

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October 13. 1834, Lemuel Sherman, a farmer
of Cambridge, New York, born September 6,
1809, died January 28, 1887; children: i.
Frances E., born February 23, 1840: married,
October 4, 1859, James, son of John and
Nancy (McMurray) McFarland, and had a
son, Frank Murray; ii. Mary, October 15,
1841, died June 28, 1899: married, December
4, 1864, Lieutenant Albert Shiland, a veteran
of Company I. One Hundred and Twenty-
third Regiment, New York Volunteers, died
at his home in Denver, Colorado, leaving chil-
dren, Fred, Helen C. and Francis ; iii. George
Lemuel. January 15, 1846; married, December
28, 1887, Julia A., daughter of Peter and
Maria (Gilchrist) Wheldon ; iv. Albert, Jan-
uary 18. 185 1 ; married, December 4, 1872,
Sophia Dobbin, born June 12, 1851, and had
a daughter, Gertrude, who married S. F. El-
lingwood. 9. Sidney Wells, see forward.

(XIV) Sidney Wells, son of Lauchlin and
Roxanna (Parks) Wright, was born at Cam-
bridge. New York, February 14, 1815, died
February 17, 1882. He was a prominent
farmer of Washington county, and held sev-
eral of the county and town ofifices. He was
a leading member and an elder of the Presby-
terian church of Cambridge. Politically he
was a Republican, a great admirer and de-
voted follower of Horace Greeley, even for-
saking the regular party candidates and voting
for Air. Greeley when he was the Democratic
candidate for President. He married (first)
September 19, 1837, Jane E., daughter of
Rupel and Betsey (Wilcox) Brown, who bore
him one child. He married (second) Maria
Cramer Savage, born May 26, 1815, died
March 29, 1876, daughter of Amos and
j\Iaria (Cramer) Savage. She was a daugh-
ter of Amos (2) and a granddaughter of
.^mos (i) Savage, the revolutionary soldier,
who served as a private, then was promoted
by the governor and council of Connecticut in
1779 to be ensign of Second Company of
alarm list in the Twenty-third Regiment of
that state. Amos (2) .Savage married (sec-
ond) Maria, daughter of John Nicklaus and
Elizabeth (Tippel) Cramer, the latter a daugh-
ter of Adam and Catherine Tippel. John
Nicklaus Cramer and Adam Tippel were both
soldiers of the revolution, serving in Colonel
Morris Graham's sixth regiment, Dutchess
county, New York, militia. Children of Sid-
ney Wells and Maria (Savage) Wright: i.
Jane B., born April, 1840, died in infancy. 2.
Jane Maria, born February 22, 1843, died
I'ebruary 12, 1858. 3. Adeline J., born No-
vember 6, 1844, flied April 23. 1866: married,
April 13, 1865, Thomas A., son of Benjamin
H. Howell, head of the sugar refining house

of B. H. Howell & Son, of Brooklyn. New
York. He survived her and married a second
wife, and died September 19, 1896. Their
only child died in infancy. 4. Sarah Eliza-
beth, born October 7, 1846, died March 19,.
1877; married, October 3, 1868, James E.
Cady, of Brandon, Vermont, and had a son
Lucian, born January 15, 1877. 5. Albert
Maurice, mentioned below. 6. Emma Rox-
anna, born July i, 1850. 7. Julia Antoinette,.
October 3, 1852; married, December 28, 1887,
Calvin, son of George and Josephine (Bow-
man) Sims. He was born February 7. 1844.
now a bookkeeper of Troy, New York, and
has a daughter, Clara W. (by adoption), born
January 28, 1892. 8. Walter Savage. June
26, 1854; married, April 28, 1886. Ber'nice,
daughter of Jonathan and Adaline (McChis-
tock) Long. She was born September 26,
1861. He studied law, was admitted to the
bar and practiced in New York until 1887,
when he removed to Pasadena, California,
where he is now one of the prominent lawyers
of that state. Children : i. Adaline, born Sep-
tember 25, 1888 ; a graduate of Leland Stan-
ford University, May, 1910; ii. Howard Wal-
ter, September 6, 1892; iii. Catherine, May
16, 1895. 9. Mary Helen, born March 17,
1856; married, October 10. 1883, Matthew B.
Hutton, M.D., a graduate of the University of
Michigan, born August 12, 1854. son of Wil-
liam and Mary Ann (Blair) Hutton, of Put-
nam, New York; now (1910) a practicing
physician of \'alley Falls. New York. ChiK
dren : i. An infant daughter, deceased ; ii.
Anna M.. born August 31, 1890. 10. Charles
Sidney, born August 13, 1861 ; editor and'
journalist, Saratoga, New York ; married
(first) May 11, 1887, Clara M. Crocker, died
September 22, 1893, leaving three children;
married (second) April 24, 1895, Hannah,
daughter of James and Carrie L. (Lewis)
Butterworth, born November 27, 1868; chil-
dren: i. Mabel C, born Saratoga, New York,
February 14, 1888; ii. Albert C, January 29,
1890; iii. Julia Clara, January 28, 1892;
adopted by her aunt, Mrs. Sims, and name
changed to Clara Wright Sims ; iv. James But-
terworth, March ir. 1897; v. Carrie E., De-
cember 14, 1899; vi. Marion Helen, July i,
1906.

(XV) Albert Maurice, son of Sidney Wells
and Maria Cramer (Savage) Wright,, was
born at Granville, Washington county. New
York, Augu.st 26, 1848. He was educated in
the town schools of Granville and Cambridge,
completing his studies at Washington .Acad-
emy, where he was graduated in 1865. In
1870 he began the study and practice of den-
tistry with Dr. Zina Cotton, of Cambridge,

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A'alley mill was burned in 1905. The corpora-
tion also operated a mill at Hoboken, New
Jersey, for the manufacture of underwear, and
for about two years operated the Majestic
Knitting Mill, at Troy. The company also
owned and operated the Mohawk River Mill,
at Cohoes. Mr. Wright is president of the
Wright Health Underwear Company, and has
been since its organization ; also a director of
the Reserve Fund Corporation of New York
City, a company formed to promote and deal
in various lines and enterprises. He is a man
of force and character, and commands the
respect of his associates. He is a member of
the Ionic Club of Troy, and other well-known
organizations. He is a Republican in politics,
and represented Pownal in the Vermont legis-
lature. He married, at Pownal, in i860, Mary
A. Brimmer, born in that town August 16,
1844, died March 30, 1895. at Luxor, Egypt,
while on a trip up the river Nile. She was a
daughter of Green and Angeline Brimmer.
Children: i. Solomon, graduate of Benning-
ton high school ; valedictorian ; entered Wil-
liams College, but failing health prevented his
graduation. After a few years of travel
abroad he entered business life as a salesman,
and is now treasurer of the Wright Health
Underwear Company, and operates a commis-
sion house in New York City for the sale of
the product of his company, the Rob Roy
Hosiery Company, and other firms. He re-
sides in Alontclair, New Jersey. He married
Ida P. Pierce, of Danbury, Connecticut; chil-
dren: Dorothy P., Mary A., Caroline. 2. Wil-
kinson De Forest, secretary of the Wright
Health Underwear Company : resides at Port
Washington, Long Island, New York. He
married Emily Welles Higenbotham; children:
Wilkinson De Forest, Jr., born December 2,
1902 ; Emily Welles. August 12, 1904 : Janet,
February 12, 19 10. 3. A daughter who died
in infancv.

This is a common name in
WRIGHT New England, and very diffi-
cult to trace. The family is a
prominent one in New York also, and has
furnished many notable men. In 1844 Silas
\\'right was governor of the state, and in
the professions there have been many men of
prominence bearing the name.

(I) The .\msterdam family descended from
Matthew Wright, of Connecticut, who was
born about 1700-07. He was probably of
Chatham. Whether he was a relative of Dea-
con Thomas Wright, of Springfield, Massa-
chusetts, does not appear. Matthew was of
Welsh descent. He married Esther Lewis,
also of Connecticut. They removed to New

York, settling in Otsego county, near Coopers-
town, where they are buried. He is said to
have attained the great age of one hundred
and three, dying in 1810. She died in 1820, at
the age of ninety. There were over six sol-
diers served in the revolution from Connecti-
cut by the name of Wright, but it is not clear
that any of the eight sons of Matthew were
among them, although there are some bearing
the same Christian name. His children were :
Daniel : John, see forward ; Earl ; Matthew
(2): Thomas; Ebenezer ; Sallie ; Esther;
Hepseber ; Ix>uis and two others.

(II) John, son of Matthew and Esther
(Lewis) Wright, was probably born in Otsego
county. New York. He lived to the age of
sixty. He was married and left a family. His
children were: John Y.. see forward; Justus,
Samuel, Fanny, Ebenezer, Jane, and two who
died in infancy.

(III) John Y., son of John Wright, was
bom near Cooperstown, Otsego county. New
York, and died in Albany county at about the
age of seventy-five. He married a descendant
of one of the early Dutch families of .\lbany
county, who bore him children : i. Justus, died
in Albany, New York, shortly after his mar-
riage. 2. Henry, born in Westerlow, Sche-
nectady county, where he married Jane Liddle,
of Schenectady county : they settled in Duanes-
burg, where they died, leaving children:
Thomas. John. Robert, Henry and Edward.
3. Charles, see forward. 4. George, died in
Rochester, New York. 5. Sylvester, veteran
of civil war ; now residing in Duanesburg. 6.
Ann. 7. Eliza. 8. Miranda.

(I\') Charles, son of John Y. Wright, was
born in Westerlow, Schenectady county. New
York, July 26, 1820, died in Amsterdam, July
26, 1893. When a young man he removed
to Florida, Montgomery county, where he en-
gaged in agriculture, his lifelong occupation.
He married Olive C. Fancber, lx>rn August 19,
1826, died February 3, 1891. She was born
on the Fancher homestead, settled by one of
the early families of the town of Florida.
She was the daughter of Schuyler and Eunice
Fancher, whose forbears were pioneers of
Montgomery county. The children of Charles
and Olive (Fancher) Wright were: i. Schuy-
ler F., born January 11, 1842, died July 23,
1907 ; married (first) Laura Parker, who bore
him a son, George F., now of Amsterdam ;
(second) Mrs. Alary (Brumley) Van Home,
who survived him and resides in .-Xmsterdam.
2. George, see forward. 3. Richard, August
25, 1847 : a farmer and resides on the old
Fancher homestead, where his mother was
born ; married (first) Annie Parks, of Florida,
who bore him a daughter, Caroline, now

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wife of Charles McKinney; (second) Rachel
Padgett ; they have no issue. 4. Caroline, Oc-
tober 25, 1853 ; married Jesse May, of English
birth ; they have no issue. 5. Cora Belle, 1862 ;
married Cornelius V. Williams ; children :
Olive, Charles W. (2), Ada and Clifton Wil-
liams, and two who died in infancy. Their
daughter Olive is married and resides in
Cleveland, Ohio. It is worthy of note that
Charles Wright and his wife Olive had a
married life of over fifty years, the first death
in the family being that of Mrs. Wright.

(V) George, son of Charles and Olive
(Fancher) Wright, was born on the old
Fancher homestead, December 31, 1843. He
was educated in the public schools of the
town, and made the best possible use of his
opportunities to obtain an education. Hte
worked on the farm until he was twenty-two
and then left home and learned the trade of
carpenter. He was a natural mechanic and
became an expert workman. In 1868 he
settled in Amsterdam, and in a few years be-
gan contracting. He has been very successful
and is recognized as one of the leading con-
tractors and builders of the city. He has
erected some of the largest business buildings
in the city, notably the Atlas Knitting Mills,
the Pioneer Broom Factory, the Central
Hotel, the Pythian Temple, and others of
equal prominence, as well as many fine private
residences. In politics Mr. Wright is a Demo-
crat, and before the city was incorporated was
assessor of the village for seven years. He
is connected with the Presbyterian church, as
is his wife. He holds fraternal relations with
Woodbine Lodge, No. 250, Knights of Pyth-
ias. He married, December, 1869, in Amster-
dam, Julia O. Hart, born 1849, died September
3, 1870. He married (second) in Canajo-
harie. New York, March 25, 1875, Mrs. Mary
(Ellsworth) Collins, born February 21, 1845,
near Sharon, New York. She is the daugh-
ter of John and Jedida (Clum) Ellsworth,
who died at Fort Plain, New York. John
Ellsworth was a cousin of Colonel E. E. Ells-
worth, who was one of the first victims of the
civil war, shot in Alexandria by the owner
of the house from which Colonel Ellsworth
had just torn down a Confederate flag. The
grandfather of John Ellsworth and of Colonel
Ellsworth was George Ellsworth, of English
descent. He was a resident of Half Moon,
Saratoga county, before the revolution ; when
Burgoyne invaded the territory he joined the
continental army, though only fifteen. He was
at the Itattle of Ikinis Heights and at the
surrender of Burgoyne. He married Sarah
Reynolds, who bore him fourteen children, one
of whom was John, father of Mrs. George

Wright; another, Ephraim D., father of Colo-
nel Ellsworth, was a captain in the ordnance
department during the civil war. He had an-
other son killed in the war. Colonel Ells-
worth was born in Malta, Saratoga county.
New York, April 11, 1837. He went west
and studied law with President Abraham Lin-
coln, who was ever afterward his warm friend
and sincerely mourned his tragic death. He
was colonel of the First New York Zouaves,
who instantly avenged his death. By her
former marriage, Mrs. George Wright has a
daughter, Emma J. (Collins) Watson, born
June 8, 1870, wife of A. R. Watson, a flour
and feed merchant of Amsterdam. They have
Grace and George W. Watson. Mr. and Mrs.
George Wright have a daughter, Grace Cora,
born May 29, 1876; she married Clarence D.
Dean, a commission merchant of Amsterdam,
and has a son, Charles D. Dean, born May
27, 1895. Clarence D. Dean is a son of
Cliarles D. and Melissa (DeGraff) Dean.

Henry Wright was born in the
WRIGHT town of Wright, Schoharie

county, New York, November
30, 1833. He was the son of Tunis and Mary
(Ketchem) Wright. He was the oldest child,
and was but twelve years old when his mother
died and the home was broken up. From
that time forward he was obliged to support
himself, never receiving a dollar's help from
anyone. At the age of eighteen, while living
at Gallupville, he was converted and joined
the Methodist Episcopal church. Soon after
he felt that he was called of God to the work
of the ministry. There was at that time no
fund in the Methodist church to aid young
men in obtaining an education, but in 1862,
after much hard work and rigid economy, he
graduated with honor from Union College and
in the same year joined the Troy conference.
His first appointment was Wcstbush and
Pleasant Square. Among his parishoners at
Westbush was Miss Mary Elizabeth Shutts,
who, on October 11, 1863, became his wife.
They were married in the little church at
Westbush on quarterly meeting day by the
presiding elder. Dr. William Griffin. Many a
time during the thirty-one years of his married
life did he congratulate himself on having
chosen so capable a helpmeet. For, with the
meager salary of a Methodist preacher and a
family of five children to be fed, clothed and
educated, there was need of a wise manager,
and such Mrs. Wright proved herself to be.
The rule of the Methodist Episcopal church
at that time permitted a pastor to serve a
charge but two years, though the limit was
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the thirty-two years of his ministry Mr.
Wright served fifteen different charges, in
Fulton, Montgomery, Albany, Schoharie,
Rensselaer. Warren, Washington and Saratoga
counties, and at Stamford, Vermont. On
some of them the work was laborious and diffi-
cult, but every appointment was received as
from the Lord, and with simple faith and
lofty courage he performed with untiring
faithfulness every duty. By his sweetness of
spirit, gentle courtesy and sterling integrity
he won the love of many and the respect of
all. On some of his charges there were large
revivals, and during every pastorate some were
added to the church. He loved music, had a
good voice, and in the absence of chorister or
choir could lead the congregation in singing.
He was never at a loss for an appropriate
hymn, for his memory was well stored with
the good old hymns of the church. An ardent
temperance advocate, he sometimes incurred
the wrath of the rumseller and his friends. He
believed that religion and politics could be
mixed without harm to either, and though it
cost him a struggle to leave the ranks of the
Republicans, some years before his death he
became a third party Prohibitionist. A sunny
disposition enabled him to enjoy to the full the
simplest pleasures. The care of a garden, his
horse and a few hens was his usual recreation,
and an occasional fishing trip his extraordinary
delight. Nowhere was he happier than in his
own home. His son and his daughters were
his greatest earthly treasures. Knowing that
he could leave them little of material wealth,
he sought to train them to habits of industry
and self-reliance, and to give them the be.st
education his limited means would allow. He
lived to see his eldest daughter and his son
graduate with honor from Syracuse Univer-
sity, and his second daughter from the State
Normal College at .Albany. These children,
when they had finished their school days, be-
gan planning a home for father and mother
when he should be old and no longer able to
preach. A lot was bought in Gloversville that
the mother might be near her relatives and
the house was in process of building when the
father was called to the Heavenly Home.
Never in all his life had he had any protracted
illness, and he had no experience of the in-
firmities of age. His hair had become snowy
white and was indeed "a crown of glory," but
he was almost in his usual health when in the
midst of his work God called him home. He
died December 27, 1894, at Clifton Park,
Saratoga County, and was buried in Prospect
Hill cemetery, Gloversville. Children of Rev.
Henry and Mary Elizabeth (Shutis) Wright:
I. Mary E., born February 17, 1865; married

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Howard J. Banker. 2. Joseph A., June 11,
1868; married, December 25, 1901, Fannie
Martha Russ ; children: Dorothy, born Jan-
uary 3, 1903 ; Helen, July, 1905 ; George, July
17, 1907. 3. Anna C, September 4, 1869. 4.
•Helen E., September 20. 1871 ; married, Sep-
tember 3, 1888. Fred W. Pawling; children:
Harold Ballantine. born February 14, 1896;
Clarence Wright, June 17, 1898; Helen Bea-
trice, February, 1906; Hazel M., July, 1908.
5. Emma Louisa, March i, 1877.

The progenitor of the Shutts
SHUTTS family of Gloversville, New
York, was Silas Shutts, born in
Canada, October 29, 1807, son of Simon
Shutts, who emigrated to Canada from Mas-
sachusetts. Silas Shutts came to the United
States in 1827, settled in Johnstown. New
York, and was an expert lumberman. He died
April 26, 1902. He married Ann Maria
Smith, born June 25, 181 1, in Fulton county,
New York, died April i, 1904. Children: i.
Ophelia, born October 27, 1832 ; married, Sep-
tember 30, 1851, Miles Ephraim Wheeler;
children : Ida, Arnold, Hamilton, Dewitt, Ma^.
2. Emily, born August 27, 1834 ; married, Oc-
tober 25, 1853, James Holcomb ; children:
Anabel, Burton James, Carrie M., Edward. 3.
De Witt, born October 17, 1836, died August
5, 1862. 4. Mary Elizabeth, born August 7,
1838: married, October 11, 1863, Rev. Henry
Wright ; children : Mary E., Joseph .'\., Anna
C, Helen E., Emma L. 5. Cordelia, born
March 3, 1840; married, February 8, 1865,
Dr. John E. Burdick ; both deceased ; no chil-
dren. 6. Harlan Page, see forward. 7. Wil-
liam L., born April 25, 1846; married Altana
Fosmire : children : Howard, a regular in the
United States army ; and Burton A., married
Emily D. Philips. 9. Minerva, born February
16. 1848; married, September 14, 1871, James
E. Rice, born May 28, 1845. 10. Edward D.,
born May 16, 1850. 11. Ella C, born May 26,
1852 ; married, February 12, 1879, Charles H.
Powell, born September 23, 1846; children:
Roscoe. born November 25, 1879 ; John, born
May I, 1883. 12. Howard, born April 6, 1855,
died September 28, 1862.

(H) Harlan Page, third child of Silas and
Ann Maria C Smith) Shutts, was born in Ful-
ton county. New York, October 2, 1841. He
was educated in the public schools, and after
completing his studies his father took him to
the lumber camps with him, where he re-
mained three years. He then began life on
his own account. He ol)tained employment on
the canal, and took the eastern trip as far as
Albany, and returned west as far as Orrsville,
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life and took sudden leave. He worked as
clerk in the general store of William Putnam
for two years, then returned to Gloversville,
and entered the employ of Jonathan Ricketts,
where he learned the trade of glove making.
Later in life he formed a partnership with
Denton Smith, and as Shutts & Smith manu-
factured gloves and mittens until 1875, when
the firm dissolved. Mr. Shutts then engaged
in the sewing machine business, which he car-
ried on with successful results until 1909.
Since 1885 he has been a partner of E. S.
Parkhurst & Company, and is also interested
in western mining lands, the Glen Telephone
Company, the Gloversville Knitting !\Iill and
other enterprises of his city. He has been a
member of the Knights of Pythias for forty-
two years and is past chancellor and past
chancellor commander of the local lodge.
Politically he is a Republican.

He married, January, 1888, Sarah Elizabeth,
born November 7, 1845, daughter of Cornelius
and Sarah Ann ( Gonsaulus) Fonda, aqd grand-
daughter of Peter Fonda, a descendant of Jil-
lis Fonda, the gunmaker of Schenectady, the
^andson of Jillis Douwerse, the founder, of
Beverwyck as early as 1654. Sarah Ann
(Gonsaulus) Fonda was born July 20, 1820,
died January 31, 1893. She married Cornelius
Fonda, born February 5, 1820. They had
twelve children: i. Mary Jane, born October
4, 1840, died August 31, 1879; married, Feb-
ruary 22, 1858, Benjamin Van Buren. 2.
Catherine, March 16, 1842; married, Decem-
ber 29, i860, James Bancroft. 3. Charles Wes-
ley, December i, 1843, died October 14, 1909.

4. Sarah Elizabeth, married Harlan P. Shutts.

5. Henrietta, March 15, 1847; married, Feb-
ruary 22, 1864, Henry A. Dopp. 6. Gradsir
(?), April 26, 1849. 7. James M., October
30, 1851; married Elizabeth Sweet. 8. Har-
riet, July 29, 1853. 9. William H., March 8,
1855 : married Jennie Young. 10. Ida F..
June 13. 1857, d'S'^1 October 27, 1895 ; married
a Mr. Nellis. 11. Edwin L., January 21,
1859; married, September 25, 1890. Jennie
Wells. 12. Margaret M., April 8, 1862.

The Stevens family is of Eng-
STEVENS lish origin and in 1620 were

living in Cornwall and Berk-
shire counties, England. Nathaniel Gove
Stevens, born September 14, 1786. is de-
scended from a member of this family who
emigrated to .\mcrica and was one of the first
settlers in Warwick, Massachusetts. His
father, also nained Nathaniel Gove Stev-
ens, was born April 7, 1752; married
Lois Stowe, of Marlboro, Massachusetts,
born 1752, died 1813; children as fol-

lows : Lois, Abel. .Simon, Anna, Nathaniel
Gove, Jr., Samuel. Besides being a prosper-
ous farmer, Nathaniel Gove, Jr., successfully
managed a saw mill and tan yard. He rafted
lumber down the Connecticut river. In re-
ligion he was a Unitarian. He married Nancy
Stoughton. Children : Nathaniel Edwin. Sarah,
married a Mr. McClenathan, Lois C, Charles,
Mariah, Timothy Gilbert, Samuel Stoughton.

(II) Samuel Stoughton, son of Nathaniel
Gove and Nancy (Stoughton) Stevens, was
born at Warwick, Franklin county, Massachu-
setts, August 25, 1829. He acquired his edu-
cation in the schools of his native village. In
1848 he went on a raft to South Hadley Falls.
He journeyed from there to Hartford, Con-
necticut, and other places, seeking a shop to
learn the machinists' trade. In Worcester,
Massachusetts, he engaged with the firm of
Goddard & Rice, tool makers, and manufactur-
ers of paper machinery, his only remuneration
being board and lodging. He remained until
the expiration of his apprenticeship, when he
accepted a position with Severance & Tourt-
lotte. who with others, had established a works
for building paper machinery, taking the posi-
tion of foreman. He remained with this firm
three years in Hartford, Connecticut. From
there he went to Troy, New York, to set
up a machine which he had superintended in
building for A. W. Orr & Company, with
whom he remained five years. In 1858, in
connection with the Orrs. he purchased the
North Hoosick mill, which had been partly
fitted up for making wrapping paper. He
completed this mill to make hanging paper,
and in a short time brought the production
from one ton per day to that of two tons.
He remained with the Orrs for about twelve
years. In 1869, after the death of .Alexander
Orr and William O. Cunningham, he, with
George S. Thomjjson, bought out the interest
of the Orrs and continued the business under
the firm name of Stevens & Thompson. In
1874 Stevens & Thompson in connection with
R. H. Thompson, leased the Walloomsac Pa-
per Mill, formerly owned and managed by
Austin and Pratt. .After running this mill for
a term of six years they purchased the prop-
erty from Henry Smith, of New York, and
immediately commenced enlarging the plant.
This in connection with the North Hoosick
mill brought the production up to considerable
over twenty tons per day.

Mr. .Stevens, assisted by his .son Frank L.
Stevens, had exclusive charge of the me-
chanical departments. He had made several
valuable inventions for which he had secured
patents. The first, for a continuous process of
the treatment of paper stock in the form of old

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papers, by which the stock is not handled from
the time it is put into the duster until it comes
out on the machine in the form of paper.
Another is a variable speed device for paper
machines. His third invention is a centrifugal
continuous process pulp dryer. In recent
years he had introduced into this line several
specialities of paper, the manufacturing of
which his younger son, Fred N. Stevens, has
full charge. Samuel S. Stevens married
Marcia Maria Lamberton, of Ware, Massa-
chusetts, daughter of Gideon Lamberton, born
in Ware, 1798, died at the same place in
1892. He was a prosperous farmer, a Re-
publican in politics and a member of the Pres-
byterian church. He married in Ware and
had three children: i. Alfred, born in Ware,
died in Oregon, not married. 2. Melzar, died
in Gilbertville, Massachusetts, married and had
two children : i. Walter, died at age of twenty-
four at North Hoosick about 1884; ii. Clara,
married Fred Barlow and had two children :
Marian, Stanley. 3. Marcia Maria, born July
18, 1830. died in North Hoosick, May 17,
1904. Children of Samuel Stoughton and
Marcia Maria (Lamberton) Stevens: i. .A.nna
Maria, married Hiland Carpenter, of North
Hoosick, New York ; four children : Warwick,
Harold, Samuel (deceased) ; and Marcia. 2.
Lois, married .Arthur Bolton Cobden, cashier
of People's Bank of Lansingburg : one child,
Allen Stevens, born September 22. 1892. 3.
Frank Lamberton, see forward. 4. Fred Na-
thaniel, see forward.

(HI) Captain Frank Lamberton, eldest son
of Samuel Stoughton and Marcia Maria
(Lamberton) Stevens, was born October 28,
1864. He was educated at the Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, and early began his ca-
reer in the paper making industry. He en-
tered the mills of Stevens & Thompson in
1884, and continued until the incorporation in
1903, when he was elected vice-president, an
office wliich he still holds. He is also vice-
president of the Walloomsac Paper Company,
a corporation in which he has been interested
since 1900, when he purchased in connection
with his brother, Fred N., the interest former-
ly held by his father, Samuel Stoughton Ste-
vens. I'rank L. has always been closely asso-
ciated with the practical side of paper making,
and was his father's assistant in the exclusive
charge of the mechanical department of the
mills. To a thoroughly practical knowledge
of paper making he adds executive ability of
a liigh order, which is recognized by his as.so-
ciates in the various corporations in which he
holds official positions. He is president of the
Noble &- Wood Machine Company, of Hoo-
sick Falls, New York ; vice-president of The

Stevens & Thompson Paper Company of Mid-
dle Falls, New York, and a director of the
First National Bank, Hoosick Falls, New
York. He served in the National Guard,
New York, and during the Spanish-American
war was captain in the Second Regiment of
Infantry. He was captain of the Thirty-sec-
ond Separate Company, New York National
Guard, with which he had served sixteen
years. He is a Repul^lican in politics and
in 1904-05 represented his district in the New
York State assembly. Mr. Stevens is a mem-
ber of Van Rensselaer Lodge, No. 400, Free
and Accepted ]\Iasons, of Hoosick Falls, New
York; Raymond Chapter, No. 248, Royal
Arch Masons, of Hoosick Falls, Hoosick Falls
Lodge, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks,
and exalted ruler (19 10) of that body. He is
a member of the Hoosicl- Club, the Pafraets
Dael Club of Troy, and the Army and Navy
Club of New York. He married, February
20, 1884. Frederica, daughter of Joseph Carl
and Katherine (Schaffer) Wallich, of Detroit,
Michigan. Joseph Carl Wallich was born at
Trier-on-the-Rhine, Germany, in 1833. He
learned the trade of cabinetmaker, which then
included pianos and weaving machinery, the
latter an important branch. He came to the
United States in 185 1, locating first at Cleve-
land, later in Berea, Ohio. During the civil
war he was selected as carpenter to an engi-
neering corps, his ability in construction being
well known to the officer in charge. In 1862
he settled in Detroit, where he purchased a
residence, now 405 Cass avenue, then far in
the country surrounded by woods. He be-
came a prominent contractor and builder, com-
pleting several important government contracts
including the post office and Marine Hospital
buildings. He was deeply interested in the
study of anthropology and was deeply versed
in his favorite study. He was a .source of
wonder to the professional men with whom he
conversed. His last words expressed his life
ambition "Ein guter erieirchterungs sim." (A
good, well-enlightened perception.) He was
at different times a member of the Concor-
dia and Harmonic Singing Societies, and was
affiliated with Zion Lodge, No. i. Free and
Accepted Masons. He married, at Berea,
Ohio, Katherine Schaffer. Children : Charles
W., of Detroit, Michigan : Claud, superinten-
dent of fisheries at Yes Bay, Alaska : Fred-
erica, married Frank L. Stevens: Julia Mi-
netta. married Fred N. Stevens, of whom fur-
ther; Lilly, married Gustav R. Schimmel. of
Detroit: Wilhimina. of New York City, un-
married : Julius of Buffalo, New York : Cath-
erine, married George R. Docniling. of De-
troit. Mr. Wallich died at Detroit, Michigan,

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at the age of seventy-three years. The chil-
dren of Frank L. and Frederica (Wallich)
Stevens: Lois, born December i8, 1892; Chris-
tian. June 30, 1897; Samuel Stoughton, Sep-
tember 2, 1 90 1.

(HI) Fred Nathaniel, son of Samuel
Stoughton and Marcia Maria (Lamberton)
Stevens, was born at North Hoosick, Janu-
ary 3, 1868. He was educated in the public
schools of the district and at private schools,
Peekskill Military Academy, Graylock Insti-
tute, South Williamstown, Massachusetts, Wil-
liston Seminary at East Hampton, Massachu-
setts. Boston Institute of Technology. Boston,
Massachusetts, one year. He entered the pa-
per manufacturing business with his father
in the firm of Stevens & Thompson. In 1900
he, with his brother, Frank L., bought out
his father's interest in the Walloomsac Paper
Company. They successfully operated as a
firm until 1906, when they incorporated, with
Fred N. Stevens as secr^etary. The business
of this corporation is the manufacture of wall
paper. Mr. Stevens is also secretary of Ste-
vens & Thompson, Incorporated, manufac-
turers of wall, filter, manilla, and tissue paper.
The corporations are well managed and suc-
cessful and add materially to the prosperity
of the villages in which their works and of-
fices are located. Walloomsac and North Hoo-
sick. Mr. Stevens is a director of the Peo-
ple's Bank of Hoosick Falls, New York, pres-
ident of the Hudson Valley Humane Society
(Hoosick branch), member of the Church of
Christ (Scientist), member of the board of
governors of the Floosick Club. In politics
a Republican and fraternally an "Elk." He
married, January 27, 1892, Julia Minetta Wal-
lich, born in Detroit, Michigan, daughter of
Joseph Carl Wallich, who was born at Trier-
on-the-Rhine, Germany, 1833. Children:
Frederick Wallich, born October 12, 1892,
died February 28, 1901 ; Carl Wallich, born
June 24. 1894, entered Culver Military Acad-
emy. Culver, Indiana, for 1910-11; Marcia
Lamberton.

(II) Gilbert Timothy Stevens,*
STEVENS son of Nathaniel Gove (q. v.)
and Nancy (Stoughton) Stev-
ens, was born May 23, 1827, at Warwick,
Massachusetts, died at Walpole, New Hamp-
shire. November 25, 1897. He was by trade
a tanner and currier, but gave up his trade
when a young man to become a farmer. About
1859 he removed to Walpole, New Hamp-
shire, where he took iiromiiient part in church

♦In some branches of tlic family this name appears
as Timothy Gilbert Stevens.

and town affairs. He was an active Repub-
lican, a member of the Christian church. He
married. November 25, 1853, Elizabeth Ar-
nold, now living in Walloomsac, New York,
with her son William N. She is the daughter
of William Arnold, see forward. Children of
Mr. and Mrs. Stevens : William Nathaniel, see
forward ; Josephine Elizabeth, born Walpole,
New Hampshire, January 14, 1856, died Jan-
uary 18, 1871.

(Ill) William Nathaniel, son of Gilbert
Timothy and Elizabeth (Arnold) Stevens, was
born in Warwick, Massachusetts, March 4,
1855. He was educated in Walpole's common
and high schools. He learned the machinist's
trade, but left it to become a bookkeeper and
assistant superintendent for his uncle, Nath-
aniel Edwin Stevens, at Winchester, New
York, a farmer and currier, where he re-
mained four years. In July, 1883, he removed
to Walloomsac where he accepted a position
as bookkeeper with the Walloomsac Paper
Company; he is still with them, having been
promoted to assistant superintendent. He
owns and runs a farm of one hundred and
fifty acres which he bought in 1906. It is his-
toric ground, being land on which the first
part of the battle of Bennington was fought,
where Colonel Baum came to seize stores and
was reinforced on this land. It is now called
Hessian Hill. He is in the retail coal busi-
ness in Walloomsac. He is a Republican,
active in town affairs, having held the oftice
of justice of the peace from 1901 to 1910,
interested in education, having been trustee of
the school district for several years. He is
notary public, first appointed under the ad-
ministration of governor David B. Hill. He
is a prominent member of the Presbyterian
church of Hoosick Falls : he was elected elder
September 20. 1880, has been trustee since
1902, and has been clerk of the sessions since
1907. He has been elected several times to
the Presbytery and by the Presbytery to the
Synod in 1906, and also by the Presbytery
to the general session of the Presbyterian
Church of America in 1907. He has served
several years as superintendent of the Sab-
bath school and is a member of the Christian
Endeavor Society. When the Presbyterian
church was repaired in 1897-98, he was on
the building committee and rendered efficient
service. He is a member of the Masonic
Order, having been made a Mason at Phile-
cian Lodge, No. 40, Winchester, New Hamp-
shire, in 1881, demitting from that lodge in
1S86 and joining Van Rensselaer Lodge at
Hoosick Falls, New York. He is a Royal
Arch Mason of Raymond Chapter. No. 248,
Hoosick Falls, and has filled all the principal

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chairs including election to the office of high
priest, an honor he felt impelled to decline.
He is past worthy patron of Van Rensselaer
Chapter, No. 161, Order of Eastern Star, of
Hoosick, having served two years. His social
■club is the Hoosick of Hoosick Falls.

William N. Stevens married (first) Jane
E. W'atkins, by whom he had one son, Wil-
liam Earl, born in Walpole. 1878. He is
living in Bellows Falls, Vermont, a machinist
by trade. He is now engaged in a machinery
and jobbing repair shop. He married Es-
tella \\'illington and has three children : Wil-
liam N. Stevens, married (second) October
13, 1886. at Hoosick Falls, Katherine Helen,
daughter of Thomas JNIoses. who was a son
•of Dr. Salmon Moses. Children of second
wife: Mary Elizabeth, born September 28,
1887. died June 21, 1900; Nathaniel Edwin,
March 4. 1889, died June 29. 1900; John Has-
well. June 18. 1891. died March 16. 1896;
Katherine Lois, July 28, 1892, died March 20,
1906: Ruth, November 30. 1897; Helen Jea-
nette. November 16. 1900 ; Naomi and Anna,
twins. March 19, 1903. Naomi died March
19. 1903. Anna died December 23, 1903.

William Arnold, grandfather of William N.
Stevens, was born in Westmoreland, New
Hampshire. March 29. 1792. He learned the
machinist's trade, and worked at that busi-
ness in his younger days. At what time he
came to Walpole is not known, but at one
time he worked for Thomas Aloore as a
hired man on his farm, and married one of
his daughters, Naomi, October 3, 1822, who
was born September 14, 1795. After his mar-
riage he worked at his trade a while in Paw-
tucket. Rhode Island, where some of his chil-
dren were born. He returned to Walpole
and purchased the Robinson tavern stand and
commenced keeping a public house in 1837. in
which business he continued till the building
of the Cheshire railroad, when the tavern
keeping was relinquished. When he com-
menced keeping tavern there was a large
amount of travel over the road that passed
his house, it being the third New Hampshire
turnpike. liere. he and his wife did their best
to please, thereby securing a good share of
customers, who were sure to be well cared
for. After he relinquished tavern keeping,
he turned his attention to farming, which oc-
cupation he followed till the infirmities of age
caused him to suspend labor. He died Au-
gust 27, 1876. Children : Elizabeth, born May
22. 1823: married (first) Levi Winchester, of
Westmoreland; one son. Frank L. : married
(second) Gilbert Timothy Stevens, had two
children : Mary P., born September 27, 1824,
married O. FT. P. Watkins, May 14, 1847;

three children : William, born December 26,
1826. married Mary S. Stevens, of Warwick,
Massachusetts, September, 1852 : three chil-
dren: Sarah Jane, born August 29, 1828, mar-
ried Henry D. Bacon, and has one daughter,
Sophia, born July 19, 1834, married Nelson
Johnson, October 19, 1865 ; two children ;
Frances N., born March 2, 1836, married
George A. Sherman. June 13, 1866; no issue.

John Moses of Plymouth, Massachusetts,
ancestor of Katherine Helen (Moses) Stev-
ens, was a shipwright ; he came to New Eng-
land between 1630 and 1640. He died Octo-
ber 14, 1683.

(H) John (2), son of John (i) Moses,
settled at Windsor, Connecticut, previous to
1647. He was a soldier of Captain John
Mason's troop of horse. He married Mary
Brown, May 18, 1653. He died October 14,
1683; she died September 14, 1689. Children,
John, William. Thomas, Mary, Sarah. Nath-
aniel, Dorcas, Margaret, Timothy, Martha and
Mindwell.

(III) John (3). son of John (2) Closes,
settled in Simsbury, Connecticut, on his fath-
er's farm near Mount Philip. He married
Deborah Thrall, July 14, 1680. She belonged
to the Puritan church, November 10, 1697,
of forty-three persons. She died May 16,
1715. Children: John, Deborah, William,
Thomas, Joshua, Deborah, Caleb (i), Oth-
niel, Moses, Caleb (2), Mary and Martha.

(IV) Joshua, son of John (3) Moses, mar-
ried (first) December 12, 1717, Hannah
Strickland. She died January 16, 17 18 or
1719, leaving twins three days old. He mar-
ried (second) June 28. 1722, Mary Brook.
He deeded lands in New Hartford in 1744
and 1745. We find in Norfolk records, deeds
July 2, 1772, from "Joshua the elder to son
Joshua." Also be bought lands in Norfolk
in 1769. He died February 6, 1773, of an
eating cancer of the mouth, aged about eigh-
ty-five years. By his will dated September
18. 1772, he leaves property to "Sons Joshua
Othniel and John: to daughters Flannah,
Mary and Rachel." Children: Hannah and
Mary, twins ; Rachel, Joshua, Othniel and
John.

(V) Joshua (2), son of Joshua (i) Moses,
resided in Norwalk, Connecticut. From Nor-
walk town records we find that on April 24,
1769, "Joshua Moses of Simsbury bouglit
land in Norfolk of Matthew Phelps." Also
a deed July 2, 1772, from "Joshua the elder
to son Joshua." In the distribution of the
estate of Joshua Moses, November 4. 1795,
Norfolk. Pro. Rec. mention is made of wife
.Abigail and the reservation of a "shop" to
Jonathan ; then further distribution is made

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to Joshua, Thomas, Jonathan, Abigail Pahner
and Jesse Moses and "heirs of Joshua." Pre-
vious to this are recorded several deeds No-
vember 30, 1792, for "love and good will"
to "son Jesse" "son Thomas," "son Joshua
Jr.," and September 17, 1794, to Jesse Moses
from "his honored father." It seems a little
singular that a son Jonah was left out of
this distribution as we find in Norfolk records
this entry: "Jonah Moses, son of Joshua
Moses and Abigail, his wife, born October
25, 1777." In the history of the Terry fam-
ily, we learn that Abigail Terry, born Janu-
ary 18, 1740, married Joshua Moses, of Nor-
folk.

(VI) Thomas, son of Joshua (2) Moses,
was born July 19, 1768, died September 24,
185 1. He spent his life on his father's old
homestead at Norfolk, Connecticut. He mar-
ried (first) November 24. 1791. Abigail
Brown, born August 17, 1769, died February
16, 1823. He married (second) November
II, 1839. Caroline Brown. Children: Sal-
mon, Thomas, Jr., Ralph, Benjamin, Hiram,
Betsy, Julia, Eunice, Abigail, Ruth.

(VII) Dr. Salmon, son of Thomas and
Abigail (Brown) Moses, was educated at
Hamilton (New York) College, and had a
large practice as a physician at Hoosick Falls,
New York. An interesting letter from him
is published in the History of Norfolk, Con-
necticut. He was a zealous churchman, read-
ing service for several years in the school
house, until funds were provided to build
the present St. Mark's Episcopal Church at
Hoosick Falls. He married, February 18,
1823, Sarah Haswell. Children : Robert Has-
well, Harriet Haswell, Sarah Julia. Thomas
Salmon, Elizabeth Tweedale, Cynthia Has-
well, Mary. Charles Arthur.

(VIII) Thomas Salmon, son of Dr. Sal-
mon and Sarah (Haswell) Moses, was born
June 23, 1828, died April 28, 1902. He re-
sided at Bennington, Vermont. He married
Mary Ann Whitehead, of Hoosick Falls, New
York. Children : Jane, Maria, Francis. Wil-
liam, Catherine H., Thomas, Walter. Martha,
Harriet, Alice.

Among the Dukes of Aus-
ALBRIGHT tria between 976 and 1493

was Albrecht II, who
reigned as Margrave of Austria and Duke
of Bavaria in the year 1139. He died with-
out posterity. In 1282 Albrecht III, Duke
of Austria, reigned as Albrecht I. Emperor
of Roman Germany. He was born in 1248,
and assassinated in 1308. .'\lbrecht II (The
Wise) reigned as Duke of Austria, 1330-58.
He married, and was succeeded by his son,

Rudolph I\', who was succeeded by Al-
brecht III (the astrologer), his brother, whcx
reigned 1365-95. He married Elizabeth,
daughter of Karl IV, German Roman Em-
peror, who died in 1373. He married (sec-
ond) Beatrixe, daughter of Friederich IV^
of Nurmberg. He was succeeded by his only
son, Albrecht IV, who reigned 1395-1404.
He married Johanna, daughter of Albert,.
Count of Holland and Duke of Bavaria. Al-
brecht V succeeded his father, and reigned
Duke of Austria, 1402. King of Hungary,
King of Bohemia and German Roman Em-
peror, as Albrecht II, 1438-39, when he died.
Six dukes of Austria now reigned until an-
other Albrecht came to the throne. In 1475
Albrecht VI, born 1418, died 1463, came to
the throne and reigned Count of Tyrol and'
Duke of Austria 1457-63. In 1493 this par-
ticular title seems to have become extinct
with Maximillian. the First. It is from this
line of Austrain dukes that Heinric Albrecht
descended. The name in America has be-
come Hendrick Albright, but the family name
is Albrecht, and the given name Heinrich.
The family were noble for centuries, and the
emigrant to America was a man of means
and education. The family everywhere that
descend from this ancestor show the effects
of those centuries of high breeding, and are
distinguished in their several walks, inclin-
ing largely to the professions, particularly the
pulpit and music. In the L^nited States the
name is a very familiar one, and has been
given wide prominence by Rev. Jacob Al-
bright, born near Pottsville, Pennsylvania, of
German parentage, who became an exhorter
and noted Methodist minister. He made
many converts, almost exclusively Germans,
and in 1800 a separate church was organized,
Albright being first presiding elder. He was-
appointed bishop in 1807. His denomination
is now known as the "Evangelical Associa-
tion," but in many places its adherents are
called ".Albrights."

(I) The American progenitor of the Al-
bright family of \'oorheesville, .•\lbany coun-
ty. New York, is Hendrick Albright, borrr
in .Austria in 1716, and came to America
in 1740. He was a man of means, as im-
mediately upon his arrival he purchased four
hundred acres of the best land in Guilder-
land. Albany county, now tlie town of New
Scotland. He married Elizabeth Folent (Po-
land), and on their Guilderland farm, in 1783,
he built the original stone house that was
the family home for several generations, and'
stood in good repair until destroyed by fire
in 1894. He was an ardent revolutionist, and'
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said he ordered his son-in-law,

Strauss

(who had joined the British army during the
revohition), to quit not only the farm and
neighborhood, but to leave the country. Al-
though this was after the war had closed,
Strauss was so impressed with the old man's
warnings that he removed to Canada, where
he remained until his death. Part of the
original purchase of four hundred acres,
which was divided among the four sons, has
always remained in the Albright family. His
wife Elizabeth was of Scotch birth and an-
cestry. Children : John, baptized August 6,
1749; married and had issue: Jacob, Hannah,
Rachel, Elizabeth and Frederic; Eva, bap-
tized September 29, 175 1 ; Anna, November
II, 1753; Philip, September 28, 1755, died
unmarried; Helena. January 15, 1758; Jacob,
October 11, 1763; Hendrick, October 10, 1765
married Helen Bratt, and had children, in-
cluding George W., a prominent attorney of
Washington, District of Columbia ; Frederick,
baptized April 10, 1768.

(H) Jacob, son of Hendrick and Elizabeth
(Poland) Albright, was born in Guilderland,
Albany county, New York (now New Scot-
land), baptized October 11, 1763, died March
20, 1829. He inherited part of the paternal
acres, and was engaged in their cultivation
all his active years. He was a Whig in poli-
tics, and a member of the Dutch Reformed
church. He married (first) Hannah Arnold ;
(second) Elizabeth Wheeler, born and reared
on the Albright home farm. Children by first
wife: Elizabeth: John, born in 1786; Henry,
1788, married Rosa Bradt ; Hannah, 1793.
Children by second wife: Philip, born 1794,
died, unmarried, 1834; Mary, 1795; Isaac, see
forward: Magdaline, 1798, died unmarried;
Jacob, 1800, died 1896, a farmer of Jordan.
New York; Peter, 1803, died 1886, leaving
two married daughters; Eve. 1805, married
Solomon Wiltse. died in Syracuse, New
York; Sarah, 1807, died young; Catherine,
twin of Sarah, died young; Diana, born 1810,
died 1874; Gideon, twin of Diana; Susan,
born 1813, married Abraham W'ynkoop;
Mercy, twin to Susan, died in infancy.

(HI) Isaac, seventh child of Jacob Al-
bright, and the third by his second wife, Eliz-
abeth (Wheeler) Albright, was born in the
old stone house on the homestead farm in
New Scotland, Albany county. New York,
January 11, 1797, died January 20, 1888. He
was a continuous resident of the original
homestead farm until his death at the age
of ninety-two years. He became the owner
of that portion left to his father, and added
many improvements. He was a faithful mem-
ber of the Reformed church of New Salem,

and never missed a service until a few weeks
before his death, unless kept away by sick-
ness or unavoidable detention. He was free
from the bigotry of his day, called all Chris-
tians his brethren, and was a friend to all
those persecuted for conscience sake. He was
a strong Democrat, as had been his father
and grandfather. His last vote was cast for
the same party as his first had been.
He was prosperous in worldly affairs,
and gave to each of his sons a good
farm. He married, September 9, 1820,
Cicely, born November 4, 1801, died
December 29, 1885, daughter of Peter Sim-
mons, an early settler of Clarksville. Chil-
dren: I. Peter S., born on the homestead
farm, February 8, 1821, died March 3, 1899;
he remained on the home farm until eight
years after liis marriage ; in 1854 he pur-
chased ninety acres adjoining, which he added
to the original farm and cultivated until he
retired from active labor ; he was a Demo-
crat, and a member of the Reformed church ;
he was prosperous, and respected ; he mar-
ried, March 14, 1846, in New Salem, Cath-
erine Ellen Hallenbeck, torn in Bethlehem,
May 22, 1828, who survives him and lives
at the old home with children surrounding
her to minister to her in her old age. She
is a daughter of Ephraim G. and Mary
Magdalene (Bartlett) Hallenbeck, grand-
daughter of Isaac and Catherine E. (Pro-
vost) Hallenbeck. a descendant of Caspar
Jacolise Holenbeck, who was in Beverwyck
in 1654. died about August, 1703, leaving
two sons, Isaac and Jan. Children of Peter
S. and Catherine E. (Hallenbeck) .\lbright :
i. Mary Magdalene, born May 2, 1848; mar-
ried Henry Moak, and lives in Elsmere, New
York ; children : Dr. B. Harris Moak, the
well-known bacteriologist of Brooklyn, New
York, married Mary Smedley ; William A. V.
D. H., of Schenectady, New York, married
Catherine Whitman ; Marian G., unmarried,
ii. Sarah M., November 18, 1849; married
Franklin M. Jones, a merchant of Albany,
and has a son Carlton F. iii. Isaac S., July
I, 1852; a farmer on the home estate; married
Ella McCormick. iv. Emmeline, March 10,
1858; married S. F. Fowler, whom she sur-
vives, residing at Altamont ; has a daughter
Lillian, who is connected with Dudley Obser-
vatory. V. Rocelia, February 26, i860; mar-
ried Alvenus Hurst, and has children : Ethlvn
A., Mabel. Helen M.. Mildred C. Mary Elea-
nor, vi. George H., February 22, 1862, died
in Denver, Colorado, 1882. vii. Katherine M.,
March 30, 1864: unmarried; lives at home
where her rare home-making talents are exer-
cised for the comfort and happiness of her

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aged mother, viii. Adelbert. March 17, 1871,
graduate of Chicago Veterinary College; lo-
cated in IMishwaukee, Indiana ; married Etta
Weidman. deceased, ix. Odella, September
30, 1873 : married David Finch, and has Hilda
E., Merlin, David Nelson. 2. Jacob, born
March 28, 1822, see forward. 3. Harriet,
October, 1824; married James Houck, now
of Clarksville, New York. 4. Sarah, August
13, 1826; died, unmarried, aged seventy-
years. 5. Emmeline. January 8. 1828; mar-
ried Jolin Ward, whom she survives ; resides
in Albany, New York; children: Julia, Celia,
Nathan and Nellie, the latter deceased. 6.
Mary E., August 2. 1830; married James
W. Reid, and left a large family. 7. Isaac
(2), see forward.

(IV) Jacob, son of Isaac and Cicely (Sim-
mons) Albright, was born in the old home-
stead in New Scotland, Albany county, New
York. March 28, 1822, died 1902. He was
educated in the public schools, reared a farm-
er and on arriving at man's estate was given
the farm by his father on which stood the
old stone house built in 1783 by his grand-
father, Hendrick Albright, the founder of the
family in Albany county. He was the last
to occupy the old stone house previous to its
destruction by fire. He was a man of thrift
and energy, and highly respected in his com-
munity. He was a Republican in politics, and
a member of the Methodist church. He mar-
ried (first) in New Scotland, Eliza E. Reid,
born in the town in 1825, died 1867. She
was a daughter of an early Scotch settler of
Scotch parentage. She was also a member
of the Methodist church, and reared her chil-
dren in that faith. Children; i. Cicely, mar-
ried James Beebe, a farmer of New Scot-
land, whom she survives ; child, Irene, mar-
ried John Weidman ; children : Maud and
Kenneth. 2. Mary, married Abraham Koons, a
farmer of the town ; children : Emma, Ros-
etta, Jacob, George, Alice and Roy. 3. Emma,
married William Relyea, a farmer of New
Scotland ; child, Ada, married Frank Oster-
hout; children: Myra, Willard and Mildred.
4. Catherine, married Lyman Bell: children:
Jennie. Frederick, deceaserl ; Catherine, mar-
ried James Harkey. 5. Isaac, graduated M.D.
Albany Medical College, class of 1884, and
is now practicing his profession in Chicago,
Illinois. 6. James, a farmer of South Da-
kota ; married Belle Furgeson ; children,
Alice, Ralph, John. 7. Harriet, married John
V. Wynkoop. born February 6, 1855, son of
Abraham and Susanna (.Mbright) Wynkoop,
and grandson of Joshua Wynkoop. a revolu-
tionary soldier; he is a farmer of New .Scot-
land; children: i. Newton .\., born January

4, 1876, died 1899; married Bertha Knee-
holts, of Albany; ii. Edna B., September 15,
1878 ; unmarried ; iii. Margaret Van O'Linda,
February 16, 1883, married Conrad D. Hal-
lenbeck; iv. Elizabeth Shelp, October 10,
1894; unmarried. 8. John W.. see forward.
9. Jacob, born 1861 ; married Ella Koons, of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, children: Henry.
Raymond, George and Elsie. 10. Edward, a
resident of Rutherford, New Jersey ; married
Elizabeth Hotaling. of New Scotland ; chil-
dren : Harry, Alice, Esther and Harold. Jacob
Albright married (second), Amanda O'Brien.
Children: 11. Ira, now a resident of Iowa,
married Mildred Winne. 12. Ivy, mar-
ried George Van Atten, a farmer of the
town of Bethlehem, Albany county, and has
a daughter Ruth. 13. Anna, married "Bert"
Creble, a farmer of Feurabush, New Scot-
land, and has a daughter Naomi.

(\') John W., son of Jacob and Eliza E.
(Reid) Albright, was born on the homestead
farm in New Scotland, May 8. 1859. He
was reared on the homestead, which came
into his possession by purchase in 1908. He
has brought the property to a high state of
cultivation, and is considered one of the pros-
perous and substantial men of his town. He
is a Republican in politics. He married, in
Lysander, Onondaga county. New York, Belle
Bratt, born in that town August 9, 1864,
daughter of John and Matilda (Wilson)
Bratt. John Bratt was a carpenter by trade ;
a member of the Christian church, and a
Democrat, died in 1900. Mrs. Albright is the
fourth of their six living children. Children
of John W. and Belle (Bratt) Albright; i.
Charles W., born May 14, 1889; served a
term of enlistment in the United States Navy,
and made part of the trip around the world
with the battleship fleet in 1907-08; honor-
ably discharged at San Francisco, account of
sickness ; is now a machinist, unmarried. 2.
Howard B., July 23, 1895. 3. Wesley A.,
-April 9, 1897. 4. Henry Cary, August 23,
1903.

(IV) Isaac (2), youngest child of Isaac
(i) and Cicely (Simmons) Albright, was
born on the homestead farm in New Scot-
land, March 29, 1833. Lie has been engaged
in agriculture all his life, and is now retired,
living in New Salem village. He is a Re-
publican in politics. He married Hannah E.,
daughter of Peter A. and Eleanor (Ros-
seau) Bradt, and maternal granddaughter of
Frederick Rosseau, of French birth. Chil-
dren: I. Peter, born October 19, 1858. died,
June, 1908, unmarried. 2. Jacob, July 17,
1860: married Frances Gilbert, and resides in
X'irginia City, Montana. 3. Adam, see for-

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M83

•ward. 4. Frank, born August 13, 1867 ; now
a farmer of New Scotland ; married Eunice
\\'heeler. Children : Mildred, Adelaide, Wal-
ter \\'., Charles and Irene. 5. Ella, July 18,
1872; married Charles Livingston, and
has a daughter Catherine, (see Living-
ston MI). 6. Edna M.. May 20, 1874;
a resident of Albany ; unmarried. 7. Isaac R.,
October 21, 1875; connected with the govern-
ment mail service in Albany ; married Helen
Taylor ; children : Denton, Robert R. and
Alice.

(V) Adam, son of Isaac (2) and Hannah
E. (Bradt) Albright, was born October 15,
1862. He was educated in the public schools,
and developing remarkable musical talent was
placed under capable instructors, who en-
couraged him to train and cultivate his voice
for professional purposes. He placed himself
under the best vocal instructors, including
Madam P. H. Shaffer, the famous vocalist,
of Albany; Madame Edna A. Hall, of Bos-
ton, and other equally famed teachers. He
worked hard to master his profession, and
has gained fame. He sang in Trinity Church,
Buftalo, and completely filled that great aud-
ience room. He is also an accomplished in-
strumentalist, and has charge of the auditing
in the large Florida hotels during the winter
months. He is well known in the musical
world, and has established reputation both as
an instructor and performer. He holds an
important official position with the southern
hotel syndicate. INIr. Albright is unmarried.

There is historic propriety in
GILBERT preserving the memory of the

services and name of Gilbert,
as no one is more honorably or intimately con-
nected with American discoveries and early
history. It stands conspicuous among such
names as Raleigh, Drake and Cavendish, to
whom the Gilberts were joined by lineage.
The name is Saxon, and is written in the Roll
of Battle Abbey and in the Book of Domes-
day. Richard Fitz-Gilbert was a kinsman
of the Conqueror. Sir Humphrey Gilbert
devoted his life to geographical discovery,
principally in North America. He was the
first Englishman who projected settlements
in America, in attempting which he lost his
life. He projected the settlemenb, later per-
fected by Sir Walter Raleigh. These men
laid the foundations of the trade and naval
power of Great Britain. Sir Humphrey was
also an eminent scientific authority in
"Computation astronomical and cosmograph-
ical" and "a man both valiant and experienced
in martial affairs." In 1758 Queen Elizabeth
: granted letters patent to Sir Humphrey "to

discover and take possession of all remote
and barbarous lands, unoccupied by any
Christian prince or people." On August 5,
1582, "he took Seizen of New Foundland
and the adjacent territories for the Crown of
England." The Gilberts of New England
came from Devonshire, England. They set-
tled in Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut and
Maryland, some of the name also going to
Mrginia.

(I) John Gilbert was at Dorchester, Mas-
sachusetts, as early as 1636. About 1640
four brothers, Jonathan, Thomas, Obadiah,
and Josiah Gilbert, were living in Connecti-
cut. Matthew Gilbert, one of the first col-
onists of New HavSn, was the progenitor
of the Gilbert families of Hamden. Connec-
ticut. He is numbered among the first prin-
cipal settlers of New Haven. He was one
of the persons chosen in 1639 for the seven
pillars of the church and one of the first
magistrates of the colony and deputy-gover-
nor. He left two sons, Matthew and Samuel.

(II) Matthew, son of Governor John Gil-
bert, died in 171 1, leaving a son, Daniel.

(HI) Daniel, .son of Matthew Gilbert, died
in 1753. He was a settler in that part of
New Haven called Hamden. He left five
sons, Matthew, Solomon, Michael, Caleb and
John. Michael and John were killed when
the British troops invaded New Haven, July
5- I779- John was captain of the Uptown
militia. He met the Briti.sh troops at the
head of his company and was killed with five
of his men.

(IV) Captain John was the grandfather
of William and the progenitor of the Albany
county Gilberts.

(V) A son of Captain John Gilbert, (record
wanting).

(VI) William, grandson of Captain John
Gilbert, of New Haven. Connecticut, was born
about 1795. He removed to Albany covinty.
New York, where he settled in the town of
Bethlehem. He purchased a tract of land and
followed the life of a farmer. He served
in the American army during the war of
1812. He was a Whig in politics. He mar-
ried (first) Ora Hart, daughter of one of
the early families of the town. Children :
Glazie, Noah, Elkanah, Maria, Laura, Ann,
Bradley, Alvin and Calvin (twins) ; Prudence
and William (2). He married (second)
Charity Barber. Chiklren : Eliza, Rachel
.'\nn, Toseph and Elisha.

(VII) William (2). son of William (i)
and Ora (Hart) Gilbert, was born in Beth-
lehem, Albany county. New York, April i,
1823, died September, 1893. He settled on
a farm in New Scotland which lie cultiva-

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HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

ted until 1856, then purchased a farm in the
town of Guilderland, where he resided until
1865. In the latter year he sold his Guil-
derland farm and removed to Glenville, Sche-
nectady county, where he purchased an es-
tate on which he resided until his death. He
married, December, 1843. Hannah Houghton,
born in New Scotland, April 4, 1821. died
there January 19, 1895, daughter of David
and Anna (Bryant) Houghton. David
Houghton was born in Massachusetts, Janu-
ary 24, 1778, died August 18, 1836. Anna
Bryant, born February 2, 1777, in Massachu-
setts, died January 18, 1859, daughter of John
and Dorcas (Lawrence) Bryant, both of Mas-
sachusetts, but later of New Scotland. Al-
bany county, New York, where they settled
on a farm and died. The Bryants and Hough-
tons are of the oldest and best New England
families. Children of David and Anna
(Bryant) Houghton: i. Mary (Polly), born
December 4, 1798, died April 11, 1858; mar-
ried Joseph Phillips. 2. Lucy, born July 4,
1801. died February 20. 1881 ; married" James
Hallenbeck : children : Rachel, Katie, Ann,
Sarah. William, Silas. 3. John, born March
21, 1803, died December 26. 1859; children:
John, David, James, Henry, Mary, Kate, Ann
Margaret. 4. Silas, born November 13, 1804,
died November 25, 1848: left no issue. 5.
Eli. born May 21. 1808, died April 16, 1882;
married Laura Gilbert, sister of William Gil-
bert : children : William, David, Calvin,
George, John. Henry, Charles, Hannah, Har-
riet, Sarah, Calvin and George served in the
civil war, now deceased. 6. Catherine, born
September 25, 181 1, died March 13, 1883;
married James Patrick ; children : Robert,
James, George, Anna, Mary, Clarissa, Char-
lotte, Lydia, Jennie; Mary, married Alexander
Lloyd, she is deceased, but he is living at the
present time (1910) aged nearly ninety years;
children: Brigadier-General James H. Lloyd,
of Troy, New York, proiriinent in state mili-
tia, assistant chief of Troy fire department,
thirty-third degree Mason and flag bearer;
William, deceased ; Emma and Alexander. 7.
Smith, born September 14, 18 14. died at
age of eighty-five years; married Catherine
Wetherwax ; children : James, Eli. David,
Daniel, Andrew, William. Jane Ann. Sarah.
Dorcas. 8. Sarah (Sally), born November
I, 1816, died February 18, 1876; married
John Hart; children: David; Eli, veteran of
civil war ; Alexander, veteran of civil war ; all
living; Margaret, deceased, and Mary. 9.
Hannah, born April 4, 1821 ; married William
Gilbert; child. Henry S. 10. Jane Ann. born
October 7, 1823, died March 3, 1883; mar-
ried Henry Retallick ; no issue ; by first mar-

riage to Kate Ann Houghton, Henry Retal-
lick had children : Maria, Martha, Henry.
Hannah, aforementioned as the wife of Wil-
liam (2) Gilbert, was the last survivor of the
Houghton children.

(Vni) Henry Smith, only son and child
of William (2) ancl Hannah (Houghton)
Gilbert, was born near the village of New
Salem, town of New Scotland, Albany county,
New York, March 5. 1846. He was educated
in the public schools and rapidly developed
a strong, robust physique. His early interest
in political life was shown when at the semi-
centennial of old Fremont political veteran's
reunion at Saratoga, New York, in 1906,
he was an invited guest, and won a badge
made especially for the occasion. Among his
treasures is the badge that was worn on that
occasion. He remained with his father until
the latter's death. He inherited the home-
stead in Glenville which he sold in spring of
1874, and purchased his present one hundred
acre estate at Fullers, to which he removed
in 1875. His specialties are fine horses and
cows and dairy farming. In 1889-90 he en-
gaged in mercantile life at Fullers where he
was also postmaster, holding the office under
President Harrison. Not finding merchan-
dising a congenial business, he disposed of
his store interest and returned to his farm.
He has been actively engaged in the sale of
agricultural machinery for many years, and
is director, stockholder and vice-president of
the Altamont Driving Park and Fair Asso-
ciation, also a prominent exhibitor. From
the days of the organization of the Repub-
lican party he has retained the liveliest inter-
est in political life. To his early education
he has added from wide experience and well-
chosen reading, and has risen to the front
rank as a leader in his town party. He is
a pleasing, forceful speaker, and at county and'
state conventions is often heard. He im-
presses his audience with his sound, clear
reasoning and earnestness. He fights all his
battles in the open, and is intensely loyal to-
party mandates as expressed in convention.
He is one of the Old Guard, but never uses
the knife to revenge convention defeats. He
is truly a "lifelong" Republican. He is a
member and a liberal supporter of the Metho-
dist church of Guilderland. Mr. Gilbert is
decidedly temperate in his tastes, never having
tasted any kind of liquor and smoking but"
little. He married, January 6, 1867, in Glen-
ville, Schenectady county, Helen C, Weaver,
born November 12. 1850, daughter of Ben-
jamin and Hannah (Closson) Weaver. Chil-
dren: I. William ^^'., born January 14, 1868,
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1485

feed and produce commission business at
Voorheesville, New York ; a Republican in
politics, member of Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, of Voorheesville ; he married
Hattie L. Main ; children : Ethel and Flor-
ence. 2. Burton H., born April 29, 1876,
educated in the public schools; he is now
operating his father's farm, and resides at
home : a Republican in politics, member of
Blue Lodge, of Masons at Altamont ; he mar-
ried Floy Brown, born October 31, 1879.

The Crocker family first ap-
CROCKER pear in New England at Scit-
uate and Barnstable, Massa-
chusetts, where William and John Crocker,
brothers, resided. They are said to have
come to America in 1634. William united
with the church in Scituate, December 25,
1636. He was of Barnstable in 1639. He
\vas deputy and a man of importance. He

married Alice ; children, John, born

May II, 1637, at Scituate: Elizabeth, bap-
tized December 22, 1639, at Barnstable, died
at the age of eighteen ; Samuel, born July 3,
1642 ; Job, March 9, 1645 • Joseph, Septem-
l)er 19, 1649; Eleazar, July 21, 1650; Joseph,
1654-

(H) Eleazar, son of William and Alice
Crocker, was born at Barnstable, Massachu-
setts. He married, April 7, 1681, Ruth,
daughter of John Chapman, who died April
8, 1698. Children: Benoni, born May 13,
1682. died at the age of nineteen ; Bethel,
September 23, 1683; Nathan, April 27, 1685;
Daniel, March 23, 1687; Sarah, March 23,
1688: Theophilus, March 11, 1691 ; Eleazar,
August 3, 1693; Ruth, twin of Eleazar; Abel,
June 15, 1695; Rebecca, December 10, 1697.
Some of this generation settled in Tolland
county, Connecticut.

(IV) Eleazar, grandson of Eleazar and
Ruth (Chapman) Crocker, was born April 10,
1754, died in Washington county. New York,
September 10, 1820. He left Connecticut in
1787 and settled on a large tract of wild land,
covered with forest, lying in the town of
White Creek, Washington county. New York.
This was cleared, improved and cultivated
during his lifetime. He was one of the or-
ganizers of the Presbyterian church in the
town and a Wliig in politics. He married
Susanna Hinkley, also of Connecticut, born
November 30, 1755, died June 28, 1836. Chil-
dren: Eleazar, (also spelled Eleasor) ; Benja-
min, of whom further ; Colonel Francis : Ro-
wena, married William Aikin ; Elizabeth.

(V) Benjamin, son of Eleazar and Susanna
(Hinkley) Crocker, was born in Willington,
Tolland countj', Connecticut, July 4, 1788,

died March 10, 1874. He was an infant in
arms when his parents migrated to New York
state, where he was educated and grew to
manhood. His father gave him a farm con-
taining between two and three hundred acres
which he cultivated, being principally a wheat
grower. He was prosperous and influential
in his town. For many years he was justice
of the peace; was supervisor and member of
the state legislature. He was an elder of
of the Presbyterian church and actively inter-
ested in its advancement. He married, June
13. 181 1, Cyllinda Norton, died March 9.
1882, aged eighty-nine years, daughter of
William Norton, of White Creek, an officer
of the revolutionary war. She traced her de-
scent to Thomas of Waters, born 1582, died
1648. The line traces through George (II),
died 1659; George (III), born 1641 ; George
(IV); George (V), born March 6, 1697;
George (VI), born September 12, 1724,
served in the revolution, wounded at the bat-
tle of Trenton, New Jersey, 1776, died Feb-
ruary 15, 1777. William (VII), born April
13. 1754' also a soldier of the revolution,
married Lurana Kimberly, widow of a Mr.
Morehouse. Their daughter, Cyllinda, of the
eighth generation, married Benjamin Crock-
er. Children: i. Nathaniel Scudder Prime,
born May 19, 1814, died October 30, 1889; he
married (first) January 4, 1837, Sarah Jane
Day; (second) October 3. 1843, Helen Jea-
nette Wilder; (third) Elizabeth Norman. 2.
Mary Wood, of whom further. 3. Benjamin
P., born July 22, 1817, died January 22, 1896;
a merchant of Cambridge. Washington coun-
ty, New York, postmaster for sixteen years,
an organizer and director of the village bank
and prominent in the church. He married.
June 18. 1868. Sarah Josephine Weston, of
Cohoes, New York, born in New Hampshire.
4. Rufus King, born August 16. 18 19, died
November 2, 1891 ; a lawyer and editor and
member of the New York legislature. He
married (first) Sarah J. Meyers, October 18,
1848, he married (second), October 22, 1874,
Abbie Sherman Taylor. 5. Celinda Ann, born
April 27, 1822, died March 2, 1894. 6. Har-
riet !\Iaria, born October 31, 1824: married,
September 6, 1865, Frederick Julian. 7.
James Norton, born May 13, 1827. married,
June 17, 1852, Mary Ann Dillon. 8. William
Harvey, born April i, 1830, died October
24, 1831.

(\T) Mary Wood, daughter of Benjamin
and Cyllinda (Norton) Crocker, was born in
the town of White Creek, Washington coun-
ty. New York, November 24. 1815, died June
24, 1896. She married. October 18, 1837,
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1806, son of David and Rachel (Reid) Simp-
son. David Simpson was born October 26,
1762, Rachel born December 3, 1773. Nelson
Reid Simpson was a farmer of Washington
county, an elder of the Presbyterian church
and a man of high character. Children :
Hetty Cornelia, of whom further: Mary
Francis, married Alexander Marshall Sher-
man ; Annie Harriet, deceased.

(VH) Hetty Cornelia, daughter of Nelson
Reid and Mary Wood (Crocker) Simpson,
married William Stanley Gilbert, born in
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, January 21, 1841,
died August 18, 1885 in Cohoes, New York.
He was a graduate oi Beloit College, Wiscon-
sin. He served in the civil war in Company
D, Forty-ninth Regiment, Massachusetts
Volunteer Infantry. He was one of the "for-
lorn hope" that made the charge on the Con-
federate works at Port Hudson that resulted
only in the loss of many brave men. He
ranked as sergeant and came through without
serious injury. After the war he was in busi-
ness for several years at Cohoes, New York,
a member of the manufacturing firm of J.
H. Parsons & Company. He was a Repub-
lican in politics and served as alderman for
several terms. He was a member and most
generous supporter of the Dutch Reformed
church. He stood high in his community as
an able business man and exemplary citizen.
His widow resides in Cambridge, New York.

"Jeremiah Wood was married
WOOD unto Dority Benett the 29th

March 1709," is the first record
found of the progenitor of the Wood family
of Hoosick Falls, New York, herein recorded.
This record is found in Lyme town records.
Vol. 2, page 354. According to the tomb-
stone record of Jeremiah Wood he was born
in May, 1678. "Dorete" Benett was born
May 16, 1688. While the parentage of Jere-
miah can be traced no further, we find that
his wife, Dorothy, was the granddaughter
of Henry Champion, who was born in Eng-
land in 161 1. He came to New England and
was one of the first settlers of Saybrook and
East Saybrook (Lyme), Connecticut. He
married and had five children, the eldest of
whom was "Saraw" (Sarah), born in 1649.
Herriman, in his "Early Puritan Settlers of
Connecticut," says: "Few families in the
Connecticut Colony have been more pros-
pered than that of Henry Champion." His
descendants bore an important part in the
revolution, among them Colonel Henry and
General Epaphroditus Champion. Henry
Champion removed to Lyme many years be-
fore his death at great age, February 17,

1708. The papers concerning the final set-
tlement of the estate are on file at the pro-
bate office, New London, Connecticut. Among
the heirs who signed a paper declaring them-
selves satisfied with the distribution of the
estate, is "Henry Benet."

Sarah Champion, eldest daughter of
Henry Champion, married Henry Benett. De-
cember 9, 1673. He died in 1726, leaving
three sons, and four married daughters.
"Dorete," the sixth child and fourth daugh-
ter, was born May 19, 1688. A "Deed of
Gift" to his daughter "Dorathy" is found
among the papers of her husband.

(I) Jeremiah Wood, the American an-
cestor, married Dorothy (as the name came
to be spelled) Benett, March 29, 1709. He
lived in Stow, Massachusetts, where his first
four children were born ; the other eight were
born in Littleton, Massachusetts, which may
mean that the establishing of the boundaries
of the town threw his residence in Little-
ton. The birth of his daughter Luce is re-
corded in Stow, the birth of the next in Lit-
tleton, and it seems probable that he remained
on the same estate from marriage until death.
He is styled in his account books and papers
a "Weaver," a "Yeoman" and "Gentleman."
He was constable, collector, selectman and
treasurer at different times of the town of
Littleton. He was a member and supporter
of the church at Littleton. He purchased his
farm from the town, January 13, 1717, a
part being still in possession of his descend-
ants. He died July 15, 1730, aged fifty-two
years, two months and eight days. His wife
Dorothy was appointed administratrix ; the
estate inventoried one thousand pounds. Dor-
othy Wood survived her husband twenty-two
years and two days. She was left with a
large family, but she cared for them and im-
proved the estate left her by her husband. In
the inventory of her estate is sixteen barrels
of cider and a gold necklace appraised at
fourteen pounds. She died July 17, 1752,
and was buried in the Littleton churchyard
by the side of her husband where grave-
stones mark the resting place of five genera-
tions of their family. Children of Jeremiah
and Dorothy (Benett) Wood: Sarah. Eliza-
beth, Joseph, see forward : Luce, Benett, John,
Jeremiah, Sarah (2), Jonathan, Elephalet.

(II) Joseph, eldest son of Jeremiah and
Dorothy (Benett) Wood, was bom in Stow,
Massachusetts, May 22, 1713. He married
Grace Whettemore, of Concord, Massachu-
setts, daughter of Benjamin and Esther
(Brooks) Whettemore. and sister of Rev.
Aaron Whettemore, for many years min-
ister at Suncook, (now Pembrooke) New

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Hampshire. He first settled at Littleton
where his first child was born. In May, 1738,
Joseph and his wife were dismissed from the
church at Littleton to the church at Suncook,
New Hampshire. The births of some of his
children are recorded at Concord, Massachu-
setts, and Cambridge records show transfers
of land. His wife survived him and married
(second) Ephraim Stow, of Concord, Janu-
ary 14, 1745, which would place the date of
Joseph's death between 1741 and 1744. Chil-
dren: Benjamin, born September 17, 1734;
Aaron, see forward ; Grace, born in Concord,
Massachusetts, December i. 1741, married
William Wheeler, January 18, 1763.

(HI) Aaron, second son of Joseph and
Grace (Whettemore) Wood, was born in
Suncook, New Hampshire, in 1739. He was
a blacksmith. He settled at Pepperell, Mas-
sachusetts, upon land bought of Jonas Wheel-
er, as per record of 1762. He married Re-
bekah Wheeler ; children : Rebecca, Lucy,
Halah, Lydia, Grace, Hepzibah. Aaron (2),
see forward ; Susanna, Benjamin, Joseph,
Hannah and Sarah.

(IV) Aaron (2), son of Aaron (i) and
Rebekah (\\'heeler) Wood, was born at Pep-
perell,. Massachusetts, May 30, 1776. died at
Rensselaerville. New York, June 4, 1848. He
removed to Mason, New Hampshire, where
he resided many years and engaged in trade
with marked success. By reason of unwise
endorsements he lost heavily and returned to
Massachusetts, for a time, from thence remov-
ing to Rensselaerville, Albany county. New
York, where he made wagons and was among
the first to manufacture the celebrated "Jeth-
ro Wood" cast iron plow. He carried on a
successful manufacturing business, but his
greatest success was in training and develop-
ing in his machine shops, the founder of a
great business, the product of which is adding
to the world's comfort and wealth somewhere,
every month and week in the year. Like the
shot fired at Lexington, the click of the reaper
is "heard round the world." Aaron Wood
married (first) Eady Curtis, born January
10, 1778, died at Mason, New Hampshire,
August 13, 181 1. Children: Beckey, Mary,
Aaron Curtis, Suky, Benjamin F. and Eady.
He married (second) February 2, 1812, Re-
beckah Wright, of Westford, Massachusetts.
Children: i. William Anson, a manufacturer
and for fifteen years associated with his
brother, Walter A. Wood, as head of a de-
partment, later of the William Anson Wood
Reaper and Mower Company, of Youngs-
town, Ohio. He died November 18, 1884.
He married Jane Dodge, daughter of Judge
Luther Carter, and had two children, Mary

Janette, Frank, who married Alice Cranford!
Thayer, of Hoosick Falls, New York. 2.
Walter Abbott, see forward. 3. Eliphalet,
merchant of Albany, New York, partner of
Gaylor Sheldon & Company, later Sheldon &
Wood. In 1854 sold his .Xlbany interests
and removed to Chicago, where he engaged
in the lumber business under the firm name
of the Newaygo Company. There he became
an exceedingly wealthy and prominent man.
He was well known in business and political'
circles, was nominated for mayor of Chicago,
in i860, but declined the honor; was of in-
calculable value to the government, and the-
Union cause, through his work on the Union
defence committee ; was active and liberal ia
church relation ; was trustee and treasurer
of the Presbyterian North West Theological;
Seminary, retaining his interest until 1869,
when he retired to Irvington-on-the-Hudson^
He associated with the Walter A. Wood Com-
pany and was manager of their New York
City office. He married Mary J., daughter of
Swelton Grant, of Hobart, Delaware county,.
New York, and had eight children, seven dy-
ing in infancy. Caroline Whitely, the only
surviving child, married Joseph Ormsby Rut-
ter, of Chicago, Illinois, a banker of that
city. 4. Rebeckah Ann, born May 16, 1821,.
died unmarried February 5, 185 1. 5. Sarah
Jane, born March 18, 1823; married E. D.
Selden, of Saratoga Springs ; no issue. 6.
Harriet Newell, died in infancy. 7. Susan,
died in infancy. 8. Luther Wright, died at
the age of five years.

(V) Walter Abbott, second son of .Aaron
(2) and Rebeckah (Wright) Wood, was born
at Mason, Hillsboro county. New Hampshire,
October 23, 18 15, died at Hoosick Falls,.
Rensselaer county. New York, January 15,.
1892. He was of a mechanical turn of mind
and until he was twenty years of age re-
mained with his father in his wagon and
plow manufacturing works, where he became
an expert machinist. In 1835 he went to-
Hoosick Falls and worked at his trade in the
machine shops of Parsons & Wilder, where-
after a few years, having acquired a small
capital, he established a like business of his
own. He devoted his great mechanical skill
and inventive genius to the improvement of
the then crude and unsatisfactory farming
machinery. The first result of his work was
the introduction of the Manny Harvesting
Machine with Wood's Improvements, and in
the year 1852 over a hundred of these ma-
chines were sold. In 1853 he had still fur-
ther improved the machine, and the sales ran
up to five hundred machines that year. He
had now convinced the farmer of the great

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value of his inventions, and half-satisfied him-
self that they were practical and saleable.
He now set about to increase his manufac-
turing' facilities to meet the demand he had
created. In 1859 he made and sold six thou-
sand machines for harvesting and mowing;
in 1869, 23,000; in 1879, 25,000; in 1884,
48,000. In the meantime other companies had
•entered the field and the great war of the
rival companies was under full headway. Mr.
Wood conducted his great and growing busi-
ness until 1865, when he organized a stock
corporation under the laws of the state of New
York, and in 1866 began business as the
Walter A. Wood Mowing & Reaping Machine
Company, with a capital of $2,500,000. Mr.
Wood was the first president of the company
and the only one up to the date of his death.
In i860 and again in 1890 the entire works
were destroyed by fire, but in each case were
■quickly rebuilt on a greatly enlarged scale.
The Wood mowers and reapers were of su-
perior design and construction, and up to the
period of consolidation of several of the lead-
ing makers, his sales surpassed in volume any
single competitor. In field trials and com-
petition events he easily was first and received
from county, state, national and international
■expositions, medals and certificates of first
merit and far in excess of any rivals. He
developed the foreign trade, established a
London ofiice, and sent abroad fifty machines,
the first like shipment ever made. They were
•soon sold and a foreign trade assured. He
met all comers in the foreign field as he had
at home, and received the highest awards
in England, 1861, at Leeds, London. At
Paris, in 1876, he took leading rank, receiv-
ing the gold medal of honor, also the cross
•of the chevalier of the Legion of Honor. At
the French international field trial, he took
first prize against the world. At the Vienna
International Exposition in 1873, after a sharp
contest, he was awarded the highest prize, the
■Grand Diploma of Honor, and knighted with
the Cross of the Imperial Order of Francis
Joseph, It was at this trial that he first
brought into the field his celebrated harvester
and binder. At the World's Paris Exposition
of 1878, he won the highest prize and honor,
the prize being "an object of art," the honor
consisted of being promoted to "The Cross
of an ofiicer of the Legion of Honor," His
prizes numbered in 1885 over one thousand
five hundred, many of them of great intrinsic
value ; his home at Hoosick Falls being a ver-
itable museum of rewards of merit. He con-
tinued his successful career, and in perhaps
the most bitter and costly war ever raged be-
tween rival companies, upheld the honor of

the Walter A. Wood Company, and fairly
fought a winning battle. At last peace set-
tled over the scene, and the efforts of the
various companies turned to the legitimate
ambition of furnishing the world with Amer-
ican-made harvesting machinery. In this they
have succeeded and brought untold wealth to
their own country ; a white loaf to the count-
less millions of our own and foreign lands,
and everlasting honor and fortune to them-
selves. In this great work the inventions
of Mr. Wood have led, and he may justly be
considered not only a benefactor to his own
country, but to the entire agricultural world.

During his absence in Europe attending
the Paris Exposition in 1878 he was nomina-
ted by the Republicans of the seventeenth
New York congressional district, composed of
Washington and Rensselaer counties, as their
candidate for congress. On his return in Oc-
tober, he acceded to the wishes of his friends
and accepted the nomination. Although the
district had elected a Democrat by five hun-
dred majority the previous election, Mr.
Wood was elected to succeed him, by a ma-
jority of seven thousand. He was renomina-
ted in 1880, and elected by seventeen thou-
sand majority. He served creditably during
his four years in congress but expressed no
regrets when his term expired, politics being
less congenial to him than his business. He
was a warm and liberal friend of the church,
belonging to the Episcopal denomination, and
serving as senior warden of St. Mark's par-
ish. Hoosick Falls, contributing largely to the
building of the church edifice and to its sup-
port. During the civil war he rendered val-
uable service, and saw that no soldier's fam-
ily was in need. At the immense works of
his company at Hoosick Falls, a great many
hundred men w-ere constantly employed and
there existed between them and Mr, Wood
the utmost harmony and good will.

He married (first) in 1842, Betsey A., born
at Hoosick Falls, New York, Jnne 19, 182 1,
died May 24, 1867, daughter of Hon, Seth
Parsons, of Hoosick Falls. Children : James
S., died at the age of five years : Lyn P., born
April 30, 1850, at P>rattleboro, Vermont, died
April 22, 1877; married August 28, 1873,
Mary E, Jack : child, Bessie Lyn, born De-
cember 20, 1876, Mr. Wood married (sec-
ond) September 2, 1868, Lizzie Warren,
daughter of Rev. George Fluntington Nich-
olls, rector of St, Mark's Episcopal Church,
Hoosick Falls (see Nicholls IX). Children:
Walter Abbott (2), see forward: Julia Nich-
olls, born in London, England, June 9, T874,
she was educated at Miss Peebles .School for
Young Ladies, New York City, married, No-

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vember 16. 1898, Hugh P. Blackinton, of
Massachusetts, now of Hoosick Falls, treas-
urer of Xoble & Wood Machine Company, no
issue.

(\'I) Walter Abbott (2), only son of
Walter Abbott (i) and Lizzie Warren (Nich-
olls) Wood, was born at Hoosick Falls, New
York, January 2, 1871. He prepared for col-
lege at St. Paul's School, Concord, New
Hampshire, and entered Yale University
where he was graduated Ph.B., 1892. He
traveled in Europe for a year before entering
Yale, and after graduation entered his fath-
er's business at Hoosick Falls, where he con-
tinued four years. For several years there-
after, until 1907, he was not engaged in busi-
ness. This interval was spent in travel at
home and abroad, and in various phases of
public political life. He is a director of the
Walter A. Wood Company ; vice-president of
the First National Bank of Hoosick Falls, di-
rector of Noble & Wood Machine Company,
of which he was one of the founders, and
has other and varied business interests. He
enlisted in the New York National Guard,
was promoted December, 1893. second lieu-
tenant of the Thirty-second Separate Com-
pany, and served until 1898. He enlisted for
the Spanish-American war as first lieutenant
of Company M. Second Regiment, New York
Volunteers, and served during the war, was
mustered out 1899 ; was elected captain of the
same company, serving until February, 1908,
when he resigned. He is an active Republi-
can ; served as trustee of the Village Cor-
poration of Hoosick Falls three terms; was
supervisor 1904-08, and chairman of the
county board, 1907-08. He is a frequent dele-
gate to county and state conventions of his
party, and prominent in party councils. He
is a member of the Episcopal church and ves-
tryman of St. Mark's. He has attained the
thirty-second degree in Scottish Rite Mason-
ry, and is now (1910) serving his second
term as master of Van Rensselaer Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons, of Hoosick Falls.
He is a member of the Berzelius Society of
Yale, and of the Hoosick Club, the Troy Club
of Troy, the Graduate of New Haven, and
the University of New York City. He is
interested in all that pertains to the welfare
of his town ; is public-spirited, charitable and
a good citizen.

He married, October 6, 1906, Dorothy
Lieb Harrison, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
daughter of Charles Custis, and Ellen Nixon
(Wain) Harrison. Charles Custis Harrison,
LL.D., was born in Philadelphia, May 3,
1844. son of George Leib Harrison; LL.D.,
and Sarah Ann (Waples) Harrison. George

Leib Harrison was an honorary graduate of
Harvard, where he received his A.M., 1878;
was the founder of the Franklin Sugar Re-
finery ; President of Pennsylvania State
Board of Charities, trustee of the Protestant
Episcopal Divinity School, Philadelphia, and
author of works on sociology and philan-
thropy. Charles Custis Harrison was grad-
uated at University of Pennsylvania, Greek
salutatorian, A.B.,' 1862; A.M., 1865. He
was senior partner of Harrison Frazer &
Company until the dissolution of that firm.
He was elected a trustee of the University of
Pennsylvania, 1876; chairman of the com-
mittee on ways and means, 1885 ; acting pro-
vost, 1894: provost of the University, 1895,
to present time. He was manager of the Pro-
testant Episcopal Hospital ; member of Amer-
ican Academy of Political and Social Science;
Pennsylvania Historical Society ; American
Philosophical Society ; Numismatic and An-
tiquarian Society. He endowed the "George
Leib Memorial Foundation," of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania by a gift of $500,000, and
later, in connection with Mrs. Harrison, gave
another $250,000 to the general purposes of
the University. In 1895 Columbia Univer-
sity conferred LL.D., and" Princeton the same,
in 1896. He married, in 1870, Ellen Nixon,
daughter of Edward Wain, of Philadelphia,
and great-granddaughter of Robert Morris.

(The Nicholls Line).
. Mrs. Lizzie Warren (Nicholls) Wood was
a descendant of that ancient English family
of whom Burke says : "The origin of the an-
cient family of Nicholls has been by antiquar-
ians variously and largely treated upon. It
is stated that at the time of Edward the Cori-
queror, one, Nicholas de Albine, alias Ni-
gell or Nicholl, came over from Normandy
and was the common ancestor." The founder
in America, from whom Mrs. Wood de-
scends, was Francis Nicholls, born in Eng-
land before 1600, son of Francis and Mar-
garet (Bruce) Nicholls, and brother of Gov-
ernor Richard Nicholls, who commanded the
British fleet to whom the EHitch surrendered
New Amsterdam. He received the surrender
of the Dutch authorities, proposed the name
New York for the new province, was gov-
ernor of New York in 1664, and returned to
England in 1667. Margaret Bruce was a
daughter of Sir George Bruce, of Carnook,
Scotland, and tenth in descent from King
Robert Bruce, of Scotland. Francis Nicholls
came to America prior to 1636, bringing three
sons: John, Isaac and Caleb, and a daugh-
ter, Mrs. Richard Mills. In 1639 he apjjears
at Stratford, Connecticut, where he died 1650.

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There is no mention of the first wife, and she
is believed to have died in England. Francis
was one of the original proprietors of Strat-
ford, Connecticut, and one of the first band
of seventeen families to settle there. He was
sergeant and captain of "ye Train Bande."
His second wife was Anne Wynes, daughter
of "Saintly Deacon Barnabas Wynes," born
in Wales, who was one of the original pro-
prietors of Southold, Long Island.

(H) Isaac, son of Francis Nicholls. was
born in England, 1625, died at Stratford,
Connecticut, 1695 ; was deputy to the general

court, 1662-64. He married iMargaret

and had issue. One of his daughters mar-
ried Rev. Israel Chauncey, army surgeon dur-
ing King Philip's war : pastor of the Strat-
ford church, one of the founders of Yale
College, and elected its first president.

(III) Isaac (2), son of Isaac (i) and Mar-
garet Nicholls, born in Stratford, died 1690,
aged thirty-six years. He married Mary
, and had issue.

(IV) Richard, son of Isaac (2) and Mary
Nicholls, was born in Stratford, November
26, 1678, died September 29, 1756; married,
June 3, 1702, Comfort, daughter of Theophilus
Sherman, and granddaughter of Hon. Samuel
Sherman, ancestor of General William T.
Sherman, the famous military genius of the
civil war.

(V) Theophilus, son of Richard and Com-
fort (Sherman) Nicholls, was born in Strat-
ford, March 31, 1803, died April 7, 1774.
Magistrate, deputy to forty-one sessions of
the Connecticut general court. 1736-72; ves-
tryman of Christ Church, Stratford, 1746-
69 ; built the first store and opened the first
trade on the harlxir of Bridgeport, Connecti-
cut. He married, January 2, 1732, Sarah,
daughter of Lieutenant Ebenezer Curtis, and
granddaughter of Captain William Curtis,
captain of "such forces as shall be sent from
Fairfield county (Connecticut) against the
Dutch of New York."

(VI) Philip, son of Theophilus and -Sarah
(Curtis) Nicholls, was born in Stratford,
January 2, 1726, died May 15, 1807. He was
captain and chairman of the committee to re-
lieve the suffering poor under the Boston poor
bill, 1794: vestryman of Christ Church, 1769-
85 ; first lay delegate from Connecticut to the
general convocation of the Protestant Epis-
copal church. He married (first) Mehitable,
daughter of William Peet, who died Septem-
ber 23, 1756: married (second) Mary, daugh-
ter of Joseph Prince, and niece of Rev.
Thomas Prince, pastor of Old South Church,
Boston, 1718-58. "The most assiduous annal-
ist of New England history since the first

generation." She was the great-granddaugh-
ter of Thomas Hinckley, governor of Mas-
sachusetts, 1680-92.

(\TI) Charles Theophilus, son of Philip
and Mary (Prince) Nicholls, was born at
Stratford, Connecticut, July 21, 1771, died at
Bridgeport, Connecticut, October 19. 1849.
Paymaster of the Fourth Regiment Connec-
ticut Cavalry under General Joseph Walker,
July, 1809. Senior Warden of St. John's
Church, Bridgeport. Married (first) Sarah
Lewis, daughter of Hon. Jabez Huntington
Tomlinson, an officer of the continental army ;
representative and magistrate, and his wife,
Mrs. Harriet Heller (Morris) Tomlinson,
daughter of Rev. James Heller, a chaplain of
the British army during the occupation of
New York City. Sarah Lewis (Tomlinson)
Nicholls was also a sister of Gideon Tom-
linson, governor of Connecticut, 1827-30.

(VII) Rev. George Huntington Nicholls,
only son of Charles T. and Sarah Lewis
(Tomlinson) Nicholls, was born at Bridge-
port, Connecticut ; graduated at Trinity Col-
lege, 1839; ordained deacon Protestant Epis-
copal church, 1841 ; priest, 1842; rector of
St. John's Church, Salisbury, Connecticut,
1845 ; rector of Grace Church, Cherry Valley,
New York, 1854; rector St. Mark's Church,
Hoosick Falls, New York, 1865 ; rector-
emeritus 1882 ; Hobart College conferred
title of S.T.D., 1886. He married, June
8, 1842, Julia Louisa, daughter of Walter
Phelphs, a direct descendant of Judge
William Phelphs, born in England, settled
in Windsor, Connecticut, 1635, and his
wife Julia Steel (Beach) Phelphs, a direct
descendant of Secretary John Steel, a pioneer
of Hartford, Connecticut.

(IX) Lizzie Warren, daughter of Rev.
George H. and Julia Louisa (Phelphs) Nich-
olls, married September 2, 1868, Walter Ab-
bott Wood, Sr., of Hoosick Falls, New York
(sec Wood V).

TluTe was a town in Norfolk,
11 AM )h:.\ luigland, called Heydon, which

was a mile long and half as
much broad. The jiresent name of Heydon or
Haydon, as it is commonly called, signifies the
High Down, or plain on the hill, which is
agreeable to its situation. It is located in
the Liberty of the Duchey of Lancaster ; the
seat and demesne were called Heydon Hall
or Manor — alias Stinton Hall and Manor.
Heydon and Stinton Manors were subse-
quently divided. The legal settlement of
Heydon Manor makes the eldest son heir.
The town of Hcydnn lies about fourteen miles
a little west of nortii from Xorwich, the shire

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1491

town of Norfolk county. The lands there,
according; to Domesday Book, were at the
time of the Conqueror's survey under the lord-
ship of one Whither, a Saxon, from whom the
Conqueror took them and hestowed them upon
the Earl of Warren — William de Warrena.
The lieydons must have had their tenure from
the \\'arrens as adherents or retainers of
theirs. Very early we find them intermarried
with the Warrens, also with the descendants of
the Conqueror, with the Says, Alowbrays,
Longvilles, Gurneys, Boleyns, etc. We find
the name of Tliomas de Heydon mentioned as
one of the prominent men of the twelfth
century.

(I) Thomas de Heydon, above referred to,
was born in April, about 1185, died about
1250. He lived in South Erpingham. and
served as justice itinerant for Norfolk county
in the reign of Henry HL 1221. The ofifice of
justice (in Erye) was a commission held di-
rectly from the king, having appellate jurisdic-
tion of superior cases, to save going up to
Westminster. One of the five provisions of
Magna Charta signed by King John in 12 15
was that such local justice be appomted in
the county. This was not fulfilled, however,
until after the death of John, during the
minority of his son, Henry HL and under
the regency of Robert De Burgh. Thomas de
Heydon, therefore, was the first judge in Nor-
folk appointed under ]\Iagna Charta.

(II) William Heydon, son of Thomas de
Heydon, was probably born about 1220, died
about 1272. He was the first of the Devon
line.

(HI) John de Heydon, son of William
Heydon, was a younger brother of the Wil-
liam who was the third of the Norfolk line.
John served as judge in Devon county in the
first year of the reign of King Edward L
1273, according to the records which we find
in the Tower of London by Henry St. George
Richmond. He was a younger branch of a
knightly stock, so called, which flourished in
the eastern parts of England, that is Norfolk.
Whom he married is not known, but he had
children, among them Robert.

(T\') Robert Haydon, son of John de Hey-
don. appears to have been the first to change
the spelling of the first syllable by inserting
"a" instead of the "e" which thenceforth dis-
tinguishes the Devon line. He settled at
Boughwood in the nineteenth year of Ed-
ward I. The same year he deeded this estate
to his son Henry and his wife Julian; the
deed is attested by Thomas Frances, Ralph
de Todwell and several others. His wife's
name was Joan.

(\') Henrv Havdon, .son of Robert and

Joan Haydon, appears to have married his
own cousin or near relation, as his wife Julian
is stated to be daughter and heir to Heydon,
of Ebford, which made said Henry possessor
of several thousand dollars per annum.

(\I) William (2) Haydon, son of Henry
and Julian Haydon, inherited Boughwood. He
married and among his children was Robert.

(VH) Robert (2) Haydon, son of William
(2) Haydon, succeeded him as owner of
Boughwood. He married and among his chil-
dren was John.

(VHI) John (2) Haydon, son of Robert
(2) Haydon, succeeded to the ownership of
Boughwood. He married and among his chil-
dren was Henry.

(IX) Henry (2) Haydon, son of John (2)
Haydon, was of Boughwood and Ebford, and
seems to have been the first to come into full
possession of both estates. This was in the
twentieth year of the reign of Richard H,
1397. Henry was succeeded by his son, John,
of Boughwood and Ebford. who came into
possession the eighth year of the reign of
Henry IV, 1407. He married and had issue
which seems not to have lived to inherit, so
he was succeeded by his brother, William.

(X) William (3) Haydon, son of Henry

(2) Haydon, was of Lymston. He succeeded
to the estates of Boughwood and Ebford. He
married and among his children was Richard.

(XI) Richard Haydon, fourth son of Wil-
liam (3) Haydon. was living on the estate
during the fifteenth year of the reign of Ed-
ward IV, 1476. He married and had two
sons, Richard and John, and one daughter,
Jane.

(XII) Richard (2) Haydon, .son of Rich-
ard (i) Haydon. was of Boughwood and
Ebford, and was living there in the thirteenth
year of the reign of Henry VIII, 1522. He
married Joan, daughter of Morice Trent, of
Ottery, St. Mary. They had three sons.
Thomas, John and George.

(XIII) Thomas (2) Haydon, eldest son
of Richard (2) Haydon, succeeded his father
to the estates. He married Joan, daughter
of Richard Weeks, of Honey Onirch, and
among their children was Thomas.

(XIV) Thomas (3) Haydon, son of
Thomas (2) Haydon, succeeded his father to
the estates. He married Christiania, daugh-
ter and heir of Robert Tidersleigh. They
had two sons. Robert and Thomas.

(X\') Robert (3) Haydon, son of Thomas

(3) Havdon, became heir to his great-uncle,
John, and on the death of this relative he
removed his family to Cadhay and resided
there. He served as justice of the peace, and
was living in 1620. He married Joan, eldest

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daughter of Sir Ainias Paulet, of George Hin-
ton Somerset, and had three sons, Gideon,
Amias and Drew, and one daughter, Margaret.

(XV'I) Gideon Haydon, son of Robert (3)
Haydon. owned the estates of Ebford and
Cadhay, having succeeded his father, and is
quoted as a very worthy, honest gentleman.
It is said that the estates of Cadhay have never
changed hands except by inheritance for seven
hundred years. Sir Thomas Hare, the pres-
ent owner, received them through the female
line from the Williamses, as he himself be-
lieves. Gideon Haydon married Margaret,
daughter of John Davy, Esquire, of Greedy,
and had seven sons and five daughters. Three
of the sons were William, John and James.
Several of the sons grew to manhood and
were living in 1630. Haydons, descendants
of this line, are still at Tiverton, and a num-
ber having this spelling are in London. The
late well-known B. R. Haydon, painter and
native of Plymouth, belonged to this line.

The above account was originally taken
from the English records. In 1888 Mr. Jabez
Haskell Hayden, of Windsor Locks, Connec-
ticut, wrote a book on the Hayden genealo-
gies, and therein, through the researches of
Rev. William B. Hayden, of Portland, Maine,
and I\Ir. Levi Hayden, of Roslindale, Massa-
chusetts, show that there were three brothers,
William. John and James Hayden, who came
from England on the ship, "Alary & John," in
1630, landing at Dorchester, Massachusetts.
William is mentioned below. John remained
a short time in Dorchester, later settled in
Braintree, and his descendants are known as
the "Braintree branch." James settled in
Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1635, and died
in 1675. He had a family of eight children.
The Haydens of Saybrook, now Essex, Con-
necticut, belong to this line.

There were several other men who came
over from England on the "Mary & John,"
among them being Roger Clapp. He was then
a young man of twenty-one. The Rev. John
Warham and Rev. John Maverick, both older
men, came over at the same time and gave
considerable advice to the young men of the
party, as is shown from the records. All of
these men came from three counties in Eng-
land, namely : Devon, Dorset, Somersetshire.

(XVII) William (4) Hayden, son of
Gideon Ilaydon, came from England on the
"Mary & John," 1630, landing at Dorchester,
Massachusetts. After remaining there a short
time, he removed to Windsor, Connecticut,
where he resided until his death, and from
him sprang the numerous descendants who are
known as the "Windsor branch" of the Hay-
den family. He served under Captain Mason

in the famous Pequot war in 1637. He re-
ceived land in the first distribution made in
Hartford in 1639, and sold the same with
dwelling house thereon February 9, 1642.
Also about this time he purchased lands in
Windsor, towards "Pine Meadow," and built
a house upon it. In 1859 the site of this house
was occupied by the residence of the late
Henry Hayden, on the east side of the high-
way at the junction of the two roads, south
of Hayden Station, near Windsor, Connec-
ticut. On that part of his farm lying west of
the railroad station, he had a stone quarry
which was worked as early as 1654. In 1669
he deeded all his lands in Windsor, and build-
ings thereon, to his son Daniel, who probably
had not left the old homestead. His first
wife died in 1655. He married (second) in
Fairfield, Connecticut, Widow Wilcoxon. Wil-
liam Hayden died at Killingworth, September
27, 1669. He was the father of three chil-
dren: Daniel, born September 2, 1640; Na-
thaniel, February 2, 1642; Mary, June 6, 1648.

(XVIII) Daniel, son of William (4) Hay-
den, was born September 2, 1640, died March
22, 1712-13. He married, March 17, 1664,
Hannah Wilcoxon, who died April 19, 1722.
They were the parents of eight children.

(XIX) Samuel, fifth child of Daniel and
Hannah (Wilcoxon) Hayden, was born Feb-
ruary 28, 1677, died October 12, 1742. He
married, January 24, 1703, Anna Holcomb,
of Windsor, who died June 13, 1756, aged
eighty-one years. They were tlie parents of
six children.

(XX) Samuel (2), second child of Samuel
(i) and Anna (Holcomb) Hayden, was born
October 7, 1707. He married, November 7,
1737, Abigail Hall, of Somers, who bore him
eight children.

(XXI) Moses, third child of Samuel (2)
and Abigail (Hall) Hayden, was born Sep-
tember 23, 1742. When a young man he
left Windsor, Connecticut, taking up his resi-
dence at Conway, Franklin county, Massachu-
setts. He married twice, names of wives un-
known, and had one child by first wife,
Moses.

(XXII) Moses (2), son of Moses (i) Hay-
den, was born in 1761, died at the home of
his daughter, Asenath (Mrs. Daniel Bloss),
in June. 1855, aged ninety-three years, and
was buried in the cemetery at the stone church
at Day Center, near where he had lived so
many years. It appears that the young boy
and his stepmother did not agree very well,
and at the age of ten years he left home and
thereafter depended upon his own resources.
He located at what is now known as Holyoke,
Massachusetts, where he resided for several

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1493

years, and about 1790 or 1792, having heard
favorable reports about the section of the coun-
try in and around the town of Day (called
Concord), Saratoga county^ New York, re-
moved thither, purchased a farm, built a
house, and in the course of a year or two re-
turned to Massachusetts and married Mary
Boyd, a resident of Holyoke, whom he brought
to his new home, where they lived together
until her death, in 1828. Mr. Hayden married
(second) Eunice Deming. The farm where
Moses Hayden lived has been known as the
"Hayden Farm" for more than one hundred
years. Moses Hayden was of a religious turn
of mind and affiliated with the Baptists. There
was no Baptist church in that locality but the
inhabitants of that denomination were in the
habit of gathering at the school house for
worship. Children of Moses and Mary
(Boyd) Hayden: Polly (Mary), born Novem-
ber 8, 1795, died May 5, 1863; John Boyd,
February 21, 1798, died July, 1831 ; Solomon,
see forward; Asenath, April 4, 1802, died
January, 1882. aforementioned as the wife of
Daniel Bloss : Parmelia, January 2, 1804;
Perces, December 20, 1805; JMoses, March 29,
181 1 : Susannah M., April 11, 1814, died 1887.
(XXHI) Solomon, son of Moses (2) and
Mary ( Boyd) Hayden, was born January 30.
1800. died March 20, 1879. He married,
March 12, 1821, Annie Bloss, born March 3,
1805, died May 23, 1886. They lived on a
farm in the town of Day, New York, near
his father's farm, until 1850, when they moved
to the town of Edinburg, Saratoga county,
New York, where they purchased a fann. re-
siding thereon until the death of Mr. Hayden.
They were both members of the Baptist So-
ciety at Day, and upon their removal to Edin-
burg they joined the Baptist church at North-
ville, New York, and were regular attendants
at the services during the remaining years of
their lives. Children: Bethiah R., born Sep-
tember 27, 1822, died July 26, 1863 ; she mar-
ried the Rev. Timothy Day ; three children,
two sons and one daughter: the sons enlisted
in the civil war and both lost their lives in
their country's service; one was killed by a
shell in battle and the other died of typhoid
fever, contracted while at the front ; James
H., February 12, 1824, died June 12, 1881 ;
Rosina C. March 27, 1826, died April 30.
1830: Sally M., March i, 1828, died May 16,
1830; Elvira E., March 20, 1831, died August
15, 1857; John C, see forward; Adeline L..
February 22, 1836, died September 4, 1865;
Rosannah E., August 17, 1838, died May 25,
1850; George Levi, April 18, 1841, died May
17. 1863; Anna M., September 22, 1844, liv-
ing at the present time (1910). George Levi

Hayden enlisted in November, 1861, at Sara-
toga Springs, New York, and was assigned
to Company D, Seventy-seventh Regiment,
New York State Volunteer Infantry. He was
trained at Saratoga Springs for some months
and then his company was sent to the front.
He was in several battles but escaped injury.
In 1862, however, while the regiment was at
White House Landing on the Pamunkey
river, state of Virginia, he contracted typhoid
fever. He was placed on a transport and
sent with a large number of sick and
wounded soldiers up the Potomac river to a
hospital, but on the way up the river, during
his delirium, he jumped overboard and was
drowned. The body was recovered by his
comrades and buried on the bank of' that
river.

(XXIV) John Carmi, son of Solomon and
Annie (Bloss) Hayden, was born March 13,
1834, died March 24, 1899, in Saratoga
Springs, New York, at the home of his son.
Adelbert C. Hayden. Notwithstanding the
fact that his brother had lost his life in the
war, John C. enlisted for service in the fall
of 1864. He enlisted at Amsterdam, New
York, and was assigned to Company I, Ninety-
first Regiment, New York State \"olunteer
Infantry. Early in the following year he was
wounded in battle in Virginia and was sent
to the hospital at Alexandria, and while there,
recovering from his wounds, occurred the as-
sassination of President Lincoln. Shortly
after the close of the war he was mustered
out of the service at Washington and re-
turned to the town of Northampton, Fulton
county. New York, where he had purchased
a farm during the early years of the rebel-
lion, removing thither from his farm near
Edinburg, where he resided for two or three
years after his marriage. He continued to
live on the latter-named farm until after the
death of his wife, in 1891. He married. No-
vember 19, 1856, Martha Haight Ouinby,
daughter of Aaron and Mary (Wilbur)
Ouinby (see Quinby VIII), who bore him
six children, namely : Adelbert Carmi. see for-
ward; Willis Adelma, born October 16, i860;
Charles Aaron, December 20. 1863; Mary
Anna, June 3, 1866; George Jay, September
21, 1870; Eugene Elmer, December 13, 1873.
The parents of John C. Hayden were mem-
bers of the Baptist church, and the ancestry
all seem to have been Baptists back through
their history in this country. The parents of
Mrs. Hayden were Quakers, members of the
Quaker church at Quaker street. New York,
and the ancestry for nearly three hundred
years was known to have been Quakers. How-
ever, the nearest church to their home on the

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Sacandaga river at Osborne Bridge was a
Methodist Episcopal church, which they both
joined and continued to be members in good
standing as long as they lived.

(XXV) Adelbert Carmi, eldest child of John
Carmi and Martha Haight (Quinby) Hay-
den, was born April 26, 1858, at Northville.
Fulton county. New York. He graduated at
the State Normal School, Albany, in 1882.
He served in the capacity of teacher in the
schools of Conklingville and Crescent, Sara-
toga county, and in Montgomery county, a
position for which he was well qualiiied.
Early in 1884 he accepted a position in the
general postoffice department, Washington,
D. C, and at the expiration of four years he
resigned in order to accept a position at Sara-
toga Springs, New York, where he has since
resided. For the past six years he has served
as vice-president of the Lincoln Spring Com-
pany, and is actively identified with the inter-
ests of the company. During his residence
in Washington he was a member of the Cal-
vary Baptist Church, a member of the board
of trustees and a teacher in the Sunday school.
After coming to Saratoga Springs he and his
wife joined the First Baptist Church, in which
he has taken an active part, serving as a
member of the board of trustees for twelve
years, superintendent of the Sunday school
five years, and either an officer or a teacher
in the school for twenty years. He has been
an active worker in the Young Men's Chris-
tian Association, been a member of the board
of directors for almost fifteen years, being
elected the first time under the presidency
of G. F. Harvey, when they were located in
the old Favorite Spring building; he served
on the board while money was being raised
and the site chosen for the present building.
In igoi he was elected a member of the
Board of Education of the village for a term
of three years, re-elected in 1904, and was
nominated for School Director of the town of
Saratoga Springs in 1910 on the Republican
ticket, but was defeated, owing to the Demo-
cratic landslide. He was chairman of the
teachers' committee for five years and a mem-
ber of the teachers' committee for both his
terms of office; he was also a member of the
committee on schools for the entire six years ;
these were important committees of the board.
He was one of the special committee that
recommended the adoption of the domestic
science department in the local public schools,
was a member of the special committee that
recommended the addition of manual training
to the local curriculum, and was chairman of
the teachers' committee that engaged the first
instructors in each of these departments. Mr.

Hayden married, Alarch 9, 1887, Nellie Farr
Lohnas, born in Schuylerville, New York,
August 28, 1863, daughter of Deyoe and Hul-
dali L. (Farr) Lohnas. Children: Grace
Lohnas, born August 8, 1888, and Rita Mar-
ion, born February 13, 1893.

(The Quinby Line).
The name of Quinby, spelled now Quinby,
(^uimby and Quinbury, all of which are de-
rived from the original name, Quinborough,
corrupted to that of Quinbury, and finally
Quinby, which is now the generally adopted
style of writing the name. The name was
derived from the name of a town in Norfolk
county, England, called Quinborough. The
family was originally of Norman-French ex-
traction. The ancestors of the Quinby family
in this country came from England. So far
as known, only two men of that name came to
America, viz., Robert and William Quinby.
Robert Quinby settled in the town of Salis-
bury, Massachusetts, in June, 1653. He mar-
ried Elizabeth Osgood, who bore him four
children: Lydia, William, John and Thomas.
Two of the sons moved to the state of New
Hampshire and are the progenitors of the
Quinby family in that state and in Maine.
Some families there spell the name Quimby.

(I) William Quinby, the other early pro-
genitor of the Quinby family in America, set-
tled in Westchester, Westchester county. New
York. In those early days the village of
Westchester was only a small .scattered col-
lection of houses and even up to 1700, one
writer says, "the inhabitants lived up and
down" and even in towns they lived on farms
of ten acres. It is uncertain who William
Quinby married. There is only one son named
in the local history and family records. His
name was John.

(II) John, son of William Quinby, signed
his name to one public document as "Quim-
bie." He was a man of weight and influence
in his community. In 1664, when a patent
was given for the land he and his neighbors
occupied, he with five others, received it in
trust for all. In 1665 he was a representa-
tive for his town in the assembly, summoned
by Governor Nichols. He was a member
of the organization corresponding to our
present school board. He and his father
were "dissenters," being members of the Con-
gregational church, and when, at one time,
they had no minister, John Quinby and three
others were a])pointed to fill the vacancy.

He married Deborah , who bore him

four children: John, Charles, Josiah, Mary.

(III) Josiah, son of John and Deborah
Quinby, moved to .Maniaroneck, New \'ork.

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1495

where he purchased three hundred and twenty
acres of land, comprising what was then called
the "Great Neck." He is described later as
being "late of Mamaroneck," so that it is
probable that he returned to Westchester to
live. He married Mary Mullinex (IMoly-
neux), June 17, 1689. Children: Dorcas, Jo-
siah, Jonathan. Samuel, Son. who died in
.infancy: Ephraim, Aaron, Moses, Daniel,
Phoebe, Isaiah, Martha. . It appears that Jo-
siah Ouinby and his wife joined the "Society
of Friends" while living in Mamaroneck.
The Society met with much acceptance in this
neighborhood, and Thomas Chalklcy mentions
visiting there as early as 1725. In 1739 land
was ]nirchased and a meeting house erected.
The half-yearly meetings for Friends in all
this section were held in this house.

(I\') Moses, son of Josiah and Mary (Mul-
linex ) Ouinby, married Jane, daughter of
Francis and Elizabeth Pelham, in 1730. Chil-
<lren : Elizabeth. Samuel. Frances. Mary, Jo-
siah. Phoebe, Hannah. Isaiah, Martha, Son,
who died in infancy : Susannah.

(\') Samuel, son of Moses and Jane (Pel-
ham ) Quinby, was born in Northcastle. W'est-
chester county. New York. He married
(first), March 17, 1756. Anna, born at Beth
Page. Long Island, October 2, 1736, daugh-
ter of Moses and Catherine Powel. He mar-
ried (second) Phoebe L^nderhill, who bore
him ten children, namely: Mary, Moses, Oba-
diah. Josiah. Jane. Catherine. Clara, Anna,

Eliza A., and .

( \'I ) Obadiah son of Samuel and Phoebe
(Underbill) Quinby, was born March 5, 1761,
•died June 12, 1821. He married Freelove,
born October 27, 1761. died December i,
1829. daughter of Caleb Haight. Children :
Anna, James, Mapelett. Hannah, Samuel,
Aaron and Deborah. Obadiah Ouinby lived
at Milan, Dutchess county. New York, where
his children were reared.

(\TI) Aaron, son of Obadiah and Free-
love (Haight) Ouinby, was born August 2,
1799. died May 15. 1875. He married, at
Milan. New York, June 6, 1826. Mary, born
November 29, 1806, died July 4, 1886, daugh-
ter of Reuben and Susannah (Dean) Wilbur.
Shortly after their marriage they moved to
Duanesburg, Schenectady county. New York,
where four of their children were born.
.About 1839 they moved to Glens Falls, New
^'ork. where they remained a few years.
Their youngest child, Aaron Jay, was born
there. Soon afterward they moved to the
town of Stillwater, Saratoga county, New
York, where they resided three years, on the
"bank of the Hudson river, between Mechan-
icsvillc and Stillwater. About 1850 they

moved to the town of Edinburg, New York,
where they resided on a farm until their
death. Children : Sarah Ann, Susannah Free-
love, Martha Haight, Edmond Carpenter,
Aaron Jay.

(\TII) Martha Haight, third child of
Aaron and Mary (Wilbur) Quinby, married,
November 19, 1856, John Canni Hayden (see
Hayden XXIV), and they are the parents
of Adelbert Carmi Hayden.

This family settled in the Mo-
SHULER hawk A'alley about the middle

of the eighteenth century.
They are originally of German nativity, the
American ancestor being Lawrence Shuler.
He became possessed of a tract of six hun-
dred and forty acres, part of the two thousand
acres conveyed to Edward and Philip Harri-
.son, known as the Harrison patent. The
original survey was made in 1737 by Christo-
pher Yates. From the Harrisons one Dub<jis,
a wealthy man of New York City, purchased
six hundred and forty acres. This purchase
was the immediate cause of the emigration
to America of Lawrence Shuler, the founder.
Dubois died, and his widow having need of
the services of an agent to look after her
northern lands was led, through recommen-
dation, to write to Lawrence Shuler in Ger-
many, offering him the position. This was
in 1767, and he was then probably about
twenty-one. He was born in Luxemburg,
Germany, and had received a good education
and possessed good business ability. He ac-
cepted the ofTer and came to America and
acted as Mrs. Dubois' agent in the manage-
ment of her Florida lands. Their business
acquaintance resulted in their marriage, and
thus the estate passed into the Shuler name,
where it remained for over one hundred and
twenty-five years. The estate is situated one
and a half miles east of Minaville, in one of
the best and most beautiful parts of the town.
No owner of the Shuler name has ever died
upon the estate, it so happening tiiat they
were absent from home when their final hour
came. Neither Lawrence Shuler nor his wife
died there. Their children were: John, see
forward; Jacob, Solomon, Lawrence (2),
Elizabeth. Lawrence (i) Shuler married
(second) Magdalena Servoss, who bore him
Abraham and Sarah, and i)ossibly others.
Abraham died an old man, unmarried; Sarah
married Cornelius Van Derveer, afterward
accidentally killed, leaving a daughter Helena.
The children of the first wife, all married
and reared families. The estate was divided
into smaller farms and each, at times, owned
portions.

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(H) John, son of Lawrence Shuler, the
founder, and his wife (Mrs. Dubois), was
born on the original homestead, November
12, 1769, died at Gasport, New York, at the
age of eighty-nine years. He came into pos-
session of the farm about 1790. He was
a well-educated man, well known in public
life. He was elected to the legislature, Sep-
tember 26, 1814, and re-elected in 1815. He
was a friend of Alexander Hamilton, and
acquainted with Aaron Burr. He was one
of the invited guests of Governor Clinton at
the exercises opening the Erie canal. He
was a member of St. Patrick's Lodge, Free
and Accepted Masons, of Johnstown, Fulton
county. New York (then No. i, now No. 4),
the oldest English-speaking lodge in the state,
organized by Sir William Johnson under a
charter from the Grand Lodge of England.
He was a Whig in politics, later a Republican,
which was the political faith of the family.
He married, in Florida, Hannah Buck, born
in Canaan, Massachusetts, died in Ames, New
York, at the age of seventy-five. Children :
I. David Cady, married (first) Pervely But-
ler; (second) a Miss Nellis, both natives of
Jefiferson county. New York. 2. Sarah, mar-
ried Elijah Wilcox; they removed to Elgin,
Illinois, where they died. 3. Ransom, mar-
ried Katherine Talmadge ; they settled in
Cumberland county, where they died. 4.
Daniel, see forward. 5. Ann, married Louis
Griffin ; they were residents of Unadilla, New
York, where they died. 6. Jacob, a mer-
chant, later a farmer; married (first) Kathe-
rine, daughter of the Reverend Colonel
Matise; (second) Amelia Case; he died in
Cortland county, aged fifty-six years. 7.
Cholett, lived to be one of the oldest in-
habitants of Amsterdam ; he was born May
20, 1807, on the Shuler estate; he married
Ann Mallory ; they are both buried in Green
Hill cemetery, Amsterdam. 8. Adeline, mar-
ried Oliver Wilcox ; they died at Gasport,
Niagara countv. New York. g. Lydia, mar-
ried William Carlyle, M.D., of Elgin, Illi-
nois. 10. Caroline, married George A. Wol-
verton, of Albany.

(HI) Daniel, fourth child of John and
Llannah (Buck) Shuler, was born on the
Shuler homestead in Florida, February 27,
1803, died February 17, 1882. He grew up
on the farm, and adopted farming as his
vocation. He married and settled in the same
town, where he resided all his days. He
married, in Florida, Katherine ^'an Derveer,
who died July 26, 1874, at the age of sixty-
nine, daughter of Henry Van Derveer. Chil-
dren: I. Ann, born February 8, 1830, died
March 4, 1904; she married Jacob Schuyler,

born in 1829, died October 19, 1899. 2. Free-
man, see forward. 3. Henry Van Derveer,
born at the old homestead, June 3, 1842; he
has resided all his life within the confines of
the town, and for the past nine years has been
employed in the "Brown" store at Minaville;
he married Eveline Haver, born in 1852; she
resides in California.

(IV) Freeman, second child and eldest son
of Daniel and Katherine (Van Derveer)
Shuler, was born on the homestead in Florida,
New York, September 12, 1833, died at his
home in the city of Amsterdam, New York,
April 4, 1909. He was a successful farmer
of Montgomery county, owning and operating,
for many years, a farm east of Amsterdam,
near the RIohawk river. He retired from
active labor to a comfortable home in Am-
sterdam, where he passed in ease his latter
days. He took an active part in town affairs,
was assessor for ten years, and a leading
member of the Dutch Reformed church. He
stood high in his community, and was a man
of unblemished character. He married, at
the Young homestead, in Florida, in i860,
Mary A. Young, born in the town. May 17,
1838. She survives her husband and resides
in Amsterdam (Port Jackson). She is a
member of the Dutch Reformed church. Chil-
dren ; I. Carrie A., born August 2, 1863 ; mar-
ried Zachariah Jacoby, born January 25, 1859;
he has been many years a member of the
New York National Guard, for which he
wears a service medal ; is an employee of
the State, connected with the State armory,
at Amsterdam. 2. W'illiam H., see forward.
3. Annie E., born May 10, 1867; married
Andrew McClumpha, a farmer of Florida ;
they have a son, Raymond McClumpha, born
October 4, 1901. 4. Daniel, born September
16, 1689; married Edna A. Young, and has
a daughter, Ruth A. ; their son, Wilbur S.,
died in infancy. Daniel is a farmer of Holley,
New York. 5. Mary A., born April 14, 1875,
died January 25, 1877.

(V) William H., son of Freeman and
]\Iary A. (Young) Shuler, was born on the
Montgomery county farm, February 21, 1865.
He was educated in the town schools, and upon
his father's retirement succeeded to the man-
agement of the farm. He is a worthy suc-
cessor and maintains the property in the same
excellent condition, and ranks among the best
of his town. He married, January 16, 1890,
Martha M. Conover, born in Glen, November
3, 1 87 1. The Conover family are among the
older Mohawk Valley settlers, Scth Conover,
her father, being of the third generation in
direct line. Seth Conover married Annie
Lynch, both born in Florida, but afterwards

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1497

settlers of Amsterdam. Their children, all
born on the Conover homestead : Martha M.
(Mrs. William H. Shuler) ; Seth J., born July
28, 1875, married Lizzie Field, and resides in
-Amsterdam ; Howard L., died at the age of

eighteen ; Edward, married Rose , and

has issue. Mrs. William H. Shuler (Martha
AI. Conover) was educated in Glen, and is a
member of the Reformed church, as is her
husband. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Shuler:
Alice, born November 8. 1891 ; Lawrence,
February 22, 1893; T. Howard, March 4,
1894; ]\iarion, June 16, 1906; Myra L., July
I, 1908.

The English Monsons belong-
MUNSON ing to the peerage have a rec-
ognized history extending
through five centuries. According to
"Burke's Peerage," John Monson was liv-
ing in 1378, and denominated of East Market
Rasen, county of Lincoln, from whom lineally
sprang William Monson, Esq., who died in
1558. It is the opinion of eminent members
of the family that their common ancestor was
a Dane. The name is common in Denmark,
and that portion of England where the family
were dwelling in the fourteenth century had
been overrun by the Danes.

(I) Thomas Munson, the American ances-
tor, was among those exiles w-ho left Eng-
land for conscience sake, brave and spirited
men who were loyal to their God and their
convictions. He was born in England about
1612, died May 7, 1685. It is not known how
or when he came to -America. He is first
found of record in Hartford, Connecticut,
in 1637, where he performed service in the
Pequot war. He received a grant of one
hundred acres, which was confirmed by the
general court. May 13, 1637, no doubt in rec-
ognition of his services in that war. In 1639
he became one of the pioneer settlers of New-
Haven, Connecticut, where he acquired a house
lot in February, 1640. He was one of the
sixty-three signers of the "Agreement." He
took the oath of fidelity July i, 1644, and
was appointed sergeant of the "trayned iDand,"
a title he bore for nineteen years. May 19,
1656, he was chosen one of seven townsmen
(selectmen). In 1661 he was appointed "En-
signe," and was assigned "seat No. 2 of the
shorte seats in the meeting house." April 28,
1663, "Ensigne Thomas Munson and John
Moss were chosen deputies for the jurisdiction
General Courte for the yeare ensueinge." In
1665, after the union of New Haven Colony
with Connecticut Colony, John Winthrop,
governor, he was chosen deputy to the general
assembly. July 6, 1665, he was confirmed by

the general assembly lieutenant "of ye traine
band at New Haven." In 1666 he was again
chosen deputy, and in 1668 assigned a new
seat in the meeting house; he was now one
of the thirteen persons seated "in the first
seat" in the gallery. April 29, 1668, he was
elected one of seven townsmen (selectmen),
and in 1669 again chosen deputy; in fact, this
office was bestowed upon him, as well as that
of selectman, almost continuously until his
death in 1685. At a session of the general
court, held at Hartford, August 7, 1673, the
following "special order" was passed:
"Whereas there is now at present a great
appearance of danger towards the Colony
by the approach of the Dutch, for our own
safety and defence till the general court in
October next, it is now ordered by this court
that the committee hereafter named, viz : The
Governor, Deputy-Governor, and assistants
(five others), and Lieutenant Thomas Mun-
son, are hereby empowered to act as the-
Grand Committee of this Colony in establish-
ing and commissioning of military officers, in
pressing men, houses, ships, barques, or other
vessels, arms, ammunition, provision, car-
riages, or whatever they judge needful for our
defense, and to manage, order and dispose
of the militia of the colony in the best way
and manner for our defense and safety." This
was the first appointment of a grand commit-
tee, or as afterwards termed "council of war."
During King Philip's war he was in command
of troops in and around Saj-brook. and May
13, 1676, was appointed captain of New Ha-
ven county soldiers, and in 1682 was a com-
missioner to treat with the Indians. Sep-
tember 29, 1684, he was. for the last time,
elected deputy to the general court, and May
7. 1685, he closed an exceeding busy and use-
ful life. He was continuously in the ser-
vice of town, colony and church until the

last. He married Joanna , born about

1610, died December 13, 1678.

(II) Samuel, only son of Thomas and Jo-
anna Munson, was baptized in New Haven,
Connecticut, First Church. -August 7. 1643,
died 1693. He was made a freeman of New
Haven, May 9, 1667, and assigned in the
meeting house a seat with fourteen others in
the "second scat in the gallery." In 1670
he was one of the thirty-nine men who signed
the agreement to become "Planters" and settle
in the wilderness north of New Haven, now
W'allingford, Connecticut. Here he was as-
signed a house lot on the "Long Highway"
(Main street), and a farm of eight acres.
He was chosen selectman in .April. 1672, and
June 7 "Samuel Munson shall be allowed forty
shillings for maintaining and beating the

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Drum in good order for the yeare ensuing."
In 1674 lie was again chosen one of five
"townsmen." King Philip's war now being
waged, he was appointed "Ensigne of Walling-
ford Traine Band." Under date of Septem-
ber 10. 1677, it was "voted that Ensign Mun-
son shall have fourty shillings allowed him
for meeting in his house this yeare." He
was chosen "lister" in 1678, and one of the
two sealers of leather. November 27, 1678.
■ occurs the first mention of schools in the town
record. December 24 it was voted to allow
ten pounds for a schoolmaster and three pence
per week for each scholar attending. April
12, 1679, Samuel Munson was chosen to serve
as the first schoolmaster. He was successively
auditor, selectman, treasurer, and recorder of
the town. In 1682 he apparently returned to
New Haven to reside, perhaps to make a
home for his widowed father, perhaps to be-
come master of Hopkins grammar school.
The earliest record book of the Hopkins gram-
mar school begins with 1684, under date of
January 4, "agreed that Ensign Munson go
on with the grammar school at New Haven
to make up his year current, and his allow-
ance to be £40 per annum as formerly, also
that trial be made of the sufficiency of the
said Ensign Munson and if he be sufficient
to instruct or fit hopeful youth for the College
that he have £50 for the ensuing vear." Three
months later he "laid down his charge," and
was succeeded by a graduate of Harvard
College. It is uncertain whether he was rector
of the school one, two or three years. He was
one of the sealers of leather in New Haven,
1683-85-86, and in 1692, lister, and constable.
This useful life ended the following year. He
married, October 26, 1665, Martha, daughter
of William Bradley.

(Ill) Thomas, second son of Samuel and
Martha (Bradley) Munson, was born March
12, 1 67 1, died in Cheshire, Connecticut, Sep-
tember 28, 1746. He was a husbandman, and
resided in New Haven. He was favored in
the distribution of his grandfather's estate,
and dealt largely in real estate during his life.
He held several of the town offices, and in
1 7 16 was a contributor to the amount of land
■donated to secure Yale College for New
Haven. He thus assisted in founding that
celebrated university which, a little later, was
removed to New Haven from Saybrook. Like
all the family preceding him, he was a mem-
Tjer of the Congregational First Church,
which he joined in New Haven, September
25. 1735- His wife had been a communicant
■of the First Qiurch since 1698. He mar-
ried, September 15, 1694, Mary Wilcox, who
■died November 28, 1755.

(IV) Obadiah, fourth child of Thomas and
Mary (Wilcox) Munson, was born in New
Haven, April 3, 1703, died in Wallingford,
April 29, 1773. He was a mill owner and
farmer, and during his life he dealt exten-
sively in real estate, residing in New Haven,
Cheshire and North Haven (Wallingford).
He is buried in the North Haven cemetery.
He married, March 27, 1729, Hannah Booth.

(\') Obadiah (2), eldest son of Obadiah
(i) and Hannah (Booth) Munson, was born
in New Haven, August 27, 1731, died May 26,
1805. He was a mill owner and farmer of
Connecticut, his home, until 1771, when he
removed to the Wyoming valley, Pennsyl-
vania, where he remained until 1778, when
he returned to Connecticut (Plymouth), dying
at Harwmton, that state. His residence in
P.ennsylvania was in Luzerne county, near
Pittston. "He purchased a tract of land on
the eastern bank of the Susquehanna, built his
log cabin and hoped to make for himself and
family a permanent home." When the valley
seemed in danger from Indians and British
he left his family and went back to Connecti-
cut to prepare a home for them. His wife
died at the time of the massacre, and at least
four of his sons were in the revolutionary
army. During his absence the massacre at
Wyoming occurred, and he never returned
to the valley. He was a member of the First
Church of Christ, of Harwinton, Connecticut.
He was a man of remarkable constitution,
broad-shouldered, and very strong. He could
lift a barrel of cider and put it over the rave
of a cart. He was a good business man and
led an active, useful life. He married Rachel
Tyler.

(\T) Stephen, fourth child of Obadiah (2)
and Rachel (Tyler) Munson, was born in
Wallingford (now Cheshire), Connecticut,
February 10, 1759, died July 9, 1824. He was
a saddler and a farmer. At the time of the
Wyoming massacre he was with the army
of Washington at Morristown, New Jersey,
in Captain Durkee's company. He was also
a member of one of the "Valley Independent
Companies" that saw much hard service. He
is desvibed on the roster of Captain Durkee's
company as five feet five inches tall, aged
eighteen. He was a man of means and genial
nature. He resided in various towns of Con-
necticut, and in Westfield and Huntington,
Massachusetts. He married, March 13, 1783,
Elizabeth, daughter of William Andrus.

(VII) Daniel, eldest child of Stephen and
Elizabeth (.'\ndrus) Munson, was born Janu-
ary 22, 1786, died at Huntington, October 7,
1839. His early schooling was in Southington
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moved to Westfield, Massachusetts, where he
attended academy two winters. He "farmed
it" during summers, and after leaving the
academy taught a winter scliool at Blanford,
the next winter at Chesterfield, the next at
■Goth's Hill, and then at Falley's Roads. A
sedentary life did not agree with him, and
he gave up the idea of going to college, for
which he had been preparing. He was a
farn.er all his days. He served as constable
in Norwich and three terms as selectman. He
is remembered as a person of elevated char-
acter and courtliness of manner. He was a
Whig and Congregationalist. He married,
January 18, 1810, Jerusha. born May i, 1786,
died March 10, 1852. daughter of Ebenezer
Fowler, of Westfield, Massachusetts.

(MH) Garry, eldest child of Daniel and
Jerusha (Fowler) JMunson, was born Decem-
ber 29, 1810, died June 5, 1882. After leav-
ing the district school he attended Westfield
(Massachusetts) Academy five terms and then
■engaged in teaching. In April, 1829, at the
age of eighteen, he opened a store on Chester
Hill in coimection with his father, and this
business continued eight years. On the day
he was twenty-one he began making twist but-
tons, and the year following, the production
of lasting buttons. In 1835 he was employ-
ing over two hundred persons. After a few
years the introduction of machine-made but-
tons drove him out of the business. During
the financial panic of 1837 he lost two-thirds
of his property, and he removed to Spring-
field, where for two and a half years he was
a partner with Galen Ames in the dry goods
business. In 1840 he removed to Huntington,
where he took possession of the farms at Nor-
wich Bridge, which had been owned by his
father and' grandfather since 1807. He also
opened a store which he operated for five
years. He acquired a half interest in a lumber
mill. In 1848 he built a store in the village,
where he carried on business three and a
half years until fire destroyed the building.
For many years he was an extensive wool
buyer. In 1870-71 he was a member of De-
laney & Munson, with paper mills at Union-
ville. Connecticut. In 1872 he became a part-
ner in the Massasoit Knitting Mills at Co-
hoes, New York. He devoted much of his
time during his later years to the settleir.ent
of estates. He was trial justice in the Hunt-
ington district, and at the time of his death
commissioner of insolvency, and president of
the Cemetery Association and of Huntington
Hall Association. Politically, he was a Whig
and later a Republican. At the age of thirty-
four he was electerl to the legislature, and
was repeatedly elected selectman, h'or twenty-

five or thirty years he was almost continu-
ously moderator of the town meetings. He
was a member of the Congregational church
and one of the founders of the Second Congre-
gational church in Huntington. When it was
destroyed by fire he gave more than any other
toward replacing it. For twenty-five' years
he served as deacon. He was diligent in at-
tendance upon public worship and in maintain-
ing family worship. He keenly enjoyed family
reunions, and for years he and three brothers
had annual gatherings in their homes succes-
sively. After his children began to form
homes of their own he established the cus-
tom of having them gather at the old home-
stead every alternate Thanksgiving. He had
rare sagacity, rare judgment, rare power to
execute, and a rare wealth of practical in-
formation. The judicial quality of his mind
was noteworthy, and his proper function, had
he been educated for it, was upon the bench.
He was devoted to his family and gave his
sons every encouragement, both in advice and
practical help. He married, November 6,
1833, Harriet Lyman, born October 10, 1810,
died August 18, i860, daughter of Colonel
and Deacon Samuel Lyman, of Chester, Mas-
sachusetts. She bore him seven children.

(IX) Samuel Lyman, fifth child of Dea-
con Garry and Harriet (Lyman) Munson,
was born in Norwich, now Iluntington, Mas-
sachusetts, June 14, 1844. His early education
was acquired in the common school, and at the
age of twelve he entered Williston Seminary,
where he studied three years. He then en-
tered a Boston dry goods store, where he re-
mained two years. Impaired health brought
him back to the farm, where a year of out-
door work restored him to vigor. After a
course at the Bryant & Stratton Commercial
School at Albany, New York, he became a
traveling salesman for Wickes & Strong.
Four years he remained with them, and then
in 1867, in company with two other young
men, established a factory for the manufacture
of linen collars. Two years later he assumed
sole control, steadily increasing his business
until 1884, when he purchased the Hudson
.\venue Methodist Church and converted it
into a factory where he has since been engaged
in the manufacture of linen and lace goods,
employing about one thousand hands. In
1889 he built another factory at Cobleskill,
New York, for the exclusive manufacture of
shirts. As an organizer to plan and con-
duct a business Mr. Munson has few equals;
from a very small begimiing he has built up
a business of large dimensions. While he has
always given the closest attention to his busi-
ness, other interests have attracted him. He

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has been trustee, secretary and vice-president
of the Home Savings Bank of Albany, direc-
tor of the National Exchange bank; trustee
of the Chamber of Commerce, and chairman
of its committee on manufactures. He is
trustee of the Madison Avenue Reformed
Church. His social clubs are the Fort Orange
and County of Albany, and the Colonial, Ark-
wright, and Republican, of New York City.
He is a life member of the New England So-
ciety of New York, and interested in the col-
lection and preservation of family history and
genealogy. He was a generous supporter of
the "Munson Family History," and has his
father's love of family and kindred. He is
president of the Weekapaug Chapel Society,
Weekapaug, Rhode Island ; governor of the
Albany Qiapter of the Society of Founders
and Patriots; regent of Philip Livingston
Chapter, Sons of the Revolution, and a man-
ager of the State Society. He is a member
of the Masonic fraternity. He attained, by
reason of long connection with the order, mem-
bership in the Masonic Veterans' Associa-
tion, of Albany, of which he became president.
He is an extensive traveler, and frequently
delivers lectures on travel and other subjects.
His large collection of books afford him one
of his principal recreations, and with golf,
his favorite pastime, fill the hours of leisure.
In politics he is a Republican, that having
been, almost without an exception, the family
politics ever since the formation of the party.
He was a presidential elector in igoi. He
resides in Albany, where, in a beautiful home,
his large library of well-selected books, in-
dicates his breadth of mind, and wide range
of thought.

He married, May 21, 1868, Susan Babcock
Hopkins, born in Hudson, New York, June
29, 1844, daughter of Lemuel J. Hopkins.
Children, all born in Albany, New York: i.
Harriet Lyman, March 8, 1869; educated at
Miss Mackie's school, Newburg, New York;
married Robert H. Lyman, managing editor
of the Nczv York World, and has a daugh-
ter, Susan Elizabeth, born November 18, 1905.
2. Anna Hopkins, died in infancy. 3. Edward
Garry, p-ebruary 16, 1873, graduate of Nor-
walk Military Institute. 4. Paul Babcock,
November 5, 1875; graduate of Norwalk Mili-
tary Institute, Phillips Andover Academy, and
Yale University. 5. Samuel L., May 3, 1878:
graduate of Harvard, class of 1900, and of
Harvard Law School, class of 1903. 6. Amy
Treadwell, February i, 1881 ; graduated from
Miss Runts-Rees' school, Greenwich, Con-
necticut; in 1908 made a trip around the
world. 7. Robert, October 27, 1888; prepar-
ing at I.awrenceville, New Jersey, for ad-

mission to Princeton University. Edward G.
Munson is managing a wadding plant in Co-
hoes, owned by Mr. Munson. The two next
older sons are associated in business with'
their father in Albany.

William Munson, son of Wil-
ML'NSON liam Oscar and Ann (Patrick)
Munson, was born in Hebron,.
Washington county, New York. He learned
the trade of blacksmith, which he followed
for two years in Hartford, Washington'
county, after which time he went into the
hotel business, first in Hartford, then in Mid-
dle Granville, where he remained about twO'
years, and then went to Granville and con-
ducted the old Woodard Hotel. On the site-
of the old building he erected the present
Munson House, of which he was the proprie-
tor a number of years, retiring in 1905. Since-
then he has managed the Forrest House at
Lake St. Catherine, besides engaging in real
estate business. He has held the office of
town supervisor. He married, July 10, 1882,
Clarissa Caroline Lincoln (see Lincoln II).
Children : Dr. William Leslie, of whom fur-
ther; Oscar P., of whom further.

(II) Dr. William Leslie, son of William
and Clarissa Caroline (Lincoln) Munson, was-
born November i, 1886, in Granville, Wash-
ington county, New York. He was educated
in the public school of Granville, Albany
Medical College, from which he was gradu-
ated in the class of 1908. He was house-
physician and surgeon in Albany City Hos-
pital from 1908 to 1909. He is now practic-
ing in Granville. He is a member of the
county and New York State medical societies ;
member of Lodge No. 55, Free and Accepted'
Masons, of Granville.

(II) Oscar P., son of William and Clarissa
Caroline (Lincoln) Munson, was born ini
Granville, July 25, 1887. He was educated in.
the public school of Granville and Troy Con-
ference Academy. He entered Granville Na-
tional Bank in 1907, and is now assistant
cashier of that institution. He married Made-^
line, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Wes-
cott) Woodard. Daniel Woodard, son of
Daniel and Anna (Case) Woodard. married
Mary, daughter of James and Lydia (Mar-
ten) McNitt. Children: Lydia, married Wil-
liam Shaw; James McNitt married (first)
Georgia Bocker ; (second) Elizabeth -Stetson;
Emma, married Captain Joseph Hays ; Daniel,
of whom further; Frances; Martin; Ely, mar-
ried Nettie Bush. Daniel, son of Daniel and
Mary (McNitt) Woodard, was born January
7, 1854, in Hebron, Washington county. New
York' He married Elizabeth, daughter of

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James and Elizabeth (Warren) Westcott.
Children: Ethel, married, December 25, 1908,
Dr. W. D. Coolidge; one child, Elizabeth Bel-
naj) : Allan J., born 1885, married Mary Al-
len; Aladeline, born 1890, married Oscar P.
JNlunson.

(The Lincoln Line).

Harvey Lincoln was probably born in
Hebron, W'ashington comity. New York. He
married Lucy Farrar. Children : Lucy, mar-
ried David Thompson; Blossmer, died 5'oung ;
^^■illiam P., of whom further; Lewis B., died
young; Lewis A., died young; Homer, mar-
ried Sarah Gardiner; Laura Louise, married
Edwin Hannibal ; Merrett C, married Clarissa
Rafbo.

(H) \\'illiam Philetus, son of Harvey and
Lucy ( Farrar j Lincoln, was born in Danby,
^'ermont. April 11, 1822, died August 11,
1885. He lived in Danby, Vermont, during
his early life, then in Rupert, Vermont, and
later removed to Hebron, Washington county,
New Y'ork, where he resided until his death.
He was a farmer, owning lands in these dif-
ferent sections of Vermont and New York
state. He was reared in the Baptist church,
but later joined the Adventists, in which he
became an active member, leading the singing
for many years. He was a man of sterling
integrity and highly respected by all who
knew him.

He married, February. 1844, i\Iaria Hay.
Children: i. Helen R., born December
30. 1844: married Charles Hudson, one
son. Sidney. 2. David W., October 16,
1846; married Fannie R. Burke; one son,
Orien. 3. Lucy Ann, December 24, 1848;
married Aaron Loveland : children : i. William,
married Gladys Coolidge, and has one child.
Kenneth ; ii. Frederick ; iii. Elbert. 4. Mary
Augusta, March 31, 1851 ; married John
Moore; Children: jay; Etta, married Charles
Chamberlain, two children. Florence and
Leon ; Minnie, married Ray Hanna, two chil-
dren : Marietta and Earnest. 5. Clarissa Caro-
line, married, July 10. 1882, William Munson.

Peter and Charity Hull came
HULL from England and settled in Nova

Scotia a short time; from there
they went to the town of Kent, in Connecti-
cut. In England he was a merchant, and
kept books and Stationery. Peter and Qharity
Hull had one son. Daniel.

(H) Daniel, son of Peter and Charity Hull,
married Ruth Bamum. They went to the
town of Queensbury, New York, where he
took up a large tract of land; here he lived
and died. He was a member of the Society
^of Friends. Their children were: Daniel;

Nchemiah; Benjamin; Joseph, of whom fur-
ther; David; Ruth; Sarah; Phoebe.

(HI) Joseph, son of Daniel and Ruth (Bar-
num) Hull, was born in Queensbury, New
Y'ork, May 28, 1795, died October 3, 1867.
He was a member of the Society of Friends,
and a leading farmer of his town. He mar-
ried Polly Burnham, born April 25, 1795, died
November 29, 1873. Children: i. Lorenzo,
born December 12, 1819. 2. Clorinda, born
December 4, 1821, died September 6, 1859;
married John Piester; children: Mary and
Halsey. 3. Nelson, of whom further. 4.
Leonard, D. D., born August 7, 1828; he in-
herited the Polly Burnham farm, which was
granted to her patriotic ancestor in recogni-
tion of his revolutionary services as captain
of a company at Bunker Hill, and Lake
George; Leonard, D. D., married Melissa
Sweet; children: Eber, Annie (AI. D.) and
Orville. 5. Orange, born October 27, 1830.
6. Orville, born July 30, 1833; married Sara
Louisa Adams; he removed to Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, where he became an extensive owner
of real estate, also having large tracts in
Florida with orange groves at DeLeon, De-
land, Daytona and Ormond ; he died in De-
land, Florida, 1889. 7. Judson B., born March
23, 1835, died August 21, 1867; married, in
1859, Annie Foster; children: Charles, Jennie
and Etta.

(IV) Nelson, son of Joseph and Polly
(Burnham) Hull, was born on the Hull home-
stead at Glens Falls, New York, January 12.
1824, died in Hubbard, Iowa, December 29,
1899. Early in life he was in the furniture
business in Granville, New York, until i86o.
when he removed to Glens Falls to the farm
inherited from his father, Joseph Hull. In
1884 he removed to Hubbard, Iowa, where
he purchased a farm. He remained there
engaged in agriculture until his death. (The
Joseph Hull farm is yet (1910) in the pos-
session of the Hull family.) Nelson Hull was
a member of the Society of Friends, and
always adhered clo.scly to its most excellent
tenets, and in both New York and Iowa was
a recognized minister of that faith. He mar-
ried, February 2, 1832. Hannah K. Dilling-
ham (see Dillingham VIII). Children: i.
Otis Dillingham, of whom further. 2. Jo-
.seph. born July 4, 1854; married Josephine
Staples; children: .Vnson and Orange. 3.
Josephine, twin of Joseph, married Amos C.
Norton ; children : James, Nelson, Joseph, Lena,
Louisa, Otis and Elizabeth. 4. Lydia Eliza-
beth, born March 22. 1859: married James
E. Norton; children: Hiram, born 1884; Car-
rie, 1890; George, 1892. 5. Nelson (2), born
July 4, 1861, died September 8, 1862. 6.

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Louisa C, born March 22, 1872, died Mav 4,
1887.

(V) Otis Dillingham, son of Nelson and
Hannah K. (Dillingham) Hull, was born in
the town of Granville. Washington county,
New York, January 26, 1853, died November
19, 1908. While still a boy his parents re-
moved to the town of Queensburg near Glens
Falls, where he was educated at the Glens
Falls Academy. He inherited the Otis Dil-
lingham farm from his Grandfather Dilling-
ham, and early in life assumed its manage-
ment. Later he sold his property, that is now
a part of the village of Granville. Mr. Hull
then went south and engaged in orange cul-
ture at Daytona, and De Leon Springs,
Florida. He remained in the south until 1900
when he returned to Granville and engaged
in the manufacture of slate. He was a mem-
ber of Granville Lodge, No. 55, Free and
Accepted Masons, a Knight Templar and
Shriner. He married, October 23, 1876, Car-
rie, daughter of Hiram and Hannah Norton.
Oiildren : Lulu Norton, born February 17,
1880, a resident of Granville: George Nelson,
born October 8, 1882, a resident of Gran-
ville.

(The Dillingham Line).

Edward Dillingham, born in England, died
in Sandwich, Massachusetts, in 1666. ( )f
his life in America, French's "An American
Ancestry," says: "One of the earliest comers
to Lynn (1632) was Edward Dillingham,
Gentleman, who bore arms and brought over
considerable money to invest for his friends
in Bitterswcll, Lancastershire, England. In
1647 he became one of the ten original settlers
of Sandwich. In 1647-48 we find him one of
those to inventory the property of James
Halloway and George Knot. In 1657 he was
arrested and admonished for sympatliizing
with the Quakers. He left but two sons, his
only daughter having died in 1650." He mar-
ried Druscilla , born in England, died

in Sandwich in 1655. Sons: i. John, born
in England, died May 21, 1715, in Maverick,
Massachusetts ; married, March 24, 1650.
Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Feake ; she died
November, 1720. 2. Henry, of whom fur-
ther.

(II) Henry, son of Edward and Druscilla
Dillingham, was born in .\ugust. 1672, died in
Sandwich, Massachusetts, 1695. He was a
resident of Sandwich and his will was pro-
bated there August 25, 1705. To his .son John
gave he "land from my dwelling house to
Falmouth, part of which my son John now
dwells on." He married, June 24, 1653. Han-
nah I'err\-. Children: John, of whom fur-
ther; Deborah, born December 21, 1659, mar-

ried Daniel Wing; Dorcas, married Ralph
Earl ; Edward, born about 1669.

(III) John, son of Henry and Hannah
(Perry) Dillingham, was born in Sandwich,.
Massachusetts, February 24, 1658, died 1733.
He was still a resident of Sandwich in 1702.

He married . Children : Henry,.

born about 1685; Edward, born about 1687;
John, about 1689, married. August 11, 171 5,
Jael, daughter of Elisha and Elizabeth Turner ;
Mary; Jeremiah, born 1697; Meletiah, of
whom further.

(IV) Meletiah, son of John Dillingham,
was born 1699, died January 25, 1786, at
Hanover, Massachusetts. He is mentioned in
the settlement of his father's estate. He
lived in Sandwich until after his first marriage,
but removed to Hanover before his first wife
died. He was a large land owner, holding
property in several adjoining towns. He mar-
ried (first), in Scituate, Massachusetts, Oc-
tober 28, 1723, Mary Curtis, died December
17, 1727, aged twenty-four years. He mar-
ried (second), in Hanover, February 18,
1730. Phebe Hatch, died January 20. 1732.
He married (third). January 2, 1735, at Han-
over, Maria Giflford, born October 16, 1709,
died December 21, 1784. Children of first
marriage: Edward, born 1724 or 1725; Lem-
ual. married, September 23, 1756, Sarah
Palmer, of Hanover, daughter of Joshua and
Sarah Palmer. Child by second marriage :
Mephibosheth. born December 29. 1730, died
June 9. 1 73 1. Children by third marriage:
Lydia, born March 22, 1736, married Zacheus
Gififord; Hannah, February 6, 1738; Content,
June 30, 1739: Thomas, March 17. 1740;
Joshua, of whom further; Meriba, November
4, 1745: William, September 16. 1747; Ann,
September 9. 1749; Phebe, January 14. 1757.

(V) Joshua, son of Meletiah and his third
wife. Maria (GifTord) Dillingham, was born
in Hanover, Alassachusetts, March 21, 1743..
He married, July 6. 1773. Hannah, born Oc-
tober 4. 1747. daughter of Thomas and Debo-
rah Rogers, of Marshficld. Children, born in
Marshfield. Massachusetts : .Stephen, of whom
further; Deborah, born June 6. 1775; Otis,
May 3. 1777; Joshua, December 11, 1779, diecf
young; Lydia, twin of Joshua, died young;
Joshua (2), December 7. 1782; Hannah. No-
vember 3, 1783; Sarah. December 9. 1784;
Rhoda. .April 9, 1787.

(\\) Stephen, eldest .son of Joshua and
Hannah (Rogers) Dillingham, was born in
Marshfield. Alassachusetts, I\Iarch 6, 1774. He-
married Amy Tucker, born September 15,
1775, at Chappaqua, New York, died in West-
chester county. New York. October \(\. 1856.
Children : Joseph, married Ruth Smith ; Debo-

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rah. died young; Abraham, of whom further;
Hannah, married David Rogers ; Stephen,
married EHza Rogers ; Otis, of whom further ;
Reuben, died young.

(\'n) Abraham, son of Steplien and Amy
(Tucker) DilHngham, was born March 10,
1800. He married Lydia Rogers, born June
28, 1807, at Danby. \'ermont, daughter of
Aaron and Dinah (Folger) Rogers. Child,
Henry, born July 17, 1833. He married. Au-
gust 22. 1854, Lillys, daughter of Russell and
Jane (Hoag) Borden. Their daughter, Le-
moyne Dillingham, born October 28, 1865,
married, January 4, 1893, G. Myron Allen.

(VH) Otis, son of Stephen and Amy
(Tucker) Dillingham, was born Xovember 18.
181 1, died July 12, ,1878. He married (first),
June 12. 1832, Elizabeth Keese. of Peru, New
York, born Alarch 3. 1810, died January 10,
1845. He married (second) March 11, 1846,
Lydia. daughter of Isaac and Mary Barker,
of Granville, Washington county. New York.
Children, all by first marriage : John K., mar-
ried Sarah Potter; Hannah K.. of whom fur-
ther ; Deborah, married William Huntington ;
Edwin, died young; Eliabeth. married Anson
Rogers.

(MH) Hannah K.. daughter of Otis and
Elizabeth ( Keese) Dillingham, was born Au-
gust I. 1834. died May 4. 1900. She married.
February 2. 1852. Nelson Hull (see Hull I\').

The surname Parker is derived
PARKER from the Latin "parcarius,"

parkkeeper. or shepherd.
Danes. Saxons and Normans all seem to have
had the name at an early date. Parcum and
de Parco are found in Domesday Book. As
early as 900-925. in the reign of Edward I,
a GeofTrey Parker is mentioned even before
the common use of surnames in England.
The family bore arms, that of the Browns-
holme family of Parker, the pedigree of which
is traced to William le Parker, of Wiztwistle.
Lancashire, before 1400 is: Vert, a chevron
between three stags' heads cabossed or ; crest :
a leopard head afifrontee erased or, ducally
gorged gules ; motto : Sepre Ande ( dare to be
just). This coat-of-arms descended through
the Park Hall and Staffordshire lines, and is
that used by Sir Thomas Parker. Earl of
Macclesfield. England. A Parker branch that
settled in Dutchess county. New York, de-
scended from James Parker, a taxpayer in
Woburn. Massachusetts, in 1645. *

(L) John Parker was born in 1799. died
November 30. 1848, aged forty-eight years,
ten months and sixteen days. He had a
brother, Samuel, who had children : Philip and
Philo, twins, who were of Shelbyville. Illi-

nois. John Parker settled at an early date
in Saratoga county. New York, where he
engaged in farming and lumbering. He mar-
ried Nancy McQueen, who died December 26,
1888, aged eighty-four years, four months, six
days, daughter of Robert and Betsey Mc-
Queen. Robert McQueen died July 6, 1834,
aged seventy-five years; Betsey McQueen
died November 14. 1840, aged seventy-seven
years.

(II) Robert, son of John and Nancy (Mc-
Queen) Parker, was born in the town of
Galway, Saratoga county, New York. He
engaged there in the lumber business and
operated a farm. In 1888 he removed to
Michigan, where he yet resides (1910). He
married Margaret Timeson, who died in i860.
Their only child was John Nicholas, see for-
ward.

(III) John Nicholas, only son of Robert
and Margaret (Timeson) Parker, was born
in the town of Providence, Saratoga county.
New York, September 20. 1854, died in Sche-
nectady, New York, February 23, 1907. His
mother died when he was a lad of six years,,
and his early training devolved upon an aunt,,
who cared for him until he was ready to go
out into the world and make his own way.
This time came all too soon. He attended
the winter schools, and in summer worked on*
a farm, receiving, at first, six dollars a month,
working at this wage for two years, when he
was raised to eight dollars. After two years
more on the farm he yielded to the charm the
Erie canal had for the farmer boy, and se-
cured a job as water boy, where he earned
a good round dollar every day. His uncle,
Hiram Parker, was proprietor of a hotel at
Acqueduct. and for eleven years John N. lived
with him. He was treasuring his dollars, and
after eleven years had sufficient capital to en-
gage in business on his own account. For the
next seven years he conducted the hotel at
Rexford Flats, at the same time operating in
all kinds of farm produce, under the firm-
name of John N. Parker & Company. He-
shipped large quantities of hay, grain and
kindred products, and conducted a profitable
business, which he continued until his death.
After disposing of his Rexford Flats' prop-
erty he operated the hotel at .Acqueduct for
four years. He built a fine residence at that
place, which was his home ever after. He
sold his hotel interest, and henceforth de-
voted himself to his produce business, the
public service in the state of New York, and
to business interests in the city of Schenec-
tady. He was treasurer of the Schenectady
Paving and Contracting Company, a concern
that carried on the largest business of the-

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kind in northern New York. He also had an
interest in the Niskayiina Ice Company, and
was a director of the Schenectady Trust Com-
pany. He continued his successful business
career up to the time of his death. In public
life Mr. Parker was well known and promi-
nent. He was a local leader in the Republi-
can party, and influential in state party coun-
cils. He was honored and respected as a
leader in Schenectady county, and always
proved a formidable opponent at the polls.
He held many public offices in the county;
was road commissioner; for two terms repre-
sented his town on the board of supervisors,
T)eing elected without opposition. In 1894
he was appointed by Governor Levi P. Morton
division superintendent of the eastern division
of the Erie canal, going back in authority to
the scene of his boyhood labor, and held this
position twelve years. He was a capable of-
ficial, and served his state well. At the time
■of his death he was assistant superintendent of
public works of the state of New York. He
was a familiar figure at party state conven-
tions, and frequently was a delegate to Re-
publican national conventions. His public life
was clean, and he always made it his boast
that he never had a dollar which he did not
■earn. He spent a life of active effort, and
earned a deserved success. He was prominent
in the Masonic order, belonging to St. George
Lodge, Chapter and Commandery. and was a
noble of Oriental Temple, Order of the Mystic
Shrine. He was a charter member of
Schaughmaugh-ta-da Tribe of Red Men, and
■of the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks. He married, October 14, 188 1, Kathe-
rine, daughter of John Blair, of Schenectady,
and Julia Blair, of St. Johnsville, New York,
who survives her husband. Children: i. John
Tiobert, see forward. 2. Ethel B., bom July
21, 1884; married George G. Schieffelin ;
•child: Richard G. 3. James C, July 20, 1887;
educated at Phillips Exeter Academy ; now a
real estate dealer of Schenectady ; married
■Grace Gilbert.

• (IV) John Robert, eldest son of John
Nicholas and Katherine (Blair) Parker, was
Ijorn at Rexford Flats, Saratoga county, New
York, October 14, 1882. He was educated in
the public school, Schenectady high school,
Union Classical Institute, Albany Business
College, Mt. Beacon Military Academy, Fish-
kill, New York, and was graduated LL.B.
from Cornell University, class of 1907. He
was admitted to the Kentucky bar, and in
1907 to the New York bar, and at once began
the practice of his jirofession in Schenectady,
as a partner of the law firm of Wemple &
Parker. In 1909 this partnership was dis-

solved, and he is now conducting a general law
practice alone. He has always taken an active
part in politics, following in the footsteps of
his father. In 1909 he was the Republican
candidate for the state legislature from Sche-
nectady, being beaten by the slender majority
of two hundred and eighty-seven votes. He
is a member of the Episcopal church ; Sigma
Chi (Cornell) ; Phi Delta Phi, a legal fra-
ternity; Phi Psi, a preparatory school fra-
ternity; Schenectady County Bar Association;
Schenectady Board of Trade; Mohawk Club;
Mohawk Golf Club, and the Press, Republican
and Boat clubs of Schenectady. He married,
July 3, 1907, at Newcastle, Kentucky, Fannie
Symes, born February 21, 1883, daughter of
]\iajor Sanford. of an old Kentucky family,
and Fannie (Smith) Sanford, and grand-
daughter of Charles Sanford. Mr. and Mrs.
Parker have a son, John Robert (2), born
September 12, 1908.

From the time of the Dutch
HOTALING ancestor, Mathys Hooghtee-

ling, this name had caused
deepest woe to those bearing it. on account of
the many ingenious ways it can be spelled.
Houghteling is one of the most common forms,
but the tendency now seems to be toward
the simpler form, Hotaling. Mathys Hoogh-
teeling was born 1644 (it is supposed in Hol-
land), died 1706. He is the first of his name
in the Hudson Valley. In 1697 a patent of
land was granted him in Rensselaerwyck in
the present town of Coxsackie. He married
Maria Hendrickse and had three sons and
two daughters.

(II) Coenradt, son of Mathys and Maria
(Hendrickse) Hotaling (Hooghteeling), was
born about 1667. He married, 1688, Tryntja
Willemse Van Slyck, and had eleven chil-
dren.

(III) Willeni, second child of Coenradt and
Tryntja W. (Van Slyck) Hotaling, was bap-
tized January 17, 1692. He was a farmer and
a freeholder of the town of Bethlehem, Al-
bany county, in 1742. He married Lena Uzile,
November 9, 1716, and had nine children.

(IV) Jonathan, son of Willem and Lena
(Uzile) Hotaling, was baptized September
12, 1736. He married Jannetie Slingerland,
November 2, 1754. He cultivated a farm in
New -Scotland ancl Bethlehem, and died, leav-
ing sons, Coenrad, Johannes and Wouter. His
eldest child and only daughter was Neeltje,
baptized September 28, 1755.

(V) Coenrad, son of Jonathan and Jannetie
(.Slingerland) Hotaling, was ba]itized Novem-
ber I, 1761, died in the town of Berne in 1831.
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death, was divided among his two sons, Aaron
and Jonathan. Coenrad was an active mem-
ber of the Methodist Episcopal church, and
was a class leader. He was a Democrat and
a man of intkience in his town. He was twice
married. Children: Aaron, of whom further;
Jonathan, died in Montezuma, New York, in
1903, leaving a son, Gabriel; Solomon, settled
in the west, where he married, and had thir-
teen children.

(\'I) Aaron, son of Coenrad and Jaiietta
(l')Ogardus) Hotaling, was born in the town
of New Scotland, Albany county. New York,
in 1797, died in the city of Albany in 1866.
At the division of his father's property it
was supposed that he got the less valuable
half, but he later discovered upon it quarries
of bluestone that made him a very rich man.
Albany sidewalks are paved almost exclusively
with flagstones taken from these quarries, and
innumerable carloads have been shipped to dis-
tant points. In 1855 he retired from the ac-
tive operation of his quarries and settled in
a comfortable home in Albany, where he died
«leven years later. The quarries are located
near Reedville, in the town of Berne, and are
yet a source of supply for flagging purposes.
He was originally a member of the INIetho-
dist Episcopal church, but later became con-
nected with the First Baptist Church in Al-
bany. He was a man of religious nature, and
lived a most exemplary life. Iij politics he
-was a Democrat. He married, in 1826, in
Berne, Mary (Polly) Rogers, born in Al-
bany county about 1800, died in Albany shortly
after the removal to th^ city in 1855. She

was a daughter of Captain Thomas and

(Wheat) Rogers. Captain Thomas Rogers
was a soldier of the revolution. He was
•extensively engaged in lumbering and gained
bis title of captain from his river operations.
He owned large tracts of timber in Washing-
ton county, and drove his logs, when prac-
ticable, down the Hudson to mills below. He
was a well-known character, and with Dea-
con Philips, established the First Baptist
■church in Albany county, and was officially
connected with it during his lifetime. He
was one of the leading business men of his
day. His two sons, Dr. Samuel and Dr.
Hiram Rogers, went west, settled in Quincy,
Illinois, wiiere they helped to organize and
"build the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail-
road. They became well known as prosperous
business, rather than as professional men. His
son, Thomas Rogers, was a farmer of New
Scotland, and still another, Peniel, also set-
tled in Quincy, Illinois, married, and left two
sons, George, a prominent attorney of Spring-
field, Illinois, and Hiram, leading druggist

of Quincy. Captain Thomas Rogers died in
Berne in 1849, in the ninety-first year of his
age. Children of Aaron and Mary Hotaling:
Hiram, of whom further; Oscar, born in
Reedville, New York, 1830, died in New Scot-
land in 1905; married Leah Loucks and left
Harry, now a resident of New Scotland, and a
daughter, Mariette Mickle; William Chaun-
cey, died in Albany, 1904; married Eleanor,
daughter of John Moore, of Albany ; they
have no living issue; LoXiisa, married William
H. Conger.

(VH) Hiram, eldest son of Aaron and
Mary (Rogers) Hotaling, was born in the
town of Berne, Albany county. New York,
March 16, 1828. He was educated in the
public schools, and in early life was a farmer.
He was especially interested in fine stock
breeding, and owned some of the first Dur-
ham short-horned cattle. In 1858, after the
removal of the family to Albany, he engaged
in the ice business in that city, which he
prosecuted with such vigor that in a few years
he had earned the title of "Ice King" of the
Hudson river. During one year he had a
complete monopoly of the city ice trade, sup-
plying, in addition to the family trade, the
large beef companies, hotels and restaurants.
He became very prosperous and extended his
operations to more distant points, not, how-
ever, with satisfactory results. He was a most
capable man of business and a hard worker,
richly deserving the success he won. He affili-
ated with the Democratic party until 1870,
when he transferred his allegiance to the Re-
publican. He now lives in quiet retirement
in Albany, spending his summers in his home
in the suburbs. He is a member of the First
Baptist Church of Albany and a man of high
character. He married, in Berne. Louisa
Gardiner, died in Albany in 1892. She was, in
later life, a member of the Baptist church,
of deeply religious nature and truly womanly
character. She was a daughter of Hon. James
D. Gardiner, of the (Gardiner's Island, New
York, family. Gardiner's Island lies three
miles east of the most easterly point of Long
Island, and is seven miles in greatest length
and one mile in greatest width. The area
is about three thousand, three hundred acres,
some in barren hills, ponds and beaches. The
island was first granted to Leon Gardiner,
born in England about 1399. died in East
Hampton, Long Island, 1663. For two hun-
dred and fifty years the island has been kept
in the family name and in possession of the
descendants of the first owner, eight proprie-
tors having lived in the mansion house. Leon
Gardiner was a man of great prominence in
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with both the colonial officials and with their
foes, the Indians. He married May Wilem-
son, born in Holland. The line of descent
is through David Gardiner, son of Leon, and
second proprietor of Gardiner's Island, which
Governor Dongan erected into "One Lordship
and Manor of Gardiner's Island," September
II, 1686.

James D. Gardiner married Catharine Sim-
mons, daughter of one of the oldest Albany-
county families, Colonel James Gardiner, an
uncle' of James D. Gardiner, served in the
revolutionary war, where he held the commis-
sion of colonel, and a part of his equipment
is still preserved in the family as a sacred
relic. Hon. James D. Gardiner was a mem-
ber of the New York state assembly in 1827.

Hiram and Louisa (Gardiner) Hotaling had
two daughters: i. Mary, born in New Scot-
land; was educated in Albany, and died in
New York City in 1892. She married Samuel
Curtis Parks, no issue. 2. Anna H., educated
in the Albany schools ; married William Cur-
tis Saxton. She survives her husband and
resides in Albany with her venerable father,
they being the last survivors. She is a mem-
ber of the Baptist church, and a woman of
refinement and culture. William C. Saxton
was born in Rockport, New York, died in Al-
bany, January 18, 1910. He was finely edu-
cated and became well known in the literary
world as a strong and interesting magazine
and newspaper writer. He was for many
years connected with the department of state
at Albany, resigning on account of failing
health. He then engaged in Albany as a
wholesale dealer in coal until his sudden death.
In early life he prepared for the profession
of law and was admitted to the New York
state bar in 1878. He was a pleasing and
forcible public speaker and often in demand.
He was a brother of Judge Saxton, of Clyde,
New York, ex-lieutenant-governor of New
York state.

The Pittz family of Albany, here-
PITTZ in considered, of whom Dr. John
Pittz is the head, descend from
German ancestry. The grandfather of Dr.
Pittz lived to be over ninety years of age.
as did his father, John (i), who was born
in Battledorf, Germany, in a Rhine province,
in 1782. John Pittz, Sr., was a proficient
musician, and served in the army of Napoleon
the Great, followed that great commander in
his disastrous invasion of Russia, and was one
of the few who saw the burning of Moscow
and lived to return to their homes. He was
pensioned for his military service and lived
many years to tell of that great campaign.

He was a man much loved in his village and
sought after for his musical attainments and
general good qualities. He died in 1871, in
his native province. He married Weyler
Dreis, born in the same house in which she
was married. Her father was also a soldier of
the Napoleonic wars, and held an office under
the government. Children : Nicholas, born
July 17, 1 84 1, yet a resident of the German;
town of his birth; he served in the German
army; two of his sons are soldiers in the
German army, and served in the Franco-Prus-
sian war of 1870-71. Jacob, for many years
a police guard under the local government,
died in 1889, leaving a daughter Catherine.

The eldest child. Marguerite, married

Heunie, also a soldier in the war of 1870-71.
Dr. John, see forward. Nicholas and Dr.
John Pittz are the only surviving members
of the family (1910).

(II) Dr. John Pittz, son of John (i) Pittz,
was born July 16, 1844. He was educated in
the public schools. He was but a boy when
an epidemic of fever carried off hundreds of
the residents of his province, among them
many of his own relatives. The boy seems to
have been born with an aptitude for treating
diseases. He gave water to the sick, although
this was strictly forbidden by the physicians.
He did it out of pure sympathy, and observ-
ing that in every case they seemed to ex-
perience relief he gave them cool water in
abundance and his four cases all recovered.
When the war between Prussia and Austria
was being waged he was drawn and assigned
to hospital duty. Although without medical
knowledge his natural aptitude made him a
valuable assistant, and he gained valuable ex-
perience. He decided to adopt medicine for
his profession. In August, 1869, he left home-
and came to the United States, landing from
the steamship "America" in New York, after
a passage of eleven days. He proceeded tO'
Albany, where he soon afterwards began the
study of medicine under Dr. Albert Van Der-
veer, and in 1872 was granted a diploma and
state license to practice. He is a very suc-
cessful physician and has a large practice all
over the city. His success in fever cases is
marked, few being lost. He is identified with
the medical societies, and with the local Ger-
man singing society, Cecilia and Harmonica.
He is a trustee of the German Veteran As-
sociation, and a prominent and popular mem-
ber of German life and society.

He married (first) Theresa Whitemier,
who died soon after her marriage. He mar-
ried (second), in 1878, Louise Heisler, born'
in Albany. August i, 1859, of German parent-
age. Her father, Martin Heisler, born No-

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veniber 11, 1820, died in 1906. His wife,
Mary (Smith) Heisler. died in 1878. Chil-
dren of Dr. John and Louise (Heisler)
Pittz : I. John, accidentally drowned in the
Hudson river, at the age of fourteen years.
2. Anthony, bom September 5, 18S1, with a
wholesale fruit house of Albany; married
Elizabeth Hughes : daughter, Louise, born De-
cember, 1908. 3. Joseph, born May 15, 1884;
painter : unmarried. 4. Louise, married Jacob
Decker. 5. Edward, born June 29, 1892.

Henry Adams, of Braintree,
ADAMS Massachusetts, called thus be-
cause he was one of the first set-
tlers in that part of Massachusetts designated
"Mt. Wollaston," which was incorporated in
1640 as the town of Braintree. He arrived
in Boston with his wife, eight sons and a
daughter in 1632. The authorities at Boston
allotted him forty acres of land "at the
Mount" for the ten persons in his family, Feb-
ruary 24. 1639-40. Henry Adams died in
Braintree. October 6, 1646. His descendants
have probably filled more high public ofiices
in the L'nited States and rendered greater pub-
lic service than the descendants of any other
man who ever landed on the coast of Amer-
ica. Every page of American history is en-
riched by the deeds of an Adams. They
alone can point to a son succeeding his father
as president of the L^nited States, namely :
John Adams and John Ouincy Adams, also
Charles Francis Adams, who served as minis-
ter to England. In law. business, church or
state, they have been leaders. Sons of Henry
.Adams, all born in England, were: i. Lieuten-
ant Henry, killed by the Indians at his own
doorway, February 21, 1676: his wife Eliza-
beth, daughter of Moses Paine, was accident-
ally shot the same day and died eight days
later. February 29; Lieutenant Henr\- was
the first town clerk of Braintree. Massachu-
setts, and representative of the town in the
general court. 1659-65-74-75. 2. Lieutenant
Tliomas. married Mary Blackmore ; he was
town clerk, selectman and representative of
the town of Chelmsford. Massachusetts, to the
general court: he died in Chelmsford. July
20, 1688, aged seventy-six years. 3. Captain
Samuel, married (first) Rebecca, daughter
of Thomas Graves: married (seconds Esther,
daughter of Nathaniel Sparhawk: he had
four hundred and fifty acres of land granted
him, near where the city of Lowell now is,
and exclusive right to erect and run a saw-
mill, provided he would sell boards at three
shillings per one hundred : and another grant
of one hundred acres and right to build and
run a grist mill or corn mill, provided he

would keep a sufficient mill and miller; he was
commissioner to the court. 1667. from Chelms-
ford. He died January 24. 1668-69. 4- Dea-
con Jonathan, marrfed (first) Elizabeth,
daughter of John Russell. He settled in Med-
field, where his house was burned by Indians
in 1676; he died 1690. aged seventy-one years.

5. Peter, see forward. 6. John ;' there is a
grave doubt as to John being a son of Henry
of Braintree. So much has been written pro
and con that it cannot be here stated that he
was. By many he is believed to have been the
sixth son. Thayer says : "John was in Chelms-
ford 1654, after which we are not able to
trace him." President John Quincy .Adams
(see his letter in Gen. Reg. vol. XXXI\', p.
67) says the ten persons in Henrv .Adams
family for w^hom land grant was 'made in
1640, were himself, wife, daughter and seven
sons. John Adams was of Cambridge, and the
progenitor of a large posterity. 7. Joseph,
married Abigail, daughter of George and Mar-
garet (Paddy) Bazter. of Boston; he was a
""malster." and selectman in 1673 '• died in
Braintree. 1694, aged sixty-eight years. 8.
Ensign Edward, married (first) Lydia. daugh-
ter of Richard and Agnes (Bicknell) Rock-
wood: married (second) \\idow Abigail
(Craft) Ruggles. of Roxbury. Massachusetts;
he was of Medfield ; selectman and repre-
sentative for Medfield in the gefteral court,
1689-92-1702: he died in Medfield. November
12, 1716 "the last of the original settlers."

(II) Peter, fifth son of Henry .Adams, of
Braintree, was bom in England, 1622, died
about 1690. He settled in Medfield, Massa-
chusetts, in 1652, his wife and son John com-
ing with him from Braintree. He married,
and had six children: i. John, see forward. 2.
Rachel, married George, son of George and
Marv (Adams) Fairbanks; she died 1678. 3.
Dr. Peter, married Experience Cook, a
teacher : he called the first preaching service in
Medfield. making use of an old drum used in
the Indian wars; Savage says he was a phy-
sician of Medway; he died December 8. 1723.
4. Hannah, married (first) John, son of
Joshua Fisher; married (second) Joseph, son
of John Metcalf: she died 1746. 5. Man.'.

6. Jonathan (2). 7. Ruth. 8. Joseph, married
Mary, daughter of Charles Davenport, of
Dorchester. Massachusetts; his will was
proved December 27. 1746. 9. Dr. Samuel,
married Sarah Savin ; he was called a "cord-
wainer. ■ and the records say he practiced
medicine; he died 1731. lo. Henry, died
young.

(III) John, eldest child of Peter and Rachel
Adams, was born in Braintree. Massachusetts.
He was a farmer and removed to Canterbury,

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Connecticut. He married (second), April 2.
1685, Michael Bloice, of Watertown, Massa-
chusetts. She is there recorded as "Mychall,"
daughter of Richard and Mychall (Jenneson)
Bloice, also "Boyce." She was born April
3, 1664, died February 26, 1724. Children :

1. Samuel, died April 24, 1742; married (first)
Mary Plimpton, (second) Margaret Adams.

2. ]\Liry. 3. Patience. 4. Ruth, married
Abraham Paine; they removed to Dutchess
county, New York. 5. Josiah, died young.
6. Captain John, died 1762, aged sixty-six
years; he married Mrs. Abigail (Cleveland)
Brown, daughter of Josiah and Abigail
(Paine) Cleveland. 7. Isaac, see forward.
8. Richard, died April 17, 1733; married Mary
Cleveland. Q.John. 10. Abigail, n. Bethia.
12. Captain Michael, died August 26, 1776;
married Sarah Shuttleworth ; he was of
Thompson, Connecticut.

(IV) Isaac, fourth child of John and
Michael (Bloice) Adams, was born in Med-
field, Alassachusetts, January 30, 1697-98. He
was of Canaan, Connecticut. June 28, 1751,
he bought land and settled at Salisbury, Con-
necticut, which he later deeded to his son
Jeremiah. In January,' 1752. he deeded to his
brother. Captain John, all his right and in-
terest in his father's estate. He died in Salis-
bijry, November 24, 1763. He married Feb-
ruary 17, 1728, Zerviah Brown, of Canter-
bury, Connecticut, who died in Salisbury,
July 20, 1787, aged seventy-five years.
Children: i. Phineas, married Elizabeth Sel-
leck ; he was the executor of his father's will ;
he died January 7, 1779. 2. Joshua, see for-
ward. 3. Jeremiah, removed to Poultney, Ver-
mont ; served in Captain Zebediah Dewey's
company in March and October, 1780, and in
1781 in Captain Abraham Moseley's company;
he died in Hampton, Washington county, New
York, May 23, 1816, aged eighty-four years.

(V) Joshua, second son of Isaac and Zer-
viah (Brown) Adams, was born in Canter-
bury, Connecticut, June 2, 1731. He settled
in Egremont, Massachusetts, where July 6,
1768, Joshua Adams, yeoman, is said to be
"of Tanconnock Mountain, in the county of
P.erkshire, province of Mass. Bay." February
2, 1772, Joshua Adams was "of Egremont,"
and deeded land to one Van Gilder, of Noble-
town, Albany county. New York. Children,
all born in Egremont, Massachusetts: i.
Joshua (2), born 1757; enlisted in Captain
Carr's company, Eighth Massachusetts regi-
iTient, November. 1779. A Joshua Adams,
supposed to be the same man, was a private
from Egremont in Captain Ingersoll's com-
pany. Colonel David Brewster's Berkshire
regiment, enlisted May 22, 1775, and served

for two months. "Joshua Adams, of Alford,
Mass.," was awarded a bounty of two hun-
dred acres of land, or $20 cash, for services
in the Eighth Massachusetts Regiment. 2.
Benjamin. 3. Dr. Peter Charles, see for-
ward. 4. Peletiah, settled in Albany, New
York; married Hannah Best, and died 1827,
aged sixty-two years. 5. Thomas. 6. Char-
lotte. 7. Olive.

(\I) Dr. Peter Charles Adams, son of
Joshua Adams, was boin in Egremont, Massa-
chusetts, June 12, 1673, died September 3,
1823. He was sheriff of Greene county, 1802-
06, and represented the county in the state
senate. 1806-09. He married, September,
1785, Christina \'an Bergen, bom February
26, 1767. died August 11, 1833. Children, all
born in Coxsackie, New York: i. Dr. Henry,
see forward. 2. Rhoda, married Isaac A.
Hollenbeck, no issue. 3. Peter, died 1814, un-
married. 4. William Van Bergen, died 1861,
unmarried. 5. Herman Cuyler, died March 8,
1876; married Adeline, daughter of Roswell
Reed, of Coxsackie. 6. Eleanor Eliza, died
1832, unmarried. 7. Anna Maria, married
Walter R. Jones; she died July 31, 1845. 8.
Charlotte Christina, married (first) Henry
Tomlinson. (second) William Farmer.

(V'll) Dr. Henry Adams, eldest son of Dr.
Peter Charles and Christina (Van Bergen)
Adams, was born in Coxsackie, New York,
January 6, 1787. died at Cohoes, New York,
July 6, 1857. He adopted the profession of
medicine, and in 1849 removed to Cohoes,
New York. He was a devout Christian, as
well as a skillful physician, and was greatly
esteemed in the city where he was
known as the "beloved physician." Dur-
ing the war of 181 2 he was brigade-
surgeon at Sackett Harbor, New York.
He is buried in the family plot at
Coxsackie. He married, in 1823, Agnes,
daughter of Anthony Egberts, an officer of
the revolutionary army. Children all born in
Coxsackie, New York; Hon. Charles Henry,
see forward; Evalina M., born Januar)' 23,
1830, died January, 1854, she married Rev.
Charles Newman Waldron. LL.D., of Cohoes,
New York, died in Detroit. Michigan ; Eg-
bert p.. born 1832, died 1848.

(VIII) Hon. Charles Henry Adams, eldest
son of Dr. Henry and Agnes (Egberts)
Adams, was born in Coxsackie, New York,
April 10, 1824.

He was educated at the Albany Academy ;
after studying law he was admitted to
the bar and practiced his profession in Al-
bany until 1850. when he removed to Cohoes,
and operated the Watervliet Mills in that
city, which was his home for thirty years. He

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was not only a leading manufacturer of the
city, and one of her most active, progressive
business men, but was a most prominent and
well-known citizen in public olificial life. He
was elected the first mayor of Colioes under
the city charter, was president of the water
board that gave to Cohoes its wonderful sys-
tem of water power supply that turns the
wheels of industry in so many mills in that
city. He was president of the First National
Bank of the city of Cohoes many years ; presi-
dent of the National Knit Goods Association,
in fact while in Colioes was interested in all
that pertained to the welfare of the city. He
invested heavily in real estate, built the Eg-
berts Woolen ]\Iills, presented the city with a
much needed steam engine "as an expression
of my personal interest in the welfare of the
community." ("Adams steamer" is still in
service, doing valiant service and successfully
competes with newer rivals.) He built busi-
ness blocks, fostered new enterprises, and was
one of the purchasers of Grandview Park,
and had it laid out as a park for the use of
the city. He was greatly appreciated in the
city, and when he returned from Europe,
during his incumbency of the mayor's office,
was accorded a most enthusiastic and cordial
public reception. When the news of his death
was made public, the flags on the City Hall
were displayed at half mast and the general
grief was most remarkable. Mr. Adams had
a most distinguished political career. He was
aide-de-camp with rank of colonel to Gov-
ernor Hunt in 185 1, member of the assembly
in 1857 : state senator, 1872-73 : member of
congress from the Albany district, 1876. He
was presidential elector in 1873, 3"'! was ap-
pointed by President Grant United States
commissioner to the World's Fair and Expo-
sition in Vienna, 1873. About the year 1880
he removed to New York City, where he
continued to be interested in business. There
he was president of the Mercantile Corpora-
tion of the United States and South Africa ;
director of the Bank Clerk's Corporation
Building and Loan Association, and trustee
of the Metropolitan Savings Bank, retaining
as well his large interests in Cohoes. He was
truly a man of affairs, and had many interests
in life outside business and politics. He had
artistic and scientific tastes that he gratified,
and held memberships in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the American Geograph-
ical Society. He was proud of his descent
from a famous ancestry, and connected him-
self with the New York Genealogical and
Biographical Society, and the Sons of the
American Revolution. His social interests
were conserved by membership in the Metro-

politan Club and St. Nicholas Club of New
York. He was of a most charitable and ben-
evolent disposition, but so modest and retir-
ing that his benefactions were known only to
the giver and the beneficiary.

He married, September 15, 1853, Eliza-
beth, daughter of William Barnes Piatt, of
Rhinebeck, New York. She died in 1866,
leaving two children : Mary Egberts, born in
Rhinebeck, New York, 1854, married Robert
Johnston, of Cohoes, who died two years
later, leaving a son Robert; William Piatt
Adams, see forward. He married (second)
Judith Crittenden, daughter of Chapman and
Mary (Crittenden) Coleman, of Louisville,
Kentucky. Children : Agnes Ethel ; Judith
Berlina (Mrs. E. C. Converse, Jr.).

(IX) William Piatt, only son of Hon.
Charles Henry and Elizabeth (Piatt) Adams,
was born in Rhinebeck. New York, February
18, 1859. He is a lineal descendant of Presi-
dents John and John Quincy Adams. Through
his great-grandmother, Christina (Van Ber-
gen) Adams, he is descended from Captain
Martin \'an Bergen, who came from Holland
in 1630, and also from Major Derrick Wessel
Ten Broeck, mayor of Albany. His great-
great-grandmother, Nellie Salisbury Van Ber-
gen, was a great-granddaughter of the famous
Admiral Salisbury ; his grandmother, .Agnes
(Egberts) Adams, was a daughter of An-
thony Egberts, who was an officer in the
American army during the revolutionary war,
and a sister of Egbert Egberts, the father of
the knit goods industry in Cohoes, first presi-
dent of the National Bank of Cohoes and the
donor of Egberts Institute to the city.

William Piatt Adams was educated at De
Garmo Academy at Rhinebeck, from which he
was graduated 1875. After finishing his pre-
paratory course he matriculated at L'nion Col-
lege, where he made an enviable record,
graduating A.B., class of 1879. He won
both the Clark and Allen prizes for excellence
in literary work and was chosen class orator.
He was prominent also in athletics, and on
several occasions brought his college colors
first over the winning line in running con-
tests. In 1880 he formed a i)artnership with
John L. Newman, of Albany, for the manu-
facture of knit underwear, locating their mills
at Cohoes, which has since been his home.
This connection with Mr. Newman existed
ten years, when both retired and have not
since been actively engaged in public business.
He represented his father's interests in Co-
hoes, the latter having removed to New York.
Since his father's death, in 1902, he has repre-
sented and managed the .\dams estate, con-
sisting of mills, business blocks and other im-

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proved and unimproved real estate. He di-
rects and manages his own private estate and
serves as director of the First National Bank
of Cohoes, and the Commerce Insurance Com-
pany of Albany. He also has large real estate
interests in Rhinebeck, New York. His taste
for travel is abundantly gratified by frequent
journeys at home and abroad, one tour of
Europe and foreign lands extending over a
period of three years, accompanied by his
family. He is a Republican in politics, but
the Adams love of public life and prominence
is not one of his characteristics. In 1909 he
was appointed by Governor Hughes one of
the commissioners of the Hudson-Fulton cele-
bration, October to November, 1909, and
chairman of the committee to accompany the
Governor on his up-river trip from New
York City to Cohoes. At the latter city,
which was the culmination point of the cele-
bration. Governor and Mrs. Hughes were en-
tertained during their stay by Mr. and Mrs.
Adams at their beautiful home. In 1910 he
is a trustee of Union College, and a member
of the Graduate Council. He is a member
and an elder of the Dutch Reformed church
of Cohoes. He is a member of the college
fraternitv. Alpha Delta Phi, and of the Alpha
Delta Phi Club of New York City. He has
been a member of the County and Castle
Club, Isle of Wight, England ; the St. Nich-
olas of New York City, and is a member of
the Waterford Country Club ; University Club
of Albany, of Troy Chapter, Sons of the
Revolution, Dutchess County Society of New
York, and the American Club in Paris.

He married, January 23, 1884, at Red
Hook, New York, Katherine Whiteman, born
at Red Hook, daughter of Jacob W. Elseffer,
born in Red Hook, September 6, 183 1, died
November 15, 1907, a prominent attorney of
Dutchess county, New York, and descendant
of a family founded in that county a century
and a half ago. In 1580 Louis Elzvier, a
printer, left Germany for Holland to escape
religious agitations, and soon thereafter books
bearing the imprint of "Elzvier" appeared. He
had seven sons, five following the business
of their father and becoming distinguished
therein, and the other two returning to the
highlands of Germany. From this noted fam-
ily of printers, whose fame spread through-
out the civilized world as the printers of the
Elzvierian Bibles, a male descendant came to
America in 1738 and settled in Rhinebeck.
Since then the now Elseffer family have been
prominent in Dutchess county, holding vari-
ous high positions in financial and political
life. Through the Wliitemans the Elseffers
are descended from Jacob Sharpe, who had

conveyed to him and others by Governor
Hunter in 1710 six thousand acres of land
in Columbia county, in trust for themselves
and the other Palatines. Jacob W. Elseffer
married Delia Eliza Bonesteel, born at Clare-
mont, Columbia county, New York. Chil-
dren of \\'illiam Piatt and Katherine W.
(Elseffer) Adams: Elizabeth Piatt and Kath-
erine Elseffer.

(The Piatt Line).

The Platts were prominent in England in

the time of Edward III. In the records of

the Heraldry office in London it is called the

ancient and honorable family of Piatt.

(I) Richard Piatt was of English birth,
and came to America in 1638, landing at
New Haven, Connecticut. He was one of
the founders of the town of Milford. where
he was a landowner and deacon of the first
church in 1669. His estate inventoried six
hundred pounds sterling. He died in 1684.
Children : Mary, John, Isaac and Sarah, born
in England : Epenetus. Hannah, Josiah and
Josiah, baptized in Milford. Isaac and Epen-
etus settled at Huntington, Long Island.

(II) Epenetus, son of Richard and Mary
Piatt, was recorded as one of the land hold-
ers of Hutington, Long Island, in 1666. With
his brother Isaac he was imprisoned by the
tyrannical Governor Andros. He was known
as Captain Epenetus. In 1667 he married
Phebe Wood, and died in 1693. His children
were : Phebe, Mary, Epenetus, see forward,
Hannah, Elizabeth, James. Jeremiah, Ruth
and Sarah.

(III) Epenetus (2). son of Epenetus (i)
and Phebe (Wood) Piatt, was born April 4,
1674. He was known as Major Epenetus and
was a member of the colonial assembly from
1723 to 1737. He died in 1744. Children:
Epenetus (3), Zaphar, Uriah, Solomon, Eliza-
beth and Phoebe.

(IV) Epenetus (3), son of Major Epenetus
(2) Piatt, owned a large landed estate. He
was captain of militia.

(V) Eliphalet, son of Epenetus (3) Piatt,
was born July 12, 1733, died 1795. He was
of Pleasant Valley, Dutchess county. New
York, where he was ruling elder of the Pres-
byterian church, and inspector of the Dutchess
county presbytery. He married Mary Scud-
der. Children : Henry, John, Jemima and
Betsey.

(VI) John, son of Eliphalet Piatt, of
Pleasant Valley, was of Clinton, Dutchess
county. New York. He was a deacon of the
Presbyterian church of Pleasant Valley, and
inspector of the Dutchess county Presbytery.
He served in the war of the revolution. He

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married Catherine Barnes. Children: Dr.
Ehplialet. WilHam Barnes and Isaac I.

I \"II) \^'i^iam Barnes, second son of John
and Catherine (Barnes) Piatt, was born in
Pleasant Valley. New York. He was a banker
■of Rhinebeck, Dutchess county, New York.
He married Sara Catherine Stoutenberg, of
Hyde Park, New York. Children: John H.
and Elizabeth.

(\ni) Elizabeth, only daughter of William
Barnes and Sara Catherine (Stoutenberg)
Piatt, married Hon. Charles Henry Adams
(see Adams VHI).

(The Whiteman Line).
Hendrick Werdman, afterward written
^^'hiteman, an early settler of the town of
Red Hook, Dutchess county. New York, came
from Zurich, Switzerland, settling in Ulster
county. New York. He married Claphena
Kock at Esopus. They had been members of
the same church in Zurich, and were be-
trothed there. In 1748 he settled in Rhine-
beck, acting as land agent, and the farm on
which he located is still in possession of the
family. He was a noted patriot of the revo-
lutionary period, as was his son. On October
— , 1777, a band of Tories threatened their
house, but the Whitemans barricaded the
doors and windows so effectually that the
Tories withdrew. Jacob Whiteman drew
wheat to the continental army quartered at
Newburg. under General Washington. He
started before daybreak with sixty bushels of
wheat and returned the same night, traveling
seventy-six miles. He married Catherine
Neher, daughter of Frederick Neher, a
farmer. He died in 1838, leaving two chil-
dren, Henry and Maria Whiteman. Henry
Whiteman was noted for his liberal opinions
and his hospitality. He was a staunch fol-
lower of Thomas Jefferson and strongly op-
posed. He married Rebecca, daughter of
George Sharpe. Their only child, Catherine
Whiteman, married John Elseffer, who main-
tained the reputation of Wliiteman Place for
open-handed hospitality. John Elseffer was
a magistrate for twenty-four years, and it
was said that no decision made by him was
ever carried to a higher court. He was a
member of the legislature in 1843. He left
three children : Henry D., Jacob W., and
William L. Elseffer, all of whom had dis-
tinguished careers. Jacob W. studied law and
came to high station in his profession. He
married Delia E. Bonesteel, daughter of
Henry N. and Helen (Miller) Bonesteel. The
Bonesteel family began in the county with
Nicholas, who married Anna Margaretha
Kuhns, and settled about 1714; a portion of

the town of Red Hook is on his farm. Kath-
erine Whiteman, daughter of Jacob W. Elsef-
fer, married William Piatt Adams (see Adams
IX).

John Hall, emigrant ancestor of
H.\LL the Halls of Westminster, Ver-
mont, Troy and Hoosick Falls,
New York, who are here recorded, came
from Coventry, Warwickshire, England, in
1630, to Charlestown, Massachusetts, perhaps
in the fleet with Governor Winthrop. He
was then about twenty-one years of age. His
name is number nineteen on the list of mem-
bers of the First Church of Charlestown at
its organization, July 30, 1630; the church
was removed and became the First Church of
Boston. He was made a freeman. May 14,
1634, was of Barnstable. 1640, and of Yar-
mouth, 1653. He made his will July 15, 1694,
in which he mentions eight sons. He died
July 23. 1696, and was buried on his farm.

He married (first) Bethia . Children:

I. Samuel, married Elizabeth Pollard; had
no issue, but willed his property to his widow
and seven brothers. 2. John, of whom fur-
ther. 3. Sheba, baptized in Charlestown,
September 12, 1639, died in infancy. Chil-
dren by second wife, Elizabeth : 4. Joseph,
baptized in Yarmouth, July 3, 1642, died Riay
31, 1716: removed to Mansfield, Connecti-
cut: deacon of the first church of Mansfield
and the first town clerk : married Mary
, left no children, 5. Benjamin, bap-
tized July 14, 1644, died in infancy. 6.
Nathaniel, baptized February 8, 1646: fought
as captain under Colonel Church, September
30, 1689, in defence of Falmouth, Maine, and
November 19. 1689, it was ordered that Cap-
tain Nathaniel Hall take charge as command-
er-in-chief of the forces. He was an inn
keeper in Yarmouth and also practiced medi-
cine to some extent ; finally removed to Lew-
iston, Sussex county, Pennsylvania, near the
Delaware river. He married Anna, daughter
of Rev. Thomas Thornton, of Yarmouth, and
left no children. 7. Gershom, baptized March
5, 1648, died October 31, 1732; a millwright;
he lived in Harwich, Massachusetts; was a
selectman in 1710, continuing until 1722: a
representative 1712-13-14, He acted as min-
ister and received salary of twenty-six pounds
yearly from the town of Chatham, also from
Harwich. He married (first) Bertha Bangs ;
(second) Martha Branball : five children. 8.
William, baptized June 8, 1651. died June 11,
1727, buried at Mansfield, Connecticut. He
held rank of captain at Norwich, Connecticut.

He married Easter, Esther or Hester — ,

the name being given all three ways in the

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records ; four children. 9. Benjamin, baptized
May 29, 1653, was found dead in his bed,
February 7, 1678; a soldier of the Second
Narragansett expedition, lived in Harwich,
Massachusetts, and Mansfield, Connecticut.
He married Mehitable Matthews and had
three children. 10. Elisha, born 1655 ; in
1716 was called "Ensign Elisha" and lived in
Yarmouth. He was chosen representative in
1703 and held office five years. He married
Lydia and had eight children.

(H) John (2), son of John (i) and Bethia
Hall, was born in Charlestown, Massachu-
setts, in 1637, died in Yarmouth, Massachu-
setts, October 14, 1710, and is buried in Den-
nis, a part of Yarmouth. He was a deacon
of the Yarmouth church and lived on the old
homestead in Dennis, where he and his wife
are buried. He married Priscilla, born March
10, 1643, died March 30, 1712, daughter of
Austin Bearse, of Barnstable, who came from
Southampton, England, in the ship "Confi-
dence," April 2, 1638, aged twenty years.
Children: John, born 1661, died in infancy;
Joseph, of whom further; John, born 1666,
married Margaret, daughter of Rev. John
Miller, nine children ; Priscilla, born 1668,
died in infancy ; Priscilla, born February,
1671 ; Esther, April, 1672; Mary, March i,
1674; Martha, May 24, 1676; Nathanel, Sep-
tember 15, 1678, married Widow Jane Moore;
removed to Lewiston, Pennsylvania, where he
was living with two children in 1733.

(HI) Joseph, son of John (2) and Pris-
cilla (Bearse) Hall, was born September 29,
1663, died January 29, 1737. He settled on
his father's farm in Dennis ; was chosen
deacon of the Yarmouth church ; selectman in
1701 and held the office twenty-eight years ; a
representative in 1715-16. He married (first)
February 12, 1690, Hannah, born April 19,
1666, died August 23, 1710, daughter of Rev.
John Miller, first minister of the Yarmouth
church. He married (second) Mary Pounce,
widow of John Morton. She died May 31,
1761. aged eighty years. Children of first
wife: I. Hannah, born February 20, 1691,
married, November 22. 1715, Ebenezer
Crocker, of Barnstable. 2. Priscilla, March
28, 1693. 3. Margery, February 24, 1695.
4. Joseph (2), August 6. 1697; he was a
deacon of the Yarmouth church ; married Re-
becca, daughter of Paul and Mercy (Free-
man) Sears; eleven children, five dying
young. 5. "Daniel, of whom further. 6. Jo-
siah, August 12, 1701, died April 9, 1758;
married Rebecca Howes, eight children. 7.
David, .August 6, 1704, died May 8. 1789: a
graduate of Harvard College. 1724; received
degreee of D.D. from Dartmouth College ;

1777 was candidate for presidency of Prince-
ton College at the time Dr. Jonathan Edwards
was elected; minister at Sutton, Massachu-
setts, sixty years until his death ; was of
"noble bearing, intellectual vigor and fervent
piety." A monument stands to his memory
erected by the people of Sutton. He mar-
ried, June 24, 1 73 1, Elizabeth, daughter of
Dr. Jonathan and Rebecca (Berkley) Pres-
cott, of Concord, Massachusetts. She died
August 7, 1803, aged ninety years ; twelve
children and probably more. (A young min-
ister exchanged pulpits with Dr. Hall, and
being at his house and seeing Mrs. Hall with
a child in her arms and looking very youth-
ful, asked her if it was her first child. She
replied, "Yes, it is the first of the second
dozen.") Children of second wife: Mary,
born March 30, 1712. 9. Peter, May 19,
1715: married Abigail Sears; five children.
10. John, January 30, 1717, died January i,
1792; married (first) Abigail Hay; (second)
Elizabeth Sears; nine children. 11. Bathshe-
bah, July 5, 1719.

(IV) Daniel, son of Joseph and Hannah
(Miller) Hall, was born July 15, 1699, died
October 24, 1768. He lived in Yarmouth,
Massachusetts, all his days. He was a dea-
con of the church there for many years. He

married (first) Lydia ; (second)

Sarah Downs; (third) Rebecca Bangs. He
had sixteen children, seven of whom are men-
tioned ; there were two sons and seven daugh-
ters whose names are not recorded: i. Daniel,
born August 6, 1722, died August 3, 1774;
married (first) Priscilla Paddock; (second)
Jerusha Howes ; two children. 2. David,
March 6, 1724; married (first) Tamsen-
Sears; (second) Ruth Atkins; (third) Re-
becca Crosby ; six children. 3. Lot, of whom
further. 4. Joshua, May 5, 1737. 5. Ather-
ton, March 7, 1748; married Ruth Crowell r
nine children. 6. Peter, February 10. 1750.
7. Samuel, March 7, 1752; married Elizabeth
Sears ; six children.

(V) Lot, son of Daniel IL'ill (l)y which
wife cannot be stated), was born March 18,.
1725. He resided all his life at Yarmouth,
Massachusetts. He married Hannah Doane.
Children: i. Daniel, born October 14, 1754 r
he was a lieutenant on board the privateer
"Arnold," and froze to death off Cape Cod,
December 26, 1778, with seventy-seven others
(see Freeman's History of Cape Cod). 2.
Lot, of whom further. 3. Urian, born Sep-
tember 17. 1759. 4. William. September 14,
1764; married Polly ; one son.

(VT) Hon. Lot (2) Hall, son of Lot d)
and ITaniiah (Doane) Hall, was Ijorn at Yar-
mouth, I'.arnstable county, Massachusetts,

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1757. Little is known of his youthful clays. He
was well educated, as is proven by his after
career. At the outbreak of the revolution he
warmly advocated the cause of the colonies
and at the first opportunity entered the ser-
vice. South Carolina, "beinj^ in want of sea-
men," offered inducements to the young man
through Elijah Freeman Payne, who fur-
nished him with enlistment papers. Payne
was then lieutenant of a twenty-gun ship,
"The Randolph," lying at Charleston. South
Carolina, coinmanded by Captain Cockran.
He promised Hall a lieutenancy in the marine
department provided he would enlist fifteen
men and transport them to Providence, Rhode
Island. Entering upon his task with energy,
he secured twenty-nine men and a boy, resi-
dents of Barnstable county, procured a
schooner and conveyed his recruits to Provi-
dence. At Stonington a vessel was procured
with cannon and stores, named the "Eagle,"
and in her Captain Payne and Lieutenant Hall
put to sea, intending to cruise to Charleston
and there join "The Randolph." They took
several prizes, one of them "The Spears,"
being placed in command of Lieutenant Hall
as prize master. The ships became separated
and the prisoners on board greatly outnum-
bered the crew, mutinied and on September
13' 1776, obtained control of the ship. They
arrived at Glasgow, Scotland, and Lieutenant
Hall was delivered to the city authorities, who
ordered him imprisoned. Through Masonic
friends whom he found in power he received
many favors and was given unusual liberties.
In April, 1777, he was released : on his way
home, and within sight of the Virginia coast,
when the vessel on which he was a passenger,
"The Duke of Grafton," was captured by a
P)ritish man-of-war of sixty-four guns, "The
St. Albans," and the lieutenant was again a
prisoner. His second captivity lasted only
ten days. Through the efforts of Patrick
Henry, then governor of Virginia, he was ex-
changed and provided with a horse and money
to enable him to reach ]\Iassachusetts. Many
years afterward his descendants received pay
for his naval services. On leturning to
Barnstable he began the study of law and
remained there until 181 2, when he removed
to Vermont, first settling at Bennington. In
1783 he was at Westminister. He rose to
eminence in his profession : was elected to the
\'ermont general assembly, 1789-91-92 and
1808. In 1792 he was presidential elector
and with his colleagues cast the vote of his
state for George Washington and John
Adams. He was. a fellow of Middlebury Col-
lege, a member of the council of censors, and
for seven years, 1794- 1801, was judge of the

supreme court of the state. Of Judge Hall it
was written: "He is one of the judges of
the Supreme Court, which office he fills in
such a manner as to reflect honor on even scv
important a station." He died May 17, 1809,
in his fifty-third year. He married.' in Boston,
February 13, 1786, Mary Homer, of that city,
an orphan, only fifteen years of age. She
outlived her husband many years, died Feb-
ruary 21, 1843, aged seventy-two vears.
Under the title "A True Story," a romantic
account of her courtship and marriage ap-
peared in the Herald of Freedom in Decem-
ber, 1789. The "A True Story" was again
printed in the Barnstable Journal in August,
1829, and reprinted in the Troy Daily Post,.
February 21, 1845.

(VII) Daniel (2), eldest child of Lot (2)
and Mary (Polly) (Homer) Hall, was born'
in Westminster, Vermont, 1787, died in Troy,
New York, December 10, 1868. He was edu-
cated at the University of \'ermont, and in
1804 came to Troy, New York, where he
began the study of law with A. Paine. He
was admitted to the bar of New York and
was actively engaged in the practice of his
profession in Troy all his life. He was a
careful, painstaking lawyer, a safe counsellor,
but not an advocate. His was largely an
office business and his clients" interests were
well safeguarded. He was a Whig, and on
the formation of the Republican party be-
came an active, earnest worker in that or-
ganization. He was a very strict observer of
religious forms and always insisted that his
family accompany him to public worship. He
married Anjinette Fitch. She was a descend-
ant of Thomas Fitch, the emigrant ancestor
who came from Bocking, Essex county, Eng-
land, with his widowed mother in 1635-38.
He was in Norwalk, 1652. He is the ances-
tor of Thomas Fitch, governor of Connec-
ticut, and of all the family of Fitch claiming
Norwalk ancestors. Children of Daniel and
Anjinette (Fitch) Hall: Mary Olivia, died
1909, aged over seventy years ; Fitz Edward,

married, in India, < Sherldham and

had several children : George Canning, born
March 29, 1828, married Mary Marvin;
Benjamin Homer, of whom further: Richard
Fitch, of whom further; James Stephenson,
of whom further.

(VIII) Benjamin Homer, son of Daniel
(2) and .Anjinette (Fitch) Hall, was born in
Troy, New York, November 14. 1830. died in
that city, .April 6. 1893. He prepared for
college at Phillips Academy. .Andover, Massa-
chusetts, and was graduated at Harvard, A.B.,
class of 185 1. He prepared for the profession
of law by a thorough course of study and

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was admitted to the bar in 1856. He was
in the active practice of his profession in
Troy from 1856 to 1893. He was city cham-
berlain of Troy, 1884-85. He was a well-
known author and a poet of local prominence,
his works of that kind that are preserved
being largely of a humorous nature. One of
his poems, entitled "The Tale of the Whale,"
was published in the September number of
Ottr Young Folks in 1866.' In it the author
blends in verse the strange names of the con-
temporary people of Rensselaerwyck in the
quotations, describing the inspection of the
^reat mammal (cast ashore on Whale Island,
opposite Lansingburg in 1647) a-^d the dis-
position made of its blubber; another read
during the Centennial Celebration at Troy, on
"The Naming and Progress of Troy," thus
described the reception of the name at Albany.

"But when next day a shallop,

Sailed proudly down the stream,
And brought the news that Troy

Xo longer was a dream,
The streets were all deserted.

Each true Albanian wailed,
A fast day was appointed.

Five sturgeon vendors failed,"

Verse, however, was his recreation. For
two years he was editor of the Troy Morning
Whig, 1878-79. He published anonymously
while at Harvard "A Collection of College
Words and Customs," and on the authorship
"becoming known, Jared Sparks, president of
Harvard, presented him with three histories
of Harvard, then extant, inserting in each
volume, "Presented to Mr. Benjamin H. Hall,
"by the Corporation of Harvard University,
June 18, 1851. Jared Sparks, president." In
1856 he revised the work. He published "A
History of Eastern Vermont" (1858, new edi-
tion 1865), "Bibliography of the United
States," Vermont (i860) ; "A Tribute of the
Citizens of Troy to the A^emory of Abraham
Lincoln" (1865), and articles in the Harvard
Book (1875) and in Sylvester's History of
Rensselaer County, New York (1880). He
was an eloquent, forceful orator and many of
"his orations survive in published form. He
was president of the Young Men's Associa-
tion of Troy, and at their Semi-Centennial,
December 12, 1884, read a most effective and
interesting sketch of the, association. lie took
an active part in the Troy Centennial, de-
livered eulogies on Hon. John Paine Cush-
man, David Buel, Jr., and William L. Marcy,
on Historical Day, and on another day ad-
dresses on Troy's "two great teachers,"
Emma Willard and Amos Eaton. He built
the then immense "Hall Building" in Troy in
1871, that is yet a noticeable feature of Troy's

business streets. "A cultured, polished gen-
tleman, an able lawyer and a true friend."
He married, June i, 1859, Margaret McConn,
daughter of Jacob L. Lane, of Troy. Chil-
dren: Derick L., of whom further; Anjinette;
John Griswold ; Mary Howard. Margaret
McConn (Lane) Hall survives her husband
and resides in Troy, New York.

(VIII) Richard Fitch, fifth child of Daniel
(2) and Anjinette (Fitch) Hall, was born
September 24, 1833, in Troy, where his early
education was obtained in a private school.
He prepared for college at Phillips Academy,
Andover, Massachusetts, and was graduated
from Harvard University, A.B., class of 1854.
In 1855 he established a wholesale lumber
business at West Troy, near Watervliet,
where he continued for twenty years in suc-
cessful operation. He was superintendent of
the West Troy Gas Company for nine years.
January 17, 1855, he joined the Troy Volun-
teer fire department ; in 1856 he was elected
assistant captain of Washington company ; in
1857-58 he was captain of the same company;
from i860 until August, 1866, he was chief
engineer of the department. In March, 1869,
he was appointed fire commissioner and held
the office twelve years. In 1870 he was
appointed water commissioner and served con-
tinuously until the commission was dissolved,
a period of thirty years. In 1893 he was
appointed superintendent of construction of
the water works, and in 1900 superintendent
of the water works, served four years and
then retired. He was a director of the Na-
tional Bank of Watervliet for twenty years;
a director of the Rensselaer and Saratoga
Railroad Company ; member of the Troy
Chamber of Commerce ; trustee and secretary
of the Troy Orphan Asylum; trustee of the
Episcopalian Church Home ; member of St.
John's Episcopal Church and Republican in
politics. He was a man of great energy and
a hard worker in whatever he undertook. He
was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi and
the Hasty Pudding Club of Harvard Uni-
versity, and for two terms president of the
Exempt Firemen's Association of Troy. He
married, February 2, i860, Sarah Helen, born
April 22, 1833, died August 13, 1899, daugh-
ter of Wells and Sarah Helen Balding, of
Troy.

(VIII) James Stephenson, son of Daniel
(2) and Anjinette (Fitch) Hall, was born at
Troy, August 9, 1835. He was educated at
private schools in Troy, was graduated from
Phillips Andover ./Vcademy. class of 1854;
Harvard University, A.B., class of 1858. He
prepared for the profession of law and was
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HUDSON AND MOHAWK \'ALLEYS

in private practice. After abandoning the
law he devoted his time to his real estate in-
terests and those of his brother, Fitz Ed-
Avard, and this has been his principal business
throughout his life. He is a Republican in
politics and an attendant of the Presbj'terian
church.

(IX) Derick Lane, son of Benjamin
Homer and Margaret McConn (Lane) Hall,
Avas born in Troy, New York, June 5. i860.
He was educated in private schools at Nor-
walk. Connecticut, and at the "Gunnery,"
A\'ashington. Connecticut. After completing
his studies he returned to Troy and entered
the employ of J. M. Warren of that city. He
was an employee of the Troy post office for
three years, and during his father's term of
chamberlain of Troy was a clerk in his office.
He was connected with the Walter A. Wood
iMachinery Company for ten years, located in
the central west. Returning east in 190 1, he
purchased the newspaper plant at Hoosick
Falls, and has since been editor and proprietor
of the Standard, a weekly newspaper, Re-
publican in politics and devoted to the in-
terests of Hoosick Falls and vicinity. He is
a member of St. Mark's Episcopal Church at
Hoosick Falls and has served as vestryman
since 1896. He was one of the organizers of
the Pafraet Dael Club of Troy, and is a mem-
ber of the Hoosick and of the Hoosick
Country clubs. He holds fraternal member-
ship with the Benevolent and Protective Or-
der of Elks. He served seven years in the
Troy Citizens Corps and is now a member of
the Senior Corps. He married, February 4,
1892, Isabella Mary Flett, of Scotch parents
who came to America in 1850. Children:
Benjamin Homer, born November 14, 1893;
Harriet Robertson, born November 21, 1899.

This family name is of Saxon
H.\LL origin. The settlers in England

from the region about the city of
Halle, in Saxony, for sake of distinction be-
fore the use of surnames, were called de
Halle, which became shortened to Halle, and
finally to Hall. .\ large number of the name
came to New England during the Puritan
e.xodus from England prior to 1650. The
name became common in Connecticut, and has
been worthily borne. From among the many
there recorded the family mentioned here
seems to stand alone. The names and loca-
tions are different, and cannot belong to other
branches. Among the first to settle in Con-
necticut were Josiah, Zadoc, Bashni and Libni
Hall, supposedly brothers, who came from
Wales and settled on what has become known
as Hall Hill, at Somers. The line traces to

the Troy (New York) family through Josiah,
presumably the eldest brother, and who had
sons, Joseph, Reuben, Alpheus and Josiah.

' (II) Joseph, son of Josiah Hall, is buried
at Somers, Connecticut. lie married, and
had sons Joseph Nelson and Horatio.

(III) Joseph Nelson, son of Joseph Hall,
was born in Somers, Connecticut, August 15,
1809. died September 27, 1864, in Windsor.
His boyhood days were spent in his native
town; after his marriage he resided for a
time in Simsbury, then removing to Windsor.
He married, about 1835, Wealthy Ann Lord,
of East Windsor, born August 12, 1812, died
October 27, 1897. Children: Adelaide, born
December 31, 1836, died April 23, 1907, mar-
ried Henry C. Woodward; William Lord;
Caroline, born 1842, died 1861.

(IV) William Lord, only son of Joseph
Nelson and Wealthy Ann (Lord) Hall, was
born in Simsbury, Connecticut, June 7, 1838.
He was educated in the public schools. He
began his business career as clerk in a mer-
cantile house, and was so engaged until 1878,
in which year he became associated with Mil-
ler &• Bingham, manufacturers of shirts, col-
lars and cuff's, at Troy. The firm was origin-
ally established in 1866, when Justus Miller,
A. P. Hamlin and Joseph Wlieelock began
manufacturing collars and cuffs. The firm
passed through various changes and in 1884
was reorganized by Justus Miller. William
Lord Hall and Charles E. Hartwell, as Mil-
ler, Hall & Hartwell. In 1898 the firm per-
sonnel was again changed. Mr. Miller having
died and Joseph McKay being admitted, the
firm took the name of Plall, Hartwell & Com-
pany, William Lord Hall being the senior
partner, and since that time the capable head
of a vast business with which he became con-
nected as an employee thirty-two years ago.
For many years the firm have operated
branches at Hoosick Falls. Mechanicsville.
Albany, and several other places, furnishing
employment to a great number of work
people, and their business ranks with the most
modern and progressive of twentieth century
manufactories. Mr. Hall is also actively in-
terested in other business concerns of im-
portance. He is vice-president and director
of the City National Bank of Troy, and in
various ways shows his interest in the de-
velopment of his city. He is a communicant
and vestryman of St. John's Episcopal Church,
a member of the Troy Club, and in politics is
a Republican. William L. Hall married.
June 9, 1886. Lucia H., daughter of Lewis
and Lucy (Vaughn) Cady (see Cady VI),
of Bennington, X^ermont. Thev have no chil-
dren.

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(The Cady Line).
The word Cady is derived from Ca-dia, a
Gaelic word, meaning the House of God.
Cadie is an old Scotch word for messenger*.
As a surname the word has been variously
spelled. Cade, Caddie, Caddy, Cadye, Kayde,
Cadey and Cady, and, of course, in a variety
of other less common forms. Families of
this name bearing coats-of-arms of some an-
tiquity are found in counties Essex, Kent,
Suffolk and Gloucester, England. The sur-
name is found in the ancient Hundred Rolls
and was not uncommon as early as 1450 in
county Sussex.

(I) Nicholas Cady, immigrant ancestor,
was born in England, came to this country,
landing near Boston, Massachusetts, 1635,
later settled in Watertown, Massachusetts.
He and John Knapp, who appears to have
been a relative, bought of William Potter, of
\V'atertown, December 8, 1645, a house and
land in Watertown. Cady deeded his share
to John Knapp in August, 1650. Nicholas
Cady married (first) Judith, daughter of Wil-
liam Knapp, about 1648. William Knapp was
a carpenter ; died at Watertown, August 30,
1658, aged about eighty years. Nicholas
Cady married (second) Priscilla Akers.
widow of Thomas Akers. He took the oath of
fidelity in 1652; was of the train band in
1653. He removed to Groton, Alassachusetts.
early in 1668, and sold his land in Watertown.
He was highway surveyor at Groton in 1671.
At the time of the abandonment of the town
in King Philip's war, he went to Cambridge,
where in 1678 he bought a farm of John
Wincoll. He was a soldier in King Philip's
war and was in Mr. Williams' garri.son. He
returned to Groton after the war and served
as surveyor in 1680-83-85-86. He was con-
stable in 1685 and was corporal of the mili-
tary company. He died prior to 171 2. Cady's
pond, about a mile from the village of Groton,
takes its name from him. Children, born at
\\'atertown: John, January 15. 1650-51;
Judith, September 2, 1653; James, August 28,
1655: Nicholas, August 2. 1657, died young;
Daniel, November 27, 1659; Ezekiel, August
14, 1662; Nicholas, February 20, 1663-64;
Joseph, mentioned below.

(II) Captain Joseph, .son of Nicholas Cady,
was born at Watertown, May 28, 1666. He
married Sarah, daughter of Samuel and Mary
(Waters) Davis, of (Proton, born August 12,
1667, died at Killingly, Connecticut, Decem-
ber 29. 1742. He went to Groton with the
family when a child and served in the garrison
defense of the town in 1691-92. In 1695 he
was constable of Groton, and in 1699-1701
was granted permission to keep an inn by the

general court. He sold his holdings at Gro-
ton, February 22, 1702-03, and bought one-
hundred and fifty acres of land of Johm
Chandler, of Woodstock, later Killingly, now
Putnam, Connecticut, whither he went with
his family and where he spent the remainder
of his life. His farm was located north of
the old Providence road, about one mile east
of the village of Putnam. The site of the
first log house can still be identified. He built
a frame house in 1714 and at last accounts
it was still standing, though not occupied. A
short time before his death, Joseph Cady, Jr.,
sold this homestead to Darius Session, deputy
governor of Rhode Island. In 1708 Joseph
Cady, Sr., was chosen lieutenant of the train
band of Aspinock ; in 1721 he was commis-
sioned captain, and was engaged in Father
Rasle's war. He was noted for his giant
frame and physical prowess and gained great
influence over the Indians. Tliis story is told'
of him : "As Joseph Cady was one day cut-
ting brush alone, an Indian approached him
from the neighboring forest and expressed a
strong desire to try the skill of a white man
in wrestling. Cady thought to himself that
if he could throw the fellow it might operate-
to deter the Indians from hostilities against
the settlements, and accepted the challenge.
Both men struggled long and desperately, but
Cady at last prevailed and the Indian was
prostrated. L'nfortunately he fell among the
brush which his antagonist had been cutting,
and one of the sharp stumps perforating his
skull, he died on the spot." Captain Cady
had charge of the public lands of Killingly
for many years and was useful in public af-
fairs. He was townsman in 1728 and deputy
to the general court, 1731-34. Children, of
whom the six eldest were born in Groton, the-
others in Killingly: Joseph, October 3, 1(590;
William, about i6g2: James, November 22,
1694; Isaac, January 17, 1696-97; .Abigail,
January 22, 1(399; Stephen, June 16, 1701 ;
David, mentioned below; Jonathan, baptized'
April 4, 1714; Benjamin, baptized .■\pril 4,
1714.

(Ill) Captain David, son of Captain Jo-
seph Cady, was born at Killingly. September
17, 1703, baptized there April 4, 1714. He
married, November 17, 1722, Hannah, born
May 29, 1705, daughter of Thomas and Mary
(Waters) Whitmore. He died at Killingly,
November i, 1788; his wife died July. 1803,
aged ninety-nine years. They joined the Kil-
lingly church, October 18. 1726. He lived at
Killingly on land deeded to him by his father,
January 20, 1737-38. In October, 1747. he
was commissioned captain of the train band of
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HUDSON AND ^lOHAWK \- ALLEYS

January 9, 1723-24; Hannah, Jul\' 2. 1725:
Joseph, June 25, 1727; Bridget, December lo,
1729; Mary, December 15, 1731; AHce, No-
vember 17, 1734; Jerusha, October 3, 1736;
Thankful, Alarch 4, 1739; Isaac, January 21,
1741 : David, February 10, 1742-43; Jonathan,
mentioned below.

(I\') Captain Jonathan, son of Captain
David Cady, was born at Killingly, June 14,
1748. In January, 1775. Jonathan Cady, with
others, contributed to a fund and secuied
three acres of land in Killingly for a training
field. He was commissioned May 18, 1774,
lieutenant of the Fourth Company, Eleventh
Regiment. Colonel Ebenezer Williams. His
brother, Joseph Cady. was captain. Jonathan
was commissioned captain May 25, 1779. He
was a lister or assessor of Killingly in 1785.
About 1790 he removed to Providence, Rhode
Island, and leased land on what is now Cady
street, and erected a house, the timber of
which was drawn by ox team from his farm
in Killingly. He was admitted to the First
Baptist Society of Providence, July 25, 1805.
In 1796 he was on a committee to procure a
bell for the North Church, Killingly. His
application for a pension on account of revo-
lutionary service, dated August 20, 1832, aged
eighty-four years, was granted as a lieutenant,
January 17, 1833. He was a shoemaker by
trade. He married, November 20, 1766. Re-
becca Cady, his cousin, daughter of Benjamin
and Elizabeth (Church) Cady, granddaughter
of Captain Joseph Cady dl). He died July
12, 1834; she died February 23, 1826. Chil-
dren, born at Killingly : David, mentioned be-
low : Shubael, May 6, 1770; Asenath, Febru-
ary 19, 1772: Matilda, June 25, 1774; Per-
melia, February 7, 1775, died August 21.
1796.

(V) David (2), son of Captain Jonathan
Cady, was born at Killingly, December 12,
1769, died December 7, 1837, at Providence,
and is buried in Riverside cemetery in East
Providence. He was a dyer by trade and dur-
ing the war of 1812 was engaged in the
manufacture of cotton cloth at West Green-
wich. Rhode Island ; later he removed to
Providence. He married (first) January 28,
1789, Nancy Waterman, born October 26,
1769, died May 22, 1812, buried at Thompson,
Connecticut. He married (second) January
5. 1813, Catherine, born April i, 1779, died
May 7, 1836, daughter of Moses Lippit. Chil-
dren of first wife, born at Killingly: Lucia,
December 9, 1791 : Milton, August 3. 1792;
Lewis, mentioned below ; Lawton, July 24,
1796; Permelia. April 10, 1798; Wesley,
February 21, 1800; Jonathan, January 9,
1802; Eliza, October 4, 1803; Ann, Septem-

ber 3. 1805; Susan J., August i, 1807; Re-
solved Waterman, May 10, 1810; Christopher
Allem, twin of Resolved Waterman. Children
of second wife, born at Killingly: Tabitha,
October 6, 1813; Moses Greene, December
20, 1814; David, March 12, 1817; Rebecca,
July 26, 1819; Shubael, February 10, 1821.

(\T) Lewis, son of David (2) Cady, was
born in Killingly, February 20, 1793, died at
Bennington, Vermont, September 27, 1864,
He married (first) Sally Smith, born Sep-
tember 20, 1798, died November, 1814; mar-
ried (second) Lucy Vaughn, born January 10,
1806, died April 14, 1873. Child of first wife:
Horace S., born August 30, 1814; married
Eliza Dusenbury, born August 4, 1815, died
March 11. 1888; he died August 20, 1879.
Children of second wife: James, born August
10, 1820, died July I, 18(59 ; Mary Ann, Sep-
tember 13, 1823, died January 12, 1842;
George B., March 5, 1826, died February 4,
1893; Susan E., March 31, 1828; married Dr.
Thomas H. Stuart; died September 18, 1907;
Harriet L., October 30, 1830; married Cal-
vin Norton ; died August 27, 1906; Jane Eliza,
September 17, 1833; married Charles Hall;
died October 12, 1862; William IL, June 6.
1836; married Maggie Hunter; he died Feb-
ruary 24, 1879; Lucia H., Mav 28, 1839: mar-
ried William Lord Hall (see Hall IV") ; Mary
A., April 29, 1842, died December 13, 1859;
Sarah P., March 5, 1845, married Aseph
Childs; died May 31, 1897.

In Herald's College, Lon-
WASHBURN don, vol. i. p. 54, is given:
Washbourne, "A name of
ancient Norman descent ; the founder was
knighted on the field of battle by William the
Conqueror and endowed with the lands of
Little Washbourne and Great Washbourne,
counties of Gloucester and Worcester."
Burke's General Armory gives : Washbourne,
county of Worcester, a family of knightly de-
gree, previous to time of Edward HI. * * *
Arms: "Argent on a fess between si.x mart-
letts gules, three cinquefoils of the field."
Crest : "On a wreath a coil of flax argent,
surmounted with another wreath argent and
Gules, thereon flames of fire proper." Motto:
"Perseverd decogue confide." The name is
derived from two words — wash, the swift cur-
rent of a stream, burn or bourne, a brook or
stream. The name is still spelled Wash-
bourne in England, but in .'\merica Washburn
is almost universal. The earliest form of the
name was "de Wassebourne."

John Washborne was the first secretary of
the Plymouth council in England and was suc-
ceeded by William Burgess in 1628. Whether

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the same John ever came to America is a
matter over which genealogists differ. In
America the name is a distinguished one.
Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts and Wiscon-
sin have all had governors from the Wash-
burn family ; three brothers served as con-
gressmen from three states at the same time,
and some of the nation's greatest men in civil
and private life, statesmen, soldiers in all
American wars, have borne the name. The
emigrant ancestor of all the early New Eng-
land families was John Washburn, there being
strong probability and grave doubt as to
whether he was the Secretary John Wash-
borne previously mentioned or not.

(I) John Washburn, born at Eversham,
Worcester, England, settled in Duxbury,
Massachusetts, in 1632. He and his son John,
who came later, were among the fifty-four
original proprietors of Bridgewater. Massa-
chusetts, in 1645. They bought the lands
from the Indian sachem, Massasoit, for seven
coats of one and one-half yards each, nine
hatchets, twenty knives, four moose skins,
ten and one-half yards of cotton cloth. The
transfer was signed by Miles Standish, Sam-
uel Nash and Constant Southworth. He died
at Bridgewater in 1690. His wife Margery
bore him John and Philip, the latter born in
1624, died unmarried.

(II) John (2), son of John (i) and Mar-
gery Washburn, was born at Eversham,
Worcester, England, in 162 1 ; married Eliza-
beth, daughter of Experience Mitchell. By
the marriage the Washburn descendants gain
"Mayflower" ancestry, through Francis Cook,
the Pilgrim. Jane, daughter of Francis Cook,
married Experience Mitchell, and their daugh-
ter married John Washburn (2). John (2)
was eleven years old when he came to Amer-
ica with his mother and brother Philip on the
ship "Elizabeth." Experience Mitchell was
with the Pilgrims at Leyden and came to
Plymouth in the third ship, the "Anne," 1623.
Children of John (2) and Elizabeth Wash-
burn : John, married Rebecca Lapham :
Thomas, married (first) Abigail Leonard;
(second) Deliverance Packard; Joseph, mar-
ried Hannah Latham, granddaughter of Mary
Chilton, "the first to land at Plymouth from
the Mayflower"; Samuel, born 1651. married
Deborah Packard ; Jonathan, married Mary
Vaughn ; Benjamin, served in Chipps expedi-
tion against Canada ; Mary, married Samuel
Kingsley. 1694; Elizabeth, married (first)
James Howard; (second) Edward Sealey;
Jane, married William Orcutt (2) ; James,
married Mary Bowdcn, 1693; Sarah, married
John Ames, 1697. John Washburn (2) died
at Bridgewater before 1690. Samuel, his

fourth son, was the ancestor of the Wash-
burns of Maine. In that line the next seven
generations bore the name of Israel, Joseph,
third son of John (2), was the ancestor of
ex-Governor Washburn of ]\Iassachusetts,
1853. Samuel was also the progenitor of the
family in Albany, New York, herein recorded.

(III) Samuei, son of John (2) and Eliza-
beth (jNIitchell) Washburn, was born in Dux-
bury, Massachusetts, 165 1, died 1720, at
Bridgewater. He was called "Sergeant Wash-
burn." He married Deborah, daughter of
Samuel Packard, who came from Windham,
England, on the ship "Delight of Ipswich,"
and settled at Hingham, Massachusetts, 1638.
Children: Samuel (2) ; Noah, married Eliza-
beth Shaw ; Israel, married Waitstill Sum-
mer; Nehemiah, see forward; Benjamin, mar-
ried Joanna or Susanna Orcutt ; Hannah, mar-
ried Joseph Keith.

(IV) Nehemiah, son of Samuel and De-
borah (Packard) Washburn, was born 1686,
at Bridgewater, Massachusetts ; married, 1713,
Jane Howard, and had issue.

(V) Nehemiah (2), son of Nehemiah (i)
and Jane (Howard) Washburn, married Re-
lief, born September 21, 1729, daughter of
John and Lydia (Lincoln) Joy, of Hingham,
Massachusetts (see Joy V). Relief Joy was
a sister of Lydia Joy. who married Timothy
Edson, of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and
removed to Stafford, Connecticut.

(VI) William Edson, son of Nehemiah (2)
and Relief (Joy) Washburn, was born in
Connecticut, about 1750. He appears in Ot-
sego county, New York, during the revolu-
tionary period, in the towns of Milford and"
Westford. The Edsons also were early set-
tlers in Otsego county, settling in Milford,
where there was a hamlet known as Edson's
Corners. The Edsons and Washburns were
connected by marriage and seem to have been
close friends. William E. Washburn pur-
chased land, married, reared a family and
was a prosperous, respected farmer.

(VII) Fliram Lucius, son of William Ed-
son Washburn, was a contractor and builder.
He removed to Albany, where he carried on-
extensive building operations. He was the
builder of a great many churches in the vicin-
ity of Albany, and prospered. He later re-
tired to a farm in Montgomery county. New
York, in the section early farmed by the In-
dians, also the scene of some of the fights
with .Sir John Johnson and his Indian-Tory
allies. Here he ended his days. He married
Magdalcna T. Clark, and had issue. A tra-
dition in the family is that the branch of the
Clark family descended from a Sergeant
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isig-

British evacuated New York was too sick to
be moved, was left behind, recovered, re-
mained in America, married and reared a
family.

(\'III) Hiram Lucius (2), son of Hi-
ram Lucius (i) and Magdalena T. (Clark)
Washburn, was born in Westford, Otsego
county. New York, June 14, 1840, died in
Albany, September 5, 1904. He was edu-
cated in the schools of Albany and at Ballston
Institute. He studied law with Hungerford
& Hotaling, attorneys, of Albany, and in
1862 was admitted to practice at the Albany
county bar, continuing in practice until his
death. He was connected with several of
the loan associations of that period between
i860 and 1875 at Albany, and spent a great
amount of time in the office of the county
clerk, searching titles. He tried and won a
famous case in New York legal reports in-
volving the rights under the law of soldiers
who had enlisted to fill unexpired terms. The
decision in this case caused the United States
government to suspend the granting of writs
of "Habeas Corpus" for a period of six
months, in order to hold soldiers to their en-
listments, should they seek that remedy. He
was greatly interested in the New York Na-
tional Guard, and was instrumental in im-
proving the marksmanship of the soldiers. He
was inspector of rifle practice with the rank
of major on the general stafif for ten years,
and spent a large amount of his time in the
performance of his duty. He was on duty
at the time of the West Albany riots. He
was at various times connected with the
Third, Fifth and Ninth brigades, New York
National Guard. He was a member of the
Masonic order, belonging to Master's Lodge,
No. 6, Free and Accepted Masons ; De Witt
Clinton Council, Royal and Select Masters.
He was a member of the Episcopal church.
He married. April 18. 1866. Phebe, daughter
of Joseph B. and Elizabeth (Holmes) Neemes,
of Albany. Joseph B. Neemes was born in
Cumberland county, England, and Elizabeth
Holmes was of Welsh descent, born in Ches-
ter, England. Children : Lucius Hiram, see
forward : Elizabeth W., married Dr. William
J. McKown, a practicing physician of Al-
bany ; Katherine W.. married. June 3, 1896,
Randall J. Le Eoeuf, son of Peter J. and
Sarah A. (Saunders) Le Boeuf.

(IX) Lucius Hiram, son of Hiram Lucius
(2) and Phebe (Neemes) Washburn, was
born in Albany, New York. January 12, 1869.
He was educated in the public schools of Al-
bany, and graduated from the high school.
He studied law with his father and was ad-
mitted to the Albany county bar, July 7, 1896.

He has been continuously in practice from
that date in Albany. His practice is general,
but in real estate and corporation law and
practice in the surrogate's court he devotes
particular attention. He is a Republican in
politics, and a member of the Episcopal
church. His clubs are the Aurania and Un-
conditional of Albany. He belongs to the
Masonic order, affiliating with ten Eyck
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and Cap-
ital City Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. He
married. September, 1899, in Albany, Anna
D.. daughter of John J. and Anna (Kirchen-
er) Holler, of Albany.

(The Joy Line).

The earliest mention of Thomas Joy. the
immigrant ancestor of most of the Joy fam-
ilies in America, is found in tlie records of
Boston, Massachusetts. He was born in Eng-
land, about 1610, came to America between
the years 1629-40. He was an architect and"
builder. Until 1646 he was a prosperous,
successful man. In that year his independent
spirit brought him into collision with the es-
tablished authorities, with disastrous results.
His principal resistance was against the nar-
row policy of the colonial government which-
restricted the right of suffrage to the mem-
bers of the local Puritan churches. He failed'
in his efforts, removed his family to Hing-
ham. and made his home in the Rev. Peter
Hobart's parish. He afterward regained his
fallen fortune, returned to Boston in 1656,
and in 1657, in company with Bartholomew
Bernard, was awarded the contract to build'
the first "Town House" of Boston, which
links his name forever with an interesting and
historical edifice. This first capitol of ^iassa-
chusetts stood for half a century. It was de-
stroyed by fire in 171 1. and on its site was
erected the "Old State House," one of the
most venerated monuments of Colonial Bos-
ton. Thomas Joy died October 21. 1678,
aged sixty-nine years. He and his wife were
buried in the Plingham churchyard back of
the meeting house, which still stands, the most
ancient Protestant church in the United
States. He married Joan Gallup (Gallop),
born in England, daughter of Captain John
and Christabel Gallup. Captain John Gallup
came from England in 1630 in the ship "Mary
and John." He was a skillful pilot and Indian
trader of dauntless courage, and distinguished
himself on many occasions in the Indian war-
fare constantly going on. His trading shallop
was the principal means of communication
between the Bay Colony and the settlement on
Narragansett bay and Long Island sound.

(II) Joseph, son of Thomas and Joan

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(Gallup) Joy, was born April i, 1645. He
was constable, carpenter, farmer and ensign
of the "train band." He married jMary,
daughter of John and Margaret Prince. He
• died May 31, 1697.

(HI) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (i) and
Mary (Prince) Joy, was born July 30, 1668.
He was constable, 1697-1711. His gravestone
with the inscription still legible is in Hing-
ham churchyard. It is the most ancient Joy
grave mark in America. He married Eliza-
beth, daughter of Thomas and Ruth Andrews.
He died April 29, 1716.

(IV) John, son of Joseph (2) and Eliza-
beth (Andrews) Joy, was born February 7,
1695. He married, December, 1724, Lydia,

■daughter of Samuel and Deborah (Hershey)
Lincoln. "Lydia Joy was admitted to the
First Church of Hingham February 1728."
Lydia Joy, his eldest daughter, married Tim-

•othy Edson (2), son of Timothy (i) and
Mary (Alden) Edson. descendant of John Al-
den and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden, of the
"Mayflower," and of Deacon Samuel Edson,
an original proprietor of Bridgewater, born
in England, 1612.

(V) Relief, second daughter and third
•child cf John and Lydia (Lincoln) Joy, was
Tjorn September 21, 1729. She married Ne-

hemiah Washburn, a descendant in the fifth
generation of John Washburn "the emigrant,"
<one of whose representatives in the ninth gen-
■eration is Lucius H. Washburn, of Albany,
New York (see Washburn V).

A branch of the New
WASHBURN England family of Wash-
burn (see John Washburn
I) .settled in Cortland county. New York, and
from this branch Charles Spencer Washburn,
•of Schenectady, New York, descends. Reu-
ben Washburn settled in the village of Homer,
Cortland county, New York, where he was
•engaged in mercantile life as owner and pro-
prietor. Some of the older inhabitants of
Homer asserted that Reuben Washburn was
the first merchant in the village, while Good-
win, in his history, says John Coats was. This
point cannot be settled, but the best evidence
seems to prove that Washburn was the first.
His store formerly stood between the Wind-
sor House and Sherman's "Homer Ex-
change." Reuben Washburn married and
reared a family, one son becoming a noted
physician. During the civil war he was sur-
geon in a New York regiment, contracted dis-
ease and died during the war period. Dr.
"Washburn married a daughter of ex-Con-
gressman Reed, formerly of Homer. His
■children, Lucy and Arthur, removed to Cali-

fornia, where they established and conduct a
fashionable private school. Another son,
Reuben Washburn, was connected with Wells,
Fargo PIxpress Company, and died in the
west.

(II) George Washington, son of Reuben
Washburn, was born in Homer, New York,
where he was reared and educated. After a
commercial training with his father in the
Homer store, he became identified with a New
York wholesale house as their commercial
traveler. He was a well-educated, courteous
gentleman, and a capable, energetic business
man. His residence after marriage was
Poughkeepsie, New York, and Brooklyn. He
died October 14, 1854, at the early age of
thirty-one years. He married in Watervliet,
Albany county. New York, Laura Spencer,
born in Waterford, Saratoga county, New
York, died in Schenectady, daughter of David
Spencer, born February 4. 1787, died Feb-
ruary 2, 1859. He was of English descent,
and an early settler in Waterford. His wife,
Rachel Spencer, was born in 1785, and died
in Waterford, October 7, 1842. Children of
David and Rachel Spencer were: Dr. James,
born July 11, 1810; became a physician and
practiced on Staten Island, New Y'ork. 2.
Eliza, January 22, 1813, died November 18,
1826. 3. Caroline, November 6, 1815, died
June 10, 1865 ; married, February 12, 1846,
James Roy, died in 1878, noted as the maker
of a famous weave of shawls known as the
"Spencer," a very fashionable article of ap-
parel in that day. 4. Anna, November 10,
1818, died August 11, 1849; rnarried James
Jewett, who died 1850, leaving a son David.
5. Laura, July 24, 1823, died November 18,
1891 ; she was a devout member of the Epis-
copal church, and actively interested in church
work: she married, February 12, 185 1. George
Washington Washburn. Children of George
Washington and Laura (Spencer) Washburn:
I. Charles Spencer, see forward. 2. Caroline
Roy, born August 26, 1853: married James
M. Stewart, a civil and mining engineer of
Philadelphia, where they reside; children:
William M. ; Charles W.. died in childhood;
James M. (2), died in early manhood; Roy,
born 1898.

(Ill) Charles Spencer, only son of George
W. and Laura (Spencer) Washburn, was
born November 15, 185 1. He was educated
in the schools of Homer and Schenectady,
New York. Subsequently was a clerk for a
number of years in the Mohawk National
I?ank. Went west to California and Nevada,
two years later was also connected with G.
G. Alaxon Sons, grain merchants. In 1882
he became an associate of John Wiedcrhold in

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1521

the manufacture of woman's wear. The mills
and factory of John \\'iederhold & Company
are located at Schenectady, and it is one of
the prosperous industries of that city. Mr.
W'ashburn is actively engaged in the business,
■chiefly in the office department. He is a di-
rector and vice-president of the Mohawk Na-
tional Bank, where his early business years
were passed. He is a member of St. George's
Episcopal Church, in which he has held sev-
eral offices. At present he is a member of
the vestry : junior warden and treasurer ; trus-
tee of the Schenectady Savings Bank ; trustee
of the Children's Home and Young Men's
Christian Association. He is prominent in the
Masonic order, belonging to St. George's
Lodge, Chapter and Commandery of Sche-
nectady. He is a member of Albany Con-
sistory. Thirty-second Degree Scottish Rite.
Politically he is a Republican. His clubs are
the IMohawk and Mohawk Golf, both of
Schenectadv. He is unmarried.

The earliest Ostrander of
OSTRANDER whom there is record in
New York annals is Peter,
a French Huguenot, who fled to Holland and
thence to America with wife and three chil-
dren. He settled at Esopus (Kingston), New
York, where he died.

(H) Peter (2), son of Peter (i) Os-
trander, of Kingston, was born in Holland,
1650, settled in Kingston with his father and
there married, January 16, 1676, Rebecca
Traphagen.

(HI) Hendrick (Henry), son of Peter (2)
and Rebecca (Traphagen) Ostrander, was
born and reared in Kingston, New York. He
became a large land owner and farmer. He
married. May 12, 1724, Elizabeth Van
Bommel.

(IV) Wilhelm, son of Henry and Eliza-
beth (Van Bommel) Ostrander, was born
April 29, 1743. He was a lietenant in the
Fourth Regiment, Ulster county militia, dur-
ing the revolution and was at Burgoyne's
surrender. He married, November 2, 177 1,
Sarah, daughter of Dene Relyea, a French
Protestant. Wilhelm and Sarah were the par-
ents of nine sons and one daughter.

(V) Philip, son of Wilhelm and Sarah
(Relyea) Ostrander, was born in Dutchess
county. New York, 1775, died in the town of
Duanesburg, Schenectady county. New York,
1850. Philip was a versatile character, had
no settled occupation, but was always en-
gaged in some profitable enterprise. He was
a well-known Democrat and a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church. He married, in
Dutchess county, Eva Sager, born in that

county, of early Dutch ancestors, died in
Schenectady county when past ninety-five
years old. Children: i. Jane, born in Dutch-
ess county, New York, 1800, died 1894; she
was most wonderfully preserved for her great
age, being quite active and reading without
glasses ; she married Joseph Durfay, a farmer,
whom she survived, he dying at the age of
eighty years. 2. Philip, of whom further. 3.
Peter, born 1806, died unmarried at Guilder-
land, aged twenty-five years. 4. Charles, born
1808, accidentally drowned in Black Creek ; he
married Sarah Stafford and left a son, Charles
J., and others. 5. Henry, born 18 10, died
1S97: married Eliza Bumzey, of Knox; chil-
dren : George, Abraham, William, Edward,
Edith, Charles, Elizabeth. 6. Abraham, born
18 1 2, settled near Syracuse, New York, where
he died at the age of fifty years ; he married
(first) Eliza Judge; (second) Jane Gray, hav-
ing issue by both wives. 7. Edward, born
1814, died at Syracuse, New York; married
Nellie Cheeney and left a son, William, and
a daughter.

(VI) Phihp (2), son of Philip (i) and
Eva (Sager) Ostrander, was born in Duanes-
burg, Schenectady county. New York, being
the first child born there to his parents, Feb-
ruary 16, 1804, died in the same town, April
3, 1899. He was a farmer, carpenter and
merchant ; a Democrat and a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church. He married, in
Guilderland. Albany county, August 7, 1840,
Catherine Shoudy, born in Guilderland, Au-
gust 14, 1823, who survives him, a resident
of Schenectady, although in her eighty-eighth
year she is very active, with clear mind and
memory. She does a great deal of fine sew-
ing without the aid of glasses and keeps up a
course of modern reading. She is a devoted
Methodist. She is a descendant of John
Shoudy, born in Germany, who came to the
United States with his parents when twelve
years of age, settled with them in Guilder-
land, where he died at the age of seventy
years. He was a small, wiry, energetic man ;
a blacksmith by trade. He was a member of
the Lutheran church and a Democrat. He
married Catherine Kiscr, born in Holland, of
a wealthy Dutch family. The Kisers, for
reasons unknown, left wealth and position to
seek a home in the New World. They had
twelve children, all of whom married and
reared families. The sons all learned and
worked at the blacksmith's trade. John,
Israel, George, Henry. Michael, Nicholas.
Peter, Magdalene, Catherine, Margaret, Bar-
bara and Rebecca. Nicholas, the sixth son of
Tohn, was born in .-Mbany county in 1800, died
in 1876. lie followed the trade of blacksmith

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HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

all his days. He married Maria Vrooman,
born in Albany county, 1800, died 1863. She
was a daughter of Andrew and Nancy Vroo-
man, of Dutch ancestry. They had several
sons, Maria being the only daughter. Chil-
dren of Nicholas and Maria Shoudy: i.
John, born 1821 ; married Nancy Fryer; chil-
dren : Nancy, Eliza, Margaret, George. Al-
fred and Milo. 2. Catherine, married Philip
Ostrander. 3. Margaret, born 1825, died
1900; married Harmon Kettle, who survives
her, a resident of Newago, Tioga county. New
York, aged ninety years ; children : Erskine,
Marshall, William, Malinda and Ann. 4.
James, born 1827, died 1907; married Rosa
Gill, who survives him, a resident of Delancy ;
children : Lulu, Minnie, Alice, Hazel, Charles
and Harry. 5. Nancy, married James Broach-
am, a farmer, who died 1897 ; she survives
him, a resident of Princetown, Schenectady
county : children : Myra and Lela. Children
of Philip and Catherine Ostrander: i. Mary,
born May i, 1841 ; married John Delamater,
of Albany, New York, who was killed by a
railroad train in 1887; children: i. Walter, of
Oneonta, New York ; ii. Horace, of Schenec-
tady : iii. Earl, of Delancy ; iv. Elizabeth, de-
ceased; V. Ada, deceased; vi. Edith (twin of
Ada), of Delancy; vii. Mattie, of Oneonta. 2.
William J., a soldier of the civil war;
wounded in battle, died at Fortress Monroe,
Virginia, at the age of eighteen years ; mem-
ber of One Hundred and Thirty-fourth New
York ^'olunteer Infantry. 3. Margaret A., of
whom further. 4. Maria E., born 1844; died
1869; married Darwin Mott, of Cobleskill,
New York, also deceased ; children : Lester
and Nettie, both married and have children. 5.
Adelia, born 1846; married Hugh Mott,
whom she survives, a resident of Alplaus,
New York; children: Viola and Bertha. 6.
Sarah J., born 1850; married Sanford Becker,
of East Cobleskill, New York, died Novem-
ber, 1910; has a son Arthur. 7. John M.,
born August 4, 1853; educated in public
schools, now helps run sister's homestead ;
married Marv T. Hunt ; children : Darwin P.,
William K.. Elliott H., Margaret, Albert B.,
at home. 8. George, born 1858; resides in
Schenectady; married Amanda Frederick;
children: Ernest, Martha, Gertrude. Ilattie.
All married and have issue.

(VH) Margaret A., daughter of Philip and
Catherine (Shoudy) Ostrander, was born No-
vember 27, 1842. She was reared and edu-
cated in Guilderland. and has for many years
owned and operated a well-improved, well-
stocked farm of one hundred and eighty acres
on Norman's Kill. She married (first) in
Guilderland, John Lenegor, a soldier of the

civil war, a private of the One Hundred and
Fifteenth Regiment, New York Volunteer In-
fantry, Captain Van Deusen's company. He
enlisted in 1861, leaving wife and infant son
at his country's call. He was killed during the
battle of Aluska, Florida, in 1862, and was
buried with a brave soldier's honors on the
field of battle. He had five brothers in the
same company, one, Abraham, being killed.
He left one child, William Ellsworth, born
December 3, i860; married Emma Van Duren
and has sons : i. Willard, married Belle
Gross ; ii. Lloyd, unmarried ; iii. Abraham, at
home. Margaret A. married (second) Jacob
Pangborn, born 1843, died October 12, 1884;
a farmer ; left one child, George, married
Nettie Gotten ; children : i. Margaret, married
William B. Grover and had daughter Doro-
thy ; ii. Frank J., unmarried ; iii. Sarah J.,
unmarried. Margaret A. married (third)
William Willie, born March 16, 1842, died
October 23, 1906, adopted son of Peter Ball.
No issue. Margaret A. married (fourth)
December 24, 1907, William F. Filers, born
in Rotterdam, Schenectady county. June 22,
1864, son of Henry and Ann (Dubber) Filers,
born in Germany, came when young to United
States, married in Schenectady county, and
died in Rotterdam, New York. William F.
Filers is a Democrat, and both he and his wife
attend and are generous supporters of the
Lutheran church.

Many of this name were de-
TAYLOR scended from Taillefer. the

Norman baron who took part
in the battle of Hastings under William the
Conqueror, and this name gradually changed
to Taylefer. Taylour, Tayleur. Tailer, Tailor
and Taylor. The surname Taylor is a very
common English family name, and is found
also very generally in Ireland. A branch of the
family settled in the north of Ireland at the
time of the grants to the Scotch and English
Protestants, from whom the race of Scotch-
Irish, so called, are descended. The Taylor
family of the town of New Scotland, Al-
bany county. New York, descend from this
Scotch-Irish race.

(I) Robert Taylor was born in Dublin. Ire-
land, about the year 1757. died in New Scot-
land. Albany county. New York, in 1834-35.
He emigrated to America in 1783, and after
a slow and stormy passage joined his uncle,
Samuel Taylor, who had previously settled on
a farm in New Scotland. He lived with
his uncle, helped to clear and improve the
farm, which on the death of Samuel came
to him as a legacy. The property then was
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HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

Robert did not inherit the entire tract, but by
subsequent purchases increased his holdings,
until his acres numbered two hundred and
seventy-five. At the time of his death he
had a well-improved property on which he
had erected a house and other substantial im-
provements. This farm is still in the family
name, and then comprised what is now known
as the "Three Taylor Farms." He was a man
of great energy and upright character. He
married Mary Hotaling (also spelled Hough-
taling and Hootaling). She was a descendant
of the Tribes Hill branch of the family, and
a descendant of the Dutch emigrant ances-
tor. Robert and his wife lived to ripe years,
and are buried side by side in the old Center
Presbyterian Church burying ground, they
both having been members of that congre-
gation. Children: i. Matthias, born Feb-
ruary i8, 1785, died February 24, 1846: he
was a farmer of the town of New Scotland,
where he was born : he married Phoebe Ir-
win, born in Ireland, February 10, 1790, died
January 26. 1862 ; he left children, two of
whom yet survive (1910). 2. John, see for-
ward. 3. Robert (2), settled in Rensselaer
county, where he became a successful farm-
er; late in life he retired to Albany where
he died at the home of his daughter, having
reached the extreme age of ninety years : he
was twice married and had issue by both
■wives. 4. Samuel, settled in Schenectady,
where he was in trade ; later removed to Cen-
tralia. Illinois, where he died leaving issue.
5. Rachel, married Robert Coughtry. 6. Har-
riet, married Joseph Moak. 7. Rebecca, mar-
ried William Pangborn. 8. , married

William Moak. and left issue.

ril) John, second son of Robert and Mary
(Hotaling) Taylor, was born on the original
Taylor homestead in New Scotland alDout
1790. died 1850. He succeeded to one of his
father's farms, which he cultivated during the
years of his active life. He became a mem-
ber of the Dutch Reformed church, and was
a Whig in politics. He married, in New
Scotland. Christianna, born in Guilderland,
Albany county. New York, 1796. died in 1882.
daughter of Rev. Harmanus Van Huysen, an
early minister of the Dutch Reformed church
filling every Sunday three or four different
pulpits widely separated. He traveled after
the fashion of the early itinerant minister,
on horseback with saddle bags, and was ac-
companied by his daughter who rode behind
him. He was well known about the country,
where his services were m constant demand
at weddings, funerals and baptisms. In addi-
tion to his ministerial labors, he cultivated a
farm, now occupied by Robert Boyd Taylor.

He was a soldier in revolutionary war. He
married Rachel Van Der Bogert. The \'an
Huysens and the Van Der Bogerts were
among the early Dutch settlers of Albany
county. Children of John and Christianna
(Van Huysen) Taylor: i. James, a farmer
of New Scotland, who after "his active years
were ended retired to Amsterdam, New York,
where he died at the age of seventy-five years ;
he married Hannah Houck, and had 'a son
John L., who died in youthful manhood. 2.
Mary J., married Israel Goodfellow, a farmer
of Guilderland ; children : James, Louise,
Christianna. 3. Rachel, died unmarried. 4.
Harriet, married Nicholas Houck, who sur-
vives her, a resident of Clarksville, aged nine-
ty-three years ; they have many descendants.
5. John V. H., married Lucy Mitchell, died
aged thirty years; left a son William James,
now a resident of Chicigo, Illinois, married
Florence Rockwell, no issue. 6. Sarah L..
married Guilian Van O'Linda, both deceased,
leaving daughters, Christianna. died after her
marriage to Winfield L. Young, no issue : ii.
Catherine, married William Mathias, and has
Floyd and Whitney. 7. Robert Boyd, see for-
ward. 8. Eve Ann, who on August 10, 1910,
celebrated her seventy-ninth birthday ; she is
unmarried. 9. Eliza, died unmarried, aged
twenty-three years. 10. Catherine, deceased,
married William Hendrickson ; had daughter,
died in infancy.

(HI) Robert Boyd, son of John and Chri.s-
tianna (Van Huysen) Taylor, was born at the
Taylor homestead, New Scotland, Albany
county, New York, March 10, 1829. He was
educated in the public schools, and remained
at home until his marriage when he settled
on the farm near the homestead, which he
yet owns. He has been a farmer all his life.
He is a Republican in politics, and has been
a deacon and elder of the Reformed church
for many years. He married, December 7,
1852. in New Scotland. Elizabeth, born .Au-
gust 17, 1831, died November 28, 1909,
daughter of Peter and Mary (Ostrander)
Furbeck, both of New Scotland. Peter Fur-
beck was a farmer all his life, and died on
the farm upon which he was born. He was
a son of John Furbeck. who enlisted from
Holland in the English army for service in
America during the revolution. He was cap-
tured by the Colonials, and after his release
enlisted in the revolutionary army and fought
for the cause of freedom. He was accom-
panied in this experience by his boyhood

friend, McKimbe. After the war was

over, he purchased land in New Scotland,
which became the family homestead for sev-
eral generations. He married Coons.

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They lived to a ^reat age, were members
of tiie Presbyterian church of New Scotland,
and are buried in the cemetery of that con-
gresjation. Children of Robert Boyd and Eliz-
abeth (Furbeck) Taylor: i. Alfred J., see
forward. 2. Mary Ann, died unmarried, aged
eighteen year?. 3. John Boyd, now connec-
ted \\ith the General Electric Works, Sche-
nectady, New York; married Catherine
Wands ; children : Vreeland Rensselaer, Char-
lotte, Stanley. 4. Peter Rensselaer, a farmer
of the home acres; married Nellie Wands;
children : Clara, born 1895 : Dudley Alcott,
born 1900. 5. Ella, died in infancy. This
family are all members of the Reformed
church, and the men are voters of the Re-
publican party. The mother was a woman of
noble character, an active church worker and
died deeply lamented.

(R') Alfred J., oldest son of Robert Boyd
and Elizabeth (Furbeck) Taylor, was born
at the home farm in New Scotland, Albany
county. New York, June 19, 1854. He was
educated in the town schools, and was reared
a farmer, an occupation he successfully fol-
lowed. He now resides on a fine farm on
the state road, near New Salem. He has
been a deacon and an elder of the Reformed
church for many years. Politically he is a Re-
publican. He married. December 30, 1874, in
New Scotland, Anna Prudence, born on the
McMillan homestead farm, which is now her
home, daughter of William J. and Elizabeth
W. (Rushmore) McMillan, and great-grand-
daughter of Alexander McMillan, born in
New Scotland, of Scotch parentage. Her an-
cestors were early settlers in the town. He
married Smith. He died aged eighty-
six years, and she died in middle life. Alex-
ander McMillan had children: i. John, see
forward. 2. Andrew, married Eliza Young;
children: Alden, David, John, Alexander. 3.
James A., veteran in rebellion; a farmer of
Schoharie county, deceased; had three wives,
and by the first had issue. 4. Aaron, a farm-
er near Clarksville, now deceased; children:
Jacob, William, Nelson and Helen. 5. Cath-
erine, deceased, married Matthew Young. 6.
William, deceased ; married Margaret Sager.
7. Mary, deceased ; married Robert Moak,
who lives in New Scotland. 8. Alexander, de-
ceased ; married Margaret Van Schaick, and
left issue. His widow married (second) Rob-
ert Moak, former husband of Mary. John,
eldest son of Alexander McMillan, was born
in New Scotland about 1818, died aged sev-
enty. He married Prudence McCulloch. born
in 1813, died July 9, 1909, in her ninety-sev-
enth year. They had children : i. William J.,
see forward. 2. Charles, born 1836; married

Catherine Houck ; one son Frank, who mar-
ried Lizzie Relyea. 3. Hannah Catherine,
1837; married Thomas Tygart, of Voorhees-
ville ; deputy sheriff of Albany county, New
York, since 1900 ; one son, William. 4. Alex-
ander, of Voorheesville ; married Hannah Ty-
gart ; children : Laura, deceased ; Estelle,
Ruth, Grace and Maud, the latter deceased.
William J., eldest son of John and Prudence
(McCulloch) McMillan, settled on the farm
now owned by his daughter, Mrs. Alfred J.
Taylor, which he successfully cultivated all
his life. He was a Republican in politics.
He was reared in the faith of the Reformed
church, hut later became with his wife a mem-
ber of the Society of Friends, in which faith
they died. He married Elizabeth W. Rush-
more, born on the old Rushmore farm on
which she lived after her marriage. She was
born October, 1837, died February 25, 1907.
She was a daughter of Titus and Annie
(Wood) Rushmore, of Scotch ancestry, mem-
bers of the Society of Friends, both of whom
died on the Rushmore farm, on which they
settled over a century ago, and cleared of the
timber with which it was thickly covered.
They had four children: i. Elizabeth W.,
married William J. McMillan. 2. Olivette A.,
married John H. Hotaling; now living at
Rutherford, New Jersey. 3. Mariett, died
young. 4. Henry, died, aged seventeen, while
in college. William J., and Elizabeth W.
(Rushmore) McMillan had one child. Anna
Prudence, who married Alfred J. Taylor.
The home of the Taylors is the old Rush-
more farm, later the McMillan farm, which
came to Airs. Alfred J. Taylor by inheri-
tance. Alfred J. and Anna Prudence (Mc-
Millan) Taylor have four children: i. Ada,
born May 12, 1877; graduate of the Albany
high school ; married Frank J. Hallenbeck.
They reside upon and cultivate the home
farm. Mr. Taylor having retired from active
labor. 2. Florence, March 2, 1881 ; educated
in the public schools ; married George H. Mar-
tin, a farmer of New Scotland. 3. Grace,
April 22, 1887; graduate of the Schenectady
high school ; married Frank W. Martin, a
farmer of New Scotland; children: Frances
E., born August 21, 1907; Chester Shaw, Jan-
uary 27, 1910. 4. Ethel, October 22, 1892;
educated in the .Albany schools, specializing
in music as did her sisters, resides at home
unmarried.

The Long Island families of the
HICKS name of Hicks are of English de-
scent. The English ancestor of
the family is traditionally stated to have been
a Sir Ellice Hicks, who fought under the

HUDSON AND MOHAWK \ALLEYS

15^5

Black Prince in France and was made a knight
banneret by King Edward HI. for capturing
a French standard at the battle of Crecy,
when he is said to have a grant of the arms
herein described : Arms. — Gules, a fess wavy
argent there fleur de lys or. Crest : A buck's
head, couped at the neck or, forged with a
chaplet of cinquefoils vert. Motto: "Sem-
per paratus."

During the turbulent reign of Charles I.
many of the family crossed over to Holland
for refuge from persecution. In 1641 three
brothers, Thomas, John, and Robert Hicks,
settled in the town of Flushing, Long Island,
coming from Holland under an arrangement
with the Dutch West India Company. Rob-
ert Hicks went later to New England ; Tliom-
as located in what is called Little Neck ; John
was among the patentees of Flushing in 1645
(as was Thomas), and also owned lands in
Hempstead and was a subscribing witness to
an ancient Indian deed there. Later he set-
tled in that part of Hempstead now called
Far Rockaway. Previous to 1650 both John
and Thomas held offices, civil and military.
Thomas Hicks was a captain of militia in
1686, and in 1691 was the first judge of
the county of Queens, appointed under the
act of that year, holding the office until 1699.
The descendants of these brothers are nu-
merous on Long Island, where the village
of Hicksville is yet found. Thomas had
two wives, six sons and four daughters.
Thomas, his eldest son. married Deborah,
daughter of Daniel Whitehead, and settled
at Bayside, Flushing. He had four sons and
six daughters, of whom Thomas (3), the eld-
est, succeeded his father in the ownership
of the Bayside estate in 171 2. In 1738 he
was appointed judge, and in 1749 first judge
of Queens county, as then constituted, which
office he held until 1777. He was a member
of the state legislature from 1738 to 1775.
It is from one of the sons of Thomas Hicks
' (2) that the Granville, New York, family
of Hicks descend. A noted descendant of
John Hicks was Elias Hicks, the noted divine
of the Society of Friends and founder of
the branch called 'The Hicksites."

dV) David Hicks, grandson of Thomas
Hicks, of Flushing, Long Island, married and
had issue.

(V) Asa, son of David Hicks, was born on
Long Island. New York. Fie married Zillah
Cass and had issue.

(VI) Joseph, son of Asa and Zillah (Cass)
Hicks, was born on Long Island, where his
youth was spent. He removed from Long
Island and settled in the town of Granville,
Washington county. New York, where he pur-

chased a tract of heavily timbered land, built
a log house, and in time cleared and improved
a farm. The homestead is still in possession
of the family, owned by a grandson, \\illiam
Hicks. Joseph Hicks married Jerusha Rob-
lee. Children: Jay, Almina, married Ephra-
him Northup; William, married (first) Amy
Tripp; (second) Fannie Park; Edwin B., of
whom further; Orlando, married Charlotte
Lamb ; Almera, married Lucian Webb.

(VH) Edwin B., son of Joseph and Jeru-
sha (Roblee) Hicks, was born in the town
of Granville, Washington county, New York,
October 18, 1820, died May 3, 1888. He
was an extensive farmer and stock raiser,
also a dealer in cattle, sheep and wool. He
made large shipments of sheep, etc., to vari-
ous parts of the country, doing a large busi-
ness with the western states. He was a large
land owner, and in his day was considered a
very wealthy man. The present homestead
at Slyboro was built by him for a residence.
He was a member of the Baptist church and
wielded a strong influence for good in his
community. He married Sarah Ophelia,
daughter of Abijah and Sarah (Brown)
Smith, born September i, 1826. Children:
I. Salome, born August i, 1844. died 1853. 2.
.Sarah Louise, December 17, 1845 ; married
Fred M. Mason, of Granville, December 30,
1868 ; child, Edwin. 3. Frank Edwin, of
whom further. 4. Almera Jeanette, July 14,
1850; married (first) February 12, 1867, Hi-
ram D. Duel, and had Frank E., born No-
vember 22. 1867; Frederick H., February 6,
1869; Arthur B., December 14, 1871. She
married (second) July 13, 1880. Dr, Willis A.
Tenney : children : Ashton M., born May 29,
1888 ; Florence H., June 5, 1893. 5. Theresa
Ophelia, November 14, 1854 ; married, Octo-
ber 23. 1873, T. B. Jewett; children, Julia,
married George Ballard ; Jennie and Fred-
erick.

(VIII) Frank Edwin, son of Edwin P.. and
Sarah Ophelia (Smith) Hicks, was born on
the homestead farm in Granville, Washing-
ton county. New York. March 19, 1848. He
was educated in the public schools; Fort Ed-
ward Collegiate Institute and Eastman's Busi-
ness College at Poughkeepsie. He returned
to the farm after completing his studies and
after arriving at man's estate rented the home-
stead and operated it for his own account.
After the death of his father he purcliased
the property and has since been continuously
engaged in agriculture, stock raising and deal-
ing-. He also deals extensively in farm prod-
uce, especially in fruits and wool. He spe-
cializes in fine cattle, maintaining on his farm
specimens of choice breeds. He is a thorough

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man of business and practices the most ap-
proved modern methods in his farming opera-
tions. He is interested in other important
Hnes of activity in his county ; is president
of the Granville Telephone Company ; direc-
tor of the Granville National Bank and of
the National Bank of Whitehall, New York.
He is also interested in the Washington Coun-
ty Agricultural Society ; served as president
and is a leading exhibitor in his special lines.
He is a Republican in politics and for two
years was supervisor of his town. He mar-
ried, September 6, 1871, Ida Josephine Wait,
born March 18, 1852, daughter of Mansir K.
and Julia Ann (Hale) Wait (see Wait VH).
Children: i. Edwin B., born May 23, 1873;
married Laura Irene, daughter of Morvalden
and Mary (Beecher) Brayton ; children:
Dorothy, Arthur D. and Laura Irene. 2. Man-
sir Wait, of whom further. 3. Harry Davis,
October 12, 1877; married, May 4, 1910, Alice
Baldwin. 4. Frank Edwin (2), July 9, 1879;
married Mary Brayton. 5. Ida Estelle,
March 16. 1887.

(IX) Mansir Wait, son of Frank Edwin
and Ida Josephine (Wait) Hicks, was born
on the Granville homestead farm in Washing-
ton county, New York, May 3, 1875. He
was educated in the public schools and Albany
Business College. For a few months there-
after he was in the employ of S. B. Thing,
shoe dealer of Albany, but was then obliged
to retire from active pursuits, owing to im-
paired health, and later located in the village
of Granville, and on the organization of the
Granville Telephone Company, became active
in its construction and operations ; was con-
struction foreman, exchange manager, secre-
tary, treasurer, and is now general manager;
later he opened an insurance office, carrying
lines of life, fire and indemnity insurance. He
is a capable man of business and accomplishes
results that give little evidence of his in-
firmity, lie is a member of the Baptist
church and politically a Republican. He mar-
ried, January 20, 1906, Cora, daughter of
Lorenzo and Rose B. (Haskins) Shaiifner.
Children : Hulda Elizabeth, born August 8,
1907; Mansir Wait, October 8, 1908; Merilla,
twin of Mansir Wait.

(The Wait Line).
Thomas Wait, of Portsmouth, Rhode Isl-
and, died in 1677. He was made a freeman
in 1641. On April 30, 1661, he bought land
in .\cueshnet and Cohasset. His will was
made by the town council, he having died
intestate. There is no reference to his wife
in the settlement of his estate, leaving the
inference that her death preceded his own.

He had six children: i. Samuel, died 1694;

married Hannah ; children: Samuel,

Joseph and Susanna; the latter married Moses
Barber and had fourteen children. 2. Joseph,

died August 25, 1665 ; married Sarah ;

had a son William. 3. Jeremiah, died 1677;
married Martha Brownell, born May, 1643,
died February 15, 1744; no issue. 4. Thomas,
died June, 1733 ; married Sarah Cook, died
1733. Children: Mary, Thomas and Benja-
min. 5. Mary, married, April 5, 1676. Joseph
Anthony; children: John, Joseph, Susanna
and Thomas; she died in 1713; Joseph died
in 1728. 6. Reuben, of whom further.

(II) Reuben, son of Thomas Wait, of
Portsmouth, Rhode Island, died October 7,
1707. He was one of the proprietors of Dart-
mouth. Massachusetts, in 1685. His will,
proved November 5, 1707, names wife Tabitha
as executri.x, and gives to son Thomas, one-
half of the farm ; to wife, twenty acres, dwell-
ing house and orchard for life and movables
forever. He names four sons, Benjamin, Jos-
eph, Reuben and Jeremiah, and gives them
lands in Dartmouth, etc. To daughters, Elea-
nor, Abigail and Tabitha. he gives three
pounds each. His wife, Tabitha (Founders)
Wait, died in 1707.

(HI) Thomas (2), son of Reuben and
Tabitha (Lounders) Wait, was born in Dart-
mouth, Massachusetts, where he always re-
sided, April 23, 1683. In 1721 he sold his
right in his father's homestead to his brother
Benjamin. He married, January 25. 171 1,
Mary, daughter of Joseph and Mehitable
(Fish) Tripp. She was born August 22,
1689. Children: John, born November 30,
171 1 ; Reuben, February 7, 1714; Thomas, of
whom further; Mary, April 5, 1718; Meri-
bah, July 20, 1720: Mehitable, November 18,
1722; Martha, April 5, 1725; Alice April 23,
1729.

(IV) Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2) and
Mary (Tripp) Wait, was born February 29,
T716. He married, June 6, 1743, Tabitha El-
lis. Children: Gideon, born March 3, 1746,
married, April 6, 1766, Lois Tripp; Jere-
miah : Thomas, April 10, 1755, married Nao-
mi Weeks; Mary, February 11. 1757, married
May II, 1775, Reuben Wait; Lydia, March
19' 1759' married Doke Moon; Peleg, of
whom further: Rufus, April 23, 1764, mar-
ried, December 2. 1784, Eunice Hill; .Mice.

(V) Peleg, son of Thomas (3) and Ta-
bitha (Ellis) Wait, was born October 23,
1 761, died October 7. 1847. He was a soldier
of the revolution and is probably the P. Wait
named as private of the Sixth Massachusetts
Regiment, payroll drawn for amount of grat-
uity due non-commissioned officers and sold-

HUDSON AND IMOHAWK VALLEYS

iers of the Massachusetts hne of the continen-
tal army, agreeable to resolve of January 15,
1781. (See Massachusetts Soldiers and Sail-
ors, vol. xvi, page 399.) He married, 1783,
Mary, born ]\Iarch 24, 1766, died February
3, 1862, daughter of Henry and l\Iargaret
(Rathbone) Greene. Children: Greene, born
September 26, 1784, married (first) Diadema

. (second) Alida Moon; Clark, of

whom further ; RIercy, April 4, 1789, married
William Gardner; Thomas, May i, 1791, mar-
ried Chloe Roblee; Benjamin, April 21, 1793,
married Alary Odell ; Alice. July 6, 1795, mar-
ried James Hewitt ; Tabitha, April 18, 1797,
married Spink Madison ; Mary, April 30, 1799,
married Caleb Wells; Lois. Dec. 8, 1801, mar-
ried Calvin P. Hill; Laura, Nov. 4, 1804.

(\'I) Clark G., son of Peleg and Mary
(Greene) Wait, was born April 3, 1787. He
removed to Petersburg and later settled on a
farm in the town of Granville, W'ashington
-county. New York, where he afterward al-
ways resided, engaged in agriculture. He
married Abigail, daughter of Thomas and
Martha (Jones) Phillips. Children: Pamelia,
born May 6, 1809: Ehalton, March 5, 1812;
Clark G., (2), April, 1814; Hamilton, March
22. 1817; Mansir K., of whom further; Abra-
ham. July 5, 1821 ; Priscilla, October 13, 1823;
Martha. September 29, 1824; Philetas, March
27, 1828; Leander, October 20, 1830; Abi-
gail. April 20. 1832; Dwight, Mav 25. 1835;
Harlan, July 8, 1837.

(Yll) Mansir K., son of Clark G. and Abi-
gail (Phillips) Wait, was born at Granville,
\\ashington county. New York, May 24,
1819, died December 2, 1892. He married.
Januarv 16, 1840. Julia Ann, daughter of
Richard and Olive (Wliedon) Hale. Children:
Josephine, born May 10, 1841, died October
27, 1846; Pamelia, April 11, 1843, died Janu-
ary 23, 1880, married Davis Northup ; chil-
dren : Mansir, James and Maud ; Clark, June
II, 1845. died December 11, 1864; a veteran
of the civil war; Casseus, February 19. 1847,
married Ella Rogers ; children : Mansir. x\gnes,
Carlotta and Clark ; Charles, June 3, 1849,
•died September 3, 1849; Zilpha, July 12, 1850,
■died May 6, 1854; Ida Josephine, March 18,
1852, married Frank E. Hicks (see Hicks
VHI) ; Emma, September 24. 1855, died No-
vember 13, 1856; Estella. April 13, 1858, mar-
ried, October 8. 1879. George McDonald ;
children : Harry, married Ada Bromley, Ida
and Mabel.

During the earlier generations of

ROSA the family in America this family

retained the original spelling,

Roosa. The latter-day family, or at least some

of them, spell it Rosa, which is the orthogra-
phy used by the family in Schenectady herein
recorded. It is one of the old Dutch families
of the Hudson-Mohawk that settled first in
Esopus, then in Albany and Schenectady. The
sons of the emigrant all founded families and
many of them still may be found in the same
localities, settled by their earliest ancestors.
Gelderland, in Holland, was the home of the
emigrant ancestor.

(I) Albert Heymanse (Albert, son of Hey-
man) Roosa, was a farmer of Gelderland,
Holland, where he married Wynije Allard,
and had eight children, born in the "fader-
land." He came with his entire family to
America in the ship "Spotted Cow," arriving
at New Amsterdam, April 15, 1660, and made
permanent settlement at Esopus, New York,
shortly afterward. He was a person of more
than usual importance, for on May 16, 1661,
he was appointed by Governor Stuyvesant
one of the three "schepens," or magistrates,
his associates being Evert Pels and Cornells
Barentse Slecht. He brought with him from
Holland considerable property, and soon "oc-
cupied an influential position in the new set-
tlement." In 1661 he was appointed one of
the three commissioners to enclose the new
village at Esopus, called Hurley. At the
destruction of the village of Hurley, on June
7, 1663, by the Indians, two of his children,
with forty-three other women and children,
were taken captive. The story of the rescue
of these captives by the colonial forces, un-
der command of Captain Martin Kreiger, is
one of the most interesting episodes in the
early history of New York. The records
cite many instances of his participation in
the early making of Kingston that show him
to have been a leader. He rebelled against
the tyrannies of Governor NichoUs, and in
1667 a commission appointed by the governor,
sat at Esopus. investigating the "mutiny at
Esopus." Albert Heymanse Roosa, Cornells
Barentse Slecht and two others were "found
guilty of rebellious and mutinous riot" and
were taken to New York for sentence.
Nicholls, by advice of his council, on May 3,
sentenced Roosa to he banished for life out
of the government, and the others for shorter
terms out of Esopus. .Albany and New York.
All these sentences were subsequently modi-
fied and the offenders returned. Governor
Lovelace restored him to favor, and in 1669
appointed him overseer of the town of Hurley,
called New Dorp, or New \illage. "In 1673
he was confirmed as one of the officers of
Esopus by Governor Anthony Colve, and
described as Captain Albert Heymans Roosa,
who had been prominent in the riot of 1667."

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He served in the military forces of the col-
ony as mustering officer, and in other capaci-
ties ; was sergeant of Captain Henry Pawl-
ing's company, and in 1673 was captain of
a company recruited from Hurley and Marble-
town. He died at Hurley, February 27, 1679.
In 1685 his widow, Wyntje Allard, secured
a grant of 320 acres at Hurley. Children,
the first eight bom in Holland, the last two
born in Esopus, New York: i. Arie (or
Aria) ; married, at Kingston, Maria, daughter
of Magistrate Evert Pels. 2. Heyman, mar-
ried Margreit Rosevelt. 3. Jan, married
Hellegond Williams. 4. Ikee, married Roeloff
Keirstede. 5. Maritje, married Albert Jan-
sen. 6. Neeltein, married Hendric Pauldin,
banns published November 4, 1676. 7. Jan-
netje, married Matys Ten Eyck, November
16. 1679. 8. Aert. married Wyntje Aundreum
d'Ong. 9. Annatje. 10. Guert, died June 15,
1664.

(H) Heyman, second son of Albert Hey-
manse and Wyntje (Allard) Roosa, was born
in Holland, and came to America with the
family in 1660. He lived in Esopus and
Hurley. He married Margreit Rosevelt, born
1645. Children: i. Geysbert, of whom fur-
ther. 2. Albert, born March 2, 1679; in 1715
was sergeant in Captain Johannes' company,
in Ulster county. 3. Claase, born April 27,
1684. 4. Neeltje, October 13, 1689. 5. Ra-
chel. April 19, 1696. 6. Leah, September,
1698.

(HI) Geysbert, eldest child of Heyman and
Margreit (Rosevelt) Roosa, was born Oc-
tober 16, 1676. He lived in Hurley, and in
1715 was a private in Captain William Not-
tingham's company. He married, October
13, 1695, Greetje Bond, of Schenectady, New-
York. Children: i. Hellegond, born August
6, i6g6. 2. Jan, of whom further. 3. Hen-
drick, born August 20, 1703, died in infancy.
4. Hendrick, born March 20, 1707; in 1738
was private of Captain B. Brodhead's com-
pany, Ulster county militia ; married, May 2,
1735, Zara Frear, of New Palz. 5. Greetje,
born October 5, 1712.

(IV) Jan, eldest son of Geysbert and
Greetje (Bond) Roosa, was born May 28,
1699. He married (first) August 27, 1725,
Machteldt (Myeltje) Van Kampen. He mar-
ried (second) Eva Klearwater. Children: i.
Guert, born June 9, 1727. 2. Johannes. No-
vember 22, 1728. 3. .'\braham, .^pril 29, 1733;
a soldier of the revolution. 4. Elizabeth, Sep-
tember 7, 1735. 5. Isaac, of whom further.
6. Jacobus (James), born August 10. 1740;
a soldier of the revolution ; married Sarah
Ennis. 7. Maria, born December 13, 1741. 8.
Helena, August 21, 1743. 9. Gysbut, born

]\Iarch II, 1745: a soldier of the revolution.
10. Margaret. 11. Henrikje, born June 14,
1749. 12. Teunis Klearwater, June 23, 1751.
13. Greetje, March 28, 1756.

(\) Isaac Rosa, son of Jan and Myeltje
(\'an Kampen) Roosa, was born February

5, 1739. He married, in Albany, November
22, 1763, Maria, daughter of Ryckert Van
Vranken. Children: i. Johannes, born Au-
gust 13, 1764. 2. Annatje, August 18, 1766;
married, December 12, 1788, Joseph Yates.

3. Ryckert (Richard), of whom further. 4.
Machtelt, born April 20, 1772; married
Hocholas Marselis. 5. James (Jacobus). 6.
Maas \^an Vranken, born September 20. 1780.

(\"I) Ryckert (Richard), son of Isaac and
Maria (Van Vranken) Rosa, was born De-
cember II, 1769. died August 30, 1809. He
married, July 21, 1793, Annatje (Nancy),
born January i, 1772, died October 8, 1835,.
daughter of Nicholas Peek. Children: i.
]\Iaria, born November 7, 1794. 2. Henry,
August 17, 1795, died June 11, 1829. 3.
Isaac R., of whom further. 4. Elizabeth, born
October 13, 1799. 5. John. May 28, 1802, died
February' 9, 1835. 6. Jane P., born .August
19, 1803, died June 27, 1879. 7. :Martin,
born July 30, 1805. 8. Catherine Ann, May
15. 1807.

(\ II) Isaac R., son of Ryckert and Nancy
(Peek) Rosa, was born September 8, 1797,
died September 21, 1849. He removed to-
Fulton county. New York, where for many
years he kept a house of entertainment for
the traveling public, also owning and operat-
ing a farm. He married, July 15, 1827, Ma-
tilda Waite, born December 19, 1807, died
August 31, 1828. He married (second), No-
vember I, 1830, Phoebe Ann Alvord, born
August 14. 1805, died September 27, 1884.
Children, all by second marriage: i. Richard
H., born July 25, 1835, died October i, 1890.
He was a prominent lawyer, and served as
district attorney of Fulton county twelve
years. He was a charter member of Kenny-
etto Lodge, No. 599, Free and Accepted Ma-
sons, was the first senior warden under its
charter of July 3, 1865, and the second wor-
shipful master, 1868-71. He continued a
member until November 25. 1878, when he
demitted to St. Patrick's Lodge, No. 4. at
Johnstown, where he died. 2. Isaac A., born-
November 3, 1836; a prominent contractor
and lumberman ; e.x-sheriff of Fulton county,
and supervisor eight years. 3. Elijah A.,
born April 9, 1842, died November 23, 1882.

4. James P., of whom further.

(VIII) James P.. son of Isaac R. and
Phoebe Ann (Alvord) Rosa, was born May

6, 1848, in Broadalbin, Fulton county, New^

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1529

York. He was educated in the public schools,
and at the age of seventeen years went to
New York City, where he secured employ-
ment as a clerk in a dry goods store, re-
maining but a year. Returning to Broadal-
bin he engaged in mercantile life as junior
partner of Chase & Rosa, general merchants,
at L'nion Mills. In 1868 he located at Vail's
Mills, town of Northampton, Fulton county,
where he purchased a general store, and
through firm changes continued until 1880,
when he disposed of the business (being then
sole owner), and located at the village of
Broadalbin, where in association with Charles
Butler he engaged as Rosa & Buder in the
hasdware business. Later Mr. Rosa conducted
a gentlemen's furnishing store. In 1907 he
disposed of his mercantile interests, having
previously organized the Broadalbin Lumber
Company, with which he is yet connected as
principal owner. He has been successful in
his various undertakings, and is an influential,
highly respected citizen. Politically he is an
Independent Republican, and has been the
choice of his party for important offices. He
is public-spirited and deeply interested in the
cause of public education. For twelve years
he has been president of the Board of Edu-
cation, and for the same length of time presi-
dent of the Board of Trade. He is a member
of Kennyetto Lodge, No. 599, Free and Ac-
cepted ■Siasons, of which he was master 1884-
90. He is a member of the Baptist church, and
since 1881 has served as trustee. He was
postmaster at Avail's Mills, serving four years
under President Grant, and at Broadalbin
held the same office under President Cleve-
land. He married, January 26. 1870, Ruth
Augusta, born October 7. 1846, daughter of
John G. and Eliza C. (Smith) Pettit. of Edin-
burg. Saratoga county. New York. John
Gatton Pettit was born February 6, 1818, died
February 2, 1893; married. December 29,
1841, Eliza Cook Smith, born August 26,
1821, died I\Iarch 23, 1874; children: i.
Esther, born July 27, 1843, died October 2,
1907; married March. 1865, David Allen;
children: i. Carrie, born January 8. 1866. mar-
ried Edward .Armstrong, and had Edward and
Amy; ii. Lizzie, born February 22, 1873, died
1873; iii. May E.. born February 7. 1875, died
October 26. 1908, married. February 5, 1902.
Frederick Trapp ; iv. David W.. born April
7. 1883, married. October 21, 1907, Edith
Hearst. 2. Ruth Augusta, married James P.
Rosa. 3. Smith, born February 13. 1848. died
Mav 9, 1874. 4. Sadie Ophelia, born October
20. 1850, died November i. 1870. 5. Gatton,
born August i^, 1852. died November 11.
1863. 6.^ Rebecca P., bom June, 1858, died

November 13. 1863. James P. and Ruth A.
Rosa have children: i. Martha C, bom Sep-
tember 15, 1870; married, February 9, 1906.
Clarence C. \'an Buren, and they' have one
.son, James R., born January 9, 1907. 2.
Nellie B., born February 5, 1880; married,.
June 22. 1907, Marvin R. Borst.

Clarence C. \an Buren, who married
Martha C, daughter of James P. Rosa, is a
lineal descendant of Cornells Van Buren, the
founder of the noted Van Buren family of the
Hudson Valley, which includes a former presi-
dent of the United States, Martin Van Buren.
The line is as follows:

(I) Cornells \'an Buren came to .\merica
from Holland, in 1631. (II) Martin Cornells,
son of Cornells \'an Buren. (Ill) Pieter
Martense, son of Martin Cornells A'an Buren.

(R") Barent. son of Pieter Martense \'an
Buren, married Maria W'hinney. He was a
resident of Kinderhook. Children : Ariantje,
born November 8, 1724; Elsie, October 23,.
1726: .Francis, of whom further; Maria. Sep-
tember 2. 1730; Pieter, February 18, 1733.

(V) Francis, son of Barent and Maria
(W'hinney) \'an Buren, was born at Kinder-
hook, November 16. 1728, died May 6, 1815.
In 1779 removed to what is now the town of
Maj-field. Fulton county. New York, where
he purchased and settled upon a tract of
five hundred acres. He served during the
revolution in the Seventh Regiment, Albany
county militia. He married, about 1760, Jo-
hanna \'an Slyck. born October 23, 1736, died
.\pril 5. 181 5, also a descendant of an early
Dutch :\Iohawk Valley family. Qiildren: Ba-
rent. born September 28, 1762. died February
20. 1763; Angelica, born Januar\- 22, 1764,.
died February 19, 1850; Barent F.. born No-
vember 26, 1769, died' January 7, 1862: Peter,
born August 2, 1772; Harmon F., of whom^
further.

(VI) Harmon F., son of Francis and Jo-
hanna (\'an Slyck) Van Buren, was born
March 29. 1775, died September 30. 1858.
He accompanied his father to the Mohawk
\'alley and became the owner of one-quarter
of the Mayficld purchase. Here he followed
agriculture all his days, becoming prominent
in town and church affairs, being especially
active in the latter. He married, about 1706,
Catherine Miller, born 1774. died March 13.
1845. Children: Hannah, born February i,

1798, died in infancy; Charles, born March 5,

1799. died February 15, i860: Johanna, born
October 10, 1800, died January 18. 1853: Lu-
cinda. born November 22. 1802. died .March
3. 1874: Francis, bom February 22, 1805,.
(lied March. 1872; Oliver Miller, of whom
further: Angelica, born March 6, 1809. died-,

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August II, 1884; Peter, born ]\lay 4, 1813,
■died Novjember 17, 1885.

(VH) Oliver Aliller, son of Harmon F. and
'Catherine (Miller) Van Buren, was born in
IMayfield, Fulton county, New York, April
4, 1807, died June, 1882. He was a farmer
.and a devoted member of the Presbyterian
•church. He married, January 21, 1829, Sallie
Maria Hayes, born April 9, 1811, died April
18, 1883. Children: Elizabeth, born January
■9, 1830; Charles Henry, born May 17, 1836,
■died jNIarch 2, 1897; Harmon E., of whom
further; Ansel Hayes, born April 17, 1846,
.died August 31, 1910; (Sranville, born August
2, 1853.

(Vni) Harmon E., son of Oliver Miller
and Sallie Maria (Hayes) Van Buren, was
,born June 28, 1839. He was a glove manu-
facturer, and served the town of Mayfield as
..assessor for ten years. He married, February
4, 1874. Adeline Thompson, born June 29,
1846. Children: Harriet T., born November
18. 1874; Clarence Edward, of whom further;
Samuel T., born July 17, 1880. married,
March i, 1908, Ruth T. Martling, and has
'-Oliver N., born October 3, 1909.

(IX) Clarence Edward, son of Harmon
E. and Adeline (Thompson) Van Buren, was
born January 30. 1876. He was educated in
-the Gloversville high school and at the New
Britain (Connecticut) normal school. After
completing his studies he taught at Lake
George. New York, until January i, 1903,
when he was elected school commissioner of
Fulton county, entering upon the duties of his
office on that date. He was a Republican in
politics, and a member of the Baptist congre-
gation. He married, February 7, 1906, Martha
Charlotte, daughter of James P. and Ruth A.
Rosa. They have James Rosa Van Buren,
born January 9, 1907.

Three towns in the United
LOliiDELL States have been named after

descendants of Simon Lob-
dell, viz: Lobdell, Louisiana, near New Or-
leans, where, in close proximity, reside de-
scendants of Abraham James and John Little
Lobdell, the jjioneer Lobdell settlers of Louisi-
ana and Mississippi; Lobdell, Clinton county.
New York, named from descendants of Jared
Lobdell ; Lobdell, Kane county, Kansas, named
after Charles E. Lobdell, formerly speaker of
the Kansas House of Assembly, also a de-
scendant of Jared Lobdell.

(I) The name of Simon Lobdell appears
among the "Afterplanters" names of Milford,
Connecticut, about forty — a framed list of
names which hangs in the town clerk's office at
Milford. The best supposition is that he came

as a young lad with a party from Hereford,
England, near the Wales boundary, in 1645,
and that his sisters, Ann and Elizabeth, came
at the same time, but remained in Boston.
From public records it appears that Simon
Lobdell, in 1646, was given by the "first plant-
ers"' a home lot containing a half acre of
ground. In 1657 ^^^ took the freeman's oath
at Hartford, Connecticut, and was a taxpayer
of that place in 1667. He removed to Spring-
field, Massachusetts, where his sisters were
living, both having married and settled there.
From 1666 to 1674 he was keeper of the prison
in Springfield, and accumulated considerable
property. In 1681 he purchased land (but did
not settle) at Stony River, and in 1682, at
Hull, Massachusetts. He returned to Milford,
where his wife, Persis, was admitted :o the
church January 7, 1677, and on April 9, 17 10;
Simon united with the same church. He died
at Milford prior to October 4, 1717, as on
that date letters of administration were granted
on his estate. In his will he styles himself

Lieutenant. He married Persis , date

unknown. Children: i. Mary, married David
Wooster, born 1666, eldest son of Edward
Wooster, of Milford ; children : Jerusha,
Persis and Tamar. 2. Elizabeth, married Wil-
liam Roberts. 3. Joshua, of whom further.
4. Anna, born December i, 1674, unmarried
at time of her father's death. 5. Rebecca,
born at Springfield, Massachusetts, 1677; mar-
ried Deliverance Downs, born 1669, son of
John and I\Iars- Downs, of New Haven, Con-
necticut; children: Rebecca, Tohn, Mary and
Elizabeth.

(H) Joshua, only son of Simon and Persis
Lobdell. was born at Springfield, Massachu-
setts, December 23, 1671, died previous to Oc-
tober 31, 1743, as on that date Caleb Lobdell
agrees to assume the support of his mother,
"Eunice, widow of Joshua Lobdell, deceased,
late of Ridgefield." He married and lived in
Milford, until after the death of his first wife,
Mary, then in 171 2, with his children, re-
moved to Ridgefield, Connecticut. He pur-
chased, March 3, 1712, of James Brown, of
Norwalk, one-twenty-ninth part of the town of
Ridgefield. During the succeeding twenty or
thirty years Joshua was continually adding to
his estate by purchase from the proprietors
or their grantors. He married (first), Au-
gust 1 1, 1695, Governor Robert Treat perform-
ing the ceremony, Mary, daughter of John and
Alice Burwell, early settlers of Milford. He
married (second), in 1713, Eunice, born 1689,
daughter of Lieutenant John and Mary (Bene-
dict) Olm.stead, of Norwalk, Connecticut.
Children of first wife, all born in Milford,
Connecticut: i. Samuel, born February 2,

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1699, married Rebecca St. John; children:
Rebecca, Mary, Abigail and Samuel. 2.
Sarah, born February i, 1702, died young.

3. Joshua, born March 15, 1703; was captain
of Westchester county militia, and fought
with his five sons in the French and Indian
\\ar> of 1755-60; married Mary Reynolds,
and had Mary, Joshua, Ebenezer, Jacob, Ra-
chel. Daniel, and John. This family removed
over the state line and settled in Cortland
Manor, W^estchester county, New York.

4. Mary, born October 30, 1704, married
Samuel Plum. 5. Ebenezer, born February
24, 1707, married Rebecca Benedict. 6. Su-
sannah, born February 27, 1709, married Sea-
born Burt. Children of Joshua Lobdell and
his second wife, Eunice, all born in Ridge-
field, Connecticut : 7. Sarah, born September
27, 1714; married, March 6, 1734, Jabez
Northrup. 8. Caleb, born February i, 17 16;
married (first), June 27, 1749. Elizabeth
, who died 1752; (second) Bertha Pad-
dock, who died after 1761 ; (third) Ruth

. who survived him ; children : Caleb

( 2 ) . Paddock, and Philip. 9. John, of whom
further. 10. Darius, born October 18, 1729;
settled in Danby, Vermont; was a revolution-
ary soldier and fought at Bennington ; he mar-
ried Mary Balwin ; children : Mary, Eunice,
Darius (2), Rev. Jacob, and John. 11. Eliza-
beth, born November 13, 1732; married (first)
Harrie Gunn, (second) Isaac Northrup (his
second wife). 12. Simon. 13. David.

(Ill) John, son of Joshua and Eunice
(Olmstead) Lobdell, was born in Ridgefield,
Connecticut, August 21. 1721, died in
Brookfield, Connecticut, 1778. In 1742 he re-
ceived from Daniel Sherwood, his father-in-
law, various sums of money and tracts of land
on his wife's, Ruth's, account. In 1746 John,
being very sick and thinking himself near
death, made his will giving all his possessions
to his wife, Ruth, and an unborn child, and of
this will he says, "I appoint my duly trusty
brother, Samuel Lobdell. executor." John
however, recovered and lived until 1778, hav-
ing nine children. He married, June 25, 1744,
Ruth Sherwood, born in Ridgefield, March 29.
1723. died May 4, 1787, daughter of Daniel
and' Ruth (Bradley) Sherwood. Ruth Brad-
ley was a daughter of John and Hannah
(Sherwood) Bradley, of Ridgefield. Chil-
dren, all born in Brookfield. Connecticut: i.
Ruth, March 26. 1745: married Nathan Brad-
ley. 2. John, September 21, 1746; married
Abigail Barlow ; children : Orpha, Dennis Bar-
low, Huldah, and Phoebe Ruthina. 3. Caleb,
July 4, 1748; married in Westchester county,
New York, Patience Boughton ; lived in
Brookfield, but after the British raid of 1777

he nioved to New York state with his brother,
Daniel. They stopped at Rensselaerwyck,
where one or more children were born, then
continued to Northville, Fulton county, New
York, where Caleb and Patience died. Chil-
dren : Jerusha, Lucy, Daniel, Caleb, Noble,
John Boughton, Ruth. Lanie, Jacob, Elias.
Melinda, Samuel, Abigail, George, Rodney and
Pliny. 4. Sarah, baptized April 14, 1749, mar-
ried Peck. 5. Abigail, born May 4,

1753; married Dunning. 6. Hannah,

born June 4, 1755; married Hepburn.

7. Daniel, of whom further. 8. Lewis, born
March 7, 1760; married, September 22, 1780,
Elizabeth Osborn. 9. Chloe, horn 1765; mar-
ried, July 10, 1782, Elijah Baldwin.

(I\') Daniel, son of John and Ruth
(Sherwood) Lobdell, was horn at North
Brookfield. Connecticut, September 22, 1757,
died at Northville, Fulton county. New York,
June 13, 1843. In 1/77- '" company with his
brother Caleb he left Brookfield, and journeyed
north, and after a residence of several years
at Rensselaerwyck (now Hudson, Columbia
county), located, in 1790, in Northville (then
called Old Ford, Fulton county. New York),
where his relatives, Samuel Olmstead and
Zadock Sherwood, had preceded him. Daniel
and Caleb Lobdell were the third and fourth
families to locate there. Daniel served six years
as a revolutionary soldier. Northville then was
in Montgomery county, Fulton county being
erected later. Daniel purchased a farm of
ninety-four acres and spent his after-life in
its development and cultivation. He was a
man of influence and possessed sterling quali-
ties of character that he transmitted to his
posterity along with his material wealth. He
was a Whig in politics and public-spirited in
all things. He married (first) Rachel Os-
born, born December 13, 1757, at Brookfield,
Connecticut, daughter of James and Elizabeth
(Mead) Osborn. She died at Northville,
July 13, 1821. He married (second) Betsey
Bryant, who died without issue. Children
of first wife: i. James, born October 25, 1784,
at Hudson, New York, died in West Troy,
May 19, i860; married. October 18, 1807,
Sally Van Arman. of Pittstown. New York.
He was a merchant of Johnstown and Troy;
one of the first members of Trinity Episcopal
Church, of which he was warden in 1834.
Giildren : Rachel, .Alexander St. John, Maria,
Harriet, Helen Maxwell, James Dow, Richard
Saddler, and William Henry. 2. Daniel
Granby, born March i, 1788, in Fulton county.
New York, died unmarried, March 28, 1808.
3. Nathan Bradley, of whom further.

(V) Nathan Bradley, son of Daniel and
Rachel (Osborn) Lobdell, was born at Broad-

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albin, Montgomery county. New York, July
15, 1 79 1, being the first white child born in
that section. He grew up in the town, where
he became a man of wealth and influence,
highly respected, and enjoying, to the utmost,
the confidence of his townsmen. He was the
lawyer of his day, and did a great deal of the
legal business of the town. He was justice
of the peace, captain of militia, and for ten
years postmaster at Northville. When Fulton
and Hamilton counties were formed from
Montgomery in 1888, he had charge of the
work of transcribing the records belonging
to the new county of Fulton. He was a
Democrat in politics. When his wife died he
did not again marry, but kept all of his
large family together, none leaving until they
went to homes of their own. He married,
December 27, 1812, at Providence, Saratoga
county, New York, Nancy Richardson, born
October 2, 1788, at Providence, died Febru-
ary 4, 1834, at Northville, daughter of William
and (Montgomery) Richardson, a de-
scendant of General Montgomery, of revolu-
tionary fame. Children:

I. Daniel Granbee, born December 7, 1813,
died unm.arried, at Washington, D. C., July
9, 1875. He became a lawyer of prominence,
and was a partner of Judge Yost, of Fort
Plain, to whom he bequeathed his library.
He entered government employ during Presi-
dent Pierce's administration ; was supervising
special agent of the Treasury. After visit-
ing the principal custom houses in the United
States he went to Europe and investigated
the customs methods of diflferent countries.
In politics he was a Democrat. He is buried
in Albany, New York.

■ 2. Mary Ann, born January 12, 1816; mar-
ried Gilbert Le Fevre ; child : Arthur Le
Fevre, of Albany, New York.

3. James H., born February 14, 1818; mar-
ried (first) Maria M. Greenfield, in 1845;
(second) Mary Stone. Child of first wife:
Helen, born April 6, 1846, married October
22, 1864, John Obias Van Hoesen, and re-
moved to Wisconsin, where her husband died,
January i, lyoi. Children of second wife:
Emma, born March 15, 1856; James Edward,
March 15, 1859: Mary Elizabeth. October
II, 1861 : Charles E., March 15. 1864.

4. William Richardson, died in childhood.

5. Maria Rachel, born December 10. 1821 ;
m;irried Truman Gilbert ; children : Truman
James, William Nathan, Virginia and Eliza-
beth.

6. Emily Nancy, born March 25, 1824, died
unmarried, May 17, 1849.

7. Hiram W., born April 20, 1826; married
Phoebe Eliza Hood, born July 24, 1837. He

studied for a physician, located at Flat Rock,
Michigan, where he died January 10. 1884.
Children : Dr. John H., Daniel Granbee. and
Mary E.

8. Charles Nathan, born January 3, 1829,
died in infancy.

9. Bradley Nathan, of whom further.
(VI) Bradley Nathan, son of Nathan.

Bradley and Nancy (Richardson) Lobdell,
was born in old Montgomery county, now
Benson, Hamilton county. New York, June 20,
1832. He was educated in the public schools,,
and until twenty-one years of age was en-
gaged in farming. He then went West, and'
for five years was in the lumber and real
estate business. He went to Northville
in 1859, and after a few years in the grain
trade, began, in 1865, the manufacture of
gloves and mittens, a business he conducted
for twenty-three years with great success.
He- was one of the board of charter members
of the Fonda, Johnstown & Gloversville rail-
road, and mainly instrumental in having the
road built to Northville. Mr. Lobdell may-
claim to be one of the fathers of forest preser-
vation ; certainly he has not only talked and
fought for their preservation, but has prob-
ably restored a larger area than any other
single individual. In 1870 he first conceived
a plan of replanting the former forest, and
since that time has bought large tracts of
despoiled land, and now has growing on lands
of his own a quarter of a million white pine
trees, all scientifically cared for. His experi-
ment was with thirty-two acres of shade
maple and a few pines that had sprung up.
He trimmed and cared for them and was sO'
well pleased with their growth and develop-
ment that he has since made pines a specialty.
Since 1899 he has planted chestnut, white
oak and black walnut on old meadow and
pasture land. In 1902 he planted a large
quantity of black walnut, besides other kind
of timber. He is enthusiastic over his favor-
ite, tree culture, and cheerfully gives of his
vast fund of information and experience to
those desiring to follow his example and re-
store the waste places. He also owns large
and valuable tracts of lands in Michigan. He
is a Democrat in politics, and has served
as town clerk and assessor. He is connected
with the Masonic order in Northville, and is
a member of the Episcopal church.

Mr. I,obdell married Sabrina E. Miller,
born November 6. 1836, died June 5, 1890,
daughter of David N. and Mardula E. (Olm-
stead) Miller, of Northville. Children: i.
Emilie Maria, born May 26, 1856; married
Leander McLean. 2. Ida, born .\ugust 26,
1863, died March 5, 1864. 3. Josephine, born

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Jnne 24, 1866; married William Hollearn ;
■children: Clara, born October 13, 1892; Mar-
garet. April 25, 1894; Grace, January 25,
1806; TUanclie. November 19, 1897.

The history of the Resse-
RESSEGUIE guie family is unknown

prior to the settlement of
the American progenitor at Norwalk, Con-
necticut, but it is believed they descend from
the De Resseguie family, of the province of
Languedoc, in southern France, and of Tou-
louse, capital city of the department of Haute
Garonne.

(I) Alexander Resseguie settled in Nor-
walk, Connecticut, in 1709. Tradition says
he was the younger son of Alexander Resse-
guie. a Huguenot refugee from France, who
brought with "him a small hair trunk contain-
ing trtle deeds to property in France. Hop-
ing to return and establish his claims, Alex-
ander educated liis eldest son to the law, but
his death at the age of twenty years so dis-
heartened the father that he gave up his
intention and passed the trunk and papers into
the possession of a younger son. Later they
were destroyed by fire. Another theory is
that the family fled to England before com-
ing to America, and that Alexander Resse-
guie. a silk manufacturer of London. 1696,
was the father of Alexander of Norwalk. As
there is no previous record of a male Resse-
guie in America, Alexander must be consid-
ered the ancestor. He purchased land in
Norwalk. April i, 1709, and frequently there-
after. There is little record of his life save
that of his possessions. He died in October,
1772: his place of burial is unknown. He
married, October 19. 1709. Sara, daughter of
Pierre and Marguerite (Collinot) Bontecou,

■of New York. She was born in France and
came to New York with her parents in 1689,
and died in May, 1757. The estate of Alexan-
der inventoried £10.500, an immense sum in
that day. One-half the estate was left to his
widow, Sara, during her widowhood. Chil-
dren : I. Alexander (2), of whom further. 2.
Peter, born December 19, 171 1. died young.
3. James, born November 6, 1713, died in
the French and Indian war. 4. Abraham, born
July 27, 1715, died July 31. 1797; married,
and had six children. 5. Isaac, born May 24,
171 7; settled across the border in New York
state. 6. Jacob, born August 14, 1719; mar-
ried Mary Center; five children. 7. Sarah,
born July 12, 1721, died May 25, 175:3.

(II) Alexander (2), eldest son of .-Mexan-
der (i) and Sara (Bontecou) Res.seguie, was
born August 2-/, 17 10, and was living in 1793.
He was a large landowner and farmer, much

of his land being inherited from his father.
His will, written in a beautiful script, is dated
July 27, 1793. It is a relic from the hair trunk
previously mentioned, and has the lower half
of the sheet burned away. He married, in
Wilton, Connecticut, February 16, 1738,
Thankful Belden. who was living in 1793.
Children: i. Sarah, died in childhood. 2.
Margaret, born February 20, 1741, died in
Ballston, Saratoga county. New York, Octo-
ber 10, 1842. aged 101 years; she married,
September 18, 1764. Joseph Riggs (second
wife). She made the journey from Groton,
Tompkins county. New York, to Ballston,
during the last year of her life, driving the
first forty miles to Syracuse ; six children.
3. Alexander, died in infancy. 4. Alexander,
born December 10, 1745, died May 5. 1777;
married Eunice Blackman, in Weston, Con-
necticut ; three children. 5. William, married
Susannah Patrick; removed to Fishkill, New
York, where he purchased four hundred acres
of land : he had seven children. 6. Timothy,
born December 28, 1754, died at Verona,
Oneida county. New York, January 19, 1838:
served in the revolutionary war; removed to
New York state after his marriage, and after
several locations finally settled in Verona ;
married, June 5, 1785. Abigail Lee; eleven
children. 7. Mary, born 1764; married, No-
vember 28, 1779, Thomas Cole, a soldier of
the revolution. He was taken sick while the
army of Washington occupied New York City
and the British were at White Plains. She
rode to headquarters from her home in Wilton,
Connecticut, on horseback, passing through
both British and American lines and brought
her husband safely home. She drew a wid-
ow's i)ension until her death ; seven children.
8. Daniel, of whom further.

(Ill) Daniel, son of Alexander (2) and
Thankful (Belden) Resseguie, was born in
Ridgcfield, Connecticut. May i. 1769, died in
the town of Northampton, P^ulton county.
New York. February 2, 1825. He resided for
a time on Long Island, removed to Charlton,
Saratoga county, and in 1790 to the town of
Northampton (then Broadalbin. Montgomery
county), where he settled on and cultivated
a farm until his death. He married Mary
Monroe, born 1763. died October 2, 1828,
daughter of Captain David Monroe. Chil-
dren: I. David, of whom further. 2. Mary,
born January 29, 1787, died in Houndsfield,
New York, January 18, 1845: married. 1804.
Joshua Crouch; children: Esther, died in in-
fancy; Daniel Resseguie; Cynthia. Hannah
Field. William Harri.son. Samuel. John, and
Emily Samantha. 3. Esther, born March 31,
1788,' died August 6. 1844; married Charles

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Scott, deceased ; no issue. 4. Hannah Maria,
born 1790, died in Houndsfield, December
25, 1815; married, 1810, Spafford Field, of
Watertown, New York. During the war of
181 2 he was employed by the government
in building the naval vessel, "New Orleans,"
at Sackett's Harbor, and at the battle here
served as a "minute man." For his services
he received a grant of one hundred and sixty
acres of land. He had one child, who mar-
ried Nathaniel Warren Green. 5. Daniel,
born March 9. 1792, died 1867; he was a
farmer of Northampton, where he was born,
lived and died ; married, in Benson, New
York, about 1819, Eunice Crane, born Sep-
tember 8, 1794, died June 9, 1870; children:
Orville and Mary. 6. Alexander, died at
age of seventeen years. 7. Charles, born in
Northampton, September 9, 1797, died in
Edinburg, Saratoga county. New York,
April 18, 1881. At the beginning of the war
of 1812 he walked, with his brother David,
to Sackett's Harbor, where the latter enlisted,
but Charles, being too young, was employed
to draw wood to the barracks. During the
construction of the Erie canal he had the
superintendence of a portion of the work.
Later he settled down to the life of a farmer.
He was an official of the Methodist Episcopal
church, and highly respected by all who knew
him. He married, January 20, 1830, Lucy,
daughter of Joseph and Anna (Runnells)
Corey. She died December 13, 1889. Chil-
dren : Charles, Edwin, Samuel, Daniel, Lucy
Ann, and James Birney. 8. Samuel, born
November 28, 1800, died in Houndsfield,
March 24, 1853; married, 1822, Lydia,
daughter of John and Lydia (Sprague)
Brown, of Ballston, New York. After their
marriage they made their way with a yoke of
cattle through the forest to Houndsfield,
spending days on the journey, the road being
indicated by "blazed" trees. Children : Dan-
iel, Esther. Belden, Samuel, Cordelia, David,
Mary Emily, Minerva and John Brown. 9.
Jacob, born October 21, 1803 died in Chili,
New York, December 11, 1875. He was born
and lived in Northampton a number of years,
then removed to Chili. He was a railroad
and canal contractor. He married, in Edin-
burg, New York, 1826, Elizabeth Cole;
children : Jerome, Fidelia and Charles Lester.
10. Belden, born May 2, 1806, died in Rock
county, Wisconsin. February 9, 1874. He
was foreman during the construction of the
Erie canal, and also helped to build the Black
river canal. He purchased a farm in Wilna,
Jefiferson county, and during the winter
months taught school, later removing to Wis-
consin. He married, at Northville, New York,

December 10, 1831, Polly Maria Carpenter^
born in Reading, Vermont, November 2,
1812. Giildren: Alexander, Elizabeth, Bel-
den, Stephen Hubbard Wakeman, Samuel
and Marion. 11. Gaylord, died unmarried.

12. Minerva, born February 9, 1809; married,
in Northampton, January 11, 1832, Hiram,
son of Joseph Lewis, of Northville. He was-
born in that village January 22, 1804, died
December 26, 1858. He was a farmer and
tanner ; filled the offices of assessor, highway
and poor commissioner. Children : Mary
Maria, Celestia Ann and Hannah Minerva.

(IV) David, son of Daniel and Mary
(Monroe) Resseguie, was born May 19, 1784,.
died in Northampton, New York, March 21,
1882. He removed, with his parents, to
Charlton, Saratoga county. New York, and
from there to Northampton (Broadalbin),
reaching the latter place at the age of three
years. He served through the war of 1812,
and during the last twenty years of his life-
drew a good pension. He was a member of the
Methodist church, and very hospitable in his
entertainment of the ministry and brethren.
He died at the great age of ninety-seven
years and ten months, ninety-four of these
years having been spent in Northampton. He
married, March 3, 1805, ?\Iary Case, born ni
Massachusetts, died Northville, July 14, 1871,
daughter of Aaron and Patience (Simmons)
Case, of Northampton. Children: i. Miranda,
born August 2, 1806; married, November 15,.
1826, Isaac Grosbeck. She married (second)
February 10, 1845, Joshua Wells. 2. Maria,
died at age of eighteen years. 3. John, of
whom further. 4. Alexander, born September

13, 1809; married, February 24, 1839, Jerusha
Norton, born June 10, 1816; the family re-
moved to Janesville. Wisconsin. 5. Rufus,
born February 23, 181 1; married (first) Au-
gust 28. 1845, Lydia Ann Bennem, who died'
December 17, 185 1 ; (.second) June 22, 1853,
Phoebe Amelia Blachly. This family resides
in Brooklyn, New York. 6. Mary, born Feb-
ruary 17, 1813; married, November 23, 1830,
Ebenezer Gifford, born February 26, 1804;
this family resides in Hunter, Illinois. 7.
Hiram, born June 13, 1815; married, January
8, 1840, Mary M. Rogers, born June i. 1818;
this family reside in Northville, Dakota. 8.
Hannah, born July 3, 1821 : married. May 17,
1842, Joseph McCuern. of Xorthville, New
York. "

(\') John, son of David and Mary (Case)
Resseguie, was born in Broadalbin, I'ulton
county. New York, February 8, 1808, died'
May 27. 1898. He was educated in the pub-
lic school and grew up a farmer. He owned '
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heavy sole leather in partnership with Wil-
liam A. Smith. He was the contractor for
buildings the railroad from Gloversville to
Northville, and also had large lumber inter-
ests. He removed to the town of Hope, Ham-
ilton county, New York, a few miles from
Northville. He was a trustee of the village
and supervisor of the town. In all his enter-
prises he was fairly successful. He held
high rank in his town, where he was always
influential and useful. He married, January
20, 1830, Velitta Palmer, who died March
31, 1878. Six children:

I. Emily, born July 2, 1831 ; married, No-
vember 29, 1849. Joseph Brooker, born Oc-
tober 6, 1823, died August 27. 1881 ; chil-
dren : i. Amay, born November 24, 1850,
died May 13, 1907; married, December 27,
1868, William B. Abrams, and had four chil-
dren: a. Delos, born January 25, 1870, mar-
ried, June 27, 1894, Minnie Knight, and has
Ruth, born June 7, 1895. and William, born
November 8, 1897. b. Rupert J., born June
27, 1872, married, July 17, 1895, Edna Cole,
and has Carrie, born June 27, 1896; Delos
B., June 23, 1900; and Lewis E., August 28,
1902. c. Mae, born May 11, 1878, married
February i, 1897, Charles R. Fowler, and
has Charles, born November 8, 1897,
died August 24, 1898; Kenneth, born
October 8, 1900; and Marion C, born Septem-
ber 30, 1907. d. Charles B., born Novem-
ber 8, 1883, married, June 19, 1907, Jean
W. Bearcroft, and has Dorothy, born October
9, 1909. ii. Lydia, born July 31, 1853, mar-
ried Fred Benton ; children : Edwin, married
Alice Keller, and has Mina and Raymond,
iii. Hiram, born July 29, 1855. married Mary
Gould; children: Catherine, married Alfred
Noyes, and has Genevieve and Mildred, iv.
Augusta, born March 14, 1873, married Grant
HoUey: children: Grant (2), Milton. Eleanor
May,' Mabel, Sterling R., and Ruth.

2. Hiram, born in Northampton, Fulton
county. New York, September 5, 1833, died
February 22, 1903. He was a most ener-
getic and influential man. Though deeply
interested in business he was ever mindful
of his duty as a citizen. He served as presi-
dent and again as treasurer of the village ;
was treasurer of the school board, and helpful
in every way. He was a trustee of the Metho-
dist church and a most useful member. He
married, August 4, 1861, Charlotte M. Stod-
dard, born April 11, 1836; children: i. Alma
C, born April 21, 1864. married Thomas N.
Parker; ii. Charles H., born March 9. 1866,
married Louise Balcomb, and has Ruth P>.,
born March 24, 1890, and Raymon. Decem-
ber I, 1893; iii. Harriet R., born April 28.

1868, married A. J. Cooper, and has Mabel
R., born March 21. 1900.

3. Alexander P., born in Northville, l"ul-
ton county. New York, April 25, 1835. He
was engaged in the lumber business in
Brooklyn, New York, for several years, then
returned home and was superintendent for
his father in grading and building the North-
ville railroad. He then began the manufac-
ture of shoe lasts, in which he continued
twenty-five years, building up a verv large
business. He is now living retired, after a
life of activity and success. He is a Re-
publican in politics, and a trustee of the
Methodist church. He has been a Mason for
many years, and has always taken an active
interest in that order. He married, Janu-
ary 8, 1857, Mary A. Lawton. born May 15,
1835, daughter of Squire and Zarnis (Finch)
Lawton. Her father served in the war of
1812, and her maternal great-grandfather
Pixley served in the revolution. Cliildren : i.
Estella A., born November 16, 1857; ii. Fred;
iii. Louise D., born February 17, 1863, mar-
ried, October 6, 1892, J. B. .\nible, bom Oc-
tober 29, 1859.

4. John M., born September 11, 1838. He
was engaged in tanning with his father un-
til the outbreak of the civil war, when he en-
listed in the Thirty-second Regiment, New
York \'olunteer Infantry, and served four
years. He returned home and soon after died
from the efifects of exposure. He married
Augusta Partridge.

5. Minerva F., born May 4, 1842 ; married,
March 5, i860. Dr. John' F. Blake (second
wife), born in Greenwich, Washington
county. New York, June 8, 1821, died May
2, 1896. He practiced in Saratoga county,
then took special courses in New York City,
and located in Sacramento, California. In
1852 he returned to Northville, where he
practiced until his death. His grandparents
Blake were born in Scotland. He was a son
of Andrew and Electa (Wood) Blake. Chil-
dren of Dr. and Minerva F. Blake ; i. Clarence
R., graduated from P)urliugton University, of
\"ermont, M.D. ; in practice with father until
the death of the latter ; married. May 27. 1886,
Hattie .A. Brownell, born November 25, 1867,
and has son. John Harry, born March 4, 1887;
ii. Louise, born March 25. 1864, married,
November 4, i8g6. James R. Willard, born
July 23, 1855, and has James R. (2). born
January 6, 1900, and Gladys, born July 13,
1901 ; iii. Margaret, born March 6, 1874.

6. Charles B., of whom further.

(VI) Charles B., youngest son of John .ind
Velitta (Palmer) Resseguie, was born in
Northville, New York, November 9. 1847.

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He was educated in the public schools and
grew up in the tannery business. He became
interested with his father in his various enter-
prises while a young man ; then became a clerk
for George A. Streeter & Brother, later
Streeter & Son, finally purchasing their grain
business. He next bought an interest in
the hardware business of James B. Wilson,
later becoming sole owner. He admitted
Scott Partridge, and as Resseguie & Partridge
they continued the hardware business and
added glove manufacture. Mr. Resseguie has
been a successful business man, and worthily
carries his family name. He has been presi-
dent of the village of Northville, and treas-
urer of the village school board. He is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church,
the Improved Order of Red Men, and is a
Republican in politics. He married, Septem-
"ber 14. 1870, Robertina Hubbell, born Au-
g^ust 23, 1847. Children: i. Ray, born No-
vember 9. 1871, died May 5, 1902; married,
June 17, 1893, Elizabeth Scribner, and had
son, Clarence L., born April 9, 1894. 2.
Fred, born August 12, 1874; a physician of
Saratoga Springs ; married, October 27, 1905,
Helen Hanson. 3. Edwin W., born July 3,
1880; married, June 27, 1906, Mae Carpenter,
and has Helen, born February 16, 1908, and
Margaret, January 5, igio.

The present is the third genera-
WEST tion of this branch of the West
family in the United States. None
of the name, honorably as it has been borne,
will be more gratefully remembered or ten-
derly cherished than Hon. George West, of
Ballston Spa, New York.

George West was born in Brandon, Eng-
land, February 17, 1823. He received a good
common school education, and early in life
began work in a paper mill, where he thor-
oughly mastered the various processes of mak-
ing paper. He married, in England, in Febru-
ary, 1840, and having then reached his twenty-
sixth year he came to the United States. For
one year he was employed in New Jersey, then
removed to Massachusetts, where he obtained
a position in a large paper mill. He soon
became manager of the mill, and in a very few
years was admitted a partner. In 1861 he
removed to Ballston Spa, New York, where
he was superintendent of one of the large
mills at Rock City Falls. It was now the
period of the civil war, and the scarcity of
cotton was being severely felt, particularly by
the mills producing cotton bags; many mills
closed, and the demand for flour sacks be-
came very great. .\t this juncture Mr. West
saw his great opportunity. Leasing an idle

mill he announced that he would make bags
of paper. All doubted that he could make
them strong enough to carry in safety fifty
pounds of flour. He very soon demonstrated
that he could, and began the manufacture of
manila paper bags, and employed Martin V.
B. White, an ingenious mechanic, to make the
first lot by hand. The bags were all that
Mr. West claimed for them, and orders began
to pour in. He erected a bag mill adjoining
his paper mill at Rock City Falls, and with
a slow hand process laid the foundation of
his large business and fortune. After he
had been operating by the hand process for
several months, a man of ordinary appearance
called at his office one day and told him he
could construct a machine that would do the
same work far more rapidly. Mr. West at
once entered into a contract with his visitor
to build such a machine in his mill. The
man made his promises good, and within a
few weeks the machine was in successful oper-
ation. The mechanical principle of his first
bag-making machine is the same upon which
the wonderful machines of to-day are built.
Mr. West was the pioneer paper-bag manu-
facturer, a business which has grown to be
one of the world's greatest industries. In
1862 he purchased the Empire Mill at Rock
City Falls, and in 1866 built the Excelsior
Mill, at the same point, and from time to
time, as business increased, built or purchased
additional mills along the stream. The death
of John Howey, in 1875, compelled the sale
of his four cotton factories, his mansion in
Ballston Spa, and a large number of tene-
ment houses. Mr. West became the purchaser
of the entire estate. He converted one of
the factories into a paper mill and one into
a bag mill. When the Milton avenue fac-
tory was burned he replaced it with the large
Union Mill. In 1880 he purchased the paper
mill at Hadley on the Hudson, and erected
another large mill. He was now the largest
manufacturer of his specialties in the entire
world. He owned and operated nine paper
mills, a pulp mill and two mills making noth-
ing but manila paper and paper bags. He
admitted his son, George, and his son-in-law,
Douglass W. Mabee, to the business, which
in 1899 was sold in its entirety to the Union
Bag and Paper Company, and Mr. West re-
tired from active business after a career of
unprecedented success. He died at his home
on Milton avenue, September 20, 1901, in his
seventy-ninth year.

He gave a great deal of time to the pub-
lic service. In 1871 he was elected to the
state assembly, and re-elected 1872-73-74-75;
in 1881 was elected to congress and 'served

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two terms; was again elected in 188". He
spent eleven years in office and declined all
further honors. He was an ardent Republi-
can, and always retained an active interest
in political affairs. He was a member of
the -Methodist Episcopal church, his liberality
•enabling: that society to erect, in 1892. their
present fine church in Rallston Spa. He con-
tributed one-half the cost, besides giving: the
pipe organ and other fixtures. He contrib-
uted a princely sum toward the erection of
a fine museum building at Round Lake, New
York, and provided an endowment fund for
its permanent support. His liberality toward
every worthy cause was very great, and he
left behind a most gracious memory. He was
large in physique as well as mentally. He
accomplished much and left the world better
for his having lived in it.

He married Louisa Rose, born in England ;
six children, three of whom lived to adult life,
■George. Walter S., and Florence L., who
married D. W. Mabee, and has seven chil-
■dren : Louise, George, Walter, Florence, Al-
fred, David, Margaret.

(H) George (2), son of George (i) and
Louisa (Rose) West, was born February 17,
1845. in Devonshire, England, died January
23, 1906. He was engaged with his father
in the manufacture of paper all his life, and
in later years was his partner. He was an
•eminently capable business man, and of fine
mind and character. He married, June 13,
1870. Emily Hewitt, born May 3, 1848, daugh-
ter of Orrin and Cynthia (Hewitt) Hathorn,
■oi Greenfield, Saratoga county. New York
(see Hathorn VIII). Children: Fred Hath-
orn, Walter Scott, and George (3) West.

(The Hathorn Line).
This name is spelled either Hathorne,
Hathorn or Hawthorne, by members of the
same family, descendants of William and John
Hathorn, of early colonial record. There
have been many distinguished men who have
Ijorne the name, and the curse pronounced
liy the husband of a woman who was being
tried for witchcraft before Judge John
Hathorn in Salem, seems to have spent its
force long ago. There are ugly records of
these trials, but it is probably to this one that
the traditional curse is traceable, the husband
having exclaimed that God would avenge his
wife's sufferings. William, the father of John
Hathorn (also a magistrate), spent the force
■of his wrath against the Quakers, and was
notorious for his remorselessness towards
some of their women, "Annie Coleman and her
four friends." Albeit, before being appointed
a magistrate he had opposed the persecution

of Quakers. Yet he is to be credited with
the e.xecution of John Flint for killing an
Indian, and to the protest against English
interference with the internal affairs of New
England, which sounded a note of independ-
ence even at that early day.-

(I) William and Sara Hathorn, of Bimfield.
Berkshire, England, had eight children, three
of whom, William, Eliza and John, emigrated
to America. William, the eldest son, came
over with Governor Winthrop's company in
the "Arbella," and settled in Salem, ^lassa-

chusetts, June 12, 1630. Eliza married

Davenport. John came over in 1635 and set-
tled in Salem. William became a man of
great importance in the colony. He was
deputy to general court ; major of the first
regularly organized company, or train band,
in Salem, and fought in the Indian campaigns ;
was also a magistrate and sullied his fair fame
by cruelly persecuting the Quakers, although,
from the Puritan standpoint' they were doing
God and the church a service. He died in
1681, in his seventy-fourth year; will proved
June 28, 1681. Children: A daughter, who

married Helwise; Sarah, married,

April 13, 1663, Joseph Coker ; Eleazer, married
Abigail, daughter of Captain George Curwen;
Nathaniel, born August 11, 1639; John, see
forward; Anna, married Joseph Porter; Cap-
tain William, married Sarah ; Eliza-
beth, married Israel Porter.

(II) John, son of William and Anne (Dav-
enport) Hathorn, was born August 4, 1641,
died May 10, 1717. He was deputy, colonel,
magistrate, judge, and a cruel and remorseless
leader in the witchcraft persecution. Much
as we may feel like condemning these men
for their cruel and often inhuman treatment
of those brought under their authority, all
admit that they founded a state and reared
a [josterity that make glorious the pages of
American history. John Hathorn was the
ancestor of the gentle and gifted Nathaniel
Hawthorne, of the sixth generation, who in
later years wrote of his two earlier ances-
tors: "The present writer, as their representa-
tive, hereby takes shame upon myself for
their sakes, and pray that any curse incurred
by them, as I have heard, and as the dreary
and unprosperous condition of the race for
many a long year back would argue to exist,
may be now and henceforth removed." Cap-
tain Daniel Hathorne, of the revolutionary
army, and many, many others of note, also
descend from John. He married, January 22,
1674, Ruth, daughter of Lieutenant George
Gardner. Children: John (2), born Janu-
ary 10, 1675; Nathaniel, November 25, 1678;
removed to Gosport, England; Ebenezer, see

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forward; Joseph, married Sarah, daughter of
Captain Bowditch; Ruth, married James Put-
man ; Benjamin.

(HI) Ebenezer, son of John and Ruth
(Gardner) Hathorn, was baptized March,
1685, and was of London, England, in 1726.
He married Esther Witt and children were
born to them.

(IV) Ebenezer (2), son of Ebenezer (i)
and Esther (Witt) Hathorn, was baptized
July 7, 1715. He was a soldier of the French
and Indian war of 1755, and after the sur-
render of Fort William Henry by the English,
was taken prisoner by the Indians and after-
wards made his escape by strategy and fleet-
ness of foot. He was a blacksmith by trade,
and carried on business with his brother. They
also manufactured steelyards. In 1755 he
was constable, and from 1777 to 1796 highway
surveyor and auditor. He married Keziah
CoUins, born October 11, 1730. They had
three sons, all of whom were of Jaffrey, New
Hampshire.

(V) Collins, son of Ebenezer (2) and
Keziah (Collins) Hathorn, was of Jaffrey,
New Hampshire. He was an enrolled soldier
in 1784. He married Sarah Dean. Children:
Benjamin, born 1761 ; Keziah, 1763; Collins
(2), 1765; Sally, 1767; Hepzibah, 1768; Wil-
liam, 1772; Rebecca, 1774; Olive, 1776; Sam-
uel, 1778: Pollv, 1781 ; Seth, 1785.

(VI) Collins' (2), son of Collins (i) and
Sarah (Dean) Hathorn, was born in Jaffrey,
New Hampshire. He was 'the first of his
family to settle in New York state. (New
Hampshire state papers, vol. 15, pages 216-
217.) Payroll of Captain Salmon Stone's com-
pany, in Colonel Nichols' regiment. General
Stark's brigade .... which company
marched from Rindge. in state, July 17, 1777,
and joined the northern Continental army at
Bennington and Stillwater ; Collins Hathorn,
private; ditto; an enrolled soldier in 1784.
He married Annie Smith, and settled in
Greenfield, Saratoga county. New York. Chil-
dren: Seth, born May 2, 1797, died March 13,
1880; Lyman, March 2, 1801 ; Smith, July
8, 1804, died about 1890; Orrin, September 7,
1806, see forward; William, Decernber 31,
1809; Phoebe, August 3, 181 1; Henry Har-
rison, November 28, 181 3, died February 20,
1887; James D., July ^4, 1817.

(VII) Orrin, son of Collins (2) and Annie
(Smith) Hathorn, was born in Greenfield,
Saratoga county, New York, September 7,
1806. He was a farmer all of his life; he was
a Baptist and a Republican. He married
Cynthia Hewitt. Children : Charlotte, Henry,
Fannie, Cordelia, Emily H. and Isaac.

(VIII) Emily Hewitt, daughter of Orrin

and Cynthia (Hewitt) Hathorn, married
George (2) West (see West II).

John Hathorn, "distinguished in civil and'
military affairs." (See Farmers' General
Register of First Settlers of New England.)
William Hathorn (and brother), in 1645,
agent to treat with D'Aulnay, French agent
at St. Croix ; deputy general court Massa-
chusetts: first speaker; served in King Philip's
war; ordered sent to England by Charles II.
in 1660. (See Appleton's American Biogra-
phy.)

John Hathorn, great-grandson of Johni
(11) Hathorn, although not in the line direct
of Emily H. Hathorn West, was colonel of
Orange County Militia, Fifth Regiment, New
York ; was successively captain, colonel, briga-
dier and major-general ; his military service
covered a period of many years, 1775-1812;
commanded at Minisink; member New York
assembly, 1777-87; speaker of the assembly
that met in New York in 1784; state senator,
1787, and in 1804 presidential elector; mem-
ber of congress, 1789-gi, and from 1795 to-
1797-

The West family were of Eng-
WEST lish origin and were early settlers

in New England. They have
been prominent and influential wherever
foimd.

( I ) Matthew West was of Lynn, Massa-
chusetts, in 1636; freeman, 1637. In 1646 he
was of Newport, Rhode Island, where he
was made a freeman in 1655. He was a
tailor by trade. There is no record
of his marriage, and it is assumed by the
Genealogist Austin in his "Genealogical Dic-
tionary of Rhode Island" that his sons were
Nathaniel, John, Robert, Bartholomew and
Francis, who cannot be confounded with
Francis of Duxbury, although the latter may
have been related to the Rhode Island Wests.
I. Nathaniel, died at Newport in 1659: he and
wife were among the first twelve members of
the First Baptist Church ; accidentally
drowned. 2. John, of Newport ; made a free-
man in 1655. 3. Robert, of Providence,
Rhode Island, and Monmouth county. New
Jersey; in 1667 was one of the original pur-
chasers in Monmouth, New Jersey ; died

1697 ; married Elizabeth ; children :

Joseph, John and Robert. 4. Bartholomew,
see forward. 5. Francis, of Kingstown,
Rhode Island ; married ; children : Francis
and Richard.

(II) Bartholomew, son of Matthew
West, was of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and
Monmouth, New Jersey. In 1667 he was an
early and original purchaser of lands in Mon-

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1539

mouth with his brother Robert, and in the
same year was elected deputy. He died prior
to October 30, 1703, as is seen by a deed of
that date from his son, John West, of Shrews-
bury, New Jersey, wherein he reserves one-
half acres of ground where his father is
buried. He married Elizabeth, daughter of
William and Audry Almy. Children: Bar-
tholomew, William, John and Stephen.

(HI) Stephen, son of Bartholomew and
Elizabeth (Almy) W'est, was born in 1654.
There is no record that shows whether he
went to New Jersey with the family or not,
but if he did he returned to Massachusetts
and settled at Dartmouth, where his children
were born. His wife's name is not recorded,
but the births of nine children are as follows:
Katherine, born September 9, 1684; Sarah,
August I, 1686; Ann, July 9, 1688; Bartholo-
mew, July 31, 1690; Amy, May 22, 1693;
Stephen, May 19, 1695; John, April 27, 1697;
Eunice, June 21, 1699; Lois, April 12, 1701.

(IV) Stephen (2), son of Stephen (i)
West, was born May 19. 1695, in Dartmouth,
Massachusetts, died in that town between
1768 and 1770. He was a man of consider-
alDle means, as shown by proceedings attend-
ing the settlement of his estate. His first

wife was Susannah , as in 1729 and

1730 Stephen and Susannah West conveyed
lands. He married (second) Hopestill

, who survived him, and made a quit

claim of dower right October 15, 1778.
Stephen had three sons and three daughters,
mentioned in his will, which was made Janu-
ary 3, 1768. Samuel, Stephen, Bartholomew,
Anna, Susannah, Hannah.

(V) Stephen (3), son of Stephen (2) and
Susannah West, was born about 1730 in Dart-
mouth, where he lived and probably died.
He inherited property under his father's will,
and in 1770 an indenture shows a division of
Cedar Swamp property between him and his
brothers, Bartholomew and Samuel. He was
a private of Captain Robert Earl's company
(Dartmouth), Colonel Josiah Whitney's regi-
ment, in service from August 4, 1777, to Sep-
tember 10, 1778; one month, seven days, at
Rhode Island; also Captain Avery Parker's
(first) company. Colonel John Hathaway 's,
(second) Bristol company : entered service Au-
gust 3, 1780, discharged August 8, 1780; ser-
vice six days on an alarm at Rhode Island.
(Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the
Revolution, vol. xvi, p. 901.) Stephen West
married, and had issue, including a son, Jona-
than, founder of the Saratoga county, New
York, family.

(VI) Jonathan, son of Stephen (3) West,
was born about 1765 or 1770. He was the

first of his family to settle in northern New
York. He was living in New Bedford, Mas-
sachusetts, and from there, in 1791, jour-
neyed to Saratoga county with an ox-team,
two cows, two sheep and such household
goods as could be packed and transported in
one wagon through an unbroken wilderness a
good part of the way. He located in the town
of Galway, purchased a tract of land, then
in a wild state, that he converted into a fer-
tile farm, and lived upon its proceeds until
his death in 1857. He was twice married,
his first wife, whom he married in Massachu-
setts, succumbed to the pioneer privations
after reaching New York. She bore him
seven children. He married (second) Betsey
Warren, in Galway, where she was born, lived
and died.

(\TI) Matthew, son of Jonathan West,
was born in Galway, Saratoga county. New
York, in 1816, died in 1881. He was a
farmer and lived his entire life on the old
West farm in Galway. He became an impor-
tant man in the town ; was captain of militia
and held many local political offices ; was a
Democrat, ancl during the civil war was an
intense Union man. He married, in Charles-
town, Montgomery county, New York, Febru-
ary 14, 1839, Elizabeth Doty, of Duanesburg,
Schenectady county. New York, a descend-
ant of Edward Doty, a "Mayflower" passen-
ger (see Doty VII). Children: James Mar-
vin, born March 12, 1840; William Henry,
October 8, 1842, died July 5, 1861 ; George
Nelson, October 17, 1849, <^I'ef' February 14,
1854; George Herrick, see forward.

(VIII) George Herrick, youngest son of
Matthew and Elizabeth (Doty) West, was
born in Galway, Saratoga county, New York,
December 23, 1854. He was educated in the
public schools of Galway, Troy Business Col-
lege and the Union Classical Institute of
Schenectady. He taught school for four years,
then engaged in mercantile life in Galway
until 1891. In 1897 he removed to Ballston
Spa and engaged in a general insurance and
real estate business, continuing until 1905,
when he retired. Mr. West has had an impor-
tant and interesting public career, beginning
when a boy of nineteen years of age. In
that year he began his fight agaist licensing
the liquor traffic under the law of 1874, elect-
ing commissioners of excise, and was one of
the five organizers of the first temi)crance
society of the town of Galway. In 1889 he
was elected school commissioner of the first
school district of Saratoga county, New ^■ork,
which office he held for six years. In 1897 he
was special agent for the forest, fish and game
commission. In 1898-99 he was elected to

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the New York assembly, serving with credit
and force. In 1901 he was appointed clerk
of Saratoga county by Governor Benjamin
B. Odell, and by successive re-election still
retains that office. He has made a faithful
and efificient county clerk, and has the confi-
dence of the people, and the commendation
of those having business to transact with
that office. Was chairman of Republican
county committee from 1895 to' 1909. The
Secret Law and Order League of the State
of New York was founded and organized in
1905 through his efforts, and he is now its
president and superintendent, working with-
out compensation. This organization was in-
corporated in January, 1909, for the purpose
of discouraging and suppressing Sunday
desecration, distribution of obscene literature,
the social evil, the white slave traffic, and to
.•secure the enforcement of the laws against
illegal liquor selling in license and no-license
towns, gambling places and all dens of vice.
The League has secured good results from
tts efforts, and is continuing its work with
vigor. In all reform movements, whether
political or social, Mr. West has always taken
an active part. He is a member of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, which he joined in
1870. His fraternal orders are the Free and
Accepted Masons, International Order of
Good Templars and the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows. He married, May 18, 1881,
Carrie L., of Galway, New York, daughter
of Peleg Burdick, of that town.

(The Doty Line).
Elizabeth Doty, mother of George H. West,
was of the eighth generation of Dotys in
America, she being the daughter of the sev-
enth Doty in direct succession, beginning with
Edward Doty, a passenger on the "May-
flower," 1620, and signer of the compact.
Governor William Bradford, in his "History
of Plymouth Plantation," gives, in his list of
"Passengers of the Mayflower," this item:
"Mr. Stephen Hopkins and Elizabeth, his wife,
and two children, called Giles and Constanta,
a daughter both by a former wife, anil two
more by this wife, called Damaris and
Oceanus, the last born at sea, and two serv-
ants called Edward Doty and Edward Lits-
ter." Further on he .states: "Edward Doty
and Edward Litster, the servants of Mr. Hop-
kins, Litster, after he was at liberty, went to
Virginia and ther dyed, but Edward Doty,
by a second wife, hath seven children, and
both he and they are living" (1650). Stephen
Hopkins was a tanner, and the term "servant"
probably means a workman, or in this case an
apprentice. Edward Doty was invited to

sign the compact, was treated as one of the
company, and received the same allotment
of land and stores as all other single men.
This would indicate that he had reached his
majority, though he probably owed some ser-
vice to Stephen Hopkins. He is spoken of as
a youth, and the presumption is that he had
reached his twenty-first year. If this be true
he was born about 1599. The name is spelled
variously Doty, Doten, Dote and Dotez.

(I) Edward Doty arrived in America on the
"Alayflower," 1620. He was a wild youth
apparently, and was a principal in the first
duel fought in New England. He settled
down and became one of the leading land
owners and respected citizens. In 1672 he
was one of the purchasers of Dartmouth, and
owned much land elsewhere. He died at
Plymouth, August 23, 1675. He married Faith
Clarke, who survived him, born 1619, daugh-
ter of Thurston and Faith Clarke. She was
but sixteen years old when married, January
6, 1635. They had ten children.

(II) Joseph, youngest son of Edward and
Faith (Clarke) Doty, was born at Plymouth,
Massachusetts, April 30, 1651. He was a
farmer and surveyor, and was one of the
original purchasers and proprietors of Roches-
ter, Massachusetts, where he was a man of
importance. He was ensign, treasurer and
large land owner. He married (first) Eliza-
beth, born at Plymouth, September 5, 1654,
daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah (Walker)
Warren. She died about 1679, and he mar-
ried (second) Deborah Hatch, born in Scitu-
ate, Massachusetts, about 1662, daughter of
Walter and Elizabeth (Holbrook) Hatch.
She died at Rochester, Massachusetts, June
21, 171 1, and he married (third), at Roches-
ter, March 9, 1712, Sarah Edwards, who
died about 1732-35. He had two children by
first marriage, seven by second antl nine by
third marriage.

(III) John, son of Joseph and Deborah
(Hatch) Doty, was born in Rochester, Massa-
chusetts, March i, 1688. He left Rochester
after his marriage and probably settled at
Sharon, Connecticut, although there are no
records to support the supposition. There is
little record of him except land transfers
in Rochester and Wareham, where he sold
land in 1742-45. He married Elizabeth

, and had two children, Samuel and

Simeon.

(IV) Samuel, .son of John and Elizabeth
Doty, was born in Rochester, Massachusetts,
about 1714. He was a mariner and was
called "captain." He settled in Sharon, Con-
necticut, where he was an active dealer in
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HUDSON AND MOHAWK \- ALLEYS

to Amenia, Dutchess county, New York. He
was a man of abilitj' and energy. He mar-
ried (first), January 19, 1738-39, Zeruiah
Lovell, who died December 11, 1760. She is
buried at Sharon, Connecticut, where her
tombstone says- "died aged forty-three years."
He married (second), April 16, 1761, EHza-
beth Southard. They had thirteen children,
and he also had ten by his first marriage.

(V) Asa, son of Samuel and Zeruiah
(Lovell) Doty, was born at Wareham, Mas-
sachusetts, November 6, 1746. He was fa-
tally injured at Sharon, Connecticut, in 1788,
by falling from a wagon. He was a soldier
of the revolution, and in 1775 was an ensign
in Albany county. He married Sarah Bar-
num, in Sharon, Connecticut, who survived
him and removed to southwestern New York
with her daughter. They were the parents of
seven children.

[\l) Joshua Lovell, eldest son of Asa and
Sarah (Ijarnum) Doty, was born in Sharon,
Connecticut, 1769. He removed to Schenec-
tady county. New York, where he died at
Braman Corners in 1842. He married Mary
Clayton, born in Connecticut, 1783. died in
Schenectady county. New York, April i, 1868.
They had six children.

(VH) Elizabeth, daughter of Joshua Lov-
ell and Mary (Clayton) Doty, born July 5,
1822, died 1893, married Matthew West (see
West VH).

(Vni) George Herrick, son of Matthew
and Elizabeth (Doty) West, married Carrie
L. Burdick (see West XIU).

The Finch family was founded
FINCH in the town of Broadalbin, Ful-
ton county, by Rev. Jonathan
Finch, a native of Saratoga county, a minis-
ter of the Baptist church. During the war
of 1812 he accompanied the American army
as chaplain and received a wound which crip-
pled one of his hands. He came to Broadal-
bin in December, 1793, and there founded
the first Baptist church in the town. He mar-
ried, and among the children was a son.

(H) Joshua, son of Rev. Jonathan Finch,
was born in Saratoga county. New York, in
the town of Providence. He was a farmer
and contractor, prominent in town affairs and
a member of the Baptist church. He mar-
ried Sarah Clement and had children. Sam-
uel Rogers, of whom further; Lansing; Jud-
son ; Tudson ; Emily ; Thomas ; Charles.

(HI) Samuel Rogers, son of Joshua and
Sarah (Clement) Finch, was born in Provi-
dence. Saratoga county, New York, August
18, 1815, died in Broadalbin. Fulton county,
Mav 13^ 1895. He was a prosperous farmer,

1541

and after his active days were over, retired
to Broadalbin, where his sons were living.
He was a member of the Baptist church, and
a Republican in politics. He married, Feb-
ruary 15, 1842, Pamelia Shew, born May 11,
1821, died April, 1901. Children: i. Elizabeth
A., born December 28, 1843; married, Sep-
tember 4, 1865, John W. Gardiner; children:
i. Irwin ; ii. Roger, married Harriet Smith,
and has a son, Allen ; iii. John, married Cathe-
rine Miller, and has a son, Wesley; iv. Bessie,
married Howard Coombs, and has Elizabeth,
Howard and Roger; v. Miriam. 2. William
W., of whom further. 3. Susan E., born Sep-
tember 26, 1848; married, December 23, 1874,
Addison A. Gardiner, see forward; children:
i. Fannie, born September 12, 1875, married,
September 21, 1898, Daniel D. Nelson: chil-
dren : Evelyn, Ruth and Donald ; ii. Harry,
born January 25. 1877; iii. John, born Oc-
tober 8, 1878, mariied. October 20. 1900,
Miriam Burr; iv. Nellie, born April 28, 1883;
v. Paul, born August 14, 1887. 4. Henry
Clement, of whom further. 5. Alice C. born
April 26, 1862, in Northampton, Fulton
county, New York ; educated at Broadalbin
high school and Cortland State Normal, since
graduation has been engaged in teaching.

Addison A. Gardiner, who married Susan
E. Finch, was .son of Sylvester and Mary Ann
(Perry) Gardiner. He was born October 10,
1844. in Athens, Greene county. New York,
died May 7, 1909. He was educated in the
public school, and worked with his father
at brickmaking until he was seventeen \ear3
of age, when he enlisted in Company I,
Ninety-third Regiment, New York N'olun-
teers. and served for three years. He then
re-enlisted. At the battle of the Wilderness,
May 5, 1864, he was wounded in the left leg
in such a manner that amputation was neces-
sary. He returned to Athens where he was
appointed i)OStmaster and served for several
years. Later he removed to Broadalbin where
he opened a real estate and insurance office.
He was also pension agent, justice of the
peace and justice of sessions. He was editor
of the Broadalbin Herald, and for ten years
served as postmaster. He was a Republican
in politics and represented his town in the
Fulton county board of supervisors. He was
a member of the board of education, and was
connected with the difl'erent social and fra-
ternal orders of the town, including the Grand
Army of the Republic Post, which he helped
to organize, and the local lodge of Red Men.
He was an active and earnest member of the
Baptist church, which he served as deacon and
trustee.

(IV) William W.. eldest son of Samuel

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Rogers and Pamelia (Shew) Finch, was born
in Old Saratoga, New York, April 2, 1846.
He was educated in the public schools at
Perth and Fish House. When but a lad of
fifteen years he enlisted November 3, 1861, in
Company D, Seventy-seventh Regiment, New
York State Volunteers, Bemis Heights' Bat-
talion, and served with that regiment for
three years. He was honorably discharged
and returned home and spent that winter in
school. In April, 1865, he re-enlisted in the
Eighth Regiment Veteran Volunteers, known
as Hancock's Corps, from which he was hon-
orably discharged in 1866. During his first
enlistment his regiment was attached to the
Army of the Potomac and for three years
his fortunes were those of that hard-fought,
often-whipped, but finally victorious army. He
participated in forty-three battles. On his six-
teenth birthday he was under fire at York-
town, \'irginia. A few days after passing
his seventeenth birthday he was wounded dur-
ing the second battle of Fredericksburg, after
he fell, severely injured, the Union forces re-
treated, pursued by the Confederates, both
armies passing over him. The L^nion troops
rallied, repulsed the rebels, drove them back
and when his own regiment again reached him
they discovered the lad bruised and wounded.
He was taken from the field, sent to the hos-
pital, and, recovering from his injuries, re-
turned to his regiment. At the battle of the
Wilderness he received his second wound ; his
third was received in conflict near Washing-
ton. During his second term of enlistment
he was on garrison duty while the Union
army was being mustered out and disbanded.
During his first term of service he was pro-
moted to the rank of sergeant, and was dis-
charged the second time, ranking as corporal.
After the war he came to Broadalbin, where
he joined his father and remained at home
five years engaged in farming. He next en-
gaged in mercantile life, first as clerk, later
as a member of the firm of W. W. Finch &
Company, general merchants, continuing un-
til 1883. in that year he took advantage of
the homestead laws and, going west, took up
a soldier's claim and returned to farming,
continuing four years, after which he was
engaged in mercantile business until 1895,
when he sold out. and returned to his eastern
home. He established in Broadalbin a coal
and wood yard, where he also operates a steam
mill, grinding flour, feed, etc. He has had
an adventurous, prosperous life and still con-
tinues the active, energetic man of business.
He is a member of Colonel McKean Post, No.
289, Grand Army of the Republic, of which he
is past commander. He is a deacon of the

Baptist church of Broadalbin, and a member
of the Masonic order. He is Republican in
politics and served for two years as town
clerk.

He married, November 4, 1871, Caroline E.
Lee, born January i, 1846, daughter of
Thomas and Adeline (Guinad) Lee (see Lee
I). Children: Nelson L., born January 12,
1873; Ada, January 22, 1876, died May 3,
1888; W. Wallace, December 4, 1877; Lewis,
January 19, 1878, married, August 15, 1907,
Elsie Kerser ; children : Sayna and Gladys,
born June 17, 1908; Bessie I\L, July 8, 1880;
T. Rogers, February 10, 1888, died June 3,
1910.

(IV) Dr. Henry Clement, fourth child and
second son of Samuel Rogers and Pamelia
(Shew) Finch, was born in Broadalbin, Ful-
ton county. New York, April 27, 1858. He
was educated in the common and high schools
of his town. Deciding upon the profession
of medicine he began his studies with Dr.
Barker, of Broadalbin, after which he entered
Albany Medical College, where he was gradu-
ated RI.D., class of 1882. He at once en-
tered on the practice of his profession at
Broadalbin, where his medical and surgical
skill, combined with rare personal qualities,
have endeared him to the people and gained
him a most satisfactory practice. Dr. Finch
has not only achieved professional success and
reputation, but is one of Broadalbin's most
capable, successful business men. In 1884 he
established a drug business in the town. In
1886 Richard Lee was admitted a partner
under the firm name of Finch & Lee, and so
continued until January i, 1909, when they
consolidated with Bradford & Dickinson as
the Broatlalbin Drug Company, with Mr.
Bradford as president. Dr. Finch as vice-presi-
dent, Mr. Lee, treasurer. He was one of the
organizers of the Broadalbin Knitting Com-
pany, of which he is president and treasurer.
He is secretary and treasurer of the Broad-
albin Electric Light & Power Company, presi-
dent of the Kurje-Nuck Hall Association, and
is a member of the firm of W. W. Finch &
Company. He is a Republican in politics, and
served a term as coroner of Fulton county,
New York. He is an ex-president of the Ful-
ton County Medical Society, and is a member
of the State Medical Society. He is a mem-
ber and trustee of the Baptist church of
Broadalbin. He married, September i, 1881,
Lottie A., born February 27, 1862, daughter
of Dr. Barker, of Broadalbin. Children : i.
Burton Roland, born September 20, 1882, died
December 23, 1900. 2. Grace May, August
19, 1884, a graduate of Gloversville high
school and Vassar College, class of 1908, now

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1543

a teacher in Broadalbin high school. 3. Percy
Henry, January 21, 1890, a graduate of the
Broadalbin and Gloversville high schools, now
a student of Union University (Albany Medi-
cal School), class of 191 1. 4. Cecil Clement,
August 8, 1893, educated in Broadalbin high
school, attended Colgate Academy two years,
now a student in Rensselaer Polytechnic In-
stitute, Troy, New York, class of 1914. 5.
Millicent Marian, April 25, 1898.

The Lees of Broadalbin, New York,
LEE are of English ancestry, and but two

generations removed from their na-
tive land. Thomas Lee, born 181 8, in Barby,
Northamptonshire. England, came to the
United States in 1831, alone, and only a lad,
settling at Greenbush (opposite Albany), now
the city of Rensselaer. He here learned the
trade of locksmith with a Captain Gaines.
After completing his years of apprenticeship
he formed a partnership with Lawrence Van
Buskirk, and located in Troy, New York,
as Lee & Van Buskirk. They carried on a
prosperous business in Troy for several years
when the firm dissolved, Mr. Lee going to
Broadalbin, Fulton county, where he purchased
a small farm of fifty-six acres and devoted
the remainder of his years to its cultivation.
During the civil war he enlisted in the Tenth
Regiment, New York Cavalry, and served
three years. He enlisted from Broadalbin,
September 4, 1862, being then forty-four
years of age, mustered in October 30, 1862,
sick in hospital from April, 1864, to July,
1864. He was also sick in the First Division,
United States General Hospital, Alexandria,
Virginia, November and December, 1864;
mustered out June 2, 1865. He saw much
hard service with the "Tenth," a famous
fighting regiment. He was a member of
Colonel McKean Post, Grand Army of the
Republic, a Republican in politics, and a
member of the Baptist church. He married,
March, 1844, Adeline Guinad, born February
28, 1827. Children: Caroline E., born Janu-
ary I, 1846, married William W. Finch, No-
vember 4, 1 87 1 (see Finch IV), and had chil-
dren: Nelson L., Ada, W. Wallace, Lewis,
Bessie AL, and T. Rogers ; Rebecca, married
James B. Spence ; Charlotte, married William
\'ail : Henrietta, married Thomas Cleveland,
and had Lee and Percy; Lewis M., married
Elva Stone, and had Miriam, Ernest, Elwood
and Carrie: Richard H., of whom further;
Jennie, died in infancy.

(H) Richard Henry, second .son and fifth
child of Thomas and Adeline (Guinad) Lee,
was born in Broadalbin, Fulton county. New
York. June 16, i860. He was well educated

in the public schools, and, after completing
his studies, taught in the public schools for
four years. He began his commercial life in
1884, with Dr. Henry C. Finch as partner
in the drug firm. Finch & Lee, continuing
until the incorporation of the Broadalbin
Drug Company, of which he is treasurer. He
is an able business man and a citizen of high
standing. He is a member of Kennyetto
Lodge, No. 599, Free and Accepted Masons,
and of Niskayuna Tribe, Improved Order of
Red Men. He is a member of the Methodist
Church and a trustee, in politics a Republican.
He married, December 11, 1884, Ida R. Tym-
erson, born May 3, 1861, daughter of Martin
H. and Mary (Sawyer) Tymerson, who had
children : Frances, married George A. Brum-
mer; Ida R., married Richard Henry Lee;
Mary, married William J. Sheldon ; Cora, mar-
ried Walter A. Smith ; James ; Walter, mar-
ried Nellie Skilif; Charles, married Rose
Brennan, and had children, Herbert, lilise,
Ruth, and Irene. Richard H. and Ida R. T.
Lee have two children : Martha, born January
8, 1886, and Lessie, born December 4, 1889.

The Murray family settled in
MURRAY Massachusetts and Connecti-
cut prior to the revolution.
One branch settled at Torrington, Connecti-
cut, and it is from this family that Daniel
Murray, grandfather of Dr. William H. Mur-
ray, of Albany, descends. Through the mar-
riage of Francis M. Murray to Sarah Lock-
wood, descent is obtained from Robert Lock-
wood, "the emigrant," 1630, from England.
Burke's "General Armory" gives the arms of
Lockwood — Argent, a fesse between three
martlets sable. Crest: On the stump of an
oak tree erased proper a martlet, sable.
Motto: Tutus in undus (Secure against the
waves).

(I) Robert Lockwood came from England
about 1630 and settled in Watertown, Massa-
chusetts, where six of his children were born.
He was made a freeman, March 9, 1636.
About 1646 he removed to Fairfield, Connec-
ticut, where he died 1658. He was made a
freeman of Connecticut, May 20, 1652. He
was appointed sergeant of the train band,
May, 1657. He died intestate, and the court
ordered the division of his property: one-
third to the widow, the ten children dividing
the remainder. His widow, Susannah, mar-
ried (second) Jeflfery Ferris, and died at
"Grinwich," December 23, 1663. Qiildren : i.
Jonathan, of whom further. 2. Deborah,
born October 12, 1636. 3. Joseph, born Au-
gust 6, 1638; "Sergeant Joseph Lockwood de-
parted this life, April 14, 1717, aged seventy-

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eight years, eight months and eight days." 4.
Daniel, born IMarch 21, 1640, died 1691. 5.
Ephraim, born December i, 1641 ; married
Mercy Sention (St. John). 6. Gershom, born
September 6, 1643, died March 12, 1718.
"Lieutenant Gershom Lockwood was the prin-
cipal carpenter and builder in the town of
Greenwich, Connecticut, and filled many of-
fices of trust and importance." He married
Lady Ann Millington. (This lady's romantic
story has often been told, together with that
of the chest containing a half bushel of
guineas, and fine silk dresses.) The chest is
yet in evidence in Greenwich. 7. John. 8.
Abigail, married John Barlow. 9. Sarah. 10.
Mary, married Jonathan Huested.

(H) Lieutenant Jonathan, eldest son of
Robert and Susannah Lockwood, was born in
Watertown, Massachusetts, September 10,
1634, died in Greenwich, Connecticut, May 12,
1688. He signed a paper January i, 1657, at
"Easttowne" in the New Netherlands, prom-
ising allegiance to the Dutch governor, "so
long as we live in his jurisdiction." He was
of Stamford, Connecticut, October 16, 1660,
resided there until 1665, when he sold his
estate there and removed to Greenwich. He
became a freeman there in 1670, was assist-
ant in May, 1671, and in 1672 "one of the
twenty-seven proprietors." He became a lead-
ing citizen, and represented the town in the
legislature four years. He died in 1688, the
people met in town meeting and passed reso-
lutions deploring the loss of so good a man
and valuable a citizen. He married Mary,
daughter of Jeffery Ferris, his stepfather,
by a former marriage. Mary survived him
and married (second) Sergeant Thomas Mer-
ritt, of Rye. Children of Lieutenant Jonathan
Lockwood: Jonathan (2), died November 9,
1689; Robert, died prior to January 23, 1732;
Gershom, deputy to colonial assembly, married
Hannah , and had nine children ; Jo-
seph, of whom further ; Still John, an im-
portant wealthy man ; married, and had thir-
teen children ; Sarah, married Michael Louns-
bery; Abigail.

(HI) Joseph, son of Lieutenant Jonathan
and Mary (Ferris) Lockwood, was born at
Stamford, Connecticut, 1675, died 1759, at
Poundridge, Westchester county. New York,
where he removed in 1743. He married
(first). May 19, 1698. Elizabeth Ayres, who
died December 16, 1715. Married (second),
August 10, 1 716. Margery Webb, born Oc-
tober 4, 1683, died January 2, 1736, daughter
of James and Haimah (Scofield) Webb.
Children by fir.st wife: i. Jo.seph, of whom
further. 2. Hannah, born March 24, 1701,
married David Ham. 3. John, born Septem-

ber 18, 1703, died 1776; married (first) Sa-
rah Scofield; (second) Abigail . 4.

Nathaniel, died young. 5. Elizabeth, married
Job Hoyt, and had twelve children. 6. Is-
rael, born June 14, 1710; married Susannah
Smith. 7. Mary, married James Jump. 8.
Reuben, born December 15, 1715, captain of
Westchester county militia (see N. Y. Col.
Mas. 85, for muster roll of Captain Reuben
Lockwood's company, April 22, 1758). He
married (first) Sarah Cramp; (second) Eliza-
beth Stevens. Children by second wife : 9.
Nathaniel, born May 20, 1717; married Mary
Palchin, and had twelve children. 10. Na-
than, born March 25, 1719. 11. Lieutenant-
Colonel James, born July 15, 1722. From
Colonial records, vol. 10, page 42, October 2,
1751 : "This Assembly do appoint Major
Lockwood to be Lieutenant-Colonel of
the 9th Regiment of the colony." He mar-
ried May Norton, and had eight children.

(IV) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (i) and
Elizabeth (Ayres) Lockwood, was born at
Stamford, Connecticut, March 15, 1699, died
at Poundridge, Westchester county. New
York, June 15, 1757. He removed with his
father to Poundridge in 1743. He was a
farmer. He married Sarah, born April i,
1706, died 1790, daughter of Joshua and Mary
(Pickett) Hoyt. Her father was one of the
proprietors of the Stamford patent, granted
1685. Qiildren: i. Eliakim, died in child-
hood. 2. Joseph, of whom further. 3. Eliza-
beth, born March 7, 1733; married Nathaniel
Waring. 4. Gilbert, died young. 5. Major
Ebenezer. born March 31, 1737; justice of
the peace under the king until the revolution ;
major of Westchester county militia, and was
in active service during the revolution ; the
British burned his house, drove of¥ his slock,
then stripped him of his home and property;
after the war he was judge of the county
court, frequently elected to the legislature, en-
trusted with loaning of the state money in his
county. He married (first), February 16,
1761, Hannah Smithy; (second) .Sarah

; ten children. Major Lockwood died,

aged eighty-four years, at Poundridge, New
York. 6. Rachel, born January 19, 1739;
married Ebenezer Wood. 7. Mercy, married
David Dan. 8. Hezekiah, died aged seven
years. 9. Prudence, married Elijah \\'eecl.

(V) Joseph (3), son of Joseph (2) and
Sarah (Hoyt) Lockwood, was born at Stam-
ford, Connecticut, June 30, 1731, died at
Poundridge, Westchester county, New York,
March 17, 1792. He continued on the farm
with his father until his death, when tlie
estate of live hundred acres was di\ided be-
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[545

and himself, being the only surviving sons.
The farm is located on a beautiful ridge of
land on which a pound being located gave it
the name, Poundridge. (This properly is
yet in the family name.) He was elected
town clerk in 1760, was commissioned captain
of a military company, September 13, 1775.
He was at Ticonderoga in 1775 in command
of his company. He married Hannah, daugh-
ter of Solomon Close, of North Salem, New
York. She survived and became the third
wife of Captain James Richards, of New
Canaan, Connecticut. She died December 22,
1806. Children: Hannah, married Captain
Philo Lewis ; Sarah, married Thaddeus Hoyt ;
Joseph (4), married ]\Iary Drake; Solomon,
of whom further; Prudence, married John
Smith; Alindwell; Matilda, died young;
Mercy, married Jonathan Waring; Matilda
(2), married Seth Kellogg; Nancy, married
Henry Jones.

{\'l) Solomon, son of Joseph (3) and
Hannah (Close) Lockwood, was born at
Poundridge, New York, August 28, 1766, died
March 9, 1841. He married Mary, born April
16, 1770, died May 6, 1848, daughter of Odle
Close, of Greenwich, Connecticut. Children :
I. Bethia, born June 21, 1791 ; married Hon.
Horatio Lockwood. 2. Odle, born May 4,

1793, died August 15, 1873; married Maria
Barnum. 3. Leander, born November 21,

1794, died March 22, 1795. 4. Joseph, born
September 2^, 1796, accidentally drowned in
the Alleghany river, February 28, 1830. 5.
Hannah, born March 9, 1798, died February
21. 1868. 6. William, born September 14,
1800, died November 15, 1880, at Bedford,
New York. He married (first) Maria J.,
daughter of Rev. Daniel and Anna (Austin)
Crocker; married (second) Jane, daughter of
Joshua and Reuhuma Raymond ; married
(third) Rebecca, daughter of Uriah and Sa-
rah Raymond. Four children, two by the first
and two by the second wife. 7. Catherine
Mary, born October 13, 1802; married John
L. Silliman; died April 17, 1879. 8. Sarah
Elizabeth, born September 10, 1805, died June
30, 1884. married Francis N. Murray (see
Murray H). 9. Nancy, born and died No-
vember, 1807. 10. Solomon (2), born Sep-
tember 5, 1810. died September 22, 181 1.

(The Murray Line).
Daniel ^Murray was of Scotch ancestry and
may have been a descendant of William Mur-
ray, of Amherst, Massachusetts, who was
born in Scotland, i6go, came to America
in 1720, married Hannah Dickinson, descend-
ant of Nathaniel Dickinson, who came in
1635, one of the founders of Hadley. Massa-

chusetts. Daniel Murray died in Connecti-
cut, at the age of eighty years. He mar-
ried and had a large family, including Edgar,^
married Lucinda Lodes, went to California
in 1848, and was never again heard from;
Hannah, married Samuel Whitlock, of Xor-
walk, Connecticut, and had daughter, Sarah ;
Francis K., see forward.

(H) Francis N., son of Daniel Murray,
was born in 1810, in Westport, Connecticut.
He was educated and grew to manhood in that
state. In 1849 '^^ caught the gold-seeker's
fever and joined a company going to Cali-
fornia. He left his family in Connecticut and
traveled westward by way of the Isthmus.
Taking ship from there he sailed for San'
Francisco and died just before reaching that
port. He was buried at sea and it was many
months before his family learned his fate.
He married Sarah Elizabeth Lockwood, born
at Poundridge, Westchester county, New
York, daughter of Solomon and Mary (Close)
Lockwood (see Lockwood VI).

(Ill) William H., son of Francis N. and
Sarah Elizabeth (Lockwood) Murray, was
born at Poundridge, Westechester county,.
New York, December 2. 1845. He was five
years of age when his father left home on his
fatal California trip, and his early training
and education depended upon his widowed
mother. He was educated under a private
tutor and at Rett's Military Academy, Stam-
ford, Connecticut, where he was graduated in
1863. He entered Union College the follow-
ing autumn and, pursuing a full course, was
graduated A.B., class of 1867. He taught
a private school at Bellefonte, Pennsylvania,
witli much success. At this time a young
man in town was striving to secure an edu-
cation. Dr. Murray, to help him both in his
study and slender purse, allowed him to share
his room and tutored him in Latin and Greek
branches, in which he was unusually proficient
and well qualified to teach. This young man
was. later. Governor Hastings, of Pennsyl-
vania. He never forgot the assistance rend-
ered him, but always gave Mr. Murray great
credit for his success in life. With the capital
secured while an instructor he took a course
at Albany Medical College, where he was
graduated M.D., 1869. In 1870 he began
the practice of medicine in Albany, where he
yet continues. He is a popular and skilled
physician and surgeon, standing high among
his professional brethren and highly regarded
everywhere. It was said at one time he could
call every man in the city by name. He has
been much in i)ublic life, and is identified
with the leading social and fraternal organiza-
tions. He is a member of the State and Coun-

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ty Medical societies, and was president of the
latter. He was an organizer of the Hos-
pital for Incurables, and since its inception
has been president of the board of trustees.
His desire to be of service to his city and
fellowmen had induced him to accept numer-
ous public trusts. He served as supervisor of
his ward for five years ; president of the
board of alderman for one year; district phy-
sician ; police surgeon : county physician ;
coroner's physician ; penitentiary physician and
city physician. During his incumbency of the
ofifice, president of the board of aldermen of
Albany, the contest occurred between Dr.
Swinburne and Nolan over the mayoralty.
While this contest was passing the courts,
Dr. INIurray, by virtue of his office, was act-
ing mayor of Albany. He is a prominent
member of the Masonic order, holding all
degrees of the York Rite, and is a thirty-
second degree member of the Scottish Rite ;
and a member of the Shrine. He has passed
all the chairs in the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and the
Red Men. His clubs are the University and
Albany. He is a Democrat and retains his ac-
tive influential position in the party he has
served so well.

He married, in Schenectady, in 1868 (Rev.
Dr. Payne, Episcopal minister, officiating),
Martha B., daughter of James M. Bouck, and
granddaughter of William C. Bouck, gover-
nor of New York, elected in 1842. James M.
Bouck was a prominent lawyer of Schenec-
tady, New York, and postmaster of that city.
His brother, Colonel Gabriel Bouck, served
in the civil war in 1861-65, removed to Osh-
kosh, Wisconsin, where he became attorney-
general and one of the most prominent and
wealthy men of the state ; was grand master
of the Free and Accepted Masons, and a
man of sterling character. James M. Bouck
■married Charlotte Van Vorst, of Burnt Hills,
Saratoga county, New York, sister of ex-
Mayor Van Vorst, of Schenectady. Dr. and
Martha B. Murray have one son, Frank N.
born April 19, 1870, educated in the Albany
high school, Boys' Academy and Business
College, now (1910) private and confidential
secretary to Vice-President Rice, of the Gen-
■eral Electric Company, who trusts to him in
all matters affecting private and business af-
fairs. He married Anna Bridges, and has
Dorothy I'ouck Murrav.

The Lohnas family herein re-
LOHN.AS corded descend from Adam

Lohnas, born in Germany,
1754, died in Valley Falls, New York, April
14, 1839. He was a private in Captain Chris-

topher Kilmer's company. Sixth Albany
Regiment Militia. Colonel Stephen H. Schuy-
ler. He married Elizabeth Boritt, born May
22, 1 77 1, died February 15, 1858. Children:
Jacob, of further mention ; Solomon, born
April 8, 1806, died unmarried, March 24,
1893; Adam (2), born May 5, 1808, died
November 2, 1883, he was a resident of Rens-
selaer county. New York, where he followed
the business of packer in the powder mills,
he married (first) a Miss Siser ; children:
Alonzo, Sarah and Jane A.; married (second)
Jane Whalen, born March 14, 1820, died Feb-
ruary. 1870; children: Nancy, Mary, George,
Isabell, Clara, Adam.

(II) Jacob, eldest child of Adam and Eliza-
beth (Boritt) Lohnas, was born March 8,
1802, died August 29, 1839. He settled in the
town of Pittstown, Rensselaer county. New
York, where he is buried with his wife. He
married, March 8, 1832, Charity Deyoe, born
February 2, 18 12, daughter of Zachariah and
Phoebe (Oakley) Deyoe (see Deyoe VII).
Children, all born in the town of Pittstown,
Rensselaer county. New York : Phoebe, born
February 17, 1833, married David McWhit-
hey, no issue ; Edwin, born December, 1834,
married, December 15, 1882, Jane Rastel, no
issue : Deyoe, of further mention ; Charity
Maria, born 1839, died 1847.

(III) Deyoe, son of Jacob and Charity
(Deyoe) Lohnas, was born at Valley Falls,
town of Pittstown, Rensselaer county. New
York, December 15, 1836. He was educated
in the public schools and at Schuylerville
Academy. At the age of fifteen years he
began business life in Schuylerville as a dealer
in groceries and meats, continuing there until
1866, when he removed to Saratoga Springs,
engaging in the same line of trade, dealing
extensively in grain, flour, and groceries, and
erected, 1881, the first cold storage plant in
the state of New York. He first introduced
Chicago dressed beef and erected, for the
sale of same, wholesale houses in Glens Falls,
Saranac Lake and Lake Placid. He has
acquired large business interests, and is one
of the leading citizens of Saratoga Springs.
He was formerly a director of the First
National Bank of Saratoga, and is the pres-
ent principal owner and president of the well-
known Lincoln Spring Company. He is a
Republican in politics. In 1887 he was elected
president of the village of Saratoga Springs
and again in 1889. He served for three
years as a member of the village board of
education. He is prominently identified with
the Ma.sonic order, beinq- affiliated with
Lodge. Council. Chapter. Commandery, and
is a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He was

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a member of Saratoga Club, and is a mem-
ber of the Saratoga Business Men's Associa-
tion. He married, October 9. i860, Hulda L.
Farr, born July 5, 1839, at Fort Ann, New
York, daughter of Leonard and Amanda A.
(Nelson) Farr. Children: i. Nellie Farr,
born August 28, 1863; married, March 9,
1887, Adelbert C. Hayden, of Northville,
New York ; children : Grace Lohnas Hayden,
born August 8, 1888, and Rita Marion Hay-
den. born February 13, 1893. ^- Harriet
AL, born November 8, 1866; married Edward
B. Ashton, of Argyle, Washington county,
New York, September 9, 1897; son, Deyoe
Lohnas Ashton. 3. Grace i\L, born July 11,
1875. died February 19, 1883.

(The Deyoe Line).
Among the twelve original patentees of the
town of New Paltz, Lllster county. New York,
the last to cross the ocean from France was
the Huguenot, Christian Deyoe. He was ac-
companied by his son Pierre, the latter's wife,
Agatha Nickol, and child, and the unmarried
daughters. Maria, Elizabeth and Margaret,
who later became the wives respectively of
Abraham Hasbrouck, Simon Le Fevre and
Abraham DuBois. The earliest records in the
Dutch church at Kingston and the Huguenot
church at New Paltz show different ways of
spelling the name, Doyau, Doioie, Doyo and
Deyoe, the latter now being the generally ac-
cepted form. In the treaty with the Indians
in 1677, Pierre (also a patentee) wrote the
name "Doyo." His father. Christian, did not
write his name but made his mark and the
name is written "de Yoo." The Huguenots,
of whom there were quite a number at Kings-
ton and Hurley, were desirous of forming a
settlement of their own where they might
speak their own language, French, and form
a community of their own. They finally pur-
chased land from the Indians which included
all the present town of Lloyd, about two-
thirds of New Paltz, one-third of Esopus and
one-fourth of Rosendale. In the records of
the patentees, as the twelve signers were
called, long preserved in an ancient trunk in
the Huguenot Bank at New Paltz, is the copy
of the document, signed by the Indians on
their part, and by Louis Du Bois and his elev-
en associates, one of whom was "Christian de
Yoo his X mark," and his son, "Pierre Doyo."
The bargain was approved by Governor An-
dros, April 28, 1677. The patentees at once
settled on their purchase at the point now
known as New Paltz, all undoubtedly living
on what is now Huguenot street, in that vil-
lage. The records of the church from 1683
to 1702 are written in I-'rench. and record

many births, marriages and deaths of the De-
yoes and others. The descent is through
Pierre Deyoe, son of Christian, who died
about ten years after the settlement at New
Paltz and must have been a very old man.
He made his will February i, 1686-87. There
is a tradition that Pierre Deyoe, son of Chris-
tian, died while on an expedition to find a
route from New Paltz to the river, and that
many years afterward a buckle from a truss
he had worn was found among his bones.
This Pierre was probably Pierre, a grandson
of Christian and son of Pierre.

(II) Pierre, .son of Christian Deyoe, came
with his father to America bringing his wife,
Agatha Nickol, and one child. He was one
of the twelve patentees of New Paltz. He
left four sons and two daughters. In 1675
he was still in the Palatinate of Germany, as
shown by his certificate of good standing, yet
preserved in the family. "This is to cert'ify
that Peter Doio and Agatha Nickol, both in
honor living in Curr Pfalz, Mutterstadt, cir-
cuit of Newstadt, have been united in mar-
riage, the intent of such marriage having been
announced three times from the pulpit, that
they are members of the Reformed Church
and as far as we know the same are well be-
haved people. Mutterstadt. Curr Pfalz 21
January, 1675. Jacob Amyot, Pastor." Chil-
dren: I. Christian, of further mention. 2.
Abraham, born at Hurley. New York, October
16, 1676: married, 1702. Elsie Clearwater;
he died in 1725, leaving a son Abraham, and
daughters Marytje, and Wyntje. Abraham
(2) was the father of Abraham Deyoe, of the
revolutionary army. 3. Pierre, baptized at
New Paltz, New York, 1683 ; grew to man's
estate ; left no issue. 4. Hendricus, baptized
at Kingston, New York, October 12, 1690;
married, at Kingston, December 31, 1715,
Margaret \'on Bummel, baptized at Kingston,
1693 ; in the old graveyard at New Paltz is
a gravestone believed to mark the burial place
of Margaret, wife of Hendricus. Of the two
daughters of Pierre Deyoe, Mary, the eldest,
born 1679, married Jacob Clearwater, set-
tled at Vontecoe, had son Abraham, baptized
at New Paltz, 1699. Margaret, the second
daughter, left no issue.

(III) Christian, son of Pierre and Agatha
(Nickol) Deyoe, was born in the Palatinate
of Germany, 1674, and is the child alluded to
as coming to America with his father and
grandfather. Christian Dej'oe. He appears in
the list of taxpayers in 1712; in the list of
soldiers of Captain Hoffman's company, 1716,
in the list of those who built the first stone
church in New Paltz in 1728 ; in the list of
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the New Paltz church, 1733, and an elder in
1765. He married, at New Paltz, 1702,
Marytje De Graff (in French Le Conte). He
left sons Moses and Jacobus, and daughter
Mary. Moses married Clarris Stokhard and
had sons Christian and Johannes. Mary mar-
ried, 1 73 1, Jeems Ackmoidi, a Scotchman,
and ancestor of the Auchmoody family.

(IV) Jacobus, son of Christian and Mary-
tje (De Graff) Deyoe, removed to Kingston,
New York. His name does not appear upon
the records at New Paltz, but in 1738 it is
found in a list of foot-soldiers of Kingston.
Afterwards he or his widow moved to Dutch-
ess county, and in the Poughkeepsie church
records appears the following entry : "J'^"'"
tje Freer, widow of Jacobus De Joo, born at
New Paltz, married April 22, 1754, to Rich-
ard Gryn, born at Oswego." In 1724 Jacobus
Deyoe married, at Kingston, Janitje Freer,
both at the time residing at New Paltz. They
had several daughters, and one son, Jacobus,
born 1732, also a son, Peter.

(V) Peter, son of Jacobus and Janitje
(Freer) Deyoe, was born in 1738, baptized
by Dominie Mancius, October 21, 1739, as
shown by the Kingston church records, James
Auchmoody and Greetje Deyoe being spon-
sors. He removed to Pittstown, Rensselaer
county. New York, where he died in 1812.
He married, 1765, Charity Maria Cramer,
born 1745. They were married in New York
City, but resided the remainder of their lives
in Pittstown. Children: Zachariah, of whom
further; James, Peter, Jacob, John, Sarah,
Jane, Katherine, Charity.

(\T) Zachariah, son of Peter and Charity
Maria (Cramer) Deyoe, was born in Dutch-
ess county, New York, September 24, 1774,
died 1826, and is buried with his wife at
Schroon, New York. He married, February
13, 1799, Phoebe Oakley. Children: Jacob,
William O., who settled in the west; Dor-
cas, married Ephraim Grimes ; Charity, of
further mention ; Peter.

(VII) Charity, daughter of Zachariah and
Phoebe (Oakley) Deyoe, married Jacob Loh-
nas (see Lohnas II).

Jan Thomas \'an Witbcck,
WIllTBICCK horn at Witbeck in Hol-

stein (formerly a duchy of
Denmark) was of Beverwyck in 1652. The
name as first used was Van Witbeck (from
W'itheck), the Van was soon dropped and
Witbeck alone used as a surname. The name
is written both Witbeck and Whitbeck, but
the first of the name recorded in Albany is
Jan Thomas Van Witbeck, who from 1652,
when Beverwyck was laid out, to 1678, was

the most considerable dealer in house lots in
the village. In 1664, in company with Vol-
kert Jan Douw, he bought the whole of Ap-
jas or Schotack and the mainland opposite
on the east side of the Hudson river from
the Indians. He married Geertruy Andriese
Dochter in New Amsterdam. Children : An-
dries Janse, Johannes, Lucas, Hendrick, Jona-
than, Thomas, Catharina, married Jacob San-
derse, of Glen, and in 1696 married (second)
Jonas Volkertse Douw.

(II) Andries Janse Witbeck, son of Jan
Thomas and Geertruy Andriese (Dochter)
Van Witbeck, married Engeltje Volkertse
Douw. Children and dates of baptism: An-
dries, died young; Lucas, January 16, 1687;
Jan, of further mention; Willetje, June 30,
1689: Andries, January i, 1692; Geertruy,
December 26, 1694; Dorothee, January I,
1698; Jonas, November 10, 1700.

(III) Jan, son of Andries Janse and En-
geltje A'olkertse (Douw) Witbeck, was bap-
tized April 24, 1687. He married (first)
Agnietje Bronck ; (second) January 9, 1726,
Maria Williams. Children and dates of bap-
tism ; Andries, July 4, 1707 ; Lena, March 27,
1709; Jan, September 27, 1713; Volkert, of
further mention; Pieter, May 6, 1722; Ag-
nietje, October 8, 1827.

(IV) Volkert. son of Jan and Agnietje
(Bronck) Witbeck, was baptized August 10,
1718, died 1802. He was of Red Hook, New
York. He held the commission of lieutenant
in Captain Hoft'man's company, dated Feb-
ruary 27, 1757, signed by Henry Livingston,
clerk of Dutchess county. He married and
had issue.

(V) John, son of \'olkert Whitbeck (as the
name was now written), was born April 13,
1747, died at Claverack, Columbia county,
New York, and is buried in the old Dutch
church in that place. He married Elizabeth
Delameter, born January 31, 1746. He is
said to have been an officer of the revolu-
tionary army. Children : \'olkert, born Feb-
ruary 10, 1770; John, of further mention ; Pe-
ter, twin of John; Jeremiah, May 26, 1776;
Dolly, January 30, 1778 ; Harman, August 18,
1780: Jacob, March 30. 1784.

(\T) Major John (2), son of John (i) and
Elizabeth (Delameter) Whitbeck, was born
June 16, 1772, died .'\pril 15, 1859. He lived
at Claverack, where he died and is buried.
He learned the blacksmith's trade, which he
followed in connection with his farming oper-
ations. He was an officer of the war of 1812,
ranking as major. He married Maria Decker,
born December 30, 1772, died April 28, 1854,
daughter of George Decker. Children : Ma-
ria, born October 27, 1797; John, October

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i8, 1799; Volkert, of further mention; Jacob,
February 24, 1805; Elizabeth, July 12, 1807;
Cornelia, twin of Elizabeth ; Jane, April 14,
181 1 ; Dorothy Augustina, June 24, 1817;
John Henry, April 4, 1823; Calvin Augus-
tus, Alay 22, 1825.

(MI) Dr. \'olkert Whitbeck, son of Major
John (2) and Maria (Decker) Whitbeck, was
born in Claverack, New York, January 24,
1802, died in Hudson, New York, in 1887.
He was educated at Hudson Academy, later in
Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He prepared for
the profession of medicine and was graduated
M.D. in 1835. After practicing in Greenport
and Rhinebeck, New York, for a short time
he settled in Hudson, where for a period of
half a century he was the leading physician
and surgeon. He had an extensive practice
in and around Hudson, being well known as
a skillful surgeon and medical authority. He
was a member of the State and County Med-
ical associations, taking an active part in their
meetings and deliberations. He was health
official of the city, where he held high posi-
tion. He was interested in the National
Guard of his state and held the rank of cap-
tain of artillery, his battery being located at
Hudson. He served his city as alderman and
supervisor, rendering efficient service. Polit-
ically he was a Whig, which had been the pre-
vious family politics. He attended the Dutch

church. He married ("first) Sharp;

(second) Caroline, daughter of Captain Jacob
and Gertrude (Schermerhorn) Rockefeller.
Jacob Rockefeller died about 1858, in the town
of Claverack, New York. He was survived by
four children, namely : Seth I., a resident of
Greenport, later in New York; Caroline,
aforementioned as wife of ^"olkert Whitbeck,
of Hudson; Harriet, wife of Peter Best, of
Claverack, New York ; Catherine M., of
Claverack, New York. Gertrude was a
daughter of Riah Schermerhorn, who with
his father owned a flour mill located on
the Hudson at Rhinebeck that was burned
by the English soldiers. Riah's father
emigrated from Holland, where Riah re-
turned and became a man of importance. The
family have a portrait of him in his court
dress and letters describing balls and func-
tions he attended at the Dutch court. He
started on his return to America, but was
taken sick on board and compelled to go back
to land, where he soon died. He left a will
leaving a considerable fortune, including
money and valuables on his person when leav-
ing the ship that could never be found. Chil-
dren of Dr. Volkert and Caroline Whitbeck:
I. Jacob R., born in Greenport (near Hud-
son), New York; became a dry goods mer-

chant of Hudson; was a Whig, later a Re-
publican ; an attendant of the Dutch Reformed
church; married Caroline GifTord, of Hud-
son; children: i. Willis Kendall, died in
Brooklyn, New York, where he was engaged
in the plumbing business; ii. George, now in
jewelry business in Brooklyn; iii. Caroline,
unmarried. 2. Dr. Ansel McKinstry, a phy-
sician of Brooklyn ; practiced in Hudson and
Albany, New York, before settling in Brook-
lyn; resides at 515 Eastern Parkway, Brook-
lyn ; he married Emma Ellis ; child, Ansel
McKinstry (2), of Detroit, Michigan. 3.
John \'olkert, born April 8, 1838, at Rhine-
beck, died June 29, 1907, at Hud.son ; he was
a graduate of the Albany Law School, LL.B. ;
was justice of the peace; surrogate of Co-
lumbia county, 1896; president of the school
board in Pludson ; captain of Company A,
One hundred and twenty-eighth Regiment
New York Volunteers ; assistant quartermas-
ter-general on staff of General N. P. Banks,
served three years in civil war and saw much
hard service, wounded at New Orleans and
compelled to return home, never fully recov-
ered ; was past master of Aquilla Lodge, No.
700, Free and Accepted Masons ; a member
of the Grand Army of the Republic ; he mar-
ried Harriet Anna Ham, granddaughter of
Rev. Herman Vedder and daughter of Colo-
nel Henry H. Ham, who was born in Dutch-
ess county, July 7, 1818, died at Pine Plains,
August 5. 1895. Colonel Henry H. Ham
married Clarissa Antoinette Esselstyn, born
April 27, 1819, died September 9, 1872.
Children of John \'olkert and Harriet A.
(Ham) Whitbeck: i. Antoinette Vedder, mar-
ried Charles Benedict ; child, Harriet A., de-
ceased, ii. Ellogeane Ridner, married Abra-
ham \'osburgh. iii. Henry Ham, born June
I, 1875, resident of Hudson; iv. John Yol-
kert (2), born June 2, 1878, a graduate of
Albany Law School, 1900, L.L. B. ; city judge
of Hudson, 1907; prominent in law, politics
and fraternal orders ; married, October, 1902,
Gertrude McEntee Hoysradt ; children : Eliz-
abeth, and John Volkert, born March 14,
1905. 4. Volkert, of further mention. 5.
Sherwood, born September 5, 1843, fl'^d Oc-
tober I, 1844. 6. Ellogeane, born November
22, 1845. died June 27, 1887: married Joseph
H. Ridner. 7. Charles, of further mention.
8. Gertrude, born August 24, 1850; married
Edgar E. Wright.-

(VHI) Volkert (3), fourth child of Dr.
Volkert (2) and Caroline (Rockefeller)
Whitbeck, was born in Hudson, November 28,
1840. He was educated in the district schools
and Hudson Academy, April i8, 1861. he en-
listed in Company K, Fourteenth Regiment,

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New York Volunteers, served two years, and
was honorably discharged with the rank of
first sergeant. He served in the Peninsula
campaign with the Army of the Potomac
two years, was in the seven days' battles un-
der General McClellan at Chancellorsville, un-
der General Hooker at Fredericksburg, where
he received a slight wound. He saw much
hard service, as these battles testify. After his
discharge from the army he returned to Hud-
son. In 1863 he engaged in photography in
that city, an art he still continues, having the
leading studio in the city. He was one of the
organizers of the Cowles Guard and captain
for several years, and served as police com-
missioner five years. He is one of the oldest
members of the Masonic fraternity in Hud-
son. He attends the Reformed church, and
is a member of the Hudson Club. Politically
he is a Republican.

(Vni) Charles, son of Dr. Volkert (2) and
Caroline (Rockefeller) Whitbeck, was born
in Hudson, New York, April 3, 1848. He
was educated in the public schools and at
Bradbury School. He chose the profession
of law, but never engaged in practice. For
twelve years he was engaged in the insur-
ance business in Hudson. For three years he
conducted a retail coal yard. In 1879 he was
elected clerk of Columbia county and served
as such three years. In company with George
C. Power, as the Hudson River Bridge Com-
pany, engaged in the manufacture of iron and
steel bridges and built up a large and pros-
perous business, continuing five years.
Through the failure of the Catskill railroad
to meet a payment of one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars, the Hudson River Bridge
Company was forced to the wall. After ten
years as a dealer in cotton, he organized
the Athens Knitting Company for the manu-
facture of knit imderwear. He was secre-
tary, treasurer and manager of the company
which has had a prosperous career. The com-
pany was organized in 1897, with factory at
Athens. Mr. Whitbeck continues (1911) in
the same office mentioned. He is president of
the Hudson and Catskill Ferry Company and
secretary, treasurer, and superintendent of
the Hudson and Athens Ferry Company.
He is a Republican in politics, and served as
alderman of Hudson. He is a member of the
Dutch Reformed church, of the Masonic fra-
ternity of Hudson, and a member and ex-
president of the Hudson Club. He married,
September 17, 1874, Margaret, daughter of
George H. and Adeline (Coffin) Power. Chil-
dren: I. Charles, born July 4, 1875, died
July 28, 1875. 2. George Power, born 1876;
a graduate of Hudson high school, engaged

with his grandfather, George H. Power, and
for three years was with him in New York
& Hudson Steamboat Company; in 1897 he
went with his father and is now superinten-
dent of the Athens Knitting Company ; he
married Mrs. Millie Harrington, daughter of
Aaron Vanderpoel. 3. Adele, born 1879. died
1886. 4. Dr. Sherwood Volkert. 5. Kather-
ine Power, a graduate of Hudson high school.

(IX) Dr. Sherwood Volkert Whitbeck, son
of Charles and Margaret (Power) Whitbeck,
was born in Hudson, December 26, 1879. He
was educated in the public schools, a graduate
of Hudson high school, 1896, graduate of Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons, was two
years at the Roosevelt Hospital, and at Sloan
Maternity Hospital three months. In 1904 es-
tablished in Hudson in general practice, spe-
cializing in surgery. He served in the New
York National Guard one year. He is a Re-
publican in politics. He is a member of the
Hudson board of health, surgeon of the
City Hospital, consulting physician and sur-
geon of New York State Training School for
girls, a member and vestryman of the Christ
Episcopal Church, a member of the Free and
Accepted Masons, of the Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks, Elks Club, the Alumni
Association of Roosevelt and Sloan Maternity
Hospitals of New York City, Columbia County
Society of New York. American Medical,
New York State, and Columbia County Med-
ical societies. He married, .'\pril 12, 1904,
at Hudson, Caroline, daughter of Albert
Hoysradt. and granddaughter of Jacob War-
ren Hoysradt.

Jacob Warren Hoysradt, grandfather of
Caroline (Hoysradt) Whitbeck, was born
in Columbia county. New York, died in Hud-
son, New York, where he resided, October,
1890. He married Caroline Lucinda McAr-
thur. Children : Albert, see forward. Charles,
died in infancy. Arthur died in infancy.
Grace, married Dr. William Stanton Gleason
(always known as Dr. Stanton Gleason),
graduate of New York University, medical
department: resides at Newburg. New York;
child, Charles B. Gleason, born June 22. 1890,
graduate of Hotchkiss Preparatory School,
sophomore at Yale, 1908. Jessie, married Dr.
Theodore Von Riempst ; resides in Boston.
Florence, married Dr. Clark E. Rossman.
Warren Jacob, born December 7, 1878 ; grad-
uate of Yale ; engaged in mercantile business
in New York City ; resides in Lawrence Park,
New York ; married Ethel Wolf, of Gettys-
burg, Pennsylvania : children : John McAr-
thur. born October, 1904, and Eleanor.

Albert Hoysradt, father of Caroline (Hoys-
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York, February, 1854, died there in Decem-
ber, 1896. He was a graduate of Yale, re-
ceiving therefrom the degree of Bachelor of
Arts in 1877; he was a member of the Skull
and Bones fraternity. He served as attor-
ney for Hudson, in which capacity he ful-
filled faithfully all the duties required of him,
also served as county recorder, and was nomi-
nated for the office of mayor, but was de-
feated by his Democratic opponent. He was
highly esteemed in his native town, in the
affairs of which he took an active and lead-
ing part. He married. July 10, 1877, at Hud-
son, Alice, daughter of \Villiam Henry and
Cordelia (Xewland) Gifford, and grand-
daughter of Elihu Gifford. Children: Caro-
line, married April 12, 1904, Dr. Sherwood
Volkert Whitbeck (see Whitbeck). Gertrude
McArthur. married, October 8. 1902. Judge
John Volkert W'hitbeck. Sanford Gifford,
born July 28, 1882 ; resides in Hudson. Mar-
jorie, born June i, 1886, died August 7, 1902.
Children of Dr. Sherwood \'olkert and Caro-
line (Hoysradt) Whitbeck: Mary Gifford;
\'olkert Sherwood, born January 30, 1910.

(I\') Andries, son of Jan
WHITBECK (q. v.) and Agnietje

(Bronck) Witbeck, was
baptized July 4. 1707, died' November 22,
1765. The family were now settled in the
town of Coeymans, Albany county. New
York, where they possessed lands and were
well-considered among the settlers. Andries
Witbeck married, about 1738, Mayke, first-
born of Pieter Barentse and Elizabeth (Grev-
eraad) Coeymans. Pieter Barentse was a son
of Barent, "the Miller," and grandson of
Pieter Coeymans. the emigrant to Rensse-
laerwyck in 1636 from Utrecht. Mayke Coey-
mans was baptized October 19, 1714. Chil-
dren: Elizabeth, born in 1739, died July 29,
1820; married, 1757, Thomas, son of Hen-
drick Hoogteling; Zelotte, born 1741 ; Ag-
nietje. 1742; Peter, see forward; Charlotte,
1746, married, 1771, David McCarty, and died
in Coxsackie, April 22. 1828; Gerritje, mar-
ried Daniel \'an Antwerp ; Mayke, married

Cornelius .

(V) Peter, son of .\ndries and Mayke
(Coeymans) Witbeck, was born March 22,
1744, died February 12, 1813. He married,
October 16, 1766, Maria Van Alen. Chil-
dren: Mayke, born March 12, 1769. died
March 31, 1825; married, March 3, 1787, Pe-
ter Van Bergen ; Catherina, born March 30,
1770, married John Ten Eyck ; Elizabeth,
born July 12, 1778, died 1779; Elizabeth, born
November 18, 1785, married David Ver-
planck ; Andrew, see forward.

(\I) Andrew, son of Peter and Maria
(Van Alen) Witbeck. was born Februarv 3,
1790; married Charlotte Amelia Bronck.
Children: Peter, died young; Elizabeth;
John, see . forward ; William, David, Henry,
\'an Alen, Maria and Peter.

(\TH) John, son of Andrew and Charlotte
A. (Bronck) Witbeck, (or Whitbeck) was
born in the town of Coeymans, .-Mbany county.
New York, about 1816, died in the town of
New Scotland, same county, July 13, 1885.
He was educated in the town schools, and
grew up to the business of a farmer. He set-
tled in New Scotland in 1847, where he pur-
chased a farm adjacent to the village of .\ew
Scotland. He was a thrifty farmer and a
good man of business. He was an earnest,
devoted Presbyterian, serving the New Scot-
land congregation as trustee. He was a local
leader of the Democratic party and a man of
much influence. He was open and generous
by nature, and had a wide acquaintance. He
married in Coeymans a kinswoman. Maria
Whitbeck, born 1817, died at the New Scot-
land farm, January 11, 1899. She was an ac-
tive, energetic woman and a devoted Presby-
terian. Children of John and Maria (Whit-
beck) Whitbeck: i. Catherine, died unmar-
ried at the age of thirty-one years. 2. Gitty
.Ann, born in 1838, died in \'oorheesville. New
York, February 14, 1906; she married James
H. Coughtry, born August 27. 1834, died in
1904, son of Jacob, born February 25, 1797,
died 1829, and Rachel (Taylor) Coughtry,
grandson of William Coughtry, born in Scot-
land, January, 1765, married in New Scot-
land, great-grandson of John Coughtry, bap-
tized August 13, 1732, emigrated to this coun-
try from Scotland, 1774, locating in New
Scotland. .Albany county. New York, on a
farm, and great-great-grandson of John and
Margaret (Skellec) Mccoughtry (as the name
was spelled in .Scotland), natives of Tamafed,
Scotland. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Cough-
try : i.- John W., now a merchant and ix)st-

master of New Scotland; married ;

children: Florence, married Calvin J. Nichol-
son and has Elwood, Marie and Ruth ; tiiey
reside in Tonawanda, New York : Ednnnul C,
clerk for his father, unmarried ; ii. William
M.. farmer of New Scotland; married Lizzie
Wideman and has James. Minnie, Frank and
Harriet; iii. Harriet M., born April 2, 1862,
married Samuel D. Raynsford. of Voorhees-
villc. New York, and has a son Raymond,
born October 21, 1894; iv. Robert T., mes-
senger and agent for National Express Com-
pany at \'oorhecsville. New York, married
Charlotte Stevens and has Gertrude. Laura
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HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

New Scotland; married Ellen J. Hotaling-;
■children : i. Sarah, deceased, married Jerry
Mead and had Nellie and Martin M. ; ii. Car-
rie, wife of Charles Underhill, merchant of
Albany. 4. Andrew J., see forward.

(Vni) Andrew J., youngest child of John
and Maria (Whitbeck) Whitbeck, was born
July 30, 1847, the year his parents removed
from Coeymans to New Scotland. He was
educated in the public schools and grew up a
farmer. He owns and cultivates the home-
stead acres and is a prosperous, highly re-
garded citizen. He served the town as tax
collector and enjoys the distinction of having
turned over his books to the treasurer with
every dollar collected. He is now serving his
third term as supervisor. He is a Democrat
in politics and attends the Presbyterian
■church. He married, December 2, 1868, in
New Scotland, Amelia Hotaling, born Janu-
ary II, 1846, daughter of Garret and Sarah
A. (Relyea) Hotaling, both life-long residents
■of New Scotland. Child of Andrew J. and
Amelia Whitbeck: Jay M., born 1871, edu-
cated in the public schools, reared a farmer,
now a hay, grain and produce dealer of New
Scotland. He married Eretta Crouse, born
in Guilderland, daughter of Henry P. Crouse.
Child, Pauline, born 1896.

The earliest record of Henrv
WHITNEY Whitney, the American an-
cestor of this branch of the
Whitneys, is found October 8, 1649, when he
was associated with two others in the pur-
chase of land in Southold, Long Island. He
was born in England in 1620, died in Nor-
walk, Connecticut, 1673. He removed to Hunt-
ington, Long Island, where he built a grist
mill for Rev. William Leverich, about which
there was some trouble resulting in law suits.
He next removed to Jamaica, Long Island,
where his name appears several times on the
records — 1662-63-64. In 1665 he appears in
Norwalk, Connecticut, where he built a
"Grounde Corn Mill" at the mouth of "Nor-
wake River by the falls." His last appear-
ance on the records is October 11, 1669, in
"A true and perfect list of all the freemen
appertaining unto the plantation of Norwake."
His will was dated June 5, 1672. An inven-
tory was sworn to November 8, 1673. He
was twice married, but nothing is known of
his wives further than that his second wife
was a Widow Ketcham.

(II) John, son of Henry Whitney, "the
founder," ("the only child mentioned in his
father's will) was most likely born before his
father went to Southold, Long Island, as he
was of legal age prior to January 20, 1665-66.

He settled with his father in Norwalk, fol-
lowed the business of miller and millwright,
succeeded him in the possession of the mill
and homestead, later building a fulling mill
at Norwalk, and seems to have been a busy,
prosperous man. He married, March 17,
1674-75, Elizabeth, daughter of Richard
Smith. Children: i. John, born at Norwalk,
Connecticut, March 12, 1676-77; married,
March 4, 1709-10, Elizabeth Finch; he was
a miller. 2. Joseph, of whom further. 3.
Henry, born February 21, 1680; a weaver;
he married, June 14, 1710, Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of "the late lieutenant John" and Mary
(Benedict) Olmstead. 4. Elizabeth, born
about 1684: married Joseph Keeler, son of
Samuel and Sarah (St. John) Keeler. 5.
Richard, born April 18, 1687 ; a millwright ;
married, April 7, 1709, Hannah, daughter of
John and Elizabeth (Beers) Darling, of Fair-
field, Connecticut. 6. Samuel, born 1688;
removed to Stratford ; married, January 18,
1721, Anne Laboree. 7. Anne, born 1691 ;
married, October 13, 1709, Matthew St. John,
one of the original settlers of Ridgefield, Con-
necticut. 8. Eleanor, born January 27, 1693;
married, June 13, 1717, Jonathan Fairchild,
a fuller and cloth dresser of Norwalk. 9.
Nathan, settled, at Ridgefield after his mar-
riage, about 1715, to Sarah . 10. Sa-
rah, married, June 13, 1717, Samuel Smith,
a farmer. 11. Josiah, married, October 30,
1729, Eunice Hanford.

(Ill) Joseph second son of John and Eliza-
beth (Smith) Whitney, was born in. Norwalk,
Connecticut, March i, 1678, died 1741. After
the death of his elder brother John, he came
into possession of the grist mill by deed from
his father, stipulating to pay all his debts
and give him one-half the tolls which the
mill should earn during his father's lifetime.
He was a very eccentric man about whom
many anecdotes are told. He married, in Nor-
walk, July 6, 1704, Hannah, daughter of Ze-
rubbabel Hoyt, of Norwalk. She was a mem-
ber of the First Congregational Church in
Norwalk in 1725. Children: i. Hezekiah,
born April 10, 1705 ; married, January 3, 1732
Margaret Harris. 2. Hannah, born Novem-
ber 5, 1707; married (first) Daniel Keeler, a
farmer of Norwalk; married (second) Sam-
uel Betts, of Wilton. 3. Joseph, born Decem-
ber 6, 1710: married Mary Coit. 4. Thank-
ful, born March, 1713; married Ebenezer
Benedict ; settled at New Canaan, Connecti-
cut. 5. Elizabeth, born 1717; married (first)
June 26, 1735, Miles Riggs, of Stamford,
Connecticut; married (second) David Rock-
well, a great-grandson of John Rockwell, an
early settler of Stamford in 1641 ; married

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(third) 1791, being then about seventy years
of age, Agur Fairchild, who was six years
her senior; he died in 1797, after which she
lived in Ridgebnry until she was ninety-four
years old. then went to live with her son,
Miles Riggs, at Newfield, Connecticut, where
she died in August, 1815, aged ninety-eight
years. Miles Riggs, her son, was a soldier of
the revolution, and tradition says that on one
of his visits home from the army he found
two of his three children dead and his wife
very ill. 6. David, of whom further. 7.
Abraham, born February 23, 1723; married,
December 23, 1750, Anne Plumb.

(IV) David, son of Joseph and Hannah
(Hoyt) Whitney, was born at Norwalk, Con-
necticut, May II, 1721.

He was an ardent patriot, and rendered good
service during the revolution. "For many
years he owned and commanded a sloop which
was used by the Government in carrying de-
spatches and supplies sometimes under the
very guns of the enemy." "When Norwalk
was burned in 1779 he ran out of the harbor
with his sloop loaded with the families and
goods of his neighbors, escaping from the
British and safely reaching Stamford." He
conducted a grist mill in Norwalk in which
his son Ebenezer succeeded him. He married.
May II, 1741, Elizabeth, born at Norwalk,
June 6, 1718, daughter of Ebenezer and Eliza-
beth Hyatt. She died October 28, 1798, aged
"80 years, 4 months and 22 days." He died
at Silver Mine in New Canaan, Connecticut,
April 16, 1816. Children: i. Ebenezer, of
whom further. 2. Timothy, born July, 1744;
a cooper, served in the revolution ; married,
February 25, 1770, Anna Wood, born No-
vember 3. 1742, daughter of Alexis Wood,
of Norwalk. 3. Betsey, born April 5, 1746;
married, about 1767, James Jerrit. 4. David
(2), born February 17, 1748, died March 30,
1748. 5. Anna, born February 14, 1749, died
September 16, 1754. 6. Esther, born Febru-
ary 3- 1751 ; married. October 27, 1773, Phi-
neas St. John, son of Nathan and Lois (St.
John) St. John; they settled in Wilton, Con-
necticut, and later in Walton, New York,
where they died ; Phineas was a soldier of
the revolution. 7. Abigail, born April 3, 1754,
married, July 6, 1775, John Reed, a soldier
of the revolution. 8. Anna, born April 10,
1756. married Samuel Seymour; they settled
at Walton, Delaware county. New York,
where they died. 9. Deborah, born July 20,
1758; married, September 26, 1781, Isaac
Keeler. 10. David Hyatt, born August 25,
1761 ; cooper, miller, millwright, farmer, and
soldier of the revolution ; he married. May
12, 1796, Nancy Raymond, who survived him,

dying at the home of lier son in Taylor,
Cortland county. New York.

(V) Ebenezer, eldest son of David and
Elizabeth (Hyatt) Whitney, was born in Nor-
walk, Connecticut, August 8, 1742. After fol-
lowing the sea for forty-five years he moved
to Silver Mine, in New Canaan, Connecticut,
where he bought and managed a grist mill.
He was a master mariner (or captain) but
seems to have been equally proficient in the
time-honored family business of milling. He
died in Silver Mine, April 3, 1808, and is
buried in the cemetery there. He married,
December 19, 1771, in Norwalk, Ruth, born
November 15, 1756, daughter of Simeon Ray-
mond. Tradition says he was a paymaster
in the revolutionary army and that it was he
and not his father who took the sloop load of
women and furniture out of Norwalk harbor
in 1779. Children: i. Betsey, born Febru-
ary I, 1773; married (first) January 31, 1793,
Richard Sherman, of Albany, New York, a
sailor who was lost at sea; married (second)
January 5. 1812. Deodate Gaylord, a soldier
and a pensioner of the revolution ; she died
October 16, 1846. 2. Asa, born and died in
1774. 3. Abby, born June 8, 1775 ; married,
July 19, 1796, Henry Fitch ; she lived to be
eighty-three years of age; he to the age of
"95 years, 9 months. 12 days." 4. Asa, of
whom further. 5. Lucretia, born J.uly 19,
1778, drowned in a well. May 22, 1781. 6.
Clarissa, born February 21, 1780, died in
Dunsville, Ingham county, Michigan, in her
ninetieth year; she married (first) Lockwood
Hoyt; (second) Lewis Blackman ; (third) Ja-
cob Wright. 7. Aaron Wilkes, born October
17, 1781; settled at Wilton, Connecticut,
where he was ordained a minister of the Bap-
tist church ; he married, July 5, 1804, Sarah
Bennett. 8. Eben, born November 19, 1783 ;
was bound to his brother Asa, May 15, 1798,
to learn his trade of silversmith and watch-
maker: he was in business many years in
New York City ; his tombstone records that
"The law of truth was in his mouth and in-
iquity was not found in his lips. He walked
with me in peace and equity and did turn
many away from iniquity"; he married (first)
Esther Patterson, born at Red Bank, New
Jersey; married (second) Emeline Hoyt. of
Stamford. Connecticut: married (third) Eliz-
abeth Raymond, of Norwalk. 9. Lucretia,
born June 2y, 1786; married Daniel Fitch.
10. Roxana, born October 26. 1789; married.
March 19, 1815, James Taylor. 11. Maud,
born in Troy, New York, June 27, 1792 ; re-
moved to Norwalk, Connecticut ; married. Jan-
uary 21. 1816. Benjamin Weeks, a soldier of
the war of 1812; they settled in Henrietta,

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Monroe county, New York, then in Webster,
same county, where he served the Baptist
church as deacon for thirty years ; Maud lived
in Webster until 1874, the last survivor of
the thirteen children of her parents. 12.
George Washington, born July 26, 1794; set-
tled in East \'enice, New York, a farmer;
married, April 4, 1816, Matilda Olmstead ; he
died December 18, 1861 ; she was living in
August, 1874. 13. Hannah Hoyt. born Feb-
ruary 4, 1796, married, September 23, 1817,
Miles Root, of New Canaan.

(VI) Asa, son of Ebenezer and Ruth
(Raymond) Whitney, was born in Norwalk,
Connecticut, August 17, 1776, died in New
York City, December 8, 1812. He learned the
trade of silversmith and watchmaker; set-
tled in New York City where the directory
names him at dififerent business locations from
1798 to 181 1 and with home at 123 Cherry
street, where he died. He and his wife are
buried in the "Cemetery of the Brick Meet-
ing-house" on Christie street. He married,
in Norwalk, October 7, 1797, Catherine Leg-
gett, born June 26, 1778, died December 31,
1813 or 1814. Children, all born in Norwalk:
I. Edwin, died in infancy. 2. William Reed,
born October 5, 1799; a jeweller of New
York City; died December 16, 1824; his place
of business was on Wall street near Broad-
way. 3. Catherine, died in childhood. 4.
Edwin Leggett, born July 15, 1803; a mer-
chant of New York City and Philadelphia ;
married, February 22, 1825, Joanna Eliza
Bicknell, born in Portsmouth, England, Octo-
ber 20, 1809. 5. Henry, died in infancy. 6.
Thomas Richard, born April 30, 1807 ; author
and engraver ; he was a senator of New York
in 1854-55 from the fourth district, represen-
tative in the thirty-fourth congress from the
fifth New York congressional district, 1855-
57; he was at one time editor of The Repub-
lican and The Sunday Times; published 1845
an historical poem "The Ambuscade" ; was
also the author of the "American Policy" ; he
died in New York City, April 12, 1858, and
is buried in Greenwood; he married (first)
October 7, 1827, Elizabeth Comstock, born
November 6. 1808; he married (second) Sa-
rah Ann Heustis, born at Westchester, New
York, May 8, 1810. 7. Simeon Raymond,
died in infancy. 8. Asa Harvey, of whom
further.

(VH) Asa Harvey, youngest son of .Asa
and Catherine (Leggett) Whitney, was born
at Norwalk, Connecticut, February 25, 1811,
died May i, 1846. He engaged in the lum-
ber business in northern New York, where
he also owned a farm. He was a successful
and capable business man, but at an early age

contracted consumption which carried him
away while still a young man. He married,
September, 1836, Almira Matilda Wait, born
February 8, 1815, died February 7, 1897.
Children: i. Josephine, born April 18, 1838;
married, March 17, 1858, George R. Phelps.
2. Isabelle Alsina. born January i, 1840. 3.
Sarah Emily, born August 13, 1842; married
William Rufus Washburn ; child, Charles. 4.
Warren Edwin, of whom further.

(VHI) Warren Edwin, only son of Asa
Harvey and Almira Matilda (Wait) Whitney,
was born in Hadley, Saratoga county. New
York, December 24, 1844. He was educated
in the public school, and for a few years
engaged in farming. He later began work
in the glove factory of William Case, fol-
lowing with six years in the employment of
Uriah Case. January i, 1871, he began
glove manufacturing at 14 School street,
Gloversville, where he remained two years,
when he removed to Prospect street. He pur-
chased a property on the Height on which he
erected a home with factory on the same
plot of ground. This has now developed and
become one of the leading residential streets.
His business is a large and prosperous one,
his special line of manufacture being fine
goods for men's and women's wear. Mr.
Whitney has been a director of the City Na-
tional Bank since its organization and vice-
president since 1891. Since 1903 he has been
treasurer of the Prospect Hill Cemetery As-
sociation. He has now been in active busi-
ness life for forty years and is gradually
withdrawing wherever possible from outside
affairs. Since 1901 he has been a member of
the school board, and since 1898 president
of the Nathan Littauer Hospital board, hav-
ing been a director since its organization. He
was chairman of the building committee that
had in charge the erection of the new Con-
gregational church in 1894; he is now an
active member and trustee. Politically he is
a third party Prohibitionist and supports his
convictions with all his energy. He married,
October 31, 1867, Anna Sarah Robertson,
born February 25, 1843. daughter of Robert
Robertson, granddaughter of Duncan Rob-
ertson, and great-granddaughter of Robert
and Jane (McMartin) Robertson, of Scotch
ancestry. Duncan Robertson married Tirzah
Woodruff. Their son Robert (2) married
Angelina Brownell ; children : Mary, Jane,
Duncan, Anna, Sarah and Frances. Children
of Warren Edwin and Anna Sarah Whitney:
I. Marion R., born September 26, 1869. 2.
Florence Anna, born June 26, 1876; married,
October 20, 1903, Charles J. Fox; born Octo-
ber 20, 1873; children: i. Charles Warren,

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'555

born July 24, 1904 ; ii. Marion Gertrude, Oc-
tober I, 1906: iii. and iv. Donald Whitney and
Dorothy, twins. March 7, 1909. 3. Walter
Duncan, born January 25, 1878. 4. Jane Bell,
born February 9, 1883.

This name is of Saxon ori-

CHAPMAN gin and one of the numerous
class derived from an occu-
pation, business or trade. The Saxon word
Chapman means a chapman, marketman, mer-
chant. The surname Chapman occurs among
the earliest of English surnames, and the fam-
ily in many of its branches was somewhat
distinguished at an early period. The name
occurs in several of the early settlements of
New England, also in Maryland and Virginia.
Fifteen of the name settled in these colonies
at a date from about 1635 to 1645. Hence
the diilficulty genealogists experience with the
name, as they now number many thousands
from one ancestor, Robert, of Saybrook, Con-
necticut.

(I) Edward Chapman came to Windsor,
Connecticut, it is supposed in 1660. Accord-
ing to the town records he married Elizabeth
Fox in England. He died of wounds received
in fighting the Indians, December 19, 1675.
He resided in that part of Windsor called
Simsbury. His widow married Samuel Cross,
July 12, 1677. His children w^ere : Henry,
Mary, Mary (2), Elizabeth. Simon (see for-
ward), Hanna, Margaret and Sara.

(H) Simon, son of Edward and Elizabeth
(Fox) Chapman, was born April 30. 1669.
His wife's name is unknown, but the marriage
was performed in 1692-93. They were the
parents of Samuel and Simon, the only two
children of record.

(HI) Captain Samuel, son of Simon Chap-
man, was born JNIarch 2, 1696. He removed
to Tolland, Connecticut, where he was admit-
ted an inhabitant in 1726. In 1736 he was
captain of the train band. He was killed in
the French and Indian war while in his coun-
try's service. His marriage to Hannah
Strong, August 8, 171 7, is recorded in the
Windsor records. Their children were: Eli-
jah, see forward; Samuel, Ruth, Simon and
Margaret.

(IV) Deacon Elijah, eldest child of Cap-
tain Samuel and Hannah (Strong) Chapman,

was born in Windsor, Connecticut. ,

and died February 22, 1812. He moved to
Tolland, wdiere he was a deacon in the church.
He represented the town in the legislature of
1765-76-81-82. He married Ruth Steele, who
died February 17, 1808. She bore him twelve
children: loanna, married Joshua Griggs;
Reuben; Sarah; Elijah; Ashbel (see for-

ward); Sarah; Ruth, married John Palmer;
Esther, married Ammi Paulk ; Roxanna, mar-
ried Jabez West ; Aaron ; Dorcas, married
\ine Robinson; Daniel. Samuel, brother of
Elijah Chapman, commanded a company in
the French war, and was also an officer in the
revolutionary war. He represented Tolland
in the legislature, 1755-90. with the excep-
tion of three vears wdien absent in the armv.

(V) Ashbel, fifth child of Deacon Elijah
and Ruth (Steele) Chapman, was born in
Tolland, Connecticut, June 28, 1755. died Oc-
tober 26, 1822. He represented Tolland in
the legislature, in 1 808- 1 1 -12-26. He mar-
ried November 17, 1789, Lydia Lord. Chil-
dren: Ashbel, born 1790: Carlos, 1792; Caro-
line, 1793; Lydia, 1795; Mary B., 1796; John
Buckley (see forward) ; Lucv, i8oi,

(VI) John Buckley, sixth' child of Ashbel
and Lydia (Lord) Cha])man, was born at
Windsor Locks, Connecticut, May 12, 1799.
He was a lumber dealer. He was at sea with
a cargo of lumber when he was taken with
yellow fever and died near the Cuban coast.
He married (first) Lydia Holkins; children:
Albert, Frederick Augustus (see forward) ;
John E., Louise, Harvey. He married (sec-
ond) Lydia D wight ; no issue. He married
(third) Lydia Lord, no issue.

(VII) Frederick Augustus, eldest child of
John Buckley and Lydia (Holkins) Chapman,
was born May 25, 1832. died July 19, 1889.
He began his business life as a clerk in the
Albany, New York, stores. He then went to
Chicago, where he engaged in a wholesale
hardware business, the firm being Loomis,
Abbott & Chapman. He sold his interest in
that firm and engaged in the wdiolesale bag
business with his brother in Chicago, and died
while on a business trip to Minneapolis. His
remains were brought to Lansingburg, where
he is buried, in Oakwood cemetery. He was
a member of Trinity Episcopal church in Chi-
cago. He married, in 1855, in Lansingburg,
New York, Sarah Louise, born 1833, o"'y
child of Gilbert Eddy Vandercook (see \'an-
dercook R'), Children: i. Hattie, born in
Lansingburg, July 25, 1858; married Abra-
ham Reamer, born August 12, 1855, a coffee
importer of New York City; children: i.
Fred Chapman, born September 14, 1883, died
August I, 1884; ii. Dexter Wright, born Sep-
tember 14, 1885; iii. Louise, born July 11,
1887, died January 25, 1907; iv. T. Murray,
born November 25, 1890. 2. Kathleen, born
January 31, 1870, at Lansingburg. died at age
of nineteen. Mrs. Chapman survives her hus-
band, and lives in Lansingburg. New York,
She was educated at Lansingburg Academy
and Troy Seminary.

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(The Vandercook Line).

(I) Michael Vandercook, founder of the
town of Cooksborough, New York, was of
Holland descent, born in the province which
today is the state of New Jersey, November
lo, 171 5. He came with his family to New
York state and patented land, settling on what
is known as "Cooks Patent," in May, 1762.
Here he founded the town of Cooksborough
(now Cooksburg), and died in 1786. His
name on the tombstone in the Cooksborough
cemetery is "d Cook." He married Cornelia
Van Ness in 1742. She was born in 1721, and
a direct descendant of the famous Anneke
Jans. Children: Michael (2); Simon (see
forward); Henry, born 1751 ; Hester, 1752;
Cornelius, 1754; Isaac; Cornelia; Sarah.

(H) Simon, eldest child of Michael and
Cornelia (Van Ness) Vandercook, was born
in New Jersey, August 17, 1749, and died in
Cooksburg, Albany county, New York, No-
vember 28, 1829. He was a soldier in the
revolutionary war, holding the rank of ensign
in Captain Henry Van Der HofT's company,
Albany county (New York) militia. Colonel
Peter Yates. A Michael Vandercook was a
private in the same regiment, but it is hardly
likely that it was his father, as he was sixty-
one years of age in 1776. Simon Vander-
cook married Levina \'an Der Hoff, born
May 5, 1754. Children: Michael S., see for-
ward ; Hetty, Peter, Henry, Simon, Gilbert,
John, Cornelia, and Sarah.

(HI) Major Michael Simon, eldest son of
Simon and Levina (Van Der Hoff) Vander-
cook, was born in Pittstown, New York, April
5, 1774, and died there February 17, 1852. He
was a soldier in the war of 1812, attaining the
rank of major, commanding New York state
troops. He was a general man of business
and of high standing in the community. He
was three times married. His first wife, whom
he married August 27, 1792, was Mehitable
Haskins. She died June 19, 1806. He mar-
ried (.second) December 14, 1806, Sally Eddy,
born January 30, 1789, died April 4, 1823, a
daughter of Major-General Gilbert Eddy. He
married (third) September 25, 1825, Mrs.
Betsev Roberts Pickett, born September 4.
1784. died October 28, 1865. Children of
Major Michael S. Vandercook, by first wife,
Mehitable Haskins: i. Simon, born January
ID, 1794, died October 20, 1794. 2. Michael
M., born March 2, 1795, died August 24, 1873.
3. Polly, born April 10, 1799. 4. Sally, born
July 24, 1803. By second wife, Sally Eddy:
5. Gilbert Eddy, see forward. 6. Simon
Henry, born June 24, 1812, died September
25, 1884. 7. Russell A., born August 25, 1814,
died August 24, 1839. 8. Tisdale Eddy, born

June II, 1818, died November 15, 1869. 9.
Charles Raney, bom I\Liy 20, 1819. 10. Pru-
dence, born April 20, 1821. By third wife,
Mrs. Betsey Roberts Pickett: 11. Roberts,
born September 3, 1826, died in San Fran-
cisco, California, March 29, 1871 ; he was a
California pioneer of 1849; member of the
California Pioneer Society, Sons of Revolu-
tion, and became a man of prominence on the
Pacific coast. 12. Frederick Augustus, born
September 28, 1829, died May 29, 187 1, in San
Francisco, California; he was a banker of that
city.

(IV) Gilbert Eddy, son of Major :\Iichael
Simon and his wife Sally (Eddy) Vandercook,
was born in Pittstown, New York, July 25,
1808, died in Lansingburg, Rensselaer county.
New York. June 13, 1886. He was educated
at Pittstown. He was a man of good business
ability, and operated along various lines. He
conducted the United States Hotel at Sara-
toga Springs for some time, and owned and
operated a farm in Brunswick, called "Hill-
crest." He built a house in Lansingburg,
where he died. He was an attendant of the
Episcopal Church. He married, January 31,
1833, Sarah Fox, born November 13, 1813.
Their only child, Sarah Louise, married
Frederick Augustus Chapman (see Chap-
man).

The Miller family has for many
MILLER years been established in Mont-
gomery county, New York. The
founder, Conrad Miller, was probably an emi-
grant from Germany. He had nine children,
Peter, Conrad, Daniel, Henry, John, George,
Christiana, Mary and Nancy.

(II) John, son of Conrad Miller, married
Margaret Garlock and had children : Henry,
Adam, Conrad, John, Jacob, Peter I., Eliza-
beth.

(III) Peter I., son of John and Margaret
(Garlock) Miller, born in the town of Minden,
Montgomery county, New York, May 5, 1789,
died October 12, 1841. He was educated in
the district schools. He was a tavern keeper
at Mohawk, New York, for several years, after
which he turned his attention to farming, fol-
lowing that occupation for (he remainder of
his active life. He was a Whig in politics.
He married Christina Devendorf, born No-
vember 27, 1798, died in Minden, January 28,
1867, daughter of Solomon and Christina De-
vendorf, granddaughter of Jacob Devendorf,
one of the original patentees of the town of
Minden. The Devendorf s came from Swit-
zerland prior to the revolution, and one of
the name served under General Herkimer and
was killed at the battle of Oriskany in 1777.

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1557

Children of Peter L and Christina Miller:
Chauncy, married Barbara Stauring; Harvey,
married Margaret Staiirins:; Mary, married
Charles J. Devendorf; Martha, twin of Mary,
married Stephen Z. Walrath ; Jerome, married
( first j, Louisa Wah-ath, (second), Martha
Davy; Peter, of whom further.

(I\') Peter, son of Peter L and Christina
(Devendorf) Miller, was born in the town of
Minden, March 17, 1839. He was educated
in the district schools and at Fort Plain In-
stitute. For several years he engaged in farm-
ing in Minden, then spent two years in Can-
ada in the produce business. On his return
from Canada he disposed of his interest in
Minden, and settled in Lockport, New York,
where he engaged in the wholesale grocery
business, under the firm name of Miller &
Smith. He continued in active business life
until about igoo when he retired from active
business ; since which time he has spent the
greater portion of his time in his native town,
and now resides at the village of Fort Plain,
New York. He has had a successful business
career and has been the architect of his own
fortune. He is well known in the community
as a man of high character and generous im-
pulses. He is a Republican in politics and
served while living in the town of Minden as
school trustee. In rehgion he is a Universal-
ist. He married, December 30, 1868, Kather-
ine, born July 29, 1841, daughter of John I.
and Eliza (Sanders) Zoller, granddaughter of
Jacob I. Zoller, who was a son of Jacob Zol-
ler, one of the four brothers, Jacob, Henry,
Casper and Andrew, who came into the Mo-
hawk Valley from their native land, Switzer-
land, during the revolutionary war, settling
at Fort Willett, in Dutchtown, Montgomery
county. Jacob and Andrew Zoller served in
the battle of Oriskany, where Andrew was
taken prisoner and Jacob was .shot through
the shoulder and also taken prisoner. An-
drew returned but Jacob was never after heard
from. Jacob I. Zoller was born in Minden,
where he died June 18, 1863, aged eighty-six
years. He served in the war of 181 2, and
was stationed at Sacketts Harbor. He mar-
ried Katherine, daughter of John Christian and
Elizabeth Ehle. She was born August 30,
1782, died October 29, 1868. Their children
are: John I., of whom further; Mary, born
May 9, 1807, married Henry I. Crouse; James
born -April 20, 1809, removed to northern New
York and settled near Ogdensburg; Jacob,
born July 29, 181 1, died at the age of seven-
teen years; Josiah, born September 27, 1813,
built the Zoller House at Fort Plain of which
he was proprietor for many years; Henry
Chauncy, born December 18, 181 5, removed

to Columbia, Herkimer county, where he still
resides (1910) ; Abraham, born May 16, 1818,
died September 27, 1854, at Racine, Wiscon-
sin; Katherine, born October 25, 1821, mar-
ried John C. \'an Camp, and removed to Ot-
ranto, Iowa; Elizabeth, born August 16. 1825,
is living at Otranto Station, Iowa, unmarried.
John I. Zoller, eldest child of Jacob I. Zoller,
was born in Minden, March 9, 1805, died No-
vember 15, 1 891. He was for many years
engaged in mercantile business. In 1843 he
was a member of the New Y'ork legislature.
He married Eliza Sanders. Children: i.
Katherine Elizabeth, died young. 2. Jacob,
born April 15, 1833, died January 27, 1907;
he was engaged in the wholesale grocery and
provision business in Little Falls, New York;
married Mary Jane Dygert. 3. Abram P.,
born July 28, 1835, died April 8, 1908; mar-
ried Rachel Newkirk ; no issue ; he was a resi-
dent of Fort Plain. 4. Martha, born May 4,.
1837; married Robert Smith, of Hallsville;
three children living: Fred J., Robert Z. and
Claude A. 5. Mary, born May 26, 1839, de-
ceased. 6. Katherine, married Peter Miller.
7. Elizabeth, died aged thirteen years. 8.
Charles, married lanthe Klock, and died on
the homestead farm, October 3, 1902, aged
fifty-five years. Peter and Katherine Miller
have no children.

If, as is believed, this name was
MILLER originally Muller, the family in

Slingerlands can claim descent
from Cornells Stephense Muller, of Green-
bush, Rensselaer county, New York, 1663 ;
also a land owner in Albany, devising same
to sons Jacob and John.

(I) Russell Miller died in Westerlo, -Mbany
county. New York, in 1829, in middle life. He
was a farmer and land owner and died on
his own farm. He was a member of the
Christian church, and an active worker lor
good. He married Nancy Conger, who died
April I. 1868, aged seventy-two years, twelve
days. The Congers are an old Albany county
family. Children: i. David, born in Berne,
died February 2-j, 1866, aged forty-nine years;
a farmer of that town ; he married Catlierine
daughter of Duncan Fisher ; children : i. Rus-
sell, deceased ; ii. Caroline, deceased, married
Walter Clapper, who died in the west. 2.
Margaret, died at the age of seventy years;
married Ambrose Lamb, a farmer of Wester-
lo ; no issue. 3. Eli, died aged forty-seven
years ; a farmer of Westerlo, later of the town
of Coeymans, Albany county ; married Hannah
Nodine, who died leaving two sons, James
and Jarvis, who are married, and have families
at Indian Fields, New York. 4. James, see

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forward. 5. Emnieline, born in W'esterlo,
New York, 1824 died January 28, 1906; mar-
ried George Lawson, who died in Berne.

(H) James, son of Russell and Nancy
(Conger) Miller, was born in Westerlo, Al-
bany county, New York, July 14, 1822, died
in New Scotland, April 4, 1904. He located
in the village of Reedville, town of Berne,
where he was a merchant for twenty years.
He was a farmer of New Scotland for thirty
years, owning one hundred and thirty acres
now a part of his son's estate. He was a
man of substance and influence. He was ac-
tive in the Democratic party, and while in
Reedville was postmaster for several years
under Buchanan and Lincoln. He married,
in Westerlo, July 4, 1842, Julia A. Adriance,
born in that town, September 4, 1825, died in
New Scotland, September 5, 1901. She was
possessed of the womanly virtues of gentle-
ness, patience and piety, coupled with great
courage, strength and endurance. She was
her husband's trusted partner and associate,
and contributed a full share to his success in
life. She was a daughter of Albert and Cath-
erine (Snyder) Adriance, who both lie in the
Snyder burying ground in Westerlo. They
were members of the Christian church. Their
children were: i. Eliza M., born March 29,
1823; now a resident of Westerlo, aged eigh-
ty-seven years, widow of Nelson Appleby;
■children: Julia and Abraham. 2. Julia A.,
married James Miller. 3. Henry D., born
January 4, 1828, now a resident of Westerlo,
aged eighty-two years; married Katherine
Betchem, born in Albany, February 22, 1848,
and has three living children : William H., Al-
bert G. and Charles M. 4. Caroline, October
8, 1830; unmarried. 5. George A.. March
27, 1833, died July 28, 1906; married Lucy
Smith, deceased ; children : Annie and Emma,
married ; deceased after marriage. Children
of James and Julia A. (Adriance) Miller: i.
Charles, see forward. 2. Mariette, born May
15, 1846; married John J. Mahar, a farmer
of the town of Bethlehem ; child, James H.,
born May 29, 1868; married Nettie Bennett,
and has a son James B., born December 26,
1909.

(HI) Charles, son of James and Julia A.
(Adriance) Miller, was born in Westerlo, Al-
bany county. New York, at the Miller home-
stead, July 12, 1844. His early years were
spent in Berne, and in the store of his father
at Reedville. He bought land in Berne, which
lie sdld and removed to a farm he purchased
in New Scotland on Norman's Kill in 1876.
Here he remained two years, then purcha.sed
his present estate of one hundred and ninety-
six acres consisting of two farms with all

improvements on both. This was the "old
Taylor farm," and was partly owned by his
father, who died at this place. Mr. Miller
is a modern farmer and everything about his
home and farm bespeaks progress and pros-
perity. He stands high in his community and
highest where best known. He is a member
of the Presbyterian church, and a Democrat in
politics. He married, January 3, 1876, Edith
J., born in the town of Guilderland, May 27,
1855, daughter of John and Edith (Jacobson)
Oliver, and granddaughter of Evert and Mary
A. (Albright) Oliver. John Oliver was born
in Bethlehem, New York, January 12, 1836,
died January 23, 1907, in New Scotland. He
was a farmer, married (first) Edith, daughter
of Jacob and Maria (Leonard) Jacobson, of
Bethlehem. They were members of the Pres-
byterian church. Children of John and Edith
(Jacobson) Oliver: i. Daniel, died in 1904, at
Binghamton, New York ; he was a railroad
man ; married Elizabeth Hines, also deceased ;
had issue. 2. Adeline, married Christopher
La Grange, of Bethlehem, New York; issue:
Emery, married ; Hattie, married ; Alice, mar-
ried ; Raymond ; Wesley, deceased ; Maude,
married and lives in Binghamton, New York.
3. Edith J., married Charles Miller. 4. Sarah
Alice, married Myron Hungerford, a farmer
of New Scotland ; no issue. 5. Elizabeth, mar-
ried Jacob Wagoner, of Albany; two daugh-
ters: Minnie, married; Jennie, married. John
Oliver married (second) Margaret Hart; no
issue. He married (third) Lavinia Dyer, now
deceased ; children : 6. Irving, a farmer of
Bethlehem, New York, married Alary Mc-
Narry ; has issue. 7. Lewelyn, married Jacob
Weis, of New Scotland, a farmer; three chil-
dren. 8. John, a farmer of Bethlehem ; mar-
ried Sadie Rathburn ; six children. 9. Chris-
topher, a farmer of New Scotland ; married
Hattie Hallenbeck ; four children. 10. George,
a farmer of New Scotland, married Eva C.
Albright ; one child. Children of Charles and
Edith J. (Oliver) Miller: i. Victor, born
October 24, 1876; graduated Albany Business
College, 1894; now a farmer of Bethlehem;
he married Sarah A. Fitch, and has a son,
Charles A., born August 2, 1909. 2. Ernest,
born October 12, 1878; educated at Albany
high school; now a farmer of New Scotland;
married Edna J. Mackey. 3. James, born De-
cember 5, 1881 ; educated in Albany high
school, 1898, now a farmer of New Scotland;
married Nettie Johnson ; children : i. Julia,
born July 9, 1906; ii. Jane, l-"ebruary 29, 1908;
iii. Edith, July 3, 1909. 4. Julia A., born
March 12, 1884; well educated, resides at
home. 5. Frank, born May 15, 1886, resides at
home. The family are members of the Pres-

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"byterian church, and the sons are Democratic
in principle.

The ancestor of the \'an
\AX ORDEN Ordens of New Balti-
timore, Greene county,
Kew York, is \\'iniam Van Orden, who came
from Holland in the ship "Arms of Norway"
-about 1670. He settled at Katts Kill, where
in 1718, after his marriage, he took possession
in right of his wife of lot No. 4, containing
about fifteen hundred acres. Here he built
a house that was his home until death and
stood for over a century and a half before
being torn down. It wa.s built partly of logs
and partly of stone quarried from the Kalk-
"berg. It was built against the hill, so that
it was two stories high on the east side and
one story on the west. In front was the Hud-
son, and the jealously guarded "canon place"
at which the boats were tied. William was
one of the first elders of the Dutch Reformed
church at old Catskill, where he was well
known and highly respected. He died in 1765,
and was buried on the brow of the hill north-
-west from his house. The stone that marked
his grave bears the inscription "W. V. O.
1765." The inventory of his property shows
liini to have been a wealthy man for his day.
He married, in 1716, Temperance, daughter
of William Loveridge (the patentee of what
is known as the "Loveridge Patent"), and his
wife, Margrietje Dumond. Children: i. Wil-
liam, born 1717; married, December 22, 1842,
Sarah Dubois, died March, 1793, aged sev-
enty-six years, daughter of Hezekiah Dubois
of Kingston ; children : i. Temperance, mar-
ried John Burhans : ii. Hezekiah, married
(first) Engeltje Loeck ; (second) Elizabeth
\'an Vecten : iii. Annatje, married James Mil-
liken. Hezekiah served in the revolutionary
war: was justice of the peace, supervisor and
very influential. 2. Margaret, baptized Janu-
ary 23, 1726; married Jan Baptist Dumond;
•children : Ignatius, Temperance Loveridge,
William Van Orden, Ignatius (2), David, Jan
Baptist. 3. John, born May 26, 1727: mar-
ried, February 15, 1751, Tryntje (Catherine)
Dubois: children: Catryntje, William, Benja-
min, Sarah, Peter, John, Margery. John was
too old to become a soldier of the revolution,
but he was very active and zealous in the
cause of the colonies. William, his oldest son,
fought at Stillwater and Saratoga, and died
in the service. Benjamin, the second son, was
commissioned quartermaster of the nth Regi-
ment, New York Volunteers, and served until
the close of the war. 4. Elizabeth, baptized
June 29, 1729; married David Dumon. 5.
Ignatius, of whom further. 6. Peter, baptized

December 9, 1732, died before January 30,
1761 ; no issue. 7. Sarah, baptized 1735.

(II) Ignatius, third son of William and
Temperance (Loveridge) \'an Orden, was
baptized at Kattsbaan, February 4, 1731, died
July 9, 1807. b'rom 1765 until his death he
lived in the house which "his father built near
the Hudson. In 1778 he received a major's
commission in Colonel Anthony \'an Bergen's
regiment, and saw active service. He married
(first) Annatje Oosterhoudt, who was the
mother of his children ; married (second) Sa-
rah Breasted Mynderse. Children: i. Sarah,
born July i, 1758; married, March i, 1781,
Jeremiah Overbagh. 2. Jane, married Hen-
drick Freligh. 3. William, of whom further.
4. Ignatius, died about 1854.

(III) William, son of Ignatius and Annatje
(Oosterhoudt) Van Orden, was born April
4, 1765, died November 14, 1840. He built
his house on the beautiful knoll "Green Point."
He was a farmer and a noted sportsman. At
the age of seventy-five, while out gunning for
wild ducks, he was drowned in the Hudson,
on the flats near his dwelling. He married,
December 19, 1787, Catherine Ten Broeck,
born October 19, 1766, died February 12,
1820, daughter of Wessel and Jannetje (Per-
sen) Ten Broeck, of Germantown, New York.
Children: i. Wessel Ten Broeck, of whom fur-
ther. 2. Henry, born September 4, 1790; mar-
ried, February 20, 1822, Temperance, died
July 13, 1863, daughter of Henry and Cath-
erine (Dumond) De Witt. 3. William, born
October 16, 1794, died July 18, 1839. 4. Jane
Ann, born February 3, 1799, married Ben-
jamin Van Denburg.

(IV) Wessel "Ten Broeck Van Orden,
M.D., eldest son of William and Catherine
(Ten Broeck) Van Orden, was born Septem-
ber 12, 1788. died at New Baltimore, New
York, January 31, 1871. He married Maria
Schumacher (Schoonmaker), born 1793. died
May, 1892, daughter of Tjirck and Jane Myn-
derse Schoonmaker, of IJlster county. New
York. Children: i. Jane Catherine, born
November 12, 1812; married John Ham, of
Columbia county. 2. We.ssel Ten Broeck (2),
born January 24, 1821, died August 11, 1877.
3. Edmund Henry, of whom further.

(V) Edmund Henry, youngest child of
Wessel Ten Broeck and Maria (Schoon-
maker) Van Orden, was born at Germantown.
Columbia county. New York, October 7, 1828,
died at Colorado Springs, Colorado, February
27, 1909, and was buried at New Baltimore,
New York. He was an extensive farmer and
an influential citizen. He married, November
17, 1859, Almyra Van Bergen, \yho was horn
August 20, '1827, died .\ugust 20, 1874,

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daughter of Philip and Sarah Ann (Bush-
nell) Van Bergen.

(VI) Wessel Ten Broeck, only child of Ed-
mund Henry and Almyra (Van Bergen) Van
Orden, was born December 2, 1861, at New
Baltimore, Greene county, New York. He
was educated in public and private schools,
and succeeded to his father's estate, and has
spent his life in its management. He is a
member of the Holland Society of New York;
Philip Livingston Chapter, Sons of the Rev-
olution; Social Friendship Lodge, No. 741,
Free and Accepted Masons of New Balti-
more, of which he is past master ; non-resident
member of the Albany Club and Pike's Peak
Club, Colorado Springs, Colorado. He is a
member of the First Reformed Church of New
Baltimore; is a Republican in politics, and
belongs to the Greene county Republican As-
sociation. He married, January 7, 1885, Jen-
nie A., daughter of William and Lydia A.
Fuller of New Baltimore.

(The Van Bergen Line).

(I) Almyra (Van Bergen) Van Orden de-
scends from Martin Gerretse Van Bergen (or
Marte Gerretse, as he always called himself),
who came to New Netherlands about the year
1640. He is said to have been a relative of
Killian Van Rensselaer, patroon, of Amster-
dam, and to have come to Rensselaerwyck un-
der his patronage. He soon became a man
of note in the colony and for many years was
commissary of Fort Orange, a member of the
governor's council; one of the justices of the
peace for the county of Albany, and captain
of the militia company. He was a wealthy and
liberal man, and gave freely of his substance
when the colony or his church was in need.
In 1689 few subscribed a greater sum than he
for the defence of the frontier, and no one
paid a larger sum for the support of Godfrey
Dallius, the minister of the Dutch Reformed
church of Albany. He died in 1696, on his
estate of several hundred acres, lying on the
west side of the Hudson. It is a well founded
tradition of the family that a party of Cana-
dian Indians attacked his house with the in-
tention of carrying him off a prisoner; he re-
sisted the attack, and was killed in the affray.
He left a large estate consisting of lots in Al-
bany and farm properties. He married, (first)
Jannetje Martense; (second) in Albany, Jan-
uary 21, 1686, Mdltje, daughter of Myndert
Frederickse Iveren, who survived him. Chil-
dren : Gerrit, Myndert, Martin, Pieter (of
whom further) ; Johannes.

(II) Pieter, son of Marte Gerretse Van Ber-
gen, was baptized in Albany, February 21,
1694, died January 4, 1778. He married, No-

vember 7, 1724, Christina Costar, born 1700,
died December, 1777, daughter of Anthony
and Elizabeth (Ten Broeck) Costar. Chil-
dren: I. Martin Gerritse, born September 9,
1725; a prominent burgher of Albany, magis-
trate, member of the governor's council ; he
never married, and was familiarly known as
"Mart Gers, the bachelor." 2. Elizabeth, died
in infancy. 3. Anthony, of whom further. 4.
Henry, born November 6, 1 731. married
Nelltje, daughter of William and Tuntje
(Staats) Salisbury. 5. Elizabeth, born Janu-
ary 8, 1733, married Harmanus Cuyler. 6.
Myndert, baptized October 16, 1739. 7. Peter,
born April 23, 1742, married Ehzabeth,
daughter of John Fryer.

(HI) Anthony, son of Pieter and Christina
(Costar) Van Bergen, was born November i,
1729. His will is dated February 10, 1792.
He was an officer of the revolutionary war,
a colonel commanding the nth Regiment, of
which Ignatius Van Orden was major and
Henry Van Bergen, his brother, was captain
of the First Company. This regiment be-
longed to the northern army, and was en-
gaged at the battles of Stillwater and Sara-
toga, and present at the surrender of Bur-
goyne. He married in Catskill, in 1762, Maria
Salisbury, baptized April 22, 1739, daughter
of Abraham and Rachel (Ten Broeck) Salis-
bury, granddaughter of Francis and ]\Iaria
(Van Gaasbeck) Salisbury and great-grand-
daughter of Silvester Salisbury, born about
1629, in England or Wales, came to the New
Netherlands in 1664. Children: i. Peter,
born July 11, 1763, died August 30, 1804; a
large landowner, and state senator 1802-4, dy-
ing while in office ; married Hester, only
daughter of Thomas Hoogteling and his wife,.
Elizabeth Whitbeck. 2. Abraham, born De-
cember 3, 1764, died unmarried, November 11,.
1848. 3. Myndert, baptized in Coxsackie. Jan-
uary 17, 1767. 4. Catherine, baptized July
17, 1767, married Conradt Hoogteling. 5.
Martin Gerritse, of whom further. 6. Chris-
tina, baptized Jtily 17, 1774; married Arthur
MacClo.skey. 7. Henry Costar, baptized 1777,
died unmarried, August 11, 1816. 8. Rachel,
baptized July 16, 1780. The last six children-
were baptized at Coxsackie, New York.

(I\') Martin Gerritse, son of Anthony and
Maria (Salisbury) Van Bergen, was born De-
cember 17, 1768, he married, March. 30, 1793,
Sallie, daughter of Philip and Conimertje
(Bronk) Conyn. He died August 2, 1855,
Children: i. Anthony M., born February i,
1794, married Maria Vandenburg; (second)
Pamelia Prentiss; (third) Susan, daughter of
Leonard Bronk, and widow of Philip Conyn.
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thony Hoogteling. 3. Philip, of whom fur-
ther. 4. Hannah, bom April 15, 1803; mar-
ried Henry, son of Peter Coeymans and Eliz-
abeth (Van Wie) Bronk. 5. Catherine, born
March 16, 1806; married Andrew T. Van
Slyck.

(V) Philip, son of Marten Gerritse and
Sallie (Conyn) Van Bergen, was born March
21, 1797. He married Sarah Ann Bnshnell
and they are the parents of Almyra (Van Ber-
gen) Van Orden. (See Van Orden V.)

(H) William (2), eldest
VAN ORDEN son of William (i) and
Temperance (Loveridge)
\'an Orden (q. v.), was born 1717, died
March 17, 1793. He lived a quiet, uneventful
life in the Inbogt. In a deed of indenture he
is described as a weaver, but it is doubtful if
he ever worked at his trade, as his farm of
one hundred and twenty-four acres supplied
all his wants. He built his own house in 1742
and it stood for nearly one hundred and thirty
years. An addition was built at the request
of his son, Hezekiah, who wanted a "Yankee
House," that is, one built of wood, and of this
material the addition was made. He married,
December 22, 1742, Sarah, daughter of Heze-
kiah Dubois, of Kingston, Children : Tem-
perance, married John Burhans ; Hezekiah, of
further mention ; Annatje. married James Mil-
liken, a private of the continental army.

(HI) Hezekiah, only son of William (2)
and Sarah (Dubois) Van Orden, was born
in Germantown, New York, January 22, 1749,
died August 18, 1796. During the war of
the revolution he was an ardent Whig. As
a member of the military committee of the
Groote Inbogt district he kept close watch
upon the Tories of the neighborhood and took
his turn in patrolling the roads. In October,
1777, he joined the yeomen who flocked to
Green Point and Alaquaa's Hoek to oppose
the Britisli in their progress up the Hudson.
In 1781, at the age of thirty-two, he was a
justice of the peace, an office at that time
of considerable honor and usually conferred
upon older men. He married (first) Engeltje
Luke; (second) Elizabeth Van Vechten.

(IV) Jacob, son of Hezekiah and Elizabeth
(Van Vechten) Van Orden, born September
5, 1788, died March 25, 1833. He married
Harriet Schuyler, born September 15, 1783,
died December 4, 1868, daughter of Philip
Pieterse and Annatje (Wendell) Schuyler.

(V) William (3), son of Jacob and Har-
riet (Schuyler) Van Orden, was born at Cat-
skill, February 9. 1816, died April 18, 1894.
He was educated in the schools of Catskill
and Albany. After his graduation he entered

the law office of Abram Van X'echten, a prom-
inent lawyer of Albany. He was admitted
to the bar and practiced his profession in Cat-
skill. During his later years he resided on
the old Van Orden farm, situated about two
miles from Catskill. He was master in chan-
cery in Greene county. He was a member
of the First Reformed Church to which he
contributed liberally. He married, lune 24,
1840, Mary, daughter of Caleb and Katurah
(Hill) Hopkins. Children: Philip V., born
March 11, 1841, died December 13, 1910;
William, of further mention; Charles H.,
April II, 1847; Mary Louise, March 11, 1856;
Anna, January 3, 1858.

(VI)" William (4), son of William (3),
and Mary (Hopkins) Van Orden, was born
November 20, 1845. He received his educa-
tion in private schools, and attended an acad-
emy conducted by Rev. Dr. R. B. Fairbairn,,
an Episcopal minister. Upon the completion
of his schoohng he took up agricultural pur-
suits on the farm which is now his home.
He is a member of the Holland Society, also
a member of the Dutch Reformed church of
Catskill, In politics he is an Independent Dem-
ocrat, but never held office. He is unmarried.

Two members of the Lipe family
LIPE came from Germany to the Ameri-
can colonies prior to the revolution,
Johnannes (John), born 1764, settled on a
farm in Montgomery county near Sprakers,
During the revolution he owned the land on
which the defences of Fort Plains were built.
The property descended to his son David ;
later to his grandson, Seeber Lipe. With the
consent of the owner, the Montgomery county
Historical Society erected small marble mon-
uments in August, 1882, marking the site of
the original fort erected 1776, and another
the block house built in 1781. John engaged
both in farming and in trade at Sand Hill,
at that time in the town of Minden. He
passed through the trying scenes of the rev-
olution safely, although Minden suffered
much from the Indians and Tories. After the
war was over John married. November 11,
1788, Elizabeth Lambert, and left numerous
descendants. He continued in business until
his death.

The ancestor of Ephraim Lipe, of Cana-
joharie, is also John Lipe, of the town of Root,
Montgomery county. New York. He was a
farmer and was killed by a running horse
while attempting to cross the road. He lived
in the troublous times of the revolution and
served with the militia against the Indians.
He married a Miss Hays and had four chil-
dren: Delia, married Adam Dockstader; Eva,,

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married John Burns; ]\Iary. married John
A'ancroast; Adam L, of whom further.

(II) Adam I., son of John and

(Hays) Lipe, was born in the town of Root,
I\Iontgomery county, New York, June 28,
1794, died June 28, 1872. He grew upon the
homestead "farm, and later became a land own-
er and farmer. He was a soldier in the
war of 1812; was a Whig in politics and a
man of influence in his town. He married,
about 1 816, Catherine Rickard, of German and
revolutionary ancestry, born March 17. 1796,
died November 19, 1884. Children: i. John
L., born October, 1817, died December 28,
1883; he married Elizabeth Wormuth ; chil-
dren : i. Martin ; ii. Adam, married Margaret
Pullman, of Johnstown, New York, and had
Earl ; iii. Jeanette, married Charles Snow. 2.
Kate, born May 29, 1821. died December 31,
1908; she married Jacob Bellinger, a descend-
ant of William Bellinger, born in Germany;
children: William and Adam. 3. Delilah, born
March 2, 1824, married Jacob Mowers; chil-
dren : Wesley and Edna. 4. Hiram, born
February 9, 1828. 5. Eve, born March i, 1831
married, March 7, 1849, Charles H. Hubbs,
born September 3, 1824, died November 20,
1892, son of Charles Root Hubbs, of Long
Island, New York, settled in the town of Root
in 1802 near Rural Grove; he married Miriam
Coffin and had ten children. Children of
Charles H. Hubbs : i. Catherine, torn July 3,
1 85 1, died November 16, 1851 ; ii. David,
March 4, 1855, married Addie Burroughs; iii.
Carrie, October 20. 1857, married, June, 1893,
Simon Van Buren ; iv. Adam, June 4, i860,
■died November 24, 1889; v. A. Seymour, De-
cember 9, 1862, married Hope Conover ; vi.
Lillian, July 5, i8(')6. married, October 19,
1892, Dorris Carr; children: Edwin J., born
August 17, 1889; Leland, November i, 1891 ;
vii. Raymond B., August 16, 1871, married,

October 17, 1889, ; viii. Iva A., May

19, 1875. 6. Harriet, born February 16, 1834;
married Samuel Jamison and has son Morti-
mer. 7. Ephraim, see forward.

(Ill) Ephraim, youngest .son and child of
Adam I. and Catherine (Rickard) Lipe, was
born in the town of Root, Montgomery coun-
ty. New York, July 14, 1837. He was edu-
cated in the public school and reared on the
farm, succeeding to ownership of the home-
stead on the death of his father. Here he
lived until after the birth of all bis children,
a period covering twenty-five years of owner-
ship. The farm contained one hundred and
fifty-five acres and he managed it profitably.
In 1868 he began buying and selling hay in
rather a small way but the business soon took
■on large porportions, and in 1883 he left the

farm and located in the village of Sprakers
and carried on business on a much larger
scale. In February, 1889, he removed to the
village of Canajoharie, which has since been
his home. He remained in active business un-
til 1909. when he retired. He became a very
large dealer in hay and was well known
throughout the valley where for forty-one
years he bought hay from the farmers, doing
business with some of them for nearly the
entire period. About 1878 he admitted his eld-
est son to a partnership, the firm name being
E. & W. H. Lipe. He is held in the highest
regard in the community where his entire life
has been spent with the exception of seven
years he spent in New York City taking
charge of and marketing the hay shipments.
During his residence in the town of Root he
was much in the public service, serving as
town collector of taxes and highway commis-
sioner. In Canajoharie he has served as trus-
tee and auditor of the village. He is a Re-
publican in politics. He has been for many
years a devoted active worker in the Dutch
Reformed church which he serves as trustee.

He married, February 23, i860, in St.
Mark's Lutheran Church, (Rev. Lewiston Hip-
pee officiating ) Eliza .Anne Wood, born in Can-
ajoharie, New York, August 16, 1840. They
began their married life on the farm near
Sprakers, their home until 1883. Mrs. Lipe
is a devoted member of the Dutch Reformed
church, and with her husband has contributed
much to the church and social life of the
community. On Wednesday, February 23,
1910, Ephraim and Eliza Anne (Wood) Lipe
celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their'
wedding day, an occasion that will long live
in the memories of the one hundred and sev-
enty-five guests present, including every liv-
ing son and daughter. Eliza A. Wood is a
daughter of Abram and Ann (Wiles) Wood,
granddaughter of David and Elizabeth (Van-
derberker) Wood, and maternal granddaugh-
ter of Joseph Wiles, old Montgomery county
families. Children of Abram and Ann Wood :
John, married Elizabeth Moguin ; Isaac, mar-
ried Elizabeth Flatner ; Eliza Anne, married
Ephraim Lipe ; Mary, married De Witt Davis ;
Boyd, married Elizabeth Wills; David, mar-
ried Ella Harp ; Richard ; Margaret, married
Charles H. Burdick ; Jennie, married William
Lausen. Children of Ephraim and Eliza .Anne
(Wood) Lipe: i. W'alter H., born December
4, i860; educated in the public schools, en-
gaged for many years in business as junior
member of E. & W. H. Lipe; in 1890 he or-
ganized the Imperial Packing Company and
for ten years was engaged in curing and pack-
ing the well known "Beech Nut" products ; in

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1900 Bartlett Arkell became a partner and as
the Beech Nut Packing Company, the busi-
ness continued with Waker H. Lipe as treas-
urer and general manager ; he married, July
20, 1896, Christina A. Goodall ; children: i.
\'irginia, born Alay 24, 1900; ii. Rose Ann,
]March 5, 1906. 2. Mary Estelle, born April
ID, 1864; married, October 3, 1889, William
E. Tompkins, a hay and grain merchant of
Toledo, Ohio; child. Anna Eliza, born Sep-
tember 25, 1890. 3. Fred Willard, born March

1, 1866; a hay and grain merchant of Toledo,
Ohio; married. May, 1899, Sadie Allen. 4.
Raymond P., born October 6. 1870; a hay and
grain merchant of Toledo. Ohio ; he married,
March 3, 1893, Maude \'osburgh ; children:
Katherine Vosburgh, born March 14, 1896,
Elizabeth Bartlett," November, 1898. 5. Ber-
tha Virginia, born September 25, 1874 ; mar-
ried, June 25, 1902, Lyell T. Hallett, assist-
ant treasurer of the Beech Nut Packing Com-
pany ; children : Walter Wellington, born
March 11, 1906; Florence Elizabeth, May 11,
1908. Two children died in infancy. Anna
and Ephraim (2), and Jennie, who died in her
nineteenth year.

John Brown was born in New-
BROWN port, Rhode Lsland, in 1695,

died January, 1764. He was a
large vessel owner and a very wealthy man
for his day. The family, however, lost most
of their property during the revolution, as
they remained loyal to the King. He married
Jane Lucas, and had issue.

(H) Colonel Robert, son of John and
Jane (Lucas) Brown, of Newport, was born
April 9, 1735, died August, 1794. His wife
Elizabeth was born January 28, 1744, died No-
vember 27, 181 5. The tradition of the family
is that this Robert was the Robert Brown
captured by pirates, together with two boys
who were with him on his vessel. Brown and
the two boys (not his own) were set afloat in a
rowboat near some rocky cliffs, the pirates
supposing they could not land. But Brown
being a good sailor landed in safety, although
in ascending the rocks one of the boys was
lost and drowned. Colonel Robert said, "He
hoped and prayed that he would live to see
the day when they were hung." He did live
to see them hung at Newport and told them
of his wish, which they remembered. Colonel
Robert Brown married Elizabeth ; chil-
dren : I. Colonel Robert B., born November
19, 1763. died October 2-j, 1845; he was the
father of eight sons, Peter, Barker, Philip,
Robert, George, Henry, Edmund and David.

2. John, born January 10, 1765, died Decem-
ber 19, 1836, leaving nine children: John,

James, Samuel, Clark. Charles, Betsy, Becky,
Mary and Susan. 3. Silas, born November 28,
1766. died May 18, 1820; children : Silas, Brin-
ton. Fanny, Elizabeth, Susan and Sarah Ann.
4. Elizabeth, born July 27, 1767, died young.
3. Peleg, of whom further. 6. Tames, born
July II, 1771, died July 31, 1839! Mary, his
wife, was born September, 1778; children:
Robert, John, Benjamin, Mary, Lucy and Ta-
bathy. By his second wife: Henry, Peleg,
James, Caroline and George. 7. Henry, born
July 2, 1773. died September 25, 1845 ; his wife
was a Miss Hamnon ; they left one son, Silas.
(HI) Peleg, son of Colonel Robert and
Elizabeth Brown, was born August 7, 1769,
died September 23, 1838. He married Dorcas
, who died September 15, 1856. Chil-
dren: William B., born .September 22, 1793,
died December 27, i860; Mary, July 6, 1795,
died June 22, 1875; Tabathy, .\ugust 13, 1797,
died November 26, 1825; Elizabeth, Septem-
ber 30, 1799, died October 17, 1799; Joseph
W., March 27, 1801, died June 5, i878;,Eliza-
beth C, December 30, 1802, died June 29,
1872; Ann M. June 22, 1805, died June 7,
1884; Jeremiah G., May 22, 1807, died No-
vember 24, 1820: Peleg, of whom further.

(IV) Peleg (2), son of Peleg (i) and Dor-
cas Brown, was born June 28, 18 10, died June
23, 1891. He married, March 10, 1836, Ann
Hoxie. born March 23, 1810, died February
17, 1887. Children: 'john P., born July i,
1838, died May 24, 1881 ; Joseph H., of whom
further; William H., born September 7, 1843,
died February 17, 1844; Infant son, deceased;
Mary Esther, May 15, 1849. fl'^d April 16,
1884, married Charles H, Bradish, Decem-
ber 21, 1881 ; children: Leila and Annabel.

(V) Joseph H., son of Peleg (2) and Ann
(Hoxie) Brown, was born January 12, 1841,
at Petersburg, New York, died March 27,
1904. He was a successful farmer of Hoosick
where he lived all his life. He was a Re-
publican and took a deep interest in the poli-
tics of the county, holding local offices. He
was a member of the Baptist church. He mar-
ried June 16, 1861, Mary E. James. She died
August 13, 1898. Children: William Joseph,
born June 23, 1862, died March 8, 1893; Hat-
tie M. ; Edward James, of whom further.

(VI) Edward James, son of Joseph H. and
Mary E. (James) Brown, was born June 2"],
1866. He was educated in the public schools
of Hoosick, and then followed the occupation
of his father, that of farming, and remained
on the homestead with him. In 1894 he re-
lieved his father of the care of the farm, tak-
ing full charge. He removed to Piattsburg,
New York, for a nuich needed rest and re-
mained there two years. 1895-96, and then re-

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turned to the farm where he has made his
home. His farm is a dairy farm, requiring
much extra work. He is a Republican in
poHtics and takes an active part in town af-
fairs. He is a member of All Saints Episco-
pal Church. He married, November 28, 1879,
Slarion Stetson, daughter of Elizur Larkin,
died April 25, 1891 ; and Helen (Stetson ) Lar-
kin. Children : Helen Mary, Rowland Hoxie,
Elizabeth Larkin.

The progenitor of the Turner
TURNER family in Amsterdam was of

English descent and Irish birth.
The founder of the family in Ireland was
born in England of English parents. He
came to Ireland when a young man, settled
in Wexford county, where he married Bridget
Doyle, born in Wexford, where she died at
the age of eighty-nine. The husband changed
his religious belief and became, like his wife,
a communicant of the Roman Catholic church.
They ivere the parents of a son, Patrick.

(II) Patrick, son of James and Bridget
(Doyle) Turner, was born in Wexford, Ire-
land, died at New Castle, same county, at age
of fifty-two years. He was a successful con-
tractor. He married and had issue, i. Rich-
ard, married Ellen Bell ; removed to England,
reared a family, one coming to the United
States. 2. Jennie, married Henry Jordan,
with whom she emigrated to Van Diemen's
Land, Australia, where they died, leaving
two sons and three daughters. 3. Eliza, mar-
ried John Whalen ; they removed to Marlbor-
ough, Australia, leaving a daughter, Mary,
who is also deceased. 4. Patrick, was for
fifteen years on the Irish constabulary force,
was transferred to England, where he was
killed in the performance of his duty ; he mar-
ried in England. 5. James, married Maria
Wright, of Irish parents, settled in England,
later on emigrated to Marlborough, Australia;
had Emily, Maria and Catherine. 6. Terrence,
came to the United States, settled in the south,
where he died. 7. John, married Eliza Fox;
came to the United States, settled in Amster-
dam, New York, where he died from sun-
stroke, eleven days after his arrival here; he
left John and Mary ; the former a soldier of
the One Hundred and Fifteenth New York
Volunteer Regiment ; died in the service. 8.
William, settled in Halifax, Yorkshire, Eng-
land ; married Ellen Thompson, of that town,
and had William and Emily. 9. Catherine,
also removed to Halifax, England, where she
married Whalen; they are both de-
ceased, leaving a daughter, Mary. 10.
Michael, see forward. 11. Mary, died aged
three years. 12. Bridget, born September 22,

1832, in Wicklow county, Ireland; educated
in Dublin ; came to the United States on the
sailing vessel, "P. Sage"; after a six weeks'
voyage arrived in New York, proceeded to
Amsterdam, New York, where she married
Alexander Doyle, born in Wicklow county,
Ireland, December 25, 1828, came to the Uni-
ted States when a young man, died in Am-
sterdam, November 9, 1904; children: Mary,
Charles, William, Jennie, all deceased, John,
Jane, Catherine F., Martha, Elizabeth and
James Doyle.

(III) Michael, tenth child of Patrick Tur-
ner, was born in Ireland, 1828. He emigrated
to the United States in 1849, coming on a
slow sailing vessel. He settled in Amster-
dam, where he became a well known and pros-
perous mason and builder. He was also a
builder of tan bark furnaces for the consump-
tion of old tan bark. He met a tragic death,
April 24, 1876. The spring freshets had car-
ried away the bridge across the Mohawk river
at Amsterdam ; late in the evening in com-
pany with two attorneys of Amsterdam, John-
son I. Snell and Cuthbert Patterson, he at-
tempted to cross the river in a small boat,
which on the way across overturned and all
three were drowned. Mr. Turner's body was
found eleven months after on Scotia Flats,
Schenectady. The tragic death of these three
well-known men caused universal sadness
in their city. He was a man of thrift
and energy, highly respected. He mar-
ried, in Amsterdam, Bridget McCormick,
born in county Meade, Ireland, emigrating to
the United States about the same time as
her husband. They settled on a farm in the
town of Day, Saratoga county, where she died
in 1873, aged thirty-eight years. He married
(second) Kate Burns, who survives him, a
resident of Amsterdam. Children of first
wife: I. John J., see forward. 2. William,
in the undertaking business in Amsterdam;
married Eleanor Fox and has George, D.D.S.,
William and Florence. 3. Richard, married
Mary Bowes and had a son Richard (2), de-
ceased. 4. Eliza, widow* of John H. Den-
ning; resides in Saratoga; has children: Mary,
wife of John Sheridan, Hugh and John Den-
ning. 5. Mary, died in youthful woman-
hood, unmarried. 6. George, resident of Sche-
nectady, New York ; is in the employ of his
brother John J.; married (first) Angle Dailey
and has a daughter Theresa. 7. Ellen, died
young. 8. Catherine, educated for the church,
at Notre Dame, is a sister at Notre Dame,
Washington, D. C. 9. Nora, died in infancy.
Child by second wife: 10. Jessie, born Sep-
tember 19, 187 s.

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1563

Bridget (McCormick) Turner, was born in
Day, Saratoga county. New York, November
19. 1853. He learned the mason, building
and contracting trade with his father, work-
ing in connection with him until the death of
the latter in 1876, when he succeeded him,
took the business in charge and has since
successfully conducted extensive building
operations all over the section known as East-
ern New York. He was for a time, 1890-97,
in partnership, but since the latter date has
carried on the business alone. He is one of
the best-known contractors of his own city
and has erected many large and costly build-
ings in neighboring and distant cities. For
years he has erected many of the buildings of
the General Electric Company of Schenectady
the largest being eight hundred fifty-two by
one hundred fifty-three feet in size. Among
public buildings may be noted : the Elk Club
House, and St. Mary's Parochial School, re-
cently completed. Much of his success in his
building operations he ascribes to the com-
petent co-operation of the architect, C. M.
Underwood. Politically Mr. Turner is a Dem-
ocrat. He is a member of the Amsterdam
board of trade, and since 1903 has been a
member of the board of water commissioners.
He is a member of the Knights of Columbus,
Amsterdam Lodge, No. loi, Benevolent Pro-
tective Order of Elks ; Ft. Johnson Club and
Country Club. The fajnily are members of
the Roman Catholic church. He married, June
5. 1878, in Amsterdam, New York, Marie,
born there in 1853, daughter of Thomas and
Marie (Dooley) Egan, both born in Ireland,
but residents of Amsterdam for many years.
Thomas Egan was a baker and died in 1882.
Marie, his wife, died in 1897. They were
■extremely old people. Children of John J.
and Marie (Egan) Turner: i. Elizabeth,
educated in St. Mary's Convent; resides at
home. 2. John P., a civil engineer ; educated
at St. Mary's and the Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute; is engaged with his father; married
October, 1909, Agnes Schermerhorn, of Troy,
New York. 3. Richard, civil engineer ; edu-
cated at St. Mary's and the Rensselaer Poly-
technic Institute ; unmarried. 4. Thomas A.,
associated with his father: was educated at
St. Mary's and the Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute ; unmarried.

Tliis particular branch of the
PHILLIPS niillips family has been
seated in the Mohawk valley
for more than a century. They descend from
the New England family of Phillips, whose
ancestors date back to an early period in tlie
bistory oi that section. The history of the

Schenectady branch begins with George Phil-
lips, of Montgomery county. New York, •^vho
was born at Fort Plain about 1800. and died
near that village aged sixty-five years. He
married Miss Adams, who survived him, but a
short time. He was a farmer and a Demo-
crat. Children: i. Robert, of further men-
tion. 2. Winchell, lived and died at Little
Falls, New York ; married Sarah Marsh, who
survives him, a resident of Little Falls. 3.
Julia, married Gottlieb Ludwig; children:
Harry and Harriet. 4. Matilda, married, but
left no issue. 5. Sarah Jane, unmarried, the
only surviving child.

(II) Robert, eldest son of George Phillips,
was born in Fort Plain, New York, June 27,
1823, died in 1885. He received a good edu-
cation in the public schools and for several
years was a teacher and instructor. He later
engaged in mercantile life and was a merchant
of Fort Plain. Later he engaged in the lum-
ber business and removed to Bridgeville. He
was a Democrat until the outbreak of the civil
war, when feeling that his party was not liv-
ing up to the promises of its platform, he
voted the Republican ticket. He married, in
Fort Plain, Sarah, born June 8, 1828, daughter
of Jonas and Wyncha A. (Low) Myer. \\'yn-
cha Low was of the Low family of Saugerties,
Ulster county, New York, and was related to
ex-Mayor Seth Low, of New York City. The
Myer family were early settlers of Ulster
county ; Jonas died in Saugerties at the age
of fifty-six. and Wyncha, his wife, at the age
of sixty. Of their family, two daughters, An-
gelina and Sarah, arc the only survivors
(1910). Robert and Sarah Phillips were
formerly Presbyterians, but later connected
with the Congregational church. They were
brought into the latter communion through
the preaching and teaching of Henry Ward
Beecher, the eminent divine of Brooklyn, New
York. Children: i. Eugene Wilson, born
August 29, 1849, now a merchant of Sauger-
ties, New York; married IMartha J. Decker,
and has a daughter Ella, married Edward
Morgan. 2. George Wellington, of further
mention. 3. Sarah Lavina, born March 8,
1856. deceased. 4. Henry Ward born April
II, 1858, deceased. 5. Estelle, born June 27,
i860, deceased. 6. Ann Grace, born March
19, 1862; married David W. Tobinson, and
resides in Saugerties. New York; eight liv-
ing children. 7. Ella Frances, born Septem-
ber 22, 1865; married Sheppard Guise, of
Camden, New Jersey, and now resides in
Schenectady, New York ; three daughters, one
of whom. Hazel, married Hiram Williams and
has issue. Mrs. Sarah (Myer) Phillips sur-
vives her husband, and is a resident of Sau-

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gerties, New York, with her son Eugene W.
Phillips. She is now (November 2~, 1910)
eighty-two years of age, yet so well preserved
in mind that she has contributed many of the
dates and facts contained herein, but says she
"is weak and feeble and cannot write as I
once could."

(HI) George Wellington, second son of
Robert and Sarah (Myer) Phillips, was born
in Saugerties, Ulster county, New York, Oc-
tober 16, 1852, In 1865 his parents removed
to Bridgeville, Delaware, where he completed
his studies. His father was engaged in the
lumber business until his death, at the age of
sixty-two years. He worked with his father
at lumbering, and later became his traveling
salesman. An important feature of their busi-
ness was the burning of charcoal, and George
W. traveled among the leading users of char-
coal, disposing of large quantities of their prod-
uct. After the death of Robert Phillips, his
wife and family returned to Saugerties. While
in Delaware, George W. had become greatly
interested in the fruit and nursery farms of
that section, and after his return to New York
started a nursery in Saugerties, which he con-
tinued until 1897. Finding soil and climate
not well suited to this enterprise, in Septem-
ber of that year he removed to Schenectady,
New York, where he established the coal bus-
iness, which he has since successfully oper-
ated. He has taken more than passing interest
in local afifairs, and when civic conditions were
not satisfactory, organized and was secretary
of the Taxpayer's Association, that brought
about some needed reforms. He is a member
of the Albany Street Methodist Episcopal
Church, and a Republican in politics. He mar-
ried, in Saugerties, Josephine Trought, born
near New Brunswick, New Jersey, September
24, 1857, and came to Saugerties, New York,
with her parents in 1865. She is a daughter
of Robert, son of John Trought. Robert
Trought enlisted in 1861 in Company S, 30th
New Jersey Volunteers, recruited from New
Brunswick, and served until the close of the
war. He was a good soldier and made an
honorable war record. He was a member
of the Methodist Episcopal church. His
daughter, Mrs. Josephine Phillips, is a mem-
ber of the Dutch Reformed Church of Sche-
nectady. Children of George W. and Jose-
phine (Trought) Phillips: i. George H.,
born October 10, 1874; educated in Sauger-
ties ; now a photographer with a studio in
New York City ; he married Effie Bailey, of
Glens Falls, New York. 2. Robert, died in
1876, aged ten months. 3. Lillian, born 1877,
died aged twenty months. 4. Bertha M., born
October 29, 1879, married Lawrence Kemp-

ton, manager of the Phillips Coal Company.
5. Maude, born June 16, 1884; married Wil-
liam H. Pier, of Schenectady. 6. Mabel, born
October 6, 18^8, died aged seven vears.

The many forms of spelling
PHILLIP this name is confusing when an

attempt is made to trace from
the present to past generations. It is supposed
that Philip, Phillip, Phillips, Philips, Phillipse
and Philipps are families all owning a com-
mon ancestor. The name Phillips is derived
from the Greek and signifies "horse lover.'' Its
use as a surname has continued in Wales and
other parts of Great Britain for at least five
centuries, perhaps longer. There are many
branches of the family in the LInited States
dating from 1630 at Watertown, Massachu-
setts. "A Phillips crossed the water with John
Winthrop and from him descended a long line
of ministers, judges, governors and council-
lors,— a sturdy race, temperate, just, and high-
minded." From the address of Dr. Porter
at the centennial celebration of the Claverack
Church we find that the ancestor of the Phil-
lip family in Columbia county was an early
settler of Germantown. He had six sons, four
of whom removed to Claverack : George, Wil-
liam, Henry and David. Two sons remained
in Germantown. Germantown was settled by
the Palatines but not exclusively. In a list
of heads of families reported as willing to re-
main in Germantown, August 26, 1724, is the
name of Hans Peter Phillip. He may be the
ancestor referred to by Qj^rPorter. The vil-
lage of Philmont, in the town of Claverack,
is named in honor of George P. Phillip, who
was the first to manufacture there on an im-
portant scale. A branch of the Philip family
settled in Mellenville, where George Philip
and Stephen Miller were among the first to
engage in trade. They were succeeded by
their sons and afterwards by William Phillip,
who was long in trade there. Captain George
Phillip kept one of the first public houses there,
which other members of the family continued.
The branch of the family that settled in Ghent,
Columbia county, were among the most num-
erous in that town, where one of the name still
owns the old homestead. Mellenville was or-
iginally known as "Hard Scrabble," and the
Phillip family were among the first settlers.
George Phillip was a blacksmith. He served
in the revolution and gained the title and rank
of captain.

(I) William Phillip was long in trade in
Mellenville, (Hard.scrabble). He married Re-
becca Ostrander, who bore him David, Aaron,
(see forward) ; John, Gertrude, Catherine and
Elizabeth Ann.

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1567

(H) Aaron, second son of William and
Rebecca (Ostrander) Phillip, was born in
Claverack, Columbia county, New York in
1819, and died in Mellenville, January 26,
1905. He was quite young when his parents
removed to Mellenville, where he obtained his
education. His parents were religious people
and trained the boy to read and study the
Scriptures, which in later life gained him a
reputation as a Bible scholar. He learned the
carpenter's trade, worked for several years as
a journeyman, later became a contractor, and
in Claverack and Mellenville erected many
buildings and dwellings. He was a most tire-
less worker in the Dutch Reformed church at
Mellenville, and was an elder and superintend-
ent of the Sunday school for many years.
He was charitable, generous and ever thought-
ful of others. He married Ann Fowler of
Mellenville. who survived him four years, dy-
ing in August, 1909. . Children : Oscar W. ;
Harriet Elizabeth: Rebecca (see forward);
James E. ; Sarah E., married Frank Horton ;
John H., married and has Fred W. and Cath-
erine ; Emma, married Jacob Fassett ; Mary
Augusta ; David Franklin ; Gertrude.

(HI) Rebecca, third child of Aaron and
Ann (Fowler) Phillip, was born in Mellen-
ville, Columbia county, New York, where she
received her education. After leaving school
she removed to Troy, New York, where she
entered the factory of William A. Harden; she
was capable and ambitious, soon rising to the
position of forewoman, becoming a trusted and
valuable employee. She was generously re-
membered in ^Ir. Harden's will.

The first Burdick of record in
BURDICK America, and the ancestor of

the Burdicks of Galway, Sara-
toga county, New York, is Robert Burdick, of
Westerly, Rhode Island, who died in 1692. He
was a farmer of Newport, Rhode Island, 1655,
and was of Westerly, November i, 1661. He
was a seceder from the Baptist church, join-
ing with the Seventh Day Baptists. He was
in the thick of the fight with Massachusetts
over jurisdiction, and was arrested with To-
bias Sanders and others, brought before Gov-
ernor John Endicott. charged with "forcible
entry and intrusion" into the bounds of Sou-
thertown in the Pequot country. He admit-
ted he was upon the lands mentioned and had
built a small house there. He and Sanders
were committed to prison, both refusing to
give bail for their appearance at general court,
denying that Massachusetts had any juris-
diction over them or the territory in which the
house was built. They were committed to the
Boston jail and kept there two years, finally

being exchanged for two Massachusetts offi-
cials taken in retaliation by the Rhode Island
authorities. May 8, 1669, he was on a list
of the inhabitants of Westerly. May 17, 1671,.
he took the oath of allegiance. July, 1675,
he and his family went to Newport on account
of the Indian war, but later returned to \\'est-
erly. May 17, i(3gi, he and wife Ruth sold
one hundred acres of land for ten pounds.
March 8, 1692. he made an agreement with
his son-in-law, Joseph Crandall, by which the
latter was to take care of his father-in-law and
"find him with suitable meat, drink, washings
lodging and apparel, etc., for life, in consid-
eration of which Joseph Crandall was to have
the dwelling house and land adjoining for-
ever." He died October 25, 1692. He mar-
ried, November 2, 1655, Ruth Hubbard, who
was the first white child born in Springfield,
Massachusetts, January 11, 1640, died 1691,
daughter of Samuel and Tacy (Cooper) Hub-
bard. Children: i. Robert, married Dorcas
Lewis. 2. Hubbard, died 1758; married Han-
nah Maxon, died 1752; children: Hubbard
(2), Nathan, John and Ezekiel. 3. A son,
died 1683. 4. Thomas, married (first) Mar-
tha ; (second), February 9, 1738, Pene-
lope Rhodes. 5. Naomi, married Jonathan
Rogers; child, Content. 6. Ruth, married, in
1682, John Phillips. 7. Benjamin, died in

1741 ; married (first) Mary ; married

(second) Mrs. Jane Shelley, a widow, died
1748. He was a deacon of the Seventh Day
Baptist Church. By first wife he had eight
children: Mary, Rachel, Peter, Benjamin,
John, David, William and Elisha. 8. Samuel,
died 1756; was one of the thirty who pur-
chased five thousand three hundred acres of

"vacant lands." He married Mary ,

and had five children. 9. Tacy, died 1747;
married Joseph Maxon, born 1672, died 1750;
children : Joseph, John, Tacy, Mary, Judith,
Ruth and Elizabeth. 10. Deborah, married
Joseph Crandall, died September 12, 1737;
children : John, Joseph, and a daughter. From
this sturdy, conscience-guided ancestor, Rob-
ert, sprang all the Burdicks who claim an
early Rhode Island ancestry. The history of
the Saratoga county family herein recorded
begins with Daniel, a descendant of Robert
Burdick, of Westerly.

(\T) Daniel Burdick was born in Rhode
Island, and settled in Saratoga county. New
York, He married Nancy Lewis, in New
London, Connecticut. Children: i. Pardon,
died young. 2. Lewis, went west, all trace
lost. 3. Mary, married Josiah Gibbs, lived in
Michigan, and is buried there. 4. William,

married (first) .Arnold, of Saratoga;

married (second) Mary Pulling, of East Gal-

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-vva\', New York. 5. Truman, married Pa-
tience Webb, of Greenfield, Saratoga county.
6. Frank, married Susan Tabor, of Benedict
Corner, Fulton county, New York. 7. Peleg,
see forward.

(MI) Peleg, youngest child of Daniel and
Nancy (Lewis) Burdick, was born in the town
■of Galway, Saratoga county, New York, Sep-
tember 30, 1826, died December 28, 1894, in
the same town. He was educated in the town
schools, and was still a young man when he
•engaged in agricultural pursuits in Galway.
He owned a farm in the town which he opera-
ted until seven years before his death, when
Tie retired to the village of Galway. He was
a prominent man of Galway ; was an active
Democrat, and a leader of that party in his
town, holding many local offices. He married
(first) August 26, 1849, Louisa Clark, of Gal-
way, daughter of William V. and Mary J.
Clark, who bore him a daughter, Mary Am-
elia, November 4, 1851. She died in 1890
after her marriage to Allen S. Glenn, a sol-
dier of the civil war. Peleg Burdick mar-
ried (second) March 21, i860, Clarissa More-
house, born June 13, 1840, who yet survives
him (1910). She is a daughter of William
and Rhoda (Monroe) Morehouse, of Galway,
and granddaughter of Caleb Morehoiue, born
February i, 1767; married. May 7, 1794,
Rhoda Peck. Children of Caleb and Rhoda
(Peck) Morehouse: i. Ransom, born June
5, 1795, died November 24, 1824. 2. Carlton,
December 11, 1797, died April 7, 1855. 3.
Erastus, October 19, 1800, died August 26,
1857. 4. Orrin, March 24, 1804, died April
24, 1804. 5. Henry, June 30, 1805, died Feb-
ruary 2, 1875. 6. William, August 17, 1812,
•died March 22, 1884; married Rhoda, daugh-
ter of Eliphalet and Rebekah (Nash) Mon-
roe. Children of William and Rhoda More-
house: Clarissa, born June 13, 1840, married
Peleg Burdick. 2. Frances, November 30,
1842, married John Waring. Children of Pe-
leg and Clarissa (Morehouse) Burdick: i.
Carrie Louise, born April 5, 1861 ; married
George Herrick West, then of Galway, now
•of Ballston Spa, New York. (See West
VHL) 2. Scott M., May 6, 1863, died April
12, 1865. 3. Frances, June 4, 1865. married,
May 22, 1907, Thomas Chester Kelley, who
■died April 7, 1908. She survives her husband
and resides at Ballston Spa, New York.
(Monroe Line).

Rhoda Monroe, wife of William Morehouse,
<lescended from Thomas Monroe, who came
from England to l^lymouth, from there re-
moved to Bristol, finally settling at Rehoboth,
]\Iass. lie married and had a son John.

(H) John, son of Thomas Monroe, was

born in 1702, died April 11, 1793. He mar-
ried Hannah, a granddaughter of Benjamin
Church. In his will, proved in Rehoboth,
Massachusetts, John mentions his widow and
children. Comfort Bowen, Nathan, Rosbo-
tham, Benjamin and John.

(III) Rosbotham. son of John and Han-
nah Monroe, was born 1731 or 1732, died
in Galway, Saratoga county, New York, 1831.
He was a farmer and land owner of Galway,
his land lying in the northern part of the
town. He married and had sons.

(IV) Eliphalet, son of Rosbotham Monroe,
was born August 16, 1769, died September
26, 1848. He was a farmer of Galway, having
the homestead acres. He married Rebekah
Nash, born March 7, 1779, died 1853. Chil-
dren : Clarissa, Willard, Fanny, Azor, John,
Major, Rhoda, see forward, E. Lloyd and
Hannah.

(V) Rhoda, daughter of Eliphalet and Re-
bekah (Nash) Monroe, was born September
22, 1817. She married William Morehouse,
August 8, 1839. Children : Clarissa and
Frances.

(VI) Clarissa, daughter of William and
Rhoda (Monroe) Morehouse, was born June
13, 1840; married i860, Peleg Burdick (see
Burdick VII).

The Morrows of Albany for
MORROW half a century have been
prominent in the professions.
The family descend from a Virginia settler
who was also early in the settlement of Ken-
tucky and Ohio.

(I) James Morrow was born in the north of
Ireland, of Scotch and English parents. He
was a young man when he came to America
about 1770. He settled in Virginia. He mar-
ried there Elizabeth Frame, born in Virginia
where both died. They had issue including a
son, James.

(li) James (2), son of James (i) and
Elizabeth (Frame) Morrow, was born in Vir-
ginia, October 22, 1774. He grew to man-
hood and was commonly known as Colonel
Morrow, probably obtaining his title from
service in the militia. He was a printer by
trade. Soon after his marriage he removed
to Kentucky, settling near the present city
of Lexington. He there purchased a small
newspaper outfit and started a paper called
The Columbus Herald. After a short time he
sold his paper and removed to Ohio, settling
in Green county between Xenia and James-
town. Here he again acquired newspaper in-
terest and became well known as a writer and
debater. He was ruling elder in the Associate
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i5t)9

several tracts or addresses arguing and de-
fending doctrinal points then under discus-
sion. His home was at Massie's Creek near
Xenia, Ohio, which included a large farm,
well-improved and fertile. He married (first)
in X'irginia, Anna Kyle, born in Pennsylvania,
Aovember 27, 1779, died in Green county,
Ohio, June 14, 182 1, daughter of Joseph and
Catherine (Chambers) Kyle. He married
(second) Alargaret (Anderson) Fulton,
widow of Rev. Andrew Fulton, of Indiana;
by her first husband she had children: ALir-
^aret, Mary, Rev. Andrew (2) Fulton. By
her second marriage no issue. Children of
Colonel Morrow by first wife: i. Kittie, born
in Clark county, Kentucky, April, 1802, died
June 21, 1822, accidentally drowned. 2.
James C, born April 2, 1804. 3. Eliza, born
in Green county, Ohio, September 20, 1805,
the first child born to her parents in Ohio,
died young. 4. Mary, born February 8, 1807,
died March 23, 1883. 5. Ann, born Decem-
ber 10, 1808, died young. 6. Isabella, born
August 24, 1810, died February 17, 1875 ;
married and had issue. 7. Joseph, born April
25, 1812. married but had no issue. 8. Robert,
born April 18, 1814, married and had Albert,
Arthur and a daughter. 9. Margaret J., born
April 12, 1816. 10. Rev. Samuel F., of whom
further. 11. Ruth, born May 10, 182 1, died
June 21, 1821.

(Ill) Rev. Samuel F. Morrow, youngest
son of Colonel James (2) and Anna (Kyle)
Morrow, was born on the home farm in Green
county. Ohio, January 29, 1819, died January
12, 1904. He was educated in the district
schools and the Massie's Creek Academy,
sometime called '"Dogwood" Academy. He
was reared and intended for the ministry and,
in fulfillment of the plans of his parents, was
sent to Hanover College where he was gradu-
ated in September, 1836. His alma mater con-
ferred upon him the degree of D.D. in 1873.
He was about eighteen years of age when he
was graduated. After leaving college he
taught for some years at Carmi, Illinois. In
1841 he began the study of theology under
the private instruction of the Rev. Andrew
Heron, D.D. In 1842 he entered Canonsburg
Seminary at Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, tak-
ing the theological course, graduating in 1845.
In June of that year he was licensed to jireach
and in November, 1845. was ordained a min-
ister of the Associate Presbyterian church,
July I, 1846, he received calls at Cambridge,
Florida and Albany, New York, accepting
the last as its pastor, which church after-
wards became a part of the United Presby-
terian Church. (For the history of the con-
solidation and establishment of the United

Presbyterian church in Albany see Munsell's
"Annals of Albany," in an article prepared by
Rev. Samuel F. Morrow.) He was settled
over the Albany congregation from July,
1846, to July, 1886, a period of forty years,
his only pastorate. He was a faithful minister
of the Gospel, a pulpit orator of pleasing ad-
dress and convincing manner. He was strong
on doctrinal p<iints, yet mindful of the rights
of others and courteous to an opponent. He
was a well-beloved pastor and dear to the
hearts of his parishioners. He was honored
by the general synod ,of his church and re-
ceived many flattering testimonials of the high
appreciation of his brethren in the ministry.
His long years of service rendered him well-
known in the city outside his own church.

He married, in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania,
June 8, 1848, Mary Roseburgh, born in Pitts-
burg, June 22, 1827, died November 16, 1886,
in Albany, New York. She was a well-edu-
cated woman and a devoted Christian, a
daughter of Samuel Roseburgh, a contractor
of Pittsburg, postmaster of that city, and
a prominent member of the Presbyterian
church of that city. He married Isabelle Mil-
ler, also born in Pittsburgh, both died in the
city of their birth, past fifty years of age.

Samuel was son of , and Isabella Bruce

(Miller) Roseburgh, the latter of Scotch an-
cestry, members of the Covenanter faith. Chil-
dren of Rev. Samuel F. Morrow: i. Dr.
Samuel Roseburgh, was born in Albany. May
6, 1849 ; graduated from Albany Academy in
1866; Yale University, A.B., 1870, receiving
A.M. from same in 1874. He was a tutor at
Yale in Greek and Mathematics 1873-76;
graduate from College of Physicians and Sur-
geons of New York City, M.D., 1878: on the
house staff of Hellevue Hospital, October,
1877, to April, 1879: studied at London Hos-
pital, Vienna IIos])ital and at Halle until 1880.
He began the practice of medicine and sur-
gery in Albany, 1880, and continues in his
profession. He has been lecturer, adjunct pro-
fessor and professor at Albany Medical Col-
lege since 1881, subjects: .Vnatomy, surgery,
general and orthopoedic : surgeon to St. Pe-
ter's Hospital for Incurables ; .Albany Hospi-
tal and Childs Hospital : a member of the
State Medical and vice-president of .•\lbany
County Medical societies, and a contributor to
leading medical journals. He married Eliza-
beth Gvvynne Hutchins. of distinguished rev-
olutionary ancestry, (wlio served in both army
and navy), daughter of Stephen C. (of Coop-
erstown, New York), and Mary (Wiggins)
Hutchins (of .Albany), and sister of Walter
L. Hutchins, secretary to Mayor McEwan of
Albany. Stephen C. Hutchins was on the edi-

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torial staff at dift"erent times of the Albany
Journal, Albany Argus and Rochester Chroni-
cle and Democrat; he died in Albany, Febru-
ary 22, 1883. Child of Dr. Samuel R. Mor-
row : an adopted son, Sydney King, born Feb-
ruary 8, 1892. 2. Anna, of whom further. 3.
Isabella, born December 9, 1853, died Decem-
ber 30, 1890, unmarried. A well educated
woman of high character and a devoted Chris-
tian. 4. Mary, born April 25, 1856, died
March 27, 1858. 5. James Linton, born
October 15, 1858; he is now in business in
Pittsburg, and a man of education and promi-
nence in that city. He married Anna Cope-
land ; children : James Douglas, Mary Ade-
line. 6. Jeanette R., born May 17. 1861, died
May 3, 1863. 7. Alice, born May 30, 1863,
died April 17, 1895 ; married Esek Bussey
Williamson, of Troy, now deceased, son of
Rev. Robert D. and Phoebe (Cruikshank)
Williamson. Esek B. Williamson was promi-
nent Troy man of the firm of Alexander and
Williamson, jewelers. He was lieutenant of
the One hundred and second New York Regi-
ment, raised for service in Spanish-American
war. 8. William, born August 13, died Au-
gust 23, 1866.

(IV) Anna, eldest daughter of Rev. Sam-
uel F. and Mary (Roseburgh) Morrow, was
born in Albany, New York, May 20, 1850.
She was educated in the Albany Female
Academy. She is a member of the United
Presbyterian church over which her father
was for so long the pastor. She is a woman
of culture and refinement whose influence is
always exerted for good, and one thoroughly
appreciated by a large circle of warm friends.

The Kenyon family is of rec-
KENYON ord in Rhode Island as early
as 1687, when John Kenyon's
name appears on the tax list of Kingstown.
The family was numerous in the state of
Rhode Island, and marriage of the sons and
daughters of the various branches are of fre-
quent note in the records.

John Kenyon, born 1657, died 1732, was
the son of John, the emigrant, of whom noth-
ing can be told. John (2) married and had
a son John (3), born January, 1682, mar-
ried July, 1704, Elizabeth Remington.

(V) William Kenyon, born about 1755,
was of the fifth generation including the emi-
grant. Who he was the son of does not ap-
pear in the records. He was evidently a
grandson of John (3) and Elizabeth (Rem-
ington) Kenyon, of Kingstown, Rhode Isl-
and. He married Nancy Greene, born August
17, 1761, died 1824, (laughter of Amos and
Amy (Knowles) Greene. They lived in Rich-

mond. Amos Greene was a great-grandson'
of John Greene, the emigrant ancestor of
North Kingstown, Rhode Island, 1639. Chil-
dren of William and Nancy (Greene) Ken-
yon : Sally, William, Catherine, Jeremiah and
Joseph.

(VI) William (2), son of William (i) and
Nancy (Greene) Kenyon, was born about the
year 1785. He removed from Rhode Island
and settled in what is now the town of Lu-
zerne, Warren county. New York, then
Washington county. He was a farmer and
operated a small saw mill, most likely using
the logs cut from his own lands. He married
and had issue.

(VII) Hiram, son of William (2) Kenyon,.
was born in Luzerne, Warren county. New
York, February 10, 181 1, died 1884. He grew
to manhood in his native town, and was edu-
cated in the public schools. He early became
engaged in the lumber business, leaving home
at the age of twenty years, paying his father
one hundred dollars to release him from the
remaining year of his minority. He first lo-
cated in the town of Moreau, where he owned
and operated a saw mill located just across the
Hudson river opposite Sandy Hill. The man-
ufactured lumber from his mill was floated
across the river to the Glens Falls feeder of
the Champlain canal, where it was carried
away by boat to distant points. In 1846 he
removed his plant, and residence to Sandy
Hill, which was his home ever afterward. He
was a successful business man and conducted
operations that brought added prosperity to
his village. His lumber yards and mills at
Sandy Hill were extensive and up to the year
of his retirement (1872) he was the most im-
portant lumber merchant of the town. He
dealt largely in timber lands as well as in
manufacturing, and owned large tracts in
Northern New York. He was a faithful mem-
ber of the Presbyterian church of Sandy
Hill, and was a Democrat in politics.
He served as supervisor for two or
three terms, but he was primarily a
business man, public office having no
attractions for him. He was well regarded
in his community and his genial nature
brought him a host of friends. He married
Hannah .\. Griffin, bom in Queensbury, War-
ren county. New York, January 3, 1813, died
at Sandy Hill, January 6, 1900, daughter of
Jonathan Griffin, born in Rhode Island, moved
to the town of Queensbury at an early day
and engaged in farming and milling of lum-
ber. She was a devoted member of the Pres-
byterian church until death. Qiildren: Syl-
vanus Hill, see forward ; Hiram, born March
16, 1838, died August 5, 1839; Norman

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Schuyler. Augfiist 17, 1840, married Jean Mil-
ler : children : Enid, Helena. J. Miller, Jean
Hiram S.. July 23, 1842. married Jane Un-
derhill : children : Minnie, Norma ; James R
June 20. 1845. married Jane Fennell ; one son'
Edward, deceased; Frederick. F., May 29'
1848, married Jane O'Connor; children- Bet-
sey, Hiram, Catherine; Caroline Elizabeth
February lo, 1852, married Charles Skinner.

(VIH) Sylvanus Hill, son of Hiram and
Hannah A. (Griffin) Kenvon, was born in
Chester, Warren county. New York, Novem-
ber 14, 1834, died at Sandy Hill, Washinjrton
county. New York. May 13, 1906. When a
lad of twelve his parents removed to Sandy
Hill, where he was educated in the public
schools, later attending- Glens Falls Academy
completing his studies at the Poultnev, \^er-
mont, Academy. He early engag-ed'i'n the
lumber business with his father,\vho in 1855.
the year of his majority, admitted him as a
partner to the lumber firm of Kenyon, Robin-
son &- Company. This firm continued in ac-
tive and successful operations until 1872. In
that year Mr. Robinson died and the firm
was dissolved. The entire plant and property
was purchased by Sylvanus H. Kenyon and
Wilham B. Baldwin, trading as Kenyon &
Baldwin, who continued its operation until
January i. 1894, when the Kenvon Lumber
Company was incorporated as the'ir successor.
IMr. Kenyon became general manager of the
corporation. The business was enlarged to
mclude lumber yards, steam saw planing and
molding mills, sash, blind and door factory
and grist mill. They transacted a very large
business and prospered accordingly. Mr.
Kenyon had other business interests in Sandy
Hill and elsewhere. He was vice-president
and manager of the Sandy Hill Power Com-
pany, engaged in the manufacture of dry pulp
used by the paper makers. During his 'active
business life he did not neglect his duty as
a citizen but gave freely of his time and ripe
business experience to the concerns of his vil-
lage. He took an unusual interest in the wel-
fare of the Union school and served as treas-
urer of the school for thirty-one years. He
was always a loyal Democrat and was twice
elected supervisor from a Republican district.
He was well known, popular, and commanded
the respect of his community. He was a lib-
eral supporter of the Presbyterian church. He
married, September 4, i860, Josephine,
daughter of Joseph McFarland, of Sandy Hill,
who was a native of Warren county. New
York, born April 27. 1813. removed to Sandy
Hill in 1848; active in town affairs and for
thirty years an official of the Union school;
a lumber dealer and mill owner. He was

prominent in the Democratic partv. and for
many years superintendent of the 'Champlain
can^d. He married Lydia Ann Bull, and died
in December, 1871, aged fifty-seven years
leaving two children: Josephine (.Mrs 'Ken-
yon) Livonia, born December i, 1842 mar-
ried, in i86i, Henry E. Baker. Children of
Sylvanus Hill and Jcsephine Kenvon: Anna
A. born June 12, 1861 ; William M'arsh. mar-
ried. October 7, 1890, Estella L. Shute. daugh-
ter of H L. and Clara (Brown, Shute, of
Minneapolis, Minnesota; child, Dorothy
Louise, born January 27, 1892.

r.Tr^'T^Tcr^^• ^^^'''y eleven centuries
DICKINSON ago, there appeared at the
,-. , ,, court of Halfdan Huilbein,

King of Norway, a soldier of fortune named
Ivar. He was said to have been originally
a shepherd. One day he was captured by a
roving band of Northmen and carried oflf. Af-
ter a series of adventures he made his ap-
pearance at the Norse King's Court about
700. Being of handsome presence he became
a favorite of the King, who made him a gen-
eral of his army. Prince of the Uplands, ^and
in 725 bestowed upon him in marriage his
daughter Eurittea, the heiress of the realm
King Halfdan died in 725, leaving his crown
to his grandson Eystein, son of Ivar, who
served as Regent during the King's minority.
King Eystein reigned until 755 and left Har-
old Harfgar. successor, and another son
Rogenwald who left a son Rolf or Rollo, the
most adventurous prince of his day, who over-
ran Normandy in 910. His si.xth and young-
est son, Walter, received the town and' castle
of Caen as his inheritance. His great-grand-
son, Walter de Caen, accompanied \VilIiam
the Conqueror to England. To this nobleman
the line of Dickinson descended from the emi-
grant ancestor, Nathaniel, may be traced. The
family name is found spelled with varying
time, location, and circumstance in many ways
de Kengon, Dykenson, Dvkonson, Diconson,
Dickoson. Dickion, Dicka.son, Dickeison,'
Dickingson, and Dickinson. From Walter de
Caen, later Walter de Kengon (taking the
name of his manor in Yorkshire, England)
comes :

(II) Johnne Dvkonson, freeholder. King--
ston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, married, 1260,
IMargaret Lambert, and died 13 16.

(HI) William Dykcn.son, freeholder,
Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, died 13-50-31.'
(I\') Hugh Dykensonne, freeholder, King-
ston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, died 1376.

(V) Anthoyne Dickensonne, freeholder,
Kingston-upon-Hull. Yorkshire, married'
1376, Catheryne De La Pole, and died 1396*

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(VI) Richard Dickinson, freeholder, King-
ston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, married, 1399,
Margaret Cooper, died 1441.

(\'II) Thomas Dickinson, freeholder, King-
ston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, married, 1430,
Margaret Lambert, a Kingston woman. He
was alderman of Hull, England, from 1443
to 1444, and mayor from 1444 to 14 — , and
died 1475.

(Vni) Hugh Dickinson, freeholder, re-
moved to Kenson Manor, Yorkshire, married,
145 1, Agnes Swillington, died 1509.

(IX) William Dickinson, freeholder, of
Kenson [Manor, Yorkshire, married, 1475, Isa-
bel Langton, and died 1546.

(X) John Dickinson settled in Leeds, York-
shire, England. He married, 1499, Elizabeth
Danby, was alderman 1525 to 1554, and died
Jn 1554-

(XI) William Dickinson settled at Brad-
ley Hall, Staffordshire; married, in 1520,
Rachel Kinge ; died in 1590.

(XII) Richard Dickinson, of Bradley Hall,
Staffordshire, married, in 1540, Eliza Bag-
nail, and died in 1605.

(XIII) Thomas Dickinson, clerk of Ports-
mouth navy yard, England, from 1567 to
1587; removed to Cambridge in 1587; mar-
ried, 1567, Judith Carey, died 1590.

(XIV) William Dickinson settled at Ely,
Cambridge, and married, 1594, Sarah Stacey,
of Ely, died 1628.

(X\') Nathaniel Dickinson, the American
ancestor, was born in Ely, Cambridge, Eng-
land, in 1600. He married (first) in January
1630, at East Bergolat, Suffolk, England,
Anna, widow of Williani Gull. They came
to Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1636-37,
where Nathaniel became one of the leaders of
the colony. He was town clerk in 1645, dep-
uty to the general court in 1646-47. In 1649
he removed to Hadley, Massachusetts, where
he was admitted a freeman in 1661. He was
the first recorder of the town, selectman, as-
sessor, town magistrate, deacon of the church,
member of the Hampshire troop, and on the
first board of trustees of Hopkins Academy.
He resided also for a few years at Hatfield.
He died at Hadley, June 16, 1676. He mar-
ried (second) Anne . Children, all by

first wife: i. John, born in 1630, killed in King
Philip's war. 2. Joseph, born in 1632, was
slain in King Philip's war with Captain Beers ;
married, September 4, 1675, Phebe Bracy. 3.
Thomas, born 1634, married Hannah Crow.
4. Anna, married (first) John Clarey ; (sec-
ond) Enos Kingsley. 5. Samuel, born July,
1638, married Martha Bridgeman. 6. Oba-
diah, born April 15, 1641. 7. Nathaniel, born
August, 1643, niarried (first) Hannah ,

(second) Mrs. Elizabeth Gillette. 8. Nehe-
miah, born 1644, married Sarah Cowles. 9.
Hezekiah, born February, 1646, married Abi-
gail Blakeman. 10. Azariah, born October 4,
1648, killed in the swamp fight, August 25,
1675; married Dorcas .

(XVI) Obadiah, son of Nathaniel "the
Emigrant" and Anna (Gull) Dickinson, was
born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, April 15,
1641. He removed to Massachusetts with his
parents and to Hatfield in 1659. His house
was burned by the Indians in 1677, and he
and his child carried to Canada. He returned
the ne.xt year and settled in Wethersfield,
Connecticut, where he died June 10, 1698. He
held the military rank of sergeant. He mar-
ried (first) in 1668, Sarah Beardsley ; (sec-
ond) in 1692, Mehitable Hinsdale. Children
by first wife: Sarah born 1670; Obadiah (2),
1672; Daniel, 1674; Eliphalet, of further men-
tion. Children by second marriage: Noadiah
1694: Mehitable, 1696.

(XVTI) Eliphalet, son of Obadiah and Sa-
rah (Beardsley) Dickinson, was born in Hat-
field, Massachusetts, in 1676. He returned,
probably with his father, to Wethersfield,
Connecticut, where he married November 24,
1697, Rebecca, daughter of Jacob Brunson,
who died May 2, 1755, aged seventy-six years.
Children: Sarah, born November 8, 1698;
Obadiah, of further mention; Eliphalet (2),
August I, 1703; Rebecca, December 28, 1705;
Eunice, July 22, 1708; Lois, August 18, 1710,
died November 8, 1712; Eleazer, August 23,
1712, married, April 20, 1737, Jemima Nott.

(XVIII) Obadiah (2), son of Eliphalet
and Rebecca (Brunson) Dickinson, was born
in Wethersfield, Connecticut, August, 1702.
He married, November 22, 1733, Hannah,
born June 20, 1708, daughter of Joseph and
Mary Rockwell, of Norwalk, Connecticut.
Joseph, was the son of John (2) Rockwell, of
Stamford, Connecticut, son of John (i) and
Elizabeth (Weed) Rockwell, the founders of
tliis branch of the Rockwell family in Amer-
ica. John (i) Rockwell was one of the first
settlers of Stamford, Connecticut, where his
name appears December 7, 1641, when he
received his home lot and two acres of
ground. Obadiah and Hannah resided in
Middletovvn, Connecticut, until the birth of
their fourth child, then removed to the town
of Wethersfield, where they lived and died in
Stepney Parish, Rocky Hill. He died April
23, 1782, and she May 23, 1781. Children:
Lois, born October 28, 1734, married and
died before her parents: Elias, of further
mention; Elizabeth, November 19, 1736, mar-
ried Galpin ; Obadiah, May 2, 1739,

married Elizabeth Smith ; Hannah, February

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24, 1745, died unmarried September 26, 1810.

(XIX) Ellas, son of Obadiali (2) and
Hannah (Rockwell) Dickinson, was born
about 1735. He married Ruth Savage, of
W'ethersfield, December 25, 1766. and resided
at Rocky Hill. Children: Lois, born August
2. 1-68; Harvey, of further mention: Rock-
well, November 18, 1771 ; Seth, June 8, 1774;
Sallv, September 19, 1776; Burrage, July 4,
1779: Elias (2), July 18, 1782. While the
Connecticut revolutionary rolls do not contain
the military service of Elias Dickinson, they
do of Elias Dicky. In the sixth census, taken
in 1840, the name of Mary Dickin.son, aged
eighty-eight years, is returned from the town
of Wethersfield, Connecticut, as a revolution-
ary pensioner. There is a strong probability
that she is Mary (Savage) Dickinson and
was in receipt of her pension on account of
the military service of her husband, Elias
Dickinson.

(XX) Harvey, son of Elias and Mary
(Savage) Dickinson, was born at Rocky Hill,
Connecticut. March 29, 1770, died in Raleigh,
South Carolina, 1822. He married, October
7. 1792, Hannah Grimes, died at Rocky Hill,
September i. 183 1, daughter of Alexander,
son of Hezekiah, son of Joseph, son of Henry
Grimes. Joseph and Ruth (Stebbins) Grimes
are the progenitors of the Rocky Hill family.
He was a wealthy farmer, his estate inven-
torying about one thousand pounds, which lie
devised to all of his seven living children.
Children of Harvey and Hannah Dickinson :
Rockwell, died at sea, September. 1824, aged
twenty-two years : William, lost at sea, Sep-
tember, 1823, aged nineteen years ; Elias, died
in Mississippi, 1837, aged thirty years ; Mary
died May 24, 1830, aged twenty-two years ;
Susan, died October 8, 1826, aged twelve
vears: Harvey (2).

(XXI) Harvey (2), son of Harvey (i)
and Hannah (Grimes) Dickinson, was born in
Rocky Hill, Stepney Parish, town of Wethers-
field, Connecticut, died at Hartford, Connec-
ticut, October 28. 1865. He married (first)
October i, 1824, Rachel, born November 18,
1806, died August 19, 1845. daughter of Jesse
and Rachel (Studley) Stoddard, of Wethers-
field and Great Harrington, Massachusetts ;
married (second) September 22, 1847, Jane
A. Allison, who died June, 1882. Children of
first marriage: i. William, deceased. 2. Sa-
rah, born January 10. 1827: married January
24. 1853, Lazarus Barrell. 3. Henry, de-
ceased. 4. Frances, deceased. 5. William,
born October 6, 1833, died October 15, 1870.
6. Caroline, deceased. 7. Frank, born August
2, 1836; married (first) September 6, 1865,
Laura M. Beaumont; married (second) Feb-

ruary 20, 1883, Malinda Teiuiey. 8. Robert,
deceased. 9. Ellen Stoddard, born September
22, 1843. ID. Infant, deceased. Children by
second marriage: 11. Alida, born September
6, 1848; married, February 7, 1887, William
H. Roberts. 12. Susan, born February 9. 1851,
died July 17, 1889. 13. Harry, borii October
24, 1852. 14. Frederick, born October 24,
1855.

(XXII) Ellen Stoddard, daughter of Har-
vey (2) and Rachel (Stoddard) Dickinson,
was born in Hartford, Connecticut, September
22, 1843. She married (first) June 20, 1866,
Robert Henry White, born I\Tarch 3. 1834,
died in Hudson, New York, April 5, 1896,
son of Joseph and Bathsheba (Hammond)
White. Robert H. White was a hardware
merchant of Hudson, a member of the Uni-
versalist church, and a Democrat. Children
I. Cora D., married, November 30. 1887,
James Lawther, born September 3, 1868, died
March 30, 1888 ; no issue. 2. Arthur H., born
January 2, 1872, at Hudson, New York, died
in California, February 21, 1905; he was con-
nected with United States embassy to China
as deputy consul at Shanghai. 3. Bertha M.,
born in Hudson. Robert H. White was sur-
vived by his widow who married (second)
Cornelius Henrv Evans, who died Marcli 5,
1902.

(The Stoddard Line).

"Arthur's Etymological Dictionary of Fam-
ily and Christian names" says, concerning the
origin of this name that there is a tradition
that the first of the family came to England
with William the Conqueror, as standard
bearers to Viscomte De Pulesdon, a noble
Norman, and that the name is derived from
the office of a standard bearer and was an-
ciently written De Le Standard, corrupted to
Stodard or Stodart. In Wethersfield, Con-
necticut, records, the name frequently appears
as Stodder, Stoder, Stodker, Studder and
Stoddard.

(I) John Stoddard, born about 1620 in
England, was an early settler in Wethersfield,
and was a juror, March 2, 1643. I" '^39 'le
was called "Sergeant." He figures in the
court records both as plaintiflf and defendant.
He married. 1642, Mary, daughter of Nathan-
iel and Elizabeth (Deming) Foote, and died
at Wethersfield, December, 1664. He was a
well-to-do farmer and left an estate of four
hundred pounds. He had seven children of
whom John (2) was the oldest son and second
child.

(II) John (2), son of John (i) and Eliza-
beth (Foote) Stoddard, was born April 12,
1646, will dated November 30, 1703, inven-
tory dated January 10, 1704, amounted to

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seven hundred and twenty-five pounds. He
married, Alay 26, 1674, Elizabeth, daughter
of Thomas Curtis. They had nine children
of whom Jonathan was the seventh.

(III) Jonathan, son of John (2) and Eliza-
beth (Curtis) Stoddard, was born in Wethers-
field, Connecticut, died August 31, 1757. He
is named in his father's will (1703) as a mi-
nor. He married (first) in 1717, Abigail,
daughter of Colonel Meph and Sarah (Sat-
terlee) Wickham, married (second) Esther

, a widow. He had six children of

whom Zebulon was the eldest.

(IV) Zebulon, son of Jonathan and Abi-
gail (Wickham) Stoddard, was baptized in
1717. He removed to Litchfield, Connecticut,
where his children were born. He married,
March 21, 1745, Abigail Hun. He died Feb-
ruary 19, 1 76 1, and she married (second)
Hezekiah Atwood. He had seven children
of whom Joseph was the second and eldest
son.

(V) Joseph, son of Zebulon and Abigail
(Hun) Stoddard, was born August 21, 1747,
died 1792. He lived at Wethersfield where
his children were born. He married, June
23, 1768, Mary Fuller, who was baptized and
joined the church, June 26, 1774. six years
after her marriage. They had eleven children
of whom Jesse was the tenth.

(VI) Jesse, son of Joseph and Mary (Ful-
ler) Stoddard, was born April 14, 1789. He
married (second) Rachel Studley.

(VTI) Rachel, daughter of Jesse and Ra-
chel (Studley) Stoddard, married Harvey (2)
Dickinson, (see Dickinson XXI).

The De Graffs were among
DE GRAFF the early settlers of Schenec-
tady, and were as a family
distinguished in public life and highly-re-
garded in their several communities. They
were connected by marjiage with the Vis-
schers and other prominent families of the
valley. Colonel Frederick Visscher, the rev-
olutionary hero and victim of the savage
scalping knife, married Gazcna De Graff, of
Schenectady, and lived at beautiful "Danas-
cara Place," his country seat and latter day
home of the De Graff family herein recorded.
The founders of the family in the Mohawk
Valley were Andries De Graff, who was of
New Amsterdam in 1661, and Jan Andriese,
his son, who was in Albany as early as 1655.
(II) Claas Andriese, son of Andries De
Graff, died about 1697. He was an early
settler of Schenectady. He lived in Glen-
ville, at the "Hoek." He married Elizabeth,
daughter of William Brouwer, of Albany ; she
died in 1723. Children: Abraham, Isaac, Ant-

je, Sara, Elizabeth, Eva, Margarita, Jesse, see
forward, Andriese, Rebecca, Claas.

(III) Jesse, son of Claas Andriese and
Elizabeth (Brouwer) De Graff, was born in
Glenville, Schenectady county, New York. It
is said he was carried away captive to Canada
by the French and Indians, but afterward re-
turned. He married Aaltje (Adeline and
Adela) Hennions in New York, October 20,
1705. Children : Claas, baptized December 25,
1706; Daniel, see forward; Elizabeth, Anna,
Aaltje, Marytje (Mary), Catharine, Saartje
(Sarah), Alida, Eva, Rachel, baptized June
29, 1729.

(IV) Daniel, son of Jesse and Aaltje
(Hennions) De Graff, was baptized May 26,
1708, died March 12, 1790. He married Ga-
zena, daughter of Simon Swits, June 26, 1735.
She died January 22, 1801, aged eighty-eight
years. Children : Daughter, died unbaptized ;
Susanna, married Andreas Truax ; Jesse, died
in infancy ; Gazena. married Colonel Frederick
Visscher : son, died unbaptized ; Jesse, bap-
tized January 13, 1745; Alida, married Jo-
hannes Vedd'er ; Simon, born April 6, 1753 ;
Elizabeth, died in infancy ; Isaac, see forward.

(V) Judge Isaac De Graff, son of Daniel
and Gazena (Swits) De Graff, was born in
Schenectady, New York, November 16. 1757.
He was a man of prominence, a devoted pa-
triot, and served in the revolutionary army,
holding the rank of major. He was a friend
of Lafayette, who administered to him the
oath of office prescribed by congress. After
the close of the war he returned to Schenec-
tady, where he was appointed judge of the
court of common pleas, holding that office
during the greater part of the remaining
years. He died December 21, 1844, just hav-
ing passed his eighty-eighth birthday. He
married Susanna, died March 14, 1829, aged
sixty-eight years, daughter of Jan Baptist Van
Eps. Children: i. Daniel, born June 16,
1780, died young. 2. Annetjc, died young.
3. John I., born October 2, 1783; during the
war of 1812 he rendered the United States
government patriotic service in advancing
money to equip the fleet on Lake Champlain
that later defeated the British fleet. He rep-
resented his district in congress for two terms
and was honored by President Van Buren
with the offer of port of folios, secretary of
the treasury, which he declined. He was one
of the organizers of the Mohawk & Hudson
railroad, the first railroad ever built in Amer-
ica ; was a successful merchant, and several
times mayor of Schenectady. 4. Jesse, died
young. 5. Gazena, born January 13, 1788;
married Abraham Oothout. 6. Neeltje, bom
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Philadelphia. 7. Susanna, born February 12,
T792, died young. 8. Susanna (2), born May
-9- 1793; married Pieter Banckee ; died June
29, 1855. 9- Annetjie (Nancy), married Cap-
tain Philip R. Toll, of the prominent Toll
family of Schenectady, a physician; served
with distinction in the war of 1812 as cap-
tain of artillery ; they removed to Fawn River,
Michigan, where their son, Isaac R. Toll, be-
came a distinguished public man. 10. Jesse,
see forward.

(\T) Judge Jesse (2) De Grafif, youngest
son of Isaac and Susanna (Van-Eps) De
Graff, was born in Schenectady, New York,
January 9, 1801. He was graduated from
Union College, and studied law with .Alonzo
C. Paige of that city. He was admitted to
the bar, and removed to Albany where his pro-
fessional career was marked with honor and
success. He was appointed judge of the court
of common pleas for Albany and was a wise
and impartial judge. After retiring from the
bench he busied himself with the care and
improvement of his large estate inherited by
his wife. He made the old Visscher mansion
his home and entertained lavishly, their home
becoming a social center. He died August
4, 1868. and is buried in Rural Cemetery,
Schenectady, by the side of his wife. Fie
married, August 10, 1830, Gazena Catherine,
only child of Frederick Herman Msscher,
who was son of Colonel Frederick \''isscher,
■of revolutionary fame. Children : Susan, mar-
ried \\'illiam Fainham, of Troy ; Charles Her-
man, died early; Alfred, see forward; Isaac
Howard, died young.

(\TI) Alfred, only surviving son of Judge
Jesse (2) and Gazena Catherine (Visscher)
De Graff to survive youthful years, was born
.at the old home. "Danascara Place," New
York. He inherited "Danascara Place" and
was the fifth generation in ownership of the
beautiful estate on the Danascara creek. The
property lies in the town of Mohawk, Mont-
gomery county, three miles east of Fonda. He
reconstructed and enlarged the mansion and
added modern improvements, adorned the in-
terior with valuable pictures, other works of
art and a choice library. Among the relics
and heirlooms preserved there was a silver
dollar that had then been in the family one
hundred and fifty years and is still preserved,
having been a family possession for two cen-
turies. Mr. Dc Graff lived the life of a coun-
try gentleman and the management of his es-
tate was his only business. He married, Oc-
tober 14, 1869, Anna, only daughter of Cor-
nelius Phillips, of the town of Florida, Mont-
gomery county, who died in 1865, proprietor
•of the Phillips farm settled on originally by

his grandfather, Cornelius Phillips, who was
killed at the battle of Oriskany. His son Wil-
liam was the next proprietor and he handed it
down to his son Cornelius, father of Anna,
wife of Alfred De Graff. Children: Edith,
married Fred S. 1 laslett ; Howard A., see for-
ward ; Florence, unmarried.

(VIII) Howard A., only son of Alfred and
Anna (Phillips) De Graff, was born at "Da-
nascara Place," town of Mohawk, Montgom-
ery county, New York. He received his early
education in the public schools, prepared for
college at Union Classical Institute, entered
Union University, where he graduated, class
of 1899. .\fter leaving college he engaged
in the banking business in Fonda. He is vice-
president of the Fultonville National Bank
and director of the Glen Telephone Company.
He is a member of the Dutch Reformed
church. He is a member of Fultonville Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons, and his college
fraternity is Alpha Delta Phi. He married
Elizabeth K., born September 15, 1884,
daughter of James L. Northrup, of Johns-
town, and granddaughter of Charles M. Knox.

This branch of the Parker
PARKER family in New York state de-
scends from Alexander Parker,
a native of the north of Ireland, where he
married and has issue.

(II) William Henry, son of Alexander
I'arker, was born in the north of Ireland,
where he grew to manhood. The family were
members of the Presbyterian church in which
faith William H. was reared. He was as-
sociated with the organization of Orange men
and in full sympathy with his Protestant
brethren. He came to the United States, and
settled in Hudson, Columbia county. New
York. He had little capital, but by close econ-
omy managed to get a small sum saved with
which he purchased a team and did general
teaming. He soon became engaged in the
ice business, teaming during the day for
others, hauling and storing his ice at night.
In this way he soon became well established
and continued a most successful career, dying
possessed of a large estate. He was not only
a man of great industry, but of unusual busi-
ness ability as well. He was upright and hon-
orable in his business dealings, holding the
respect and confidence of his townsmen. He
continued his membership in tlie Presbyterian
churcii until death, and affiliated with the Re-
publican party. Me married (first) .Agnes
McKague. Children: i. Phoebe, died in
1907 ; married .Albert I.amsure. 2. John, de-
ceased. 3. Annie, resides in Chicago, Illi-
nois ; widow of John Lee ; children : Henry,

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Alice, John, Benjamin and Alexander. 4.
Samuel 1\L, of further mention. He married
(second) Ellen Maney. Children: 5. William
H. 6. Edward M.

(HL) Samuel McKague, fourth and young-
est child of William Henry and Agnes (Mc-
Kague) Parker, was born in Hudson. New
York, where he died January 13, 1908. He
was educated in the public schools and at
Hudson Academy. After finishing his stud-
ies he was engaged with his father in the
ice business until the retirement of the lat-
ter, when in company with his brother John
he succeeded to the business to which they
added a coal yard. The brothers continued in
business as partners until the death of John
Parker, when Samuel M. continued alone un-
til his death in 1908. He was a prosperous
and efficient man of business and possessed
of considerable real estate in his city. He
adhered to the family religion and was a con-
sistent member of the Presbyterian church of
Hudson. In political belief he affiliated with
the Democratic party. He was a member of
the Masonic order and of the Fraternal Or-
der of Eagles.

Mr. Parker married, in Hudson, Eliz-
abeth Frances, daughter of Allen J. Race, of
Hudson. Children : i. Allen J., born in Hud-
son where he is engaged in the livery busi-
ness ; married Mary Powers. 2. Edith May,
married William H. Clapp, of Hudson, con-
nected with the office of the county clerk of
Hudson county ; child, Dorothy Elizabeth. 3.
Ada Ella. 4. Hilda Belle. Allen J. Race,
father of Elizabeth Frances (Race) Parker,
was born in the north of Ireland in the same
parish the Parkers lived. He married Sa-
mantha, daughter of William H. and Frances
(White) Tunner, and had issue. He was the
son of Jonathan and Elizabeth Race, who for
many years kept the old tavern on the turn-
pike between Humphreyville and Greenport,
called the "Race Inn." This was a famous
and popular resort where many dances and
suppers were given in the early days.

Of the parentage, birthplace,
BROWN and early history of Chad

Brown nothing definite seems
to he now known. Accompanied by his wife,
Elizabeth, and son John, then eight years old,
and perhaps his younger sons, he emigrated
from England in the ship "Martin," which ar-
rived in Boston, Massachusetts, July, 1638.
He did not long remain in Massachusetts, but
soon removed to Providence, Rhode Island,
where he at once became a leader in the col-
ony and one of its most valued citizens. In
the north burial ground stands a stone marked

In memory of

CHAD B R O W N

Elder of the Baptist church in

tliis town.

He was one of the original proprietors of

the Providence Purchase,

Having been exiled from Massachusetts

for conscience sake.

He had five sons,

JOHN, JAMES, JEREMIAH, CHAD and

DANIEL,

who have left a numerous posterity.

He died about A.D. 1665.

This monument

was erected by the town of

Providence.

Descendants of Chad Brown have been con-
spicuous in early and subsequent Rhode Isl-
and history. They have served the colony and
state in every public capacity including the
high office of governor. Brown L^niversity
owes not only its name, but its early life to-
the family generosity. John and Moses-
Brown had much to do in founding the free
school system in Providence. They were suc-
cessful business men in each generation and
equally prominent in the chuifh and the pro-
fessions. Far beyond the confines of Rhode
Island they have scattered and made honored
names. The Browns of Coxsackie descend'
through Daniel Brown.

(11) Daniel, fifth and youngest son of Chad
and Elizabeth Brown, may have been borm
after the family arrived in America. He was-
a resident of Providence, but died while tem-
porarily at Newport, September 29, 1710. He
married, December 25, i66g, Alice, bom 1652,
died after 1718, daughter of Benjamin and'
Elizabeth (White )Hearnden, Daniel Brown
was a fanner living "on the neck." Children :
I. Judah, of further mention. 2. Jabez, of

Providence, married .Ann . 3. Sarah, born

October 10, 1677, died after 1744: married^
April 4, 1700, married Thomas Angell, ances-
tor of James B. Angell, graduate of Brown
University, now editor of Providence Daily
Journal; president of the University of Ver-
mont ; president of the University of Michi-
gan ; United States minister to China ; was
appointed by President Cleveland a member
of the commission to consider questions con-
nected with the United States right of
fishing in waters adjacent to Canada
and Newfoundland. 4. Jeremiah, a
brickmaker and innkeeper of Smithfield,
Rhode Island : married, December 8,
1715, Sarah Tucker. 5. Hallelujah, died
1771 ; married, August 31, 1702, James Olney,
and had eight children, one of whom ; Mary,
married .Arthur Fenner. She was a won-
derful woman. Her husband was sickly for
manv vcars and iinalilc to t\o business. Site-

3^u>

Cfam .JJ/'own

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'577'

acquired and continued the business and kept
the family of twelve children in affluence. Her
eleventh child, Arthur Fenner, was the popu-
lar governor of Rhode Island, 1790- 1805. His
son, James Fenner, was elected governor
1807-11, re-elected in 1824, serving until 1831,
elected again 1842, serving until 1844. He
was United States senator from 1805 to 1807,
resigning to become governor. 6. Hosanna,
married Mary Hawkins. 7. Jonathan. 8.
Daniel (2), a cooper of Providence; married
Mary Sprague.

(HI) Judah, eldest soti of Daniel and Alice
(Hearnden) Brown, died January 18, 1734.
He lived in Providence and Scituate, Rhode

Island. He married Hannah , who

died after 1745. Children: Joseph, Deborah.
Abigail, David, Hannah, Elisha, Phoebe.

(IV) Joseph, eldest son of Judah and Han-
nah Brown, was born in Rhode Island. He
settled in the town of Malta, Saratoga county,
Xew York, where he died aged about eighty
years. He married a Miss Chase and had
issue.

(V) Josiah, son of Joseph and ■

(Chase) Brown, was born in Malta, Xew
York, 1800, died June 22, 1888. He married
(first) Betsey Ashley; (second) Ruth Pettit.

(VI) Hiram, son of Josiah and Betsey
(Ashley) Brown, was born in Malta. Sara-
toga county. New York, September 20, 1830,
died at Coxsackie, Greene county. New York,
June 13, 1900.

Hiram Brown was educated in the pub-
lic schools where he acquired a good knowl-
edge of the English branches. He tauglit
school for two years, and then removed to
New York, where he was clerk in a grocery
store. In 1856 he made permanent location
in Coxsackie, first engaging in coal trade, later
in a general lumber business. He was an
energetic, prosperous man of business and
stood well in his community. He was a strong
supporter of the cause of Prohibition, and to
its upbuilding devoted much time and money.
For forty years he was a devoted member
of the Methodist Episcopal church, serving on
the official board and as superintendent of the
Sunday school. He was not a mere money
maker, but devoted himself in a large degree
to the service of his brethren. His life teemed
with kindly deeds and he left a well-cherished
memory.

He was married December 25, 1854, to
Phoebe, born January 16, 1836. daughter of
Richard F. and Elizaljeth (Gritman) Buck-
bee, of Dutchess county, New York, (see
P.uckbee IV). She survives her husband and
lives a qm'ct life in her Coxsackie home. She
has no children.

(The Buckbec Line).

This family settled first in Westchester and'
Dutchess counties, New York. Their origin
is difficult to determine as the name is evi-
dently a corrupted form of another surname.
The Bockee family of Dutchess county have
as branches claiming common origin, Buckey,
Bocke, Bowker, Bockes and Barikes. The
surname Buckbee may come from a descend-
ant of Matthias Buquet. The first of mention
in Dutchess county annals is Israel Buckbee,
of Stanford, horn about 1740, died 1820. Ten
of the name Buckbee served in the revolution
from New York state, but the family identi-
fication is impossible. Israel had sons.

(II) John, son of Israel Buckbee, of Stan-
ford, Dutchess county, New York.died 1821.
He married Nancy Cole. His descendants
settled in the town of Chatham, Columbia
county. New York.

(II) Richard, son of Israel Buckbee, was
born in Stanford, Dutchess county. New York,
about 1780. He continued his residence in
Stanford, until 1837, when he removed to-
Washington county, New York, settling near
Sandy Hill. He later removed to Saratoga
county. New York, where he died in 1848.
He married Phoebe Boyce.

(HI) Richard Ferguson, son of Richard
and Phoebe (Boyce) Buckbee, was born in
Dutchess county. New York, 1808. died in
Coxsackie, Greene county. New York, 1874.
He was educated in the public schools, .-\fter
the removal to Saratoga and Washington
counties, where he followed the occupation of
a farmer, he finally located in Coxsackie where
he engaged in the lumber business, continu-
ing until his death in 1874. He married Eliz-
abeth Gritman, and had two children: i. El-
zada. married Gilbert Fitchett, and had'
one daughter, Julia F.. wife of Dr. .A. Beach
and has one son, Richard B., married Claribel
Newberry. 2. Phoebe, see forward.

(IV) Phoebe, daughter of Richard F. and
Elizabeth (Gritman) Buckbee, was born Janu-
ary 16, 1836, married, December 25, 1854,
Hiram Brown, Ixirn 1830, died 1900 (see
Brown \I).

The ancestor of this
P.\TTERSON branch of the Patterson

family in America was
James Patterson, born in Scotland about
1633. He was one of the prisoners of war
taken by Cromwell, probably at the battle of
Worcester, September 3, 1651. These prison-
ers were sold as lx)nal ser\ants by the English
government and a large number of them were
sent to New England in the ship "John and'
Sarah" of LnndDn, Captain John Green, Mas-

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HUDSON AND xMOHAWK X'ALLEYS

ler. They embarked November 6, 1651, sailed
about November 14, 1651, and arrived at Bos-
ton in tlie May following. In 1658 James
Patterson was a resident of Billerica, Massa-
chusetts, where he received a grant of land
from the town followed by sixteen other
grants issued between the years of 1658 and
1685. He was admitted a freeman, April 18,
1690. At a meeting of the selectmen and
committee held October 8, 1675, an order
from the honorable council sent them was
read "twelve garrison's were formed in Bil-
lerica." "They appoint James Paterson's
house for garrison, etc." His will was dated
May 12, 1701, and he died in Billerica, July
14, 1701, aged about sixty-eight years. He
married. May 29, 1662, Rebecca Stevenson,
before married to Thomas Dantforth, Esq.
She was born about 1642, daughter of An-
drew Stevenson, of Cambridge, Massachu-
setts. Children : Mary, James, Andrew, John,
Joseph, Rebecca, James and Jonathan.

(H) Andrew, son of James and Rebecca
(Stevenson) Patterson, born in Billerica,
Massachusetts, April 4, 1672, was a mariner
and tradition says "was lost at sea." He
was alive March 27, 1707, as appears by deeds.
He married, 1697, Elizabeth Kebbe, of
Charlestown, Massachusetts. She died in
Reading, Massachusetts, June, 1738. Child:
James.

(HI) James (2), son of Andrew and Eliza-
beth (Kebbe) Patterson, was born in Med-
ford, Massachusetts, October 5, 1707, died at
Princeton, Massachusetts, May 4, 1766. He
was a blacksmith and in 1730 purchased a
homestead in Sudbury where he resided till
1763, he later was of Princeton where he died.
He married, October 14, 1730, Lydia, born
in Lexington, daughter of Deacon Jonathan
and Abigail (Reed) Fisk. Children: Jona-
than, David, Andrew.

(IV) .'\ndrew (2), son of James (2) and
Lydia (Fisk) Patterson, was born in Sud-
bury, Massachusetts, April 14, 1742. He later
lived in Princeton and then removed farther
west. He married (first) in Worcester, Mas-
sachusetts, October 21, 1761, Elizabeth Bond,
who died September 13, 1772, aged thirty-
six years. He married (second) Mrs. Anne
Russell, a widow. Children of first wife: Sa-
rah, James, died young. Children of second
wife: David and perhaps others.

(V) David, son of Andrew (2) and .\nne
(Russell) Patterson, was born in Sudbury,
Massachusetts, August 31, 1778. He married
and had a son Levi.

(\'I) Levi, son of David Patterson, was
born in Princeton, Massachusetts, in 1800,
<lie<l in Ohio. He removed to Ohio where he

was postmaster and a man of prominence. He
married Abigail Chapin, of the Massachusetts
Chapin family, so largely interested in the
Boston and Albany railroad. Children: Au-
gusta, who married Theodore Kline, and Da-
vid Chapin.

f\'II) David Chapin, son of Levi and Abi-
gail (Chapin) Patterson, was born at Mt.
Washington, Massachusetts, February 17,
1829, died August 2, 1907, at Newark, New
Jersey. He resided in Hudson, New York,
where he was engaged as a contractor. Dur-
ing the civil war he enlisted in the Forty-
ninth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer In-
fantry, and served in the quartermaster's de-
partment for one year. He was a Democrat
in politics, and a Universalist in religious be-
lief. He married Catherine Ann Doty, eighth
child of Samuel and Elizabeth (Sanford)
Doty, of North Egremont, Massachusetts,
later of Milan, New York, where Catherine
Ann was born, a direct descendant of Edward
Doty, who came in the "Mayflower," and
his wife. Faith (Clarke) Doty. The descent
is through Isaac, fifth son and seventh child
of Edward and Faith, who lost his father
when he was six years of age. Isaac settled
at Oyster Bay, Long Island, where he owned
a great amount of land. He married Eliza-
beth England and had six children. Their
son Samuel, born at Oyster Bay, married
Charity, daughter of Jarvis Mudge, and had
eight children. Their son Charles, born at
Oyster Bay, about 1730, removed to the town
of Clinton, now Hyde Park. Dutchess county,
New York, in 1755, where he died 1803. He
is buried in the Quaker burying ground but
was not a member of the Friends Meeting.
He married Sarah Baker and had nine chil-
dren. Their son Samuel (2), born in Clin-
ton, Dutchess county. New York, in 1764,
died at Milan, New York. He married (first)
Sarah Shaw; (second) Mrs. Rebecca Copper
nail. Ten children by first wife, three by
second. Samuel (3), son of Samuel (2) and
Sarah (Shaw) Doty, married Elizabeth San-
ford and had ten children. Their daughter
Catherine Ann, born in Milan, New York,
June 12, 1833, married David Chapin Patter-
son, and died at Hudson, New York, 1899.
Children: i. Agnes, married Rector Stickles;
children : Lloyd and Blanche. 2. Merritt
Smith. 3. Imogene, married William Reitz
and lives in New Jersey. 4. Nettie, married
(first) Arthur HoUey and (second) Luther
Shute. 5. Ezbon, married (first) Meda Pierce,
child Edward; married (second) Julia
Martin.

(\'ni) Merritt Smith, son of David Chapin
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born at North Haven, Massachusetts, No-
vember iS. 1853. He received a good educa-
tion, and joined his father in the contracting
business which he still continues in Hudson,
New York. He is an energetic, successful
business man and held in highest esteem. He
is a member of the Sons of \'eterans and
affiliates with the Democratic party. He is an
efficient member of the Hudson board of
health and deeply interested in all that per-
tains to the public welfare. He is prominent
in his party and is frequently a delegate to
county and state conventions. He married,
January 20, 1888, Elizabeth Perks, born in
London, England, September 28, 1862, died
in Hudson, May 25, 1910. Children: i. Da-
vid Chapin (2), born January 24, 1889, at
Hudson, educated in public and private
schools, now associated with his father in bus-
iness. He is a Democrat and member of
Christ Episcopal Church, having been a mem-
ber of the choir of that church since he
was a boy. 2. Florence Beatrice. 3. Imogene
Blanche. Mr. Patterson is best known as
Smith Patterson, that being his business and
■official signature.

The Dubois families of Ulster
DL' BOIS and other Hudson river coun-
ties in New York state are the
descendants of Louis and Jacques Du Bois,
Walloons and Huguenots. Louis was born
October, 1626, in the province of Artois in
Wicre, a hamlet about twenty miles south-
west of the ancient city of Lille ; son of Chris-
tian Du Bois. Little is known of his early
life ; he was possessed of some education and
w-as reared a Protestant. While young he re-
moved to Manheim in the Palatinate of Ger-
many. October 10, 1655, he married Cather-
ine Blanjean (or Blanshan), daughter of a
burgher of that ancient city. They had two
■children born in Germany. In 1660 with his
wife and two children he came to New Neth-
■erland. He first settled at Esopus near or in
what is now the village of Hurley, where he
engaged in trade. In the Indian war of 1663
when Esopus was destroyed, his wife and
three children were carried oflf by the sav-
ages, but were subsequently recaptured by a
pursuing party, including Louis Du Bois. In
1677 he with eleven other Huguenots and
Frenchmen, like him.self, obtained from Gov-
ernor Andros a patent for a large tract of
land which now- lies in the Valley of the Wal-
kill in the town of New Paltz ; removed there
with the other patentees, and began the life
of a pioneer. A church was founded and un-
til 1689 Louis remained in New Paltz, re-
■.moving in that year to Kingston, New York,

where he died about 1695. He left a nu-
merous progeny and descendants yet own and
till the soil, first brought under cultivation by
their sturdy faithful Huguenot ancestor. Chil-
dren : I. Abraham, bom in Manheim, Ger-
many, was one of the twelve patentees of New
Paltz and the last survivor, dying October 7,
1731, aged about seventy-four years; he mar-
ried Margaret Deyo. 2. Isaac,' born in Man-
heim, Germany, was one of the patentees of
New Paltz, where he died June 28, 1690, aged
thirty-one years; married Marie Hasbrouck.
3. Jacob, the first child of American birth,
born in Kingston, October, 1661 ; he settled
upon one of his father's farms at Hurley;
married Gerilje Gerritsen, daughter of Ger-
rit Cornelissen, son of Cornelius Van Nieuw-
kirk. 4. Sara, married Joosl Jansen. 5. Da-
vid, married Cornelia Varnoye. 6. Solomon,
married Trintjn Gerritsen, sister of Jacob's
wife. He was a very large land owner in
Ulster and Greene counties, New York, and
in Pennsylvania ; one tract of three thousand
acres in the Walkill Valley he gave to his
son Cornelius (subject to certain payments) ;
he was also an official of the French church
at New Paltz and held many public trusts.
7. Rebecca, born 1671, died young. 8. Rachel,
born 1675, died young. 9. Louis, born 1677,
married, 1701, Rachel Hasbrouck. 10. Mat-
thew, born 1679 ; married Sarah Mattheyson ;
he inherited half of his father's Hurley farm
and his house and lot in Kingston where he
was living in 1706.

Jacques Du Bois, a near relative and per-
haps a brother of Louis Du Bois. born in
the same neighborhood as Louis, came to Eso-
pus fifteen years later than his kinsman. The
letter of church membership from the Wal-
loon church at Leyden, Holland, which he
took with him when leaving that city, is dated
April 15, 1675, as is evidenced by the church
records still extant. He must have died after
his arrival as his widow, Pieronne Bentyn,
married (second) prior to December, 1677.
On leaving Leyden in 1675 Jacques had put
on record a power of attorney to sell his house
in that city which would indicate that he had
been a resident there some time. He is de-
scribed in the Leyden records as a manufac-
turer of gros-grains, coarse grained fabrics of
cloth and silk. He left three sons of tender
years: Jacques horn in Leyden where he was
baptized in the Protestant church of the Wal-
loons, by the name of Jacobus, in March, 1665 ;
John, baptized July, I'i7i : Pierre (known
as Pieter), born at Leyden, March 17, 1674.
being but three years of age when his mother
again married. Jacques also left daughters,
Maries, Jean and .Anne. Louis and Jacques

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HUDSON AND iMOHAWK A'ALLEYS

Du Bois are the ancestors of all who bear
the name who trace early Huguenot ancestry.
Louis left seven sons to perpetuate the name,
Jacques but three, one of whom it is thought
never married. The name is not a frequent
one and is invariably borne by men and
women of worth. It is an eminent name in
the Hudson Valley, representatives being
found in the profession and in business.
Many sen'ed in the continental army and
fought for the land that gave their ancestors
asylum from religious persecution.

Peter (Pierre), son of Jacques Du Bois, is
the ancestor of the Dutchess county family,
from whom the Columbia county family de-
scend through the following generations:

(H) Peter (Pierre), son of Jacques Du
Bois. married Jeannette Beuhans and had is-
sue.

(HI) Jonathan, son of Peter Du Bois, mar-
ried A riant je Osterhout, and had issue.

(IV) Cornelius, son of Jonathan Du Bois,
married Charity Griffin and had issue.

(V) Cornelius (2), son of Cornelius (i)
Du Bois, married Deborah Payne and had is-
sue.

(VI) Richard, son of Cornelius (2) Du
Bois, married Harriet Brink and had issue.

(VII) Charles, son of Richard and Harriet
(Brink) Du Bois, was born in Columbia
county. New York, August 3, 1843. died May
3, i88r. He was educated in the public
schools, and after completing his studies
learned the trade of a smith, making a spe-
cialty of carriage smithing. He lived an hon-
orable, useful life, and died universally re-
gretted by his friends and neiglibors in King-
ston, where he had been in business many
years. He was a Democrat in politics, and
a faithful, consistent inember of St. John's
Episcopal Church of Kingston. He married
Catherine S., daughter of Robert Merritt,
born at Clermont, Columbia county. New
York, married Hannah Hover, and had a
family of ten children. Children of Charles
and Catherine S. Du Bois: i. Harriet Louise,
married George Edward Race. 2. Albert, born
March 12, 1868, resides in New York City.
3. Mary Frances, died in infancy. 4.
Charles Royal, born June 8, 1875. resides in
New York City. Mrs. Catherine S. (Mer-
ritt) Du Bois survives her husband and re-
sides in Hudson, New York, which city is
the home of her only daughter. Mrs. Harriet
Louise Race.

William Wood was
WOOD-ALDRICH born in England in

1582. He emigrated
> .Nmerica from Mattock, Derbyshire, Eng-

land, in 1638, with his wife Margaret, and'
settled at Concord, Massachusetts, where he-
filled some of the important offices of the
town and died May 14, 1671. His wife died
September i, 1659. Children: Michael and'
Ruth.

(II) Michael, son of William and Margaret
Wood, was born in England and came to
America with his parents in 1638. He was
a farmer and said to have had an interest
in the Concord Iron Works. His- wife's name
was Mary. He died suddenly, j\Iay 13, 1674.
Children, born in Concord : Abigail, April
10, 1642; John, Nathaniel, Mary, Thomson,.
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob.

(HI) Jacob, youngest child of Michael and
Mary Wood, was born in Concord. March 3,
1662, died October 6, 1723. He married, April'
15, 1697, Mary, born in Concord, September
15, 1673, daughter of John and Sarah (Lar-
kin) Wheeler. Children, born in Concord:
Jacob, Mary, Ephraim, of further mention;
Dorcas, Hannah.

(IV) Ephraim, son of Jacob and Mary
(Wheeler) Wood, was born in Concord, Feb-
ruary 4. 1702, died March 20, 1789. He
lived upon the farm occupied by father and'
grandfather before him. He was selectman
in 1749, and is called "Captain" on the Con-
cord records. He married Mary Bass, who'
died September 11, 1781. Children, born in-
Concord: Oliver, Ephraim. .\inos, Peter,
Mary, Rebecca.

(V) Ephraim (2), son of Eplu-aim ( i) and'
Mary (Bass) Wood, was born in Concord,
August I, 1733, died April 8, 1814. He was
a shoemaker by trade, and was town clerk,
selectman, assessor, overseer of the poor and'
re-elected twenty-seven years. He was one
of the first justices appointed by the council
after the war of independence and held the of-
fice until his death. He was also one of the
judges of the court of common pleas. ".\s
a Cliristian he was humble and devout, sin-
cere and ardent." He married (first) Octo-
ber 24, 1758, Mary, bom IVTarch 23. 1737, died
July 13. 1807, daughter of Amos and Eliza-
beth (Billings) Heald.

(VI) William, son of Ephraim (2) and
Mary (Heald) Wood, was Ixirn at Concord,
January 10, 1775. He removed to Charles-
town. New Hampshire, where he died Au-
gust 24. 1841. He married (first) Nancy
Myrick, bom in Charfestown, May 3, 1780,.
died August 22. 1844. He married (second)
Mary Pillsl)ury. born .April i. 1780. died No-
vemJjcr 27, 1852. Children, eight by first
wife: William (2). of further mention: Dan-
iel, Ann, Mary, Edward Myrick, Martha M.,.
Caroline. Alexander.

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isSi

(\ lit William (2), eldest son of William
(i) and Nancy (Alyrick) Wood, was born
in Cliarlestown, September 23, 1801. He
removed to Springfield, Vermont, where he
settled on a farm. He married Frances (Gla-
zier ) White, widow of Luther W'hite, by whom
she had sons Calvin and Henry. The Glazier
family were from Massachusetts where many
of the name are shown on revolutionary war
records. Her Grandfather Glazier fought at
the battle of Lexington and brought away
as a trophy the red coat of a British soldier.
Children of William and Frances Wood : Eliz-
abeth, died at the age of twelve years, Ann,
Harriet. Ellen, Willis. Charles Frank.

(\'ni) Charles Frank, son of William (2)
and Frances (Glazier) (White) Wood, was
"born at Springfield, \'ermont, March 28, 1843.
He was adopted by James Madison Aldrich,
•of Weathersfield, \'ermont. and his wife Mary
(Atwood) Aldrich. Charles Madison Aldrich
Avas a prominent citizen and a member of the
^'ermont legislature. The adoption was le-
gal and Charles Frank ever after bore the
■name of Aldrich. He married Abbie Louise
Spaulding, born at Cornish. New Hampshire,
November 3. 1847, ^rid had issue.

(IX) Charles Spaulding, son of Charles
Frank and Abbie Louise (Spaulding) Aid-
rich, was born at Weathersfield Center, Ver-
mont, April I. 1 87 1. He prepared for col-
lege at Vermont Academy, Saxton"s River,
Vermont, where he was graduated, class of
1890. He then entered ]3rown University,
whence he was graduated A.B., class of 1894.
During 1895 an^' 1896 he took post graduate
work at Wesleyan University where he was
also an instructor. In 1896 Wesleyan con-
ferred upon him the degree of A.M. Decid-
ing upon the profession of law he prepared
in the offices of Shaw, Bailey & Murphy, at
Troy, New York : was admitted to the bar
in 1898 and has since been engaged in legal
practice in Troy. He pays especial attention
to corporation, probate and real estate law,
confining his practice to these special lines.
He is director and vice-president of the Illi-
um Realty Company : treasurer of the Stock-
well Purser Realty Company ; treasurer of
the International Land and Development
Company ; secretary and tieasurer of the Col-
lar City Land Company: and director of the
Union National Bank. He served a term of
enlistment in the Troy Citizen's Corps, and
while at Brown University in the Rhode Isl-
and National Guard. W'hile usually acting
with the Republican jxirty he is thoroughly
independent in politics. In religious faith Mr.
Aldrich is a member and trustee of the First
Particular Baptist Church of Troy. He mar-

ried. September 9, 1897, Helen Parker, born
at Manchester, New Hampshire, April 8,
1871, daughter of Frank James and Harriet
Charlotte (Eaton) Drake, of Manchester,
New Hampshire, who were married June 7,
1869. Frank James Drake was born in Pitts-
field, New Hampshire, November 3, 1842, died
August 20, 1891. He was a son of James
Drake, born June 29, 1805, at Pittsfield, New
Hampshire, died April 7, 1870, and Betsey
(Seavey) Drake, lx>rn October 14, 181 1, died
September 28, 1865 ; they were married Au-
gust 13. 1834. James Drake was a son of
James Drake, born November 14, 1775, at
Pittsfield, New Hampshire, died February 26,
1834, and Hannah (Ward) Drake, born Oc-
tober 31. 1763. died December 17, 1848; they
were married December 17, 1781.

The first settlement of the
FITCIIETT Fitchetts of which there is

record was in New Jersey
where Isaac Fitchett was born in 1725. In
1750 he removed to the colony of New York,
settling at Poughkeepsie. He married Fran-
ces LeRoy, of that city, October 5, 1753. In
1774 he removed to the Wyoming valley of
Pennsylvania, settling at Nanticoke, now in
Luzerne county. He remained there until his
death.

(II) Isaac (2). son of Isaac (i) and Fran-
ces (LeRoy) Fitchett, was born in New York,
and removed with his parents to Pennsyl-
vania, later settling in Dutchess county New
York, where there are many descendants. He
married Polly Hart. Children: Isaac (3), Pe-
ter, of further mention; Catharine, Frances,
Caroline, Maria.

(III) Peter, son of Isaac (2) and Polly
(Hart) Fitchett, was born in the town of
Coxsackie, Greene county. New York, April
4, 1809. He was educated in the town
schools, and early began boating on the Hud-
son river, later engaging in mercantile life as
a dry goods merchant and groceryman. Aher
several years spent in business of tliis nature
he purchased a farm near the village on which
he resided until his death. He was prosper-
ous in all his business affairs and was well
regarded in his locality. He married, Feb-
ruary, 1834, Susan Nelson, born 1810, died
March 8. 1904, daughter of Gilbert Nelson,
of Gay Head. Greene county, formerly of
Dutchess county. New York. Children: i.
James H., born March i. 1835 ; resides in Cox-
sackie, New York. 2. Gilbert Isaac, of later
mention. 3. Frank L., born October i, 1838,
now a resident of Omaha, Nebraska : mar-
ried (first) Mary J. Cook: (second) Isabella
McGeorge. 4. Sarah E., born March 25, 1841,

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died June 17, 1884: married Palmer Searles
and had two daughters : Addie. born Decem-
ber 22, 1868, married Floyd Kniffen, October
3, 1888; Grace, born March 2, 1871 ; mar-
ried, April 6. 1892, Clarence Woolford, who
died 1896 leaving a son, Leroy Woolford. 5.
Charles, born September i, 1843, died Janu-
ary 9, 1889; married, November 12, 1867,
Frances Bouton ; had one child, Jennie C,
born February 19, 1869, married Schuyler C.
Bishop, November, 1892. 6. Caroline, born
May 3, 1845, in the town of Coxsackie, where
she was educated in the public schools and
resided on the home farm until the death of
her father, when she removed to the village
of Coxsackie, where she now resides having
with her as companion her deceased sister's
daughter Grace, and nephew, Leroy Woolford.
She is a member of the Dutch Reformed
church, having joined many years ago. 7.
]\Iyra S., born April 15, 1848: married (first)
Nelson Van Bergen; (second) Lewis Flans-
burg : resides in Coxsackie.

(IV) Gilbert Isaac, son of Peter and Susan
(Nelson) Fitchett, was born in the town of
Coxsackie, Greene county. New York, March
ID, 1837. He was educated in -the public
schools. He engaged in farming for a few
years after reaching manhood but soon aban-
doned the farm for a business career. In
1861 he established a coal trade in Coxsackie
and pursued that line of business with energy
and success until 1907 when he retired. He
occupies a beautiful residence overlooking the
Hudson and here passes a quiet life amid con-
genial surroundings. He never sought or held
public office, but is a supporter of the Demo-
cratic party. He married (first) 1857. El-
zada Buckbee, died 1885, daughter of Richard
P.uckbee. He married (second) Alice, daugh-
ter of Henry Fitchett, of Watervliet, New
York. Child of first marriage: Julia Clear-
water, married Dr. Ambrose Beach, of Cox-
sackie.

The Van Denhurgs are
VAN DENBURG of mention in early

records of .'\lbany.
New York. Arent was a corporal of the serv-
ice of the West India Company at Fort Or-
ange, 1654, and still there in 1666. Claas Cor-
nelis was in Beverwyck, 1660-65. Tlie his-
tory of this branch of the family begins with
Richard Janse \^an Denburg, who married,
November 13, 1699, Tryntje, daughter of Mat-
thias Hooghteling; children: Maria, baptized
May 12, 1701 ; Antje, May 17, 1702; Jan, Sep-
tember 19, 1703: Matthys, January 15, 1706;
Racheltje. February 22, 1708; Dorotia, Octo-
ber 30. 1710; Hendrick, of further mention;

Lidia, April 24, 1715; Robert, June 31, 1717.
Richard Van Denburg settled in Coxsackie,
Greene county. New York, at a date not def-
initely known. April 18, 1729, he bought land
of Thomas Williams and in the same year
leased land from Petrus Van Bergen but he
owned land and built a stone house on the
banks of "Mender's Kill" before 1725. This
land was known as the Matthias Houghtaling
patent. Through subsequent purchases by
sons of Richard, the family became the own-
ers of a large tract of land west of the upper
village of Coxsackie. Robert, son of Rich-
ard J., built a sawmill on a small stream which
flows into the west branch of Potick creek,
the remains of the dam being yet visible.

(II) Hendrick, son of Richard J. and
Tryntje (Catrina) (Hooghteling) (Hotaling)
Van Denburg, was baptized October 19, 1712,
A deed dated October 20, 1770, recites that
Hendrick Houghtaling for the sum of ten shil-
lings and other consideration did convey to
Hendrick and Robert Van Denburg "All that
southermost half of the whole tract XX\' con-
taining eighteen hundred forty-three acres
XXXX and one-half of all mines which may
be found hereafter on the above lands." This
tract of land thus set oflf to the brothers be-
came popularly known as the "Van Denburg
Patent" though it was not an original patent
grant. Later it was divided into lots and De-
cember 21, 1745, Hendrick Van Denburg con-
veyed to Richard, Wilhelmus and John \'an
Denburg seventeen of the lots each contain-
ing it was supposed fifty acres, but of one of
them the story is told that by some reason it
contained sixty acres. This caused later legal
proceedings which gave it the name of
"Chancery lot," Hendrick resided in the stone
house, north of the creek, which he built. He
married, November 21, 1743, Kathcrine Ho-
taling, Children: Catherine, Lena and Ryc-
kert,"

(III) Ryckert, only son of Hendrick and
Katherine (Hotaling) Van Denburg. was bap-
tized in Albany, New York, June 24, 1753,
He married Maritje, daughter of (jodfrey
Brandow, a revolutionary soldier in Captain
John \'an Denburgs, Coxsackie company of
nine months men. Eleventh Regiment, .Mbany
county militia. He had part of the "\'an Den-
burg Patent," and built a stone house on the
hill along an Indian foot path.

(I\^) Henry, son of Ryckert and Maritje
(Brandow) Van Denburg, was born March
17, 1776, died May 12, 1853. He was known
locally as "Bush Hank," probably from the
fact that his farm was covered with trees
and undergrowth, which kept him employed
in clearing and burning the bush. He mar-

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585

ried Rebecca \'an Loon, born October 22,
1777, died February 3, 1852, a descendant of
Jan \'an Loon, the first settler of the name
and ancestor of a numerous famil_v ; supposed
to have come from Holland about 1686. The
present village of Athens is built on the old
farm owned by his son Matthias.

(Y) Richard, son of Henry and Rebecca
(\'an Loon) \'an Denburg, was born Feb-
ruary 8, 1817, died July 21, i860. He had
a share of the \"an Denburg lands, inheriting
his father's farm, and always followed farm-
ing as an occupation. He married, November
30, 1842, Rachel Lampman, a descendant of
Stephen Lampman, of German parentage. She
was born August 26, 1824, died March 4,
1910.

(VI) Albert, son of Richard and Rachel
(Lampman) Van Denburg, was born Febru-
ary I, 1846, at Coxsackie, Greene county.
New York. He was educated in the public
school and at Coxsackie Seminary. He was
a prosperous farmer and a highly regarded
member of his community. He was a member
of the Dutch Reformed church, and a Repub-
lican in politics. He married, August 30,
1868, Emma, daughter of Lewis and Hannah
Augusta (Roberts) Powell.

(MI) Richard Henrj-, only son of Albert
and Emma (Powell) \'an Denburg, was born
in I\Iidway, Greene county. New York, No-
vember 2, 1877. He was educated in the
Coxsackie common and high schools. After
completing his studies he taught school for
six years, in the meantime preparing for the
profession of medicine. In 1900 he entered
Albany Aledical College (Union University)
where he was graduated I\I.D.. class of 1904.
He was interne at St. Peter's Hospital, Al-
bany, for one year, then in 1905 began the
practice of his profession in Coxsackie, where
he is enjoying a satisfactory patronage. He
is a member of the Greene County Medical
Society, State Medical and American Aledical
Associations : Free and Accepted Masons,
master of Ark Lodge, No. 48 ; Coxsackie Chap-
ter, No. 85 : Lafayette Commandery, No. 7 ;
Coxsackie Lodge, No. 351 ; Independent Or-
der of Odd Fellows; Eureka Lodge No. 131,
Knights of Pythias : Coxsackie Camp, No.
8490. Modern Woodmen of America. He is a
member of the Methodist church, and affiliates
with the Republican party. He married, June
14, 1905, Carrie F., born February 13, 1877,
daughter of Charles Warner and Hannah V.
(Collier) Mackey, a descendant of John
Mackey, who came from the north of Ireland
to this country during the war of the revolu-
tion in which he fought as a soldier of the
continental armv. He was of Scotch ances-

try. Jeremiah, son of John Mackey, married
Anna Tuttle. Fermon, son of Jeremiah and
Anna (Tuttle) Mackey, was born in the town
of Milton, Saratoga county, New York. He
married Eliza Strait. Charles Warner, son
of Fermon and Eliza (Strait) Mackey, mar-
ried, in 1876, Hannah V. Collier and had
two children: Carrie F., who married Dr.
Richard Henry \'an Denburg, and Eliza S.
Mackev.

The founder of the Bogar-
ROGARDUS dus family in America was

the famous Dominie Ever-
ardus Bogardus, pastor, counsellor and friend
of the early Dutch settlers of New Amster-
dam, who cheered them amid their toils and
adversities and in dark hours of peril ; joined
many of them in marriage : baptized their chil-
dren ; oft performed in their stricken homes
the last sad rites and frequently acted as guar-
dian of their estates. He was the first settled
minister of the Dutch church at New Am-
sterdam, where he continued until his last trip
to Holland in 1647. He sailed from New
Amsterdam in the ship "Princess" in company
with Director Kieft, August 16, 1647. O"
September 27, having mistaken their course,
they were wrecked upon a rock on tlie coast
of Wales. Dominie Bogardus and Director
Kieft both perished, although many were
saved. (For an extended account of his ca-
reer see Bogardus in Gray family history.)
He was a valuable man in the settlement, his
advice was constantly sought in matters af-
fecting both individuals and the community
and the amount of public business with which
he was intrusted on his final departure for
Holland evinced the continued respect and con-
fidence of his people. He married, June 21,
1642, Anneke (.Annetje) Jans, or Jansen, who
had a grant of sixty-two acres between the
present Warren and Christopher streets, New
York City. This land has probably caused
more bitter controversy than any other on
earth. It forms the basis of dispute between
the heirs of Aimeke and Dominie Bogardus
on the one hand and Trinity church corpora-
tion on the other. Its immense value makes
the ownership a prize worth striving for and
fierce legal battles have been fought over it.
The title, however, seems to rest with Trinity
corporation. After the death of Dominie Bo-
gardus, his widow took up her residence in
Albany, continuing there until her death in
1663. Children: \\'illiam, in 1656 a clerk in
the secretary's office in New Amsterdam and
in 1687 postmaster of the province; Cornelis,
baptized September 9, 1640. in New ^'ork
Citv, later of Albanv, married Helena Teller :

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Johannes or Jonas, baptized January 4, 1643;
Pieter, of further mention.

(II) Pieter, son of Dominie Everardus Bo-
gardus, was baptized April 2, 1645. He re-
sided in Albany, New York, until near the
close of his life, when he removed to King-
ston, New York, where he died in 1703. In
1673 he was one of the magistrates of the
town and in 1690 was commissioned with
others to treat with the Five Nations and to
look after the defence of the town. He made
his will February 3, 1701-02. He married
Wyntje Cornells Bosch. Children: Evert;
Shibboleth; Hannah, born January 22, :679,
married Peter Bronck ; Maria, married Johan-
nes Van Vechten, of Schagticoke ; Anthony ;
Rachel baptized February 13, 1684; Ephraim,
of further mention ; Petrus, baptized April 30,
1691.

(III) Ephraim, son of Pieter and Wyntje
Cornells (Bosch) Bogardus, was baptized Au-
gust 14, 1687. He married. September 23,
1719, Agnietie De Garmo, born March 20,
1692. Children baptized: Petrus, April 10,
1721 ; Catherine, September 16, 1722, died
young; Wyntje, March 8, 1724; Ephraim, of
further mention; Jacob, July 14, 1728; Cath-
erine, February 7, 1730; Maria, May 7, 1732;
Anna, October 6, 1734.

(IV) Ephraim (2), son of Ephraim (i)
and Agnielie (De Garmo) Bogardus, was
born August 7, 1726, in Coxsackie, Greene
county. New York. He served in the war
of the revolution as private of Captain James
Waldron's company. Eleventh Regiment, Al-
bany county militia. He ran a' licensed ferry
across the Hudson river at the Upper Land-
ing shortly after the revolution. He was a
farmer. He married, October 19, 1748, An-

-netje Hallenbeck.

(V) Anthony, son of Ephraim (2) and An-
netje (Hallenbeck) Bogardus, was baptized in
the Dutch Reformed church at Coxsackie,
Greene county, New York, 1772. He was a
farmer of the town of Coxsackie and a mem-

"ber of the Dutch church. He married Eliza-
beth Vander Hoof.

(VI) Ei)hraim (3), son of Anthony and
Elizabeth (Vander Hoof) Bogardus, was born
in Coxsackie. New York, June 27, 1795, died
April 21, 1866. He served in the American
army during the war of 1812. He was a
farmer, owning the homestead farm of his
grandfather, Anthony Bogardus, located just

■outside the limits of the village of Coxsackie.
This was his home and place of death. He
was a member of the First Reformed Dutch
'Church, and a Democrat in politics. He mar-
ried, January 21, 1823, Hannah, born June 6,
.1801, died July 25, 1885, daughter of James

and Helena (Groom) Rea. Children: An-
tliony, born December 29, 1823 ; William, Au-
gust 7, 1825 ; John, September 7, 1827; Joseph,
June 14. 1830; Charles (q. v.).

(\'II) Charles, youngest son of Ephraim
(3) and Hannah (Rea) Bogardus, was born
on the Bogardus homestead in the town of
Coxsackie, Greene county. New York, Sep-
tember 16, 1833. He was educated in the pub-
lic schools, and early became engaged in the
ice business. He continued in this line all his
active life and reaped a prosperous harvest.
In 1895 he retired from active labor, devoting
himself to his own private affairs. For twelve
years he served on the Coxsackie school board.
He is an attendant of the Methodist Episco-
pal church, and a Democrat in politics. He
married, December 17, 1857, jilary Helen,
born October 12, 1836, daughter of Henry B.
and Esther (Wilson) Briggs, of Coxsackie.
Children: Mary Esther, Charlotte. Mary
Esther married Charles Crabbe, of Far Rock-
away, Long Island, New York ; children :
Daisy M. (married Robert Nelson Curtis, of
Rochester, New York, November 5, 1906 ;
child: Marv Helen) ; Bernice, Bentha Helen,
Phyllis Esther, Ruth, Charles Bogardus.

The Lampmans of Coxsac-
LAMPMAN kie, Greene county. New

York, descend from German
ancestors, long seated in the Palatinate, Ger-
many. The emigrant ancestor settled in
(ireene county at the south end of Kings Hill
in the town of Coxsackie.

(I) Stephen Lampman, with whom the his-
tory begins, was born in Greene county, about
the year 1730. He married and had issue.

(II) Peter, son of Stephen Lampman, was
born about 1760. He married and had issue.

(IH) John Peter, son of Peter Lampman,
was born September 17, 1792, died January
2, 1855. He married Abigail King, born N(V
vember 11, 1795, died January 2, 1882. They
removed from Kings Hill some three miles
to the eastward where they settled on a farm.

(IV) Obadiah, son of John Peter and Abi-
gail (King) Lampman, was born on the
Greene county homestead upon which his par-
ents settled prior to his birth. May 25, 1818,
died at Coxsackie, New York, 1901. He was
first a farmer, but the greater part of his
life was spent in the general mercantile busi-
ness. He married Elizabeth \^andenherg, born
November 22, 1817, died October 31. 1890,
daughter of Peter R. Vandenberg. They
were the parents of five children, two of whom
survive, Catherine Elizabeth Burroughs, of
Brooklyn, New York, and Rev. Lewis, of fur-
ther mention.

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HUDSON AND MOHAWK \ALLEYS

(V) Rev. Lewis Lampman, son of Obadiah
and Elizabeth (Vandenberg) Lampman, was
torn in the town of Coxsackie. Greene coun-
ty, New York. February 5, 1843. He was
educated at Claverack Institute on the Hud-
son, where he prepared for college. He en-
tered Yale University, where he was gradu-
ated in the class of 1866 with the degree of
B.A. The following year he entered Union
Theological Seminary, then spent one year in
Europe, and on his return re-entered the Union
Theological Seminary, where he was gradua-
ted, class of 1870. He was ordained
a minister of the Presbyterian church and at
once entered upon active work. He was first
stationed as pastor in charge of the First
Presbyterian Church of Jamaica, where he re-
mained until 1888. In that year he accepted
a call from the High Street Presbyterian
Church in Newark, New Jersey, where he con-
tinued until December, 1906, when he retired
from active work in the ministry. During
his thirty-six years of active pastoral labor he
served only these two churches, serving each
eighteen years. He married, December 5.
1871, Adelaide Ely. daughter of Leonard (2)
Bronck, a descendant of Jonas Bronck (see
Bronck VII). Children: Leonard Bronck and
Maria Bronck Lampman.

(The Br

els Line

The founder of the Bronck family in
Anierica was Jonas Bronck. born in Copen-
hagen, Denmark, died at Bronxland, West-
chester county. New York. He married An-
tonia Slagboom. He came to America in
1639 from Amsterdam where he had married.
He came in his own ship "Fire of Troy," a
private armed vessel manned by himself, ac-
companied by his friend and officer in the
Danish army. Captain Jochiem Pietersen Kuy-
ter. He brought a cargo of cattle and each
was attended by his family and a number of
farmers or herdsmen. He was a man of
means, and loaned money in large sums to
his friends. He was of a family long dis-
tinguished in Sweden, though probably him-
self from Copenhagen. He located his land
north of the Great Kill and built a "stone
house covered with tiles, a barn, tobacco house,
two barracks, etc." He later purchased from
the Indians five hundred acres on the now
Bronx river, later included in the Manor of
Morrisania. He had cattle, servants, landed
possessions, a substantial home, and his vrouw
pronounced "a good housekeeper." He was a
devoted Lutheran, and brought with him Luth-
er's Catechism and a folio Danish Bible. From
it he drew a name for his home "Emaus."
It was here that Director Kieft send dele-

gates to meet the Indian chiefs and made a
treaty. This treaty was followed by the un-
proved murder of the Indians for which they
exacted frightful vengeance upon the Dutch
settlers. It was at this time that Jonas Bronck
met his death, perhaps at the hands of the
savages, but as his property was spared, they
may have been guiltless. "Seignor" Bronck,
as he was styled, must be rated above the or-*
dinary colonist. His Danish and Latin libra-
ry', stored with law, history, and books of di-
vinity, indicate taste, culture and piety. His
widow, Antonia Slagboom, daughter of Ju-
riaen Slagboom, whom he married in Amster-
dam, Holland, married (second) Arent Van
Curler, of Rensselaerwyck, whom she also sur-
vived. She died at Schenectady, New York,
December 19, 1676.

(II) Pieter Jonasen, son of Jonas Bronck,
was born in Holland, died in Coxsackie, New
York, 1669. He was a brewer of Beverwyck
as early as 1645, owned houses and lots which
he sold in 1662, and purchased land in Cox-
sackie. which was the colonial grant known as
the Bronck patent, upon which he settled. His
wife was Hilletje Tyssinck. Of their chil-
dren there were two sons, Pieter, Jan.

(HI) Jan, son of Pieter Jonasen and Hil-
letje (Tyssinck) Bronck, was born in Albany,
New York, 1650, died at Coxsackie, New
Y'ork, 1742. He built a saw and grist mill.
He married Commertje Leendertse Conyn.
His will speaks of the following five sons only :
Pieter, Jonas, Philip, Casper, and Leendert
Janse. Daughters, Antje and Helena.

(IV) Leendert Janse (Leonard Janse), son
of Jan and Commertje Leendertse (Conyn)
Bronck, was born about 1699. He married,
February 26, 1717, Anna de Wandalaer. Chil-
dren: Jan Leendertse, Sara, Commertje and
Catharina.

(V) Jan Leendertse, son of Leendert Janse
(Leonard Janse) and Anna (de Wandalaer;
Bronck, was baptized July 14, 1723, died 1794.
He married (first) June 17, 1747. Elsje \ an
Buren; (second) Susanna Hotaling (lloogh-
teeling). Elsje Van Buren was a descendant
of Cornelis Maase and Catalina .Martense Van
Buren, who came to America on the ship
"Rensselaerwyck;" Cornelis M., died 1643, h's
wife, 1648. Their son, Martin Cornelis Van
Buren, was born in Ilouten, province of

Utrecht. He married Maritje . Their

son, Pieter Martinse Van Buren, of Kinder-
hook (1720), married .\ricntje Barentse. Jan-
uary 15, 1693. Their son, liarent Van Bur-
en, married (first) December 29. 1719. Maria
Winne, daughter of Livinus Winne and Wil-
lempje (N'iele) Winne, widow of Simon
Schermerhorn, and granddaughter of Peter

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HUDSON AND MOHAWK \'ALLEYS

Winne, from Ghent in Flanders, and Jannetje
(Adams) Winne, of Friesland. Their daugh-
ter, Elsje \'an Buren, married Jan Leendertse
Bronck. They had an only son Leonard.

(VI) Leonard, only child of Jan Leendertse
and Elsje (Van Buren) Bronck, was born
Alay II, 1751, died April 22, 1828. He was
a member of the New York state assembly,
1786-98; of the state senate, 1800. Was first
judge of the court of appeals of Greene coun-
ty ; was an officer in the revolutionary army,
first as a lieutenant, later as captain, and was
discharged with rank of lieutenant-colonel;
was supervisor of Albany county. He was
an intimate friend of General Schuyler and
General Gansevoort. He married (first) Jan-
uary II, 1779, Tryntje, daughter of Robert
Van Denbergh ; (second) Albertje Van Bu-
ren. Tryntje (Catherine) Van Denbergh was
a daughter of Robert and granddaughter of
Richard Janse Van Denbergh and Catherine
(Tryntje) Houghtaling (Hotaling), who were
married November 13, 1699. Catherine was
a sister of Matthys Houghtaling, born 1644,
died 1796. Robert Van Denbergh married

Brandow. Their daughter Tryntje

(Catherine) married Hon. Leonard Bronck.
Children of Leonard and Tryntje (Catherine)
Bronck : Elsie, born December 23, 1782, mar-
ried, November 27, 1799, in Kinderhook, Rev.
Jacob Sickles (see Sickles VI), and Leonard,
see forward.

(VH) Leonard (2), son of Leonard (i)
and Tryntje (Catherine) (Van Denbergh)
Bronck, was born June 29, 1797, married Ma-
ria, daughter of Dr. John Ely. Their daugh-
ter, Adelaide Ely Bronck, married Rev. Lewis
Lampman (see Lampman V). Children:
Leonard Bronck, and Maria Bronck Lamp-
man.

John Lusk, of Massachusetts, was
LUSK an associate of General Hyde, of
Lenox, Massachusetts, in the set-
tlement of "Township 13, Range 7" of the
"Phelps and Gorham" purchase and had fif-
teen hundred acres of land at the head of Iron-
dequoit Bay (now Monroe county, New
York). He was a pioneer in the settlement
of that township, going with his son Stephen
and a hired man early in the summer of 1789.
The father went by way of Schenectady, from
there by batteau ; the son and hired man drove
cattle overland, crossing Lake Cayuga on a
raft, swimming their cattle. They returned to
Massachusetts in the fall. In the spring of
1790 lie returned with his family and perma-
nently settled on his tract. He died 18 14,
aged sixty-six years. He had sons, Stephen,
Erastus, Norman, John Kellogg and Aaron.

(II) John Kellogg, son of John Lusk, was
born in Massachusetts, April 25. 1781, died
in Coxsackie, Greene county, New York, No-
vember 23, 1818. He lived for a time in Cox-
sackie, later removed to West Coxsackie,^
where he was engaged in general mercantile
business until his death. He married Chris-
tina Van Denburgh, and had children : John
Kellogg (2); Jacob; William Henr\- and
Matthias.

(III) Matthias, son of John Kellogg and
Christina (Van Denburgh) Lusk. was born
September 9, 1807, died April 13, 1883, in
Coxsackie, New York. He was a graduate
of Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New
Jersey, also of the Theological Seminary of
same college. Ordained a minister of the
Gospel, and was pastor of the First Reformed
Dutch Church of Jersey City for seventeen
years, when he retired, and moved to Cox-
sackie in 1864. He was a man of substance
and high character. He married Ann Sickles,
born April 23, 1806, in Kinderhook, Colum-
bia county. New York, died November 30,
1872, daughter of Rev. Jacob and Elsie
(Bronck) \Sickles. (See Sickles VII; the
Bronck line appears in preceding sketch).
Children, born in Jersey City, New Jersey:
Jacob S., died in childhood ; Elizabeth C.,
born November 10, 1840; Anna L., July 3,
1843 ; Sarah C, twin of Anna L.. died 1882.
Matthias Lusk in 1864 purchased the hand-
some residence in Coxsackie, New York,
which has since been his home.

(The Sickles Line).

Zachariah Sickles was born in X'ienna, .Aus-
tria, about 1630, went to Holland, thence to
Curacoa, where he served as a cadet. When
Governor Stuyvesant returned from a visit to
Curacoa in 1655 Sickles came with him and
was soon after attached to the garrison at
Fort Orange. He remained in Fort Orange
until after the surrender in 1664; removed
to New York, 1693, admitted a freeman, 1698.
He married, 1658 or 1660, Anna, daughter of
Lambert and Annatie Van Valkenberg, who
were residents of New Amsterdam, 1644, af-
terwards settled in Albany.

(II) Zachariah (2), son of Zachariah (i)
and Anna (Van Valkenberg) Sickles, was
born in Albany in 1670, died January 20,
1729. In 1693 he went to Harlem where he
bought land of his father-in-law. He married
(first) August 23, 1693, Maria, daughter of
Jan Hendricks and Annatje (Bastiens) Bre-
voort; married (second) July 19, 1717, Mynt-
je Dyckman. Sons: Johannes, Jacobus, Zach-
ariah, Hendrick, (Jeraldus, William, Cornelis
and Robert.

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■587

(\"l) Rev. Jacob Sickles, descendant of
Zachariah Sickles, was born April 25. 1781.
He lived in Tappan, Rockland county, New
York. He married Elsie Bronck, November
27. 1799 (see Bronck \'I).

(\'II) Ann, daiisjhter of Rev. Jacob and
Elsie (Bronck) Sickles, was born April 23,
1806, at Kinderhook, Columbia county, New
York, died November 30, 1872. She mar-
ried ^latthias Lusk (see Lusk HI). Children:
Jacob S., died in childhood : Elizabeth C,
Anna L., Sarah C, deceased.

The Story family of Catskill,
STORY New Y'ork, are of Scotch de-
scent. The founder of the fam-
ily in Greene county, Francis Story, was bom
in Birgham on the river Tweed, Scotland,
near Berwick, in the year 1804. died in Cat-
skill. New York, June 26, 1891. Leaving his
native land he began a long search for a
promising location. He located successively
in Edinburg, London, Quebec, ^Montreal, Can-
ada and New York City, finally at Catskill,
where he engaged in merchant tailoring. He
continued in active business for twenty or
thirty years, then retired from business to
an estate near the village where he lived the
quiet life of a gentleman farmer until his
death. He was a man of quiet habits and
cultured tastes, having had the advantages of
a good education. He married, October 27,

1832, Jane Overbagh, born January 27, 1813,
died October 16. 1888, daughter of Frederick
Overbagh, of Catskill. Children : Anna, born

1833, married Henry Wynkoop, of Catskill ;
Robert F., of further mention : Frederick,
1837; John, 1839; James, 1841 : Margaret M.,
1843, died 1868; Alartha T., married Sanford
D. Plank, of Catskill: Francis. 1845, died 1906
married Mary Lucinda \'an Orden ; Isabella,
married Charles H. Person, died 1898 ; Jacob,
deceased. Jane (Overbagh) Story was a de-
scendant of Johann Pieter Overbagh, who
came to this country in 1722, bought land in
the second division of the Loveridge Patent,
and died in 1734. He had six children, name-
ly : Johannes, Johann Jury, Marytje, Cath-
arine, Annatje, Elizabeth. He devised his land
to his two sons. Johann Jury married Catha-
rine, daughter of Paulis Smith: four children:
i. Catharine, married William Dewitt : ii. Pe-
ter, married Catharine Fiero : iii. John, mar-
ried Hannah Conyes and their children were:
a. Frederick, born March 22, 1784. died June
II. 1861, married (first) Catherine Mallory,
died June 5, 1809, (second) Hannah, daugh-
ter of Abraham and Rachel (Freligh) Over-
bagh. she was born November 7, 1791, died
April 6, 1864; child of second wife, Jane,

aforementioned as the wife of Francis Story ;
b. Jacob : c. William : d. Rebecca : e. Hannah ;
f. Rachel, iv. Jeremiah, married Sarah \'an
Orden.

(II) Roliert F., son of I-'rancis and Jane
(Overbagh) Story, was born at Catskill, New
York, June 30, 1835. He was educated in
private schools and at Fcrgusonville Acad-
emy, Delaware county, New York. He began
farming iminediately after leaving school and
followed that business all his active life. In
1906 he retired from the farm to a pleasant
home in Catskill: here he now (1911) resides.
He is vice-president of the Catskill Traction
Company and is the oldest director in the
Catskill National Bank ; was an original di-
rector and stockholder in the Catskill Cement
Company; was member of the school board
six years. He is an attendant of the Re-
formed church, and in politics a Republican.
He married. November 25, 1857, Esther Du
Bois, born August 28, 1833, died .\ugust 16,
1891, daughter of Joel and Sally Jane (Hun-
ter) Du Bois, a descendant of Louis Du Bois,
a Huguenot, born in the province of Artois
near the ancient city of Lille. He was one
of the twelve original proprietors of New
Paltz. where he lived until 1689 then removed
to Kingston where he died in 1695.. Of the
children of Robert F. and Esther (DuBois)
Story, two died in infancy, and the surviving
children are: i. Jane, born October 18. 1858,
married Charles A. Elliot, of Catskill : their
son, Edsall DuBois Elliot, is a practicing phy-
sician. 2. Sarah (Sally), born December 7,
1862. 3. Mary B.. born November 26, 1865.
4. John H., born October 2. 1867, married
Grace Donohue. 5. Martha T.. born Febru-
ary 13. 1870, married Fred W. Cussler, of
Catskill.

The DuBois and Overbagh families of Cat-
skill are intimately connected with the early
history of the village and town. The farm
of Johann Jury Overbagh was in the form
of an oblong, and near the center he built a
stone house twenty feet square. During the
revolution the cottage was a place of muster
for the minute-iiierisof the district and a ref-
uge for their fiiirrilies when it was rumored
that the Mohawks were about. The tomb-
stone of John Pieter Overbagh, a narrow
slab of gray flagstone, bears the inscription
"1734, September 14, J.P.O.B." It is the old-
est tombstone in Catskill. (The DuBois fam-
ily is further considered in this work.)

The Penfield family of Con-

PENFIELD nccticut were early settlers

of ancient Farmington,

which then contained the territory now known

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HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

by many names. The first settlers in the sec-
tion were emigrants from Boston. Newtown
and Roxbury, New York. Settlement was
begun in 1640 in Meriden, Wallingford, New
Britain and other towns of the section. The
history of the Penfields of Catskill, New
York, begins with Samuel Penfield, who in
1675 married Mary Lewis. Whether he was
the emigrant or the son of the emigrant does
not appear. His wife, Mary (Lewis) Pen-
field, was born in 1652. Children : Samuel,
of further mention ; May, born 1678 : John,
1680: Sarah, 1683: Isaac, 1685; Hannah,
1687: Jonathan, 1689; Rebecca, 1692; Abi-
gail, twin of Rebecca: Benjamin, 1696.

(H) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (i) and
Mary (Lewis) Penfield, was born 1676, died
at Wallingford, Connecticut, 17 14. He was
a resident of that town for several years and
left a W'idow and four children : Samuel, born
1700; Peter, of further mention; Abigail,
1704: Nathaniel, 1706.

(HI) Peter, son of Samuel (2) Penfield,
was born 1702. He removed to Fairfield,
Connecticut. He married, in 1730, Mary Al-
len, born 1708. They had an only son, Sam-
uel.

(IV) Samuel (3), son of Peter and Mary
(Allen) Penfield, was born 1734, died April
2, 181 1, at Fairfield, Connecticut. He served
in the French and Indian war and in the rev-
olution. He was lieutenant of Captain
Thorp's company. Colonel Whiting's regi-
ment, Fourth Militia, at Peekskill, in Octo-
ber, 1777; marched October 5, discharged Oc-
tober 30. He married, September 2, 1757,
Elizabeth Lewis.

(V) Samuel (4), son of Samuel (3) and
Elizabeth (Lewis) Penfield, was born in 1763,
died 1 79 1. Fie married Hannah Hoyt, born
1766, died 1825.

(\'I) Samuel (5), son of Samuel (4) and
Hannah (Hoyt) Penfield, was born in 1790,
died at Catskill. New York, 1851. He mar-
ried, April 6, 1812, Ximena Taylor, born 1794,
died 1856.

(VII) Samuel (6), son of Samuel (5) and
Ximena (Taylor) Penfield, was born in Cat-
skill, New York, 1823, died there in 1894. He
married, April 19, 1872, Harriet T., daughter
of Danforth K. and Almira (Blanchard) 01-
ncy, (see Olney VIII). Two children.

(VHI) George, only son of Samuel (6)
and Harriet T. (Olney) Penfield, was born
in Catskill, New York, 1872. He was early
educated in the public school; entered Yale
University, whence he was graduated in the
class of 1894. He is by profession a civil
engineer.

(\TII) Ellen, only daughter of Samuel

(6) and Harriet T, (Olney) Penfield, was
born in Catskill, New York. She married
Pierre Jennings, of Catskill, and has two chil-
dren : Frances E., and Penfield S. Jennings.

(The Olney Line).
Mrs. Harriet T. (Olney) Penfield de-
scends from Thomas Olney. born in St. Al-
bans, Hereford county, England, 1600, came
to America in 1635 on the ship "Planter";
settled first in Boston, Massachusetts, later in
Providence, Rhode Island. He was thirty-five
years of age at the time of his coming, and
was accompanied by his wife, Mary, aged
thirty years. He brought with him a certifi-
cate from the minister of St. Albans to show
the authorities at London, lest they delay his
departure. October 8, 1638, he was one of
the twelve persons to whom Roger Williams
deeded land that he had bought of the In-
dian Sachems, Cononicus and Miantonomo.
The same year he was elected treasurer of the
town. In 1639 one of the twelve original
members of "The First Baptist Church." July
27, 1640, signed with thirty-eight others in
an agreement for a form of government. Dur-
ing the years 1649-53-54-55-56-64-65-66-67 he
was assistant; in 1656-58-59-61-63 he was
commissioner; 1665-67-70-71 he was deputy;
in 1665-66-69-70-71-74-77-81 he was a mem-
ber of the town council ; in 1669 he was town
treasurer. His will was proved October 17,
1682. He married, in England, Mary Small,
born 1605, died 1679. Children: i. Thomas,
born 1632; town clerk of Providence, 1664-
65-66-67, and continuously from 1683 to
1715: he was an ordained minister of the
Baptist church ; six years assistant : thirty
years a member of the town council ; four-
teen years deputy : he married Elizabeth
Marsh, died 1722. 2. Epenetus, of further
mention. 3. Nedediah, born August, 1637,
died young. 4. Stephen, died 1658, unmar-
ried. 5. James, died October, 1676, unmar-
ried ; he was one of those "who staid not
away" in King Philip's war and so had a
share in the disposition of the Indian captives
whose services were sold for a number of
years.

(II) Epenetus, son of Thomas and Mary
(Small) Olney, was born in St, Albans, Here-
ford county, England, 1634, died June 3,
1698. lie was a year old when his parents
brought him to America. He kept tavern
at Providence. In 1666-76-84-86 he was dep-
uty : 1695-96-97 he was a member of the town
council. He married Mary, born 1648, died
1698, daughter of John and Sarah Whipple.
Children: i. Mary, born January 13, 1668,
died 1725; married, May 9, 1692, Nathaniel

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\\'aterman. 2. James, November 9, 1670, died
October 6, 1744; married, August 31, 1702,
Hallelujah Brown. 3. Sarah, September 10,
1672. 4. Epenetus (2), January 18, 1675,
died September 18, 1740; married Mary Wil-
liams. 5. John, of further mention. 6.
Thomas, born May 18, 1686, died January
28, 1752; married, June 15, 1710, Patience
Burlingham. 7. Lydia, January 26, 1688, died
1727, married Henry Harris.

(HI) John, son of Epenetus and Mary
(\Miipple) Olney, was born in Providence,
Rhode Island, October 24, 1678, died No-
vember 9, 1754. He was a blacksmith by
trade. He married, August 11, 1699. Rachel
Coggeshall, died June 24, 1760. Children:
John, born May 27, 1701 ; William, February
22, 1706; Jeremiah, November 4, 1708; Free-
love, November 10, 171 1; Nebadiah, Febru-
ary ID, 1715; Stephen, Abigail; Tabitha,
1733; Jabez.

(IV) Jeremiah, son of John and Rachel
(Coggeshall) Olney, was born in Smithfield,
Rhode Island, November 4, 1708, died 1765.
He married, 1734, Susanna Brown.

(V) Ezekiel, son of Jeremiah and Susanna
(Brown) Olney, was born in Eastford, Con-
necticut, 1740, died 1826. He served in the
revolutionary army with the rank of captain.
He married Mary Warner.

(VI) Jeremiah (2), son of Ezekiel and
Mary (W'arner) Olney, was born in East-
ford. Connecticut, 1775, died 1826. He mar-
ried Abigail Cheney.

(VII) Danforth K., son of Jeremiah (2)
and Abigail (Cheney) Olney. was born in
Eastford, Connecticut. 1807, died in Catskill,
New York, 1872. He was a leading lawyer of
Catskill. He married, 1837, Almira Blanch-
ard, born 1813, died 1846. Children: Ellen,
born 1841 : George, 1842; Harriet T., 1844;
Elisha. 1855.

(Mil) Harriet T., daughter of Danforth
K. and Almira (Blanchard) Olney, married,
April 19, 1872, Samuel Penfield (see Pen-
field VII).

(The P.Iancliard Line).

Almira (Blanchard) Olney, was a descend-
ant of Thomas Blanchard, who came to Am-
erica in 1639 on the ship "Jonathan" ; settled
in Braintree, Massachusetts, where he died.
The line of descent is through his son, by his
first wife, whom he married in England.

(II) Samuel, son of Thomas Blanchard,
was born in France in 1629, was brought to
America by his parents in 1639, died in An-
dover, Massachusetts, 1707. He married,
1654, Hannah Daggett, born 1646, died 1725.

(III) John, son of Samuel and Hannah
(Daggett) Blanchard. was born 1677, died

at Andover, 1750. He married, 1701, Mary
Crosby, born 1680, died 1748.

(IV) Simeon, son of John and Mary
(Crosby) Blanchard, was born 1726, died
1796. He married, 1746, Rebecca Sheldon,
born 1729, died 1814, at Billerica, Massachu-
setts.

(V) Justus, son of Simeon and Rebecca
(Sheldon) Blanchard, was born 1758, died
183 1, at Catskill, New York. At the age of
seventeen he joined the patriots on the alarm
at Lexington, fought with them that memor-
able day and later at Bunker Hill. He was
captured by the British and confined in the
old "Sugar House" on Liberty street. New
York City. On his release he again joined
the patriot army. He was with Washington's
army at Valley Forge, and in their subse-
quent marches and victories. He married
Chloe Marshall, born 1767, died 181 1.

(VI) Joseph, son of Ju.stus and Chloe
(Marshall) Blanchard, was born in 1788, died
1850. He married Mary Woodruff, born
1792, died 1832.

(VII) Almira, daughter of Joseph and
Mary (Woodruff) Blanchard, was born 1813,
died 1S46. She married, 1837, Danforth K.
Olney.

(VIII) Harriet T., daughter of Danforth
K. and Almira (Blanchard) Olney, married
Samuel Penfield.

It has been transmitted from
FANNING one generation to another
that in the Fanning family
their ancestor, Edmund Fanning, escaped
from Dublin in 1641, at the time of the great
rebellion, and after eleven years of wandering
and uncertainty he found a resting place in
that part of New London, Connecticut, now
called Groton, in the year 1652. On the town
records his name is not mentioned until ten
years later, but it is then in such a way that
denotes previous residence. In the inventory
of goods of Richard Poole, April 25, 1682,
one article is "two cows and one steere now
with Edmon ffanning." After this he had a
grant of land and is propounded to be made
a freeman in Stonington. His estate was dis-
tributed to his widow and four .sons, Ed-
mund, John, Thomas and William. A de-
scendant, Captain Edmund Fanning, of Ston-
ington, Connecticut, in 1797-98-99 made a
voyage for seals in the ship "Betsey." He
discovered several islands near the Equator
not before laid down on any chart. They
are known as Fannings Islands. Nathaniel
Fanning, a brother of the discoverer, was an
officer in the ship commanded by Paul Jones
in his famous naval battles and by his gallant.

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daring: contributed to the brilliant result. He
was stationed in the maintop of the Ameri-
can ship and led his men upon the interlocked
jards to the English ship's top which was
cleared by the well-directed fire from his men.
He died in Charleston, South Carolina, Sep-
tember 30, 1805.

(H) Thomas, son of Edmund I-'anning,
was born in England. He married Elizabeth
Capron, born in England, and settled at Gro-
ton, Connecticut.

(IH) Walter, son of Thomas and Elizabeth
(Capron) Fanning, was born in Groton, Con-
necticut. Died April 19, 1820, at Gilboa,
Schoharie county, New York. He enlisted as
a private. May 9, I775, in Captain Waterman
Clifif's sixth company in Colonel Samuel Par-
son's sixth Connecticut regiment of New Lon-
don, Hartford and Middlesex Volunteers. He
married, at Preston, Connecticut, November
6, 1771, Grace Benjamin, who died July 2,
1832. They had thirteen children among
whom was Benjamin.

(IV) Benjamin, son of Walter and Grace
(Benjamin) Fanning, was born in Preston,
Connecticut, August 30, 1776, died at Gilboa,
Schoharie county, New York, 1854. He was
a well-to-do farmer. He marriecl Christina
Dies.

(V) Nelson, son of Benjamin and Chris-
tina (Dies) Fanning, was born in Gilboa,
Schoharie county, New York, February 14,
1808, died in Catskill, New York, February
28, 1896. The following obituary notice from
his brethren of the profession is inserted in
full: "It is scarcely five months since this So-
ciety was called upon to mourn the death of
Dr. Nelson Fanning, Senior, of Catskill, New
York, whose death at an advanced age re-
moves from this Society its oldest practition-
er ; from his many patients a warm friend and
physician ; from the county a reputable and
upright citizen, and from his family a kind
and most indulgent father. His burial was
marked by a large attendance of his friends
and patients' who thus offered a last tribute
of res]iect to the memory of a friend and of
sympathy with the family in their bereave-
ment.

"Dr. Nelson Fanning was born at Bristol
(now Gilboa), February 14, 1808. He began
the study of medicine in the office of Dr.
Gaius Halsey of Kortright. Delaware county.
New York, and graduated from the Berkshire
Medical College in 1830. He began the prac-
tice of his profession at Broome (now Cones-
ville), and in 1837 moved to Gilboa. On the
25th of September, 1861, he went as surgeon
with the 134th New York Volunteer Infantry
to the front, and was present in many en-

gagements. He was also Brigade Surgeon
of the nth Army Corps, his commission dat-
ing from July 23, 1862, under General Si-
gel, occupying the Chancellorsville church as
hospital headquarters during the battle of
Chancellorsville. He returned home from the
war on account of ill health during the sum-
mer of 1863, his discharge dating. May 22,
1863. November i, 1863, he moved to Cat-
skill in which place he lived and practiced
steadily until he died, never having been
known to take a vacation.

"He became a member of the Greene coun-
ty Medical Society in 1864, was its vice-presi-
dent in 1867, and its president in 1867 and
during 1868. He was elected to permanent
membership in the New York State Medical
Society in 1871 and was an Honorary mem-
ber of the same at the time of his death. He
also served as supervisor for the town of Cat-
skill and was coroner, by appointment of the
Governor for the county of Greene in 1875.
He died in Catskill, February 28, 1896, at
the ripe age of eighty-eight years and four-
teen days, being the oldest practicing physic-
ian in the county, if not in the state.

"The funeral took place at Catskill March
2, 1896 from Christ's Presbyterian church,
Reverend C. G. Hazzard, pastor of the church,
officiating. In addition to the tribute offered
by Mr. Hazzard. Reverend G. A. Howard,
D. D., former pastor of Christ's Church,
wrote beautiful letters of condolence to the
family, he being at Washington at the time,
and Reverend E. Van Slyke, D.D., of the
Reformed Dutch church of Catskill assisted
at the services and spoke feelingly of his
many good qualities as physician, friend and
citizen.

"The local physicians attended in a body
acting as pall-bearers. The burial was in the
village cemetery.

"WnF,RE.\s. In the death of Dr. Nelson
Fanning of Catskill. New York, this Society
has lost its oldest and most prominent mem-
ber, therefore be it

"Resolved, That the Society hereby express
its sense of loss and sympathy with the family
of the deceased in their bereavement, and fur-
ther be it

"Resolved, That a copy of this record of
the life of our late member, together with
these resolutions, be inscril^ed in the minutes
of this Society : a copy sent to the family of
the deceased, and a copy furnished the Cat-
skill Recorder and Examiner for publication.

"Committee. Robert Selden. M. D. ;
Charles E. Willard, M.D. ; Elmore E. Elliott,
M.D."

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Dr. Fanning married Anna Howell, daugh-
ter of Richard and Sarah Hoy, of Albany,
where Richard Hoy was engaged as a mer-
chant. Children: i. Mary who died in in-
fancy. 2. Benjamin, of Gilboa, New York.
3. Nelson, who was a prominent physician,
and met with an accident that resulted in his
death. 4. Walter Dies, died, aged five years.
5. John Tuttle, died at the age of fifteen years.
■6. Harriet C. 7. Sarah E. Mrs. Anna (Nancy)
H. Fanning died January 24, 1893.

This name is a corruption of
LESTER Leicester which as a surname

is taken from the locality of
that name and has been borne by some of the
most powerful nobles of Great Britain. The
first authentic record in New England is of
Andrew Lester, 1648, although in June and
July, 1635, John Lester was master of the
ship "Blessing." As early as 1623, Thomas
Leister, aged thirty-three, was living at or
near "James Cittye," Virginia. Andrew Les-
ter first appears at Gloucester, Massachusetts,
Avhere he was licensed to keep a house of
entertainment by the county court, February
26, 1648-49. The births of four of his chil-
dren are recorded at Gloucester. He removed
to New London, Connecticut, in 165 1, where
he was constable and collector in 1668. He
died June ", 1669. His first wife, Barbara,
died February 2, 1653-54, and is the first
■death of a woman recorded at New London.
He married (second) Joanna, believed to be
a daughter of Isaac Willey and widow of
Robert Hemstead. She died without issue
prior to 1660. He married (third) Anna
, who survived him and married (sec-
ond) Isaac Willey, died 1692. Children by
first wife: Daniel, born April 15, 1642, set-
tled in Bolton, Connecticut ; Andrew, born De-
cember 26, 1644, married Lydia Bailey ; Mary,
"born December 26, 1647, married Samuel
Fox; Anna, born March 21, 1651, married
Thomas Way. Children by third wife : Tim-
othy, born July 4, 1662; Joseph, born June
15, 1664: Benjamin, of further mention.

(II) Benjamin, youngest child of Andrew
and Anna Lester, was born in New London,
'Connecticut. He was an inhabitant of New
London all his fife, and died there in 1737.
He married Ann, daughter of Thomas and
Hannah (Isabell) Stedman. She died Janu-
ary 27, 171 1, "after living with her husband
twenty-two years, left nine sons and two
daughters." Only six children are found re-
corded at New London. Timothy, John, .^nn,
Benjamin, Isaac and Jonathan. Where the
other five were born, or if in New London,
why they were not recorded cannot be ex-

plained. One of the five was undoubtedly
Simeon, born early in the year 1700.

(IV) Simeon, grandson of Benjamin and
Ann (Stedman) Lester, removed to Lester
Junction, Vermont, where he 'married Sally,
daughter of Captain Nathaniel Gove, of Ver-
mont, a descendant of Major Nathan Gove,
of Fairfield, Connecticut, assistant 1657-95, a
"Gentleman" of high reputation in New Eng-
land. His son Nathan (2) was long engaged
in the public se'rvice, was recorder of the
town of Fairfield for many years, assistant
1694-1723: lieutenant-governor, 1698, chief
justice of the supreme court of Connecticut,
1712, Captain Nathaniel Gove was an officer
of the revolution. Children of Simeon and
Sally (Gove) Lester: Charles Gove; Maria,
married Ralph Taylor, of St. Albans, Ver-
mont.

(Y ) Charles Gove, only son of Simeon and
Sally (Gove) Lester, was born 1780, died in
Bethlehem, Albany county. New York, 1836.
He was a graduate of Middleburg College,
Vermont, and was for a long time engaged
in mercantile business at Montreal, Canada.
Later he settled in Albany county. Tie mar-
ried Susan Wells Smith, born in Massachu-
setts. Children : Charles Smith, of further
mention : Elizabeth Curtis, married Alembert
Pond, of Saratoga Springs, New York, a law-
yer and member of the New York constitu-
tional convention of 1867-68.

(VI) Charles Smith, only son of Charles
Gove and Susan Wells (Smith) Lester, was
born in Worcester, Massachusetts, March
15, 1824, died at Saratoga Springs, No-
vember 17, 1904. He was educated in the
public schools and at Washington Academy,
Salem, New York. In September, 1841, he
entCFed the law office of Crary & Fairchild as
a clerk, and in October, 1843, removed to Sar-
atoga Springs where he continued his law
studies with his uncle. Judge John Willard,
then circuit judge and vice-chancellor of the
fourth district. He was admitted to the bar
as solicitor and counsellor in chancery at the
age of twenty-one years, and in 1845 to prac-
tice in the supreme court. He establisiied
his practice in Saratoga and quickly won pop-
ular favor. In 1859 he was elected district
attorney on the Democratic ticket, although
that party was then in the minority in Sara-
toga county. He held the office three years,
and then retired to private practice. In 1870
he was elected county judge, holding the of-
fice six years, and after quitting the bench
again retired to private practice. He had a
large and varied practice and was especially
noted for his fidelity and devotion to his cli-
ents. He was an orator of high order, direct,

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forcible and logical in his argument, yet pleas-
ing and happy in his lighter vein. As a judge
he was noted for his quick dispatch of busi-
ness and the justice and impartiaHty of his
decisions. He held many positions of honor
and trust other than those mentioned. He
was supervisor of the town ; president of the
village corporation ; president of the board of
education ; president of the commercial bank
and business agent for A. T. Stewart, the
merchant prince of New Yo^k City, after his
purchase of the Grand Union Hotel in 1872.

Judge Lester possessed literary merit of a
high order, in recognition of which Yale Col-
lege conferred upon him in 1854 the degree
of A.M. He married, in 1849, Lucy L. Cooke,
of Otsego county, New York, born 1828,
daughter of Timothy Cooke. She survives
her husband and is now (1910) a resident of
Saratoga Springs. Children: i. Charles
Cooke, of further mention. 2. John Willard,
a graduate of Union College. 3. Susan, mar-
ried Professor Bernadotte Perrin, of Yale
University. 4. Colonel James W., born at
Saratoga, September 8, 1859, a graduate of
Union College, A.B., class of 1881 ; Columbia
Law School ; served in the New York Na-
tional Guard, entering as private, and rising
through the intervening ranks to colonel, sec-
ond Regiment, served in the United States
army during the Spanish-American war as
major, Second Regiment New York Volun-
teers, May 2, 1895, to October 25, 1898. He
is a member of the law firm of C. S. & C. C.
Lester, of Saratoga Springs, and secretary of
the United States Hotel Company; member
of the State Bar Association. He married.
Bertha North Dowd. Children: James
Dowd ; Charles Willard, Dudley Gove, Ralph
Westcott.

(VII) Charles Cooke, eldest son of Judge
Charles Smith and Lucy L. (Cooke) Lester,
was born at Milford, New York, June 27,
1850. He was educated in the public schools
of Saratoga Springs and was graduated from
Union University, A.B., class of 1870, enter-
ing at the age of si.xteen years, receiving the
A.M. degree three years later in 1873. He
decided upon the legal profession and began
his studies with his father. In 1873 he was
admitted to the bar and at once formed a
partnership with Judge Lester under the title
of C. S. & C. C. Lester, the firm continuing
until the death of his father in 1904. He
was a member of the constitutional convention
of 1894, and in 1901 was elected surrogate
of Saratoga county, serving until January i,
1906, when he resigned. In November, 1905,
he was appointed miscellaneous reporter by
Governor Higgins ; reappointed to same office

by Governor Hughes, January, 1907. He is
the author of the law framed in 1904, sim-
plifying the proceedings for the sale of real
estate of decedents for the payment of debts
and funeral expenses, also of the bill provid-
ing for recording agreements for the settle-
ment of estates. He is a learned lawyer and
a skillful practitioner. He is a member of
the State Bar Association ; has been a trustee
of Union College ; representing the Alumni ;
trustee of Albany Law School ; member Phi
Beta Kappa fraternity ; State Historical So-
ciety, and Saratoga Club of Saratoga. He
married (first) 1876, Catherine Perrin, died
1886, daughter of Dr. Lavelette Perrin, a
member of Yale University Corporation. He
married (second) December 24, 1889, Mary
Lane, daughter of George O. and Sarah
(Strachan) Tuck, of Petersburg, Virginia.
Children : Charles Tuck, born December 14,
1893 ; Bernadotte Perrin, ]May 19, 1896.

Aaron Weatherbe was
W'EATHERBE born September 5. 1780,

died May 25, 1840. He
married in August, 1801, Sarah Smith, born
April 23, 1783, died May 8, 1847. Children:
Eliza, born February 9, 1803 ; died Decem-
ber 16, 1842; Sally, January 22, 1805; Aaron,.
July 17, 1808; Orril, mentioned below; War-
ren Smith, March 4, 1812, died in March,
1888; Mary, October 12, 1814; James, De-
cember ID, 1817; Charlotte, September 13,.
1820; Caroline, April 7, 1823, died Novem-
ber ID, 1844.

(II) Orril, daughter of Aaron Weatherbe,.
was born March 12, 1810; died May 26, 1891.

She married (first) BHss ; (second)

Henry V. Middleworth, who was born in-
Greenwich, Saratoga county, New York, De-
cember 7, 18 13, son of Henry and Jemima
(Flagler) Middleworth. Henry V. Middle-
worth came to Sandy Hill, New York, about
1840 from Adamsville, New York, and be-
came an apprentice to Philip Neer, a wagon
maker and blacksmith, and in 1831 cstab-
lisheil himself as a manufacturer of wagons.
He continued in this business for a number
of years. Afterward he bought land and
erected houses in various parts of Washing-
ton county. New York. His building opera-
tions in Sandy Hill were very extensive and
he contributed materially toward the devel-
opment and improvement of the village. He
built tiie Middleworth House, which is one
of the most important business buildings of
Sandy Hill. He opened River street and'
laid out Walnut street, which he gave to the
village. Mr. Middleworth was also for a
time owner of a livery stable. He was kindly,.

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sympathetic and generous to a fault, and held
the confidence and esteem of the entire com-
munity. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Middle-
worth : I. James Henry, died in infancy. 2.
Ella Josephine, born August 21, 1843; "lar-
ried (first) October 25, 1859, Frederick C.
Burdick; (second) April 16, 1867, Burton
Cuyler Dennis, of Albany, New York, who
died October 23, 1890, aged fifty-eight years:
Mr. Dennis was a clerk for a number of years
in Albany, coming to Sandy Hill in 1865 and
conducted the Middleworth House to the time
of his death; child of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis:
Fred M. Dennis, born February 21, 1874, died
June, 1881. 3. Warren H., born June 4,
1848: married, May 27, 1870, Eunice, daugh-
ter of Perry and Sophia (Ives) Scoville.

The ancestor of all who
DE LAMATER inherit the name De

Lamater in the United
States is Claude Le Maitre (De Lamater),
a native of Richebourg in Artois, France, a
scion of an ancient family in Picardy. He
was a Huguenot who, like the Puritan of
England, found in Holland a temporary home
as well as a safe refuge from the storm of
persecution that swept over both countries
and drove thousands of the best families into
exile. He located in Amsterdam, Holland,
where. April 24, 1652, he married Hester,
daughter of Pierre Du Bois, of that city.
Claude and Hester Le Maitre came to Ameri-
ca, where they resided at Flatbush, Long Is-
land, from 1652 until 1662. Here four of
their children were born. In 1662 they re-
moved to Harlem, New York, which was
their home the remainder of their days.
Claude was one of the sturdy, successful pio-
neers of early New York. He secured lands
by allotment and purchase; held various civil
and church trusts ; aided in the defense
against hostile Indians; and by industry and
thrift accumulated a fortune. He was of a
determined and obstinate temperament. Be-
tween 1666 and 1673 he served four terms as
magistrate. He died about 1683. Hester, his
widow, survived him many years. Children:
first four born at Flatbush.: i. Jan (John),
born 1653, died 1702; married Ruth, daugh-
ter of Resolved Waldron. and had six chil-
dren. 2. Abraham, born 1656, removed in
early manhood with his brother Jacobus to
Esopus (Kingston), Ulster county, New
York ; became an elder in the church, and
prominent in public affairs; married (first)
Celeste, daughter of Cornelius Vernoye; (sec-
ond) Elsie Tappan; seven children. 3. Isaac,
born 1658; married Cornelia Evarts, of Al-
bany, eight children, was deacon of the Har-

lem church ; constable and commissioner. 4.
Susannah, born about 1660; married .\lbert
Hermans Bussing, two children. 5. Hester,
born at Harlem, 1662; married Moses Le
Count De Graf, and resided in Kingston. 6.
Jacobus, of further mention.

(II) Jacobus (James), youngest child of
Claude and Hester (Du Bois). Le Maitre, was
born at Harlem, about 1665, died 1741. In
1680 he settled at Kingston, New York, where
he resided in the section called Marbletown,
on a farm of two hundred and ninety-six
acres bought in 1715. He was trustee of
Kingston village, and a devout member of tiie
Dutch Reformed church. Me married, in
1688, at Kingston, Gertrude, daughter of
]\lartin Cornelis Ysselsteyn, of Claverack..
Children: i. Claude, of further mention. 2.
Isaac, born June 3, 1694, died at Amenia,
1775; he was known as Captain Isaac, served
in the French and Indian war; was justice
of the peace ; married his cousin, Rebecca De
Lamater. 3. Martha, November 8, 1696. 4.
Jacobus. 1699. 5. Martin, 1701, married
Elizabeth Nottingham. 6. Bata, 1705; mar-
ried John Leg. 7. Hester, 1706. 8. Cor-
nelius, 1708; married Catalyna Osterhout. 9.
Jannetke, 1711; married Joris Middagh. lo.
Susannah, 1713; married Thomas Notting-
ham.

(III) Claude (2), eldest son of Jacobus and
Gertrude (Ysselsteyn) De Lamater (as the
name was then written), was born 1692, died
at Qaverack, New York, 1770. He resided
on the farm at Claverack left him by his fa-
ther, who divided the Marbletown farm be-
tween his sons Isaac and Martin. Claude De

Lamater married Christina , and had

sons : Jeremiah Jacobus, John, Dirck ; daugh-
ters : Gertrude, married John M. \'an Valken-
burgh ; Catalina Christina, married John Van
Deusen ; Rachel, married John Leggett.

(IV) Dirck, son of Claude (2) and Chris-
tina De Lamater, was born at Claverack. died
at Greenport, New York. He married Thryn-
tie Osterhout and had issue, including a son
Claudius.

(V) Claudius, son of Dirck and Thryntie
(Osterhout) De Lamater, was born at Clav-
erack, later settling at Greenport, New York.
He was a farmer, and a strong supporter of

the Whig party. He married Elting

and had issue.

(VI) Tunis Osterhout, son of Claudius

and (Elting) De Lamater, was born

in Greenport, Columbia county. New York,
where he died. He was a Whig and Repub-
lican, and a member of the Dutch Reformed
church. He married Mary (always known
as Polly), daughter of Nicholas Decker, a

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prominent, wealthy farmer of the town, de-
scendant of one of the old families of the
Hudson Valley. Twelve children, seven of
whom grew to maturity: i. Jane Ann. 2.
Henry, see forward. 3. Christina, married
Henry Seism. 4. Harriet D., married, Feb-
ruary 14, 1876, Jacob Mandeville Rivenburg,
born June, 1835, died December, 1900, a
prominent merchant of Hudson. 5. George,
■of further mention. 6. Albert, born in
Greenport. New York, 1842, died at Hudson,
June 18, igoo; a merchant of Hudson; Re-
publican in politics, member of the Dutch Re-
formed church, and of the Masonic order;
married Albertina, daughter of Jeremiah and
Ann Sagendorph ; children : i. Maud, married
John Lee, now of Oklahoma ; two children :
Jeannette, died in infancy, and Agatha ; ii.
Clarence, of Poughkeepsie. iii. Jessie, grad-
uate of State Normal College, Albany, class
•of 1899: teacher in the public schools of New
York City; iv. Jennie, twin of Jessie, grad-
uate of the Nurses' Training School, Hudson
Hospital. 7. Mary Adalah, married Luke
Wvnds, now a retired educator living in Fish-
kili. New York.

(\'n) George, son of Tunis Osterhout and
Mary (Decker) De Lamater, was born in
•Greenport, Columbia county. New York, June
17, 1838. He has followed farming on a very
large scale and is an extensive and success-
ful stock breeder and dealer. His farming
operations included a large dairy, although the
feature is not now so prominent. He is an
ardent Republican, and supporter of the
Methodist Episcopal church. He married, in
1865, Sarah Louise, daughter of Dr. Richard
Henrj' i\Iesick, of Mellenville, a prominent
physician noted for his skill and liberal treat-
ment of those unable to pay for his services.

Dr. Mesick married (first) ; married

(second) Mary Groot, of a prominent family
of the town of Ghent ; she died at the age of
forty-five years; married (third) Mary,
■daughter of Dr. Elton Palmer, of Mellen-
ville. Sarah Louise is the daughter of Dr.
Mesick and his second wife, Mary Groot.
Children of George and Sarah Louise De
Lamater: i. Harriet, married Martin H. Sim-
mons, of Hillsdale, New York ; children :
Blanche Louise, a teacher, and Myrtle, a
senior at Hillsdale Free School. 2. Harry,
born August, 1867, a progressive, successful
farmer of Hillsdale; married, March 19, 1894,
\'alona Tyler. 3. Andrew, August 25, 1870,
-educated at Troy P>usiness College and for
twelve years bookkeeper for his uncle, Jacob
Rivenburg; now with the Van Deuscn Com-
pany of Hudson. 4. Wilbur Mesick, January
22, 1880; a successful modern farnur witli

farm in Hillsdale ; married Lillian, daughter
of James and Philena (Dickey) Benner;
children: Ira George, born April, 1909;
Douglas, May. 1910. 5. Ira George, of fur-
ther mention.

(\TII) Ira George, .son of George and
Sarah Louise (Mesick) De Lamater, was
born on the homestead farm (where his par-
ents have lived ever since their marriage and
where all their children were born) at Hills-
dale, New York, September i, 1883. He was
educated in the public schools of Hillsdale and
New Paltz Normal School, spending three
vears at the latter institution and graduating
with honor, class of 1904. On the high recom-
mendation of the principal of his alma mater,
he secured a position as teacher and for two
years taught at Hillsdale. Not being satis-
fied with a teacher's life he took a course at
Eastman's Business College.took the necessary
examinations, and was appointed. February i,
1909, clerk in the railway mail service with
headquarters at Albany. He has also land
and farming interests that are cared for by
others. He is a Republican in politics, and a
member of the North Hillsdale Methodist
Episcopal Church. He is unmarried.

(\TI) Henry De Lamater, eldest son of
Tunis Osterhout (q. v.) and Mary (Decker)
De Lamater, was born at the homestead farm
in Columbia county, New York, January 7,
1820; died at Hudson, New York, April 5,
1900. He was educated in the public schools
and spent his minor years on the farm. He
later learned the carpenter trade and became
a well-known contractor and builder. In
connection with his trade and building opera-
tions, he owned and operated a farm in the
town. He was a man of quiet tastes and
habits ; a member of the Dutch Reformed
church, and a supporter of the Republican
party. He figured little in public official life
beyond serving as commissioner of highways.
His character was of the highest and no man
was more truly respected. He married, De-
cember 5, 1849, Cornelia, twin sister of Cor-
nelius F. Moul. Children, five dying in in-
fancy: I. Charles, deceased. 2. Richard, born
in Greenport, March 6, 1855; educated in the
public schools, worked with his father on the
fami. also learned the trade of carpenter; at
the age of twenty-three years he went to
Texas where he spent several years ; then re-
turned to Greenport where he was associated
with his father in contracting and building;
since 1900 he has been in business alone; he
is a Republican in politics ; he married, .Au-
gust 8, 1902, Anna M., daughter of Philip
Coons, of Germantown ; no issue. 3. I'Vank
Spoor, of further mention. 4. Mary Louise,

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married, December 12, 1882, Charles Henry,
son of Charles and Frances Bronk, and
grandson of Henry and' Anna (Sharp)
Bronk, of Stuyvesant Landing, New York,
and grandson of Foy Rronk, a descendant of
Jonas Bronk, one of the founders of upper
New York in the region now known as the
"Bronx"; Mr. Bronk resides in Hudson,
where he is engaged in the jewelry business;
children: Edw-ard Henry, born March 15,
1884; in New York Central railroad employ,
married, December 19, 1905, Blanche Wes-
cott; Bessie Louise, born January 31, 1889,
died October 16, 1889; Florence Cornelia,
born December 20, 1894, died Februay 13,
1895.

(VIJI) Frank Spoor, third son of Henry
and Cornelia (Moul) De Lamater, was born
in Greenport, Columbia county. New York,
on the home farm, September 17, 1856. He
was educated in the public schools, and re-
mained on the farm with his parents until
1879. when he purchased the homestead farm
of his father, and until 1887 remained there,
engaged in cultivating his own acres. In that
year he removed to the city of Hudson. He
had learned the carpenter's trade during the
years spent wdth his father, and after his re-
moval to Hudson worked at this trade, be-
coming a well-known building contractor. He
has always been a Republican in politics, and
while living in Greenport served as commis-
sioner of highways, town clerk and inspector
of elections; in 1887 he was appointed deputy
sheriff of Columbia county, holding that posi-
tion three years. He married. May 20, 1879,
at Hudson, Mary A., born April 12, 1856,
daughter of Thomas and Harriet (Clum)
Lasher, of Germantovvn, New York, a de-
scendant of Sebastian Loescher (Lasher),

(The Lasher Line).
Little is known further of Sebastian loescher
(Lasher) than he was in all probability a Ger-
man ; was at West Camp, now town of Saguer-
ties, Ulster county. New York, in 1710; was
in the list willing to stay at Livingston Man-
or, East Camp, now Germantovvn, Columbia
county, on lands surveyed to them, date of
August 26, 1724, and that his wife's name
was Elizabeth. Children: i. Sebastian, born
1696, married Elizabeth Livingston and had
nine children. 2. Conrad, of further mention.
3. (jeorge, married Elizabeth Hemmon and
had eight children. 4. Maria Elizabeth, born
April (June) i, 1710.

(H) Conrad, son of Sebastian and Eliza-
beth Lasher, was born in 1708. He married
Angeline Sestis and had children, baptized at
Athens, Germantown and Rhinebeck, New

York: i. Gerrit, baptized December 29, 1723;
lived at Germantown and served in the
Eleventh Regiment, Albanv county militia,
during the revolution. 2. Sebastian, of fur-
ther mention. 3. John, baptized November
27- 1733: married, April 6, 1756, Christina
Holtzappel. 4. Anna Maria, baptized March
6, 1735, died March 15. 1813. 5. George,
baptized January i. 1739. 6. Conrad, bap-
tized January 18, 1741.

(HI) Sebastian (2), son of Conrad and
Angeline (Sestis) Lasher, was baptized 1729.
He married Margaret Schumacher, April 4,

1748, and lived at Germantown. New York.
Children: i. Conrad B., baptized .August 2,

1749. died 1824; served as a soldier of the
revolution in the Tenth Regiment, Albany
county militia, and was later second lieuten-
ant of the First Regiment, Dutchess county
troops; he married Catharine Clum. 2. John
B.. baptized November 28, 1756, died 1834;
he was a soldier of the revolution, serving in
the Eleventh Regiment, Albany county mili-
tia; married .Annie Moore. 3. Jacob B., of
further mention. 4. Philip B., baptized Oc-
tober 29, 1774; married Catharine Moore:
four children. 5. George B.. died 1849; was
a .soldier of the revolution, serving in the
Eleventh Regiment. Albany county militia :
married Christina Clum. 6. Christina. 7.
Peter B,, married Gertrude Lasher. 8. Se-
bastian. 9. Mark, married Christina Best.
10. Adam, married Catharine Schoonmaker.

(IV) Jacob B., son of Sebastian (2) and
Margaret (Schumacher) Lasher, was bap-
tized August 22, 1773, died 1857. He made
his will May 5, 1853, proved July 9, 1857. He
married (first) Maria Saulpaugh (second),
when about fifty-seven years of age. Cather-
ine, widow of Jacob Finger. Children, all by
first wife: 1. Maria, baptized June 8, 1799.
2. Jacob (2), baptized June 17. 1801 ; mar-
ried Catharine Malinda Rifenberg. 3. Eliza-
beth, baptized November 12, 1805, died 1831.
4. Elias, baptized July 3, 1808: marrie<l Polly
E. Rockefeller. 5. Thomas, of further men-
tion. 6. Sally, baptized May 20. 181 5. married
Jacob I. Lasher. 7. Ephraim, baptized July
19, 1818; married Jane A. Cole.

(V) Thomas, son of Jacob B. and Maria
(Saulpaugh) Lasher, was baptized .April 17,
1812, died October 21, 1881. He was a resi-
dent of Germantown. New York. He mar-
ried, December 4, 1839. Harriet Clum, born
November 16, 18 16, died November 28, 1874.
Children: 1. Cyrus, born February 17, 1841 ;
married, in 1862. Ella Gaul, and resided at
East Greenbush, New York. 2. Eugene, born
March 27, 1843; married, in 1873, Mary L.
Tomlinson, and removed to Webster Citv,

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Iowa. 3. Jacob C, born January 7, 1845;
married Katherine E. Van Bramer. and lived
in \\'ebster City, Iowa ; children : Irving and
T. Earl. 4. Caroline, born August 28, 1846;
married, 1873, Charles S. Pratt, and lived in
Pittsfield, Massachusetts ; child, Mary A. 5.
Thomas, born March 31, 1850; lives at Web-
ster City, Iowa, unmarried. 6. Frances, born
May 5, 1853; married, in 1874, Charles Van
Buren, and lived at Wilmington, Delaware;
child, Harriet. 7. Mary A., born April 12,
1856; married. May 20, 1879, Frank Spoor
De Lamater ; child, Alice Cornelia, born June
27, 1883, educated in the public and high
school of Hudson, learned telegraphy: now
(1911) manager of the Hudson offices of the
Western Union Telegraph Company.

The ancestors of the Salis-
SALISBURY bury family of Catskill,

New York, is Silvester
Salisbury, born in England or Wales about
the year 1629. That he was a kinsman of the
ancient family of Salisbury in Denbigshire,
Wales, is proven by his coat-of-arms, which
he brought with him from the mother coun-
try, and which is now in the possession of his
descendants in Catskill. This coat-of-arms is
carved in hard wood, and except that the
demi lion in the crest does not hold a crescent
or, in its paws is identical with the coat-of-
arms of the Welsh Salisburys. Two swords
or rapiers also brought by Silvester Salisbury
are preserved in the family, one stamped 1544
and in a hollow near the hilt is the word
"Sachgum." The other sword bears the date
1616. Another heirloom is the portrait of
Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII ;
said to have been painted by Holbein. That
he was well educated is shown by his letters.
In 1664 Silvester Salisbury, being an ensign
in the English army, took part in the con-
quest of the New Netherland. In 1670 he
was sent either as lieutenant or captain to
take command of Fort Albany, and was al-
most immediately appointed schout fiscal of
Rensselaerwyck. The next year he aided in
making a treay of peace between the Mo-
hawks and the Indians of New England. Soon
afterward he was appointed one of the jus-
tices of the peace of Albany. In 1673 he was
forced to surrender his post to the Dutch, who
sent him a prisoner to Spain, at that time an
ally of the United Provinces. During the
next year he was released ; returned to New
York, and placed in command of his old post.
In 1675 he was sent to England as bearer of
dispatches to the king. He was probably
chosen for this mission on account of his
gentle birth. He was most graciously re-

ceived by the Duke of York, to whom he had
been commended by Sjr Edmond Andros. He
returned to New York in the spring bearing-
letters from the duke to the governor of the
province. In one of the letters the duke
wrote, "I send you this by the hand of Cap-
tain Salisbury; of him I have a good char-
acter and therefore would have you remember
him, upon any fit occasion for his advantage
in my service." Since 1677 he in company
with Marte Gerritse Van Bergen becaine the
purchaser of an immense estate at Catskill,
included within the boundary of the "Cats-
kill Patent." But before a patent was ob-
tained for their purchase Silvester Salisbury
died. The date is unknown, but it was be-
tween August 26, 1679, the date of his will,
and March 24, 1680, the day on which his
widow was confirmed as executrix of his will.
He married, in 1669, Elizabeth, daughter of
Peter Cornelise Beck, a master carpenter
from Rotterdam. She survived him and mar-
ried (second) Cornelius Van Dyck, a phy-
sician of Albany. He died in 1687 and in
1691 she married (third) Captain George
Bradshaw, of the English army. Children of
Captain Silvester Salisbury: i. Pieter, bap-
tized in New York, March 15, 1676, died in
infancy. 2. Mary, born August 5, 1678; mar-
ried, in New York, May 15, 1701, Jacob
Marius Groven : she was living in 1755. 3.
Francis, of further mention. 4. Silvester (2),
died leaving no issue.

(II) Francis, son of Captain Silvester and
Elizabeth (Beck) Salisbury, was born in
1679. He became of age in 1700, but did not
enter into possession of his father's estate in
Catskill for several years thereafter, as it
passed through a long and severe legislation
before its boundary was finally settled by the
court of error. While still a lordly domain,
much of it was lost by the line being estab-
lished by circular instead of straight lines of
a specified distance. In the division between
the Sali.sbury and the Van Bergen families,
Francis took the northern portion of the low-
lands, which included the plain on the Katts-
kill between the highway from Leeds to
Kaaterskill and Wolcotts Mills. It contained
forty thousand acres in what is now the town
of Leeds. Prior to coming into his inherit-
ance, Francis lived at Albany and Kingston.
In the autumn of 1699 he enlisted as a pri-
vate soldier for the defence of the frontier
against a threatened invasion by the French.
In 1703 he removed to Catskill and was ap-
pointed supervisor of the district between the
Inbogt and the northern bounds of Cox-
sackie. Two years later he built the Salis-
burv mansion on the northeastern side of the

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Windham turnpike on the terrace heyond
Leeds. It was then the largest and most
costly house between Albany and Nevvburg.
Its walls were of massive stone quarried from
the sandstone ledge in the neighborhood and
pierced with loopholes, reminders of the days
when all lived in terror of the Indians. Un-
der the eaves are the initials of the builders
and the date of building in letters of wrought
iron, F.S. 1.7.0.5. Here Francis Salisbury
lived until his death, about 1755. He mar-
ried r^Iaria, daughter of Abraham Van Gaas-
beck. of Kingston, New York. She died in
1756. Children, all baptized in Kingston, ex-
cept William. i. Laurentia, baptized June

2, 1695. died young. 2. Sylvester, October
10, 1697. died unmarried, January 1738-39.

3. Abraham, December 17, 1699, married, No-
vember 6, 1730, Rachel, daughter of Wessel
Ten Broeck. 4. Peter, April 25, 1703, died
young. 5. Lourens (Lawrence), August 18,
1706; married, January 2, 1735, Anna Maria
\'an Gaasbeck. 6. William, January 30,
1709, died young. 7. Elizabeth, August 3,
1712, married Rensselaer Nichols. 8. Will-
iam, of further mention.

(Ill) William, son of Francis and Maria
(^■an Gaasbeck) Salisbury, was baptized in
Kingston, December 25, 1714, died 1801. He
received by his father's will the farm of Po-
tick with the house which stands near the toll-
gate. The house built of stone was erected in
1730 by Francis Salisbury for his son Abra-
ham, and was originally a story and a half
high. He married, March 27, 1740, Teuntje
(Eunice), daughter of Barent and Neeltje
Garritse (Van Denberg) Staats. Children:
I. Sylvester, baptized in Albany, January 27,
1741, died 1815-16, at the house of his
brother Abraham at Leeds, Greene county.
New York; he married, in 1764, Neeltje
Staats and had eleven children. 2. Francis,
baptized at Catskill, October 8, 1742, died be-
fore the date of his father's will ; married,
January 27, 1772, Elsje, daughter of Joachim
Staats. and had six children. 3. Neeltje, bap-
tized in Catskill, November 23, 1744, died
November 3, 1825; married, December, 1763,
Henry, son of Pieter and Christina (Costar)
A'an Bergen, and had nine children. 4.
Maria, baptized in Kingston, October 12,
1746, married Nicholas Staats. 5. Barent
Staats, baptized in Albany, April 3, 1749, died
April II, 1797; in 1776 he was appointed first
lieutenant in First Regiment of the New
'^'ork line and remained in the sen'ice during
the war of the revolution. He served with
distinction at the battles of Saratoga, Mon-
mouth and at Yorl<town. He married, Oc-
Ttober 13, 1782, Sara, daughter of Solomon

and Margaret (Sammons) Du Bois, and had
three children. 6. Elizabeth, baptized in Al-
bany, May 12, 1751. 7. Annatje, baptized in
Catskill, January 7, 1756, died young. 8.
Catrina, baptized in Catskill, March 25, 1758,
died December 16, 1809; married Benjamin,
son of Solomon and Margaret (Sammons)
DuBois, and had seven children. 9. Abraham,
of whom further. 10. Laurens, baptized in
Catskill. September 28, 1760, died February

10, 1825; married Nancy, daughter of James
Barker, of Freehold, and had three children.

11. William, baptized in Catskill, July 24,
1763 : unmarried.

(I\") Abraham, son of William and Teunt-
je (Staats) Salisbury, was baptized in Cats-
kill, October 3 or 8, 1758, died June 16, 1825.
He inherited the Salisbury homestead and the
land adjoining, including the farm of Potick
with the stone house built in 1730 by the first
Francis for his son .\braham. He married
(first) Hannah Staats; (second) December

I, 1799, Rachel Eltinge, widow of

Van Dusen; she died April 11, 1844, in her
eighty-sixth year. Children of second wife :
I. Anna, born June 13, 1800; married. Decem-
ber, 1825, Henry Lane. 2. William, of fur-
ther mention.

(V) William, son of Abraham and Rachel
Eltinge (\"an Dusen) Salisbury, was born
August 13. 1 80 1, in the old Salisbury home-
stead at Leed or "Old Catskill," died at Cats-
kill, May 12, 1883. At the decease of his fa-
ther he inherited a large tract of land in the
most fertile part of the Catskill patent. His
home at Leeds was the mansion built by
Francis Salisbury, before mentioned, where he
resided until overtaken by severe financial
reverses, when he left the old farm and re-
moved to the village of Catskill, which was
his home until death. Throughout his active
life he was connected with the militia of the
county and advanced through all grades of
service from sergeant in 1822 to lieutenant-
colonel of the Third Regiment ; brigadier-
general, commissioned July 15. 1835, by Gov-
ernor William A. March, and major-general
of the Eighth Division by Governor Silas
Wright, January 17, 1845. His agricultural
operations were conducted on a very exten-
sive scale, and his connection with the Greene
County Agricultural Society and the Ameri-
can Institute continued throughout his active
life. He was progressive in his methods as a
farmer and stock breeder, and his operations
along these lines marked an era in the way
of local development. He was extremely be-
nevolent and a great lover of nature, particu-
larly of trees, flowers and domestic animals.
He was a faithful member of the Dutch Re-

HUDSON AND :\IOHAWK \'ALLEYS

formed church, serving the old chlirch at
Leeds as deacon, and was one of its most Hb-
eral supporters. His home at Catskill con-
tained many rehcs of the past, among them a
portrait of Queen Anne Boleyn ; the arms of
the family carved in wood, brought from
Europe by Captain Silvester Salisbury, to-
gether with Indian deeds and land grants.
General Salisbury married Jane Mairs, born
1813, died 1886, daughter of Rev. James
Mairs. a minister of Galway, Saratoga coun-
ty. New York. Children: i. Rachel E.. died
in 1909. ' 2. James, died in Memphis, Ten-
nessee. 3. William, died in infancy. 4. Will-
iam L., died in St. Louis, Missouri. 5. Eliza-
beth M.. resides in Catskill. 6. Eli H., died
in Michigan. 7. Romeyn, resides in Brooklyn;
engaged in wall-paper business; married Lil-
lie ^L Kenyon, of Brooklyn. New York;
children : i. Jane K., wife of Harold W. Chap-
man, and has Chester and Thayer ; Albert T. ;
Helen ^L 8. Anna, resides in Catskill, New
York.

Pearson and Munsell, in

\'AN ZANDT their early families of Al-
bany and Schenectady,
say this name is of Spanish origin and that in
the earliest records the name was \'an Santen
and \'an Sant. The first record given is of
Jan and Jannetje Van Zandt, who had sons,
Johannes and Joseph. Johannes married
Margarita \'anderpoel and about 1G93 re-
moved to New York.

(H) Joseph, son of Jan and Jannetje \'an
Zandt, was a Spaniard by birth and was nat-
uralized December 6, 1715. He was buried
October 16. 1753. He married Sentje Mar-
cellis in 1688. Children baptized: Jannetje,
.August II, 1689; Anna, Aiay 4, 1693; Gerrit,
( )ctober 4, 1695, married (first) Antje \'an-
Denliergh, (second) Hester Winne ; Maria,
January 2. 1698; Anthony, October 27, 1700,
buried September 2, 1751; Celia, August i,
1703; David, August 6, 1704; Gysbert, of
further mention; Celia, June 12, 1709; Jo-
hannes, married Sara Hilton.

(HI) Gysbert, son of Joseph and Sentje
(Marcellis) Van Zandt, was baptized De-
cember 22, 1706. He married, February 22,
1740, Margarietje Kaarn (Carel). Children
baptized: Jo.seph, January 11, 1741, married,
November 13. 1766, Rebecca DeGarmo; Hen-
drick, of further mention; Marytje, October
25, 1747; Elizabeth, .-Xpril 26, 1752.

(IV) Hendrick (Henry), son of Gysbert
and Margarietje (Kaarn) (Carel) Van Zandt,
was baptized October 24, 1742. He was a
farmer of Albany county. He married Tem-
perance, daughter of William lohn and —

(Bradt) Shutta. Temperance lived with;
Francis Moak, an officer of the revolutionary
war, whose grandson James married a niece
of Temperance. During the absence of Fran-
cis with the army the two women were left
alone ; one night they were alarmed by seeing
the face of an Indian at the window ; they
were greatly frightened and falling upon their-
knees prayed for protection ; the Indians did
not molest them further at that time nor aft-
erward, the Indian chief saying the Moaks
were their good friends and must not be mo-
lested. Children of Henry and Temperance
Van Zandt: Henry; Joseph, of further men-
tion : David ; John and several daughters.

(V) Joseph, son of Henry and Temperance
(Shutta) Van Zandt, was a boot and shoe-
maker of Jerusalem, a town of New Scot-
land, Albany county, near Feurabush, New
York. His lot in the Dutch cemetery was
bought June 21, 1871, which is supposed to be
about the time of his death. While tradition
is that the Van Zandts were of French de-
scent, Joseph spoke the Dutch language and
was considered one of the Dutch settlers. He
married Catherine Long. She was related to-
the \\'ynkoops, and a sister married an Am-
berman of Jamaica, Long Island. Children :
I. I'eter Henry, of further mention. 2. James
Edward, born in New Scotland, Albany coun-
ty. New York, died in Rockford. Illinois. He-
married (first) Emma Wager; (second)
Alary E. Stewart ; no issue liv either mar-
riage.

( \T) Peter Henry, son of Joseph and Cath-
erine (Long) Van Zandt, was born in Jeru-
salem, town of New Scotland, Albany county,
New York, July 9. 1836. died January 14,
1907. He was a shoemaker by trade and a
merchant at Eagle Mills, to which place he-
removed when a young man. He married, at
Jerusalem, November 19, 1859, Mary Esther,
daughter of Robert Stafford. Robert Stafford'
was born August 21. 1816, died June 30, 1884,.
a son of Elnathan Stafford, of Vermont, a
soldier of 181 2. who married Mary Ann,,
daughter of Henry Zeh, of Berne, Albany
county, New York. Children of Peter Henry
Van Zandt: i. Charles Edward, born at
Eagle Mills, New York, August 29, i860;
educated in the public schools ; was with his
father for nine years until 1888, when he
removed to Troy, where he was a bookkeep-
er for fourteen years ; he became secretary
and assistant treasurer for the "Burt Shirt
Manufacturing Company," of Troy, in 1899;
in 1910 the company reorganized as the "Burt
Shirt Company," headquarters at Troy. New
York, in which he holds the same offices ; in-
1904 the \'an Zandt, Jacobs Company was

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organized, of which he is secretary. He is a
Prohibition RepubHcan, and ran for comp-
troller of Troy on the Prohibition ticket. He
is a member of the Church of Christ, of which
he is trustee. He married, December 17,

1883, \iola Hedden. born February 20, 1863,
died July 28, 1908: no issue. 2. Clarence El-
mer, of whom further. 3. Edna May, a grad-
uate of Hiram College. Ohio (in music) ; mar-
ried, June 23, 1907, Howard Xorman Conrad;
child. Ralph, born August 29, 1908.

(MI) Clarence Elmer, youngest son of
Peter Henry and Mary Esther (Stafford)
\'an Zandt, was born at Eagle Mills, Rens-
selaer county, New York, November 7, 1861.
He was educated in the public schools, and
Albany State Normal (I^ollege, graduating
therefrom in class of 1880. He taught school
for a short time, then became a bookkeeper
and cashier of the Boston Store of Troy, New
York. About 1890, in company with John E.
Jacobs, he founded a collar business, begin-
ning in a small way, and this increased stead-
ily until it assumed its present large propor-
tions, the industry now (1910) giving employ-
ment to some fifteen hundred people. In
1904 the Van Zandt, Jacobs Company was in-
corporated for the manufacture of shirts, col-
lars and cuffs. Mr. \an Zandt is president of
the company, vice-president of the Albia Box
Company, treasurer of the Burt Shirt Com-
pany, and director of the National State Bank
of Troy. He is a man of great business ca-
pacity, and is a natural leader. He is a Pro-
hibitionist in politics, and enforces his opin-
ions with his ballot. He is a member and
elder of the Church of Christ, and devoted to
its tenets. He is prominent in the Masonic
order, holding thirty-second degree Scottish
Rite, and a member of the lodge, chapter and
commandery of the York Rite. He is a mem-
ber of the Troy Club. He married, June 15,

1884. Carrie Derrick Abbott, born in Rens-
selaer county. New Y'ork, daughter of Henry
and Martha J. (Derrick) Abbott. Children:
Gladys A., now senior at Vassar College :
Marjorie, now senior at the Emma Willard
School. The sisters will graduate the same
day in 191 1.

The progenitor of the Down-
DOWNING ings of" Troy, New York,

was David Downing, born in
County Tyrone, and raised in Ireland. He
came to Troy when a young man, direct from
his native land. He prospered in his adopt-
ed city, and owned a plant suitable for gen-
eral teaming purposes. He married Jane Mc-
Crossan. of Glasgow, Scotland. Children: i.
Eliza, married William McGillivrae, of Troy ;

children : Margaret E., Leila Kate. Edward
Otto; Eliza is buried in Rural cemetery, Al-
bany. 2. Sarah Jane, unmarried : buried in
Mount Ida cemetery. 3. Harriet Blatchford,
born in Troy, 1851 ; married John S. Mack-
lin, of Watervliet ; they removed to St. Louis,
Missouri, where he died February 21, 1906,
aged fifty-six; no issue. 4. John J., served in
the civil war; buried at Mount Ida cemetery.
5. David Smith, served in the civil war : buried
at Mount Ida cemetery. 6. Samuel Hamilton,
served in the civil war; buried at Harrison's
Landing. 7. Edward Halley, see forward.

(II) Edward Halley, youngest son of Da-
vid and Jane (McCrossan) Downing, was
born in Troy, New York, in 1849, died in that
city, 1903, and is buried in Oakwood ceme-
tery. He was educated in public and private
schools. He entered the employe of the Bur-
dens in fheir mills where he was employed
until 1864. In that year he enlisted in Com-
pany A, Twenty-first Regiment. New York
Cavalry, and went to the front during the
civil war. He was wounded in a skirmish
and taken prisoner, was confined in Libby
pri-son for a time, but the end of the war
coming soon after his imprisonment he did
not partake of the earlier horrors of the his-
toric prison. After the war he returned to
Troy and obtained an appointment as letter
carrier. He remained but a short time, then
again entered the employ of the Burdens,
where he was in charge of one of their most
im])ortant inventions, the horseshoe-making
machine. Later he entered the employ of
William Kemp, of Tro>-, engaged in the
manufacture of articles of brass composition.
He remained with William Kemp until his
retirement about five years prior to his de-
cease. He was a member of the Park Pres-
byterian Church of Troy, and a Republican,
but took no active part in politics. He mar-
ried Anna Brown, daughter of John Cantrell,
of Troy. Child : Harold Kemp, of whom
further.

(III) Harold Kemp, only child of Edward
Halley and Anna Brown (Cantrell) Down-
ing, was born in Troy, New York, Septem-
ber 21, 1875. He was educated in the public
sdiools of Troy, New York, and began his
business career as messenger boy in the Na-
tional State Bank of Troy, rising through
successive promotion until February i, 1898,
when he was appointed receiving teller of
the Manufacturers' .National Bank, where he
remained until December, 1901. At the or-
ganization of the Troy Trust Company in the
latter year he was elected assistant secretary
and treasurer. In 1907 he was elected treas-
urer, an office he is now (1910) filling. His

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HUDSON AND :\IOHAWK VALLEYS

entire business life has been spent in banking,
and he occupies a commanding position
among the financier of his native city and
state. He is also assistant treasurer of the
Rensselaer Improvement Company of Troy.
He served in the Troy Citizens Corps from
1894 to I goo, ranking as corporal. He is a
member of Christ Protestant Episcopal
Church, and in politics a Republican. He
stands high in the Masonic order, both in the
York and Scottish Rites, belonging to Com-
■mandery. Consistory and Shrine. Is a mem-
ber of the IMasonic Club of Troy and the
■Commercial Travelers' Association, and presi-
dent of the Alumni Association of the Troy
High School. He married, June i, 1899, Jen-
nie Riggs, daughter of Cornelius Luckerhofif.
of Boston. Mr. Luckerhoff was manager of
a large estate in Boston, but in igo8 settled in

Troy; he married Gertrude, daughter of

and Eleanor Riggs. Harold Kemp and Jen-
nie (Riggs) Downing have a daughter
Eleanor.

Edward Hogben was born in
OGDEX Sandgate. England: married
and had children : Charlotte,
Thomas, George, Eliza and Edward.

(11) Edward (2). son of Edward (i)
Hogben, was born in Sandgate, England,
November 11, 1826, died in Albany. New
York. September 23, 1900. He was an archi-
tect by profession, and a man of good educa-
tion and fine ability. He came to the United
States and settled in Albany, where he fol-
lowed his profession. In some manner the
name after coming to Albany became Ogden,
and as such he was known everywhere. He
admitted his son Charles G. to a partnership
under the firm name of Ogden & Son. archi-
tects. He married Julia Hand (.see Hand
A'll), born 1827, now living in Albany, New
York. Children: Edward (3), deceased:
Mary, married George H. Stevens, of Albany,
■child, Ogden Stevens ; Jennie, deceased ;
Charles G., of further mention.

(Til) Charles G., son of Edward (2) and
Julia (Hand) Ogden, was born in Albany.
New York, January 25, 1858. He was edu-
cated at Albany in a private school and at the
Boys' Academy, continuing his studies there
initil seventeen years of age. At eighteen he
iDcgan the .study of architecture with his fa-
ther, and in 1892 was admitted to a partner-
ship. The firm of Ogden & Son established
offices at 61 State street, and conducted a
large and successful business. After the
death of Edward Ogden in 1900, Charles G.
•continued the business alone at the same lo-
■catiiin. During his jirofessional career, Mr.

Ogden has planned many noted buildings in
Albany, in New York state and throughout
the United States. Some of his more impor-
tant works in Albany include St. John's Ro-
man Catholic Church in the South End ; Aca-
demy of The Holy Name and the Young
Women's Christian Association building. He
married, September 6, 1881, Lizzie D.. daugh-
ter of Peter Kinnear, of Albany. Children:
Kenneth, born March 3, 1884; Jane, Septem-
ber 6, 1893.

(The Hand Line).

The Hands originally came from England,
settling at Lynn, Massachusetts. The tradi-
tion is that the emigrant ancestor returned to
England to obtain his share of some property
which he inherited in common with others,
and on his return voyage was murdered. He
left two sons, of whom John of Easthampton
is the progenitor of the family here recorded.
The English arms of the family are: "Argent,
a chevron azure between three hands, gules.
Crest : on a wreath argent and gules a buck
trippant or."

John Hand was one of the nine first settlers
of Easthampton, Long Island, coming as did
five others from Lynn, Massachusetts. He
was originally from the village of Stanstede
in the county of Kent, England. The exact
date of his coming to Easthampton is not
known, but a power of attorney given by him
is dated October 31, 1649, which is probably
the year after the settlement. His name ap-
pears on a whaling list at Southampton in
1644. One of the oldest deeds on record
in Easthampton is dated 1660 for lands pur-
chased by John Hand and others from the
Indians. He died 1663. He married Alice,
sister of Josiah Stanbrough, one of the early
settlers of Southampton. Children : John,
Stephen, Mary, Joseph of further mention,
Benjamin, Thomas, Shamgar and James.

(II) Joseph, son of John and Alice
(Stanbrough) Hand, was born 1638, died
January, 1724. He removed to Guilford,
Connecticut, the other children are supposed
to have remained on Long Island. He mar-
ried, 1664, Jane, daughter of Benjamin and
Jane Wright, of Killingworth, Connecticut.
Children: Sarah, born March 2, 1666, died
1751; Jane, September 9, 1668, died Decem-
ber 13, 1683; Joseph (2), April 2, 1671 ; Ben-
jamin, February 8, 1673; Stephen, of further
mention: Elizabeth, RIarch 12, 1677, married
Benjamin Wright; Silence, March 12, 1679.
married Ephraim Wilcox; Annie. July 10.
1683. married Jonathan Wi-ight ; Jane, April
25. 1686. married Cornelius Dowd.

(Tin .'^tephen. son of Joseph and Jane
(^\■right) Hand. Ixirn February 8, 167(1. "died

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HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

1601

in Guilford, Connecticut, August 14, 1755.
He married (first) November 6, 1700, Sarah
AN'right, died September 18, 1706. Children:
Joseph, died young; Joseph (2), of further
juention; ]\lary, born October 30, 1704, mar-
ried Josiah Meigs ; Sarah, September 9,
1706; Stephen. He married (second) No-
vember 16, 1708, Sarah, daughter of Abra-
ham Pierson, of Killingworth, Connecticut.
Children: Stephen, born June 13, 1710; Abi-
gail, October 20, 1712, married Daniel Brad-
ley.

(I\V) Joseph (2), son of Stephen and Sarah
(Wright) Hand, was born in Guilford, Con-
necticut, January 10, 1703. He married, Au-
gust 31, 1731, Hannah, daughter of Na-
thaniel Holabird. Children: Sarah, died
young; Sarah (2), died young; Samuel, born
February 5, 1736; Sarah (3). March 30,
1744, married William Throop; Joseph, of
further mention ; Hannah, December 28,
1753, married Jared Leet.

(\') Joseph (3), son of Joseph (2) and
Hannah (Holabird) Hand, was born April
15, 1749. He married, May 8, 1771, Pru-
dence Wright. Children : Luman, Stephen,
Prucia, Sarah, Amiinda, Elizabeth, Huldah,
Josiah, of further mention.

(\'I) Josiah, soa of Joseph (3) and Pru-
dence (\\'right) Hand, was born about 1790.
He married Jane Pierson and had issue.

(MI) Julia, daughter of Josiah and Jane
(Pierson) Hand, was born 1827. She mar-
ried Edward (2) Ogden (Hogben).

The early spelling of this name
AL^BEE was JNIebie, and in that form was

borne by Jan Pieter Mebie, the
Dutch ancestor, who was of Schenectady, New
York, at an early date. His home lot in the
village was on the east side of Church street,
next door to the Dutch church. He also had
farm land on the Third Flat on the south
side of the Mohawk, eight miles above Sche-
nectady. The house on the farm, known as
the "Old Mebie House," was built or at least
its stone walls date from 1670-80, and is
doubtless the oldest house in the Mohawk
A'alley. In 1697 Rode, a Mohawk Sachem,
called Dirk by the settlers, with the consent
of all the other Indians, granted eighty acres
•on both sides of Schoharie Creek to Jan Pie-
ter Mebie. who married Anna Pietrcse, daugh-
ter of Pieter Jacobus Borsboom. He made
his will, April 3, 1725, died April 8, following.
Children : Pieter, of further mention ; Cath-
erine, married Arent Samuelse Bratt, died
1773, aged eighty-two years, two months, sev-
enteen days; Annetje. baptized April 16, 1693,
in Albany, married Helmers Veeder; Abra-

ham, baptized June 26, 1695; Engletie, No-
vember ID, 1697, married Pieter Danielse
Van Antwerp; Jacob, baptized May 5, 1700,
died April 18, 1755; Maritje, married Cor-
nells Van Dyck ; Margaret.

(II) Pieter, son of Jan Pieter and Anna P.
(Borsboom) Mebie, was baptized in Albany,
New York, January 20, 1686. He settled on
the north side of the Mohawk river on "Arent
Mebie's Kill," just north of the stone bridge
on the New York Central railroad. He mar-
ried, November 12, 1721, Susanna, daughter
of Arent Vedder. Children baptized : Anna,
October 26, 1722, married Abraham Van Ant-
werpen; Sara, March 21, 1725, married Abra-
ham Yates; Johannes, January 19, 1728;
Arent, 1729; Margarieta, April 15, 1733;
Marietta, October 13, 1734; Hermanns, Oc-
tober 9, 1737; Maria, April 13, 1740; Petrus,
November 14, 1742; Rebecca, October 6,
1745, married Simon Van Antwerpen.

(III) Jan (Johannes), son of Pieter and
Susanna (Vedder) Mebie, was born Janu-
ary 10, baptized January 19, 1728, died No-
vember 24, 1796, and was buried in the Fifth
Flat. He married, December 13, 1755, Alida,
daughter of Simon Toll, a revolutionary sol-
dier who served under Colonel Philip Schuyl-
er, First Regiment, and in the Fourteenth
under Colonel John Knickerbocker. Children
baptized: Susanna, May 2, 1757; Simon, Au-
gust 2, 1 76 1, died young; Pieter, August 5,
1764, "a practitioner of physic"; Hesje, No-
vember 9, 1766; Simon, August 13, 1769. The
family residence had up to 1705 Ijeen in and
around Schenectady. In that year "John Mabie
was granted eighty acres of land in the town
of Glen, and in 1722 a tract of six hundred
acres was granted to his brother Peter ( Pe-
trus)." Jan and Peter are believed to have
been the first permanent white settlers in the
town of Glen, Tryon county, now Montgom-
ery county. New York.

'(IV) Simon, son of Jan and Alida (Toll)
Mabie, was born July 21, 1769, at Westina,
Albany county, and baptized August 13, 1769.
In 1799 he was a resident of the town of
Charleston, with his wife, Susannah. About
1797 he and his brother Pieter built the first
sawmill and carding machine in that section.
(This is now the town of Glen. Montgomen,'
county.) In 1799 Jan (John) sold his land
there, and probably returned to Schenectady.
He served in the revolutionary war as a pri-
vate of the Second Regiment, Albany county
militia. Colonel .Abraham Wcmple command-
ing. He married Susannah Nexsen, and had
issue: Catherine G., George J. W.. Jacob S.
G. and Elias A. N.

(\') George James Warner, son of Si-

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mon and Susannah (Nexsen) Mabee, was
born in the town of Charleston, Montgomery
county, New York, February i6, 1814, died
September 25, 1870. He was educated in the
pubhc schools, and became a merchant of
New York City with a home in Brooklyn.
He was a member of the wholesale drug firm
of Williams, RIabee & Clapp, whose place of
business "at Old Slip" was totally destroyed
in the disastrous fire that devastated New
York City in 1835. Later he engaged in the
same business under his own firm name. He
married Margaret Tiers Nostrand, born Feb-
ruary 7, 1818, died September 27, 1900,
daughter of Foster and Christianna (Tiers)
Nostrand, of the old New York family. Chil-
dren: I. Foster Nostrand, born December 6,
1839, educated in the public schools, enlisted
in the Seventh Regiment New York Volun-
teers, April 18, 1861, went to the front with
his regiment and served through three cam-
paigns and is a member of the Seventh Regi-
ment Veteran Association. For eighteen
years he was chief paymaster for the Erie
railroad with headquarters at Owego, Tioga
county, New York, which is still his legal
home. Since 1896 he has been statistician of
the New York state department of excise,
created in that year. He is a member of the
Masonic order, in which he holds high posi-
tion; is past master of Friendship Lodge, No.
153; past high priest of Jerusalem Chapter,
No. 47, both of Owego ; past eminent com-
mander of Malta Commandery, No. 21, Bing-
hamton ; past grand commander of New
York State Grand Commandery, Knights
Templar; thirty-second degree Mason of
Corning Consistory; a charter member of
Mecca Temple. New York City, and past
grand sword bearer of the New York Grand
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. Politi-
cally a Republican, and in religious faith an
Episcopalian. He married Sarah Elizabeth
Campbell and his children : Susan Campbell
and Marian Bowers. 2. Edward Tiers, born
March 22, 1841, died August 12, 1843. 3-
George J. W., born October 26, 1842, resi-
dent of Denver, Colorado. 4. Emily Tiers,
born May 8, 1844, married George Cronyn,
whom she survives, a resident of Brooklyn,
New York. 5. Julia Bach, born April 5, 1846,
married Edward Schofield, and resides in
Brooklyn, New York. 6. Douglass William,
of further mention. 7. Addie Tiers, born
December 27, 1851, died January 16, 1897. 8.
Maggie Nostrand, born September 12, 1853,
died October 21. 1862. 9. Courtland Bab-
cock, born July 21, 1855. 10. John AlLston,
born May 25, 1857, died September 13, 1899.
II. William Marsh, born January 30, 1859.

(MI) Douglass William, son of George
James Warren and Margaret Tiers (Nos-
trand) Mabee, was born in Brooklyn. New
York, March 5, 1848. He was educated in
the public schools, and entered business life as
a clerk in his father's wholesale drug house in
New York City. For several years he was
ticket agent for the Erie railroad at Bing-
hamton, New York. After his marriage he
became manager of the estate of his father-in-
law, George West, of Ballston Spa, New
York, and now resides at Saratoga Springs.
He is a member of Saratoga Lodge, Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks of Sarato-
ga; Knights of Pythias, of Ballston Spa;
member of Saratoga Club, Eutopian Club of
Ballston and the Republican Club of New
York City. He is vice-president of the Adi-
ondack Trust Company, of Saratoga, direc-
tor of the First National Bank of Ballston
Spa, director of the National Folding P.ox
& Paper Company of New Haven, Connecti-
cut. He married, October 13, 1875, Florence
Louise, daughter of Hon. George and Louisa
West, of Balston Spa. Children: i. Louisa
West, married William P. Boone ; they have
three children: Douglass M., John Rowan,
Florence Mabee. 2. George West, married'
Blanche Aiken Wiley. 3. Douglass Walter,
married Edna L. Marvin ; they have one child,
Edna Louise. 4. Alfred Lounsbury. 5. Flor-
ence Jane, married C. H. R. Compton ; two-
children : William R. and Douglass M. 6.
David Walton. 7. Margaret Nostrand.

The Odell family, so long occu-
ODELL pying a prominent place in the
county of Westchester. New
York, descend from William Odell, who was
of Concord. Massachusetts, 1639. He came
to New England with the Rev. Peter Bulkley,
who was rector of the parish of Odell in Bed-
fordshire, England, 1620. William Odell'
died at Fairfield, Connecticut, June. 1676,
and from his sons John and William the West-
chester family spring. The family have been'
eminent in war, politics and business.

Jonathan Odell, the Patriot, great-grandfav
ther of William Odell, owned a large estate-
in the town of Greenburg, Westchester coun-
ty, and lived in the old Stone Inn, still stand-
ing on the roadside at Albottsford just below
Irvington. This old Odell Inn at Albottsford
was erected by Captain John Harmse prob-
ably as early as 1693. It is noted as having
been the building in which a session of the
provincial assembly was held August 31,
1776. Jonathan Odell served in Colonel Sam-
uel Drake's regiment, Westchester county
militia, as did many of his sons and nephews.

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1603

He was lield a prisoner in the old Sugar
House Prison at New York City for a time
and suffered much loss of property from the
depredations of the British General Vaugh
and his troops. Jackson Odell, also a soldier
of the revolution, was probably a brother of
Jonathan. The line of descent is thus traced.

( I ) William Odell. of Concord, .Massachu-
setts.

(ID William (2), son of William (1)
Odell. married \'owles.

(HI) John, son of William (2) Odell,
married Johanna Turner.

(I\') Johannes, son of John Odell, mar-
ried Johanna Vermilye.

(\') Jackson, son of Johannes Odell, born
in Westchester, New York, about 1735, served
in the revolutionary war under Colonel Van
Cortlandt. He lived and died in his native
county, married and left a son, Jackson.

(Vi) Jackson (2), son of Jackson (i)
Odell, was born in Van Cortlandt, Westches-
ter county. New York, in 1770, died there in
middle life. He was a farmer. He married and
had children; i. John, of further mention. 2.
William, a farmer of Peekskill, New York ;
married Hattie Ten Eyck. 3. Gilbert, mar-
ried Kate Foster. 4. Nathan, lived and died
a farmer of Westchester county ; he married
and had issue. 5. Sarah, married Hiram
Booth.

(MI) John (2), eldest son of Jackson
(2) Odell, was born in Van Cortlandt, West-
chester county. New York, in 1790. died near
Peekskill, New York, in 1845, and is buried
with his wife in the old Van Cortlandt church-
yard. He was a farmer, a Whig and member
of the ]\lethodist Episcopal church. He mar-
ried Nancy Foster, born in 1800, died in 1866,
daugiiter of Robert and Martha Foster, both
of Westchester county, where they died, leav-
ing children : Nancy, Kate, Phoebe, Charlotte,
Ruth, Robert, John and James, all of whom
lived to mature years, married and reared
families. Children of John and Nancy (Fos-
ter) Odell: I. Isaac, "died unmarried at the
age of twenty-two years. 2. Sarah, married
Jacob Lent, of Peekskill, New York, both now
deceased ; children : .Arthur and Martha, both
married and have families ; residence Peeks-
kill. 3. Martha, married Elias MacLean, and
lived in Peekskill, where they died, leaving
Jane, who married Captain L. C. Trott. 4.
John W., of further mention.

(VIII) John W., son of John (2) and
Nancy (Foster) Odell, was born on the Odell
farm near Peekskill, New York. .September
10, 1839. He grew up on the farm, and was
educated in the schools of Peekskill. He was
reared to habits of industry, and at the age of

eleven years was self-supporting. These hab-
its of industry and thrift contributed in a
large measure to his success in after life. He
was not contented with a farmer's life, and
leaving home began teaming and trucking.
In this manner he secured a foothold in the
business world, and made many friends who
were disposed to help a young man of such
energy as he displayed. In 1876 he sold his
teaming outfit and came to Albany. Here he
secured an appointment as special deputy
sheriff and held that office eleven years. He
saw an opportunity to increase his capital and
purchased a small restaurant, which he oper-
ated for six years, when he disposed of it at
a good profit. His next venture was in a
large restaurant at Troy, New York, which
he did not long operate, selling out and re-
turning to Albany where he purchased the
Globe Hotel Restaurant. Here he success-
fully continued the catering business for ten
years, then retired after eighteen years spent
as a caterer. During these years he had pros-
pered and he invested his profits in real e,s-
■ tate, to the management of which he now de-
votes his entire attention. He owns several
apartment houses and other business renting
dwellings in Albany and has other business in-
terests. He is a member of the Masonic or-
der, belonging to Lodge, Chapter, Temple and
Consistory, being a thirty-second degree Ma-
son. Politically he is a Republican. He mar-
ried (first) in Peekskill, Theodosia Hadden,
born in Peekskill X'alley, 1849, died in 1886,
without issue. He married (second) in Al-
bany, Sarah Coleman, born in Leicestershire,
England, daughter of John and Fannie (Tur-
ner) Coleman, of old English families. She
came to the United States in 1879, and is an
earnest member of the First Methodist Epis-
copal Church of Albany, as is her husband.
He served as steward for several years and
since 1906 has been trustee. A handsome
memorial window in the church is the gift of
John W. and Sarah Odell.

The Dorrs are an ancient luiglish

DORR family. Joseph Dorr, ancestor,

came to .America from England in

1670. took the oath of fealty at Pemaquid,

purchased land in Bo.ston in 1674, afterward

removed to Roxbury, where he died.

The family in .Mbany herein traced descent
from Edmund, son of Joseph Dorr, born in
England, died in 1734, at the age of eighty-
six years. He came to .America in 1674,
landed in Boston. later settling in Roxbury,
Massachusetts, near Boston, where he be-
came selectman and influential in town affairs.
He married (first), 1679, Elizabeth Howley,

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of Roxbury, born 1656, died 1719, in Rox-
bury. He married (second) Elizabeth D.
Clapp, born 1669, died 1773. Children, all by
first wife: i. Edward, born 1680, died in in-
fancy. 2. Ann, died in infancy. 3. Edward,
died in infancy. 4. Edward, died in infancy.

5. , unmarried. 6. Edmund, born 1686,

died in infancy. 7. Ebenezer, June 7, 1688,
died in Roxbury, Massachusetts, February
25, 1761 ; married and left numerous descend-
ants. 8. Rev. Joseph, 1690, died March 9,
1760; a graduate of Harvard College, was
ordained to the ministry and settled over the
church at Minden, Worcester county, Massa-
chusetts, for forty years. His son, Joseph
(2) Dorr, attained local eminence and left a
notable posterity. He had several daughters
all of whom married clergymen. 9. Edmund,
of whom further. 10. Harbottle, born May
II, 1696; married and settled in Boston; chil-
dren: Susannah, born January 24, 1725, died
unmarried; Harbottle (2), born January 24,
1729, died unmarried. 11. Elizabeth, married

— Scutt. 12. Clarence, born July 17.

1700; married, July 8. 1725, a daughter of
Edmund Weld, and had six children.

(II) Edmund (2), ninth child of Edmund
(i) and Elizabeth (Hawley) Dorr, was born
in Roxbury, October 19, 1692. He settled in
Lyme, Connecticut, where he died November
21, 1776. He married, in Lyme, September
24, 1719, Mary, born April 24, 1794, daugh-
ter of Matthew and Phoebe (Hyde) Gris-
wold, of Lyme, both prominent families of
early Connecticut. Children: i. George, born
August 4. 1720; was a lawyer and magistrate
of Lyme for thirty-three years, and attorney
for the king for thirty-three years; died 1786.

2. Rev. Edward, born November 2, 1722, a
graduate of Yale College; married Helena,
daughter of Governor Talcott, of Connecticut ;
he settled in Hartford, where he was pastor
of the First Church ; died there October 20,
1772, without issue. The Rev. Dorr is buried
in the old Centre Church cemetery. The stone
covering the Rev. Dorr's grave is a table
monument, on which is cut the following in-
scription :

"Here lies interred the body of The Rev-
erend Edward Dorr, the late Learned and
Pious Pastor of the first church of Christ in
Hartford, who departed this life Oct. 20th
Anno Domini 1772 in the 50th year of his age
and 25 of his ministry

And Jesus said I am the
Resurrection and the Life."

3. Matthew, of whom further. 4. Elizabeth,
i)orn 1725; married (second) Dr. Elisha
Tracy, of Norwich, Connecticut. 5. Mary,

born 1727, died July 6, 1742. 6. Eve, born
1733; married George Griffin, of East Had-
dam, Connecticut. 7. Deborah, born 1739, died
1768, unmarried.

(III) Matthew, third son of Edmund (2)
and ^lary (Griswold) Dorr, was born in
Lyme, Connecticut, 1724, died at Athens,
Ohio, 1801. He married (first) November 4,
1747. Elizabeth Palmer. She died about
1775. He married (second) Lydia Wood,
died at Athens, Ohio, 1815. By first wife he
had seven sons and three daughters; by sec-
ond wife three sons and two daughters.

(IV) Elisha, son of Matthew and Elizabeth
(Palmer) Dorr, was born in Lyme, Connecti-
cut, March 27, 1764, died in Albany, New
York, April 30, 1843. He came to Albany
when a young man and became a furrier and
dealt in furs and skins, many of which he
bought of John Jacob Astor, a business he was
engaged in until his retirement through ad-
vancing years. He was surrogate of Albany
county, 1808-10, and an incorporator and di-
rector of the Mechanics' and Farmers' Bank.
He was a member, deacon and elder of the
First Presbyterian Church of Albany and a
potent force for good in the city. He mar-
ried, in Albany, Elizabeth Brouer, born 1776,
died September 19, 1837. She was also a
worker in the First Presbyterian Qiurch.
Children: i. Palmer, born November 4, 1797,
died July 30, 1840; unmarried; a graduate of
Middlebury College, Connecticut; a physician
of Albany. 2. Cornelius, born July 30, 1799,
died September 17, 1820: unmarried; he was
admitted to the bar, but died before establish-
ing a practice. 3. Harriet, born December 25,
1802. died March 31, 1819. 4. Alfred, born
March 27, 1806, died April 17, 1849; grad-
uate of the LTnited States Military Academy
at West Point; married Mary C. Milderber-
ger, died December 18, 1836, in her thirty-
fourth year ; children : i. Harriet, died in child-
hood ; ii. Elizabeth, married James Dempsey,
of Albany, and left two sons, William James
and Elisha Dorr Dempsey, both of Newark,
New Jersey ; iii. Ellen R., born July 20, 1834,
married William Livingston Ostrander, of
Hud.son, no issue. 5. Edmund, of whom
further. 6. Elisha (2), born July 9, 1810,
died October 2, 1882.

(V) Edmund (3), son of Elisha and Eliza-
beth (Brouer) Dorr, was born in Albany. New
■S'ork, August 11, 1808, died October 10,
1 881. He was educated in Albany and for
many years was a commission merchant of
that city. He, together with Arthur Root, of
Albany, were promoters of the board of trade
of Albany. He was an energetic, prosjicrous
and public-spirited man, highly regarded in his

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city. He was a Presbyterian, and a Repub-
lican but never active in political affairs. He
was married in New Brunswick, New Jersey,
April 26. 1836. by Rev. Dr. Howe, to Maria
^L Englehart, born in New York, November
II, 181 5, died near Albany, New York, June
7, 1888. a woman of strong mentality and
high character, a member of the Presbyterian
church and interested in many good causes.
She was a daughter of George and Margaret
(Hartell) Englehart, of New York City, the
former of whom was a wholesale leather mer-
chant of New Y^ork City, with Jacob PL Loril-
lard, who was his cousin. She was a grand-
daughter of George Englehart, who was twice
married, one of his wives being Mary Loril-
lard of the well-known Lorillard family of
New York and New Jersey. Children of
Edmund and Maria M. Dorr: i. Margaret
Elizabeth, born March 19, 1838. on Ferry
street, Albany, New Y'ork, then a noted resi-
dential street. She was educated in Albany
private schools and Female Academy, and
with her sister resides at Glenmont, near Al-
bany, unmarried. 2. Emma Lorillard, born
April 3, 1840, at the northeast corner of Swan
and Lydins streets, now Madison avenue, Al-
bany, the old home there being yet a land-
mark. She was educated in private schools
and Female Academy, and now has her home
in the most beautiful surroundings overlook-
ing the Hudson Valley. The sisters are mem-
bers of the Presbyterian church, and are
women of culture and refinement.

This family has for several
BARCKLEY generations been prominent

in the history of the town
of Guilderland and Albany county, where the
pioneer of the family settled prior to 1790.
Michael Barckley, born in Germany, came
when a young man to America, perhaps then
the Lnited States, settled on a farm in Guil-
derland, where he married and died in middle
life. He was a member of the Dutch Re-
formed church. He had a son Evert.

(H) Evert, son of Michael Barckley, was
born in Guilderland about 1785, died there in
1816. He was a farmer and a member of the
Reformed church. He married Gertrude Wal-
dron, born April 27, 1793, died March 28,
1864. Children: Henry, of whom further;
Henrietta, torn 1814, died unmarried at the
age of sixty-seven years. She survived her
husband and married (second) Dr. Jonathan
Johnson, an early practitioner of Guilderland.
By her second husband she had children : Ade-
line, born 1818, died immarried ; George
Young, born 1820, married Mrs. Ella Corbett,
now of Binghamton, New York; Elizabeth,

born 1822, unmarried; Jane Ann, born 1824,
unmarried.

(HI) Henry, only son of Evert and Ger-
trude (Waldron) Barckley. was born in the
town of Guilderland, Albany county. New
York, in 1812. He learned the trade of black-
smith, which he followed in early life. He
later purchased a farm in the town of Knox
near the village. In 1856 he opened a gen-
eral store, but continued the operation of his
farm. He conducted a prosperous mercantile
business, and accumulated a substantial for-
tune. Lie was prominent in the politics of his
town, being a Whig and later a Republican.
Lie was town clerk, supervisor and postmas-
ter for many years. He was a man of ster-
ling character and held in universal esteem.
He was an active member of the Reformed
church which he served as elder. He was a
big-hearted, generous soul, and none were
turned away empty-handed that appealed to
him for aid. He was a member of the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows and took a
deep interest in that order. He married in
Guilderland, Magdalene (or Madeline) Liv-
ingston, born 1814, died in Knox, December
6, 1900, daughter of Aaron and Nancy (Hal-
linbeck) Livingston, lifelong residents of the
Helderberg region, where they died in old
age, faithful members of the Presbyterian
church. Children of Henry and Magdalene
Barckley: i. Michael, born in Knox in 1840,
educated in the public schools, and grew to
manhood on his father's farm ; when the civil
war broke out he was active in raising a com-
pany and went to the front as lieutenant of
Company K. Seventh New York Heavy Ar-
tillery: at the battle of Cold Harbor he was
wounded by a bursting shell, taken to a mili-
tary hospital at Washington, D. C, where he
died from the effects of his wound, 1864; he
was unmarried ; his memory is preserved in
Altamont where Michael Barckley Post,
Grand .Army of the Republic, is named in his
honor. 2. Edward Livingston, of whom
further.

(IV) Edward Livingston, second son of
Henry and Magdalene (Livingston) Barck-
ley, was born on the farm in Knox, June 9,
1842. died October 3, 1905. He was educated
in the public schools and at Knox Academy.
He grew up on the farm, and at an early age
became his father's trusted assistant, both in
farm management and in the store, thus ac-
quiring a thorough business education that
stood him well in the heavy responsibilities of
his later life. Years before his father's death
Edward L. had assumed full control of both
store and farm of one hundred and thirty-five
acres, later becoming owner of both and con-

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tinuing in active business until his death. He
was a Repubhcan in politics and became the
recognized leader of his town. In the years
1885-86-87 he represented Knox on the Al-
bany county board of supervisors. In 1895
he was appointed commissioner of prisons
and in 1896 was elected treasurer of Albany
county. He served the full term of three
years, declining re-election. He was fre-
quently a delegate to county and state con-
ventions, where he was counted among those
whose opinion was of weight. During the
administration of President Harrison he was
postmaster at Knox, where in private or pub-
lic life he was the soul of honor and held the
confidence of his townsmen in a degree sel-
dom equaled. He was a warm-hearted, gen-
erous man and a friend of education, the
church, and all good causes, supporting liber-
ally the institutions that depended on the pub-
lic for their existence. He was a member of
the Masonic order and of the Lutheran
church. He married, in Knox, November 22,
1865, Eunice Esther French, born in East
Worcester, Otsego county, New York, De-
cember 12, 1 841. At the age of ten years her
parents removed to Kno.x where she comple-
ted her studies, being a schoolmate of her late
husband. In 1905 she purchased a home in
Altamont, New York, where she removed in
June, 1906, and still resides. She is a daugh-
ter of -Alva and Amanda (Tyler) French.

Alva French was born in Nashua, New
Hampshire, came to Otsego county. New
York, later to Knox, Albany county, and died
in Guilderland, 1870, at the age of seventy
years. He was a Baptist in religion, and a
Democrat in politics. .Amanda (Tyler)
French, born in Knox, 1803, died 1850, was
a daughter of Jesse Tyler and a granddaugh-
ter of John and Eunice (Crarey) Tyler, of
Connecticut. (This is the family to which
John Tyler of Virginia, president of the Uni-
ted States, belonged.) Jessie Tyler was a
farmer and a carpenter, owning a large farm
which he operated in connection with his
building operations. He was a Whig, and a
member of the Reformed church. He died at
the age of eighty years ; Amanda, his wife at
the age of eighty-seven years. She was a
Methodist. Children of Alva and Amanda
French: i. Eunice Esther, married Edward
L. Barckley and has a daughter, Grace Tyler,
born February 6, 1867, a graduate of .-Vlbanx
Girls .Academy, resides with her mother at
Altamont, New York, unmarried. 2. Sarah,
married Ezra Wright, lived in Schoharie
county, where he died leaving a daughter
Amanda, also deceased. 3. Datus, died in
Kncjx : married .Margaret Reid, of Guilder-

land: child, Mary, married Alber Hansen, of
Schenectady. 4. Dorothy, married Edmund
Crawford, of New Scotland, died June i,
1910, without issue. 5. Harriet, died at the
age of six years.

The Relyeas were early settlers
RELYE.A in the town of Guilderland, Al-
bany county, where they at-
tained honorable position. They descended
from a Huguenot family of France, one mem-
ber of which settled in America prior to the
revolutionary war.

(I) Adam Relyea was born in Guilderland,
Albany county. New York, in the year 1800.
He was a prosperous farmer, living to a good
old age. He married Margaret Van Patten
and had issue.

(II) Jacob A., son of Adam and Margaret
(\"an Patten) Relyea, was born February 27,
183 1, died May 3, 1907. He was educated
in the public schools and grew to manhood on
the farm. He later took up farming as a life
occupation, possessing a farm in the beauti-
ful Helderberg region. He was assessor of
his town and otherwise politically important
in town life. He was a Republican, and a
member of the Reformed church. He mar-
ried, January 17, 1852, Nancy Maria, daugh-
ter of John P. and Anna Barbara (Crounse)
Livingston and granddaughter of Peter I.
Livingston. She was born June 21, 1834, on
the old Peter I. Livingston estate, in the
same house which she still owns and has oc-
cupied during her lifetime, with the exception
of seventeen years of her married life, when
she resided in another part of the town. Chil-
dren of Jacob -A. and Nancy Maria (Living-
.ston) Relyea: i. Orpha, born .August 27,
1853, married Cornelius Hallenbeck, who died
October 16, 1894, aged forty-one years; chil-
dren : Alta, Laura N., .Anna and Charles H.,
the three daughters are married. 2. Edward,
born .April 22, 1856, now a resident of Sche-
nectady ; married Julia Sharp and has one son,
Lloyd \erner. 3. Anna, born March 16,
1859, resides in Dunnsville, married Frank
Coss, deputy sheriff of .Albany county ; chil-
dren : .Alta and Addic, twins ; Addie, deceased :
Leland. 4. Jacob H., born August 9, 1872,
resides in Albany, train master, Boston & Al-
bany railroad, married Sarah L. CroUnse, and
has children : .Amelia and Barton.

Clhe Livingston Line).
I'cler I. Livingston was born in .Mbany
county. New York, where he died December
18, 1838, aged sixty-nine years and nine days.
He owned and cultivated the Livingston
homestead farm now owned by his grand-

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daughter. Mrs. Jacob A. Relyea. This farm
commands a grand view of the "Indian Lad-
der" entrance to the Helderberg mountains,
and the picturesque scenery together with its
fertile, well-kept condition, render the estate
unusually attractive. He married (first)
j\[aria Warner, who died aged fifty-five years
and thirteen days; he married (second) Eva
Frederick. Children of first wife : Aaron and
Anna, both deceased. Children of second
wife : John P., see forward : ^largaret, mar-
ried Jacob Van Wormer; Magdalene, mar-
ried Jacob Fryer: Catherine X.. married
Frederick Mynderse.

(H) John" P., son of Peter I. and Eva
(Frederick) Livingston, was born on the
homestead which he later owned, November
20. 1807, died in 1894. He was a farmer, a
Lutheran in religious belief, and politically a
Republican. He married (first) in Guilder-
land. Anna Barbara Crounse, born .Xpril 16.
1808, died February 4. 1861, daughter of
Conrad and Margaret (Livingston) Crounse;
he married (second) Mrs. Catharine (Ostran-
der) Stevens, no issue by this marriage. Chil-
dren of John P. and Anna P.arbara
(Crounse) Livingston: Evaline. born Septem-
ber 18. 1 83 1, married Peter Wagoner, died
leaving no issue. 2. Catharine, born .-Xugust
14, 1832, married Isaac Smith, died leaving
no issue. 3. Xancy Maria, born June 21,
1834, married, January 17, 1852, Jacob .A.
Relyea (see Relyea H). 4. Rebecca, born
January 10. 1837. widow, living in Pough-
keepsie. has three living children. 5. Julia,
born March 29. 1839, widow, residing in
Greater New York, has one daughter. 6.
Peter I., born August 26, 1841, resides in
Schenectady, married Mary E. Mann, of
Guilderland Center, has one daughter. ;\Ieta
L. 7. Harriet, born June 15, 1844, married
and lives in Union, P.roome county, Xew
York. 8. Helen, born September 6, 1846, died
young. 9. Helen (2), born February 18,
1849, married and lives in Guilderland Center.

This is an ancient family of
LITHGOW Scotland, famed for its schol-
ar artists, men of letters and
ministers. A noted member of the family,
William Lithgow, born in Lanark about 1582,
eldest son of James Lithgow, burgess of Lan-
ark, and Alison Gahame his wife, published in
1632 a collected edition of his travels under
the title of "The Totall Discourse of the Rare
Adventures and painefull Peregrinations, of
long nineteen yeares Travayles, from Scotland
to the most Famous Kingdomes in Europe,
Asia and Aflfrica." He was educated at Lan-
ark grammar school and acording to .Sir Wal-

ter Scott was "bred a tailor." He seems to
have started his travels at an early age. He
says "neither ambition, too much curiosity, nor
any reputation I ever sought, did expose me to
such long peregrinations «nnd dangerous ad-
ventures past" — but, that "underserved Dalida
wrong." From Paris on March 7, 1609, he
set out on the first of the three journeys of
which he gives an account in his "Totall Dis-
course," where he claims that his "payneful
feet traced over (besides my passages of seas
and rivers) thirty-six thousand and oddc
miles, which draweth neare to twice the cir-
cumference of the whole earth." It was on
the second of his journeys, while passing
through Spain, that he was thrown into pris-
on in Malaga as a spy and severely tortured.
He was released by the intervention of the
English consul there and the English ambas-
sador at Madrid backed by a division of King
James navy. On his arrival at Datford, fifty
days after leaving Malaga, Lithgow was car-
ried to the court at Theobalds and exhibited
his "martyred anatomy" to the whole court,
"Even from the King to the Kitchen." Al
the king's expense he was sent twice to Bath,
where he recovered his health although his
left arm and crushed bones were incurable.
Early in 1622 he was sent to Marshalsea pris-
on for a long period for assaulting in the
presence chamber Gondomar, the Spanish am-
bassador, whose empty promises of redress for
his sufferings at Malaga had exasperated Lith-
gow beyond endurance. In 1624 he preferred
a bill of grievance to the House of Lords,
which he daily followed for seventeen weeks,
witlutut result. In 1627 he left the court for
Scotland, traversed the Western Isles and
was "kindly cntertayned" in Bodick Castle by
James "Marquiss of Hamilton." In 1637 he
left Scotland mounted on a "galloweigan
nagge" for another journey to Russia, but in-
stead went to Breda publishing a volume on
his return. In 1643 he again left Scotland,
embarking at Prestonpans for London. "In
all which deserted way between Forth and
Gravesend wee found only three ships, two
Scotsmen, an Norwegian, and one of the
royall whelps lying at anker in .•\ermouth."
He published his tast work in 1643. From
this date all trace of him is lost; the date of
his death and the place of his burial are un-
known, though there is a tradition that he
died in Lanark and lies buried in the church-
yard of St. Kentigern there. It is from the
same Lithgow family that David C. Lithgow,
of .Mbany, descends.

(I) Robert Lithgow, of Lin Lithgow. Scot-
land, the first of the name of whom we have
knowledge, married and had children : Gil-

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bert, a teacher of Stevenson, Scotland ; James,
a designer ; John, a potter ; WilHam, of furth-
er mention ; EHzabeth and Janet.

(H) Rev. WilHam Lithgow, son of Robert
Lithgow, was bor^ in Alexandria, Scotland.
He was a graduate of the L'niversity of Glas-
gow ; became a minister of the Church of
Christ and has been continuously in the active
ministry for the past thirty years, and is still
preaching (1911), although eighty years of
age. He married Catherine, daughter of
Robert and Elizabeth (Corcoran) Cunning-
ham and granddaughter of Alexander Cun-
ningham, a soldier of the Crimean war. Chil-
dren : Elizabeth, Gilbert, David C, of further
mention, Robert, Jessie (or Jesse), Catherine,
Margaret, John, William.

(IH) David Cunningham, son of Rev.
William and Catherine (Cunningham) Lith-
gow, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, Novem-
ber 12, 1868. His preparatory education was
obtained in the Glasgow public schools sup-
plemented by a course at Glasgow Technical
College. Having artistic talent and desire he
became a pupil at the Haldean Academy of
Art, at Glasgow, where he pursued his studies
until 1887, when he went to London and en-
rolled as a student at Kensington School of
Art under Sir Frederick Leighton. After
completing his studies he came to the United
States in 1888, establishing himself in New
York City, where he remained until i8go. In
that year he came to Albany where he opened
a studio and still continues (191 1) in land-
scape and portraiture. He is a member of the
Albany Club and a charter member of the
Albany Art League. In religious faith he is
a Baptist. He married, February 10, i8go, at
Altamont, New York, Amelia, daughter of
Edward and Augusta (Crounse) Kenholts,
both old Albany county families. Child, Mil-
lie, born November 4, 1900.

Three generations of the Geiger
GEIGER family are herein recorded, each
generation claiming a different
country as a birthplace. George Geiger,
grandfather of Albert Geiger, of Hudson, was
a native of Poland, and fled an exile from his
native land, taking refuge in Germany. He
was a man of ability, and is supposed to have
become implicated in some revolutionary
movement that placed him under the ban of
the government. He settled in the province
of Wiirtemburg, Germany, where he lived and
reared his family. He was twice married and
one of his sons, John, was a noted sculptor of
Munich, giving promise of becoming famous
in his art, when he was stricken by death at
the earlv age of twenty-five vears. The only

record of others of his family is of Leonard,
founder of the American branch.

(II) Leonard, son of George Geiger, the
Polish exile, was born in Wiirtemburg,
Germany, October 23, 1829. He remained
there until 1849 when, to avoid military serv-
ice, he came to the United States. He was
educated in the German schools, secured a
good education and developed a strong genius
for invention. He learned the trade of stone
and marble cutting, but on his arrival in New
York worked for a time for the Hudson
River railroad. He did not long remain in
that employ, but soon settled in Hudson, New
York, where he followed his trade. In 1858
he formed a partnership with James N. Town-
send and until 1870 operated a stone and mar-
ble yard, doing principally monumental work.
In the year mentioned the partnership was
dissolved and he continued the business alone
for a year or two, then sold out to his former
partner and retired from that line of business,
devoting himself to his inventions. These in-
cluded many articles of value which should
have netted him a large fortune! but through
the chicanery of those whom he trusted, he
received only a small return for the product
of genius. Two of his inventions were of the
greatest value in military warfare and were
universally adopted. His greatest, perhaps,
was the breech-loading ritle which he brought
out in 1864. While he was well-paid for his
invention, the amount was but a trifle com-
pared with the value of the invention. Those
promoting the gun received large suins. An-
other invention was a copper- jacketed bullet,
which is yet in use in several of the armies
of the world. While his pay for this was to
have been $30,000, he really received but a
small sum. being swindled out of his right.
Mr. Geiger was a Republican in politics, but
extremely independent. He joined with the
Liberal movement of 1872, and supported
Horace Greeley for the presidency. After the
overwhelming defeat of his favorite he took
little interest in political affairs. Aside frorn
one term as alderman of Hudson, he held no
public office. He was reared in the Catholic
faith, but after coming to the United States
attended the Episcopal church, later be-
coming a follower of Robert Ingersoll. He
was a member of the Masonic order, charter
member of Aquilla Lodge of Hudson, also a
Chapter Mason and a Knight Templar. He
married, February 14, 1852, Margaret Fire-
wig at Hudson, New York, who survives him,
residing in Hudson. She was born in Nurem-
berg, Germany, and came to the L'nited States
in 1850. Children: i. Frederick, a resident
of Hudson. 2. .\lliert, of further mciition. 3.

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Emma, married Daniel W. Bugel; four chil-
dren : Leonard G., married Mabel Hallen-
beck, one child, Leonard ; Daniel ; Winifred
and Gladys, twins. 4. George W., born 1858,
died 1869. 5. Fannie, married Thomas J.
Zimmer, of Poughkeepsie, New York; chil-
dren : Thomas J., Margaret, Gertrude and
Leonard G. 6. Rosa (twin). 7. Lillie (twin),
married John Dillingham.

(HI) Albert, son of Leonard and Margaret
(Firewig) Geiger, was born at Hudson, New
York, January 25, 1854. He was educated in
the public schools, and after completing his
studies entered business life as a clerk, con-
tinuing as such in the dry goods business for
eighteen years. In 1892 he entered the employ
of the New York and Hudson Steamboat
Company, and in 1895 was appointed gen-
eral agent of the company, with headquarters
at Hudson, which position he now holds
(1911). He has served eight years in the
National Guard, enlisting in the Twenty-third
Separate Company as a charter member. He
is a Republican in politics and served on the
board of fire commissioners in 1906-07-08. He
is an earnest worker for the good of the serv-
ice in the Hudson fire department, which he
joined in 1873, and is still on the roll (1911)
of J. W. Hoysradt Hose and Chemical Com-
pany No. 8, and also was an active member
of the Firemen Association of the State of
New York in the early years of its existence,
serving on many important committees. He
is a member of the Masonic order, the Knights
of Pythias and the order of Elks. He mar-
ried, February 2, 1902, at Hudson, Ruth Lud-
low, daughter of John Jessup, who died in
1857. During his earlier days Hudson was
a great whaling port and Mr. Jessup sailed as
a seaman on several whaling trips.

The Van Slykes of Cox-
VAN SLYKE sackie. New York, de-
scend from Willem Pie-
terse Van Slyke, who was in Beverwyck in
1655. He had sons: Pieter, Jacob, Dirck and
Teunis. There were Van Slykes, early set-
tlers in Beverwyck ; Cornelius, whose descend-
ants settled in the Mohawk Valley, and Wil-
lem, whose descendants settled below Albany
in Columbia county, then crossed over into
Greene county where they held large posses-
sions.

(H) Teunise Willemse. son of Willem Pie-
terse \'an Slyke, was born at Heyvelt, prov-
ince of L'trecht, Holland. Fie was of Bever-
wyck in 1666, when he sent to Holland for
his inheritance. Fie was the founder of the
\'an Slykes, who settled on the west bank of
the Hudson, now Greene county. New York.

In 1678 he purchased and occupied a farm at
Niskayuna, Schenectady county, New York.
In 1713 he built the stone house on the west
bank of the Hudson, one mile south of where
the village of New Baltimore now stands. In
1733 'le was one of the four church officers
who received the deed for the land upon
which to build the Dutch Reformed church at
Coxsackie. The Boston Morning Journal of
January 12, 1903, described the Bible once
owned by Teunise Willemse \'an Slyke as
the oldest printed Bible on earth, made in.
Dordrecht, 1518-55, now owned by Benjamin
Fredenberg Van Slyke, of Saginaw, Michi-
gan, handed down from father to son, about
four hundred years, and containing the fam-
ily record. The paper devoted a column and
a half to the description of this Bible, which
was seventeen inches long, eleven inches
wide and five and three-quarter inches thick.
The workmanship on the same was equal to
that of the present time; the binding was of
calf, and the illustrations (which were beau-
tiful), as well as each initial letter, was all'
hand work, there being no modern machin-
ery (such as used to-day) at that early period.
It was claimed that the Massachusetts His-
torical Society offered $10,000 for the book;
that an attemjjt was made to secure it for the
World's I-'air at Paris: that it took thirt_v-
seven years to make the book, made by Rich-
ard Paul Eelbo. It was taken from New
Baltimore to Michigan in 1858 by Benjamin's
father, Peter J., son of General Pieter \"an
Slyke, a general in the revolution, son of
Gerrit, son of Teunise Willemse \'an Slyke.
Teunise Willemse Van Slyke's wish was to be
buried in sight of the passing vessels on the
Hudson, and his grave on a knoll in the-
woods south of his house is yet to be found.
The Van Slyke coat-of-arms comes down
from the fourteenth century. A clover leaf
on one side of a battlement, three fish natant
on the other side. He married, February 6,
i6g6, Jannetje, daughter of Flenrick \'an Wie,
a volunteer in the colonial war, in Rensselaer-
wyck in 1654. Children, born at .\lbany:
Beertje, November 15, 1^)96: Willem, Octo-
ber 23, 1698: Hendrick, November 3, 1700;
Ida, June 28, 1702: Andreis, September 17,.
1704; Gerrit, May 19, 1706; Pieter, Septem-
ber 26. 1708: .Alida, November 5, 1710: Dirk,
March i, 1713: Agnietje, June 19. 1720; and
others.

(Ill) .Xndreis (.\ndrew). son of Teunise
Willemse and Jannetje (Van Wie) \'an
Slyke, was born in Albany. Septcm!)er 17,
1704. Fie married Maria Van Benthuysen,
born July 16, 1721, daughter of Balthus, born
I-^bruary 22. 1707, son of Pauhis Martinse-

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and Catalyntje Barentse Van Benthuysen, the
latter daughter of Barent Balthus, of Flat-
bush, Long Lsland, who died before 1660. All
the children born after 1747 were baptized in
Coxsackie, New York. i. Jannetje. born
March i, 1747, married in the Helderbergs
and when over one hundred years of age
visited New Baltimore. 2. Baltus, of further
mention. 3. Lydia, June 9, 1751, married
John Van Den Berg, of Coxsackie. 4. Tunis,
February, 1754, married Jane, daughter of
Peter \'an Slyck. 5. Mary, March 28, 1756,
married John \'an Pelt, of Staten Island. 6.
Catherine, July 3, 1757, married Albert Van
Derzee. 7. Gertrude, March i, 1761, mar-
ried Clow. 8. Alida, May 5, 1765,

married Tunis, son of Peter Van Slyck. 9.
Jane, married John Reamer. 10. Andrew,
born 1704, built the stone house still standing
by the New Baltimore depot of West Shore
railroad.

(IV) Baltus, eldest son of Andrew and
Maria (Van Benthuysen) Van Slyke, was
baptized at Coxsackie, Greene county. New
York, February 26, 1749, died September 19,
1827. He served in the war of the revolution
as private in the Coxsackie company, Albany
-county militia. He married Annatje Lewis,
born November 10, 175 1, died November 2,
1819. daughter of Barent, born February 17,
17 17, in New York, and Catherine (Van
Slyck) Lewis. Children: i. Andrew, born
April 25, 1773, married Matthews.

2. Barent, June 3, 1775, married Jenny Bronk.

3. Catherine, May 3, 1777, lived to near ninety
years of age, married Charles McCardell. 4.
Maria, December 25, 1779, lived to be very

•old. married James Dunn. 5. Jane, October
27, 1780, married Norman Humphrey. 6.
Lydia, April 13, 1783, lived to be ninety-seven
years of age, married John Van Slyck. 7.
Alida, January 7, 1785, lived to ninety-seven
years of age, married Henry Hosford. 8.
Teunis, of further mention. 9. Peter, born
April 14, 1790, married Sally Coovert.

(V) Teunis B., son of Baltus and Annatje
(Lewis) Van Slyke, was born October 14,
1787, died December 18, i860. He married,
December 19, 1812, Judith Bronk, born March
13, 1788, died December 27, 1864, a descend-
ant of Jonas Bronck, who came to New Am-
sterdam in 1639, purchased land now known
as "The I'ronx," upjjer New York City. His
son, Pieter Bronck, of Beverwyck, purchased
Coxsackie of the Indians. He had a fine col-
lection of books brought from Holland when
he came in his own ship with family, servants
and wealth, and these books arc said to be the
first library of mention in New York State.
He met his death, it is sujiposed, at the hands

of the Indians, although his property was un-
disturbed, which may prove that he came to
his death in a less horrible manner than by
the tortures said to have been inflicted upon
him ere death mercifully released him. The
belief is that he came to America from Den-
mark via Amsterdam. Rev. Everardus Bo-
gardus, the first settled minister of New Neth-
erland, assisted in the administration of his
estate (See Bronk, in this work). The Bronck
family had a coat-of-arms, as displayed on a
silver cup brought by Jonas Bronck — a shield
bearing a rising sun, rayed, with the motto:
A't- cede mails (Yield not to evil).

The descent from Jonas Bronck to Judith
(Bronk) Van Slyke is through his son, Pieter,
who married Hilletje Tyssinck. Jan Bronk,
son of Pieter, born 1652, married Commetje
Conyn, and served in the wars. She was
daughter of Leendert Philipse Conyn, in Bev-
erwyck, 1655, married Agnetje . Peter

Bronk, son of Jan, married, in Albany, Antje
(Anna) Bogardus, born January 22,- 1679,
daughter of Pieter Bogardus, born April 19,
1644, and granddaughter of Rev. Everardus
Bogardus, the first settled minister of New
Netherland (See Bogardus genealogy). Peter
Bronk, son of Peter, born November 10, 1707,
married Rachel \'an Hoesen, a descendant of
Jan Franse Van Hoesen, who bought Clave-
rack. New York, from the Indians in 1662.
Ephraim Bronk, born March i, 1755, served
in Coxsackie company. Eleventh Regiment,
Albany county militia, was at the surrender of
Burgoyne ; married Annetje Knott, lx>rn 1756
in New York City, daughter of James Knott,
buried in Trinity churchyard, and his wife,
Nancy Dunbar. Judith Bronk, born March
13, 1788, married Teunis B. Van Slyke. A
descendant of Jonas Bronck, Amelia Cornelia
Bronk, widow of Andrew Whitbeck, of Coey-
mans, and likewise a great-granddaughter of
Hendrickse Van Wie, died in Coxsackie, aged
one hundred and three years. Children of
Teunis B. and Judith Van Slyke: i. Hannah
Jane, born August 7, 181 3, married Benoni
Clapper. 2. Ephraim T., of further mention.
3. Baltus, April 28, 1817, married Esther
Garnsey. 4. Barent, October 15, 1819, mar-
ried Elizabeth Hawley. 5. Charlotte, April
25, 1831, the only surviving of all the above
children, lives at New Baltimore, New York.

(\'I) Ephraim T., eldest son of Teunis B.
and Judith (Bronk) Van Slyke, was born
March 5, 1815, died June 19, 1899. He re-
sided on the ancestral lands in Greene county,
New York, all his life. He married, Sep-
tember 21, 1840, Mary, born March 3, 1816,
died May 13, 1898. daughter of .Andrew and
.Xnna (Ten Fyck) \'an Derzee. She de-

HUDSOX AND MOHAWK \ALLEYS

•scends on the paternal side from Storm Van
Derzee and on the maternal from Coenradt
Ten Eyck, both icarly Dutch settlers of New
Amsterdam and Rensselaerwyck. Storm Van
Derzee was born on tlie ocean while the ship
"Rensselaerwyck" was passing through a fu-
rious storm, 1636, w-Tiich accounts for his
peculiar name.

The line of descent from Storm \'an Der-
zee to Mary \'an Derzee is through his son
Wouter (Walter), who married, July 2, 1695,
Jannetje Swart. Storm (2), son of Wouter
^^an Derzee. was baptized .August 3. 1701,
married, September 5. 1735, Elizabeth Sling-
erland. Andrew, son of Storm (2) \'an Der-
zee, was born April 10. 1781, died March 8,
1829, captain of New Baltimore militia com-
pany and served at Sackett's Harbor, war of
1812, married. November 12, 1807. Anna Ten
Eyck. born May 17, 1786. died September 8,
1872. She received revenue from the Ten
Eyck estate in Holland until near her death,
when she relinquished her right, signing the
necessary papers with the Dutch consul at
Albany. ^lary, daughter of Andrew and An-
na (Ten Eyck) Van Derzee. married Eph-
raim T. \'an Slyke. Conradt Ten Eyck, who
■died 1687. the ancestor of Anna (Ten Eyck)
Van Derzee, was of the wealthy and important
Ten Eyck family of Holland. The coat-of-
arms borne by the Holland family may be seen
on the windows of the Ten Eyck Hotel, Al-
bany, but without the motto "Mea virtute in-
volve'" (I wrap myself in my virtue). Coen-
radt Ten Eyck was a boot and shoe manu-
facturer of New Amsterdam, and ow-ned a
tannery. The first map of New- York City,
made 1640, shows two lots owned by him
and Coenties Slip, the dock used by the early
Hudson sloops, was named for him. He mar-
ried, 1646-47, Maria Boelc, a devoted worker
in the early Collegiate Dutch church. Jacob,
son of Coenradt Ten Eyck, was born 1647 in
New Amsterdam, moved to Albany, 1675,
married, 1676, Gertruy Coeymans, born 1654,
died February 27, 1735. daughter of Barent
Pietersen Coeymans, the Dutch emigrant.
Coenradt. son of Jacob Ten Eyck, was born
April 9. 1678, died 1753, married Geertruy
Van Schaick, September 8, 1687, daughter of
Anthony, born 1655, and Maria Van DerPoel,
and granddaughter of Captain Goosen Van
Schaick. 1649, and Teunise Cornelise Van
DerPoel, 1660. Anthony, son of Coenradt
Ten Eyck, was born September 17, 17 12, and
was a merchant of New York City. He mar-
ried, November 29. 1740. Sara E. Ten Eyck,
a great-granddaughter of Coenradt Ten Eyck.
Coenradt A., son of Anthony Ten Eyck, was
born May 15, 1746 ;( the name is written with

a small / in the records of the Collegiate Dutch
church in New York), died December 14,
1825. He owned the land where the village
of Ravena, Albany county, now stands. He
and his wife are buried on the knoll west from
the depot.

He married Rachel Hallenbeck, of Cox-
sackie, born .April 18, 1752, died .April 19,
1839, daughter of Martinus and descendant of
Caspar Jacobse Hallenbeck. who was of Bev-
erw}ck, 1654; his son, Jan Caspar Hallen-
beck, died at Albany, December. 1730, mar-
ried Rachel ^\■illemse : their son, Caspar Janes
Hallenbeck. died 1756, married Magdalena

. Their son, Martinus Hallenl)eck,

born December 19, 1715. married, January
30, 1736, Annatje, daughter of Cornelius
Woomer. Their daughter Rachel married
Coenradt Ten Eyck. Their daughter .Anna
married Andrew Van Derzee. Their daugh-
ter Mary married Ephraim T. Van Slyke.
They had tw'O sons: Andrew W., of further
mention ; Bronck, of New Baltimore, New
York, born Julv 20, 1852.

(\ II) Dr. Andrew W. \'an Slyke. eldest
son of Ephraim T. and Mary (Van Derzee)
Van Slyke. was born in New Baltimore, De-
cember 5, 1846. He prepared for the pro-
fession of medicine at Rutger's College, New
Brunswick, New Jersey, attended .Albany
Medical College, where he was graduated M.
D., class of 1869 : also took post-graduate
course in New York City. He has practiced
medicine at Coxsackie, New York, since
1872. and is held in high regard as a physician
and a citizen. He is greatly interested in
matters genealogical and historical, owning
many treasured mementoes of his Dutch an-
cestors, including wills, deeds, and articles of
household use. It is to him that this family
record is in a large measure due. He is,
moreover, the accepted authority on many
other Coxsackie families, not of his own name,
and constantly called on for genealogical data.
He attends the Dutch church. He is a trus-
tee of Heennanse Memorial Library and
president ( 191 1 ) of the board. He was raised
a Mason in April, 1868, in Ark Lodge, No.
48, I-'ree and Accepted Masons, of Coxsackie,
New York, and passed through the degrees to
Commandery. He is a Republican in politics
and served as health officer of the town of
Coxsackie since the organization of the state
board of health and has also served in the
office of coroner.

He married (first) January i, 1877. Marie
Antoinette McCarty, who died February 18,
1907, without issue. He married (second)
Henrietta Houghtaling, July 22, 1907. Child,
Maria E. G., born September 2, 1909.

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HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

The JNIac Cabes were one of
McCABE Ireland's most powerful clans.
Originally coming from county
Cavan, they spread over Cavan and the neigh-
boring counties, dominating wherever the
branches of the family settled. They were
descended from Colla da Chrioch, founder of
the Kingdom of Origiale, the first king of
which was a Mac Cabe. His descendants
continued to rule over that kingdom, and were
also styled Kings of Ulster down to the time
of the subjugation of that province by the
English in the twelfth century. The Mac
Cabes were men of great strength and valor,
and in the old days gave many famous com-
manders and galloglasses to Ulster. With
the decline of Irish influence in Ulster the
hand of adversity fell hard upon the Mac
Cabe clan. The clansmen, although subju-
gated, were never conquered. The spirit of
the old chieftains was inherited by their de-
scendants, and the Mac Cabes, broken in for-
tune but not in. spirit, kept up an almost con-
tinuous warfare against the conquerors. In
the course of the centuries, however, the Mac
Cabe clansmen became scattered over the
widely distant parts of the world, carrying
in their hearts, however, a wildly passionate
devotion to Hibernia, and as passionate a
hatred of her conquerors. They also carried
with them the same rugged strength and cour-
age which characterized them in the early his-
tory of Ulster.

In the days of their supremacy in Ireland
they had allied themselves with the O'Reillys
anci the O'Neils, who with the Mac Cabes
were the three most powerful families in
county Cavan. Their influence was para-
mount in every branch of county aiTairs, mili-
tary and civil, and they also contributed many
powerful prelates to the Irish church of that
period.

(I) Descended from a long line of those
pure Celtic ancestors was James McCabe, who
emigrated with his family to America in 1844,
and settled in Albany, New York.

(II) John, son of James McCabe, married,
in Albany, Anne, daughter of Patrick and
Mary (Daley) Cassidy, both of whom were
natives of Dunganna, county Tyrone, Ireland,
and who had come to the United States in
1828, and after a three months' voyage across
the ocean settled in Albany, where March 9,
1833, their daughter Anne was born. Anne
survived her husband and is still living in Al-
bany, being now in her seventy-eighth year.
She is a fine type of Irish-American woman-
hood, and now in the winter of her life may
well look back with pride upon a life full of
good works. The writer, an old friend, re-

members her as always a sweet, charitable
and neighborly woman, deeply religious, and
an earnest and constant advocate of total ab-
stinence, in a field in which she accomplished'
immeasurable good. Her life's story, far-
reaching and womanly as it has been, is an
inspiration to all who know her. Children :
I. James, born 1857, died 1898, married Mary
J. Holton, also deceased, leaving one child, a.
son, John J., who is unmarried and resides in
Albany. 2. Patrick Edgar. 3. John P., born
1 86 1, married Catherine Reagan, and still re-
sides in Albany. 4. Mary T., born 1863, died
1885, unmarried. The sons were all educated'
in the Christian Brothers' Academy, at Al-
bany, New York, and have all manifested con-
siderable activity in political affairs, Patrick
E. being especially prominent.

(Ill) Patrick Edgar, second son of John'
and Anne (Cassidy) McCabe, was born in'
Albany, New York, June 26, 1859. Upon
leaving school he learned the trade of moul-
der, moulding being at the time about the
most remunerative trade open to a young
man. Dissatisfied with the limited opportuni-
ties whic-h his trade seemed to hold out tO'
him, he took the United States civil service'
examination and in 1885 was appointed to a
clerkship in the Albany, New York, post of-
fice. Here his early education and great nat-
ural ability soon asserted themselves, and, to-
gether with his constant activity in politics,
caused him to be appointed assistant county
treasurer, an ofiice which he filled with signal'
ability. He occupied this position for six
years, and at the end of that time had become
one of the recognized leaders of the Demo-
cratic party in the county of Albany. In
1 80S he was elected clerk of the county of
Albany, and in the year 1900 was chosen as
the representative of AHjaiw county on the
Democratic state committee, a position which
he still holds. He has since become one of
the recognized leaders of the Democratic-
party in the Empire State, and is always a
familiar figure in state and national conven-
tions. He has proven himself an able and
resourceful leader and counsellor, and has
often exhibited qualities of rare courage and
strategic genius in the face of odds which
would be the undoing of a less able man. On
January 4, 191 1, Mr. McCabe was elected
clerk of the senate of the state of New York,
a position the importance of which can hardly
be over-estimated. His conduct of this office-
has met the unquahfied approval of all stu-
dents of public affairs. He is a Roman Cath-
olic and a member of the congregation of the
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. A\-
banv. In 1898 he married Elizabeth T. Kielev,.

HUDSON AXD MOHAWK WALLEYS

1613

a native of Albany, daughter of Jeremiah
and Anne (Kennedy) Kieley, both now de-
ceased. Jeremiah Kieley, who died in 1863,
was a man of considerable wealth and in-
fluence in his day, and was supervisor in the
•old first ward of Albany sixty years ago. Mr.
and Mrs. McCabe reside in Albanv, New
York.

The Sutherlands came

SUTHERLAND to America from Scot-
land, and are of Scotch
and English ancestry. The family in Cox-
■sackie descend from Joseph Sutherland, of
Horseneck, Connecticut, who came from Scot-
land. He married and left sons. His de-
scendants are found in Columbia, Greene, Al-
"bany, and Schoharie counties, New York.
The first of the line in Coxsackie was the fol-
lowing named :

d) James Sutherland, who owned property
and died there. He married and left several
■children.

(11) .•\bram. son of James Sutherland, was
liorn at New Baltimore, Greene county, New
Y'ork. He married Jane, daughter of Henry
and Cornelia (Van Pelt) Van Slyke (see Van
Slyke VI).

(HI) George, son of Abram and Jane (Van
Slyke) Sutherland, was born in New Balti-
more. He located in Coxsackie, New York,
where he was extensively engaged in the
harvesting and shipping of hay. He married
Lettie A. Rowe, born in New Baltimore, of an
old New York family.

(I\") Frank Herbert, son of George and
Lettie A. (Rowe) Sutherland, was born at
New Baltimore, New York. He was educated
in the common schools. He has for many
years been engaged in the freighting business
and in other enterprises. He is a director of
the National Bank of Coxsackie, having
served in that capacity for many years. He is
prominent and active in public affairs, and
for many years has been president of the vil-
lage corporation. He is prominent in the
Masonic order, holding the degrees of Knights
Templar. In political faith he is a Democrat,
and in religious faith a Methodist.

(The Van Slyke Line).

There were two early settlers of Bever-
wyck of this name. Cornelius, whose descend-
ants settled in the Mohawk Valley, and Will-
iam Pieterse, whose descendants settled below
Albany in Columbia and Greene counties.
The name originally \'an Slyk is now spelled
both Van Slyck and Van Slyke.

(II) Tetuiis Willemse, son of William
Pieterse Van Slyk or Van Slyke, of .Amster-

dam, married, February 5, 1696, Jannetje
Hendrickse Van Wie. He settled on a large
tract of land in Greene countv. and one
mile south of New Baltimore built, in 171 3,
the stone mansion which was long the family
seat. His family Bible, printed bv hand, 15 15-
18, said to be the oldest printed Bible on
earth, is owned by a descendant in Saginaw,
Michigan. Children: Hendrick, Ida, Andries,
Gerrit, of further mention, Pieter, Alida,
Dirck, Agnietje, Willem. Jannetje H. Van
Wie, wife of Tennis Willemse \'an Slyke, was
the daughter of Hendrick Gerritse Van Wie,
who was in Beverwyck. 1659-91 ; made liis
will in 1690. wherein he spoke of his wife and
eldest son Gerrit. In 1691 Pieter Schuvler
petitioned the governor for the relief of Ilen-
drick Gerritse \'an Wie, "a volunteer in the
late expedition to Canada, who was desper-
ately wounded at Prary in Canada and was
cared for at the house of the widow of Jacob
Tys \'an Derheyden." He died soon after.

(III) Gerrit, son of Tennis Willemse and
Jannetje H. (\'an Wie) Van Slyke, was bap-
tized May 19. 1706, married Annatje Turk.
Children: Catharyna, Sara, Jacobus, of fur-
ther mention, Sarah, Teunis.

(IV) Jacobus, son of Gerrit and .Annatje
(Turk) Van Slyke, served in the revolution,
Captain Cox's company, Eleventh Regiment,
Albany county militia. He married Jannetje
Clow.

(V) Henry, son of Jacobus and Jannetje
(Clow) Van Slyke, married Cornelia \'an
Pelt, descendant of Wouter Teunise Van Pelt,
of Long Island, was the daughter of John
\'an Pelt, of Staten Island, who married

Van Slyke, daughter of .Andries, son

of Teunis Willemse. son of William Pieterse
\'an Slyke, the founder. Andreis \'an Slyke
married Maria \'an Benthuysen, daughter of
Balthus, .son of Partus Martensc Van Ben-
thuysen, an early settler of Fort Orange and
extensive land owner in the village. He mar-
ried a daughter of Barent Balthus, of Flat-
bush, Long Island. Balthus \'an Benthuy-
sen was a merchant. He married, February

22, 1707, in New York City. Maria,

his youngest daughter, baptized July 16. 1721,
married Andries Van Slyke. They had daugh-
ters : Jannetje, Lydia, .Alida. one of whom
married John Van Pelt, father of Cornelia
\'an Pelt, wife of Abram Sutherland.

(VI) Jane, daughter of Henry and Cor-
nelia (Van Pelt) Van Slyke. married Abram
Sutherland (see Sutherland II).

These lines carry back to the early Dutch
occupation and to the families of \"an Slyke,
\'an Pelt, Van Benthuysen and Van Wie, an
indisputably strong Dutch lineage.

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HUDSON AND MOHAWK \-ALLEYS

William Parker came from
PARKER England in the autumn of 1633
in the ship "James." He was
an original proprietor of Hartford, Connecti-
cut, 1636. About 1649 he removed to Say-
brook, Connecticut, where he was a large land
owner, also holding a large tract in Hebron.
He probably served in the Pequot war. He
filled several tQwn offices, served on numerous
committees, and was deputy to the general
court at the special session of 1652 ; also
served 1678-79-80. About 1636 he married

(first) Margery , who died December

6, 1680. He married (second) Elizabeth
Pratt, widow of Lieutenant William Pratt. He
died at Saybrook, December 28, 1686. He
had ten children, of whom Joseph (i), Jona-
than and Deborah died early. They were:
Sarah, Joseph (i), John, Ruth, William, Jos-
eph (2), Margaret, Nathan, David, Deborah.
Sarah, Ruth and Margaret married.

(H) John, son of William and Margery
Parker, was born at Hartford, Connecticut,
February i, 1641-42, died at Saybrook, same
state, 1706. He was regarded as a proprietor
of Saybrook and given one hundred pounds
acconmiodation. He was active and influen-
tial in town affairs. He was deputy to the
general court, 1686-88-99-1700. He was a
large land owner at Saybrook and Hebron.
He was appointed gunner and master of the
artillery at Fort Saybrook, November 30, 1683,
and was in charge of the fort under Governor
Andros with rank of lieutenant. He married,
December 24, 1666, Mary, daughter of
Thomas Buckingham, a settler of Milford,
Connecticut, and sister of Rev. Thomas S.
Buckingham, pastor of the Saybrook church
in 1670. Children : John, Deborah, Ebenezer,
Samuel.

(HI) John (2), son of Lieutenant John (i)
and Mary (Buckingham) Parker, was born
October 6, 1667, died at Norwich, Connecti-
cut, December 24, 1709. He served as con-
stable 1694, and was one of the first to act
as attorney-at-law under the act of 1708.
He married, December 11, 1690, Mary, daugh-
ter of Lieutenant Samuel and Mary (Bush-
nell) Jones. They had seven children.

(IV) John (3), son of John (2) and Mary
(Jones) Parker, was born March 11, 1696.
He was prominent in the Ecclesiastical So-
ciety; sergeant of the "train band" 1731 ; en-
sign in the Cape Breton expedition, and died
at Louisburg, May 15, 1746. He married
(first) May 8, 1723, Mary Chapman ; mar-
ried (second) Elizaljeth Dunk; seven chil-
dren.

(V) The earliest settler in Northern New
York of this branch of the New England fam-

ily of Parker was Nathaniel, son of John (3)'
and Mary (Chapman) Parker, who settled in-
Middle Granville, Washington county, about
1778. He came from Connecticut, where he
was born January 6, 1738. Eliphalet and Mi-
chael Parker settled on farms adjoining his
on the Poultney road just north of the middle-
village. He was in the British army, and with
Wolfe at Quebec. He served in the revolu-
tionary army, and was with Ethan Allen at
Ticonderoga. "New York Men in the Rev-
olution" gives the enlistment of five men by
name Nathaniel Parker. The exact date of
his settlement in Washington county cannot
be given, but it was prior to 1782, as in that
year he is recorded as assisting in raising a-
company of troops from hi's town to serve in-
defense of the northern frontier. He married
and had children : Cynthia, unmarried ; Su-
san, married Levi Miller; Nathaniel, settled in-
Granville ; Asa, see forward ; Tamson, mar-
ried Luke Hitchcock : Eliud, settled in Gran-
ville ; Matthias, settled in Granville ; Emily,
unmarried.

(VT) Asa, son of Nathaniel Parker, the
pioneer, was born on the homestead farm in
Middle Granville, Washington county, New
York, in 1790, died in 1880. He grew up on-
the farm and spent his life as a farmer. He
was a young man when the second war with
England broke out, and enlisted in the Amer-
ican army and was in active service. He
married Laura Whitney, who bore him nine
children: i. Nathaniel, born 1825, died 1900;
married. March 13, 1856, Cynthia, daughter
of Joseph and Lydia (Carpenter) Rogers. 2.
Sidney. 3. Julia, married Mordecai Bull. 4.
Esther, married David Woodward. 5. Enime-
line. married William Sweet. 6. Delia, mar-
ried Stephen Rogers. 7. George, married
Mary Norton. 8. Frank, married .Alma Nor-
ton. 9. Eliud, see forward.

(VII) Eliud, .son of Asa and Laura ( \\'hit-
ney) Parker, was born in South Granville,
Washington county. New York, December 8,
1838, died Septemijer 28, 1896. He was edu-
cated in the town schools, and reared a
farmer, an occupation he followed all his life.
He was a man of energy and character, gain-
ing and holding the esteem of his fcllowmen.
He married Sarah, daughter of George, and
granddaughter of Burdick W^oodell, of Rhode
Island. Children: i. Clarence, see forward".
2. Nathaniel W., born March 25, 1874; inar-
ried Bertha Crosby. 3. Herbert F., December
10, 1877; n-iarried Mary Ackley and has a
daughter Emily.

(\'III) Clarence E., eldest son of Eruiil and
Sarah (Woodcll) Parker, was born on the
farm in South Granville, Washington county.

HUDSON AND MOHAWK X'ALLEYS

New York. October i6, 1872. He was edu-
cated in the local schools, jjrepared for and
entered Williams Colleg;e, where he was grad-
uated, class of 1896. In 1898 he was admitted
to the New York bar and at once began prac-
tice in Granville, where he is now (1910) lo-
cated. He is a member of the Masonic order,
belonging to Granville Lodge. No. 55, Free
and Accepted Masons, Saratoga Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons, and W'ashington Com-
mandery. Knights Templar. In politics he is
a Republican.

(The Woodell Line).
Sarah (Woodell) Parker is a descendant
of William Wodcll, of Boston, Massachu-
setts, and Portsmouth. Rhode Island, who died
in 1693. He was of Boston, 1637, and evi-
dently embraced the religious views of Rev.
Wheelwright and Ann Hutchinson, for on
November 20, 1637. he was ordered with
otliers to give up all guns, pistols, swords,
powder, shot, etc., because "the opinions and
revelations of William Wheelwright and Mrs.
Hutchinson have seduced and led into dan-
gerous errors many of the people here in New
England." January 12, 1643, he and ten
others bought of Aliantonomi for "144 fath-
oms of Wampum" a tract of land called by
tlie Indians Shawomet (Warwick). Here
began his trouble with Massachusetts Bay
Colony, who claimed jurisdiction and title to
Rhode Island. September 12. 1643, '^^ with
others of Warwick was notified to appear
at general court at Boston to hear complaint
of two Indian sachems, Pomham and Socon-
occo, as to "some unjust and injurious deal-
ings toward them by yourselves." The War-
wick men declined to obey the summons, de-
claring they were legal subjects of the King
of England, and beyond the limits of Massa-
chusetts territory, to whom they would ac-
knowledge no subjection. Soldiers were sent,
who besieged the settlers in a fortified house.
In a parley it was said "they held blasphemous
errors" which they must repent of "or go to
Boston for trial." November 3, 1643, having
been brought with others before the court at
Boston charged with heresy and sedition, they
were sentenced to be confined during "the
pleasure of the court," and should they break
jail or preach their heresies or speak against
the church or state, on conviction their sen-
tence would be death. Extreme as such meas-
ures now seem, they are matched by the un-
daunted courage of the men who in the face
of such danger held to their religious convic-
tions and defied their enemies. William Wo-
dell was sent to Watertown, but not to prison,
and remained at large until the following
March and was then banished from both Mas-

sachusetts and Warwick. He thereupon re-
turned to Portsmouth. Most of his compan-
ions in the trial suflfered close imprisonment
for several months. In 1655 he was made a
freeman; 1656-63 was commissioner; 1664-
1686 was sixteen times elected deputy to the
Rhode Island general court. April 4,' 1676. it
was voted "that in these troublous times and
straits in this Colony, this Assembly desiring
to have the advice and concurrence of the
most judicious inhabitants of it may be had
for the good of the whole, desire at their next
meeting the company and counsel of Mr. Ben-
edict .Arnold," and fifteen others among whoni
was William Wodell. May 5, 1680, he was-
appointed as a committee to "put the laws and
acts of the colony into such a method that
they may be put in print." In 1684 he was
elected assistant (to the governor), but posi-
tively refused to serve. His will was proved
May 2, 1693. An extract throws some light
upon the charges made by the sachems for
which he was first "haled to Boston," ".And
whereas it hath been said by several persons
that I with some others did go about to wrong
the town of Portsmouth in purchasing Hog
Island of an Indian sachem called Mossosup,
I am so far from doing any wrong therein
that I do give unto the free inhabitants of the
said town of Portsmouth * * '' Hog Island
and other land." He makes the same state-
ment in regard to some land bought on Rhode
Island.

He married Mary , and had a son

Gershom, born July 14, 1642, who married
Alary Tripp and had sons. William Wodell
also had daughters Mary, Sarah, Alice and
Frances, who married and had large families.

The .Vmerican progenitor of
C.ARHART the Carhart family, Thomas

Carhart, arrived at New
York, August 25, 1683, holding the appoint-
ment of private secretary to Colonel Thomas
Dongan, English governor of the colonies in
.'\merica at that date. He was the son of
Anthony Carhart, of Cornwall, England, and
was born about 1650. "The bible of .'\nthony
Carhart — more than two hundred years old —
containing the name of Tliomas Carhart is
still in existence in England." "The earliest
mention of the family in the Herald's office
and British Museum. London, is 1420, where
the name is found to liave been Carharta and
Carhurta. .Arms ; ar. two bars sa. in chief, a
demi grififin issuant of the last : Crest, a demi
man naked ar. a wreatli about his head. sa. in
right hand an oaken branch, vert, acorns or.""
These arms were granted either during the
reign of Richard II. of England or soon after.

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Descendants of Thomas Carhart are found all

•over the United States. In Westchester

•county, New York, the name is found as Car-
hartt, Carehartt and Carhart. The first rec-
ord found in America referring to Thomas

•Carhart is of a joint petition with William
Britton for lands on the south side of Staten
Island at a place called Great Hill, dated May,
1691. In that year he was clerk of Richmond
county (Staten Island), New York. Novem-
ber 22, 1691, "a marriage license was granted
to Thomas Carhart of Staten Island in the

•county of Richmond, gentlemen, and Mary
Lord." The date and place of marriage have
not been found. May 24, 1695, "A deed of
Thomas Carhart of Woodbridge, Middlesex

■county. New Jersey, gentleman, and Mary his
wife, to John Loofburrow of Woodbridge, for

■ one acre of upland on the south side of Crane
Creek, to frame and erect a grist mill, with
right of way through the lands of Thomas
Carhart." This shows that Thomas and Mary
had removed to W'oodbridge, New Jersey,
prior to 1695. His will proved April 6, 1696,
devised his property to his wife during her
lifetime and named her sole executrix. Sons,
John Robert and William. These were reared
under the care of their stepfather, Thomas
Warne, of Woodbridge, to which place he had
removed from Monmouth county, New Jer-
sey, at the time of his marriage with Mary

'Carhart, their mother, in 1698. When the
Carhart boys became of age he gave them a

•deed for six hundred acres of land in Middle-
sex county, New Jersey.

(II) John, eldest son of Thomas and Mary
(Lord) Carhart, was born on Staten Island,
New York, 1692. He removed from Wood-

'bridge. New Jersey, to Rye, Westchester
•county, New Y'ork, before 1717, as his name
is found in a list of religious teachers at Rye,
■completed in that year. Later he became
■clerk of the vestry of Grace Episcopal Church,
Rye, an office he held many years. He was
a lawyer and practised his profession at Rye
from 1717 to 1750. The date of his death is
unknown. June i, 1717, he signs a deed with
Anne, his wife. This is the only record
known of her. In 1745 he signs a deed with
Jane, his second wife. Children by first wife:
Thomas ; Mary, married Caleb, son of Nathan,
son of George Kniffen. of Stratford, Connec-
•ticut, in 1666; John; perhaps others, but the
records do not show whether others of the
•name were children or nephews from New
Jersey.

(III) Thomas (2), eldest son of John and
Anne Carhart, was born in Rye, Westchester
•county, New York, about 1718, died 1761.
He resided in Westchester countv all his life.

He married Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel and
Annie (Brown) Purdy. She died "Novem-
ber 26, 1798, a few weeks over eighty-four
years." Children: i. John, removed about
1800 to Orange county, later to Oxford,
Chenango county. New York, where he died
January 2, 1836, aged ninety-six years : he
married Hannah, daughter of Sylvanus Mer-
ritt. and had issue. 2. Annie, born May 5,
1742, married Joshua Gednay, of Rye, born
February 11, 1742, died August 28, 1786, re-
sided in New York City. 3. Thomas, born
about 1744, removed to town of Bethlehem,
Albany county. New Y'ork, where he died ;
he married Alary Merriam, of Rye, and had
issue. 4. Daniel, of further mention. 5. James,
married Elizabeth \'anderbilt. 6. Hackaliah,
married Margaret Anderson. 7. Joshua, mar-
ried Phoebe Baker.

(lY) Daniel, third son and fourth child of
Thomas (2) and Elizabeth (Purdy) Carhart,
was born at Rye, New Y'ork, 1746, died at
Coeymans, Albany county. New York, August
24, 1829. He removed from Rye to Coey-
mans in 1793. He married Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of Captain Robert Bloomer, of Rye. Chil-
dren: I. James, born 1774, married Susan
Jerolomon, of Coeymans, and had issue. 2.
Annie, born 1776, married Elijah Utter, of
Coeymans, and removed to Weston, New
York. 3. Daniel, born September 13, 1777,
resided at Coeymans; married, October 5,
1799, at King street, Rebecca, daughter of
Sands and Mary Sutton, of Westchester
county ; nine children. 4. Hackaliah. 5. Solo-
mon, of further mention. 6. Robert, born July
2, 1784, died 1872 ; married, June 29, 1807,
Catherine Rowe, of Coeymans, died February
7, 1850 ; six children. 7. Thomas D., torn
March 15, 1786, at Rye, died at Albany, New
York, January 2, 1861 ; married. March 4,
1810, at Rye, Mary Totten, of Guilderland,
New Y'ork, born July 23, 1785. died Novem-
ber 2, 1837; six cliildren. 8. Isaac, born
March 4, 1789, at Rye, died at Manlius,
Onondaga county, New Y'ork, March 17,
1845 ; he settled in Manlius in 1827 ; married,
May, 1807, Hannah Rowe, born November
6, 1790, at Coeymans, New York, died at
Manlius, 1867; nine children. 9. Barbara,
born 1792; married (first) Stephen Rowe, no
issue; married (second) Samuel Goodfellow,

of Syracuse; one son; married (third)

Pray, no issue ; she removed to Indiana.

(V) Solomon, son of Daniel and Elizabeth
(Bloomer) Carhart, was born at Coeymans,
Albany county. New York, September 6. 1782,
died there August 30, 1861. He was a farmer.
He married, at Coeymans, March 16, 1804,
Catherine Fires (or Fryer), born .-Xpril 4,

HUDSON AXD MOHAWK \-ALLEVS

1617

1784. died 1871. Children: i. Anna, born
April 24. 1805. died unmarried. 2. Catherine,
born August 20, 1807; married. October 30,
1830, William Tuttle, of Coeymans : she died
February, 1877, leaving five children. 3.
Sarah Maria, born September 2, 1808, died at
Washington, D.C., November i. 1868: mar-
ried. 1S28, Hiram Tompkins, of Litchfield,
born February 13, 1810, at Westerlo. Albany
county. New York, died at Washington, D. C",
December 27, 1875 ; eight children. 4. Hack-
aliah. born July 6. 1810: married, 1834. Eliza-
beth Shultz. and settled at Penn Yan, New
York : three children. 5. Peter, born .^pril
19, 1812: married, February, 1842, Ellen
Coonly, and removed to Janesville, Wisconsin ;
two children. 6. Solomon, horn February 4,
1814: married, 1844, Hester Holating: five
children. 7. Jane Eliza, born April 21, 1816:
married, October, 1834. James Terry, and re-
moved to Michigan: eight children. 8. Levi,
born April 20, 1819: married, ]\rarcli, 1841,
Catherine Spring, and settled at Schodack,
New York : two children. 9. Judith, born
June 16, 1821 : married (first) January i,
1851, George Martin, of New York City: re-
moved to Dodge county, Minnesota, where he
died June 21, 1865: married fsecond) August
12, 1867, George Duffy, of Claremont, Dodge
county, Alinnesota : three children by first mar-
riage. 10. Margaret Louise, born June 6,
1823, died September 8, 1874: married. Octo-
ber 17. 1842. John Van Buren, of Schodack,
Rensselaer county. New York : born Novem-
ber 13, 1820: they settled at Ellington, Dodge
county, IMinnesota: four children. 11. Leon-
ard A., of further mention. 12. Fletcher, born
IVIarch 24, 1827; married. 1853, Jane Weeks,
and settled in Brooklyn, New York ; seven
children.

(VL) Leonard Arkell, son of Solomon and
Catherine (Fires or Fryer) Carhart, was born
in Coeymans, Albany county. New York,
May 22, 1825. He was a merchant of Coey-
mans. He married, September 14, 1851,
Elizabeth Smith, of Springfield, New York ;
children: i. Leonard Romaine. of further
mention. 2. Anna G., born November 8,
1856. 3. Ella M.. born March 2, 1859, grad-
uate of State Normal College, Albany, New
York. 4. Truman S., born March 15, 1864.
5. Milburn, born July 31, 1867.

fX'H) Leonard Romaine, son of Leonard
Arkell and Elizabeth (Smith) Carhart, was
born in Coeymans, Albany county. New York,
June 7, 1852. He was educated in the pub-
lic schools, and has spent his life in Coey-
mans engaged in the boot and shoe business,
also being a poultry fancier and raiser. He
is a man of high princii^Ie and universally

respected. He is a Republican in politics and
has served his town as assessor and in other
public oflSce. ■ He married, .August 4, 1880,
Ella Jeannette, born at Hudson, New York,
1853, daughter of Whiting Benjamin Sheldon,
born March 2, 1823, now a retired merchant
of Hudson : trustee for years of the Methodist
Episcopal church, and a strong adherent of
the Republican party; married, October 13,
1842, Caroline Williams, of Connecticut. He
is a son of Benjamin Sheldon, who lived and
died at Johnstown, New York. Children of
Whiting Benjamin Sheldon: Delia A., died
young: Sarah, born 1843: Mary E., born
1848, married Frank J. Matthews, a manu-
facturer of Brooklyn, New York: Charles,
born 1850; Ella Jeannette, born 1853, mar-
ried Leonard Romaine Carhart : Edward, born
1857; Harriet, born 1859, married Bennett
Quinlan. Children of Leonard R. and Ella ].
Carhart: i. Sheldon Romaine, born May 16,
1881. educated in the public school, now drv
goods merchant of Hudson : he is a member
of the New York National Guard, a com-
municant of the Methodist Episcopal church,
aflfiliated with Hudson Lodge, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, a Republican in politics ; he
married. March 3, 1903, Emma Ham: chil-
dren : Albert Sheldon, born May 3, 1905 ;
Harold, May 4, 1907. 2. Claude Bentley, born
June 5, 18S3, educated in the Hudson com-
mon school and high school and is a book-
keeper of Hudson : member of the Methodist
Episcopal church, secretary of the Sunday
school, member of the Young Men's Christian
Association, Republican in politics, unmar-
ried. 3. Caroline Sheldon, graduate of Hud-
son high school. 4. Clayton Sereo, born April
4, 1888, graduate of Hudson high school, now
clerk with George Harris, gentleman's fur-
nishings, Hudson : an active Republican : mar-
ried, November 2, 1906, Lillian Maratskey ;
children : Harry Sheridan, born 1907 ; Clay-
ton Sereo, born June 26, 1909. 5. Leonard
Arkell, born April 24, 1892, educated in the
public schools, now clerk in Hudson ; a mem-
ber of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mrs.
Leonard R. Carhart survives Iier husband, a
resident of Hudson.

The history of this branch of
L.ASHER the Lasher family begins in

West Camp. Columbia county.
New York, in 1710, with Sebastian Lasher,
of whom little is known. There are many
theories concerning his nativity, but nothing
is proven. The first positive record is of
the birth of his daughter Maria Elizabeth,
and her baptism in the church at West Camp
in 1710. The only other record is that he

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was among those willing to remain at West
Camp in 1724. if lands were surveyed to him.
He married Elizabeth ; children : Se-
bastian, of whom further; George, born 1703;
Conrad, 1708; Maria Elizabeth, baptized June
I, 1710.

(U) Sebastian (2), son of Sebastian (i)
and Elizabeth Lasher, lived at Livingston
Manor (then Albany county. New York). His
will, dated June 11, 1775. proved February i,
1776, names wife Elizabeth and nine children.
He married Elizabeth Livingston. Children :
Sebastian (3), married Gertrude Shultis ;

Samuel, married Jannecke . he was a

soldier of the revolution in the Eleventh Regi-
ment, Albany county militia; Elizabeth, mar-
ried Samuel Coon ; Helena, married Jury
Rossman ; Hannah, married Peter Bain ; Vel-
tern, baptized May 6. 1738; Frederick, May
6. 1738; Markus (Marcus), of whom fur-
ther : Herman, baptized June 4, 1742.

(HI) Marcus, son of Sebastian (2) and
Elizabeth (Livingston) Lasher, was baptized

June 4, 1742. He married Elizabeth .

Children, all baptized at the Lutheran church
at Manorton, Columbia county. New York :
Hermanus, baptized December 10, 177 1. mar-
ried Mary Kilmer, October 19, 1796; George,
baptized August 14, 1773, was one of the
early settlers of Duanesburg, Schenectady
county. New York, married Helen McMillan,
born in Scotland ; Catherine, baptized May 7,
1776; Hannah, baptized August 24, 1780;
Marcus (2), of whom further; John; Sebas-
tian, moved with family to Canada, married
(first) Elizabeth Doll, (second) Anna Erk-
nowbruch ; Joseph, lived in the town of Beth-
lehem, Albany county, New York, married
Eve Snyder.

(IV) Marcus (2), son of Marcus (i) and
Elizabeth Lasher, was born in Germantown,
Columbia county, New York, died in Albany
county. New Y'ork, aged over seventy years.
His will dated October 6, 1833, was proved
November 6, 1835. He married in Columbia
county Elizabeth Kilmer (also spelled in the
records Cilmore and Gilmore). He settled
after marriage on a farm in the town of Beth-
lehem, Albany county, which he owned, cul-
tivated and passed down to his children. His
children were: i. Catherine, born June 10,
1793; married Shubal Palmer. 2. Marcus,
married (first) Margaret Race; (second) Cor-
nelia Springstead : no issue. 3. Peter, born
December 29, 1796, died in Bethlehem, New
York, at the age of seventy years, unmar-
ried. 4. Joseph, born December 30, 1798,
died in Coeymans, New York, at age of sev-
enty-five years ; married Maria Joralarmon
and" left issue. 5. Magdalena, born April i,

1801 ; married (first) Edwin Burham. July i,
1824; married (second) John Corning. 6.
John, of whom further. 7. Maria, born Octo-
ber 29, 1807 ; married George Hill, July 21,
1829 ; lived in Saugerties, New York, no issue.
8. Eve, born June 5, 181 1; married \Villiam
Wood ; children : Charles, Abner, Captain
Stiles M., Eliza, Margaret, Matilda, Jane and
Caroline. 9. Elizabeth, married John B.
Statts ; they lived in Albany, where he died
before 1833. 10. Hannah, married Africa
Clapper; children: George, Peter, William H.,
John D., who was killed in the civil war, Re-
becca and Elizabeth A. 11. Elnora, who died
unmarried.

(V) John, son of Marcus (2) and EHza-
beth (Kilmer) Lasher, was born in Bethle-
hem, Albany county. New York, July 27,
1803, died in the town of Coeymans, same
county, at the home of his son. May, 1876.
He followed the occupation of a farmer until
his latter years, when he retired to Coeymans
with his son. He was a Democrat. He mar-
ried Eleanor Waggoner, of Bethlehem, born
1814, died October 4, 1887, in Albany, daugh-
ter of Henry and Margaret (Vroman) Wag-
goner, early residents of Coeymans, where
they died, leaving Christopher, Cornelius,
John, James, William, Eleanor, Magdelene,
Maria, Ann, Jane, twin of Ann. She was a
member of the Dutch Reformed church.
Children: i. Henry, born 1833, died in Al-
bany, 1888; member of the police force: mar-
ried Sarah Wemple: children: Harvey. Etta,
Ella and Emma. 2. Elizabeth, born 1835;
married Simeon Garrett, of Coeymans, New
York ; both deceased ; children : Lyman, rail-
road engineer of Ravena ; Horace, railroad
man of New York ; Ardell, died young. 3.
.Maria, died young. 4. Louisa jane, born
1S37, married Ezra Swartout, of South West-
crlo ; left child, Cora, married Archie W.
Smith, of Mechanicsville, and has issue. 5.
James, of whom further.

(VI) James, son of John and Eleanor
(Waggoner) Lasher, was born in Bethlehem,
November 16. 1842. He was educated in a
private school, grew up on the Bethlehem
farm, and after marriage settled in Coe\-mans,
where he built up a profitable trade in meats
and groceries. After twelve years in Coey-
mans he sold his interests and removed to
Albany, where he resumed the grocery busi-
ness on Madison avenue, later removing to
Pearl street in the same line. After several
years he located on JefTcrson street, where he
continued until his retirement in 1905. His
business career has been an active and suc-
cessful one. In politics he has always been
an active Democrat. While in Coevmans he

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was president of the village corporation, clerk
of the town, and a leader of his party. He
was a membty of the Dutch Reformed cliurch
of Coeynians and for many years a deacon.
He married, in Bethlehem, February 17,
1869, Alary C. Clapper, born there December
5. 1850. Children: i. Alva J., of whom fur-
ther. 2. Harry C, born June 30, 1872, died
November, 1898, in .-\lbany, buried in Beth-
lehem : married Catherine T. De Freest, of
Ravena, who survives him without issue. 3.
Ella May, born June 8, 1875, died September
9, 1876. Mary C. (Clapper) Lasher is a lineal
descendant of Peter and Margaret (Hess)
Clapper. William, son of Peter Clapper, was
born in Bethlehem, where he died in old age.
He married Magdalena Kilmer. Children :
David. John, Peter, Mary, Hannah, Catherine,
Eve, Sarah, Margaret and Elizabeth. Peter,
son of William Clapper, died of sunstroke in
Bethlehem, aged fifty-six years. He was a
farmer. He married Sarah Ann, daughter of
Elias and Susannah (Van O'Linda) Oster-
hout, granddaughter of Henry, son of William
Osterhout, a pioneer of the Hudson Valley.
Children of Elias and Susannah Osterhout :
Henry, Jacob, John, Catherine, Van O'Linda,
Elizabeth, Eleanor, Jane, Catherine (2),
Susannah M., Sarah Ann, twin of Susannah
M. Children of Peter and Sarah Ann
(Osterhout) Clapper: i. William, his only
surviving child, Catherine, is of West Troy;
ii. Charles Henry, farmer and hotel propri-
etor of New Scotland, where he died without
issue; iii. Helen M., married Adam Westfall,
of Altamont, farmer; children: Daniel Wil-
liam, Amos, Charles, Adam and Mary; iv.
Mary C, married James Lasher.

(VH) Alva J., son of James and Mary C.
(Clapper) Lasher, was born in Bethleliem,
Septetnber 19, 1870. Educated in the public
and private schools. He was for ten years
representative of Whiting Manufacturing
Company, silversmiths, New York, and for
the past twelve years with the International
Silver Company, representing them as travel-
ing salesman, covering a large territory. He
retains his home at Glenmont, where he pur-
chased "Rockhill Manor," the former home
of Judge Nott. He is a Republican in poli-
tics. He married, July 2. 1895, in Jersey City.
New Jersey, Augusta, born May 12, 1872, in
New Baltimore, Greene county. New York,
daughter of John A. and Susan M. (Hotal-
ing) Davis. John A. Davis was born in
Greene county. New York, 1832, died July
24, 1898, a ship and dry dock builder, of Al-
bany and New York City, a son of William
Livingston Davis, who was in the same busi-
ness, died in Albany, i88o, aged seventy-nine.

He married Sarah Hotaling and left children :
^^■illiam L, John A. and Catalena Davis. John
A. Davis was a deacon of the Reformed
church at one time. Susan M. (Hotaling)
Davis is a descendant of the old Greene
county family of Hotaling, among the early
families of that county. Children of John A.
and Susan M. Davis: i. James H., of Peeks-
kill; married three times: ii. Catalena, married
Cornelius Waggoner, a farmer of Bethlehem;
no issue; iii. Elmina, married Williard El.
McHarg, of Albany, a reporter on the Jri^iis,
has daughter May Louise, graduate of .Albany
high school, now student at Albany Normal
College; iv. Augusta, married Alva j. Lasher;
V. Edgar S., ofPeekskill, with the New York
Central Railroad Company, married l-"lorence
Shire, and has Susan D., born 1906, and
Gladys, born and died 1910; vi. Anna Guest,
married Malcolm Wood, of Peekskill. New
York : children : Edgar, Davis, John, Mal-
colm (2), Alice May. Alva J. and Augusta
Lasher are members of the Dutch Reformed
church. They have no children.

This is one of the oldest
MYNDERSE families of the Mohawk

Valley ; has been prominent
in Schenectady from the earliest period of its
history, and descendants two and a half cen-
turies later are found occupying high positions
of trust and honor. These descendants are
to be found not only bearing the name of
Mynderse, but also that of Van Inveren. the
name of the town in Holland from which
the immigrant ancestor came. As will be
seen in the following record the intermar-
riages of the heads of each generation con-
nect the present with the principal early
settlers of Schenectady and the Dutch pio-
neers of .\lbany. Maria Wcmp ( Wemple)
was a daughter of Jah Wemp and a grand-
daughter of Jan Barentse Wemp, who came
to Beverwyck in 1643 O"" "'HS- Married
Maritje Myndertse, who after his death mar-
ried Sueer Teunise Van Velsen, "the village
miller,"' both of whom perished in the Indian
massacre of February 9, 1690. Sarah Swart
was a (laughter of Esaias and Eva Jan Scho-
enderwocrt (alias Van Woert^ and grand-
daughter of Teunis Cornelise Swart, one of
the original proprietors of Schenectady, who
married Elizabeth \'andcr Linde. Geerdriy
Van Slyck was a granddaughter of the first
settler of the name in Beverwyck. and An-
netje A'edder was of the fourth generation
from Herman Vcdder, the "founder;" Other
prominent and familiar names will be noted
in the record.

Two brothers, Mvndert and Carsten I'red-

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erickse, came to Beverwyck from Holland and
were among the early settlers. They were
smiths and followed their trade there. Among
their landed estate was the property now the
corner of Broadway and Spanish (now Hud-
son) street, Albany. They were members of
the Lutheran church, of which Myndert was
an elder and Carsten deacon in 1680. The
latter died about 1690, leaving four children.
Myndert Frederick se was armorer to the fort
in 1697. He made his will, March 21, 1703-
04, proved May i, 1706, in which he speaks
of "My house hard by the church on Cow
Street" (now Broadway) and of "my church
book with silver clasp and chain." He mar-
ried (first) Cathalyn Burchard (Burger) in
New Amsterdam, August 5, 1656; (second)
Retertje Teunise Van Vechten, in 1663. At
the date of his will he had five living children :
Frederick, born in 1657; Burger, 1660: Neelt-
je, married Hendrick Douw ; Reinier and Jo-
hannes, who settled in Schenectady.

(H) Johannes Myndertse or Mynderse, son
of Myndert h'rederickse, of Albany, settled in
Schenectady in 1700. By trade he was a
blacksmith and armorer to the fort. Like
most of the other residents of the village, he
was an Indian trader. In 1723 he was ar-
rested by the sheriff of Albany county and
brought before the Albany common coun-
cil for having, contrary to the ordinances of
the city of Albany, "received into and har-
bored in his house Indians with beaver and
other peltry." This was a serious charge, as
the Albany traders claimed exclusive privi-
leges with the Indians. He was fined ten
pounds, which he refused to pay, whereupon
the sheriff was ordered to keep "said Myn-
derse safely in the common jail." But he
shortly escaped, and as a punishment for his
negligence the sheriff was ordered to pay
Mynderse's fine and cost. Mynderse appealed
his case to the supreme court of the province,
sitting in New York City, and gained his
case; he received from the common council
damages which with fees and costs amounted
to forty-one pounds nine shillings and three
pence. It is believed the decision effectually
established the rights of citizens of Sche-
nectady to the same privileges of trade
as the citizens of Albany. Johannes Myn-
derse made his will, May 4. 1754, proved
September 7, 1757, wherein he speaks of his
three sons, Myndert, Jacobus and Reynier,
and distributed his estate between them. He
then owned property on the west corner of
Mill lane and State street, also on the north
side of State street, where he had a black-
smith sliop and a bolting house. He married
Gcertruy, daughter of Jacques Cornelise Van

Slyck, and granddaughter of Cornelise, the
first settler of the family in Beverwyck. Chil-
dren: I. Myndert, see forward, f 2. Margaret,
baptized in Albany, June 8, 1707; married
Pieter Groenendyk. 3. Jacobus, baptized
April 22, 1709, in Albany. 4. Reynier, Octo-
ber, 1710. 5. Petries, April 19, 1718.

(III) Myndert, son of Johannes and Geer-
truy (Van Slyck) Mynderse, learned and
followed his father's and grandfather's trade
of blacksmith. He inherited under his father's
will lot No. 93 State street, Schenectady, and
the blacksmith shop next east of it. He made
his will in 1761, proved July 18, 1763, and
speaks of wife Maria, sons Johannes, Barent
and Harmen, and daughters Geertruy, Mar-
gareta and Sarah. To Johannes he gave his
house and blacksmith shop. He married, Jan-
uary 15, 1736, Maria, daughter of Jan and
Sara (Swart) Wemp (Wemple). Children:
I. Geertruy, baptized July 11, 1736; married
Petrus Vander Volgen. 2. Parach, January
7. 1739- 3- Margareta, September 28, 1740.
4. Johannes, see forward. 5. Margareta, May
27, 1744; married Teunis A. Swart. 6. Bar-
ent, February 8, 1747. 7. Harmen, July 2,
1749. 8. Sara, December 26, 1752.

(IV) Colonel Johannes (John) Mynderse,
son of Myndert and Maria (Wemp) Myn-
derse, was baptized October 18, 1741. died
October 29. 1815. He was also a blacksmith,
judging from the fact that to him his father
left by will his blacksmith shop and tools.
Many of this generation are borne upon the
revolutionary rolls of New York state as sol-
diers both in the line and in the Albany county
regiments. John Mynderse was captain of
the Second Regiment, Albany county militia,
commanded by Colonel Abraham Wemple.
He was colonel of militia after the revolu-
tion and a man of pfominence. He married
Annetje, daughter of Simon and Maria
(Truax) Vedder, granddaughter of Arent
and .Sarah (Groot) "V'edder, and great-grand-
daughter of Harmen .Albertse Vedder. the first
settler of the \'edder family in America, and
trader in Beverwyck before the year 1657. She
died March 9, 1825. Children: i. Simon, bap-
tized January 23, 1785. 2. Simon (2), bap-
tized June 10, 1787. 3. Barent, bom July 17,
1790, died March 8, i860; married Catherine
Douw Ten Eyck, who died December 14,
1852, daughter of Barent and Annatje (Hoff-
man) Ten Eyck, a descendant of Conrad Ten
Eyck, of New Amsterdam, New York. 4.
Aaron, see forward. 5. Maria, born January
8, 1797, died October 25, 1805.

(Y) Aaron, son of Colonel Jolin and
.Annetje (\'eddcr) Mynderse, was born in
Sclienectady, New York, November 3, 1793,

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died September 14, 1834. He married, in
Schenectady, Anna Maria, daughter of Rev.
Herman Vedder, of Gallatin, Columbia county,
New York, and his wife, Harriet (Van
\'ranken) Vedder, who was the daughter of
Maus Van Wanken, of Schenectady. Chil-
dren: I. Barent Arent, see forward. 2. Har-
riet \'edder, born 1830, died 1868; married
Peter Edward \an Alstync, son of .\dam Van
Alstyne, an early settler of Kinderhook. 3.
Anna ilcClellan, born 1832. unmarried. 4.
;Mary Lynn, born 1833, died September 18,
1834. 5. Catherine Douw, born December,
1834, died March, 1902, unmarried.

(\'l) Barent Arent (or Aaron) Myndcrse,
i\l.D., eldest son of Aaron and Anna Maria
(Vedder) Mynderse, was born in Schenec-
tady, New York, June 15, 1829, died October
2, 1887. He was educated in the public
schools ; entered Union College, graduating in
class of 1849. He chose medicine as his pro-
fession. He was graduated from Albany
Medical College, with degree of M.D., in
1853, and was for years a leading physician
and prominent citizen of Schenectady. He was
curator of Albany Medical College; president
for eight years, 1879-87, of Schenectady board
of education : member of the Delta Phi fra-
ternity of Union College ; director of the Mo-
hawk Bank of Schenectady ; one of the or-
ganizers and member of the board of censors
of the Schenectady County Medical Associa-
tion ; member of the congregation of the First
Dutch Reformed Church, and a Democrat in
politics. He married Albertina Sanders,
daughter of General Leonard William and
Helen (Livingston) Ten Broeck, born April
23, 1835. died November 13, 1900, a descend-
ant of Major Dirk W'esselse Ten Broeck,
born in 1642: was of Beverwyck in 1662, and
founded the Ten Broeck family in the Hud-
son \alley. Children: i. Helen Livingston,
born September 13. 1867; married Edwin .Mc-
Clellan. of Cambridge, Washington county,
New York, now a prominent wholesale drug-
gist of London, England ; no issue. 2. Her-
man Vedder (see forward). 3. William Ten
Broeck. born August i, 1871 ; Union College,
class of i893;'Delta Phi Fraternity; architect
of Schenectady; married Sarah Hulme Wil-
son, born in Clermont, Columbia county. New
York, May 12, 1871, daughter of Harold and
Mary E. (Sanders) Wilson, and granddaugh-
ter of Judge William Henry Wilson, of Cler-
mont, New York, and his wife, .Anne
(Hulme) Wilson, daughter of one of the old
and aristocratic families of Philadelphia.
-Mary E. Sanders was a daughter of Judge
John Sanders, a writer of note and editor of
a valuable history of Schenectady county,

New York. He married Jane Livingston, a
direct descendant of Robert Livingston, first
"Lord of the Manor," Columbia countv, New
York.

(\TI) Herman \'edder Myndcrse. M.D.,
eldest son of Dr. Barent Aaron and .Albertina
Sanders (Ten Broeck) Mynderse, was born
in Schenectady, New York, May 29, 1861. He
prepared for college in the Schenectady
schools, entered I'nion College and was grad-
uated with degree of A.B. in class of 1884;
entered Albany Medical College and was
graduated with degree of M.D., class of 1887.
He at once began the practice of his profes-
sion in his native city, where he is still ac-
tively engaged in general practice. Follow-
ing the example of his honored father, he ha.^
given freely of his time to the varied business,
and other interests of Schenectady. He has
been a director of the Mohawk National Bank
since 1891 : was first vice-president for several
years, and in 1908 was chosen president; is
now and has been for several years trustee of
the Schenectady Savings Bank ; he is a mem-
ber of the Schenectady County and State
Medical societies ; American Medical As-
sociation and member of medical staff
of Ellis Hospital, Schenectady. He is an
active member of the Delta Phi fraternity of
Union College; president of the Village of
Scotia, from 1894 to 1900. (his home); dea-
con and former member of the consistory
of the First Reformed Church, and a Demo-
crat in politics. Dr. Mynderse married, Oc-
tober I, 1900, Helen Louise Douw. born in
Poughkeepsie, New York. July 30, 1864,
daughter of John De Peyster and Mary
(Lanman) Douw. John De Puyster Douw
was born in Albany in 1812. died in
Poughkeepsie, New York, February. 1901 ;
he was a lineal descendant of Hendrick
Douw, the early settler. He was a prom-
inent business man of .Albany for many
years, and a man of large means and exten-
sive interests. His wife, Mary (Lanman)
Douw, was a daughter of Charles Lanman. of
Connecticut, and sister of Charles Lanman,
for several years secretary to the Ja|>anese
embassy at Washington, D. C. Children of
Mr. and Mrs. Douw: i. Mary L., married
Morris Ferris, of New York City; children:
Mary, married Joseph Roberts, of New York
City; Morris J., an attorney of New York
City ; \'an Wyck. 2. Margaret L., married
Edward N. Townsend, of Garden City, Ij:)ng
Island. 3. Charles C... civil engineer; unmar-
ried in Schenectady, New York. 4. William
D.. died young. 5. Helen Louise, married
Dr. Herman Vedder Mynderse; they have no
children.

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James Cowee was born in the
COWEE old world in 1726 or 1727 of

unknown parentage. He died
April 29, 1801. He was the ancestor of those
distinguished by that name in this vicinity, if
not in the entire country. While yet a lad,
as the story goes, his mother died. A step-
mother coming into the family did not take
kindly to him or his brother Bartholomew,
but neglected and abused them. The father,
as they grew older, conceived the idea of
sending them to America to seek their for-
tunes and work out their destinies. He made
an arrangement with the captain of a vessel
about to sail thither, a warm personal friend
of his, to take the youths with him, paying
him liberally for their passage and entrusting
him with additional funds to be given them
when they should disembark, as a means of
getting a'start in the new land. During the
voyage Bartholomew, the younger brother,
died, which was a sad misfortune to the sur-
vivor. The captain of the ship proved recreant
to his trust, betraying the confidetice of his
friend and cheating an innocent, destitute and
needy young man, a stranger in a strange
-land, out of his rightful due. He not only
'withheld from the lad what he had received
from the father for the sons' special use to
be paid upon landing here, but actually sold
him into temporary service, as the custom
sometimes was in those days, for the second
payment of the passage money across the sea.
After the term of servitude he worked his way
tback into the country among the new settle-
ments, tarrying here and there as he could
find employment, at length reaching Chocksett
(now Sterling), where he remained a while,
but ere long he came to Narragansett No. 2,
where October i, 1750, he bought of Rev.
Elisha Marsh lot number 96. He at once be-
gan improvements, cleared six acres, erected
a good cellar house, set out an orchard and
had things well under way before the follow-
ing July. He was an industrious, skillful,
prosperous farmer, a man of much independ-
ence and force of character, becoming one of
the largest land holders of the town and hav-
ing one of the most valuable residences at
the time of the levying of the general United
States tax in 1798.

He married, March 3, 1757, Mary, daugh-
ter of John Pearson, of Rowley. She died
March 11, 1813. Children: i. John, born
July 20, 1758, married Mary Rand, .settled in
Chittenden, Vermont. 2. Sarah, October 12,
1759, married Zeeb Green. 3. Mehitable,
March 21. 1761, married Nathan Wood. 4.
David, of whom further. 5. James, February
31, 17^)5, married Susannah Baldwin. 6.

Mary, January 17, 1767, married John Bige-
low. 7. Rebecca. September 14, 1768, mar-
ried (first) Jonathan Eager, (second) John
Bigelow. 8. Nathan. June 19, 1770, died April
21, 1814. 9. Rhoda, April 30, 1772, married
William Sawin. 10. Joel, February 15, 1774,
died in infancy. 11. Pearson, October 9,
1775, married Susannah Upton.

(II) David, son of James and Mary (Pear-
son) Cowee. was born March 2, 1763. He
spent most of his life near the North Com-
mon, but about the year 1826 removed to Troy,
New York, where he died in 1828. He mar-
ried Millicent, daughter of Edward and
Jemima (Trowbridge) Jackson, December 22,
1789. Children: i. Farwell, of whom fur-
ther. 2. David, born 1792, died September
9, 1814. 3. Adolphus, no date recorded, dis-
appeared in 1841. 4. Ann Maria, July 5,
18 TO, married Nahum P. Dole.

(III) Farwell. son of David and IMillicent
(Jackson) Cowee, was born in 1790. died in
1837. He was an active, enterprising, public-
spirited man. He started in trade with Tim-
othy Doty : they built the Doty store and ran
it for several years. He removed to Troy,
New York, where he engaged in the hotel
business. He married (first) Abigail, daugh-
ter of Nathan and .'\bigail (Holden) Mer-
riam (see Merriam VII). She died Septem-
ber 15, 1830. He married (second) Eliza
Dole in 1832. Children of first wife: i.
David, of whom further. 2. Farwell Mal-
colm, of whom further. 3. Millicent, born
June 22, 1822, married James Pierpont. 4.
Abigail, April 24. 1824, died April 6, 1830.
5. Ann Eliza, July 19, 1829, married David
Judson. Children of second wife: 6. George
R., born 1833, died 1862. 7. Mary, 1835, died
November 27, 1887; married Edgar T.
Wait.

(IV) David (2), eldest son of Farwell and
Abigail (Merriam) Cowee, was born at West-
minster. Massachusetts. June t6, 1818, died
November 27, 1887, at Troy, New York. As
a young man he entered the store of John L.
Thompson as a clerk, and in 1841 was ad-
mitted a partner and so continued during his
lifetime. He was a director and vice-presi-
dent of the Manufacturers National Bank
and interested in other Troy business afifairs.
He was an elder of the First Presbyterian
Church, and a Republican in politics, serving
as school commissioner. He married, Decem-
ber 28, 1843, 3t Troy, Mary Elizabeth Young,
born August 19, 1819, now (1911) living in
Troy in her ninety-second year. Children :
I. James Farwell, of whom further. 2. David,
born September 30, 1849, a teller in the United
National Bank of Troy. 3. Mary Louise, mar-

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1623

ried Walter R. Biisli, Jr. 4. Clara Elizabeth, a
resident of Troy. 5. Eleanor Gertrude, also
a resident of Troy.

(I\') Farwell Malcolm, son of Farwell and
Abigail (Merriam) Cowee, was born in West-
minster. Massachusetts, January 8, 1820, died
in rierlin, New York, February 13, 1895. He
lived in Westminster during his boyhood
days ; in 1838 he removed to Troy, where he
•entered business. In 1844 he bought a farm
in Berlin, New York, where he was also in-
terested in the Henry Harrington ]Manufac-
turing Company, makers of mowing machines,
but his principle business was farming. He
■was a Republican and was elected and served
as supervisor for several years. He was a
very prominent church worker, a member of
the First Baptist Church and a deacon, and
was active in Sunday school as a superin-
tendent for many years. Farwell M. Cowee
was married, February 15, 1844, to Sarah
Elizabeth Godfrey, born in Berlin, August
8, 1820, died July 14, 1889, daughter of
Josiah Godfrey, of Rhode Island, and
Sarah (Burnell) Godfrey. Josiah Godfrey
was the son of Robert Godfrey, born 1733,
son of John (2) Godfrey, born January
31. 1703, son of John (i) Godfrey, born
1680, married. May 28, 1701, Elizabeth,
daughter of Caleb Carr, who was governor of
Rhode Island. Children of Farwell Malcolm
and Sarah Elizabeth (Godfrey) Cowee: Abi-
gail; Millicent; Malcolm G. ; Anna; Arthur:
Willis Judson ; James Clarence, born August
25, 1863, a prominent business man of Troy,
president and treasurer of the David Judson
Coal Company, married, June 25, 1891,
Bertha, daughter of Theodore and Matilda E,
I Price) Hyatt; children: Marjory IT., Con-
stance H., Theodore H. and James Farwell.

(Vj James Farwell, eldest son of David
(2) and Mary Elizabeth (Young) Cowee,
Tx)rn in Troy, New York, September 23, 1844.
He was educated in the public schools and
Troy Academy, entered Williams College,
•class of 1865, but left college during his jun-
ior year. He entered the store of John L.
Thompson Sons, as a clerk, January 18, 1864,
was admitted as partner, February i, 1869,
and so continued until the incorporation of
John L. Thompson Sons & Company, July i.
1903, when he was elected president of the
company, a position he now (1910) most
worthily fills. He is a director of the Manu-
facturers' National Bank and is interested in
other Troy enterprises, but his greatest in-
terest through his entire business life has
been the Tolin L. Thompson & Sons Com-
pany.

He is an elder of the Presbyterian church

and actively interested in church work. He
is a member of the Masonic order. Sons of
tlie Revolution, and Delta Kappa Epsilon fra-
ternity. His social clubs are the Troy and
Pafraets Daei, both of Troy. He married,
April 22, 1869, Nancy Louise Denison, of
Berlin, New York, daughter of Pardee N. and
Aurora (Streeter) Denison. Child; Harvey
Denison, born May 22, 1874; educated at Al-
bany Boys Academy and Sheffield Scientific
School, Yale University ; he was elected vice-
president of the John L. Thompson Sons &
Company in 1903, after a previous service of
six years ; he married Louise Bontecou Cluett.

(Tlie .Merriam Line).
Nathan Merriam was a lineal descendant
of Joseph Merriam, who came to .\merica
about 1638 and settled in Concord, Massachu-
setts; with him came brothers Robert and
George. They were sons of William Mer-
riam, of Hadlow, Kent county, England. Jo-
seph was the founder of the Merriam family
of Westminster. Massachusetts.

(II) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (i) Mer-
riam, married Sarah Stone.

(III) Thomas, son of Joseph (2) and
Sarah (Stone) Merriam, was born in 1672,
married Mary Harwood.

(IV) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (i) and
Mary (Harwood) Merriam, married Tabitha
Stone, of Waltham, and located in Lexington,
Massachusetts.

(V) Samuel, eldest son of Thomas (2) and
Tabitha (Stone) Merriam, born December
21, 1723, was dismissed from the Lexington
church to the Westminster ciiurch. He mar-
ried Anne, daughter of David and Rebecca
Whitney, of Waltham, June 4, 1752, and had
seven children.

(VI) Nathan, sixth child and second son
of Samuel and .Anne (Whitney) Merriam, was
born April 29, 1764, married Abigail, daugh-
ter of .Abner and Elizabetii (Darby) Holden.

(VH) Abigail, daughter of Nathan and
Abigail (Holden) Merriam, born January 29.
1795, died September, 1820, married Farwell
Cowee.

(The Holden LineV

Abigail Holden, wife of Nathan Merriam.
was a descendant of Justinian Holden, who
at the age of twenty-one years, in tlie year
1634, sailed from Ipswich, England, for .Vmer-
ica; became one of the first proprietors of
Watertown, Massachusetts, where he died.
He became a man of substance and owned a
farm of two hundred and ninety-four acres,
now (1910) one of the most valuable tracts in
the suburbs of Boston. Name of his first wife
is unknown; he married (second) Marv,

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HUDSON AND AIOHAWK AWLLEYS

daughter of Thomas Rutler, who bore him
four sons, all of whom were prominent in the
growth and development of Westminster,
Massachusetts.

(II) Deacon Joseph Holden, son of Justin-
ian and Alary (Rutler) Holden, was born at
Watertown, Massachusetts, September 6, 1683.
The inscription of his gravestone best ex-
presses his standing in Westminster, ■"Dea-
con Joseph Holden, deceased November 3,
1768, in the eighty-fourth year of his age.
He brought his family into this town in ye
year 1737, being ye second family; was ye
first Deacon of ye Church gathered here and
faithfully discharged the duty thereof. Mark
ye perfect and behold ye upright for the end
of that man is Peace." He married (first)

Abigail Shattuck ; (second) Elizabeth ,

who survived him. He had seven children,
all by his first wife.

(III) Abner, fourth son of Deacon Joseph
and Abigail (Shattuck) Holden, was born
November 2, 1722. He was clerk of the dis-
trict and town of Westminster for many
years, was repeatedly on the board of asses-
sors, for nearly twenty years selectman, and
for twenty years was the leading magistrate
of the town. He was a member of the first
provincial congress in 1774, a delegate to the
convention called to adopt the state constitu-
tion in 1779, and the first representative of
the town to the general court established by
that constitution. He was a brave and de-
voted champion of the cause of independence,
and did his utmost for its success. He mar-
ried, February 25, 1752, Elizabeth, daughter
of Andrew and Elizabeth Darby, who shared
his fortunes more than half a century and
survived him seven years. He died October
22, 1805, aged eighty-two years ; she died No-
vember 12, 1810, aged eighty-three years.
They were the parents of nine children.

(IV) Abigail, eighth child of Abner and
Elizabeth (Darby) Holden, was born August
25, 1767. married Nathan Merriam (see Mer-
riam \T).

The maternal line of the McKie
McKlE family of Cambridge, New York,

traces to Phineas Whiteside, born
June 31, 1716, in county Tyrone, Ireland, died
in the town of Cambridge, Washington county.
New York, 1793. He came to the Ameri-
can colonies about the year 1736 with his
brother, landing at Philadelphia, and making
settlement in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania.
He was a man of education and maintained
a iirivate school, which he taught until he
moved from the state. He was Protestant
in religion and probably a Covenanter, if the

fact that he was associated with John Cul-
bertson, may be taken as evidence. John
Culbertson was a Scotch Covenanter and mis-
sionary. In 1764 or 1766 he came to Wash-
ington county on a mission to the Secession
church. He was accompanied on this long
and perilous trip by Phineas Whiteside, who
made permanent location in West Cambridge.
He purchased a tract of fourteen hundred
acres which he cleared in part and cultivated.
The war of the revolution prevented his get-
ting title to the land which he held on per-
petual lease at a rental of one shilling per
acre. The land was not held in "fee simple"
until 1877, when it was purchased. As his
sons came of age he gave them each two
hundred acres of land. The homestead he
erected is still standing and owned by a de-
scendant, Mrs. Catherine Hobson. He was
a very patriotic man and during the war of
the revolution espoused with fervor the colo-
nial cause, subscribing one thousand pounds
to aid the colonial government. He also ex-
erted himself in behalf of some soldiers who
were being tried for desertion. He defended
them with much skill and restored them to
their commands. His wife at her death left
one hundred pounds for the erection of a
church in the locality, other members of the
family contributed enough to complete it. It
has always been known as the "Whiteside
church." • He married Ann Cooper, while yet
a resident of Pennsylvania. Children, the
sons all settled on farms in the town : John,
of further mention ; William, married Lois
Freeman ; Peter, married Ann Robertson ;
Thomas, married Betsey Cramer ; Edward,
married Ann French : Ann, married Thomas-
Cochrane ; Oliver, married Susanna Pender-
gast.

(II) Jolin, son of Phineas and Ann (Coop-
er) Whiteside, was born in Lancaster county,
Pennsylvania, 1752. He came to Washing-
ton county with his parents in 1764 or 1766
and became a prosperous farmer of the coun-
ty. He married Margaret Robertson. Chil-
dren : Elizabeth ; Phineas, married Abigail
Hunt; Thomas J., married Sophia Morse;
Ann, married Peter McMurray ; Robertson,
married Maria Pcndcrgast; Catherine, of fur-
ther mention.

(III) Catherine, youngest child of John and
Margaret (Robertson) Whiteside, married
John McKie. Children: John, Jr., was major
of the Twenty-second Regiment, New York
Infantry, organized June, 1861, later was com-
missioned lieutenant-colonel ; unmarried. Wil-
liam, of further mention : James, married'
Annie Whiteside.

(IV) William, eldest son of John and Cath-

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1625

erine (Whiteside) McKie, was born in West
Cambridge, Washington county, New York.
He married Minerva, born in West Arlington,
\'ermont. daughter of Samuel and Mina (An-
drews) Buck. Child, Kate M., now resident
of Cambridge. New York.

The Chatham, New York,
SINCL.AIR branch of the Sinclair family
was founded in New York
state about a century ago by John Sinclair,
who was born in England in 1804, died in
Greene county, New York, in i860. When
a young man of twenty years he came to
the United -States, where he became a manu-
facturer of woolen goods and a prominent
citizen of Greene county, New York. He
married Ann Jane Buchanan, who died in
1886. She was a daughter of John Buchan-
an, born in the north of Ireland, came to
the United States when a young man, loca-
ted in New York City where he died at the
extreme age of ninety-four years. He was
engaged in manufacturing and was a well-
known and successful man. He and family
were members of the Presbyterian church.
Ann Jane Buchanan was born in New York
City about the year 1810 and died at Adams,
Massachusetts. After her marriage to John
Sinclair they lived in Greene county. New
York. They were the parents of five sons
and five daughters, including John B., of fur-
ther mention, and Margaret, married Albert
Plannum.

(H) John B., son of John and Ann Jane
(Buchanan) Sinclair, was born in Freehold,
Greene county, New York, February 22, 1848.
He was educated in the public schools, and
in early life was a worker in the woolen mills
of the section, later becoming a manufac-
turer. After several years of active life in the
woolen business he removed to Seymour, Con-
necticut, where he was proprietor of the
Windsor Hotel and manager of the Tingue
Opera House. In 1880 he assumed the man-
agement of the Nassau House, where he re-
mained for several years. In 1896 he located
in Chatham. New York where he pur-
chased the Chatham House. He was a suc-
cessful, popular "Mine Host," and made the
"Chatham" the most delightful and best pat-
ronized house in Columbia county. He con-
tinued in its management until September,
1906, when he sold his entire hotel interest.
He then established a plant in Chatham for
the manufacture of barrels of all kinds, and
has since been devoted to its management and
successful operation. Since 1907 Mr. Sinclair
has been continuously in public life. In that
year he was elected by the Republican party

to represent his district in the New York
house of assembly, where he served with,
credit on committees on internal affairs, com-
merce and navigation, public lands and for-
estry. In the same year (1907) he was elected
mayor of Chatham, and his conduct of public
affairs was so satisfactory to his townsmen,
that he was re-elected in 1908-09-10. and is
now serving his fourth term. He has proved
a most valuable public official and under his
watchful eye the public business of Chatham
is vigorously and carefully conducted. He
belongs to many societies and organizations
and is a life member of Oriental Lodge, Free
and Accepted Masons, of Broadbrook, Con-
necticut. He married (first) in 1870, at
North Adams, Massachusetts, Amanda L.
Moon, born in Adams, Massachusetts, 1847,
died at Seymour, Connecticut, 1889, daugh-
ter of John Moon. Children: i. Anna J., horn
in Clarksburg, Massachusetts, 1871, mar-
ried Stillman Wright, of Seymour, Connecti-
cut, where they now reside. Qiild. Helen,
deceased. 2. John B. (2), born at Clarks-
burg, 1873, "ow a resident of Seymour, Con-
necticut, in the employ of the Day Manufac-
turing Company. He married Ida Reigal. of
Seymour. Child. Harold, died in early child-
hood. John B. Sinclair married (second) in-
Petersburg, New York, Mrs. Mary A. Scho-
field, born in Adams, Massachusetts, in 1846,
daughter of Thomas and Maria (Fuller)
Lyons, and widow of George Schofield.

The line of descent of

SLINGERLAND this branch of the
Slingerland family is as
follows: (I) Teunis (Tuenise) C. Slinger-
land, torn 1617. (II) Albert, born 1666.
(Ill) Johannes, baptized 1696. (I\') Albert,
born 1733.

(V) Henry, .son of Albert and Elizabeth
(Moak) Slingerland, was a farmer of the
town of New Scotland, .Mbany county, New
York. He married a kinswoman, Jemima
Slingerland, and had children, among whom
was Henry H.

(\T) Henry H.. son of Henry and Jemima
(Slingerland) Slingerland, was born in the
town of New Scotland, .\lbany county. New
York, 1808. He established in .Mbany the
wholesale house of H. H. Slingerland & Son,
which he operated successfully until i8<Sq.
when he sold out the business to his sons,
John B. and De Witt C. He married Hannah
Winne,

(\II) De Witt C. son of Henry H. and
Hannah (Winne) Slingerland, was born in
the town of P>cthlchem. .Albany county. New
York, 1850. He was educated in the public

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schools, and began his long and active business
life in Albany as a clerk and bookkeeper for
the firm of H. H. Slingerland & Son. In
1889, in association with his brother, John C.
Slingerland, they purchased the business and
together continued a wholesale and retail
grocery business. Mr. Slingerland is a suc-
cessful business man, and has reached a posi-
tion of honor and influence in the city of Al-
bany. He is a member of the Masonic order,
■belonging to Ancient City Lodge, No. 452,
Free and Accepted Masons. He is a Repub-
lican in politics, and a member of the Uncon-
ditional Club. He married, March, 1875,
Alice Cuyler, daughter of George Nelson and
Eliza Ryckman (Martin) Geary, and grand-
daugliter of George Geary, born in New-
foundland in 1799. He was a merchant tailor.
George Nelson Geary, son of George Geary,
■was born in Albany, New York, in 1824. He
married, in Albany, in 1849, Eliza Ryckman
Martin, born in Rochester, New York, in
1827. They had nine children, four of whom
survived childhood. Children: i. Alice
Cuyler, married De Witt C. Slingerland. 2.
George Nelson. 3. Abraham Lincoln. 4.
Grace May, married William H. Chamber-
lain, of Albany, and has a son, Harry L. Cham-
berlain. Children of De Witt C. and Alice
Cuyler (Geary) Slingerland: i. Henry Cuy-
ler, educated in the public schools of Albany ;
a graduate of Albany high school, and for two
years attended Williams College. He is asso-
ciated with his father in business. He is a
member of the University Club, and is ser-
geant of Troop B., New York National Guard.
2. Frank Nelson, educated in the public
schools ; graduate of Albany high school and
Albany Business College. He is engaged in
the automobile business in Albany. He mar-
ried Anna MacDonald, and has a son Donald
MacDonald Slingerland.

Daniel McClure, ancestor of
WARDLE Mrs. Alena Wardle, was of

Scotch-Irish parentage ; he was
a farmer of Albany county, New York. He
was twice married and had five children by
first wife: i. Wellington, torn on the home
farm in southwestern .Mbany county, August
18, 1815, died at Saugerties, Ulster county,
New York, July 8. 1875; he was a farmer;
married Phoebe Kelly, November 10, 1830;
children: i. James Edgar, died in infancy; ii.
Catherine Ann, married, June 6, 1866, Robert
DeLaVergne, bom March 30. 1840, in Al-
bany county, New York, son of Moses Smith
and grandson of Theodore P>. DeLaVergne,
born in France. Moses Smith DcLa\'ergne
was born in Massachusetts, settled in Albany

county, where he was engaged in the under-
taking business. He was an active Republi-
can, town clerk and member of the Dutch
Reformed church. He married Fannie Aikin.
Child: Robert DeLa\'ergne, a traveling sales-
man all his life until his retirement in 1908,
for the last twelve years "on the road" he
represented the Hammond Beef Company of
Chicago. He is a Democrat in politics, and
resides in Hudson. New York. Children of
Robert and Catherine Ann (McClure) De La
\'ergne: a. Fannie, married Norton M. Dene-
gar, June 15, 1892; child, Norma DeLa
Yergne; b. Maretta, born April 16, 1870, died
March 19, 1883; c. McClure, born April 27,
1871. died September 4, 1871 ; d. Nora Mc-
Clure, married, December 30, 1896, Edward
W. Harrington. 2. Nelson, of California. 3.
William, of Michigan. 4. Jeanette, of Illinois.
5. Hannah, of Albany. Daniel McClure by a
second marriage to Widow Cobden had three
children : 6. James Emory, of whom further.
7. Frances Asbury. twin of James E., born
1839. 8. Daniel, removed to the west.

(II) James Emory, son of Daniel and

(Cobden) McClure, born in 1839, died April 5,
1888. He was an architect, builder and con-
tractor. Among his large contracts were the
Freylinghuysen residence at Lenox, Grand
Hotel at Summit, Chatham Depot and Cox-
sackie schoolhouse. He built many of the
local residences in Hudson and the Dutch Re-
formed church at Germantown. He was a
Republican in politics, a member and one of
the official board of the Methodist Episcopal
church in Hudson. He was leader of the
choir and through his eiTorts a handsome pipe
organ was obtained for the church. He was
superintendent of the Sunday school, a worker
for the welfare of the church, to which he
gave liberally.

James E. McClure married, in 1861, Kate
Utter, born 1840, died May 17, 1887, daughter
of Welcome and Pauline (Bogardus) Utter.
The latter died July, 1888. Welcome Utter
was a boot and shoe maker and formerly lived
in Catskill Mountains. Kate Utter was the
eldest of three children ; her brother Edgar
died September, 1888, her sister Alice died
aged eight years. Children of James E. and
Kate McClure: i. Alice P., died in infancy.
2. Alena, born in Hudson, New York ; re-
ceived a musical education, becoming a well-
known and proficient performer on tx)th piano
and pipe organ ; she is the organist of the
Methodist Episcopal church at Hudson and an
instructor of piano classes ; she married, De-
cember 29, 1898, James Harold Wardle, son
of Dr. John Knight Wardle. Child, James
McClure, Ixirn November 19, iS9<).

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revolution in the Seventh Regiment, Albany
county militia. He married, about 1760, Jo-
hanna Van Slyck, born October 23, 1736, died
April 5, 1815, also a descendant of an early
Dutch Mohawl< Valley family. Children:
Barent, born September 28, 1762, died Febru-
ary 20, 1763 ; Angelica, January 22,
1764, died February 19, 1850; Barent F.,
born November 26, 1769, died January
7, 1862; Harmon F., of whom fur-
ther.

(VI) Harmon F., son of Francis and Jo-
hanna (Van Slyck) \'an Buren, was born
March 29, 1775, died September 30, 1858. He
accompanied his father to the Mohawk Valley
and became the owner of one-quarter of the
Mayfield purchase. Here he followed agricul-
ture all his days, becoming prominent in town
and church affairs, being especially active in
the latter. He married, about 1796, Cather-
ine Miller, born 1774, died March 13, 1845.
Children: Hannah, born February i, 1798,
died in infancy; Charles, March 5, 1799, died
February 15, i860; Johanna, October 10,
1800, died January 18, 1853 ; Lucinda, No-
vember 22, 1802, died March 3, 1874; Fran-
cis, February 22, 1805, died March, 1872;
Oliver Miller, of whom further ; Angelica,
March 4, 1809, died August ii. 1884;
Peter, Mav 4, 1813, died November 17,
1885.

(VH) Oliver IMiller, son of Harmon F.
and Catherine (Miller) Van Buren, was born
in Mayfield, Fulton county, New York, April
4, 1807, died June, 1882. He was a farmer
and a devoted member of the Presbyterian
church. He married, January 21, 1829, Sallie
Maria Hayes, born April 9, 181 1, died April
18, 1883. Children: Elizabeth, born January
9, 1830; Charles Henry, May 17. 1836; Har-
mon E., June 28, 1839 ; Ansel Hayes, April
17, 1846, died August 31, 1910; Granville,
August, 1853.

(VHI) Charles Henry, son of Oliver Mil-
ler and Sallie Maria (Hayes) Van Buren,
was born May 17, 1836, died March 2, 1897.
He married. March 30. 1864, Tsadore (Dora)
Case. Children: i. Nellie Elizabeth, born
February 27, 1865, married Foster G. Hearst,
January 7, 1910. 2. Ada Blanche, of whom
further. 3. Grace, born December 31, 1870,
married. September 6, 1893, Owen G. Smith ;
child, Paul, born January, 1902. 4. Hiram
Gates, born March 27. 1876, married,
September 2, 1903, Lizzie B. Morri-
son ; children : Elizabeth and Margaret
May.

(IX) .'\da Blanche, daughter of Charles
Henry and Isadore (Dora) (Case) Van
Buren, was born January 29, 1867, married.

December 15, 1886, James E. Kellv (see
Kelly III).

The Palmatiers of Cats-
PALMATIER kill, New York, descend'

from a French ancestor
believed to have been named Jean. He came
to America and settled in Albany county. New
York. He was a farmer, married and reared
a family.

(II) Peter Palmatier, son of the emigrant,
was born in Albany county, New York, im
the town of Coeymans. Here he was edu-
cated and learned the business of a farmer.
He later purchased a farm in Greene county,.
New York, about two miles from the village-
of Catskill, where his children were born and'
where he died. He married Deborah Hallen-
beck. Children: i. Catherine, married Fred-
erick Ocumpaugh, of Catskill, died in Troy,
New York. 2. Peter (2), born 1805, died'
1883. 3. Moses. 4. John. 5. ^^'alter \V., of
further mention. 6. Mellisa, married Asa
Bullock and settled in the west. 7. Julia, mar-
ried Emery Happy, of Columbia county, New-
York, and settled in the west. 8. Abel B., a;
Baptist clerg)'man, who preached in Essex
county, New York, and died 1898.

(III) Walter W., son of Peter and De-
borah (Hallenbeck) Palmatier, settled on lot
No. 78, the southwest corner of the patent
known as Loonenburg Patent. In the deed'
its location is mentioned and reference is
made to the "ancient birch tree." This lot is
in the town of Catskill, the town line crossing-
the patent line about halfway between the
Kings road and the Vosen Kill. He married,
September 4, 1852, Jane, daughter of Wil-
liam and Julia (Hollister) Magilton. Chil-
dren: I. Frederick W., born May 4, 1854, of
Catskill. 2. William, of further mention. 3.
Julia, born December 25, 1862, unmarried.

(IV) William, son of \\^alter W. and Jane
(Magiiton) Palmatier, was Ixirn August 18,
1857. He spent the early part of his life
on his father's farm just outside of Catskill.
He was educated in the local schools of Jef-
ferson and Catskill, Greene county. New
York. In December, 1875. he began the read-
ing of law in the office of King & Halleck, of
Catskill, New York, and at the February terin
in Albany was admitted to the bar. He con-
tinued with King & Halleck and their suc-
cessors until November 13, 1883. In 1891 he
entered the Tanners National Rank at Cats-
kill as bookkeeper and was later made assist-
ant cashier. In 1894 he was promoted to the
office of cashier, a position he still holds
(1910). He has been a director of the Tan-
ners National Bank of Catskill, New York,

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for several year* ; is trustee of Catskill Sav-
ings Bank and treasurer of Jefferson Rural
Cemetery Association. He married, June i,
1898, Keturah Louise, daughter of Joshua At-
water and Louisa (Hopkins) Cooke. They
have one son. \\'illiam Atwater Cooke Palma-
tier, born October 21, 1899.

(The Cooke Line).
Henry Cooke, born in Birmingham, Eng-
land, was of Salem, Massachusetts, before
1640. He had four sons, Isaac, John, Henry
and Sannit'l. Isaac is supposed to have re-
mained at Salem and John to have settled at
Middletown, Connecticut. Henry and Sam-
uel settled at \Vallingford, Connecticut, and
are the ancestors of most of the name of Cook
or Cooke in Connecticut, as well as having
numerous descendants in other states.

(II) Samuel, son of Henry Cooke, came to
New Haven, Connecticut, in 1663. After his
marriage he settled in WalHngford, April,
1670, with the first planters. He was the
first shoemaker and tanner in the town. He
held many offices of trust in town and church.
He died March, 1702, leaving an estate of
three hundred and forty pounds. He married
(first) May 2, 1667, Hope, daughter of Ed-
ward Parker, of New Haven. He married
(second! July 14, 1690, Mary Roberts, who
survived him and married (second) April 9,
1705, Jeremiah How. Children by first mar-
riage: Samuel, bom March 3, i(568; John,
December 3. 1669; Hannah, March 3, 1671-72,
in WalHngford; Isaac, March 10. 1673, died
April 7. 1673; ?^fary. April 23, 1675, married,
April 5, 1699, Nathaniel Ives; Elizabeth, Au-
gust 22, 1677, died young; Judith, February
29, 1679, died March 20, 1708, married, April
20, 1704. Jeremiah How ; Isaac, January 10,
1681 ; Joseph. February 25, 1683; Hope, born
Septcmlicr 27, 1686, died January 30, 1731,
married, Decerriber 18, 1706, Joseph Benham.
Children by second marriage: Israel, May 8,
1(192; Mabel, June 30, 1694; Benjamin, April
8, 1697. died 1717, unmarried; Ephraim,
April 19, 1699: Elizabeth, September 10. 1701,
married, .\ugust, 1717. -Adam Mott.

(III) Samuel (2), eldest child of Samuel
(i) and Hope (Parker) Cooke, was born
March 3. i6(j8, at New Haven, Connecticut,
died September 18. 1725, at WalHngford. He
was a farmer of the western part of the town
of WalHngford, near the line that now divides
Cheshire from WalHngford. Descendants yet
occupy tlie land. His estate inventoried three
hundred and ninety pounds. He married
(first) March 3, 1692, Hannah, daughter of

William Ives, of New Haven ; he married
I (second) EHzabefh Bedell, who survived him.

She married (second) Captain David Harris,
of New Haven. Children by first wife: i.
Hannah, born May 28, 1693, died November
22, 1735; married Jeremiah Hull. 2. Samuel,
March 5, 1(395. 3- Aaron, of further men-
tion. 4. Lydia, January 13, 1699, died Octo-
ber 12, 1738; married Daniel Dutton. 5.
Moses, January 4, 1700, died December 25,
171 1. 6. Miriam, November 4, 1703; mar-
ried. December 12, 1727, Benjamin" Curtis.
7. Thankful, December 24, 1705, died .-\ugust
19, 1714. 8. Esther, March 8, 1707; married,
July 22, 1730, Abel Yale. 9. Eunice, Febru-
ary 25, 1709. 10. Susannah, September 5.
1711; married, December i, 1735, Joseph
Cole. II. Hope, died September 18, 1728.
Children by second wife: 12. Moses, Novem-
ber 6, 1716. 13. Thankful, November 14,
1718; married, December 31, 1742, Stephen
Hotchkiss. 14. Asaph, June 23, 1720. 15.
Hannah. November 4. 1721 ; married Zeph-
aniah Hall, of Cheshire.

(IV) Aaron, son of Samuel (2) and Han-
nah (Ives) Cooke, was born December 28,
1696, died October 14, 1756. He was a very
large landowner in the southeastern part of
the town of WalHngford. He married (first)
November 14, 1723, Sarah, daughter of James
Benham. He married (second) Sarali Hitch-
cock, who died August 11, 1735. He married
(third) February 7, 1736, Ruth Pnirrage. of
Stratford. She survived him until July 2,
1786, dying at the age of seventy-nine years.
Children of first marriage: i. Samuel, born
September 25, 1725, died before his father.
2. Stephen. December 28, 1727. 3. Titus, I-'eb-
ruary 25, 1730. 4. Abel, February 23, 1732.
Child by second marriage: 5. Sarah. June 2,

1735. Children by third marriage: 6. Lydia,

1736, died January 9, 1793; married Uriah
Collins. 7. Ruth, September 7, 1738, died
June 9. 1780: married William Collins. 8.
lEsther, May 14, 1740. 9. Elizabeth, March
16, 1741-42, died January 27, 1751. 10.
Aaron. June 5, 1744. u. Miriam. June 30.
1746, died December i, 1750. 12. Lucy, Sep-
tember 20, 1748, died .April 29, I7rx3. 13.
Elizabeth, Tune 7, 1751, died October 19.
1762.

(V) .Aaron (2), son of .-\aron (i) and Ruth
(Burrage) Cooke, was born June 5, 1744, died
September 14, 1825, and is buried in North-
ford graveyard. He married (first) Lucretia,
daugiiter of Oliver Dudley, of Guilford, Con-
necticut, died April 16, 1771. Sons: i. Al-
vin Dudley, who was graduated from Yale
College in 1735. 2. .Aaron, born 1768. 3. In-
crease, graduated from Yale, 1793. 4. Kil-
burn, twin of Increase, born in 1771. He
married (second) Elizabeth, died 1816, aged

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sixty-five years, daughter of Captain Nathan-
iel Lainter, of Bran ford, Connecticut. Cliil-
dren: 5. Nathaniel Lainter, born 1775, mar-
ried Susanna Baldwin. 6. Elizabeth, 1776.
married Joshua Atwater. 7. Thomas Bur-
rage, of further mention. 8. Lucretia, 1780.
9. Lydia, 1784, died 1861 ; married Dr. Amos
G. Hull. 10. Apollos, 1786, died 1832; mar-
ried Ruth Atwater. 11. Henrietta.

(\T) Thomas Burrage, son of Aaron (2)
and Elizabeth (Lainter) Cooke, was born
1778, died 1853. After his marriage he re-
moved, in 1800, from Wallingford, Connecti-
cut, to Catskill, Greene county. New York,
where he died. He married, November 28,
1799, Catherine, daughter of Captain Caleb
and Ruth (Wadsworth) Atwater. Children:
I. James Wadsworth, born October, 1800, died
the day following birth. 2. Catherine, 1802,
died 1854. 3. Thomas Burrage (2), 1804,
died 1825. 4. Henrietta Eliza, 1806, died
1886. 5. Harriet Louisa, twin of Henrietta
Eliza, died 1886, surviving her sister but a

short time. 6. Ruth. 1808. 7. Wadsworth,

181 1, died 1873. 8. Joshua Atwater, of fur-
ther mention. 9. Elizabeth Lainter, 1817. 10.
James, 1820, died in infancy. 11. James (2),
died in infancy. 12. William Goodall, 1822,
died 1906, at New Haven, Connecticut, leav-
ing one daughter.

(VH) Joshua Atwater, son of Thomas
Burrage and Catherine (Atwater) Cooke, was
born 1814, died in Catskill, New York, in
1896. He was educated in the public schools
of Catskill, New York, and the Pittsfield
Academy, Massachusetts. He was engaged
during his active years in mercantile life. He
was prominent in public afifairs, and was
elected clerk of Greene county. He was an
official member of the Dutch Reformed
church and of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows. He married Louisa Hopkins, born
181 5. died in Catskill, New York. 1899.
Child : Keturali Louise, married William Pal-
matier (see Palmatier IV).

John Beach is first on record in
BI'".\CH New Haven Colony in 1643,

when he is fined "2 shillings for
twice late coming'' and another 2 shillings for
"defect gun." Richard Beach appears earlier,
in 1643. John Beach became a householder
in 1647. The last entry concerning him on
the New Haven Colony is : "John Beach
came to Stratford and bought his first land,
May 21, 1660 of Ensign Bryan of Milford,
one house lot, two acres : he had then a wife
and two children." In January, 167 1, he was
made an auctioneer by the following vote :
"John Beach was chosen crier for the town

and to be allowed four pence for everything
he cries, that is to say for all sorts of cattle
and all other things of smaller value, two
years." He was a large land owner in Wal-
lingford. Connecticut, also. He married, in

1650, Mary — ; children: i. Elizabeth,

born i\larch 8, 1652, married Elisaph Preston,
son of William Preston, one of the first set-
tlers of New Haven. 2. John, born April,
1654, married Hannah Staple. 3. Mary, born
1656. 4. Thomas, born May, 1659, married
(first) Ruth Peck; (second) Phebe \\'ilcox-
son. 5. Nathaniel, of further mention. 6.
Hannah, born December, 1665, married (first)
Zechariah Fairchild : (second) John Burit. 7.
Sarah, born November, 1667. 8. Isaac, born
June 29, 1669, married Hannah Birdsey, born
February, 167 1. 9. Joseph, born February 5,
1 67 1, married Abia Booth. 10. Benjamin,
born Alarch, 1674, married Mary Hitchcock.

(II) Nathaniel, third son of John Beach,
the emigrant ancestor, was born in Stratford,
Connecticut, March, 1662, died 1747. He
married, 1686, Sarah, died 1734, daughter of
Nathaniel and Sarah (Groves) Porter. Chil-
dren: I. Ephraim. born May 25, 1687. mar-
ried, 1 712, Sarah Patterson. 2. Elizabeth,
born November 11, 1689. 3. David, born
May 15. 1692, married. 1717, Hannah, daugh-
ter of Matthew Sherman, ami granddaughter
of Samuel Sherman. 4. Josiah, born .\ugust
18, 1694, married (first) Patience Nichols in
1721 ; married (second) Abigail Wheeler in
1750. 5. Nathaniel, of further mention. 6.
Sarah, born November 12, 1699, married,
1726, Rev. John Beach (her cousin). 7. Dan-
iel, born January 15, 1700, married, 1724,
Hester, daughter of Benjamin Curtiss. 8.
Anna, born March, 1704. married, 1728, El-
nathan Beers. 9. Israel, born May, 1705,
married, 1731, Hannah Burrit. ro. James,
horn .August 13, 1709, married Sarah Curtis,
born September 2, 17 10.

dll) Nathaniel (2), .son of Nathaniel (i)
and Sarah (Porter) Beach, was born in Strat-
ford, Connecticut, December 28, 1696; died
1734. He married, November 3, 1720, Sarah,
daughter of Solomon Burton, who sur\ived
him and married (second) William Odell.
Children : Elizabeth, Charity, Thomas, Joseph
and Nathan.

(IV) Joseph, son of Nathaniel (2) and
Sarah (Burton) Beach, w-as born in Stratford,
Connecticut, about 1735. He removed to
Waterbury, Connecticut. He married Experi-
ence Beecher. Children : Mary, married David
Frost ; Joseph ; Amos, died young; Amos (2) ;
Asa, of further mention.

(V) Asa, son, of Joseph and Experience
(Beecher) Beach, was born iu 1759. He re-

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1631

moved to Saratoga count j'. New York, where
he settled in the town of .Milton. He was a
farmer, and with his wife is buried in the
town which was his home for many years.
He married Hannah Stiles, born 1758. Chil-
dren : four sons and daughters, among whom
were: Daniel, of further mention; Jonathan
F. ; Joseph ; Isaac.

(VI) Daniel, son of Asa and Hannah
(Stiles) Beach, was born in the town of Alil-
ton, Saratoga county, New York, March 25,
1793, died March 28, 1890, nearly reaching
the century mark. He was a farmer of the
town of Charleston. He married, August 19,
1818, Elizabeth Ross, born October 4, 1791,
died August 13, i860, at Charlton. Children:
I. Harriet Ross, born June 30, 1823, died May
7, 1865 ; married Wakeman Buell. 2. Olivia,
born May 24, 1825, died 1868; married, Oc-
tober 3, 1845, William Wayne. 3. Ann Eliza,
born September i, 1828, died February 23,
1830. 4. George Ross, of whom further. 5.
John C, born July 13, 1833.

(\'II) George Ross, son of Daniel and Eliz-
abeth (Ross) Beach, was born July 19. 1831,
at Charlton, Saratoga county. New York. He
was educated in the public schools, and until
1 87 1 worked the "Old Beach Farm" with his
father. In 1871 he located in Ballston Spa,
where he established a real estate and insur-
ance business. He married, December 21,
1854, Henrietta Belding, born July 22, 1836,
daughter of Melancthon and Hester M. (Con-
de)' Belding, of Charlton (see Belding VIII).
Child. I'^rederick Henry, of whom forward.

(\'Iir) Frederick Henry, only son of
George Ross and Henrietta (Belding) Beach,
was born in the town of Charlton. Saratoga
county. New York. .August 5, 1858. He was
educated in the public schools of Charlton
and Ballston Spa, where his parents removed
when he was a lad of thirteen years. He be-
came engaged with his father in the real
estate and insurance business immediately
after leaving school, and has continued the
association until the present time (1910). In
1908 he was appointed receiver for the East-
ern New Y'ork Electric Railway Company,
which he is still managing. He is a director
of the First National Bank of Ballston Sea.
and interested in other business enterprises
of the village. He is a member and vestry-
man of Christ Episcopal Church, and prom-
inent in the Masonic order, affiliated with
Franklin Lodge, No. 90, Free and Accepted
Masons : Warren Chapter, No. 23, Royal .^rch
Masons, both of Ballston Spa; Washington
Commandery, of Saratoga Springs : Oriental
Temple. Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Troy,
and .\ll)any Consistory, thirty-second degree,

Scottish Rite. He is also a member of the
Knights of Pythias. He married, January 5,
1881, Esther Bennett Doolittle (see Dool'ittle
VII). Children: i. Margaret Lee, born Oc-
tober 29, 188 1. 2. Priscilla Lee, December 2,
1883, died July 3, 1892. 3. Frederick Henry
(2), October 24, 1884. 4. Esther Belding,
March 24, 1895. 5. George Ross, March 30,
1897. 6. Geraldine Bennett, June 19, 1902.

(The Belding Line).
Richard Belding from Staffordshire, Eng-
land, was among the early settlers of Wethers-
field, Connecticut, which was founded by col-
onists from Watertown, Dorchester and New-
town, ^lassachusetts, in 1634. The date of
his settlement is not known. His name first
appears on the town record, February 7, 1641.
In Trumbull's "Memorial History of Hart-
ford County" is a map on which the location
of his house is shown. Little is known of his
family further than the fact that he had a
wife and two sons, William and Samuel.

(II) \\illiam, son of Richard Belding, was
born in Stafl^ordshire, England, about 1623.
He married, in 1644. in Wethersfield, Connec-
ticut, Thomasine, and in 1646 removed

to Norwalk, Connecticut. Children: i. John,
born January 9, 1645. 2. Daniel, see for-
ward. 3. Samuel, July 20, 164.7. 4- Susannah,
November 5, 165 1. 5. Marie, February 2,
1652. 6. Nathaniel, November 13, 1654.

(III) Daniel, son of William Belding. was
born November 20, 1646 (another record says
1648). He was of Hartford, Connecticut, in
1671, and of Deerfield in 1686. A great part
of his family was killed or captured by In-
dians, September 16, 1696. He was a leading-
man in the town where he died, August 14,
173 1. He married (first) November 10, 1670,
Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel Foot, of
Wethersfield. She was killed September 17,
1696. He married (second) February 17,
1699, Hepzibah Buel, widow of Lieutenant
Thomas Wells. She was captured by Indians,
February 29, 1704. and killed on the route to
Canada by her captors, aged fifty-lour years.
He married (third) Sarah, daughter of John
Hawkes, widow of Philip Malloon: she died
September 17, 175 1, aged ninety- four years.
Children: i. William, born December 26, 1671,
married Margaret, daughter of William Arms.
2. Richard, March 29, 1672. 3. Elizabeth,
October 8, 1673. married Ebenezer Brooks.
4. Nathaniel, January 26. 1675, captured .Sep-
tember 15, 1696, died .\ugust 21, 1714. 5.
Mary, November 17, 1677. married. K'igS,
James Trowbridge. 6. Daniel. September i,
1680, killed September Hi, 1696. 7. Sarah,
March 15, 1682, married March 27. 1702,

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TBenjamin Bent, captured 1702. 8. Hester,
September 29, 1683, captured September 16,
1696, not afterward heard from. 9. Abigail,
March 10. 1686, died June 25, 1686. 10.
Samuel, of further mention. 11. John, June
24, 1689, died next day. 12. Abigail (2), Au-
gust 18, 1690, wounded September 16, 1696,
died before 1732. 13. John (2), February
28. 1693, killed September 16, 1696. 14.
Thankful. December 31, 1695, killed Septem-
ber 16, 1696.

(IV) Samuel, son of Daniel and Elizabeth
(Foot) Belding, was born April 10, 1687. His
mother was killed in the Indian attack on
Deerfield in 1696. Samuel, then a lad of nine
years, was wounded at the same time, but
■escaped capture. He died December 14, 1750.
He married (first) February 26, 1724, Anna
Townes, died December 13, 1724; married
(second) September 26, 1726, EHzabeth,
daughter of Nathaniel Ingram, of Hadfield.
Children: i. Samuel, of further mention. 2.
Elizabeth, born November i, 173 1, married,
January 24, 175 1, Seth Hawks. 3. John, Au-
gust 15. 1734. 4. Daniel, June 17, 1737. died
August 27, 1743. 5. Lvdia, married Joseph
Mitchell.

(V) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (i) and
Elizabeth (Ingram) Belding, was born April
I, 1729. He resided in Deerfield. previous to
Tiis locating in Ashfield or Huntstown, as it
was then called. He was a rope manufacturer
^nd a farmer, prominent in town affairs and
first town clerk. He married, June 28, 1753,
Mary, daughter of Joseph Mitchell, of Deer-
field. Children: i. Daniel, born June 17, 1754,
settled in Shelburn, Massachusetts. 2. John,
December 17, 1756, married Priscilla Waite.
3. Mary, March 3, 1758. 4. IMercy, Novem-
ber 29, 1759, married, September 6, 1781,
Azariah Cooley. 5. Esther, April 18. 1761.
6. Samuel, died young. 7. .'\senath. February
20, 1764. 8. Louisa, June 6, 1765. 9. Samuel,
of further mention. 10. Elizabeth, January 7,
1770. II. Aaron, July 21, 1774.

(VI) Samuel (3), .son of Samuel (2) and
Mary (Mitchell) Belding, was born Novem-
ber 10, 1767. In 1790 he joined Chauncey
Belding in the town of Charlton, Saratoga
county, New York, both becoming prominent
men of the town. In 1794 they engaged in
mercantile life in company, succeeding Davis
& P.ostwick. Chauncey Belding was a mem-
ber of the state assembly, 1807-08. and Sam-
uel in 1823. Samuel Belding held the office
of town clerk from 1802 continuously until
1838, except the years 1813 to 1818. when
he was supervisor. He was then succeeded
by Hiram Belding. Samuel married and had
issue.

(\'II) Samuel (4), son of Samuel (3) Bel-
ding, was born in Charlton, Saratoga county,
New York, died 1865. He married and had
issue.

(\'III) Melancthon, son of Samuel (4)
Belding, was born September 5, 1813. in
Charlton, Saratoga county. New York, died
October 15, 1883. He married, January 14,
1835, Hester j\I. Conde, born May 14, 1813,
died February 28, 1889. Children: i. Hen-
rietta, married George R. Beach. 2. Alice L.,
married David Foote Wicks, of Charlton,
New York. 3. Eva, married John M. Wells,
of Johnstown, New York.

(The Doolittle Line.)
Abraham Doolittle, the Puritan, was the
progenitor of all the Doolittles in America
who claim early Connecticut ancestry. He
spelled his name Dowlittell. He was born in
England in 1619-20. He married (first) in
England, Joane Allen (spelled Ailing on the
colonial records) and at about the age of
twenty-one came with his bride to America.
He was in Boston, 1640, and of New Haven,
Connecticut, 1642. He built a house, had
land granted him, took the oath of fidelity in
1644, was chosen deputy seven terms, and
served many terms as selectman, was treas-
urer of the town of W'allingford, whither he
removed in 1670. He held about every office
in the town and was sergeant of the military
company. His gravestone yet stands in Wall-
ingford, marked :

"A. D. 70"
1690

Joane, his first wife, died after twenty years
of married life, and he married (second) Abi-
gail Moss, born April 10. 1642. Children by
first wife: Sarah, Abraham, Elizabeth, Mary,
John, Abigail. Children by second wife :
Samuel, Joseph, Abigail (2), Ebenezer, Mary,
Daniel, Theophilus.

(II) Theophilus, youngest child of Abra-
ham and Abigail (Moss) Doolittle, was born
in Wallingford, Connecticut, July 28, 1678.
died March 26, 1740. He was a farmer. He
married (first) Thankful Hall, Ix>rn Decem-
ber 29, 1679, died lune 2, 171s, daughter of
David and Sarah (Rockwell) Hall, of Wall-
ingford. He married (second) Elizabeth,
daughter of Jeremiah Howe. Children, all by
first wife except the last child: Thankful.
Sarah, Henry, David, Theophilus (2), Solo-
mon, Benjamin.

(HI) Theophilus (2), son of Theophilus
(i) and Thankful (Hall) Doolittle, was lx>rn
at Wallingford, Connecticut, June 20. 1709.
His will was probated November 10, 1783. In

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iC^i^

1756 he was appointed ensign of the First
Company in WaUingford, by the assembly.
He married (first) October 10, 1733. Su-
sannah, daughter of Deacon Samuel and Su-
sannah (Hall) Moss. He married (second)
November 15, 1738, Sarah Dorchester. Chil-
dren: Susannah, Solomon, Theophilus (3),
twin of Solomon, Theophilus (4), Sarah,
Solomon (2), Isaiah, Eliasaph, Stephen, Isaac.

(I\') Eliasaph, son of Ensign Theophilus
(2) and Sarah (Dorchester) Doolittle, was
born in WaUingford, Connecticut, June I,
1730, died April 28, 1817. He married (first)
Ruth Hall, January i, 1772, and settled in
WaUingford. He married (second) • Mabel
Potter, April 8, 1776. Children: Lucy,
Charles, Miles. Ruth, Isaiah, Eliasaph, Porter,
Sally. Ann Giles, Betsey.

(\) Miles, son of Eliasaph and Ruth
(Hall) Doolittle, was born in WaUingford,
Connecticut, March 5, 1775. He removed to
New Lebanon, Columbia county. New York,
Avliere he died. He was a prosperous farmer.
He married, November 6. 1803, Esther Ben-
nett, of New Lebanon ; ten children.

(\'I) James Frederick, son of Miles and
Esther (Bennett) Doolittle. was born at New
Lebanon, Columbia county, New York, March
26, 1825, died at Ballston Spa, New York,
December 19, 1902. He married (first) Mar-
garet Stuart Lee, of Wilkes Barre, Pennsyl-
vania, died in Ballston Spa, New York, in
1865. Children: i. Esther Bennett, of fur-
ther mention. 2. Priscilla Reed, born Sep-
tember 6, 1862. 3. James Lee, September 18,
1865. He married (second) Fannie Buckley,
of Ballston Spa. Children: 4. William Fred-
erick, M. D., of Cleveland, Ohio. 5. Harry J.,
lawyer, of Cleveland, Ohio.

(VH) Esther Bennett, daughter of James
Frederick and Margaret Stuart (Lee) Doo-
little, was born December 3. 1859. She mar-
ried Frederick Henry Beach, of Ballston Spa,
New York (see Beach VHI).

Jan Van Loon, blacksmith,
VAN LOON was of Loonenburg, 1690,
of Coxsackie, 1720. He
emigrated from Luyck, Holland, and was a
landowner of Coxsackie, 1684. He married
Maria Albertse in New York, February 23,
1676. Children: i. Jan, married Rebecca
Hollenbeck. 2. Elsie, married (first) Omie
La Grange: (second) Barent Egbertse, in
1727. 3. Albertus, baptized October 31, 1683,
married Maria Caskersen. 4. Nicholas. lx>rn
in New York. October 14, 1694. 5. Matthias,
baptized December 10, 1696, married .Xnnatje
LaGrange. The Loonenburg patent for lands
in Greene county, New York, included the

entire purchase made from the Indians in
1665 by Johannes Clutc (Jan Cloet), and Jan
Hendrickse Bruyn. In 1681, .April 7, Johan-
nes Clute sold a large tract to Jan \an Loon
and Peter Bosie, who gave a mortgage for
"50 beavers" as part payment. By a deed
dated March 2, 1684, Peter Bosie sold his part
to Jan \'an Loon in consideration of the fact
that he had paid the mortgage. Jan built his
house in the lower part of what is now the
village of Athens, a short distance north of
Black Rock, on ground later occupied as a
shipyard by Matthias \'an Loon. .-\ stone
from the original house bearing the inscrip-
tion 1706, J. V. L., gives the name of the
builder and the date of erection. Jan Van
Loon conveyed all his property in the patent
to his sons, Jan, /Mbertus, Matthias and Nich-
olas. By deed of April 11, 1720, the four sons
gave to their father and mother, Maria, for
life one hundred morgens (two hundred
acres) at the \lught Hook and fifty morgens
on the flats with all the buildings. The deed
provided for a division of this propertv after
the parents died. One of the celebrated land
cases of after years, in the Greene county
courts, was over the V'an Loon lands.

(II) Nicholas, son of Jan "the founder"
and his wife, Maria Van Loon, had for his
share of the estate lands on "the flat." He
married, November 19, 172 1, Rachel Clow, of
Claverack. Children: Maria, born 1722;
Junge; Elsie; Johannes, 1726; Matthias,
1736; Petrus, twin of Matthias: William,
1739; Abraham, 1740; Isaac, of further men-
tion.

(HI) Isaac, son of Nicholas and Rachel
(Clow) Van Loon, was born at Loonenburg,
now .Athens, Greene county. New York, July
22, 1743. He married, 1763, Catherine, born
November 16, 1743. daughter of Jacobus and
Rachel Hallenbeck. Children: Jacob, Nich-
olas I., of further mention.

(IV) Major Nicholas I. V'an Loon, son of
Isaac and Catherine (Hallenbeck) V'an Loon,
was born at Athens, Greene county. New
York, 1766. died 1846. A tombstone in .Ath-
ens cemetery with the inscription "N. I. \'an
Loon, aged 80," marks his resting place. He
led an active, busy life, and was prominent in
the community. He met his death by acci-
dent, being caught on a picket fence he was
attempting to climb in the night : being unable
to extricate himself, he was found dead in the
morning. He married Hannah, daughter of
Isaac Hallenbeck. Children: Isaac N.. Jacob
N.. Caspar N., William Nicholas, of further
mention. Prentice, Catherine, Cornelia.

(V) William Nicholas, son of Major Nich-
olas I. V^an Loon, was born in Athens, Greene

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county, New York, in 1806, died in that vil-
lagfe, 1893. He was associated with his father
in brick manufacturing and was captain of the
Hudson River vessels for many years. He
held all the local offices of importance in his
town, and for forty years was vestryman of
the Episcopal church. He married, in 1838,
Mary Stitt, of Nantucket, Massachusetts, be-
longing to the religious Society of Friends.

They had three children: i. , died in

infancy. 2. Eugene, of further mention. 3.
Thomas, born January 5, 1845, ^^ Athens,
New York ; educated in the public schools ; at
fourteen removed to New York City and from
then until the present time (1910) has been
identified with the coffee trade of that city ;
he resides in Brooklyn, New York ; he mar-
ried, December 2, 1874, Harriet B. Winans ;
children : Eugene and Schuyler.

(VT) Eugene, son of William Nicholas and
Mary (Stitt) "V'an Loon, was born in the vil-
lage of Athens, Greene county. New York,
December 2, 1842. He was educated in the
public schools, and at an early age located in
Little Falls, New York, where he learned the
details of woolen manufacturing. He became
a manufacturer of woolen goods of Little
Falls, a line of activity he continued until his
retirement from business. He is a Republican
in politics, was presidential elector in 1908,
and has filled all the principal town offices.
He is one of the original members of the
Holland Society of New York, and was for
ten years vice-president of the society. His
social club is the Union League of New York
City. He married, September 30, 1869, at
Worcester, Massachusetts, Ella Maddock,
born June 11. 1847, daughter of David R.
Maddock, cashier of the Camden National
Bank of Camden, New Jersey. One child,
William T., born December 3, 1873, in Nut-
ley, New Jersey, a graduate of the University
of Pennsylvania, class of 1894, now a resident
of Athens.

The Dempster family of
DEMPSTER Glovcrsville, New York,

are descendants of an an-
cient Scotch family whose ancestral seat was
near Edinburg. The head of the present fam-
ily and the American ancestor was Rev. James
Dempster, a Scotch minister of note, who
withdrew from the established church, and
joining with the Wesleys (founders of Metho-
dism) came to the United States. He settled
in the town of Florida, Montgomery county.
New York, where he died and is buried. He
married and had three sons, James, John, Joel,
and a daughter Pamelia. John was a noted
missionary and the first Methodist missionary

to the Argentine Republic. He afterwards
was instrumental in founding the great North-
western University at Evanston, Illinois.

(H) Joel, son of Rev. James Dempster, was
born in Edinburg, Scotland, and came to the
United States, settling in Fulton county, New
York, where he was a man of prominence. He
was twice married ; his first wife was a Mur-
dock ; his second Lois Spaulding, who bore
him David Spaulding, Delos C, Juha E. and
Jane.

(HI) David Spaulding, eldest son of Joel
and Lois (Spaulding) Dempster, was born in
Lasselville, F"ulton county, New York, March-
31, 1845, died in Gloversville, New York, Feb-
ruary 26, 1907. He secured his early educa-
tion in the public schools, finishing at Fultore
Academy, Fulton, New York, where he took
an advanced course. After completing his
studies he became a traveling salesman for
local glove-making firms. In January. 1879,
in company with George Place, he organized!
the firm of Dempster «& Place, and began ini
a small way the manufacture of gloves, on
the corner of Main and First avenues, Glov-
ersville, where they remained eight years. la
January, 1888, their business had so growni
that they moved into the three-story brick
property on Bleecker street, which they had
previously erected and equipped for a moderm
glove factory. The firm manufactured a gen-
eral line of light and heavy buckskin gloves,,
and a line of fine kid gloves. They pros-
pered and obtained a firm footing in the trade.
Since the death of Mr. Dempster, his wife-
has capably filled his place in the firm, which.
still continues a prosperous career as Demp-
ster & Place. Mr. Dempster, while always-
solicitous for the welfare of his city, and gen-
erous in his support of all public enterprises,
was never connected with political affairs.
His public service was confined to the board
of water commissioners, of which he was-
president. He was a director of the Manu-
facturers Bank, a member of the Masonic
fraternity, and a Methodist in religion. He-
was a man of fine business ability, upright
and honoralile in his business affairs, and'
held in the highest esteem.

He married Sarah J., born February 12,
1856, daughter of Wiilard and Ellen '( Put-
nam) Brownell, and granddaughter of James
and Rhoda (Rose) Brownell. Ellen Putnam>
was a (laughter of Ralph and Jane (N'oor-
hees) Putnam. Wiilard and Ellen (Putnam)
Brownell had three children : Anstress. mar-
ried Henry Knoff, and had Sarah and Miriam.
Sarah J., married David Spaulding Demp-
ster. Charles, unmarried ; an extensive ranch
owner in southern California. Children of-"

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1635

David Spaulding and Sarah J. (Brownell)
Dempster: i. Willard J., born June 18, 1877;
educated in the pubHc schools and at a pre-
paratory school in Massachusetts, after which
he went west, locating at Los Angeles, Cal-
ifornia, owning and operating an orange
grove ; also a director in the Automatic Signal
Light Company of Colorado Springs, Colo-
rado. 2. Rena, died at the age of sixteen
months. 3. David Dudley, born March 15. 18S4,
was educated in the public school and at a
preparatory school at Williston, Northampton,
Massachusetts : he had recently returned from
a trip around the world when he died October
22, 1907. 4. Dorothy. Mrs. David S. Demp-
ster survives her husband and continues her
residence in Gloversville. She is a member of
the First Methodist Episcopal Church, and
active in social, benevolent and educational
work. For eight years she has been a member
of the school board of Gloversville; is a
member of the hospital board of directors, and
of the Young Women's Christian Association ;
also actively engaged in church work.

John Thompson, born in
THOMPSON Scotland, and his wife
Mary, removed to Belfast,
Ireland, w-here he was engaged in business.
He was a man of considerable influence in the
city, was master of the Masonic lodge, and a
devoted member of the Scotch Presbyterian
church. He and his wife are buried in Green-
wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.
Among bis children was a son James.

(U) James, son of John and Mary Thomp-
son, was born in Belfast, Ireland, March 12,
1831, died in Valley Falls, Rensselaer county,
New York, April 11, 1899. He received a
good education and was engaged with his
father in the manufacture of linens. In 1852
he came to the United States, landing in New
York, where he worked in the cotton and linen
factories of that section and in New England.
In 1859 he started in business for himself in
New York, continuing until 1872, when he
settled at Valley Falls and established a mill
on the south bank of the Hoosick river. He
demolished, with one exception, all the old
buildings which were on the premises, and
which had been operated as a twine mill by
Lape & Sproat. He erected a large brick mill
and engaged in the manufacture of flax and
hemp twines. Later he built a large cotton
mill in which he manufactured mosquito
netting, tarlatans, buckrams, and similar
goods, such as previously made at his New
York City plant. In 1878 the firm of James
Thompson & Company was formed. R. A.
Schoneman, of New York, being admitted a

partner. Four additional buildings were
erected in 1880, and another in 1881. In the
latter year the \'alley Falls Water Power
Company built a new dam, James Thompson
& Company being a leading spirit in the en-
terprise. Further improvements in water
power were made in 1886 by the firm, build-
ing a new flume, and making extensive rock
excavations. In 1887 the old building was de-
molished and a substantial brick structure
erected. Previously they had built a commo-
dious store house along the line of the Fitch-
burg railroad, and in 1894 acquired possession
of the Valley Falls Paper Company's prop-
erty on the north bank of the Hoosick river.
In 1895 a large brick structure was added tc^
the mills, devoted to the finishing of cotton
goods. The mills were equipped with all mod-
ern improvements and constitute the principal
manufacturing plant of the village. Mr.
Thompson was a man of high character and
of most excellent business quality. He was
made a Mason in Ireland, his father being
master of his lodge. In Valley Falls he was
a useful member of the Baptist church, and
liberal in his benefactions to all churches, re-
gardless of creed, contributing to the building
funds of the Baptist, Methodist, and Catholic
churches. He was a Republican in politics,
and served the town as road commissioner.
He was of a quiet, genial nature, and made
many friends. He was a great lover of the
horse, and on his farm of one hundred and
fifty acres had many choice specimens of the
Wilkes breed of trotting horse, the particular
strain in which he was most interested. He
married (first), in 1854, Isabella Curran, of
Belfast, Ireland, who died October, 1879.
Children : i. Mary Jane, married .Allan Milks,
of Valley Falls ; children : Clarence and Ellis.
2. Hannah, married Adam Lohnes, of Valley
Falls: children: i. James, married Ada Har-
rington, and has James (2); ii. Isabella: iii.
Estella, married Lieutenant Albert Baker, of
the United States Navy, and has Janet. 3.
James, of further mention. 4. Isabella, mar-
ried Thomas Doran ; children: Arthur. Ed-
ward, Isabella, Rita, Leo, Clare. 5. William,
married Theresa Barrett. 6. Eliza, married
Frank Stover, and has Jennie, died at the age
of seventeen years, and Allan. 7. William.
James Thompson married (second) Lucy E.
Larken. of New York ; child. Leslie Eugene,
of Valley Falls.

nil) James (2), son of James and Isabella
(Curran) Thompson, was born in New York
City, October 25, iSCii. He was educated in
the city schools, and the College of the City
of New York, from which he was graduated
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came associated with his father in the manu-
facture of linens and cottons in New York
City, and later at \'alley Falls, New York.
He became superintendent of the plants, and
on the death of his father in 1899 came into
possession of the latter's interest and suc-
ceeded him as general manager and principal
owner. He is a director of the National City
Bank of Troy, and the Rensselaer County
Bank of Rensselaer, New York, and of the
Prixite Comb Company of North Adams,
Massachusetts, and president of the Valley
Falls Improvement Company. He is an active
Republican, and was the first president of the
village of Valley Falls, and county committee-
man and leader of the party in the town of
Pittstown, Rensselaer county. In 1910 he was
Republican candidate for state comptroller.
He was a delegate to the national convention
of his party in 1908 that nominated Taft and
Sherman, the successful candidates for presi-
dent and vice-president of the United States,
at the ensuing election, and has at various
times sat as a delegate in State Conventions
of his party. He is a member of the Benev-
olent and Protective Order of Elks, and the
Rensselaer County Republican Club. He mar-
ried, October, 1881, Caroline Smodell, born
1861. daughter of George W. and Elizabeth
Smodell, of Valley Falls, New York. Chil-
dren: I. Mary. 2. Flora, married, June, 1910,
Dr. Charles Sproat, of Valley Falls. 3. Eliza-
beth. 4. Caroline. 5. Viola Isabella. Mr.
Thompson maintains a residence both in Sara-
toga and Valley Falls.

The Finches are an old New
FINCH England family, and figure quite

prominently in the early annals of
Connecticut and New York states. Finchville.
in Orange county, is named in honor of John
Finch, the first emigrant in that section, who
came from Horse Neck, Connecticut, and set-
tled at Goshen, New York, the tradition being
that he was the first adult buried in the grave-
yard of Goshen church. His son, James
Finch, settled in the town of Walkill, his farm
now being the site of the village of Middle-
town. When marching to the ill-fated field
of Minisink during the revolution. Colonels
Phillips and Wisner with their troops were
entertained at his house, and arrangements
made for him to feed the soldiers on their
return next day. But alas ! there were but
few of his friends and neighbors who re-
turned. He also served in the army. His
son, James (2) Finch, was justice of the peace
and county judge. His son, Coe Finch, was
justice of the peace, supervisor twelve years
in succession, and a member of the New York

house of assembly thirteen sessions between
1802 and 1832. A branch of the family
headed by Ebenezer Finch, born in Stamford,
Connecticut, settled in Greene county, New
York, in the town of Greenville. Ebenezer
married Hannah Newman, and had two sons,
Seth and Ezra. The branch herein recorded
settled in Dutchess county, but soon removed
to Rensselaer county, New York.

The first of the name in America was Dan-
iel Finch, who came in Governor Winthrop's
fleet and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts,
where he was made a freeman. May 18, 1631 ;
removed to Wethersfield, Connecticut, where
he was constable in 1636; removed to Stam-
ford, Connecticut, where he was one of the
original proprietors, and in 1653 to Fair-
field, Connecticut, where he made a con-
tract marriage, December 25, 1657, with
Elizabeth, widow of John Thompson, and
died March, 1667. His will names son
Nathaniel. Daniel Finch had a brother
Abraham, who was killed in open Indian war-
fare. Others of the name settled in Massa-
chusetts.

(I) The founder of this branch of the fam-
ily was Jonas Finch, who lived in Rhode
Island, a descendant of the Connecticut fam-
ily. He settled in Nine Partners, Dutchess
county. New York. He married, and among
his children was a son Obadiah, who may
have preceded bis father to New York state,
but the supposition is they came together.

(II) Obadiah, son of Jonas Finch, was
born in Rhode Island, and when a young man
came to New York state, settling at Nine
Partners, Dutchess county. Later he removed
to Rensselaer county, where he owned and
operated a farm in the town of Nassau. Here
he resided for many years. After the death
of his wife he went with a married daughter,
Susan, to Grand Ledge, Michigan, where he
died at the age of seventy years. He married

Wilbur, born in Rensselaer county.

New York, where she died. Children: i.
George W., of further mention. 2. Lynis,
born in Rensselaer county, New York, re-
moved to Grand Ledge, Michigan ; enlisted
from that state and served with honor during
the civil war ; he followed the occupation of

a farmer all his life: married (first)

Turk; children: Alfred, Alice. Ada and
George: married (second) a wife of whom
no record is obtainable. 3. Susan, married
James Wincham ; they removed to Grand
Ledge, Michigan, where both died, leaving a
son and daughter.

(III) George W., born in Nassau, Rens-
selaer county. New York, February, 1821,
died at Ancram, Columbia countv, New York,

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1637

September, 1882. He was a natural mechanic,
expert as a machinist and millwright, follow-
ing these trades all his life. He was well
known and highly respected. He affiliated
with the Republican party, but did not aspire
to public office. He married, in East Nassau,
Rensselaer county, February 10, 1849, Olive
Hayes, born in Nassau county, April 12, 1832,
died in Ancram, in 1894 (see Hayes V'l).
Children of George W. and Olive (Hayes)
Finch: i. Obed, born in Columbia county.
New York, February 18, 1852; educated in
Sand Lake Academy, Scharm Collegiate Col-
lege, and Lowell, Massachusetts, Business Col-
lege. He engaged in mercantile life until
1890. when he purchased a farm in Ancram,
to which he has since devoted his energies.
He is a Republican in politics and served as
supervisor during the years 1888-89-90. He
married Hannah L. Thompson, horn in Stan-
ford, Dutchess county. New York, March,
1855, daughter of William S. and Catharine
(Lewis) Thompson, of Dutchess, later Co-
lumbia county, where both died. Children :
i. Susan T., born July, 1884, graduate of Al-
bany Normal College, class of 1904, now a
teacher in the public schools of New York
City; ii. W. Thompson, born April 13, 1887,
educated in the public schools, now his
father's assistant at the farm : unmarried. 2.
Hugh, born 1857, died 1861. 3. Lebus B., born
March 6, i860; educated at Sand Lake Acad-
emy, now a farmer of Galvin, Columbia coun-
ty, unmarried. 4. George H., of further men-
tion. 5. Mary, born 1868; married Frederick
B. Keller, now of Somerville, Massachusetts.
He is employed in the United States railway

mail service. Children : , born

August 7, 1891, and Helen F., September 3,
1898. 6. Augusta v., born February 20, 1872;
married Jay Woodward, a farmer of Ancram.
(IV) George H., son of George W. and
Olive (Hayes) Finch, was born at Ancram,
New York. May 29, 1863. He was educated
in the public schools, and began his business
life as a merchant in association with his
brother Obed. He was elected superintendent
of the Columbia county farm and hospital at
Ghent, an office to which he was re-elected in
1909. He has proved a most capable official
and is highly commended by his townsmen
for his business-like administration and for
his considerate, humane and sympathetic treat-
ment of the unfortunates who are committed
to his care. He is an active worker in the
Republican party and deeply interested in its
success. He has served the town of Taghkan-
ick, as supervisor, holding office continually
from 1896 to 1901. He is a member of Hud-
son Lodge, No. 7, Free and .•\ccepted Masons ;

Hudson Lodge, No. 787, Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks ; the Modern Wood-
men ; Patrons of Husbandry ; Claverack
Grange, and the Order of Dutch Arms, of
Claverack. He married, in 1886, Bertha
Bas;hford, born in the town of Taghkanick,
Columbia county, New York, February 25,
1866, daughter of Henry and Caroline (Shel-
don) Bashford, both deceased, leaving chil-
dren: Bertha, married George H. Finch, no
issue. Amy, married (first) Reuben Sheldon,
and had son John, who married Bertha Mil-
ler and has a daughter Myra; she married
(second) Edgar Sickles; children: Calvin
and Harriet.

(The Hayes Line).
George Hayes, pioneer ancestor, was of
Windsor, Connecticut, coming from Scotland
as early as 1680, beir. •; then about twenty-
eight years of age. 1 le settled in Windsor,
Connecticut. In 1798 he removed to the ham-
let of Salmon Brook, in that part of Sims-
bury now town of Granby. He married (first)

Sarah , who died at Windsor, March

27, 1683, leaving a son George, born March
26, died April 3, 1683. He married (second)
August 29, 1683, Abigail Dibble (also writ-
ten'Dibol, Dible, Deble and Deeble). George
Hayes died at Simsbury. Connecticut, Sep-
tember 2, 1725, his second wife, their five
sons and six daughters surviving him.

(II) William, third son of George and Abi-
gail (Dibble) Hayes, was born at Windsor,
Connecticut, June 13, 1697. Married (first)
September 4, 1723, Joanna Lee, who died De-
cember 27, 1748; married (second) a wife,
name unknown ; by first marriage he had four
sons and five daughters.

(III) William (2), son of William (i) and
Joanna (Lee) Hayes, was born .April 5, 1725.
Married (first) Elizabeth Ilolcomhe; (sec-
ond) January 15, 1761, Rachel Lewis. He is
on the church covenant at Salmon Brook
among the earliest members as William
Hayes, Jr.. and .served in the revolutionary
war in a Connecticut regiment. He had nine
children.

(IV) William (3), son of William (2) and
Elizabeth (Holcombe) Hayes, was born at
Sim.sbury. Connecticut, 1750, died at East
Na.ssau, Rensselaer county, New York, 1800.
He removed to New York about 1785. Mar-
ried, before 1776, Eleanor Boughton, and had
nine children.

(V) Harry, seventh child of William (3)
and Eleanor (Boughton) Mayes, was born in
East Nassau, Rensselaer county, New York,
October, 1792, died October. 1840. He was
a farmer of Nassau, where he married, in
181 1, Eunice, born in Stephcntown, Rensselaer

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HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

county, died at East Nassau, April, 1872,
daughter of Silas and Olive (Swetland) Bail-
ey; seven children.

(\'I) Olive, youngest child of Harry and
Eunice (Bailey) Hayes, married, February
10, 1849, George W. Finch, of Ancram, New
York (see Finch HI).

The families of Wademan
\VADE:NLAN and McNab were early
settlers in Albany county,
where their descendants are still numerous.
They have been agriculturists for many gen-
erations and men and women of both char-
acter and substance.

(I) John J. Wademan was born in the town
of Guilderland, Albany county. New York,
April 9. 181 5, died in the town of Bethle-
hem, same county, in 1903. He was an ener-
getic, successful farmer, and notwithstanding
his many years retained his activity to the
very last. He was a man of upright charac-
ter and honorable in all his dealings, and was
respected wherever known. He was a mem-
ber of the Methodist Episcopal church, and
served on the official board. He was a Whig
and later a Republican, supporting that party
with all his energy. He married, in Guilder-
land, Elizabeth Ostrander, of the same town,
born, of Dutch ancestors, January 15. 1819,
died 1902, in her eighty-fourth year. She
was an active Methodist and an earnest Chris-
tian. Children: i. John H., born October 24,
1838, died February 15, 1894: he was a
farmer of the town of New Scotland, and
died on his farm in the Helderbergs. He
married Margaret Warner, who survives him,
a resident of Schenectady ; children : i. Etta,
deceased, married Burton Albright ; ii. Anna,
married James Campbell. 2. Aaron, see for-
ward. 3. Mary F., born July 27. 1842, died
February 12, 1878, unmarried. 4. William
J., born August 28, 1848, died May 16, 1874.

(II) Aaron, second son of John J. and
Elizabeth (Ostrander) Wademan, was born
on the farm in New Scotland, Albany county,
New York, tliat was owned and operated so
long by his father, July 13, 1841, died there
August 27, 1900. He was educated in the
town schools, and always lived on the farm.
In his younger days he assisted his father,
and at the death of the latter inherited the
farm. He made many improvements during
his lifetime, and brought the land under a
high state of cultivation. He developed the
fruit department of the farm and planted or-
chards of the best varieties suited to the soil
and climate, added to the home and buildings,
and left the farm one of the best improved in
the town. He was well known, and bore the

best of reputations as a man and a neighbor.
He was a capable business man, which fact
added to his industry brought him a good de-
gree of this world's goods. His genial na-
ture won him many friends, and he died
deeply regretted. He was a Methodist and a
Republican. He married, December, 1861, in
the town of Berne, Albany county, Hannah
McNab, born in Berne, April 14, 1842. She
survives her husband and owns the homestead
farm which she makes her home. She is a
daughter of Jasper and Maria (Pier) Mc-
Nab, both born in Berne. Jasper McNab,
borri August 16, 1812, died June 26, 1894, in
New Scotland. He was a farmer and a mem-
ber of the Reformed church. His first wife,
Maria Pier, died aged thirty-five years. She
was a daughter of Jacob and Hannah (Sever-
son) Pier, both of Scotch parentage. Jasper
McNab was a son of Hugh and Angelica
(Hallenbeck) McNab, of Berne and New
Scotland, the former being of Scotch, and the
latter of Dutch ancestry. They were mem-
bers of the Presbyterian church, and lived to
be very old. Jasper and Maria McNab had
children : Sarah J., see forward ; Jacob, died
young; James, died young; Hannah M., mar-
ried Aaron Wademan ; Mary E., died aged
twenty years; Jacob (2), married and resides
in New Scotland ; six children ; Helen, died in
childhood. Jasper McNab married (second)
Angeline Radley W'right : children : Ellen,
twice widowed ; lived at Feurabush ; died No-
vember 20, 1910; Carrie, married Kenney
Parish, of New Salem, New York ; Amos, a
ceamster of the town of Colonic : Alida, mar-
ried Lewis Pier, a farmer of Bethlehem :
John P., a bill clerk in Albany ; married : no
children. Children of Aaron and Hannah
(McNab) Wademan: i. Elizabeth, born June
16. 1864, in New .Scotland; married William,
son of James H. Coughtry ; children: i. How-
ard, died aged nineteen years : ii. James, lives
with his parents ; iii. Harold, died aged twelve
years; iv. Minnie A.: v. Frank: vi. Harriet.
2. Minnie, born in New Scotland, 1866; re-
sides at home. 3. Emma, born 1868: married
Frank Martin, a farmer of Feurabush; child,
Catherine.

Sarah J., eldest child of Jasper and Maria
(Pier) McNab, was born in the town of
Berne, Albany county. New York, May 26,
1836. She married (first) Durham Nelson, a
farmer of the county, who died leaving two
children, Celestia and Jasper Nelson. She
married (second) Hezekiah \'an Buren, by
profession a carpenter, a cousin of President
Van Buren ; children : Anna, married Oscar
Haswell. of Delmar: Hattie, died in infancy.
She married (third) Henry A., son of David

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!Mallary. He was a prosperous business man
of Bethlehem. By a first marriage to Ellen
Bullock he had six children, of whom Thomas,
Anna, Henry and Hiram are living. Sarah
J. Mallary survives her husband, and resides
in Delmar, New York.

Also as Stuart, this family
STEWART name has been familiar in
Scotch and English history
for centuries. The founder of the Mont-
gomery county family was Donald Stewart,
born in Scotland, of an ancient branch of the
line. He emigrated to the United States about
the year 1800, settling on a farm in Mont-
gomery county, town of Amsterdam, on what
is known as the "Ridge Road." He married

Elizabeth and reared a family of three

sons, all of whom met violent and accidental
deaths on the farm after they had attained
manhood. The founders both lived to old
age. Children: i. Is only remembered by
the familiar name of "Captain" ; he was un-
married, and met his death from a fall from
the hay mow of his father's barn. 2. Archi-
bald, when at the age of twenty-one and un-
married, came to his death from a kick by a
horse he was leading. 3. Damon, see for-
ward.

(H) Damon, son of Donald and Elizabeth
Stewart, was born in 1792, on the homestead
farm, which he afterward inherited and on
which his long and active life of ninety-two
j-ears was passed. He met his death also in
a violent manner, September 12. 1884. He
was riding an unruly horse which threw him,
death resulting immediately. His unusual ac-
tivity may be inferred from the fact pf his
attempting to ride a fractious horse at his then
age of ninety-two. He married, in .Amster-
dam, when he had attained the age of almost

si>m-. Effie , an orphan, bom in Kings-

boro, Xevv York, died June 19, 1899. Both
Mr. and 1\Its. Stewart were members of the
Presbyterian church. Children: i. Jane E.,
born ' January 21, 1852 : married James
O'Brien, of Amsterdam, and has a daughter
]\Iarv. born in 1884. 2. Mary, born May 25,
1853: married Rev. Williard Scott, a minister
of the Presbyterian church, now superannu-
ated, and has a daughter Marion, aged seven-
teen. 3. Archibald, see forward. 4. Sarah,
born ^rarch 5, 1857 ; married Horace Cowling,
of Johnstown, Ne'w York. 5. John, born May
5, 1839: married Marilla Cole: children:
Duncan, Raymond. Harry, Hattie, Marian and
Marguerite." 6. George H., born .A.pril 6,
1862: a farmer of western New York. 7.
Maeeie D., born .August 21, 1865; married
L. II. \'an Anthrop, of Johnstown, New

York: children: George (2), I^urens Yates
and Pearl.

(Ill) .Archibald, eldest son and third child
of Damon and Effie Stewart, was born March
5, 1855, on the homestead farm, where his
father and two uncles met violent deaths, and*
which has descended to him, the third in di-
rect line and ownership. He has devoted his
life to agriculture and has achieved success.
He owns the homestead farm of one hundred
and eighteen acres, with attractive buildings,
and another of one hundred acres in another
locality. He is a well-known and much re-
spected man in his community. His political
preference is for the Republican party. He
married, December 10, 1892, in .Amsterdam,
Jennie, born in Monmouth county. New Jer-
sey, December 28, 1876, daughter of John and
Jennie (Dey) Howland. John Howland lived
in Monmouth county and died there in 1879,
at the age of twenty-seven. His wife, Jennie
(Dey) Howland, was born in New York City,
died in Monmouth county. New Jersey, Jan-
uary 18. 1877, aged twenty-three. Jennie
Howland, their only child, being early left an
orphan, ivas reared in Charlton. New York,
by friends and kinsmen. Mr. and Mrs. Archi-
bald Stewart have one child, Irving, born No-
vember 12, 1907.

The Coonley family of Cox-
COONLEY sackie, New York, was orig-
inally a Dutchess county
family living in the town of Clinton, near the
old stone meeting house. The American an-
cestor and emigrant was John Coonley, born
in Germany, who with his young wife came
to America in 1760. The family tradition is
that the young couple ran away to get married
and chose America as the place where they
would begin their married life. They had a
quick voyage over, but when almost within
sight of the shores of America a storm drove
their vessel far out to sea and delayed their
landing several weeks. They settled in Dut-
chess county. New York, where John died in
1810. They had sons: Solomon, George.
John, David, Samuel and Frederick. John
Coonley, the father, is buried in the old stone
church graveyard in the town of Clinton.

(II) Jacob, son of John Coonley, the emi-
grant, was born in Clinton. Dutchess county,
New York, July 30, 1763, died March 15.
18 18. He continued his residence in Dutchess
county, where he married (first) Elizabeth
Brill. February 14, 1792. He married (sec-
ond) Elizabeth Ham. She died June 13. 1827.
Children by second wife: Catherine, horn
February 19. 1793. married Benjamin Wil-
bur; Abigail, February 14, 1797, married

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Humphrey Mosher and removed to Mills,
Bradford county, Pennsylvania ; Elizabeth,
born July 28, 1799, married John W. Bedell,
and removed to New Baltimore, New York ;
Frederick, of further mention.
■ (HI) Frederick, only son of Jacob and
Elizabeth (Ham) Coonley, was born in Clin-
ton, Dutchess county, New York, October 31,
1802, died 1892. He remained oij the Dut-
chess county farm with his parents until after
his marriage in 1826. He removed to the
town of Greenville, Greene county. New York,
where he purchased a farm at the south end
of the Prevost patent. He brought his farm
to a high state of fertility and became one of
the prosperous men of the town. He con-
tinued his residence there all his after life,
and when overtaken by years spent a quiet
life amidst its congenial surroundings. He
was a man of untiring energy and was highly
respected for his many good qualities. He
married (first) January 21, 1826, Anna Maria,
daughter of Joseph Haight. She died De-
cember 28, 1830. He married (second) April
2, 1835, Eliza Griffin, died July 23, 1878. By
first marriage he had two sons : i. Jacob, born
November i, 1826, married Alvira, daughter
of Jonatlian Yeomans : children : Adelaide,
married John Stevens, and had two daughters :
Zallah and Hattie ; Eliza ; Annie. 2. Piatt, of
further mention. By second marriage he had
seven children : 3. Henry, born Alay, 1836,
died 1857. 4. Theodore, born April 3, 1838,
married Augusta Goff, and had a daughter
Susan. 5. Maria, born April 17, 1840, mar-
ried Pierce Stevens. 6. Alary E., born April
25. 1842, died 1859. 7. Dr. 'Edgar D., born
July 12, 1844, married Amelia Durland ; chil-
dren: Frederick, Mary E., Carlcton. 8. Lor-
enzo, born January 12, 1847. married Sarah
A. Smith. 9. Charles A., born August 29,
1849, married Ella Roe: child, Henry G., born
November 28, 1878.

(IV) Piatt, second son of Frederick and
Anna Maria (Haight) Coonley, was born in
Greenville. Greene county, New York, Au-
gust 28, 1828. He was educated in the pub-
lic schools of Greenville and a private school
at Freeliold, Greene county. He remained on
the home farm with his father until 1866,
when he removed to Coxsackie, where he first
conducted a meat market, later added a gro-
cery store, continuing until 1883. In that
year he became interested in river transpor-
tation, a business he has ever since continued.
He became associated with the Reed & Powell
Transportation Company, of which he was
for several years treasurer and is now presi-
dent. He was elected president of the Cox-
sackie National I'ank in 1870, an office he

now fills. He was elected trustee of the vil-
lage corporation, 1871-72; supervisor, 1872;
sheriff of Greene county, 1873-76, proving a
most popular and efficient official. He was
appointed postmaster of Coxsackie by Presi-
dent Garfield in 1881, but resigned in 1883.
He is a Republican in politics, and a vestry-
man of Christ Episcopal Church. He mar-
ried Kate, daughter of James Kent and Eliza
Mosher Adams, of Troy, Pennsylvania.

James Kent Adams was born in 181 1, died
1895. Eliza (Mosher) Adams was born in
Stanfordville, Dutchess county. New York,
died in Troy, Pennsylvania, 1886, daughter of
Humphrey and Abigail (Coonley) Alosher,
the latter a daughter of Jacob and grand-
daughter of John Coonley, the emigrant from
Germany. Humphrey Mosher was a son of

David and (Haight) Mosher. who had

children : Humphrey, Stephen, Mary and
David. The progenitor of the Mosher family
of Dutchess county. New York, is David
Mosher, who was born in England, came to
America prior to the revolution. He had
sons : Jonathan, born 1755. died 1843 ; mar-
ried Catherine Green, served in the revolution-
ary army, and later settled in the town of
Coeymans, Albany county; David, born 1760,
settled in Dutchess county, where he married.

His son David married Haight, and

they are the parents of Humphrey Mosher and
grandparents of Eliza Mosher, who married
James Kent Adams. Their daughter, Kate
Adams, married Piatt Coonley, of Coxsackie,
New York. They have no issue.

(\") Gerrit (5) Lansing, son
LANSING of Gerrit (4) Lansing (q. v.),
married (first) Annatje Yates ;
(second) Wyentje Van Den Bergh.

(VI) Gerrit J., son of Gerrit (5) and
Wyentje (Van Den Bergh) Lansing, was
born August 24, 1752. died in Charlestown,
Montgomery county. New York. He mar-
ried, April 15, 1787, Mary Van Dusen, born
January 10, 1762, died May 2, 1842. Chil-
dren : Leah, Helena, Jacob, Cornelius, Helena,
Gertrude, Noah and Garrett.

(VII) Gerrit (6), son of Gerrit J. and
Mary (Van Dusen) Lansing, married, Octo-
ber 14. 1828, Rebecca \"an \'echten Mount.
They lived and died in Montgomery county.
She was a daughter of Matthias Mount and a
granddaughter of John Mount, the pioneer of
the family in the county, coming from New
Jersey, where the family originally settled.
They settled in the town of Glen, where they
owned and improved large farms. Children
of Garrett and Reliecca V. V. (Mount) Lan-
sing, all born in Charlestown: i. Mary, mar-

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HUDSON AND MOHAWK \ALLEVS

ried Isaac Schuyler. 2. Douw \'., a farmer
of the town ; married Linda Houghtaling and
has a son Eugene. 3. Dr. Benjamin, a lead-
ing physician of Rhinebeck, New York, where
he died; he married (first) Mary Barrington,
who bore him a daughter Molly, now de-
ceased : married (second) Jennie ; chil-
dren ; Frederick and Florence ; his widow sur-
vived him and married Bromley. 4.

Jennie, married Philip J. Schuyler ; resides on
a farm near Syracuse, New York ; no issue.
5. Garrett J., resides on the old homestead of
the Lansings in Montgomery county, town of
Charlestown ; married Amanda Iloag; chil-
dren : Helen, married John Ingersoll, a
farmer of Glen, and Frank H. 6. Matthias
Mount, see forward. 7. Helen, married Rev.
John ]McLaughlin, a minister of the Church
of Christ ; she survives him, a resident of
Charlestown. 9. Dr. Zachary Taylor, died un-
married at the age of thirty-five. 10. Horace
Greeley, a prominent attorney of the city of
Brooklyn, now deceased ; married Franc Mc-
Masters, who resides in Brooklyn, with daugh-
ters, Florence and Jennie, teachers in the city
public schools.

(VHI) Matthias Mount, sixth child of
Gerrit (6) and Rebecca Van Vechten
(Mount) Lansing, was born in Charlestown,
Montgomery county, New York, October 10,
1842. When he was thirteen years of age he
went to live with his grandfather, Matthias
Mount, in the town of Glen, where he was
educated and grew to manhood. He suc-
ceeded to the ownership of the Mount farm
of one hundred and ten acres of fertile land,
where he has since lived and carried on the
business of a general farmer. He has been
successful in his undertakings, and is one of
the substantial men of the town. He is a
Republican in politics, and a deacon of the
Christian Church at Randall. He married, in
Randall, town of Root, Mrs. Helen M. Yates,
born in Onandaga county. New York, No-
vember 7, 1840, daughter of Lewis and Cor-
nelia (\'an Valkenburg) Lounsbury. They
have no issue.

Lewis Lounsbury, father of Mrs. Matthias
AL Lansing, was a son of Lewis and Lucy
(Howe) Lounsbury; he was born in Ulster
county. New York, July 6, 1813, died Novem-
ber 21, 1895. He became a noted surveyor
and civil engineer. While following his pro-
fession in Onandaga county. New York, he
married and settled a few years later at Ran-
dall, Montgomery county. He was a promi-
nent-politician and business man of that
county. He was past warden of New York
City, superintendent of canals and held other
less prominent positions; for many years he

owned a line of packets that operated on the
Erie canal. He married (first) Cornelia \an
Valkenburg, born in Schenectady, died at
Randall. Children: i. Helen M., married
Matthias M. Lansing. 2. John E., born No-
vember 29, 1842, now deceased; married
(first) Helen Wires: (second) Kate Seeber,
of Oneida, New York; both wives are de-
ceased; by the second wife he had sons:
Louis E. and George Williard, now real es-
tate brokers of McAllister, Oklahoma. 3.
George H., for many years cashier at the
New York City post office ; now deceased : he
married Jennie Eartlett. of Jersey City, New
Jersey, who bore him Georgia B. and Frank
B., the latter of Waverly, New York, mar-
ried Lenna Beekman.

This branch of the Lansing
L.-\NSING family setled in or near Co-
hoes about 1760. They de-
scend from Gerrit Lansing, the founder, and
date in the Mohawk Valley from about the
year 1650. Many of the family are now liv-
ing on land that is part of the original grant
from the King or his representatives. For
detailed genealogy see the Lansings of Al-
bany, Troy and Cohoes. The particular
branch of the family that is here considered is
closely allied with the Fonda family of .Al-
bany county, descendants of Jellise Dounse
Fonda, who was in Beverwyck as early as
1650. In a later generation the only child
and daughter of a wealthy Fonda married a
Lansing, thus uniting two large estates. The
descent of Alida M. Lansing from Gerrit
Lansing, the founder, is through eight gener-
ations, she being the ninth.

(VI) \\'illiam, son of Hendrick (Henry)
Lansing, was a farmer of Cohoes, where he
lived and died. Fie married -Alida Fonda.
Children: Henriette, Sarah. Maria. Down,
Isaac. Jacob, William and Abraham Fonda.

(VII) Abraham Fonda, youngest son of
William and Alida (Fonda) I^nsing, was
born in Fonda. August 10. 1803. died there,
June 6, 1883. He was educated in the public
schools, and was all his life a farmer, owning
a large estate just outside the present limits
of the citv of Cohoes. He was a member of
"The Boght" Dutch Reformed Church, lo-
cated about two miles from Cohoes on the
bend of the river, which gave the name "The
Boght." He married. December 8, 1823, Jane
Fonda, born December 8, 1802, died June 6,
1883, only daughter of Douw A. and Derrica
A. (Lansing) Fonda. By this marriage alt
the property of Douw A. Fonda came into-
possession of the Lansings upon his death,
Jane being the sole heir. Children: i. Abran*

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Fonda, born October 2. 1824. 2. William H.,
September 20, 1826. died December 19, 1903.
.3. Richard Down, January 3, 1829, died April
30, 1891. 4. Henry Truax-, August 20, 1831,
•died August 20, 1832. 5. Jacob, September
28, 1833 ; died June 30, 1888. 6. Sarah Ann,
February 11, 1836, died August 28, 1889. 7.
Alida M., born March 16. 1839; resides in
■Cohoes, the last survivor of the nine children
•of her parents. 8. Isaac, May 22, 1842, died
March 2, 1881. 9. Emily Jane, ]\Iay 18, 1845,
•died April 14, 1855. The Douw A. Fonda
farm was situated west of Cohoes and is now
all included in the city limits. The City Park
on Columbia street was also included in the
farm.

(The Fonda Line).

(V) Abraham Douw Fonda, lineal descend-
ant in the fifth generation from Jellise Dounse
Fonda, the founder of the family in America,
was born 1733, died October 10, 1799. He
was a farmer of the town of Watervliet, as
then constituted, a member of the Dutch
church, and a man of considerable property.
He married, August 20, 1771, Hendrica Lan-
sing, who died February 7, 1840, aged ninety-
one years, five months. Children : Douw, died
in infancy. Sara, born November 7, 1773.
Alida, December 28, 1775. Douw Abraham,
see forward. Anna, died in infancy. Anna
(2), October 14, 1781, died March 28, 1831.
Maria, January 10, 1784.

(\T) Douw Abraham, son of Abraham
Douw and Hendrica (Lansing) Fonda, was
born October 13, 1776, died May 15, 1868.
He married Derrica A. Lansing and had an
•only child, Jane, born December 8, 1802.

(\Tr) Jane, only child of Douw Abraham
and Derrica A. (Lansing) Fonda, married
Abraham Fonda Lansing.

This family is of English ancestry
PITTS and was founded in America by
John Pitts, son of Berwick Pitts,
•of Lyme, Regis county, Dorset, England, a
small seaport of the southern coast. Here
John was born in 1668 and came to America
in 1695, settling in Boston, where he was a
successful and prominent merchant. He mar-
ried Elizabeth Lendall, of Duxbury, Massa-
chusetts, granddaughter of James Lendall, of
England, who died in 1652. His will was
witnessed by Miles Standis'h and John .Mden.
John Pitts had a son James, who graduated
at Harvard in 1728, and rose to a high posi-
tion in the colony. He was a noted patriot
and with his sons, John, Samuel and Lendall,
at his side, equally devoted to the cause of
liberty, walked the stormy path of the revo-
lution when failure led to the scaffold, the axe

or the gallows, and success led to liberty, free-
dom and glory. It was a family noted in the
annals of early Massachusetts, where Pitts
street, Pitts wharf and Pitts tomb are yet to
be found. The family is now scattered, but
few if any are to be found in or around Bos-
ton who can justly claim descent from James.
There is no record to connect the New York
family of Colonic, Albany county, with the
Boston family. They trace five generations
to William Pitts, of Chatham, Columbia
county, who was son of Joseph. There were
several of the name resident of the town of
Chatham, where their descendants are still to
be found.

(I) William Pitts, son of Joseph Pitts, was
born in the town of Chatham, Columbia
county. New York. He was a school teacher
in his younger days, but later a farmer. He
was a devoted Methodist and a class leader in
that church, and was of the Democratic faith.
As a boy he recalled the incidents of the revo-
lution and often told of his visits when a boy
to the camp of the soldiers, driving cattle
which were to be killed for their sustenance.
He married (first) Salome Wickham, who
bore him twelve children; (second) Charity
Couse, who was the mother of two.

(II) David W., son of William and Salome
(Wickham) Pitts, was born in the town of
Nassau, Rensselaer county. New York, where
his father had removed from Columbia county.
He also followed the occupation of a farmer
all his days. He enlisted and served in the
American army during the war of 1812-14.
He was a prominent and useful member of
the Methodist church and an ardent Democrat.
He married Susanna, daughter of Ebenezer
Boyce, of the town of Schodack, where she
was born. They were the parents of thirteen
children.

(III) Sylvester, son of David W. and Su-
sanna (Boyce) Pitts, was born in Nassau,
Rensselaer county. New York, April 4, 1818,
died in Colonic, Albany county, March 27,
1886. He was a farmer of Colonie all his
adult years and prospered. He was a con-
sistent member of the Methodist church, a
good but not an austere man, liberal in
thought and deed and highly respected in his
community. He departed from the family
political faith and joined the Republican party
when the party was formed. He was em-
phatically a home man, holding no public
office nor belonging to any fraternal organi-
zations, lie married, in 1849, Mary Ann
Wetherwax, born in 1828. died in 1901'. Chil-
dren: I. Emerson A., died in infancy. 2. Se-
bastian W., see forward. 3. David W. (2),
born July 12, i860; married Daisy, daughter

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of Judge ]\Iart"ni, of Helena, Montana, and
they live in Garden City, Kansas, he being
witli a packing company of Topeka, Kansas.
4. Ida L., born in Colonie, New York, mar-
ried Edward M. Dennison, of the same town ;
she died Ftbruary 26, 1908: he died four years
before. 5. Blanchard E., died in Albany City
Hospital. December 11, 1909: no issue. 6.
Albert F.. born December 24. 1868: married
Hattie R. Rowe, and resides in Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania, sales agent for Watson & Com-
pany, of Caiiastola, New York.

(IV) Sebastian W., eldest son and second
child of Sylvester and Mary Ann (Wether-
wax) Pitts, was born in the town of Colonie,
Albany county. New York, June 28. 1858. He
was educated in the town schools, has all his
life been a farmer, owns and lives upon the
old Pitts homestead farm in Colonie. He has
given much of his time to the public service
of his country and has always been an adher-
ent and supporter of the Republican party.
For several years he was on the school board
■of his town, and in 1895 was appointed deputy
sheriff of Albany county. He served as
deputy for three years and was then appointed
under sheriit. which office he held continu-
ously until 1904, in which year he received
the nomination of his party for the office of
sheriff'. At the ensuing election he was the
choice of the people and held the office for
three years. On January 14. 1907, he was
elected clerk of the county board of super-
visors, and is now serving in that capacity
(191 1 ). He has aUvays stood high in the
local councils of the party and has been their
choice, ratified by the party conventions, as
delegate to the county and state conventions.
He is a member of the Unconditional Club of
Albany, and the Colonial Club of Watcrvliet.
He is a member of the Masonic fraternity,
and with liis family a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church, taking an active and promi-
nent part in church affairs. He married, at
Colonie, November 5, 1880, Mary E. Lewis,
born at Greenfield, Saratoga county, New
York, April 12, 1859, daughter of George Van
Rensselaer Lewis, a mill owner of Saratoga
county, and his wife, Sarah M. (Weed) Lewis.
She has one brother, George L. Lewis, a resi-
dent of Whitestone, Long Island, and an at-
torney in New York City. Children of Se-
bastian W. and Mary E. (Lewis) Pitts: i.
Clarence \'an Rensselaer, born in Colonie,
August II. 1881 : married. November 8, 1905.
Marv Seisel, and has a daughter Dorothy and
a son Edwin Lewis Pitts. 2. Clifford Sylves-
ter, twin of Clarence V. R. ; married, in 1904,
Effie Swatling. Botli Garence V. R. and
Clifford S. are f-armcrs. and cultivate tlie old

Pitts homestead farms, tlie property of their
father. 3. Bertha L., born March 16, 1883;
married Irvin Dedrick, a farmer of Colonie.
4. Arthur Emerson, born June 23, 1885 ; he
was educated in the town schools, afterward
taking the full course and graduating from the
Cohoes high school ; he then entered Union
College ; at the expiration of his first year he
was compelled by failing health to abandon
all idea of completing the course: later he
took up the study of medicine, spent four
years at .Albany ATedical College, graduating
and receiving his degree of Doctor of Medi-
cine in 1909: he then took a course at the
Lying-in Hospital of New York, and was on
the staff of the Albany Hospital, but now is
practicing medicine and surgery at 255 Quail
street, .Albany, New York. Arthur Emerson
Pitts married, September 17, 1910, Carrie
Louisa Becker, of East Schodack, Rensselaer
county, New York. All the children of Mr.
Pitts are graduates of the Cohoes high school.

TJiis branch of the Hoff family
HOFF was founded in America by Rich-
ard Hoff, born in Holland. He
came to .America about the year 1750, and
settled in the town of Glen, Montgomery
county, where he died about 18 10. leaving a
large familv.

(ID Richard (2). .';on of Richard (i)
Hoff, was born 1758. died March -20, 1856.
He was a farmer in Glen. He niarriecl there.
June 24, 1784, Marguerite, born 1765. died
February 20, 1837, daughter of Jacob Put-
nam. Children : i. Cornelius R., born June
25, 1785, died May 27, 1837. 2. Hannah, July
23, 1790, died August 15, 1846. 3. Elizabeth,
September 16, 1792, died January 25, 1833.
4. Jacob, see forward.

(HI) Jacob, youngest child of Richard (2)
and Marguerite (Putnam") Hoff, was born
March 30, 1796, died June 20, 1841. He mar-
ried, December 24, 1824, Nellie, born 1795.
died December 28, 1890, daughter of William
and Mary (Marlctt) Newkirk. \\'illiam New-
kirk, born November 27. 1764, lost liis life
January 26, 1828, in Schoharie creek. In
company with one daughter, two nieces and a
Mr. Chase, lie was attempting to cross the
creek on the ice, which was apparently strong
enough to carry the weight, but gave way
when they were in the middle of the creek.
They were all thrown into the icy waters and
none of the party was saved. He was the
son of Garretl Cornelius Newkirk, born about
1720. in Holland, came to .America, was a
pioneer settler in Glen, where lie died at an
advanced age. leaving a familv. Children of
lacoband Xellic (Newkirk") Hoff: i. William

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N., born October ii, 1825, died November 9,
1907; married, October 11, 1853, Maria A.
Shelp, born May 6, 1835, died October 31,
1905, leaving children: i. Mary E., born
March 13, 1855; married Jay H. Faulknor,
born February 8, 1849; children: Abram M.
Faulknor, born July 10, 1873; married Sarah
J. Miller, born March 22, 1874, and Glen H.
Faulknor, born May 22, 1886; ii. Elizabeth
A., born June 18, 1857; married Burr Rock-
well, both deceased ; iii. Cornelius J., born
August II, 1859, died August 27, 1898; mar-
ried Ida Barlow, and left a daughter Eleanora
A.; iv. Henrietta, born October 10, 1863;
married Abram L. Van Home. 2. Cornelius,
born 1828 ; married Susan C. Sweet, January
I, 1856, both deceased. 3. Mary M., born
March 11, 1830. died June 24, 1854; married
Jeremiah A. Blood, both deceased without
issue. 4. John, see forward.

(IV) John, youngest child of Jacob and
Nellie (Newkirk) Hoff, was born November
12, 1834. He was reared on the old Hoflf
homestead, began a farmer's life in early boy-
hood, and has always followed that occupa-
tion. He owns the homestead farm on which
he was born and his life spent. He is un-
married.

This family now in the
BUHRMASTER second American gen-
eration is native to the
town of Minden, Westphalia, Empire of Ger-
many. Through intermarriage, however, they
are connected with one of the old revolution-
ary families of the Mohawk \'alley. Dutch
and German blood in that section has inter-
mingled with that of other nations and pro-
duced a race of men and women in which the
essentially Teutonic traits, thrift and frugal-
ity, predominate. The first of this family to
come to America was Christian Buhrmaster,
who descended from a long line of German
ancestors, hardy farmers of the former king-
dom of Westphalia, now a constituent part of
the German Empire.

(I) Frederick Ikihrmaster was born on his
father's farm in the town of Minden, West-
phalia, Prussia, in the year 1820, died there in
1907. He followed the usual family vocation,
farming, all his life. He married a girl of
the same province, Caroline, born about 1830,
died in 1899, daughter of Frederick Bartling,
a worthy man, and like the Buhrmasters a
faithful member of the Lutheran church. Be-
sides his daughter Caroline he was the father
of Frederick Bartling and other children, one
of whom survives, 1909, a resident of Minden.
Frederick Buhrmaster and his wife were the
parents of six children: i. Frederick (2), who

came to the United States, settled in Amster-
dam, New York, where he married Carrie-
Shumyer; children: Anna, Frederick (3),
Edward and Henry. 2. Mary, married a
farmer of her native town, where they reside..
3. Henry, who also came to the United States*,
settled in the town of Florida, Montgomery
county. New York ; married Sophia Shumyer ;■
children : Charles, Emma, Lena, Mattie. 4.
Christian F., see forward. 5. Charles, a
farmer of Minden, living on the Buhrmaster
homestead ; married, and has a family. 6:
Sophia, resides in Minden with her brother
Charles ; unmarried.

(II) Christian F., fourth child of Frederick
and Caroline (Bartling) Buhrmaster, was
born in Minden, Westphalia, Prussia, Decem-
ber 9, 1864. He received the customary edu-
cation of the German public schools which-
fairly equipped him for life's battle in the-
far-away land to which he emigrated in the
year 1882. He sailed from Bremen on the
steamship "Elba," and landed in New York
City in April of that year. He did not long
remain there, but soon is found in jMontgom-
ery county, \vhere he worked at farming, the
occupation he had followed in Westphalia. He
was then just past sixteen years of age. He-
possessed those two essentials to success, in-
dustry and thrift. After years of effort and
frugality he became, by purchase, the owner
of two hundred acres of land in the town of
Florida, part of an historical estate near
Scotchbush. He has since resided on this
farm, which he has greatly improved. He is
interested particularly in fine stock breeding,
although the products of his farm are of the-
usual character general in the neighborhood.
He is a Presbyterian in religion, and a Demo-
crat in politics. He married, in Florida, De-
cember 24, 1893, Emma Jane Hutton. born
there September i, 1873. She descends from-
an old Columbia county family that settled in
Montgomery county about the year 1800 (see
forward). Children of Christian F. and Emma
J. (Hutton) Buhrmaster: Roy H., born June
15. 1895, and C. W. Fay, born November 4,
1897. Mrs. Buhrmaster is also a member of
the Presbyterian church.

(The Hutton Line).

Mrs. Christian F. Buhrmaster (Emma Jane-
Hutton) descends from Christopher Hutton,
born in Colurnbia county. New York, about
1750. He removed to Troy, New York. He
enlisted in the revolutionary army and served'
also on the Troy committee of safety. He-
married and had issue.

(II) Timothy, .son of Christopher Hutton,
was born at Bed Rock, Columbia county. New

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'645

York, about 1780, died in Montgomery county,
August II, 1862. He settled in the town of
Glen, Montgomery county, about 1800. This
■was before his marriage. He married Mary
Onderkirk, born in the village of Curry, town
of Root. They had issue :

(HI) John v.. son of Timothy and Mary
(Onderkirk) Hutton, was born in the town
of Florida, Montgomery county, March 29,
1815. He married Mary Jane Voorhees, of
Cherry \'alley, Otsego county, New York,
bom in 1824, died in Florida in January, 1890,
daughter of John and Mary (Francisco)
Voorhees, of Dutch and French ancestry.
Mary Francisco was a niece of General Row-
land, of revolutionary fame. John V. and
Mary Jane (\'oorhees) Hutton were the par-
ents of James.

(I\') James, son of John V. and Mary Jane
(Voorhees) Hutton, was born September 3,
1848. He was a farmer of the town of Flori-
da. He married Sarah, born in Florida, July
24. 1852, daughter of Isaac J. and Catherine
( Lingenfcltcr) De Grafif. of that noted Mo-
hawk \'alley family. Children: i. Emma
Jane, wife of Christian F. Buhrmaster (see
Buhrmaster H). 2. John, married May Dou-
gall. 3. Elbert J., born September 8, 1886,
died June 7, 1909; he enlisted in the United
States regular army. Sixth Infantry Regi-
ment ; he had an unblemished military record
and died suddenlv at Fort Harrison, Montana.

The date of this particular
SMITH branch of the Smith family in

Montgomery county, New York,
is somewhat obscure, but taking the facts as
known, 1780 approximates the year of the
migration of Charles Smith from New Jer-
sey, where he was born about 1760. He was
married about this time, and it was a very
young bride who helped him make a home in
the then wilderness of southern Glen. But the
farm was cleared and the home established
which they occupied during their joint lives.
He married, either in New Jersey or soon
after his coming to New York, Anna Ding-
man, born 1765. died in Glen, 1844. The an-
cestors of both Charles Smith and Anna Ding-
man were Dutch, and settled in America at a
very early date. Children : Polly, married
Frank Perrine: Gertrude, married John Da-
vis : John Andrew, died young ; George A.

(li) George A., son of Charles and .Anna
(Dingman) Smith, was born in Glen, Mont-
gomerv county. New York, April 20, 1793,
died August 18, 1879. He was reared, passed
his life "and died on the original homestead
farm cleared bv his father. He married, in
Glen, j\Iay 20, '1822, Elizabeth Bellows, born

in tiiat town, April 27, 1804, died January 9,
1889. Both are buried in Glen cemetery.
Children: i. Andrew S., see forward. 2.
Eliza Jane, born December 9, 1824; married,
January 10, 1843, Priest Rider, born May 17,
1817, died March 9, 1876; she survives her
husband and is still a resident (1909) of Glen,
physically and mentally bright and quite ac-
tive ; child, Howard L. Rider, married Delia
Rider and has Groot T. and Jennie. 3. Har-
riet, born December 10, 1841 ; married Wins-
low Dievenpeck, a farmer of Glen, born April
14, 1837, died May 22, 1870, son of Cornelius
and Alargaret (Van W'ormer) Dievenpeck,
early settlers of Glen, where they died, leav-
ing children : Ann, Susan, Mary, Caroline,
Sarah, Margaret, Abram, Isaac and Winslow ;
all grew to maturity but Mary, who died
>oung: and all married but Sarah, who resides
in (lien. C'hildren of Winslow and Harriet
(Smith) Dievenpeck: i. Flora V., died in in-
fancy ; ii. Smith, born February 5, 1862, died

January 18, 1894; married Minnie ,

now deceased, leaving Merwin Dievenpeck,
born November 30, 1890; iii. Ivy, born Feb-
ruary 5, 1865, married John Becker, and has
Newell Becker, born December, 1907 ; iv. Me-
lissa, born July 10, 1866, married Jerome
Brown, born July 18, 1856, has Jay Brown,
born May 24, 1884 ; May Brown, born Octo-
ber 31, 1885, and Smith Brown, born Decem-
ber I, 1888.

(III) Andrew S., only son of George A. and
Elizabeth ( I'ellows) Smith, was born in Glen,
June 9, 1823, died at the home of his daugh-
ter in Mohawk, Montgomery county, New
York, September 30, 1905. He was a farmer.
He married, in Glen, January 10, 1843, Ruth,
born in Princetown, New York, April i, 1826,
died in Glen, August 6, 1893, daughter of
Lewis and Nancy (Van) Rider, of Sharon,
Schoharie county. New York. Children: i.
Eliza J. (Jennie), born November 23, 1845;
married Milan Pierce, a veteran of the One
Hundred and Fifty-third Regiment New York
Volunteer Infantry; served through the war
of the rebellion, now resides at Fort Hunter,
New York ; children : Adclbert, Fanny, Ruth,
Charles, William. Andrew B. Hunter. 2.
George H., see forward.

(IV) George H., only son of Andrew S.
and Ruth (Rider) Smith, was born in Glen,
Montgomery county. New York, September
19, 1848. He is one of the substantial farm-
ers of Glen, living near Auriesville. He is a
Democrat politically, and a member of the
Reformed church. Me married, February 17,
1875, Ada, born in Glen, March 2^, 1855,
daughter of Isaac N., born June 7, 1802, died
March 20, 1885, and bi- ^.>.-. ..1.! wife, Eliza-

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beth (Miller) Ouackenbush. This is one of
the oldest families of this section of the AIo-
hawk Valley. Isaac X. was a son of Nicholas
Qiiackenbush, who was born December 9,
1750, on his father's farm along the banks of
the Mohawk east of what is now Fultonville.
His father came into the town about 1740,
built a log cabin along the Indian trail near
the river, and literally wrested a farm from
the wilderness surrounding him. After gen-
erations made further improvements and the
place is still known as the Quackenbush farm.
Nicholas Quackenbush (son of the pioneer)
married. April 17, 1777. Helen Collyer, born
May 19, 1761, died June 14, 1843 ; among their
children was Isaac N., who married (first)
March 18, 1823, Mary Turnbull, born August
10, 1805, died January i, 1842. Children:
Nancy C., born July 18, 1824, died aged sev-
enty-seven, unmarried. Peter, born Decem-
ber 10, 1825, died in childhood. George W.,
March 18, 1829, died February 22, 1907.
Isaac N. Quackenbush married (second)
Elizabeth Miller, born June 19, 1822, died
October 28. 1902. Children : Mary, born March
15, 1849, married James F. Polhamus, of Au-
riesville. New Xork ; no issue. Ada, married
George H. Smith. Children: i. Jay, born
December 9, 1875, died January, 1876. 2.
Ruth E., August 24, 1877 ; married Daniel Ar-
gersinger, of Amsterdam, and has George
Giles, born November 2, 1908. 3. Blanche,
September 19, 1881, died February 22, 1882.
4. Charles Q., see forward. 5. Milton, Julv
29, 1898.

(V) Charles Q., son of George H. and Ada
(Quackenbush) Smith, was born July i, 1884.
He completed his education in the public
schools and decided on agriculture as his life
work. He is the owner of a good farm of
one hundred and twenty-five acres, not far
from Glen Village, and is one of the prosper-
ous, ambitious and progressive young farm-
ers of the section. He is a Democrat politi-
cally, and a member of the Reformed church.
He married, June 28, 1905, in Glen, Laura,
born January 5, 1886, daughter of Jacob
Clement.

In an old graveyard at Larison
FISHER Corner, New Jersey, is the
grave of Peter Fisher. Whence
he came to this country and when is not
known. From a careful examination of the
old records it would seem that he could not
have settled in New Jersey later then 1725,
with the strong probability that it was much
earlier. His wife's name was Maria, believed
to have been born in Germany and most likely
married there. Peter Fisher, upon his re-

moval to New Jersey, settled in Somerset
county, where he remained until 1730, when
he removed to Hunterdon county, where he
purchased a two-hundred-acre farm ; the deed
bears date of March 30, 1730, and states the
consideration to have been £132 of "lawful
silver money." He had eight children, the
eldest born 1725: Anthony, John, Elizabeth,
Christopher. John, Peter. Jacob, and another
daughter. Christopher, born 1730, married
Charity Boss and had six children. It is from
Christopher that the Fishers of Montgomery
county here under consideration are believed
to descend, but the connection cannot be defi-
nitely traced.

(I) Samuel Fisher, born in New Jersey,
later a resident of Montgomery and Herki-
mer counties, New York, died in the latter
county, where he had removed after his sec-
ond marriage. His wives were born in Mont-
gomery county, where he lived in the town of
Charleston. By his first wife, Anna (Craig)
Fisher, he had six children: i. Rebecca, born
in the town of Charleston ; married John P.
Miller, son of Jacob Miller; left sons: Charles
F. and Abraham J. D. 2. Amelia, married
Peter J. Weldon ; died at age of sixty years ;

her husband married (second) and

settled in Herkimer, where he died at age of
eighty years. 3. Jane, married Joel Smith;
they settled in Herkimer and died at advanced
ages ; leaving Samuel, John, Peter, Charles,
Nettie and Annie Smith. 4. Samuel, settled
in Glen when he was over sixty years old;
he was a farmer there the remainder of his
days ; married Mary Harris ; children : Anna,
Rebecca, Jennie, Elizabeth, Charles. Hattie.
5. Ellison E., see forward. 6. Catherine, mar-
ried John H. Bell, a farmer of Glen: he died
at age of seventy-two and she at sixty-five;
children : Ephraim J. and Charles Bell. Sam-
uel Fisher married (second) Catherine \'an
Patten and had a daughter, Hannah, married
Joel Davis ; both deceased ; without issue.

(II) Ellison E., son of Samuel and Anna
(Craig) Fisher, was born in Charleston,
Montgomery county. New York. July 8, 1826,
died in Glen, October 20, 1894. At age of
twelve he left home to do battle with the
world and carve out his own fortune. He
went to the town of Glen, where he found
employment on a farm. He was determined
to succeed in life, and by untiring industry,
economy and right living became a substantial
land owner in Glen, where he resided until
his death. He was a man of integrity, whose
word and promise always held good. He was
a religious man and gave liberally of his sub-
stance for the support of his church, the Dutch
Reformed. He married in Glen, l-'ebruary 14,

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1 047

1850, Elizabeth J. Serviss, born in Florida,
August 27, 1825, of the early Montgomery
county family of Serviss. She was a woman
of rare force and character. She died August
3, 1910. Children: i. Alary, born July 14,
1851 ; married Jacob Clement. 2. Annie, April
6. 1853, died May 27, 1866. 3. Jay, see for-
ward.

(HI) Jay, only son of Ellison E. and Eliza-
beth J. (Serviss) Fisher, was born in Glen,
Montgomery county. New York, October 21,
1854. He is a successful farmer and a man
of high standing in the community. He is a
member of the Dutch Reformed church, and
politically a Republican. He married (first)
in Center county, Kansas, June 13, 1886,
Nancy S. Baird, born in Will county, Illinois,
May II, 1855, died at their home in Glen,
October 3, 1889. Child, Floyd E., born Sep-
tember 29, 1889; married Adelia Minch and
has a son, Edward J. Fisher, born December
15, 1908. Floyd E. Fisher is one of the rising
young farmers of Glen. Jay Fisher married
(second) in Glen, May 5, 1907, Mrs. Nettie
(Hoag) Crouse, born in Argusville, New
York, August 3, i860, daughter of Ira and
Annie M. (Gordon) Hoag, of Schoharie
county, their lifelong home. Children of Mr.
and Mrs. Hoag: Amanda, married Garrett
Lansing, a farmer of Charleston ; children :
Frank and Leland Lansing. Mark, deceased ;
married Anna E. Kling; children: Irving and
Anna Hoag. Charles, married Hattie Neskern
and has issue. Nettie, married Jay Fisher.
Mrs. Annie M. (Gordon) Hoag survived her
first husband, Ira Hoag, and married (second)
John Heyney ; children : Ella. Elmer, married
Luella Kellogg; children: Lela and Mervin
Heyney, the latter of whom married Dora
Frank and has a daughter, Celia Heyney. Jay
Fisher by his second marriage had no children.

The Shibleys of Glen. New
SHIBLEY York, descend from Swiss an-
cestors on the paternal and
Dutch on the maternal side. John Shibley,
born in Switzerland, started when a young
man to emigrate to America. While on his
way he met Jane Wagman, a young girl born
in Holland. They were married and continued
their journey to the new world together. They
landed in New York City, where they re-
mained for a time, later settling in Schodack,
Rensselaer county. New York, where they
(lied at very advanced ages. They left one
daughter and several sons.

(II) Henry, son of John and Jane (Wag-
man) Shibley, was born in Rensselaer county.
New York. ' After his marriage he removed
to Charleston, Montgomery county, where he

purchased a tract of five hundred acres of
land heavily covered with timber. He made a
clearing and with the help of a good wife com-
pelled the forest to make way for the fields,
and left for his children a well-improved prop-
erty. He married, in Rensselaer county,
Elizabeth Shuntz, born of German and Eng-
lish parents. She died October 30, 1847. Her
husband survived her, dying at the age of
ninety-three. Children : Jacob, John, George,
Jeremiah. Mahala, Serena, Henry (2), see
forward, Samuel.

(III) Henry (2), son of Henry (i) and
Elizabeth (Shuntz) Shibley, was born in
Charleston, Montgomery county. New York,
January 30, 1805, died Octol>er 4, 1895, on
the old homestead he had helped to erect in
the wilderness. He lived the life of a farmer.
He married Jane Frank, born 1814, died No-
vember 21, 1847. daughter of Andrew and
Jane (Conover) Frank, and granddaughter of
Adam Frank, one of the first settlers of the
town of Glen, and a well-known patriot dur-
ing the revolution. \\'ith Peter Hall and
Isaac Conover he formed a trio that gave con-
stant exhibitions of active muscular patriotism
that brought woe to the offending Tories, and
caused a reward of one hundred pounds to be
offered for their heads : but they outwitted
their enemies and came through the war
safely. Andrew Frank, son of the patriot,
owned a large property in Glen, known as
Logtown, which he purchased. He erected an
inn on this property, where he entertained the
early-day travelers. He was a man of large
business interests. He married Jane Conover,
born in Glen, where she died. Children of
Henry (2) and Jane (Frank) Shibley, his
first wife: H. Milton, .\ndrew, see forward,
Adam, George and Elizabeth. He married
(second) Caroline Thorp, of English birth
(said to descend from the royal family of
Stuart). Child by second marriage: Lucy J.,
a resident of Charleston, New York, unmar-
ried.

(IV) Andrew, son of Henry (2) and Jane
(Frank) Shibley, was born in Charleston,
Montgomery county, New York, June 29,
1835, died August 22, 1905. He adopted agri-
culture as his business and was one of the
substantial men of his town. He purchased a
farm of two hundred and thirty acres in
Glen, in 1883, on which he resided until his
death. He gained an envial)le name in the
community for his manly, upright life, his
strong advocacy of the cause of temperance,
and his devotion to his principles. For many
years he voted the Prohibition ticket. He
married, at Charleston. January 9, 1890, Lucy
C. Becker, born in that town, June 2. 1865

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(see Becker V). She survives him and re-
sides on the farm previously alluded to, which
she manages with skill and success. She has
no children, but has an adopted daughter,
Bertha E., born September 9, 1885, married
Richard Anderson, September i, 1902, and
thev have Lucy A. Anderson, born February

27,' 1909-

(The Becker Line).

Johannes Becker, born in Holland, January,
1690, came to the American colonies early in
"the eighteenth century ; settled in Washington
county. New York, married Sarah \'an Deu-
sen, born in Holland, 1692, died 1726, in
Washington county, where their children were
born. Children (perhaps others) : Johannes
(2), born January 29, 171 8, married and had
issue ; Abraham, see forward.

(H) Abraham (or Abram), son of Jo-
hannes and Sarah (Van Deusen) Becker, was
born in Washington county, New York, Jan-
uary 21, 1720, died 1784 ; married, 1743, Eliza-
beth Van O'Linda, born January, 1725. Chil-
dren: Johannes (3) and Martinus, see for-
ward.

(HI) Martinus, son of Abraham and Eliza-
beth (Van O'Linda) Becker, was born May
31, 1749, died January 28, 1843; married,
March 31, 1775, Lena Van Buskirk, born
June 13, 1758, died July 27, 1821. Children
Abram, born July 27. 1776. died May g, 1784
Esther, August 4, 1778, died January 9, 1842
John, August 31, 1780; Martha, February 10,
1783 ; Cornelius, see forward ; Elizabeth, No-
vember 13, 1798.

(IV) Cornelius, son of Martinus and Lena
(Van Buskirk) Becker, was born August 30,
1796, died July 18, 1848; married Mary Mc-
Duffee, born July 10, 1800, died July 9, 1876.
Children: Sarah, Milton, John, William,
Hiram, Frederick F., see forward, Calvin and
Daniel.

(V) Frederick F., son of Cornelius and
Mary (McDuffee) Becker, was born Febru-
.ary 2, 1826, died in Charleston, Montgomery
county. New York (the town of his birth),
July 28. 1895; married, December 26, 1848,
Mary Barber, born March 23, 1823, died May
■9, 1891, daughter of Abram and Lucy (Pen-
dleton) Barber. Children: i. Milton, born
May 9, 1850, died February 9, 185 1. 2. Mary
A., March 4, 1852, died December 18, 1871,
unmarried. 3. William N., January 14, 1854,
married Clara Shibley, has a daughter Angie
'L., who resides with her father at his home
in Charleston. 4. Anna A., July 12, 1855, died
December 29, 1885 : married Ambrose Sny-
der, and left Frederick and Bertha E. Snyder.
5. Ida F., January 25, 1857, married Clinton
De Nice; she survives him and resides on the

old Becker farm with children: Allison, Jes-
sie M., Harry C. De Nice. 6. Francis, June
7, 1858, died February 7, 1896, unmarried.

7. Alice P., November 21, 1859, married
(first) Nelson Tallmadge, (second) Daniel
Dodge ; children by second marriage : Fair-
fax, deceased ; Harry and Winifred Dodge.

8. George McClellan, Decembei; 22, 1861, died
May 15, 1863. 9. Lucv C, married Andrew
Shibley (see Shibley IV).

The Rossman family of
ROSSMAN Claverack, Columbia county.
New York, descend from Jo-
hannes Roseman, who came from Germany to
the town of Livingston, Columbia county,
1709, with the German emigration early in
the eighteenth century. He married and had
two sons, George and Conrad, and four
daughters.

(II) Conrad Rossman, son of Johannes
Roseman, married and had children by first
wife: Fite, Jacob, Jonas, who had two sons,
Peter and Terry or George ; daughters, Mrs.
Petrie, Mrs. Cone, Mrs. Prinder and Mrs.
Brizer ; by second marriage he had five sons
and one daughter : Conrad, Hendrick, Phillip,
Adam, Samuel or Tobias, Hannah.

(III) Fite, son of Conrad Rossman, was
born 1743, died 1831. He was a farmer of
the town of Claverack, Columbia county, near
the village of Martindale. He married Ann
Ham, of Pine Plains, New York. Children:
I. Peter, of further mention. 2. John, died
1829 ; married Esther Hoffman. 3. Freder-
ick, born 1775, died 1850; married Cornelia
Van Deusen and had two sons : Stephen, mar-
ried and had Edward and Augustus ; Josephus,
married and had three daughters, Gertrude,
Caroline and Margaret. 4. Jacob, born 1785,
died 1854; married. 1812, Nancy M. Latting;
had three sons and three daughters : Allen,
Richard, Refine, Ann, Phoebe, Harriet. Re-
fine had Richard, .Mien, Refine, Mary. 5.
Margaret. 6. Catherine.

(IV) Peter, .son of Fite and Ann (Hani)
Rossman, married Alida \'an Deusen and had
children: i. Fite, married and had Mary and
Robert. 2. Daniel, of further mention. 3.
Robert, married and had John, Gerald, Har-
riet, Alida. 4. Elizabeth.

(V) Daniel, son of Peter and Alida (Van
Deusen) Rossman, was born at Martindale,
town of Claverack, Columbia county, New
York, December 15, 1800, died there April 9,
1845. Tic was a farmer and an honored citi-
zen. He was for two years deacon of the
Dutch Reformed church, and in politics a
Whig. He married, March 28, 1826, Char-
lotte Bortle, born May 18, 1803, died January

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1649

30, 1898. She descended from Michael Hor-
ton, a captain in Washington's army in 1776;
married Elizabeth Esselelyn. Their daughter,
Rachel liorton, married John Eortle. Their
daughter, Charlotte Bortle, married Daniel
Rossman. Children: i. Frances E.. married
Dr. Thomas T. Calkins; she is now a resi-
dent of New York City. 2. Rachel A., mar-
ried Abram F. Philip, of Philmont. 3. Louisa,
died in childhood. 4. Sarah, born August 6,
1833, died July 31, 1854. 5. Catherine. 6.
Emily, born November 18, 1837, died Octo-
ber 8, 1858. 7. Bethia. 8. Louisa, married,
October 28, 1888, John A. Nichols, who was
born August 28. 183 1, and died December 22,
1905.

(VI) Daniel P., son of Daniel and Char-
lotte (Bortle) Rossman. was born February 5,
1846. He is now a resident of Claverack. He
married Laura M. Fielder, born January 28,
1852. died February 26, 1898. Children: i.
Frank, born October 27, 1876, died October 9.
1902. 2. Florence, March 8, 1879, died Jan-
uary 16, 1907; married, April 19, 1902, Ar-
thur Le Grand Dotv.

The Eraser family is one of the
ERASER ancient ones of Scotland, and a
number of worthy members of
it have become citizens of the United States.
The particular branch of which this sketch
treats is descended from the Lord Lovet clan,
and has been domiciled in this country for a
number of generations. The representatives
of the family in the present generation are the
Misses Altonah and Elizabeth Nevius Eraser,
who were born in Athens. New York. Rob-
ert Eraser, a brother of John Eraser, spoken
of hereinafter, was engaged in the lumber
business in the Bay of Honduras, died there
and left a considerable estate. Word was
sent to John Eraser, at "some place on the
Hudson River," as the document read, but as
travel was attended with great difficulties in
those days, no steps were ever taken to ac-
quire title to this property, and it probably
passed into the hands of the partner of
Robert.

(I) John Eraser, the first of the family of
whom we have detailed information, came
from Edinburg, Scotland, at the age of eight-
een years, and settled in Athens, New York,
where he followed the occupation of cabinet-
making. He was a stanch supporter of the
Democratic party in politics, taking an active
interest in all matters which concerned the
public welfare, and his religious affiliations
were with the Methodist church. He mar-
ried, July 31, 1796, Patience Bradwell, and
had children: Mary, born September 17, 1797;

William, September 27, 1799; Hannah, July
17, 1801 ; Jane .Ann, January 7, 1804; George
Bradwell, March 12. 1806, see forward; Rob-
ert H., July 25, 1808; Eliza, August i, 1810;
Sarah Ann, March 3, 1821. Patience (Brad-
well) Eraser was the daughter of General Ja-
cob Bradwell, of revolutionary fame, who
lived at Coeymans, New York, and married
Mary Guackin. The latter was the daughter

of Guackin, who married Patience

Potts, born in Pennsylvania, educated at the
Moravian School in liethlehem, from whence
she was married.

(H) George Bradwell, second son of John
and Patience (Bradwell) Eraser, was born in
Athens, New York, March 12, 1806, died Sep-
tember 14, 1884. He established and con-
ducted a factory for the manufacture of stone
ware, in which enterprise he was eminently
successful, as he was in a number of other
matters which he took in hand. He was at
one time president of West Troy, New York,
director and vice-president of Bank of West
Troy for a number of years, and in church
affairs took a prominent part, being vestry-
man, junior and senior warden for a number
of years of Trinity Church at Watervliet,
New York.

Mr. Eraser married, April 20, 183 1. Catha-
rine Tolley : children : Mary Jane. Hannah. .M-
tonah and Elizabeth Nevius. Catharine (Tol-
ley) Eraser, born July 28, 1810, died Febru-
ary 15, 1872, was the daughter of George Tol-
ley and granddaughter of Dr. Frederick Tol-
ley, who arrived at New York, August 12,
1753, having come from the Electorate of
Hanover, Germany. He married, March 13,
1760, Catharine Voland, and had children:
Henry B., born December 15, 1762; John
Philip, March 11, 1766; Catharine, December
5, 1767; John Frederick, August 28, 1769;
George, the father of Catharine (Tolley)
Eraser: and William, born .April 12, 1781.

(HI) Altonah and Elizabeth Nevius, the
two youngest children of George Bradwell and
Catharine (Tolley) Eraser, were born in .Ath-
ens, New York, leaving there when infants,
their parents moving to Watervliet. Tiiey at-
tended for a number of years the Willard
Seminary, where they received an excellent
education, and this has been supplemented
during the entire course of their lives by read-
ing and study. They are members and faith-
ful attendants at the services of the Episcopal
church, in whose interests they are active.
Their interest in music is a deep and lifelong
one, and they are associate members of the
Vocal, Choral and Chromatic societies, and are
in all the entertainments which are instituted
bv these associations.

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HUDSON AND MOHAWK \ALLEYS

The history of the Norton
NORTON family begins at tlie time of

the Norman Conquest, when
Le Signeur de Norville crossed over to Eng-
land with King William the Conqueror, Sep-
tember 29, 1022, and was his constable. The
name at that time was Norville, which in
French signified North Village. The name
was afterward changed to Norton, which in
English means North-town. It is supposed
that all the families of this name in England,
Ireland and America were derived from one
man.

(I) Benjamin Norton was a descendant of
John Norton, of Branford, Connecticut. He
was born in Stonington, Connecticut, 1793,
died in Rome, New York, 1834. He served
in the war of 18 12. He married Nancy Gor-
don, of Scotch descent, at Albany, New York.

(II) Cornelius H., son of Benjamin and
Nancy (Gordon) Norton, was born in Rome,
New York, August 27. 1828, died in Glovers-
ville, New York, April 15, 1900. He mar-
ried Sarah Darrow, born in Rome, New York,
April II, 1824, died January i, 1901, in Glov-
ersville. New York, daughter of Captain
Pliny Darrow (whose ancestors were of revo-
lutionary fame) and Sarah (Martin) Darrow.

(III) Alfred Darrow Norton, son of Cor-
nelius H. and Sarah (Darrow) Norton, was
born in Mexico, New York, January 31, 1851.
He succeeded his father in the jewelry busi-
ness, coming to Gloversville from Rome in
1869, and has successfully conducted the
same to the present time (191 1). He is con-
sidered one of the most prominent and suc-
cessful jewelers in the Mohawk Valley and
Central New York. He married (first), Oc-
tober 28, 1877, in Kingsboro. New York.
Susie, daughter of Jonathan and Mary A.
Wooster; died June 12, 1879; married (sec-
ond). May 25. i88r, Phoebe D. Briggs, of
Fonda, New York, daughter of Delavan and
Almira (Dockstader) Briggs.

Samuel .Mien, a farmer of the
ALLEN town of Galway, Saratoga

county. New York, married Cath-
erine Cole. They continued their residence
in Saratoga county until 1855, when they re-
moved to Fulton county, which was their
residence until. death. Children: John C, see
forward : Sarah, married John R. Berry, who
afterwards associated with her brother, John
C. Allen, in glove manufacture: Lucy E., un-
married ; Rebecca, married .'Xmatus R. Bel-
lows, and had a daughter Beulah : Clara, mar-
ried James Billings : Mary, married Timothy
Davenport, and had Allen and Marion.

(II) John C, son of Samuel and Catherine

(Cole) Allen, was born in the town of Gal-
way, Saratoga county, New York, January 27,
1838, died at Gloversville, New York. July 30,
1909. He was educated in the Galway schools,
and was a resident there until he reached his-
seventeenth year, when the family residence
was removed to Gloversville. New York. For
several years after locating in Gloversville, he
learned the process of tanning leather and the
manufacture of gloves, and became thor-
oughly familiar with every detail of these in-
dustries. He had become possessed also of
some capital, and in 1873, in company with
John R. Berry, began the manufacture of
gloves under the firm name of Berry & Allen,
succeeding to a business established in 1846.
This was a most successful enterprise, and
continued until the death of Mr. Berry in
1890, when Mr. Allen became the sole owner
and continued the business. In 1900 he ad-
mitted his son, Harry John Allen, as partner,,
and the firm became J. C. Allen & Son. This
firm became one of the largest glove-making
concerns of Fulton county, and continued as
J. C. Allen & Son until the death of the
father, when it became an incorporation, un-
der the name of J. C. ,\llen & Sons. Mr.
.'\llen possessed special aptitude for business
life, had intense powers of application, good
executive ability, coupled with courage and an
indomitable will. He won a success in life
that was well deserved. He stood high among
his brother manufacturers in the trade, who
chose him president of the Fulton County
Glove Manufacturers' .Association, of which
organization he was always an active, inter-
ested member. He was also a Inember of
the board of directors of the Fulton County
National Bank, and was a valuable member of
that board. Business interests, while carefully
managed, did not make up the sum total of his
activities. His deep interest in church and
Sunday-school work, the public schools, the
public library and other Gloversville public
institutions, was one of his prominent charac-
teristics. Public-spirited to an unusual de-
gree, nothing that tended to promote the com-
mon good failed of his support. His love of
music was a marked trait, and to him is
largely due the introduction of musical in-
struction in the public schools. He served in
the public library as a member of the board
of directors, and was always a warm friend
of the free library. He was one of the orig-
inal members of the First Presbyterian Church
of Gloversville, which he served for twenty-
five years as ruling elder. His interest in the
Sunday-school was equally marked and con-
tinued all through life. He never grew old,
save in years, but retained his youtiiful sjiirit.

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

and probably enjoyed the friendship of more
young people than any man of his years in the
city. His tastes were domestic, and in home
and family he found his chief delight. He
married, February 8, 1871, Genevieve L.
Seaver, born in Galway, Saratoga county,
New York, April 19, 1847. daughter of A. J.
W. Seaver, born September 25, 1807, son of
Josiah Seaver, of Galway, New York. Josiah
Seaver was the owner of a farm of two hun-
dred acres in Galway, which he cultivated all
his active years. He and his wife were active
Methodists, and lived the quiet lives of the
well-to-do farmers of their jieriod. A. J. W.
Seaver married Sophia Ann Fuller, born May
14. 1808, daughter of Gideon Fuller, born
^lay 19, 1780, and his wife, Christina Stearns,
born August 27, 1785. Mr. and Mrs. Fuller
had seven children: Alonzo, born September
3, 1803; Orancie, August 10, 1806; Sophia
Ann, married A. J. W. Seaver; Harvey, born
March 19, 181 1; Mercy, August 19, 1819;
David, June 28, 1823 ; Mary, November 16.
1825. A. J. W. and Sophia Ann (Fuller)
Seaver had five children : i. John Willis, born
April 28, 1835; married Mary D. Ball (both
deceased) : they left children, residents of
Newark, New Jersey: Nathaniel. Jennie,
Lizzie, Isaac, John. 2. Sarah, Ann, born No-
vember 19, 1837: married John Taylor (de-
ceased) ; they removed to Grass Lake. Alichi-
gan, where their children yet reside: William,
Laura, Jennie, Frederick, Nellie. 3. Charles
Henry, born January 10. 1839; married Eula-
lia Hayes : children : Cora, Florence, Lorene,
Jessie. Tliis family resides at Jackson, Michi-
gan. 4. Mary Jane, born December 10. 1843;
married Sherwood Haggart ; children : Mary
S., born November 18, 1870; George S.,
March 2, 1877. 5. Genevieve L., married John
C. Allen, whom she survives, a resident of
Gloversville, where her entire life since her
marriage has been spent ; she is a member of
the Presbyterian church, and interested in
church and charitable work. Children of Mr.
and Mrs. Allen: i. Katherine S., born Jan-
uary 15, 1872; married, June 3, 1902, Charles
T. Coombes, of Johnstown. New York, born
May 14, 1871. 2. Harry John, see forward.
3. Genevieve, born February 12, 1876. 4.
Richard Berry. November 6. 1878, of the firm
of J. C. Allen & Sons. 5. Howard Washing-
ton, February 22, 1882. 6. Susan Doty. De-
cember 12, 1883: married, June 8. 1909, Ralph
Prescott Beardsley, and has a daughter Gen-
evieve, born June 3, 1910. 7. Samuel Gardner,
November 12, 1885, of the firm of J. C. Allen
& Sons.

(HI) Harry John, eldest son of John C.
and Genevieve L. (Seaver) .Allen, was born

in Gloversville, New York, October 29. 1873.
He was educated in the public schools and at
Peekskill Military Academy. In 1894 he be-
gan working in the glove factory of his fatiier,
who in 1900 admitted him to a partnership,
and re-named the firm J. C. .\llen & Son.
After the death of Mr. Allen, senior, the busi-
ness was incorporated as the J. C. Allen &
Sons, with Harry J. .'Vllen as president. In
this capacity he continues the business that
was established by Berry & Allen, and now
one of the leading industrial plants of Glovers-
ville. He is director of Fulton County Na-
tional Bank. Mr. Allen inherits the family
love and talent for music, and has devoted a
great amount of time to voice culture and
instrumental music. For many years he had
been director of the choir of the First Presby-
terian Church, one ci the best musical or-
ganizations of the city, now (1910) director of
choir of Congregational church. He is a
trustee of the public library, a member of the
First Presbyterian Church, the Eccentric and
Automobile clubs, and an interested, public-
spirited citizen of his native town. Politically
he is a Republican. He married. June 7. 1900.
Marie Louise, born October 2, 1875, daughter
of Samuel Harvey and Jane Elizabeth (Ev-
erit) Shotwell, of Gloversville, New York.
Child: John C. Allen (2), bom July 29, 1908.

The Getman family of Glov-

GETMAN crsville. New York, are of
German ancestry and descend
from Frederick Getman. who came to .Amer-
ica from Germany in 1720. In 1740, in asso-
ciation with Jonathan Rierman, he bought a
tract of land in the Stone .Arabia Patent,
Montgomery county. New York. Later Fred-
erick bought his partner's interest and owned
the entire tract, part of which is yet in the
Getman name, lie married a Miss Bierman.
who tore him sons: Frederick, George, John
and Christian, all of whom took part in the
war with the French prior to 1757.

(II) Christian, eldest son of Frederick
Getman. was a farmer, and during the
French war was captain of a company of
rangers in the colonial army. He married a
widow: children: Peter, Christian (2). .Adam,
Jacob, John, George, see forward ; Thomas,
Peter, the eldest .son, served in the colonial
army with his father against the French and
Indians.

(HI) George, son of Chri.stian Getman,
was a farmer. He married and reared a large
family, among them being a son George (2).

(]V) George (2), son of George (i) Get-
man. was lv>rn in the town of Mf>hawk. Mont-
uomcrv count V. New \nvk. He was a farmer.

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and during the revolution held a lieutenant's
commission in the regular. army commanded
by Colonel Willett. He married Annie Shu-
maker : children: i. George, married a Miss
Empie ; children : Charles, David. 2. Peter,
married and had fourteen children. 3. Jos-
eph, married and had one son. 4. Benjamin,
see forward. 5. Christopher, married Mary
Miller ; son. William. 6. William, married
Catherine Charlesworth ; children : Charlotte
and William C.

(V) Benjamin, .son of George (2) Getman,
was born on the homestead in Montgomery
county, June i, 1791, died at the age of eighty-
eight years, his death resulting from a kick
received from a vicious horse. This home-
stead is now in the town of Ephratah, Fulton
county, Montgomery and Fulton counties hav-
ing been created from Tryon. He inherited
the homestead, and was a farmer all his days
of activity. He served in the war of 1812
and was engaged at the battle of Sacketts
Harbor. He held the office of justice of the
peace and was a man of importance in his
town. He was a leading member of the Dutch
Reformed church, which he served officially.
He married Mary Van Antwerp, of Mohawk,
Montgomery county: children: i. Deborah,
died in infancy. 2. Elizabeth, married Josiah
Williamson ; children ; Lycena, Jane C, Delia
and Mary. 3. Washington, married Catherine
Cook; children: Alida, Caroline, Benjamin,
Elmer. 4. Chauncey, married Catherine Like ;
children: Adelbert, Amy. 5. Jane, married
John Schultz ; children: Elvira, Benjamin,
John P., Henry, Maria, Eugene, Rachel, Mel-
vin, Irving. 6. Delia, married Casper Saltz-
man : children : Harvey and Carrie. 7. Ra-
chel, married David Baker ; children : George
G., Charles, Mary. 8. Nancy Catherine. 9.
Oliver, see forward. 10. William, married
Mary Bcntley. 11. Asa M.. married Mary Er-
win : children : Crawford O., Pauline, Etta,
Helen. 12. Crawford. 13. Mary Ann, mar-
ried Jonathan Saltzman.

(VI) Oliver, son of Benjamin and Mary
(Van Antwerp) Getman, was born on the old
Getman homestead in the town of Ephratah,
Fulton county, New York, February 4, 1829.
He was educated in the common schools, and
passed his life engaged in farming, manufac-
turing, and in the public service. In 1862 he
was appointed deputy-sheriff of Fulton county,
and in 1863 special deputy to United States
provost marshal, holding the latter office until
the close of the civil war. He was deputy-
sheriff continuously until 1871, when he was
elected sheriff. On retiring from the sheriff's
ofifice he returned to the farm, remaining until
the death of his father in 1879. In that year

he associated with his brother Crawford in the
manufacture of window glass. He removed
to Cleveland, Oswego county. New York,
where their plant was located, remaining there
until 1889. During a great part of these years
he was traveling in the interest of the com-
pany, and as salesman of their factory prod-
uct. \\niile in Oswego county he was elected
supervisor, and served four years. In 1890
he removed to Johnstown. New York, and
was elected a supervisor of Fulton county, and
re-elected in 1891. During 1892 he organized
the Getman Glass Manufacturing Company,
of which he was president, and erected a plant
at Avonmore, Pennsylvania, for the manufac-
ture of window glass. Mr. Getman removed
to that state and superintended the erection of
the plant, and remained in the management
until 1895. In that year he returned to Johns-
town, where he engaged in the real estate and
loan business, settlement of estates and gen-
eral office business, continuing until his retire-
ment from all active business. He has been
identified with many of the business interests
of Johnstown; was a member of the first
board of directors of the First National Bank,
of the People's Bank, and of the Fulton
County Savings Bank ; was president of the
Fulton County Agricultural Society. He al-
ways continued the operation of the old home-
stead farm, settled by his emigrant ancestor,
and inherited by him from his father, Ben-
jamin Getman. He is connected with the Ma-
sonic order, holding membership in Garoga
Lodge, No. 300, Free and Accepted Masons,
Johnstown Chapter, No. 78, Royal Arch Ma-
sons, and Holy Cross Commandery, No. 51,
Knights Templar. Politically he is' a Repub-
lican, and in religion is a Presbyterian.

He married, October 31, 1855, Lovina
Wood, born in Ephratah, Fulton county. New
York, in 1834, daughter of Dr. Henry and
Polly (Smith) Wood. Children: i. Leander,
married Catherine Empe ; children : Henry
and Catherine. 2. Lovina, married Oliver
Getman. 3. Levi, married Myra Keith ; chil-
dren : i. Lavina, married Everett Stephenson,
and has a son Everett ; ii. Charles, married
Grace Sarah Yanney, and has a son Harold;
iii. Grace, married John F. Rickard, and has
three children : Margaret, Florence and
John W.

(II) George, son of Frederick
GETMAN Getman, "the founder," was
born in the town of Ephratah,
now Fulton county. New York. He succeeded
his father in possession of the Ephratah iiome-
stead. He married and had five sons, all of
whom died in the cause of the revolution.

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i'i53

(HI) George (2), son of George (i) Get-
man, was born in Ephratah, Fulton county,
New York, about the year 1770. He was a
captain in the war of 1812. He was a farmer
of Ephratah all his life. He married Cath-
erine Cook and had six sons.

(IV) David, son of George (2) and Cath-
erine (Cook) Getman, was born in 1809 in
Ephratah, Fulton county, New York, died
March 3, 1890. He removed to the town of
Mayfield, same county, in 1846, and engaged
in mercantile life, continuing until 1863, when
he retired. He was a justice of the peace for
twenty years, and an active worker and liberal
supporter of the Dutch Reformed church of
Mayfield. He married Mary Burdick, also
born in Ephratah. They had five children,
two only arriving at maturity. David, of
whom further ; Sarah.

(V) David (2), son of David (i) and
Mary (Burdick) Getman, was born in Ephra-
tah, Fulton county, New York, January 21,
1836. He was educated in the public schools
and Kingsboro Academy, where he was grad-
uated. When he was ten years of age his
parents removed to Mayfield and after David
had completed his studies he worked as a

.clerk in his father's store. At the outbreak
of the civil war he enlisted, August, 1861, in
Company I, Seventh Regiment, New York
Volunteers. This company was recruited in
F"ulton county and was mustered into the
United States service, October 30, i86i. He
was commissioned first lieutenant, later cap-
tain, and assigned to the Tenth Regiment,
New York Cavalry. His army record is ex-
ceedingly honorable, and is thus recorded in
the history of the Tenth Regiment.

"Captain David Getman, Jr., age twenty-six,
commissioned from Ma>-field, October 17, 1862, with
rank from September 17, 1862, mustered in October
30. 1862, wounded by saber-cut of arm and taken
prisoner at Brandy Station, Virginia, June 9, 1863 ;
escaped while in transit near Winnsboro, North
Carolina, February 14, 1865; arrived in General
Sherman's army February 21, 1865; returned to
duty June 3, 1865; transferred June 24, 1865, to
Company L, First New York, Prov. Cavalry.

"The first and only captain of the initial com-
pany of the new battalion was David Getman, Jr.
This officer entered the service as Captain of Com-
pany I and remained as such to the termination of
its service. .'\t the time of the dissolution of the
regiment he was transferred as Captain to Com-
pany L of the First New York, Prov. Cavalry. No
braver knight or more courteous gentleman ever
led men to battle. He came of fighting stock, his
grandfather George Getman, being an officer in the
American army in the war of 1812. Captain David
Getman, Jr., in civil as well as military life has
exhibited a dignity of character and a spirit of
enterprise that causes his fellow-citizens to
mention his name with pride. While in
Libby Prison, on the sixth day of July,
186^; his name, with seventy-four other

prisoners of the rank of captain, was
placed in a ballot-box, from which two names
(Captain Sawj'er, of the First New Jersey Cav-
alry, and Captain Flinn, of the Fifty-first Indiana
Irifantry) were drawn for execution. President
Lincoln (informed of the circumstances by Mrs.
Sawyer, who had received a letter from her hus-
band) held General W. H. F. Lee and Captain
Winder, hostages for Sawyer and Flinn. and they
were subsequently exchanged by special order from
the Confederate War Department. Captain Get-
man, with other officers, was for sixty-four days
under fire in the city of Charlestown, South Caro-
lina. General Foster had erected batteries on Mor-
ris Island and was shelling the city, inflicting seri-
ous damage. In order to save it from destruction
these officers were placed in this position, and
General Foster was notified that he jeopardized
his comrades if he continued firing. It failed.
However, it had the desired effect, as Foster
erected other batteries and increased his fire, which
resulted in the Federal officers being removed to
Columbia, South Carolina. A man of excellent
judgment. Captain Getman so regulated his habits
and daily life while a prisoner of war that he
emerged from the terrible ordeal with less of the
evil effects than most of his associates. He has
always manifested a deep interest in the members
of the regiment, the feeling partaking of the
paternal in regard to those who composed his old
company."

After the war he returned to Fulton county,
New York, where until 1880 he was engaged
chiefly in the purchase and sale of patent
rights. He employed at times a score of men
and double teams and carried on a very large
and profitable business. In 1880 he began
operations in real estate and made many of
Gloversville's most substantial improvements.
The Getman and Choral Union blocks, now
known as the Martin & Nailor and \\'eed &
Willoughby department stores, are monu-
ments to the activity during this period of his
eventful life. He purchased a farm in May-
field where he indulged his love for horses and
stock to the utmost. He built a track for
training purposes and has owned some of the
best horses in the county. Recently he pur-
chased the old Judson mansion on Kingslxjro
Heights, surrounded by two acres of land,
where he intends to found the David and
Helen Getman Old Ladies' Home. Denied
children of his own Mr. Getman had taken
unusual interest in young men, two of whom
he educated and furnished with clothes during
their school years. During his long life he
has strictly adhered to principles of sobriety
and abstinence from hotli liquor and tobacco.
He is a Republican in politics, and for many
years was notary public and was the first
elected president of the village of Mayfield.
He is a member of Canby Post, Graml .Army
of the Republic ; the Veteran Association ; the
Cavalry Society of the ITnited States : the
Sons of Veterans of Glovcrsvillc, and named

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their camp David Getman Camp or post in his
honor. He was made a Mason nearly half a
-century ago, while at home on a furlough,
receiv'ing from the New York Grand Lodge a
special dispensation to receive the three de-
grees in less than the constitutional time. He
is a member of Gloversville Lodge, No. 429.
He is a most liberal and generous-hearted
man, using his wealth in and for churches,
schools, hospitals and other charitable insti-
tutions. He is well known and everywhere
respected. He married, November 6, 1881,
Helen Morris Van Buren, a descendant of
President Martin Van Buren.

Jonathan Reynolds, descen-

REYNOLDS dant of the New England
family of that name, mar-
ried and had a son Job.

(H) Job, son of Jonathan Reynolds, was
born in 1778, settled in Washington county,
New York, where he cleared a farm and es-
tablished a home. He married .Anna Hanks,
iborn 1784. Children: i. Porter Hanks, of
"whom further. 2. Schuyler, married Mabel
Hubbard ; children : Dudley, Schuyler, Ed-
Avard, Warren and Frank. 3. Harriet, mar-
ried Franklin Sheppard.

(HI) Porter Hanks, son of Job and Anna
(Hanks) Reynolds, was born in Greenwich,
Washington county. New York, December 4,
1803. He married, December 12, 1825, Mary
Sheldon Remington, born July 25, 1807. Chil-
dren: I. Mary, born June 31, 1829, died June
J 2, 1834. 2. Amander Porter, of whom fur-
ther. 3. Arthur D., born July 12, 1835 : mar-
ried, March 21, 1855, Martha Dobbins: child.
Porter, died young. 4. James Herbert, born
September 12, 1837, died January 19, 1897.
5. M,crritt L. (twin), born April 15, 1840;
married, October 15, 1862, Caroline Simmons:
children : Porter H. : Mary S.. married
Charles Hosmer. 6. Mary Sheldon (twin)
married, June 8, 1864, William Tybrant Mc-
Master, born October 15, 1835, died July 4,
1870 : children : Porter Robert, Mary Lena
and Henry William. 7. William Pitt, born
Deccmljcr 7, 1843; married, January 2, 1866,
Harriet Preston, who died August, 1908;
child: Daughter, married Rev. D. H. Clark-
son. 8. Job, born .April 30, 1846, died July
29, 1847.

(IV) Amander Porter, son of Porter Hanks
and Mary Sheldon (Remington) Reynolds,
was born June 6, 183 1. died November 22,
1864. He was a farmer, lived and died in the
■old homestead built by his parents. He mar-
ried, March 6, 1855, Mary E., daughter of
Adley and Harriet (Stanley) Sherman: child,
Adley Job, of whom further. Mary E. (Sher-

man) Reynolds was a granddaughter of Adley
Sherman, who died December 16, 1821. He
was a farmer of Washington county, owning
land in the town of Easton, where he lived
and died. He married Susanna Huddleston.
Children: Martha F., born July 22, 1794;
Jonathan, September 30, 1795 ; Stephen, April
23. 1797: Almira, April 23. 1799; Peleg, Au-
gust 9. 1801 ; Medusa, June 16, 1802 ; Susanna,
January 27. 1804: Adley. May 31, 1805 : Char-
lotte, September 9, 1806; Elizabeth, Mav 10,
1808: Polly Maria. November 10, 1809:' Eli-
sha Brownell, October 13, 1812; Minnie, Sep-
tember 13, 1813; Caleb, December 7, 1814;
Olive, September 17, 1817. Adley (2) Sher-
man, son of Adley (i) Sherman, was born in
the town of Easton, Washington county. New
York, May 31, 1805, married, July 4, 1852,
Harriet, daughter of Abiel and Rizpah (Bail-
ey) Stanley, born June 2. 1815, died January
31, 1898. Children: John: Mary E., mar-
ried Amander Porter Reynolds ; Rizpah, mar-
ried Jerome B. Wright.

( \' ) Adley Job, son of Amander Porter and
Mary E. (Sherman) Reynolds, was born on
the old homestead in North Greenwich, Wash-
ington county. New York, April i, 1858. His
early education was obtained in the public
schools of the town, followed by courses of
study at Greenwich high school and Troy Con-
ference Academy at Poultney, Vermont. He
owns and cultivates a fine farm, wiiich is
part of the original tract settled by Job Rey-
nolds prior to the year 1800. He is also a
director in the First National Bank of Green-
wich, and for two terms represented Green-
wich on the Washington county board of su-
pervisors. He is prominent in the Masonic
order, master of Greenwich Lodge, No. 554,
Free and Accepted Masons, and district dep-
uty grand master for the district comprising
the counties of Washington, Saratoga and
Warren. Politically he is a Republican ; a
member of the Baptist church.

The Daleys of Ballylin parish.
D.SLl'^Y Ireland, were one of the old and

well-established families of that
district. They were conservative memlx^rs of
the Roman Catholic church and occupied a
good position in the county.

( I ) Michael Daley was born in Ballylin
parish, and there received his education and
became superintendent of the vast King es-
tate. He married in his native parish, and in
185 1, after the death of his wife, came to the
United States with his children, the eldest be-
ing about eighteen years of age. He settled
in Albany. New York, where he died in 1861.
During his residence in Albany he lived prac-

HLDSOX AND MOHAWK \ALLEYS

tically a retired life, taking an active part in
political life as a Democrat, and worshiping
Avith St. Joseph's Roman Catholic congrega-
tion, of which he was a member. Children :
I. Michael (2), of whom further. 2. Joseph,
married Lena Hodder. and is engaged in cigar
manufacturing at Gloversville, New York;
no issue. 3. Bridget, never married, died
in Albany, New York. 4. ,\nna, mar-
ried a Mr. Carroll : both deceased ; left issue.
5. Ellen, married Charles Hotaling, of Albany.
New York: children: Charles, Joseph. De
Los, Anna (deceased), Elizabeth and Matilda.
■6. Elizabeth, married Robert Begley. of Al-
banv : she died, leaving Anna and Margaret.
(ID Michael (2), son of Michael (i) Da-
ley, was born in parish Ballylin, Ireland, in
1833, died in Albany, New York. August 19.
1905. He was educated in the parochial
schools, and at the age of eighteen years came
to the L'nited States with his father, settling
in Albany. New York, where he finished his
■education and learned the trade of mason.
After several years' work as a journeyman,
he began business on his own account. His
rise was rapid, and he became one of the lead-
ing building contractors of the city. Among
the public buildings he erected is the Pruyn
Public Library, The Consolidated Car
Heating Plant. St. Margaret Home and
The Hudson \'alley Railroad Car House.
Numerous private buildings were erected
imder his supervision, and many contracts
of a varied nature were successfully
completed. He prospered in business and
secured a competence through his capable
management and untiring energy. In
physique he was large and commanding, with
a warm, sympathetic nature that endeared
him to all. While a member of St. Joseph's
Roman Catholic church and a faithful com-
municant, his religion went beyond his creed,
and all men were his brethren. In political
faith he affiliated with the party that he
thought furnished the best candidate. He

married (first), in Albany, Mrs. Mary •.

who died in middle life, leaving children: i.
Mary, married Michael McGowen, who sur-
vives her, a resident of the Far W'est. 2.
Michael, died in youthful manhood. 3. Eliza-
"beth. married Thomas Reidy. who survives
"her in .Albany : children : Joseph and Michael.
Michael Dalev married (second), in .Albany,
]Vfarie (Mary P..) Boden. born in Hanover.
Gernianv, daughter of William Frederick and
Alma (Struve) Boden, and granddaughter of
Frederick Boden, a prominent and wealthy
citizen of Hanover. He was a man of deep
learning and made frequent visits to the Uni-
ted States. His only daughter. Wilhelmina,

married Charles Henning, a prominent citizen
of Saxony, Germany. William Frederick Bo-
den was born in 1832, died 1903. He was
a man of great learning and for twenty-seven
years occupied the chair of geometry in the
College of Hanover. He was a famed educa-
tor, ranking with the best-known in his state.
In military life he attained equal honor as
colonel of the thirty-second regiment, German
cavalry. He led his men in the war of 1866
and in the Franco-Prussian war had a most
brilliant career, making his regiment conspicu-
ous even in that great army which Germany
sent again France. He held communion with
the Reformed church of Germany, and was a
well-beloved and highly-respected member. He
married (first) .Alma Struve, also a native of
Hanover, where she died, leaving an only
child, Mary B. He married (second ) Caro-
line Arnemann. Children : William Freder-
ick (2), George D. and Frederick F. .All
married and are prominent educators of their
native city, Hanover, Germany. William
Frederick and his two wives died at and are
buried in Hanover. Mary B. Boden, only
child of her parents, was at the age of eight
years brought to the United States by her
grandfather, Frederick Boden, five years after
the death of her mother, and placed under the
care of an aunt in Albany, New York, by
whom she was carefully nurtured and finely
educated. She married, January 9, 1890,
Michael Dalev. whom she survives, a resident
of Albany. Child. William B., born in Al-
bany, January 28. 1891, educated in the pub-
lic school of Ossining, St. John's Seminary
for Boys, and now is a student at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, class of 1913. Mrs.
Daley and son are members of the Protestant
Episcopal church of Albany.

This family name in Holland
WILTSIE is Wiltsee.'but some branches
spell it Wiltsie, as does the
family herein recorded.

(I) Phillippe Martin Wiltsee, of Fort Or-
ange and Waalbogt, was born in the latter part
of the si.xtecnth century in Holland (probably
at Tirlamont). and died in Swaanendacl.
March, 1632. He was a soldier under Mcw-
rice toward the close of the war between Hol-
land and Spain, and emigrated with his wife,
two children and two servants to .America on
the .ship "New Netherlands" in 1632. He was
one of those detailed to I)uild Fort Orange.
When the Indians forced the first colonists
to return to New .Amsterdam, he and his fam-
ily settled at Waal-I'.ogt. Wishing to visit
the colony at Swaancmlael. he took with him
his sons, Pierre and llcndrick, and was killed

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by the Indians in the fort, he at that time be-
ing sick. His wife was Sophia Ter Bosch,
born in Holland. After the death of her hus-
band she is believed to have returned to Hol-
land with the younger members of the family.
Children, first two born in Holland prior to
162 1 : Tyntje, died 1646; married Adam
Roelantsen, the first school teacher in New
Amsterdam; Pierre (see Hendrick M.) ; Ma-
cheltje; Hendrick M., Martin, Maria.

(II) Hendrick Martensen, son of Phillippe
Martin and Sophia (Ter Bosch) Wiltsee, was
born in Waal-Bogt, New York. He was on
the sea in 1623, coming to America with his
parents, but must have been then a young boy.
He and his brother Pierre are said to have
been taken prisoners by the Indians when the
settlement at Swaanendael was destroyed and
their father killed, in 1632. They were taken
to Quebec in 1633 and given to the Jesuit
fathers, who kept them a year under their
training. They were then taken to the Huron
country, and made their escape in 1640. They
spent two years at Esopus trading with the
Indians, then went to sea for several years as
sailors. Hendrick M. was a freeholder in
Newtown, Long Island, in 1655. In 1658 he
went from Fort Orange to Quebec with the
Mohawk Indians as interpreter. He had a
lawsuit in New Amsterdam in 1660. He was
commander of a vessel in that year, and wrote
a letter to Governor Stuyvesant from the
Island of Aruba, Dutch Antilles. He was a
soldier in Kingston, New York, between 1660
and 1667, and was erroneously reported killed
in 1663. He had a son Hendrick, baptized in
New Amsterdam, 1669. He was on the list
of inhabitants in Newtown, Long Island, in
1675, and purchased land at Hell Gate in
1681. He was mentioned in the Newtown
patent by Governor Dongan in 1686. Up to
about 1690 his name is always written Hen-
drick Martensen, then he began to assume his
ancient tribal, or national, name in signing
documents and records. On the baptismal rec-
ord of the old Dutch church in New York City
where his granddaughter, Margaretta, was
baptized July 6, 1701, his name is signed
"Hendrick Martense Wiltsee." He married
Margarita Meyerings, daughter of Jan Meyers
and Fenntje Straitsman, and widow of Her-
man Jansen Fenette, who lived in the Dutch
colony at Fort Maigriette in Brazil, and had
four husbands, of whom Jan Meyerings was
the first. Children: Sophia, born 1660; Jen-
netje, 1663; Barbara, 1665; Marten. 1667;
Hendrick, 1669; Myndert, 1672; Theunis,
1674 ; Jacob, 1676.

(III) Marten, son of Hendrick M. and
Margarita Wiltsee, was baptized in Esopus,

New York, April 3, 1667. He married, in
Flatbush, Long Island. June 26, 1690, Mar-
retje, daughter of Cornelius Barent Van Wyck
and Anna, daughter of Rev. Theodorus Pol-
hemus and Catherine Van Werven. Children
baptized: Cornelis, 1691 ; Hendrick, 1693;
Johannes, 1695; Margarett, 1697; Maria,
1702; Catharine, 1704; Anatie, 1706; Sophia,
1709; Martine, 171 1.

(IV) Cornelis, son of Marten and Marretje
(Van Wyck) Wiltsee, was baptized July 23,
1691, and lived in Flushing and Jamaica, Long
Island. He removed to Dutchess count}'. New
York, in 1734. He married, in 1712, Rachel
(Ruth), daughter of Jeremiah Smith, of
Hempstead, Long Island, who removed from
New England to Long Island because not in
accord with the teachings of his sect. Chil-
dren: Elizabeth, baptized 1713; Martyn, 1715;
Anna, 1717; Jermyas, 1718; Marrja, 1720;
Rutie, 1722; Cornelis, 1723; Jacobus, men-
tioned below: Hendrick, 1726; Johannes,
1728; Jacob, baptized 1732. These children
were all born in Jamaica, Long Island.

(V) Jacobus (James) son of Cornelis and
Rachel "(Ruth) (Smith) Wiltsie, was baptized
April 12. 1724. He was a farmer of the town
of East Fishkill, Dutchess county. The fam-
ily were prominent in Peekskill and were
largely engaged in the early river transporta-
tion business. (Uncles and cousins of James,
descendants of Marten, spell their name
Wiltse.) James married and had issue,
among whom was a son William.

(VI) William, son of Jacobus (James)
Wiltsie, was born in East Fishkill, Dutchess
county. New York, in 1750. He removed to
the town of Bethlehem, Albany county. New
York, 1795. He purchased a farm in South
Bethlehem from Stephen Van Rensselaer,
buying possession from Nicholas See, who had
previously taken up the land and made some
improvements on it. William Wiltsie died in
1797, and the property passed into the hands
of his children, the youngest son, Ambrose,
finally becoming the owner, and at his death,
in 1856, it became the property of his eldest
son Ambrose (2), who had previously worked
it on shares with his brothers. William Wilt-
sie, according to the census of 1790. was in
that year a resident of the town of Half Moon,
Albany county, coming to Bethlehem from
there. He was a soldier of the revolution,
serving in the Second Regiment, Dutchess
County Militia, commanded by Colonel Abra-
ham IBrinkerhoflf. (See New York in the
Revolution, p. 139.) He married and had is-
sue, the youngest being Ambrose, born in Half
Moon, Albany county, the others most likely
in Dutchess county.

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(VH) Ambrose, youngest son of William
Wiltsie, was born in Albany county, New
York, June 20, 1787. He was about nine
years of age when his father removed to
South Bethlehem, where Ambrose died Feb-
ruary 15, 1856. He became a substantial
farmer and a highly respected citizen of the
town. He was an active member of the Meth-
odist Episcopal church, and a liberal sup-
porter. In politics he was a strong Democrat.
His entire life, from his ninth year, was spent
in the town of Bethlehem. Lie married Mag-
dalena Miller, born December 25, 1784, in
Connecticut. Her parents settled in the town
of Coeymans from Dutchess county the same
year her husband's father settled in Bethle-
hem, 1796. She died in September, 1878,
aged ninety-four years. She was a daughter
of John Miller, born in Alsace, Germany, and
during the revolutionary war came to America
with General Lafayette and fought for the
cause of freedom. After the war he settled
in Connecticut, where he married Zabrina
Bradford. Later he removed to Dutchess
county, then to Coeymans, Albany county,
New York, where he died. Children: I.
Hannah, married George Lasher, a farmer of
Bethlehem ; had issue. 2. Sarah, married
George Coonley, a farmer of Bethlehem. 3.
Ambrose (2), a farmer of Bethlehem ; married
(first) Hannah E. Whitbeck ; (second) Cath-
erine Kimmey, widow of Frederick Slack. 4.
James, a farmer of Coeymans ; later engaged
in the coal trade in the city of Albany, where
he died after his retirement from business.
He had a son Ambrose, died a young man, by
his first wife, Catharine Coonley; his second
wife was Margaret Bender, now of Albany.
5. Dr. David, a graduate of Albany Medical
College; practiced his profession for many
years' in Chicago. Late in life he returned to
his boyhood home, where he died at the farm
of his brother near South Bethlehem, in town
of Bethlehem, Albany county; he married,
but had no issue. 6. Hiram, see forward. 7.
William, married, and died, leaving sons Da-
vifl, Peter, James, and a daughter, Elizabeth,
all of whom married. 8. John, (q. v.).

(VIII) Hiram, son of Ambrose and Mag-
dalena (Miller) Wilt.sie, was born April 17,
1822, in Bethlehem. Albany county. New
York, and died on his farm in New Scotland,
same county, January 8, 1895. He settled on
a farm in Feurabush in 1863, and was one of
the largest land owners in the town. He was
a successful farmer, and bore the best of
reputations as a man. He was upright and
always reliable, had a scrupulous regard for
his word and despised a lie. He was an active
and useful member of the Methodist Episcopal

church, and a Republican after the formation
of that party. He married, October 13, 1847,
Charlotte Ann, daughter of Henry Y. Schoon-
maker, born March 26, 1791, died September
I, 1864; she was born in Bethlehem, Albany
county, New York, March 10, 1831, who yet
survives him, being almost eighty years old.
She resides in the town of Bethlehem, and is
a well-known and much respected woman.
Children: i. Evaline K., born in Bethlehem,
May 3, 1850; married Harman Van Derzee,
farmer of New Scotland, whom she survives ;
child, Harman IL, married Rachel Wiltsie,
and lives in St. Louis, Missouri. 2. Hester,
born March 6, 1852; married Peter \'an Nat-
tan, a farmer of Bethlehem ; child, George C,
married Ivy Albright, and has a daughter
Ruth. 3. Martha Alida, born January 22,
1858; married Rev. Andrew Schriver, a min-
ister and presiding elder of the Methodist
Episcopal church ; now retired at Chester. New
York ; children : Hiram, married Ruth Edge-
comb : Newman ; Paul Revere ; Charlotte A. ;
Franklin A. 4. Franklin A., born October 17,
1863; a farmer of Bethlehem; married (first)
Adelaide Cole; no issue; (second) Harriet
Dimon ; child, Marion. 5. Annie B., born Sep-
tember 19, 1866; married Hiram J. Nodine,
of Coeymans ; she is now of Philadelphia ;
two children: Charlotte W., and Ambrose
James, see forward.

(IX) Ambrose James, son of Hiram and
Charlotte Ann (Schoonmaker) Wiltsie, was
born on the farm near Feurabush, New Scot-
land, October 9, 1873. He was educated in
the town public schools, Cazenovia Seminary
and Albany Business College. He then re-
tired to the farm which he inherited at his
father's death. The estate comprises two hun-
dred and forty acres, of which two hundred
are under cultivation, and twenty acres in fine
fruit orchards, with substantial and roomy
homestead, farm and other necessary build-
ings. These were erected by his father, who
left the estate in good condition. Ambrose J.
is a modern farmer and maintains his farm
in perfect condition, and it is regarded as one
of the very best in Albany county. Every-
thing about the farm bespeaks the careful,
thrifty man of business who does not depend
so much on his muscle for success as he does
upon scientific handling of his acres with care-
ful method and system. He is a member of
the Reformed church, and a Republican. He
married, in New Scotland, February 24, 1897,
Elizabeth Loncks, born November 9, 1870.
educated at Albany Normal College, promi-
nent in local, church and social circles, and a
woman of excellent business capacity. She
is a daughter of John Albert and Susan (Slin-

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■gerland) Loucks. Her father was born July

19, 1841, was a thrifty, prosperous farmer and
fruit grower of New Scotland, owning large
landed estates, and is now (1910) living re-
tired in the village of New Scotland. He was
a son of James Harris Loucks, of Schoharie
■valley, and his wife Hester, daughter of John
Albert Slingerland, and sister of the late
William H. Slingerland. of Slingerlands.

James Harris Loucks was a son of John, and
■grandson of Peter, who came from Holland
in 1772. and settled at Sharon, New York.
"then almost a wilderness. His wife was

Betsey . who bore him six children.

David, William, John, Andrew, Sarah, and
Mary. John Albert and Susan (Slingerland)
L^oucks had five children, i. Elizabeth, mar-
ried Ambrose J. Wiltsie. 2. Anna, born April

20, 1871. married John V. D. Bradt, a farmer
•of New Scotland. 3. James Harris (2). born

November 13, 1877; a graduate of Albany
Law school, class of 1908; now (1910) a
practicing attorney of Albany ; married Sarah
Creble, daugliter of Francis and Sarah (Cal-
lanan) Creble (see Creble IX) ; they have a
•daughter, Frances Elizabeth. 4. Agnes Es-
telle, born December 13, 1887; a graduate of
Albany Girls' Academy: unmarried. 5. John
A. (2), born July 23, 1894; at home; in Al-
Ijany high school.

Susan (Slingerland) Loucks, mother of
Mrs. Ambrose J. Wiltsie, is a daughter of
Peter, granddaughter of Maus, and great-
■granddaughter of Peter Slingerland, a de-
■scendant of Tennis Cornelis and Engeltie Al-
"bertse (Bradt) Slingerland, of Holland, who
-emigrated to America from Amsterdam in
1650.

Montgomery county. N e w
SEEGER York, has always had a great
attraction for the German peo-
ple, and perhaps from no particular section of
Germany have more families settled there than
from Westphalia. They have always proved
desirable citizens, and have added materially
to the wealth of the country.

(I) Martin Seeger, with whom this family
record begins, was born in Greifenburg. West-
phalia, Germany (then Prussia), in 1803. His
parents also lived and died in that town. Mar-
tin was in the employ of a wealthy resident of
the town for many years previous to the date
of his death in 1855. He married Marie Dorn,
born in the same province ; she survived her
Tiusband. and at the request of her children
joined them in the United States, where she
died in Amsterdam, New York, at the home
of her daughter Hannah, at the age of ninety-
two. Roth Martin and Marie (Dorn) Seeger

were members of the German Lutheran church.
They were the parents of eleven children, who
grew to maturity, five of these came to the
United States, and will be named: i. Ernest,
settled in Iowa in 1870. and died at the age
of forty-five, unmarried. 2. Herman, served
in the German army four years, including the
period of the Franco-German war : he came to
the LTnited States in 1872. and settled in Am-
sterdam, New York : he married Minnie Gi-
sen, deceased, and had issue ; he is now ( 1909)
a resident of Racine, Wisconsin. 3. Fred
Augustus, see forward. 4. Minnie, came to
the United States in 1867: settled in Iowa,
where she married Herman Jarlin, a wealthy
land owner and farmer : they reared a family
of five. 5. Hannah, married in Germany,
Henry Juetes : they settled in Amsterdam, New
York, where he died in 1899 and she in 1898,
leaving children : Augustus William. Charles.
Henry, Fred, Hannah, Minnie and Bertha
Juetes.

(II) Fred Augustus, son of Martin and
Marie (Dorn) Seeger, was born in Greifen-
burg, Westphalia, Germany, April 22, 1846.
He grew up in his native village, and when
nineteen enlisted in the public civil service
and served for three and one-half years. The
war with France broke out shortly after his
discharge from the service, and he at once
enlisted in the service of the fatherland. He
joined the ranks of the cavalry, Plummer regi-
ment No. 2 Passawalk. and saw hard service,
as that regiment was in many engagements.
He was in the ranks something over a year
and escaped without a scratch, laying down
his iron shield and hood at the close of the
war, he says "with regret,'" as he liked the
life of a .soldier. He received an honorable
discharge, and in 1872 with his brother Her-
man took passage from Bremen for New
York, where they arrived April 7. 1872. He
soon came to Amsterdam, where he worked
for the farmers until his marriage, when he
leased land and farmed on his own account.
In 1884 he purchased a good farm of one
hundred and twenty acres near Hagaman,
town of Amsterdam, uix)n which he settled
and remained until 1906. when he sold the
farm to his son and retired from active life.
He married, in Hagaman. January 21, 1874,
Caroline Borwhat, born in Germany, in the
province of Westphalia, near the village of
Greifenburg, September 30, 1856, died in Am-
sterdam, Novcmljcr 30, 1902, daughter of
Charles Borwhat, with whom she emigrated
to the United States in 1871. The family set-
tled in Amsterdam, where Mr. and Mrs. Bor-
what died at advanced ages. Mr. and Mrs.
Frederick .\. Seeger were members of the Ger-

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man Lutheran church. Children: i. Edward
F., born October 18, 1877: married Edith Kas-
dorf ; children : Leon C. and Marian A. ; he
is a carpenter and builder of Rockton, a sub-
urb of Amsterdam. 2. Charles P.. born July
9. 1879: purchased the homestead in 1906 and
now operates it : married Elizabeth Rogers, of
Amsterdam. 3. William S., born April 11,
1881 ; married Annie Pagel : children: Elvie
and Amelia ; he is a dairyman of the town. 4.
John, born April 16, 1885; married Emily
Sterne ; he is a dairyman of .Amsterdam. 5.
Anna ^L, born October 7, 1900: she is the
particular attendant of her aged father, for
whom she cares with devoted interest.

This family was found-
MAISONNEU\"E ed in the United States
by William Maison-
neuve, of Canada, grandson of a prominent
mason and builder of Terbonne, Canada, who
w-as the builder of many of the stone churches
found in that country and section.

(I) .Vntoine Maisonneuve was born at St.
Jerome, Province of Quebec, Canada, in 181 1,
died at St. Phillippi. Canada. October 25, 1894.
He learned the trade of his father and became
a contractor himself. He always remained in
Canada, where he married Angelica Constan-
tineau, born in Canada, who survives her hus-
band, a resident of Ottawa. Canada. Chil-
dren: I. William, see forward. 2. ,

born 1857 : a stone mason of Brownburg, Can-
ada. 3. Mary Louise, born in Ottawa, Can-
ada : married John Patrie. 4. -Annie, married
Le Blanc : resides in Michigan. 5. Ma-
thilda, married Leon De Lome, of a wealthy
and prominent family of Canada : resides in
Ottawa.

(H) William, son of Antoine and Angelica
(Constantineau) Maisonneuve, was born in
Ottawa. Canada, January 28. 1855. He was
educ-ited at St. Joseph's College of that city,
graduating in 1868. and in 1872 settled in the
United States at Marquette. Michigan, going
from thence to Woonsocket, Rhode Island,
where he remained two years. In 1876 he
settled in Cohoes, New York, remaining but
a short time. After two years spent in IVlon-
tana he returned to Cohoes. In 1880 he was
appointed to the police force, where he con-
tinued si.x years. In 1886 he resigned and
established himself in the business he has since
.so successfully conducted. He deals in smoked
meats, prepared by the Swift Company of
Chicago, and has an extensive trade in Co-
hoes and surrounding towns. He is inde-
pendent in politics, supporting the National
Republican candidates, but in local affairs fol-
lows his preferences, acting usually with the

Democratic party. He served one term as
school commissioner, elected in 1899. He is
a member of Sacred Heart Roman Catholic
Church, and is an active and intluential mem-
ber of the Society of St. Jean Bapliste, a na-
tional benevolent, charitable and six-ial organ-
ization, organized in 1871, maintaining read-
ing rooms and libraries and providing for the
social and spiritual uplift of its members. He
was corresijonding secretary of the Cohoes
branch, in 1882-87-88; president in 1895, and
again in 1899.

He married (first). May, 1876, Octavia Gi-
roux. born in Canada, died March 15, 1893, in
Cohoes, daughter of Louis and Octavia Ma-
guin, of Canada. Children, nine in number,
six of whom died in infancy: i. Joseph Is-
rael, born June 17, 1884, in Cohoes; resides in
.Albany, where he is connected with the New
York Central Railroad Company. 2. \ictor,
born in Cohoes, June 13, 1885, resides in Co-
hoes, where he is an employee of the Page
Rolling Mill Company; married Elizabeth Mc-
Namara and has a daughter Mildred. 3.
George William, born in Cohoes, July 31,
1890: resides in .Albany: in the employ of
the New York Central Railroad Comi)any. He
married (second), March 27. 1894, Mary Es-
ther Ruboi, born at Rouse's Point, New York,
daughter of Joseph Ruboi, born at Three Riv-
ers, Canada, in 1847, now (1910) a carpenter
and builder of Cohoes, and his wife, Esther
(Chevalier) Ruboi, born in Rouse's Point,
New York.

.Among the numerous families
DUFEL that have settled in .Montgomery

county. New York, from the
kingdom of Westphalia, empire of Germany,
are the Dufels of Mohawk, whose ancestry
dates back over three centuries. Henry Dufel,
grandfather of Henry Dufel, of Mohawk, was
born in the village of Hille, Cln-ist Minden,
Westphalia. He came from an ancient family
of agriculturists, and was born in a stone
house built by an ancestor in 1667. He met
his death at the age of fifty trying to protect
some children from the attack of a mad dog.
He was himself bitten and died of hydropho-
bia. He literally died to save others. His
wife, whose name was Whittemeyer, bore him
two children: i. Henry .Augustus, mentioned
below. 2. Frederick, grew to youthful man-
hood in his native town, then came to the
United States, lived for a time in New York
City, then settled permanently in Dalton,
Massachusetts, where he was engaged with
the Crane Paper Manufacturing Company for
several years until his accidental death. He
married Marv Schmidt, now deceased, who

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bore him John, WilHam, Carrie and Louise,
all prosperous residents of Massachusetts, and
all married except the eldest daughter, Carrie.

(II) Henry Augustus, eldest son of Henry
Dufel, was born in Hille, Christ Minden,
Westphalia, in 1820, died in 1897, on the old
homestead so long the home of his fathers.
Like the former generation, he was a faithful
member of the Lutheran church. He married
Mary Whittemeyer, who died at the age of
seventy-two, surviving her husband three
years, their term of years on earth being the
same. Children, all born in Christ Minden,
Westphalia: i. Christopher, now a prosper-
ous and wealthy resident of Black Hawk
county, Ohio ; married Minnie Droudhouse,
and has Christopher (2), Henry, Fred, So-
phia, Carrie and a twin to Fred, died in in-
fancy. 2. Louise, deceased ; married Charles
Book, a farmer near Schenectady, New York,
and left children: John, Emma, William,
Ella and Louise Book. 3. Mary, married Au-
gustus Schube, a retired resident of Amster-
dam, New York, and has a daughter, Carrie,
who married Fred Friday, a restaurateur of
Amsterdam, and has two children. 4. Henry,
mentioned below. 5. Fred, born October 23,
i860, was a farmer of the ancestral acres; in
March, 188 1, he sailed for the United States
from Bremen on the steamship "Zalea," land-
ing in New York City ; he proceeded to Al-
bany and later to Amsterdam, New York,
where for six years he was a broom maker,
then a farmer, owning a substantial farm near
Amsterdam, which he conducts as a market
garden, since being seriously injured by an
accident to his harvesting machinery. He
married Carrie Turner, born in Christ Min-
den, February 3, 1864; she came to the United
States the same year as her husband, and was
subsequently married in Amsterdam. Her
father, Christopher Turner, is living in West-
phalia; her mother is deceased. Children:
i. Ella, born August 5, 1887, married P'loyd
Mosier, and \\as a daughter Catherine ; ii. Wil-
liam Fred, born October 16, 1889; iii. Minnie,
born July 8, 1891 ; iv. Carrie, born January
5, 1893; v. Albert, born March 16. 1896.

(III) Henry, fourth child of Henry Augus-
tus and Mary (Whittemeyer) Dufel, was born
in Christ Alinden, Westphalia, on the old
homestead, February 6, 1858. At the age of
sixteen he sailed for the United States on the
steamship "Vazel," arriving in New York
City, March 30, 1874. He was for a time
resident of Schenectady, later settled in Am-
sterdam, where for several years he was a
broom maker. He then began farming as a
tenant farmer, later in 1887 purchased his
present farm of two hundred and thirty-five

acres located in the town of ]\Iohawk. Mont-
gomery county, where he is now successfully
engaged in general and dairy farming. He
married, in Florida, Montgomery county, Alin-
nie Cruzer, born in Christ Minden, December
I. 1857, came to the United States on the
same vessel with her husband and became
his wife after settling in Montgomery county.
She is a devoted wife and mother, of great
energy and determination. Children, all un-
married and all residing at home : Fred, born
July II, 1881 ; Charles, September 14, 1882;
Henry, September 14, 1885 ; Louise, Decem-
ber 30, 1887; William, November 25, 1889;
Louis, July 30, 1892 ; Arthur, January 9,
1894. The family are attendants of the Lu-
theran church.

The McCalls of Fulton county
McCALL descend from Scotch ancestors.

The American ancestor was An-
drew McCall, born in Scotland. He came to
the United States, and settled in New York
state. He married and had issue.

(II) Andrew (2), son of Andrew (i) Mc-
Call, the founder, was a manufacturer of to-
bacco, with a factory in Gloversville. lie mar-
ried Mary Husted ; children: i. Ida M., mar-
ried Edwin Potter; children: Nathan and
Ruth. 2. Lawrence, married Nettie Hallen-
beck; children: i. Alice, married Edward
Braun and had Albert ; ii. Laura, married
James Friend : iii. George ; iv. Charles. 3. Al-
berta, married Harmon Jansen ; child, Lucille.
4. Nettie, married Henry Jansen; child,
Marion. 5. Harry, of whom further. 6.
Eleanor, married .'\rthur Foote ; child, Helen.

(III) Harry, son of Andrew (2) and Mary
(Husted) McCall. was born in Newark. New
Jersey, October 25, 1869. He'was educated
in the public schools. When a young man he
became associated with his father in the to-
bacco business and mainifacture of cigars, and
later succeeded his father in the business.
He is a successful business man and has one ,
of the principal factories of the district. He
has always been actively interested in county
politics and in 1908 was the successful candi-
date of the Republican party for the oftice of
sheriff of Fulton county, an office he held un-
til January i, 191 1. He was an efficient and
popular official, fulfilling his often disagree-
able duties with tact and courtesy. He is a
member of the Knights of Pythias, and of
Arietta Tribe. Improved Order of Red Men.
He married Catherine Peffer Robinson, born
November 20, 1872, daughter of William Se-
mon Robinson, of Amsterdam, New York,
born April 4, 1845, niarried Margaret Ilart-
nett, of Albany, born August 8, 1848, who bore

HUDSON AND MOHAWK \ALLEYS

him seven children: i. Catherine, married
Harry McCall. 2. Nettie O., married Albert
\'anderpool. 3. William Semon (2). 4. Harry
H. 5. Margaret, married Robert I. Hil-
lock : child, Roberta Winona. 6. Roscoe C.
7. W. Huijcne. William S. Robinson was a
son of Isaac G. and Catherine (Peffer) Rob-
inson. Margaret (Ilartnett) Robinson was a
daughter of Michael and Nellie (Roach) Hart-
nett. Tliey had three children: Michael David,
Daniel, John and Margaret. Catherine Peflfer
(Robinson) ^TcCall is an active and promi-
nent member of the Degree of Pocahontas.
She is a member of Gloversville Council, No.
y2. which she joined in 1895. She passed all
the chairs in her local council, and in 1907
was elected Great Minnehaha of the state of
New York. She was advanced each year
through the chairs of the Great Council un-
til June 15, 1910, when she was elected Great
Pocahontas of the state of New York, which
comprises one hundred and twenty-eight sub-
ordinate councils.

The Crandalls of Rhode Isl-
CRANDELL and are of Welsh descent,

the name in that language
being Craum Dell, meaning. Iron Dell. The
name is spelled both Crandall and Crandell,
tlie branch settling in Ghent, Columbia
county. New York, using the latter form. Sev-
eral of the name arrived at Boston, Massa-
chusetts, as early as 1634. The ancestor of
the New York branch. Rev. John Crandall,
appears in Massaclnisetts records in 1635. At
that time the persecution of Roger Williams
was causing great excitement in the colonies,
many being opposed to the extreme measures
of the Puritans. In the autumn of 1635 the
church at Salem dismissed him from their
pulpit and he was ordered to leave the col-
ony in six weeks. In the winter of 1636 the
authorities at Boston ordered his arrest, but
he learned their plans and fled into the wil-
derness, reaching Narragansett liay in the
spring. He was treated kindly by the Sa-
chems of Narragansett Indians, from whom
he obtained large grants of land and founded
the city of Providence. Rev. John Crandall
was also persecuted for his religious opinions,
and after his imprisonment in Boston sought
safety in Providence ; soon after was of New-
port where he was associated with the early
Baptists, later still was of Westerly, Rhode
Island, where he was the first elder of the
Baptist church. He was prominent in the lat-
ter town, which he represented as deputy. He
■died at Newport, Rhode Island, 1678, having
removed there on account of the Inrlian war.
He had two wives, the first died August i,

1670. His second wife, Hannah, died 1678.
By the tirst wife he had children: John, James,
Jane, Sarah, Peter, Joseph, Samuel. By sec-
ond wife, Jeremiah and Eber.

(II) Joseph, sixth child of Rev. John Cran-
dall, was born before 1663, died 'September
12, 1737. He lived in Westerly and New-
port, Rhode Island. He was called to the
pastorate m the Seventh Day Baptist church
in 1715. He married Deborah, daughter of
Robert and Ruth (Hubbard) Burdick. Chil-
dren : John, Joseph and Deborah.

(III) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (i) and
Deborah (Burdick) Crandall, was bom at
Westerly, Rhode Island. He married there,
February 15. 17 16, Ann Langworthy. Chil-
dren: Joseph (3), James, William, Simon,
Joshua, Ezekiel, Ann, Benjamin.

(IV) James, second son of Joseph (2) and
Ann (Langworthy) Crandall, was born in
Westerly, Rhode Island, May 12, 1719. He
married (first) Damaris Kenyon ; (second)
Mrs. Elizabeth Sanders.

(\') James (2), son of James (1) and
Elizabeth (Sanders) Crandall, was born in
Westerly. Rhode Island, in 1783. He settled
with Samuel Crandell in the town of Ghent,
Columbia county. New York. Their names
are entered there as Crandell. a form main-
tained by the descendants of James. James
Crandell married and had issue.

(\'I) Solomon, son of James (2) Cran-
dell, was born in Ghent, Columbia county,
New York, in 1806. He was educated in tlie
public schools, and remained on the home
farm in Ghent until he was eighteen years
of age. He was a hard student and secured
a good education. .\t eighteen he began teach-
ing in the public schools during the winter
months, returning to the farm for the sum-
mer work. This he continued for several
years, then removed to Kinderhook. where he
was clerk in a general store for two years.
He removed to Chatham. Columbia county.
New York, in 1829, where he purchased the
homestead now occupied by his son Homer.
He was one of the early settlers of Chatham,
where he built and conducted one of the first
general stores in 1827, continuing in mercan-
tile life until his death at the age of seventy-
three years. He was a most useful and
exemplary citizen, supporting liberally the in-
stitutions of his town with his means and per-
sonal effort. He was elected justice of the
peace in 1833-36. He was a member of the
Friends church, and a Democrat in politics.
He married, December 20, 1832, Mary Eliza
Wheeler of Coxsackic. Greene county. New
York, daughter of William and Martha
(Thorne) \Viieclcr, who came from England

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to Concord. Alassachusetts, about 1640. Mary
E. Wheeler, born May 8. 1809, was the fifth
child of a family of ten children. Her brother
Joseph, ninth child, was the father of Dr.
John Thorn Wheeler, "the beloved physician
of Chatham, New York." Children : Homer,
of further mention ; Frank, a resident of De-
troit. Michigan, since 1885 ; married Mary
P. Raymond of that city, and has''a daughter
Florence, wife of Captain Frank Lacey. grad-
uate of West Point, and captain in regular
army, son of Lieutenant-Colonel Frank E.
Lacey.

(\'ir) Homer, eldest son of Solomon and
Mary Eliza (Wheeler) Crandell, was born
June 20, 1836. He was educated in the pub-.
lie and private schools of Chatham, finishing
his studies at Albany Boys' Academy. He
was associated with his father in the Chatham
store, and after his death succeeded to the
business which he successfully and profitably
conducted for many years until his retirement
from business. He is a Republican in poli-
tics and for several years has held the office
of justice of the peace. He is a member of
the Dutch Reformed church. He married
Mary, daughter of Ezra and Ann (Knapp)
Hawley, she died December 31, 1910; was a
member of Reformed church. Children: i.
May. married John H. Page, now owner and
proprietor of the business established by Solo-
mon Crandell and continued by his son.
Homer Crandell, until 1891. 2. Fred H., mar-
ried Adaline McManus. and resides in New
York City; children: Mary, Adaline. Rich-
ard, and Homer. 3. Walter S.. married Bess
Rain, of Kinderhook. New ^'o^k. and resides
in New York City.

The Gardner family of Co-
GARDNER lumbia county. New York,

trace to James D. Gardner,
along paternal and to James L Gardner on
maternal lines. James D. Gardner was born
in 1769. died at Livingston, Columbia county,
New York. December 11. 1831. He was a
farmer. He married Gertrude Hyser, born
August 17, 1770, died February 10, 1863.

("H) Frederick David, son of James D. and
Gertrude (Hyser) Gardner, was born at Liv-
ingston, Columbia county. New York. August
21. 1801, died August 31, 1883. He was
a farmer of Greenport. Columbia county. New
York. He married. December 6. 1825, Caro-
line Kipj). born March 17, 1801. died Sep-
tember, 17, 1887, daughter of Peter James
Kipp, who died March 8. 1856. aged eighty-
one years, and Sarah Coffin, died .'\pril 4,
1866, aged ninety-five years. -Children of
Frederick David and Caroline (Kipp) Gard-

ner: I. Ann Eliza, born October 12, 1827,
died August 26, 1910; married, June 8, 1847,
Philip H. Lambert, born January 22, 1828,
died I\Iay 25, 1896: children: i. Emma, born
November 22, 1849, married, September 2^.
1875, Thomas A. Patrie : children : Grace, born
December 8, 1876; Clara E., born July 2,
1882. married William J. Parker, ii. Fra-
leigh G., born October 15, 1859. married,
July 5, 1875. Henrietta \'an Duesen : children:
Edith, born July 9. 1876, married, De-
cember 12, 1894, Horton Gardner, born
March 2. 1871, son of Peter and Caroline
(Post) Gardner; children: Earl Peter, born
March i, 1905, Alma C. February 26, 1909.
Philip, born December 25, 1881, married Eli-
za \'an Duesen, October 12. 1904: child, Hen-
rietta, born November 19, 1909. 2. Peter
James, of further mention. 3. Milton H., born
January i. 1834, died September 22. 1900;
married, June 2, 1863. Helen Wise, born 1841,
died 1905 ; child, Frederick D.. born May 28,
1865. died June 14. 1885 : married Minnie
Hallenbeck ; children : Andrew Milton, born
July 10, 1883. married, October 15. 1902. Ger-
trude Augusta Peister : children: Clarence-
Milton, born December 6, 1906; Stewart Da-
vid, born July 11, 1909. Andrew Milton
Gardner is living on the old homestead.

(HI) Peter James, son of Frederick David
and Caroline (Kipp) Gardner, was born De-
cember II, 1829, at Greenport. Columbia
county, New York, died at Hudson, New
York, February 7. 1906. He removed from
Greenport at the age of twenty-one years and
settled at Claverack, where he followed the
business of a farmer until 1876, when he re-
tired from active life. He settled in Hudson
where he lived a quiet rctirgi life until his
death. TTc was a Republican in politics, and'
attended the Dutch Reformed church. He
married at Livingston, New York, Elizabeth
Christina (a kinswoman), daughter of Rob-
ert and Christina (Rorabach) Gardner, who
survives him and resides with her daughter,
.Mma C. (Gardner) Ten Broeck. Alma C.
married Everts Ten Broeck, born May 5. 1S53,
son of William Henry and Mary Jane
(Everts) Ten Broeck. He is a director of
the Farmers' National Bank of Hudson and
interested in other business enterprises. He
is a member of the Dutch Reformed churcn.
Caroline Gardner Ten Broeck, only child of
Everts and .\lma C. (Gardner) Ten Broeck,
was born Sejitember 20, 1879, and died Feb-
ruary 21, 1880.

Robert Gardner was the son of James 1.
Gardner, who was born May i, 1768, at Clav-
erack. New York, died June 24. 1842. He
married, June 2/, 1793, mizabeth Harder,

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born February 12, 1769, died August 15, 1834,
daughter of John, born October 20, 1740, and
Alagdalena Harder. Robert Gardner was
born in Living-ston. Columbia county. New
York, December 3, 1807, died there February
13, 1872. He married, September 19, 1827,
Christina Rorabach, born October 8. 1804, at
Livingston, where she died I'ebruary 8, 1885,
daughter of Peter Roraback, born 1778, died
May 15, 1847, married Catherine, daughter
of Frederick (died April 30, 1814, aged sixty-
six years) and Christina (Silvernail) Flint
(died aged eighty-nine years). Children of
Robert and Christina Gardner: i. Elizabeth
Christina, aforementioned. 2. Catherine, born
May 23, 1832. 3. Peter, born August 19, 1835,
died February 9, 1903 ; married, November
12, i860, Caroline Post, has a son, Horton
Gardner, a farmer of Livingston, New York,
who married Edith, daughter of Fraleigh
Lambert, and has Earl Peter and Alma C. 4.
Robert R., born February 27, 1839, died May
30, 1897 ; served in the civil war, sergeant in
the One Hundred and Fifty-ninth I^eginicnt,
New York Volunteer Infantry, served during
the war; married, December 5. 1866. Sarah
Kipp : children : i. Louise, married William E.
\'anderbilt, missionary to Mexico ; ii. Carroll
Kipp, born 1873. 5. James R., twin of Rob-
ert R., married, October 4, 1866, .\nna Lap-
ham.

The earliest record of the La-

L.\SELL sell family is of John Lzell, who

married Jane Gates, and settled

at Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1686. The

name is also spelled Lasalle and Lassell and

originally was undoubtedly La Salle.

The Troy branch of the family was founded
by Samuel Hubbard Lasell, son of James La-
sell, of Providence, Rhode Island, and Phoebe
(Hall) Lasell, of North Bennington, Ver-
mont. Samuel H. Lasell married Emma
Quackenbush, of Troy, New York, and they
are the parents of a son, Edwin Quackenbush.
see forward. The Quackenbush family is de-
scended from

fl) Pieter Quackenbos, of Holland, who
settled in Albany, New York, in 1668. He
married Adryana Van Ilpendam.

(II) Adrian Quackenbush, son of Pieter
and Adryana (\'an Ilpendam) Quackenbos,
married Catherine Van Schaick.

(III) Svbrandt, son of Adrian and Cath-
erine (Van Schaick) Quackenbush, married
Elizabeth Knickerbocker.

(I\') Harman. son of Sybrandt and Eliza-
beth (Knickerbocker) Quackenbush, married
Judith Morall.

(V) Sybrandt (2), son of Harman and Ju-

dith (Morain Quackenbush, married Eliza-
beth Van Schaick.

(\T) Gerrit \an Sciiaick, son of Sybrandt
(2) and Elizabeth (\'an Schaick) Quacken-
bush, married Hannah Abigail Bayeux. He
founded the dry goods business of G. \'. S.
Quackenbush, which after his death was con-
ducted by Samuel Hubbard Lasell and lias
now passed into the hands of his son, Edwin
Quackenbush Lasell.

Edwin Quackenbush Lasell, son of Sainuel
Hubbard and Emma (Quackenbnsh) Lasell,
a resident of Troy, New York, married, 1890,
Edna Long Maynard, of Washington, D. C,
daughter of Edward and Caroline Ellen
(Long) Maynard, the latter of whom was of
Savannah, Georgia. Mr. and Mrs. Lasell
have one child, Dorothy Maynard Lasell, bom
in Troy, New York.

Edward Maynard, father of Mrs. Lasell,
was born at Madison, New York, 1813, died
at Washington, D. C., 1891. He was the
inventor of the Maynard rifle which was used
by the United States government at the time
of the civil war, and was also adopted by
Germany and Sweden. He was descended
from John and Mary (Gates) Maynard, of
Sudbury : David and Ilannah ( Wait ) May-
nard: Jesse and Phoebe (Fiske) Maynard;
Lemuel and Sarah (Wright) Maynard, and
Moses and Chloe (Butler) Maynard.

The families of Wemple and
\\'EMPLE Wemp descend from Jan Ba-

rentse Wemp, who was Iwrn
in Dort, Holland, in 1620, came to America,
1640, arrived in Beverwyck in 1643-45. He
appears in several land transfers, including a
"bouwery" on the Poestenkill, and in 1662 a
patent for the Great Lsland lying west of
Schenectady, and a house lot in the village.
He marriccl Maritia Mynderste, who survived
him, and married ( second ) Sweer Teunise
\'an \'elsen, the village miller, with wliom
she perished in the massacre of February 9,
1690. Children of Jan Barentse Wemp:
Myndert. torn 1649: Grietje, 1651 : .\nna,
1653, married Sander Glen: Barent. i')55;
Johannes ; Aeltje, married Jan Cornelise Van
Derheyden.

(II) Myndert Wemple, eldest son of Jan
Barentse and Maritia (Mynderste) Wemp,
.was born in 1649. He was appointeti justice
of the peace by Leisler in 1689 and was killed
in the massacre of i6<)o, where his mother
was killed, and also his son Johannes was
carried away captive but later redeemed. He
married Dicwc, daughter of Evert Janse
Wendel. Chihlren : Johannes, Susanna, mar-
ried Johannes Simonse N'ceder.

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(HI) Johannes, only son of Myndert and
Diewe (Wendel) Wemple, died in Schenec-
tady, October 14, 1749. He was one of the
trustees of the Schenectady patent. In 17 11
was "of the Mohawk's country on the Mo-
hawk River," owned land on the south side
of the river, in the present town of Rotter-
dam ; he made his will March 5, 1748. He
married (first), June 15, 1700. Cataline,
daughter of Ryer Schermerhorn ; (second)
Ariantje, daughter of Isaac Swits. He had
twelve children, of whom Isaac was the sev-
enth.

(IV) Isaac, son of Johannes and Ariantje
(Swits) Wemple, was born August 28, 1715.
He married Elisabet Newkirk and had issue.

(V) Johannes (2), son of Isaac and Elis-
abet (Newkirk) Wemple, was born about
1750. He married Maria, daughter of Isaac
Swits, and had nine children.

(VI) Isaac (2). son of Johannes (2) and
Maria (Swits) Wemple, was born in Rot-
terdam, Schenectady county, New York, Sep-
tember 8, 1777, died September 7, 1855. He
was a farmer, justice of the peace and of
considerable influence locally. He was a
member of the Dutch Reformed church and
a Democrat. He married Margaret Brott,
born December 4, 1779, in Princetown, died
at the age of seventy years. The Brott block-
house was built on her father's farm in Prince-
town. Children : Fulda, married Edward
Van Der Poel ; Caroline, died unmarried ;
Eliza, married John Kaley; Aaron, of whom
further ; Henry, married Sally Ann Swits and
settled in Owego, New York, left Annie and
Swits; Edwin, '^now of Quaker street, Albany
county. New York, on October 20, 1910, cel-
ebrated his eighty-seventh birthday ; married
Eveline Wilbur, no issue.

(VII) Aaron, son of Isaac (2) and Mar-
garet (Brott) Wemple, was born in Rotter-
dam, Schenectady county, New York, August
15, 1804. He grew up on the home farm and
followed agriculture all liis life. He married
Agnes Van Der Poel, of Princetown, died
December 11, 1885, daughter of James Van
Der Poel, a soldier of the revolution. Chil-
dren of Aaron and Agnes Wemple: Isaac,
died in childhood; Isaac (2), of whom fur-
ther; James, born January 23, 1835, joined
the army of western adventurers and died
in California in 1874; Margaret, July 10,
1837, now a resident of Syracuse. New York ;
Catherine, July 15, 1846, died July 30, 1876,
leaving a son James.

(VIII) Isaac (3), son of Aaron and Ag-
nes (Van Der Poel) Wemple, was born on
the Wemple homestead in Rotterdam, Schen-
cctadv county. New York, October 20, 1833.

He was educated in the public schools ; grew
up to the occupation of a farmer ; purchased
in 1878 one hundred acres of the old Pang-
born estate in Rotterdam upon which he still
resides. He has always been active in town
affairs, and for fourteen years held public
office, part of that time being supervisor. He
is a Democrat in politics, and a man highly
regarded by his neighbors. He married, in
Rotterdam, Eliza Pangborn, born on the
Pangborn homestead (part of which is now
her home) in 1844, daughter of Abraham
and Eliza (Vollick) Pangborn, both of Rot-
terdam, where they died on the homestead,
both being over eighty years of age. Abra-
ham was the son of John Pangborn, who
located the homestead prior to the revohition-
ary war. He accumulated a large estate which
he divided into two farms, giving one to his
son James, the other to son Abraham. Chil-
dren of Isaac and Eliza Wemple : Alonzo,
died at the age of five years ; Charles, died
at the age of fifteen years ; Ira, died at the
age of five years; Frederick, died at the age
of twenty-two years, married Lilliam Light-
foot, who married a second husband ; James,

married Welty, resides with his father

and has a child, Blanche ; Addie, married
Alexander Blessing, a lawyer of Schenec-
tady ; children : Harold and Agnes ; May,
married Emmett Blessing, of Schenectady.

(V) James, son of Jo-
LA GRANGE hannes (John C.) (q. v.)
and Anna Maria (Morde-
cai) LaGrange, was born on the south side of
Norman's Kill, LaGrange homestead, Albany
county. New York, in 1784, died at Mc-
Gowan's, town of Guilde;"land. 1826. His
death was caused by poisoning from eating
cherry pies. He was a hotel man and a
farm.er, owning two farms in Guilderland. He
maintained a house of entertainment in Mc-
Gowansvillc, but at the time of his death kept
an inn on the Hugh Kelly property on the
western turnpike. He married Hester Van-
derzee, born in New Scotland, 1785, surviving
her husband's death several years. They had
a large family, i. Hester, married Colonel
Daniel Davis, of Canadian birth; they re-
sided on the homestead farm on the south
side of Norman's Kill, now known as the
Jacobson farm. 2. Eve, married Stephen
Thorn, who was associated with the old-
time circus firm of Thorn & Spalding, whom
he accompanied on their fatal South Amer-
ican trip when all were lost at sea. 3. Mag-
dalene, married Christopher Batterman, one-
time sheriff of Albany county, later settled
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1665

he survived her until extreme old age, when
he was killed by the cars. 4. Myndert, see
forward.

(\i) Myndert, youngest child of James
and Hester (Vanderzee) LaGrange, was
horn near Guilderland Center. Albany county.
New York, November 17, 1815. died in Al-
bany, New York, December 28, 1892. at the
home of his daughter. He was a lifelong
farmer of the county, retiring to Albany only
when his active days were over. He was "a
man of industrious, steady habits and highly
respected in his community. He was captain
of tl-.e local military company for several
years and a member and elder of the Dutch
Reformed church. He was first a Whig and
later a Republican. He married, in Giulder-
land, Julia Ann, born in Guilderland, 1821,
died on the farm in 1902. daughter of Andrew
and Angelica (Bloomingdale I LaGrange, and
granddaughter of Peter LaGrange. The
Bloomingdales were also an old county fam-
ily. Myndert and Julia Ann LaGrange had
twehe children who reached maturity. i.
James, settled and married at Pesotum, Il-
linois. 2. Andrew, of Guilderland Center,
married and has Williard and Ella, both mar-
ried. 3. Eleanor, married Joseph Schwarts,
•of Albany, whom she survives, in that city,
with children. 4. IMyndert (2), farmer on
the old homestead, married, and has a fam-
ily. 5. X'anderzee, of further mention. 6.
Julia F., married William Bradt, whom she
survives, a resident of Voorheesville, has
three sons and one daughter. 7. Norman,
died in youth. 8. Hester, married Rev. John
M. Forbis, a Presbyterian minister of Lin-
coln, Illinois, has daughter Jessie, married
Edward ^^'iley. 9. Angelica, married Cyrus
Crounse, of Voorheesville, and has issue. 10.
Ada J., married Alfred Frederick, a farmer
of Meadowdale ; has two sons and two daugh-
ters. II. Magdalene, married Aaron Merritt.
of Voorheesville, has no issue. 12. Harlan
Morse, met with a serious accident in youth
that resulted in a derangement of mind; he
is kept in the asylum at Pouglikeepsie. 13.
Clinton, married and died without issue. 14.
Mary, killed in childhood by a runaway team.

(VII) X'anderzee, fifth child and fourth
son of Myndert and Julia Ann (LaGrange)
LaGrange, was born on the LaGrange farm
near Guilderland Center, Albany county. New
York, September 8. 1845. He was reared on
the farm and educated in the public schools,
later attending Albany Business College. He
remained with his parents until his jjurchase
in 1889 of his present farm of one himdred
and two acres, near the village of L'nionville.
He has a well-cultivated, fertile farm, well

stocked with choice grades of cattle and
horses. A feature of the farm is twenty acres
of fine fruit orchards in full bearing. He has
been for si.xteen years justice of the peace
for the town of New Scotland, and is man
of infiuence in his community. He is Re-
publican in politics and a member and elder
of the Dutch Reformed church. He married,
in New Scotland, Agnes M. Slingerland, born
in that town in 1844, reared and educated
there. She is the daughter of James and
Hester (Slingerland) Slingerland, and ma-
ternal granddaughter of Albert and Agnes
(Vanderzee) Slingerland. James and Hester
are descendants of Tunise Cornelise Slinger-
land, founder of the family in America.
James and Hester Slingerland, after their
marriage in New Scotland, settled on a farm
on Ouesquethan Creek in the same town,
where they lived until old age and died.
They were devoted church workers, and well
known for their charitable Christian lives.
Children of \'anderzee and Agnes M. La-
Grange: I. Janes S., born in New Scotland,
December 27, 1872, educated in the public
schools and Albany Business College, mar-
ried Mary A. Oliver, of Bethlehem, born De-
cember 7, 1876, daughter of Andrew \". D.
H. and Salina (Solway) Oliver: child. James
Earle, born ]\lay 23, 1903. 2. Hester E.. born
October 13, 1874, educated at .Albany Female
Academy: she died March 8, 1900, when bud-
ding into useful, promising womanhtxid. 3.
Anna Katherine, born September 15, 1886,
educated in the .Mbany (iirls Academy, re-
sides at home. Parents and children are all
members of the Dutch Reformed church at
L'nionville.

The first of the family of
SHAX'ER whom we have information is
Bartholomew Shaver, from
Ilnlland. a farmer and early settler of what
is now Fulton county. New York. He was a
soldier of the revolution, serving in the Sec-
ond Regiment, Tryon county militia. Colonel
Jacob Klock ("New York in the Revolution").
He evidently died prior to 1790, as the first
census taken that year does not contain his
name. He married and has numerous de-
scendants yet settled in the Mohawk X'alley
and in Northern New York.

(II) John, .son of Bartholomew Shaver, was
born in the town of Ephratah, Fulton county.
New York, in 1778. died there March 23,
iSf'o, after an active, well-spent life. lie fol-
lowed the occupation of a farmer with much
success and was one of the substantial men of
the town. He was a con'^istent member of
the Dutch Reformed church, and a Whig in

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politics. During the war of 1812-14 he served
with the rank of major, and was engaged at
Sacketts Harbor, where he received a wound.
He married, in his native county, February 21,
1802, Catherine Empie, born in Fulton county,
where she died March 30, 1869, aged eighty-
five years three months twenty-two days. She
was a member of the pioneer family of that
name who have figured so prominently in the
history of Fulton county. She was a member
of the church, worshipping with her husband's
congregation. Children: i. Daniel, born
April 17, 1803, died May 8, 1841 ; married.
May 15, 1825, Mary Best. 2. Benjamin (see
forward). 3. Nancy, born January 5, 1808,
died April 8, 1828; married, October, 1826,
William Claus. 4. Mary, born July 10, 1809,
died young. 5. Aaron, born September 21,
1814, died July 25, 1856; married, November
5, 1836, Mary Flanders. 6. Catherine (Cady),
born February 6, 1818; married, October 31,
1839, David Saltsman.

(Ill) Benjamin, son of John and Catherine
(Empie) Shaver, was born in Ephratah, New
York, October 5, 1805, died February 19,
1879, aged seventy-three years four months
fourteen days. He was reared a farmer,
which occupation he successfully followed
throughout the active years of his life. He
was a man of prominence in his community,
where he was highly respected. His religious
connection was with the Dutch Reformed
church ; his political faith, Whig and Repub-
lican. He was a public-spirited man, and in-
terested in all that pertained to the welfare of
his town and coimty. He married, in his
native county, June 26, 1831, Nancy Klock,
born in the town of Palatine, New York, June
II, 1813, died March 27, 1881. She was a
member of the old historical family of Klock
who made settlement in Fulton county in
pioneer days prior to the revolutionary war.
She was a woman of many sterling qualities
and in full sympathy with her husband in all
things. Children: i. Nathan (see forward).
2. Stephen, born May 28, 1835, died March 6,
1896: married, October, 1852, Mary Saltsman,
of Fulton county. New York, where they lived
and died ; he was a farmer. 3. Albert, born
September 20, 1836. 4. John, born March
5, 1839; married. February 13, 1867, Mag-
dalene Fox. 5. Webster, born February 7,
1841 ; a battle-scarred veteran of the civil
war, being five times wounded ; married,
October i, 1867, Loretta A. Houghton;
lives on the old homestead, Epliratah, New
York. 6. Catharine, born I'cbruary 21,
1843, died September 17, 1870: married, Jan-
uary 6, 1870, George G. Griffin. 7. Hiram,
born June 14, 1845, died April, 1898; mar-

ried, May 17, 1875, Julia Wade. 8. Reubert,
born May 25, 1850; married, February 2,
1871, Celia Ash; resides on a ranch in West-
field, Texas. 9. Alpha, born June 25, 1852;
married, February 14, 1875, Catharine Smith;
resides in Fulton county; is a farmer.

(IV) Nathan, son of Benjamin and Nancy
(Klock) Shaver, was born in Ephratah, New
York, August 13, 1832, died November i,
1887, at Cohoes, New York. He was a con-
tractor in early life, later engaging in the dry
goods business in Cohoes, and was a director
of Manufacturers' Bank of Cohoes for years.
Fie was a capable business man and possessed
a character beyond reproach. He was a mem-
ber and president of the board of trustees of
the First Methodist Episcopal Church, and an
exemplary Christian. He was a member of
the board of aldermen, second ward of Co-
hoes, for some years : was a member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, both lodge
and encampment, and a Knight of Pythias.
He married Alice J. Howarth, born in Nis-
kayuna, Schenectady county. New York,
daughter of Henry Howarth, born in Eng-
land, came when a boy to Niskayuna, and
settled in Cohoes about the year 1840. The
Howarth homestead in Cohoes is now occu-
pied by the "Old Ladies' Home," and the
parsonage of the Methodist Episcopal church
stands upon his old garden patch. He was a
contractor and builder, erecting nearly all the
buildings known as the "Harmony Mills," tene-
ment houses, private residences and other
large buildings in Cohoes. He performed'
considerable of the heavy mason work in and
along the Erie canal ; built No. 2 reservoir of
city water works, and conducted other large
operations. Children of Air. and Mrs. Shaver:
I. Henry Lincoln (see forward). 2. John W.,
born 1867; died 1896; educated at Saratoga
Institute ; was a fruit and confectionary mer-
chant ; married Emma Marsh, now a resident
of New York City ; left a daughter, Madeleine.

(V) Henry Lincoln, son of Nathan and
Alice J. (Howarth) Shaver, was born in
Cohoes, New York, March 4, 1861. He was
educated in the public school. Mount An-
thony Seminary, Bennington Center, Ver-
mont, and Troy Business College. After
completing his studies he began his business
career as a clerk with Hugh McCusker, a dry
goods merchant of Cohoes, with whom he re-
mained two years, after which he was em-
ployed with R. Wilcox, of Cohoes, and dur-
ing his engagement with Mr. Wilcox his
father became a member of the firm. At the
expiration of two years Mr. Nathan Shaver
retired from the firm and established a dry
goods business at the corner of Remson and'

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Ontario streets, of which he was proprietor
until his death in 1887. Henry L. Shaver
went with his father to the new store and
remained with him until his death. At the
death of his father, Henry L. formed a co-
partnership with his mother, under the firm
name of Shaver & Son, and continued till
1892. He then assumed control of the busi-
ness, moving to the opposite side of the street,
and continuing in that location under the same
name until 1896, when the firm became "The
Golden Ball Dry Goods and Shoe House,"
under which name it still continues at 128-130
Remsen street, in the Masonic Building. The
firm conducts a modern department store, em-
ploying a large force of clerks. Mr. .Shaver is
known as a most capable and energetic busi-
ness man, managing w-ell his own great busi-
ness, and mindful of the interests of those
who are subordinate to him. He has been a
member of the Cohoes board of water commis-
sioners for sixteen years, eight of which he
has been president of the board. He is a Re-
publican, and frequently a delegate to party
conventions. He is a lifelong member of the
Methodist Episcopal church, served on the
official board four years, since 1887 he has
been a trustee, succeeding his father, making
thirty years of official service, and also served
as superintendent of the Sunday school for
eight years. He married, March 2, 1881,
Estella J. Scott, of Cohoes, daughter of Wil-
liam and Eliza (Veile) Scott, of Cohoes, the
former of whom was born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, died in Cohoes, August, 1891,
and the latter born in England, died in
Cohoes, 1902. She came to the United States
when a girl. Mr. Scott was a prominent mem-
ber of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
and an exemplary member of the Methodist
Episcopal church, as was his wife. Oiild of
Mr. and Mrs. Shaver: Henry N., born Sep-
tember 20, 1892 ; educated in the public
schools, now a member of the class of 1912, of
Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts,
preparing for entrance to Yale.

This family descends from
McQUADE the famous O'Neil clan of

Ireland and trace their his-
tory back to the tenth century. The Amer-
ican head of the family is Anthony McQuade,
born in county Fermanagh, Ireland, son of
Peter and Susan (McDermott) McQuade,
grandson of Anthony and Catherine (Mc-
Nabb) McQuade, great-grandson of Raymond
and Sarah (McKeough) McQuade. The
family was originally seated in county Ty-
rone,Mac Cathmhaoil of Cinel-Fearadhaigh,
pronounced Mac Cawell of Kinel-Farry, being

the ancestral name of the McQuades of Ty-
rone. Authorities: "Annals of Ireland," by
the Four Masters; "Annals of Ulster," pub-
lished by authority of the British Govern-
ment; "O'Neills of Ulster," by Matthews.

The territory of Cinel-Fearadhaigh, the
patrimonial inheritance of the .Mac Cathmha-
oil, the descendants of Fergal, son of Muiread-
hach (Murrough), son o"f Eoghan (Owen),
son of Niall of the Nine Hostages (monarch
of Ireland), was nearly co-extensive with the
barony of Clogher in county of Tyrone.

The Cinel-Fearadhaigh, viz. : the Clan-
Aengus (Magennis), Clan-Duibhinreacht,
Clan-Fogarty, all of Tyrone, and the Ily-Kcn-
noda (Kennedy) and the Clan-CoUa, both of
Fermanagh, were under the leadership of Mac
Cathmhaoil, Lord of Cinel-Fearadhaigh. The
lly-Kennoda gave name to the barony of Tir-
kennedy in the east of Fermanagh, adjoining
the barony of Clogher in Tyrone.

The family of Mac Cathmhaoil, a name gen-
erally anglicized to Mac Cawell or Mac Cagh-
well, and Latinized Cavellus, who supplied
several bishops to the See of Clogher, are still
numerous in their ancient territory (southern
Tyrone and northern Fermanagh), and the
name is found in other counties anglicized
variously as Campbell, Caulfield, and Howell.

From "O'Neills of Ulster" : O'Duggan in
his topographical poem written about A.D.
1350, describing the ruling tribes of Ulster,
says :

The festive Cinel Fearadhaigh
Constantly noble are their genealogies
A clan without disgrace from their arms
And the warlike Clan Cathmhaoil
The two eastern septs are of every tribe
In the high Cinel Fearadhaigh.
Cinel-Fearadhaigh or Cincl-Farry, now the
barony of Clogher, Tyrone county, the patri-
mony of Mac Cawells or Mac Cathmhaoil. The
Mac Cawells who were P.rehons (judges of the
Brehon laws) in Cinel Owen (Tyrone) are fa-
mous in Irish history for their learning and the
many dignitaries they supplied to the church.
In Cinel Owen about this time, A.T)., 1300. the
Mac Cawells were the hereditary advisers of
the king. The standard of the king of ,\ileach
that day (Battle of Lcitherbe. A. D., 636). who
was of the sept of the Mac Cawells (Cinel-
Fearadhaigh). is stated to have been black and
red. The king was Suibhne Meann. who was
not only king of Aileach. but also monarch of
Ireland (.\rd-Righ). at that time. In this battle
Suibnhe Meann was overthrown.

The name McQuade instead of Mac Cathm-
haoil seems to have been adopted by the fam-
ily as an iMiglish name about 1600. .\. D. Peter
McQuade, who died October 18, 1855. who spoke
Gaelic as well as English in speaking to his
grandchildren, McQuade, frequentlly called
them by their ancient Gaelic name Mac Cawell
(Mac Cathmhaoil). The natives when speaking
the Irish language always pronounce the name
Mac Cawell.

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The Irish annals show that the family Mac
Cathmhaoil occupied the territory named above
from the time of the assumption of family
names A. D., and under the name Cinel-
Fearadhaigh from the time of Niall of the
Nine Hostages, A. D. Irish authors, annalists,
say that a chief of this family, converted by
St. Patrick, proceeded to the Isle of Man and
converted the people of that island to Chris-
tianity. His name was Maughold and a town
of Man is called by his name and was the seat
of his bishopric. The name Mac-Cathmhaoil
(signifying "Son of the Hero in Battle") has
■existed in Man from very early times and still
continues there under the form of Cowell, like
all Gaelic Manxnames having dropped the pre-
fix Mac, meaning son. The head of the Irish
militia, Fionn Mac Cuill, tradition says, was of
this family. Fionn Mac Cuill is the great hero
of legendary history, claimed alike by Ireland
and also by Scotland under the name of Fingal.
Ossian, the son of Fionn, has been immortalized
by the researches of the Gaelic ' authors,
prompted by the partial fabrications of Mac
Pherson.

The great Scotch family of Campbell is said
to be a branch of the Mac Cathmhaoil, and
Irish genealogists say that the Campbell arms,
the gyronny of eight, is the common property
of the Mac Cathmhaoils.

Ancient maps showing the possessions of the
•clans of Ireland before the confiscation of
Ulster by the English, place the Mac Cathm-
haoils in the southern part ct 'lyr.'iiv and the
northern part of Fermanagh. 1 hi^ cnfi^cation
deprived them as well as the c.tlur 1 rw'n clans
of their ancestral possessions and tlitv became
tenants where formerly they were masters. The
Patent Rolls, James I., of England, from 1607
and after, show numerous pardons to Mac
Cawells and McQuades, for their rebellion, but
few if any restorations of land. In these
the variety in spelling the names shows that
the English clerks were sorely put to straits
when it came to spelling Irish names. Among
these varieties are, McQuoyd, McQuod, ilc
•Coade, Mc Quaide, Mc Quoad, and Mc Cooade.
Mac Cathmhaoil is generally spelled McCawell
or McCaghwell, sometimes McCuill, McCooel!,
or Mc Cowell.

(Extracts from "Annals of Ulster").
^ A. D. 1185, Gilchreest Mac Cawell, chief of
Kinel-l'arry and the Clans, viz.: Clan-Aengus,
Clan-Duibhenreacht, Clan-Fogarty, Hy-Ken-
noda, and Clan-CoUa in Fermanagh, and who
was chief advisor of all the north of Ireland,
was slain by O'Heghny and Muinter-Keenan,
•who carried away his head, which however was
recovered from them in a month afterward.
{There were no wounded or prisoners after
conflict in those times, those vanquished for-,
feited their heads, which were taken home by
the victors as tokens of triumph.)

A. D. 1215, Murrough Mac Cawell. chief of
Kinel-Farry, was slain by his kinsmen.

i2-!8, Flaherty Mac Cawell, Chief of Kinel-
Farry and Clan-Congail (Connell) and of Hy-
Kennoda in Fermanagh, the most illustrious in
Tyrone for feats of arms and hospitality, was
treacherously slain by Donough Mac Cawell,
his own kinsman.

1 25 1, Donough Mac Cawell, Chief of Kinel-
Farry. was slain by the people of Oriel.

12 = 2. Conchohar (Conor) Mac Cawell, Chief
cf Kinel-Farry and many other territories, and

peacemaker of Tir-Connell, Tir-Owen, and Oriel,
was slain by the people of Brian O'Neill while
defending his wards O'Kane and O'Gormley,
against them.

1261, A victory won by O'Donnell over Niall
Culanagh O'Neill. Many of the chiefs of Kinel-
Owen (Tyrone), under the conduct (leadership)
of Mac Cawell, Chief of Kinel-Farry, were killed
or taken prisoners.

1262, Donslevey MacCawell, Chief of Kinel-Farry,
was slain by Hugh Buidha O'Neill. (Yellow Hugh
O'Neill.)

1346, Cu-Uladh Mac Cawell, Chief of Kinel-Farry,
was slain by Donnell Mac Cawell. (Cu-Uladh means
Warrior of Ulster.)

1356, Brien Mac Cawell, Bishop of Oriel (Clogh-
er), died.

1365, Rory, the son of Donnell O'Neill, was slain
by the shot of an arrow by Melaghlin (Malachy),
Mac an Ghirr Mac Cawell of Tyrone.

1368, Cu-Uladh Mac an Ghirr Mac Cawell, chief
of his own tribe and a son of his, who was a
learned and illustrious professor of Sciences, died
in England.

1370, Gillapatrick Mac Cawell, Chief of Kinel-
Farry, Cu-Uladh, his son and his wife, the
daughter of Manus Mac Mahon, were treacher-
ously slain by the sons (clan) of Hugh Mac
Cawell. Murrough, his (CJillapatrick's) brother
then became Chieftain of Kinel-Farry.

1-579. Richard Mac Cawell was slain by Philip
McGuire and Donnell O'Neill.

1403, Cu-Uladh, son of Gillapatrick Mac
Cawell, was treacherously slain by his own
people at an assembly.

1404, Donough Mac Cawell, Chief of tlie two
Kinel-Farry's, was killed by Mac Guire.

1432, -\rt Mc Cawell, Bishop of Clogher, died.

1434, Mac Cawell, Hugh Mac an Easpuig Mac
Cawell and many others were slain the day
after Michaelmas, in an encounter with the Eng-
lish.

1444, Ducoolagh, daughter of Thomas Mac
Guire, Lord of Fermanagh and wife of Owen
Mac Cawell, a humane, charitable and truly hos-
pitable woman, died.

1461, A.D., Mac Cawell, i.e., Brien, Lord of
Kinel-Farry died; and Owen Mac Cawell was
made Lord.

1467, Owen Mac Cawell died.

1474, Don Roe, the son of Cu-Connacht Mac
Guire, was slain by Richard Mac Cawell.

1480, O'Donnell accompanied by the sons of
Art O'Neill and the sons of Phelim O'Neill,
committed great depredations on Mac Cawell in
Kinel-Farry, and slew Brian, son of Turlough,
son of Henry O'Neill, and the son of Mac
Cawell, i. e.. James.

1481, In a war between O'Neill and John,
Buidhe O'Neill, a son of Gillapatrick Mac
Cawell, was slain.

1492, Gillapatrick Mac Cawell, taken prisoner
and Mac Cawell, that is, Edmond, slain by the
sons of Redmond Mac Mahon.

1493, Donough Mac Cawell taken prisoner in
a battle between the two O'Neills, Donnell and
Oge, the sons of Henry, son of Owen O'Neill.

1498, Gillapatrick Mac Cawell slain at Cav-
eny's Cross.

1508, William Oge, the son of .'\rt Mac
Cawell, dean of Clogher, died. He was brother
of Owen, Bishop of Clogher. This is the prelate
called Eugene (Eoghan or Owen) Mac Camaeil
in Harris's edition of Ware's Bishops, page 187.
He succeeded in 1508 and died in 1515.

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15 15. Owen (son of Art, son of John, son of
Art Mac Cawell), Bishop of Clogher, died.

1518, Mac Cawell (Donough, the son of Ed-
niond), was wounded in a battle between the
O'Neills and many of the Kinel-Farry (Mac
Cawells) were slain. Mac Cawell died of his
wounds afterwards.

1519, In a war between the O'Neills, Mac
Cawell (Cu-L'Iadh the son of Edmond), Thomas
the son of Edmond, and Edmond the son of
Gillapatrick Mac Cawell, were slain.

(English Patent Rolls, James I.).

February 23, 1609. Pardon among others to
Donogh Oge MC Cooell, gentleman, of ' Dun-
gannon, Tyrone county.

October 20, 1609. Pardon among others to
Edmond DufFe Mc Cawell (Black Edmond),
James Rowe Mc Cawell (Red James), Edmond
Brier Mc Cawell.

July 21, 1610. Pardon among others to
Patrick Oge Mc Cawell (young Patrick).

July 22, 1610. Pardon among others to Gill-
Patrick Mc Cuill, Shane Mc Cuill (John).

July 6, 1710. Pardon among others to Eugene
Mc Cahill, John Mc Cahill, Connor Crone Mc
Quod, Brian Dorlogh Mc Quoyd, Patrick Oge
Mac Cawell (young Patrick), all of Tyrone
county.

June 18, 1612. Pardon among others to Tir-
lagh Grome Mac Cawell, yeoman (yellow Tir-
lagh), Brien Glasse McOwen McCawell (Brien,
son of Owen Mc Cawell).

Maj' 25. 1613. Pardon among others to Brien
Derry Mc Cawell, Donnell Carragh Mc Cawell,
yeomen of Tyrone county.

March 7, 1614. Pardon among others to Tir-
lagh Mc Manus Boy Mc Cawell (Turlough, son
of Yellow Manus Mc Cawell), of Killetragh,
Tyrone county.

February 15. 1613. Pardon among others to
Conchobar Mc Shane Mc Quade (Connor, son
of John Mc Quaide).

Professor Patrick H. McQuade (Gaelic,
Mac Cathtnhaoil, pronounced Mac Cawell),
traces under the name McQuade four gener-
ations to Raymond ^IcQuade, a farmer of
Tyrone, who married Sarah, widow of Ed-
ward McKeough.

(H) Anthony, son of Raymond and Sarah
(McKeou2;h) McQuade, was born in county
Tyrone, Ireland, where he lived and died, a
farmer. He married Catherine McXabb. He
died suddenly in middle life, leaving issue.

(HI) Peter, son of Anthony and Catherine
(McXabb) McQuade, was born in Dromore,
county Tyrone, Ireland, 1778. He removed to
county Fermanagh, parish of, Clarnagh, where
his children were born and grew to manhood.
After the sons had emigrated and settled in
the L'nited States, Peter and his wife joined
them in Albany, New York, where he died
October 18, 1855. He married Susan, born
1770, daughter of John and Mary (McGhirr)
McDermott. She died in Albany. October 6,
1868. Pioth were devoted members of St.
Mary's Roman Catholic Church.

(IV) Anthony (2), son of Peter and Susan
(McDermott) McQuade, was born in Clar-

nagh, Fermanagh county, Ireland, January
27, 1805, died at Albany, New York, Septem-
ber 8, 1864. He came to the United States in
^^33' joining an uncle in Albany. He became
a street contractor, and graded, curbed and
paved many miles of Albany streets, including
State street, from Eagle to Washington Park ;
the streets south of Slate to Elm and all cross
streets from Eagle to the Park. At that time
these were only roads, and a great deal of
filling and grading was necessary. Later he
became a manufacturing brewer, in which
business he continued until death. He mar-
ried in his native town. February 7. 1830,
Eleanor McKeough, born there February 7,
1805, died in Albany, New York, April 6,
1887; she was a great-granddaughter of Ed-
ward McKeough, whose widow Sarah mar-
ried Anthony (i) McQuade. Edward (2),
son of Edward (i) and Sarah McKeough,
married Margaret Kelly. Their son Pat-
rick, born 1/68, died November 12, 1831 ;
married Ann McMullen, born 1761, died 1847.
Their daughter, Eleanor McKeough. married
Anthony (2) McQuade. They were both
members of St. Mary's Roman Catholic
Church.

(V) Patrick H., son of Anthony (2) and
Eleanor (AIcKeough) McQuade. was born in
Albany, New York, August 29, 1844. He at-
tended the public schools and .\lbany Boys'
Academy, being graduated froin the latter in-
stitution in 1862. at the head of his class, re-
ceiving in addition to his diploma the Gannon
Philosophical Medal for proficiency in the
natural sciences. After completing his course
at the academy, he entered the employ of his
father as tookkeeper. continuing until the
death of the latter in 1864. From that date
his life has been devoted to the cause of edu-
cation in Albany, a period covering nearly
half a century. 1864-1911. He was appointed
May 12, 1865, principal of public school Xo.
I, where he remained until September, 1877, in
which year and month he was appointed prin-
cipal of school Xo. 13. In September, 1886,
he was appointed principal of school Xo. 21,
which position he now fills (1911). In addi-
tion to his daily labors. Professor McQuade
has for eleven years been principal of the .\1-
bany evening high school, receiving his ap-
pointment in September, 1900. He stands
Iiigh as an educator and is well known be-
yond the confines of his own city. In 1S86, in
collaboration with Professor josiah Gilbert,
he published "Xumber Lessons in .Arithmetic,"
that was adopted by the schools of Albany and
catne into quite general use. He has also
written much on various subjects. Prior to
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flag on all school houses, the schools of Al-
bany had a "Flag Raising," for which occa-
sion Professor McQuade composed a "Song
to the Flag," which came into universal use
and may be found in Eleanor Smith's "Musi-
cal Series," among the patriotic songs. He
is a member of the Albany Academy Alumni
Association, and worships at St. Mary's
Roman Catholic Church, of which he is a com-
municant (as were his parents and grand-
parents), serving also in the church committee.
He married, in Albany, New York, May 12,
1872, Julia Ransom, daughter of Justus Has-
well, for four years surrogate of Albany
county, 1860-64, who married Nancy L. Ran-
som. Through her mother, Mrs. McQuade
traces to many of the oldest families of New
England ; to Robert Ransom, of Plymouth,
Massachusetts; to Samuel Chapin, of Spring-
field, Massachusetts; to Rev. John Sherman,
of W'atertown, Massachusetts ; Philip Sher-
man, first secretary of the Colony of Rhode
Island (from whom Vice-President Sherman
also descends) ; to Richard Smith, one of the
first settlers of Rhode Island ; to Thomas
Bliss, of Flartford, Connecticut, whose widow,
Margaret, moved to Springfield, where Mar-
garet and Bliss streets are named for her ; to
James Comstock, whose name is found on the
monument at Groton Heights, Connecticut,
erected in memory of those who fell there
during the revolution ; to Thomas Stanton, the
Indian interpreter, and many others of the
early settlers. Through her father, Justus
Haswcll, she descends from John and Mary
(Halliday) Plaswell, of Stainmore, Westmore-
land, England, who came to America about
1775, settling in the town of Bethlehem
(Watervliet). Albany county. New York.
Their son, Edward, married Anna Russell,
descendant of William Russell, the early Mas-
sachusetts settler. Their son, Justus, married
Nancy L. Ransom as stated. Children of Pro-
fessor Patrick H. and Julia Ransom (Has-
well) McQuade: i. John D., born in Albany,
New York, 1872 ; educated in the public ancl
high school, now an accountant with the Gen-
eral Electric Company at Schenectady, New
York ; unmarried. 2. Eleanor Haswell, edu-
cated in the public and high school, now a
teacher in the Albany public schools.

David Du Four, immigrant an-
DE\'OE cestor, whose posterity spell the

name Devoor, Devoe, etc., was a
native of Mons, in Hainault, and when this
place was threatened by the successes of the
French in the Walloon districts, he retired
with others of the family to Sedan, and after-
wards to Amsterdam, where Du Four, though

fitted by education for a better position, be-
came a hopperman, or drayman. Left by the
death of his wife, Mary Boulen, with a young
child, Jean or John, born during their stay in
Sedan, he married (second) Jeanne Frances,
aged thirty-two, from Queivrain, a little east
of Mons, July 10, 1657. In the same year,
with wife and son, he came to New York.
After their arrival he settled in Harlem, where
he obtained some ten morgens of land in 1662,
and he was living there in 1674, when Nicho-
las deVaux arrived. It is believed that the
change in spelling was due to the similarity,
perhaps the identity of the name with that of
the new neighbor. In 1677 David and his son
obtained a grant of sixty acres of land near
Turtle bay on the East river, where he re-
sided until his death, about 1698. Children
mentioned in his will: John, mentioned be-
low, David, Peter, Claude, Adrien.

(II) John Devoor, son of David Du Four,
was born about 1655. He married (first)
Jannetje Van Isselteyn in 1676; (second)
Mary Van Woglum, of Albany. In his will
he bequeaths to wife, children and some of
his grandchildren. Children by first wife:
Mary, John, Margaret, David, Peter, men-
tioned below, Rachel, Arientie (Harriet),
Jannetje, Elizabeth, Teunis, William and
Abraham.

(III) Peter Devoe, son of John Devoor,
was born in 1685. He married Annatje Bis-
set, at or near Albany. He became a boat-
man and was captain of a sloop carrying
freight and passengers between New York
and Albany. Children : George, mentioned
below, Anna, Alichael, Roelof, Marguerite,
born 1721. Jacob, born 1723, John.

(IV) George, son of Peter Devoe, was born
in 1713. He married, in 1735, Catharine
Keller. Children : George, mentioned below,
Daniel, Jannette, died young.

(V) George (2), son of George (i) De-
voe. was born in 1736. He was a soldier in
the revolution and engaged in various battles,
but escaped without wounds. A mirror which,
according to family tradition, was brought
from France with the family was buried by
him at the beginning of the war and dug up
afterward. He left it to his youngest daugh-
ter and it has been handed down to the young-
est in each generation to the present. He
settled in Rensselaer county, New York. He
married (first) Anna Kelder, who died in
1764: (second) Elizabeth Dunning. Children
of first wife: John, settled in Kinderhook,
New York, at the age of fifteen was in the
revolution ; Anthony, mentioned below. Chil-
dren of second wife: Elizabeth, born 1768;
Maria, 1771.

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(M) Anthony, son of George (2) Devoe,
was born March 11, 1762. He was a soldief
in the revolution at the age of eighteen and
settled afterward at Schaghticoke with his
father and brother John. He married, in
1783. Helen (Helena) Vanderbiirg or Van-
denbiirg. He removed to Andrustown in 1798,
and died January 12, 1844, aged nearly eighty-
two. He was a man of undoubted integrity.
Chiklren : George : Cornelius, mentioned be-
low ; John, lived at Warren : \\'ynant, of War-
ren : Mrs. Maria Osterhout ; Elizabeth Jewell;
Hannah Springer; Sarah Brown and one
other.

(MI) Cornelius, son of Anthony Devoe,
was born April 30, 1797. He was a farmer
all his active life at Warren, Herkimer county.
New York, where he died in December, 1888.
He married Ann Deyoe, of Pilestown, Rens-
selaer county, in 1819; children: Wallace G.,
married Emma Mattison and lived at W'arren ;
Julia A., married Joseph Ludden and lived in
Columbia ; Daniel Anthony, mentioned below ;
Julia Groddis; Sarah, married David Wal-
lace.

(VHI) Daniel Anthony, son of Cornelius
Devoe. was born in \\'arren, Herkimer
county, New York. April 19, 1820, died De-
cember 27, 1898. He was educated in Spring-
field high school and academy. He assisted
his father on the farm in summer and taught
school in winter. When twenty-seven years
old he married Maria Snell, of Fords Bush.
Herkimer county. New York. He leased a
farm. May 6, 1847, bought it in 1851, and
lived in his native place until 1863, when
he moved to town of Canajoharie, New York,
where he bought a two-hundred-acre farm, on
which he lived until he died. He was a pros-
perous farmer and a prominent citizen. He
was school trustee for a number of years, a
member of the local lodge of Free and Ac-
cepted Masons. ?Ie was deacon of the Uni-
vcrsalist church for many years at Fort Plain.
Children: i. Nelson, died aged four years. 2.
Margaret .Ann, married Schuyler Duryee, of
Everett, Washington : children : i. Leverick
Duryee. married Alice McFarland and has
son Schuyler Duryee; ii. Albert Duryee, mar-
ried .Alice Gardner ; iii. Daniel A. Duryee,
married Clotilda Robinson ; iv. Korekiyo
Tackahash Duryee, married Louise Thomp-
son : v. Agnes Duryee. 3. Charlotte N., mar-
ried Dr. Alvero Zoller, of West Union. Iowa ;
children: Leslie A. and Maud A. Zoller. 4.
Daniel Isaac, mentioned below. 5. Ida, died
young. 6. Demetra Estelle, married Frank W.
Bauder.

(IX) Daniel Isaac, son of Daniel Anthony
Devoe, was born in Warren, January 19,

i860. He attended the district schools and
Clinton Liberal Institute, from which he was
graduated in 1878. He then took a course in
the Rochester Commercial College. In 1879
he became a clerk in the drug store of Petit
& Read of Fort Plain. After three years
there he went to Canajoharie and engaged in
business as a druggist, in partnersliip with
John N. Snell, under the firm name of Snell
& Devoe. Mr. Snell sold his interests after-
ward to Thomas E. Dygert, and the firm name
became Devoe & Dygert. In 1885 Mr. Devoe
sold out and formed a partnership with W. F.
Shumway, under the title of Devoe & Shum-
way, as wholesale and retail druggists. Fort
Plain. After having conducted a successful
business. Mr. Devoe, in 1893, sold his interest
in the drug business to his partner and started
manufacturing knit underwear. The business
was incorporated in 1902 as the Fort Plain
Knitting Company, and Mr. Devoe is treas-
urer and general manager. He is a member
of Fort Plain Lodge, No. 433, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, Hiram Union Chapter, No.
53, Royal .Arch Masons ; Commandery, No. 26,
Knights Templar, of Little Falls ; Ziyara Tem-
ple, Mystic Shrine, of Utica. He was master
of his lodge for four years. He is also a
member of the Knights of Pythias and of the
Fort Plain Club. In politics he is a Repub-
lican, and was county treasurer of Montgomery
county for three years. He is a prominent
n-iember of the Universalist church at Fort
Plain and has been for the past twenty-four
years a trustee. He married, May 24, 1882,
Agnes E. Shumway, born August 19, i860
(see Shumway VTI). They have one child,
Ethel, born September 24, 1884, a school
teacher; graduate of Dean .Academy and of
Dr. Savage's Normal College of Physical
Education ; teaching at present at Kenwood,
Albany, and has private classes.

(The Sliumw.iy Line).
Peter Shumway, immigrant ancestor, was
of French Huguenot ancestry. After the
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, when many
Huguenots sought refuge in .America, he
came, before 1675, to Massachusetts and lo-
cated in Topsfield. The name was originally
spelled Chamois or Charmois. We are told
that the home of the family in France was
in the neighborhood of St. Maixent in tiie old
province of Poitou. Peter Shumway came to
this country before the time that Peter Fan-
euil and other French Huguenots came, and
he \vas not with the settlement at O.xford,
Worcester county, Massachusetts, where his
son, a few years later, was a settler. Peter
Shumway lived for a time at Salem V'illage,

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now Danvers, Massachusetts; was a soldier in
King Philip's war, and on account of that
service his son years afterwards petitioned for
a grant of land, March 23, 1749-50, stating
that his father was at the taking of the In-
dian fort. Judging from his time of coming
here, the fact that he did not speak or write
French apparently and associated only with
English settlers, it is hardly to be doubted
that he came from some part of England
thither and that his parents or earlier ances-
tors went, like many others, for refuge to
England. He was born in 1635. He was
evidently frequently in the military service,
for his son Peter says he was "a long time
in the service of his country." He resided at
Topsfield, according to his son's statement,
and his wife attended church there and their
children were baptized there. He was a hog-
reeve in 1681-82 in Topsfield. His will was
dated April 10, 1695, and his estate appraised
June 10 of that year. In the will his resi-
dence is given as Boxford. His wife Frances
made her will April 3, 17 14, and gives her
home as Topsfield. These towns were ad-
joining and the families intimately associated,
the boundary indistinct. Her will was proved
August 2, 1714. Children: i. Peter, men-
tioned below. 2. Samuel, born at Topsfield,
November 2, 1681, probably lost at sea; un-
married; estate settled in 1715 by brother
John. 3. Dorcas, born October 16, 1683;
married Valentine Butler and Henry Withing-
ham. 4. Joseph, born October 13. 16S6. died
unmarried, 1715.

(II) Peter (2), son of Peter (i) Shum-
way, was born at Topsfield, June 6, 1678.
Being the only son having sons, he is ancestor
of all bearing the name of Shumway in this
country. He removed from Topsfield to Ox-
ford, Massachusetts, in the "Nipmuck Coun-
try." He was granted the right of Joshua
Chandler. He was one of the early settlers
of Oxford in 1713, the original settlement by
the thirty Huguenot families having been
abandoned on account of Indian massacres
and hostilities in 1696. None of the French
returned. Peter Shumway spent the re-
mainder of his days there. His will was dated
May 12, 1741, and bequeaths to his wife and
children. His home lot in Oxford embraced
that now or lately, owned by Josiah Russell
(H. 185). His family was one of the best-
known and most-respected in the town of Ox-
ford. He married (first) February n, 1701,
Maria Smith, who died January 17, 1739. It
is said that her father built the third house
having a cellar in the town of Boston. He
married (second) February 28, 1740, Mary
Dana, who is mentioned in his will. Children

of first wife: i. Oliver, mentioned below.

2. Jeremiah, baptized at Topsfield, March 21,
^703- 3- David, baptized at Topsfield, De-
cember 23, 1705. 4. Mary, baptized at Tops-
field, May 9, 1709. 5. Samuel, baptized March
6, 171 1, at Boxford. 6. John, born at Box-
ford, June 26, 1713. Born at Oxford: 7.
Jacob, March 10, 1717. 8. Hepzibah, April i,
1720. 9. Amos, January 31, 1722.

(HI) Oliver, son of Peter (2) Shumway,
was born at Boxford, ]May 10. 1702. He
lived quietly and followed farming at Ox-
ford. He married. September 3, 1724, Sarah
Pratt. Children, born at Oxford: i. Oliver,
mentioned below. 2. Levi, April 8, 1727. 3.
Keziah, May 25, 1729. 4. Nathan, April 21,
1731. 5. Susanna, August 21, 1733. 6.
Stephen, March 25. 1736; soldier in the revo-
lution. 7. Sarah, June 28, 1738. 8. Reuben,
February 2, 1740; soldier in the revolution. 9.
Ebenezer, June 25, 1743. 10. Jonathan, No-,
vember 8, 1745. 11. Lucy, July 18, 1749.

(IV) Oliver (2), .son of OHver (i) Shum-
way, was born at Oxford, October 12. 1725.
He was a carpenter by trade, and is said to
have served in the revolution. He :narried,
April 15, 1747, Elizabeth Holman. Children:
Abner, mentioned below ; Betsey.

(V) Abner. son of Oliver (2) Shumway,
was born at Oxford, June 9, 1748, died Sep-
tember 13, 1813. He was a soldier in the
revolution and was in camp at Roxbury in
October. 1775, a drummer in the Oxford com-
pany: also served in various companies after-
ward. In 1786 he removed to Lebanon
Springs, New York, where he spent his last
years. He worked at his trade as carpenter
and some houses that he built in Oxford are
still standing. He married, April 19. 1770,
Lucy Howe, born in 1752, died January 3,
1837. Children: David, born ]\Iarch 30,
1771 ; Rufus, April i, 1774, died at Decatur,
Otsego county. New York, about 1836 : Allen,
March 19, 1778: Paul, mentioned below;
Silas ; Alpheus ; Jeremiah D., January 12,
1793; Leonard: Clarissa: Lucy.

(\T1 Paul, son of Abner Shumway. was
born May 19, 1781, at Oxford, died February

3, 1849. H<^ was a carpenter by trade. He
married, March 4. 1804, Mercy Gates, born
August 10. 1786. in Norwich, Massachusetts,
died February 25. 1872; resided at Lebanon
Springs. New York. Children, born at Le-
banon Springs: Charlotte, April 29, 1805;
Henry Edward, November i. 1807; Elizabeth
Maria, June 30, 1813; William Dennison,
July 13, 1817; Joseph Hill, mentioned l)clow ;
John Brainerd, November 5, 1822 : .Antoin-
ette, April 19, 1824, died young: Ellen Tane,
January 19, 1826; Charles Frederick, March

6, 1828; Lucy Ann, October 19, 1830; Samuel
Gates, June 9, 1833.

(\'II) Joseph Hill, son of Paul Shumway,
was born at Lebanon Springs, New York,
August 27, 1820. He was educated in the
public schools, became postmaster, was super-
visor several terms, and a prominent Repub-
lican. He was a member of the Universalist
church. He married, September 6, 1854,
Cornelia \'an Horn, born December 12, 1832
(see Van Horn VII). They resided at Van
Hornsville, Herkimer county, New York,
where he w-as a merchant until he retired.
Children: i. Walter F.. born April 22, 1858;
married, September 7, 1880, Alfa Ackler, born
October 15, 1858. 2. Agnes E., August 19,
i860; married. May 24, 1882, Daniel I. De-
voe (see Devoe IX). 3. Ellen M., October

1, 1867; married, October 22, 1889, John M.
Farley ; children : Worthington S. Farley,
born June 6, 1892; Walter Van Horn Farley,
February 13, 1894; Dorothy Farley; John M.
Farley, jr.

(The Van Horn Line).
Jan Corneliessen \'an Horn, or \'an Home,
came from Holland to New Amsterdam as
early as 1645, and he drew his money from
his guardian in Holland in 1647. His wife's
name is unknown. He became a member of
the First Dutch Reformed Church of New
York, October 6. 1685. He sold a house and
lot south of Marketfield street, part of the
premises patented to Jan Corneliessen \'an
Home. June 23, 1645. He sold another lot
on the east side of Fort .Amsterdam, near
Marketfield street. He was entered in New
Amsterdam as a small burgher and was taxed
twenty-five guilders. Children: i. Cornelius
Jansen, mentioned below. 2. Jan Joris. mar-
ried Maria Rutgers. 3. Garret.- married, July

2, 1693, Altje Proohost.

(II) Cornelius Jansen, .son of Jan Cor-
neliessen \'an Home, married, according to
the register of the Dutch Reformed Church
of New York. October 4, 1659. Anna Maria,

daughter of and Annaka (Webber)

Jans, granddaughter of Wolford Webber, of
Holland, who married .\nnaka Cock, daughter
of Hendrick and Neisgen Seleyns Cock. Wol-
ford Amant Webber, son of Wolford Webber,
came over in 1649, received a grant of sixty-
two acres fronting on the East river and run-
ning through Chatham square from Governor
Peter Stuyvesant. and afterward Webber con-
veyed it to his aunt, .-\nnaka (Webber) Jans.
Wolford .\mant Webber was a grandson of
King William of Orange. Children of Cor-
nelius Jansen and Anna Maria (Jans) Van
Horn, lx)rn in New Amsterdam and baptized
on the following dates in the Dutch Reformed

.71 i.n \\ IX \ .ALLT. 1 :^ "J73.

church: Johannes, January 17. 1003;
\rouchie, January 25. itrfrfj; Cornelius J.,.
January 31, 1667; Garret, December 17, 1671 ;
Altge, October 31, 1673; Abram, mentioned
below.

(III) Abram, son of Cornelius Jansen \'aa
Horn, was baptized in the Dutch Reformed
church, January 20, 1675, died in 1741. He
married, September 6, 1700, Maria Provost.
Children, baptized in New York: Anna
Maria, January 28, 1702; Catharine, July 30,.
1704; Cornelius, mentioned below; Janetje,
November 7, 1708; Helena, September 24,
1710; Abram, March 8. 1713: David. .August
8. 1714: David, July 20, 1715; Margaretta,
]\Iarch 6, 1717; Samuel, April 6, 1720.

(IV) Captain Cornelius Van Horn, son of
Abram \'an Horn, was iiaptized in New York.
October 16, 1706. He married (first) Catha-
rine Cox; (second) Elizabeth Lawrence;,
(third) Hannah Sebrook. He settled in Mon-
mouth, New Jersey. After his third mar-
riage he removed to Hunterdon county, where
his brother Abram and sister Helena also
lived. He and his brother bought the lime of
a German emigrant for a term of years to
pay his passage to this country. This man
bargained to build three houses in three suc-
cessive years for his freedom, he having all
the spare time. One of these was a stone
house with the initials C. V. H., dated 1753,.
and stood half a mile west of the White House
station, and north of the railroad. Captain
\'an Horn's will, dated December 24, 1743,
with a codicil February 3. 1744. proved .March
16. 1744. bequeathed to wife Hannah and his
children. He was buried in 1744 in the old
\'an Horn graveyard at White House and
the gravestone is standing. It gives the date
of death as February 12. 1744. His widow
married Benjamin Drake, of Hopewell, near
Trenton. Child of first wife: Thomas, born
December 4, 1722. Children of second wife:
Mathias, 1724; Catharine; Elizabeth. Chil-
dren of third wife: Mary. .April 12. 1733;
Cornelius, May 4. 1737 ; .Abram. mentioned
below; James. April 23. 1740; John. May 3,
1742; Daniel, May 2, 1743.

(V) Sheriff .Abram \'an Horn, son of Cap-
tain Cornelius \'an Horn, was born .August
28. 1738. He emigrated alwut 1771 to what
was then Warrensbush and settled on a farm
in the present town of Florida. Montgomery
county. New York. He moved Iiis family
thither the following summer, and they were
four days in making the voyage from New
York to Albany on a sloop. He was elected
a member of the Tryon county committee of
safely in June, 1773. from the Mohawk dis-
trict and continued a member several years.

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He was a staunch Whig, and it was rumored
that an attempt was about to be made by the
Tories and Indians to massacre him and his
family. A neighboring Tory was appointed to
go at night and shoot him in bed through the
window, but fortunately, on the appointed
night, his wife was awake, on account of a
sick child, and after building a big fire in
the fireplace had just laid down on the front
side of the bed with the child, when the mur-
derer came to the window. He weakened in
his purpose when he saw that to kill the hus-
band he would have to shoot the wife and
child. She was a kindly, charitable woman,
who had nursed the sick even in that man's
own family. Afterward a blockhouse was
built for the defense of the family. Van Horn
was a member of the state assembly from
1777 to 1781 and was high sheriff of Tryon
county in 1 78 1. In 1783 he moved to Cansede-
banak Church, near Fort Plain, and thence up
to Otsquaga creek, where he built a mill,
which bears the name of Van Homsville. He
died there March 5, 1810, aged nearly seven-
ty-two years.

He was married (first) to Jane Ten Eyck ;
(second) December 9, 1763, Hannah Hoff, of
Montgomery county, New York, daughter of
Richard Hoff, of New Jersey. Children of
Sheriff' Abram and Hannah (Hoff) Yan
Horn, his second wife: Cornelius, born No-
vember 22, 1764, married Elizabeth Youngs ;
James, September 16, 1766; Daniel, Septem-
TJer 23, 1768; Richard, born October 15,
1770, mentioned below; Thomas, Decem-
"ber 20, 1772, married Lucy Terry : Catharine,
September 8, 1775 ; Hannah, January 18,
1778 : Abram D., June 26, 1783.

(VI) Richard, son of Sheriff Abram Van
Horn, was born October 15, 1770. He mar-
Tied Cornelia Ten Eyck. Children : Cornelius,
born December 21, 1801, died July 19, 1873,
married Mary Kinter; Alexander, December
ID, 1804; Walter, mentioned below; Anna
Maria, February 25, 1808 : Catharine. January
20, 1810; Richard R., February 14. 1812;
Abram R., August 30, 1816.

(VII) Walter, son of Richard Van Horn.
Avas born June 10, 1806. He married Eliza
Sleighter. Children: Agnes, born November
'8, 1829, died October 8, 1854, married Henry
Hawm; Cornelia, December 12, 1832, mar-
ried Joseph Shumway (see Shumway VII) ;
■George, December 21, 1836, married Maria
Hawks; Cornelius S., March 2, 1838, died
December 21, 1868. married Marie Wagner;
James E., February 2, 1842, married Mary
Dunn ; Maria, September 29, 1846, married
John W. P.randow, Jr. : Nicholas. .April 14,
1852, married Ida Countryman.

The Congers are first men-
COXGER tioned as settlers in Berne, Al-
bany county. New York, about
1790. They are descendants of the Vermont
family who lived in the town of Danby, where
Gershom Conger was an early settler. He
married Frances Ballard, of Tinmouth, and
was an influential and worthy man of that
town. Children: Isaac, Enoch, Ashen, Ger-
shom, William, Ruth and Dorcas.

(II) William, son of Gershom and Frances
(Ballard) Conger, was born in 1790, near
Reidsville, town of Berne, Albany county,
New York. Here the Conger homestead was
located, lying in the eastern part of the town.
The improvements were yet crude, but Wil-
liam considerably improved his farm and pros-
pered. He was a Whig in politics, and a
Methodist, being one of the pioneer members
of the Berne congregation. He married Han-
nah Babcock, born in Berne, died in Albany,
aged eighty-one years, long surviving her hus-
band. Children: i. Catherine A., married
Elias Reynolds, a farmer of the Helderbergs;
child, Eugene, married Leonora Irving, who
survives him, with daughters, Catherine A.
and Blanche. 2. W'illiam M., of further men-
tion. 3. Almira, married Morgan Hungerford,
at attorney-at-law of Albany, where he died ;
children : i. Emma, married William Winne,
whom she survives, a resident of Troy, New
York, with daughter Audna; ii. Jessie, mar-
ried William Bender, then of Albany, now
resident of Greater New York, has son Clar-
ence ; iii. Hannah, married George Atherton,
now of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has daugh-
ter Olive. 4. Hannah, married (first) Chester
Flagler; child. \'ictoria, married George
Tubbs, and had daughter Grace, married and
lives in East Durham; married (second) Wil-
liam Wilson ; children : Rev. William Conger
and Josephine. Rev. William Conger Wilson,
Methodist minister of Broadalbin, New York,
married Minnie Cook and has Leora ; Jose-
phine Wilson married DeWitt Benjamin, a
merchant of Stamford, New York, and has a
son Guy. 5. James Enos, died, aged forty-five,
January 9, 1875, unmarried. 6. Josephine
Amelia, born in Berne, Albany county. New
York, 1842, died in Albany, 1904 ; educated in
Female Academy, Albany, and a member for
many years of First Presbyterian Church. She
married Dr. William Morgan, born in Al-
bany, 1842, died there 1898; graduate from
Albany Medical College, class of 1868 ; some
years later succeeded his brother in the insur-
ance business, in which he became very suc-
cessful ; was active in local politics as a Re-
publican. Children: i. William Jr., born
1874, postgraduate of Yale, class of 1896,

HLUbU.N .\.\U MUHAWK \ ALLEYS

Ph.D., now professor of chemistry of Uni-
versity of California. Berkeley, California;
married Charlotte Lansing and has sons, Alan
and Conger ; ii. James Pettit, born March 19,
1876. graduate of high school, class of 1894,
succeeded to his fatlier's business ; married
Marv A. Chandler, no issue.

(I'm William IL, son of William and Han-
nah (^Babcnck) Conger, was born on the farm
in P.crne. January 27, 1824, died at his home
in Xew Scotland, September 7, 19 10. He was
a farmer of his native town until 1850, when
he purchased and removed to a farm of two
hundred acres in New Scotland, near the vil-
lage of Unionville. He became a man of
abundant substance and a leader in his town.
Hi? natural powers of conversation and argu-
ment were unusual and were enhanced by a
mind well-stored by serious study and wide
reading. His manly character and open-
handed generosity were proverbial. None
were ever turned away empty-handed, and in
his will he remembered those whose only
claim was having been in his employ. His
lifelong abstinence from the common habits of
tobacco and liquor using was well known and
widely commented upon. He was an earnest,
zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal
church, and a liberal supporter of all Chris-
tian and charitable societies. Politically he
was a Republican, but never sought public
office.

He married (first) in 1847, '" Berne, Xew
York. Louisa Hotaling, born in the Helder-
bergs. August 25, 1829, died May 9, 1872.
She was in full sympathy with her husband
in his church and benevolent work and his
valued co-worker in all things. She was a
daughter of Aaron and Mary (Rogers) Hotal-
ing. of Albany county. Mary (Rogers)
Hotaling died in middle life, and .Xaron mar-
ried a second wife, later removing to Albany,
where he was engaged in the ice business. He
had five children, the only survivor (1910)
being Hiram Hotaling, born March 28, 1828,
who resides with his widowed daughter, .Anna
(Hotaling) Saxton, in Albany. William H.
Conger married (second) in New Scotland,
March 5. 1874, Mrs. Hannah Eliza (Hotaling)
Oliver, born in New Scotland, January 9,
1832. There she was reared and educated.
She married (first) John A. OHver, who died
in the prime of life, leaving a daughter, Cath-
erine M., born April 2, 1852; she married
John ^L \"an DerZee, born in New Scotland,
June 6, 1849, a carpenter contractor of Schen-
ectady. They have living children : Sarah
Elizabeth, unmarried, general secretary of
Young Women's Christian Association of
"Worcester, Massachusetts ; Nettie ^L, married

1675

William Glen, of Elmsmere, New York, and
has William O., John E., Agnes A., Paul L.,
deceased, and Elizabeth. Mrs. Conger sur-
vives her husband and resides with her daugh-
ter in Schenectady, retaining to a remarkable
degree her youthful vigor and giving little evi-
dence of her seventy-nine years. She con-
tinues her membership in the Reformed
church, of which she is a lifelong member.
She is a daughter of Tunis W. and Magda-
lena (Winne) Hotaling, of New Scotland,
who were married by Dominie Yan llousen,
who also christened the wife Magdalena.
After marriage some years Tunis W. and
Magdalena Hotaling removed to Rotterdam,
Schenectady county, where he died at the age
of seventy-four years, she at sixty-five years.
They were both communicants of the Re-
formed church. Tunis W. was a son of Wil-
liam Hotaling, who came to Albany county
from Holland with two brothers and settled
on adjoining farms south of Feurabush. This
was prior to the revolution. They were a
thrifty family and succeeded well in their
new home. William Hotaling was twice mar-
ried and had issue by both wives. Magdalena
Winne. wife of Tunis W. Hotaling, was the
daughter of Adam and Christianna (La
Grange) Winne, early settlers of New Scot-
land. She was of French ancestry, and he of
Dutch. Tunis W. and Magdalena (Winne)
Hotaling were the parents of thirteen chil-
dren: I. , died in infancy. 2. Adam,

a farmer of Rotterdam, Schenectady county ;
married Sarah Allen, who survives him. 3.
Hannah Eliza, married (first) John A. Oliver:
(second) William IL Conger. 4. William, of
Fullers Station, now retired : married Eliza-
beth Fuller, deceased. 5. Francis, died in
South Dakota, a farmer; married and left
issue. 6. Simeon W., deceased ; married An-
nie M. Fitch, now a resident of Albany, and
second time a widow. 7. Garret, now of
Syracuse, New York : married Jane Bogart,
deceased, five children. 8. Christianna, mar-
ried James W. Wilmct, both deceased, also
their only daughter. 9. John, of \'ictor. New
York : married Jeanette Bennett ; three chil-
dren. 10. Mary, deceased: married Walter
Bond: two children. 11. Eleanor \'an Der-
veer, married Alexander Yceder, of Rotter-
dam, Schenectady county. New York ; two
living children. 12. Lsaac, of Schenectady;
married Julia Chapman: child, Ira. 13. Peter
J., deceased : married Ella N^edder, a resi-
dent of Schenectady : child, George. William
H. Conger had by his first marriage the fol-
lowing children: i. Emerette, of further men-
tion. 2. Hannah A., born in New Scotland,
July 24, 1851 ; married Garrett \'an Derpoel,

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a retired fanner, now of Delmar, New York;
children: Conger and Chester, the former
died at the age of eleven years. 3. William A.,
of further mention. Two granite shafts mark
the resting places of William H. Conger and
family in the burial plot on his own farm.

(I\') Emerette, eldest child of William H.
and Louisa (Hotaling) Conger, was born
September 23, 1849, in Berne, Albany county.
New York. She was one year old when her
parents settled in New Scotland, where she
was reared, educated and married, February
26, 1873, Taylor McIMillen, born in New Scot-
land. March 7, 1849, son of Henry and Mary
Jane (Taylor) McMillen. Henry McMillen
was the son of Alexander McMillen, who died
in New Scotland, and is buried in the Presby-
terian churchyard. For the past ten years
Taylor McMillen and wife have resided at the
Conger homestead, he having charge of the
estate. They are both members of the Presby-
terian church, and Mr. McMillen is a strong
Republican. They have no children.

(R') \\'illiam A., son of William H. and
Louisa (Hotaling) Conger, was born in the
town of New Scotland. Albany county, New
York. November 2, 1853. He was well edu-
cated in youth, and has spent his active years
in the town of his birth. A man of means, he
has not actively pursited any special line of
activity, but has lived more the life of a
country gentleman. He has always been an
active worker in the Republican party and
aided in county management as district presi-
dent of the county committee. He is now a
resident of Albany, where he retired in 1910.
He married. December 13, 1883, Sarah E.,
daughter of Rev. .Alexander and Sarah A.
CBarriclo) Millspaugh. Children; i. William
H., born January 3, 1885; graduated at Al-
bany Medical College, M.D., class of 1908,
now practicing his profession at Tivoli, New
York. He married Iva Brown, of Fort Plain,
New York. 2. Alexander M., born February
18, 1887; graduated at Rutgers" College,
classical department, class of 19 10, now
studying for the ministry at Princeton Uni-
versity Theological Seminary. 3. Mabel, born
March 6, 1889, died July 12, 1909. 4. Bertha,
born June 14. 1894, attends Girls Academy,
Albany. 5. Irving B., born October 7, 1896,
died .\ugust 31, 1899.

(The Millspaiigh Line).
This name is found on the early records of
Orange county as Miltzpatch, Miltzpach and
Milsbagh. The emigrant was from Germany
and canie to the United States accompanied by
a grown-up family. The valley of the Wal-
kill was settled by German, Dutch and Hugue-

not emigrants, who, frugal and industrious,
very soon became possessed of competence and
wealth. The Millspaugh family settled in the
town of Montgomery, Orange county. New
York, about 1730. They were from Holland
and Protestant in religion, from which they
suffered persecution which led them to emi-
grate to America. Jacob, the father, was evi-
dently an old man, as the records do not men-
tion any land purchased by him. The printed
records of the family begins with his son,
Matys (Matthias).

(H) Matthias, son of Jacob Alillspaugh
(Miltzpach), was born in Germany, as the
journal of the New York assembly for 1735
shows a bill for the naturalization of several
persons, among them Matys ]Milsbagh, Philip
Milsbagh and two members of the Crist fam-
ily. This would indicate that he had reached'
manhood before coming to America in 1730.
Philip was evidently his brother. In 1738
Henry Crist, Stevanus Crist and Matthias
Miltzpach purchased of William Sharpus, of
New York City (a patentee of the two-thou-
sand-acre tract), four hundred and forty-two
acres in the town of JMontgomery on the
north side of Walkill, opposite the later day
village of Montgomery, a little back of the
stream. They had previously purchased two-
hundred acres, known as the "Crist Mill Lot."
The land was of the finest quality, deep and
fertile. They divided their purchase and at
once began to clear and cultivate. The first
home was dug out of the side of a hill and
there the family was comfortably housed until
the dugout was replaced by a house of logs.
They were an energetic family and soon were
in fairly comfortable circumstances. They
were members of the Dutch Reformed church,
and with their neighbors of that faith erected
a log church in which they worshipped for
many years. Matthias married Elsie Kim-
bark, daughter of one of the numerous French
Huguenots, who like their Holland co-religion-
ists found the Walkill \'alley a safe and pleas-
ant refuge. The Kimbarks first settled in
Ulster county near Kingston, but later joined
their brethren in the Walkill \'alley, where
thev afterward lived and died.

(Ill) Charles, son of Matthias and Elsie
(Kimbark) Millspaugh. was born in the town
of Crawford, then Montgomery, Orange
county. New York, January 18. 1781 ; the
town of Crawford was erected from Mont-
gomery in 1823. He received a share of his
father's estate to which he added by purchase,
becoming a prosperous farmer and highly re-
.spected citizen. He married Mehitable Van'
Tassel, born in Orange county. New York,
August 9, 1781, a descendant of Jan Cornelius

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[67;

\an Tassel, who founded a conspicuous fam-
ily particular!)' prominent in the revolutionary
war. There is on file in the state archives at
Albany the original petition for relief pre-
sented to Governor Clinton, February 9, 1781,
■which among other things recites :

Notwithstanding the enemy have not left us
one single head of our cattle, furniture, etc., but
has plundered us of all. we beseech that you will
look with an eye of pity on us and have some
consideration for our past services, and that a
years imprisonment and five years exile, the
ruin of our fortunes, and the submission with
which we have born these punishments and the
zeal which we are still ready to show for our
country's cause, if your Excellency and the Sen-
ate and the Assembly do not make some provis-
ion for us, we and our families must inevitably
perish.
Signed —

1SA.\C V.\\ T.ASSEL.
six in family, released from imprisonment.

D.-\XIEL VAX TASSEL,
five in family, released from imprisonment.

ABRAHAM VAN TASSEL,

seven in family, released from imprisonment.

JACOB VAN TASSEL.

seven in family, and still a prisoner.
Twenty-four of the family were regularly
enlisted privates and officers of the revolution-
ary army. Children of Charles and Mchitable
Millspaugh: JMaria, Howard, Isaac, Alex-
ander, of further mention, Leander, Albert,
William, Charles.

(I\') Rev. Alexander Millspaugh, son of
Charles and Mehitable (Van Tassel) Mills-
paugh. was born in Orange county, New
York, town of Montgomery, January 12. 1810,
died at Feurabush (Jerusalem), town of New
Scotland, Albany county. New York, Decem-
ber 5, 1885. He was educated in the schools
of Orange county and prepared for the minis-
try at Rutgers Theological Seminary, New
Brunswick, New Jersey, from whence he was
graduated with honors, class of 1842. He was
ordained a minister of the Dutch Reformed
church, and spent his subsequent life engaged
in that holy profession. He was for twenty-
five years pastor over the Middletown church.
Afonmouth county. New Jersey, and during
his quarter of a century in that field built up
a strong congregation and did good and faith-
ful work for his Master. He was not only
an acceptable pulpit orator, but the "beloved
pastor," known far and near in the county.
His second pastorate was assumed in response
to a call from the congregation in New Scot-
land, which he accepted and where he passed
a life of great usefulness, continuing in the
active ministry until his death. He married
Sarah A. Barriclo. born in Marlboro, New Jer-
sey, August 14, 1818, died in the village of
L'nionville. She was a devoted Christian wife
and mother, nobly seconding her husband's

efforts and working hand in hand with him
for the betterment of humanity. Children,
all born in Middletown: 1. Hul'dah C, mar-
ried James Baird. and resides in Marlboro,
New Jersey ; has sons, Alexander and Carlton
A. 2. Charles H., now a real estate dealer of
Brooklyn, New York: married Jennie Con-
over; children: Lafayette C, Josephine S..
Eleanor C. and Charles' E. 3. Harriet, resides
in New York City, unmarried. 4. John B.,
now a hardware merchant of Spokane. Wash-
ington: married and has Sloan and Barriclo.
5. Sarah E., married .William A. Conger and
resides in Albany. New York (see Conger
IVL 6. Catherine L. T., died in earlv child-
hood.

The Gordon family is doubt-
GOIvDOX less of Norman origin, but was
prominent in Scotland before
the year 11 50. No Scotch surname is more
honored and perhaps none more widely known.
The family is found as early as 1150 in .Aber-
deenshire. Kirkcidbrightshire. Banffshire, Ber-
wickshire, Sutherlandshire and in other coun-
ties of Scotland. The family possess the
dukedom and marquisate of Gordon and Hunt-
ley : earldoms of Aberdeen, Aboyne, Eozie.
Huntley, Moray; viscounties of Formartine,
Inverness, Kenmure, Meldrum ; lordships of
Badenoch, etc., Haddo. etc., Lochinvar,
Strathaven. etc. \'arious branches bear coats-
of-arms. A branch of the family went to
Scotland about 161 o when Ulster was settled
by the Scotch Presbyterians by order of King
James, and many of the .Vmerican Gordons
descend from this branch.

Before the revolution the family was numer-
ous in New York state. The New York revo-
lutionary rolls show that .\hraham, Charles,
Robert, Alexander, Cornelius. Lieutenant-
Colonel James, Joseph and William Gordon
were in the service. Doubtless there were
others. Joseph, Charles and Robert were of
Albany county.

Charleston was part of the old town of Mo-
hawk, and was incorporated in 1793. .Ac-
cording to the town history, Ezra Gordon
was one of the numerous New England set-
tlers who came there directely after the revo-
lution. The county of Montgomery was set
ofT from .Albany county in 1773 and called
Tryon county until the close of the revolution.
In 1790 there were several heads of families,
according to the first federal census, in Mont-
gomery county. In Mohawk we find Joseph
Gordon with three males under sixteen and
four females in his family ; Timothy Gordon,
with three males under sixteen and four fe-
males. Evidently they were of alj<3ut the same

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HLUbUi\ A.\U AlUHAWK VALLEYS

age and born not earlier than 1750. !\Iary
Gordon lived at German Flats and William
at Harpersfield, in the same county. An older
man, James Gordon, was living in 1790 in
Ballstown, Albany county, and had in his
family four males over sixteen, two under six-
teen and four females. Ezekiel Gordon, men-
tioned below, was a son of James Gordon, and
afterwards moved from Albany county to
Montgomery county. James Gordon, also of
Ballstown, had a family, and was the son of
the James Gordon mentioned heretofore. Eze-
kiel Gordon was born about 1773-80. He
settled in Charleston Four Corners in what is
now the town of Root, Montgomery county,
and followed farming. It is more than likely
that his family was Scotch-Irish coming with
a flood of emigrants before the revolution to
New England and New York. He was a
member of the Christian church in later life,
and a Whig in politics. Children: David,
mentioned below ; James Schuyler and Peter.

(II) David, son of Ezekiel Gordon, was
born in Montgomery county, about 1800. He
was educated in the district schools, and was a
farmer. He was a deputy sheriff of Mont-
gomery county, 1838-40. He was an expert
cheese-maker, and used to travel from town
to town in following this trade. He was a
member of the Christian church, and a Whig
in politics. His home was at Brown's Hol-
low, Montgomery county. He married Lydia
Hoag. Children: i. Frank, married Henri-
etta Davis ; children : Luella, married Wil-
liam Allen ; Hattie ; Horace. 2. William
James, mentioned below. 3. Burton, married
Ellen Zoller, children : Florence and Helene.
4. Mary, married Edward Clark ; children :
Eugenia and Hattie Clark.

(III) William James, son of David Gor-
don, was born in Montgomery county, August
29, 1835, "^'ed at Johnstown, New York. Feb-
ruary 13, 1907. He attended the district
schools of Browns Hollow, his native village.
When a young man he engaged in the trade
of cheese-making, and also learned the trade
of miller in a grist mill at Browns Hollow.
He then moved to the town of Carlisle. Scho-
harie county, and followed the occupation of
miller until shortly before his death, when he
sold his mill and business and retired. He
was interested in town affairs and held the
office of commissioner of highways. He be-
longed to the Christian church. In early life
he was a Whig, afterward a Repuljlican. He
married, in March, 1863. Emma, horn March
13, 1843, daughter of John and Maria Tyme-
son, whose children were: Henry; Jay; Nor-
man, married Mary Heagle and had Cora,
Maud, and Leslie Tymeson ; Charles ; Cor-

nelius ; John ; Emma ; Jane, married Samuel
Reynolds, of Racine, Wisconsin, and had a
son, Jay Reynolds. Children of Mr. and Mrs.
Gordon : Edgar D.. mentioned below ; Wil-
liam J., Jr., born November 27, 1869, married,
October 11, 1904, Elda Hutton.

(IV) Edgar D., son of William James Gor-
don, was born at Browns Hollow. Montgom-
ery county, May 17, 1865. He attended the
public schools of his native town, and after-
wards for a period of six years was clerk in
a general store at Ames, Montgomery county.
New York. In 1890 he came to Johnstown,
New York, and for eighteen years was in
charge of the bookmaking of the firm of J. H.
Decker & Son & Company. He has held
many offices of trust and honor. He was for
four years water commissioner of Johnstown ;
in 1905 he was alderman-at-large for four
months, and mayor the remainder of the year;
in 1907 he was elected county clerk of Fulton
county and took office January i, 1908: he
served three years, and in 1910 was reelected
for a second term of three years. He is a
member of Knights of Pythias ; Oliver Com-
pany, Ll'niformcd Rank of Knights of Pythias,
and Grand Orient : Royal Arcanum : Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows ; Acorn Re-
becca Lodge : Council of the Order of United
American iMechanics, in which he has held all
the offices and has been state councillor. He
is a member of the Lotus club and the Board
of Trade. In religion he is a Baptist and is
trustee of the society. In politics he is a Re-
publican. He married, November 21, 1886,
Mina D., born April 9, 1867, daughter of
Samuel and Marion (Dingman) Collins,
granddaughter of James and Charlotte K.
(Geantier) Collins, also granddaughter of
John .'\. and Electa E. (Goodemote) Ding-
man, father and mother of Marion (Ding-
man) Collins. Children of Mr. and ^Irs. Col-
lins: I. Ella, married (first) Phillip Conrad
and had son Sherman Conrad; married (sec-
ond) Smith Fay, and had son Theron Fay.
2. Mina, married Edgar D. Gordon, men-
tioned above. 3. Elizabeth, married Theron
Sipperly. 4. Lottie, married Charles Ives. 5.
Merritt. married Lulu Van Kie. Mr. and
Mrs. Gordon have one child, Merritt W.,
born October 23, 1895.

The Speed family in ."Kmerica de-
SPEED scend from James, son of Dr.
John Speed, of Southampton,
England, where James was born September
28. 1679. He settled in Virginia in 1695 and
became a wealthy planter. He married, 1711,
Mary Pulley and had four sons : James, John,
William T. and Thomas. Branches of the

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1079

family settled in New York state, in Tomp-
kins and Columbia counties. The line in
the Hudson \'alle)' begins with Richard Speed,
a farmer of Columbia county, New York, who
married and had issue.

(II) .\hraham. son of Richard Speed, was
born in Columbia county, New York, 1814,
died in \\'est Ghent, same county, 1885. He
learned the carpenter's trade and became a
well-known builder and contractor of the
county. He was an elder of the Dutch Re-
formed church, and a Republican in politics.
He married Caty Snyder Smith and had issue.

(III) .Sylvanus, son of Abraham and Caty
Snyder (.*^mith) Speed, was born in town of
Ghent, Columbia county, New York, May 13,
1839, died there January 31, 1879. He was
etkicated in the public schools, and learned
the trade of builder with his father, continu-
ing in business with him until his death. He
was a deacon of the Dutch Reformed church,
and a Republican in politics. He married, Oc-
tober 18, i860, at Ghent, Jane Helen Leggett,
born March 10, 1836, died January 28, 1906,
at Hudson, New York, daughter of William
Leggett (see Leggett III). Children: Wil-
liam Leggett and Harry S., of further men-
tion.

(I\^) William Leggett, son of Sylvanus and
Jane Helen (Leggett) Speed, was lx)rn in
town of Chatham, Columbia county, New
York, May 2, 1862. He was educated in the
public schools, and is now engaged in a hard-
ware and carriage business in Hudson. He is
a member of the Dutch Reformed church,
and a Republican in politics. He married, .\u-
gust 13, 1885, Augusta, daughter of Dr.
( harles W. Hinsdale, born in Claverack, New
York, :\Iay 2, 1828, died April 19, 1887. at
Hudson, a druggist and physician ; married
Amelia Harnes Shepherd. Dr. Charles W.
Hinsdale was the son of Dr. Stephen Hins-
dale, of Claverack town, who married Eliza
Cain. Amelia Harnes Shepherd was the
daughter of Abraham and Margaret J. Shep-
erd, the latter a daughter of Robert and Sally
Rorick, and granddaughter of Gasper Rorick,
who fought in the revolutionary war.

(I\') Harry Sargent, son of Sylvanus and
Jane Helen (Leggett) Speed, was born in
West Ghent, Columbia county, New York,
August 26, 1864. He was educated in the
public schools, and began his business career
as clerk in a shoe store in Hudson. In 1889
he established in business for himself as retail
shoe merchant and as such still continues
(1911). He is a Republican in politics, and
a member of the Dutcli Reformed church. He
married, July 25, 1888, Emma, born in Hud-
son, New York, October 13, 1865, daughter

of Francis Henry Bagley : died at Hudson,
October 20, 1902 (see Bagley I\'). Child,
Sherwood Bagley, born October 8, 1891 ; now
a student at Williston Seminary, class of 191 1.

(The Leggett Line).
Jane Helen Leggett, wife of Sylvanus
Speed, was a great-granddaughter of jacobus
Leggett, of Ghent, born 1729, died 1785 : mar-
ried, 17(39, Catherine Reyne (or Peyne).

(II) John, son of Jacobus and Catherine
Leggett, was born in town of Ghent, Colum-
bia county. New York: married, February 12,
1795, Mary \'an .Alstyne, born January 6,
1771, at Cihent, died there, April 15, 1863.
Children : Catherine, born November 9^
1795 : James, November 18, 1797; Maria, No-
vember 30, 1799; Bertha, February 3, 1805;
William, of further mention.

(III) William, son of John and Mary (Van-
Alstyne) Leggett, was born in Ghent. Sep-
tember 9, 181 1, died there in the same house
in which he was born, March 17, 1874. He
was a farmer, elder of the Dutch Reformed
church of Claverack, and a Democrat in poli-
tics. He married. October 28, 1833, Emily
Augusta Sargent, born at West Boylston, Mas-
sachusetts, June 13, 1813, died at Hudson,
New York, August 13, 1885. Children: i.
Mary Persis, died in infancy. 2. Jane Helen,,
born March 10, 1836 ; married Sylvanus Speed
(see Speed III). 3. Julia Harriet, twin of
Jane Ilelen, died March 25, 186 — ; married,
June 19, 1856, Robert Lapham: children:
Mary Augusta and Walter. 4. John, born
March 27, 1838, died aged eight years. 5.
Frazier, died in infancy. 6. Mary Catherine.
7. Persis Ann. 8. Charles Frazier, born .Au-
gust 27, 1845 '• "ow living in Brooklyn, New
York : married Helen .V. Ferguson, October
25, 1870; child, William Ferguson. 9. Wil-
liam James, born October 12, 1848; now of
Chatham, New York. 10. Georgiana, died
in infancy.

(The Bagley Linet.

The earliest Bagley given in Savage's "Gen-
ealogical Dictionary," is John Bagley, of Say-
brook, Connecticut, 1637.

Orlando Bagley, of Salisbury (perhaps son
of John Bagley), married, March 6, 1654.
Sarah, daughter of .Anthony Colby ; both were
living in 1662 and both died in 1700. Chil-
dren: Orlando, of further mention: Sarah,
married .April 5, 16S1, John Mack.

Orlando (2), son of Orlando (i) and Sarah
(Colby) P.agley, married (first) December
22. 1681. Saraii, daughter of William Sar-
gent; she died October 3. 1701 ; married (sec-
ond), 1704, Sarah Annis. He was made a
freeman in 1690; constable in 1692. Children:

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HUDSON AND MOHAWK \-ALLEYS

'Orlando (3), Sarah, John, Jacob, Judith, Jo-
seph, Benjamin, Anne, Hannah. From this
branch, the family in Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, and other New England states must
liave come. The first ancestor of whom we
have authentic information was Luther Bagley,
of Providence, Rhode Island, although a
great many Bagleys served in the revolution
from different parts of Massachusetts and
•other colonies.

(I) Luther Bagley, born about 1775 in
Providence, Rhode Island, was a marble cut-
ter and dealt in monuments; was justice of
"the peace; prominent in the ^Masonic order.
He married Sarah Baker.

(II) John, son of Luther and Sarah (Ba-
ker) Bagley, was born in Providence, Rhode
Island, September 9, 1806. He married Clem-
entine Nye, born October 11, 1808, died 1888,
•daughter of Moses and Chloe (Gifford) Nye.
Chloe GifTord was daughter of David and
Temperance (Dimmock) Gifford, of Fal-
mouth. Massachusetts. Moses Nye. born in
Sandwich, Alassachusetts, 1774, died there
November 16, 1869, was son of Lemuel, born
January 29, 1741, died before 1797, married,
February 7, 1774, Mary, daughter of David
and Thankful (Hatch) Dimmick. Lemuel
was the son of IMeletiah (2) Nye, born in
Falmouth, Massachusetts, April 13, 1719, died
in Pocassett, Massachusetts, December 23,
1777, married, December 18, 1740, Ruth,
daughter of Afoses and Mary Swift. Mele-
tiah (2) was the son of Meletiah (i) Nye,
born in Falmouth, Massachusetts, 1682, died
there 1749; married (first), December 11,
171 2, Sarah, daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah
(Hatch) Wing. She was the mother of all
his children and died 1734. Meletiah (i)
Nye was the son of Ebenezer Nye : married
Sarah, daughter of Thomas Gibbs. He was
selectman of Falmouth, 1705-06; died, 1734,
according to town records ; family records say
1744. Ebenezer was the son of Benjamin
Nye, the .A.merican ancestor, born at Bidlen-
den, Kent, England, May 4, 1620, son of
Thomas and Agnes Nye. Benjamin Nye came
to America in the .ship "Abigail" to Lynn.
Massachusetts, in 1635, with Edmund Free-
man's company. In 1636 he removed to Sand-
wich, Massachusetts, where he built both saw
and fulling mills. In 1661 he was constable
and juryman. In 1673 he was again chosen
constable. He married Katherine, daughter
of Rev. Thomas Tupper, October 19, 1640.

(III) Francis Henry, .son of John and Clem-
entine (Nye) Bagley, was born at Hudson,
New York. October 26, 1830, died there, Oc-
tober 20, 1902. He was connected with the
Now York Central railroad; Democrat in poli-

tics ; member of the Dutch Reformed church.
He married, at Athens, New York, January
26, 1853, Phoebe Ann Van Hoesen, born
March i, 1833, died December 15, 1891.

(IV) Emma, daughter of Francis Henry
and Phoebe Ann (Van Hoesen) Bagley, was
born in Hudson ; married, July 23, 1888,
Harry Sargent Speed (see Speed IV).

(The Van Hoesen Line).

In 1645, Jans Frause Van Hussuen, with
his wife, \'olkie Jurrianse, and son Jurrian,
came to America and settled at Fort Orange
and Beverwyck (now Albany), where he pur-
chased land. His principal purchase was that
of Claverack land, made June 5, 1662, of
several hundred acres, including the site on
which the city of Hudson now stands. It
was bought for the sum of five hundred guild-
ers, in beavers. The land was owned by two
Indians, Parnetepiet and Tatan Kenaut : the
sale was confirmed June 11, all the signatures
being made with signs or marks. He died
about 1667 and letters of administration were
issued to his son Jurrian, August 2, 1703.
Jurrian, eldest son of Jans Frause. by the
laws of primogenturc became seized of the
land, hut an amiable petition was made by
which he conveyed the lands adjoining the
Hudson river, southerly of the ferry, to his
brother Johannes, and notherly to his broth-
er-in-law, Francis Harding, and wife Cath-
erine and brother, Jacoh Jans \'an Hoesen.
The deed was executed January 7, 1704. and
recorded in Albany. Children of Jans Frause
Van Hussuen: Jurrian: Jacob Jans; Anna,
married Laykas Gerrites : Styntie, married Fan
Tys C^.oes : Maria, married Hendrick Cocu-
raltse : Catherine, married Frank Harding;
Johannes ; X'olkert.

(II) Jacob Jans \'an Hoesen. son of Jans
Frause and Volkie (Jurrainse) \'an Hussuen,
was a freeholder in Claverack in 1720. He
married Judith Cleaum. Children : Francis ;
Jan or Jan Jacob; Elsie, twin of Jan, born
February 12, 1696.

(HI) Francis, son of Jacob Jans and Judith
(Cleaum) Van Hoesen, married Martijc \'an
De Kar, widow of Garret \"an Hoesen, in
1739. One child.

(IV) Jacob F., son of I'rancis and Martije
(Van Dc Kar) (\'an Hoesen) Van Hoesen,
was born February 13, 1740, died November
14, 1819; married Rachel, born December 5,
1738, died 1796. daughter of Jan Casper
and Hcndriske Van lioesen. Children: Cas-
per, born June 23, 1768; Maria. March 31,
1770, died March 7, 1790; Francis, August 9,
1772, died February 20, 1847.

(V) Casper, son of Jacob F. and Rachel

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1681

(\'an Hoesen) Van Hoesen, was born June
23, 1768, died January 5, 1855. He married
Elsie Clow, died February 7, 1829. Chil-
dren : Rachel, born December 4, 1790, died
August 30, 1832; Jacob C, October 29, 1794;
Garret. September 5, 1798; John, March 24,
1800: Isaac, September 10, 1802.

(\l) Jacob C, son of Casper and Elsie
(Clow) \'an Hoesen, was born October 29,
1794. died August 30, 1832; married, Octo-
ber 28, 1826, Sophia Van Dyke, born Decem-
ber 28. 1790, died July 13, 1857. Children:
John, born November, 1827, died August 3,
1830; Catherine, October, 1829, died August,
1830; Catherine Sophia, June 31, 1831, died
Jannnry 29, 1832 ; Phoebe Ann.

(\"li) Phoebe Ann, daughter of Jacob C.
and Sophia (\'an Dyke) Van Hoesen, was
born March i. 1833: married. January 26,
1853. Francis H. Bagley (sec Bagley HI).
Child, Emma.

(VHI) Emma, daughter of Francis H. and
Phoebe Ann (\^an Hoesen) Bagley, born Sep-
tember 13, 1864, married Harry Sargent Speed
(see Speed IV).

The clan Armstrong was
ARMSTRONG famed in Scotland for
courage and patriotism.
Scott, in the "Lay of the Last Minstrel,"
makes the chief say, when about to assemble
the clans for some daring enterprise :
"Ye need not go to Liddisdale,
For when they see the blazing bale
Elliots and Armstrongs never fail."
The family tradition is that the name was
originally bestowed upon a Highland chief for
his great courage and physical powers. An-
other and better authenticated tradition is that
the name Armstrong is derived from the fol-
lowing circumstance: "An ancient king of
Scotland, having his horse killed under him
in battle, was immediately remounted bv Fair-
baim, his armor bearer, who took the king by
the thigh and placed him in the saddle, al-
thoiigh "heavily weighted by armor. For this
timelv assistance and feat of strength, the king
amply rewarded him with lands on the border ;
gave him the name of Armstrong, and as-
signed him for crest an armed hand and arm ;
in the left hand a leg and foot in armor couped
at the thigh all proper."

(I I The emigrant ancestor of the Arni-
strongs of Hudson, herein recorded, is Wil-
liam, a descendant of the Scotch family that
settled in the north of Ireland. He may have
been connected with the .Armstrongs of Mas-
sachusetts and Connecticut, but seems to be
an independent branch in this country. Wil-
liam came from Ireland and settled early in

the town of Warwick, Orange county. New
York. He had several children who were
grown up at the time of the revolution. The
family tradition is that his wife was a descend-
ant of Bishop Lattimore.

(II) Benjamin, son of William Armstrong,
was born about 1760. He settled in Albany
county. New York, later becoming a farmer
of the town of Duanesburg, Schenectady
county, where he reared a family and died.
He married and had William.

(III) William (2), son of Benjamin Arm-
strong, of Albany and Schenectady counties.
New York, was born about 1770, died in New
York City, early in the nineteenth century.
He was ty occupation a weaver and settled in
New York City after learning his trade. He
married Elizabeth Reed, died in New York
City prior to 1834.

(IV) William (3), son of William (2) and
Elizabeth (Reed) Armstrong, was born in
Schenectady, New York, October 22, 1800,
died in Hudson, New York, April 18, 1891.
W'hen nine years of age his parents removed
to New York City, where he was educated
and learned the tailor's trade. About 1830
he removed to Hudson, where he started a
merchant tailoring establishment, continuing
successfully until his retirement in i860. He
was a member of the Presbyterian church of
Hudson, and a Democrat, although never ac-
tively engaged in politics. He married, in
Hudson, November 20, 1834. Mary Clark,
born in that city July 5, 1807, died there. May
3. 1889. daughter of Cornelius Clark, born in
1773, died in Catskill, New York. January,
1814: married, 1805, in Albany, New York,
Elizabeth Case, born in Rhode Island in 1790,
reared by her Grandmother Johnson in Leba-
non, New York, died in Hudson, August 3.
1834. a devoted member of the Protestant
Episcopal church. Children: i. Ellen E.,
married William Hedges, a wood engraver of
New York City, their prescut home. 2. Mary
J., married Edwin Hedges, whom she sur-
vives, a resident of Washington, D. C. : child,
George P. 3. Lou M., resident of New York
City. 4. James Clark, of further mention.
5. Charles O., for many years a locomotive
engineer, now of New York City.

(V) James Clark, son of William (3) and
Mary (Clark) Armstrong, was born in Hud-
son, New York. January 30, 1843. He was
educated in the public schools. On .\pril 20,

1863, he began his career as a railroad man,
taking a position as fireman on the Western
railroad (now Boston & Albany), April 15.

1864. he was promoted engineer, and is still
running on the same road. In 1886 he was
elected alderman from the second ward of

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Hudson. He has been connected with the fire
department of Hudson since 1863, and in
1873-74 was chief engineer of the department.
In 1905 he was appointed fire commissioner,
serving until elected mayor of Hudson in
1909. He has admirably filled the office of
chief magistrate of his city and still continues
in that office (1911). He is an active Demo-
crat and influential in his party. He is a
member of the Masonic order, belonging to
Lodge, Chapter, Council, and Commandery of
Knights Templar, all of Hudson. He is a
member of Greenbush Division No. 59, Broth-
erhood of Locomotive Engineers. He mar-
ried, February 22, 1869, Mary, daughter of
Eli Abbey, a blacksmith of Albany, i^'here he
is buried in Rural cemetery, and Mary (Col-
lings) Abbey. Children: i. Mary Abbey,
married Fred N. Spencer, an optician of Hud-
son, son of Edmund Spencer ; children, Ralph
and Margery A. 2. James Clark (2), born
August 13, 1880, educated in the city schools,
now in the plumbing business in Hudson.

The founder of this branch of
DALEY the Daley family, which has
been seated in the town of Chat-
ham, Columbia county. New York, for nearly
a century and a half, was Obadiah Daley, born
in the north of Ireland, between the years 1750
and 1760. He was a Protestant in religious
faith and a communicant of the Presbyterian
church. He married, in Chatham, New York,
a widow, Mrs. Betsey Chadwick. They were
the parents of a large family, all members of
the Presbyterian church. They settled in the
town of Chatham, New York, in the part
known as Old Chatham, where they are both
buried.

(H) Joseph, son of Obadiah and Betsey
(Chadwick) Daley, was born in Old Chatham,
Columbia county. New York, in 1785. He
became a farmer of the town, and was noted
for his methodical, thorough habits. A stone
wall, built by him to enclose his farm, well
illustrates his character. Though built a cen-
tury ago, it still stands in good condition,
serving the purpose for which it was intended.
Some years after the death of his first wife he
removed to the state of Ohio, where he died,
aged eighty years. He was Whig in politics,
affiliating late in life w-ith the Republican
party. He continued in the family faith, a
consistent member of the Presbyterian church
of Chatham.

He married (first) Hannah Sonn, who died
in Chatham. New York, [irior to his re-
moval to Ohio. He married (second) a wife
who died without issue. Children : Daniel,
of further mention ; Lewis, Hiram, Henry,

\\'illiam, Hezekiah, John, Dyer, Lester, Sa-
phronia.

(HI) Daniel, son of Joseph and Hannah
(Sonn) Daley, was born in Chatham, New
York, in 1814, died there in 1890. He was
a life-long resident of Chatham. Early in
life, he was a blacksmith, and later a farmer
of the town, successful and highly respected.
He was an active Republican, and an exem-
plary member of the East Chatham Baptist
church. He married, in Chatham, Mary A,
Champlin, who, like her husband, was a de-
voted Baptist, and a truly good Christian
woman. She was born in Westerly, Rhode
Island, a descendant of the early pioneer of
that name. Her parents were William and
Polly (Kenyon) Champlin, who came from
Westerly to Chatham, where all their children
were born except the eldest, Mary A. Chil-
dren of Daniel and Mary A. Daley: i. Mary,
died unmarried. 2. Sarah J., married James
Albertson, whom she survives, a resident of
Millbrook, New York, having issue. 3. Lucy,
died young. 4. William, an attorney at law,
now deceased ; he married Kitty Bailey, who
survives him with issue. 5. George K., of
further mention. 6. James B., who is yet liv-
ing, a widower with issue. 7. Henry, of Cox-
sackie. New York, married Harriet Osborne,
and has issue. 8. Charles, resident of Chat-
ham, married Maria Palmer, who died leaving
issue. 9. Joseph, died young.

(I\") George K.. son of Daniel and Mary
A. (Champlin) Daley, w-as born on the old
homestead in Chatliam, New York, February
28, 1842. He was educated in the public
schools, and choosing the profession of law
]M-epared in the office of Judge Straight, of
Nassau, and Judge Cadinan, of Chatham. In
1863 he was admitted to the bar of Columbia
county, and established his law office in Chat-
ham, u'here he has since been continuously in
the practice of his profession. He is a lawyer
of high standing and has a state-wide reputa-
tion. He has built up a large and lucrative
practice and has been particularly successful
in his numerous damage suits against corpora-
tions. For forty-one years he has been a
prominent factor in the upbuilding and devel-
opment of Cliatham, giving freely of his time
and ripe experience to assist in creating a
modern, prosperous village. He has served
in many of the town offices, and since 1898
has been justice of the peace. He was for
many years an active Republican, but later
affiliated with the Democratic party. In
church fellowship he unites with the Re-
formed congregation. He married, November
4, 1879, in Chatham, Mrs. Emma C. (Lasher)
Decker, burn in Stanford, Dutchess county.

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New York, in December, 1847 (see Decker
(VI).

She was well educated in the public
schools, and after her marriage to Mr. Daley
began the study of law under his direction.
She pursued a thorough, systematic course of
study, and although not a member of the bar
is well versed in legal lore, and is a wise and
safe counsellor. Her ability is so well known
that she was selected to prepare a digest of
decisions of the United States supreme court
and some fifty volumes were prepared under
her able management, and bear her name.
Her mental equipment is of the highest order,
and in her husband's legal practice she is an
active partner, stopping only at actual court-
room presentation of the trial causes. She
stands second to none in the county in her
knowledge of the law and its skillful applica-
tions. She is a daughter of Edward Lasher,
of whom further below.

(The Lasher Line).

The Lashers of Columbia county descend
from Sebastian Loescher, who came to W'est
Camp (Saugerties, Ulster county. New York)
in 17 10, With his wife Elizabeth and children.
He is supposed to have been a German and a
Palatine, although there is no positive proof
that he was either. I^Liny of the family be-
lieve he was a descendant of Solomon La
Chaire, of New York city, a lawyer, prac-
ticing there from 1645 to 1662. Others claim
that he was an elder brother of John Lasher,
who came with him to this country, remaining
in New York city, working at the cord-
wainer's trade. The actual fact known is that
he was at West Camp in 17 10, and that his
name appears (under the date of .•\ugust 26.
1724) on a list of those willing to stay at
Livingston Manor, East Camp (Germantown,
Columbia county, New York). He had chil-
dren: Sebastian, born 1696: George, born
1703: Conrad, of further mention; Maria,
baptized June i, 1710; Elizabeth, baptized
June I, 1710.

(H) Conrad, son of Sebastian and Elizabeth
Loescher (Lasher), was born in 1708. He
married Angeline Sestis. and had children
baptized at Athens, Germantown and Rhine-
beck, New York. Cliildren : Gerrit, a soldier
of the revolution ; John, of further mention ;
Anna Maria; George: Sebastian; Conrad (2).

(HI) John, second son of Conrad and An-
geline (Sestis) Lasher, was baptized Novem-
ber 27, 1733. will proved November 16, 1796.
He married, April 6, 1756, Christina Holtz-
appel. Children: i. Philip, married Elizabeth
Schumacher. 2. William, a soldier of the
revolution, married Susanna Klein. 3. Mar-

kus, baptized January 4, 1764. 4. Peter B.,
of further mention. 5. Gertrude, married
Peter B. Lasher. 6. John (2), baptized De-
cember 4. 1772. 7. Christina, January 2, 1774.
8. Conrad C, April 11, 1775. 9. George, born
in Germantown in 1768: settled in the town
of Root, Montgomery county. New York;
married, November 22, 1795, Catharina
Ecker ; both are buried on the old farm where
they settled.

(R") Peter B., son of John and Christina
(Holtzappel) Lasher, was baptized July 12,
1765, died June 8, 1841. He lived at Gal'latin-
ville. New York; married Elizabeth Erken-
bright, who died May 25, 1843. Children: i.
Anna, married Jeremiah G. Ham. 2. Philip
P., baptized November 13, 1803; married, .Au-
gust 30. 1826, Sally Snyder. 3. Jacob, bap-
tized February 9, 1806: married, June 23,
183 1, Maria Van Tassel. 4. Margaret, bap-
tized July 12, 1812. 5. Peter P., of Cler-
mont, New York : married Elizabeth .

6. Samuel, of further mention. 7. John, mar-
ried. May 30, 1833, Christina Patrick.

(V) Samuel, son of Peter B. and Elizabeth
(Erkenbright) Lasher, married Hannah Tin-
klepauph, who died at the advanced age of
ninety-four years. She was a member of
the Dutch Reformed church, as was her
husband. They lived at Manorton, Columbia
county. New York. Children: i. Edward, of
further mention. 2. Sabrina, baptized June
12, 1825, married Caleb Walcott, and resided
at Gallatinville. 3. John, baptized December
5, 1827: married and has children. 4. Al-
mira, baptized November 8, 1829.

(VI) Edward, son of Samuel and Hannah
(Tinklepaugh) Lasher, was baptized .August
25, 182 1, died at Valatia, New York, in 1888.
He was a farmer and hotel keeper, and lived
at Gallatinville. Columbia county. New York.
He married Catharine C. Card, born in Colum-
bia county, 1822, died 1900, daughter of Eaton
and Charlotte (Wintherell) Card. She was a
member of the Lutheran church. Children:
1. Remus E., a real estate dealer of \'alatie.
New York, and owner of the local telephone
line : married Vinnie Y. Rander.son ; children :
Harry B., Edward C, James E., Matthew C,
Frances \"., Emma C. 2. Sarah, died at the
age of sixteen years. 3. Emma C, married
(first) Sidney Decker, born 1842, died 1870,
leaving a son Homer L.. born Septemlicr 2^,
1867, in the town of Livingston, Columbia
county. New York ; educated in the public
schools of Chatham ; first engaged in the
jewelry business, later in Chatham as a livery-
man and still continues ; he married Charlotte
Rarringer; Emma C. married (second)
George K. Daley; no issue (see Daley I\').

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The Behan family of Albany
BEHAX descend from an Irish ancestry

seated in Adare, Ireland. The
grandfather of Thomas Frederick Behan, the
representative member of the present day
family, was John Behan, born in Adare in
1780; followed the occupation of a farmer;
was a member of the Roman Catholic church ;
married. 1804, Katherine Cullen, and had chil-
dren : Thomas, of further mention ; James,
born 1829; Katherine, 1831 ; Mary, 1833.

(II) Thomas, eldest son of John and Kath-
erine (Cullen) Behan, was born in Adare, Ire-
land, August 15, 1827, died in Albany, New
York, June 15, 1888. He began his business
life as manager of a tobacco and snuff factory
in Adare, continuing in that position until
1850. when he came to the United States, lo-
cating in Albany, New York. He again en-
gaged in business as manager of the firm of
Reed & Davis, one of the largest importing
and wholesale wine and liquor houses in the
state. In 1857 he resigned his position and
established the same business under his own
name, continuing until his death in 1888. He
prospered exceedingly and in 1870 was rated
one of Albany's wealthiest business men. Most
of his fortune, however, was lost during the
disastrous panic of 1872-73. He was a de-
voted member of St. Mary's Roman Catholic
Church and one of its greatest benefactors.
When the new church edifice was erected in
1867. he was the business adviser of the Rev.
Clarence A. Walworth, the pa.stor, who relied
implicitly on his judgment in matters regard-
ing the financing of the building, a large under-
taking in those days. In 1866-67 ^^' '" asso-
ciation with the late Peter Cagger and Wil-
liam Cassidy, acted as a committee in pur-
chasing the property on the Troy road as a
site for St. Agnes's cemetery, and was one
of the original trustees of that corporation.
He was a Democrat in politics and although
tendered several local offices of importance by
his party, steadfastly refused political prefer-
ment. i-Ie possessed a large library of care-
fully selected books and was a close student of
the best in literature. He married, at Troy,
New York, November 25, 1855, Winifred,
born in Plattsburg, New York, .April i, 1831,
daughter of James McManus. The McManus
family came originally from the north of Ire-
land. James McManus, born in the town of
Boyle, 1797, a school teacher, later teller of
the' Agricultural Bank of Boyle, emigrated to
America in 1850 and settled in New York.
His son, Thomas McManus, settled in Troy,
New York, where he made a fortune in river
transportation companies. During the civil
war the steamers and barges owned by his

companies were in the service of the govern-
ment transporting men and supplies from
northern ports to Fortress Monroe. He
studied law and in 1871 was admitted to the
bar, and became one of the leading lawyers of
Troy, and held elective local office. He mar-
ried, in 1867, Isabella Montague. Elizabeth
McDermott, maternal grandmother of Thomas
F. Behan, was born in 1796 in French Park,
Ireland, daughter of Luke and Winifred (Mc-
Dermott) McDermott (not related save by
marriage). Thomas and Winifred Behan had
children : Mary, Katherine, Winifred G., John
v., Margaret, Emma R., Thomas F., of fur-
ther mention, Joseph C, Jay W., all born in
Albany, New York.

(HI) Thomas Frederick, son of Thomas
and Winifred (McManus) Behan, was born
in Albany, New York, January 10, 1869. He
was educated in public and private schools of
that city. On completing his studies he en-
tered the New York State Insurance Depart-
ment at Albany as junior clerk. From his en-
trance in 1883 until 1905 he passed through
several grades of promotion until he reached
the grade of chief clerk. In 1906 he was ap-
pointed third deputy superintendent of insur-
ance and served as such under the administra-
tions of Otto H. Kelsey and William H.
Hotchkiss, 1906-10. In 1906 Mr. Behan was
admitted to the bar of the state, having pre-
pared thoroughly and passed the necessary ex-
amination. He is a Democrat in politics ;
member of Cathedral of the Immaculate Con-
ception. His club is the Albany, which he
joined in 1897. In 1904 he was elected to the
board of governors, serving 1904-05-06. He
is unmarried.

Among the early settlers of the
G.\RNER northern part of the town of
Ghent. Columbia county, New
York, was Godfrey Garner, born 1739, died
1807, who purchased a tract of land including
the farm later occupied by his grandson,
Aaron C. Garner. He married Catherine
Cooper, and had sons, Godfrey Martin and
Christopher, who became prominent citizens of
the town and were pillars of the early Dutch
Reformed church.

(II) Christopher, .son of Godfrey and Cath-
erine (Cooper) Garner, was born in the town
of Ghent, Columbia county. New York, in
1786, died 1853. He was a farmer, and in
1841-42 was supervisor of the town. He was
a member of the Dutch Reformed church, as
were many of the Garners, his relations. He
married Helen Huyck and had issue.

(III) Aaron C, son of Christopher and
Helen (Huyck) Garner, was born in Ghent,

HUDSON AND MOHAWK \ALLi:VS

Columbia county, New York, in 1820, died
January 9, 1892. He was educated in the
town schools, grew up a farmer, owned and
cuhivated the Garner homestead, first taken
up by his grandfather, Godfrey Garner. He
was a successful man of business, and a lead-
ing member of the Dutch Reformed church of
Ghent. He married (first) Sarah Snyder,
(second) Christina \'an Deusen, died June 21,
1904 : sons : Christopher H., Martin, George
R. and Frederick.

(IV) George R.. son of Aaron C. and Chris-
tina (\'an Deusen) Garner, was born at
Ghent, Columbia county, New York, on the
Garner homestead, July 4, 1879. He was edu-
cated in the public schools and at Chatham
Academy. After completing his studies he re-
turned to the farm and became his father's
assistant. After the death of the latter, the
son continued the operation of the farm and
so continues. He is modern and up-to-date in
his methods and is rated a man of success. He
served as collector of the town two years, col-
lector of the school district four years, and
since 1907 has been supervisor, being elected
in 1909 without opposition. He adheres to
the religious faith of his fathers, worshipping
with the Dutch Reformed congregation of
Ghent. His orders are the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, Hudson Lodge, No.
787; Knights of Pythias; Cascade Lodge, No.
197. of Philmont ; Modern Woodmen of Amer-
ica, Chatham Camp, No. 10,315. Mr. Garner
is unmarriecf.

The branch of the Brown fam-
BROWN ily herein recorded traces its
origin to the year 1538. when
Henry VHL gave to Sir .Anthony Brown,
Knight, divers manors in Sussex and the
priory of St. Mary Overy in Southwark. He
died in 1568. His eldest son. Anthony, who
was created Viscount Montague in 1554, died
before his father, in 1562, leaving children by
two wives. By his first wife, Jane, daughter
of the Earl of Sussex, he had one son, .An-
thony, who succeeded his father to the title
of viscount, and later to his grandfather's
manors and priory, died in 1592 without leav-
ing legal heirs, and the estate and title then
passed to the children of his father by his
second marriage with Margaret, daughter of
Lord Dacre. Although there were several
sons by this marriage, strange to say none
ever appeared to claim the estate and title, and
all attempts to trace them in England signally
failed.

It is believed in England that the heirs
of the two younger sons, George and William,
emigrated to America about the year 1680, and

that the heir of the latter, William Brown,
settled in Pennsylvania.

(I) The first Brown of record to settle in
the state of New York was Henry Brown, one
of the first settlers, who purchased a tract of
land, part of which was in Mapletown. but on
account of threats of the Tories, who had
their ammunition near the White House
bridge, and after the burning of his house, he
changed his place of residence to Albany, ac-
companied by all his family with the excep-
tion of Nathaniel. He was the father of sev-
eral sons and daughters, among whom was
Nathaniel, see forward, Nicholas, Peter. In
the documentary history of New York there is
record of a grant of land to Henry Brown's
wife that was confiscated. She was related to
the late President Rutherford B. Hayes.

(II) Nathaniel, son of Henry Brown, was
born in Hoosick, New York. He was a farmer
and large land owner, possessing four farms,
on one of which were fine quarries of slate,
which he opened and operated ; these quarries
were on the road leading from Hoosick vil-
lage to Hoosick Falls and were considered of
great importance. He was a member of the
Baptist church and otherwise prominent in the
town. He married Margaret, daughter of
Nicholas and Margaret Powers, who came
from Livingston Alanor to Hoosick, one of
the first settlers, whose farm joined that of
Henry Brown. Children of Mr. and Mrs.
Powers: Eve. born December 6, 1773; Cath-
erine, November i, 1775; Margaret. April 15,
1779; Hannah, July i, 1781. Children of Mr.
and Mrs. Brown : i. Adelia, married Jesse L.
Raymer; she died about 1890; children: Al-
len and .Almon ; grandchildren : Adelia, Mary,
Nellie, Amelia. 2. Albert, of whom further. 3.
Amelia, married Hiram Knapp, who was a
prosperous farmer, owning an estate in North
Bennington, Vermont, where his wife died
about 1835. which is now owned and cultivated
by his only son, Charles Knapp, who married

Mary Helen and has a son Edward. 4.

Nicholas P., born May 29, 1809, died July 24,
1893 ; he was a farmer of the town of i loo-
sick ; married, October 18. 1838, Minerva
Lamb, of Pittstown. born September 22, 1S18,
died March 14, 1897, who bore him six chil-
dren, three sons and three daughters, two are
deceased, Caroline L., the eldest, and .Amelia
E., a graduate of Lansingburg I'emalc Semi-
nary ; the remainder, Mary Jane. Willard,
Hayner and George Edward, reside on the
old homestead on the Hill road to Hoosick
Falls, where their father and grandfather
Powers lived. 5. Abigail, married Harvey
Russell; children: Two sons in civil war;
George, deceased ; Joseph, living ; she died

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•^bout 1850 and is buried in Mapletown cem-
-etery.

(HI) Colonel Albert Brown, son of Na-
thaniel and Margaret (Powers) Brown, was
born at Hoosick in August, 1806; died Decem-
ber 22, 1883. He started out in life when
quite young with little capital, but with an
energy and ambition that nothing could
daunt. He became a farmer, accumu-
lated a goodly estate, attained a prominent po-
sition in the town, reared a large family, and
died universally respected. He was active in
military life, beginning in the ranks and rising
to the rank of colonel of the regiment, in
which capacity he served ten years, holding
the same until his resignation. He served as
justice of the peace, being repeatedly elected,
and there was no more active or useful citizen
in the town than Colonel Brown. He was
a regular attendant of the Baptist church, and
an ardent Democrat. He married, September
8, 1830. Millissa D. Covell, born March 4.
1810. died March 19, 1872. Children: i.
George Washington, of whom further. 2.
Adelia M., born May 18, 1833 ; married, Sep-
tember 22, 1852, Addison H. Armstrong; lives
in Marcellus, Onondaga county. New York ;
children : two deceased ; Lewis ; Lyman ; Al-
bert : Florence, married Gilbert ; has

three children : May. 3. Priscilla L., born April
27. 1835, died September 9, 1870; married,
October i, 1855, G. Edward Armstrong; chil-
dren : Charles, married, one child ; Moses,
married, has Fremont, Charles, Sarah, Dora,
Julia. 4. Charles A., born May 7, 1837 ; mar-
ried (first) June 10, 1863, Mary A. Babcock ;
(second) Atarion A. Babcock; children: i.
Charles Albert, resides in Jacksonville, Flor-
ida, engaged in the real estate business and
prominent as a citizen ; married and has two
children; ii. Alice, married Charles Fischer;
one child. Albert; resides in Rochester, New
York, where he is a successful plumber ; iii.
Katharine, married Harry Greene ; two chil-
dren, Charles and Marian ; resides in Plain-
field, New Jersey ; iv. Henrietta, married Ray-
mond Greene in 1910; resides in Brooklyn,
New York ; v. Almond, married and has a son
and daughter ; resides in New York City ; vi.
Harry, married and has three children, two
daughters and a son ; resides in Brooklyn. 5.
"Richard C, born April 22, 1839, of whom fur-
ther. 6. Julia Francis, born July 26, 1841 ;
married (first) John H. Armstrong. Janu-
ary 9, 1866; (second) C. H. Plant: now liv-
ing in Syracuse, New York. 7. Mary M.,
born December 25, 1843, 'I'^d September 21,
1845. 8. Henry Marcus, born March 29,
184^). died 1905. 9. Ethel D.. born Sep-
tember 3, 1849, died July 24, 1880; married

C. H. Plant (his first wife), April 17, 1873;
children: i. Mabel, married j\Iarx Haswell,
1910, one son ; resides in Hoosick, New York;
ii. Ethel, lives in Syracuse, New York. 10.
Florence, born May 19, 1852 ; married Dr. J.
W. Joslyn, one son Whitman ; resides in
Johnstown, New York, a successful physician.
II. Mary Melissa, born August 21, 1855;
married, September 12, 1876, Royal Bosworth ;
children : Grace and Alfred ; resides in Hoo-
sick village.

(IV) George Washington, son of Colonel
Albert and Millissa D. (Covell) Brown, was
born in the town of Hoosick, New York, June
28, 1831. In 1852, at the age of twenty-one,
he married Mary J. Wallace and settled on
what is known as the Wallace farm, on the
River road, between Hoosick and Hoosick
Falls, living there all their lives ; his wife died
March 6, 1910. Mr. Brown dealt in general
produce, fertilizer, coal, feed, etc., at one time,
while living in Hoosick village. He held im-
portant town offices, was justice of the peace
several terms and poor commissioner for three
terms. He has always been an ardent Demo-
crat, and during the civil war was firm in his
support of the Union. He was a member of
the choir of the Hoosick Baptist Church, hav-
ing sung with that musical organization for
twenty-two years. During a period of nearly
fifty years the entire choir was composed
mostly of the Browns and their relatives.
Children of George W. and Mary J. (Wal-
lace) Brown: i. Mary Elizabeth, married J.
M. Haswell; children: i. William W., married
Gertrude Richmond and has son, Joseph : ii.
Albert, an osteopath physician in Springfield,
Massachusetts; iii. King, residing at home at
present (1911); iv. Kenneth, residing at
home; Mr. Haswell died in 1910. 2. Georgi-
anna M., married Frederic Pickering, Septem-
ber, 1910.

(IV) Richard Covell, son of Colonel Al-
bert and Millissa D. (Covell) Brown, was
born on the old Hoosick homestead of the
Brown family, .A-pril 22, 1839. He purchased
a farm in Cattaraugus county. New York, on
which he lived for several years, and in 1885
returned to Hoosick and purchased the old
homestead, consisting of one hundred and
eighty-five acres, where he resides at the pres-
ent time. Mr. Brown, his wife, during her
lifetime, and seven of their children are mem-
bers of the Baptist church in Hoosick, in
which he filled the office of trustee for eight-
een consecutive years. He is a Democrat in
politics, highly respected for his sterling quali-
ties. He married. May 16, 1865, Mary Cran-
dall, born April 5, 1845, died January 6, 1901,
daughter of Lewis and Amanda (Gleason)

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1687

Crandall. Children: i. Clarence C, born Oc-
tober, 1866; resides in state of Washington,
Teal estate dealer: water power; married Jen-
nie Dorn, of Sloansville, New York ; has a
son Dorn Brown ; he is a Blue Lodge Mason.
2. Lewis C, born April 2, 1868; resident of
the city of New York : principal owner of the
New York Tin Roof Painting Company ; ran
for state senator, congress, etc., on the Prohi-
"bition ticket ; member of Baptist church ; a
Shrine Mason. 3. George E., born March 7,
1870: resident of Jacksonville, Florida, en-
gaged in building and real estate; mar-
ried Lela Grogan : children : Dorothy, Mil-
dred and Richard. 4. Frank M., born
April 19, 1872; a resident of Greensboro,
North Carolina ; married Alice Harris and
lias a daughter. Elizabeth, born in 19 10.
5. Ellen A., married Dr. \L \V. Stearns,
of Schenectady ; daughter, IMary Ellen, born
in 1909. 6. Albert, born February 19, 1877;
married Minnie Burton and has a son Bur-
ton, born 1905, lives in Lansingburg: laundry-
man. 7. Marcus H., born 1879: a resident of
the state of Oregon, real estate dealer and
property owner. 8. Arthur R.. born 1884; en-
gaged in business with brother, Marcus H.,
in Oregon. 9. De Witt, born September 18,
1885 : married Emma Sweet in 1910.

This branch of the
SLINGERLAND Slingerland family de-
scend from Tuenise
Corneliese Slingerland, born 1617, who emi-
grated from Amsterdam. Holland, in 1650,
•settling in Beverwyck. He purchased from
the Indians a tract of ten thousand acres lying
in what is now the towns of Bethlehem and
New Scotland, Albany county. New York.
The chiefs who conveyed the land. Wolf.
Bear and Turtle, represented three tribes who
were original owners of the land. Much of
this land yet remains in the Slingerland name.
He married (first) Engletje Albertise Bradt ;
(second ) April 9, 1684. Geertie Fonda, widow
of Jan Bikker. Of his children those who
reached maturity and left families are: Ar-
ent. Albert, Cornells, Elizabeth, who married
Thomas Eackars. of New York City. .-Mbert
is the ancestor of the family in Slingerlands,
Bethlehem town, whose leading representative,
AVilliam Harris Slingerland, died at an ad-
vanced age, ninety-two years, in 19 10.

(11) -A rent, son of the "emigrant and found-
er," Tuenise Cornelise Slingerland, inherited
lands from his father to which he added. He
was twice married, his second wife being Ger-
trude \'an Voorst, whom he married October,
1688. In his will, made January 28. 1712-13,
he mentions children : Johannes, torn May 10,

1685; Engeltje, November 10, 1689; Tuenise,
of further mention ; Gerrit, May 2, 1697 ;
Sara, Julv 21, 1700; Alberties, Januarv 2,
1704.

(HI) Tuenise, son of Arent and Gertrude
(\^an Voorst) Slingerland, was baptized
March 18, 1694. He married (first) Eliza-
beth \'an Der Zee, October 4, 1719; (second)
Cornelia Kipp, July 5, 1724. He was buried
June 29, 1746, his wife, March 16. 1745. Chil-
dren baptized: Arent, April 24, 1720; Wouter,
November 4, 1722; Hester, January 19, 1729;
.\lbert, November 27, 1732; Isaac, August 13,
1734; Geesie, September 12, 1736; Engeltje,
December 25, 1738: Abram, of further men-
tion; Anna, February 22, 1741 ; Geertruy,
September 25,-1743.

(I\') Abram, son of Tuenise and Elizabeth
(\an Der Zee) Slingerland, was baptized No-
vember 29, 1739. He married, December 4,
1756, Rebecca X'iele. Children : Tuenis, bap-
tized October 2, 1757: Petrus. of further men-
tion: Abraham, born December 13. 1762;
Catherine, May 10, 1765; Cornells, .-Kugust 28,
1767: Maria, December 15, 1769: Albert, De-
cember 24, 1773; Stephanes, October 23, 1775.

(\') Petrus, son of Abram and Rebecca
(\'iele) Slingerland, was born March 4. 1760.
He married. January 2, 1785. Maritie Van der
Werker. Child, Abraham.

(M) Abraham, son of Petrus and Maritie
(Van der Werker) Slingerland. was born
May 20. 1793. He married Lydia \'an Pelt.
Children : Christopher D. : Charles B., of fur-
ther mention ; Louisa Malvina ; Hiram : Julia ;
George Oscar. All deceased except George
Oscar, now living in St. Louis, Missouri, who
was a private in a regiment in New York.
Abraham was a soldier in the war of 181 2.

(\TI) Charles B.. son of Abraham and
Lydia (\'an Pelt) Slingerland, was born at
Detroit, Michigan, September 5, 1829, died
at Round Lake, Saratoga county. New York,
in 1897. In 1 84 1 he settled in Troy, where he
was educated and passed his business life. He
was a successful business man, engaged prin-
cipally in manufacturing lumber and in real
estate. In 1880 he retired from active life.
He married Delia .\nn Slingerland. of Yates
county. New York, who bore him seven chil-
dren, now (1910) all deceased except George
O.. and .\ugusta Thankful, who married H.
L. Kemp, of Cohoes, New York.

(\TII) George Oscar, son of Charles B.
and Delia .Ann (.Slingerland) Slingerland, was
born in Green Island, .Mbany county, New
York, .August 12, 1872. He was educated in
the public schools of Green Island and Troy.
He began his business life in a paper lx)x
factory and later became a manufacturer, a

XI L u::>yj^\

business he is yet engaged in, in a factory and
office at Mechanicsville, New York. He is a
prosperous and efficient man of affairs and
prominent in public life. He is now serving a
third term as trustee of the village corporation
and president of the !\'Iechanicsville chamber
of commerce. He is affiliated with Montgom-
ery Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of
Stillwater, Ondawa Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons, Mechanicsville, and the Knights of
Pythias of Cohoes. He is a Republican in
politics, and a member of St. Luke's Episcopal
Church. He belongs to the Holland Society of
New York by virtue of his Dutch ancestor,
Tuenise Cornelise Slingerland. He married,
December 24, 1895, Isabelle Agnes, daughter
of David and Mary (Robbins) Robertson, of
Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

George Casev Van Tuyl (2),
VAN TUYL son of George Casey ( i )

and Angelina Elizabeth
(Hawley) Van Tuyl, was born in Albany,
New York, April 3, 1872. He received his
education in the city of his birth, and in
starting on his career was connected with the
National Exchange Bank in a minor capacity,
but remaining with that institution until 1900,
was its teller when called to the position of
secretary and treasurer on the organization of
the Albany Trust Company. In October,
1906, he was made its vice-president as the
result of the expansion of the company by its
rapid growth. On the retirement of Mr.
Horace G. Young, Mr. Van Tuyl was made
the president of the Albany Trust Company,
which office he assumed July 3, 1908, and by
his courteous consideration shown to cus-
tomers he not only acquired a large circle of
valued friends but advanced the interests of
the corporation in proportion, so that it has
prospered materially. Among the offices he
holds are : president and director of Albany
Trust Company, director of the First National
Bank, trustee of the Albany Exchange Sav-
ings Bank, director of the Mutual Fire Insur-
ance Company, of the Niagara Falls Trust
Company, of the First National Bank of
Ravena, New York. He attends the Episcopal
church, and is a member of the Fort Orange,
Country and Albany clubs. He married, at
Albany, October 14, 1903, Georgina, daughter
of George Archibald and Sarah (Cook) Birch,
who died at Albany, May 17, 1906.

This family descends from
POWELL Thomas Powell, of Wales,

Great Britain, who was one of
the purchasers and patentees of Huntington,
Long Island, in 1664. He was a man of

means and of prominence. He purchased. Au-
gust 18, 1695, from "Mawmee, alias Sere-
wanus, William Chepy and all ye rest of ye
Indian proprietors" for and in consideration of
one hundred and forty pounds, the tract land
on which the village of Bethpage is now situ-
ated. Patents were issued for these pur-
chases by Governor Dongan to Thomas Powell
in 1664 and in 1695. The latter purchase be-
came the family seat, Thomas (2) settling
thereon the same year.

(I) Thomas Powell was born in Wales,
Great Britain, August, 1641, died at West-
bury, Long Island, December 28, 1721. Hun-
tington records show that he was frequently
elected to fill important positions in the town-
ship, the first of which appears to have been
in 1663, when at the age of twenty-two he
was made recorder, which office he held for
about twenty years; in 1667 he was constable.
"Every constable shall have a staff six feet
long with the king's arms on it, as a badge of
his authority." He was appointed surveyor,,
in 1679, to lay out land in the East Riding,
and overseer in 1672. He was again chosen
constable in 1682, but refused to serve, being
"scrupulous of swearing as the law directs."
The constable had to swear to levy and collect
the church rates. After the year 16S8, at
which tiine he was surveyor, he was more en-
gaged with appointments in Friends Meetings
than public business. He attended the month-
ly meetings which were held alternately at
Jericho and W'estbury. The last mention of
his name on the records was in this wise:
"28-i2mo. 172 1 died Thomas Powell Senr.,
being well respected as a worthy Friend, and
died in Unity with Friends." His first wife
was unknown. Children: i. Thomas, of fur-
ther mention. 2. Abigail, born April 18, 1668;
married Richard Willits, March 13. 1690, at
Huntington, Long Island ; she died February
9> '757- 3- Elizabeth, married Samuel Titus,.
June 9. 1691, at Bethpage; she died Septem-
ber 2, 1704. 4. John, married Margaret Hal-
lock, October, 1704; he died 1738. 5. Jonas,

married Anna . 6. Caleb, married

Sarah ; he died 1741. 7. Wait, died

1750. 8. Elisha, married Rebecca ; he

died 1734. Thomas Powell married (second)
Elizabeth Phillips, of Jericho, Long Island,.
February 9, 1690 (at Edmund Titus' in W'est-
bury). Children: 9. Hannah, born ^lay 28,
1691 ; married William Willis, 1712, at Beth-
page. 10. Phoebe, born October 6, 1693 ;
married Henry Willis. 1712. at Bethpage; she
died 175 1. II. Rachel, married Thomas Wil-
lets in 1719. 12. Mercy, born 1702; married
Jacob Seaman, 1726; she died March 13, 1759.
13. Solomon, married Ruth Carman, 1730; he

died February 23, 1736. 14. Sarah, married
Nathaniel Seaman, 1722. 15. Amy. Elizabeth
Phillips, second wife of Thomas Powell, was
daughter of John Townsend and widow of
Theophilus Phillips, of Flushing; she was his
third wife.

(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (i)
Powell, was born in Wales, Great Britain, died
at Dethpage, Long Island, September 27, 1731.
His home was the first white man's house built
in that vicinity, although there were many
Indian wigwams in the neighborhood. In
1727 Friends Meetings were held once a
month, in first days, at his house, and in 1744
a meeting house was built. In his will he left
his son Thomas four acres of land and the
house that stands upon it — "My father's home-
stead," more than any other of the sons. He
married Alary, daughter of Thomas Willets,
of Jericho, Long Island, and Dinah Town-
send, his wife. Children: i. Samuel Prior,
born 1692, died May 21, 1776. 2. Thomas,
born May 30, 1693 ; married, December, 1724,
Abigail Hallock ; he died March i, 1757. 3.
Mary, born November 4, 1694, died February,
1695. 4. Abigail, born December 13, 1695;
married, 1733, Peter Hallock. 5. Mary, born

March 16. 1697; married, , August 16,

1728. 6. Wait, born September 29, 1698; mar-
ried, January 15, 1723. Mary Mudge; he died
in 1782. 7. Amos, of Islip, born May 9, 1700,
died January 14, 1749; in the year 1747 he
accompanied John W'oolman through Connec-
ticut, when Woolman was on a religious visit
to New England. 8. Moses, of further men-
tion. 9. Richard, born April 17, 1704; mar-
ried (first) Freelove Weeks; married (sec-
ond) July 28, 1748, Jerusha Weeks; he died
Alarch 7. 1774. 10. Elizabeth, born October
II, 1705. II. Hannah, born July 18, 1707;
married Henry Whitson ; born 1705; she died
1790. 12. Joshua, born May 18, 1709; mar-
ried Phoebe, daughter of Richard Post. 13.
Isaac, born April. 1711, died 1794; married,
January 2, 1733, Marthe Whitman. 14. Mar-
tha, born June 29, 1713; married Francis
Keen; she died March 24, 1773. 15. Deborah,
born October 28, 1715; married, 1744, John
Whitson.

(III) Moses, son of Thomas (2) and Mary
(Willets) Powell, was born May 4, 1702, died
1774. In 1754 he sold his home and lands at
Eethpage. Long Island, to Joseph Prior, and
removed to Westchester county. New York,
where he made his will dated 1774 at North
Castle. He married, 1732, Catherine, daugh-
ter of John and Hannah Hallock, of Brook-
haven. Children: i. Moses, born January 26,
1733, died 1737. 2. John, of further mention.
3. Anna, born October 26, 1737; married.

March 17, 1757, Samuel Quimby and had
Catherine and Jane. 4. Nathaniel, born 1739;
married, 1767, Anna Sutton, born January 11,
1751, daughter of Joseph and Deborah 'Sut-
ton. 5. Moses, born November 5, 174 1 ; mar-
ried Hannah Wheeler. 6. Hannah, born No-
vember 5, 1742; married, December 17, 1761,
Benedict Carpenter. 7. Obadiah, born May
16, 1744. 8. Catherine, born March 30, 1746;.
married a Mr. Ilaut and had Mary .Ann and
Rebecca. 9. Edward, born March 5, 1748;
married, had issue. 10. James, born Decem-
ber 25, 1750; married (first) ; (sec-
ond) Martha Townsend, April i, 1804. 11.
Samuel, born November 30, 1752. 12. Eliza-
beth, born January 25, 1755 ; married Zehediah
Dickinson and had Daniel, Isaac and Jacob.
13. Mary, born May 23, 1757; married a Mr.
Gleason. 14. Isaac, born August 8, 1759;
married, 1788, Phoebe Fowler.

(IV) John, son of Moses and Catherine
(Hallock) Powell, was born November 10,
1734-35- He married, November 11, 1754-56,
Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin Kipp, born
October 4, 1738. Children: Jacob, Daniel,
Ann, Sarah, Abigail, Nathaniel and Benjamin.

(V) Jacob, son of John and Elizabeth

(Kipp) Powell, married . Children:

I. James, deceased. 2. Henry J., of further
mention. 3. James, married and had five chil-
dren. 4. Ammon, married and had five chil-
dren. 5. Ruth, married (first) Booth;

(second) Benjamin Shelden.

(\T) Henry J., son of Jacob Powell, mar-
ried Judith Rider. Children: i. Jonathan R.,
of further mention. 2. Wilson M., married'
Sarah, daughter of Samuel Browne. 3. Al-
bert G., married Eva . 4. Maria, mar-
ried Edwin Blackburn. 5. Mary. 6. Louisa,
died November 27, 1884.

(\'II) Jonathan R., son of Henry J. and
Judith (Rider) Powell, was born in Old
Chatham. February 2, 1828. He was edu-
cated in the public schools of Chatham and
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His occu-
pation is farming, his property being one of
the well-cultivated, attractive farms of "Old
Chatham. " He is a member of the Society of
Friends, inheriting the faith of his early an-
cestor. Thomas Powell. He served his town-
.several terms as supervisor. He married
(first) Elizabeth Stark; (second) .Anna,
daughter of John and Ida Morrell. Children
of second wife: i. LeiTerts M.. born February
15, 1862; married Martha Carbee. 2. Jona-
than R. (2), born May 11. 1864; married
(first) Mary Belts, child, Jonathan R. (3);
married (second) Lallia Bent ; children : \Vil-
son Randolph and Bevcrlv. 3. .Anna L., borm
October 18, i8r.6.

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HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

The American ancestor of this

FOSTER branch of the Foster family
came to this country from Exe-
ter, Devonshire, England. He brought with
him his wife Judith, five sons and two daugh-
ters. He settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts,
about 1638, being one of the earliest settlers
of the town. His descendants are many, and
are to be found in every state in the Union.

( I ) Asa Fitch Foster, the first of the line
herein recorded, married and had a son, John
Newton, see forward.

(H) John Newton, son of Asa Fitch Foster,
was born in Utica, New York, June 28, 1836.
He lost both parents while he was yet an in-
fant, and the persons who reared him re-
moved to Albany, New York, in 1836. He
received his education in the Albany public
schools, and on arriving at a suitable age was
apprenticed to Lawson Annesley, who taught
him the gilding trade. He later formed a
partnership, and as Chapin & Foster was en-
gaged in business in Albany, dealing in gilders'
materials, pictures and frames. In 1873 he
first connected with the fire insurance busi-
ness patrol of Albany, and was appointed
superintendent. Fie was prominent in public
life, and held important public office. In 1878
he was elected to the state legislature and
made a good record. For two years he was
superintendent of the poor for Albany county,
and during the panic years following 1872
was in charge of the relief store maintained in
Albany. He married Mary A. Snyder, who
bore him six children. He died x'\pril 13,
1895.

(Ill) Henry S., son of John Newton and
Mary A. (Snyder) Foster, was born in Al-
l>any, New York, July 16, 1865. He attended
the public schools until he reached the age
(if fifteen years, and then became a clerk in
the office of the Mutual Fire Insurance Com-
pany of Albany (incorporated 1836). His en-
tire business life has been spent in the service
of this company, and to no one man should
more credit be given for the high standing of
this company. He has been successively book-
keeper, cashier, and in November, 1893, suc-
ceeded George Cuyler as secretary and gen-
eral manager, the office becoming vacant by
death. This is one feature only of Mr. Fos-
ter's activity. He maintains close relations
with many of the leading home and foreign
insurance companies, representing them in all
lines, life, fire and accident. His business is a
large one, and is thoroughly systematized and
ai)ly managed. He is also a director in other
associations, and connected with various busi-
ness interests. He is a member of Temple
Lodge, No. 14, Free and Accepted Masons, of

Albany. He is prominently connected with the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and was
an officer of the Grand Lodge. He is a mem-
ber of the Albany Club and numerous associa-
tions, and politically a Republican.

The Montgomery county family
SMITH of Smith here considered are of

German descent and originally
were Schmidt. They have been residents of
the county since prior to the revolution. The
emigrant ancestor came to America and Mont-
gomery county at an early date, which can-
not be given nor can his name. The family
history begins with his son Jeremiah, see for-
ward.

(II) Jeremiah Smith, son of the emigrant,
was born near St. Johnsville, Montgomery
county. New York, 1774, died in 1859. He
learned the trade of a cooper, which he fol-
lowed all his days. He was twice married,
but there is no record of the names of his
wives. Children: i. Eleanor, married Nich-
olas Kretser, a harnessmaker of Amsterdam,
New York, where their son, Eli Kretser, has
succeeded him in business. 2. Jane, married
Peter Allen, a farmer of Ephratah, Fulton
county. New York ; they had sons : Jeremiah,
Emanuel, Ambrose, Fliram, Archibald and
Clark ; Archibald and Hiram are deceased
(1909). 3. Jeremiah, lived many years at
Rockwood, New York, where he died, an old
man, leaving a family. 4. John, was a suc-
cessful farmer of Fulton county. New York,
where he died at the age of eighty ; he mar-
ried and reared a family. 5. Emanuel, en-
listed for three years in the Thirteenth Regi-
ment, Heavy New York Artillery ; served his
term and was honorably discharged ; married
Susiana Campbell, who survives him with an
only son, Peter, in Fairfield, Herkimer county.
New York. 6. Peter, a successful farmer of
western New York : married and has sons :
Asa, Cornwallis and John E. ; Asa, the eldest
son, served for over three years in the Union
army during the civil war ; was three times
wounded and died two years after his return
from the war; unmarried. 8. David, see for-
ward.

(III) David, son of Jeremiah .*>mith, was
born in Montgomery county, New York, Jan-
uary I, 1 82 1. He followed farming until
1863, when he enlisted in the Thirteenth Regi-
ment, New York Heavy Artillery, Colonel
Walsh's regiment : remained in service two
years : received serious injuries for which
later he was granted a pension. He returned
to Fulton county, New York, where he was a
farmer and also carried on a mason business
until his death in 1907. He married in Ephra-

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1 691

•tah, Fulton countj', New York, Nancy Coole,
"born there in 1823, died March 19, 1907,
■daughter of John and Ehzabeth (Baum)
Coole. lifelong residents in the Mohawk Val-
ley. She was a granddaughter of Philip Cool,
a native of Holland, an early settler in the
vicinity of Fonda. Montgomery county, where
lie was killed by the Indians, with part of his
family, in 1804. Nancy (Coole) Smith had a
sister Mary, widow of Jacob Welrath. who
■still survives, resident of Ephratah. She also
had a brother and three other sisters of whom
there is no record. Children of David and
A'ancy (Coole) Smith: Adam K.. living
(1909): Anna, deceased: Alice, deceased;
Mary E., living; Aaron, deceased; Stephen,
deceased: Ambrose, living; David J., see for-
ward : Oscar, living ; Magdalene and Worth,
■deceased, dying on the same day from
scarlet fever ; of these children, Mary E.
Smith married (i) Daniel D. Nellis; children:
i. Leali, married Avery Smith, of Montgomery
county, and has Ethelyn, aged twelve, and Al-
Ijerta. aged seven, ii. Raymond D., married
Jessie Flandei^. and lives on his farm at Pala-
tine Church. Mary E. (Smith) Nellis married
(2) Alonzo Duesler; child: Effiner A.

(R') David J., son of David and Nancy
(Coole) Smith, was born in Ephratah, New
Y^ork, July 31, 1864. He was reared a farmer
and has always followed that business. He
•owns and cultivates a fine farm of one hun-
dred and sixty-seven acres in Minden that is
Ijeing rapidly brought to a high state of culti-
vation. His native mechanical genius is
turned to good account in his business, where
so much machinery is now used. He is a mem-
"ber of the LTniversalist church, and supports
the principles and candidates of the Demo-
cratic party. He married, in St. Johnsville,
New York, Jennie M. Duesler, born in 0])pen-
lieim, Fulton county. New York, October 27,
1870, daughter of Menzo and Emma (Nellis)
Duesler, both natives of Fulton county, par-
ents of Jennie M., married David J. Smith ;
Frasier, died in infancy: Eva, born in 1880,
married Howard Snell, a farmer of Oppen-
licim : Chauncey, born April 3, 1883, now of
St. Johnsville; married Perly Failing. The
Dueslers were of Dutch descent, their forbears
Ijeing early settlers in the Mohawk Valley.
^Tenzo Duesler died in 1897, aged fifty years:
liis widow, Emma (Nellis) Duesler, is still
living (1909) on the old farm settled by her
grandfather, Isaac Duesler, in the town of
Oppenheim. where he died aged seventy-two.
Children of David J. and Jennie M. (Duesler)
Smith: Floyd, born September 13, 1890; Min-
nie M., Alarch 8, 1892: Leah E., November
14, 1893 : Frieda E., October 6, 1895.

This family is native to the
GANGLOFF Empire of Germany, where
they have been established
as artisans and agriculturists.

(I) Anthony Gangloff, the first of this line
to settle in the United States, was born in
Germany in 1822, died at Philmont, 1898. He
was educated in the German schools, and
learned the trade of shoemaker, a calling he
followed all his life. In the year 1830 he came
to the United States and settled in Paterson,
New Jersey. He was a member of the Cath-
olic church, and a supporter of the Demo-
cratic party. He married Mary Hummell, born
in Germany in 1827, died at Philmont, 1900.
Children: Sarah, married John Tompkins;
Mary, married George A. Stein ; John J., mar-
ried Lena Culmer; Nellie, married George
Taylor; Margaret, married .-Vugustus Rucket;
Joseph F., of further mention ; Frances, un-
married.

(II) Joseph F., son of Anthony and Mary
(Hummell) Gangloff, was born in Oxford,
Chenango county, New York, December 3,
1869. He was educated in the public schools,
finishing his studies at grammar school No.
25, New York City. Since youth he has been
connected with manufacturing interests. For
sixteen years he was with John Hay & Com-
pany, manufacturers of knit goods at Philmont,
New York, occupying an important position.
In September, 1906, he effected a reorganiza-
tion of the McNamee Knitting Company and
fills the position of superintendent and man-
ager, being also a member of the board of
directors. He is an active, energetic man of
business and held in highest esteem by his
associates. Politically he is a Republican ;
served as trustee of the village corporation of
Philmont and is a member of the Republican
committee. In religious faith he is a Catholic,
and with his family communicant of Sacred
Heart Roman Catholic Church at Philmont.
He is an active member of the Knights of
Columbus, Philmont Council. He married,
February 14, 1900, Lillian M., born in Phil-
mont, daughter of Edward L. and Maria
(Van Clack) Bashford. Edward L. Bash-
ford is a farmer of Columbia county. Chil-
dren: Clement A., born February 11, 1901 ;
Joseph A., September 6, 1902; Harold, August
5, 1904; Arthur, November 30, 1905; Mary,
October 25, 1907; Robert, February 20, 1910,

In "Documentary History of New
BEST York," volume III, page 58, among

the list of emigrants who em-
barked in the ship "Beaver," May, i66i, are
the names of several persons all ending in
Van Beest, which is taken to mean that this

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was intended to designate them as being from
the village of Beest in Holland, from which
place they came. In early Dutch records the
name Best first appears about 1700, which is
the first since the before-mentioned emigration
in 1661.

(I) Jacob Be§t settled at what is German-
town, in 17 10, on or near the lands bought
for the German Palatines from Robert Liv-
ingston. He was a Palatine who volunteered
for the expedition against Canada in 171 1, his
name being written Bast. Before 1750 his
descendants were living on the Flats in Liv-
ingston Manor, near the Hollanders. Jacob
Best married Anna Christina Dietrichin
(Dederick), of Kingston. Children: Anna
Maria, married John Mare ; Elizabeth, mar-
ried Heinrich Berringer; Johannes, of further
mention ; Harmanus, married Marytje Ruigh ;
Jacob, married Annatje Tact; Edward, mar-
ried Coenradt Ray ; Coenradt.

(H) Johannes, son of Jacob and Anna
Christina (Dederick) Best, settled on a life-
leased farm of one hundred and thirty acres
in the northern part of Livingston Manor in
the town of Clermont, Columbia county, New
York.

His name appears on the register of
the Dutch church of Johnstown, as deacon,
January 7, 1759. elder, December 18, 1763.
He served in the revolutionary war in the
Tenth Regiment (Land Bounty Rights), Cap-
tain Conrad Cline. and in the Independent
Company. Captain Petrus Van Gaasbeck.
Five of his sons also served in different bodies
of troops constituting the Albany county
militia. One of the earliest wills on record in
Columbia county is that of Johannes Best,
made December 10, 1787, probated April 4,
1788. In it he speaks of himself as being
"sick and weak of body," mentions his "dear
and lovely wife," to whom he bequeaths two
negro women, "Bet" and "Rose." He mar-
ried, about 1740, Eva, daughter of Philip
Lounart, of "Rhinebeck Precinct, Livingston
Manor, Yoeman." Eva Best survived her
husband and was living in 1790, occupying
the old homestead "on the right hand side of
the road to the Manor House from the Lir-
ilithgo Reform Church, being the first house."
Children: George (Jury), revolutionary sol-
dier, married Marytje Hooft ; Eva, married
Hendrick Platner; Johannes, revolutionary
soldier, married Margaret Mesick ; Elizabeth,
married Jacob Power ; Jeremias, unmarried ;
William (Wilhelmus), revolutionary .soldier,
married Mary Platner ; Anna, married Philip
Rockefeller; Jacob, married Elizabeth (Eva)
Smith ; Benjamin, revolutionary soldier, un-
married; Catherine, married Elias Young;

Hendrick, unmarried; Peter, of further men-
tion.

(III) Peter, youngest child of Johannes
(John) and Eva (Lounart) Best, was a
farmer of Livingston Manor, Columbia county,
and an important public man. He served in
the revolution as lieutenant in Captain Leon-
ard Ten Broeck's company, Albany county
militia. Tenth Regiment, Colonel Peter R.
Livingston, appointed May 28, 1778 ; also
served in the Independent Company of Cap-
tain Petrus Van Gaasbeck. He was constable
of Livingston Manor and serving in 1776. He
married, in 1778, his cousin, Christina (Deder-
ick) Best, daughter of Harmanus and Alarytje
(Rurigh) Best. Harmanus was a son of Ja-
cob and Anna Christina (Dederick) Best.

(IV) Henry, son of Peter and Christina
(Best) Best, was born at Livingston, Colum-
bia county, New York, about the year 1800,
died 1850. He was a farmer ; member of the
church and a good citizen. He married a Miss
Hicks and had sons, Henry and Herman B.,
perhaps others.

(V) Herman B., son of Henry and

(Hicks) Best, died in Hudson, New York,
1899. He was a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church, and lived a quiet, retired
life on his estate at Carmel, New York. He
married Jane E., daughter of Cornelius and
Jane Bodley, of Rondout, New York. Chil-
dren : Josephine, unmarried ; Henry, de-
ceased ; Rockwell ; Mattie ; Gertrude ; Jennie,
deceased : Dean.

(VI) Dean, youngest child of Herman B.
and Jane E. (Bodley) Best, was born in Car-
mel, New York, November 21, 1865. He was
educated in the public school and at Drew
College, Carmel.

Dean Best early became interested in man-
ufacturing, a business he has followed all
his life. He was superintendent of the
Bailey Knitting Mills Company of Fort Plain
for two years and since 1895 has been super-
intendent of the carding department of the
Acorn Knitting Mills at Philmont. He is a
Republican in politics and has always taken
an active interest in public afTairs. Since Feb-
ruary 5, 19 10, he has been postmaster of Phil-
mont, New York, his home. For ten years he
has been a member of the county committee.
For four years he served in the New York
National Guard in the Twenty-first Separate
Company of Hudson. He is a member of the
Protestant Episcopal church ; Agawamuch
Lodge, No. 841, Free and Accepted Ma.sons;
Cascade Lodge, No. 197, Knights of Pythias,
and of the order of Maccabees. He married,
in Pludson, New York. July 20, 1887, Mary
A., born in New York City, daughter of John

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1693

Edward Hetlierington. Child, Henry B., born
Aiieust 21, 1892.

Lawrence andLvdia (Town-

COPELAXD send) Copeland, of Brain-
tree, Masachusetts (1651),
Tiad a family of nine children. Three of their
sons, Thomas. William and John, lived to
manhood and are the progenitors of nearly
all the Copelantls in the United States.

(ID \\'illiam, son of Lawrence and Lydia
(Townsend) Copeland, was born September
15. 1656: married, April 3, 1698, Mary,
widow of Christopher Webb, Jr., and daugh-
ter of John and Ruth (Alden) Bass. Ruth
was the daughter of John Alden, the Pilgrim.
William and Mary Copeland had eight sons
and one daughter.

(Iin \\'illiam (2), son of William (i)
and Mary (Bass) (Webb) Copeland, was
born ^larch 7. 1695: married. June 15, 1718,
Mary, daughter of Richard and Rebecca
(Micall ) Thaver. They had seven children.

(I\-| William (3), son of William (2)
and Mary (Thayer) Copeland, was born De-
cember 6, 1730; married. May 3, 1753, in
Brooklyn, Connecticut. Sarah Smith, and lived
in Thompson, Connecticut. They had prob-
ably twelve children.

(V) Jonafhan, son of William (3) and
Sarah (Smith) Copeland, was born September
29, 1757: married (first), March 9, 1780,
Esther Chapman, of Hampton, Connecticut ;
she was born January' 12, 1761, died April 15,
1795- Jonathan married (second). May 22,
1795, Sally Chollar (or Collar), who died
June II, 1826. Children of first wife: i.
Jonathan, born November 15, 1781. 2. Esther.
April II, 1783. married Danifl Corbin, died
Noveinber 21, 1870. 3. Jonathan, October 16,
1786, died Decemher 5, 1858. 4. David, Sep-
tember 8. 1788. 5. Eunice, March 8, 1791,
married Harvey Adams, died September 5.
1864. 6. Royal, March 20, 1793, inarried Har-
riet Hyde, died March 2, 1866. 7. Elizabeth.
March, 1795. Children of second wife: 8.
Sally, born April 10, 1798, died October 30,
1843. 9. Abigail, April 19. 1800. married
Ichabod Upham, died January 2 1882. 10.
Asa, October 26, 1801, died August 26, 1820.
II. Abiel. May 3, 1803, died May 10, 1863. 12.
Elizabeth W.. January 26. 1805, died Septem-
ber 29. 1869. 13. Daniel, November 13, 1806,
married Pamelia Hibbard. died May 22, 1882.
14. Cynthia, Novemher 14, 1808, died Decem-
"ber II. 1808. 15. Joel, November 20. 1809,
died June 24, 1886. 16. Amasa, January 7.
18 1 2." died JMay 22, 1859.

(VI) David, son of Jonathan and Esther
>{ Chapman) Copeland-, was born September 8,

1788. died June 10, 1878: married, June 29,
1814, IMartha Shepard. Children: i. Jona-
than, born February 20, 1816. 2. Gerry Shep-
ard, July 2. 1819, died December 10, 1873.

3. Martha, July 26, 1821, died August 4, 1821.

4. William Eaton, June 15, 1823. died ^L^v 10,
1882. 5. Mary May, December 5, 1825,'died
June 23, 1827. 6. Mary, February 19, 1826.
died March 15, 1828. 7'. Mary Jane, January
30, 1830, died November 29, 1905. 8. David,
August 17, 1832, died September 16, 1890. 9.
Martha, June 28, 1835, died September 7,
1843.

(\'II) Jonathan (2), son of David and
Martha (Shepard) Copeland, was born Febru-
ary 20. 1816, died December 9, 1890: mar-
ried, January 30, 1844, Kezia, daughter of
John and Kezia (Failing) Clark, of Schen-
ectady, New York. Kezia (Clark) Copeland
died August 8, 1885. Children: i. Martha
E., born February 21, 1845, died October 16.
1846. 2. J. Clark, April 26, 1847; married
(first), July 20. 1869, Lottie A. Schenck, who
died May 25, 1870; child, Grace Augusta,
born Mav 24, 1870: married (second). April

5. 1882, Adella M. Billings. 3. Edwanl Pay-
son, October 9. 1849, died September 13,
1876. 4. William Henry. September 5, 1S52;
married, October 12, 1881, Julia Burchard.
5. Emma Catharine, April 3, 1854. 6. Mary
Kezia, October 18, 1856: married. December
29, 1886, Frank Holley : children : Ralph, born
January 29, 1889, and .Alma Kezia. February
8, 1893. 7. Alice Moore, October 26, 1861,
died September 23, 1889: married. Mav 6,
1885. J. R. Hawley: child, Kathleen Alice,
born February 27, 1887.

The English ancestry of the
HARTT Hartt family of America is un-
questioned but difiicult to un-
ravel. I-'rom the will of William Harte of
the parisii of St. Thomas the Apostle. Lon-
don, England, proved in 1632, it is learned
he had three sons, William. Richard and
Thomas Hartt. (He wrote his name Harte,
but the will gives the sons' names as Hartt.)
Three of the name, Samuel Hartt, John Harte
and Nicholas Hart, came from London, Eng-
land, to America between 1631 and 1642. and
may have been sons of one or each of these
three sons of William, as they are believed to
have been brothers or cousins. Samuel Hartt
in 1653 called himself thirty-one years of age
and said he was sent over from England to
the Iron Works at Lynn. Massachusetts, in
1640. He married Mary How, a widow, and
is the progenitor of the New Hampshire
branch. Nicholas Hart, supposed son of
Richard of London. England, was the progen-

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itor of the Dutchess county, New York,
branch from whom Arthur Hartt, of Ravena,
New York, descends, spelled his name Hart.
Where or when the tt came into use does not
appear, probably this was at first a local spell-
ing, as is Harte. Nicholas was of Taunton,
Massachusetts, 1642; in 1643 was of Boston,
remaining there until 1648, then settling at
Warwick. Rhode Island, where he was a mer-
chant. He served in the colonial wars of
1643 as a soldier in Captain William Pool's
company. He married Joanna, youngest
daughter of Edward Rossiter, of Rhode
Island, who came from London, England,
with and was assistant to Governor John Win-
throp, of Massachusetts. There are no rec-
ords of the death of Nicholas Hart or his
wife. Austin's "Genealogical Dictionary"
says they left one son only.

(II) Richard, only son of Nicholas and
Joanna (Rossiter) Hart, was born in Eng-
land about 1635 ; came to America with his
father and lived at Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
He was a sailor and lost his life at sea, near
Boston harbor, in January, 1695. The last
vessel he sailed on was the sloop "Dragon,"
Captain Robert Glover. He had a grant of
eight acres in Portsmouth in 1657, half of
which he sold in 1662. He married Hannah
Keen. Children born in Portsmouth, Rhode
Island : Alice, married George Reace ; Rich-
ard (2), of further mention: Mary, married
John Tripp ; Nicholas, lived at Little Comp-
ton, Rhode Island; William, lived at New
Bedford, Massachusetts; Samuel, lived at
Tiverton, Rhode Island.

(III) Richard (2), son of Richard (i) and
Hannah (Keen) Hartt, was born in Ports-
mouth, Rhode Lsland, in 1667; made his will
April 19, 1745, probated June 10, 1745. He
lived at Little Compton. Rhode Island, near
the Tiverton line. Tradition says his wife
Amy long outlived him. There was a path
on his farm to five graves of Hartt families,
with plain granite gravestones that was called
"Amy Hartt's Path," so worn was it by her
frequent visits to the graves. He married
(first) in 1693, Hannah Williams; married
(second) at Little Compton. October 31. 1708,
Amy Gibbs. Children, born in Little Comp-
ton (vital records) : Alice, married Nathan
Closson : Mary, married a Mr. Peacham ;
Sarah, marriecl Daniel Wilcox; Richard (3).
of further mention. Children of second wife:
Comfort, married John (jififord : .Stc])hen.
born August 2. 17 12.

(IV) Captain Richard (3) 1 lartt. son of
Richard (2) and Hannah (Williams) Hartt,
was born in Little Compton, Rhode Island,
where he died July 22, 1792. He was a farmer

and gained his title in the militia service dur-
ing the Indian wars. He married (first), Feb-
ruary 4. 1725, Mary Taber, who died Novem-
ber, 1760: married (second), October 18, 1761^
Abigail Fabee. Children, born in Little Comp-
ton (vital records) : i. John, born April 4,
1729. 2. Hannah, December 5, 1730; mar-
ried John Macomber, of Dartmouth. 3. Wil-
liam, January 3, 1733, lived at Tiverton,.
Rhode Island. 4. Phoebe, May 15, 1735 ^
married a Mr. Howard, of Little Compton,
and had twelve children. 5. Richard, of fur-
ther mention. 6. Mary, July 28, 1739; mar-
ried Nicholas Lapham, of Dartmouth. 7:
Lombard, February 3, 1742; married Re-
becca Sheldon. 8. Susannah, April 9, 1744;
married Philip Macomber. 9. Jeremiah, April'
5, 1745, lived at Saratoga. New York. 10.
Pliilip, January 12. 1749, lived at Hart \'il-
lage, Dutchess county. New York.

(\') Richard (4), son of Captain Ricliard'
(3) and Mary (Taber) Hartt, was born in
Little Compton, Rhode Island. About 1760
he settled in Dutchess county, New York, and
bought a large farm on the "turnpike," leading
from Poughkeepsie to Sharon, Connecticut.
Here he built a large stone house about fif-
teen miles east of Poughkeepsie, which was-
later occupied by his brother Philip and is
still standing. About 1767 he executed sev-
eral deeds signed by himself and wife Ruth.
He styled himself a "clothier." He afterward'
removed to Albany, New York, where on
January 7, 1783. he deeded his interest in the
farm to his brother Philip. On September 18,
1793, Abigail Hartt, widow of Richard Hartt,
of Little Compton, Rhode Island, deerled her
right to the same I'hili]:) Hartt. making him'
exclusive owner of the Dutchess county farm.
Soon after 1770 a large population from Dart-
mouth. Massachusetts, settled at this point,,
among them several Hart families, and it be-
came known as Hart Village, now Mill-
brook. Richard Hartt marriecl (first) at Tiv-
erton, Rhode Island, March 8, 1759. Ruth
Borden; married (second) Abigail Irish;
among their children was a son John.

(VI) John, son of Richard (4) and Ruth
(Borden) Hartt, was born in Hart N'illage,
Dutchess county. New York, about 1767. He
was a farmer ; married and had issue.

(VH) John (2), believed to have been the
son of John ( i ) Hartt. was born at Hart
\'illage. Dutchess county, January 5. 1792,
died at Norton Hill. Greene county. Nev\r
York, April 20. 1868. He was one of the old-
time shoemakers, a good workman, an indus-
trious and upright man. He worked in Al-
bany county, New York, when a young man,
following his calling from house to house aft-

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1695:

er the manner of the olden-time shoemaker,
this inetiiotl being known in the trade as
"whipping the cat." In 1819 he settled at
Norton Hill, Greene county, and opened a
shop, where he did a good business. About
1820-21, he kept a tavern, said to have been
the first or one of the first kept in the village.
He lived to a ripe old age, dying in the com-
munion of the Christian church of Freehold,
New York, of which he had long been a
member. He married Salome, daughter of
Ezra Miller, who survived him many years.
Children : Mary A. ; Franklin A. ; James S.,
n'erchant ; Edgar, now a merchant of Green-
ville, New York: William R., a farmer; John
G., of further mention ; George A. ; Edgar
and George A. Hartt, of Albany, New York,
being the only survivors (1911).

fVHI) John G., son of John (2) and Sa-
lome (Miller) Hartt, was born at Norton
Hill, Greene county. New York, October 3,
1829, died April 6. 1901. In 1856 he began
business as a general merchant at Greenville,
Greene county, New York, in partnership with
his brother. Edgar. They continued in suc-
cesssful operation as partners for fifty-five
years and the firm was only dissolved by the
death of John G. Hartt. Edgar still survives
(1911) and continues the business, making
sixty-five years in the same business in the
same town (see "Greene County History").
He w-as a Republican in politics, and a sup-
porter of the Greenville Presbyterian church,
of which his wife w-as a member. He married
Jane A. Talmadge, born in Greenville. New
N'ork, April 4. 1837, died May 8, 1906. Child,
Arthur, of further mention.

(IX) Arthur, only child of John G. and
Jane A. (Talmadge) Hartt. was born in
Greenville. Greene countv. New York, July 2^,
1865.

He was educated in the ijuhlic schools :
spent nine years at Greenville Academy and
one year at Riverview Military .\cademy at
I'oughkeepsie, New York. He learned the
printers' trade, and for two and one-half years
was foreman of the printing offices of the
Grcem-Ule Local. September 28. 1896. he es-
tablished in business at Ravena, Albany coun-
ty, New York, w-here he still continues a suc-
cessful general store. He is a director and
stockholder of the First National Bank of
Ravena ; w-as one of the organizers and vice-
president and director of Ravena and Med-
way Telephone Company, now merged with
the State Telephone Company ; al.so an organ-
izer, vice-president, and director of the Atlan-
tic Light and Power Company of Coeymans,
New York. He is a public-spirited citizen,
interested and helpful in all that concerns the

welfare of his community. He is a Republi-
can in politics ; in 1898 he was appointed post-
master at Ravena and is still the incumbent of
that office. He is a prominent member of
James M. Au.stin Lodge, No. 557, Free and
Accepted Masons, Greenville, of which he is
past master ; charter member of Russell Lodge,
No. 850, Ravena; charter member of Green-
ville Chapter No. 283. Royal Arch Masons ;
member of Temple Commandery, No. 2,
Knights Templar, of Albany; Albany Con-
sistory, thirty-second degree, Scottish Rite;
Cyprus Temple, Nobles of the ]\Iystic Shrine.
Albany ; charter member of Ella C. Perry
Chapter, No. 461, Order of the Eastern Star.
He is also an Odd Fellow, belonging to Hud-
son River Lodge, No. 817, Ravena; a member
of Pulver Council, No. 14, Junior Order Am-
erican Mechanics, and of Kaa Rheu Vahn,
Gralto No. 20, of Albany, Mystic Order of
\'eiled Prophets. His religious membership
is in the Christian church, which he serves as
trustee and treasurer. He married, June 12,
1890, Rose A., daughter of Isaac L. and Eliza
M. (Gififord) Willsey, of Freehold, New
York. Child, Harold A., born July 19, 1898.

The name Den or Dene, which is
DKAXE the ancient way of spelling what

is now- written Deane, makes its
appearance in England .soon after the intro-
duction of surnames. John and Walter Deane,
w-ho are the progenitors of many of those now
bearing the name Deane and Dean in the
United States, came to this country about
1637. .After stopping in Boston a year they
settled at Taunton, Massachusetts. It has
been a tradition in the family that John and
Walter Deane came from Taunton, England,
but an authority states they w-ere from Chard
near Taunton. Another tradition is that a
younger brother of theirs came to this country
after them and settled in Connecticut, and"
that from him, Hon. Silas Deane, of Connecti-
cut, descended. (This is the line of the Deanes
of Catskill. New York). There was a Thomas
Deane in Connecticut in 1643 who possibly
may have been the brother referred to. (See
"Hinman's First Puritan Settlers," p. 21).
The earliest ancestor of Hon. Silas Deane,
who is probably the most prominent public
character of the Deane family, is his great-
grandfather, James Deane, of Stonington,
Connecticut, who may have been a son of
Thomas Deane, the emigrant, 1643, to whom
Hinman refers. There is. however, abundant
evidence that James Deane, of Stonington,.
was a son of Walter Deane. of Taunton, Mas-
sachusetts. This evidence is so convincing
that Arthur D. Dean, compiler of a history of

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tlie descendants of Ezra Dean, of Plainfield,
Connecticut, so places him in that work.

(I) Walter Deane was born in Qiard, Eng-
land, between 1615 and 1620. He took the
freeman's oath in Massachusetts, December
4, 1638. He settled in Taunton, Massachu-
setts, was deputy 1640, and selectman of Taun-
ton 1679-86. He was by trade a farmer. He
married Eleanor, daughter of Richard Strong,
of Taunton, England. Children: Joseph,
Ezra, Benjamin, James, perhaps two others.

(II) James, son of Walter and Eleanor
(Strong) Deane, was a blacksmith and iron
worker at Taunton, later of Scituate, Massa-
chusetts. February 26, 1676, the town of
Stonington. Connecticut, at a town meeting
voted to donate a home lot of twenty-four
acres of land to James Deane to induce him
to settle there and follow his trade of black-
smith. One hundred acres of farm land was
also included in the offer. He accepted and
followed his trade in Stonington until 1698,
when he removed to Plainfield, Connecticut.
There he was elected the first town clerk in
1699, filling that office many years. He was
a large land owner in Plainfield and in Volun-
tovvn" He died at Plainfield, May 29, 1725,
Tiis wife, April 26, 1726. Children: James,
born October 31, 1674; Sarah, September 4,
1676; John, of further mention; Onecephorus
(twin), died in infancy; Mary (twin), born
March 28, 1680, married Thomas Thatcher;
Francis, September 8, 1682; William, died
young; Hannah, baptized April 4, 1686; Wil-
liam, born September 12, 1689; Nathaniel,
baptized .\pril 2, 1693, married Joanna Fish-
er; Jonathan, baptized April 22, 1695, married
Sarah Douglas.

(III) John, son of James Deane. of Ston-
ington and Plainfield, Connecticut, was born
May 15, 1678. He married Lydia Thatcher,
June 10, 1708.

(IV) Silas, son of John and Lydia (Thatch-
er) Deane, married, and among his children
was Silas.

(V) Hon. Silas (2), son of Silas (i)
Deane, was born at Groton, Connecticut, De-
■cember 24. 1737, died at Deal, England, .\n-
^ust 23, 1789. He was graduated with high
honors at Yale College in 1758, when twenty-
one years of age. He entered public life, was
an ardent patriot and skillful diplomat. He
took a prominent part in equipping naval
forces, and was elected a memljer of the first
continental congress in 1774 and was regarded
as an able member. He was sent by congress
to France as political and financial agent of
ihe government. He arrived at Paris in June,

1776, with instructions to ascertain the temper
of the French government concerning the rup-

ture with Great Britain, and to obtain military
support and supplies. When in September
it was determined to send ministers to negoti-
ate treaties, Franklin and Arthur Lee were
commissioned to join him in Paris. He assist-
ed them in the negotiation of the important
treaties with France, and enlisted the sympa-
thies of Lafayette. In consequence of the ex-
travagant contracts he had entered into, not
authorized by his instructions, he was re-
called November 21, 1777, John Adams be-
ing appointed in his place. He left Paris,
April I, 1778, and returned to America. On
his return he was called before congress and
required to give an account of his contracts
with foreign officers and to make a detailed
statement of financial transactions on the floor
of the house. He evaded a complete explana-
tion and disclosure of his accounts on the
ground that his papers were in Europe. He
memorialized congress, but did not succeed in
removing the suspicion from himself of hav-
ing overstepped his authority and of having
misappropriated the public money. He re-
turned to France, but the French government
declining to receive him he went to Holland,
where he spent his entire private fortune in
procuring proofs and in preparing an address
backed by irrefutable evidence that none of
the public money had been appropriated to his
own use. This was published in 1784, but
he had so bitterly attacked congress and his
fellow commissioners, for the suspicion they
had thrown around him. that they refused him
justice and would do nothing to right the wrong
they had done him. He had said he would
vindicate himself if it took every dollar and
it did. He returned to England, where he
died in poverty. He was the soul of honor,
as is shown by the testimonials from his neigh-
bors and acquaintances. Says the historian,
Hildreth : "No proof appears that he had been
dishonest, or had employed the public money
in speculations of his own, but he had occupied
the unfortunate position of having large sums
of public money pass through his hands be-
fore any proper system of vouchers and ac-
cotmting had been established, and he fell be-
fore the same spirit of malignant accusation
which presently assaulted Wadsworth, Greene,
Morris, and even Franklin himself, but which
they had better means of warding off." In
1842 congress at last adjusted Deane's ac-
counts and paid to his heirs about $37,000.
Yale College conferred tlie degree of A. M. in
1763. He is the author of "Paris Papers, or
Mr. Silas Deane's late intercepted letters to
his brother and other friends (1751) and pub-
lished in his own defence" ; ".An address to
the Free and Independent Citizens of the

HUDSON AND MOHAWK X'ALLFA'S

1697

United States of North America" (1784). He
married and liad issue.

( \'I ) Zephaniah, son of Hon. Silas (2)
Deane, settled first in Pennsylvania, where he
owned a large farm of four hundred acres.
This he sold to a syndicate who later opened
upon it one of tlie first coal mines. Other
members of his wife's family (.'^^bbott). hold-
ing smaller areas of land, leased their coal
lands on a royalty that made them very
wealthy. After selling his Pennsylvania lands
he settled in New York on the shores of Lake
Skancateles on a farm, now the site of a large
jiapermaking plant. He later settled in Cox-
sackie. Greene county. New York, and still
later in Connecticut, where he died. He mar-
ried Catherine Abbott, of Brooklyn, New
York. They had sons, Zephaniah and Silas.

(VH) Silas (3), son of Zephaniah and
Catherine (Abbott) Deane, was born July 24,
179S, died at Athens, Greene county. New
York, August 24, 1849, from Asiatic cholera.
He was a carpenter and contractor, and set-
tled in Coxsackie, New York. Pie was the
first "square rule" carpenter in Greene county.
He made the screw hay presses that were used
in this country. He traveled south in the
winter time and erected sugar giims and other
farm machinery. He married Eleanor Salis-
bury, born October 8. 1804, died December 20,
1884. daughter of Francis and Persis
(Wright) Salisbury, of Leeds, Greene county.
New York. Children : Phoebe Ann, born Oc-
tober 12. 1823, died September 3, 1907; Fran-
cis William. June 26, 1825 ; Jeremiah, April 3,
1829: Elvira. June 3. 183 1, died May 18, 1887;
Hannah, October 30, 1833, died January 24,
1901 : I\rary, December 9, 1834: Emmeline.
September 10, 1837, died November 16, 1871 ;
James A., of further mention ; Eleanor D.,
November 8, 1843, died February 13. 1870;
"Louisa, November i, 1846; Silas Wright,
February 20, 1849, died in 1880. Eleanor
(Salisbury) Deane was a direct descendant of
Silvester Salisbury, born about 1629, in Eng-
land or Wales, came to New Netherlands in
i(')64. His will was probated March 24, 1680.
He married Elizabeth Beck. (For an ex-
tended account of Silvester Salisbury and de-
scendants, see Salisbury family in this work).
Francis, son of Silvester and Elizabeth (Beck)
Salisbury, was born 1679, died about 1755.
He married Maria Van Gaasbeck and had
eight children. William, son of Francis and
Maria (\'an Gaasbeck) Salisbury, was bap-
tized at Kingston, New York, December 25,
1714, died 1801 : married. March 27, 1740,
Teuntje (Eunice) Staats, daughter of Barent
and Neeltje Garritse (Van Denberg) Staats,
and had eleven children. Sylvester, son of

William and Eunice (Staats) Salisbury, was
baptized in .Albany, January 27, 174 1, died
1815 or 1816 at the home of his brother Abra-
ham at Leeds, Greene county, New York. He
married, in 1764, Neeltje Staats and had elev-
en children. Francis, sixth child and fifth son
of Sylvester and Neeltje (Staats) Salisbury,
was born December 5, 1775, died May 23,
1823. He married Persis Wright, who sur-
vived him until December 10, iSijo. Children:
Sylvester, born April 3, 1802, died September
8, 1840: Sophia, born July 14, 1803; married
Jeremiah Gay; Eleanor, born October 8, 1804,
married Silas Deane; Ruth, born November
II, 1805, married Casper Van Iloesen; John,
August 31, 1807; Eunice, born February 3,
1809, died December 23. 185 1, married Casper
Spoor; Elizabeth, born February 2, 181 1. mar-
ried Michael Hallenbeck : Ann, March 15,
1812, married Madison Parker; Melinda,
March 3, 1814, died December 21, 1897. mar-
ried Warren Howland ; Mary, born July 9,
1815, married William Beatty ; Lydia, Febru-
ary 19, 1817, died October 31, 1898, married
Reuben Coffin ; Catherine, April 7, 1820, died
August 2, 1849, married Evens Backus; Em-
meline, born March 27, 1823, married William
H. Shaw.

(Vni) Dr. James A. Deane, son of Silas
(3) and Eleanor (Salisbury) Deane, was born
at Coxsackie, Greene county, New York, No-
vember 26, 1840. He was educated in the
public schools, prepared for college at Coey-
mans .Academy and Claverack Institute, en-
tered Rutgers College at New Brunswick,
New Jersey, but failing health compelled him
to quit college. He later regained his health
and chose the profession of medicine, study-
ing with Dr. Mackey. of Catskill, New York.
He entered Bellevue Medical College of New
York City, where he was graduated M. D.,
class of 1865. He practiced his profession in
Catskill for a time, then removed to Battle
Creek, Michigan, where he practiced for seven
years. In 1873 he returned to Catskill, where
he again entered active practice, continuing
until 1898, when he retired to private life.
His home is the famous Rip \'an Winkle farm.
He attained high rank in his profession, and
holds membership in the leading medical so-
cieties, holding the office of president of the
Greene County Society. He served three terms
as coroner of Greene county and was on the
staflF of hospitals and institutions. He is a
member of the Dutch Reformed church of
Catskill, and a Democrat in politics. He mar-
ried (first) Selena Post, of Saugcrties, New
York, who died November 5, 1888. He mar-
ried (second) Ellen M. Osborne, who died
July 21, 1895; married (third) June 12,

[698

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

1899, Helene, daughter of Charles A. and
Amelia (Raeder) Vedder, of Leeds, New
York. No issue by any of the marriages.

The Wood family now seated in
WOOD Chatham, New York, are of old
Massachusetts ancestry. Through
intermarriages they are related to many noted
New England families, and themselves were
of more than local celebrity. One branch in-
termarried with the Quaker family of South-
wick that suffered much persecution at the
hands of Massachusetts authorities. The di-
rect ancestors were whipped, imprisoned, and
finally banished and their property confiscated,
their sole offence being that they dared wor-
ship God in a manner not dictated by Massa-
chusetts statutes. The Rice and Taft families
are also Wood connections. In the revolution,
Ezra Wood and Captain Josiah Wood, both
descendants of Thomas Wood, the founder,
gave patriotic service. This particular
branch inclines to the professions, and a num-
ber of ministers, physicians, lawyers and pro-
fessors, are found in several of the genera-
tions. The family appears in New York after
the revolution, Wheelock Wood being the
first of his line permanently to settle in Herki-
mer county, New York.

(I) Thomas Wood, of Rowley. Massachu-
setts, is supposed to be the first of this branch
in this country. His ancestors have not been
discovered, although there is some reason to
believe he belonged to the Wood family of
Norwich, Norfolk county, England. In 1763
Colonel Eliphalct Dyer visited England and
brought back for Annie (Wood) Elderkin,
wife of Colonel Jedediah Elderkin. and
daughter of Thomas, son of Thomas Wood,
of Rowley, a crest and coat of arms, supposed
to be those of the Wood family to which she
belonged, the Woods of Norwich. The first
known of Thomas Wood is his marriage re-
corded in Rowley. Thomas and Ann Wood
were married 4 months, 7 days, 1654. His
wife was Ann Hunt, of Ipswich, Massachu-
setts. Rowley records show him to have been
a man of excellent Christian character and of
high standing among his townsmen. He was
buried September 12, 1687. Children: i.
Mary, born March 15, 1655, supposed to have
been the Mary Wood who married Edward
Ordway. 2. John, born November 2, 1656;
settled in Bradford, Massachusetts, then in
Littleton ; married Isabel Hazen. 3. Thomas,
born August 10, 1658; married Mary Hunt.
4. Ann, born August 8, 1660; married Benja-
min Plummer. 5. Ruth, born July 21, 1662;
married (first) Captain Joseph Jewett, (sec-
ond) Jdhii Lunt or Hunt. 6. Josiah, born

September 5, 1664; married Mary Felt. 7.
Elizabeth, twin of Josiah, married Captain
Joseph Boynton. 8. Samuel, born December
26, 1666; married Margaret Ellithorpe. 9. Sol-
omon, born Alay 17, 1669; married ^lary
Hazeltine. 10. Ebenezer, of further mention.
II. James, died at age of twenty years.

(II) Ebenezer, tenth child and sixth son of
Thomas and Ann (Hunt) Wood, was born in
Rowley, Massachusetts, December 29, 1671,
baptized in the First Church, December 31,
1671. He lived in Rowley until July 14, 1717,
when he and wife were dismissed to the Alen-
don Church. He married, April 5, 1695,
Ruth Nichols. Children born in Rowley: i.
James, born April 28, 1696. 2. Ebenezer, De-
cember 6, 1698. 3. Jonathan, of further men-
tion. 4. David, Rlay 30, 1704. 5. Samuel,
May 21, 1706. 6. Jesse, March 2, 1709. 7.
Moses, April 3, 17 12. 8. Eliphalet, baptized
August 15, 1714.

(III) Jonathan, third son of Ebenezer and
Ruth (Nichols) Wood, was baptized in the
First Church at Rowley, Jilassachusetts, No-
vember 2, 1701, by Rev. Edward Payson,^
the fourth settled pastor of that church. He
married Hannah Dresser and had issue, in-
cluding sons Jonathan and Josiah.

(IV) Captain Josiah Wood, son of Jona-
than and Hannah (Dresser) Wood, was born
in Mendon, died November 3, 1815. He lived
on the Lake Faron place in Northbridge. Mas-
sachusetts, and was said to be a Universalist.
This may be true, as in the Orthodox church
records the names of Josiah Wood and Tip-
porah Wood appear as uniting with the church
in 1765, by confession, also that she was ex-
pelled, August 24, 1802, and he, November 26,
1809 (revolutionary record). Josiah Wood
appears with the rank of captain on Lexington
alarm roll of Captain Josiah Wood's com-
pany which marched on the alarm of April 19,
1775, from Northbridge to Roxbury. Length
of service, ten days. Town to which each sol-
dier belonged, Northbridge. (Vol. 13, p.
163). Josiah Wood appears among a list of
officers dated July 9, 1776, chosen by the sev-
eral companies in Colonel Ezra Wood's
(Third Worcester Company) regiment. Rank,
captain, Seventh Company. Reported com-
missioned, July 9, 1776. (Vols. 43 & 28, pps.
222 & 119). Josiah Wood appears among a
list of officers appointed to command men
listed in or drafted from (Worcester Com-
pany) brigade, as returned to Major General
Warren (year not given). Rank, captain, of
a company drafted from Colonel Ezra Wood's
regiment, company to join Colonel Josiah
Whitney's or Colonel Nathan Sparhawk's
regiment, residence. Northbridge. (Vol. 1.2).

lU'DSOX AXD MOHAWK \ALLRVS

1699

Josiali Wood, of Upton, ami Tipporah Wheel-
ock. of ^lenclon, were married by Artemus
Wood, justice of the peace, February 12, 1757.
Children : Emory and others.

(\') Emory, son of Captain Josiah and Tip-
porah (Wheelock) Wood, was born in 1768,
died March 2. 1835. He married Patience,
daughter of Ezekiel Wood. Children: i.
\\heelock, of whom further. 2. Sophia, mar-
ried Sylvanus Taft, lived to be ninety-four
years of age ; no children. 3. Nancy, married
Caleb Sturtevant and had issue. 4. Lucinda,
married Comfort Rice. 5. Submit, married
Henry Pelton. 6. Abigail, not married. 7.
Rhoda, married Mason White. 8. Cynthia,
married Lyman Callum. 9. Josiah, unmar-
ried. 10. Planning. 11. Emory Jr.

fX'T) Wheelock-, son of Emory and Pa-
tience (Wood) Wood, was born in North-
bridge, Massachusetts, September 7, 1794,
died in Herkimer county, New York, April 10,
1887. He married Hannah Comstock, born in
Smithfield, Rhode Island, July 15, 1797, died
January 20, 1892. after many long years of
wedlock. They settled in Herkimer county in

1829 and resided there until their deaths. Chil-
dren: I. Charles O., born 1821; married
Martha Western ; died January 8, 1900. 2.
Susan, born 1823: married William Com-
stock (deceased) ; she removed to South Da-
kota: died December 26, 1895. 3. Martha E.,
born 1825: married Lorrin Kelley : died Feb-
ruary I, 1885. 4. Elias W., born 1828: mar-
ried Laura Hodge of a prominent family in
the neighborhood. 5. Rev. William A., born

1830 in Oliio, Herkimer county. New York ;
married Margaret Lightbill,of Madison county.

6. Rev. Benjamin Franklin, of whom further.

7. Hannah Melissa, born July 30. 1834: mar-
ried William Comstock. 8. .\manda S.. born
Inly II, 1836: married (first) Oliver Darl-
ing: (second) Philip Walthcr, of Allegany
county. New York. 9. Rhoda Matilda, born
October 9, 1838; married John S. Wood: died
January 8, 1892. 10. Sarah W., born Au-
gust 18. 1841 : married Benjamin E. Western,
of Herkimer: died February 7, 1898.

("X'll) Rev. Benjamin Franklin Wood, son
of Wheelock and Hannah (Comstock) Wood,
was born in Ohio, New York, August 14,
1832. He was licensed to preach under the
rules of the Methodist Episcopal church in
1852: was admitted on trial to Black River
conference (now Northern New York con-
ference) in 1854, and filled the following ap-
pointments: Steuben circuit (junior preach-
er), 1853-54, (conference year): Belmont,
1854 (part year) : Brasher, 1856 (part year) ;
Brockets and Stratford, 1859; Ohio and Gray,
1860-61 ; St. Johnsville, 1863-65 (two years) ;

Middleville, 1865-68: Port Leyden. 1868-71;
Constablevillc, 1871-73: P.lack River, 1873-76;
Theresa, 1876-77: presiding elder, Watertown
district, 1877-81: Port Leyden, 1881-84; Co-
penhagen, 1884-85: Adams district, 1885-91;
Turin, 1891-94: Martinsburg. 1894-99: Chau-
mont, 1899-1900. He was superannuated in
1900, since which time he has resided in Wa-
tertown, New York, and has officiated exten-
sively as supply. In the fall of 1861 he en-
listed in Company G, Eighth Regiment, New
York \'olunteers. He was in the Peninsula
campaign under McClellan ; his regiment was
in the advance of Fair Oaks and its ranks
terribly thinned. After escaping unharmed in
open battle, it remained for him to become a
victim of malarial fever while encamping in
White Oaks swamps, and on a surgeon's cer-
tificate, he resigned. In 1862, in June, he
was mustered out as second lieutenant. For
many years he was president of the Riverside
Camp ^Meeting Association.

He married (fir.st) Asenath, daughter of
John and Rosalinda (Higley) Barnes, who
removed from Connecticut to Herkimer
county. New York, in their early married
life. They were very thrifty and brought up
a family of seven children : Hiram, Jolm.
Rosalinda, Amanda, George, Asenath, mar-
ried Rev. B. F. Wood, Lyman. John Barnes
died at the age of seventy-eight years while
his wife lived to be upward of ninety-two
years. Mrs. Asenath (Barnes) Wood was
noted for her lovable disposition. She at-
tained special prominence as a teacher. .She
married, August 23, 1853, and died January
3, 1865. Children of Rev. B. F. and Asenath
(Barnes) Wood: 1. Dr. Gary Hosmcr, born
December 10, 1854 ; graduated from Fairfield
Seminary, 1874, graduated from Long Island
College Hospital, 1877, since which time he
has practiced his profession at .Antwerp, New
York : in politics he is a Republican and has
served in the following offices: Coroner three
years, supervisor of town of .Antwerp, Jeffer-
son county, from 1890 to 1899; member of
assembly from second assembly district. Jef-
ferson county, from January i, 1906, to Janu-
ary I, 191 1 ; he is ex-president of the Jefferson
County Medical Society and member of the
New York State Medical Society, prominent
in the Masonic order, and past district (lc|)uty
of the twenty-fourth Masonic district, state of
New York. He married Mary F. Tambjin, .Au-
gust 30, 1876. Children : i. Ethel May Wo(hI,
born November 26, 1882, died June 19, 1884;
ii. Lillian Asenath V\\)od, born October 19.
1884, graduated from Vassar College, 1904.
married T. D. MacGregor, .August 25, 1909;
iii. Isabelle Tamblin Wood, born March 24,

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HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

1891, graduated from \'assar Collej^c. 191 1.
2. Dr. Emory Hamlin, born October 14.
1859; he was graduated from Ives Seminary
in 187G and from Hahnemann Medical Col-
lege of Cliicago in 1881 ; in 1883 he removed
to South Dakota, and later he returned to
New York ; he has practiced his profession
in the following places: Copenhagen, New
York, 1881-83; Hand county, South Dakota,
1883-94; Salisbury Center, New York, 1894;
he has served repeatedly as coroner and health
officer ; in South Dakota he held the position
of county superintendent of schools. He mar-
ried Eunice Brooks, August 16, 1882. Chil-
dren: i. Laura A., born July 12, 1886; ii.
Hazel E., born November 27, 1888: iii. Brooks
Franklin, born July 17, 1892. 3. Professor
Frank Higley, of whom further. 4. Harriet
Libbie, born in St. Johnsville, Montgomery
county, New York, .Kugust 18. 1863; married
Bower Thomas Wliitehead in Fremont town-
ship. Moody county. South Dakota, March 20,
1887, who has latterly been in charge of the
department of pharmacy in the State Agricul-
tural College at Brookings, South Dakota.
Children : i. Lindsey Wood Whitehead, born
in Fremont township. Moody county. South
Dakota, June 16, 1888: ii. Lyndall Whitehead,
born in Brookings, Brookings county. South
Dakota, December 23, 1900. Rev. B. F.
Wood married (second) October 5, 1865,
Jane A. Dorn. by whom he had three sons,
all of whom died in infancy, and one daugh-
ter, Florence, who married Charles Palmiter,
•of Watertown, New York, September 11,
1889, and to them one son was born Novem-
ber 17, 1891, Clebron Wood Palmiter.

(\"in) Frank Higley Wood, A. M., son
of Rev. Benjamin Franklin and Asenath
(Barnes) Wood, was born in Oliio, Herkimer
county. New York, May 23, 1861. Receiving
his elementary training in district schools, he
graduated from Ives Seminary in 1879, and
from Syracuse L'niversity in 1885, comi)leting
the course in approximately three years, win-
ning the possible honors, including member-
ship in the Phi Beta Kappa. Choosing teach-
ing as his calling, he occupied the following
positions: District school, town of .Antwerp,
winter of 1879-80: di.strict school, village of
P.Iack River, winter of 1882-83. After spend-
ing the summer of 1883 on a preemption
claim in Hand county, Dakota (now South
Dakota), he served as principal of the graded
school at West Carthage, 1883-84. Cranville
high school, 1885-87; Yates high school (Chit-
tenango), —1887-89; Chatham high school.
1889-95, Entering the state service through
civil service examination, he was inspector of
training classes, 1895-99; supervisor of bu-

reau of training classes, 1899-1902; super-
visor of bureau of inspections. 1902-04; chief,
inspections division, state education depart-
ment. 1904. He is prominent in the Masonic
order ; is a past master of Columbia Lodge,
No. 98, Free and Accepted Masons; niemljer
of Lindenwald Chapter, Kinderhook ; Lafay-
ette Commandery, Hudson ; Cyprus Temple,
Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine. Albany; also a past regent of Nat
H}att Council, Royal Arcanum, and is a mem-
ber of the Order of Modern Woodmen,
Chatham, New York. He has long been a
trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church, of
the Chatham high school, and of the Chatham
Rural Cemetery Association. He is also the
first president of the Morris Memorial Histor-
ical Society. July 3, 1889, Professor Wood,
as he is popularly known, married Dora Fos-
ter, of Chittcnango, daughter of Albert and
Elsie (Cook) Foster, who on account of the
early death of her mother was brought up in
the home of her grandparents, Clement Cook,
a former inhabitant of Otsego county and a
veteran of the civil war. and Louise (French)
Cook, a member of a prominent Vermont fam-
ily. Children: i. Elsie Louise, born Octo-
ber 20, 1891 ; died March 28, 1907. 2. Har-
riet Asenath, August 26, 1896. 3. Helen
Florence, June 11, 1900; died February 13.
1904. 4. Frank Higley, Jr., August 8, 1903.
5. Theodore Wheelock, March 22, 1906.

This is a genuine German sur-
DRCKER name. Decher. as the name is

frequently spelled, re]3rcsents
in German the number ten. and was ajiiilied
to the tenth child. Some assume, however,
that the family name was derived from the
occupation of a decker — one who builds or
lays the decks of vessels. The name is com-
mon in Germany and in the United States.
The family is found in Holland, whither it is
believed they fled to escape religious persecu-
tion. The name is first found in New Eng-
land in 1^)72. when John Decker was a resi-
dent of l-'xeter. The name is found at a still
earlier date in the early records of Staten
Island, where Johannes De Decker arrived in
.\pril. i('/)3. The family became very nuiuer-
ous on Staten Island, frequent intermarriage
making ibe tracing of their genealogy exceed-
ingly difficult. Johannes De Decker was a
])rominent man in the colony, filling various
offices of responsibility, and after a public
service of several years retired for the re-
mainder of his days to his farm of one hun-
dred and twenty acres on .Staten Island.

(I) The line from whicli Edward C. Decker
is descended begins with Ian I'.nKTsin Decker,

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1 701

who with other Hollanders was at New Dorp,
New Netherland, and he was one of two mag-
istrates appointed at Marbledorp (later ]\Iar-
bletown), October 6, 1673. Further particu-
lars of him do not appear.

(H) Cornelius, son of Jan Broersen
Decker, married, December 22, 1695, Elsie,
daughter of Wessel and Marya (Ten Eyck)
Ten Broeck, and had four children. She died
June 9, 1725, and is buried beside her hus-
band. Children : Johannes, baptized August
16, 1696; Maria, May i. 1698; Heyltje, Janu-
ary 14, 1700; Wessel, January 25, 1702.

(HI) Johannes, son of Cornelius and Elsie
(Ten Broeck) Decker, married (first) Ca-
trina Wynkoop, baptized December 17, 1699,
died January 2, 1724. The Decker family
Bible record is, "My wife Catrina Wynkoop is
at rest in the Lord and buried the 4th (Janu-
ary, 1725) among her friends and beside her
mother." She was a daughter of Evert and
Guertje (Elmendorf) Wynkoop. They had
one daughter, Guertjen, baptized October 15,
1721. He married (second) Marytje Jansen,
May 17. 1726, daughter of Mattheus and
Rachel (Popinge) Jansen. Children: Elsie,
born March 26, 1727; Rachel, February 28,
1728-29; Cornelis, January 6, 1731-32; Mat-
thewis, December 14, 1733 ; Marya, January
9. 1736-37; Catharyna, February 17, 1738-39;
Johannes, April 16, 1741. Johannes, the
father, died January 23, 1741-42.

(I\') Cornelius (2), son of Johannes and
Marytje (Jansen) Decker, married (first)
July I, 1762, Elizabeth Van Wagenen, born
November i, 1739, died March 12, 1764,
daughter of Symen and Sara (Du Bois) Van
Wagenen. They had a daughter Sarah, born
January 16, 1764. He married (second) Eliz-
abeth Decker (presumably a cousin), who
died June 10, 1813. Children: Johannes,
born June 2, 1767; Cornelius, July 13, 1770;
Catharine, February 2, 1774: Elizabeth. Octo-
ber 8, 1778, died August 11. 1795; Maria,
November 22, 1780.

(VI) John G., grandson of Cornelius (2)
Decker, and son of either Cornelius or Jo-
hannes Decker, was born in Columbia county.
New York. He removed to Fulton county,
where he was one of the early farmers of the
town of Johnstown. He married Nancy Ru-
pert : children : John H., see forward : Eliza-
beth M., George F., Eleanor B., William A.,
Ann S.

(VH) John H., eldest son of John G. and
Nancy (Rupert) Decker, was born in the
town of Johnstown, Fulton county, New
York, July 15, 1826, died March 14, 1901. He
was one of the pioneer glove manufacturers
of Gloversville, where he was associated with

Josiah C. Leonard for many \ears. In 1875
he established the glove-making business in
Johnstown, conducting it alone until 1880,
when he admitted his son, Edward C. Decker,
to the firm, wh.ich then became J. H. Decker
& Son. In 1882 Sidney Argersinger was
admitted, and the firm has since been known
as J. H. Decker Son & Company. John H.
Decker continued at the head of the business,
which developed into one of the largest in the
county, until his death. He became a resi-
dent of Johnstown village the year after his
marriage (1854), and was prominent in pub-
lic afifairs. He served three terms as trustee
of the village, was trustee of the district six-
teen years, and was president of the village
board of education. He was a member of the
Presbyterian church, and politically a Repub-
lican. He married, February 8, 1854, Marian
E., born in Johnstown, 1835, daughter of Jo-
siah C. and Mary Leonard. Children : i.
Mary L. (or Minnie L.), born in Johnstown,
1856; married, January 8, 1880, Sidney Ar-
gersinger; (child) Edward D., married Mary
C. Sammons. 2. Edward C, see forward. 3.
Celia A., born March 25, 1861 ; married, April
14, 1886, Asa J. Browne, born in the town
of Mayfield, Fulton county. New York, April
7, 1840. 4. William H., born December 28,
1867, died May 3, 1885. 5. Luella C, born
December 8, 1872; married Charles R.
Mosher.

(VIII) Edward C, eldest son of John H.
and ]\Iarian E. (Leonard) Decker, was born
in Johnstown, New York, October 26. 1858.
He was educated in Johnstown LTnion School
and Academy. He early began an active busi-
ness life as an assistant to his father in glove
manufacturing, and in 1880 was admitted a
partner to J. H. Decker & Son. On the death
of the senior Mr. Decker, in 1901, Edward C.
succeeded him as head of the firm of J. H.
Decker Son & Company, which continues one
of the most important glove manufacturing
firms in the county. He is a thoroughly capa-
ble, earnest man of affairs, and occupies a
commanding position in his city. He was a
charter member of the board of library trus-
tees and still holds same. He is a director
of the People's Bank of Johnstown, and inter-
ested in other of the business enterprises of
Johnstown. He is a member of the Presby-
terian church, and in politics supports the
men and measures of the Republican party.
His clubs are the Eccentric of Gloversville,
the Automobile, Lotus and Colonial of Johns-
town and the Antlers of Amsterdam, New
York. He is interested in the history of his
county, and holds membership in the Fulton
County Historical Society. He married, Octo-

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ber 20, 1886, Louise, daughter of Robert
Henry, of Johnstown. Children, Marian L.
and Katherine B.

Curtis N. Douglas, son of
DOUGLAS John Pettit and Henrietta
(Hughson) Douglas, was born
at Watertown, New York, May 28, 1856. He
attended Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytech-
nic Institute from 1864 to 1870, and John C.
Overheisus Classical School from 187 1 to 1873.
He then entered the University of Roch-
ester, from which he was graduated, class
of 1877, with the degree of A.B. He at once
began an active business life ; from 1877 to
1880 he was secretary and assistant to his
father, the most extensive land owner in Jef-
ferson county, New York. He assisted in the
management of farms, stock breeding and
lumber operations, all of which were of large
proportions requiring expert knowledge and
careful supervision. But his tastes were not
satisfied by a business life, being inclined
towards a literary or professional career.
From January until June, 1881, he was head
master of Betts Academy at Stamford, Con-
necticut, and from there went to J. H. Massis
College Preparatory School in New York,
where he was assistant master. From 1882
to 1886 he conducted a college preparatory
school of his own. In 1886 he returned to
commercial life and since that date he has been
genetal manager of L. Thomson & Company,
wholesale lumber merchants of Albany, New
York. He has always taken a lively interest
in public affairs. In 1894 he represented the
tenth assembly district of Albany in the state
legislature, and in 1899-1900 w-as state sena-
tor from Albany county. He is an ex-presi-
dent of the Young Men's Christian Associa-
tion of Albany. He married, June 24, 1886,
Nancy Sherman, daughter of Lemon Thom-
son, of Albany, and granddaughter of Au-
gustus Sherman, of Glens Falls, New York.
(See Thomson IV). Mr. and Mrs. Douglas
have three children: Kenneth Thomson, Dor-
othea and Gertrude Thomson.

(The Thomson Line).
Douglas and Thomson is a blending of
Scotch-Irish blood that has produced, as it
always does, men and women of high charac-
ter and strong physical as w-ell as mental at-
tributes. The name of Thomson is common to
England, Scotland and Ireland, differing only
in the addition or omission of the letter P.
Douglas is the name of an ancient Scottish
clan whose history has been told in story and
song for centuries. Both families have pro-
duced men of note in the political, military, lit-

erary, professional and business life of the
United States. New Jersey was the home of
John Thomson, shot and scalped by Indians,
and his wife, Juda, who drew her little son
John two hundred and fifty miles over the
mountains of Pennsylvania after the killing
of her husband. They were the grandparents
of Judge Thomson, of Hunterdon county,
New Jersey.

(I) Benjamin Thomson, American ancestor
of this branch of the Thomson family, was
born in the north of Ireland, died at Eliza-
beth, New Jersey. The date of his emigra-
tion and settlement in New Jersey is not def-
inite. He was a magistrate under the Crown,
and a man of importance and means, as his
son received a college education. His wife
came from Scotland. They were both mem-
bers of the Presbyterian church.

(II) Charles, son of Benjamin Thomson,
was of Elizabeth, New Jersey. He was a
graduate of Princeton College, and during the
war of the revolution went to England, where
he married the widow of an Episcopal minis-
ter. He returned to America, where he died,
leaving two sons.

(HI) Charles C, son of Charles Thomson,
was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, July 8,
1788, died in Johnsonburg, New York, March
I, i860. He married, about 1819, Susanna
Harris Williams, a daughter of Joseph Wil-
liams, a soldier of the revolution, who was
wounded in battle and received a pension.
Their children were Lemon, see forward ; Ed-
ward, married Maria Morehouse; William;
Susan, married John Wakely.

(I\') Lemon, son of Charles C. Thomson,
was born in Athol, Warren county, New
York, January 22, 1822. He was educated in
the public schools, and at the age of seven-
teen began teaching, and when twenty-one was
elected county superintendent of schools. He
prepared for college at Glens Falls Academy,
and at the age of twenty-five entered the soph-
omore class at Union College, graduating in
1850. After leaving college he read law with
Judge Rosekrans, but never practiced, prefer-
ing a commercial career. In 1855 he removed
to .Albany, where he formed a partnership
w ith Iiis father-in-law, Augustus Sherman, un-
der the firm name of L. Thomson & Com-
pany. The firm owned large tracts of timber
in Northern New York, and dealt extensively
in manufactured lumber. He was a very ener-
getic, capable business man and ranked among
the leading successful merchants and bank-
ers of Albany. His religious connection was
with Emmanuel Baptist Church, of which he
was an active member and liberal supporter.
In politics he w^as originally a Democrat, but

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1703

•when slavery became the issue joined the Re-
jnibhcan party. He was a frequent contrib-
ut(jr to the papers and periodicals of his day.
His articles, mostly on local or political sub-
jects, were both pleasing and logical, display-
ing a broadness of vision and deep familiarity
witli the topics he was discussing. He served
the city of Albany as alderman from 1864 to
1867. In councils he was an early advocate
of reform and economy in the administration
of city business. In 1882 he was a candi-
date for congress on the Citizens' ticket. In
the board of trade, in business associations
and party conventions he w-as active and pro-
gressive, always advocating measures tending
to the public good.

Mr. Thomson married, June 25, 185 1, Abby
G.. died February 24, 1907, daughter of Au-
gustus Sherman, of Glens Falls, New York,
a descendant of Roger Sherman, a signer of
tlie Declaration of Independence. Their chil-
dren were: i. Burke, who died in infancy.
2. Hattie Darling, who died in childhood. 3.
Gertrude .-Vlden, w^ho became the wife of John
A. Dix. 4. Nancy Sherman, wife of Curtis N.
Douglas, mentioned above.

The early Gardners of Dutch-
G.KRDNER ess and Orange counties,
New York, were descendants
of Benoni Gardiner, of Rhode Island, died
1 73 1. The record is not clear, but the prev-
alence of the names Stephen and Nathaniel in
the family of Benoni and other facts taken in
consideration lead to the conclusion that Be-
noni Gardiner w^as the eldest son of George
Gardiner, died 1677, who was admitted an in-
habitant of the Island of Aquidneck (New-
port, Rhode Island), 1638. In 1642 was con-
stable and senior sergeant: 1644 was ensign.
His first wife was Herodias Hicks^^^ His sec-
ond wife, Lydia Rallou. died G??^ By both

wives he had fourteen childrenT

(II) Benoni, eldest child of George and
Herodias (Hicks) Gardiner, died 1731. By
one record he is said to have been one hun-
dred years of age, which is evidently errone-
ous, as he took the oath of allegiance. May
19, 1671. being then probably just come of
age. In 1727 he calls Iiimself ninety years of
age, which is also improbable. In 1679 he and
forty-one others of Narragansett signed a pe-
tition to the King praying that he would "put
an end to the difference about the government
thereof, which has been so fatal to the pros-
jjerity of the place." He owned land at Kings-
town, Rhode Island, as several deeds testify.
His wife, Mary, born 1645. <iied November
16. 1729, bore him sons, William, Xatlianiel,
Stephen. Isaac, and a daughter, Bridget.

(Ill) Stephen, son of Benoni and Mary
Gardiner, was born 1685. There is no record
of his marriage, but the records show that his
father deeded him a dwelling house and or-
chard. His father was considerably over
ninety years of age at death : his Uncle Henry
nearly if not quite one hundred years old; the
supposition is that Stephen married late in
life and that Nathaniel is his son, Stephen be-
ing then fifty-four years of age.

(I\') Nathaniel, son of Stephen Gardiner,
was born March 17, 1739. He settled in the
town of Washington, Dutchess county. New
York, where the name becomes Gardner, and
is so used by his descendants. .A deed dated
April 4, 1792, given by John Thorn, of New
Windsor. Ulster county, New York, "Gent."
of the one part and Nathaniel Gardner of the
town of Washington, Dutchess county. New
York, "yeoman" witnesses the transfer of
property to the latter from the former, con-
sideration five hundred pounds. The land ad-
joined other lands of Gardner 1 in the town of
Washington. The deed was recorded May 9,
1792. and bears the signature of Robert H.
Livingston. He married Eunice Sunderland,
born October 28, 1738, and had issue.

(\') Stephen (2), son of Nathaniel and
Eunice (Sunderland) Gardner, was born in
the village of Millbrook, Dutchess county,
New York, February 27, 1767. He was a life-
long resident and farmer of that section. He
married, June 14, 1792, Mary Goodrich, born
^farch 2. 1777. Children: i. Louis born May
26, 1793. 2. Elizabeth, baptized .April 6. 1795,
married Isaac Wilsey, died June 25, 1873. 3.
Dorcas, born December 18, 1798. married
Peter \'an .Alstyne. born 1802. died 1S71 :
she died December 18. 1869. 4. Cynthia,
born May 2, 1800: married James Muler. 5.
Jefferson, of furtlier mention. 6. Melissa,
born November 22, 1804: married Alexander
McCoyd, died June 14, 1872: she died Novem-
ber 13, 1894. 7. James Harvey, born June 19,
1810. died October 11, 1849: married Ann
Hanks.

(\T) Jefferson, son of Stephen (2) and
Mary (Goodrich) Gardner, was born .April 17,
1802. in Dutchess county. New York, died in
Troy, June 2, 1888. He settled in Troy when
a young man and was ever after a resident
of that city and one of the pioneers in collar
manufacturing. Among other early collar
makers of Troy was John W. White, wiio in

1839 was in business at 345 River street. In

1840 Jefferson Gardner became his partner.
The following year the firm dissolved and Mr.
Gardner removed to 42 King street, and con-
tinued in the same business. In 1851-52 Na-
thaniel Wheeler, of the firm of Wheeler, Wil-

son & Company, visited Troy for the purpose
of having his newly invented sewing machine
adopted by the collar makers. Alluding to the
results of his visit, Mr. Wheeler said: "I par-
ticularly brought the attention of the manufac-
turers of collars and cuffs to the machine,
most of whom shook their heads, doubting the
practicability of stitching collars by machin-
ery. Among my visitors was Jefferson Gard-
ner, who seemed to be less skeptical, patiently
investigated the subject and concluded to give
the machine a trial." Early in 1852 several
machines were sent to Air. Gardner, who put
them in practical operation in his factory. His
tests were so satisfactory that he soon ordered
more machines. This first introduction of sew-
ing machines to collar making is due to Mr.
Gardner's willingness to follow modern in-
vention, and his application of the sewing ma-
chine to his business gave to collar manufac-
turing a new life that resulted in its mar-
velous growth. He married Mary Ann
Wright, born in Troy, New York, September
2, 1807, died there May 27, 1892, daughter
of John Wright, born at Inglesby Cross, York-
shire, England, March 12, 1770, died in Troy,
September 24. 1823 ; married Hannah Daw-
son, born in England, Christmas, 1768, died
in Lansingburg (Troy), February 21, 1867, at
the great age of ninety-nine years, having
lived in the United States since 1804. Jeffer-
son and Mary Ann (Wright) Gardner had
twelve children, seven of whom are living
and eight of whom are given: i. Hannah,
married William Earl, of the famous Earl &
Wilson collar firm. 2. Mary Jane, of further
mention, 3, Richard H., married Anna Athol,
and removed to Brooklyn, New York . 4. Eliz-
abeth, married John D. Benedict, and removed
to New York City. 5. Emma Frances, mar-
ried LeGrand Benedict, and removed to
Brooklyn, New York. 6. Anson G., engaged
in laundry business until his death at the age
of thirty-three years. 7. Harriet Louisa, mar-
ried Edgar K. Betts. 8. Jefferson W., married
Catherine A. Keefe, and resides in Troy.

(VH) Mary Jane, daughter of Jefferson
and Mary .Ann (Wright) Gardner, was born
March 11, 1832. She married James H. Nich-
ols, born 1823, died November 21, 1890. She
survives her husband and is now (1911) a
resident of Troy, New York. Children: i.
Helen, wife of James C. Bussey. 2. Carrie,
mentioned below. 3. Jessie, wife of G. F.
Brainard. 4. .Agusta, wife of P. W. Mac-
kenzie.

(VTH) Carrie, daughter of James 11. and
Mary Jane ("Gardner) Nichols, was Ikuii in
Troy, New York, December 30, 1855. She
married, September 3, 1872, Charles Kimball

Gallup, of Coxsackie, New York. Children : i,
Bessie, born August 4, 1873, di^'^ .Time 23,
1875. 2. Rosslyn, born September 15, 1878,.
died January 24, 1884. 3. Raymond, born
June 23, 1886. 4. Dudley Nichols, born OctOT
ber 4, 1894.

George Huntington Nicholls
NICHOLLS was born January 17, 1847,
at Salisbury, Connecticut.
He received his education in the public
school. He removed to Troy and entered the
employ of J. M. Warren, in the har.lware busi-
ness, where he remained as clerk for four
years. He then returned to his birthplace,
Salisbury, Connecticut, with the intention of
purchasing a business, but he could not make
satisfactory arrangements. In 1869 he went
into the Walter A. Wood Company at Hoosick
Falls, New York, and remained with them
until 1900, at which time he was purchasing
agent. He established a coal business, also
paints, oil, etc., which he managed until 1910,
when he returned to the employ of the Walter
.\. Wood Company. He is a Republican in
politics, and a member of St. Mark's Episco-
pal Church and has served as vestryman since
1898. He is especially interested in Sunday-
school work and is superintendent. He is a
member of the Elks, a member and one of the
founders of the Hoosick Club, a member of
the Country Club of Hoosick Falls. He mar-
ried, October 9, 1875. Emma Mary, daughter
of Henry Peter Smith. They have no chil-
dren.

.Alfred Gilford, born at Fal-
GIFFORD mouth, Mas.sachusctts, died
at Hud.son, 1868. He was a
merchant (if Hudson, New York. He married
Clarissa Crocker, of Barnstable, New York ;
children born at Hudson: i. Tempe D., im-
married. 2. .Abby P., unmarried. 3. Ebenezer
H., see forward. 4. James, married Clarenda
Marshall : two children : Clara and .Alice. 5.
Alfred, married Sallie Atwood ; no issue. 6.
William B., married Signey Childs : three chil-
dren: Mirriam, Alfred and Percival. 7.
Crocker, married Josephine Von Beck; two
children : Frank and Elton.

(II) Ebenezer H.. .son of .Alfred and Cla-
rissa (Crocker) Gifford, was born February
20, 1825, He was educated in the public
schools, and became a successful lumlicr mer-
chant of Hudson, New York, After a long
life spent in active business, he retired with
.in abundant competence. He married. May
17. 1848, Eliza Bullock, born in Glen Cove,
Cohnniiia county. New ^'ork, daugiiter of
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rjoS

(laughter of Friend and Annie (Case) Shel-
don. Ephraim Bullock was the son of Reuben
and Ann (Backus) Bullock, \vho came to Co-
luniljia county from ^Lissachusetts, settled in
Kinderliook, where Reuben was schoolmaster.
Ebenezer H. and Eliza (Bullock) Gifford had
no children.

'I'he Brooks family is one of
BROOKS the oldest in Massachusetts,
and the old ancestral home at
Medford has been occupied by one of the
name for many generations. Thomas Brooks,
of England, \V'atertown and Concord, Massa-
chusetts; Henry, of Concord and Woburn,
each founded numerous families which have
spread to every part of the Union. In Eng-
land the records teem with mention of their
doings, while many high upon the roll of fame
claim these early pilgrims as their progenitors.
One branch of the family settled in Albany
county. New York, where they intermarried
with the best Dutch families. They were
farmers of the town of Xew Scotland, where
they were wealthy and influential citizens.
Here Peter A'an Wie Brooks lived and died,
leaving issue to perpetuate his name. He was
a farmer of considerable wealth and good
business ability. He owned a fine estate in
Xew Scotland, lying along the Normanskill,
which fact added to its value and to its pro-
ductiveness. He was supervisor of the town
in 1855-56, serving with great usefulness. He
married and left issue.

(H) James Edgar, son of Peter \'an Wie
I!rooks, was born about 1854 at the Brooks
homestead in New Scotland, Albany county.
New York, died in Albany, November, 1884.
He married, 1883, Esther Gansevoort Ten
Eyck, born August 29, 1856, daughter of A.
Cuyler and Matilda (Haswell) Ten Eyck,
who survives him, a resident of Albany.
Child : James Edgar, see forward.

(HI) James Edgar (2), only child of
James Edgar ( i ) and Esther Gansevoort
(Ten Eyck) I'rooks, was born in Normans-
kill, New Scotland. September 20, 1884. After
graduating from the Albany Boys' Academy,
he entered the Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti-
tute, class of 1907. After leaving college he
was successively employed in the signal de-
partment of the New York Central railroad.
The Federal Signal Company, Albany, and in
the signal department of the Delaware & Hud-
son Railroad Company. In 1909 he organized
the Albany \'ulcanizing Company, of which
he is secretary and treasurer. His college fra-
ternity is Delta Phi; his clubs, the University
and Automobile of Albany. In politics he is
a Democrat.

The Northrop family of
NORTHROP Troy, New York, were set-

lers of Jones ville, Clifton
Park, Saratoga county. New York.

(H) Herbert Ellsworth, son of Henry
James Northrop, was born in Lansingburg
(North Troy), where he obtained his edu-
cation. His first start in business life was
made as clerk with the Judson Coal Com-
pany, remaining with them until 1893. He
then became treasurer of the J. J. Qiild Coat
Company, which position (1911) he now fills.
He is a member of the Masonic order, Jerusa-
lem Lodge, Phoenix Chapter, Bloss Council,.
Apollo Commandery, Oriental Temple. He
married, 1892, Sarah M., daughter of Smith
Cornell and Sarah M. (Van Denburgh)
Boughton, of Waterford, New York. They
have no children. Smith Cornell Boughton
was a son of Dr. Chauncey Boughton, of
Half Aloon, Saratoga county, and his wife,.
Ida Jane (Smith) Boughton, Dr. Boughton
was born in Half Moon in 1805, died in Wa-
terford, New York, in 1895. He practiced
medicine in Saratoga county for twenty-five
years, and was a skillful, well-known physi-
cian. He was an ardent advocate of the cause
of temperance and very outspoken in his
views. Fie was supervisor of the county from
Half Moon in 1841. and in 1846 represented
that town in the state legislature. In 185S
he was again elected' to the house and re-
elected in 1859. In 1876 he was chosen presi-
dent of the Saratoga Bank. He married, irr
Half ]Moon, Ida jane Smith, born in that
town, died in Waterford. Children: i. Es-
ther M.. married (first) Dr. H. J. Landon,
(second) Brewster. 2. Margaret Es-
ther, married A. P. Hawley, of Half Moon.
3. Smith Cornell, only son of Dr. and Ida Jane
(Smith) Boughton. was born in Half Moon,
Saratoga county. New York, May 3, 1838,
died in Waterford, New York, July 31, 1881.
He was educated in Half Moon, where he re-
sided the greater part of his life. He was ac-
tive in town affairs, and filled many public po-
sitions. He drilled a company of soldiers in
Waterford during the war. and was elected
captain, but owing to ill health was unable
to go to the front with them, but furnished
them with guns and uniforms, and worked
far beyond his strength. He married, in Wa-
terford, in i8f)0, Sarah M. \'an Denburgh,
born in \\'aterfor(l, who survives him and is a
resident of that village. Children: i. I^an-
don Henry, died at age of three and one-half
years. 2. Arthur Barker, died aged alxiut two
years. 3. Sarah M., married Herbert Ells-
worth Northrop. 4. Ida Estiier, died in in-
fancy.

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o^,r^^^■^■ m ? '^""'^'^ °^ ^^^ Erown fam-
i.KUW .\ ily in America was founded by
Charles F. Brown, who was
born in England and died in Otselic, New
\ ork He came to the United States with his
wife Caroline and settled in New York, where
their son Devillo Phelps was born

(II) Devillo Phelps, son of Charles F. and
■Caroline Brown, was born in Otselic Che-
nango county. New York, February i i8^i
died in Smyrna. New York. He was a resi-
dent of Aorwich, New York, at one time, but
his latter years were passed in Smyrna He
married, in 1855, Frances M. Mead, born in
■^''''VW^^^' ''■^^ '" Norwich, September 28
1908. Children: Linnie C, born in Smvrna
April 10. i860, died May 24, 1905, unmar'ried '
Nettie Cornelia. April 25. 1863; Mott Devillo'
see forward.

(Ill) Mott Devillo. son of Devillo Phelps
and Frances M. (Mead) Brown, was born
m^ Smyrna, New York, September 27, 1867
His early education was obtained in the
Smyrna schools and continued in the schools
of Norwich. New York, where his parents re-
moved when he was twelve years of a^e He
passed through the various grades and was
graduated from the high school. His first em-
ployment was in the local Young Men's Chris-
tian Associatiop, of which he was secretary
He later engaged in the dry goods business
:and IS now a commercial traveler. He is a
Republican in politics, a member of the Ma-
sonic fraternity, and the Presbyterian church
He married, November 24, 1892, in Lansing-
burg, .New York. Emma Kate Hicks, bom
September 26, 1865. Children: Frederick
born January i, 1894: Archibald, born and
died 1895 ; Mott Devillo, April 2. 1896 Mrs
brown IS a daughter of Frederick Hicks, and
granddaughter of William Hick, born in
Yorkshire, England. He came from England
to the United States, naturalized and cast his
first vote for Andrew Jackson for president'^
He was by trade a cabinetmaker and followed
Ins trade for many years in Troy, his home
being in Lansingburg. Frederick, son of Wil-
liam Hick, was born in Lansingburg Febru-
fy 5. 1837. tlied April 19, 1906. He added
the s to his name, making it Hicks. He was
educated in the Trov schools and clerked in
a .store until 1873. when he began business in
a store for himself in Troy. Disposing of this
business he opened a dry goods store'in Lan-
singburg in 1885, which he continued until his
death. He was a Republican, a member of the
\etcran Firemen's Association, and a com-
municant of the Episcopal church. His wife
whom he married March 30. 1864 \va<; Cath '
€rine Elizabeth Pierce, born September i

1839. died September 4. 1878. Their children
l-Z^\^r '"^r ^°"' ^'^^ unnamed: Emma
Kate (Mrs. M. D. Brown) ; Agnes, born and
died in 1876. Catherine Elizabeth Pierce
grandmother of Mrs. Brown, was a daughte;
of .Archibald and Catherine Elizabeth (At-
kins) P^i-ce. Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Brown re-
side in Troy, New York.

ATTT-x^ ^yi '^''ffo'"d Hiram Allen, son
ALLEN ot Loren (q.v.) and Mary Ann

born in Sandy Hill (Hudson Falls), Washino--
ton county. New York, January 31 1867 He
was educated in the public schools of Sandv
HilUnd at Dr. Holbrook's Military Academy,
Ossming New York. After completing his
studies, he becames an emplovee of Allen
Brothers Company and was associated with
his father and uncles in the manufacture of
paper at Sandy Hill until 1892. In that vear
he was placed m charge of the company's mill
and timber lands at Au Sable Chasm,' where
he remained several years. Later he had in-
creased responsibilities and divided his time
between the Sandy Hill and Au Sable Chasm
plants, until the sale of Allen Brothers Com-
pany to the Union Bag & Paper Company.
Mr. Allen is prominent in the Masonic order '
He married June 30. 1904. Lillian Katherine,'
daughter of John Lorinous and Electa Jane
(VVest) Wendell, granddaughter of Martin
and Sabrina (Agard) Wendell. Martin Wen-
dell was born in Chestertown. .New York De
cember 5 1803, died May 27, 1884; married
S rs"l^ i^^n) ''*^''" '" Chestertown, .April
8. 1807, died March 10. 1855. Children born
in Chestertown: i. Catherine, born February
22, 1827; married Harlow Stone. 2 Tohn
Lorinous, born May 10, 1839, died January
10 1900: married Electa Jane West, child,
i:,'!^" , ^.^.t'lerine. married. June 30, 1904,
Chfiford Hiram Allen. 3. Ezra Savr;, born
December 19, 184s.

(Tlic .A.gard Line).
Sabrina Agard was a granddaughter of

A rn' ^r^"^""'^ ""^Ir J"^^ "5' '735, married.

April 26, 1765. Alice Smith. Children: i

lames born November 29, 1766. 2. Sibbil
born September 25 1767; married General
Conant and had Mary, born November n

1785. 3- Abigail, born August 31, 1769. 4.
Abigail, born September 27, 1771. 5. Ha„.
nah. born June 29, 1777. 6. John, born May
29, 1779; married. December 5, 1805. Dorcas
Salsbury: children: i. Sabrina, born April
8. 1807: married Martin Wendell, ii Soph-
rona, born June 16. iSio. iii. Samuel, born
August 12. ,813. iv. Phebe, born Novem-

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1707

ber 5. 1815. V. Abigail, born December 11,
1818. vi. Amos, born May 17, 1821.

(The West Line).

( I ) Electa Jane West, wife of John Lor-
inous Wendell, and grandmother of Lillian
K. (Wendell) Allen, was a granddaughter of
William West, a cousin of General Ethan Al-
len, and is also supposed to have been a
soldier of the revolution. He married Re-
becca, daughter of Captain Thomas Lee, a sea
captain, and a sister of General Lee, of revo-
lutionary fame.

(H) Charles, son of William and Rebecca
(Lee) A\'est, was born in Dutchess county.
New York. He married Electa Jane Ganzy,
born in Connecticut.

(HI) Electa Jane, daughter of Charles and
Electa Jane (Ganzy) West, was born Septem-
ber 29. 1844, died December 25, 1909. She
married, January, 1863, John Lorinous Wen-
dell.

(I\') Lillian Katherine. daughter of John
Lorinous and Electa Jane (West) Wendell,
married Clifford Hiram .Mien.

(The Van Den Bergh Line).
(L) \\'yant, son of Cornelis and Cornelia
(Van Der Poel) Van Den Bergh, was born
June 24. 1(594. He was of Halve Maan (Half
Moon), 1720. He married (first), November
21. 1715, Aaltje Van Ness; (second) March
20, 1721, Anna Wendell: (third) August 25,
17^0. Catharine \'an Ness (Widow Groe-
beck).

(II) \\'yant (2), son of \\'yant (i) and
his second wife .Anna (Wendell) \'an Den
Bergh, was born June i, 1735. He married
Mary \M:itbeck and had issue.

(HI) Peter, son of Wyant (2) and Mary
(Whitbeck) \'an Den Bergh, was born Octo-
ber 31, 1778, died November 21, 1887. He
married (first) August 16, 1800, Sarah Van
Woert, born July 8, 1778, died November 16,
1822. He married (second) October 27, 1824,
Ann Osborn Blair, lx>rn March 20, 1796, died
March 20, 1855. Children by first wife: i.
Weynant, born November 15, 1801, died Feb-
ruary 17, 1866. 2. John, November 15, 1802,
died June 29, 1803. 3. Catherine, November

4. 1803, died December 7, 1833. 4. Harriet,
November 20, 1804, died December 29, 1804.

5. Harriet. September 8, 1806, died January
28, 1866: married John Weuzel. 6. Helen
January 26, 1808: married Abraham Van
Vechtcn. 7. John, August 22, i8og, died
March 12. 1854. 8. Gysbert, December 19,
1810, died September 9, 1850. 9. Eva Edith,
March 8. 1812, died February 15, 1819. 10.
Fannie Maria, June i, 1813, died September

16, 1876; married Gilbert Lansing. 11. Jacob
Lansing, October 19, 1814, died April 19,
1820. 12. Sarah, born September 2, 1817;
married (first), October 15, 1833, Jacob
Price: (second) Abraham Sweet; (third)
\\'illiam Wilson ; she had one son, Abraham,
who had one son, John Price. 13. Peter \"an
Wort, August II, 1818, died September 14,
1818. Children by second wife, Ann Osborn
Blair: 14. Jacob Lansing, November 17,
1825, died November 21, 1887; married Fran-
ces Cartwright: died February 4, 191 1,; chil-
dren : Elizabeth and Frank, died in childhood.
13. James Henry, December 3, 1827 (still liv-
ing) ; married Lydia Huffcutt; chiklren : Em-
ogene, married Charles Benjamin Prouty and
has a son, James H. Lansing Prouty: Mary
Frances, married George A. Nash and has a
son, Howard B., and a daughter, Bessie Eliz-
abeth, married Frank Galusha. 16. Mary Ann,
September 20. 1834, died May 18, 1879; mar-
ried, December 25, 1856, Loren Allen (see
Allen): children: i. Mary Ida, married
George Henry Liddell and has a son. Loren
Allen Liddell, born December 27, 1885. ii.
Charles Loren, died June 6, 1910: married,
at Fort Edward, New York, February i,
1893, Jennie Augusta Fox, born October 26,
1871, and has a son, Adelbert Clifford, born
March 21, 1894. iii. Clifford Hiram, of pre-
vious mention.

The Everts family of Gran-
E\'ERTS ville, Washington county. New
York, are of English descent.
The name was also early written Evarts,
Everst. The family was early in New Eng-
land, the emigrant ancestor being John Evarts,
of Concord, Alassachusetts.

(I) John Evarts, founder of the family in
New England, was made a freeman of Con-
cord, Massachusetts, March, 1637-38. He re-
sided there for several years, having at least
two children born there. He removed to Guil-
ford, Connecticut, where he took the freeman's
oath, February 5, 1651-52. In 1655 lie was in
court in two civil suits as defendant. In 1667
he was appointed tithingman. He is said to
have lived for a time in New Haven. He died
May 9. 1669. He married (fir.st) Elizabeth
— — ; (second) May 27, 1663, Elizabeth,
widow of John Parmalee. She died Novem-
ber, 1688. Children by first marriage: i.
John, born February 29. 1639-40, at Concord,
died December 28, 1692, 3. Judah, October
27, 1642, died November, 1696. 3. Daniel,
1645, died December 5, 1692. 4. James, of
further mention. 5. Elizabeth, married, 1665,
Peter .Ablwtt.

(II) James, son of John and Elizabeth Ev-

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

arts, was born in 1648, died April, 1682. He
married, in 1660, Lydia, daughter of Richard
Goodrich. Children: i. Mary, born March

26. 1661. died young. 2. John, 1664, sergeant
of the Guilford training band ; married, 1688,
Sarah Crampton. 3. Lydia, died December

27, 1750; married, August 19, 1692, Caleb
Bishop. 4. James, 1667, died January 3, 1739 ;
married, March 7, 1694, Mary Carter. 5. Jo-
seph, 1669, died 1679. 6. Judah, of further
mention. 7. Mary, May i, 1674, died June,
1734; married, June 8, 1694, John Munger.
8. fiannah. September 22, 1677. 9. Joseph,
February 24. 1679. died 1710; married Han-
nah Scranton. 10. Dorothy, 1683; married,
April 6, 1710, Samuel Munger. 11. Jonathan,
died unmarried, October. 1696.

(HI) Judah, son of James and Lydia
(Goodrich) Everts, was born 1673, died Oc-
tober 28, 1748. He was of Guilford, Connecti-
cut. He married, September 5, 1706, Mary,
daughter of Samuel Eggleston, of Middle-
town, Connecticut. .She died April 2, 1762.
Children: i. Caleb, of further mention. 2. Ju-
dah. born May 19, 1712: married Abigail
Dudley. 3. Ebenezer, July 11, 1720, died prior
to 1748. 4. Amos, September 23, 1725 : mar-
ried, \larch 5, 1747, Mary Eggleston, perhaps
a kinswoman of his mother ; had a daughter,
Mary, died 1785.

(IV) Caleb, son of Judah and l\Iary (Eg-
gleston) Evarts, was born in Guilford, Con-
necticut, May 27, 1707, died August 21, 1751.
He married (first) November 19, 1729. Alind-
well Cook, of Wallingford, Connecticut, died
December 31, 1736; married (second) 1740,
Elizabeth Stocker. Children of first marriage.
I. Mindwell, born November 4, 1730, died un-
married, 1756. 2. Ebenezer. October 22, 1732,
died November 18, 1765: married Ruth Chit-
tenden, who survived him and married (sec-
ond) Eber Norton. 3. Sarah, October 9, 1736.
Children of second wife: 4. Caleb, August
29, 1740, died August 21, 1751. 5. Judah, Oc-
tober 20, 1745. 6. Amaziah, of further men-
tion. 7. Edward, March 3, 1752, died 1836;
married Selphenia Culver.

(V) .Amaziah, son of Caleb and Elizabeth
(Stocker) Evearts (as this generation spells
the name, was born in Guilford, Connecticut,
June 30, 1747. He married, June 5, 1776, Su-
sannah Crittenden, daughter of Zachary
Dowd. and widow of Gilbert Crittenden (this
name is in the Guilford records, Crittenden,
Cruttenden and Crittendon). and died in Sun-
derland, Vermont, April 16, 1790. He was
corporal in the Guilford company under Cap-
tain Noah Fowler, that went to the relief of
Boston from Guilford in the first Lexington
alarm, April, 1775. Children: i. Elihu

Bragg, born March 4, 1777; married, May 30,
1830, Polly (Spalding-Graves) Young; lived
in Granville, New York ; after marriage re-
moved to Freedom, New York: died 1861.
2. Amaziah, June 22, 1779. 3. Caleb, of fur-
ther mention. 4. Ruth, May 10, 1782, died in
infancy. 5. Gilbert, 1783-84; took part in the
battle at Plattsburg in 1812; lived in Pawlet,
\'ermont : removed to Wheatland, Monroe
county. New York, in 1819, and died Febru-
ary 14, 1827; married Polly , who died

April 4, 1833 ; children : Caleb, Ormus Eu-
gene, Sarah, married Edgar Cliandler; Phy-
lena, married Israel P. Jakway, October 10,
1844, she died j\Iarch 4, 1899 : two other
daughters. 6. Cyrus, ]May 10, 1782; lived in
Granville, New York, for a time, and had a
son Jonathan. 7. Polly, married Alva Button.
It would seem that Amaziah Everts had a sec-
ond wife, named Ruth, for it appears in the
records of the town of Sunderland, Vermont,
that "Ruth, wife of Amaziah Everts, died
June 1st, 1789."

(Yl) Caleb (2), son of Amaziah and Su-
sannah (Dowd-Crittenden) Evearts, was born
June 27, 1781, at Guilford, Connecticut, died
in Pawlet, Vermont, 1822. He was a man of
feeble constitution, and poorly equipped phys-
ically to fight life's battle. He was left a
widower with five young children and did not
long survive his wife. He married Sarah,
sister of Gershom Gifford. Children : i. John
Alonzo, of whom further. 2. William, mar-
ried Nancy Martin ; children, Samuel and Al-
bert. 3. Don Alphonso, born in Pawlet, \^er-
mont, October 22, 1806; married Sophia Hos-
ford ; child, Edna Annette. 4. Gershom, died
without issue. 5. Sarah, born January 14,
1813: married Peter Gowcy. March 17, 1836,
died June 26, 1869 ; child, Ella Gertrude, born
August 26, 1854.

(VII) John Alonzo, son of Caleb (2) and
Sarah (Gifford) Everts, was born in Pawlet,
\^ermont, February 29, 1808, died in Gran-
ville. Washington county, New York, Janu-
ary 26. 1866. He settled on a farm in Gran-
ville, where he spent his subsequent life en-
gaged in agriculture. He was prosperous
and influential, a Democrat in politics and
a warden' of Trinity Episcopal Church. He
married, in 1842, Mary Ann Barker, born
December 25, 1818. at White Creek, New
York, died in Poultney, Vermont, May 25,
1889, daughter of Isaac and Mary (Bowen)
Barker. Children: i. Palmer D. of further
mention. 2. Silas W., born July, 1846, un-
married. 3. John L., liorn May 27, 1850 ; mar-
ried (first) Alice N. Norton; (second) Ella
A. Scofield, born October 16, 1852, at Med-
ford, .Massacluisctts, married, Octolicr 24,

HUDSON AND AIOHAWK \"ALLEYS

-09

1886, resides in Ashby. Minnesota. 4. Mar-
tha Ann, born May 25, 1856, died in Poull-
ncy. \>rmont, June, 1888: married Harry
Tay and had George and Clarence.

(MH) Pahncr D., son of John Alonzo and
Mary Ann (Barker) Everts, was born in
Granville, Washington county. New York,
February 22. 1843, died October 17, 1894. He
was educated in the public schools, finishing
at Fort Edward Collegiate Institute. He
taught tor a time, and was principal of the
Middle Granville school. Later he engaged in
agriculture and became one of the leading men
of his town. He was prominent in local poli-
tics, served as supervisor and held other of-
fices. He was a member and warden of Trin-
ity Episcopal Church. He married, Decem-
ber 20. 1866, Elizabeth Ruth Perry, born April
25. 1842, died July 24, 1907, daughter of Dr.
Asaliel and Eveline (Slocum) Perry, who was
a graduate of the Ladies' Seminary of North
Granville. Dr. Perry was born at Claremont,
New Hampshire, in 1806, died March 16,
1878. He was a graduate of Dartmouth Col-
lege and a leading physician of Washington
county, practicing in South Easton. He mar-
ried, in 1840, Eveline Slocum.

Eveline (7) Slocum, born at Easton. New
York, June 24, 1821, died at Granville, New
York. August 17, 1879, daughter of .Alexan-
der Slocum.

Alexander Slocum (6), born I79r), died
March 4, 1873, ^^'^s a son of Matthew (5),
born March 21, 1752, and Ruth Hoag. born
1764, died November 19, 1866.

Matthew Slocum (5) was the son of Giles
(4) Slocum, born May 15, 1713, and Susanna
P.rownell (daughter of Stephen Brownell and
Martha Brownell). He removed from Rhode
Island to Easton, New York, among early set-
tlers there.

Giles (4) Slocum was the son of Giles (3)
Slocum. the son of Giles (2) Slocum, born
March 26, 1607; married Anna Lawton,
March 26, 1669.

Giles (2) Slocum was the son of Anthony
( I ) Slocum, who was born in Somersetshire,
England, and settled near Newport, Connecti-
cut, in 1638, died in 1682. (See published
historv of Slocum family.)

Palmer D. and Elizabeth R. Everts had
two children :

( IN) Silas E., son of Palmer D. and Eliza-
beth Ruth (Perry) Everts, was born in Gran-
ville, \\'ashington county. New York, Sep-
tember 17, 1867. He was educated at North
Granville Military Academy, graduating in

1887, Williams College, where lie was grad-
uated A. B., in 1890. entered the law depart-
ment of tlie University of the Citv of New

York, graduated LL.B., 1892. After his ad-
mission to the bar in 1892 he established an
office for the practice of his profession in
Granville and is one of the leading members
of the Washington county bar. He was
elected special county judge of Washington
county, and is prominently identified with the
leading interests of his town and county. He
is a director of the Granville National Bank,
and interested in several other enterprises. He
is warden of Trinity Episco[)al Church, and
in politics a Republican. He is a member of
the State Bar Association, State Historical
Association, and stands high in the Masonic
Order, belonging to Granville Lodge. No. 55,
I'ree and Accepted Masons, and Granville
Chajiter, Royal Arch Masons, and Washing-
ton Commandery. Knights Templar, of Sara-
toga. He married, June, 1892, Lucina, daugh-
ter of Daniel and Miriam (McNitt) Wood-
ard. Children : Palmer W., born September
2, 1893: Miriam, July 12, 1897; Roscoe S.,
February 20, 1902.

(IN) 'Ruth L., daughter of Palmer D. and
Elizabeth R. (Perry) Evarts. was born April
7. 1872: married, August 24, 1904. Lewis
Dougan. principal of a public school in St.
Louis. .Aiissouri. Children: Alice and Eliza-
beth.

(The Wo.Klard Lino).

The following material is largely furnished
l)y Rev. D. IT. Woodward, North Abington,
Massachusetts, to whom credit is freely given.
The name Woodward or Woodard is supposed
to be a trade name, probably derived from the
Eliglish common noun woodward. The
Woodwards were park and forest keepers.

(I) Richard Woodward embarked at Ips-
wich, England, April 10, 1634, with his wife,
Rose, and their two sons. George and John.
1 le was forty-five years of age ; was admitted
a freeman, September 2, 1635. at Watertown,
Massachusetts, and his name is on the earliest
list of proprietors of that town. He owned
fourteen lots of land amounting to over three
hundred acres. His wife. Rose, died October
6, 1662. aged eighty years, and he soon after
married Ann Gates, widow of Stephen Gates,
of Cambridge. Massachusetts. His sons
(Jeorge and John were his administrators.
(See Bond's History of Watertown. Massa-
chusetts). He died February 16. 1664-65.

(II) George, son of Richard Woodward,
was born in 1619. He was admitted a free-
man at Watertown, Massachusetts, May 6,
1646. He was selectman in 1674. died May
31, 1676. (Bond's- Watertown). By his first
wife, Alary, he had eight children: Marv,
Sarah, Amos, Rebecca, John, Susanna, Daniel
anil Mary (probably Mercy). He married

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HUDSON AND MOHAWK A'ALLEYS

(second) Elizabeth Hammond, August 17,
1659, and they had five children : George,
Thomas, Elizabeth, Nathaniel and Sarah.

(HI) John, son of George Woodward, was
born at Watertown. Massachusetts, March 28,
1649. He removed from Watertown to New-
town, Massachusetts, about 1675. He married
(first) Rebecca, daughter of Richard Robbins ;
(second) Sarah Bancroft, who died Septem-
ber 22, 1723. He was a weaver by trade and
owned and resided on a farm near Newton
_ Upper Falls. He died November 3, 1732.
His will dated February 26, 1727-28, mentions
his children: John, Richard, Daniel and Jona-
than, and heirs of his son Joseph, Ebenezer,
Rebecca Hunting and Abigail Greenwood. Of
these children, John, Richard and Joseph, set-
tled in Connecticut early in the eighteenth
century.

{IV ) John (2), son of John (i) Wood-
ward, was born in Newtown, Massachusetts,
or possibly W'atertown, Massachusetts, April
16, 1675. He married, January, 1698, Hannah
Hyde, born March i, 1677-78, died January
15, 1724. Children: Hannah, Mary, John,
Ephraim and Deliverance. John Woodward

married (second) Abigail • — ■ . There is

no record of any children. He was elected
first deacon of the first church of Brooklyn,
Connecticut, in the second quarter of the
eighteenth century, and was moderator of the
town meeting in Canterbury, December 10,
1717. His will dated April 15, 1743, men-
tions his wife, daughter Mary Cleveland, chil-
dren of daughter Hannah Bacom, and sons
John, Ephraim and Deliverance. He died
April I, 1767, at Brooklyn, Connecticut. (See
"Larned's History of Windham county, Con-
necticut.")

(V) John (3), son of John (2) Woodward,
was born at Newtown, Alassachusetts, March
2, 1702, died at Pawling, Dutchess county,
New York. He married, December 28, 1727,
Mary Spalding; he removed to province of
New York in 1749; died in 1773. Children: i.
Hannah, born August 8, 1728. 2. John, May
9, 1730. 3. Samuel, July 24. 1732, died young.
4. Phineas, December 9, 1734. 5. Mary, March
26, 1737. 6. Bridget, February 28, 1739-40. 7.
Samuel, of whom further. 8. Jonathan, June
12, 1744. 9. Sibbil, February 14, 1745-46. 10.
Josiah, April 28, 1748. 11. Ephraim, Septem-
ber 16, 1750. 12. Joseph, October 7, 1754.
The will of John Woodward, of Pawling,
Dutchess cuunty. New York, is on record in
the surrogate's office of the county and gives
Samuel Woodward his Duroy coat.

(VI) Samuel, son of John and Mary
(Spalding) Woodward, was born June 5,
1742. He served in Colonel Svvartwout's regi-

ment in the American revolutionary war, and
probably removed to Washington county
shortly before 1790. (See census record.)
He married and had issue : Samuel, John,
Archibald, of whom further.

(VII) Archibald, son of Samuel Woodward,
was born April 16, 1769, died February 5,
1841. He settled in Hebron, New York, pre-
vious to 1790. He married Anna, daughter
of Peter Scott, and had issue: Squire, died
aged five; Daniel, of whom further; Benja-
min: Sally, born June 10, 1797; Polly, August
14, 1799; John; Anne; Phoebe; Archibald;
William ; Samuel.

(\'III) Daniel, son of Archibald and Anna
(Scott) Woodward, was born at North He-
bron, New York, January, 1792, died May,
1877. He was a prominent farmer of North
Hebron, and a leading member of the Baptist
church. He married, January, 1813, Anna
Case, born August 8, 1795, died May, 1877.
She was a daughter of Abram Case, of He-
bron, New York, and granddaughter of Phillip
Case and Othneil Preston, both in tlie revo-
lutionary service. Children: i. Lucina, born
1814, died May 6, 1900; married Daniel Bray-
mer. 2. Abraham, married Hercelora Thomp-
son ; child, Hercelora. 3. Archibald, born
1818, died May 10, 1885, married Mary Her-
ron ; children : Fannie and Archibald. 4. Wil-
liam, born 1820, died in Aliens Grove, Wis-
consin, December 23, 1883, married Achsa
Nelson ; children : William, Harriet and Al-
mond and one son who died in childhood. 5.
Lucinda, born September 24, 1824, married,
March i, 1849, Jesse Sherman; children:
Sterling, Daniel, Cora, William, Carrie and
Emma. 6. Mary, born March 21, 1827, mar-
ried Edwin Temple ; children : Charlotte, Or-
ley, Ralph. 7. Martha, born December i,
1831,^ married, March i, 1852, John Qua;
children : Andrew, Mary, Anna and Adelaide,
8. Daniel (2), of whom further. 9. Anna,
born October 4, 1830, married, January 31,
1850, Joseph Ely: children: John D., Helen
and Annita. 10. Phebe, January 19. 1837,
married, March 25. 1856, James E. Pratt;
child, Carrie. 11. Ely, died young.

(IX) Daniel (2), son of Daniel (r) and
Anna (Case) Woodard, was bom in North
Hebron, New York, August 31, 1822, died
June 13, 1887. He married, January 7, 1845,
Miriam McNitt, born March 2, T826, died
October 20, 1902, daughter of James and
Lydia (Martin) McNitt. James McNitt was
born January 17, 1782, died January 22, 1861.
He was a son of Daniel McNitt, born 1750,
died November 21, 1829, at Salem, New York,
a sergeant in a Salem company in tlie revolu-
tion, and a grandson of Captain .Alexander

HUDSOX AND MOHAWK WALLFA'S

McXitt. Alexander McNitt. born in Scot-
land in 1720, died November 29, 1807. On
comintf to America he settled first at Poiigh-
keepsie, New York, later removed to Salem,
Washington county, New York. He served in
the revolution as captain of militia and saw
service in the camjiaign against Burgoyne.
Lydia (Martin) McXitt, born in 1792, died
May 17, 1846, was a daughter of Moses Mar-
tin, born 1744 (adjutant in Colonel Williams'
regiment from Washington county), and
Lydia (Moore) Martin, and granddaughter
of Adam and Sarah (Xewell) Martin, and
great-granddaughter of John Xewell. Chil-
dren of Daniel and Miriam (McXitt) Wood-
ard : I. Lydia, born January 30. 1846; mar-
ried William Shaw, died April 18, 1900 ; chil-
dren : Carrie, Emma, John and Woodard. 2.
Emma, born December 29, 1847 ; married Cap-
tain Joseph Hays ; children : iliriam, Roscoe,
Horton, Georgia, died unmarried, and Mary.
3. James McXitt. born September 8, 1849;
married (first) Georgia Bockes : children:
Bertie and Ross: (second) Elizabeth Stetson;
child, ]\Iarion. 4. Francis, born December 22,
1 85 1, unmarried. 5. Daniel D., born Janu-
ary 7, 1854; married, January 29, 1879, Eliza-
beth Westcott : children : Ethel, ^born 1882 ;
Allan, born 1885. Madeline, born 1890. 6.
Martin, born January 19. 1856. died April 5,

1899 ; married : children : Frankie and

Mabel. 7. Eli, born January 13, 1857 ; mar-
ried Nettie Bush ; children : Irene, died in
childhood, and Henry. 8. Archibald, born Oc-
tober 27, 1859, died in childhood. 9. Marian,
born May 10, 1863; married S. F. Farrar. re-
moved to Braymer. Missouri. 10. Lucina,
b' "n .August 9, 1867: married Silas E. Everts.

(IX) Lucina. daughter of Daniel and Anna
(Case) Woodard. was born in Hebron. Wash-
ington county. New York, July 17, 1814. died
May 6, 1900. She married Daniel Braymer
("see Braymer HI), son of Jacob and Anna
(Blakslee) Braymer. Children: Jenette, Ja-
cob. Alfred, Daniel, Rosalinda, George. Win-
field.

(X) Rosalinda, daughter of Daniel and Lu-
cina (Woodard) Braymer, was born June 3,
1846. She married, Afarch 12, 1868, Richard
Durham, son of Durfee and Anna (Hall)
Durham, born May 6, 1838, at Easton. Wash-
ington county. Xew York. He died December
9, 1901 (see Durham I\').

The Braymer familv of
BRAYMER Granville, Xew York, de-
scend from German ances-
tors. The first of the line here under con-
sideration of whom we have information was
David Braymer, born in Baden, Germany,

March 23, 1733. He was pressed into the
British army while pursuing studies at a med-
ical college in England, given the rank of sur-
geon, came to America in the British army in
1754, served throughout the French and In-
dian war, and was discharged. He returned
to Germany, married, and again returned to.
America, settling in Xova Scotia, where he
engaged in the tanning trade. He left Xova
Scotia in the year 1776, going to Xew York
City, where he followed the trade of tanner
and furrier until 1781, when he moved to-
the town of Hebron, Washington county, Xew
York, engaging in the trade of tanner. A
child named George was born to David Bray-
mer by his first wife in 1765, but beyond this
there is no knowledge concerning his first
marriage. He married (second) Phryria
, of German descent. Children : An-
drew, of whom there is no information ; Wil-
liam, went to Erie county, Pennsylvania ; Ja-
cob, see forward; John, died August 27, 1817,.
aged eighteen years; David, went to Craw-
ford county, Pennsylvania. Both David Bray-
mer and his second wife are buried in the
Braymer burying ground in the town of He-
bron, Washington county, Xew York. He
died February 23, 1814, aged eighty years;
she died January 28, 1825, aged eighty-one
years.

(II) Jacob, son of David Braymer, was
born Februarj' 8, 1779. He located in the
town of Hebron, Washington county, Xew
York, followed the trade of tanner in addition
to farming, made shoes, and lived on the same
farm until his death. Some traces of the old
vats can be seen there today. As he pros-
leered, he remodeled the buildings and built
the brick house which still stands there. He-
was married, January 7, 1802, at the old Blaks-
lee homestead in Granville, Washington
county. New York, by Phineas Hitchcock,,
Esq., to Anna Blakslee, born 1782. died Jan-
uary 25, 1857. He died March 2, 1855. Chil-
dren: I. Sarah, born December 25, 1802,
died February 10, 1881 ; married, September
12, 1824, Stephen McFadden, born in Sligo,.
province of Connaught, Ireland, September 22,
1795, died May 8, 1870; children, born in
Waterford, New York: i. Michael, born Au-
gust 30, 1825. died April 17. 1904. married,
December 23, 1858. Margaret A. McClellan,
born April 11, 1833; children: (a) Stephen
John, born September 21, 1859, married
(first) December i, 1881, Mary Luella Tem-
ple, no children; she died August 17, 1894;
married (second) October 30, 1897, Harriet
Crosier, born February 20, 1870; children:
Jessie, born May 24, 1898, and Elsie Marga-
ret. June 13. 1900: (b) Sarah Margaret, born-

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December 19, i860, married (first) Bert
Holmes, no children; married (second)
George Ely, no children; (c) James Henry,
born April 18, 1862, married (first) February
17. 1890, Elizabeth A. Kieffe. born June 25,
1864, died August 14, 1908, married (second)
September 7, 1908, Mrs. Chloe B. Lee, born
.'September 22, 1867; children by first wife:
Herman C. born January 27, 1892; Marion
H., May 31, 1898; John Joseph, March 5,
1902; Elizabeth Ann. February 21, 1908: no
'Children by second wife; (d) Cornelius, born
January 28, 1864, married Mary Beebe, no
-children; (e) Mary Jane, born October 7,
1866, married Will O. Jones, no children; (f)
infant son, born October 10, 1865 ; (g) Ja-
son, born August 31, 1869, died December 13,
1869; (h) Emma C, born August 7, 1871,
married Eugene Barden ; child, Azelda, born
August 3, 1901. ii. Henry McFadden, born
December 2, 1826, died January 11, 1905;
married (first), December 25, 1850, Calista
Rogers, born August 9, 1830, died February
25, 1872; married (second) Mrs. Ellen Paul,
Ijorn April 3, 1843, was thrown out of a sleigh
and killed January 14, 1900 ; children of first
wife: (a) Charles Edward, born October 9,
185 1, married, November 25, 1875, Lenora
Clough, born May 24, 1853, no children; (b)
]\Iary Esther, born July 16, 1853, died July 5,
1863; (c) Sarah Emily, born April 18, 1857,
died July 4, 1863; both buried in one coffin;
(d) Alice Emeroy, born January 29, 1859,
married Charles Porter; (e) Benjamin Rog-
ers, born May 17, 1862, died November 26,
1885, at Greenburg, Kansas; (f) Albert
Henry, born April 15, 1867; (g) Florence,
born January 9, 1872, married Frank Brom-
ley, no children, iii. Edward McFadden, born
August 18, 1828, died May 2, 1896, at Patoka,
Illinois; married, June 13, 1865, Bridget Ken-
nedy, ten children, iv. Jacob McFadden, born
May 17, 1830, died November 18, 1903; mar-
ried, September 27, 1863, Charlotte C. Whe-
don, born April 19, 1842; children: (a) infant
daughter, born April 19, 1866, died same day;
(b) Fay, born April 9, 1870, married Grace
G. Garfield at Waltham, Massachusetts ; child,
Athena, born May i, 1900; (c) Mary Whe-
don, born August 9, 1874, married, March 14,
1900, Eugene Hanscom ; he died at Pcnsacola,
Florida, August 26, 1905, no children. 2. Dan-
iel, see forward. 3. Henry, born January 11,
1809, died August 9, 1874; married Eliza
Montgomery, born January 13, 1816, died No-
vember 7, 1893; children: i. Sarah E., born
July 13, 1835, died August 16, 1835; ii. James
F., born April 29, 1837, married, December
19, i860, Susan W'elch, born June 8, 1841 ;
children: (a) I^rank II.. horn Sejitember 22,

1861, married, June 5, 1889, Jennie A. Goss,
of North Granville, Washington county. New
York ; children : Clarence J., born July 5. 1893,
and Marion B., September 24, 1898; (b) Jen-
nie E., born February i, 1867, married, De-
cember 25, 1883, Henry C. Hitt, born at Ru-
pert, Bennington county, Vermont ; children :
Lulu E., born April 26, 1886, and James H.,
August 24, 1891 ; iii. Ann, born May 19, 1839,
married (first) Merritt Phelps, of East Ru-
pert : child : Albert, born December 25,

1862, married Nettie Garfield, children: Guy

and Roy; Ann married (second) Stur-

devant : no children. 4. Frederick Augustus,

born April 2, 1814; married (first) —

Flowers; no children; married (second) Cor-
delia Blakslee, who died October 25, 1846.
aged eighteen years ; child, Cornelia ; married
(third) February 11, 1847, Louisa A. Wait,
born in 1818, died February 10, 1891 : chil-
dren : (a) Frederick Augustus, born February
16, 1848, married; (b) Marron Wait, born
November 18, 1850, died September 10, 1S68;
(c) Albert Ernest, born February 16, 1852,
married Crosby.

(HI) Daniel, son of Jacob Braymer, was
born at Hebron, Washington county. New
York, October 26, 1806, died May 20, 1890.
He passed his early life on his father's farm
and during that time received his education at
the district schools. He was a farmer all his
life, owning about nine hundred acres of land
in one body. He married, January 2, 1834,
Lucina Woodard, born July 17, 18 14, died
May 6, 1900. Children: i. Jennette, born
September 17, 1834, died December 19, 1857.
2. Jacob, born February 6, 1836, died July 17,
1903; married. December i, 1857, Charlotte
Dibble, born August 24, 1835, died October
I, 1892: children: i. Jennette, born November
9, 1858, died February 16, 1888; married Dan-
iel Sherman, born March 11, 1854, died

, children: (a) Milton J., born July

6, 1880, married Rose Gannon Vans Worth,
.April 20, 1908; (b) Stanley B., born Octo-
ber II. 1881, married Adelaide ;

child, .Stanley Braymer Sherman, Jr., born
1909. ii. Mary, born October i, i860, mar-
ried, June 3, 1892, Daniel Sherman, who mar-
ried (first) her sister Jennette; child, Fred,
born June 24, 1893. iii. Eli Daniel, born Feb-
ruary 8, 1874, married. June 12, 1894, Nettie
Rafter, born March 11, 1876; children: Er-
nest, born May 29, 1895, and Gladys Mae, Au-
gust 15, 1907. iv. Richard Jacob, born January
15, 1879. 3. Alfred, born February 25, 1837,
married, November 5, 1859, Antoinette Nel-
.son ; children : i. Anna Lenora, born June 28,
1861, married. March 21, 1889. Frank Peets,
born June 12, 1859; child, Howard: ii. .Albert,

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born September 5, 1863, married Mae Diirfee ;
iii. Charles, born February 16, 1867; iv. Har-
lev. born October 31, 1869: married, Septem-
ber 2. 1891, Euphemia Temple, born February
23. 1872; children: (a) Albert, born August
II, 1892; (b) Mary Louisa. April 23, 1894:
(c) Alfred, June 28. 1896; (d) Doris Euphe-
mia. October 7, 1897; v. Daniel, born January
II. 1873, married, November 21, 1894, Myrtle
Lincoln, born August 20, 1873; children: (a)
^lary Antoinette, born November 4, 1895 ;
(b) Anna Lenora, September 16, 1897: (c)
Charles Howard, March 11, 1900; (d) Law-
rence Daniel, May 8, 1902: (e) Iren Myrtle,
September 4. 1904: (f) Ray Bernice, April
19. 1907. 4. Daniel, born March 17. 1844.
in Hebron, New York : he went to Kansas
when about twenty-two years of age and en-
gaged in the manufacturing of brick for one
year : he then went to Caldwell county, Mis-
souri, about fifty miles from Kansas City,
and purchased three hundred and twenty
acres of land and engaged in farming and
cattle raising; he continued jjurchasing land
until he owned sixteen hundred acres in one
body. He started a town on the Chicago. Mil-
waukee & St. Paul railroad, between Kansas
City and Chicago, which bears his name, and
which now has a population of two thousand.
He was president of the Braymer Bank for
a number of years, and holds a large amount
of interest in the town at present. He was
interested in the cattle-ranch business with his
brother-in-law, Richard Durham, for ten
years, when they sold out and Daniel Braymer
engaged in the sheep ranch business in Idaho,
which he sold out, and now owns about twenty
thousand acres of land in different states in
the L'nion. He is a iNIethodist in religion, a
Republican in politics, a IMason of the thirty-
second degree, a man respected and liked by
all that know him. He married, December 30,
1869. Nancy Ann Woodard, born in Hebron,
New York, December 5, 1840. Children: i.
George \'ilroy, born January 27. 1871, mar-
ried (first) December 21, 1892, Stella Electa
Feese, born January 31. 1872, died February
7, 1897: child, Pauline, born November 4,
1894: married (second) October 12, 1898,
Alice Gallagher Morris, born June 11, 1873;
children: (a) Daniel Richard, born July 6.
1899; (b) George X'ilroy. Jr.. December 15,
1906: (c) Mildred, December 20, 1907; ii.
Stella, born December 8, 1872 ; iii. Frank
Woodard, born June 4, 1875, <^l'ed January 16,
1890; iv. -Vnna Lucina, born November 30,
1879, married, December 17, 1905, Cardinal
Boone W'oolsey. M. D.. born January 4, 1881 ;
no children. 5. Rosalinda, born June 3, 1846,
in Hebron, New York, married, March 12,

1868, Richard Durham, born May 6, 1838,
died December 9. 1901 (see Durham) ; no
children. 6. George Winfield. see forward.

(I\') George Winfield, son of Daniel Bray-
mer, was born in Hebron, New York. March
13. 1861. He was educated in the public
schools of his town, completing his studies at
the high school at West Pawlet. \ermont.
He began his business career early, carrying
on the home farm from the age of seventeen.
In 1892-93 he added to this two other farms
in the town of Granville, besides being owner
of four hundred acres of land in Missouri,
which he purchased later. At the settlement
of his father's estate he purchased the home-
stead farm on which he was born. He con-
ducts his business operations with judgment,
and is one of the prosperous and influential
men of the town. He is a member of the Bap-
tist church, and a Republican in politics. Mr.
Braymer is a member of Granville Lodge, No.
55. Free and Accepted Masons, and Gran-
ville Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. He mar-
ried, February 13. 1883. Jennie Cordelia
Smith, born in Hebron, February 29, 1864.
daughter of Harvey and Olivia Cordelia
(White) Smith. Children: i. Daniel Har-
vey, born November 29. 1883. married. De-
cember 26, 1908, Elizabfeth Case Temple,
daughter of Abraham Temple, born May 10,
1885: child, Daniel Temple, horn October 31,
1910: 2. Clara Vivian, born March 21, 1885.

3. Lucina Woodard, born December 2, 1889.

4. George Winfield, Jr.. born March 12, 1896.

The Durham ancestors came
DURHAM from England to America.

Uzziel Durham, the first mem-
ber of the family of whom we have informa-
tion, died March 18, 1828, aged eighty-eight
years His wife, Mary Durham, died April
16, 1806. Among their children was a son
Joseph, see forward.

(II) Joseph, son of Uzziel and Mary Dur-
ham, was born May 23, 1770, died April 6,
1850. He married Mary Durfee. born July 2,
1780, died June 6, 1858. Children: Ann,
born March 14, 1800: Stephen, .-Xugust 8,
1801 : Benjamin, February 25, 1803; Julia,
April 8, 1807 ; Durfee, see forward ; Anson,
March 24. 1820.

(III) Durfee, son of Joseph and Mary
(Durfee) Durham, was born February 28,
1810, in Easton, Washington county, New
York, died April 24, 1889. He married, Jan-
uary 30. 1837, Anna .\nn Hall, born in Eas-
ton, New York, died September 14, 1900.
Children, the first eight born in Easton and the
two youngest in Hebron : Richard, May 6,
1838: Joseph, December 8, 1839; Dialoan, Oc-

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HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALL.EYS

tober 14, 1841 ; Stephen, April 20, 1843 ; Mary,
May 31. 1845; Albert L., November i, 1847;
Anna Eliza, December 11, 1849; Lois Amelia,
March 14, 1852; Emily, June 24, 1854;
George. November 24, 1856.

Rufus Hall, grandfather of Anna Ann
(Hall) Durham, was born in Exeter, Rhode
Island, June 19, 1747, son of Samuel and
Dinah Hall, who were members of the So-
ciety of Friends. He appeared in the public
ministry' in the twenty-sixth year of his age ;
in 1775 he removed to Easton, New York, and
in 1804 removed to Northampton, where he
died May 26, 1818, aged seventy years. He
married Anna Hoxie, and they were the par-
ents of Richard Hall, father of Anna Ann
(Hall) Durham. Richard Hall was born No-
vember 19, 1783 : married (first) Europa
■ — , born October 22, 1788; married (sec-
ond) Rebecca ; children of first wife:

Hiram, born May 6, 181 1; Susanna, Janu-
ary I, 1813; Anna Ann, April 2, i8i5;/Eme-
line. June 27, 1817; Lois, March 14, 1819;
children of second wife: Eunice, born July 19,
1825 ; Isaac, July 5, 1827 ; Mary Antoinette,
March 5, 1831 ; Rufus, August 24, 1832.

(IV) Richard, son of Durfee and Anna
Ann (Hall) Durham, was born May 6. 1838,
at Easton, Washington county. New York,
died December 9, 1901. He enlisted in Com-
pany A, One Hundred and Twenty-third Reg-
iment, New York State Volunteers, from
Greenwich and Easton. This regiment was
enlisted in Washington county, New York,
in August, 1862, mustered into the United
States service. September 4, 1862, joined the
Army of the Potomac. It was engaged in
the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
in May and July, 1863: was transferred to
the Army of the Cumberland, was engaged in
the campaign of the Carolinas, and mustered
out at Washington, D. C, at tlic close of the
war, June 8, 1865. Its first camping ground
was Capitol Hill, Washington, where it re-
mained until .September 17, drilling, equipping
and performing camp guard duty : it next
went to Arlington Heights, where it drilled
until September 29. and from there pitched
camp in Pleasant Valley. Here the regiment
was assigned to the Second Brigade (Briga-
dier-General Thomas C. Kane), First Divi-
sion (Brigadier-General A. S. Williams),
Twelfth Corps (Major-General H. W. Slo-
cum). The regiment went into camp in Lou-
don Valley during the months of November
and December, 1862, and was thoroughly
drilled : on January 24. 1863, the regiment
went into camp at Stafiford Court House to
remain fur the winter. On the morning of
April 27, 1863, orders came to ])ack up and

move on the thirtieth; it struck the Freder-
icksburg plank road, and here was ordered to
silence a battery worked by rebel cavalrymen,
which they did — this was the first time the
boys had been under fire. It was the begin-
ning of the Chancellorsville battle. On May
3, 1863, the battle commenced and raged with
great fury for more than four long hours, and
finally ended in repulse (although the boys
fought like Spartans) and were ordered back
behind their breastworks, where many of
their brave comrades lay dead and many were
wounded : this ended the battle, with one hun-
dred and thirty-five killed, wounded and miss-
ing.

The following is an account of the battle
of Gettysburg: July i, 1863, the regiment
struck the road leading to Gettysburg; news
came from the front that our forces were en-
gaging the rebels near Gettysburg, near Span-
gle Springs ; they threw up breastworks, mak-
ing works that would stand a shell ; on July
3, at I o'clock p. m.. the enemy opened fire
with one hundred and fifty guns on the center
and left, the position of General Hancock's
corps ; the Union batteries, equal in number
and calibre, replied promptly, and for the fol-
lowing two hours the earth shook and trem-
bled under the feet of the two armies with the
terrible concussion ; the air was filled with iron
missiles ; forest trees were riven and torn and
splintered as if struck by lightning; shells
fell thick and fast around the regiment, three
hundred pieces of artillery were in action, and
such a terrific roar was never heard before
and probably never will be heard again. .'\n-
other sharp fight occurred later in the after-
ncxjn, driving the rebels back with great
slaughter; this ended the terrible Gettysburg
battles. On July 4th large details were made
to bury the dead, and this duty occupied the
entire day. The corps to which the regiment
belonged buried that day fifteen hundred dead
rebels ; the dead lay in every imaginable shape.
On Cemetery Hill and in the National Ceme-
tery now sleep the brave boys who fell at Get-
tysburg; here repose the precious oft'erings
laid upon the altar of the country by the loyal
states ; there they lie, those of the rank and
file, "Unknown" ! "Unknown" ! the only epi-
taph of hundreds. Eight hundred and sixty-
seven dead .sons was the sacrifice which New
York gave at this battle ; the One Hundred
and Twenty-third Regiment lost twelve in
killed and wounded. New York furnished
four hundred and forty-eight thousand eight
hundred and fifty men to repress the rebellion ;
ninety-two separate commands were engaged
in this battle.

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in the battle of Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863 ;
battle of Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. He was
also engaged under General Sherman in Geor-
gia as follows : Battle of Resaca, Georgia, May
15, 1864, with eight men killed and wounded;
battle of Cassvillc, May 19. 1864, the regi-
ment gaining this battle without loss of life
and took possession of Cassville, the enemy
falling back : battle of Dallas, or New Hope
Church, May 25, 1864, killed and wounded in
this division nine hundred and fifty men ; bat-
tle of Gulp's Farm, June 22, 1864, in this fight
the regiment losing forty-eight men killed and
wounded and missing, while only eighty-three
men were lost in the entire brigade ; after the
battle the boys buried their comrades, burying
them in their army blue where they fell fight-
ing the foe. The boys were thoroughly ex-
hausted by the incessant marching, exposure
and privation of a fifty-nine days campaign.
Corporal Richard Durham was taken prisoner
at the latter-named battle, was confined in An-
dersonville prison, and was prisoner of war
until close of hostilities, June 8, 1865. He made
several attempts to escape, but was each time
recaptured ; on his way to prison he jumped
from a moving train, shots were fired after
him, missing their mark ; he ran to the woods,
bloodhounds were put on his track, which
chased him up a tree, and at the point of
bayonets he surrendered ; he escaped again,
living on berries and persimmons for four
days, at the expiration of which time nature
gave out ; he then went to a southern home
for food and gave himself up. Another time
he managed to secure a rebel suit, and went
into their camp, but when roll call came was
unable to give a rebel name and was arrested
for a spy and sentenced to be shot, when a
hasty call came for more men, and for some
reason, which he never learned, his life was
spared and he was made a prisoner again. He
made two other unsuccessful attempts, after
which he concluded it was impossible to reach
the L^nion army.

Andersonville Prison, Georgia, was one of
the worst during the civil war. A brute
named W'irz. the keeper, will go down in his-
tory for his inhumanity to the men ; he placed
the slop houses over the little stream of water
running through the stockade, polluting the
water used for all purposes. While Corpo-
ral Durham was confined there, after a hard
shower one night, a pure flow of water burst
forth from a rise of ground within the stock-
ade : the prisoners named it "the Providential
Spring." and spoke of it with great reverence.
Who will say this was not the work of a kind
heavenly Father to place pure water within
reach of the famishing prisoners, making it

impossible for the cruel Wirz to pollute; it
was still flowing at the close of the war. In
this prison pen many of our noble boys were
laid to rest through exposure, starvation and
the dread disease, scurvy, with the added bru-
talities of Captain Wirz. the Swiss keeper,
who showed a fiendish delight in adding to
the tortures of those committed to his care,
and who richly merited being tried and sen-
tenced to the hanging which he suflfered. No-
vember 10, 1865. He was the only person ex-
ecuted for the part he took in the war.

At the close of the war, Corporal Richard
Durham returned to his father's home in
North Hebron, Washington county. New
York, and remained there until March 12,
1868, the date of his marriage to Rosalinda,
daughter of Daniel and Lucina (Woodard)
Braymer. The following eleven years he en-
gaged in farming in Hebron, New York, then
removed to Salem, Washington county, where
he engaged in the feed business for three
years. He then went west and entered into
partnership with Daniel Braymer, his brother-
in-law, in the ranch and cattle business in New
Mexico, continuing for ten years. He then
returned to Hebron, New York, and engaged
in the general grocery business in Granville,
continuing for seven years. He was a man
o'f sterling worth, honorable and upright in
all his dealings, charitable and kind hearted,
giving liberally to all good works. He was a
member of the First Baptist Church of Gran-
ville, and was a Republican in politics. He
served as captain on the round-ups in New
Mexico, and as assessor and supervi.sor for
two terms in the town of Hebron. He was
a member of the Free and Accepted Masons.
The widow of Corporal Durham resides in
Granville.

The name of Eldredge. or,
ELDREDGE as it was originally written,

Eldred, is of Saxon origin.
The name dates to the very earliest Saxon
days in England. John Eldred, of Great Sax-
ham, in Suffolk, England, was born in 1552
and died in 1632. He was one of the found-
ers of Virginia, and from 1609 to 1624 was
a member of his Majesty's Council for the
Virginia Company of London. The brass tab-
let to "John Eldred, the Navigator," at Great
Saxham, England, has the arms of the East
India Merchants, the Levant or Turkey Mer-
chants, and the Russia Merchants Companies.
He left four sons and two daughters. The
Pilgrims who came to America in the "May-
flower" in 1620 obtained a patent from the
London Company, and through contrary winds
were landed at Cape Cod instead of in Mr-

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HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

ginia, as tliey intended. As John Eldred was
for fifteen years a director of the Virginia
Company of London, it is likely that the El-
dreds who appeared in New England between
the years 1635 and 1645 were in some way
connected with him. The name was early
spelled Eldred, Eldredg and Eldridge, and
later Eldredge, some branches using Eldridge.

(I) The family appeared in the Mohawk
Valley about the years 1780- 1790, the first set-
tler being Barnabas Eldredge, who settled in
Schoharie county. He reached his destina-
tion with a cash capital of ten dollars, en-
gaged in farming and other business enter-
prises, and at his death possessed an estate
of one thousand acres in Schoharie county,
besides property in Ohio. He was the lead-
ing financier of his town and had the privi-
lege granted him of issuing his own script or
money. He married Doshia Wadsworth, and
had Nancey, Robert, David, Adna, Franklin,
Seth, Charles, Leray, Sally and Clinton. Do-
shia died ]\Iay 30, 1831. Barnabas then mar-
ried Sarah Peck, who died April 25, 1873.

(H) Clinton, son of Barnabas Eldredge,
was born in Schoharie county. New York, in
1812, died 1897. He was a prosperous farmer
of the county, his farm lying in the town of
Sharon. He married Catherine, born August,
1812, died May, 1900, daughter of Andrew
Moyer. Children, all born in Schoharie
county: i. Seward, married Eliza Best; chil-
dren : i. Orin, married Estella Ward, and had
Seward and Joseph, ii. Lena, married Duane
Snyder, resides at Sharon Springs, and has a
large family. 2. Wadsworth. married Cath-
erine Eckler ; children : Myron, Beardsley,
Ella and Bertha. 3. Sarah, married Thomas
S. Powell: children: J. Sands, Thomas, Anna
and Bessie. 4. James P., married Louise Al-
ger, and had a large family. 5. Odillon B.,
married Mary Ough ; children: Ford, Harry
and Ethal. 6. Henry, died in infancy. 7.
Harry Moyer, of further mention. 8. An-
drew, died at the age of thirty-six years. 9.
Grace G., married Henry Skinner, and has
Bertha.

(HI) Henry Moyer. son of Clinton and
Catherine ( Moyer ) Eldredge, was born in
Leesville, Schoharie county. New York,
March 27, 185 1. He was educated in the pub-
lic schools and under private instruction. He
decided upon a profession, and choosing law,
entered the law office of Alonzo B. Coons, at
Sharon Springs. April, 1876, where he made
thorough preparation. He taught in the pub-
lic schools of Montgomery county during his
years of legal preparation, and in 1877 was
elected justice of the peace of the town of
Sharon. He was admitted to the bar Septem-

ber 5, 1879. He practiced for one year in
Sharon Springs, then in March, 1880, removed
to Fort Plain, Montgomery county. New
York, where he has passed thirty busy, event-
ful years in the practice of his profession, in
official life and as general man of business.
For several years he was corporation attorney
for the villages of Williston and Fort Plain,
and successfully defended every case brought
against them both in the lower court and on
appeal to the appellate division. Two of these
suits against the village of Fort Plain were
for large amounts. They were decided in
favor of the village, but appeals were taken.
Mr. Eldredge argued the cases before the ap-
pellate division of the Supreme Court, which
sustained the decision of the lower court.
Numberless instances could be cited of im-
portant cases in which he has figured as the
successful chief or assistant counsel. He is
a capable, skillful lawyer, a trusted and effi-
cient public official, and in business most ener-
getic and successful. His generosity is pro-
verbial and unostentatious. For eight years
he was clerk of the board of supervisors of
Montgomery county, for sixteen years justice
of the peace ; director of the Farmers and Me-
chanics Bank : director of the Empire State
Metal Wheel Company ; treasurer of the
school board, and interested in other activi-
ties of his village and county. In 1906 he was
the candidate of his party for county judge,
but failed of an election. He is a Methodist
in religious faith. He is a member of Fort
Plain Lodge, No. 433, Free and .'Xccepted Ma-
sons, and of the Knights of Pythias. In poli-
tics he is a Democrat. He married, Septem-
ber 29. 1880, Ida C. Dunkle, daughter of
Aaron and Irena (Hess) Dunkle, whose chil-
dren are: i. Mary, married George W. Spra-
ker. 2. Adam, married Elizabeth Eldredge.
3. Saline, married George H. Eldredge. 4.
Ida C, married Henry M. Eldredge. 5. Mar-
garet, married Edward Copley. 6. Lewis A.,
married Florence Giesler.

The Cottrells of Greenwich,
COTTRELL Washington county, New

York, descend from Nicho-
las Cottrell, of Westerly, Rhode Island, wdio
was an inhabitant there in 1638. and in 1670 a
deputy. There is no record of his birth, death
or marriage, but there are records of four chil-
dren— Nicholas (2), Gershom, John and Ja-
besh. Nicholas (2) died 1716; was constable
i688, deputy 1696; admitted to Stonington
church, July 24. 1709. In 171 1 was concerned
with thirty-three others in the purchase of
fifty-three hundred acres of vacant land in
Narragansett. I le married Dorothy, died

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1717

1747, daughter of James and Hannah (Good-
enow) Pendelton, and had five children, in-
cluding sons Nicholas (2), Nathaniel and
Samuel. Gershom, the second son of Nicho-
las (2), died 171 1. He was of Westerly and
Kingston. Rhode Island. He married Bethea
. died 171 1. They had ten children, in-
cluding sons Gershom and Stephen. John,
the third son, died 1721 ; was of Kingston.
Rhode Lsland; he married Elizabeth, and had
four children, including a son Samuel, born
1687. Jabesh. the fourth son, was of Pea-
body, Rhode Island; he married Ann, daugh-
ter of John Peabody ; no issue recorded.

It is" from this family that Nathan Cottrell,
the Washington county pioneer, came. There
is an interval between the second and the sixth
generations that cannot be supplied, but the
proofs are strong as to his descent. His mar-
riage to Mary TefTt, a daughter or relative of
Judge Nathan Tefift, who came from the
same state, Rhode Island, shows family ac-
quaintance in their New England home.

< \T ) Nathan Cottrell was born in West-
erly or Kingston, Rhode Island, April 11,
1755, died August 8. 1842. He settled in
Washington county, New York, prior to 1786.
He was a prosperous farmer for his day, and
was one of the pioneers who faced the dan-
gers and privations attending the early settle-
ment of that wild and heavily timbered region.
He married, January 20. 1786, in Washington
county, Mary Teflft, born May 2, 1758, died
July I, 1837. Children: i. John, born De-
cember 8, 1786, died April 5. 1791. 2.
Thomas, born September 20, 1788, died April
16, 1864: was justice of the peace in 1832;
married Mary Crandall. 3. Adam, born May
14. 1790, died October 2, 1791. 4. John, of
whom further. 5. Adam, born July 26, 1793,
died August 22, 1796. 6. Perlina. 7. Mary,
born August 2, 1796, died October i, 1797. 8.
Adam, born April 30. 1798, died November
25. 1877. 9. Mary, born October 28, 1800,
died June 5. 1876.

(\'II) John, son of Nathan and Mary
(Tefift) Cottrell, was horn November 7,
1791, died May 19, 1851, in Washington
county. New York. He grew up a farmer
and always followed that occupation. He was
a member of the Baptist church. He mar-
ried. June 16, 1816, Betsey Dwelle, born April
27, 1798, daughter of Abner and Miriam
(Martin) Dwelle. Children: i. James Har-
vey, born September 23, 1817, died July 12,
1843. 2. Horace, born November 27, 1820,
died August 15. 1867. 3. John Horton, of
whom further. 4. Charles Henry, born Sep-
tember 21. 1828. died August 4, 1873; mar-
ried (first). December 28, 1854,

Wright, (second) Helen Burdick. 5. Mary
Elizabeth, born March 25, 1835. died May 3,
1861 ; married. February 22, 1858, William
Mowry.

(VHI) John Horton, son of John and Bet-
sey (Dweile) Cottrell, was born January 6,
1823, on the homestead farm in Washington
county, and in the house erected by his father
in 18 1 6. He was reared a farmer, and spent
a life devoted to agricultural and kindred pur-
suits. He married, T'ebruary 22, 1870, Mar-
tha L., daughter of Josephus and Lucy (Pa-
len) Martin. Children: i. Mary, married
Frank L. Fisher. 2. Lucy Martin, married
Dr. Clayton E. Shaw ; child, Clayton E. 3.
Horace, of whom further.

(IX) Horace, son of John Horton and Mar-
tha L. Cottrell, was born on the old home-
stead in Greenwich. New York, June 3, 1877.
He was educated in the public schools, pre-
pared for and later entered Williams College,
where he was graduated in the class of 1899.
He began his business career in a bank at
Hoosick Falls, New York, later returned to
Greenwich, where he became cashier of the
First National Bank, being at the time of his
appointment the youngest cashier in the state.
He is also a director of the bank. He is a
member of the Bottskill Baptist church of
Greenwich, and a supporter of the Repub-
lican party. He married, September 20. 1899,
Jane Elizabeth Warren, born August 18, 1877,
daughter of William Russell anci Jane Eliza-
beth (Smith) Warren. Child: Gundrieda,
born (Dctober 11, 1900.

(The Warren Line).
Sellick Warren, son of James, was born in
Pittstown, Rensselaer county, New York.
After his marriage he removed to Mentor,
Ohio, where he purchased a farm on which
he resided until his death. The adjoining
farm was that of the Garfield, whose son
James A. was afterward president of the
United States. He married Mary V^an Am-
berg Yates, daughter of "Squire" Yates, of
Pittstown. Children: i. Frances Mary, mar-
ried John T. Tweddle. 2. Jane, married Ad-
dison Goodell ; children : Frances, married
William Strong ; Warren, married Lucy
Wendland, and had Helen E., Addison. War-
ren S. and Philips; Nathan Phillips, married
Eleanor Gray, and had Martha Jane and
Frances Warren ; Bertha, married Dr. Mor-
timer Keegan, and had Elizabeth Jane. 3.
Sellick, married Emily Huestis ; children :
Huestis S., married Margaret, and had Imo-
gene and Sellick; Marshall, married Harriet
Lakin, and had Mary Emily and Frances;
I'Vancis Perry, married Nellie Newman, and

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HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

has a son Perry. 4. William Russell, of whom
further.

William Russell, son of Sellick and Mary
Van Amberg (Yates) Warren, was born in
Mentor, Ohio, about 1843, died May 31, 1907.
He was educated in the town of his birth, and
for many years resided in Mulvane, Kansas,
where he owned a private bank. He mar-
ried, in 1869, Jane Elizabeth Smith, born
1850, died 1890, daughter of James and
Hulda (Waddell) Smith. Children: i. Rich-
ard, born February 18, 1872, married Laura
Yarnell; children: Richard and Russell. 2.
John Tweddle, born December 26, 1875, mar-
ried Agnes Crawford, and has a son Russell.

3. Jane Elizabeth, married Horace Cottrell.

4. Helen, born January 11, 1883, married Jud-
son Watts, and has children Judson and Perry.

(The Tefft Line).

(I) John Tefft, the immigrant ancestor, set-
tled in Portsmouth, King's Town, Rhode
Island, where he became a freeman in 1655.
In 1648 William Tefft, of Boston, died, and
in his will gave to the eldest child of his
brother Tefft "least steer Calf." William may
have been a brother of John. John Tefft is
next mentioned in 1662, November 22, when
he and his wife Mary sold seven acres of
land to Robert Shink, of Newport. May,
167 1, his name is recorded as an inhabitant
of Pettaquamscott. His will was dated No-
vember 30, 1674, and mentioned his son-in-
law, Samuel Wilson ; wife Mary ; sons Samuel
and Joshua, and daughter Tabitha. On Janu-
ary 26, 1676, his death is mentioned in a let-
ter from Captain James Oliver (written at the
house of Richard Smith in Narragansett).
Captain Oliver says first, that Joshua Tefft
had married a Wamponag squaw, then that
he had shot twenty times at the English in
the Narragansett fight, and was captured and
executed at Providence, and declares that he
was "a sad wretch, he never heard a sermon
but once these fourteen years. His father,
going to recall him, lost his head and lies un-
buried (i(')76)." On November 19 the widow
signed in satisfaction of her thirds, her sig-
nature being witnessed by Tabitha Gardiner.
She died in 1679. Children: Daughter, mar-
ried Samuel Wil-son ; Samuel, born 1644, men-
tioned below; Joshua, died January 18, 1676,
executed by the English; Tabitha, born 1653,
died 1722.

(II) Samuel, son of John Tefft, was born in
1644, and died in 1725. He married Eliza-
beth, daughter of Joseph and Esther (Pjal-
lard) Jencks. She was born in 1652, and died
1740. In 1677 he was admitted a freeman
{Providence). On May 12, 1679, he was fined

twenty shillings for not attending jury, but
March 12, 1680, his fine was remitted by the
assembly, as he had had no warning by the
general sergeant. September 6, 1687, he was
an inhabitant of King's Town, and was taxed
there. On June 28, 1709, )ie and twenty-six
others bought the tract of land called Swamp-
town, part of the vacant lands of Narragan-
sett. On March 20, 1721, he called his age
about seventy-seven years, and October 29,
1722, his wife Elizabeth called her age seventy
years, though other evidence makes her not
quite so old. His will, dated March 16, 1725,
proved December 20, 1725, mentions his wife
Elizabeth, sons John, Samuel and Joseph,
daughters Elizabeth Carpenter, Esther Mum-
ford, Mary Newton, Susanna Crandall and
Mercy Tefft; also children of Sarah Witter,
deceased. The inventory was 1,010 pounds, 3
shillings, 8 pence. His wife's will was dated
July 4, 1733, and proved May 12, 1740. Chil-
dren : John, mentioned below ; Samuel, died
1760; Peter, died 1725; Sarah, married Eben-
ezer Witter; Elizabeth, died 1750; Esther,

died 1726; Mary, married Newton;

Tabitha, unmarried ; Mercy, unmarried ; Su-
sanna, married Peter Crandall.

(III) John (2), son of Samuel Tefft, died
in 1762. He married Joanna, daughter of
Jonathan and Mehitable (Holbrook) Sprague.
He lived in South Kings Town, Rhode Island.
On June 28, 1709. he was among those en-
gaged in Shannock purchase. His will, dated
January 5, 1754, codicil December 22, 1757,
proved January 21, 1768, mentions his wife
Joanna, sons John, Joseph, Samuel, James
and Nathan, daughters Mary Barber, Mercy
Rogers, Mehitable Rogers, Tabitha Tefft and
Sarah Brown, and six grandchildren. The
codicil mentioned the decease of his wife in
1757, and gave the 600 pounds formerly left
to her, to the five daughters. The inventory
was 6,148 pounds, 16 sliillings, 5 pence. Chil-
dren : John, born December 4, 1699 ; Joanna,
1701 : Joseph, January 8, 1710; Samuel, mar-
ried October 7, 1827; James, born April 21,
1715 ; Nathan, March 14, 1717, mentioned be-
low; Mary, married, January 11, 1729, Ben-
jamin Barber; Mercy, married Rev. James
Rogers ; Mehitable, married Captain John

Rogers ; Tabitha, married James ;

Sarah, married, March i, 1744, Hezekiah

Brown, (second) Cottrell; Elizabeth,

married Skellie.

(IV) Judge Nathan Tefft, son of John (2)
Tefft, was born in South Kings Town, Rhode
Island, March 14. 1717. He moved from
Rhode Island to Albany in 1766, and from
there to Washington county. New York, trav-
eling on horseback. He passed through track-

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1719

less forests, being guided by marks cut on the
trees, passing through Petersburg Valley as
far as Cambridge, and from there across to
A\'ashington county. His son Stanton, a sur-
veyor, accompanied him and laid out the tract
of land now embracing the Rogers', Colla-
mer's, Richardson's, Parker's, Babcock's, and
Tcfft's farms. One year later Nathan brought
his family to Galesville, New York, and built
there a sawmill, the first one on the Batten
Kill. In 1763 and 1764 he was justice of the
-court of common pleas for Kings county. He
•was lieutenant of the Third Company militia,
Colonel Pendleton's regiment, in 1750 and
1753 : he was captain in 1753 and 1754. Judge
Natlian Tefift married (first) September 16,
1742, Isabel Stanton, born August 13, 1716,
died 1777. He married (second) E. Dareis
(Dorcas) Sheldon, who survived him but a
short time. ?Ie died April 3, 1782 or 1789.
Children: Stanton, born July 9, 1744, died
181 1, married Mehitable Rogers; Isabel, born
March 14, 1745-46, married Caleb Tefift ; Mer-
cy, born December 14, 1749, married James
Rogers : Nathan, born August 28, 1752 ; died
September 18, 1828; John, born March 3,
1756: j\Iary, bom May 2, 1758, married Na-
than Cottrell (see Cottrell) ; Sarah, born Au-
gust 14, 1762, married Asa Crandall.

Three generations of Al-

IMacDONALD exander MacDonalds have
resided in Glengarry boun-
ty, Canada. The family is of Scotch ancestry.

(I ) Alexander ]MacDonald was a farmer of
Glengarry county, Canada. He married Mar-
jorie Kennedy, and had issue.

(ID Alexander (2), son of Alexander (i)
and Marjorie (Kennedy) MacDonald, was
born in Glengarry county, Canada, 1840, died
1872. He was first lieutenant in the Ninety-
seventh New York Volunteers during civil
war, and after he was in lumber business at
Ray City, Michigan. He married Caroline
Alexander, born 1844, daughter of William
and Elizabeth (Clark) Alexander. Children:
William Alexander; Wallace Roderick Joseph,
died in infancy.

(Ill) William Alexander, son of Alex-
ander (2) and Caroline (Alexander) Mac-
Donald, was born in the town of Floyd,
Oneida county. New York, February 25,
1868. He came to Gloversville in 1873. He
graduated from the Gloversville high school
in 1886, and the following year entered Union
College, whence he was graduated, class of
1891, with the degree of A. B. Later the
degree of A. M. was awarded him. He was
admitted to the bar September 14, 1893, and
•in that year established law offices in Glovers-

ville, where he continues in the general prac-
tice of his profession. He is a member of the
state, county and city bar associations, and
has served as corporation counsel of the city
of Gloversville from 1902 to 1909. He is a
member of the board of trustees of the Glov-
ersville Free Library. He is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church and a trustee.
He is a Free Mason, affiliated with Glovers-
ville Lodge, No. 429, Free and Accepted Ma-
sons ; Johnstown Chapter, No, 78, Royal Arch
Masons; Holy Cross Commandery, No. 51,
Knights Templar. He married, September 4,
1894, Minnie E, Baird, born October, 1868,
daughter of Stephen and Ann (McAllister)
Baird. Children: iMarjorie Baird, born April
II, 1904; Marion Alexander, October 30,
1908.

This branch of the Miller fam-
MILLER ily of Albany traces through

four generations direct to the
Fatherland. The name was anglicized in the
first generation and has always since been
spelled Miller, although the German family,
who are numerous in Hanau, are Muellers and
Muhlers.

(I) Christian Miller, founder of this
branch, came to New York City when a lad of
twelve years. He was born in Hanau, Ger-
many, and died in Albany, New York. He
settled in New York City on coming to this
country, and served an apprenticeship with
William Smith, a grocer, who so thoroughly
taught him the business that in a few years he
was capable of conducting a store of I'lis own.
He located in Albany, where he conducted a
general store on the same plot of ground now
occupied by John Keeler's State Street Res-
taurant. This property which he purchased
remained in the family until a few years ago,
passing out of their control in 1906. He was
a member of the Dutch Reformed Church of
Albany, and a man of good standing in the
city. He married.

(II) William C, son of Christian IMiller,
was born in Albany, New York, where his life
was passed. He died in Albany. He married
(first) a Van Schaick.

(HI) Ernest John, son of William C. Mil-
ler, was born in Albany, New York, and died
in that city in 1896. He was educated at Al-
bany Boys' Academy and graduated from Rut-
gers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
He chose law, and fitted for that profession
at the Albany Law School. He practiced in
Albany for several years, then abandoned his
profession for the sake of engaging in manu-
facturing as vice-president and treasurer of
the Albany Card and Paper Company. He

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church
and a Repubhcan in politics. He married Jes-
sie, daughter of Dr. Peter MacNaughton, of
Albany, for over half a century a leading citi-
zen and physician of that city. Children: i.
William C, of New York City, now connected
with the Edison Electric Company as engi-
neer to the controller ; he married Virginia
Temple. 2. Jane Guest, died August 4, 1888.
3. Ernest Livingston, a retail coal dealer of
Albany, married Edith, daughter of Edward
Easton, Sr. 4. MacNaughton, of further
mention.

(IV) MacNaughton Miller, youngest son
of Ernest John and Jessie (MacNaughton)
Miller, was born in Albany, New York, April
19. ^^73- He was educated at the Albany
Academy, and began his business career as a
messenger in the Commercial Bank of Al-
bany, rising through successive promotions to
the position of individual bookkeeper. In
1902 he became assistant cashier of the Park
Bank, holding that position until the Park be-
came merged with the Union Trust Company.
He was elected assistant treasurer of the lat-
ter institution, advanced to the position of sec-
retary, and is now (1911) secretary and treas-
urer. He is a deacon of the Dutch Reformed
Church, and a Republican in politics. He is
a member of the Albany Academy Alumni
Association, and the Fort Orange and Rac-
quet clubs of Albany. For seven years Mr.
Miller served in the Third Signal Corps, New
York National Guard, ranking as first ser-
geant. He married, June 20, 1899, Caroline
Baxter Cobb, of Grand Rapids, Michigan,
daughter of Rev. Sanford H. Cobb, a minis-
ter of the Dutch Reformed Church. Child,
Ernest John Miller (2), born July 21, 1906.

The family name of Cuyler is
CUYLER believed to have been derived

from the German word " Kel-
ler"— a wild boar of the forest — and would
therefore signify a powerful man. "Keiler"
is also spelled "Keuler," and both of these
words have exactly the same sound as the
Dutch "Cuyler."' Had the name been adop-
ted in what is understood as modern times,
then it would corresjrand to the form "Kui-
ler" or "Kuilder," meaning a man who fishes
with a "kuil." which is a bag-.shaped fishnet,
and the family name would accordingly sig-
nify one who was a fi.sherman when the name
was originally applied. The Dutch word
"Kuyl" signifies a pit or hole, and it is not so
consistent to state that "Kuyler" meant one
who digs a hole, or is a delver. or to follow
the analogy by employing other synonymous
terms.

The Cuyler arms, modified and bv some
considered more attractive than the earliest
form known, both in design and coloring, and
which has been in common use in America for
probably a century or more, is described as
follows : Shield : Per pale, embattled gules
and azure, an arrow in bend, or, barbed and
flighted, argent, point upwards. Crest: On
a mural crown proper, a battleaxe erect, sur-
mounted by two arrows in saltire, or. flighted
argent, points downwards. Motto: (Dutch)
Ik vertrouw op God, niet op pijlen; (Latin)
Deo non sagittis fido ; (English) I trust in
God, not in arrows. When printing the mot-
to in capital letters in Dutch, the word "pij-
len" would be spelled "pylen," with the two
small marks above the letter "y," a form not
always accessible in printing books, conse-
quently the equivalent "i j" is employed. At
tention is here called to the fact that "God"
is the Dutch word for "Gott" in the German,
and the motto is in Dutch.

The impression in the wax, made when
Annatje Schepmoes, widow of Hendrick Cuy-
ler, the progenitor, sealed her will, about the
year 1700, shows the single arrow in the field,
pointing upwards, with the initial letter of his
Christian name, "H," in the lower left cor-
ner, and the letter "C" in the upper right
corner. This is the property of Mrs. De
Lancey Nicoll, of New York City.

That the Cuyler family held eminent posi-
tion in Holland long before the year 1600 has
been demonstrated by the thorough research
made among the archives in that country
through the persistence of Mrs. Maud
Churchill Nicoll to seek out the family's early
history, and the interesting fact has been es-
tablished by her that this family probably
antedates any other in Holland in the use of
a surname, which goes to show the advance-
ment of the family at an early period.

In this country it was not long before the
family was recognized in a distinctive manner,
beyond all disputation, for the appointments
of the chief officials in the colony were made
by the English Crown, and the choice in-
variably fell to the man of eminence. Next
after the position of governor, which office
was filled by the English government send-
ing an Englishman of prominence across the
water to represent the king or queen, as the
case might be, the selection of a mayor was
the highest rank, and he was a man residing
in the colony, hence the colonist could receive
no greater recognition. New York and Al-
bany were the principal cities in the colony.

The Cuyler family was the peer of all oth-
ers, as the following facts will show, aside
from what creditable estimates many histor-

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1721

ians have written respecting it, and it is here
set forth that from the time Albany became
a city, July 22, 1686, to the time of the revo-
lution, some one of the Cuyler name and
direct line was either mayor of Albany or
closely related to one who was, such as a wife,
brother or son. It is interesting to the gen-
eral historian as an illustration of the inter-
marriage of leading families in founding a
city.

Johannes Cuyler, son of Hendrick Cuyler,
the progenitor, was appointed (14th) mayor
of Albany by Cov. William Burnet, and offi-
ciated from (ktober 14, 1725. until November
7. 1726. ■

Cornelis Cuyler, son of Mayor Johannes
Cuyler and Elsje Ten Broeck, was appointed
(20th) mayor by Lieut.-Gov. George Clarke,
and officiated from October 14, 1742, until
September 28, 1746.

Colonel Abraham Cornelis Cuyler, son of
Mayor Cornelis Cuyler and Catalyntje Schuy-
ler, was appointed (26th) mayor by Lieut.-
Gov. Cadwallader Colden, and officiated from
September 10, 1770, until April 16, 1778.

Mayor Johannes Cuyler married ( 1684)
Elsje, daughter of (4th) Mayor Dirck Wes-
selse Ten Broeck.

Mayor Cornelis Cuyler married (1726)
Catalyntje, daughter of (loth) Mayor Jo-
hannes Schuyler.

Abraham Cuyler. secpnd child of Hendrick
Cuyler, the progenitor, married (1689) Cath-
erine, daughter of (7th) Mayor Jan Jansen
Bleecker.

Sara Cuyler, third child of Hendrick Cuy-
ler, the progenitor, married (6th) Mayor Pie-
ter \'an I'.rugh, in 1688.

Rachel Cuyler, fifth child of Hendrick
Cuyler, the progenitor, married (13th)
Mayor Myndert Schuyler, in 1693.

Maria Cuyler, sixth child of Hendrick Cuy-
ler, the progenitor, married (ist) Mayor
John Cruger, of New York City, in 1703, and
John, son of Maria Cuyler and Mayor John
Cruger, was mayor of New York, 1756-65.

Sara Cuyler, daughter of Mayor Johannes
Cuyler, married (17th) Mayor Johannes Han-
sen, in 1723.

Sara Cuyler's husband. Mayor Johannes
Hansen, had sister Debora, who was mother
of (29th) Mayor Johannes Jacobse Beeck-
man, having married Jacob Beeckman.

Anna Cuyler, daughter of Mayor Johannes
Cuyler, married (1712) the nephew of (ist)
Mayor Pieter Schuyler, Anthony Van
Schaick.

Sara Cuyler, daughter of Mayor Johannes
Cuyler, married (1723) Johannes, son of
(5th) Mayor Hendrick Hansen.

Elsje Cuyler, daughter of Mayor Johaiuies
Cuyler, married (1724) Hendrick Roseboom,
tirst cousin of the wife of (24th) Mayor Sy-
brant Gosen Van Schaick, Alida Ro.seboom.

.\braham Cuyler's wife, Caatje (or Cath-
erine) Bleecker, was a sister of (8th) Mayor
Johannes Bleecker, Jr., and also of (15th)
Mayor Rutger Bleecker, both being sons of
(7th) Mayor Jan Jansen Bleecker.

Abraham Cuyler's son, Johannes .'\braham
Cuyler, married (1727) Catharina Wendell,,
whose aunt, Maria \\'endell, was wife of
(23rd) Mayor Robert Sanders.

.\braham Cuyler's daughter, Catharina,
married (22nd) Mayor Jacob Coenraedt Ten
Eyck, in 1736.

Abraham Cuyler's daughter, Margarita,
married (21st) Mayor Dirck Ten Broeck, in
1714.

Margarita Cuyler's daughter, Christina
Ten Broeck, married (1740) Philip Living-
ston, signer of the declaration.

Margarita Cuyler's granddaughter, Cather-
ine Livingston, married (32nd) Mayor I'hilip
Stephen \'an Rensselaer, in 1787.

Margarita Cuyler's son, Dirck Ten Broeck,
married (25th) Mayor \'olckert P. Douw's
daughter, Anna, in 1761.

Margarita Cuyler's grandson was (28th)
Mayor Abraham Ten Broeck.

.■\nna Cuyler, daughter of Rachel Cuyler
and Mayor Alyndert Schuyler, married (i6th)
Mayor johanpes De Peyster, in 1715.

.\ critical inspection of the above list
shows that thirty of the earliest thirty-two
mayors of Albany were of close Cuyler blood
or else married into the family.

James Riker, in his "'History of Harlem."
says, in speaking of Mayor Johannes Cuyler.
eldest son of the progenitor: "Erom him and
his brothers come the respectable family of
Cuyler, allied from an early day to many oth-
ers noted in the annals of New York."

( I ) Hendrick Cuyler was progenitor of the
entire family of that name in this country.
His father was Isobrant Cuyler, whose wife
bore the Christian name of Evertien. or Ev-
ertje.

He was born at Has.selt, a city in the prov-
ince of Overyssel, Holland, a few miles north'
of Zolle. and he was baptized there .August
II, 1637.* TTc (lied in New York, N. Y., in
1690.

Hendrick Cuyler settled in Beverwyck in
1664, when the place was changing from the
Dutch rule, known as Dorpe Beverwyck, to
that of the English, when it became known
for the first time (Sei)tember 24, 1664) as
Albany. He was a tailor, and was successful

*Froni the papers of Maml Churchill Nicoll.

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HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

in accumulating considerable property. He
bought a lot on the hill, on the east side of
North Pearl street, near State street, and
■owned a lot in 1680 on the south side of
State, west of Pearl street, "near ye Fort,"
which was located in the center of the former
broad thoroughfare at its intersection with
Lodge street. After his death this lot and
house passed into the possession of his son-
in-law. Mayor Pieter Van Brugh.

In 1675 he made his brother Reynier, then
residing in Holland, "cnoopemaecker tot Am-
sterdam" (button-maker residing at Amster-
dam), his attorney, in order to receive cer-
tain property from Pieter Nicolaas Gouver-
neur. He had a house built for him at Al-
bany in 1680, evidently the one on the lot last
described. It was erected from timber cut
and prepared in New York City. Jan Nagel,
Jan Dyckman, Arent Hermens Bussing,
Adolph Meyer and Jan Delamater were kept
busy in that year hewing timber to fill a
contract made January 2, 1680, with Nico-
laas de Meyer, as his agent, for whom they
were to furnish timber, including "beams,
posts, rafters, plates, sleepers, door-posts and
casings, according to the plan thereof," to be
delivered in the ensuing May, part at the
waterside and part in New York City at tiie
Burgher's Path, for which they were to re-
ceive "1,300 guilders, with a half-ancker of
rum, to-wit : one-third in silver money or
sewant, one-third in good winter wheat, and
one-third in goods at such price as he (De
Meyer) sells the same at his store for cur-
rent .sewant."

He eventually returned to New York to
live, where he and his wife united with the
Dutch church by letter, November 29, 1688,
two years before his death. He married, at
New Amsterdam (New York City), Annatje
Schepmoes, born in that city and died there,
daughter of Jan Jansen Schepmoes and Sara
Pieterse. Cliildren : Johannes, Abraham,
Sara, Delia, Rachel, Maria. Eva. Hendrick.

(II) Johannes Cuyler, first child of Hen-
drick Cuyler and Annatje Schepmoes, was
born in Holland in 1661, and died at Albany,
New York, July 20, 1740, where he was bur-
ied in the Dutch church.

He was one of the most prominent traders
of the place, and acquired wealth ; was admit-
ted a freeman of New York City in 1696,
where he resided for a time; attended the
Dutch Reformed Church of Albany, where-
of he was a deacon in 1695 and 1700, and in
later years was elder. He was Commissioner
•of Indian AflFairs for a number of years, be-
ginning with 1706, and was also alderman.
'Gov. William Buniet appointed him four-

teenth mayor of Albany, and he officiated
from October 14, 1725, to November 7, 1726.
His residence was on the east side of North
Pearl, the second house south of Steuben
street, with his extensive lot extending
through the block to Yaugh (now James)
street.

His son, Cornells Cuyler, became the twen-
tieth mayor of Albany by appointment of
Lieut.-Gov. George Clarke, serving from Oc-
tober 14, 1742, to September 28, 1746, and,
in turn, the .son of Mayor Cornelis Cuyler,
Colonel Abraham Cornelis Cuyler, became the
twenty-sixth mayor of Albany by appoint-
ment of Lieut.-Gov. Cadwallader Golden, serv-
ing from September 10, 1770, to April 16,
1778. His daughter Sara married (Apr. 25,
1723) Johannes Hansen, seventeenth mayor,
by appointment of President Rip Van Dam,
and reappointed by Gov. James De Lancey,
with terms from October 14, 1731, to October
22, 1732, and from 1754 to 1756. In this
manner, it might be put, that Johannes Cuy-
ler. his son. grandson and his daughter, occu-
pied the municipal "White House" through-
out fourteen years.

Mayor Johannes Cuyler married, Albany,
November 2, 1684, Elsje Ten Broeck, born
at Albany, died there June 29, 1752. and
buried in the Dutch Church, July 2nd. She
was the second child and eldest daughter of
Mayor Dirck WesseLse Ten Broeck (born,
Holland, Dec. 18, 1638; died, Clermont, Co-
lumbia county, N. Y., Sept. 18, 1717), who
married (Albany, 1663) Christina Van Buren
(born May 19, 1644; died Nov. 24, 1729).
Johannes Cuyler and Elsje Ten Broeck had
issue: i. Anna, born at Albany, November
26, 1685, died there ; buried in Dutch Church,
March 9, 1743; married, Albany, May 24,
1 712, Anthony Van Schaick. 2. Christina,
baptized, Albany, September 25, 1687: died
young. 3. Christina, born at Albany ; baptized
December 4, 1689; buried, Albany, November
20, 1755. 4. Hendrick, born at Albany; bap-
tized January 10, 1692. 5. Sara, born at Al-
bany; baptized October 22, 1693; married. Al-
bany, April 25, 1723, Mayor Johannes Han-
sen. 6. Elsje, born at Albany ; baptized Au-
gu.st 25, 169s; married, Albany, October 25,
1724, Hendrick Roseboom. 7. Cornelis, bap-
tized at New York, N. Y., February 14,
1697; died at Albany, March 14, 1765; mar-
ried, Albany, December 8, 1726, Catalyntje
Schuyler. 8. Johannes, horn at .Albany, Feb-
ruary 12, 1699; baptized February 21; mar-
ried Catharina Glen. 9. Maria, born at New
York; baptized there, November 25, 1702;
married, .Mbany, October 11, 1733, Cornelis
Ten Broeck. 10. Elizabeth, born at Albany;

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723

baptized May 13, 1705; married, Albany, De-
cember 29, 1732, Jacob Sanderse Glen. 11.
Rachel, born at Albany; baptized there, Sep-
tember 21, 1707; died young. 12. Rachel,
born at Albany ; baptized there, November 27,
1709.

(II) Abraham Cuyler, second child of Hen-
dricU Cuyler and Annatje Schepmoes, died
at .Mbany, New York, and was buried there
in the Dutch Church, July 14, 1747. Through
shrewdness as a trader he acquired much
valuable property, both at Albany and else-
where. He married, Albany, November 17,
i6Sg, Caatje (or Catherine) Bleecker. She
died at Albany, April 8. 1734. Her father
was Mayor Jan Jansen Bleecker, born in
Holland, 1641 ; came from Meppel, province
of Overyssel, Holland, 1658, to Rensselaers-
wyck ; appointed seventh mayor of Albany by
Earl of Bellomont, officiating 1700-1701 ;
died at Albany, November 21, 1732; buried
in Dutch Church there, November 25 ; mar-
ried (Albany, January 2, 1667) Margariet
(daughter of Rutger Jacobsen Van Schoen-
derwoert), born 1647, ^'^d 1733. Abraham
Cuvler and Caatje Bleecker had issue: i.
Hendrick, born at New York, N. Y., De-
cember 22, 1690; married, Albany, New
York, December i, 1722, Margarita Van
Deusen. Born in Albany: 2. Margarita, Oc-
tober 26, 1692; died there. May 24, 1783;
married, Albany, November 26, 1714, Mayor
Dirck Ten Broeck. 3. Anna, baptized April
14, 1695; died November, 1709, unmarried.
4. Johannes Abraham, June 21, 1698; died
October 24, 1746 ; buried October 27 ; mar-
ried, Albany, October 28, 1727, Catharina
\\'endell (see forward). 5. Sara, baptized
April 28. 1700; died young. 6. Maria, March
30, 1703; died February 16, 1722. 7. Sara,
baptized October 6, 1706; died in Albany,
buried there, August 28, 1746: married, Al-
bany, July 6, 1729, Johannes janse Beeckman.
8. Catharina, baptized February 18, 1710;
married, Albany, August i, 1736, Judge Jacob
Coenraedt Ten Eyck, mayor of Albany. 9.
Abraham, December 27, 1713: married, Al-
bany, May 5, 1744, Jannetje Beeckman. 10.
Nicolaas, June 27, 1716; married, Albany,
May II, 1745, Maria Schuyler.

(II) Sara Cuyler, third child of Hendrick
Cuyler and Annatje Schepmoes, resided in
early life in New York City, later in Albany.
She married. New York, November 2, 1688,
Captain Pieter Van Brugh. born at New .Am-
sterdam. July 14, 1666, died at Albany, and
buried in the Dutch Church there. July 20,
1740. He was son of Johannes Pieterse \'an
Brugh. born in Holland, 1624; left Harlem
for .America, settling first in New Amsterdam,

before 1657, for in that year he sent down
the Hudson river from Beverwyck, three hun-
dred beaver skins, and who married, at New
Amsterdam, March 29, 1658, Catharina Roel-
offse (widow of Lucas Rodenburgh), born
before 1636, being daughter of Anneke Jans
and her fir.st husband, Roeloff Jansen. Jo-
hannes P. Van Brugh died in 1697, having
made a will December 22, 1696.

Captain Pieter Van Brugh was appointed
sixth mayor of Albany by Lieut.-Gov. John
Nanfan, officiated 1699-1700, and served a
second term, from November 9, 1720, to 1723,
by appointment of Gov. William Burnet. He
and his wife had a house lot on the south side
of State street, in Albany, west of Pearl, near
the stockades, the same having been the resi-
dence, of his father-in-law, Hendrick Cuyler,
the progenitor. His family name. Van Brugh,
was also spelled Van Brug and Verbrugge,
possibly derived from the fact that the family
had residence in Bruges, Belgium, more likely
than of the small town of Brugg, Switzerland,
and yet the English equivalent of the Dutch
word (which has been used) w-as Bridge, sig-
nifying a family from near a certain bridge.

Pieter Van Brugh and Sara Cuyler had
issue: Catharina, born in New York, N.
Y. ; baptized there, November 10, 1689; died
February 20, 1756; married, Albany, Sep-
tember 19, 1707, Philip Livingston.

(II) Delia Cuyler, fourth child of Hen-
drick Cuyler and Annatje Schepmoes, was a
resident of Albany and latterly of Schenec-
tady, New York. She married. New York,
N. Y., September 19, 1694, Johannes, son
of Pieter Groenendyk, progenitor of that fam-
ily in America. He was born in New York ;
baptized there, March 24, 1675; died in Sche-
nectady, and buried in the Dutch Church
there, December, 1739. .After his youth spent
in New York he moved to Albany, where he
was made sheriff of Albany county, 1698-99,
and later removed to Schenectady, where he
was a trader and continued to reside until
his death. His wife conducted his business
some years longer. Delia Cuyler and Jo-
hannes Groenendyk had issue, born in New
York and baptized there: i. Mary, baptized
September 16, 1696. 2. Sara, baptized April
28, 1700; died at Albany, June 5, 1774; mar-
ried, Albany, December 9, 1729, James Ste-
venson. 3. Pieter, baptized September 7,
1 70 1. 4. Hendrick, baptized September 19,
170^. c;. Anna.

(11) Rachel Cuyler. fifth child of Hendrick
Cuyler and Annatje Schepmoes, resided all
her life at Albany, New York. She married,
Albany, October 26, 1693, Mayor Myndert
Schuyler. He was born in Rensselaerswyck,

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HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

January i6, 1672, and was buried in the
Dutch Church at Albany, October 21. 1755.
President Pieter Schuyler, of the province
of New York, appointed him thirteenth mayor
of Albany, ofificiating from 17 19 to No-
vember 8, 1720; appointed for a second term
by Gov. William Burnet, serving from 1723
to October 13, 1725. He was member of
assembly, October 20, 1 702-1710: 1713-17 13:
1724; 1 728- 1 737; church master, 170'): In(li.^n
commissioner, 1706-1720; captain of militia.
1710; alderman, first ward, 1718-1719; colonel
before 1754; deacon of Dutch Church;
bought land on the Norman's Kil, near Al-
bany, and at Huntersfield (Schoharie, New
York) Patent: in 1703, occupying in Albany
a lot on the south side .of State street, the
third east from South Pearl, formerly Gerrit
Bancker's. His father was David Pieterse
Schuyler, one of two brothers of the name
who came from Amsterdam, Holland, to Bev-
erwyck, purchasing land there in 1672 from
the Van Rensselaers. He died, Albany, Feb-
ruary 9. 1690, and had married, at New Am-
sterdam, October 13, 1657, Catalyn Ver
Planck, daughter of Abraham Isaacse Ver
Planck and Maria Vigne.

Rachel Cuyler and Myndert Schuyler had
issue : Anna, born at Albany, New York ;
baptized there, February 28, 1697; buried in
Dutch Church there, September 16, 1750:
married, Albany, November 24, 1715, Mayor
Johannes De Peyster.

(U) Maria Cuyler, sixth child of Hen-
drick Cuvler and Annatje Schepmoes, was
born in New York. N. Y., March 3. 1678:
baptized there, March 13 ; died September
14, 1724. She married, March 5, 1703, John
Cruger. He was the progenitor of the entire
Cruger family in America. He came to New
Amsterdam prior to 1700; settled there; be-
came alderman, 1712-1733: was mayor of
New York beginning with the year 1739 until
his death in 1744; died in New York City,
August 13, 1744, and was buried in the old
Dutch Church.

During early history, and at different pe-
riods, the ancestral members of the Cruger
family settled in Germany, Holland, Den-
mark and England. At the time of the Dan-
ish invasion of England, or possibly after the
conquest of England, about 1016, it is prob-
able that some of the members of this family
went to England, as Sir Philip De Cruciger
(from whom the English branch traces de-
scent) subsequently accompanied King Rich-
ard on the Crusades. Other members of the
familv remaining in or returning to Germany,
and they, as also those emigrating from there,
trace their descent from the baronial house

of Van Cruger. One of the translators of
the Bible, with Luther, was named Cruciger
(Cruger). At Bristol, England, within the
old Cathedral walls and in the adjoining
church yard, are many ancient monuments
and slabs to the memory of members of the
Cruger family, some of whom came from the
continent in the reign of Henry \"nL

Regarding the name of Cruger, in the
transmutations which this family name has
undergone, the origin is found to be Cruci-
ger, derived from the Latin Crux-Gero, to
carry the cross, or cross-bearer. The Cruger
Arms: Shield: Argent, a bend azure
charged with three martlets or, between two
greyhounds courant, proper. Crest : A demi-
greyhound statant, gorged or. Motto : Deo
non fortuna; beneath the crest. Fides.

Maria Cuyler and John Cruger had issue,
born in New York, N. Y. : i. Anna, born
March 28. 1704: died there, before her father
(1744), and was buried in the old Dutch
Church. 2. Tieleman, born November 11,
1705: died there, November 16, 1730: un-
married ; buried in the old Dutch Church. 3.
Henry, born November 25, 1707; died at
Bristol. England. February 5, 1780: buried
in center aisle of old Cathedral : married
(first), at Teganie, Jamaica, West Indies,
September 28, 1734, Hannah Slaughter,
widow of Patrick Montgomery; (second), at
Linquanese, Jamaica, West Indies, Decem-
ber 21. T736, Elizabeth Harris. 4. John, born
July 18, 1710. died at New York, December
27, 1791, unmarried; mayor of New York,
1756-1765; first speaker and president of the
first Colonial assembly and member for seven-
teen years. 5. Maria, born January 6, 1712;
died at New York, July 20, 171 5. 6. Sarah,
born December 5, 1714: died at New York,
March 4, 1766; buried there in new Dutch
Church ; married Gouverneur. 7. Ma-
ria, born May 10, 1718: died at New York,
April 14, 1787; buried there in the new Dutch
Church. 8. Rachel, born May 10, 1721 ; died
at New York. March 25, 1775: buried there
in old Dutch Church.

(II) Eva Cuyler, seventh child of Hendrick
Cuyler and Annatje Schepmoes, resided at
Albany, New York. She married, Albany,
August 26, 171 2, Dominie Petrus Henricus
Van Driessen, Dominie Petrus Vas officiating.

He was the son of Petrus Van Driessen ;
matriculated at Groningen University, No-
vember 2, 1705, giving his residence then as
Coevordiensis, and came to Albany. April,
1712. He was made seventh minister of the
"Nether Dutch Reformed Congregation of the
City and County of .Mbanv." succeeding
Dominie Tohannes Lvdius. He was the one

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1725

who was energetic in erecting a new church
edifice at llie intersection of Broadway and
State street, which was built of stone about
the dilapidated one which had been con-
structed of wood in 1656, and no picture of
any other subject in entire Albany is now re-
garded as more typical of the old Dutch days.
He drew up a ])etition June 8. 1714, signed
by himself, the elders and deacons, requesting
the approval of Robert Hunter, captain-gen-
eral and governor of the ])rovinces of Xew
York and Xew Jersey, for proceeding there-
with, which was granted, and the building
was first occupied October 30, 171 5, conse-
crated November 13. He also had the church
incorporated by petition of August 3 : ap-
proved August 10, 1720, and this building
endured until rebuilt on the south side of
Beaver street, in 1806, from the same ma-
terial, in order to facilitate traffic on State
street, where it had stood in the middle of
the principal thoroughfare. He also supplied
Kinderhook. 1712-27: Linlithgow. i722-37,and
occasionally Schenectady, as well as being
missionary to the neighboring Indians.

Dominie A'an Driessen made a will. Albany.
January 29. 1737-38, in which he bequeathed
all his estate, real and personal, to his wife.
Eva Cuyler. for use during lifetime, with
power to sell and dispose of the same. She
•did sell, in conjunction with two of her chil-
dren. Hendrick and Annatje. on July 21.
1748. and Philip Lansing bought it for a
nominal sum. reconveying it to her in fee.
Some time later her son, Petrus, conveyed his
own interest to his brother. Hendrick, as he
moved to Schenectady. Dominie \'an Dries-
sen died at Albany. January. 1738. and was
buried in the Dutch church there. February
3. 1738.

Eva Cuyler and Petrus Henricus \ an
Driessen had issue, born in Albany: i. Pe-
trus. baptized January 17, 1713: removed to
Schenectady, ]\'ew York : married. Schenec-
tady, June. 1738. Engeltje Vrooman. 2. Hen-
drick. baptized October 30, 1715: removed to
New York City. 3. Johannes, baptized Sep-
tember 29. 1 71 7. 4. Annatje, baptized No-
vember 15, 1719. 5. Maria, baptized Sep-
tember 16. 1722; died at Albany; buried there,
Kovember 19. 1722.

flT) Hendrick Cuyler, eighth child of Hen-
drick Cuyler and Annatje Schepmoes. was a
merchant residing in New York City. His
will, bearing date New York, New York, July
23. 1763, was probated C liber 2=;. surrogate's
court, countv of Xew York) December 20,
1766.*

*This line lias been traced by Maud Clutrehill
'Nicoll.

He married, in the Middle Dutch Church
of New York City, license dated April i. 1710,
Maria Jacobs.

(HI) Johannes Abraham Cuyler, fourth
child of Abraham Cuyler and Caatje (or Cath-
erine) Bleccker, was born at Albany, New
York, June 21, 1698, and died there October
24, 1746: buried October 2-j. He had a
house-lot in 1729 on the east corner of Broad-
way and Steuben street.

He married, at Albany, October 28, 1727,
Catharina Wendell, born at Albany, baptized
there January 10, 1705; died at Albany, April
12, 1746: was buried in the Dutch church,
April 14th, and was the daughter of Har-
manus Wendell (born Albany, 1678: died
there: buried in Dutch Church, December 15,
1731), who married (about 1699) Annatje
Glen (died, Albany: buried Sept. 19, 1756).

Johannes Abraham Cuyler and Catharina
Wendell had issue, born at Albany: i. Elsje,
baptized September 15, 1728. 2. Harmanus.
baptized May 3, 1730: married, Coxsackie,
New York, 1771, Elizabeth Van Bergen. 3.
Johannes, baptized September 21. 1731 : mar-
ried, Schenectady, New York, July 5, 1763,
Susanna \'edder. 4. Abraham, baptized Sep-
tember 3, 1732. 5. Catharina, baptized May
12, 1734. 6. Cornelis, baptized October 19,
1735: married, Albany, March 16, 1763, Anna
Wendell (see forward). 7. Anna, baptized
September 5, 1736. 8. Margarita, baptized
April 20. 1740. 9. Jacob, baptized September
28, 1741, died June 5, 1804, aged sixty-two
years, six months ; married, Albany, March 5,
1764, Lydia Van Vechten. 10. Jacob, bap-
tized January 10. 1746; died at Coxsackie.
New York, October 2, 1823. (This Jacob
seems wrong; but so appears on records in
Pearson ) .

(I\') Cornelis Johannes Cuyler, sixth child
of Johannes Abraham Cuyler and Catharina
Wendell, was born at Albany, New York ;
baptized there, October 19, 1735. He mar-
ried, at Albany, March 16, 1763. Annatje
Wendell, born at Albany, June 5, 1737, bap-
tized there, June 12. 1737; died at Schenec-
tady. New York, February 25, 1775, daugh-
ter of Jacob Wendell (born Albany, Nov. 22,
1702: buried at Greenbush, or later, Rense-
laer. New York, Sept. 5. 1745). who married
(Albany, Dec. 19, 1728) Helena \'an Rensse-
laer (born, Albany, Oct. 4. 1702). Cornelis
Johannes Cuyler and Annatje Wendell had
issue: i. Catharina, born at Albany, Janu-
ary 4, 1764. 2. Jacob Cornelis. born at Sche-
nectady, June 9. 1765. 3. Johannes Cornelis.
born at Schenectady. December 7. 1766; died
there, October 25, 1828: married Hannah Ma-
ley (see forward). 4. Harmanus. born at

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HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

Schenectady, October 9, 1768. 5. Jannetje,
born at Schenectady, June 10. 1770.

(V) Johannes Cornells Cuyler, third child
of Cornelis Johannes Cuyler and Annatje
Wendell, was born at Schenectady, New York,
December 5, 1766, and died there October
25, 1828. In later years he was known by
the Anglicized form of his name, or John C.
Cuyler. He was an incorporator of the pro-
posed Clinton College in 1779, at Schenec-
tady, which inaugurated the establishment of
Union University.

He married, at Albany, Hannah Maley,
born at Albany, October 12, 1769, daughter
of John Maley, one of Albany's richest men,
and Catherine Tremper, whose Huguenot
family name on coming from France was
Trompour, and thev resided at Kingston, New
York.

John Cornelius Cuyler and Hannah Maley
had issue: i. Catherine (baptized Caty),
born May 12, 1788. died in Albany, Novem-
ber 3, 1794. 2. Ann. born October 2, 1794;
died at Watervliet, New York, November 29.
1830; married, Albany, 1814, Capt. John
Gansevoort. 3. John Maley, born November
25, 1796: died in Albany, September, 1836;
married Sarah Colton, of Fishkill, New York.

4. Augustus, born January 7, 1799; died in
Albany, October 12, 1825. 5. William Trem-
per, born December 22, 1802; died at Cuyler-
ville. New York, December 21, 1864; married
(first), at Rochester, New York. Charlotte
Hanford ; (second), at Leicester. New York,
Nancy Bancker Stewart; married (third), at
Boston, Massachusetts, May 9, 1850, Anna De
Peyster Douw, widow of Samuel Stringer
Lush (see Douw family). 6. Frederick, born
June 22, 1804; died February 14, 1837; mar-
ried, Hackensack, New Jersey, Caroline Ro-
meyn. 7. Catherine Maley, born February 6,
1807: died at Eastport, Maine, May 15, 1832;
married. Albany, October 14, 1825, Captain
Henry Donnelf Hunter, U. S. N. 8. Mary
Magdalen, born February 3, 1810; died at Al-
bany, October 4, 1847; married, Albany, April

5, 1827, George Dexter (see Dexter family).
The last named child was born in Fort Johns-
ton, Johnstown, New York, the others in Al-
bany.

(\T) Col. William Tremper Cuyler, fifth
child of Johannes Cornelis Cuyler and Han-
nah Maley. was born at Albany. New York,
December 22. 1802, and died at "Woodlands,"
Cuylerville, Livingston county, New York,
December 21, 1864. He was buried in the
Cuyler lot of Mount Hope cemetery at Roch-
ester, New York, and his grave indicated by
a granite monolith.

He received his education as one of the

first students attending the Albany Academy,,
and resided in that city until about the time-
of his majority. The Erie canal was then
nearing completion, and he was imbued witb
the idea that it was to open up the rich grain
and grazing sections of the western part of
the state, for up to that time very little of the
population had settled to much of any extent
farther westward than Schenectady, except-
ing in isolated cases, and such cities as Roch-
ester, Buffalo and Detroit were hardly more
than embryotic villages when he was a youth.
Rochester was his choice, and he bought the-
"Crystal Building," on East Main street, es-
tablishing a large carriage manufactory,,
while his residence was on North St. Paul
street. It was here that he married Char-
lotte Hanford, about 1823, probably on at-
taining his twenty-first year, and she a girl
of seventeen years. He became a member of
the Presbyterian church of Rochester, and'
this change of his religious views from the-
Dutch Reformed church of his ancestors for
two centuries was probably due to the fact
that his second wife, Nancy Bancker Stewart,,
came of a Scotch family ; but the other mem-
bers of his family turned instead to the Epis-
copalian faith. He received his title as colonel'
of the New York state militia.

About the year 1830. Colonel Cuyler de-
cided to dispose of his property in Rochester
so as to participate in the development of the
country near Geneseo, New York. He turned
his business over to his brother-in-law, George
Hanford, who formed a partnership with
Thomas Askin, both of whom had been his
apprentices, and in 18..13 they removed their
manufactory to Cuylerville. The Genesee-
Valley canal was being dug at the time Colo-
nel Cuyler decided on exchanging his Roches-
ter property for a large tract of most admir-
able farming land in that beautiful valley.
He seized the opportunity to lay out the town,
some four miles southwest of Geneseo, which
grew into a thriving village and was given
his name — Cuylerville. His own property,
on which he resided, he named "Woodlands,"
because at the rear of his handsome home
was a dense forest of pines. The house'
stood at the top of a long and gradual in-
cline leading to a wooded plateau ; but before-
it lay the valley unobstructed to the view.
Any number of letters of that time which
were written by visitors to his home to friends
at other places never failed to style it "a pal-
ace," and undoubtedly it was then one of the-
finest specimens of colonial style of architec-
ture in the state, if people still living are tc
be believed. It was of wood, painted white-
and cream ; had the ornamental, tall columns,.

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and an elaborate portico. We are told by
those who have been there, that the view from
his piazza across the valley was entrancing,
for the landscape comprised miles of the rich-
est verdure in the state, and much of it was
owned by him. It was his pleasure, as was
common with the \\'ads\vorths and other
wealthy neighbors with landed estates, to
breed fine horses, as well as superior strains
of sheep and cattle.

The property named "Woodlands," which
Colonel Cuyler owned, had been bought in
1810 by Hon. Samuel Miles Hopkins, jointly
with B. W. Rogers, "which tract of land had
been reserved by the Indians as, above all
others, choice and delightful," as is recorded
in the autobiography of Mr. Hopkins, a law-
yer of standing, who lived in New York and
Albany, before going West. Mr. Hopkins
further said of the locality: "If the habitable
globe contains any places more entirely ex-
cellent and desirable than these two adjoin-
ing tracts (Mount Morris and Leicester, in
Livingston county, N. Y.) I know it not."
Regarding the time when the house was built,
he says: "In 1811, I removed to Geneseo,
the village of my old and excellent friends,
James and William Wadsworth. From here
I superintended my farm with unsparing dili-
gence and care, until I could have a house
prepared. In 1812, the war. In 1813-14, I
was a member of the thirteenth congress, an
election which was contrary to my expecta-
tion and wishes, and to the duties of which
my farm and building forbade my giving much
attention. * * * So I staid in Washing-
ton as little as I could. * * * j„ these
same years I built my house. In August,
1814. I laid out the village of Moscow on a
plain which far and wide was covered with
a young growth of oak and hickory, so thick
as to be almost impervious, and such as pre-
vented me from getting any just knowledge
of the extent and shape of the plain, except
bv actual mathematical survey. * * *
From the Genesee river my operations ex-
tended back to the pine woods, near three
miles." Moscow is about one mile distant
from Cuylerville. and the dense pine forest
back of "Woodlands" had never been entered
up to this time by any other man than the
wild Indian.

The estate of Mr. Hopkins was valued in
1817 definitelv at $7.=;.ooo, but in 1822, be-
cause of hard times throughout the country,
it had so depreciated that he "was glad to
accept a check of $2^,000 for the whole," and
"in the spring of 1822, I sold off, paid off,
broke up. and traced my course back to Al-
bany," where he resumed his practice of the

law. Colonel William T. Cuyler obtained the
property by a deed of conveyance from Camp-
bell H. Young, of Geneseo, and on his death
it remained in control of his third wife, Anna
De Peyster Douw (Cuyler) until it passed
into the hands of Colonel Cuyler's son, George
M. Cuyler, on the probate of her will at Al-
bany, November 9, 1871, together with "all
my horses, cattle, livestock and implements
of husbandry upon the aforesaid property."

The home of Colonel Cuyler was constantly
the scene of guests and of much entertaining.
He was somewhat handsome in appearance,
stately in bearing, standing erect, blue eyes
and auburn-brown hair. About the home-
stead were a great many flower-beds, which,
were attended by the women of his family.-
The house was furnished with the beautiful
furniture of the day when the carving of solid
mahogany pieces was at its height in art treat-
ment. There were many family portraits
upon the wall, and the silver was of the quaint
pattern of the C'olonial period, which had been
handed down for generations. Disaster over-
took much of this valuable household prop-
erty, for a fire broke out at noon on Febru-
ary 22, 1857, caused by a detective flue in
Mrs. Cuyler's room, and the residence was
burned to the ground quickly. One of the
mose serious losses was that of the old family
Bible, with its entries in the Dutch language.
The sideboard, which was saved, was offered
for sale in 1910 for $500. Colonel Cuyler
did not rebuild : but removed his family to
Rochester, where he resided on South Wash-
ington street ; but his only living son, George,
remained at "Woodlands" for twenty years
thereafter, occupying one of the other houses
on the estate. Colonel Cuyler died there,
while on a visit to his son. He was stricken
with apoplexy while inspecting the stock ; was
carried into the house bv his son, and died
within a few hours, although the previous
night he had been in unusually good spirits
and enjoying apparently excellent health.

Colonel William T. Cuyler married (first)
Charlotte Hanford. in 1823, or January, 1824,
as their first child was born in November,
1824. She died at "Woodlands," Cuylerville,
April 12, 1831, "in her 26th year," and, when
twenty-five years old, had borne four chil-
dren. She was born, accordingly, in 1805 or
1806, and is buried in Mount Hope cemetery
at Rochester, with all her children and her
husband. Colonel Cuyler married (second),
at the Clute homestead, between Moscow and'
Squawkie Hill, in 1837, Nancy Bancker Stew-
art, born at Leicester, New York. March,
1 8 10, died at "Woodland.s." Cuylerville, Feb-
ruary 3, 1848, buried in Mount Hope ceme-

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.tery, daughter of John Stewart (born June
15. 1783), of Leicester and Pike, Wyoming
county, New York, who married Nancy
Bancker Clute (born Schenectady, N. Y., Dec.
25, 1776; died, Moscow, N. Y., April 28,
1864; buried there). By his second wife he
had three children. Colonel Cuyler married
(third), at Boston, Massachusetts, May 9,
1850, Anna De Peyster Douw, born at Al-
bany, New York, January 31, 1797; married
(first) Samuel Stringer Lush (by whom she
had two children who died young), and she
died at No. 123 State street, Albany, August
15, 1871, daughter of Johannes De Peyster
Douw (born in "Wolvenhoeck," Greenbush,
later known as Rensselaer, N. Y., Jan. 20,
1756; died, Albany, Feb. 22, 1835), who mar-
ried (Albany, Dec. 20, 1795) Margaret Li\--
ingston (born, Albany, June 3. 1768; died,
Albany, Jan. 21, 1802). By his third wife he
had no issue. (.See Douw and Livingston
Families.)

Colonel William Tremper Cuyler and Char-
lotte Hanford had issue: i. William Maley,
born at Rochester, New York, November i.
1824: died there, .March 28, 1826. 2. Wil-
liam .\ugustus, born at Rochester, November
I. 1826; died there by drowning, July 18,
1828. 3. George Maley, born at Rochester,
August 22. 1828; unmarried; died there, of
pneumonia, March 11, 1910. 4. Charlotte
Hanford, born at Cuvlerville. New York,
March 9, 1831 ; died there, of scarlet fever,
January 18, 1842.

Colonel William Tremper Cuyler and
Nancy Bancker Stewart had issue: 5. William
Tremper, Jr., born at Cuylerville, May 11,
1838 : died there, of scarlet fever, January 22,
1842. 6. .^nnie Bancker, born at Cuylerville,
July 6, 1842; married, Rochester, March 22,
1865, Henry Lyman Churchill, born at Curtis-
ville, Massachusetts, September 29, 1839, son
of Henry Churchill and Sarah Dewey; by
whom : Alice Dewey, born at Rochester,
March 12, 1867: she was residing at No. 8
Union street, Schenectady, New York, in 1911.
7. Catherine Maley, born at Cuylerville, New
York. December 2, 1844 ; died at Rochester,
New York, October 23, 1875 ; married in St.
Luke's Episcopal church, Rochester, by Rev.
R. Bethel Claxton, .'Xpril 19, 1865, Dexter Rey-
nolds, born at Albany, New York, Decem-
ber 22. 1828. died there, August IQ, 1906, and
was a lawyer, son of Marcus T. Reynolds
and Elizabeth Ann Dexter (see Reynolds and
Dexter families). Is.sue: i. Cuyler Reynolds,
born at .Mbany, August 14, 1866; married, at
.Mbany, September 24, 1891, Janet Gray
Gould, Ixirn at Albany, July 22. 1871. daugh-
ter of Capt. Charles Gould and Janet Gray:

by whom: Kenneth Gray Reynolds, born at
Albany, September 17, 1892. ii. Marcus T.
Reynolds, born at Great Barrington, Massa-
chuetts, August 20, 1869, architect, resident
of Albany, New York in 191 1.

The family name of Dexter is

DEXTER derived from the title of the
English city, Exeter, in Dev-
onshire, written as though the person came
from there, D' Exeter, and then contracted
into Dexter. The Dexter arms : Shield : Ar-
gent, two chevrons azure, a canton gules.
Crest : A tree, pendant therefrom two
weights.

Richard de Excester, progenitor of the fam-
ily in Ireland, and who died in 1269. was
governor and lord chief justice of Ireland,
and it is believed that he emigrated from Dev-
onshire, for there are good reasons. Other
changes in the spelling of the name, leading
to the common and more modern form of
Dexter, were de Excester, Dexcestre, Dex-
cester, Dexetir, Decetir, de Exon, de Exonia
and de Exeter.

The family traces descent from Richard de
Exonia (Exeter), to whom was certified a
grant by Edward I., king of England, August
9, 1 28 1, made by Philip de Monte Gomeri
(filed '"MtGomery"), which reads, in part:
"Know all men both of the present and the
future that I Philip de Monte Gomeri have
given and granted and by this my present
charter confirmed to my Lord Richard de
Exonia and his heirs or his assignees one
townland in Connaught — which is called
Moyletrath which my Lord the King gave to
me with all its appurtenances — for him and
his heirs or his assignees to have and to hold
in chief from my Lord the King — with moors,
pastures, waters, and all liberties and free
usages pertaining to the said townland ; — free-
ly, quietly, happily, peacefully, entirely, hon-
orably and hereditarily forever, and for this,
to my Lord the King and his heirs Richard
himself and his heirs or his assignees are to
give the twentieth part of the service in fief
of one soldier for all service, suit in court,
collection or demand."

King Edward I. made a grant on June 12,
1304, to Richard de Exonia for an important
tract situated in Connaught, Ireland, as fol-
lows: "Be it known that we have given and
granted on our own part and that of our heirs
to our beloved and faithful Richard de Ex-
onia nine townlands with their appurtenances
in Connaught, in Ireland, namely townlands of
Dengvnmacossen, Conylloscv, Narraghtyn,
Corkillebrangyle, Corcropanlistostv, Rathfar-
eth. Tohirnetalpie. Torpan and Monynannan

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which the same Richard holds in tenancy by
ihe commission of our beloved and faithful
John Wogan our Justiciar in Ireland, made
for the same Richard under our direction for
■eighteen pounds delivered to us yearly at our
•exchequer in Dublin, in accordance with the
certification made at our order by the afore-
said Justiciar and returned to us under the
seal of the same Justiciar."

Concerning the appointment of Richard de
Exonia as Chief Justiciar on the bench in
Dublin: "Be it known that we have ap-
pointed our beloved and faithful Richard de
Exonia our Chief Justiciar on our bench in
Dublin for hearing and deciding pleas on the
same bench, together with our other faithful
Judiciars assigned to this place according to
law and custom of these parts as long as we
shall please. In (testimony) of which, etc.
L'nder the hand of the King at Langeleye on
the fifth day of June, 1308."

Carrickdexter was long the seat of the chief
■branch of the Dexter family, until Genet
Dexter, its heiress, married into the Rock-
fort family. Two miles from there, in the
year 1585, lived Margaret Dexter, in the Cas-
tle of Rathaldon. She married ^lichael Cu-
sacke. This estate is now in the town of
Slane, and is possessed by the Marquis of
Conyngham, while upon the property still
may be seen the ruins of the house that is
called Castle Dexter.

( I) Richard Dexter, progenitor of the fam-
ily in America, was born about the year 1606.
He came from within ten miles of the town
•of Slane. in county Meath, Ireland, where
lived the descendants of Richard de Excester,
the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. When the
great Irish massacre of the Protestants be-
gan, October 27, 1641, Richard Dexter took
his wife, Bridget, together with three or more
children, and fled to England. He remained
there only a brief time, for he was residing
in Boston, Massachusetts, prior to February
28. 1642, as on that day he was admitted a
"Townsman" of that place. Upon what ves-
sel he sailed is unknown. He signed a peti-
tion as an inhabitant of Charlestown, Mystic
side. May 16, 1648. and he resided there un-
til he purchased a farm in Maiden, Massa-
chusetts, December 7, 1663; but from Janu-
ary, 1677-78, until his death, he probably
lived with either his daughter Elizabeth or
Aun. He and his wife were members of the
church at Maiden, and in 16^0 she signed a
petition from that church to the general court.
He signed a remonstrance to the general
court. May 16, 1643, with the inhabitants of
"Mvstic side, against a proposed highway from
W^innisimmet to Reading, as the Maiden rec-

ords state. He received a deed from Edward
Lane, of Boston, December 7, 1663, of a
farm containing forty acres, in Maiden, and
the same property, later increased to two hun-
dred acres, was occupied several centuries
by his descendants in direct line. He al.so re-
ceived a deed as early as 1650, from Robert
Long, and still others, at subsequent periods.
In 1666-67, he gave a deed of some of his
property to "James Melius," who 1iath mar-
ried my daughter Elizabeth, — mariner, of
Charlestown," and who was supposed to have
been lost at sea practicing his vocation. In
a deed of January, 1677, he speaks of his de-
ceased son-in-law as "the late James Meal-
ings."

By a deed dated February 24, 1674, evident-
ly looking to the closing of his estate before
his death, he made provision as follows: "to
my Sonne John, of Charlestown, of all my
farm-houses and lands, and appurtenances be-
longing, which I have in Maiden, and which
I bought formerly of Mr. Edward Lane : and
half of my land and wood near Spot Pond,
being part of the lot given me by the town of
Charlestown — excepting one acre of marsh
land near Blanchard's farm, and about four
acres my dwelling house stands upon, for
my daughter Ann Pratt's use, where her
house now standeth — John to pay him 10
pounds a year during his life — 5 pounds in
Indian corn and pork, at prices current, and
12 loads of wood, to be delivered at his dweel-
ing house in Charlestown, with half of the
apples."

It is set forth in the records of those times
that Richard Dexter was a tythingman, prob-
ably of Boston, and according to the records
of the Middlesex court he was styled "Con-
.stable." According to his testimony in that
court in 1666, he was that year sixty-eight
years of age. In 1652 he was residing in
Misticke, as then written, according to a docu-
ment of September 22 of that year. His wife,
who was born about 1612. died about 1675,
and he died at Charlestown, Massachusetts,
in 1680.

Children: i. Alice, died between Novem-
ber 25, 1681, and August 22, 1682; married,
about 1653, Benjamin Muzzy, and had Ben-
jamin, born April 16, 1657; Joseph, horn
March 1, i6!;8-59, and Sarah. 2. Elizabeth,
died about October. 1693; married (first)
James Mellins, a mariner; by whom: Eliza-
beth, born September 4, 16^9: Mary, July
8. 1661 ; James. April 14, 1663: Mary, 1664':
Richard, April 24, 1665; John, September 17,
1666; Sarah, November 27, 1668; Thomas,
May II, 1670; \\'illiam, August 22, 1671 : she
married (second). May 14, 1680, Stephen

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Barrett. 3. John, born in 1639, see forward.
4. Ann, married John Pratt. 5. Sarah, born
at Charlestown, November i, 1644; married,
1666, Edward Pinson.

(H) John, third child of Richard and Brid-
get Dexter, was born in 1639, died at ]\Ialden,
Massachusetts, December 8, 1677. The farm
upon which he lived was transferred to him
by his father, February 24, 1674-75 ; but re-
serving to himself for life a free rental. At
this time his residence was stated as Charles-
town, where his daughter was born. He was
fatally shot in the back by Captain Samuel
Hunting, surviving the accident four days.
He married Sarah, who afterwards married
(before April 2, 1684) William Boardman,
and possibly had a third husband, Daniel
Hitchins. of Lynn, Massachusetts. Boardman
was admitted freeman of Maiden, March 12,
1689-90, and was elected constable of Rum-
ney Marsh. Children: i. John, born Au-
gust 21, 1 67 1, see forward. 2. Sarah, born
Charlestown. Massachusetts, June 11, 1674;
married, Reading, May 19, 1697, John Brown.
3. Richard, born Cambridge, ^Massachusetts,
November 6, 1676, died at Alalden, April 21,
1747-

(HI) John (2), eldest child of John (i)and
Sarah Dexter, was born August 21, 1671,
died at Maiden, Massachusetts, November 14,
1722. In deeds he was styled a weaver, and
possessed the farm at Maiden, receiving a
deed for one-fourth of it from his brother,
Richard, May 19, 1703, in consideration of
sixty pounds, and one-fourth from his sister,
Sarah, of Boston, May 6, 1697, for a like
amount, and as his father made no will, he
probably acquired the half of it as being the
oldest .son and so entitled by the law of that
period. He was a deacon in Maiden church ;
selectman in years 1709- 10- 16- 17-21 ; moder-
ator of a town meeting in 1722. Captain
John Dexter was in command of a company
of foot under George I. The commission
issued to him is of interest, and it reads : "To
John Dexter, Gentleman, Greeting: "By ver-
tue of the Power and Authority, in and by His
Majesty's Royal Commission to Me granted,
to be Captain-General, &c. over His Majes-
try's Province of the Massachusetts Bay,
aforesaid; I do (by these Present) reposing
especial Trust and Confidence in your Loyalty,
Courage and good conduct, constitute and
appoint you, the said John Dexter (to) be
Captain of the Company of Foot in Maiden
in the Regim. of Militia whereof the Hon-
orable Spencer Phipps, Esq. is Colonel. You
are therefore carefully and diligently, to dis-
charge the Duty of a Captain in Leading, Or-
dering and Exercising said Foot Company in

Arms, both Inferior Officers and Souldiers;.
and to keep them in good Order and Disci-
pline; hereby commanding them to Obey you
as their Captain." This was dated September
16, 1717, and was signed by Samuel Shute.
He left all his estate to his wife for his chil-
dren, with the conditional understanding that
if she remarried, John and Richard were to
pay her twelve pounds yearly.

Captain John Dexter married Winnefred
Sprague. born at Maiden, December 31, 1673,.
died there December 5, 1752, daughter of
Samuel Sprague (baptized June 3, 1632) and
Rebecca (Crawford) Sprague, who were mar-
ried at Boston, August 23, 1655. Children:
I. John, born at Maiden (as were all the oth-
ers), January 3, 1696-97, died there :\Iarch
4, 1696-97. 2. Winnefred, March 30, 1698,
died there June 30, 1698. 3. Samuel, October
23, 1700, see forward. 4. John, April 10,
1702, died at Maiden, July 4, 1705. 5. Tim-
othy, July 28, 1703. died at Maiden, Novem-
ber 30, 1703. 6. Timothy, July 28, 1704. died
at Maiden, October 17, 1704. 7. John, Decem-
ber 19, 1705. died at Maiden. May 17, 1790.
8. Richard, June 15, 1713, died Topsfield. No-
vember 25, 1783.

(IV) Rev. Samuel De.xter, third child of
Captain John (2) Dexter and \\'innefred
(Sprague) Dexter, was born at JNIalden, Mas-
sachuetts, October 23, 1700, died at Dedham,.
Massachusetts, January 29. 1755. He received
from his father by will one hundred ]X)unds.
being a smaller sum than was bequeathed to
his brothers, with one hundred and fifty
pounds to be added after his mother's death,
and for this extra allowance he waited long,
for she lived a widow thirty }ears. However,
when his father made the distribution of his
property while alive, he recorded the fact
that he had given to Samuel both learning
and books. He was of unusual studious quali-
ties, and was .sent to Harvard, graduating in
1720. He was admitted to the church May
I, 1720, ordained May 6. 1724. as the fourth
mini.ster of the First Church of Dedham. and
continued as such until his death, at that time
under the charge of Rev. Alvan Lamson. He
had kept school previously at Taunton, for
six months, and commenced a school at Lynn,
February, 1721, where he continued for one
year, and then engaged in teaching in Mai-
den, continuing for six months. From that
time he improved himself in preaching. He
received an unanimous call to be rector, with-
an oflFer of one hundred and fifty pounds
yearly salary. His reply shows the sincerity
of the man, and in its quaintness is of inter-
est, commencing as follows : "Honored and'
Beloved : Seeing that the Sovereign Jehovah,.

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in whose hands are the hearts of all men.
hath so far united the affections of the church
and congregation in this place, that they have
elected me (who am less than the least of all
saints) to the work of the evangelical minis-
try among you. and hath inclined your hearts
freely to offer, of your temporal good things
so far as you have done for my support, 1 do
therefore hereby declare (though with trem-
bling, do I engage in so great a work, for
who is sufficient for these things?) that I
freely embrace your invitation, because I be-
lieve it to be my incumbent duty, and thank-
fully accept your offers."

He married, Boston. Massachusetts, July 9.
172^, Catherine Mears. born at Boston, Sep-
tember 25. 1 701. died at Dedham, June 10,
1797. daughter of Samuel Mears (born May
22. 1671. died May 10, 1727) and Maria
Catherine (Smith) Mears, daughter of Cap-
tain Thomas Smith, mariner, whose portrait
is in the Hall of American Antiquities at
Worcester. Massachusetts. Mrs. Samuel Dex-
ter married, when a widow, Samuel Barnard,
of Salem, Massachusetts.

The Rev. Samuel Dexter had all the temer-
ity of the timid lover of the stage or novel
when approaching the subject of selecting and
winning a life partner. In his diary he made
record on November 22, 1723: "This day
was very cold. I communicated .something of
my mind to the young lady — which I hope
(and I think I have reason to hope), may,
through the smiles of indulgent Providence
be the Person in whom I may find the good
thing, and obtain favor of the Lord. I think
I have not been rash in my proceedings, she
is as far as I can find, a Woman of Merit,
a woman of good temper, and of prudent con-
duct and conversation, and oh ! Lord I would
humbly wait upon thee for so signal a Bless-
ing." He was evidently successful in his
hopes and surmises, for he wrote in his diary,
under date of October 23, 1724, this quaintly
worded sentence: "My companion is a kind,
tender, and virtuous person, and I hope I have
in her a good thing, which is from the Lord
God, make her so to me."

Her father kept a public house, as then
termed, called the "George Tavern," located
on the line between Boston and Duxbury,
which was burned July 31, 1775, and he then
conducted the Sun Tavern in Cock-court,
Dock Square, and after that the "Governor
Hancock." ^^'hen Samuel Mears died, Rev.
Mr. Dexter wrote of him: "He was in gen-
eral, a just, honest man and very charitable
for one of his capacity ; had a very hard
death, and I hope has exchanged earth for
heaven. My wife has lost a tender, loving

father, and I have lost a very kind, bountiful
friend."

Children of Rev. Samuel Dexter and Cath-
erine Mears, all born at Dedham, were: i.
Samuel, born March 18, 1725; baptized
March 21, died at Dedham, April 9, 1725. 2.
Samuel, born March 16, 1725-26; baptized
March 20; died at Mendon, June 10, 1810. 3.
John, born January 30, 1727-28; baptized
February 4 ; died at Dedham, November 5,
1731. 4. Ebenezer, born October 17, 1729,
see forward. 5. William, born September
12, 1731 ; baptized September 19; died at Ded-
ham, May 26, 1736. 6. Catharina, born Sep-
tember 28, 1733: baptized September 30; died
at Dedham, February 2, 1734-35. 7. John,
born August 12, 1735; baptized August 17;
died at Marlborough, February 7, 1800. 8.
Catharina. born November 21, 1737; bap-
tized November 27: died August 30, 1814. 9.
Rebecca, born October 4, 1739; baptized Octo-
ber 7; died May 31, 1823. 10. William, born
July 17, 1741 ; baptized July 19; died at Ded-
ham, June 9, 1749. II. Mary, born October
12. 1743; baptized October 13; died May 13,.
1775-

(\ ) Dr. Ebenezer Dexter, fourth child of
Rev. Samuel and Catherine (Mears) Dexter,.
was born at Dedham, Massachusetts, October
17, 1729, baptized October 19, died at Marl-
borough, Massachusetts, May 4. 1769. He
was a physician, practicing at Marlborough.
He married, Marlborough, February 7, 1754,
Lydia Woods, born at Marlborough, October
17, 1736, died there December 24. 1774,
daughter of Colonel Benjamin Woods, born
Marlborough, June 5, 1691, died in 1740, mar-
ried, August 8, 1717, Elizabeth Morse, born
January 4, 1699, daughter of Joseph and
Grace (Warren) Morse. After the death of
Dr. Dexter, she married. Marlborough, June
30, 1771, Dr. Samuel Curtis. All their "chil-
dren were born at Marlborough, Massachu-
setts. Children: i. William, born April 17,
1755, died at Marlborough, December 4, 1785.

2. Samuel, November 14, 1756, .see forward.

3. John, December 10, 1758, died at Boston,
October 31, 1807. 4. Jason Haven, June 25,
1762, died at Marlborough, August 25, 1770.

(\T) Samuel (2), second child of Dr. Ebe-
nezer and Lydia (Woods) Dexter, was bom
at Marlborough, Massachusetts. November
14, 1756, died at Albany, New York. August
29, 1825. He was an apothecary, and took
up his residence in Albany at the end of the
eighteenth century. He married, Northamp-
ton, Massachusetts, May 29. 1790. Elizabeth
Province, born at Northampton, July 4. 1763,
died at Albany, October 18, 1846, at the resi-
dence of her son, James, on the north side of

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Beaver street, opposite where stood the "Mid-
dle" Dutch Church. She was the daughter
of John Province (son of John Province and
Margaret Jer), born at Glasgow, Scotland,
in 1 7 19, came to America, May 10, 1740, set-
tling in Boston, died July 6, 1792; he married,
May 9, 1748, Sarah, daughter of Captain Jo-
seph and Mary (Townsend) Prince, born in
1730, died March 11, 1810, and was buried
in the Prince family tomb in the Granary
burial-ground at Boston. Massachusetts.

Of the remarkably fine character of Mrs.
Samuel Dexter, it was said: "Seldom has
death during the last half century bereaved
us of one leaving such records of goodness as
the late Mrs. Samuel Dexter. So well was
her kindly heart known and appreciated, that
when strangers in former times made this city
their temporary residence, often disheartened
and afflicted, they were reminded that one
hospitable door was open to them, where they
could meet a cordial welcome, and find all
the delights of home, in which word is cen-
tered most that is dear to us. In her dwell-
ing was seen all that taste and ingenuity could
dictate. So entirely free was she from all sel-
fishness, that no enjoyment was prized unless
shared with others. If truth showed frailities
in members of the community, she never cen-
sured them. The poor had experienced her
kindness so long, that they relied as confi-
dently upon the stores set apart for them
as if in their own possession, and her contri-
butions were bestowed in so kind a manner
that the wretched never lost their self-re-
spect."

Children: i. Eliza Hunt, born March 25,
1791, died May 7, 1799. 2. Frederick Sam-
uel, January 25, 1793. died June 30, 1793. 3.
James, born at Albany, New York, January
17, 1795, died there August 14. 1867, unmar-
ried; graduated at Union College. 1813; was
admitted to the bar by the New York supreme
court. January 17, 1823, and was one of Al-
bany's leading i^ractitioners. 4. Elizabeth
Ann, born at Albany, March 24. 1797, died
there August 30, 1840; married, .Mbany, May
6, 1823, Marcus Tullius Reynolds, who was
born in Minaville. Florida township. ^lont-
gomery county. New York. December 29.
1788, died in Albany, July 11, 1864, son of
Dr. Stephen and Lydia (Bartlett) Reynolds.
5. George, see forward.

(\'1I) George, son of Samuel (2) and Eliz-
abeth (Province) Dexter, was born at Al-
bany, New York, July 2, 1799. died there
July 21, 1883. After being given an elemen-
tary education in the city schools, he was
sent, at the age of sixteen, to Union College,
from which he graduated with full honors.

He studied law, was admitted, but never prac-
ticed. In his early life he manifested those
traits of self-reliance and energy which en-
abled him subsequently to be the architect of
his own fortune. About 1827, when he mar-
ried, he engaged in business with Henry
Rawles and James Archibald McClure in the
drug business, locating on the south side
of State street, which firm became one of
great prominence, as its business spread, un-
til it eventually vied with those in the me-
tropolis. After a time he withdrew and went
into business on his own account at No. 57
State street, and his place was known as
"Apothecaries' Hall." In 1850 he formed a
partnership with Joseph Nellegar, and ac-
quired the property at the northeast corner
of State and Pearl streets, the most promi-
nent intersection of streets in Albany's busi-
ness section. This partnership continued for
eighteen years when, having secured a com-
fortable fortune by the application of the rule
of absolutely fair dealing, he retired.

In 1839 ^nd 1840 he yielded to solicitations
of friends to enter political life, and was
chosen to represent the old fifth ward in the
board of supervisors, and he was elected in
1848 and 1849 to represent the sixth ward in
the common council. He was actively con-
cerned in the founding of the Albany I\ledi-
cal College, and for a number of years was a
trustee. For a very long time he was a ves-
tryman of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, and
on his death w^as senior warden. The rector.
Rev. Dr. Walton W. Battershall, paid his
memory the following tribute: "His life of
eighty-three years was to a singular degree
identified with the history of the parish. From
his baptism in the little, stone church that
stood underneath the fort in the middle of
State street, the first Episcopal church west
of the Hudson river in all America — what a
host of memories concerning the history of
this city and this parish were gathered up in
his life. He represented much that was best
in its type of character and life. The cour-
tesy of the old days, the simple tastes, the
spotless integrity, the faith and reverence, the
.serenity and content and freedom from the
push and rush of these more recent days —
all these were conspicuous traits of his char-
acter, and entered into the kindly, genial flow
of his life. He was a man who won your
trust and love, and he never betrayed them.
The world, the church, the life of the house-
hold, and friendship, and business, has need
of such men — men whose fidelity you can lean
on as an oaken staff. They are the moral salt
of a community, and their memories are a
])rccious inheritance and an inspiration to

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gentle and true and loyal living." The vestry
of St. Peter's made record, in part, as follows :
"He was a man of great beauty of character,
whose kind and genial nature made his life
rich in friendships, and who sustained all the
trusts and relations of life with a rare cour-
tesy, dignity and fidelity. He was for many
j'ears a member of the vestry, giving to it his
judicious counsel and unwearied labors. We
order the chancel draped with the customary
badge of mourning."

.Vfter retiring from business, he continued
to occupy an office on the ground floor of
the same building, where he was wont to
meet with his friends daily for the sole pur-
pose of continuing the intimate companion-
ship of a large circle of acquaintances, and
was a most entertaining conversationalist, for
his recollections comprised a varied lot of
most interesting local history, dating back to
the time when he made the trip, in company
with his father, upon the first journey of
Robert Fulton's famous steamboat, the
"Clermont." He could also vividly describe
the visit of Lafayette, September 17, 1824,
when given a rousing, public reception by
the city.

He was in his nature strongly conserva-
tive, always honest, sincere and upright in
his purposes and conduct. He was a staunch
adherent of the old Whig party, as long as it
lasted, and he then became an earnest sup-
porter of the Republicans. He was a liberal
contributor to all the public charities and be-
nevolent enterprises. He was a trustee of
the .Mbany Savings Bank for many years, un-
til his death.

Bishop \\'illiam Croswell Doane made this
tribute in his address before the convention
of the Episcopal Church, in 1884. "A very
prominent figure has passed away from Al-
bany in the death of Mr. George Dexter, for
many years one of the mo.st active and useful
members of the vestry of St. Peter's church,
and at the time of his death, its senior war-
den. I miss his kindly greeting, which was
almost a daily pleasure in my life upon the
street, and the whole town misses him. as one
of the few left of the old-fashioned gentlemen
of Albany, 'a serene and genial old friend,
who. without being garrulous, took pleasure
in stirring up his old-time reminiscences of
people and things in the Albany of a former
day. He loved to talk,' I quote from the same
graceful notice of him l)y my dear friend, Mr.
Orlando Meads, 'of the school and school-
mistresses of his early years, of the clergy-
men, and especially of the old rectors of St.
Peter's, their habits, peculiarities and the
manv interesting facts connected with them.

All these things made him a centre of loving
interest to his friends. His was a beautiful,
serene old age, tempered by time; strength-
ened by a firm and quiet religious faith ; but
ever preserving its interest in the happiness
and welfare of those about him, and thus it
came gently and peacefully to its close, leav-
ing us pleasant remembrances of a good and
useful and benignant life.'" He was buried
in the Albany Rural cemetery, and in the
nave of St. Peter's Church a window of beau-
tiful, artistic execution was placed to his
memory as its warden.

George Dexter married, at .Mbany. New
York. April 5, 1827, Mary Magdalen Cuyler,
born at Fort Johnson, Johnstown, New York,
the historic place of Sir William Johnson,
February 3. 1810, died at Albany, October 4,
1847, daughter of John Cornelius and Han-
nah (Maley) Cuyler. Children, born at .Al-
bany: I. .Anna Augu.sla, July 16, 1833, see
forward. 2. Catherine Cuyler, March 4, 1837,
unmarried. 3. Cynthia Reynolds, October 14,
1839, died at Albany, November 23, 1893. un-
married. 4. Mary, June 27, 1845, died there,
February 7, 1848.

(VHI) Anna Augusta, eldest child of
George and Mary Magdalen (Cuyler) Dex-
ter, was born at .Albany, New York, July 16,
1833. She married (first), in St. Peter's
Church, Albany, .April 6, 1858, William James
Noyes, who died at Old Lyme, Connecticut,
January 31, i860, without issue. She married
(second), in St. Peter's Church. Albany, Oc-
tober 25, 1866, William Henry Bradford. He
was born at New York. New York, Septem-
ber 22, 1812, died at his home in that city,
December 30. 1895. .son of William and Eliza
(Price) Bradford. In the latter years of his
life, he bought property at Lenox, Massachu-
setts, where his family was living in 191 1.

Mr. Bradford was eighth in direct descent
from William Bradford, governor of Plym-
outh Colony. The line of descent reaches to
William Bradford, of .Austerfield. a small
village on the .southern border of Yorkshire,
England, who held the rank of "Yeoman,"
and was one of the only two persons of prop-
erty then in that place. His .son, William,
was born in 1561. died in i.Sgi; married
Alice Hanson, in 1584. Their third child
(first son). William, was born in .Austerfield,
March, 1^90: was placed in care of his grand-
father, being left an infant, and when
he died, was brought up by an uncle.
When twelve years old, he was deeply
impressed by listening to the reading of
the Scriptures, and later joined the band
of worshipers known as .Separatists, who
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William Brewster, in Scrooby, an atljacent
village. Religious persecution followed, and
James I. declared he would "harry them out
of the land, or worse." Under such condi-
tions, they removed to Holland, where they
could worship freely in their own way. They
were about to start from Boston, England,
when the king, through the treachery of the
captain of the vessel, confined seven of them
in prison. Bradford, being youthful, was re-
leased sooner than the others, and proceeded
to Zealand, Holland, where he was accused
of being an English fugitive ; but, on explain-
ing his cause, was allowed to go, and joined
his friends at Amsterdam, where he became
a silk dyer.

At the end of three years Bradford came
into possession of his inheritance, which
he converted into cash, and established him-
self in business. In 1609 the colony removed
to Leyden, staying there about ten years, when
he was one of those agitating for moving
elsewhere. They proceeded to England.
With others, he engaged in purchasing the
sailing vessels "Speedwell" and "Mayflower."
The former proving unseaworthy, they em-
barked aboard the latter, and, although in-
tending to settle near the Hudson river, they
entered Cape Cod harbor on the morning of
November 11, 1620, and just before passing
in, drew up a compact which they signed.

In the explorations to select the most prop-
er place to locate, Bradford was one of the
prime movers. While away on one of these
hazardous trips, likely to come across sav-
ages and wild beasts, his wife was accidentally
drowned. On December 21, 1620, the band
landed at Plymouth. It was a forlorn party
of courageous souls, and their struggle that
winter was severe, for six of them died in
December, eight in January, seventeen in Feb-
ruary and thirteen in March. The following
month, the "Mayflower" sailed back to Eng-
land, and they were left to their own re-
sources, cut entirely loose from home and
all assistance or supplies. Shortly thereafter.
Carver, their leader, died, and William Brad-
ford was chosen governor. He ruled wisely,
holding this office for the long jieriod of thir-
ty-seven years, with the exception of the
three-year term of Edward Winslow and the
two-year term of Mr. Prince.

He won the unbounded respect of all in the
colony. Understanding the character of the
Indians thoroughly, his tact and bravery
counted for much at several critical periods.
A new and larger patent was granted them
in 1629, in the name of "William Bradford,
his heirs, associates and assigns." Bradford
displayed judicious management and lessened

their extreme misery as time went on. De-
spite his meagre opportunity in youth to ac-
quire more than a fair education, he was by
natural bent able to improve himself, and he
studied the languages that he might, as he
put it, "see with his own eyes the ancient
oracles of God in their native beauty." In
this manner he became familiar with Greek,
Hebrew, Latin and Dutch, at the same time
reading much of history, philosophy and re-
ligion. He was unusually active with his pen,
as was discovered after his death, and his
writings have been published, but only one
appearing in print while he lived.

Governor William Bradford married, in
1623, the widow, Alice (Carpenter) South-
worth, for his second wife, who died at New
Plymouth, Massachusetts, March 26, 1670,
aged eighty years, and he died May 9, 1657.
By his first marriage he had a son named
John, who was a deputy to the court at Plym-
outh, from Duxbury, iii 1651, and from
Marshfield, in 1653. No record of his mar-
riage has ever been learned. By his second
wife, he had William. Mercy and Joseph.
The eldest of these. Major William Brad-
ford, was born June 17, 1624, died February
20, 1704, and married successively Alice Rich-
ards, of Weymouth ; the Widow Wiswall, and
Mary (Atwood) Holmes, widow of Rev. John
Holmes, the first minister of Duxbury and
daughter of Deacon John Atwood, of Plym-
outh. The Bradford arms : Shield : Gules,
on a fesse azure, three stags" heads erased,
argent. Crest: A stag's head erased.

Children of William Henry Bradford and
Anna Augusta Dexter: i. Grace, born at
New York, New York, September 2, 1868;
married, at New York City, February 14,
1889, Lindsay Fairfax. He was born at "Oak
Hill," Aldie. Loudoun county, Virginia, May
5, 1857, .son of John Walter and Mary Jane
(Rogers) Fairfax, by whom: Bradford Lind-
say, born in New York City, February 11.
1893. and Grace I,indsay, born at Eastbourne,
England. April 21. 1898. 2. William Henry,
born at New York City, March 19, 1872; mar-
ried, at New York City, February 8, 1892,
Mary Kingsland Jones, born at New York
City, October 4, 1870, daughter of Herman
LeRoy and Augusta (Kingsland) Jones, by
whom : William, born at Babylon, Long Island,
November 20, 1893, died at New York City,
March 20, 1900, and George Dexter, born at
New York City, June 12, 1897. 3. George
Dexter, born in New York, New York, May
II. 1873, died there, November 24, 1894, un-
married ; he was educated by tutors and also
attended St. Paul's School, at Concord, New
Hampshire.

HUDSON AND MOHAWK \ALLEYS

•735

Tudge Randall James Le

LE BOEUF Hoeuf, son of Peter J. and
Sarah A. (Saunders) Le
r>oeuf. was bom in Cohoes, New York, March
lo, 1870.

Judge Le Boeuf's father was of French
descent, and a resident of Canada in his
youth, coming there from France when a
xrhild. He was sent into the United States
for his education, and graduated from the
Fort Edward Institute in New York state.
Shortly afterwards he engaged in the manu-
facture of axes in Cohoes. After that he
removed to Troy, New York, where he was
actively concerned in the manufacture of
collars, cuffs, and shirts, the leading industry
of that city. He was for a number of years
a member of the firm of Wheeler, Allendorf
& LeBoeuf, afterwards Wheeler, Le Boeuf
& Company.

The ancestors of Judge Le Boeuf's mother,
the Saunders family, came to this country
from Scotland in colonial days, settling first
on the Taunton and Providence, Rhode
Island "plantations," as they were then styled,
several of this family playing most important
parts in the struggle for independence. Her
father was Randall Saunders, a well-known
resident of Albany in 1830, and members of
this family moved into Columbia, Greene and
L'lster counties. She was born at Albany,
and was educated at the State Normal Col-
lege.

When nine years old. Judge Le Boeuf came
to live in Albany, and attended the high
school, from which he graduated in the class
of 1887. He then took up the study of law
in the office of the late Eugene Burlingame,
an unusually bright lawyer and district attor-
ney. In the fall of 1889, Judge Le Boeuf en-
tered Cornell L'niversity, and graduated from
the law department in 1892, with the degree
LL. D. He was there one of the prize de-
baters, and also received the thesis prize for
his treatise of the law. He was made a mem-
ber of the Delta Upsilon fraternity, and was
president of both the junior and senior classes
of the law school. A part of his work at Cor-
nell was done under the supervision of
Charles E. Hughes, later the governor of
New York state and afterwards judge of the
United States supreme court, then professor
of law, and Mr. Le Boeuf's thesis on the
rights and remedies of abutters on streets
over which the elevated railroads were con-
structed, procured for him, through the inter-
est of members of the faculty of Cornell, a
position as managing clerk in the law firm of
Sackett & Bennett, who at that time did a
large business for jjroperty owners in actions

brought against the New York and Manhat-
tan Elevated Company. During his connec-
tion with this firm, he formed, what is be-
lieved to have been, the first linotype labor
union organized in the I'nited States. He
also had considerable experience in the forma-
tion of the model village of Larchmont, New
York, which was built up from the proper-
ties of the Larchmont Manor companies.

Upon the return of Charles E. Hughes to
his firm in New York City, known as Carter,
Hughes & Kellogg, he entered the office of
that firm as assistant attorney. He was of-
fered the position by Walter S. Carter, who
was the senior member of the law firm, fath-
er-in-law of Governor Hughes, and a man of
country-wide reputation as the friend and
starter of young men. Mr. Le Boeuf consid-
ered his connection with Governor Hughes
to be equivalent to a liberal education in law
matters, and the latter evidently noticed his
response to earnest effort, for later Mr. Le
Boeuf's application brought its reward. Mr.
Le Boeuf was admitted to the bar at .Sara-
toga Springs, New York, September 14, 1892.
In 1895. Eugene Burlingame, with whom Mr.
Le Boeuf had read law, having been elected
district attorney for Albany county, Mr. Le
Boeuf returned to Albany and formed a law
partnership with him, which continued
throughout Mr. Burlingame's first term and
ended only with the-latter's sudden death in
1898, during his second term of office. In
November, 1897, j\lr. Le Boeuf drew the
charter for the new city of Rensselaer, Co-
lumbia county. New York, and was appoint-
ed its first corporation counsel, remaining in
that office consecutive years until 1902. It
has ever been a source of satisfaction to him
that he made a great number of friends dur-
ing that period, and likewise had the benefit
of the experience. After Mr. Burlingame's
death, he formed a partnership with Surro-
gate Newton B. Van Derzee and John T.
Cook, ex-district attorney, and for several
years they practiced in the Municipal Gas
Company building on State street, Albany.

In the year 1900 Mr. Le Boeuf undertook
the formation of what became the Albany
Trust Company, enlisting the assistance of a
number of prominent citizens, both at .Albany
and in New York, and the handsome building
of its own was opened on September 5, 1904,
the organization dating from March 20, 1900,
when Mr. John D. Parsons, Jr., was chosen
its president, who was also the president of
the National Exchange Bank of .\lbany. He
has given, since then, much time to its af-
fairs, and has been a director and its legal
counsel. He has also been interested in bank-

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ing institutions in other cities, and as such
was made a director of the Schenectady, Troy
and Syracuse Trust Companies in those three
cities. He has had large experience also in
litigation affecting gas and electric lighting
companies. He has been engaged in legal
work for railroad corporations, and was at-
torney for the Albany & Hudson Railroad
Company, participating in the work of reor-
ganization when forming the present Albany
& Southern Railroad Company. His practice
has not been confined to New York state, but
has included cases of moment in the circuit
courts of the United States and other Federal
courts. He has had considerable familiarity
with litigation affecting the rights of vessels
navigating the waters of this state and tide
waters. Governor Charles E. Hughes ap-
pointed him a justice of the supreme court
for this district, December 26, 1909, to suc-
ceed the late Judge George H. Fitts, which
appointment was generally satisfactory to
those who knew him. To this high office he
gave his best endeavors.

When Justice Le Boeuf retired from office
upon the expiration of his term, December 31,
1910, it was made a notable occasion by those
with whom he had been brought in contact.
His desk had been piled high with a display
of American Beauty roses, and he was over-
come by the marks of appreciation. The Al-
bany County Bar xA.s.sociation had drawn reso-
lutions, to the effect that "his service upon
the bench has been marked by the greatest
degree of expedition consistent with a proper
consideration of the multitude of important
cases which have been presented to him for
decision, and that the uniform patience and
courteous consideration which have charac-
terized his judicial relations, manifest that he
is possessed of the temperament necessary in
a judge." The resolutions further recited
that the members of the bar in .\lbany county
appreciate his service, which had served
to demonstrate his worth, his excellent judg-
ment, absolute fairness, energetic promptness
in the despatch of matters brought before him,
and his clear and unbiased interpretation of
the laws.

Judge Le Boeuf is a member of the New
York State Bar Association, the .American
Society of International Law, and of the Bar
Association of Albany County. He is promi-
nent among Masons, being a member of Mas-
ters' Lodge. No. 5, and Capital City Chapter,
Royal .4rch Masons, of De Witt Council,
Royal and Select Masters, and vice-presi-
dent of Cornell Alumni Association ; member
of the executive council of the Delta Upsilon
fraternity, of the Unconditional Republican

Club and of the National Geographic Society,
Fort Orange, University and Aurania clubs,
and Pine Hills Association of Albany, and
the Republican, Cornell and Railroad clubs of
New York City. He is a trustee and vestry-
man of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church of
Albany, and resides at No. 531 Western ave-
nue.

Judge Le Boeuf married, at Albany, New
York, June 3, 1896, Katharine Washburn,
daughter of Hiram L. Washburn. Judge and
Mrs. Le Boeuf have one child, Randall James
Le Boeuf, Jr. Hiram L. Washburn was a
dealer in real estate, residing at the northeast
corner of Western avenue and Quail street,
Albany.

Frank Sweet Black, ex-governor
BLACK of the state of New York, was-

born at Livingston, York county,
Maine, March 8, 1853. He was one of a.
family of eleven children who were reared on
a rocky farm with a fractious soil that did
not respond liberally to the farmer's efforts.
At the age of eleven his parents removed to
Alfred, RIaine, where he attended the school'
now known as Limerick Academy, going"
from there to Lebanon Academy. He was a
poor boy and his school days were frequently
interrupted by the need of earning money.
He taught school to earn enough to continue
his course at Lebanon, where he organized
a debating society and was one of the chief
debaters. With some money gained in teach-
ing and some obtained from his father (which
later was repaid from his first earnins:s) he
entered Dartmouth College in 1875. He was
not well prepared, but by hard work made
good the studies, in which he was deficient.
As before, he taught school to pay his ex-
penses ; one year he taught school at Cape-
Cod. In his junior year he could only attend
his classes eleven weeks of the session. While
a senior he taught in Provincetown, Cape
Cod, where he met Lois B. Hamlin, who on
Thanksgiving Day, 1879, became his wife.
Despite all his handicaps. Mr. Black was one
of the honor men on Commencement Day,
had been the editor of two college periodicals
and had twice been chosen a prize speaker.
His success in teaching brought him the high
endorsement of the college faculty, and on
graduation day he had the choice of three
principalships offered him. But the law, not
teaching, was his goal, and all the offers were
refused. He joined forces with a fellow stu-
dent, Henry W. Smith, of Troy, and together
they established headquarters at Rome. New
York, and began the sale of pictures, the
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\\'hile so engaged, he became acquainted with
\V. M. Irehmd, editor of the Johnstown, Ful-
ton count)-, Journal, and librarian of the state
senate at Albany, who was in need of a com-
petent man to take charge of the journal. Mr.
Blaclv accepted this position, and he was soon
hard at work on both editorial and local pages
of the journal. The great struggle was then
on between the national giants, Blaine and
Conkling. Being from Maine he warmly sup-
ported the man from Elaine, overlooking the
fact that Mr. Ireland was a political follower
of Conkling. This led to a rupture and Mr.
Black resigned. While engaged in editorial
work he had begun the study of law with
\\'ells, Dudley & Keck, of Fulton county. He
now removed to Troy, New York, where he
continued his legal study with Robertson &
Foster, working in the meantime as reporter
on the Troy Whig, in the office of the regis-
try department of the Troy postofifice, and
in the service of various legal papers. He
soon became managing clerk in the office of
Robertson & Foster, and had the distinction
of operating the first typewriter ever used in
Troy. He earned a part of his expense money
by copying papers, becoming exceedingly ex-
pert on the machine. In 1879, four years
after his graduation, he was admitted to the
bar. He accepted an offer of a partnership
and became junior member of the la\v firm of
Smith, Wellington & Black, continuing for
one year, then went into business for himself,
and opened offices in the Young building in
Troy. He went into debt for law books, but
when he had them, read and knew them. He
worked hard, thoroughly prepared his cases
and each year showed an increase in practice
and income. In a few years he became known
as a leader of the Rensselaer county bar and
had his choice of cases. He always avoided
criminal cases, but there were few civil cases
of importance in the county in which he was
not offered a retainer on one side or the
other. His law library was one of the best in
Troy, and every book in it gave signs of
usage. In one month. August, 1893, there
came to Mr. Black's legal care, the largest
business that ever came to a law office in
Troy in the same time. The passing into
receivership of the Troy Steel & Iron Com-
pany, and of the Gilbert Car Company, was
an indication of his high standing in the legal
fraternity. He was always a Republican in
conviction, in experience and in service. lie
was a campaign speaker for the Republican
county committee in 1888 and 1892. Becom-
ing aware of the election frauds in Troy, he
drew up bills for presentation to the legisla-
ture to make these frauds impossible. An ex-

citing election followed, at which a Republican
watcher, named Robert Ross, was murdered
by a man named "Bat" Shea. Mr. Black or-
ganized a committee of public safety, to se-
cure the punishment of the murderer, who-
ever he might be, and accomplished his ob-
ject. Shea, after trial, was convicted and
electrocuted. Mr. Black then continued his
efiforts to reform the election laws and secured
the passage of the O'Connor Inspector Act.
As a natural result of his political activity in
the fall of 1894, he was nominated and elected
to congress. In the house he served on com-
mittees, Pacific railroad and private land
claims. In 1896 he was renominated, but
there w-as a greater office before him. 1 le
had been a delegate to the Republican Na-
tional Convention that nominated McKinley,
and had made a brilliant speech, when New
York City ratified the nomination. His ca-
pacity for public work of a high order had
become known when his name was presented
by Rensselaer and Columbia counties at the
state convention held at Saratoga as a candi-
date for governor, his speedy nomination over
several strong candidates following. He made
a series of strong speeches in the campaign
that followed, and had the gratification of
being elected by the largest plurality ever
given a Republican candidate for governor,
212,992. He was sworn into office January i,
1897. He gave the state a strong administra-
tion, which was specially marked by the com-
pletion of the state capitol, which had been in
course of construction so many years. The
governor took hold of this problem in his
u.sual thorough, vigorous manner, and the
capitol w^as finished. After retiring from of-
fice he returned to the practice of law, in
which he has since added to his fame. He
married, as stated, Lois Hamlin, daughter of
Dr. Hamlin, of Provincetown, Massachusetts.
He has one child, Arthur, who was fifteen
years of age when his father was elected
governor of New York state. Few men can
look back over their lives with greater satis-
faction than Frank Sweet Black, who, by
.sheer force of character, rose from a lowly
position to the highest.

The Backus family is one of the
B.\CKUS oldest in this country and in

England, the line going back to
Ecgberht, the first king of England, from him
to Cerdic, the first king of the West Saxons,
and tradition has it that this last named was
a lineal descendant of Woden (or Odin), who
was supposed to be descended from the eldest
son of Noah. There have been many distin-
guished men in this familv in addition'to those

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mentioned in detail below, among them being :
Rev. Dr. Charles Backus, of Somers, Con-
necticut, president of Yale College ; Rev. Dr.
A. Backus, a former president of Hamilton
College. New York; Rev. Backus, a distin-
guished Baptist minister of New England
during the revolution; Rev. Simon Backus,
who married a sister of the celebrated Jona-
than Edwards ; and a number of clergymen
equally noted. In other walks of life members
of this family have become equally famous.

(I) William (i) Backus is the immigrant
ancestor. He is supposed to have come to this
country from Norwich, England, his name ap-
pearing as crossing in the "Rainbow" in 1637,
and the town of Norwich, Connecticut, was
so named as a mark of respect and esteem for
William Backus, Norwich, England, having
"been presumably his birthplace. The fine
Backus Hospital at Norwich, Connecticut, also
commemorates this fact. He was at Saybrook,
Connecticut, in 1638, and was one of the
thirty-five original proprietors of Norwich,
who established the town in 1660. His death
occurred prior to May 7, 1664. He married
(first) Sarah, daughter of Rev. John Chodes,
of Branford, Connecticut. He married (sec-
ond) before 1660, Ann (Stenton) Bingham,
widow of Thomas Bingham. She died in
JVIay, 1670. Children, all by first marriage:
I. William, see forward. 2. Stephen, mar-
ried, December, 1666, Sarah, who died at
Canterbury, Connecticut, daughter of Ensign
Jared and Hannah Spencer, of Cambridge and
Lynn, Massachusetts, and of Haddam, Con-
necticut. Children: Sarah, married David
Knight, of Norwich ; Stephen, died at Can-
terbury ; Mary ; Ruth, married Robert Green,
of Canterbury ; Lydia ; Deacon Timothy, of
'Canterbury, married Sarah, daughter of John
and Sarah (Reynolds) Post, of Norwich, and
had eight children ; Elizabeth, married Na-
thaniel Bond, of Canterbury, son of Nathan-
iel and Bethia (Fuller) Bond, of Watertown,
Massachusetts ; Rebecca, married William
Blake, of Canterbury. 3. Sarah, married John
Reynolds, of Norwich. 4. Mary, married,
1665, Benjamin Crane, of Wethersfield, Con-
necticut. 5. , married John Baylev.

(11) William (2), eldest child of William
(i) and Sarah (Chodes) Backus, was born
in England, died at Norwich, Connecticut, in
1 72 1. He was ensign of the train band in
May, 1680, appointed lieutenant in May, 1693,
and represented the town at the general court
at Hartford in May, 1680-84. and October,
1680-83-84-89. He married Elizabeth, born
at Saybrook, Connecticut, I'-ebruary i. 1641-
42. died in 1730, daughter of Lieutenant Wil-
liam and Elizabeth (Clark) Pratt, of Say-

brook. Children: i. Sergeant William, born
May II, 1660, died at Windham, Connecticut,
January 25, 1742-43, where he had gone about
1692, in which year he was sergeant of the
Windham train band; he married (first), No-
vember 3, 1681, Elizabeth ■ — , who died

March 28, 1687-88; married (second) Au-
gust 31, 1692, Mary Dunton, born in March,
1662, died December 16, 1757, possibly a
daughter of Samuel Dunton, of Reading ; chil-
dren by first marriage: Sarah, John and Wil-
liam ; children by second marriage : Samuel,
married Sarah Card and had six children ;
Abigail ; Mary ; Daniel ; Hannah ; Peter, mar-
ried Mary Arnold; William, married (first)
Sarah • Bennet and had three children, and
(second) Mary Dimmock, and had one child;
Stephen ; Ephraim, married Colaty Vining and
had seven children. 2. John, born February 9,
1 66 1, died at Windham, Connecticut, March
27, 1744; he went to Windham about 1692,
and was deputy from 1704 to 1711 ; he mar-
ried, February 17, 1691-92, Mary, born July,
1672, died February 19, 1747, daughter of
Thomas and Mary (Rudd) Bingham, of Nor-
wich ; children : i. Mary, married Joshua, son
of Joshua and Hannah (Bradford) Ripley,
of Windham. ii. Lydia, married Colonel
Thomas, son of Deacon Joseph and Hannah
( Baxter) Dyer, of Weymouth, Massachusetts.
Colonel Thomas Dyer married (second) Me-
hitable Gardiner, and (third) Sarah (Bing-
ham) Walden. iii. John; iv. John, married
Sibyl, daughter of Rev. Samuel and Elizabeth
(Adams) Whiting, of Windham, and had
twelve children ; v. Abigail, married Elijah
Hurlbnrt, of Windham ; vi. Jerusha, became
the second wife of Daniel Stoughton, of
Windham, who married (third) Sarah Kim-
ball; vii. Zerviah, became the second wife of
Rev. Hezekiah Lord, of Preston, son of En-
sign James Lord, of Saybrook ; viii. Nathan-
iel. 3. Sarah, born June 14, 1663; married,
January 15, 1681-82, Edward, son of Edward
and Ann Culver, of Norwich and Lebanon. 4.
Samuel, born May 2, 1665. 5. Joseph, see
forward. 6. Nathaniel, born April 15, 1669,
died August 16, 1728 ; he was of Norwich ;
married (first ) Lydia, daughter of Richard
and Mary (Sylvester) Edgerton ; (second)
Elizabeth, daughter of John and Mary (Wins-
low) Tracy; children of first marriage: i.
Daniel ; ii. Lydia, married David, possibly a
son of Samuel and Anne (Calkins) Birchard,
of Norwich ; iii. Nathaniel ; children of second
marriage : iv. Nathaniel ; v. Nathaniel, mar-
ried Hannah, daughter of Thomas and Abi-
gail (Lay) Baldwin, and had seven children;
vi. Mary, married Nathaniel, son of Nathan-
iel and Abigail (Hartshorn) Rudd; vii. Eliza-

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"beth. who became the second wife of John,
son of John and Experience (Abell) Hyde;
viii. Josiah, married Love, daughter of Dea-
con Joseph and Ruth (Denison) Kingsbury,
and had eight children: ix. Jabez, married
(first) Eunice, daughter of Deacon Joseph
and Ruth (Denison) Kingsbury: (second)
Esther, daughter of Aaron and Susanna
(Wade) Clark, of Lebanon, and widow of
Ezra Lathrop ; he had six children by the first
marriage and two by the second. 7. Eliza-
beth, died December 29, 1728; she married,
February 10, 1686-87, Deacon Thomas Hunt-
ington, of Mansfield, son of Christopher and
Ruth (Rockwell) Huntington. 8. Hannah,
died in February. 1752; she married (first),
February 17. 1691-92, Thomas, son of Thomas
and Mary (Rudd) Bingham; (second) March
4, 1711-12, Daniel, son of Lieutenant Thomas
and (Mason) Tracy; (third) Novem-
ber 18. 1729, at Lisbon, Samuel, son of Lieu-
tenant Francis Griswold, of Norwich. 9.
]\Iary, died March 27, 1752: she married, De-
cember. 1697. Tliomas, son of Samuel and
Jane (Lee) Hyde.

(HI) Lieutenant Joseph Backus, fourth
son and fifth child of William (2) and Eliza-
"beth (Pratt) Backus, was born September 6,
1667, died in Norwich, December. 1740. He
was considered one of the most influential men
in the town of Norwich, representing it for
about forty years at the general court at Hart-
ford. He was ensign of the train band in
1690, and lieutenant in May, 1693. He mar-
ried. April 9, 1690, Elizabeth Huntington,
iDorn October 6, 1669, died in 1762 (see Hunt-
ington H). Children: i. Joseph, born March
I, 1691 : went to Hartford in 1725; sherifif
•of Hartford county, September, 1726: re-
turned to Norwich in 1736; he married. Alarch
I, 1721-22, Hannah, born January 3. 1696,
•died October. 1747, daughter of Richard and
Mary (Talcott) Edwards, of Hartford; chil-
dren: William. EHsha. Mary, Hannah and
Joseph. 2. Lieutenant Samuel, born January
6, 1692-93. died of the measles. November 24.
1740; he was lieutenant of the Second Com-
pany of the train band of Norwich, May.
1727; representative, October, 1738-39-40: he
married. January 18, 1715-16, Elizabeth, born
April 6. 1698, died January 26. 1769. daugh-
ter of John and Elizabeth (Leffingwell)
Tracy : children : i. Captain Samuel, married
(first) Phebe. daughter of Hugh and Phebe
(Abell) Calkins, and had five children: mar-
ried (second) Elizaheth, daughter of Joshua
and ]\Iary (Welch) Wedge, and had three
children ; ii. Ann, became the second wife of
Captain Joshua, son of Dr. Samuel and Eliza-
heth ( SbuTan) Abell; iii. Elizabeth, married

General Jabez, son of Captain Joshua and
Hannah (Perkins) Huntington; General Ja-
bez Huntington married (second) Hannah
Williams, of Pomfret ; iv. Rev. Isaac, was or-
dained pastor of the Baptist church, Titicut
parish. Middleboro. Massachusetts, April 13,
1748 : he married Susanna, daughter of Sam-
uel Mason, of Rehoboth. Massachusetts, and
had nine children; v. Captain Elijah was very
prominent in the military afifairs of his time ;
he married (first) Lucy, daughter of John
and Hannah (Lee) Griswold, of Lyme, and
had nine children; he married (second) Mar-
garet (Grant) Tracy, widow of Jared Tracy;
vi. Simon ; vii. Eunice, married John, son of
Nathaniel and Abigail (Birchard) Post : John
Post married (second) Abigail Lelifingwell ;
viii. Major Andrew, also prominent and dis-
tinguished in military afifairs ; he married Lois,
daughter of Thomas and Mary Pierce, of
Plainfield. and had seven children ; ix. Asa,
also prominent in military afifairs ; married
Esther Parkhurst, of Plainfield, and had eight
children: x. Lucy, married Benajah, son of
Benajah and Joanna (Christophers) Leffing-
well : xi. Deacon John. 3. Ann, born Janu-
ary 27, 1694-95, died August 24, 1761 : she
married, April 25, 1717, Nathaniel, son of
Samuel and Hannah (Adgate) Lathrop. 4.
Rev. Simon, born February 11, 1700-01. died
at Cape Breton. February 2, 1746; he was
chaplain in the colonial army in 1746; he mar-
ried. October i, 1729, Eunice, fjorn August
20. 1705, died June i. 1788, daughter of Rev.
Timothy and Esther (Stoddard) Edwards, of
East \\1ndsor ; children : i. Clarinda, married
Zebadiah, son of Nathaniel and Ann (Backus)
Lathrop. of Norwich ; ii. Eunice, died unmar-
ried : iii. Elizabeth, married David, son of
Ensign David and Sarah (Grant) Bissell, of
East Windsor: iv. Rev. Simon, pastor at
Granby, Massachusetts, and at Guilford, Con-
necticut ; he married Rachel, daughter of Ab-
ner and Elizabeth (Lyman) Moseley, and had
twelve children: v. Esther, married Benjamin
Ely, of West Springfield, now Holyoke. Mas-
sachusetts ; vi. Joseph, died young : vii. Jeru-
sha. married Smith Bailey, of East Windsor;
viii. Mary, died young. 5. James, born Au-
gust 14, 1703, died in Norwich, in 1756; mar-
ried. November i. 1747, Lydia Huntley, and
had : Joseph. Mary, Ezekicl, Lus and Mary.
6. Elizabeth, born October 27. 1705. died
August 7, 1787 ; she married. September 26,
1725, Cyprian, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth
Lord, of Saybrook. 7. Sarah, born July. 1709,
died November 22, 1790; she married, July
6. 1732, Isaac, son of Deacon Nathaniel and
Sarah (Lobdell ) Bingham, of Scotland. Con-
necticut. 8. Ebenezer, see forward.

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(IV) Ebenezer, youngest child of Lieuten-
ant Joseph and Elizabeth (Huntington)
Backus, was born March 30, 1712, died in
Norwich, Connecticut, November 4, 1768. He
represented his town in the general court.
May, 1746-47-48-49-50-62, and October, 1744-
45-46-47-48-49-64. He married (first), Janu-
ary 29, 1740-41, Abigail, born about 17 19, died
March 26, 1744, daughter of Captain Joseph
and Hannah (Higley) Trumbull, of Lebanon,
and sister of the first Governor Trumbull.
He married (second) May 2, 1745, at Wind-
ham, Eunice, born June 5. 1727, died October
25. 1 75 1, daughter of Colonel Thomas and
Lydia (Backus) Dyer. He married (third)
July 26, 1753, Sarah, born July 28, 1726,
daughter of Benjamin and Aliriam (Kilby)
Clark, of Boston, Massachusetts. Children by
first marriage: i. Abigail, born March 6,
1742, died December 22, 1760; she married,
June 12, 1760, Colonel Simeon Perkins, of
Norwich, and later of Liverpool, Nova Sco-
tia, son of Jacob and Jemima (Leonard) Per-
kins, of Norwich. Colonel Simeon Perkins
married (second) Elizabeth (Young) Had-
ley, widow of John Hadley, of Manchester,
Nova Scotia. 2. Mary, born March 20, died
March 24, 1744. Children by second mar-
riage: 3. Eunice, born May 26, died Novem-
ber 5, 1746. 4. Ebenezer, see forward. 5.
Eunice, born August 2, 1749. died February 3,
1826: she married, December 24, 1767, Gov-
ernor Jonathan, son of Governor Jonathan and
Faith (Robinson) Trumbull, of Lebanon.
Among her children are : Mrs. Silliman, of
New Haven, and Mrs. Daniel Wadsworth, of
Hartford, Connecticut. 6. Roger, born Octo-
ber 5, 175 1, died young. Children of third
marriage: 7. Benjamin, born June 26, 1754,
died unmarried at Mendon, Massachusetts, in
1777. 8. Roger, baptized October 27, 1755, at
the First Church of Norwich, died young.
9. Sarah, baptized at the First Church of Nor-
wich, October 17, 1756. also died young. 10.
Christopher, born August 6. 1758, died unmar-
ried in 185 1. II. Sarah, born February 7,
1760, died October 3, 1839; she married, De-
cember 6, 1778, David, son of Governor Jona-
than and Faith (Robinson) Trumbull, of Leb-
anon. 12. Abigail, born November 6, 1761,
died March 6, 1781 ; she married, October 14,
1779, Thomas Huntington, of Norwich, Con-
necticut, of Middletown, \'ermont. and of
Dresden, New York, son of Dr. Christopher
and Sarah (Bingham) Huntington, of Bozrah.

Thomas Huntington married (second)

Griswold.

(V) Ebenezer (2), eldest son and second
child of Ebenezer (i) and Eunice (Dyer)
Backus, was born August 17, 1747, died in

Norwich about 1786. He married, JanuaT3*
7, 1767, Elizabeth Fitch, born February 12,.
1748-49, at Lebanon (see Fitch VH). She-
married (second) 1791, Albertus Sirant Des-
touches, of Norwich, formerly of Essequibo,
South America. Children: i. Eunice, born
May 5, 1768. 2. Eleazar Fitch, see forward.
3. Elizabeth, born March 22, 1775, died
young. 4. Betsey, born about 1779, died at
Norwich, November 5, 1813; she married, be-
fore 1798, John Converse, of Troy, New .
York. 5. George, baptized April 23, 1780, at
Christ Church in Norwich; died in' 1828; re-
moved to Virginia ; he married (first) ;:

(second), 1813, Dorothy Chappell, of Amelia
county, Virginia. 6. Benjamin, baptized Au-
gust 5. 1781, in Christ Church, Norwich. 7.
Lydia, baptized at Christ Church, Norwich,.
February 13, 1785, died December i, 1832;
she married, October 27, 1801, Nathan Whit-
ing, of New Haven, son of Colonel William^

B. and Amy (Lathrop) Whiting, of Wind-
ham. Nathan Whiting married (second),
1835, Nancy (Breed) "Williams. 8. Juliet,
baptized in Christ Church, Norwich, April 30,
1786, died in New York state : she married
(first) Eben Jones, (second) Samuel Chee-
ver. 9. Charlotte, baptized in Christ Church,.
Norwich, February 14, 1790.

(VI) Eleazar Fitch, eldest son and second
child of Ebenezer (2) and Elizabeth (Fitch)
Backus, was born January 13, 1770, died in
Philadelphia, January 22, 1859. He was the
founder of the Law Publishing House of W.

C. Little, of Albany, New York. He married
(first) Harriet, born September 14, 1779, died'
July 13, 1804, daughter of Colonel William B.
and Amy (Lathrop) Whiting, of Norwich,
Connecticut, and of Canaan, New York. He
married (second) June 8, 1807, Elizabeth
Chester, born November 10, 1774, died Au-
gust 14, 1847 (see Chester IX). Children:-
I. Jonathan Trumbull, see forward. 2. Rev.
Dr. John Chester, prominent for more than'
half a century in the church at large and as
pastor of the First Church of Baltimore,
Maryland, through whose influence most of
the growth of Presbyterianism throughout
that section was largely due. He was a lead-
ing member of the board of directors of
Princeton Seminary. 3. Mary, married James
Bayard, Esq., of Philadelphia, born Alay 20,
1802, died August i, 1874. His line of descent
is as follows : I. Rev. Balthazar Bayard, a
Huguenot settler in Holland'. II. Nicholas.
HI. Peter. IV. Samuel, who had twins;
James and John. Of these, James was a.'
physician and had a son, Hon. James A.,
whose son, Hon. Thomas F., was secretary of"
state during the first administration of Presi-

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'3ent Cleveland, and who was the first ambas-
sador to the Court of St. James during Cleve-
land's second administration. The other twin
was: V. Colonel John. VL Andrew. VH.
James, Esq., mentioned above.

(MI) Rev. Jonathan Trumbull Backus. D.
D., L.L. D., son of Eleazar Fitch and Eliza-
beth (Chester) Backus, was born at Albany,
New York, January 2j, 1809, died at Schenec-
tady, New York, January 21, 1892. Dr.
Backus was prepared for college at the Albany
Academy, from which he was graduated at
the age of fourteen years, and the home influ-
ence of his mother, a woman noted for her
sincere piety, left a deep impression upon him,
which made its influence felt throughout his
life. At the age of seventeen years he joined
the Second Presbyterian Church of Albany,
of which his uncle, Rev. Dr. John Chester,
was the pastor. He was graduated from Co-
lumbia College with honor in 1827, standing
with the Hon. Hamilton Fish at the head of
his class, of which he was the valedictorian.
He was graduated from the Princeton Theo-
logical Seminary three years later, then spent
one year at the Andover Theological Semi-
nary, and a part of a year at the Yale Divinity
School. He was licensed at the New York
Presbytery, October 15. 1829, and was or-
dained and installed in the First Presbyte-
rian Church of Schenectady, to which he had
received a call, December 6, 1832. He was
pastor of this church until 1872, a period of
forty years, and pastor emeritus from June 18,
1873, until his death, frequently preaching
during this latter period, although for nine
years he was totally blind as the result of cat-
aract. Union College bestowed upon him the
degree of S. T. D. in 1847, and that of LL. D.
in 1875. He was a member of the Albany
Presbytery during his entire ministry, and in-
fluential in its councils as well as in those of
the synod and the general assembly. He
served on many important committees, was a
leader in the movement to unite the old and
new school churches, and his ability was rec-
ognized when he was elected, by acclamation,
moderator of the reunion general assembly of
1870, at Philadelphia. He was also foremost
in the movement for the first Presbyterian
Hymnal. He laid the corner stone of Reunion
Hall, at Princeton, New Jersey. One of his
marked characteristics was his executive abil-
ity. As chairman for many years of the Home
Mission Committee of Presbytery, he was of
great influence in furthering the cause of for-
eign and domestic missions. He served as
trustee of Union College from 1852 until 1888,
and for a number of years was president of
the board of trustees. He was president of

the board of trustees of the Young Men's
Christian Association of Schenectady from its
incorporation in 1871 until liis death, and was
president of the board of trustees of the Home
for the Friendless from its foundation in
1868. His high character won for him the
confidence of men both within and without
his church, so that his counsel was widely
sought and his words always listened to with
unfeigned respect. It was largely through the
efforts of Rev. Dr. Nott, who' early recog-
nized the ability and worth of Dr. Backus,
that he was brought to Schenectady, and they
co-operated in furthering the interests of the
city and the college. Dr. Backus was a mem-
ber for several terms of the board of educa-
tion of the city and his influence helped greatly
to keep the schools in line with the more prcn
gressive methods of education. In associa-
tion with Dr. Nott he developed the beauty
of the city by means of planting shade trees,
the college nurseries furnishing many of the
fine old elms which now adorn the streets. He
was thoroughly catholic in spirit and sym-
pathy, encouraging all feasible Christian
union. The impression of Dr. Backus on the
life of his own church, that of the city, its
religious, educational and philanthropical de-
velopment, is a lasting one, and one which
will be of benefit for many generations to
come.

At the annual meeting of the Board of
Trustees of Union College, which was held
.at Schenectady, June 21, 1892, it was decided
to put on record the following tribute to Dr.
Backus: "Though a graduate of Columbia,
he was for nearly sixty years closely identi-
fied with the life of Union College. During
forty years, as the minister of the Presbvte-
rian Church, in the City of Schenectady,' he
was the religious teacher and guide of many
hundreds of her students, and stood in inti-
mate relation with a long line of Presi-
dents and Professors. For thirty-five years
he was a Trustee of the Institution, eminent
and influential in her councils, zealous and
untiring in his eflforts to advance her inter-
ests." The familiarity of Dr. Backus with
the Scriptures was wonderful. During his
later years, after the affliction of blindness
had come upon him, he nevertheless fre-
quently preached, and in the course of his ser-
mon would recite long passages from the Bible
and hymns, from memory, and was practically
letter perfect. At the sermon preached be-
tween the death and burial of Dr. Backus,
by Rev. A. Russell Stevenson, D. D., pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church, he said in
part: "Our church is one hundred and twen-
ty years old, and to-morrow we bury the pas-

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tor who has been in our midst for the half of
that period — but in estimating the influence of
the man, the latter half of the one hundred
and twenty years is manifold more valuable
than the former."

Rev. Dr. Backus married, April 30, 1835,
Ann Eliza Walworth, born September 29,
1817, at Plattsburg, New York, died October
3, 1895 (see Walworth V). Children: i.
Elizabeth Chester, born April 19, 1842 ; mar-
ried, June 29, 1865, Rev. Dr. Alexander Ran-
kin. 2. ]\[ary Walworth, born July 29, 1844.
3. Rev. Dr. Clarence Walworth, born April
20, 1846, was graduated from Union College
in 1870, and from Princeton Theological Sem-
inary in 1873 ; he married. April 30, 1873, Su-
san. Washington, born December 2, 1847 ;
children: Anna E., died yoimg; R. Living-
stone, died in infancy ; J. Trumbull, born Oc-
tober I, 1878; Mary B., died in infancy; John
C, died in infancy. 4. Maria Averill, born
May 25, 1847. 5- Ella Fitch, born July 31,
1848. 6. J. Bayard, born September 20, 1853 ;
he was graduated from Union College, 1874;
admitted to the Illinois state bar, 1879 ; ad-
mitted to New York state bar, 1878; located
in the city of New York, 1881 : he married,
March 29, 1877, Cornelia N. Price, born June
II, 1858, daughter of Joshua C. Price, of
Rockingham county, Virginia, and sister of
the late Professor 1. B. Price, of Union Col-
lege, and of Dr. M. Price and Joseph Price,
distinguished physicians of Philadelphia; only
child: Elizabeth Chester, born January 10,
1878.

(Chester Line).

(I) William Chester was of London and
Barnet, Hertford county, England.

(II) Leonard, son of William Chester, was
of Blaby, Leicestershire, England. He mar-
ried (second) Bridget, daughter of John
Sharpe, of Frisby-Super W'reke, Leicester-
shire, England.

(HI) John, son of Leonard Chester, of
Blaby, was also of Blaby, and married Doro-
thy, daughter of Thomas Hooker, of Leicester-
shire, England.

(IV) Leonard (2), son of John Chester,
of Blaby, was born in 1609, in England, died
in Wethersfield, Connecticut. 1648. He came
to New England in 1633, settled first at Wa-
tertown, Massachusetts, and in 1635 at Weth-
ersfield. He married Mary, probably a de-
scendant of Hugh de Neville.

(V) John (2), son of Leonard (2) and
Mary Chester, was born at Watertown, Mas-
sachusetts, August 3, 1635, died February 23,
1698. Admitted freeman at Wethersfield,
May, 1658 : member of the First Connecticut
Troop; deputy in the house, 1675; and was

otherwise prominent. He married, February,
1653-54, Sarah, born in 1631, died December
12, 1693, daughter of Hon. Thomas Welles,
of Connecticut. Children: Mary, married
John Wolcott ; John, see forward ; Sarah,
married Simon Wolcott; Stephen, married
Jemima, daughter of James Treat ; Thomas,
married Mary, daughter of Richard Treat ;
Samuel ; Prudence, married James Treat ; Eu-
nice, married Rev. T. Stevens.

(VI) John (3), son of John (2) and Sarah
(Welles) Chester, was born January 10. 1656,
died December 14, 171 1. He was of Weth-
ersfield, Connecticut. He married, Novem-
ber 25, 1686, Hannah, born 1665, died 1741,
daughter of Samuel Talcott, of Glastonbury,
Connecticut. Children: i. Mehitable, inar-
ried Nathaniel Burnham and had five children.
2. Mary, married Jonathan Burnham and had
five children. 3. Penelope, married Rev.
Ebenezer Williams and had six children. 4.
Hannah, married Gideon Welles and had nine
children. 5. Prudence, inarried Colonel John
Stoddard and had four children. 6. Eunice,
married Joseph Pitkin. 7. John, see forward.
8. Sarah, married Israel Williams. 9. Thomas.

(\TI) Hon. John (4), eldest son and sev-
enth child of John (3) and Hannah (Talcott)
Chester, was iDorn June 3, 1703, died suddenly
in his hay field, September 11, 1771. He was
of Wethersfield, and in 1748 it was said that
he was the only male in this line bearing the
name of Chester. He was judge in the county
court and representative to the general as-
sembly of Connecticut. He married, Novem-
ber 19. 1747, Sarah Noyes, born March 29,
1722. died January 27, 1797. She was a di-
rect descendant of William the Conqueror.
(See Noyes XXIII.) Children: i. John,
see forward. 2. Leonard, married Sarah Wil-
liams and had ten children. 3. Sarah, mar-
ried Thomas Coit and had five children. 4.
Abigail, married Joseph Webb and had ten
children. 5. Stephen, married Elizabeth
Mitchell and had nine children. 6. Thomas,
married Esther M. Bull and had five children.

(VIII) Colonel John (5) Chester, eldest
child of Hon. John (4) and Sarah (Noyes)
Chester, was born January 29, 1748, died No-
vember 4. 1809. He was of Wethersfield, was
graduated from Yale College in 1766 and
from Harvard Law School in 1775. He es-
pecially distinguished himself at the battle of
Bunker Hill. He was appointed colonel in
1776 and was called "the friend" of General
Washington. From 1772 he was a prominent
figure in public life, served as representative,
speaker of the house, state counsellor, judge
of probate and county courts and supervisor
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f743-.

1773. Elizabeth Huntington, born February 9,
1757. died July, 1839 (see Huntington \"I).
Children: i.' Elizabeth, see forward. 2.
Mary, married Ebenezer C. Wells, of Brat-
tleboro, \'ermont, and had three children. 3.
Hannah, married Charles Chauncy, of Phila-
delphia, and had six children. 4. Sarah. 5.
Rev. John, D. D., married Rebecca Ralston
and had five children. 6. Charlotte. 7. Henry.
8. Julia, married Matthew C. Ralston. 9.
Henry, who had five daughters but no son.

10. Rev. William, D. D.. married Frances
White and had two children. 11. George. 12.
Charles.

( IX ) Elizabeth, eldest child of Colonel John
(5) and Elizabeth (Huntington) Chester,
married Eleazar Fitch Backus (see Backus
VI).

(Fitch Line).

( I ) Governor William Bradford, born at
Austerfield, Yorkshire, England, 1588, died
in New England, Alay 9, 1657. He came to
this country in the "Mayflower" in 1620, and
was governor of Plymouth Colony for thirty-
three years. He married (first) Dorothy
— , who was accidentally drowned De-
cember 7, 1620, the first Englishwoman who
died in New England. He married (second)
August 14, 1623, Alice, whose maiden name
is supposed to have been Carpenter, and who
was the widow^ of Constant Southworth.
Child of first marriage: i. John, who died in
1678. Children of second marriage: 2. Wil-
liam, see forward. 3. Mercy, born before
1627, married Benjamin \'ermales. 4. Joseph,
born in 1630, married Jael, daughter of Peter
liobart, first minister at Higham.

(II) Major William (2)" Bradford, eldest
child of Governor William (i) and Alice
(Carpenter) (Southworth) Bradford, was
born June 17, 1624, died February 20, 1703.
He married (first) Alice, who died December
12, 1671, daughter of Thomas Richards. Mar-
ried (second) Widow Wiswall. Married
(third) Mary, daughter of John Wood or At-
wood, of Plymouth, and widow of Rev. John
Holmes, of Duxbury. Children by first mar-
riage: I. John, married Mercy, daughter of
Joseph Warren, of Plymouth. 2. William,
married Rebecca Bartlett. 3. Thomas. 4.
Samuel, married Hannah Rogers, of Dux-
bury. 5. .Alice, see forward. 6. Hannah, mar-
ried Joshua Ripley, of Higham. 7. Mercy,
married Samuel Steel, of Hartford, Connecti-
cut. 8. Melatiah, married John Steel, of Nor-
wich, Connecticut. 9. Mary, married Wil-
liam Hunt. 10. Sarah, married Kenelm Ba-
ker, of Marshfield. Child of second marriage:

11. Joseph, married Anne, daughter of James
and Priscilla (Mason) Fitch. Children of

tliird marriage: 12. Israel, married Sarah
I'.artlett. 13. Ephraim, married Elizabeth.
Bartlett. 14. David, married Elizabeth Fin-
ney. 15. Hezekiah, married Mary Chandler.

(HI) Alice, eldest daughter and fifth child.
of Major William (2) and Alice (Richards)
Bradford, was born in 1661, and married:
(first) Alarch 27, 1680, Rev. William Adams,
minister of Duxbury, whose second w-ife she
was. She married (second) jMajor James
Fitch.

(I\') Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. William
and Alice (Bradford) Adams, was born Feb-
ruary 21, 1681. She married, September 14,
1696, Rev. Samuel Whiting, born April 22,
1670, who was the first minister of Windham.

(V) Anne, daughter of Rev. Samuel and
Elizabeth (Adams) Whiting, was born June

2, 1(398. She married, December 29, 1721,.
Joseph Fitch, born in November, 1681, at Nor-
wich, she becoming his second wife.

(\T) Colonel Eleazar, son of Joseph and'
Anne (Whiting) Fitch, was born August 29,
1726. He was of Lebanon, Connecticut, and
was graduated from Yale College in 1743.
He married, April 4, 1746, Amy Bowen.

(\'II) Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel Elea-
zar and Amy (Bowen) Fitch, married Eben-
ezer Backus, Jr. (see Backus \').

(Huntington Line).
( I ) Simon Huntington was born in Eng-
land, where he lived in Norwich or its vicin-
ity. According to one tradition he sailed for
this country, dying of smallpox on the voy-
age, and was buried at sea. According to an-
other, he left England in 1639 or 1640 with
his wife and three children, his family land-
ing at Saybrook, Connecticut, he having died
off the coast and his body was buried ashore.
He married Margaret Baret, and it is possible
that his widow married (second) Thomas
Stoughton, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, who-
later removed to Windsor, Connecticut. Chil-
dren: I. William, married Joanna, daughter
of John Bayley ; children : John, James and

Mary. 2. Thomas, married (first) ,.

daughter of William Swain, of Wethersfield ;
(second) Hannah, daughter of Jasper Crane,
of Branford : children : Samuel and Hannah.

3. Christopher, married Ruth, daughter of
William Rockwell, of Windsor; children:
Christopher, Ruth, Ruth, Christopher,
Thomas, John, Susannah, Lydia and Ann. 4.
Simon, see forward. 5. Ann.

(II) Deacon Simon Huntington, son of Si-
mon and Margaret (Baret) Huntington, was
born in England in 1629, died at Saybrook,
Connecticut, June 28, 1706. He was one of
the settlers of Norwich in 1660, and repre-

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sentative in the general court several times.
He married, at Saybrook, October, 1653,
Sarah, born in 1633, died in 172 1, daughter
of Joseph Clark, of Windsor. Children: i.
Sarah, married Dr. Solomon, son of Lieuten-
ant Thomas Tracy, and had children: Lydia

and Simon. 2. Mary, married Forbes,

of Preston. 3. Simon, see forward. 4. Jo-
seph, married Rebecca, daughter of Deacon
Thomas Adgate and his second wife. Widow
Bushnell ; children : Joseph, Nathaniel, Jona-
than, David, Solomon, Rebecca, Sarah and
Mary. 5. Elizabeth, died in infancy. 6. Lieu-
tenant Samuel, married Mary, probably a
■daughter of William Clark, of Wethersfield ;
children: Elizabeth, Samuel, Caleb, Mary,
Rebecca, Sarah, John and Simon. 7. Eliza-
beth, married Joseph, son of Lieutenant Wil-
liam and Elizabeth (Pratt) Backus (see
Backus HI). 8. Nathaniel, died young. 9.
Daniel, married (first) Abigail, daughter of
Thomas and Mary (Rudd) Bingham; (sec-
ond) Rachel Wolcott, of Bingham, who mar-
ried (second) Joseph Bingham, of Windham;
children by first marriage : Abigail, Mary,
Daniel, Anna, Jonathan, Benjamin. 10.
James, married Priscilla ^Miller; children: Je-
rusha, James, Peter, Jacob, Nathaniel, Eliza-
beth.

(HI) Deacon Simon (2) Huntington, eld-
est son and third child of Deacon Simon (i)
and Sarah (Clark) Huntington, was born at
Saybrook, Connecticut, February 6, 1659, '^^^'^
in Norwich, November 2, 1736. He married,
October 8, 1683, Lydia, born in Norwich, Au-
gust 8, 1663, died August 8, 1736, daughter
■of John Gager. Children: i. Simon, died
from the bite of a rattlesnake. 2. Sarah, mar-
ried William Lathrop, of Norwich, son of
Israel and Rebecca (Bliss) Lathrop; children:
William, Joshua, Ezra, Jeremiah, James, An-
drew. 3. Deacon Ebenezer, married Sarah,
•daughter of Deacon Thomas and Lydia
(Tracy) Leffingwcll ; children: Sarah, Simon,
Lucy, Lydia. 4. Joshua, see forward.

(IV) Joshua, youngest child of Deacon Si-
mon (2) and Lydia (Gager) Huntington, was
born in Norwich, December 30, 1698, died
August 26, 1745. He was an active business
man and added greatly to the family wealth
and distinction. He married, October 16.
1718, Hannah, born in 1701, died in 1745,
■daughter of Jabez and Hannah (Lathrop)
Perkins. Children: i. Jabez, see forward. 2.
Jedediah, died young. 3. Andrew, died at
the age of fifteen years. 4. Lydia, married
'Captain Ephraim Bill, of Norwich; children:
Sylvester, Lynde. Gordon, Lydia, Gordon,
Ephraim, Abigail. Zachariah, William and
Hannah. 5. Zachariah, died unmarried.

(V) General Jabez Huntington, eldest
child of Joshua and Hannah (Perkins) Hunt-
ington, was born August 7, 1719, died Octo-
ber 5, 1786. His career is a matter of na-
tional history. He married (first), January
20, 1741-42, Elizabeth, born February 21,
1 72 1, died July i, 1745, daughter of Samuel
and Elizabeth (Tracy) Backus. He married
(second), July 10, 1746, Hannah Williams,
born July 23, 1726, died March 25, 1807;
children by first marriage: i. General Jede-
diah, who married (first) Faith, daughter of
Governor Trumbull, and (second) Ann,
daughter of Thomas Moore ; child by first
marriage: Jabez; children by second mar-
riage : Elizabeth Moore, Ann Channing, Faith
Trumbull, Harriet Smith, Joshua, Daniel and
Thomas. 2. Judge Andrew, married (first)
Lucy, daugliter of Dr. Joseph and Lydia (La-
throp) Coit, of New London; (second) Han-
nah Phelps, of Stonington ; children by first
marriage : Joseph and Hannah ; children by
second marriage: Lucy and Charles Phelps.
Children by the second marriage of General
Jabez Huntington : 3. Colonel Joshua, active
participant in the revolution ; he married Han-
nah, daughter of Judge Hezekiah and Doro-
thy (Williams) Huntington; child: Elizabeth,
married Flon. Ferdinand Wolcott, of Litch-
field, brother of the third Governor Wolcott,
son of the second, and grandson of the first
governor of the state. 4. Hannah, died young.
5. General Ebenezer, married (first) Sarah
Isham, of Colchester; (second) Lucretia
Mary McClellan ; child of first marriage : Al-
fred ; children of second marriage: Wolcott,
Louisa M., George Washington, Emily, Xancy
L., Walter, Sarah Isham, Elizabeth and ?\la-
ria H. 6. Elizabeth, see forward. 7. Mary,
married Rev. Joseph Strong; children: Josepli
H., Mary Huntington and Henry. 8. General
Zachariah, married Hannah Muinfcird ; chil-
dren: Thomas Mumford, Jabez Williams and
Elizabeth Mary.

(VI) Elizabeth, second daughter and fourtli
child of General Jabez and Hannah (Wil-
liams) Huntington, married Colonel John
Chester (.see Chester VIII).

(Walworth Line).
(I) William Walworth, of Fisher's Island,
was the progenitor of all the Walworths in
America. He claimed descent from Sir Wil-
liam Walworth, lord mayor of London during
the reign of Richard II. He came to the New
London Colony in 1689. He married, in 1690,
Mary Seaton, born in England in 1669, who
came to this country in the same ship that he
did. Children: 1. Martha, born in March,
1 691. 2. William, horn in January. 1694. died

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1745

JVlay 17, 1774; lie married (first) Mary,
■daughter of Captain Samuel and Susanna
C Palmes) Avery, of Poqiianoc ; (second)
Elizabeth Hinckley; children by first mar-
riao;e: Nathan, Amos, James, Elijah, Mary,
Susan, Lucy and Abigail ; children by second
marriage : Eunice and Charles. 3. Mary,
born in February. 1695. 4. John, see forward.
5. Joanna, born in October, 1699. 6. Thomas,
"born in May, 1701 ; he married, at least as
early as June 20, 1724, Phebe. daughter of
William Stark, of Groton, and had one child :
William. 7. James, twin of Thomas.

(H) Captain John Walworth, second son
and fourth child of William and Mary (Sea-
ton) Walworth, was born on Fisher's Island,
in June, 1697, died of the smallpox in 1748.
He married, November, 17 18, Sarah B.,
•daughter of Captain Richard, Jr., and Hannah
or Elizabeth (Bailey) Dunn, of Newport.
Rhode Island. Children: i. Samuel, married
Hannah Woodbridge: children: Samuel, John
and Hannah. 2. John, Jr., married (first)
Mary, daughter of Captain Rufus Minor ;
(second) Patience Denison, of Lyme; child
l)y first marriage : John : children by second
marriage: John, Griswold, Elizabeth. Polly
and Abigail. 3. Sylvester, married Sarah
Holmes, of Stonington : children : Lucy,
George, Philena or Phila, Sylvester, Edward,
Holmes and Abigail. 4. William, married
Sarah Grant, of Stonington ; children : Gilbert.
A\'illiam, James, Sarah and Abigail. 5. Ben-
jamin, see forward. 6. Philena or Phila, mar-
ried Joseph Minor, of Groton : children : Jo-
seph, Anna, Rufus, Philena, Sarah, Jerusha,
Polly, Abigail and Clarissa. 7. Sarah, mar-
ried Benjamin Browm : children : Benjamin,
Jr.. Sarah. Catherine, .Abigail, Lydia, Kesiah,
Frances, Elizabeth and Pliilena.

(Ill) Benjamin, son of Captain John and
Sarah B. (Dunn) Walworth, was born at
•Groton, November 11, 1746, died at Hoosick,
New York, February 26, 1812. Fie was quar-
termaster and adjutant during the revolution.
He married, 1782, Apphia Hyde, born in Nor-
wich in 1757, died at Frcdonia. New York,
February 8. 1837 (see Hyde V). She was
the W'idow of Captain Samuel Cardell, of New
"London, who left her with one child: William
S. Children: i. Rosamond Butler, married
(first) Oliver Barbour and had: Benjamin
W., John M. and Oliver Lorenzo: married
(second) Benjamin Randall. Esq.. whose first
wife was Mary Lathrop, and had : Marvin Tra-
cy and Rosamond Walworth. 2. Major John,
married (first) Sarah, daughter of Colonel
Jonas Simonds; (second) Catherine M.,
daughter of Judge William Bailey and grand-
daughter of Colonel John Bailey ; children :

William, Sarah, Charlotte and Catherine. 3.
James Clinton, married (first) Helen Talcott,
daughter of Deacon .-\ndrew Sill, of Burling-
ton, New York; children: Clinton, Benjamin,
and two who died in infancy ; he married
(second) Maria M., daughter of John and
Phoebe (Peck) Haynes, and a direct descend-
ant of Jonathan Haynes, the first, of New-
bury, who came from England in 1635 ; child:
Helen Maria. 4. Reuben Hyde, see forward.
5. Sarah Dunn, married Field, son of Water-
man Dailee, of Fredonia, New York ; chil-
dren : Frances H., Jedediah and Stella. 6.
Dr. Benjamin, married Charlotte, eldest
daughter of Jonathan and Rebecca (Rouse)
Eddy, of Hoosick, New York. Children:
Kosciusko and Rebecca Eddy. 7. Apphia L.,
married David J. Mattison ; children : Charles
Frederick, John Crane, Clarissa Henrietta,
Eliza Ann and Helena Walworth. 8. Jede-
diah was a lawyer and died unmarried. 9.
Hiram, married Delia Arabella, daughter of
Judge Jonathan and Hannah (Parker) Griffin,
of Plattsburg, New York ; children : Mary
Elizabeth, Hiram, James G. and Graham. 10.
Ann Eliza, married Commander Charles Theo-
dore, son of Theodore and Charity (Peltz)
Piatt, of Plattsburg; children: Charles
Henry, Benjamin Walworth, Caroline. Sarah
Louisa and Eliza Ann.

(IV) Chancellor Reuben Hyde Walworth,
third son and fourth child of Benjamin and
Apphia (Hyde) Walworth, was born at Boz-
rah, Connecticut, October 26, 1788, died at
Saratoga Springs, New York, November 28,
1867. He was appointed chancellor of the
.state of New York in 1828 and held the office
for some twenty years, being the last chan-
cellor of the state. He served as adjutant-
general during the war of 1812. He married
(first) at Plattsburg, January 16, 1812, Maria
Ketchum, born December 31, 1795, died April
24, 1847, eldest child of Nathan and Mary
(Ketchum) Averill. He married (second)
at Harrodsburg, Kentucky. April 16. 1851,
Sarah Ellen, daughter of Florace Smith, of
Locust Grove, Kentucky, and widow of
Colonel John J. Hardin, by whom she had
children : Ellen, Martin D., Lemuel Smith and
Elizabeth. Children of first marriage: i.
Mary Elizabeth, married Edgar Jenkins, of
Albany, son of Marshall and Sarah Jenkins,
of Hudson, New York. 2. Sarah Simonds,
married Mason, son of Gideon M. Davison,
of Saratoga Springs, New York. 3. Ann
Eliza, see forward. 4. Clarence A., rector of
St. Mary's Parish, Albany, New York, and
noted for various publications. 5. Mansfield
Tracy, lawyer and novelist ; he married his
stepsister, Ellen Ilardin; children: Francis

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Hardin. Jolm T., INIary Elizabeth, Ellen Har-
din, Clara Theresa, Mansfield • Tracy, Reu-
bena Hyde and Sarah ]\largaret. 6. Frances
De Lord, died at the age of five years. Only
child of the second marriage: Reuben H.,
who died young.

(V) Ann Eliza, third daughter and child
of Chancellor Reuben Hyde and Maria
Ketchum (Averill) Walworth, married Rev.
Jonathan Trumbull Backus (see Backus
VH).

(Hyde Line).

1 1 ) William Hyde probably came to this
country with the Rev. Thomas Hooker, in
1633, and his name appears in Hartford in
1636. He was one of the original proprietors
of Norwich in 1660, and died January 6, 1681.
The name of his wife has not been preserved.
Children: i. Samuel, see forward. 2. Hes-
ter, born, probably, in England, died in 1703 ;
married John Post.

(H) Samuel, son of William Hyde, was
born at Hartford, Connecticut, about 1637,
died in 1677. He was a fifth great-grandfather
of Grover Cleveland, and fourth great-grand-
father of Professor M. Perkins, of Union
College. He married, June, 1659, Jane,
daughter of Thomas and Phoebe (Brown)
Lee, of East Saybrook, now Lyme. Chil-
dren: I. Samuel, married Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of John and Sarah Calkins, of Norwich ;
children : Samuel, Daniel, Elijah, Caleb, David
Ebenezer, Sarah, Elizabeth, Lydia and Anne.
2. John, married Experience, daughter of Ca-
leb and Margaret (Post) Abel; children:
John, Eleazer, James, Matthew, Experience,
Margaret, Esther, Lucy and Deborah. 3.
William, see forward. 4. Thomas, married
Mary, daughter of Stephen and Sarah (Gard-
ner) Backus, of Norwich ; children : Thomas,
Jacob, .Vbner, Mary, Phebe and Jane. 5. Ja-
bez, married Elizabeth, a sister of the wife of
his brotlier William ; children : Jabez, Phin-
ehas, Joseph, Elizabeth and Abigail. 6. Eliza-
beth, married Lieutenant Richard, son of Wil-
liam Lord, of Saybrook ; children : Richard,
John, Elizabeth, Phebe, Jane, Mary, Lydia,
Deborah and .Abigail. 7. Phebe, married Mat-
thew, son of Matthew and Anna (Wolcott)
Griswold, of Lyme : children : Matthew, John,
George, Samuel, Thomas, Phebe, Elizabeth,
Sarah, Mary, Deborah and Patience. 8.
Sarah, died young. •

(III) \\'illiam (2), son of Samuel and Jane
(Lee) Hyde, was born at Norwich, January,
1670, died August 8, 1759. He married, Jan-
uary 2, 1695, Anne, born December 4, 1674,
died July 8, 1745, daughter of Richard and
Elizabeth (Adgate) Bushnell, of Norwich.
Children: i. William, died young. 2. Captain

William, married Anne Basset ; children : Fla-
vins. William, Elizabeth, Anne, Mary, Pris-
cilla and Hannah. 3. Richard, married Anne,
daughter of John and Elizabeth (Lefiingwell)
Tracy, of Norwich ; children : Theodore,
Elihu. Peleg, Zebediah, Lucretia, Lucy and
Lucretia. 4. Ezra, married Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of Captain John and Sarah (Abel) Lef-
fingwell, of Norwich ; children : John, Ezra,
Uriah, Eunice, Sarah and Sarah. 5. Jede-
diah, see forward. 6. Elisha, married Lydia,
daughter of Captain Joseph and Mary (Abel)
Tracy, of Norwich ; children : Elisha, Joseph,
Lydia, Anne, Anne, Amy, Hannah and Mary.
7. Benjamin, married (first) Abigail, daugh-
ter of Captain Stephen and Abigail (Lord)
Lee, of Lyme, and had : Alexander, William,
Rufus, Joseph, Lee, Amelia, Amelia, Elizabeth,
Phebe and seven others; married (second)
Widow Abigail Chadwick, daughter of Lewis
De Wolf, of Lyme, and had Abigail ; mar-
ried (third) Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Wil-
liam Miner, of Lyme, and widow of Elijah
Lord, and had: Benjamin, Parthenia and
Anne. 8. Anne, married John, son of Thomas
and Elizabeth (Allen) Waterman, of Nor-
wich; children: John, William, Jedediah, Da-
rius, Anne, Anne, Freelove and Phebe. 9.
Elizabeth, married Dr. Theophilus, son of
Captain Ezekiel and Lois (Ivory) (Bligh)
Rogers ; children : Ezekiel, Theophilus, Uriah,
Zabdiel, John, Lois, Anne, Elizabeth and Lu-
cretia. 10. Hannah, married Matthew, son
of Deacon Thomas and Ruth (Brewster) Ad-
gate ; children : Benjamin. Andrew, Daniel,
Matthew, Elijah, Jabez, William and Lucv.

( I\') Rev.JedediahHyde.sonof William'(2)
and Anne (Bushnell) Hyde, was born at Nor-
wich, June 2, 1712, died September 26, 1761.
He married (first) July 17, 1733, Jerusha.
born September i, 171 1, died February 8,
1 74 1, daughter of Deacon Joseph and Martha
(Morgan) Perkins, of Norwich. He married
(second) May 17, 1742, Jerusha Tracy, born
May 23, 1723, died /August 20, 1764. She-
married (second) Daniel Peck, of Norwich
West Farms, now Franklin, and had one child
l)\ tliis marriage, whom she named Jedediah
]I\(lc (see Tracy XXX). Children by first
marriage of Rev. Jedediah Hyde: i. Captain
Jedediah, married (first) Mary, daughter of
.Asa and Lucy (Hyde) Waterman, and had:
Jedediah, William, Arunah W., Thomas W.,
Pitt William, Jerusha, Mary and Deborah :
married (second) Elizabeth, daughter of
Humphrey and Mary (Fanning) Brown, and
widow of David Parker, and had: Reuben C,
Russel Brown, Jabez Perkins. Hiram, Mar-
tha, Post, Elizabeth and Diadama. 2. Martha,
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1747

( T.irchard) Post, and had: Jabez P. and Jede-
diah Hyde. Jabez Post married (second)
Lucy, daughter of Richard and Anne (Tracy)
Hyde, and had five children. 3. Jerusha, mar-
ried Silas, son of Abial and Mary (Wal-
worth) Stark, and had: Simeon, Silas, Jede-
diah, Abel, William and Jerusha. 4. Diadama,
married Dr. Benjamin, son of Thomas and
Abigail (Craft) Butler, and had: Benjamin,
Thomas. Jerusha, Rosamond and Minerva.
Dr. Benjamin Butler married (second) Ruth,
daughter of Peter and Ruth (Edgerton)
Huntington. Children of second marriage of
Rev. Jedediah Hyde: 5. Reuben, married and
went to sea when he was about nineteen years
of age, and was never heard from again. 6.
Apphia, see forward. 7. Elizabeth, married
John, son of Benjamin and Anne (Water-
man) Harris, of Norwich; children: Jedediah
Hyde, John, John Waterman, Benjamin,
Tracy, Hyde, Hiram, Alfred, Thomas Jeffer-
son, Rosamond B., Elizabeth H. and Apphia.
(V) Apphia, daughter of Rev. Jedediah and
Jerusha (Tracy) Hyde, married Benjamin
Walworth (see" Walworth HI).

(Tracy Line).

(I) Ecgberht, first King of England,
reigned 800-838. He married Lady Red-
burga and had: Aethelwulf, Aethelstan and
Eadith (St. Edith).

(H) Aethelwulf, son of Ecgberht and Lady
Redburga, married (first) Osburga, daughter
of Oslac, and had: Aethelstan, Aetheibald,
Aethelbert. .Aethalbald L. Aelfred fthe Great),
see forward, and .A.ethelswitha. He married
(second) Judith, daughter of Charles the
Bald. Emperor and King of France, and
great-granddaughter of Emperor Charle-
magne. Judith married (second) Baldwin,
the first count of Flanders, and became the
ancestress of Matilda, wife of \\'illiam the
Conqueror.

(HI) Aelfred (the (Ireat), son of Aethel-
wulf and Osburga, married Ealswitha, daugh-
ter of the Earl of Lincolnshire, and had : Ead-
mund, Eadward, see forward, Acthelwald,
Aethelfleda, Aethclgida and Aelfthrvth.

(IV) Eadward (the Elder), married (first)
Ecguina and had three children; (second)
Ealfleda. and had eight children; (third) Ead-
gina, daughter of Earl Sigeline, and had :
Eadmund. see forward, Eadred, Eadburga
and Eadgina.

(\') Eadmund I. married .Velfgifu, and
had : Eadwig. Eadgar.

(\T) Eadgar, son of Eadmund I. and Aelf-
gifu, married (first) .Xethelflaeda (the Fair),
daughter of Earl Ordmar, and had : Ead-
ward. He married (second) Aelfthrvth,

daughter of Ordgar, Duke of Devonshire, and
widow of Earl Aethelwold. Children: Ead-
mund and .^ethelred, see forward.

(\TI) Aethelred II. (the Unready), mar-
ried (first) Ealrtcda, daughter of Erldorman
Thored. Children: Edmund (Ironsides)
and eight others. He married (second)
Emma, of Normandy. Children : Aelfred,
Eadward (the Confessor), Coda, see forward,

(VIII) Princess Goda, daughter of .Aethel-
red II. and Emma of Normandy, married
(first) Dreux, Count of Vexin, in France,
called by English historians Count of Mantes,
and said to be a descendant of Charlemagne.
Children: Gauthier, sometimes called Walter;
Rudolf, see forward; Foulgues ; Poutoise,

(IX) Rudolf, son of the Count of Mantes
and Princess Goda, also called Rudolph or
Ralph de Mantes, was lord of the manor of
Sudeley and Toddington, and was created
Earl of Hereford by his uncle, Edward the
Confessor, and deprived of his earldom in the
reign of William the Conqueror. He married
Gethe, and had one son, Harold.

(X) Harold, only son of Rudolf and Gethe
de Mantes, married Matilda, daughter of
Hugh-Lupus, first Earl of Chester and
nephew of William the Conqueror. Children :
John de Sudeley and Robert de Ewyas.

(XI) John de Sudeley, son of the preced-
ing, married Grace, daughter and heiress of
Henri de Traci, feudal Lord of P>arnstaple in
Devonshire. Children : Ralph, who became
the heir of his father, and William de Traci,
concerning whom see forward.

(XII) William de Traci inherited the lands
of his mother and assumed her family name,
becoming as a knight of Gloucestershire, Sir
William de Traci, and held the lands of his
brother by one knight's fee. He married Ha-
wise de Born and left one son and two daugh-
ters.

(XIII) Sir Henry de Tracy, of Todding-
ton, died about i24fK leaving: Margery, Henry
and Thomas.

(Xl\') Sir Henry dc Tracy, of Todding-
ton, had children : William and Eve.

(XV) Sir \\'illiam Tracy (the "de" being
omitted in this generation), of Toddington,
had command in the Scottish war in the
reign of Edward I.

(XVI) Sir William Tracy, of Toddington,
held high oflSces. Children: Margerv and
William.

_ (XX'll) William Tracy, Esq.. was of Tod-
dington.

(XVIII) Sir John Tracy, of Toddington,
was sheriflf of the county five years in suc-
cession, and died in 1363. He left children:
John, Margaret and Dorothy.

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(XIX) Sir John Tracy, of Toddington, was
a member of parliament and sheriff. Chil-
dren : William and Margaret.

(XX) William Tracy, Esq., of Todding-
ton, was high sheriff of Gloucestershire in
1395, and died in 1399.

(XXI) William Tracy, Esq., of Todding-
ton, was called to the privy council of Henry
I v., and was high sheriff during the reign
of Henry V. He married Alice, daughter of
Sir Guy de la Spine, and widow of William
Gifford. Children : William, John and Alice.

(XXII) William Tracy, Esq., of Todding-
ton, was sheriff of Gloucestershire during the
reign of Henry VI. He married Margery,
daughter of Sir John Pauncefort, Knight.
Children : Henry, Richard and Margery.

(XXIII) Henry Tracy, Esq., of Todding-
ton, died about 1506. He married Alice,
daughter of Thomas Baldington, Esq., of Al-
dcrlcy, county of Oxford. Children: Wil-
liam, Richard, Ralph, Anne, Elizabeth.

(XXIV) Sir William Tracy, of Todding-
ton, was sheriff of Gloucestershire during the
reign of Henry VIII. He married Margaret,
daughter of Sir Thomas Throckmorton, of
Cross Court, Gloucestershire. Children : Wil-
liam, Robert, Richard and Alice.

(XXV) Richard Tracy, Esq., of Todding-
ton, was sheriff' of Gloucestershire during the
reign of Queen Elizabeth. He married Bar-
bara, daughter of Sir Thomas Lucy, of Char-
lecote, Warwickshire. Children : Hester, Na-
thaniel. Susan, Judith, Paul and Samuel.

(XXVI) Nathaniel Tracy, of Tewksbury,
received lands at that place from his father.

(XXVII) Lieutenant Thomas Tracy, son
of Nathaniel Tracy, of Tewksbury, was born
at Tewksbury about 1610, died at Norwich,
Connecticut, November 7, 1685. He came to
Salem, Massachusetts, in April, 1636, removed
to Wethersfield, and was one of the original
proprietors of Norwich in 1660. He married
(first) at Wethersfield, 1641, Mary, widow of
Edward Mason. (Second) at Norwich, prior
to 1679, Martha, daughter of Thomas Bourne,
of Marshfield, and widow of John, the son
of Governor Bradford. (Third) at Norwich,
Mary, daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth
(Demming) Eoote, of Wethersfield, and
widow of (first) John Stoddard, (second)
John Goodrich. Children, all by first mar-
riage: I. John, see forward. 2. Thomas,
married and had : Nathaniel, Jeremiah, Daniel,
Thomas, Jedediah, Sarah, Deborah and Je-
rusha. 3. Jonathan, married (first) Mary,
daughter of Lieutenant Francis Griswold,
and had : Jonathan, Christopher, David, Fran-
cis, Samuel, Hannah, Mary, Mariam and
Sarah. He married (second) Mary Richards,

who married (second) Eleazer Jewett. 4. Dr.
Solomon, married (first) Sarah, daughter of
Deacon Simon Huntington, the first, and had :
Simon, Solomon and Lydia. Married (sec-
ond) Sarah Bliss, widow of Thomas Soluman,
and had one son. 5. Daniel, married (first)

Abigail, daughter of Deacon and Mary

(Bushnell) Adgate, and had: Daniel and Abi-
gail. He married (second) Widow Hannah
(Backus) Bingham, and had: Samuel and
Elizabeth. 6. Samuel, died without issue. 7.
Miriam, married Lieutenant Thomas, son of
Robert and Elizabeth (Bourn) Waterman, of
Marshfield.

(XXVIII) Captain John Tracy, son of
Lieutenant Thomas and Mary (Mason)
Tracy, was born at Wethersfield in 1642, died
at Norwich, August 16, 1702. He was one
of the original proprietors of Norwich, jus-
tice of the peace, represented his town in the
legislature at six sessions, and was prominent
in all public affairs. He married, August 17,
1670, Mary, born in 1646, died July 21, 1721,
daughter of Josiah and Margaret (Bourn)
Winslow, and niece of Governor Winslow of
the "Mayflower." Children: i. Josiah, died
young. 2. John, married Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of Thomas Lefifingwell, of Norwich, and
had : John, Hezekiah, Joshua, Isaac, Eliza-
beth. Aime and Ruth. 3. Joseph, see for-
ward. 4. Winslow, married Rachel, daugh-
ter of Joshua and Hannah (Bradford) Rip-
ley, and had : Joshua, Perez, Josiah, Elipha-
let, Nehemiah, Samuel, Solomon. 5. Eliza-
beth, married Nathaniel, son of William and
Elizabeth (Pratt) Backus.

(XXIX) Captain Joseph Tracy, .son of
Captain John and Mary (Winslow) Tracy,
was born at Norwich, April 20, 1682, died
April 10, 1765. He was a justice of the peace,
and frequently a representative in the legisla-
ture. He married, at Norwich, December 31,
1705, Margaret, born at Norwich in 1685, died
January 17, 1751, daughter of Caleb and Mar-
garet (Post) Abel. Children: i. Joseph,
married Anna, daughter of Gresham and
Mary (Buel) ITinkley, and had: Jared, Fred-
erick, Uriah, Ruby, Anna and Lois. 2. Dr.
Elisha, married (first) Lucy, daughter of
Ebenezer and Sarah (Leffingwell) Hunting-
ton : children : Lucy, Alice, Lucretia, Lydia
and Philura; married (second) Elizabeth
Door, and had : Phineas, Philemon, Elisha,
Jose]ih, Winslow, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Mary,
and Deborah Door; married (third) Lois
(Hinkley) Huntington, widow of Nehemiah
Huntington, Esq., of Bozrah. 3. Phineas,

died unmarried. 4. Mary, married

Wentworth. 5. Margaret, married William
Waterman and had six children. 6. Zervia,

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died unmarried. 7. Lydia, married Elislia,
son of William Hyde. 8. Irene, married Dan-
iel, son of Ebene'zer and Lydia (Waterman)
Burnham, and had four children. 9. Jeru-
sha. see forward. 10. Elizabeth, married An-
drew, son of Benjamin and Lydia (Hazen)
Abel.

(XXX) Jerusha, daughter of Captain Jo-
seph and ATargaret Abel, married Rev. Jede-
diah Hyde (see Hyde IV).

(Noycs Line).

(I ) A\'illiam the Conqueror, King of Eng-
land.

(ID Lady Gungreda. daughter of William
the Conqueror, married William de Warren,
Earl of Surrey.

(III) William, son of William and Lady
Gundreda de Warren, was the second earl
of Warren and Surrey, and died 1131.

(IV) Lady Isabel, daughter of Earl Wil-
liam de \\'arren and Surrey, married Roger
Bigod, earl of Norfolk.

(V) Hugh, son of Roger and Lady Isabel
Bigod, was the third earl of Norfolk, and died
in 1225.

(VI) Ralph, third son of Hugh Bigod, mar-
ried Lady Berta Furnival.

(\"II) Lady Isabel, daughter of Ralph and
Lady Berta (Furnival) Bigod, married (sec-
ond) John Fitz-Piers Fitz-Geoffrey, lord of
Birkhampstead, who was justice of Ireland in
1 246.

(VIII) John Fitz-John, son of the pre-
ceding, was chief-justice of Ireland in 1258.

(IX) Lady Maud, daughter of John Fitz-
John, married (first) Gerard de Furnival,
(second) William, sixth Baron Beauchamp,
Earl of Warwick.

(X) Guy, second Earl of \\'arwick, mar-
ried Lady Alice, daughter of Ralph, Baron
de Toni. and widow of Thomas de Layburne.

(XI) Thomas, third Earl of Warwick, was
one of the original Knights of the Garter. He
married Lady Catherine de Mortimer, daugh-
ter of Roger, Earl of Marche.

(XII) Thomas, fourth Earl of Warwick,
Knight of the Garter, married Lady Marga-
ret, daughter of William, third Lord Ferrers,
of Groby.

(XIII) Richard, fifth Earl of Warwick,
and Earl of Albemarle, was also a Knight of
the Garter, and guardian of Henry VI. He
married Lady Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas,
twelfth Baron Berkeley.

(XIV) Lady Margaret Beauchamp, daugh-
ter of the preceding, was the second wife and
widow of General Sir John, sixth Baron Tal-
bot, created Earl of Shrewsbury. She mar-
ried (second) Sir William Cavendish.

(XV) Thomas, only son of Sir William
and Lady Margaret (Beauchamp) Cavendish,
(lied in 1524. He married Alice, daughter
of lohn Smith, of Padbroke Hall, Suffolk.

(XVI) Sir William Cavendish, Knight,
was of Chadsworth. Tie married (first)
Lady Elizabeth, daughter of John Hardwick.
of Hardwick, Derby, and widow of Richard
Barley, of Barley. Among his children was :
W'illiam, Earl of Devonshire, who was active
in establishing the colonies in America, par-
ticularly those in Virginia.

(XVII) Lady Frances, daughter of Sir
^\'illiam Cavendish, married Sir Henry
Pierrepont. Knight.

(XVIII) William Pierrepont.

(XIX) James, son of William Pierrepont,
was of London, England, died at Ipswich,

Massachusetts. He married Margaret ,

and had children: i. Hon. John, see forward.
2. Robert, married Sarah, daughter of
Thomas Lynde. 3. Mary. 4. Anne. 5. Mar-
tha, married Rev. William Eaton, of county
Dorset.

(XX) Hon. John Pierpont (as the name
was now spelled), son of James and Marga-
ret Pierrepont, was born in London, Eng-
land, in 1 619, died at Roxbury, Massachu-
setts, December 7, 1682. He settled near Bos-
ton in 1640. He married Thankful Stowe.

(XXI) Rev. James Pierpont. son of Hon-
John and Thankful (Stowe) Pierpont, was
born in 1660, died in 1714. He was of New
Plaven, Connecticut, and was one of the
founders of Yale College. He married (first)
; (second) Sarah, daughter of Rev. Jo-
seph Hayne, minister of Hartford, who died
May 14, 1672. He married (third) Mary
Hooker, granddaughter of Rev. Thomas
Hooker.

(XXII) Abigail, daughter of Rev. James
and Sarah (Haynes) Pierpont, married, No-
vember 6, 1746, Rev. Joseph Noyes, born in
1688. died in 1761.

(XXIII) Sarah, daughter of Rev. Joseph
and Abigail (Pierpont) Noyes. married Hon.
Jolin Chester (see Chester VH).

The Barker family of Trov,
BARKER New York, is of English an-
cestry, the present being the
third generation in the United States on the
paternal side. The maternal lines they trace
back to the landing of the Pilgrims and the
"Mayflower." Their line connects with sev-
eral of the oldest New England families — the
Molines, Aldens, Daytons, Gallups, Averys
and others. Tlie English line is traced three
generations in England to the first authentic
date and record.

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(I) Francis Barker, of Halthaw, York-
shire, England, married, March ii, 1777,
Ehzabeth Fieldhouse, "after the banns had
been duly published by the rector of the parish
church, Rev. J. Stittingfleet, on the four pre-
ceding Sabbaths.

(H) Francis (2), son of Francis (i) and
Elizabeth (Fieldhouse) Barker, was born at
Halthaw, England, January 21, 1778, died at
Scalter, Lincolnshire, England, August 9,
1842. He was a gamekeeper on the estate
of the Earl of Yarborough. His wife kept a
small store in the village. He married Re-
becca Whitlow, born in Lincolnshire, Eng-
land, June 19, 1788, died August 5, 1844.
Children : Francis, Rebecca, William, Eliza-
beth, Thomas and Mary.

(HI) Thomas, son of Francis (2) and Re-
becca (Whitlow) Barker, was born at Scalter,
Lincolnshire, England, April 3, 1819, died at
Watervliet, Albany county, New York, De-
cember 22, 1900. He was a blacksmith by
trade. He emigrated *to the United States in
1848 and settled at West Troy, New York
(now city of Watervliet), where he lived and
worked at his trade. He was a devout fol-
lower of John Wesley, and was an exhorter or
local preacher. He was an original member
of the Troy Praying Band, and for some time
the leader. This was a church organization
of note in Troy in that day. During the civil
war he served on the Christian Commission
and rendered such service as he was able. He
married, at Martin, Gainsboro, Lincolnshire,
England, October 2, 1841, Eliza Cook, born in
that shire, September 11, 1819, died at Water-
vliet, New York. She was a milliner by trade
and kept a shop in West Troy. She was a de-
voted Alethodist, and was noted in the church
for her sweet singing at the revival meetings
and other services. Children : Twin daugh-
ters, died at birth; John, died in infancy;
William (see forward).

(IV) William, only child tu survive infancy
of Thomas and Eliza (Cook) Barker, was
born in Brigg, Lincolnshire, England, Octo-
ber 4, 1844. He was brought to the United
States in 1848 by his parents, and in West
Troy, New York, was educated and taught
the blacksmith's trade by his father. In Au-
gust, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Com-
pany H. One Hundred and Thirteenth New
York Volunteer Infantry, afterward New
Y'ork Heavy Artillery, again an infantry regi-
ment, nicknamed "Hancock's Cavalry." He
was mustered in August, 1862, promoted cor-
poral, June 6, 1863, promoted sergeant, De-
cember 14, 1863, mustered out June 16, 1865,
at the close of the war, at Fort Federal Hill,
Baltimore, Maryland. He saw hard service

with the Army of the Potomac, and engaged
in many of the hard-fought battles which
made that army famous. After the war, be-
ing still a young man, hardly out of his teens,
he served an apprenticeship at collar cutting,
and worked at that with several firms, finally
becoming manager for Douglass Corning.
This was the forerunner of several partner-
ship agreements, D. Corning & Company,
Corning & Barker, and on the death of Mr.
Corning, Mr. Barker assumed the business
under his own name and so continued until
1899. In that year, desiring to admit his' son
and some others to an interest in the business,
a corporation was formed called the William
Barker Company, of which he was the first
president and so continues (1910). The com-
pany manufactures the Barker brand of col-
lars and cufi's ; their plant is located at Water-
vliet, New York. Mr. Barker has other busi-
ness interests and connections. He is di-
rector of the Union National Bank, Troy, and
of the National Bank of Watervliet, New
York. He was a director of the Round Lake
Camp Meeting Association, and of the Ameri-
can Bank and Trust Company, of Pasadena,
California, as well as having an interest in
other corporations in which he held no offi-
cial connection. Although he has retired from
the more arduous labors of business, he re-
mains at the head of William Barker Com-
pany and retains all the interest of his
younger days. He is a Republican in political
sympathy, but never took active part in public
affairs. He is a member of many of Troy's
social and out-of-doors clubs, namely: The
Troy, Colonial, Island Golf, Round Lake Golf
and others.

He married, at West Troy, Albany county.
New York, June 23, 1868, Mary Emeline Day-
ton, born in West Troy, December 15, 1844,
daughter of Nathan Crary and Margaret
(MacGillway) Dayton (see "Mayflower" line
forward). The family residences have been
at West Troy, Troy, Round Lake, New York,
and Pasadena, California. The latter resi-
dence is used a great deal by Mrs. Barker,
who finds in that genial climate relief from
bodily ailments that afflict her. Children: i.
Edwin Dayton, died at age of nine years.
2. William, see forward. 3. Frank Halliday,
died aged five years. 4. Charles Moore, died
aged three years. 5. Douglass Corning, died
in infancy. 6. Irving Haynes, born at West
Troy, May 31, 1882, 7. 'Mary Dayton, born
March 23, 1886. Four sons died in December,
1879. two on one day, during an epidemic of
scarlet fever.

(Y) William (2), son of William (i) and
Mary E. (Dayton) Barker, was born in West

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1751

Troy. Albany county. New York. August i,
1873. He escaped the epidemic that carried
off four of the brothers. He was an attend-
ant at the private school of Aliss Harris; later
at Troy Academy and Albany Academy. He
left school at the holiday recess, 1889, to go
to work, starting as an apprentice in the cut-
ting room of his father's factory the first
Aionday in January. 1890. He rose through
successive grades to be a member of the Wil-
liam Barker Company. He is a member of
the Troy Citizens Corps, Pafraet Dael Club,
Colonial Club. Chamber of Commerce, Albany
Academy Alumni Association, Island Golf
Club, Lamctide Fish and Game Club, Beck
Literary Society, and others. He is secretary
of the Society Sons of the Revolution, and
greatly interested in the compiling and pres-
ervation of family records and genealogies.
It is from his perfectly kept and arranged rec-
ords tliat the material for this family line is
obtained. He married, October 12, 1899,
Florence Herring, born in Harrington Park.
Bergen county. New Jersey, and educated at
tlie Englewood and Paterson, New Jersey,
high schools. Child : William, born in Troy,
New Y'ork, March 25, 1908. Mr. Barker re-
sides in Troy, New York.

("Mayflower" line of Mary E. Dayton, wife of
William Barker).

The Dayton family of England can be
traced to Robert de Deighton. and the year
1305. In America the family begins with
Ralph Dayton and the year 1636. He was
born in St. Martin-in-the-Fields. London,
England, 1598: married there Agnes, daugh-
ter of Henry Pool, and by her had two sons,
Robert and Samuel. After the death of his
wife he emigrated to New England (Boston),
where he arrived in 1636. In 1639 he was of
New Haven, Connecticut, where he is men-
tioned at length in the early records, church
and town. He was one of the original set-
tlers at Easthampton, Long Island, where his
deed to land is the earliest on record except
perhaps the Indian deed. He was constable
and a man of importance. He married (sec-
ond) in New Haven it is believed, Dorothy
Brewster, by whom he had a son, Brewster
Dayton. He married (third) Mary, widow
of John Haynes, in June, 1656. He died at
Easthampton in 1658.

(II) Robert, eldest son of Ralph and his
first wife, Agnes (Pool) Dayton, was born
in London, England, in 1630, died at East-
hampton, Long Island, April 16. 1712. He
married. 1652, Elizabeth, daughter of John
(2) and granddaughter of John (i) and .An-
nie WoodrulT, the first settlers. Children :
Elizabeth, Samuel (see forward). Beriah.

(Ill) Samuel, eldest son of Robert and
Elizabeth (Woodruff) Dayton, was born in
Easthampton, Long Island, in 1665, died there
January 30, 1746. He married Dorothy

, who died March 22, 1750, aged

eighty-six years. Children : Robert, Daniel,
Joanna. Nathan, Jonathan, Samuel and Eliza-
beth.

(I\') Nathan, son of Samuel and Dorothy
Dayton, was born at Easthampton, Long
Island, 1702, died there October 3, 1763. He
married. November 11, 1725. Amy Stratton,
born 1698, died September 25, 1749. Chil-
dren : Samuel. Nathan, Nathan, Amy, Eliza-
beth, Abraham, Joana, Abraham, Jonathan.

(\') Captain Nathan (2), son of Nathan
(i) and Amy (Stratton) Dayton, was bap-
tized at Easthampton. Long Island, 1728,
died there 1773. He married, January 27,
1751, Phebe Mulford. Children: Nathan,
Jonathan. Samuel, Elizabeth, Mary, Abraham,
Elias, Joana. Amy and Phoebe.

(YI) Nathan (3), son of Nathan (2) and
Phoebe (Mulford) Dayton, was born at East-
hampton, Long Island, about 1754, died in
Rensselaerville. Albany county. New York,
October 26, 1842. He left Long Island about
1800 and settled in Albany county, where he
died. He served in the revolutionary war,
enlisting in March or April, 1776, as private
in Captain John Davis's company. Colonel
Henry B. Livingston's regiment, New York
militia, served nine months. He drew a revo-
lutionary pension, and the papers, still pre-
served, show his service. He was a farmer
of Albany county. New York.

Nathan Dayton married Mehitable Hutch-
inson, and they were the parents of twelve
children. He married (second) Ruth, widow
of Nathan Crary, of Mystic, Connecticut.
Children : Nathan, Abraham, Hannah, Phoebe,
Elias. Maria, Henry, Lewis M., Helen, Sam-
uel H., Eliza C.

(VH) Samuel H., son of Nathan (3) and
Mehitable (Hutchinson) Dayton, was born in
Easthampton, Long Island, where he was bap-
tized 1790; he died in Troy, New York, July,
1864. He was a farmer of Albany county ;
later removed to near Troy, Rensselaer coun-
ty. New York, where he died. He served
in the war of 1812. He married, in 1812,
Sarah Searles Crary, born in Groton, Con-
necticut. May 25, 1793. died in Troy. New
York, March 6. 1846. daughter of Nathan
and Ruth (Searles) Crary. Her widowed
mother became the second wife of Natlian
Dayton. Children of Samuel H. and Sarah
S. (Crary) Dayton: Harriet. Nathan C.
Clarice. Emma P.. Edwin C. Jesse C, George
C, Helen, Eliza C, Mary A. It is through

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HUDSON AND MOHAWK \'ALLEYS

the Searles marriage that the line of descent
to the "Mayflower" is traced.

(Vni) Nathan Crary, son of Samuel H.
and Sarah S. (Crary) Dayton, was born in
Rensselaerville, Albany county, New York,
April 2, 1816, died at West Troy, same
county, December 21, 1859. He was a
farmer. He married, March, 1841, Margaret
MacGilvray, born in Troy, New York, July
24, 1826, died in West Troy, February 11,
1878. Children : Mary Emmeline, Delia
Searles, Emma Jane.

(IX) Mary Emmeline, daughter of Nathan
Crary and Margaret (MacGilvray) Dayton,
was born December 15. 1844. She married
William Barker (see Barker IV).

(The Crary Line).

(I) The American ancestor was Peter
Crary, born in Scotland, about 1640 ; settled at
New London, Connecticut, 1663 ; married
Christobel, daughter of John and Hannah
(Lake) Gallup, and granddaughter of John
and Christobel Gallup, of Massachusetts.

(II) Peter (2), son of Peter (i) and Chris-
tobel (Gallup) Crary, was born in Stoning-
ton, Connecticut, April 30, 1682; married,
January 11, 1709-10, Ann Culver.

(III) Nathan, son of Peter (2) and Ann
(Culver) Crary, was born in Groton, Connecti-
cut, October 7, 1717. He was a soldier of the
revolution. He was in Captain Cady's com-
pany. Colonel Chapman's regiment, August
2, 1778; discharged September 12, 1778. He
married Ruth Searles (see Searles), born at
Preston, Connecticut, in 1773. Children:
Jesse, and Sarah Searles Crary, the latter of
whom married Samuel H. Dayton (see Day-
ton VH).

(The Searles Line).

(I) The emigrant ancestor was Robert
Searles, who died in Dorchester, Massachu-
setts, February 17, 1717. He married, in

1660, Deborah , who died March 2,

1714.

(II) Nathaniel, son of Robert and Deborah
Searles, was born June 9, 1662. died 1749-50.
He was of Little Compton, Rhode Island,
about i6g6, where he was the first school
teacher in the town. He married, about
1(594, Sarah Rogers, born in Duxbury, Mas-
sachusetts, May 4, 1677, died January 19,
1770, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Pea-
bodie) Rogers. (It is through the Peabodie
family the line continues to the "Mayflower.")
John Rogers was a son of John and Ann
(Churchman) Rogers, and grandson of
Thomas Rogers, a "Mayflower" passenger.

(III) Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (i)
and .Sarah (Rogers) Searles. was born April

26, 1703, died December 8, 1781. He mar-
ried, January 18, 1722, Elizabeth Kunnicutt,.
born 1701, died December 11, 1781, daugh-
ter of John and Elizabeth (Luther) Kunni-
cutt, and granddaughter of Roger and Joana
(Stephenson) Kunnicutt, who were married
November, 1661.

(IV) Constant, son of Nathaniel (2) and
Elizabeth (Kunnicutt) Searles, was born at
Little Compton, Rhode Island, June 17, 1728,
died July 3, 1778. He married, and in 1773;
moved to the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylva-
nia. He served in Captain Samuel Ransom's-
independent company during the revolution,
fought at Millstone River, Round Brook^
Brandywine and Germantown, under
Washington : went into camp at Valley Forge
and suffered to the full extent the privations
of the awful winter of 1777-78. In the spring
of 1778 he returned to Wyoming and perished
with his son-in-law. Captain Delhi Hewitt, m
the Wyoming massacre. Ruth Searles, his
daughter, with her sister Sarah, escaped the
massacre, and with some of their cousins, the
Gallups, made their way back to Connecticut.
On the day of the massacre Ruth wore a
string of gold beads around her neck, which
an Indian snatched from her ; the string broke,
and some of the beads caught in her clothing.
These beads are still preserved as relics of
that dreadful day. (Tonstant Searles mar-
ried, May 16, 175 1, in Stonington, Connecti-
cut, Hannah Miner, daughter of Simon and
Hannah (Wheeler) Miner, of the fifth gen-
eration on the paternal side from Thomas Mi-
ner and his wife, Grace (Palmer) IMiner, the
latter the daughter of Walter Palmer ; died
1661. On the maternal side (Wheeler) she
was of the fifth generation from Thomas and
Mary Wheeler, who were married 1645.
Through the Wheelers she traced descent to
Benadau Gallup and his wife, Hester (Pren-
tiss) Gallup, and to Robert Park and his
wife, Martha (Chapin) Park, the Americanf
progenitors of their respective families.

(V) Ruth, daughter of Constant and Han-
nah (Miner) Searles, was born March i, 1765,
in Preston, Connecticut. After her escape
from Wyoming and return to Connecticut,
she taught school. She became the wife of
Nathan Crary when she was twenty-one years
of age and he seventy (see Crary HI). After
his death she went to Knox, Albany county,
New York, and there married Nathan Day-
ton, whose first wife was her cousin. (See
Dayton VI.)

(\T) Sarah Searles, daughter of Nathan
and Ruth (Searles) Crary, married Samuel
11. Dayton, grandfather of Mary Emmeline
(Dayton) P.arker.

HUDSON AXD MOHAWK \'ALLEYS

1753:

Elizabeth Peabodie, mother of Sarah Rog-
ers, born April 24. 1647, died 1707, was the
daughter of William Peabodie, born 1620,
died December 13, 1707. He married Eliza-
beth Alden, born 1623-24. died May 31, 1717.
Elizabeth Alden was daughter of John Al-
den, born 1599, died September 12, 1687;
married Priscilla IMolines, daughter of Wil-
liam Molines, died February 21, 1621, and his
wife Alice. William Molines was a passen-
ger on the "Mayflower," as was his daughter
Priscilla. later wife of John Alden, immor-
talized by the poet Longfellow in his poem,
'"The Courtship of Miles Standish."

John Rogers (2), who married Elizabeth
Peabodie, was a grandson of Thomas Rogers,
who was the eighteenth signer of the "May-
flower Compact," and died during the "first
sickness."

It is tlirough Hannah Miner, wife of Con-
stant Searles, the Wyoming "martyr," that
descent is traced from the Barkers of Troy to
Christopher Avery, born 1590. died 1670,
founder of the Connecticut family of Avery.
The names traced in this brief genealogy in
all cases lead to the first settlers in America
and there are many not mentioned. The Mul-
fords of Southampton, Long Island ; Thomp-
sons of Roxbury, Massachusetts ; Palmers of
Stonington, Connecticut : Wheelers of Ston-
ington, Connecticut ; Parks of Salem. Massa-
chusetts ; Lakes, Gallups. Woodruffs, and
others, were all of English ancestry, and were
among the very earliest settlers in America.
The lines traced from Barker to the "May-
flower" are fully authenticated and no link is
missing to complete the record from William
Barker (2) to Thomas Rogers and John .M-
den and Priscilla Molines. Volumes could
have been written concerning the pioneers of
these families in settling early towns, in Mas-
sachusetts and Connecticut, of their prowess
as Indian fighters in King Philip's war, the
French and Indian wars, the revolution, the
war of 1812. the Mexican war and the great
civil war: of their services in colony and state
as officials ; of their piety and concern for the
welfare of the church ; of their part in es-
tablishing new industries and carrying them
forward until the fame of New England as a
manufacturing center was world-wide. Men
high in the professions, in public life and in
business bear these names which are now to
be found in every part of the United States.

Thomas Laing, the first of the
L.MNG line here under consideration,

was born in Langholm. Scotland,
about the year 1723, died in Salem, New
York, August 27, 1825, aged one hundred and

two years. He came to this country wheni
about forty years of age. The supposition-
is that he came with the company of Scotch
under Campbell who came to Saratoga county,.
New York, under promises of grants which
were not kept. On the voyage he met and'
became enamored with Agnes Miller, born in
Scotland, 1747, whom he subsequently mar-
ried. They settled in Saratoga county, New
Y'ork. Some time later, according to tradi-
tion, they walked over to Cambridge, Wash-
ington county, a distance of eighteen miles,,
in order to be married by a Scotch preacher,,
located at that place in the wilderness. They
later removed to Hebron, Washington county,
where he purchased land and became a
farmer. They later settled in Saratoga
county, where they reared a family of eight
children, i. John, moved into the wilds of
Canada after the last war with England and
was not heard from again. 2. Thomas, ac-
companied his brother to Canada, was not
heard from again. 3. Jennette, born about
1777, died in Salem, New York, June 20,
1839: married, about 1798. Ephraim Edic,
born 1775, died July 6, 1838. son of James
and Jane (Miller) Edic, of Glen Ross, Scot-
land. 4. Mary, born about 1779, died at
Rouse's Point. 1870; married. 1802, Robert
Irvin, born in Scotland, died in Salem, New
York, 1835 ; they were the parents of nine-
children. 5. Adam, born May 15. 1780. see
forward. 6. Nancy, born 1782, died in Har-
wich, Ontario, 1874; married, February 23,
1809, Niel McQuasie, reared a large family.
7. Margaret, born 1784, died February 23,
1864, unmarried. 8. Eleanor, born 1791, died'
July 10, 1877, at Edinburg, New York : mar-
ried, 1808. Israel Stiles : children : Thomas-
and Margaret, who have left descendants.

(U) .^dam, son of Thomas and Agnes
(Miller) Laing, was born in Stillwater, Sara-
toga county. New York, May 15, 1780, died
in Hebron, New York, September 8, 1859.
He was a farmer, owning land in Hebron,,
Washington county. New York. His home-
stead is still in the possession of his descend-
ants. While a resident of Wilton, Saratoga
county, he owned a timber lot and sawmill ;
he manufactured and dealt in pine lumber,
rafting it down the river to Albany where he
found a market for it. At the time of the-
non-intercourse with England there was a pe-
riod of dull times, and Mr. Laing tied up-
his raft at Albany, still continuing to manu-
facture and log and raft, thinking that in the
near future times would improve. When the
embargo was laid and the last war with Eng-
land was concluded, his debts became so press-
ing that he was obliged to sell his stock of"

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luiiiher. mill and lot at a sacrifice, only realiz-
iiiij a lew hundred dollars in money and a
negro boy whom he later sold to Archibald
Woodard, of Hebron ; he was known as Jack
Woodard and died after his emancipation.
ISlv. Laing was a member of the state militia
and was called out with a company of mili-
tia at the time of the battles on Lake Cham-
plain and the capture of the British fleet at
Ticonderoga ; they were instructed to sup-
port the gunboats, but they really took no ac-
tiye part in the fight. He was a Presbyterian
in religion, but joined the Baptist church of
which his wife was a member. Fie married,
December 26, 1805, Azuba Durham, born in
.Saratoga county. New York, 1785, died in
Hebron, New York, January 11, 1870, daugh-
ter of Uzziel and Mary (Northup) Durham;
she was a woman of unusual character and
mental ability. Children: i. Eliza, born in
Wilton, Saratoga county. New York, Septem-
ber 8, 1806. 2. Thomas, Wilton, March 10,
1808; married Elizabeth Gould: children;
Mary, Hepsibah, Azuba, George, Henry, Fay-
• ette. 3. Adam, Wilton, December 24, 1809;
married Mary Jessie ; children : Al-
fred, Ella, Josephine ; Alfred was a volunteer
in civil war, holding rank of first lieutenant :
after the war was a Universalist minister of
Joliet, Illinois. 4. John, Hebron, F'ebruary
6, 1812; married Minerva Pierce; children:
Solon, Emma. Annie, Frank, De Witt. 5.
Uzziel D., Hebron, March 24, 1814, see for-
ward. 6. Mary D., Hebron, April 20, 1816;
married William Sweet; children: Amanda,
Josephine, Agnes. 7. Stephen D., Hebron,
April 5, 1818: married Arvilla Pratt; chil-
dren: Owen, Fremont, Dora, Grace, Philip,
Mary, Stephen. 8. Joseph, Hebron, March
17, 1820. 9. Chauncey D., Hebron, April 3,
1822. 10. Azuba Ruhama, Hebron, Decem-
ber 10, 1823. II. Josephine W., Pawlet, Ver-
mont, January 10, 1826; married William
Dennison ; children : Stephen C, Elizabeth,
Eliza, twin of Elizabeth, Amos Franklin.

(Ill) Uzziel Durham, son of Adam and
Azuba (Durham) Laing, was born in North
Hebron, New York, March 24, 1814; died
March 20, 1895, at Granville, New York. He
was educated in the schools of his home town.
He owned a farm near North Hebron and
was a prosperous farmer, following that line
of work throughout his active years. He was
a Democrat in politics, but held no office, and
was noted for his integrity and mental capa-
bilities. He married, at Granville, January
15, 1841, Jane, born March i, 1818, died April
II, 1908, at Granville, daughter of William
and Susannah (Rice) Reynolds; their an-
cestors came from Rhode Island and were

early settlers in Hebron and Granville. Wil-
liam Reynolds was son of Stephen Reynolds,
who came from Providence, Rhode Island,
and who married Sally Wightman. Susan-
nah (Rice) Reynolds was a daughter of Allen
and Waitie (Briggs) Rice. Children: i.
William Franklin, born June 25, 1844; see
forward. 2. Azuba Delia, born March 13,
1846; educated at Ripley College, Poultney,
\'ermont ; married Abram Temple ; chil-
dren : i. Edith, born November 23, 1870, edu-
cated at Vermont Academy, Saxtons River,
\'ermont, and at Art Students League, New
York City, married Charles M. Bowen, of
Brooklyn, New York ; children : Dorothy
Temple, born October 6, 1894, Abram Tem-
ple, August 16, 1897, Edith Marian, October
16, 1906; ii. Truman, born July 17, 1874,
educated at Columbia College, New York
City, married, June 22, 1905. Georgia Dyer
Hulett ; children : Priscilla Gray, born No-
vember 20, 1906, Abrah Richard, July 10,
1907; iii. Jennie, died young; iv. Delia, died
young; v. Elizabeth, Case, born May 10,
1885, educated at Miss Wheelock's Private
School, Boston, Massachusetts, married Dan-
iel Harvey Braymer, December 26, 1908 ;
child, Daniel Temple, born October 31, 1910.
3. Emma Louisa, born June 29, 1848 ; mar-
ried Theodore Stevens. 4. Susannah Eliza,
born September 17, 1850; married, December
27, 1870, George L. Ayres, son of Samuel
and Elmira (Hatch) Ayres; he was born
September 12, 1847, died March 23, 1902;
children ; i. Frank Laing, born January 5,
1874; married Hattie Sheldon; children:
Charles, Helen, Eraser, Lillian, George Lewis,
Sheldon, Edson W., Francis R., Walter
Laing, Lawrence Sweet ; ii. Georgianna, born
December 10, 1876, married Charles Scaver ;
children : Aziiba Ruth, born September 3,
1904; Charles William, October 20, 1908,
Beatrice Louisa, December 30, 1909; iii.
Azuba Mary, born November 7, 1880, mar-
ried, July 3, 1906, Neal Dow Hulett ; child :
Merritt Lee, born June 22, 1907; iv.
Uzziel Samuel, born March 12, 1889. 5.
Mary Elizabeth, born September 15, 1853;
educated at Oswego Normal School, Oswego,
New York, afterward studying two years in
German universities ; late a post-graduate of
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and
University of Chicago in Psychology and Ped-
agogy; author of Manual for Teachers and
other educational ])ublications. 6. Minerva
Abigail, torn March 13, 1856; educated at
Oswego Normal School, Oswego, New York,
and Institute of Technology, Boston. Massa-
chusctis; teacher of science in Ilyannis Nor-
mal School. 7. Patience Jane, born July 8,

HUDSON AND MOHAWK \ALLEYS

1858, died I^Iay 8, 1874. 8. Infant son, born
January 15, 1862. died January 17, 1862.

(I\"j William Franklin, son of Uzziel Dur-
liam and Jane (Reynolds) Laing, was born in
North Hebron, New York, June 25, 1844.
He attended the district schools and the North
Hebron Academy, and then followed farming
in North Hebron up to 1880, and in Novem-
ber of that year moved to Waterloo, Ne-
braska, where he became a dealer in real es-
tate and a negotiator of farm loans. In De-
cember. 1896. he removed to Granville, New
York, and in July, 1900, to Rochester, New
York, where he is engaged in fruit culture.
He and his wife are members of the Park
.Avenue P.aptist Church of Rochester, and a
Democrat in politics, but has never held pub-
lic otifice. He married, November 24, 1886,
at Granville, New York. Alary Grace Whit-
ing, born in Hebron. New York, May 13,
1849. daughter of Edward C. and Charlotte
M. (Decker) Whiting, who are the parents
■of six other children, namely : Gertrude.
Adele H.. George A., Louise B., Ernest and
Tav Edward Whiting.

Thomas Harvey died in Som-
HAR\"EY ersetshire. England, prior to
1647. He had sons William,
born about 1614, and Thomas born 1617, both
of whom came to .America in 1646 and set-
tled at Dorchester, Massachusetts. Both mar-
ried and founded families. Thomas settled at
Taunton. Alassachusetts, where he died in
1728. He married. December. 1679, Elizabeth,
daughter of Deacon John Willis of Bridge-
water, Massachusetts. He had eight chil-
dren. From Taunton, descendants of Thomas
Harvey settled in Lyme and other Connecti-
cut towns. The first to settle in Greene
■county, New York, was a direct descendant
of the emigrant Thomas, and by name also
Thomas.

(I) Thomas Harvey was born in Taunton,
Massachusetts, died in the village of Cairo.
Greene county. New York. He was educated
in Taunton, which was his home until middle
life. He then removed to Greene county. New
York. He was a jeweler and watchmaker by
trade. He married Abigail Eliott, and their
first three children were born in Taunton: i.
"William, settled in Troy, New York ; he was
a river captain, and navigated the Hudson for
many years : he married Mary Ann Wells, and
had Margaret, who married Theodore Painter,
of Watcrvliet, and had children — Allen of
Rhode Island : William of Schenectady and
Thomas of Troy. 2. Captain Asahel. of fur-
ther mention. 3. Charles, settled and died at
Cairo, New York. 4. Henry, deceased. 5.

Joel, settled in Albany, New York, where he
died ; married Rosetta Dean, and had John,
and Hannah, who married (first) W'ilson
Worthy; (second) Barrett Cook; she died in
Sharon, Connecticut.

fll) Captain Asahel Harvey, son of
Thomas and Abigail (Eliott) Harvey, was
born at Taunton, Massachusetts (Freetown),
February 10, 1810. died at Cairo, Greene
county. New York, July 14, 1879. He was
a river captain, and for fifty years navigated
the Hudson, owning his own boats used in
freight and passenger business between river
points and New York City. He was a man
of sturdy integrity and was well known all
along the river and among the many shippers
and passengers using his lines. He married,
at Athens. New York. February 13, 1837,
Rhoda Rossman, born March 7, 1820, at
Cairo, died May 22, 1899, at Hudson, New
York. Children; i. Adeline Elizabeth, mar-
ried (first) Sylvester Coffin. January 9,
1859; he was born May 15, 1837, died April
5, 1861 ; children: i. Jennie, married Russell
Brewer, and had Mary, who married Harry
Hicks, and has Harold ; Ferdinand, married
Mabel Snyder, ii. Sylvester E. Coffin, born
July 28, 1861, married Josephine Cotte. After
being left a widow, Adeline E. (Harvey) Cof-
fin married (second) June 17, 1868, Captain
James Stratton Reynolds, born October 3,
1825, died Afarch 16, 1900, at Hudson. He
entered, April 30. 1861. Company K, 14th
Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry,
was promoted sergeant. May 17. 1861 ; com-
missioned second lieutenant, September 5,
1862 : mustered out at Utica. New York. May
25, 1863. He re-enlisted December. 1863. and
was commissioned first lieutenant of Company
K. 159th Regiment New York Volunteers,
was promoted captain of Company G, same
regiment, commission dated February 8, 1864 ;
was mustered out and received honorable dis-
charge at Augusta, Georgia, October, 1865.
After the war he became an engineer on the
Boston & Maine railroad, remaining twenty-
two years in continuous service. He had two
children: i. James Stratton. marine engineer,
Brooklyn. New York, married Emily .Smith.
and has Emily and James S.. who died aged
four years, ii. Beulah, married George Ed-
ward Jacquins, May 21. 1894, at Athens; he
was born in Syracuse, New York, April 17,
1871, son of Reuben W. and Sarah E. (Cos-
tar) Jacquins, grandson of Chauncey, and
great-grandson of John Jacquins, a revolu-
tionary soldier. 2. Wilson I., born October
25, 1840. at Athens. New York. 3. Captain
George Eugene, born November 16. 1842. at
Hudson : married Mary Selby, of Athens,

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New York, and has Edward Asahel, a pilot
on the Delaware & Lackawanna ferry to Ho-
boken, New York. 4. Hiram V., born Oc-
tober II, 1844, married Sarah Gifford ; has
Nellie, who married Frederick Hallenbeck,
and has William Hiram. 5. Captain Edward
Mandeville, born April 14, 1849; in the boat-
ing business on the Hudson. 6. Katherine N.,
born August 5, 1850, died April 5, 1853. 7.
Aurila, married Matin Bej-er, and has Kittie
and Charles M. 8. Charles S., of further
mention. 9. Anna Maria, born August 5,
1858, died October, 1907, married Henry
Skinner Moul. (See Moul Family.)

(HI) Charles Samuel, son of Captain Asa-
hel and Rhoda (Rossman) Harvey, was born
at Hudson, New York, October 28, 1856. He
was educated at Hudson Academy. He en-
gaged at Hudson in the manufacture of to-
bacco, continuing until his retirement in 1905.
He has given much valuable service to his
city and county. In 1889 he was appointed
deputy sheriff, remaining in that position six
years ; he was appointed postmaster of Hud-
son by President Cleveland during his second
administration ; elected mayor of Hudson in
1897, and was in office two terms. During
his administration the tax rate of the city was
reduced and the bonded debt of the city low-
ered from three hundred to one hundred
thousand dollars. He was elected chairman
of the Democratic city committee and still re-
tains the city leadership of his party. He is
active and influential in party councils, and
holds the confidence of his colleagues. He is
an attendant of the Presbyterian church, a
charter member of the -Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks, and has an active inter-
est in the city volunteer fire department, hav-
ing been for many years an active worker
with C. H. Evans Hook & Ladder Company.
He married Anna Grififin, daughter of John
and Nora (Grady) Griffin, both of whom
were born in Ireland. John Griffin died at
Stockport, New York, buried at Valturia.
Norah Grady died and is buried at New Ha-
ven, Connecticut. Her mother, Catherine
Grady, came to the United States and is hur-
ried at Valturia. Charles S. and .Anna Har-
vey have: i. Captain Asahel Griffin, born
July 7, 1884, educated in the public schools
of Hudson and Albany Business College. He
was connected with the American Express
Company, Union Mills Company of Brook-
lyn, and is now a bookkeeper at Firemen's
Home, Hudson. He enlisted in 1901 in the
New York National Guard as private, and
rose through successive promotions until in
1910 he was commissioned captain of Com-
pany F, loth Regiment of Infantry. He is

a member of the Masonic fraternity, and of
C. H. Evans Hook & Ladder Company. 2.

Edna ]\Iay.

The Nasons were among the
NASON early settlers of New England,
and all may be said to trace from
either Richard, Joseph, John, or Benjamin Na-
son, who came from Rainsford Island, Eng-
land, about the year 1648, and settled at South
Bewick, Maine. They soon became numerous
and could be found in the other colonies prior
to the revolution. The definite history of the
branch begins with

(II) Thomas Nason, of Walpole, Massa-
chusetts, son of Willoughby Nason, of Boston,
born 1691, married (second) Mary Camper-
nell, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and had chil-
dren : By first wife, Sarah , who died

August 10, 1748: Thomas, born about 1739;
Nathaniel, born 1740, married Abigail Harts-
horn, of Walpole, and had fourteen children ;
Abigail, born March 24, 1741 ; ]\Iargaret, Oc-
tober 28. 1745. Children by second wife:
Willoughby, of whom further; Mary, born
December 27, 1759. Mary, the second wife
of Thomas Nason, died March 3, 1769. The
three sons — Thomas (2), Nathaniel and Wil-
loughby— occupied the Elikiam farm in Wal-
pole after the owners' flight to Boston in
1775, and they were all engaged in the revo-
lutionary army in 1776-77.

(III) Willoughby, son of Thomas and
Mary (Campernell) Nason, was born in Wal-
pole, Massachusetts, February 21, 1750, died
April 9, 1838. He was a soldier of the revo-
lution, as the following copies from Massa-
chusetts Records attest.

Willoughby Nason; Appears with rank of pri-
vate on Lexington Alarm Roll of Captain Sabin
Man's company. Col. Creaton's Regt., which
marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, from Wal-
pole. Town to which soldier belonged, Walpole.
Length of service, 12 days. (Vol. 13: 5.)

Willoughby Nason ; Appears with rank of pri-
vate on muster and pay roll of Capt. .^aron Guild's
Co., Col. Lemuel Robson's Regt., in service at
Dorchester Heights. Time of enlistment. January
27. 1776. Town to which soldier belonged. Wal-
pole. (Vol. 19: 152V2.)

Willoughby Nason : Appears with rank of pri-
vate on muster and pay roll of Captain David Hen-
shavv's (loth) Company, Colonel Craft's (.\rtil-
\ery) Regiment Service from November 24. 1776,
to February i, 1777. Time of service, 2 months,
6 days. (Vol. 38: 73-)

Willoughby Nason : Appears with rank of Bom-
bardier on muster and pay roll of Captain David
Henshavv's (loth) Company, Colonel Thomas
Craft's .Artillery Regiment. Service from Feb-
ruary I, 1777, to May 8, 1777. Time of service, 3
months, 7 days. Town to which soldier belonged,
Walpole. (Vol. 38: 74-)

I certify the foregoing to be true abstracts from

HUDSON AXD MOHAWK \' ALLEYS

1757

tlie Record Index to tlie Revolutionary War
Arcliives deposited in this office.

(Signed) VViixiAJr M. Oldim. Sec.
Commonwealth of Massachusett.s.

He niarned, July 8, 1772, Mary Borden, of
Walpole. born November 18, 1753, died May

25, 1844-

(I\') Jesse, son of Willoiighby and Mary
(Borden) Xason, was born February 27,
1776, (lied -Mav 24. 1S4S. He married and
had issue.

( \' ) (icorsrc Warren, son of Jesse Nason.

(\'I) William Emmons, son of George
Warren Nason.

(\II) Williard Hohman, son of William
Eiumons Xason, was born in Alassachusetts,
June 26, 1857. He prepared for the practice
of law and was admitted to the bar at Frank-
lin, Massachusetts, in 1880. In 1881 he re-
moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he has since
been engaged in the practice of his profession.
He was formerly a Congregationalist. but is
now a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church. In politics he is a Republican. He
married Clara Louise Warren.

(^'III) Adelbert Warren, son of William
H. and Clara Louise (Warren) Nason, was
born in Cleveland, Ohicx January 7, 1884. He
was graduated at Harvard University, A. B.,
class of 1905. He is a broker, dealing in
stocks and bonds. He is a member of the
Sons of the Revolution. He married Eliza-
beth M. Sitson.

Nicholas Rousseau, the first
ROUSSEAU of the line here under con-
sideration of whom we
have knowledge, emigrated to this country
from France and landed at Baltimore, Mary-
land, from whence he removed to Philadel-
phia, Pennsylvania, and became a dealer in
■dry goods. He died in the year 1798. He
was the father of seven sons, four of whom
came to this country, namely: Achille, John,
Peter and Alexander. Achille became a
farmer and resided in Butternuts, near Au-
burn, New York. John and Peter went to
Montreal. Intercourse between the brothers
soon ceased, and little or nothing is known of
their descendants.

(II) Alexander, the other son of Nicholas
Rousseau to come to this country, was born
in liordeaux, France, May 7, 1766, died in
Troy, New York, March 2, 1812. He left
his native land for this country and landed at
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1787. About
four years later he made his way up the Hud-
son river as far as Troy, which was then be-
ginning to shape itself for a village, and was
•grcatl\- jileased with the place and the pros-

pect for its future growth. There he made
the acquaintance of Mary Frear, who was
born June 12, 1772, and she became his wife
in 1793. She died in Troy, New York, May
16. 1847. Children: Achille J., born Feb-
ruary 3, 1796 (see forward) ; John, born Feb-
ruary 2, 1799; Henry, November 12, 1801 ;
Lewis. September 24, 1804; Alexander, July
24, 1806; Benjamin, March 3, 1810; John,
died when thirteen months old.

(HI) .\chille J., -son of Alexander Rous-
seau, was born February 3, 1796, died March
26, 1858. He was a well-known business
man of Troy, New York. On March 5, 1822,
he was admitted a partner in the firm of
Esaias Warren & Company, continuing after
the dissolution of that firm, March t, 1827,
as the senior partner of Rousseau, Richards &
Company, successors. He was married by
the Rev. William Butler, of Troy, New York,
January I, 1823, to Esther Hayden Richards.
Children: i. ]\Iary Catharine, born Novem-
ber 14. 1824: married. May 14, 1846. Henry
King. 2. Sarah Elizabetli, born September i,
1826; married, May i, 1849, Robert Luding-
ton. 3. Margaret Esther, born June 30, 1828.
4. Lewis Alexander, born November 17, 1832;
married, 1867, Mary Fellows. 5. .Achille
John, born November 18, 1833 ; married, June
16, i8s8, Emma L. Whipple (children: Han-
nah Elizabeth, born July 24, 1864, Whipple
Hayden, born April 20, 1870) ; Helen Fran-
ces, born September 8, 1836; William White
(see forward).

(IV) WilHam White, son of Achille J.
Rousseau, was born in Troy, New York, Sep-
tember 15, 1838, died in that city January 18,
1897. He was educated in the city schools
and for two years was a student at Rensse-
laer Polytechnic Institute. He engaged in the
insurance and real-estate business in Troy and
represented for over twenty-five years a
prominent New York brokerage house. He
was for many years closely identified in the
management of the e.state of N. B. Warren
& Brothers, later heirs of N. B. Warren, and
the estate of George Henry Warren. He was
a capable business man, and large interests
were committed to his care with the utmost
security. In 1862 he enlisted in the United
-States navy and served until the close of the
civil war. He was prominent in musical cir-
cles, and the composer of a large amount of
sacred music, the greater part of it in use
in the services of the Episcopal church. Rev.
Dr. John Ireland Tucker, rector of the Church
of the Holy Cross, founded by Mary Bouton
\\'arren, widow of Nathan Warren (see War-
ren family), and Mr. Rousseau collaborated
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are extensively used throughout the United
States. These works were "Parish Hym-
nals," "The Church Hymnal" and "Hymnals
for Sunday Schools." Mr. Rousseau also
published (alone) "The Twenty Selections,"
set to Gregorian tunes, and "The Service
Book." He was organist of the Church of
the Holy Cross for thirty years, and with Dr.
Tucker was instrumental in furthering the in-
troduction of choral music as part of the
church service, one of the objects which in-
duced Mrs. Warren to establish the church.
The experiment met with a large amount of
opposition, but is now firmly established in all
Episcopal churches. Mr. Rousseau was a
member of the Masonic order, and for many
years served as organist of Mt. Zion and
Apollo lodges of that order. His political
preference was for the Republican party, but
he took no active part in political affairs. He
was a member and past commander of Gris-
wold Post, No. 338, Grand Army of tlie Re-
public.

^Ir. Rousseau married, in Troy, October,
1868. Jeanette. daughter of John T. and Mar-
tha (Laselle) Parker. Children:

1. Harry Harwood, born in Troy, New
York, April 19, 1870; educated in the public
schools, graduated from the high school in
1887, entered Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti-
tute, where he was graduated civil engineer,
class of 189 1. He spent a year in Albany,
New York, then took the position of engi-
neer of structural ironwork for the Brooklyn
Elevated Railroad Company. Until 1898 he
was designing engineer for the Pittsburg
Bridge Company. In that year he became a
member of the engineer corps of the United
States navy, engaged in the construction of
buildings, dry docks and similar work. His
success in designing a method for deepening
and maintaining the channel leading to Mare
Island navy yard brought him increased repu-
tation and preferment. In 1906 he was made
chief of the bureau of yards and docks. United
States navy, with the rank of rear-admiral.
In the same year he was appointed a mem-
ber of the Panama Canal Commission as civil
engineer of the commission representing the
navy. He is now (1911) stationed at Cule-
bra. He stands very high in the engineering
world. He is a member of the Rensselaer
Society of Engineers, the American Society
of Civil Engineers, Sigma Xi, an honorary
society of technical schools, and other promi-
nent societies of his profession. He married,
in Panama, April, 1908, Gladys, daughter of
Hon. Plerbert Squiers, United States minis-
ter to Panama.

2. William White, Jr., born in Trov, New

York, April 18, 1873; educated in public
schools and Troy Academy, graduated frorm
the high school, 1891, entered Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, where he was gradu-
ated civil engineer, class of 1895. For a year
he was engaged with the Delaware & Hud-
son River railroad as engineer of construc-
tion work on the Susquehanna division. Then
he was engaged in dyke construction at Corn-
ing, New York, for one year, and in 189^ re-
turned to Troy. After the death of his father,
he succeeded him in the management of the
George Henry Warren and Nathan B. War-
ren estates. His professional career is con-
tinued as assistant professor of geodesy and'
railroad engineering at the Rensselaer Poly-
technic Institute (1911), and as superintend-
ent of construction of the Troy Water Works,
to which position he was appointed in 1907 by
the mayor of the city. He is a member of the
real estate and insurance firm of Breese &
Rousseau of Troy. He is an active Repub-
lican, and a member of the Republican Club,
also a member of Mt. Zion Lodge, F. and A.
M., No. 311, Troy, New York. He is a mem-
ber of the Church of the Holy Cross, and is-
organist and choir master, succeeding his
father. The choir is largely composed of girl's-
from the "Mary Warren Free Institute," a
school founded and endowed by Mary War-
ren, founder and donor of the church. He is-
an associate member of the American Society
of Civil Engineers ; a member of the Society
of Engineers of Eastern New York, also of
the Rensselaer Society of Engineers, the Sig-
mi Xi and the Tau Beta Pi societies, the lat-
ter two being honorary societies in technical
colleges.

He married, in Troy, June 5, 1901, Frances,
daughter of William D. Hardy, born in Can-
ada, now a retired merchant of Troy, and'
Ruth (Horton) Hardy. Children: Carolyn'
Hardy, born December 31, 1904; Parker Hor-
ton, April 8, 1908.

Martin Ingham Townscnd,
TOWNSKND son of Nathaniel and Cyn-
thia ( Marsh) Townsend^
was br)rn in Hancock. Massachusetts, Febru-
ary (). 1810, died in Troy, New York. March 8,
1903. At the age of six years he removed with-
his parents to Williamstown, Massachusetts,
where he was reared on a farm and received
a practical education in the common schools,
which was supplemented by attendance at
Williams College, from which he was gradu-
ated with degrees of A. B., 1883, .A. M.,
1836. He was admitted to the New York-
bar, May 13, 1836, and commenced the prac-
tice of his profession in Tnoy, where for many

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years he was associated in partnership with
his brother, Randolph Wanton Townsend (A.
B., Wilhams, 1836, A. M., 1839), which was
both successful and remunerative. He was
employed by the United States government to
attend and report upon tlie trial of Cadet
Whittaker in New York City, which contin-
ued for two years, and which resulted in
Whittaker's acquittal. He also acted for de-
fense in the noted cases of Henrietta Robin-
son, Andrus Hall, Whitbeck and George E.
Gordon. He retired from practice in 1901.
Martin I. Townsend received the honorary de-
gree of LL. D. from his alma mater in 1866,
and was a regent of the University of the
State of New York, 1873-1903, a period of
thirty years. He served as district attorney
of Rensselaer county. New York, 1842-45 ;
was a delegate from the state-at-large to the
constitutional convention, 1867-68; a Repub-
lican representative from New York in the
forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses, 1875-
79 ; United States district attorney for the
northern district of New York, 1879-87, and
a member of the constitutional commission of
1890, by appointment from Governor Hill.
Until 1848 Mr. Townsend was an adherent of
the principles of Democracy, but, influenced
by the proceedings of the Democratic na-
tional convention of that year at Buffalo, he
became a strenuous opponent of the resolu-
tions then passed upon slavery, and his home
in Troy was raided on July 15, 1863, by an
anti-draft mob.

Mr. Townsend married, in 1836, Louisa B.
Kellog. of Williamstown, Massachusetts.
who died in 1890. Their daughter married
Professor H. B. Nason of the Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.

This familv settled in
VAN BROCKLIN the Mohawk Valley

at a date prior to the
revolution. Tlie records of "New York Sol-
diers in the Revolution" show many of the
family to have been engaged in the struggle
for independence. One of the number. Nicho-
las, an enlisted member of Captain Jillis Fon-
da's company of "Associated Exempts" was
taken prisoner by the Indians and Tories,
taken into the wilderness and was never heard
of again. The region in which the family
settled was the theatre of the operations of
Brant and the Johnsons and the cruel, re-
morseless Tories and Indians were only held
in check by the determined bravery of the
Mohawk settlers and patriots. The Van
Brocklin family in the Mohawk Valley was
founded by two brothers one of whom was
Gilbert. There were four brothers that came

from Holland about the year 1730 with their
sister Barbara. They were Gilbert, Malachi,
Nicholas and Harpet. Two of the brothers
never married and from the other two have
sprung probably all the \'an Brocklins of New
York state.

(I) Gilbert Van Brocklin, immigrant an-
cestor, came from Holland to .America in
1730 and settled in what is now Montgomery
county, New York. Pie married and had
issue.

(II )_ Gilbert (2), son of Gilbert (i) Van
Brocklin, was born in 1768, died April 15,,
1849. He was a farmer of Montgomery
county, a Whig, and a member of the Lu-
theran church. He married Jemima ,

born 1783, died February 3, 1849. Children:
I. Hannah, born 1806, died 1870; married
Michael Stotter, born 1803, died 1880. 2.
Matthias, of whom further. 3. John G., died
May 9, 1852, aged thirty-four years : his son
John enlisted in the One Hundred and Fif-
teenth Regiment, New York Volunteers, at
the age of sixteen years, and was the first man'
killed in that regiment ; he was orderly for
Colonel Sammons and was instantly killed by
a shell while in the performance of duty. 4.
Margaret, died unmarried at the age of sixty-
seven years.

(Ill) Matthias, eldest son of Gilbert (2)
and Jemima Van Brocklin, was born in the
town of Johnstown, then Tryon, now Fulton-
county, New York, January i, 1813, at the
locality known as Albany Bush, died at Am-
sterdam. New York, August 28, 1889. and is-
buried in the family plot in Green Hill ceme-
tery. He learned the carpenter's trade at
which he worked for several years. In 1868
he began the manufacture of stockings in Am-
sterdam, meeting with such success that in
1872 he enlarged his plant, added underwear
to his line of manufacture, and admitted his
son William to the firm. In 1873 Matthias
withdrew as an active partner and formed a
company called the American Hosiery Mills-
Company, which continued imtil September,
1876. At that time their mills were destroyed'
by fire and were never rebuilt. He was a
strong Republican, and served as president
of the Amsterdam village corporation the last
year prior to its becoming a city. lie was an
active member and in the early years the chief
supporter of the West Amsterdam Lutheran'
Church. He married, at Albany Bush, De-
cember 27, 1836, Charlotte Stoller, born June-
3, 1815, at Albany Bush, twelfth of the thir-
teen children of Michael and Magdalene Stol-
ler. Michael Stoller died May 9. 1853, aged"
eighty-one years. Magdalene died December
21, 1859, aged eighty-four years. Charlotte-

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(Stoller) Van Brocklin is a resident of Am-
sterdam, New York, retaining to a remarkable
•degree her mental and physical activity, al-
though in her ninety-sixth year. She is a
lifelong member of the Lutheran church.
Children: i. William Shields, of whom fur-
ther. 2. John, born February 20, 1842 ; mar-
ried Louise Revies, June 15, 1864; resides
with mother in Amsterdam : has a daughter

Clara, who married Wenans, of Roch-

■ester. 3. James, born July 6, 1844, died No-
vember II, 1909; married, October 20, 1868,
Katherine Simpson, who survives him; chil-
<lren : Susan and Mrs. E. Watson Gardner. 4.
Eli, born November 3. 1846; a glove and mit-
ten manufacturer of Northville, Fulton
county. New York, since 1898; previously a
l;nit goods manufacturer from 1872 ; he is a
Presbyterian although reared in the Lutheran
church, and a Republican ; he served as vil-
lage trustee for two terms, and since 1901
lias been trustee of the board of education,
having held the same office when residing in
Amsterdam ; he married, April 14. 1869, Mary
C. Mosher. born May 13, 1851 ; children:
Matthias, born January 6, 1871 : Lottie, born
November 14, 1873, married D. Newton, of
'Gloversville : Charles Gilbert, born 1878.

(IV) William Shields, eldest son of Mat-
thias and Charlotte (Stoller) Van Brocklin,
was born in Amsterdam, New York, Decem-
■ber 5, 1839, died October 13, 1908. When
twelve years of age he went to New York
City, where he obtained a position as mes-
senger boy in a bank. He was a lad of in-
dustry and good habits, and was able to com-
mand promotion and salary. For six years
after leaving New York, he was connected
with a lumber company in Troy, New York.
Leaving Troy he became interested with his
father in the manufacture of stockings and
for twelve years was a manufacturer in Cats-
■kill, New York. Later, in Amsterdam, he
was of Van Brocklin, Stover & Company,
manufacturers of knit goods, a successful
■enterprise in which he was engaged until
his death. He was a director of the First Na-
tional Bank of America and held the same
position in the Johnstown Bank. He was in-
terested in many enterprises of his town,
where he was held in high esteem. He was
a member of the Methodist Episcopal church,
which he served as trustee. Mr. Van Brock-
lin married, in Amsterdam. May 7, 1862, Mar-
garet Kline, born in the same citv, June 23,
1840 (see Kline TV). Children: i. Harry D.,
born July i, 1876, died at the age of two
years. 2. Frank V.. July 29, 1880; was edu-
cated in the common and high schools of Am-
sterdam and Ithaca, New York; succeeded

at his father's death to the management of
his large business interests and has proved a
worthy successor.

(The Kline Line).

The question of the nationality of the Kline
immigrant is not one that has yet been set-
tled to the unanimous satisfaction of his de-
scendants. But either Germany or Holland
is believed to have been his native country.
The best proof we have at hand that he was
from I-Iolland is the fact that in his will he
provided that his large "Dutch Bible" should
go to a certain son. As he referred to the
Bible as being "Dutch" it forms a strong pre-
sumption that he was a Hollander. This will
was made only a few years before his death.
William Kline, the emigrant ancestor above
referred to, was born in 1736, died 1814. He
emigrated to America when a young man,
and located in New York City where for a
time he followed his trade of journeyman
baker, but in a few years established a busi-
ness of his own in the same line. He was in
the baking business in New York at the time
of his marriage and for a few years thereafter,
when he sold out and with his young wife set-
tled in Montgomery county on land he pur-
chased in what is now Amsterdam township,
village of Aiken. Here he and his wife
thereafter lived and died. This was after the
revolutionary war. On the New York rolls
of enlisted men in the revolution is the name
of \\illiam Kline. .\s these rolls were printed
from old and imperfect lists and spelling was
often a matter of choice with the writer, it
establishes as a fact beyond a doubt the tra-
dition of the family that William served in
the revolutionary war. (See New York in
the Revolution, p. 69.) While conducting his
bakery in New York, William Kline became
acquainted with and married Mary O'Reagcn,
born in Ireland in 1740, died in NIontgomery
county. New York, August 28, 1827. Chil-
dren: I. James. 2. Adam. 3. William, born
'" 1775. "J'ed April I, 1861 ; married and had
issue : his home was in Amsterdam. 4. Joiin,
born 1777, died December i, 1885 ; he married
and had issue ; he is buried at Tribes Hill.
5. Joseph. 6. George, see forward.

(II) George, youngest son of William and
Mary (O'Reagen) Kline, was born May 23,
1783, died September 29, 1857. He was a
farmer at Aiken, Montgomery county. New
York, where he died and is buried in the fam-
ily ])lot. He and his family were members of
the Lutheran church. He married, in 1803,
Sarah Van Nest, born September 2t, 1785,
died December 22, 185 1, daughter of Henry
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and Mary (Ten Eyck) Van Nest, born No-
vember 7, 1765, died March 2, 1832. Chil-
dren of George and Sarah (Van Nest)
Khne: i. Maria, born January 23, 1804,
died August 28. 1884. ' 2. Hannah, De-
cember 13. 1805, died December 3, 1857.
3. Jane, February 3, 1809. died January
2.-J, 1893. 4. Wilham, April 22, 181 1, died
February 14, 1841. 5. Henry V., of
Avhom further. 6. Charity, June 8, 1815, died
March 16, 1883; married, May 31, 1843, Jo-
seph Clark May, born May 17, 1815, died
January 3, 1893. 7. Catherine, March 6,
1818, died May 21, 1897. 8. John, March 8,
1820. died December 20, 1828. 9. Sarah Jane,
August 25, 1825, died August i, 1859.

(IH) Henry V., son of George and Sarah
(\"an Nest) Kline, was born March 17, 1813,
died December 3, 1879. He married, in Am-
sterdam, Maria, born May 17. 1814, died Jan-
uary 7. 1849, daughter of Frederick and Han-
nah (Lingenfelter) Moore, both of whom
lived and died in Amsterdam township. Chil-
dren: I. Margaret, of whom further: 2.
■George, born February 3, 1842; a veteran of
the civil war : resides near Aiken, New York.
3. Sarah, wife of Stephen Quilhot, a manu-
facturer of Amsterdam. By a later marriage
to a sister of his first wife, Mr. Kline had a
son. John M., now deceased.

fIV) ^Margaret, eldest child of Henry V.
and Maria (Moore) Kline, was born in .Am-
sterdam, June 23, 1840. She was educated
in her native town, and after her marriage to
William S. \'an Brocklin (see \'an Brock-
lin I\') was of material assistance to him in
the development and management of his busi-
ness. She was an unusually capable business
woman and a devoted wife and mother. She
is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church and though nearing her three score
and ten years is very much interested in the
affairs and happenings of the present. .She
and her son, Frank V., reside in Amsterdam,
New York.

John Alilliman. of Kingston,
MILLIMAN Rhode Island, died in that

city in 1739. He married
Anna Bryant, who died in 1741, leaving three
children: i. John, see forward. 2. Anna,
born 1738; married Rev. William Bentley,
a minister of the Baptist church. 3. Bryant,
born 1740, died 1829; married Elizabeth
Mitchell, and settled in Genesee, Eivingston
county. New York ; later removed to North
Hoosick. He was a soldier of the revolution.
(H) John (2), son of John (i) and Anna
(Bryant) Milliman, was born in Kingston,
Rhode Island, March 13, 1736, died February

12, 1810. He was a farmer and a large land
owner, owning eight parcels of land, includ-
ing the "State Line House," which enjoyed
the unique distinction of resting on corner
stones erected in two states, three counties
and four towns, and was surrounded by si.x
hundred acres of land. This property for
which he paid eight thousand dollars at that
early day was bought from Captain Mat-
thews, who is supposed to have built the house.
John Milliman later settled near Wattoomsac,
Rensselaer county, New York. He was a
private of the Albany county militia. Four-
teenth Regiment (Land Bounty Rights) (see
"New York in the Revolution," p. 235). His
son John, Jr., served in the Fourteenth Regi-
ment. .Albany county militia (see "New York
in the Revolution," p. 127). He was a man
of great influence in his community and of
high character. He married .\nna Fowler,
born January 20, 1740, died March 26. 1819.
They were the parents of a large family.

(III) Captain Samuel Milliman. son of
John (2) and Anna (Fowler) Milliman, was
born near Wattoomsac, Rensselaer county.
New York, in 1770, died January 16, 1863.
He was a wealthy and influential citizen, very
prominent in a quiet way, and like his father
and his son Nathaniel a courtly gentleman of
"ye olden style." He was commissioned cap-
tain of horse by the governor of New Y'ork,
March 22, 1797, holding this position until
1809, when he resigned. He married Sarah
Niles, born May 17, 1775, died March 30,
1830, a descendant of John Niles, of Brain-
tree, Massachusetts, 1639.

(IV) Nathaniel, son of Captain Samuel and
Sarah (Niles) Milliman, was born on the
homestead farm near Wattoomsac. Novem-
ber II, 1793, died February 18, 1872, at Cold
Spring, near Baldwinsville. New York. He
settled at Baldwinsville with his brother Sam-
uel, who at this time sold the "State Line
House," previously mentioned. He made the
trip on hor.seback. with saddlebags filled with
gold, and it is supposed that the brothers were
accompanied by a Mr. Baldwin. On settling
at Baldwinsville he purchased property, and
at once assumed a leading part in town affairs.
He was justice of the peace, and was execu-
tor for many estates. He was much loved in
the community, and highly respected. He
married, April 6, 1813, Desire Clark, born
l'"ebruary 26, 1794, died January 14, 1863,
daughter of an old Hoosick Falls family.
They had issue.

(V) Myron Clark, .son of "Squire" Na-
thaniel and Desire (Clark) Milliman. was
born at Baldwinsville. New York. .April 12,
1829, died March 8, 1903. He became a pros-

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perous farmer, and inherited the courtly man-
ners and kindly heart of his ancestors. He
married, August 15, 1847, at Baldwinsville,
Luania E. Tucker, born in that town, May 2,
1830, and now living at Syracuse, New York.

(VI) Nathaniel Niles, son of Myron Clark
and Luania E. (Tucker) Milliman, was born
in Baldwinsville, New York, December 28,
1850, and is now living practically a retired
life at Valley Falls, New York. He was edu-
cated at a private boarding school at Fulton,
New York, and most of his life followed
farming, in which he was deeply interested.
In 1906 he was appointed postmaster at V'al-
ley Falls, and is still in office (1910). In
1888 he removed to Troy, where he engaged
in mercantile life for about ten years, and
then returned to Valley Falls, New York. He
is a Republican in politics, and attends Bethel
Church. He married. April 7, 1874, Mary
Agnes Pierson, at Baldwinsville, her native
town, and place of death. Children: i. My-
ron Clark, see forward. 2. Roetta, married
Albert Acker, a traveling salesman of Valley
Falls, New York. 3. Louis Niles, born in
Baldwinsville ; now an architect of Troy, New
York. 4. Mary Park, married Irving Free-
man, of Troy ; child, Eleanor.

(VII) Myron Clark (2). son of Nathaniel
Niles and Mary Agnes (Pierson) Milliman.
was born in Baldwinsville, New York, Janu-
ary II, 1875. He was educated in the pub-
lic schools of Troy, and later took the high
school course under an instructor. He early
became associated with the firm of Hall, Hart-
well & Company, of Troy. New York, manu-
facturers of shirts, collars and cufifs, and has
always been connected with that firm until
the present date (1910). He started in the
stock room, and has passed through several
promotions, and is now manager of the out-
of-town factories, with a residence at Hoosick
Falls. He is an active Republican, and a
member of the Baptist church. He is a mem-
ber of the Free and Accepted Masons, and
of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks,
having been the past exalted ruler of the lat-
ter order. He is president of the Hoosick
Falls board of trade, and a member of the
Hoosick and Country clubs. He married,
April 10, 1901, Bessie Kendrick, of Troy,
daughter of Arthur Thomas and Harriet A.
(Kendrick) Smith. Arthur Thomas Smith
was born in Townsend, Vermont. August 7.
1855. He removed to Troy where he engaged
in merchandising. He is active in Republican
politics, and since 1904 has been city treas-
urer. Pie for several years represented the
third ward in the city council. He is junior
warden of Christ Episcopal Church, Troy,

having been chosen in 1906. Children of Mr.
and Mrs. Milliman: Marjorie Elizabeth, born
in Hoosick Falls ; Arthur Smith, born in Hoo-
sick Falls, New York, February 23, 1905.

(The Kendrick Line).
Harriet A. (Kendrick) Smith, born in
Hudson, New York, July 24, 1855. is a de-
scendant of George Kendrick, born in Eng-
land, 1612, died at Rehoboth, Massachusetts,
1680. He was a grandson of William Ken-
drick, of Shropshire, England, and his wife

Marguerite . Their son John, of

Moore. England, married Elizabeth Hodge.

(I) George, son of John and Elizabeth
(Hodge) Kendrick, and the American an-
cestor, came to America during the Puritan
emigration of 1632. He was of Scituate,
Massachusetts, in 1633, and of Rehoboth,
1639. He was deputy in 1642-44.

(II) Abraham, son of George Kendrick,.
the emigrant, was born May 19, 1665, died
in 1716.

(III) John, son of Abraham Kendrick, was
born in 1700. He married and had a son
William.

(IV) \\'illiam. son of John Kendrick. was
born in 1732. He married and had issue,,
among whom was David.

(\') David, son of William Kendrick, was
born in 1771. He married Margaret Harring-
ton.

(\T) Richard John, son of David and Mar-
garet ( Harrington ) Kendrick. was born in
Poughkeepsie. New York, in 1799, died 1861.
He married, in 1826. Phoebe Bennett, born
in Poughkeepsie, 1804, died there in 1845,,
daughter of Reuben and Phoebe Bennett.
Reuben Bennett was born in England, emi-
grated to America, enlisted in the revolution-
ary army, and was wounded at the battle of
White Plains. October 28, 1776.

(\TI) John Richard, son of Richard John
and Phoebe (Bennett) Kendrick, was born
April 7, 1829. died December 27, 1898. He
was connected with the Troy office of the
New York Central railroad most of his life.
He was a member of Christ Episcopal Church,
of Troy. He married Clarissa Keller, born
June 24, 1836, now (1910) a resident of Trov.

(VIII) Harriet A., daughter of Jolin
Richard and Clarissa (Keller) Kendrick, mar-
ried .'\rthur Thomas Smith, and their only
daughter, Bessie Kendrick Smith, married
Myron Clark Milliman (see Milliman VII).

Jeremiah Lockwood, a de-
LOCK\\'OOD scendant of Robert Lock-
wood, of Watertown, Mas-
sachusetts, was born in Norfolk, Connecticut,

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and died in New York. The family is numer-
ous, and from early days have been prominent
in Fairfield and Litchfield counties, Connecti-
cut. Savage says eleven Lockwoods were
graduates of Yale prior to 1834. Jeremiah
Lockwood located in Easton, Washington
county, Xew York, where he purchased a
farm on which he lived all his days and was
buried. He married Lillis Beard. Children:

1. Mary, married Joseph Beach, deceased,
and lias a son, Charles H. Beach, of Albany.

2. Maria, married Joseph Taylor, and has a
son, Joseph Cornell Taylor. 3. Frank, died
in 1909. 4. Xellie. 5. Duane, see forward.

( n ) Duane, son of Jeremiah and Lillis
(Beard) Lockwood, was born in July, 1826, in
Easton, Xew York, died 1880, in Troy, New
York, where he is buried in Oakwood ceme-
tery. He was educated in the Easton public
school, and when a young man settled in Lan-
singburg. He became associated with Jo-
seph Fox in the baking business, and later was
a cracker manufacturer on his own account.
He was prominent in the public atifairs of the
town and served on the school board, as over-
seer of the poor and in other public capacities.
He was a Republican in politics, and a mem-
ber of the Presbyterian church. He married
Amelia Bradford, born 1822 in Lansingburg,
New York, where she died at the age of sev-
enty-three years. Children: i. Marie Emma,
married James J. Child. 2. Charles D., see
forward. 3. William A., of Lansingburg.
Amelia (Bradford) Lockwood was the daugh-
ter of John Bradford, born of a well-to-do
family of the north of Ireland. They settled
there about the time of the great siege of
"Derry," and were generally farmers. John
Bradford, who came to America, was the only
son of his parents. He came to the United
States at an early day, and was possessed of
considerable means. When he located in
Troy, New York, a part of the family fur-
niture was a piano, then a great curiosity and
which was the object of much interest. He
died at age of forty-six, leaving children :
I. Amelia, aforementioned as the wife of Du-
ane Lockwood. 2. Martha, died young. 3.
Jane, died in 1905, unmarried. 4. Margaret,
married Joseph Sherman, born July 25, 1818,
died at Half Moon, January 16. 1879; chil-
dren: John, Sarah Jane, Alfred A., Emma
Frances and Maggie.

(HI) Charles Duane, son of Duane and
Amelia (Bradford) Lockwood, was born in
Lansingburg, New Y'ork. He was educated
in the public school. Academy of Lansingburg
and Troy Business College. He then entered
Albany Law School, from which he was grad-
uated in 1887. After graduation he entered

the law office of R. D. Cook. He was admit-
ted to the bar, and in 1890 formed a partner-
ship, which was soon dissolved. Mr. Lock-
wood maintained his legal offices in Troy,
where he has a satisfactory clientage. He is
a member of the state and county bar asso-
ciations, and stands high in his profession. He
is a Republican and has filled many of the
political positions in the town and county,
among which were comptroller and police jus-
tice of Lansingburg. He is unmarried.

Piatt Potter, jurist, was born
POTTER in Galway, New York. April
6, 1800, son of Restcome and
Lucinda ( Strong) Potter. After acquiring
a rudimentary education in the common
schools of his neighborhood, he entered the
Schenectady Academy, graduating therefrom
in 1820. after which he studied law under the
preceptorship of Alonzo C. Paige. He was
admitted to the bar in 1824, and practiced his
profession in Minorville, New York, from
1824 to 1833, and in 1834 was engaged in
practice in Schenectady with Alonzo C. Paige,
his preceptor. Aside from the practice of
his profession, he filled satisfactorily various
offices of public trust, serving as master and
examiner in chancery from 1828 to 1847; ^s
member of the assembly from Montgomery
and Hamilton counties in 1830 ; as district at-
torney of Schenectady county from 1839 to
1847; as justice of the supreme court of New
York and of the court of appeals from 1857
to 1865, re-elected in the latter named year,
and in 1870 caused the arrest of Henry Ray,
a member of the New Y'ork assembly, for ig-
noring his court summons, and in consequence
was himself tried for "high breach of privi-
lege," but was vindicated on his own argu-
ment.

He was one of the trustees of Union College
from 1865 to 1885, receiving the degree of
LL. D. from there in 1867 ; was president of
the state judicial convention in Rochester,
New York, in 1870. and served as president
of the Mohawk National Bank at Schenec-
tady for several years. In 1886 he presented
the New Y'ork Historical Society with six vol-
umes of the "State Trials of England," pub-
lished in 1742, and of great value, being orig-
inally the property of Sir W'illiam Johnson,
Bart. He was the author of: "Potter's Dwar-
ris," 187 1 ; "Equity Jurisprudence," compiled
and enlarged from the work of John Willard,
1875; "Potter on Corporations," 1879, and
several pamphlets. His death occurred in
Schenectady, New York, August 11, 1891.
Mr. Potter married, in 1836, Antoinette,
daughter of the Rev. Winslow Paige, D. D.

1764

HUDSON AND iMOHAWK \^\LLEYS

The earliest Lyon emigrant of
LYON whom we have positive knowl-
edge was William Lyon, who
came to Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1635 on
the shi]), "Hopewell." He founded a numer-
ous family, of whom a distinguished member
was Nathaniel Lvon, a general in the LInion
army, killed at the battle of Balls Bluff. The
next immigrants were two brothers, Peter and
George, of Dorchester, Massachusetts. In
1644 Richard Lyon was sent from England
to Cambridge, Massachusetts, by Sir Henry
Mildmay as a tutor for his son William. He,
however, soon returned to England. About
1648 there appeared in Fairfield county, Con-
necticut, at about the same time, three settlers
bearing the name Lyon. One of these,
Thomas, was the founder of the family herein
recorded, whose principal seat in the early
days was Westchester county. New York.

(I) Thomas Lyon, "of Rye," was born in
England about 1621, died at Byram Neck,
Greenwich, Fairfield county, Connecticut, in
1690, and was buried in the old Lyon bury-
ing ground at that place. It is supposed that
he first settled in Massachusetts and from
there removed to the western part of Fair-
field county, where about the same time Rich-
ard and Henry appeared, presumably his
brothers or cousins. In 1652 Thomas Lyon
bought a house and lot in .Stamford of Wil-
liam Potter. In 1654 he purchased a house
and lot in Fairfield. Between these dates his
first wife Martha Johanna (Winthrop) Lyon,
died. In 1676, in company with John Banks,
of "Fayrefield," he acquired title to a "Sar-
taine parsell of land in Greenwich, lying by
Byram River and by estimation three score
ackers." In the records of Rye under date
of March 5, 1676, is this entry: "The towne
of Rye (New York) adopted the following:
Thomas Lyon and Thomas Brown are ap-
pointed to choose a house or place to be forti-
fied for safety of the towne." Winthrop says
that it is believed that it was this Thomas
Lyon who served as a colonial soldier from
Connecticut, although this supposition would
make him either very young at time of serv-
ice, or quite old at the date of his first mar-
riage. His will was dated December 6, 1689,
and probated at Fairfield, September 7, iTiqo.
During the latter years of his life, altliough
probably living in Greenwich at Byram Neck,
Thomas Lyon was spoken of as "of Rye," this
place being in New York just across Byram
river, now called Port Chester. The name
Lyon's Point, written also, Lion's Point, ap-
plied to the point at the mouth of Byram river,
was in common use as early as 1683. Thomas
was a member of the Society of Friends and

suffered some persecution for his belief. He
married (first) Alartha Johanna \\'inthrop,
a granddaughter of Governor John Winthrop,
of Salem, Massachusetts, and daughter of
Henry and Elizabeth (Fones ) Winthrop. Her
father was drowned in Boston harbor, July
2, 1630, the day after his arrival. His wife
remained in England when her husband came
to America, coming with her infant daughter
in 1631. Martha was born in Groton Manor,
England, May 9, 1630, died in Stamford, Con-
necticut, about 1653. Thomas Lyon married
(second) about 1654, Mary, daughter of Si-
mon Hoyt, of Stamford, Connecticut. Chil-
dren by first marriage: i. , died in

infancy. 2. Mary (Marie), born August,
1649; married John WlUson. Children by
second marriage : 3. Abigail, married John
Banks. 4. John, died in Greenwich, 1736,
deputy to the general court of Connecticut,
1725-30; married and had issue. 5. Thomas,
of further mention. 6. Samuel, unmarried.
7. Joseph, born 1677, died February 21, 1761 ;
married Sarah . 8. Elizabeth, mar-
ried John Marshall. 9. Deborah, married a
Mr. Cone. 10. Sarah, married a Mr. Merritt.
(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (i) and
Mary (Hoyt) Lyon, was born at Greenwich,
Connecticut, in 1673, died 1739. He built the
house near Byram bridge which is still stand-
ing, having been occupied continuously until
the present time by his descendants. He was
a member of Colonel Robert Hunter's com-
pany of Fusileers, mustered in New York and
Westchester counties, February 24, 171 1, for
sixty-one days' service on the Canadian fron-
tier. His will, dated April 2, 1739, was proved
at .Stamford, Connecticut, May i, 1739. He
married Abigail, daughter of John Ogden, of
.Stamford, Connecticut. John Ogden came to
Stamford from Long Island in 1641. In 1642
he agreed with Governor Kieft to build a
stone church for twenty-five hundred guild-
ers. He returned to Hempstead in 1644 and
was one of the patentees of that town. In
165 1 he removed to Southampton, Long
Island, where he was chosen assistant and
named in the Royal Charter. Later he went
to New Jersey with Governor Carteret and
was representative from Elizabethtown in the
first general assembly, 1689. He married
Jane, daughter of Robert Bond, of South-
ampton. Children of Thomas (2) and .'Xbi-
gail Lyon: i. Abigail, married (first) Wil-
liam -Anderson, (second) Jeremiah .Anderson.
2. Thomas, married (first) Phebe \'owles,
(second) Martha Travis. 3. .Samuel, married
(second) Hannah Miller. 4. Jonathan, of
further mention. 5. Mary, married Israel
KnaiM). 6. David, married Martha Stedwell.

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1765

7. Joseph, married (first) Mary Disbrow, (sec-
ond) Ann . 8. Jemima, married Charles

Theall, in 1760 was residing in Rye, New
York. 9. Deborah, married Jonathan Hobby,
of Greenwich. 10. EHzabeth, married John
Fowler, of \\'estchester, New York. 11. Gil-
bert, married Jane Kniffen.

(IH) Jonathan, son of Thomas (2) and
Abigail (Ogden) Lyon, was born at Green-
wich, June I, 1706, died at North Castle,
New York, 1786. His will is on file and re-
corded in the office of the court of appeals at
Albany, New York, dated April 2, 1783,
proved January 24, 1787. He bequeaths "to
Elizabeth, my dearly beloved wife, one third
of all my lands in North Castle during her
natural life," also devises to sons and grand-
sons, money and property including a "negro
boy Abram'' and a "negro man Isaac." He
married Elizabeth, born April 5, 1709, daugh-
ter of Samuel and Hannah Mead. Children :
I. Jonathan, born November 14, 1728, died
ill Bedford, New York, 1787; he owned a
stone house in Bedford during the revolution-
ary war and a farm outside the village; the
fir>t winter General Lafayette was in .America
he was stationed with his troops in West-
chester county ; the paymaster had his head-
quarters in the Lyon Stone House ; after La-
fayette and his troops went away, a company
of British Light Horse from New York
burned the house and all it contained, con-
sidering Lyon an enemy to the King ; he is
described as having been distinguished for his
luxuriant hair which he wore in a queue, so
long that when sitting it could be tied in a
knot underneath his chair ; he married Anna
Miller. 2. Elizabeth, born June 28, 1730. 3.
Elnathan, died at Clinton, Dutchess county.
New York; he married (first) Susanna

, (second) Mary Ann jjush. 4. Israel,

of further mention. 5. Phebe, marriel a kins-
man. Roger Lyon. 6. Captain David, died
at North Castle. New York ; he served in the
revolution with the rank of captain in 1775
under Colonel Alexander McDougall, First
Regiment, New York Troops ; he served later
in the Second Westchester County Regiment,
Colonel Thomas Thomas ; married Freelove
Forman. 7. Peter, died at No. 37 Pump street.
New York City, July 4, 1824; he was a
farmer and for many years justice of the
peace in North Castle, New York, and it is
said that Major Andre was brought before
him after his capture. (Christian Advocate,
July 18, 1895.) 8. Naomi Thatcher, born
January 31, 1747; died before 1783.

(I\') Israel, son of Jonathan and Eliza-
beth (Mead) Lyon, was born at Greenwich,
Connecticut, December 20, 1734, died in Bed-

ford, New York, December 28, 18 16, and is
buried in Hill cemetery, Bedford. Pie was a
farmer, as were his ancestors. In 1779 his
home was burned by the British under Tarle-
ton. He was a devoted patriot, serving on
the Westchester county committee of safety,
lie married Abigail Husted, born in Green-
wich, June I, 1734, died January 14, 1815, and
is buried in Hill cemetery with her husband.
Children, all born in Bedford, New York: r.
Israel (2), born February 12, 1755; married
Hannah Merritt. 2. Moses, born 1758; mar-
ried Diadamia Banks and settled at Bloom-
field county, New Jersey. 3. Charity, born
September 28, 1760; married Samuel Banks,
of Bainbridge, New York. 4. Elizabeth, mar-
ried Joseph Park. 5. Spardon, of further
mention. 6. Ann, married (first) Thomas
Park, (second) Lot Searles. 7. Susanna, born
1768; married Enoch Raymond. 8. Abigail,
born August 11, 1770: married Josiali Wool-
sey. 9. Sarah, married Ellie Sealey. 10.
Jerusha, born 1775, died April 27, 1863: mar-
ried William Woolsey. 11. ]\iary, married
Daniel \'arian.

(\') Spardon, son of Israel and .Abigail
(Husted) Lyon, was born in Bedford, New
York, October 26, 1764, died there May 3,
1845. ^'■'d is buried in the Presbyterian bury-
ing ground. He was a farmer, and in 1822
connected with tlie Presbyterian church of
Bedford ; previous generations seemingly hav-
ing adhered to the Quaker faith of the
founder, Thomas Lyon. He married. .April
16, 1788. Phebe Scofield (Presbyterian rec-
ords) born February 10. 1767, died February
27, 1848, buried in Bedford. Children: i.
Seth, of further mention. 2. Alvah, born
June 6, 1797, died September 11, 1878; mar-
ried, February 27, 1824, Sarah (Carpenter.

(\'I) .Seth, eldest son of Spardon and Phebe
(Scofield) Lyon, was born in Bedford, New
York, August 31, 1794, died January 31. 1878,
and is buried in the Union cemetery at Bed-
ford. He was an elder in the Presbyterian
church in Bedford, ordained March 19, 1815.
He married (first) Clarissa Rundle, born
March 9. 1793, died in Bedford. August 14,
1836. He married (second) Mary Woolsey,
born March, 1805, died April i, 1S94, daugh-
ter of William and Jerusha (Lyon) Woolsey.
Jerusha Lyon was a daughter of Israel, son of
Jonathan, son of Thomas (2), son of Thomas
(i) Lyon, the founder. Children by first wife:
I. Solomon R., of further mention. 2. Char-
lotte Rundle, born February 19, 1814, died
April 8. 1850; married Phineas Lounsberry, a
merchant of New York City. 3. Mary E.,
born .April 23, 1816, died March 28. 1837. 4.
Clarissa, born May 10, 1820, died FcJiruary

1766

HUDSON AXD MOHAWK \'ALLEYS

28, 1837. 5. Seth Jay. born about 1822, died
December 8. J883; married at Bedford, Octo-
ber 12, 1849. Frances Elizabetb, daugbter of
Jeremiab and Emmeline (Smith) Clark.

(VH) Solomon Rundle, eldest son of Seth
and Clarissa (Rundle) Lyon, was born in
Bedford, New York, January 31. 1812. died
there March 19, 1868, and is buried in Union
cemetery. He was a farmer, owning and oper-
ating the farm owned by his father and grand-
father and later by his son Phillip. In 1865 he
was ordained an elder of the Bedford Presby-
terian Church. He married, September 12,
1837, Hannah Rundle. born September 12.
1818. died April 18, 1883, buried in Union
cemetery, daughter of Solomon and Hannah
(Phillips) Rundle. Children: i. Phillips Run-
dle, born July, 1838; married Susie :

in 1906 was living in Bedford, New York. 2.
Irving W'hitall. of further mention. 3. Anna,
born August 10, 1842, died October 22, 1863.
4. DeWitt (i), born March 30, 1844, died
August 27, 1844. 5- Mary E., born July 27.
1845. died August 28, 1867; married Stephen
Terry. 6. Emma Constant, born April 15,
1847, died October 26, 187 1 ; married, April,
1871, Henry D. Jennings. 7. Josephine C,
born August 19, 1848; married Edward P.
Holley, of Cos Cob, Connecticut. 8. Hannah
Rundle, born June 8, 1850: married, Decem-
ber 19, 1883, Edward A. Raymond, of Bed-
ford, New York. 9. DeWitt (2), born April
15, 1853. died November 23, 1854. 10. Isabel
G., born November 18, 1855, died September
4. 1866. II. Clarissa Rundle, born i\Iarch 19,
1859: married Clifford R. Weld, of Boston.

(VIII) Irving Whitall Lyon, M. D., son of
Solomon R. and Hannah (Rundle) Lyon, was
born in Bedford, Westchester county. New
York, in 1840, died in Hartford, Connecticut,
March 4, 1896. He received a good education
and chose medicine as his profession. He
entered the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons, New York City, where he received his
degree of M.D. He established in practice at
Hartford, Connecticut, continuing until his
death. Although a learned and skillful physic-
ian he is perhaps better known and remem-
bered as an authority on American antiques.
His work on "Colonial Furniture," published
in 189 1, was the pioneer work of its kind, and
although two decades have passed since it was
published, it is an unquestioned authority, and
subsef|uent writers have not changed a date
nor controverted any statement of fact in the
work. It is a classic and an infallible guide.
Another work of Dr. Lyon's on which he was
engaged at the time of his death was, "Colon-
ial Architecture of America," being uncom-
pleted ; this was never published. Wherever

his name is known and spoken, he is referred
to always as "the father of American an-
tiques." He was president of the Hartford
Medical Society, member of the State Medical
Society, and a member of the Connecticut His-
torical Society. He was a Christian without
a creed and of so pure and blameless a life
that death brought him no fear. He was just
to all men, kind and unfailingly courteous, a
man of the highest ideals, which he did not
fail to attain in his daily life. As a physician
he was beloved and trusted. Dr. Lyon mar-
ried Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Frederick
Darrow and Louise (Jacobs) Tucker, of New
York state. Children: i. Mary Phillips, mar-
ried Chester B. Albree, of Pittsburg, North
Side. Pennsylvania. 2. Irving Phillips, a well-
established, skillful physician of Buffalo, Ne\\-
York. 3. Charles W.. of further mention.

(IX) Charles Woolsey, youngest son of Dr.
Irving \\'. and Mary E. (Tucker) Lyon, was
born in Hartford, Connecticut, December 10,
1862. at No. 27 Buckingham street. He was
educated in the common schools of Hartford,
then entered Hartford high school, where he
prepared for college. He entered Sheffield Sci-
entific School (Yale University) in the second
year, but before graduation received so flat-
tering and tempting a business oft'er that he
did not stay to finish the full course. He had
inherited his father's love of the antique, and
had sat under his teaching so effectively that
although a young man he had an established
reputation among collectors. His ability to
distinguish the rare, beautiful and valuable at-
tracted the attention of the famous collector of
American antiques, Charles H. Taylor, of
Boston, who engaged him to travel and buy
for his private collection, one of the most
valuable in the United States if not in the
world. For four years he traveled for Mr.
Taylor in New England and through the Hud-
son-Mohawk valleys, finding the latter espe-
cially rich in the rare and valuable of a long
ago period. In 1903 he began collecting for
the public and opened a store at No. 47 Wash-
ington avenue, later removing to the corner of
South Hawk street and Washington avenue,
Albany, where his store has become the mecca
of American collectors of the antique. He is
a member of the Chi Phi (Yale Chapter) and
the University Club, of .Albany.

Charles Woolsey Lyon married, August 6,
1898. Kathlyn Thatcher, daughter of San-
ford Thatcher, of Cobleskill, New York, a de-
scendant of four of the "Mayflower" pas-
sengers (1620), and of a long line of New
England ancestors. Children: i. Irving Whit-
all (2), lx>rn October 2. 1899. 2. Charles
\\'oolsey (2), torn October 2, 1905.

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.767

The Farringtons of Troy
FARRIXGTOX are of English ancestry

and birth. The father of
John Farrington, of Troy, was John Farring-
ton, of Preston, England, a well-to-do mil-
ler, owning and operating a prosperous busi-
ness. He married Hamburg, born in

Preston, England, who bore him nine children,
all born in Preston. England: i. Mary. 2.
Jane. 3. Robert, was elected a member of the
House of Commons. 4. Samuel. 5. Thomas,
came to the United States ; married, in Old
Kewburg, New York, Alvina Lane. 6. Wil-
liam, came to the United States : married Jane
Lane, of Pleasant Valley. New York. 7. Val-
entine. 8. John, see forward. 9. Solomon.

(II)- John (2), son of John (i) Earring-
ton, was born in Preston, England, June 7,
1S27. died in Troy, New Y'ork, 1869. He mar-
ried, in 1849, -•'^"" Ferguson, born in Scot-
land. Children: i. Mary Jane, married
Horatio Wilson, born in Kentucky, son of
Horatio and Thuney Lair, and grandson of
Horatio Wilson; Horatio Wilson (2) died at
Lafayette. Illinois, in 1899, aged eighty years.
He had children : Thomas, William, Everly,
Elizabeth. Jane, John and Horatio (3). Ho-
ratio and Mary Jane (Farrington) Wilson
had children: Walter W., married Maud
and has three children : Elizabeth, mar-
ried Dr. Sabin. 2. John Roberts, died in
Boughton. Illinois. 3. Elida .A., died young.
4. Florence, married Philip Sanford Young,
torn December, 1842, at Sand Lake. New
York, died 1905 in Troy, son of Philip Young,
torn in Germany, came to the United States,
settled at Sand Lake, New York, where he
was a farmer the remainder of his life; he
married Mary Gearhart. born in Germany,
■died in Sand Lake : children : George P.. died
at Sand Lake; Philip: Martin L.. lived at
Averill Park. Child of Philip and Flor-
€nce (Farrington) Young: Everett G.. mar-
ried Mattie Stanley, of Averill Park, and lias
a son, Everett Stanley Young.

The branch of the Hough-
HOl'GHTON ton family from wliich

Judge Houghton is de-
scended migrated from England in 1650 and
settled at Lancaster, Massachusetts, then a
part of the Massachusetts P>ay Colony. This
colonial ancestor, John Houghton, and his de-
scendants, Jonas, James, James, Jr., and Na-
thaniel, all lived in that immediate locality.
His grandfather. Tilley Houghton, settled in
Corinth in t8oo and died there, leaving sev-
eral children, among them Tilley. Jr.. and Dr.
Nathaniel. The Houghtons remained residents
of that town until their deaths.

James Warren, son of Tilley, Jr., and Char-
lotte (Dayton) Houghton, was born at Co-
rinth, New York, September i, 1856. He
was graduated from Canandaigua Academy,
1876; studied law, and was admitted to the
bar at Rochester, New York, in 1879. He
began practice of the law at Saratoga Springs
in 1880, was elected judge of Saratoga county,
New York, in 1888, aftd re-elected success-
ively until 1899. when he resigned, having
been appointed to the supreme bench of the
state of New Y'ork by Governor Roosevelt in
December, 1899. In 1900 he was elected a
justice of the supreme court of the state of
New York for the fourth judicial district, for
a full term of fourteen years. In September,
1903, he was designated to serve as associate
justice, appellate division, third department,
and relieved from this designation, October 28,
1905, and immediately designated associate
justice, appellate division, first department.
and on January i, 1910. he was again desig-
nated to serve as associate justice of the ap-
pellate division, third department. Judge
Houghton married. 1884, Elizabeth M. Smith,
of Saratoga Springs, and has a son. James
T., recently graduated from Harvard Medical
College, and a daughter, Elizabeth.

The earliest Stroud record is
STROUD of Jacob Stroud, of Amwell,

New Jersey, 1735. He with
three brothers entered the provincial army
and were at the battles of Fort William Henry
and Quebec, where Jacob Stroud, John F'ish
and Matthias Hutchinson, being the three sol-
diers nearest General Wolfe when he fell, car-
ried him to a sheltered spot where he died.
One of the Stroud brothers was killed on the
"Plains of Abraham" during the battle. Ja-
cob Stroud returned to New Jersey and later
settled in Pennsylvania, where he founded the
town of .Stroudsburg. He afterward fought
in the war of the revolution, became a colonel
in rank, commanded at Fort Penn, and was a
member of the constitutional convention that
framed the first constitution of the state of
Pennsylvania. He died 1806 and was then the
owner of four thousand acres of land in and
around Stroudsburg. Nothing definite seems
to be known of the other two surviving broth-
ers. They evidently settled in Massachusetts,
as four of that name served in the revolution-
ary war from that state. George. Prince, Wil-
liam of Sherburne, and another William. The
family in Ballston Spa, New York, descends
from one of the two brothers before men-
tioned.

(1) Tiie first of the family of whom we
have direct record is lohn Stroud, a descend-

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ant of George Stroud, the revolutionary sol-
dier. He lived in or near Sherburne, Massa-
chusetts, where he married and reared a fam-
il)-. He had several daughters and sons. John,
Dolman, Charles, Ira and Sylvanus.

(H) Ira, son of John Stroud, was for many
years engaged in milling, farming and mer-
chandising. His mills and store were located
near North Adams, ^Massachusetts. He had
previous to settling there resided in Stamford,
Vermont. In 1866 he disposed of his North
Adams properties and removed to the town
of Cambridge, Washington county. New York,
where he died. He married Dolly, daughter
of Colonel William McElwain, of Massachu-
setts. Children: i. Corridon, deceased. 2.
Elizabeth, married A. J. Houghton, of Bos-
ton, Massachusetts. 3. Harriet, married Ed-
mund B. Penniman. 4. Charles, lawyer of
Hoosick Falls, New York. 5. Sylvanus I.,
of further mention.

(Ill) Sylvanus I., youngest son of Ira and
Dolly (McElwain) Stroud, was born in Stam-
ford, \^ermont. September 22, 1843. Later he
removed with his parents to North Adams,
Massachusetts, and he was educated in the
public schools of these towns. He was en-
gaged with his father in business for several
years, but abandoned the farm to follow an-
other line of activity. He first became pro-
prietor of the Union House at Cambridge,
New York, and in 1876 removed to St. Al-
bans, Vermont, where he conducted the Amer-
ican House, continuing a most successful busi-
ness there until 1893, when he sold out and
bought the Medberry House at Ballston Spa,
New York. After several years spent there
he purchased a farm on the outskirts of the
village which he operated as a stock and
breeding farm, specializing in high-grade
horses. He served during the civil war, first
with the Army of the Potomac during the
Peninsular campaign, under General Hunt, be-
ing in charge of an ambulance train. His
second enlistment was in Company B, Eighth
Regiment, Massachusetts, Volunteer Infantry
(its third organization). He was mustered in
July 16, 1864, enlisting for one hundred days.
The regiment was organized at Reading. Mas-
sachusetts, for one hundred days, July, 1864,
and attached to the Third Brigade, Eightli
Army Corps, Middle Department : mustered
out November 10. 1864. Mr. Stroud was with
his regiment during this entire period, rank-
ing as sergeant ; was mustered out with the
regiment at expiration of term of service. He
enlisted from the town of Adams, Massachu-
setts, at the age of twenty. He has had a busy,
successful business career and now is- happily
situated to pass his declining years. He mar-

ried, January 24, 1872, Adeline C. RusselU
born in Cambridge, New York, October 13,
185 1. Child, Lamont Russell, born November
13, 1872; graduate of St. Albans, Vermont,
high school, class of 1892 ; spent one year at
Boston Polytechnic Institute, entered Rensse-
laer Polytechnic Institute, graduating as civil
engineer: he has followed his profession since
graduation in different parts of the L^nited
States, now (1910) traveling in Europe.

Adeline C. (Russell) Stroud is a grand-
daughter of David Russell, born at ^lalone.
New York, married and had Mortimer, Wil-
liam, Alvin, John, Sydney, David, Eliza Ann
and Emmeline. John Russell, son of David
Russell, was born December 28, 18 16, at He-
bron, New York; was a farmer of the town
of Hartford and Jackson, New York. Dur-
in^ the civil war he sold his farm and removed
to Washington county. New York, where he
was first a resident of Cambridge, later of Sa-
lem, where he died and is buried. He mar-
ried. March 5, 1839. Louise Ann Townsend, of
Hartford, New York, born December 26, 181 7,
died December 15, 1891. Children: i. Ma-
rion E., born March 28, 1840. died April 8,
1842. 2. Marvin, born January 18, 1842, died
July II, 1842. 3. Anna May, born July 16,
1857, died March 5, 190 1, at Luxor, Egypt,
where she is buried : she was an accomplished
linguist, an extensive traveler and a writer of
higli reputation. 4. Adeline C, married Syl-
vanus I. Stroud.

Archibald Bain, born 1819. died in
BAIN 1891, was a resident of the town

of Argyle, Washington county.
New York, and of Greenwich, where he died.
He was a carpenter and wheelwright, and
worked at his trade in both towns. He was
a great lover of music and possessed consid-
erable vocal talent. He taught singing classes
and was leader of the United Presb\'terian
Church choir. He married Ann Eliza, daugh-
ter of Robert and Isabella (McKinley) Kel-
Icy. Children: i. Belle M., born December,
1859; married Dr. James A. Smallie. 2. Wil-
liam Henry, of further mention.

(H) William Henry, only son of Archibald
and .Ann Eliza (Kelley) Bain, was born
in Argyle. Washington county, New York,
April 2, 1861. He was educated in the pul^lic
schools of Argyle. He came to Canajoharie,
Montgomery county, when about sixteen years
of age, and entered the high school in that vil-
lage, graduating in the class of 1878, the first
graduate of the school and the only one grad-
uated that year. He entered Eastman's Busi-
ness College at Poughkccpsie and was gradu-
ated, class of 1879, leading the class of one

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1769

Inindred students and being eight points ahead
of his leading competitor. After leaving East-
man's he taught the public school at Galway
for one term. Then he returned to Canajo-
harie, where for eighteen months he was drug
clerk. He formed a connection with the Reed
Manufacturing Company and until 1887 was
secretary and treasurer of that company. Next
he formed a partnership with Mount A. Yates,
and as Yates & Bain conducted a retail coal
business for six years. In 1893 he purchased
his partner's interest and operated the coal
yard alone until 1907, when he disposed of his
entire interest. In 1899 he was appointed
postmaster of the village of Canajoharie by
President McKinley. In 1903 he was reap-
pointed by President Roosevelt, who again
conferred the honor in 1907. He is an active
worker in the Republican party, and a lead-
ing member of the Dutch Reformed church, in
which he holds the office of deacon. He mar-
ried, September 21, 18S7, L. Katherine. daugh-
ter of Adam Smith, born March 17, 1826. died
July 23, 1901 : married. September 15. 1859,
Catherine Van Slack (or Slvck), born June

22. 1S34. died May i. 1886. 'Children of" Mr.
and Airs. Smith: i. Elizabeth, born July 16,
i860 : a graduate of Vassar College, class of
1881 : married Burton K. Yates: children: i.
Sheldon Smith, born March 14, 1887: gradu-
ate of Yale University, class of 1910; ii. L.
Katherine. born August 30, 1889, senior at
\'assar College, class of 191 1. 2. L. Kathe-
rine, born January 7, 1862 ; graduate of Yas-
sar College, class of 1884, married William
Henry Bain. 3. Alargaret, born February

23. 1864, died April 27, 1879. 4. George How-
ard, born September 20. 1865. died March 18,
1003 : graduate of Yale Universitv, class of
1887. married. February, 1895, Ti'lle Elliott;
child, Lillian, born March 20, 1896. 5. John,
born July 28, 1867, died May 23, 1870. Chil-
dren of William H. and L." Katherine Bain:
I. Margaret K., born December 31, 1890. 2.
Therese Sterling, born April 8, 1893.

John Combes, great-grandfa-
COAIBES ther of Charles Isaac Combes,

married Hattie and had

seven children: John (2), William. Peter,
James, Phoebe, Leah and Isaac. John (2)
was a farmer and an early settler in the Mo-
hawk Valley.

(II) Isaac, youngest child of John and Hat-
tie Combes, was born December 3, 1807, died
October 10, 1869. He was educated in the
public schools, was reared on the farm, but
preferring a mercantile life settled in Fulton-
ville. New York, in 1837. where he was in the
grocery business until 1852, locating in Glov-

ersville in tiie same line of business, later add-
ing dry goods to his line. He was also en-
gaged in manufacturing. On February 13,
1855, he was appointed postmaster of Glovers-
ville, holding that position until May 30, 1861,
when he was succeeded by Elisha L. Burton.
He was a Democrat in politics, and a member
of the Congregational church. He married
Eliza Ann Burton, born July 10, 181 1, died
189s, daughter of Nathan and Eleanor (Con-
over) Burton, of Charlestown, Montgomery
county, New York. Nathan Burton was born
May I, 1764. Children of Isaac and Eliza A.
Combes: i. Henry Belding, born and died
1833. 2. Mary Eleanor, born March 20, 1835.
3. Eustatia F., born January 13, 1837. 4.
Elisha Barton, of whom further. 5. William
Henry, born November 30, 1841 ; married Me-
rita Hedge and had a son George L., who mar-
ried Madge Mason ; children : John, born 1904,
and Winfield H. 6. Charles I.^ born 1843, died
1863. 7. Eliza Ann. born 1845. died 1847.

(III) Elisha Burton, son of Isaac and Eliza
Ann (Burton) Combes, was born October 23,
1839. He was educated in the public schools,
and early engaged in the grocery business as
a clerk for his father, being so engaged all his
active years. He married Mary 'Elizabeth
Kennedy, born June 18, 1839, daughter of Ly-
sander, born 1807. died 1895, and Elizabeth
(Allen) Kennedy, born 1801, died 1900,
granddaughter of Daniel and Lucinda Ken-
nedy, who had seven children : Lysander. Pal-
mer L., Daniel Lorain, Susan, Harriet, Nancy
and Esther.

Daniel Kennedy was a merchant of Johns-
town until his place of business was destroyed
by fire, when he engaged in teaming from
Fonda, delivering goods from the railroad to
interior towns. He was a deacon of the Bap-
tist church and a Democrat. Lysander. eldest
.son of Daniel Kennedy, was a farmer of Ful-
ton county, owning a farm of four hundred
acres. He was a school trustee, a member of
the Methodist church, and a Democrat. He
married Elizabeth Allen and had ten children :
Catherine, Daniel, Lucretia, Landon, Mary
Elizabeth, who married Elisha Burton Combes,
John Henry, Margaret, William Henry, Daniel
and Sarah Jane. Children of Elisha Burton
and Mary Elizabeth Combes: i. Anna E.,
born October 10, 1869: married, October 21,
1892, Eugene D. Smith. 2. Charles Isaac, of
whom further. 3. Harry, born November 26,
1874: married .A.nna Baker.

(IV) Charles Isaac, eldest son of Elisha
Burton and Mary Elizabeth (Kennedy)
Combes, was born in Johnstown. New York,
May 14, 1871. He was educated in the pub-
lic schools, and at Gloversvillc Academy,.

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where he was graduated. After completing
his studies he entered the printing office of the
Glovcrsz-ille Leader in 1888 where lie learned
the trade of a printer and became familiar with
every detail of a newspaper printing office.
He later formed a partnership with William
B. Collins, the owner and proprietor of the
Leader, continuing until 1902 as Collins &
Combes. In January, 1903, they formed a
corporation and purchased the Johnstown Re-
pitbl'ican, publishing both the Leader and the
Republican until 1908 when a transfer of
stock was made, Mr. Combes becoming owner
■of the Republican and Mr. Collins continuing
the Leader. The Republican was originally
started in 1838 by Darius Wells and has
passed through many changes ; it is Repub-
lican in politics, publishes a daily and a weekly
edition, and is an acknowledged influence in
Fulton and adjoining counties. Mr. Combes
is a charter member of the Johnstown Lodge,
Knights of Pythias, and of the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks. His clubs are
the Colonial of Johnstown and the Eccentric
of Gloversville. He married, June 3, iy02,
Katherine S., daughter of J. C. Allen.

The first account we have
DORR AN CE of the Dorrance family in

America tells that on April
17, 1723, the people of Voluntown, Connecti-
cut, gave Rev. Samuel Dorrance a call to
preach the Gospel at a salary of "£60 per year
for the present and £50 in such species suit-
able to promote his building and settling."
On the same day a number of persons "as a
special token of their love and goodness" pre-
sented Rev. Dorrance with "five thousand
■shingles, three pounds money in shingle nails,
five pounds in work, three pounds in boards
and plank, two hundred clapboards, breaking
up two acres of land, a cow and a calf." The
Voluntown church was the first, and long the
only Presbyterian church in Connecticut. The
adoption of the Westminster Confession by
the new church caused immediate rebellion,
and a determined effort was mafle to j^revent
the ordination of Rev. Dorrance. These pro-
tests, in part, made to the council cjuotes : "We
protest against settling Mr. Dorrance because
he is a stranger and we are informed he came
out of Ireland, and we do observe that since
he has been in town the Irish do flock to town
and we are informed the Irish are not whole-
some inhabitants and upon this account we
are against settling Mr. Dorrance, for we are
not such persons as you take us to be, but
desire the Gospel to be preached by one of
■our own and not by a stranger, for we cannot
•receive anv benefit for neither soul nor body

and we would pray him to withdraw himself
from us." The council took all day to hear
the case which they decided for both parties.
The good minister, however, was ordained
December 23, 1723. He is found in the
ministry of Voluntown in the year 1760, and
drawing a salary of £300. He died Novem-
ber 12, 1775, at the age of ninety. Two of his
sons, John and George, settled in the Wyom-
ing Valley. Pennsylvania. George was lieu-
tenant-colonel of militia and third in com-
mand of the battle of W'yoming, where he was
wounded, and on July 4, 1778, slain by his In-
dian captors. His descendants have been in-
fluential citizens of the valley, where they fig-
ure largely in political, financial and military
records. . Through the intermarriage of the
Dorrance and Fox families, the family line
can be traced to 1653 in ]\Iassachusetts, and
1723 in Connecticut. A connection cannot be
made between Alexander, of Hampton. Con-
necticut, and Rev. Samuel, but there is no
doubt he was a great-grandson. Another in-
termarriage was with the McBurneys of
county Antrim, Ireland. Eliza McBurney
was a daughter of James, of the north of Ire-
land. She and two brothers came to America.
Eliza married James A. Dorrance, while the
brothers cannot be definitely traced. One of
them, Thomas, enlisted in the Union army and
died in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1862. The
other, James, went west and died in Elko,
Nevada. The Young family is also one of
the old and prominent Troy families. The
family in Troy was founded by James Alex-
ander Dorrance of New England birth, and
early of Hampton, Connecticut.

(I) Alexander Dorrance was born in Con-
necticut, died at Chaplin, Connecticut, Sep-
tember IT. 1870. He was a shoemaker of
Hampton. He married, April 25, 1825, Mary
Lucretia Fox, born at Woodstock, Connecti-
cut, November t6, 1801. and accidentally
killed by being thrown from her carriage
while returning from church, September 9,
1849. She was a daughter of William and
Mary (Coburn) Fox, of Woodstock, Con-
necticut, and a lineal descendant in the seventh
generation from Thomas Fox, the immigrant
ancestor, who was of Cambridge, Massachu-
setts, in 1638, and one of the original pro-
prietors of that town then called Newton.
They resided at Woodstock, Connecticut, for
about ten years after marriage, then at Can-
terbury and Scotland of the same state. Later
they returned to Hampton, where Mrs. Dor-
rance was killed. Children: i. James Alex-
ander, see forward. 2. Abby Caroline, born
at Woodstock, Connecticut, April 18, 1829;
married George Mason Holt, November i,

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1771

1854, and had issue: Helen Cornelia, Mary
Loui;;e and Frank Henry. 3. William Friend,
born at \\'oodstock, May 10. 1832; removed
to California, where he enga£;:ed in the sad-
dlery and hardware business. 4. Francis Au-
gustus, born at Woodstock, June 29, 1836,
died June 23, 1870: he was a member of the
iirm of A. W. Prentice & Company, the old-
est hardware business in Norwich, Connecti-
cut, and held many offices of trust in public
and private life: be married Mary T.. daugh-
ter of Amos W. Prentice, September 11, 1858,
and left a son Amos Prentice, born .August i,
1865. 5. Mary Eleanor, born at Canterbury.
June 4. 1839, died July 3. 1839. 6. Mary Re-
becca, born at Scotland. Connecticut, Septem-
ber 19, 1840: she was finely educated and fol-
lowed the profession of teaching until her
marriage. December 5. 1867, to George Clary,
M. D., son of Rev. Joseph Clary. Dr. Clary
was a graduate of Dartmouth College, and
Yale ]\Iedical School. He served as assistant
surgeon of the Thirteenth Regiment, Con-
necticut \'olunteers, in the civil war, and at
the close of that conflict settled in New Brit-
ain. Connecticut, where he engaged in the
practice of medicine : children : Eliza P., Ma-
bel. George Bancroft and Harriet Dorrance.

(11) James Alexander, eldest child of Alex-
ander and Mary Lucretia (Fox) Dorrance,
was born at Woodstock, Connecticut. March
26. 1826, died in Troy, September 6. 1905.
He was educated in the public schools, and
in 1847 settled in Troy, New York, and was
a clerk in that city for several years. On Feb-
ruary 27, 1864, he began business for himself,
opening a shoe store in Troy on that date
that prospered and grew until it ranked as one
of the largest and best of its kind in the city.
He continued alone at the bead of his business
until 1 88 1, when his son, William J., was ad-
mitted a partner, and the firm became J. A.
Dorrance & Son. Fie was a devoted member
of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church of Troy,
which he served faithfully as member
and official for over half a century. He did
not take an active part in public afifairs, his
business, church and home claiming bis great-
est interest. He married. December 31. 1850.
Eliza McBurney, of Troy, born in 1829. died
July 12, 1909. Children, all born in Troy:
I. Mary E.. September 22, 1852; married.
June 16. 1875. George A. Huestis, of Troy,
later of Kansas City, Missouri, where he died,
leaving children, Eliza D. and Edna H. Hues-
tis. 2. \\'illiam James, see forwartl. 3. Fran-
ces. Afarch 20, 1863. 4. Jessie A., October
20. 1872.

(TIT) William Tames, only son of James
Alexander and Eliza (McBurney) Dorrance,

was born in Troy, New York, August 17,
1854. He was educated in the public schools
of Troy, and when a young man entered the
store of his father as clerk. In 1881 he be-
came associated with him as partner and after
his death became the responsible head of the
business which he yet retains. He has been
one of Troy's successful business men. and
has served the city well in public office. From
1887 until 1893 he was a member of the school
board, served for twenty years in the fire de-
partment, a member of Trojan Hook and Lad-
der Company No. 3. as election inspector, and
in other city business he has always borne his
part of public duty. He is a member of the
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, and in political
preference is a Republican. His fraternal
connection is with the Knights of Maccabees.
He married, November 24. 1881. Mary A.,
daughter of James J. and Elizabeth (Hicks)
Young, of Troy. Children: i. Frank Young,
born at Troy. August 27, 1882 : was educated
in the Troy public schools, entered Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, from which he was
graduated, class of 1906. 2. Jessie Elizabeth,
born at Troy, October 29, 1890; educated in
Troy public schools, and is a graduate of
North .Vdams, Massachusetts, Normal School.

John Sheldon, an inhabitant
SHELDON of Providence, Rhode Island,

was born in England, in
1630, died in 1708. He settled at Providence,
where he was a tanner. He was deputy in
1702. He deeded his homestead, March 20,
1708, to his son Nehemiah on condition that
he would maintain his father the remainder of
his life. He married, in 1660, Joan \'incent,
who died in 1708. Children: i. Timothy,
born March 29, 1661, died 1744: married
Sarah, daughter of Alexander and Jane (Hol-
brook) Balcom; children: Martha, born May
5, 1687; Timothy, March i, 1689: Samuel,
January 29, 1691 : Mary. August i, 1693.
2. John, of further mention. 3. Mary, died
April 28, 1735; married, January 12. 1688,
Stephen, son of Stephen and Sarah (Smith)
Arnold; children: Stephen: Philip, born Feb-
ruary 12, 1693; Edward: Phoebe, born March
5, 1695; Sarah: Penelope, torn 1701 : Sa-
vana, born 1703. 4. Nicholas, died November
23. 1747: married Abbie Tillinghast, horn
March, 1674, daughter of Purden and Lvdia
(Taber) Tillinghast: children: Mary, Nicho-
las, Joseph, .-Xbigail, Lydia. 5. Nehemiah,
born 1672. died 1754: married Rachel Mann,
horn April 15, 1679, daughter of Thomas and
Mary (Wheaton) Mann: children: .Abraham,
Philip: Mary, married, December 18, 1721.
William Rliodes : Rachel, born 1705. married.

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HUDSON AND MOH-UM-C \-ALLEYS

March 6, 1728, Pearnot Packer; Wealtherm,
married, June 6, 173 1, John Williams.

(II) John (2), son of John (i) and Joan
(Vincent) Sheldon, was born in Rhode
Island, died at Pawtucket, that colony, Au-
gust 16, 1741. Pie was a tanner and cord-
wainer. He married and reared a family of
eight children: i. Roger, married Mercy

. 2. John (3). 3. William, of further

mention. 4. Edward. 5. Patience, married

Thornton. 6. Deliverance. 7. Eze-

kiel, married Joanna . 8. Sarah.

(III) William, son of John (2) Sheldon,
was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, about
1710. He married Rebecca Rhodes, 1737.
Children: i. Deliverance, born 1740, mar-
ried Nathan Jillson. 2. Robert, born 1741,

married Hill. 3. Roger, born 1745,

was of Cumberland, Rhode Island. 4. Wil-
liam, born 1747, was of Cumberland, Rhode
Island. 5. Benjamin, born 1750, settled at
Unadilla, New York. 6. John, see forward.

7. Rebecca, born 1754, married John Phillips.

8. Susanna, married Nathan Jillson. 9. Anna,

married Potter, of Cranston, Rhode

Island. 10. Mercy, married Randall.

II. Daughter, married Ezra Dav.

(IV) 'John (3). son of William and Re-
becca (Rhodes) Sheldon, was born in Rhode
Island, 1752. He settled in the northern part
of Adams, Berkshire county, Massachusetts.
He married Abigail Phillips, a descendant of
John of Duxbury, 1638. They both lived to
a great age, and are buried in North Adams,
Massachusetts. Children : Elizabeth ; Na-
than, of further mention ; Naomi, married An-
thony Sheldon, of Adams, Massachusetts ;
Amasa ; Roby, married Dyer Eaton ; Salome,

married Harrington ; John, Hezckiah,

Daniel, Abigail, Patience, .A.nn. These can-
not be given in the order of birtli.

(V) Nathan, son of John (3) and Abigail
(Phillips) Sheldon, was born in North
Adams, Massachusetts, 1775, died January 29,

1862. He married Hannah , who died

January i, 1835, aged sixty years. Children:
Lorenzo, see forward ; Lucy, Electa and Mary.

(VI) Lorenzo, son of Nathan and Plannah
Sheldon, was born at North .Adams, Massa-
chusetts, September 6, 1808, died there Feb-
ruary 15. 1895. He married (first) Amarillis
Wilbur, born in the same town, died at
Adrian, Michigan. Married (second) Electa
C. Parker, daughter of Oliver Parker, of
North Adams, born March 20, 182 1, died Sep-
tember 13, 1897. Children by first marriage:
John and Mary. Children by second mar-
riage : Charles Albert, see forward ; Sylvia,
died August. 1902: Iva ; J. Warren; Lewis,
drowned ; John, Ijorn 1858, married Mollie

Claybel, had son Frank E. ; Mary M., unmar-
rieci.

(VII) Charles Albert, son of Lorenzo and'
.\marillis (Wilbur) Sheldon, was born Octo-
ber 29, 1842, at Adrian, Michigan, died De-
cember 29, 1881. He married Eliza Mary
Dunham, born May 21, 1846. at Savoy, Mas-
sachusetts. Children: i. Charles, died in-
infancy. 2. Fred Charles, see forward. 3.
Adelaide, married Frank Hartley Brown ;
children : Donald Sheldon, born August 24,.
1904; Ramona Adelaide, born June 19, 1906;
Margaret Elizabeth, born January 18. 1909.
4. Gertrude Eliza, married Fred E. Clark-
son.

(\TII) Fred Charles, only son of Chaides-
•Albert and Eliza Mary (Dunham) Sheldon,,
was born at North Adams, Massachusetts,
June 27, 1871. He was educated in the pub-
lic schools, and as soon as his education was
finished he began work in a shoe factory,
working his way up to the position of foreman'
of a department. He then formed a partner-
ship with Edward Pratt and represented the-
firm, carrying a line of shoes made by the
Pratt factory. In 1900 he removed to Gran-
ville, Washington county. New York, where
he purchased a slate quarry and began the
manufacture of roofing slate and other slate
products. He faced almost insurmountable
obstacles, but with courage and perseverance
overcame them all and became the largest sin-
gle producer in the entire district. His inter-
ests are now merged in a single corporation,
the Sheldon Slate Company, of which he is
president. He has other business interests of
importance. He is a director of the Farmers'
National Bank of Granville, New York, and
in civil affairs trustee of the village corpora-
tion. He attends and supports the Episcopal
church, and is a Republican in politics. He
married, February 8, 1899. Bertha Genevra,
born August 21, 1877, daughter of Leonard
C. and Hannah Eliza (Rogers) Thorne.

The Lipes family of Cobleskill,
LI PES New York, while not long settled

in that town are of a German an-
cestor that early settled in the coimtry. The
record deals largely with the present genera-
tion, Henry, father of Dr. M. D. Lipes, who
was a resident of Kendallville, Indiana. He
was born April 26, 1840; married Sylvia
Barbour, born July 7, 1843. Children: i.
Estella, married (first) Clare l\resereau ; chil-
dren : i. Bessie, married Ward Crane, and has
George, born September 7, 1907, and Ward
(2) born .August 15, 1908; ii. Genevieve; iii.
Helen; Estella married (second) Harry Gif-
ford. 2. Harry J., born in Chicago, Illinois,.

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1773

December 29, 1871 ; a practicing physician of
Albany. New York; married, January 22,
1897, Lulu Sagendorf, born November 4,
1870, daughter of Harmon Sagendorf, born
July. 1840. married. December 19, 1868, Ra-
chel P.aiimer. born May 12, 1850: Harmon was
;a son of George and Catherine Sagendorf ; Ra-
•chel Baumer was a daughter of John and I\Ia-
ria (Kilmer) Baumer. and a granddaughter
•of George and Rachel (Stoneman) Baumer.
Dr. Harry J. and Lulu Lipes has a daughter
Caroline E., born November 14, 1898. 3.
Myron D., of further mention. 4. Robert, a
practicing physician ; married Lillian Ford,
and has Robert (2).

(H) Myron D., son of Henry and Sylvia
(Harbour) Lipes, was born in Kendallville.
Indiana. He was educated at Richfield
Springs high school, graduating in 1894. He
•entered Syracuse University, taking the
course in 1896-97, and finishing his studies
there with a special course in medicine 1898-
•99. He was graduated M. D. from Balti-
more ]\Iedical College, 1901. He first began
practice at Howes Cave, New York, in 1901,
where for two years he did a general prac-
tice in medicine and surgery. In 1903 he lo-
cated in Cobleskill, New York, where he is
now in general practice, well established and
popular. For five years he has been coroner,
is ex-president of the County Medical Society,
and a member of the State Medical Associa-
tion. He is a member of the Masonic order,
belonging to Cobleskill Lodge, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, T. L. Lewis Chapter, Royal
Arch Masons, and Albany Council, Royal and
Select Masters. He is also affiliated with
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, being
a past grand, and is a Knight of Pythias.
He married, August 28, 1901, Carrie A\'est-
fall, born August 22. 1873. daughter of Adam
M., born June 8, 1846. and S. Esther (Bent-
ley) Westfall, born March 28, 185 1, grand-
daughter of John Andrew and Catherine
(Miller) Westfall. Adam M. Westfall had
two children, Carrie, wife of Dr. M. D. Lipes,
and Floyd B., born October 6, 1875, married
Alice May and has a daughter Mil-
dred, born May 8, 1907. Dr. Myron D. and
Carrie Lipes have a son Henry, born Septem-
ber 8. 1902.

(Mil) John, son of .•\mbrosc
WILTSIE (q. V.) and Magdelena (Mil-
ler) Wiltsie, was born on the
old U'iltsie homestead in South Bethlehem,
Albany county. New York, and died on his
own farm in that town, July 26, 1863. He
was an energetic farmer and capable man of
business, ranking with the prosperous men of

his town. He was a member of the Dutch Re-
fcirmed church, and a Republican in politics.
He married, in Bethlehem, Hannah Hicks, of
Dutchess county, daughter of one of the old
families in that section. She was a devout
church woman ; her death preceded that of
her husband. Children: Caleb; John; Am-
brose, of further mention: Hannah; Marga-
ret: Julia. Other children died in infancy;
those mentioned grew to maturity and most
of them married.

(IX) Ambrose, son of John and Hannah
(Hicks) Wiltsie, was born in the town of
Bethlehem, Albany county. New York, near
the South Bethlehem railroad station, in 1847,
and died on his own farm in the same town
April 2, 1867, at the age of twenty years and
six months. He was a farmer, and possessed
elements of character that promised a suc-
cessful future when his life suddenly termi-
nated. He was a member of the Alethodist
church, and married, in Bethlehem, Mary K.
Shaffer, born in that town in 1847, who sur-
vives him and continues to reside on the farm
left her by her first husband. She married
(second) Henry Rupert, born in Germany,
who came to the United States early in life
and settled in South Bethlehem, where he died
leaving: Walter, Israel, Anna, Catherine and
IVIamie. Ambrose and Mary K. (Shaffer)
Wiltsie had two children : John A., of fur-
ther mention ; and George, born July, 1866, a
carpenter and farmer of South Bend ; mar-
ried Ada Robertson, widow of Barnet Ten
Eyck, child, Charles ; by a second marriage he
has Rupert. Pearl. Blanche and Florence.
Mary K. (Shaffer) Wiltsie, is a daughter of
George Shaflfer. born in Hesse Darmstadt,
Germany, in 1838. He was educated in the
State Church government schools (Lutheran)
and grew up a farmer. His brother Henry,
who had previously emigrated to the United
States, returned to his native town and by his
persuasions induced George Shaffer to accom-
pany him to the United States. Before leav-
ing. Henry Shaffer married Mary Ringle, his
brother (George having married three years
before her sister Margaret. They all came
to the United States in 1845, landing in New
York City, where George Shaffer remained.
Henry and his wife continued their journey
northward, finally settling in the town of
Bethlehem, Albany county. New York.
George Shaffer remained in New York City
about one year, and then removed to the town
of Ballston. Saratoga county, New York,
where he remained until 1857. when he joined
his brother in Bethlehem. Here he purcha,sed
a farm which he cultivated successfully imtil
his death in February, 1902. His wife died

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March 20, 1856. He was a Lutheran in re-
h.g^ion and a Republican in pohtics. George
and Mary (Ringle) Shaffer had: i. Marga-
ret, born in Germany in 1843, being two years
of age when her parents came to the United
States ; married John Carkner, a farmer of
Bethlehem, and has Richard, George and
Eliza. 2. Mary K.. born in Ballston, Sara-
toga county. New York, June i, 1846, the
first American-born child of her parents; she
married (first) Ambrose Wiltsie, (second)
Henry Rupert : both of whom she survives.
3. Maria, married Silvanus Misner ; resides
at Cedar Hills, New York, and has: Lester,
Amanda. Lester (2). 4. Elizabeth, married
(first) John Snyder, deceased, leaving chil-
dren: Steven. Arthur, Catherine and Fred-
erick. John Snyder was killed in the disas-
trous quarry explosion which brought sorrow
and desolation into so many homes in that sec-
tion. She married (second) Charles Mosher,
and has a daughter, Nellie. 5. Catherine,
married Elmer Brown, of Cedar Hills, New
York.

Henry Shaffer, brother of George, was
born in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, in 18 15,
died on Thanksgiving Day in 1895, in Duanes-
burg. Schenectady county, New York. He
came to the United States, spent two years in
the city of Albany, and then returned to the
land of his birth, where he married Mary,
sister of Margaret Ringle, wife of George
Shaffer, and all came to the United States
together in 1845. Henry settled in the town
of Bethlehem, where his wife died in 1853,
leaving children: Elizabeth, John H., George
H., Robert, the latter dying young. He mar-
ried (second) Mary Beaneau, of Albany, who
died in Duanesburg, September 7, 1910, aged
eighty-seven years, leaving children : Henry,
Anson, Charles, Catherine, Peter (deceased),
and John.

(X) John A., son of Ambrose and Mary
K. (Shaffer) Wiltsie. was born on his father's
farm near South Bethlehem .station. Albany
county, New York, February 20. 1865. He
was but an infant when his father died. He
received a good education in the public
schools, and was reared a farmer, which occu-
pation he followed all his life. In 1890 he
purchased a farm of one hundred and twenty
acres in South Bethlehem, near his birthplace,
which has ever since been his home and the
scene of his activities. He has prospered in
business and is a man highly respected in his
community. He is a member of the Methodist
church of South Bethlehem. He married, in
Bethlehem, December 2, 1883, Minnie E. Fer-
rell. born in Summit. Schoharie county, New
York, May 26, i860, daughter of Ebenezer H.

and Emmeline .A. (Boughton) Ferrell. Eben-
ezer Ferrell was born in Schoharie county in
1836, removed to Bethlehem, Albany county,
where he died in 1872, son of Andrew and
Emmeline (Hicks) Ferrell, of Dutchess
county. New York. He resided in Schoharie
county from the date of his marriage until
1866, when he removed to Bethlehem, where
he died a few months afterward at the age of
fifty-two years. They were both devoted
members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
His wife, Emmeline A. (Boughton) Ferrell,
was born in Schoharie county, New York,
May 14, 1838, died in Bethlehem, March 11,
1904. daughter of Henry and Rosanna (Row-
land) Boughton, both born in Schoharie
county, lived in Rensselaerville, Albany coun-
ty, on the Schoharie line for many years,
where he kept a hotel. Ebenezer H. and Em-
meline A. (Boughton) Ferrell have two chil-
dren: i. Minnie, married John A. Wiltsie: ii.
Emmett, with W. Sandford Van Derzee, mar-
ried Elizabeth Van Allen, of Bethlehem, and
has J. Allen, born 1890, now a student irr
the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy,^
and Margery, born 1897.

John A. and Minnie (Ferrell) Wiltsie have
four children: i. Mary K., born October 28,
1884: married Charles Baumes, educated in
the State Normal College, formerly a teacher
in the public schools, now employed in the
clerical department of the General Electric
Works at Schenectady. 2. Anna E.. born De-
cember 23. 1886. 3. Rov, born July 14,
1888. 4. Edith M.. born April 12, 1890. The
family are all members of the Alcthodist Epis-
copal church.

Peter Close was a manufacturer
CLOSE of scythes in the town of May-
field, Fulton county. New York.
He married Mary A., daughter of Nathaniel
and Cynthia (Wood) Brown. Nathaniel
Brown was a prosperous farmer of Fulton
county, a member of the Society of Friends,
locally known as "Quaker" Brown. Children
of Peter and Mary A. Close: i. Abram B.,
of whom further. 2. Isaac, married Almeda
Huntley: children: George and Hewson. 3.
Darwin, married Eunice Pierce: cliildren : Pe-
ter, Sherman, Corey and Anna. 4. Cynthia,
married George Potter, of the United States
army: child. Mary. 5. Emily, married Henry
Piper, removed to the west. 6. Delia, mar-
ried James Kelly, of the United States army;
child: James (2). 7. Erwin. married Jemima
Laird ; child, Frank. 8. Mary Etta, married
Edward Stewart : child, Daniel. 9. Harriet,
married Charles Childs ; children : Clara, mar-
ried Baltrus Dickson ; Edward ; Kate.

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^77S

(H) Abram R., son of Peter and Mary A.
(Brown) Close, was born in ALiyfield, Fulton
county. New York, September i6, 1827. died
December 27, 1900. He received a good edu-
cation and at tbe age of eighteen began to
learn the art and trade of glovemaking.
About 185 1 he engaged in mercantile pursuits
and for half a century was a merchant of
. ^^ayf^eld. His first partner was John Rrown,
later Amos Christie, the firm being Close &
Christie. In 1869 they engaged in the manu-
facture of gloves and mittens and continued in
successful operation until the death of Mr.
Close. In 1887 their store was destroyed by
fire, but was at once replaced with a large
brick block accommodating store and factory.
After the death of Mr. Close this block was
sold to Eugene Heacock. He was a most suc-
cessful business man and stood high in the
commercial world. He was constantly in the
service of the public. For thirty-three years
he was postmaster of Mayfield, and for seven-
teen years justice of the peace and notary
public. He was Republican in politics, always
taking an active part. He was a member of
the Society of Friends, his wife being a Meth-
odist. He died very suddenly and was sin-
cerely mourned. He married, January 5,
1852, Harriet, born December 3, 1828, daugh-
ter of John and Mary A. (Woodworth) Hol-
lenbeck. She survives him, a resident of
Mayfield. Children: i. Mary A., born De-
cember 25, 1857, died October 9, 1894; mar-
ried George M. Woodworth. 2. John P.,
born June 22, 1859: married Eliza Goode-
mate; child, Mary Inez. 3. Hattie J., born
August 5, 1862 ; married Alva O. Seeley ;
cl ''dren : P>eatrice and Wayne D.

Harriet (Hollenbeck) Close descends from
Peter Hollenbeck, of Holland. The name is
variously spelled Hallenbeck. Hollenbeck,
Hellenbeck, etc. Peter was a shoemaker;
married Alma Fonda and had an only son,
John, who was a farmer, school teacher and no-
tary public, transacting business for the entire
community. His father, Peter, was a Presby-
terian and many of the family were Friends.
John was a Christian and lived an honorable,
manly life but was not connected with any
special denomination. He married Mary,
daughter of Sela and Rebecca (Dcenham)
Woodworth. John and Mary Hollenbeck had
four children: i. John, married Hannah
Brownell and had Horace and Frank, who
survive, five being dead. 2. Mary Ann, mar-
ried Orville Brown : children : Edward, Har-
riet, married Granville Baker, Sela, married
Brown Hollenbeck, George. 3. Harriet, mar-
ried Abram B. Close. 4. Sela, married Caro-
line Dennv.

Sela Woodworth, maternal grandfather of
Harriet (Hollenbeck) Close, came to May-
field during the troublous Indian times during
the revolution and took up land near the fort
that stood on the present site of the Johnstowrr
jail, seeking the shelter of the fort when dan-
ger threatened. His father was killed by In-
dians who shot him from ambush. Sela's
wife, Rebecca, shared these dangers with him
and on one occasion fled with her babe in
arms to the sheltering forest, leaving the
house which a band of Indians was approach-
ing. They tried to fire the house but failed.
Her father, Ebenezer. was killed by Indians
while plowing in his fields. They cut otT his
head and fastened it to the horns of the oxen,
who came home to be fed bearing their
ghastly burden and the first news to the fam-
ily that the father and husband was dead. But
these times of danger passed and in quieter
time Sela Woodworth reared his family. He-
was a good man as well as a brave one and
became one of Mayfield's leading men. He
donated the ground on which the Mayfield-
church is built, and there his granddaughter,
Mrs. Close, has erected a tablet to his memory.
Among her treasures is a clock owned by Sela
that passed through the perilous times re-
corded. Mrs. Close has long since passed her
allotted "three score years and ten" and is al-
most the last of her generation. She inherited
the vigor, tenacity and brave spirit of her pio-
neer ancestors, who amid scenes of peril and
death laid broad and deep the foundations for
the prosperity that now surrounds her.

The first of the Keck family of
KECK which there is record in Fulton
county. New York, is George
Keck, a farmer of the county. He married'
Catherine Coughnet and had twelve children:
Catherine, George, John, Jacob. Martin, Eliz-
abeth, Isaac (see forward), Peter, Joseph,
Margaret, Mary Ann and .-Mbert.

(II) Isaac, fourth son and seventh child'
of George and Catherine (Coughnet) Keck,,
was born in Johnstown, New York, May 15,
1814, and died there. He was reared on the-
farm and given a good common school educa-
tion. He remained with his parents on the-
farm until arriving at man's estate. He then
settled on a farm of his own near Keek's Cen-
ter. Fulton county, where he lived the re-
mainder of his days. He married. October
15, 1836, Eliza .'\. Burns, born February 13,
1818, died February. 1857, daughter of Wen-
dell and Eliza Burns, of Montgomery county.
New York, a descendant of the Burns family
of Scotland, and related to the poet, Robert
Burns. Children: i. Tiniothv. horn February

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15. 1838 (q. v.). 2. George Henry, born
September 3, 1839; married, February 3,
i860, Mary Jane Martin, born December 20,
1843, daughter of John and Catherine (Da-
vis) Martin ; she was one of a family of eleven
children : they had one son, Addison Keck,
born July 6, 1862, married Alberta Stoller,
and has Dora G. Stoller, born March 13,
1891. 3. Leander, born October 2, 1841 ;
married Nancy Bander; children: Elsie. Mar-
garet and Hiram Keck, who reside at Mont-
gomery, Illinois. 4. Mary E. 5. Jeremiah,
born November 9. 1845 (see forward). 6.
Philip, born October 26, 1848 (see forward).
7. Alelissa, born April 16, 1853; married. De-
cember 28, 1879, William H. Meserve, born
January 27, 1847, at Cherryfield. Maine, died
in Albany, New York, October 6, 1909. He
was attending a preparatory school in Mat-
thias. Maine, fitting for college when the civil
war broke out. Being unable to get parental
permission, he left school secretly and went
to Boston, Massachusetts, where he enlisted
in 1862. He was connected with the signal
corps, Department of the Gulf. After receiv-
ing an honorable discharge from the service
he settled in New York state, where he en-
gaged in teaching for several years, and for
nine years was principal of Salmonsville, New
York, Union school, and brought that institu-
tion to a high state of efficiency. In 1883
he located in Johnstown, New York, where he
engaged in the insurance business until 1895.
In that year he was appointed inspector of the
State Land Survey and took up his residence
in .Albany. In T905 he retired from office on
account of ill health, and died October 6,
1909, in that city. He was a son of William
Meserve, of Cherryfield, Maine. Children of
William H. and Melissa (Keck) Meserve:
i. Lora, born August 16. 1881 : educated in
public schools of Johnstown, high school at
Albany, and State Normal College ; is now a
teacher in Schenectady public schools, ii.
Frank L., born June 12, 1887: educated in
the common and high school at Albany ; is
connected with the drug firm of Walker and
Gibson, of Albany, iii. Earl, born February
23, 1889; educated at Albany common and
high schools : is a bookkeeper with Walker
& Gibson, iv. William Keck, born August
22, 1890: died March 16. 1893. v. Alice Ethel,
born July 3, 1893. vi. Harlan Bums, born -
October 19. 1894. Mrs. Melissa (Keck) Me-
serve survives her husband and retains the
family home at No. 165 Lancaster street. .\1-
bany.

(HI) Timothy, eldest son of Isaac and
Ehza A. (Burns) Keck, was born on the Keck
homestead farm near Keek's Center, town of

Johnstown, Fulton county. New York. Feb-
ruary 15. 1838. He was educated in the pub-
lic schools and grew up on the farm, where he
remained as his father's valued assistant until
1863, when he assumed the sole charge and
management. He was an early volunteer in
answer to President Lincoln's third call for
men, but owing to some slight physical defect
his services were not accepted. He continued
on the farm until 1874, when he located in
Johnstown and began the manufacture of
heavy gloves of sheep and buckskin. For a
time he was his own traveling salesman, going
on the road and disposing of his factory prod-
uct. In the first years in business he was as-
sociated with the firm of Keck & Dudley.
Later Mr. Van .Alstyne succeeded Mr. Dudley,
as \'an Alstyne & Keck, and later the firm be-
came Timothy Keck & Son, so continuing un-
til T907, when ]\Ir. Keck. Sr.. retired from
active business, which was continued by his
son William T. Keck until the factory was de-
stroyed by fire in the spring of 1910. Mr.
Keck was an energetic, capable man of busi-
ness and stands high in the regard of his
community. Politically he is a Republican,
and is a member of the Lutheran church. He
married, November 20, 1862, Charlotte, third
daughter of Philip and Elizabeth Martin.
Children: i. Elizabeth A., born April 4,
1865 ; married Ferdinand Fisher of Johnstown
and has children : i. Charlotte E., who died
in infancy, ii. Victoria, born in 1893. iii.
Myrtle, born July 3, 1906. 2. William T.,
born July 15, 1869: educated in .'Mbany and
common schools : he associated with his father
in glove manufacturing until the fire of 1910;
he married, July 11, 1890, Charlotte May An-
thony, fourth daughter of Martin J. and JEliza-
heth M. Shear: children: i. Elsie May, died
in infancy, ii. Lillian Beatrice, born I'ebruary,
1893. iii. Theresa E.. February. 1896. iv.
\'iola M., l\Iay. 1899.

(Ill) Judge Jeremiah Keck, son of Isaac
and Eliza Ann (Burns) Keck, was born near
Keek's Center, town of Johnstown. Fulton
county. New York, November 9, 1845. He
attended the public schools of his town, and
worked with his father on the farm until he
was sixteen years of age. The civil war then
broke out and he was among the first to vol-
unteer for service. He enlisted in Company
C. Seventy-seventh Regiment New York Vol-
unteer Infantry, and with his regiment served
at Yorktown, Malvern Hill. Gaines Mills and
Fair Oaks, in the Peninsula campaign of the
.Army of the Potomac, then under command
of General George B. McClellan. He was
stricken with a fever which so disabled him
that he was honorably discharged. He re-

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^777

turned to Johnstown and began studies pre-
paratory to the profession of law, which he
had decided to follow. He attended Clinton
Liberal Institute and Whitetown Seminary.
After completing his preparatory studies he
read law with Judge John ^^'ells and James
M. Dudley, entering their offices for that pur-
pose in April. 1868. Having passed a suc-
cessful examination he was admitted to the
bar at the general term of the supreme court
held at Schenectady, .-\pril 8, 1869. He was
at once admitted to a partnership with his
preceptors, becoming junior member of the
law firm of ^^'ells, Dudley & Keck. This firm
continued in successful practice until the dis--
solution in 1877. He then entered into a part-
nership with his brother, and as J. & P. Keck
transacted a successful legal business until
1883. He was elected district attorney of the
county in 1874, and re-elected in 1877. I"
1883 he was elected county judge and surro-
gate, and held those offices for eighteen years,
imtil such offices were separated a little over
nine years ago. He has held the office of
surrogate ever since, with an unexpired term
of three years to serve.

A\'hile prominent as a lawyer and successful
in private practice. Judge Keck is best known
in his public capacities as district attorney,
county judge and surrogate, covering a pub-
lic service of nearly thirty-six years. During
this long term of service he has been many
times before the voters of Fulton county as
their candidate, and rarely had opposition
from the opposing party. His nominations
bave nearly always been made by acclamation
and re-election without opposition— a tribute
rarely paid to any man. During his profes-
sional career he has been connected with most
of the important litigation of the county, both
civil and criminal. He has always been
known as an able, upright and conscientious
lawyer, taking rank with the ablest members
of the Fulton county bar. As judge and sur-
rogate he has been fair and impartial, rapidly
transacting the business before him, ruling
-with such accuracy and fairness that there
have been very few reversals of his decisions
when reviewed by the higher courts. He is
held in high esteem by bis .brethren of the
profession as a jurist, and by the people gener-
ally as a good friend and neighbor. He has
always been a student, and has a fine law li-
brary, including law works issued in London
over two and a half centuries ago.

Judge Keck is known as a forcible speaker
before a jury and in the argument of causes,
and of very pleasing address on subjects out-
side of his professional work. When a young
man be constantly received flattering press no-

tices in their reports of Memorial Day ad-
dresses and other occasions of patriotic com-
memoration. In 1889 he delivered a brief ad-
dress at the dedication of a monument to his
old regiment at Gettysburg. Pennsylvania,
which though impromptu was widely reported
and greatly admired, and will be found in the
work entitled "New York at Gettysburg"' re-
cently issued by the state of New York. This
address shows his readiness and ability to
speak without previous preparation. He said :

"Nothing new can be said and nothing new need
be sought, for the greatness of the struggle and tlie
grandeur of the victory are more appreciated as
they are more studied and better understood. And
so it will be while patriotism dwells in the hearts
of the American people. What was done here was
not done for that day and tiine, but for all days and
for all times. When the martyred Lincoln here
expressed the hope that the result of the great con-
flict might be 'that government of the people, by the
people, and for the people, shall not perish from the
earth,' the dark clouds of war rolled over and en-
shrouded the land. That hope has been triumph-
antly fulfilled. Not only has this government been
established, but before the eyes of all other nations
has a grand proof been given of the permanence of
free institutions and the power of an intelligent and
devoted people to maintain the stability of their
country in times of the greatest trial. ' Times of
trial and danger may come upon the nation, very
different from those we commemorate and yet very
great, and when those times do come we believe it
is not in vain to hope that the memory of . this
struggle will encourage and anitiiate the hearts of
her citizens to maintain that union which has been
purchased with so much blood. We felt that our
country was at stake, but the nations of the civ-
ilized world felt that something still greater was
imperilled— the principle that a Republic could by
the devotion of her citizens save her national life
in the greatest struggle that has as yet been re-
corded in the history of the world. We, my com-
rades, who have done what we could, here in tjie
time of our country's need, now do this, as the last
permanent thing that we can do. for we shall soon
pass away to join our comrades and our names will
be forgotten, but the work we have done will live
for us, and this monument will speak for us to the
generations to come, and tell where the Remis
Heights battalion stood, in this harvest field of
death."

His pa])er on the life of Sir William John-
son, prejjared for and read before the State
Historical Association in 1903, and after-
wards published in its records, and his recent
address on behalf of the members of the
Grand Army of the Republic at the dedication
of the Soldiers' Monument of Johnstown,
October 5, 1910, in the presentation of such
monument to the city, have been regarded as
worthy of the occasions.

For fourteen years Judge Keck has been
and still is a member of the executive com-
mittee of the State Bar Association, and also
a member of the committee of that bodv on
the selection of candidates for judicial offices.

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HUDSON AND MOHAWK \'ALLEYS

I-\>r nineteen years he was commander of
Martin McAIartin Post, No. 257, Grand Army
of the Repubhc. of Johnstown, and is still an
interested member. He is prominent in the
Masonic order, belonging to St. Patrick's
Lodge, No. 4, Free and Accepted Masons ;
Johnstown Chapter, No. 78, Royal Arch
Masons ; Holy Cross Commandery, No. 52,
Knights Templar. He is also a member of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Po-
litically he has always been a Republican. His
first presidential vote was cast for General
Grant in 1868. His friends are not confined
to his party associates, but are numerous and
steadfast, regardless of party affiliation.

Judge Keck married (first) in June, 1874,
Jennie A., daughter of Thompson P. Kibbie,
a connection of the old de Fon Claire family
of Johnstown, New York. She bore him a
daugnter, Flore de Fon Claire. He married
(second) in November, 1890, Sara R„ daugh-
ter of Joseph Riggs, of Detroit, Michigan.

(HI) Philip, fifth son and sixth child of
Isaac and Eliza Ann (Burns) Keck, was born
in Johnstown. Fulton county. New York,
October 26, 1848. He was educated in the
public schools, Clinton Liberal Institute,
W'hitestown Seminary, and attended Hamil-
ton College two years. Leaving college in
1873. he began the study of law with Wells,
Dudley & Keck of Johnstown, following this
preparation by a course at Albany Law School,
where he was graduated LL.B., class of 1876.
In 1877 he associated with his brother Jere-
miah (afterward Judge Keck), continuing as
J. & P. Keck in a general legal practice until
1884, when they separated. Until 1890 Philip
Keck conducted his business alone, but it be-
came of such magnitude that in that year he
admitted Clarence W. Smith as partner in
Keck & Smith, a partnership that existed until
it was dissolved by mutual consent. Mr. Keck
has achieved an enviable success in his pro-
fession. He prepares his cases carefully, and
presents them to judges and juries in a logical
and impressive manner. He is learned and
skillful in the law, painstaking and persever-
ing in his clients' interests, and scrupulous in
his integrity. lie has always been a sup-
porter of the Republican party : was deputy
collector of revenue in 1882-83-84, and repre-
sented his district in the state legislature in
1893. He has always taken a deep interest in
city, county and state politics and all matters
pertaining to civic betterment. He is a promi-
nent member of the Ma.sonic order, being
affiliated with St. Patrick Lodge, No. 4, F.
and A. M. ; Johnstown Chapter, No. 78, R. A.
M.; Johnstown Council, No. 51, R. and S.
M. ; Holy Cross Commandery, K. T. ; and

Albany Consistory, A. A. S. R., where he has
attained the thirty-second degree, and Cyprus
Temple (Mystic Shrine). He is a member of
the Presbyterian church, and of the Lotus and
Colonial clubs. He married, October 8, 1879,
Florence M. Alitchell, daughter of Jacob and
Elizabeth (Spraker) Mitchell, of ^lontgomery
county. They have one child. Phillip Mitchell,
born May 14, 1898.

(II) Abraham Janse,

\'AN ALSTYNE son of Jan' Ma'rtense
(q. v.) and Dirckje
Harmense \'an Alstyne. owned and cultivated
the homestead farm at Kinderhook, deeded
him by his father. This land, as well as the
deeds of conveyance, have ever since been in
the possession of his descendants. The name
of his first wife is not recorded. He mar-
ried (second) January 17, 1694, Maritje \'an
Deusen. Children: i. Janneke, born March
15. 1685. 2. Jan, born May 22. 1687: buried
September 27. 1738; married Elizabeth

. 3. Jacob, born September 8, 1689,

see forward. 4. Johannes, born August 26,
1694. 5. Matthew, born June 14, 1696. 6.
Dirckje. born December 4, 1698. 7. Sander,
born January 5, 1701. 8. Abraham, born Au-
gust 15, 1703. 9. Lena, born November 18,
1705. 10. Isaac, born January 28, 1708;
buried July 6, 1746; married Maritje \'an den
Rergh. January 23, 1728. 11. Dirckje, born
April 30, 1710. 12. Catryntje, born October
12. 1713. 13. Jacobus, born April 21. 1717.
14. Alarten, born May 3, 1719.

(HI) Jacob, son of Abraham Janse and
Maritje (Van Deusen) \'an Alstyne. was
born at Kinderhook. New York, September
8. 1689. He was buried November 4, 1730.
He married, October 10, 1722, Pietcrtje Van
Tvcren (alias of Myndertse), born August 22,
1703, daughter of Myndert and Saartje
(liratt) \^an Iveren. Children: I. Jannetje,
1)1 rii Xfivember 22, 1723. 2. Reynier, torn
April 4. 1725, see forward. 3. Sara, born
June 4, 1727. 4. Maria, born July 27, 1729.

(I\") Reynier or (Reinier), son of Jacob
and Pietertje (\'an Iveren) \'an .Alstyne, was
born at Kinderhook, New York, April 4, 1725.
He settled near Blooming Grove, town of
North Greenbush. Rensselaer county, which
he bought from the Rensselaers in 1794. He
married, November 5. 1748, Cornelia \"an den
Bergh, born May 24. 1724, daughter of Mat-
thias and Cathalyna (Van Deusen) Yan den
Rergh. Children: i. Jacob, born May 28,
1750. 2. Catalyntje. born March 17, 1751. 3.
Matthew, born June 3, 1753, see forward. 4.
Pietertje, born August 31, 1760.

(V) Mathys (Matthew), son of Reynier

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1779

(Reinier) and Cornelia (Van den Bergh)
\'an Alstyne, was born June 3, 1753. Served
in the revolution as a member of Tryon
county, first regiment, militia (Land Bounty
Right's). He married, March 31, 1782,
Rachel De Forest, born March 23, 1764,
daughter of Marten and Tanneke (Winne)
De Forest, a descendant of the early De
Forest family of Harlem and New Amster-
dam. Matthew \'an Alstyne located in the
town of North Greenbush, Rensselaer county,
on the homestead farm purchased in 1794.
Children: i. Marten, see forward. 2. Cor-
nelia, born February 3, 1788. 3. Reinier, had
the old farm. 4. Peter, lived a mile north.
He also had three other daughters.

(VI) Marten, son of Matthew and Rachel
(De Forest) \'an Alstyne, was born July 19,
1784, died March 23, 1849. He resided in
the village of Bath, in North Greenbush,
Rensselaer county, New York, where he
owned a farm. He also had a scow ferry
across the Hudson which he operated in con-
nection with Jeremiah Clark. He married
and left three children, Matthew M., Eliza J.,
married A. T. Lansing, and Edward M. Mar-
ten, the father, enlisted in the war of 181 2,
but his company was not called into active
service.

(\'II) Matthew (2), son of Marten Van
Alstyne, was born in Bath, Rensselaer county.
New York, in 1810. He married and had
issue, including a son Reinier.

(VHI) Reinier (2), son of Matthew (2)
Van Alstyne. was born about 1840. He lived
in the village of Bath. Rensselaer county. New
York, where he was engaged in business. He
married Alice Catherine, daughter of Edwin
and Catherine (\Vhitbeck) Brownall. Child,
Matthew, of further mention.

fIX) Matthew (3), son of Reinier (2) and
Alice Catherine (Brownall) Van Alstyne, was
born at Bath-on-the-Hudson (Rensselaer),
New York. October 9. 1870. He was edu-
cated at Troy Academy, finishing his studies
at Albany high school. He at once entered
upon an active business, that has continued
without interruption, with the Albany Belting
& Supijly Company. He entered the employ
of that company in a minor position ; served
well through various promotions until 19 10,
when he was elected president of the com-
pany. He is an energetic, capable man of
business and has fairly earned the important
position he occupies. He is an attendant of
the First Dutch Reformed Church of .Mbany,
and in political preference a Democrat. His
clubs are the Fort Orange and .Albany County.
He married, at .Albany. .Adalain Yerks, born
in that city, January i, 1874, daughter of

George Wilbur and Adalain (Benjamin)
Yerks, of .Albany. George \\'. Yerks was
born at Unionville, Westchester county. New
York, February 4. 1843, died at .Albany, .Au-
gust 9, 1903: .'ion of William 11. and ^lary A.
(Clark) Yerks. Mary A. was a daugliter of

Amos and (Van Warts) Clark.

Through both Clark and Van Warts lines she
was of splendid revolutionary stock. George
W. Yerks was educated at Claverack .\cademy
and Fort Edward Collegiate Institute. .After
graduation he entered the employ of the
L^nited States government. lie came to .Al-
bany and established in the fancy grocery
business on Broadway, under the firm name of
Benjamin & Yerks, and in 1877 became sole
proprietor. In 1878 he admitted a partner
imder the firm name of George W. Yerks &
Company. He held offices of honor and trust
in the city : was trustee of the Madison Ave-
nue Reformed Church and a member of the
Fort Orange Club. He died August 9. 1902,
expiring as he was leaving the Fort Orange
Club. He married, in 1868, Adalain (or .Ade-
line), daughter of George W. Benjamin.
Adalain Yerks was educated at Albany Fe-
male Academy and is a member of the Albany
Country Club and the Sesame Reading Club.
Child of jMatthew and Adalain (Yerks) Van
Alstyne: Wilbur Yerks. born in Albany. De-
cember 14, 1904.

The first record of the
BIRDSALL Birdsalls in America is of

Nathan Birdsall. who in
1657 lived near the north end of East Hamp-
ton, Long Island. In 1666 he purchased five
acres of land at Matinecock. Long Island, of
. Mark Meggs, and in 1667-68 made further
purchases of the Indians. In 1678, in com-
pany with Captain John Underbill. Matthew
Pryor, James Cook and John Peaks, he
formed the settlement at Killingworth. Oys-
ter Bay. Long Island. In 1679 he purchased
a tract at Jerusalem (Little Britain), and in
1679 land at Jerusalem called Birdsall's
Swamp. He died 1696. He married, between
1640 and 1650. Temperance Baldwin at New
Haven. Connecticut, daughter of Richard
Baldwin and granddaughter of Sylvester
Baldwin, who died in 1638 while coming to
.America with his wife. Sarah (Ryan) Bald-
win, and his family. From Oyster Bay the
family spread to other parts of New York
state, being prominent in Westchester, Orange
and Yates counties. The Steuben county
branch settled at the village of Hammonds-
port at the head of Lake Keuka in the town
of LVbana. where William Birdsall, grand-
father of Rev. Paul Birdsall, of .Albany, died,

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aged forty years. He was twice married, hav-
ing issue by boti: wives. His second wife was
Maria Theresa Trotwood. Children by sec-
ond wife: John, Ehas, of further mention,
Hugh, Norman and another.

(H) Rev. Ehas Birdsall, son of Wilham
and Maria Theresa (Trotwood) Birdsall, was
born at Hammondsport, New York, February
21, 1830, died November 4, 1890. He was
early called to the ministry, for which he
prepared at Nashotah School of Divinity in
Wisconsin, where he was graduated Bachelor
of Divinity in 1857. In 1889 his alma mater
conferred 'upon him the degree of Master of
Arts. He was ordained deacon by Bishop
Uphold, of Indiana, in the same year. He
began his ministerial career at Elkhart and
Mishawaka, Indiana, and in 1858 was or-
dained to the priesthood of the Protestant
Episcopal church by Bishop Uphold. His first
call was from St. Paul's, Evansville, Indiana,
where he remained from 1861 to 1865. Dur-
ing this period he was sent as a delegate to
the general convocation of his church, then
meeting in New York. In 1865 he accepted
a call "from St. Athanasius' Church at Los
Angeles, being the first settled rector in south-
ern California. He later became assistant to
Dr. \\'yatt at Trinity Episcopal Church, San
Francisco, from whence he accepted a call to
St. John's Church at Stockton, California,
where he served as rector three diiTerent
terms, leaving on account of ill health each
time, and accepting two recalls. During this
period he again served as assistant to Dr.
Wyatt, president of the standing committee
of the diocese of California, then returning to
St. John's. In 1880 he was called back to
St. Athanasius' at Los Angeles, then became
rector of a new church in that city. St. Paul's.
This was his last charge. In 1889 he re-
moved to Glendale. California, where he died
in 1890. His work in southern California was
most useful and lasting; through his efforts
several parishes of the Episcopal church were
established and great good accomplished. He
was highly honored in the ministry and was
often sent as delegate to the general convo-
cations of the church. He married Cornelia
Bennett, born at New Berlin, Otsego county.
New York. September 7. 1834, who survives
him. a resident of New York City.

dll) Rev. Paul Birdsall. son of Rev. Elias
and Cornelia (Bennett) Birdsall, was born at
Evansville. Indiana. June 4. 1862. He at-
tended Trinity School and the public school
of San Francisco, California. In 1882 he
matriculated at Trinity College, Hartford,
Connecticut, whence he was graduated A.B.,
class of 1886. He prepared for the priest-

hood at Berkeley School of Divinity, Middle-
town, Connecticut, where he was graduated in
June,. 1890. In 1886 Trinity College con-
ferred upon him the degree of Bachelor of
Arts and in 1889 blaster of Arts. He was
ordained deacon, June 4, 1890, in Holy Trin-
ity Church, Middletown, Connecticut, by the
Right Rev. Dr. John Williams, bishop of Con-
necticut, and to the priesthood of the Pro-
testant Episcopal church, May 18, 1891, in St.
Thomas' Church, New Haven, Connecticut, by
the same bishop. During 1890 and 1891 was
deacon in St. Paul's Church, New Haven,
Connecticut, and from 1891 to 1893 was rector
of the Church of the Ascension in the same
city. From 1893 to 1894 he was curate of St.
John's Parish, W"ashington, D. C, in charge
of St. Mary's Church. From 1894 to 1899
he was curate of St. Peter's Church, Albany,
and in the latter year became rector of Grace
Church, of that city. June 11, 1891, Rev.
Paul Birdsall married Eliza Gerry, daughter
of the late Dr. George J. Townsend, of South
Natick, Massachusetts. Children : Townsend,
lean and Paul.

Walter Hendrick Hanson was
HANSON born at Saratoga Springs,

New York, August 21, 1866.
He was educated in the public schools of
Fairview, Saratoga Springs district schools,
and at Philip's Academy, Exeter, New Hamp-
shire. He was engaged in business at Albany,
New York, but always has maintained a Sara-
toga residence, and was trustee of the village
corporation, 1894-96. Mr. Hanson has for
many years been engaged in business in New
York, being connected with the stock exchange
houses of Henry Allen & Company, Bell &
Company, and C. H. DeWitt & Company, all
of New York City. He was a member of the
Albany Burgess Corps with the rank of lieu-
tenant, 1894-97, resigning in the latter-
named year. He is prominent in the Ma-
sonic order, belonging to Lodge, Chapter, and
Commandery of tlie York Rite, and is a
thirty-second degree Mason of the Scottish
Rite, and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He
married, June 21, 1889, Annie Gardner,
daughter of Daniel S. Lathrop, of Albany.
Child, Walter Lathrop Hanson, born January
28, 1891, graduate of Chester Military Acad-
emy, Chester, Pennsylvania. Mr. Hanson re-
sides at No. 474 Washington avenue, Brook-
Ivn, New York.

The family name of Peltz is

I'F,LTZ derived from the German, and

signifies hides, pelts or skins of

animals, and was originally applied to a hunter

HUDSON -VXD MOHAWK \- ALLKVS

1781

or else one who dealt in these. For the first
one Inindred years in Albany, at the time
when the place was known as Beaverwyck,
Fort Orange and Rensselaerwyck, the chief
men of the colony were engaged in the hunt-
ing and traffic of beaver and other skins, and
by this means made their fortunes which en-
titled them to be classed among the wealthy
and most respected merchants or burghers of
the settlement in the wilderness. So promi-
nent was the trade that the skins of any num-
ber of animals passed current as money, and
the ancient trading-books of some of these
old burghers show that they kept their ac-
counts in a peculiar, pictorial fashion, to be
understood by the Indians with whom they
dealt, and in them the column of figures gave
way to lines of rude sketches of various skins,
for each variety had its special value.

The progenitor of the Peltz family in
America was John Peltz, who came to this
country from Hesse, in Germany, and settled
first in Philadelphia. He had had his own
convictions in the other country about affairs
of that period, and to stand by these and not
be enrolled in the army in opposition to his
principles, he was forced to locate elsewhere,
hence he selected this country as a refuge, as
had hundreds of others who sought relief
from religious persecutions abroad. He was
born May 19, 1714, died November 19, 1791.
He married, while in Germany, Gertrude
Grau. She was born in that country, 1717,
died in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, February
27, 1787. They had among those of their
small family a son named Philip.

(H) Philip, son of John and Gertrude
(Grau) Peltz, was born August 10, 1762. died
at Philadelphia, February 25, 1846. He re-
sided most of his life in that city, and accu-
mulated a fortune of good proportions. It
was he who inaugurated the Peltz Family
Bible, which was owned in 191 1 by William L.
Learned Peltz, of Albany, New York. He
married (first) Philadelphia. Pennsylvania,
February 3, 1789, Rebecca P.rown, born Jan-
uary 2. 1770. died at Philadelphia, January
18, 1830. He married (second) September
24, 1833, Elizabeth Scheiner, who died April

6, 1838. Children: i. John, born November
21, 1789, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
(where all the children were born), died there
May 17. 1790. 2. Philip, June i, 1791. died
in Philadelphia, .April 26, 1793. 3. William,
September 2, 1792, died February 2, 1826;
married, November 4, 1813, Elizabeth Lyle.
4. Elizabeth, March 29, 1794, died February

7, 1836: married, June 3, 1816, George Mar-
qucrt. 5. Richard, see forward. 6. John,
April I. 1797, died April 16. 1797. 7. Re-

becca, February 21, 1798, died at Philadelphia,
February i6, 1830: married, October 16,
1817. Dr. Henry Klapp. 8. Mary, January,
1800: married. August 15, 1816, Samuel
Eskel.

(HI) Richard, son of Philip and Rebecca
(Brown) Peltz, was born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, October i, 1795, died there
February 25, 1847. He married, in Philadel-
phia, February 8. 1816, Sarah Lentz, borrt
May 3, 1797, died in Philadelphia, September

15. 1846. Children: i. John, died I'^liruary

16, 1876: married Mary Young. 2. Rebecca,
died September, 1904: married Joseph An-
thony. 3. Philip, see forward. 4. Sarah, died
in 1892, unmarried. 5. Gertrude, married
Samuel Stringfellow. 6. Richard, born July
II, 1832; married Annie Stevens. 7. Samuel,
married Margaret Shelly. 8. Elizabeth, died
at Coeynians, New York, married Theodore
Robb, of that place. 9. William, married
Elizabeth Cole.

(IV) Philip, son of Ricliard and Sarah
(Lentz) Peltz, was born in ]'hiladel[)hia, De-
cember 16, 1823, died in Coeymans. New
York, June 26, 1883. He was a graduate of
the University of Pennsylvania. His parents
dying when the children were young, he
looked after the welfare of his brothers and
sisters. He was a minister of the Dutch Re-
formed church, and officiated first at Coey-
mans, then at New Paltz, also at Paterson,
New Jersey, and other places. He became
secretary of the board of missions. Ill health,
before reaching advanced age, caused him to
retire from active engagements, and he re-
turned to his Coeymans home, where he lived
an estimable life for the remainder of his
days. He married (first) at Philadelphia,
Annie Sailor. He married (second) at Al-
bany, March 17, 1852, Mary De Witt. She
was born in Albany, February 19, 1819, died
there January 15, 1903. She had married
previously Stephen Van Dyck, in 1843. who
died in 1846, leaving two children. Abraham,
who died aged fifteen months, and Sarah, who
died the day of her birth. She was the daugh-
ter of Rev. John and Sarah (Schoonmaker)
De Witt.

Rev. John De Witt was born December 15.
1788, died at Albany. October 11. 1831. and
was the son of John I. and Mary (Breestede)
De Witt. He was a man of varied scholarly
attainments and of versatile talents. It is
said that he was acquainted with nine lan-
guages, among them Hebrew and Arabic. He
was graduated at Rutgers College. New
Brunswick, New Jersey, and at the New-
Brunswick Theological Seminary. He was
much dcvntcd to botany and had considerable

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HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

musical talent. He was an eloquent public
sj^eaker ; was of fine personal appearance,
somewhat over medium height, and had a re-
markably handsome head and face, as may be
seen from his portrait, the original of which,
painted in oil, is in Rutgers College. He had
a cheerful temperament, high spirits and gen-
ial social qualities. It is a tradition in the
family that his father had intended that he
should be a lawyer, but he himself felt his
vocation to be the ministry. In 1814 he ac-
cepted a call to the pastorate of the Reformed
Dutch church of Albany, which was then
what was styled a "Collegiate Church," a sys-
tem, in accordance with the custom in the
larger cities in the United Netherlands, of hav-
ing under one organization two or more
church buildings with as many pastors as
there were houses of worship, they officiating
alternately in the different church buildings.
The Albany church was, in the early part of
the nineteenth century, the most important in
the denomination outside the city of New
York, as Albany was the city of second size
and importance in the state. There were, in
1814. two houses of worship belonging to the
Albany Collegiate Church, one on the west
side of North Pearl street, corner of Orange,
finished in 1798, and the other on a large lot
extending from Hudson avenue to Beaver
street, east of Pearl street, completed in 1810.
The latter edifice was an imitation of the
Church of St. Alartin's-in-the-Field, London,
designed by Sir Christopher Wren, and was
regarded (razed about 1890) as a fine exam-
ple of church architecture. When Rev. John
De Witt became pa.stor in 1814, the Rev. John
M. Bradford, D.D., was his colleague. In
181 5 the collegiate form of pastorate was dis-
continued, a new corporation was formed for
the more southerly church, and the landed
property of the old corporation, which was
considerable, was divided into two equal
parts, each of the church organizations taking
one part. It was determined by lot which of
the two pastors should take the north and
which the .south church, and the result was
that John De Witt became the first sole pastor
of the South Church, then so called, and Dr.
Bradford sole pastor of the North Church.
On account of the population moving wester-
ly, a new edifice was erected on Madison ave-
nue, to which the congregation removed in
1881. and the old building sold for mercan-
tile purposes. In the interior of the new
church was erected a marble tablet to his
memory and also one in the Dutch Church of
Kew Brunswick, where he was liuried. the
latter reading: "To the Memory of the Rev.
John De Witt, D.l).. Professor of Sacred

Literature and Biblical Criticism in the
Theological Seminary of the Reformed Dutch
Church, and of Logic and Belles Lettres in
Rutgers College, who, after discharging the
duties of a Christian Pastor with much zeal
and success, during several years at Albany,
entered September, 1823, upon his Profes-
sional Labour, which he executed with dis-
tinguished ability, and died Oct. 11, A.D.
1831, aged 41 years and 10 months. This
monument, erected by the general synod of
the Reformed Dutch church, is designed to
express their high regard for the Deceased.
Ah! nimium citus decessit." His wife, Sarah
Schoonmaker, w-as the daughter of Tjerck
Schoonmaker and Jane Breestede (or Brais-
ted), the latter a daughter of Peter Breestede.
His second wife, Anna Marcia Bridgen, born
October 10, 1796, died at Albany, April 12.
1843, daughter of Charles and Maria (Ten
Eyck) Bridgen.

The father of Rev. John De Witt was John
I. De Witt, born May 13. 1760. died Febru-
ary 19, 1816; lived at Saugerties, New York,
where he owned property, which was the site
of the Exchange Hoterin 1910, and he mar-
ried, July 6, 1782, Mary Breestede, born May
9. 1766, died October 18. 1853, daughter of
Peter and Sarah (Mynderse) Breestede. Re-
garding him, Simeon P. De \\'itt writes: "I
can well remember his features. He had the
most commanding and noblest physiognomy
of any De Witt I have ever seen, — when once
seen, never to be forgotten. He was a very
intellectual man ; owned a sloop which he used
in the transportation business on the Hudson
River ; made money rapidly, and at last sold
his slooj), and purchased property, mills and
farms at Catskill, N. Y. This was of course
before the era of steamboats." John I. De
Witt's father was Captain John Lucas De
Witt, born April 18, 1731, died May 27.
1803; married. May 13, 1758, Anna Maria De
Witt, born March 8, 1730, died July i. 1814.
daughter of Peek and Maria (Dunges) De
Witt, whose name was otherwise written
Tennis and also Deunies, and was the widow
of Jacob De Moot. John L. De Witt was
called "Captain" and was captain of a mili-
tary company during the revolution, which
served for the special purpose of protection
of the Kingston district, of whom his grand-
son. Simeon P. De Witt, writes: "He be-
came conspicuous as a captain of infantry
under Colonel Pawling in the Northern Divis-
ion of the American Army in the war of '76.
At the death of his colonel, he acted in that
ca])acity through the war. at the taking of
Burgoyne at Schuylerville and Cornwallis at
Yorktown, and in many other bloody battles."

HUDSON AND MOHAWK \ALLF.YS

1783

Captain John Lucas De \\'itt's father was
Lucas De \\'itt. who was baptized September
j, 1703: married. January 17, 1729, Catrina
Roosa, baptized February 16, 1709. daughter
of Evert and Tietje (Van Etten) Roosa.
Lucas De Witt's father was Lucas De Wilt,
who married, December 23, 1695. Antje De
Iva, daughter of Anthony and Jannetje (Hille-
■brants) De Iva (or Dclva). This Lucas De
Witt was the son of Tjerck De Witt, the
progenitor of the family in America, who was
born in Holland, died February 17, 1700; mar-
ried, April 24, 1656, Barbara Andriese.

Philip and Mary (De Witt) Peltz had
issue: I. John De Witt, born, Coxsackie, New
York, June 26. 1853 : died at Albany, New
York, May 7, 1904 (see forward). 2. Sarah,
"born. Coxsackie. June 26, 1853 (twin) : died
at Coeymans in 1883. unmarried. 3. Rich-
ard, born September 19. 1857; died at Pater-
son, New Jersey, July 23, 1859.

( \' ) John De Witt, son of Philip (q. v.) and
Mary (De Witt) Peltz. was born in Cox-
sackie, New York, June 26, 1853. died at
his home. No. 323 State street. Albany. New
York, May 7, 1904. He passed his boyhood
and received the rudiments of early education
in New Paltz. New York, where his father
-was pastor. After that he entered Rutgers
'College, from which institution he graduated
in 1875, and, engaging in the study of law,
•graduated from the Albany Law School in
1876. He studied law in the office of De
Witt & Spoor, a then famous law firm in Al-
"bany. On account of the ill health of his
wife, he removed to Colorado Springs, where
lie engaged in practice and became the city
attorney and leading corporation counsel. His
wife died in 1888. but he remained there until
the fall of 1890. when he returned to Albany.
•and resided there until his death. He en-
joyed a very extensive law practice, with
•offices in the Volckert Building on State
street. He was a member of the State Bar
Association and the second vice-president of
'the Albany County Bar Association. He was
vestryman of St. Peter's Episcopal Church ;
trustee of the Albany Rural Cemetery Asso-
-ciation and of the Union Trust Company ; first
vice-president of the Albany Exchange Sav-
ings Bank : director of the Albany Insurance
'Company : trustee of Rutgers College, and a
member of the Fort Orange Club of Albany
and of the University Club of New York City.
He was a progressive and patriotic citizen, a
■good lawyer, kind and affectionate husband
and father, a true and sincere friend. The
announcement of his death was made that
morning at a special term before Justice D.
'Cady Herrick, by Hon. Simon W. Rosendale.

and a large number of the members of the
bar were present. After remarks by Justice
Herrick. Mr. Rosendale and Corporaition
Counsel Arthur L. Andrews, all of whom
spoke feelingly of the loss sustained by the
Albany bar, court was adjourned out of re-
spect to the memory of Mr. Peltz.

He was vice-president of Philip Livingston
Chapter, Sons of the Revolution, which placed
on its records a minute expressive of the sad
loss to that body by his death, stating that
he was an excellent citizen, one whom the
people had frequently desired to run for the
office of mayor of Albany, one who could well
be proud of his ancestry as well as of his
own clean record ; who did always what was
for the best in life ; liberal in culture, a gen-
tleman in his treatment of others and a law-
yer the equal of any in his city. The Albany
Insurance Company recorded its estimate of
him as "an upright citizen, loyal friend in
perfection of manhood," and that "truth and
honor lived in him, for he was just, honor-
able, courageous, gentle and yet strong." The
board of the Union Trust Company spoke of
him as a faithful director, showing pro-
nounced interest in that institution's welfare.
The directors of the National Commercial
Bank resolved: "For many years a member
of the executive committee, no one was more
faithful in attendance, more willing to apply
his labors and influence in its behalf. His
record in this city is one worthy of emula-
tion and his life's history may well stand as
an encouraging example to the young men of
this day and generation. Depending upon his
own efforts and exertions, he was a generous
and helpful friend, responding to the great
confidence placed in him. and was at the head
of our largest business concerns."

John De Witt Peltz married (first) at Al-
bany, New York. April 16. 1881, Mary Mar-
vin Learned, born at Albany, April 16. 1856,
died at Colorado Springs. Colorado. Novem-
ber 23. 1888, daughter of Judge William Law
and Phoebe Rowland (Marvin) Learned.
Children: i. William Law Learned, born at
Albany, graduated from -Albany .Academy and
Yale, 1904 : married, at Albany. April 29.
1907, Katharine, daughter of Dr. Edward
Reynolds Hun, and had Caroline, who was
born at Albany, and William Learned, who
was born at Albany. 2. Philip, born at Al-
bany, April 20, 1884. died there, May 26,
1892. John De Witt Peltz married (second)
at Albany. New York, April 5. 1894, Cathar-
ine Barnard Walsh, born in Albany, daughter
of Augustus Henry and Laura Spencer
Walsh. Children: 3. John De Witt, born in
Albany and residing there in 191 1. 4. Cathar-

1784

HUDSON AND MOHAWK WALLFA'S

ine Walsh, born in Albany and also residing
there in 191 1.

(The W'alsh Line).

Dudley \\'alsh was the progenitor of this
family in America. He was born in Dublin
in 1756, and came to this country soon after
the revolution, settling in Albany, New York,
where he was a general merchant, and died
there May 24, 1816. He formed the firm of
Walsh & Staats, which dealt in domestic prod-
ucts, imported articles and landed property.
Transportation in this state was in a very
primitive condition in those days, large wag-
ons and sloops being used instead of steam-
boats and rail lines. Their business grew
rapidly, and becoming extensive, his brother
Charles joined him, but died after a few years'
residence. His sister Alice, who lived near
Dublin, died unmarried, and another sister
married an officer in the British army, named
Palmer, who was killed in the battle of New
Orleans.

Dudley Walsh was a faithful member of St.
Peter's Episcopal Church at Albany. His
sagacity, energy and integrity rendered his
business career very prosperous, and he closed
his life with the record of ranking among the
most prominent merchants in this country.
He had often to contend against adverse con-
ditions, but his great ability enabled him to
surmount all obstacles. On the retirement of
Mr. Staats from their business, he took into
partnership Harry Beekman, of New York
City, and for many years had branch offices
there in lower Broadway, as well as in Al-
bany, doing much banking business and being
well known in London. The late Myndert
\'an Schaick, president of the Croton Aque-
duct board, said he was one of the first men
in this country. He was president of the Bank
of Albany, the earliest institution of the kind
in that city. He loaned large sums of money
to General Stephen Van Rensselaer, the last
Patroon. He was a contributor to the found-
ing of Union College in 1795, and also con-
tributed to the founding of the Albany Boys'
Academy. He imported his carriage from
London, and his porcelain was brought from
China by Captain Stewart Dean aboard his
sailing vessel, which was the first to engage
in traffic with that distant country, sailing
around "the Horn." This rare and beautiful
old china is preserved with reverence by the
family, as is the Napoleon clock brought from
Paris and the celebrated Walsh wine from
Madeira. He advanced to Sir William Poult-
ney, afterward Earl of Bath, about twenty
thousand English pounds sterling, to finance
his land purchases in this country, and had
much difficulty and considerable delay in get-

ting his money back at a discount from that
shrewd and eccentric man.

Dudley Walsh married, Albany, New York,
September 24, 1793, Sarah Stevenson, born
at Albany, September 25, 1772, died at the
Manor House of General Pierre \'an Cort-
landt, at Croton-on-Hudson, June 22, 1816, and
her body was brought to Albany in a sloop-
for burial there in the Stevenson vault. Sarah
Stevenson's parents were John and Magda-
lena (Douw) Stevenson. John Stevenson-
was born in Albany, March 13, 1735, died
there April 24, 18 10. He was the first presi-
dent of the Albany St. Andrew's Society,
organized October 19, 1803, composed of
Scotchmen of good standing in the commun-
ity. Upon his coat-of-arms, displayed on a-
copper plate, a gold seal and an old silver
salver, still in possession of his descendants,
appears the pious legend : Coelum non solum ;
Heaven, not Earth. John Stevenson was a
neighbor of Philip Livingston, the Signer,
living on State street prior to the revolution,
and tenants in common of an estate of more
than eight thousand acres on the Mohawk,
called Lilac's Bush. The original deed of
Livingston to Stevenson for half of this prop-
erty was in the famous autograph collection'
of the late Rev. Dr. William Buel Sprague.
He also owned other large tracts of land,,
and a curious record in his family Bible sets
forth that some of his male slaves ran away
and one was incarcerated. His earlier mar-
ried career was clouded by the loss of several'
of his children, but despite all adversities he
was known as a man of engaging character
and well-beloved by brother Scotchmen. His
sister married General Gabriel Christie, of
Montreal, who had a seigneurie near Rouse-
Point, New York. His .son, James Stevenson,
was born at Albany, November 25, 1788, died
there, unmarried, July 3, 1852, and was the
thirty-sixth mayor of Albany, officiating
twice, 1826 and 1827, when he resigned office..
His son was a warden of St. Peter's Chiu-ch,
trustee of Albany Boys' .Academy, one of the
first governors of the Albany Hospital, a man
of wealth and a polished gentleman. One of
John Stevenson's daughters married General
Pierre Van Cortlandt, a patriot of the revolu-
tion, and known widely as one of nature's
noblemen. John Stevenson married. Albany,
August 30, 1770, Magdalena Douw, born May
25, 1750, died December 20, 18 17, daughter
of Mayor \'olckert Petrus and Anne (De-
Peyster) Douw, her grandfather being Cap-
tain Petrus Douw. who married Anna Van
Rensselaer, and was thus descended from the-
first Patroon. Kiliaen \^an Rensselaer. Mag-
dalena Douw was also a descendant of Anneke-

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1785

Jans. Through her s^randmother De Peyster
she was descended from David Pieterse
Schuyler, who was a brother of the celebrated
Pieter Schuyler, first mayor of Albany. She
was also descended from Olof Stevense \'an
Cortlandt, who came from Holland and
settled in New Amsterdam, and established
the \'an Cortlandt Manor, on the Hudson.
John Stevenson's father was James Steven-
son, born in 1697, died February 2, 1769, who
married, December g. 1729, Sarah, daughter
of Johannes Groenendyk, born March 24,
1675, sheriff of Albany county, who married
Delia Cuyler.

Dudley Walsh and Sarah Stevenson had
issue, all born in Albany, New York: i. Mar-
garet, born June 2^, 1794, died at Albany,
October 3, 1794. 2. John Stevenson, born
October 14, 1795, see forward. 3. Margaret,
born September 24, 1797; betrothed to Peter
Gansevoort; died Albany, November 5, 1817,

4. Infant. 5. Ann. born July 20, 1800, died
May I, 181 1. 6. William, born January 23,
1802, died December i, 1863; married Mary
Bay. 7. Catharine, born April 25, 1803,
died in 1876; married ^ Hon. Daniel
Dewey Barnard, United States minister to
Prussia in 1852, by whom, Sarah Walsh, born
March 3, 1835, died Albany, August 17, 1903.

8. Sarah, born December 20, 1805, died May

5, 1842: married Richard Varick De Witt.

9. Charles, born May 9, 1807, died at Mur-
freesborough. North Carolina, November 8,
1828, unmarried. 10. James, born June 21,
1809. died at Albany, October 23, 1835, un-
married. II. Dudley, born November 5, 1810,
died at Albany, July 2, 181 1.

(H) John Stevenson, son of Dudley and
r.arah (Stevenson) Walsh, was born at Al-
bany. New York, October 14, 1795, died there
February 15, 1857. He was a graduate of
Yale in 1820 : attended St. Peter's Church ;
had the rank of major, being appointed to
the stafT of Governor William L. Marcy. Af-
ter his marriage he went into the mercantile
business, but .soon retired and removed to
Mulberry Hill, at Normansville, Albany
county, which had been the residence of Mrs.
Walsh's grandfather, Judge Ambrose Spen-
cer, who was also mayor of Albany. About
five years before his death he came back to
Albany. He was kind, generous and manly,
his sympathies ever alive to the wants of the
suffering. He was the kindly, cordial host at
many an entertainment, and he lived a life
of purity and benevolence. In the latter years
of his life a German wished to repay him a
loan of two hundred dollars made some thirty
years previous. Afr. Walsh had intended it
as a gift and did not recognize his caller. The

latter requested him to examine his books and
receive the four hundred dollars which had
brought him wealth and he was glad to be
able to repay it.

John Stevenson Walsh married, Albany,
April 27, 1831, Laura Spencer Townsend,
born at Albany, April 16, 1811, died there
September 15, 1863, daughter of John and
Abby (Spencer) Townsend. John Townsend,
born at Sterling Iron Works, New York, June
14. 1783, died at Albany, August 26, 1854;
was the thirty-seventh mayor of Albany ; presi-
dent of the National Commercial Bank; in-
corporator of Albany Savings Bank and its
vice-president ; organizer of Albany Insurance
Company ; president of Albany Exchange
Company : jjresident of Albany Water Com-
mission ; adviser of Governor De Witt Clinton
in the project of the Erie canal, and was much
esteemed. An uncle of Mr. Townsend's,
Peter Townsend, made the great chain
stretched across the Hudson at West Point to
prevent the English from going up the river.
This chain was made at Sterling Iron Works.
He married, Albany, July 7, 1810, Abby
Spencer, daughter of thirty-fifth mayor of .'Al-
bany, Judge Ambrose Spencer, who was born
at Salisbury, Connecticut, December 13, 1765,
died at Lyons, New York, March 13, 1848;
came to Albany from Hudson, New York, in
1802; was attorney-general in 1802-04; judge
of supreme court, 1804; chief justice, 1819-
23 ; member of constitutional convention,
1821 ; member of congress, 1829-31, a most
capable, honest citizen. Mr. Spencer's father-
in-law, the Hon. John Canfield. was for many
years a judge of the court of Litchfield
county, Connecticut; in 1777 he joined Major
Sheldon's troop of Light Horse. He served
as adjutant in the battle of Saratoga and
finally became brigade major. Children of
John Stevenson Walsh and Laura Spencer
Townsend: i. Laura Spencer, see forward.
2. John. 3. Dudley. 4. Abby, born in Al-
bany. 5. Dudley, born in Albany.

(HI) Laura Spencer, daughter of John
Stevenson and Laura Spencer (Townsend)
Walsh, was born in Albany, New York. She
married, at .\lbany. New York. Augustus
Henry Walsh, who was the .son of Henry
Jansen and Mehitable (Bull) Walsh. Henry
Jansen Walsh was the son of Thomas and
Margaret (Brush) Walsh. Thomas Walsh
was the son of Thomas and Mary (Higgin-
botham) Walsh. Thomas Walsh was the
progenitor of his family in this country, to
which he caine about 1710. .\ugustus Henry
Walsh graduated from Union College when
he was nineteen years of age, in 1849. He
studied law in New York with die Hon.

HUDSON AND ^lOHAWK \'ALLEYS

Charles O'Connor, and was admitted to the
New York bar in 1852. He had offices at
Wall and Hanover streets, New York. Later
he moved to Albany, where he was residing
in 191 1. His ancestors fought in the colonial
and revolutionary wars. His grandfather,
William Bull, served as captain in the regi-
ment of Colonel Oliver Spencer in the revo-
lution. His grandmother, Bethia Reeve, was
a relative of Judge Tapping Reeve of the
Litchfield Law School. Judge Reeve's niece
married Governor Alston, of South Carolina.
He was also related to the Peppards of Castle
Peppard, province of Ulster, Ireland. He is
a collateral descendant of Peter Bull, who
came to America about 1705 from Wolver-
hampton, Staffordshire, England.

Children of Augustus Henry and Laura
Spencer Walsh: i. Laura, died young. 2.
Catharine Barnard, born in Albany; married
John De Witt Peltz (see Peltz V). 3. Henry
Stevenson, born in Albany, was educated at
the Albany Academy : he is teller in the Me-
chanics' & Farmers' Bank, and is a member of
the Fort Orange Club, the Young Men's
Christian Association, Ridgefield, Burns and
Country clubs. 4. Richard Varick De Witt,
born in Albany, prepared for college at the
Albany Academy and graduated from Har-
vard in 1889 ; member of Fort Orange and
University clubs, and is in the insurance busi-
ness. 5. Julia Stevenson, still living. 6.
Townsend, born in Albany, graduated from
the Albany Academy and from Harvard Uni-
versity in 1895 ; interested in the drama and
newspaper work, and has traveled extensively
in Europe and America ; member of the
Plavers' Club, New York.

The Alex family of Albany de-
ALEX scend from the ancient Alex fam-
ily of Saxon-Weimar, Germany,
where they have been prominent for many
years. The family held a good position in
the principality, where they were persons of
wealth and held high governmental and ju-
dicial positions.

(T) Karl .'Mex was born in Saxon-Weimar,
Germany, about 1780. He owned laud and a
mill site where he had a flouring mill which
he operated until incapacitated by old age.
A brother of Karl Alex was a magistrate of
an upper court, a corresponding title in the
United States to judge of the supreme court.
The wife of Karl Alex was a native of the
same province. They both died in Germany,
where they always lived.

(H) Nicholas, son of Karl .Alex, was born
in Saxon-Weimar, Germany, in 181 2. died in
Albany, June 19, 1875. He was educated in

the German schools, and on arriving at a suit-
able age was taken into the mill and taught
the miller's trade by his father. After master-
ing the trade, as then carried on, he left home
and worked_ for two years in mills in dift'er-
ent parts of Germany. He was drawn for
service in the German army and continued
in the army until the revolution of 1847, when
being strongly in sympathy with the revolu-
tionists, he escaped from the army and took
ship for Liverpool, England.. From there he
went to Halifax, Nova Scotia, going from
there to Albany, New York, where he resided
the remainder of his life. He was a man of
large and portly figure, well known and liked
among the Germans of Albany. He was
prominent in their social, musical and frater-
nal societies, and in the Lutheran church. He
was a Republican in politics. He married

(first) in Albany, Suflfers, a sister of

Captain Suffers, of Kingston, Pennsylvania.
She bore him children : Gustav, Louis and
Caroline, all of whom married and have fam-
ilies. He married (second) Elizabeth Wol-
bert, born in Saxon-Weimar, died in Albany,
December 19, iS^'S- She was a member of the
Roman Catholic church. Children, all born in
Albany, New York: i. Catherine, resides in
Oakland, California, unmarried. 2. Frederick,
a retired ice dealer of Albany : married Afary
Mink, and has Mary. Elizabeth and John. 3,
Margaret, deceased : was twice married and
left issue. 4. John F., see forward. 5. Jacob,
an ice dealer of Albany ; married Agnes Mc-
Kean and has a daughter Margaret. 6. Eliza-
beth, married Peter Anton, and resides ir
Oakland, California.

(HI) John F., son of Nicholas and Eliza-
beth (Wolbert) Alex, was born Novembci
18, 1859. He was educated in the Albany
schools. He learned the trade of blacksmitJ-
and wagonmaker. After working as a jour-
neyman for several years, he established s
shop and factory of his own. which he has
successfully conducted up to the present time
(1910). The ]ilant is a substantial one anc
has given employment to a' large number oi
men in the making and repairing departments
Mr. A\ex is a skilled mechanic and has alway;
been noted for the excellent grade of work
turned out of his factory. He inherits hi?
father's large, portly figure and genial, socia
disposition that has gained him a wide circle
of friends. lie is a liberal thinker. Republicar
in politics, and while diligent and careful ir
business, takes a deep enjoyment in the lightei
side of life. He married (first) in .Mbanv. ir
1882, Elizabeth Ruhl. born in that city, Feb-
ruary 12, 1857, who bore him George anr
Elizabeth ; the latter married Edward I

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'787

IRancke, of Brooklyn, New York, and has a
•daugliter Randaline. He married (second)
:\Irs. Clara (Corey) Woodbeck, born in 1859,
died January 11, 1907, daughter of Captain
John C. Corev.

Judge James Gibson was a
C.IBSON direct descendant of John Gib-
son, of Providence, Rhode
Island, and through his grandmother is ninth
in descent from John Rrown, the assistant of
Plymouth Colony, and by his mother, seventh
in descent from John Townsend, of Warwick,
Rhode Island, afterwards of Oyster Bay, Long
Island. He was a son of James B. and Mar-
garet (Townsend) Gibson. His father was
a lawyer of distinction and held in high es-
teem in the county. He died May 10, 1827.
^largaret, his wife, died July 20, 1825.

(II) James, son of James B. and Mar-
garet (Townsend) Gibson, was born at Salem,
New York, September 5, 1816. He was eleven
years old when his father died, leaving his
•children little beyond his good name and ex-
ample. James was educated at Washington
Academy, Salem, and while yet a student en-
tered the law office of his uncle, Samuel Stev-
■ens, a former partner of his father, at the
time an eminent practitioner and later a lead-
ing member of the Albany bar. He studied
after his uncle's departure with Cyrus Stev-
■ens, of Salem, and later with John H. Boyd,
•of Whitehall. In 1836, at the October term
of the supreme court, he was admitted to the
"bar. He formed a partnership with Cyrus
Stevens which continued one year and until
the latter removed to Albany. From that
time forward Mr. Gibson practiced his pro-
fession alone and in his native town, Salem.

He was successful from the beginning. His
•qualifications were such as to attract the at-
tention of the public and in a short time he
■commanded an extensive practice. Many im-
portant cases were committed to his care, in-
volving novel questions, requiring deep re-
search into the principles and logic of law and
the science of jurisprudence. The first case
lie tried which was carried to the supreme
■court on appeal and in which he prepared the
argument was that of Prindle vs. Anderson
(Reported in 19 Wend, 391). This was a
case in which he raised and succeeded in the
contention that the receipt of rent by land-
lord, after service by him of notice to quit on
his tenant, was a waiver of the notice. This
decision was affirmed in the court for the cor-
rection of errors. In the case of Shaw vs.
Beveridge (3 Hill, 26), he succeeded in estab-
lishing as law, that an action of trespass
would he, for disturbing a party in possession

of a pew in church. In Stevenson vs. Bar-
din, tried in i860, the court held that on his
motion that photographs of an instrument
alleged to be forged could be used to estab-
lish such forgery. As this was the first at-
tempt to use photography in the courts the
decision was of general interest. After 1853
I\lr. Gibson was largely engaged in railroad
suits and became attorney for the Boston
Hoosac Tunnel and Western Railway Com-
pany in several important cases, notably, re-
opening the Albany Northern railroad.

.\fter becoming a voter, Mr. Gibson became
an active Whig, later joining the Republican
party. In 1838 he assumed the editorial chair
of the li'asluni:;ton County Post, at Salem,
and continued as editor through the presiden-
tial campaign of 1840, and until January i,
1841, when he sold the paper. At the first
judicial election after the adoption of the con-
stitution of 1846, he was nominated by the
Whigs as a candidate for justice of the su-
preme court. One of his associates on the
ticket was Daniel Cady, of Fulton county,
who was the only candidate elected. Mr. Gib-
son ran over a thousand votes ahead of his
ticket but was defeated, his connection with
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows oper-
ating against him, the feeling against secret
societies being very strong. In November,
1850, he was elected judge of Washington
county, serving four years with great honor
and usefulness. In November, 1866, he was
elected state senator from the twelfth sena-
torial district composed of the counties of
Rensselaer and Washington. He was well
known and was placed at the head of com-
mittee on claims and on the judiciary commit-
tee. He accepted the chairmanship of claims
with reluctance, knowing the pressure that
would be brought to bear on him to report
favorably in iniquitous claims. He served,
however, during his entire term : examined
and passed on claims against the state aggre-
gating over one million dollars and with few
and meritorious exceptions, rejected them, in
which course he was sustained by the senate.
He made a strong effort to have the Cham-
plain canal enlarged from Troy to White-
hall, had his bill passed in the senate but the
house rejected it. He was a member of the
senate when George W. Smith, of Oneida
county, was tried by the senate for various
crimes and misdemeanors. He voted to re-
move Judge Smith and in his speech explain-
ing his vote, said, "Tlie land wants such as
dare, with vigor, execute the laws." He took
a very active part in legislation in the senate :
made several sijeeches and in every way did
his full dutv as a senator. He was an active

HUDSON AND :yiOHA\VK VALLEYS

Republican until 187 1, when he became a Lib-
eral and later became identified with the Dem-
ocratic party. He was always interested in
military affairs. In 1840 he raised and was
made captain of a company of light infantry
attached by special order to the Fiftieth Regi-
ment in the state militia. Later he was com-
missioned major and lieutenant-colonel, on
the disbanding of the Fiftieth he was attached
to the Thirtieth Regiment and promoted to
the colonelcy of that regiment. During the
civil war the Thirtieth was twice filled up by
draft in readiness for service, many of the
members volunteering into the United States
service. In 1867 he became brigadier-general
of the Twelfth Brigade which was disbanded
in 1874. This was one of the best-drilled and
best-disciplined brigades in the state, outside
of the large cities. In 1845 Judge Gibson be-
came an Odd Fellow, passed the various
chairs in Salem Lodge, No. 45, served as dis-
trict deputy grand master for the years 1856-
57, and was grand warden of the Grand
Lodge of Northern New York in 1857 ; dep-
uty grand master in 1858 and grand master
in 1859. In i860 he was elected worshipful
master of Salem Lodge, No. 391, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons. In 1862 was appointed sen-
ior grand deacon of the Grand Lodge of New
Y'oris. In 1863 he was elected junior grand
wajrden ; in 1865 elected senior grand
warden, an office he held three years: in 1868
he was elected grand master and re-elected in
1869. As grand master of the state of New
York he, June 8, 1870, assisted by the officers
of the Grand Lodge and twelve others of the
craft, laid the cornerstone of the Masonic
Temple in the city of New York. During his
entire connection with the Grand Lodge he
occupied a commanding position and served as
chairman or member of many important com-
mittees. The honor of being grand master
of both these leading fraternities is one in
which he stands alone in the state, no other
man having been grand master of both or-
ders. During the civil war he was a strong
union man and spoke and worked for the
cause. He was a member of the war commit-
tee of Salem, that did its duty so well that
the town had its quota raised in advance of
every draft except the first.

The old Court House in Salem wa^ erected
in the year 1800, and had outlasted its useful-
ness. The judges, lawyers and laymen com-
plained of it, but there was strong opposition
from other towns, who wished to get the coun-
ty seat away from Salem. In 1868 Judge Gib-
son was elected supervisor for the purpose of
carrying out the desires of those who wanted
the new court hou.se in Salem. In December

of that year he brought the matter before the-
board of supervisors who appointed a com-
mittee with Mr. Gibson to obtain plans. In
January following it was resolved to build in'
Salem and he was made chairman of the-
building committee. Thirty thousand dollars-
was appropriated for the building, and it is
worthy of mention that the committee kept
the cost within the appropriation. Judge Gib-
son was always identified with the cause of
education, serving from June 17, 1845, until'
his death, June 6, 1897, as a member of the
board of trustees of Washington Academy.
In every way he was closely conected with
the development of his village. He drew the
charter which went into effect in 185 1 which
provided for a new school system and drew
the agreement between the board of trustees
and the academy and the board of education,
of the village, wliereby the common schools-
were consolidated and sheltered within the
walls of the academy. This led to the adop-
tion of the Union or graded system of educa-
tion, that has proved so beneficial to Salem'
youth. He was elected a member of the hoard
of education soon after its organization and
held until his death. In i860 he assisted in
organizing St. Paul's Episcopal Church at
Salem, was chosen one of the wardens, and
soon afterward was licensed a lay reader by-
Bishop Potter of the New York diocese in
i860.

He was deeply interested in the local his-
tory of Washington county, and at the for-
mation of the county Historical Society, in
1876, was elected president. On the occasion
of his election he delivered an address on the
history of agriculture in the county. At the
laying of the cornerstone of the new court
house at Sandy Hill (Hudson Falls), June 8,
1872, he delivered an historical address on the
bench and bar of the county for one hundred
years. He also published sketches on the
graves and gravestones of the county, pn jour-
nalism and various other subjects.

He was a member of the American Geo-
graphical Society and took deep interest in its
work. Although not looked upon as a busi-
ness but as a professional man, he was for
many years a director and vice-president of
the National Bank of Salem and was officially
connected with the management of Evergreen
cemetery. It is worthy of mention that four
generations have been connected with the
l^ress of Washington county. James B. Gib-
son owned the Rei^istcr and conducted it sev-
eral years. James Gibson owned and edited
the Post. James (2), son of Judge James
(i) Gibson, edited the SaJcm Press for three
years. James (3), son of James (2) Gibson,

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was manasjer of Salem Rcziezi'-Prcss for five
years.

JiKli;e Gibson married. October 17, 1841,
Jane, tlaughter of Ira and Wealthy Ann (Gil-
bert) Woodworth. Children: Mary, mar-
ried T. A. Wright, died August 22. 1902.
James, a lawyer of Salem, died October 9.
i88i. Jennie, married Charles W. Tovvnscnd.

This personal appearance of Judge Gibson
is thus described in '"Life Sketches of the
Legislature" published in 1867: "Senator
Gibson is a gentleman of quiet dignity. His
long flowing hair and whiskers tinged with
gray, his mild eye which seems to be over-
flowing with kindly feelings ;. his low, persua-
sive voice, which is seldom brought up to a
liigh pitch, unite in throwing around him a
personal atmosphere which renders his pres-
ence both pleasant and powerful."

The name Mansfield, "A
MAXSFIFJ.D man in the field," is be-
lieved to be of Saxon
origin. In Germany the name is Mansf eld ;
in England, after the Saxons mixed with Nor-
mans. Danes. Celts and others, it easily be-
came "Mansfield." The noble family of Mans-
f eld of Germany is very ancient ; traces nearly
to the time of Charlemagne, and flourished
down to the present time. Exeter. England,
the place from which the original Mansfield
departed for America, has been a city since
the year 1200. There was a Sir John Mans-
field mayor of the city a few years prior to
the emigration. He was also "Master of the
Manories and Queens Surveyor under Queen
Elizabeth." The American ancestor and
founder of the family in Connecticut, most of
them in Xew York state and in the west and
south, was Richard Mansfield, of Exeter,
Devonshire, England, and New Haven, Con-
necticut.

(I) Richard Mansfield witli his wife Gillian
(maiden name unknown), settled in Quinni-
piack (Xew Haven), Connecticut, in 1639. A
deed for land, now the northwest corner of
Church and Elm streets, proves this date. In
a list of first planters, 1641, he is jnit down at
£400. thirty acres in the first division, six
acres in the "Neck," twenty-two acres of
meadow, and eighty-eight acres in the second
■division. He owned other lands probably by
purchase and established his home on his large
farm in the second division called the "East
farms," some four and one-half miles out on
the present North Haven road, which was his
Tiome until his death. January 10, 1665. He
took the oath of fidelity, July i, 1644. before
Governor Eaton and the general court at New
Havi.li. Gillian, his wife, survived him and

married, in 1667, Alexander Field. After the
death of her second husband she lived with
her son Moses in New Haven. She died
1699. Children: Joseph, see forward, and
Moses, born in 1639: married (first) Mercy
Glover, (second) Abigail Yale. He was ma-
jor of militia and in honor of a victory he and
his command gained over the Indians, the
town of Mansfield was named after him. He
was a member of the general court forty-eight
sessions (two sessions annually); judge of
the probate and of the county court.

( n ) Jdscph, eldest son of Richard and Gil-
li;in Mansfield, is believed to have been born
in England in 1636. He took the freeman's
oath. February 8, 1657, or as soon as he was
of age. He died November 15, 1692. He in-
herited his father's large farm and had a
town lot and house in New Haven, as well as
a large amount of land in other parcels, in-
cluding the grounds now owned and occu-
pied by Yale University buildings. His es-
tate inventoried four hundred pounds. His
seat in the "meeting house" was No. 8 in the
"long seats for men." He married, about
1657, Mary . Children: i. Mary, un-
married. 2. Martha, married, December 16.
1680. Richard Sperry. and had eight chil-
dren. 3. Mercy, married P>ristol. 4.

Silence, married Chalfield, of Killing-
worth. 5. Elizabeth, unmarried. 6. Comfort,
married John Benham. 7. John, died Decem-
ber 22, 1690, aged nineteen years. 8. Jo-
seph, see forward. 9. Ebenezer (changed
from Tchabod), married Hannah Bassett : he
was very well to do, his estate inventorying
£1217. 10. Japhet, married Hannah Bradley.

(Ill) Joseph (2), second son and eighth
child of Joseph (i) and Mary Mansfield, was
born December 27. 1673. He was admitted
to the First Church of New Haven. August
14. 1735. his wife, May 31, 1733. He married
Elizabeth Cooper (?), who died March 4,
1763. His gravestone is in the old North Ha-
ven burying ground, hers is in the Grove
Street cemetery. Children: i. Mary, mar-
ried Daniel Tuttle. 2. Lydia, unmarried. 3.
John, married Lydia Tuttle, granddaughter
of William and Elizabeth Tuttle. who came
from England in 1635. 4. Elizabeth, born Oc-
tober 23. 1706. 5. Joseph, see forward. 6.
.Amos, no record of marriage. 7. Josiah, mar-
ried and left issue. 8. Abigail, married Jacob
Turner. 9. Thomas, married Hannah Good-
year. His name appears in thirty-seven deeds
recorded from 1739 to 1786: he' left no male
descendants as his son Samuel never married.
10. Ebenezer, died unmarried.

(I\') Joseph (3), second son of Joseph (2)
and Eliz.-ibcth Mansfield, was born August 17.

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1708. He was a large land owner and ap-
pears as grantor or grantee in many of the
deeds recorded between 1739 and 1761. He
married, October 10, 1732, Phebe Bassett,
who died 1762. Children: i , mar-
ried Sarah Cooper. 2. Titus, married Mabel
Todd. 3. Captain Joseph, see forward. 4.
Phebe, married Leman Potter.

(V) Captain Joseph (4) Mansfield, third
son of Joseph (3) and Phebe (Bassett) Mans-
field, was born April 16, 1737. His home, like
those preceding him, was at "Mansfield
Farms" where he lived until 1784, and where
all his children were born. His gravestone
is in Litchfield, Connecticut, where he re-
moved, owned a large farm and died June 6,
1821, aged eighty- four years. When the rev-
olutionary war broke out he enlisted and rose
to the rank of captain, serving until the end.
He took with him to the war his son Charles,
aged fifteen, who played the fife. Captain
^tansfield married Hannah Punderson, born
October 21, 1740, eldest of the twelve children
of David and Thankful (Todd) Punderson.
She died August 26, 1826. aged eighty-five
years. Children: all born in New Haven: i.
Charles, married Molly Howard, of Win-
chester, New Hampshire ; he went to the war
with his father as a fifer ; the fife he used is
preserved in the family. 2. Elisha, removed
with his parents to Litchfield, afterward to
Canaan : married Rebecca Camp. 3. Joseph,
married and had issue. 4. Sally, died young.
5. David, married (first) Louisa Harmon,
(second) Melinda Harmon, a younger sister;
they settled in Westmoreland, Oneida county,
New York : he lived to be ninety-six years
of age. 6. William Punderson, see forward.
7. John Todd, married Dolly Steele. 8. Sally,
married Lewis Spooner, no issue. 9. Tim-
othy, married .A.nnie Carter : settled in Penn-
sylvania, afterward at Castletou, Ontario
county. New York.

(VI) William Punderson, fifth son of Cap-
tain Josepii (4) and Hannah (Punderson)
Mansfield, was born in Litchfield, Connecticut,
September 6. 1774, died March 16, 1855. He
was a merchant of Litchfield, afterward re-
moved to Kent, Connecticut, where he was in
business with his father-in-law, Bradley Mills.
as Mills & Mansfield. He joined with his
son-in-law, Hugh White, in building a flour-
ing mill, later occupied by the Munson Manu-
facturing Company at Waterford, New York,
where he removed in 1833. He married, in
1807. Sally Alills. died February, 1842. daugh-
ter of Bradley and Hannah (St. John) Mills,
with whom he became acquainted while she
was a student at the >rorris Academy, Litch-
field, Connecticut Children: I. Maria, mar-

ried Hon. Hugh White, of Oneida county.
New "\'()rk: he was the first manufacturer of
hydraulic cement in the United States, and
furnished large quantities for the building of
the Croton aqueduct. New York City; he was-
member of congress, 1844, served three terms;
graduate of Hamilton College and member of
the New York bar, but never practiced law ;
ten children. 2. Florilla Punderson. died aged
seventeen years. 3. Bradley Mills, died aged
twenty-one years. 4. Lewis William, see for-
ward.

(\'n) Lewis ^Villiam, second son and'
youngest child of William Punderson and
Sally (Mills) Mansfield, was born in Kent,
Litchfield county, Connecticut, May 16, 1816.
He prepared for college in the schools of
Sharon, Connecticut. Chittenango, Madison
county, New York, and at Montgomery, Or-
ange county. New York. He entered the ju-
nior class at Union College in 1833. and was
graduated 1835. He embarked in business life
with his brother-in-law, Hon. Hugh White,
in the manufacture of hydraulic cement, con-
tinuing for fifteen years with successful re-
sults. He had developed an unusual literary
talent and on going out of business gave him-
self up wholly to authorship. He wrote and
published "The Morning Watch," a narrative
poem, published by G. P. Putnam, 1850; "Up
Country Letters," Appleton. 1852 : "Country
Alargins," a joint work with S. H. Hammond,
published by J. C. Derby, 1855. In 1855 he
engaged again in business in Cohoes, New
York, where he had a knitting mill, and con-
tinued ten years During the war, and strictly
in reference to the army in the field, he began
a daily hour prayer meeting in his mill at the
noon hour, and on Sunday afternoons had a
union prayer meeting for the same purpose
at his home on the north side of the river.
11iis prayer meeting continued at the mill
without any interruption for about five hun-
dred days, up to the close of the war, the last
meeting being held .\]iril 5, when the news
came of the taking of Richmond. His health
failed him and he again retired from business.
The next year, 1866, the mill was sold and he
retiu-ned to literary pursuits. His first work
was "The Outlines of the Mental Plan," fol-
lowed bv the "Precepts and Doctrines of
Christ," published by Phillips & Hunt, 1883,
and by E. & T. B. Young, 1884. He is the
author of the tracts "My Token," "The Spir-
itual Body," and books "Hymns and Poems,"'
"Looking up the Plan." "Overwork" and
"Coming into Form." He was a man of ver-
satile talent, and great ability, whose influence
ff>r good cannot be estimated.

1 le was reared a Congregationalist, l)ut

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about the time of his first marriage becairie
a member of the Protestant Episcopal church.
He continued his Hterary and religious work
up to the year of his death, 1899. He mar-
ried (first ) Carrie AI., daughter of Rev. Lewis
Bayard, LL. D. ; married (second) December
19," 1855, Sarah B., born in York, New York,
1837, died in \\'aterford, March 10, i860,
daughter of Samuel and Hannah Lewis, of
York, Livingston county. New York : mar-
ried (third) June 4, 1862, Mary J. Hogan.
Children: i. William K., see forward. 2.
Joseph Punderson. born November 30, 1858,
died September 23, 1859, both children of his
second marriage.

(Vni) William K., eldest son of Lewis
William and Sarah B. (Lewis) Mansfield,
was born in Waterford. New York, in the old
Mansfield home on Saratoga avenue, Septem-
ber 17, 1856. He obtained his primary and
preparatory education at St. John's Episco-
pal School and the public schools of Cohoes.
He entered Amherst College where he com-
pleted his freshman and sophomore years. He
left college and entered the knitting mill with
his father, remaining one year. He then took
the management of a flouring mill owned by
Mr. Alansfield, senior, at Crescent, near Wa-
terford. It was his father's wish that he fin-
ish his college course and he hoped to discour-
age him with business life, so the positions
given the young man were not sinecures,
but he was determined to succeed in busi-
ness and stuck to his work so faithfully
that the mill property was deeded to him.
He remained at the mill seven years, made
many improvements and did a prosperous
business, disposing of the plant finally at
a very advantageous figure. . In 1884 he
embarked in journalism by purchasing the
Cohoes Daily A'ezi.'s. of which he was
editor and owner for fourteen years. He
made the paper a paying property and an in-
fluential factor in the politics of the city. He
retained control of the editorial page and sup-
ported only men and measures that in his
judgment made for good government, na-
tional, state and local. In 1898 he disposed
of his newspaper plant and engaged in brick
manufacturing at Crescent, where his yards
and kilns are located. This enterprise he still
continues. He retains his home at the home-
stead on Saratoga avenue in Waterford, but
designated Cohoes "North Side." His brick-
making plant is a large and modern one, the
output being between three and four millions
of merchantable brick annually, that find a
ready market. Mr. Mansfield has always been
an active Republican and has spent much of
his time in the public service. In 1878 he was

appointed justice of the peace to fill a vacancy
in the town of Half Moon, Saratoga county,
and was twice elected to the same office, while
living in Crescent. On his return to Water-
ford, Albany county, he was elected to the
same office, there continuing through four
terms of four years each, representing the
"North Side." In 1896 he was appointed gen-
eral committee clerk at Albany by the assem-
bly and was assigned to duty at the desk of
the journal clerk during sessions. The fol-
lowing year he was appointed deputy journal
clerk, continuing as such by successive ap-
pointments until 1901. At the session of
1901-02 he represented his district in the
assembly, serving on the insurance, excise
and labor committees. In 1903 he was again
appointed assistant journal clerk and in 1905
general clerk of the assembly, and has been
successively appointed as such up to the pres-
ent time (1910). He is secretary of the coun-
ty Republican conmiittee, and a man of in-
fluence, experience and ability. He is a mem-
ber of St. John's Episcopal Church, Cohoes,
and affiliated with the Masonic fraternity.

He married, October 30, 1882. Etta C.
Clute, born in Crescent. Saratoga county. New
York, daughter of Charles F. and Delia
(Teachout) Clute, the latter born in Half
Moon, died 1900. Charles F. Clute was born
in Half Moon. 1834. died 1903. He was a
farmer : also interested with his son-in-law,
Mr. ATansfield, in the brick business, and'
nearly his whole life owned and conducted a
general store at Crescent. He was a Demo-
crat and served as supervisor of the town of
Half Moon several terms.

The family tradition of the No-
NOBLF ble family herein traced is that

they descend from Scotch an-
cestry, although the Massachusetts and Con-
necticut families are given as of English
birth. The name is found in both countries
and the early settlers were no doubt of both
nationalities. The first record in this line-
was Moses Noble, horn in Portsmouth. New
Hampshire. While the connection cannot be
proved from the records puljlished. yet there
is strong proof that he was a descendant of
Thomas Noble, born in England in or about
1632, died in Westfield, Massachusetts, Janu-
ary 20, 1704. He is mentioned in Boston his-
tories as early as 1653. when he was admit-
ted an inhabitant January 5 of that year.
That same year he removed' to Springfield.
Massachusetts, where he opened an account
at the store of John Pyncheon. He later re-
moved to Westfield. Massachusetts, where
lands were granted him Tulv. iC^CiG, but he

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•did not settle there until 1669. He was chosen
constable of Westfield and took the oath of
office, April 7, 1674. He was granted per-
mission to erect a sawmill in 1685, and also
became a well-to-do farmer, leaving a con-
siderable estate. He married, November i,
1660, Hannah Warriner, born in Springfield,
Massachusetts, August 17, 1643 ; she survived
him and married (second) Deacon Medad
Pomeroy, whom she also survived. Thomas
and Hannah Noble had ten children, including
six sons, all of whom married and had fami-
lies. From one of these, Moses Noble, of
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, may have de-
scended, as members of the family settled in
that state and Kittery, Maine.

(I) Moses Noble was born October 25,
1731, died May 7, 1796. He resided in Ports-
mouth, New Hampshire, where he married,
December 7, 1756, Hannah Simes, born Au-
gust 14, 1732, died August 23, 1798. Chil-
dren: I. Mark, born October 3, 1757, died
unmarried. 2. Mary, died unmarried. 3.
John, married Sarah Chadbourne. 4. Joseph,
born July 12, 1762. 5. Robert, of further
mention. 6. Hannah, died unmarried at the
age of thirty-three years. 7. Dorothy, died
unmarried at the age of fifty-eight years. 8.
Moses, born January 22, 1770, died at sea
unmarried, at the age of twenty-three years.
9. Betsey, died unmarried at the age of twen-
ty-six years. 10. Jeremiah, died at sea un-
married, at the age of twenty-six years. 11.
Ann, married and lived in Portsmouth.

(H) Robert, son of Moses and Hannah
(Simes) Noble, was born June 10, 1764, died
October 20, 1828. He was a resident of
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where his chil-
dren, Jerry. Moses and Mary, were born, al-
though the name of his wife has not been pre-
served.

(HI) Moses (2), son of Robert Noble, was
born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, June
17, 1787. He was a farmer of the town of
Berwick, Maine, and later engaged in the
manufacturing of cigars, known to the trade
as "Long Nines" and "Short Sixes." He
did an extensive business, and the fence in-
closing his farm was built from cedar staves,
taken from the hogsheads in which his leaf
tobacco came packed. He lived to the good
old age of eighty-six years, dying in Berwick,
Maine. He married, in Portsmouth, October
7. 1810, Hannah Harvey, of Kittery, ]\Iaine,
born August 11, 1790, descendant of the Mas-
sachusetts Harveys. She was killed accident-
ally at the Boston & Maine railroad crossing
at Berwick, when well advanced in years.
Moses and Hannah (Harvey) Noble were the
parents of a very large family including Mo-

ses, the eldest son, of whom further mention
is made ; George, died in California ; Mary,
Samuel, Robert, Anna and Martha.

(IV) Moses (3), son of Moses (2) and
Hannah (Harvey) Noble, was born in Ber-
wick, Maine, about 1812, died in Windham,
New Hampshire. He married Elizabeth Jen-
kins. Children: i. George, born at Great
Falls, New Hampshire, now a resident of
Worcester, ]\Iassachusetts, in the employ of
Grattin & Knight, leather manufacturers;
married Belle Holt and has living children:
Elizabeth, Goldie, Frank and William. 2.
James Albert, of further mention. 3. Mark
William, of Windham, New Hampshire.

(\') James Albert, son of Moses (3) and
Elizabeth (Jenkins) Noble, was born Feb-
ruary 5, 1845, at Great Falls, New Hamp-
shire, in the part lying across the river now
called Berwick. He was educated in the pub-
lic schools, afterward working in the mills.
On November 2, 1861, being then in his sev-
enteenth year, he enlisted in the Union serv-
ice as a private of Company G, Thirtieth Mas-
sachusetts Volunteers. This regiment entered
the service as the Second Eastern Bay State
Regiment. His service extended over a pe-
riod of four years, nine months, and eight
days. He served in the Army of the Gulf
under the immediate command of Generals
Benjamin F. Butler and N. P. Banks; later
under General Phil. Sheridan, with whom he
campaigned after his second enlistment m
1864. He was with Sheridan in his Shenan-
doah \'alley campaign, and was wounded at
\\Mnchester, though not seriously. He was
engaged at the battles of Plain Store, siege
of Port Hudson, Baton Rouge, Opqyihanic
Creek, and other minor engagements during
his first enlistment, and was in the battles of
Winchester, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek
under General Sheridan. Being so much un-
der age, the records of the war department
show him to have been two years older than
he really was at date of enlistment. Fie was
a good soldier and shirked no duty. After
returning to civil life he engaged with his
father at carpentry in Lawrence, Massachu-
setts, remaining with him two years. He then
took tip the business of a millwright, working
in various positions. For twenty years he
was employed in the mechanical department
of the Russell Paper Company of Lawrence,
Massachusetts, and was master mechanic of
the Tillotson & Hollingsworth Paper Com-
jiany at Groton, Massachusetts, then occupied
the same position with the Hudson River Pulp
& Paper Company at Palmer's Falls, New
York, later returning to Lawrence, Massa-
chusetts, with the I'jiierson Manufacturing

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1793

Compan\'. In 1894 he established in Hoosick
Falls. New York, as the senior member of the
firm of Noble & Foss. manufacturers of paper
mill machinery. In 1895 the firm became No-
ble & Johnson, continuing; the same line of
manufacture until 1902, when their plant
was destroyed by fire. The business was
then incorporated as the Noble & Wood Ma-
chine Company, with James .A. Noble as vice-
president and g^eneral manasjer. The company
manufacture all kinds of paper mill machin-
ery, including several proprietary machines.
In addition they manufacture a line of opera
chairs and school desks, their jobbing houses
handling their output in the latter line. The
company is a prosperous one and owes much
to the wise management and executive ability
of Mr. Noble. ^Ir. Noble is a member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, having
passed through all the chairs of a subordinate
lodge. He is also affiliated with the Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks. Politi-
cally he is a Republican, although never ac-
tive in party work.

He married, June 7, 1867, Diana, daughter
of William Preston, of Leeds. England. Chil-
dren : I. Fred W., married Myrtle Gleason,
and has a son Fred. He is employed with the
Noble & Wood IMachine Company. 2. John
E., married Minnie Richards, and resides in
Lawrence, Massachusetts, being engaged in
paper manufacturing. 3. Arthur M.. married
Maud \'an Buren : engaged with the Noble
& Wood Machine Company. 4. Clarence W.,
married Jennie Stewart, engaged with the
Noble & Wood Alachine Comjiany. 5. Her-
bert D., also employed witli the Noble &
Wood Machine Company.

Tlie Dutch ancestor of
VAX Bl-REN .Anna L. ^an Buren)

Schuyler is Cornelis Maas
\'an Buren. who witli his wife, Catalyntje
Martense. arrived on tlie ship "Renssclaer-
wvck" frc-.n (ielderland, Holland, in 1(131.
They were amcne the earliest settlers of Bev-
erwyck (now .Albany), their farm being at
Papsknee. a little below Greenbush. where
they both died and were buried on the same
day in 1648. They had children: Hendrick,
Marten, Maas, Styntje, married. 1663, Dirck
Wessels Ten Broeck. who was the first re-
corder of .Albany, 1686: mayor, 1696-98. and
major of Colonel Peter Schuyler's regiment
in 1700: Tobias Afarten, one of the sons, de-
posed he was born in Houten, province of
I'trecht, Holland. Marten is the ancestor of
I'resident Martin \'an Buren.

(II) Hendrick, eldest son of Cornelis Maas
and Catalyntje f Martense) \'an Buren, mar-

ried and had sons: Maas. Cornelis and Hen-
drick.

(TH) Maas, son of Hendrick \ an Bm-cn.
was of the manor of Rensselaerwyck in 1720,
and was buried at Schodack, April 14. 1733.
His will was dated April 7, proved June i,
1773. In it he spoke of wife Magdalena and
three children. He married (first). Septem-
ber 17, 1698. Ariantje \'an W'ie, who died
I'^ebruary 3, 1706. He married (second),
about 171 1. Magdalena Bogard. Children
mentioned in will : 1 lendrick. baptized Janu-
ary 7. 1700; Hendrick, December 28, 1701 : Jo-
hannes, August 13. 1704. -A fourth child. Cat-
alyntje, was born .April 20. 1712. but she is
not named in his will.

(IV) Hendrick (2), mw (if Maas an<l .\ri-
antje (\'an Wie ) \'an Buren, was baptized
at .Albany, December 28, 170 1. He married,
October 7, 1731, Aaltie. daughter of Daniel
and Dirkje (\'an Nes) Winne. Children:
.Ariantje. died in childhood ; Dirkje. baptized
June 9, 1734; Maas, died young: Maas (2),
baptized June 6, 1736 or 1738 : Daniel, August
31, 1740: Johannes, died young: Ariantje.
baptized February i, 1747; Johannes, May 17,
1752-

(\') Maas (2). son of Hendrick (2) and
-Aaltie ( Winne ) \'an Buren. was baptized at
Albany, June 6, 1736 or 1738. He married,
February 14, 1767, Rebecca Bogart, baptized
January 26, 1743. daughter of Douw and Wil-
lempie (Bratt) Bogart. Cliildren : Hendrick:
Douw. born Mav 29, 1771 : Marvtjc, A])ril 18,
1779.

(\ 1) Hendrick (3), eldest son of .Maas (2)
and Rebecca (Bogart) \'an P)Uren. was born
at Scliodack Landing, December 6. 1768, died
December 10, 1841. He was educated in the
1 ublic schools, and followed the occupation
of a farmer. He was a Democrat, and a
member of the Dutch Reformed church. He
married Magdalena Burhans. born July 2,
1777. died March 2, 1852, daughter of Jo-
hannes (3) and Temperance (Van Orden)
Burhans. Temperance, baptized at German-
town. New York, was a daughter of Willem
and Sarah (DuBois) \'an Orden. Johannes
was a son of Johannes (2) Burhans, bap-
tized at Kingston, New York. February 18,
1709. died 1794: married. September 4, 1731,
Jannetje. daughter of .Ariaan and .AJtjen (Bo-
gard) Newkirk. Johannes (2) was a son of
Johannes (i) Burhans. baptized at Kingston,
New York, .August 27, 1682, died before May,
1720; married Margriet Leg. Johannes (i)
was the third son of Jan and Helen (Trapha-
gen) Burhans. Jan Burhans. son of Jacob,
the first of the name in .America, arrived in
this country. .April 16, iri63, in tiic ship "lionte

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Koe" (Spotted Cow). Helen Traphagen, wife
of Jan Burhans, was the daughter of William
Jansen Traphagen by his first wife, Jannetje
Claessen Groenvis, of Meppett. William Trap-
hagen settled in America in 1660 at Bush-
wick, Long Island. Hendrick and Magda-
lena (Burhans) Van Buren had eleven chil-
dren, all born in the town of Bethlehem, Al-
bany county, New York. i. Rebecca, born
June 2, 1797, died December 17. iSfK); mar-
ried, at Bethlehem, Albany county. New York,
January 28, 1824, Peter G. Van Zandt, born
January 29, 1796, died May 13, 1865, son of
Gilbert and Rachel (Lucas) Van Zandt. 2.
Johannes, born October 10, 1798, died January
20, 1852, unmarried, in the house Mrs. Schuy-
ler now occupies. 3. Moses, born September
25, 1800, died 1866, unmarried. 4. Daniel, born
July 14, 1802, died at Middleburg, New York;
married (first), October 3, 1827, Rebecca Van
Zandt, born April 9. 1807, died at Albany,
December 26, 1843, daughter of Nicholas Van
Zandt. He married (second). May 11, 1851,
Catherine Wormer, born October 12, 1815,
died March 17, 1884, daughter of John and
Maria (Henry) Wormer; had a son John,
now married and lives on the old farm in Mid-
dleburg. 5. Peter, of whom further. 6. Wil-
liam, born 1806, was drowned in Schoharie
creek, June 18, 1843 ; unmarried. 7. Tem-
perance, born September 27, 1808, died at
Bath-on-Hudson, Rensselaer county. New
York, March 11, 1877; married. May 10,
1846, at Albany, George H. Cook, born in
Germany, November 29, 181 5, son of John G.
and Elizabeth (Schnell) Cook; left daughter,
Adelaide, wife of John Lane, of Albany, and
has son .Arthur. 8. Douw, died in cliildhood.
9. Hezekiah Burhans, born March 27, 1813,
died in Delmar, New York; married (first).
May 27, 1837. at Albany, Rebecca Van Zandt,
born June 15, 1815, died March 17, 1850,
darghter of David and Matilda (Hogan) \'an
Zandt. He married (second), in town of
Coeymans, New York, February 25, 1851,
Hannah \'an Zandt, born January 2, 1822,
died August 5, 1861, sister of his first wife.
He married (Uiird), September 2. 1865, Mrs.
Sarah Jane (McNab) Nelson, born May 28,
1836, daughter of Jaspar and Maria (Pier)
McNab. 10. Henry, born March 14, 1815,
died 1831. II. Sarah Maria, born .Vpril 16,
1817, died 1823.

(VH) Peter, fifth child and fourth son of
Hendrick (3) and Magdalcna (Burhans) Van
Buren, was born September 13, 1805, and died
in what is now known as Coeymans Square,
town of Coeymans, Albany county, New
York, November 7, 1885. He was educated in
the ])ublic schools, and learned the carpenter's

trade. He became a well known contractor
and builder, also owning a farm which he
cultivated. The farm in greater part is now
owned by his daughter, Anna L., and is now
the site of the greater part of the village of
Ravena. "Coeymans Square" is said to have
derived its name from the fact that it was
the meeting place of an early Lodge of Free
Masons. I'eter was a well-to-do man and
stood high in his community. He was a
Democrat, and a warm friend of the Union
cause during the civil war. He was a mem-
ber of the Dutch Reformed church. He mar-
ried, February 27, 1840, Mary Ann Baker,
born February 14, 1818. died January 14.
1886, daughter of John and Alargaret (Vroo-
man) Baker, of Coeymans Square. Her par-
ents died in 1885-86. Mary Ann Baker de-
scended from Joab Baker, who came from
England and settled in Roxbury, Connecti-
cut. His son, Joab (2) Baker, settled in the
town of Coeymans, Albany county, in 1791 :
married Hannah Ashmore, of London, Eng-
land, daughter of John Ashmore, a brewer of
note in England, who came to the United
States and made large land purchases in Coey-
mans ; he died in New York City, of yellow
fever. They had seven children, of whom the
eldest was John, born at Coeymans Square.
now Ravena, Albany county, and died at the
age of eighty-six years. He was a leather
merchant; he married at Pictua, Albany
county, New York, Margaret Vrooman ;
children: i. Mary .Ann. married Peter \'an
I'.uren and their onl_\- child was .Anna Louise,
see forward. 2. Cornelis \^rooman Baker, a
prominent farmer of the town of Bethlehem ;
he married Caroline Lasher of Bethlehem :
children: Alexander, Charles, Abbie S. and
Edward. 3. Margaret Jane, married Cornelius
\"rooman, a farmer of Bethlehem, where their
deaths occurred ; children : Albert ; Anna A. ;
Caroline ; Mary, died aged seven vears ;
[ohn F.

(X'lih Anna I-ouisc, only cliild of Peter
and Mary .\nn ( P.aker ) \'an I'lUren, was born
at Coe_\inans Square, on the farm she now
owns and in the house she now occupies, now
the village of Ravena, .Albany county. New
York, April 22, i860. She was educated in
the high school of Coeymans, and after the
death of her parents, in 1885 and 1886. in-
herited the entire estate. She married Phili])
Schuyler, born October, 1840, died Novem-
ber 10. 1905, son of John Cuyler and Anna
Maria (Schuyler) Schuyler, of Watervliet,
Albany county. New York. Philip Schuyler
received a good education in the public
schools. .After his marriage he removed to
Ravena and managed the Van Buren farm.

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He was a Democrat in politics, ami a member
of the Dutch Reformed church. Since his
death Mrs. Schuyler has continued her resi-
dence in Ravena, where she is held in univer-
sal esteem. She is an active member of
the Dutch Reformed church, and owns the
pew formerly owned by her parents, and is in-
terested in all worthy objects, a member of
both home and foreign missions, and extends
Tier charity to every good cause. She has no
children. (See Schuyler Genealogy for Schuy-
ler familv. )

The Greene family of Amster-
GREEXE dam, New York, are descen-
dants of Thomas Greene, of
England, the final e of the name being dropped
by the second generation in America. There
were other families of the same name who set-
tled in Xew England at an early date, and
there were others by the name of Thomas.
There was a Thomas who was on record in
Roxbury in 1648; Thomas, who came in the
■"Speedwell" in 1636; and Thomas, of Middle-
sex. These must not be confounded with the
Thomas Greene, of Maiden, w^ho founded the
family under consideration in this sketch.

( I ) Thomas Greene, the immigrant, was
lx)rn in England, probably in Leicestershire,
about 1606, died in New England, December
19, 1667. The first record extant of him is
dated 1653, when his youngest daughter, Dor-
cas, was born, but it is exceedingly probable
that he was an early settler in the Massachu-
setts Colony ; that he remained temporarily
in one of the new settlements until about
1649-50, when he removed to the northern
part of Maiden, now Melrose, w-here he se-
cured his farm of sixty-three acres ; that all
his children lived with him or near him with
the exception of daughter Hannah, who mar-
ried and lived in Woburn. It is certain that
he lived in Maiden, Massachusetts, as early as
October 28, 1651, when his wife Elizabeth
and daughter of the same name, signed a peti-
tion to the general court concerning the Rev.
Marmaduke Aiatthews. A portion of his farm
in Maiden was still in the possession of some
of his descendants two hundred years later.
He was selectman of Maiden in 1658, served
several times on the Middlesex county grand
jury and was known as Thomas Greene, Sr..
to distinguish him from his son, Thomas, Jr.,
and another Thomas Greene of the town, who
had no suffix. His ten children w-ho had been
living near him commenced to separate about
1676. Four of his sons — Samuel, \\'illiam,
Nathaniel and Jabez — removed to Leicester,
and their descendants are found to-day in
evcrv state in the Union. .\nother son.

Henry, removed to Killingly, Connecticut, as
did the children of his son Jacob. Another
son, David, removed to Amherst, Xew Hamp-
shire ; two others, Jacob and Benjamin, to
Hanover, New Jersey. Thomas Greene, Sr.,
in his will, dated Xovember 12, 1667, does not
mention any wife, but makes bequests to his
"eldest son" Thomas, to sons John, William,
Henry, Samuel and to daughters Elizabeth,
Mary, Hannah, Martha and Dorcas. This
shows that all his children were living at the
date of his death. Some of them were born
in England, but it is not on record how many.

He married (first) Elizabeth , who

died August 22, 1658, and is believed to have
been the mother of all his children. He mar-
ried (second) Frances, born in 1608, widow
of Richard Cook, previously widow of Isaac
Wheeler, who had had children by her first
two husbands.

(II) Thomas (2) Green, son of Thomas
( I 1 and Elizabeth Greene, was born in Eng-
land about 1630, died in ]\Ialden, Massachu-
setts, February 13, 1671-72, having made his
will the previous day. He was a farmer and
always lived in Maiden, where he was admit-
ted freeman. May 31, 1670. He married,
about 1653, Rebecca, daughter of Joseph Hills.
She was one of the thirty-six women who
signed the petition to the general court, pray-
ing that body to excuse some errors and fail-
ings of Rev. Marmaduke ^latthews. first min-
ister to Maiden, who had fallen under the cen-
sure of that honorable body. Children: i.
Rebecca, married Thomas Newxll. 2.
Thomas, not mentioned in his father's will, be-
ing probably then deceased. 3. Hannah, died
in infancy. 4. Hannah, married John Vinton,
of \\'oburn. and had a numerous posterity,
which is fully recorded in the "Vinton Memo-
rial." 5. Samuel, see forward.

(HI) Captain Samuel Green, youngest
child of Thomas (2) and Rebecca (Hills)
Green, was born in Maiden, Massachusetts,
October 5. 1670, died January 2, 1735-36. He
resided in Maiden until 1717, when he re-
moved to Leicester, being one of the original
founders of that town. Leicester was granted
by the general court, February 10, 1713-14,
and Captain Green was appointed one of the
committee by the proprietors to settle it. He
had one hundred and eighty acres of land
granted him in five parcels, and was a very in-
fluential man in all the affairs of the new set-
tlement, the part of the town once occupied
by him being still Greenville in his honor. It
is a village in the southern ])art of Leicester,
about one mile north of the South Leicester
railroad depot. His title of captain was be-
stowed upon him for service in the militia.

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rendered duriiic; the Xarragansett war. He
married Iilizaheth. horn 1658. ched 1720.
daughter of Deacon Phineas Upham, grand-
daughter of Lieutenant Phineas Ujiham, who
was severely wounded at the storming of the
Xarragansett fort, December 19, 1675; and
great-granddaughter of Deacon John Lljiham,
born in England, and founder of the Upham
family in America. Captain Samuel Green
mentioned in his will, dated April 18, 1717,
wife Elizabeth, son Thomas and daughters
Elizabeth and Rebecca (twins), Ruth. Lydia,
Bathsheba. Abigail and Anna.

(I\') Rev. Thomas (3) (ireen, only son
of Captain Samuel and Elizabeth (Upham)
Green, was born in Maiden, Massachusetts,
1699, died in Leicester, August 19, 1773. He
acquired a knowledge of medicine and surgery
from two surgeons of the English buccaneers,
who boarded with his father for many years,
they having come in and surrendered them-
selves under an oflfer of pardon from the Eng-
lish government. They instructed Thomas in
what they knew of medicine, gave him a few
medical books, and with this equipment and
an uncommon amount of practical wisdom,
he was enabled to enter upon and pursue the
practice of medicine with great success. This
practice extended into various parts of the col-
ony, and into Rhode Island and Connecticut.
He was not, however, more eminent as a phy-
sician than he was as a minister of the Gospel.
Having embraced the Piajitist faith, he organ-
ized a church and society of that denomination
in South Leicester, and was ordained their
pastor in 1736. He supplied their pulpit for
many years, and his church grew and flour-
ished. He donated a farm for a parsonage,
a lot of land for the meeting house, and for
a burial ground, in which he and his wife were
buried, but their remains, together whh those
of his father, were afterward removed by their
descendant. Dr. John Green, to Rural ceme-
tery, in Worcester, Massachusetts. He married,
January 13, 1725-26. Martha, born in Maklen,
July 6, 1700, died in Leicester, June 20, 1780,
daughter of Captain John Lyndc by his third
wife, who was Mrs. Judith (Worth) Puck-
man. Children: i. Samuel, see forward. 2.
Martha, married Robert Green, who studied
medicine with her father, but never practiced
the profession, becoming a manufacturer of
spinning wheels. 3. Isaac, married .Sarah
Howe. 4. Thomas, married ffirst) Hannah
Fox, Csecond) ,\nna Hovey. 5. John, mar-
ried (first) Mary Osgood, (second) Mary
Ruggles. 6. Solomon, married Elizabeth
Page. 7. Elizabeth, married (first) Daniel
Hovey, (second) Rev. I'enjamin Foster, I). I)..
a graduate of ^'ale College, who succeeded

h\^ father-in-law as pastor of the Leicester
l'.a])tist Church, from whence he was called
to Newport, Rhode Island: then to the church
in Gold street, New York City, where he died
of yellow fever in 1798. He had received the
degree of Doctor of Divinity from Brown
L^niversity.

(V) Deacon Samuel (2) (^reen. eldest child
of Rev. Thomas (3) and Martha (Lynde)
Green, was born in Leicester, Massachusetts,
1726, died in the autumn of 18 10. He served
as deacon in the I'aptist church in Leicester
for more than fiftv years. After the dismis-
sion of Rev. Dr. Foster, the church was with-
out a pastor for a period of several years, and
during this time Deacon Samuel Green de-
voted himself with much energy, ability and
piety to the interests of the church, which
continued to prosper. He was greatly be-
loved in the town and his death was deeply
and sincerely mourned. He married (first)
January 28, 1753, Zeviah Dana, born 1733,

died May 25, 1797. Married (second)

Fisk, a widow, of Sturbridge, who died July
2, 1810. Children of first wife: Three,
names not recorded, who died in infancy. 4.
Samuel, see forward. 5. Elijah, died in the
service of his country in camp at Roxbury,
Massachusetts, December 25, 1776. at the age
of sixteen years.

(VD Samuel (3), son of Deacon .Samuel
(2) and Zeviah (Dana) Green, was born in
Leicester. Massachusetts, November 22, 1757,
died at Pembroke, New York, February 2,
1832. He resided in Leicester on the old
homestead of his grandfather. Rev. Thomas
Green, but, meetinir with financial rever.ses
and losing much of his property, he removed
from Massachusetts, settling in Pembroke,
New York, where the remainder of his life
was spent. He was an eminently pious man.
and his wife enjoyed a similar reputation.
He married. April 15. 1779. Hannah Kin-
ney, of Sutton, who died December 22. 1842.
"aged ninety-two years, two months and four-
teen days." .\fter the death of her husband
she returned to Leicester, where she lived
with her son-in-law, John King. Children: i.
Elijah, died young. 2. .Anderson Dana, died
young. 3. Lucretia, married Daniel Fair-
banks. 4. Sophia, married John King, of Lei-
cester. 5. Samuel, died young. 6. -Samuel
Dana, married Susan Gibbs. of Providence,
Rhode Island. 7. William Kinney, see for-
ward. 8. Iladas.sah, married .Asa Mann, of
Leicester ; she removed to .St. Catharines. Can-
ada, where she died, leaving three children.
9. Patty, died young. 10. Hannah, died
voung.

(\in William Kinuev. fifth son and .sev-

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1797

cnlli child of Samuel (3) and Hannah (Kin-
ntv ) Greene was born in Leicester. January
<;, 1790, died in Amsterdam, New York, Octo-
ber 13, 1864. He settled in Amsterdam, in
1840, becoming a pioneer carpet manufac-
turer there, and being associated there -for a
time with John Sanford. of the Sanford Car-
jiet Mills. He was later in the manufactur-
ing; business alone, and was a highly respected
and energetic man of affairs in the city. He
married, December 10. 1812, Betsey, daughter
of Deacon Jedediah Kimball, of Woodstock,
Connecticut. Children: i. Almeria. married
Lyman Bennett. 2. William Kimball, see for-
ward. 3. Harriet Newell, married Nicholas
.Anthon}- Wemple. 4. Samuel Dana, married
Marietta Willoughby. 5. Henry Eckford. 6.
.Andrew Harding, married Alary E. Davis.

( \IH ) William Kimball, eldest son and sec-
ond child of William Kinney and Betsey
(Kimball) Greene, was born July 18. 1816,
died in Rome, Italy, while on a European tour,
January, 1870. He was one of the potent
factors in securing for the city of Amsterdam
the water supply and power which gave it its
full impetus as a great manufacturing center,
and was the founder of two of its most im-
portant industries. He was a member of the
firm of Wait, Greene & Company, manufactur-
ers of satinet, at Hagamans Alills in 1840, but
in 1842 withdrew from that firm and located
in .Amsterdam, where he started a carpet fac-
tory in a small building, afterward the site of
the Greene Knitting Company's works. This
was the forerunner and foundation of the car-
pet industry in Amsterdam and of the present
immense business of S. Sanford & Sons. Mr.
Greene ran his business alone for a few years,
then John Sanford acquired an interest, and
the plant was removed to the old Harris mill,
further up the stream. Prior to 1856 Mr.
Greene retired from the firm, which after other
changes became, in 1853, the sole property of
Stephen Sanford, who later admitted his sons.
In 1856 William K. Greene and John Mc-
Dcnnell began the manufacture of knit goods
in the small building where later stood the
extensive plant of the Greene Knitting Com-
pany. In 1868 Air. AFcDonnell withdrew, the
business henceforth being conducted by Mr.
Greene, who increased it by the erection of a
much larger mill on the same site, operating
with thirteen sets of machinery. In 1870 he
died and was succeeded by his sons, Elijah P.
and Henry E. Greene, with John K. War-
nick, under the firm name of W. K. Greene's
Sons & Company. Ujjon the death of E. P.
Greene, the firm became W. K. Cireene's Son
& Company. In 1881 Henry E. Greene died,
and in 1S82 the Greene Knitting Company.

manufacturers of knit underwear, was formed.
If any one man can be called the father of
manufacturing interests in Amsterdam, it is
William K. Greene, these two great industries,
car];el> and knit goods, both being founded by
liini.

Amsterdam originally had sufficient water
])()wer from Chuctenunda creek to run its
mills, but with the denuding of the northern
hills and mountains, the supply was decreased.
Dams were resorted to, but in 1855 it was
necessary to again increase the supply of
water. In that year a reservoir was con-
structed in Galway, covering four hundred
and fifty acres, which was enlarged in 1865 to
five hundred and fifty acres. In 1875 the
banks of the reservoir were raised, increasing
the area of stored water to one thousand acres.
Through all these operations Mr. (jreene bore
a conspicuous part. He was one of the in-
corporators of the water supply company and,
when the first board of trustees was formed,
for the purpose of maintaining the supply, he
was chosen one of the Water Supply Com-
pany. This permanent settlement of the ques-
tion of power has been of immense advantage
to .Amsterdam, as it attracted many new in-
dustries, and has resulted in making the city
one of the most noted manufacturing centers
in Central New York. In this, as in the start-
ing of pioneer industries, great credit must be
awarded William Kimball Greene. He was a
man of great energy and initiative and a born
leader of men. He was interested in all forms
of charity and benevolence for the benefit of
those less fortunately situated than himself,
and he and his wife gave generous aid to the
institutions of the city. The record he left is
a noble one, and his memory is still warmly
cherished. Mr. Greene married, December 22,
1838. Jane M. Priest. Children: i. Elijah
Priest, see forward. 2. Henry Eckford, see
forward.

(IX) Elijah Priest, eldest son of William
Kimball and Jane M. (Priest) Greene was
born May 22, 1843, died December 9. 1876.
To a great degree he inherited the mechani-
cal ability of his father. He was an exten-
sive traveler, a great lover of beauty in art
and nature, his collection of geological speci-
mens .showing him to have been a geologist
of no mean merit. On SejHember 28, 1865,
he married at Ilion, New York, Ella, born
June, 1845, daughter of Pliilo Remington,
well known to the world as the inventor and
manufacturer of the Remington typewriters
and rifles. Children: 1. l-" red Remington, see
forward. 2. William Kimball, born December
IS. iSfMj. 3. Harry Priest, born November zj.
1871, (lied in New Haven. Connecticut, June

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lo, 1892, just prior to his graduation from
Yale University.

(IX) Henry Eckford, second son of Wil-
liam Kimball and Jane M. (Priest) Greene,
was born April 10, 1849, cl'ed September 20,
188 1. He was a prominent knit goods manu-
facturer in Amsterdam, New York, and was
highly honored and respected for his sterling
worth as a business man and as a citizen. He
married Helen K., born in Troy, New York,
June 28, 185 1, died May 26, 1880, daughter
of Ransom Baldwin and Elizabeth (Winne)
Moore; granddaughter of Charles Moore, a
soldier of the revolution, who died September
21, 1821 ; also a granddaughter of Robert
Winne, and great-granddaughter of Moses
and Elizabeth (Adams) Winne, who were
among the first settlers in the Hudson-Mo-
hawk valley. Children: i. Jane M., married
Hon. Spencer K. Warnick, born September 9,
1874, a graduate of Yale University, and an
attorney at law in Amsterdam. Children:
Spencer K., born Maj' 20, 1899 ; Henry Greene,
April 17, 1902. 2. "Henry E., born May 2,
1880, is engaged in business in Amsterdam;
married, October 8, 1902, Florence Irene Tay-
lor; son, Henry E., born Sept 24, 1903.

(X) Fred Remington, eldest child of Elijah
Priest and Ella (Remington) Greene, was born
in Amsterdam, New York, November 4, 1867.
He married, January 4, 1893, '" Atlanta,
Georgia, Harriet Estelle Delbridge, born July
24, 1873, and has one child : Emily Hughey
Delbridge, born November 30, 1907. Mrs.
Greene is the daughter of Dr. George Wash-
ington and Emily Mandeville (Hughey) Del-
bridge, the latter born May 5, 1847, daugh-
ter of Joseph, and granddaugliter of John
Hughey, of South Carolina, whose family
dates back to the Huguenot settlers of early
colonial days. Dr. Delbridge, born in Peters-
burg, Virginia, November 18, 1826, was a
well-known physician of Atlanta, Georgia,
where he died June i, 1900. His father was
James Kimmeburgh, his grandfather Edward
"Delbridge, of Virginia, tlie latter being a sol-
dier during the revolution. The line goes
back to Richard Delbridge, the immigrant an-
cestor, who came from England to .'\merica
in 1619, and had special rights granted him
with reference to the Atlantic coast fisheries.

The Ostranders have been
OSTR.WDER for several generations

residents and natives of
New York state. The first of the line herein
recorded was John Ostrander. who lived near
Round Lake, Saratoga county. He married
Rebecca, daughter of Stephen Southard, who
served in the revolutionary army as sergeant

of Colonel Pope's Tenth Massachusetts regi-
ment. He fought at the battle of Saratoga,
and soon afterward made permanent settle-
ment near Round Lake.

(II) Nelson, son of John and Rebecca
(Southard) Ostrander, was born at Stillwa-
ter, Saratoga county. New York. He was a
farmer, and a member of the Methodist Epis-
copal church. In politics he was a Whig and
Republican. He married Eliza Baker. Chil-
dren: George W., Perry N., Bell, Rose, Helen
and Frankie.

(HI) George W.. eldest son of Nelson and
Eliza (Baker) Ostrander, was born in Still-
water, Saratoga county. New York, in 1840.
He was a real estate broker and a lumberman.
He was a veteran of the civil war, having
served three years in the One Hundred and
Fifteenth Regiment, New York Volunteers.
He was a Republican in politics. He married
Hortense Lewis, born 1853, died 1898.

(IV) George Nelson, son of George W.
and Hortense (Lewis) Ostrander, was born
at Troy, New York, July 11, 1869. He was
educated in the public schools of Albany, New
York, Troy Conference Seminary, Poultney,
Vermont, Clinton Liberal Institute, Fort
Plain, New York, and Albany Business Col-
lege. He decided on the profession of law,
made the necessary preparation, passed the re-
quired examinations, and was admitted to the
bar of New York state in 1899. Since that
time he maintained an office in Albany and
continuously practiced his profession. He has
other important business interests. In 1890
he engaged with his father in the real estate
business in Albany, and since 1906 has been a
member of Finch, Pruyn & Company, paper
manufacturers of Glens Falls, New York,
and manager of their timber land department.
He is also a director of the Glens Falls Trust
Company, of Glens Falls, New York. He is
a Republican in politics, and a member of the
Episcopal church. His fraternal orders are:
The Free and Accepted Masons and the
Knights of Pythias. His clubs are the Al-
bany of Albany, New York ; Republican of
New York City; Glens Falls of Glens Falls.
New York; Saratoga and the Saratoga Golf
of Saratoga. New York. He married (first)
in .Albany, December 22, 1894, .Augusta Tur-
ner, born in Albany. He married (second)
June 22, 1907, Harriet E. Smith, born in
Northville, New York. Child of first mar-
riage: George N., born November 23. 1898.

Charles Kimball Gallup de-
GALIAJP scends in direct line from John
Gallop falso Gollop and Gal-
lup) born 1590, fourth son of Thomas Gal-

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(799

lop, gentleman, of North Bowood. county Dor-
set. England, and whose wife was a daughter
of Thomas Crabb, of Nosterne. same county.
John Gallop came to .America in 1634. His
wife. Christobel. followed soon after. They
settled in Boston, Massachusetts, where he
died in 1650.

The Gallup family spread over New Eng-
land and adjacent states, a branch settling in
Greene county. New York. Charles Kim-
ball Gallup is a son of Henry Schuyler Gal-
lup, a resident of Coxsackie. Greene county,
New York, who was a member of the Meth-
odist church and a pronounced Democrat. He
married, December 17, 1835. Anna Maria \'an
Den Berg, born April 9, 1819, at Coxsackie,
New York. He died July 9. 1888, aged sev-
enty-eight years : his wife died October 10.
1897, aged seventy-seven years. Children :
Horatio Nelson, born December 28. 1836, died
January 25, 1837 ; \\'illiam Henry, December
26, 1838, died 1910: James Harvey, Novem-
ber 24, 1841, died August 28, 1844: Charles
Kimball, see forward.

(H) Charles Kimball Gallup was born at
Coxsackie, New York, September 8, 1845.
He was graduated at Coxsackie Academy,
one of the best of the academies of that period.
He has been connected with one corporation
for thirty-seven years, and is still an active
business man. He is a Marxian Socialist but
rarely exercises his right of franchise, believ-
ing it to be in the final analysis a farcical per-
formance. He is a member of the Episcopal
church. He married, September 3, 1872, Car-
rie Nichols (see Gardner VHI).

(Van Den Berg Line).

.Anna Maria (\'an Den Berg) Gallup, wife
of Henry Schuyler Gallup, and mother of
Charles Kimball Gallup, is a direct descend-
ant of Richard Janse \'an Den Berg, who was
living at Coxsackie in 1720. He married, at
.Albany. November 13, 1699, Catherine
(Trynije), daughter of Matthias Houghtaling.
who in 1697 received a patent for a large
tract of land at Coxsackie. Children bap-
tized: Maria, May 12. 1700: .Antje, May 17.
1702: Jan, September 19, 1703; Matthys, Jan-
uary 15, 1706: Racheltje. February 22. 1708;
Dorotea. October 30, 1710: Hendrick. Octo-
ber 19. 1712; Lidia, April 24, 1715: Robert,
see forward.

(H) Robert, son of Richard Janse and
Catherine (Houghtaling) \'an Den Berg, was
born June 30. 171 7. He married Catharine
Brandow. Children: Wilhelmus (W^illiam),
and others.

(HI) William, son of Robert and Catha-
rine (Brandow ) \"an Den Berg, was baptized

July 29, 1750, at .Albany, New York. He
married Elizabeth Brandow.

(IV) Richard, son of William and Ehza-
beth (Brandow) Van Den Berg, was born at
Coxsackie, New Y^ork, March 16, 1786, died
October 11, 1826. He married, ^Iarch 11,
1805, Catherine Heath, born January 23, 1789,
died March 7, 1848. Children: .Angenat,
born March 29, 1806; Elizabeth Christina, De-
cember 28, 1808: Robert, May 20, 1812;
Catherine, December 6, 1813; William, Feb-
ruary 4, 1816: .Anna Maria, see forward.

(V) .Anna Maria, daughter of Richard and
Catherine (Heath) \'an Den Berg, was born
April 9, 1819, at Coxsackie, New York. She
married Llenry Schuyler Gallup.

(VI) Charles Kimball, son of Henry Schuy-
ler and .Anna Maria (Van Den Berg) Gallup,
married, September 3, 1872, Carrie Nichols
(see Gardner VIII).

The name of Ford is one of the

FORD oldest found in New England rec-
ords, John of Plymouth being
named as one of the "First Comers" who
landed from the "Fortune" in 1621. The first
of record in New A'ork state is Simon Ford,
of Saratoga county, who settled at an early
date, procured land, which he cleared and cul-
tivated. He married and had issue.

(II) James, son of Simon ^ord, was a
farmer of Saratoga county, New York. He
married and had issue.

(HI) John, son of James Ford, was a
farmer of the town of Edinburg. Saratoga
county. New York. He married \"ilda, daugh-
ter of Syrill (or Cyrill) and .Anna (Young-
love) wheeler.

(I\') John Wheeler, son of John and \'ilda
I Wheeler ) Ford, was born in the town of
Edinburg, Saratoga county. New Y'ork. May
15. 1848. He was educated in the public
schools and under private tutors. He took a
course in civil engineering at Bachelorville
Academy, completing his professional studies
under private instruction. He became a well-
known civil engineer and has many important
works to his credit. For eleven years he was
engineer for the city of Cohoes. and was
closely identified with the vast engineering
work done in that city in connection with the
hydraulic power canals of the Cohoes Com-
pany. In 1882 Mr. Ford removed to Water-
ford, New York, where he engaged in
the manufacture of knit goods, continuing un-
til the present. He has been very successful
in business and is one of the leading manufac-
turers of his section. He is a man of strong
character and holds high position among men
of mark, lie is a Re|>uhlican in politics, and

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an attendant of the I'resbyterian cliiirch of
Waterfonl. lie married. September 24, 1873.
Minnie Smith, daughter 01 _id;!ell and Mar-
garet (Cook) Peverly, bo..i of whom were
born at Xewcastle-upon-'lyne, England. Chil-
dren of John W. and Minnie S. (Peverly)
Fcrd: Helen, married James D. Shroeder ;
Peverly W., married Elvira Haight.

(The Yoiinglovc LiiK-).

( I ) .Anna ( Younglove) Wheeler, mother of
\ilda (Wheeler) Ford, is a descendant of
Samuel Younglove, aged thirty years, who.
with his wife Margaret, aged twenty-eight
years, and son Samuel, aged one year, sailed
from London, England, in August, 1635, in
the "Hopewell," came to America and set-
tled in Ipswich, Massachusetts, where he died,
1668. Children: i. Samuel, died young.
2. Samuel, a wheelwright ; admitted freeman
1671 ; married, August, i6(k), Sarah Kens-
man and had issue. 3. Joseph. 4. Rev. John,
of further mention.

(H) Rev. John Younglove, son of Samuel
and Margaret Younglove, died in i6go. He
became a minister of the Presbyterian church
and a schoolmaster. He lived a life of great

usefulness. He married Sarah and

had children; i. John (2), from whom the
branch herein recorded descends. 2. Samuel,
ancestor of T. S. Pope, of Great Barrington,
Massachuse'tts. 3. James. 4. Joseph, an-
cestor of James S. Younglove. of Johnstown.
New York. 5. Sarah. 6. Mary Hannah. 7.
Lydia.

(HI) John (2). .son of Rev. John and
Sarah Younglove, married and had issue.

(IV) John (3), son of John (2) Young-
love, married Jemima . Children :

John, Samuel, Sarah and Jemima.

(V) John (4), son of John (3) and Je-
mima Younglove, married, September 30,
1749, Abigail BIoss. Children: Patience, Al)i-
gail, John, Jemima and Elizabeth.

(VI) John (5), son of John (4) and Abi-
gail (Bloss) Younglove, was born December
11. 1756; died January 13, 1840. He mar-
ried Thankful Copeland, born .\pril 17, 1760,
died September 26, 1839. Children: i. John,
born April 18, 1780; married, October 9, 1804,
Betsey Tyler. 2. Thankful, born November
13, 1781 ; married, February 24. 1805, Weeks
Copeland. 3. Abner, born July 8, 1784: mar-
ried. January 26, 1805. PoUey Rogers. 4.
Anna, twin of Abner, see forward. 5. Wil-
liam, born June 5. 1786; died March 26, 1790.
6. Sally Smith, born Septemlier 18, 1788; mar-
ried, Xovemljcr 18, 1806, Solomon Clark
Pratt. 7. David Copeland. born I'ebruary 26.
1791 : married ( tir>t ) I'V'bruary 17, 1S14:

Elizabeth Stimson, of Edinburg, New \ ork.
Married (second) April, 1852. a widow, Mrs.
.\nna Smith. Children by first marriage : i.
Truman G. Younglove, born October 31, 1815,
died September 7, 1882; married (first) Janu-
ary 7, 1841, Elizabeth McMartin ; (second)
November 6, 1850, Jane McMartin. ii. Moses
S. Younglove, born August 7, 18 18. died
March 20. 1882; married. December 25, 1853,
Mary Humphreys, iii. John Orlando Young-
love. born July 25, 1825 ; married, March,
1852, Evelyn Padden. iv. Samuel Abner
Younglove, born August 8, 1827, died in
Bradford, Pennsylvania, November, 1894;
married. IMay, 1852. Rhoda Main. v. David
Earl Younglove, born October 27. 183 1. died
in Syracuse, New York, February 12. 1896;
married Clara . vi. Mary Jane Young-
love. born January 12, 1834, die<l in child-
hood. 8. Zopher, born April 26, 1793. died
September 12, 1795. 9. Betsey, born Septem-
ber 15, 1795: married, July 28, 1811, Henry
Briggs. 10. Nabby, born July 10, 1797, mar-
ried, March 24. 1816. William Hicks. 11.
Lucy, born November 27, 1799, married, 1851,
Peter Benson. 12. Daniel, born January 13.
1802. married. December 3 , 1829, Aluora
Smith. 13. \"il(Ia, Ijorn January 16. 1804, died
July 29. 1804.

(VII) Anna, daughter of John (5) and
Thankful (Copeland) Younglove, born July
8. 1784; married, June 27, 181 1. Syrill
\Mieeler.

(\TII) Vilda, daughter of Syrill and .\nna
( Younglove) Wheeler, married John l'\)r(l.

( IX ) John \\'iieeler, son of John and Vilda
( \\ heeler ) I'ord ; married Minnie Smith Pev-

The Haswells of Hoosick,
I1.\SWELL New York, are descendants

of John Haswell, born in
nrough, Strammore, Westmoreland county,
England, April 19. 1728, died in Bethlehem,
All:)any county. New York, September 22,
180S. He married (first) Mary Miller, who
died in England. He married (second) Mary
Haliday, born July 17, 1740. died December
12, 1824. She accompanied him to America,
in 1774, on the sailing vessel, "Golden Gate,"
wiiere they met the family of Thomas Mark.
Four sons of John Haswell married four
daughters of Thomas Mark, and one daugiiter
of John Haswell married Isaac Mark, Chil-
dren of first wife: i. John, born 1751, died
1777, unmarried. 2. Joseph, born 1753; mar-
ried Mary Mark. 3. Robert, born March 22,
1755, see forward. 4. .'\rthur. born March,
1757: married Mary Coughty. 5. I'etsy. liorn
i--'^. (k .Marv. l)oni I7'>i. t'liildren 'of sec-

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1801

oikI wife; 7. Thomas, born 1764; married
Elizabetli Mark. 8. Richard, born 1765 : mar-
ried Deborah .Mark. 9. Margaret, born 1767;
married Isaac Mark. 10. Isabella, born 1770;
married Jeremiah Wood. 11. Edward, born
1773; married Ann Russell. 12. Hannah, born

1777: married Jntkins. 13. John, born

1780; married Peggy Burhans. 14. .\ son,
born 1782. iv William, born 1784: married
Elizabeth Udell.

(II) Robert, son of John and .Mary (Mil-
ler) Haswell, was born March 22, 1755, died
January II, 1820. With his wife, Sarah
(Mark) Haswell, who died October 11, 1823,
aged sixty-two years, he settled in Hoosick.
New York, in the year 1799, purchasing a
tract of land on the banks of the Hoosick
river of five hundred and six acres from the
state called the Expense Lot, paying some-
thing over three thousand dollars. Children :
I. Mary, born ]\Iarch I, 1781, died April 15,
1825, unmarried. 2. Elizabeth, born January
13, 1785, died January 27. 1835 ; married Wil-
liam Tweed Dale. 3. John R., born August
8. 1789, died i\Iay 30, 1863: married Ann
Montgomery. 4. Deborah, born March 10,
1792, died August 25, 1863 : married \\'illiam
Joslin. 5. Robert, born March 16, 1794, died
February 12, 1867; married Cynthia Haswell,
Caroline Hewitt and Mary Hewitt. 6. Joseph,
born October 17, 1796, see forward. 7. Har-
riet, born July 18, 1799, died February i,
1882 ; married Isaac Armstrong. 8. Sarah,
born August 28, 1801, died March 4, 1858:
married Dr. Salmon Moses. 9. Philip, born
August 26, 1805, died March 29, 1819. 10.
Julia Ann, born February 16, 1808, died 1863;
married John Lottridge.

(HI) Joseph, son of Robert and Sarah
(Mark) Haswell, was born October 17, 1796,
died October 22, 1856. He settled on the
road from Hoosick to Hoosick Falls, on a
farm consisting of about three hundred and
fifty acres adjacent to his father's land. The
home was beautifully located on a high eleva-
tion known in those days as "The Haswell
II ill." It gave a view of the surrounding
country which was most picturesque, looking
down on the Hoosick \'alley. He was a man
of sterling equalities, independent in his views,
a strong advocate for the cause of temperance
which was not popular in those days. He
was a member of the Presbyterian church at
Hoosick Falls. He was one of the first
breeders of Spanish Merino sheep in this
section of the state, and the first man to bring
his Hock to such perfection that they sheared
fi\e pounds of wool to a sheep. At the time
of bis death he was the owner of nearly six
li; nc'red sleep, wb.ich was a Iar'.;c (|tiantity

for those days. He was a stockholder and
director of the old stage road which ran from
Albany to ^lontreal called "The Montreal
-Adams road." It was the great thoroughfare
from Xew York to Canada, and for many
years a large portion was under his super-
vision. He was a man that commanded re-
spect, a gentleman of the old school and one
that lield an enviable position in the ommu-
nity where he resided. He married (first)
.Adelaide Leet : married (second) Eliza
Haynes; married (third) at Hoosick, New
York, Susan Rogers Whiskey, born Feb-
ruary 2, 1815, died April 5, 1870, daughter of
Jolm and Elizabeth (Rogers) Whiskey. Chil-
dren: I. Mary Frances, born May 9, 1843,
died .May 5, 1857. 2. Joseph Mark, born
March 10, 1846, died November 15, 1909, at
Hoosick: he was educated in the public
schools : he inherited many of his father's
characteristics and propensities, and one con-
spicuous one was his love and rare judgment
of blooded stock, and on his farm at Hoosick
on the P)ennington road he kept blooded stock
of all kinds ; he was a member of the Presby-
terian church at Hoosick Falls, and a man
of high character and firmness of purpose and
wonderful energy and courage. In his early
days he was a member of "old Capitol police"
of Troy under Captain Northrup and Ser-
geant Rogers: he married, February. 1875.
Elizabeth, born January 4, 1856, daughter of
George and Mary (Wallace) Brow^n : chil-
dren : i. Joseph King, born January 10, 1876,
died April 2, 1883 : ii. William Wallace, born
October 16, 1879, married, 1902, Gertrude R.
Richmond, born September 16. 1885 : child,
Joseph Edward, born September 9, 1906;
iii. George Albert, twin of William Wal-
lace, an Osteopath physician, settled in
Springfield, Massachusetts ; iv. Mark B.,
born June 24, 1884, married, 1908, Mabel
Plant Brown : child, Wallace Mark, born
June 9, 1910; V. Thomas King, born Feb-
ruary 2, 1893 : vi. Kenneth Gorton, born
March 18, 1898. 3. Amelia Elizabeth, born
in Hoosick, New York, March 11, 1848: re-
sides in Troy, where her life is being spent in
philanthropic and charitable w-ork ; in 1881
she accepted a position as church missionary
to the Second Street Presbyterian Church,
where she labored faithfully for many years ;
she was then called to serve as city mission-
ary where there were no limitations to her
work : for twenty-one years she has been an
ardent worker for fresh air children : for
many years she was president of this organ-
ized enterprise in Troy : scarcely a poor child
in Troy but does not know and love her: for
a luunbcr of years she had charge of a (lospel

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rescue mission and held weekly prayer meet-
ings at her home known as "Miss Haswell's
Tuesday Night jMeeting" ; one important and
special feature of this meeting was the privi-
lege of sending requests for prayer which
sometimes came through the mails ; she is
well known in this city as an earnest, strong
Christian character; she has her own idea of
duty, and like some of her antecedents is not
controlled merely by public opinion ; she has
a heart full of sympathy and love for those
fighting the hard battles of life, and the poor,
suffering and down-trodden know they will
find a friend in her; she is a woman of un-
wavering faith in God, and is not daunted by
severe testings; she believes "the things that
are impossible with man are possible with
God," and this thought inspires in her great
courage, perseverance and hope to face great
difficulties ; one of her favorite mottoes is
"Attempt great things for God, and expect
great things from God." 4. Susan, died in
infancy. 5. Harriet Josephine, born April 20,
185 1 ; married, in 1870, John Dickinson War-
ren, son of Dr. Warren, who was a practicing
physician at Hoosick for many years, and
Susan (Dickinson) Warren. John D. War-
ren is a Presbyterian minister in Elmira, New
York, and has labored in this capacity for
many years with success here and elsewhere,
and with the aid in his church work of his
modest, charming, yet efficient wife, who has
this work at heart, their united labors have
been richly rewarded in many ways ; child,
Joseph Haswell, died in infancy. 6. Sarah,
died in infancy.

Thomas and John Wiswall,
WTSWALL both prominent among the

early settlers of Dorchester,
Massachusetts, came from England, 1635,
leaving behind them brothers .A^dam, Abiel and
Jonathan. This record deals with the de-
scendants of Thomas Wiswall. Both were el-
ders of the church, both selectmen and sub-
scribers to the school fund. Thomas, the
younger brother, was a subscriber in 1641 ;
selectman from 1644 to 1652. He died De-
cember 6, 1683. No monument marks his
grave, but that over the grave of Elder John
states he was born in 1601, died in 1687, aged
eighty-six years, which gives the a])proximate
birth of Elder Thomas Wiswall. His farm of
four hundred acres was in the limits of Dor-
chester, and included a pond that bore his
name. His house stood upon the southerly
bank of the pond, and is described in his will
On the day Rev. John Eliot (2 ) was ordained
pastor of the Dorchester church, July 20, ^C^C)^,
Thomas Wiswall was ordained ruling elder

and assistant pastor in inspecting and disci-
plining the flock. He married (first) Eliza-
beth . Children: i. Enoch, born

1633. 2. Esther, 1635. 3. Ichabod, 1637.
4. Noah, of further mention. 5. Mary. 6.
Sarah, baptized 1643. 7- Ebenezer, 1646. El-
der Wiswall married (second) Isabella
Farmer, a widow from Ansley, England. She
survived him and died in Billerica, Massachu-
setts, May, 1686.

(H) Captain Noah Wiswall, son of Elder
Thomas and Elizabeth Wiswall, was baptized
in Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1638. He was
killed in battle with the Indians at Wheel-
wrights Pond, July 6, 1690. He was a man
of education and was employed. 1681, to
transcribe the town records, was selectman in
1685, assessor in 1686, and served on impor-
tant committees. He was captain of the mili-
tary company. When in 1690 a band of
French and Indians were committing depreda-
tions Captain Wiswall was slain in a battle
with them. Tradition says he had a son John
who fell in the same battle. Lands were
granted the heirs of Captain Noah Wiswall
in 1683 for his patriotic service. He married,
December 10, 1664, Theodosia, daughter of
John Jackson.- Children: i. Thomas, of fur-
ther mention. 2. Elizabeth, born July 30,
1668; married, December 28, 1693, Rev.
Thomas Greenwood, of Rehoboth, Massachu-
setts. 3.- Caleb. 4. John (perhaps). 5. Mar-
garet, born January, 1672 ; married Nathan-
iel Parker. 6. Mary. 7. Esther, born Janu-
ary 2, 1678. 8. Sarah, May 11. 1680: mar-
ried, 1702, Joseph Cheney.

(III) Lieutenant Thomas Wiswall. son of
Captain Noah and Theodosia (Jackson) Wis-
wall, was born February 28, 1666, died 1709.
He inherited the homestead of his father, and
was highway surveyor, 1694, constable, 1699,
selectman, 1706 and 1707. Fie married, July.

1696, Hannah Cheney, who survived him and
married (second) David Newman, of Reho-
both. Children: i. Hannah, born October 15,

1697. -■ Noah , of further mention. 3.
Sarah, born March 4, 1701 : married, 1730,
John Newman. 4. Mary, born October r,
1702. 5. Elizabeth, born August 25, 1704;
married Nathaniel Longley. 6. Thomas. 7.
Ichabod.

(IV) Captain Xoali (2) Wiswall, son of
Lieutenant Thomas and Hannah (Cheney)
Wiswall, was born September 7, 1699. died
June 13, 1786. He inherited the homestead
and in 1744 rebuilt the house. He was select-
man three years. He was one of the earliest
Baptists in Newton, having been baptized in
1754, and was one of the founders of the Bap-
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meetings were held in his house, and he gave
the land on which their first meeting house
was erected. S. F. Smith's life of Rev. Air.
Grafton states that Captain Noah Wiswall
was in the battle of Lexington. Three of his
sons and some of his sons-in-law were in the
East Newton company, commanded by his
son, Captain Jeremiah Wiswall. .After the
company had marched for Lexington he start-
ed on foot and alone to follow them, saying,
"I wish to see what the boys are doing." It
seems almost impossible that he could have
endured the march and the fatigues of the
day, as he was then seventy-six years of age,
but the roll of the East Newton company in
the battle of Lexington, now in the office of
the secretary of state of Alassachusetts, and
sworn to by the captain of that company be-
fore Judge Fuller, shows that he was in the
company, and also several other aged men
were volunteers in the ranks of the company
on that day. He married (first) in 1720,
Thankful, daughter of Jeremiah Fuller. She
died in 1745. Married (second) in 1752, De-
liverance, daughter of Ebenezer Kenrick, of
Brookline. Children by first wife: i. Thomas.
2. Elizabeth, married, December 17, 1741, Wil-
liam Baldwin. 3. Jeremiah, born October 27,
1725. 4. Thankful, born September i, 1727,
died 1728. 5. John. 6. Thankful, born Au-
gust II, 1729; married, 1750, Ebenezer Gee.
7. Alary, born April i. 1731 ; married, 1752.
Samuel Norcross. 8. Sarah, born December
23, 1734; married, 1761, Dr. John King. 9.
Esther, born December 2, 1737; married, 1768.
Benjamin White. 10. Noah, of further men-
tion. II. Samuel. 12. Ebenezer, born 1742.
13. Margaret, born February 24, 1744; mar-
ried, 1766, Thomas Palmer. 14. Hannah,
born March 31, 1745: married, 1769, Eben-
ezer Richards, of Dedham.

(Y) Noah (3), son of Captain Noah (2)
and Thankful (Fuller) Wiswall, was born
July 7, 1740. He married, December, 1769,
"Mary Palmer, and settled in Fitchburg, Mas-
sachusetts. In 1796 his estate was set ofif
from Fitchburg and annexed to Westminster.
Children: i. Mary, born April 4. 1770; mar-
ried White : her only child, Juliet, was

left an orphan when an infant and was reared
anfl educated by her uncle, Joseph Wiswall,
win married her when seventeen years of age,
a sin her Puritan mother never forgave her;
they resided in Troy. New York, a few years,
then removed to Alobile. Alabama, where she
died. 2. Noah, born October 22, 1772; no
authentic record of him is found. 3. John
Palmer, born January 29, 1775; married
(first) Melita Green, settled near Burlington,
\'ermont; married (second) Sarah Thurston ;

he is buried in Moimt Ida cemetery, Troy.
4. Ebenezer (Eben), a leading business man
of Troy. 5. Jane, born April 5, 1779. 6.
William, born March 11, 1781. 7. Joseph,
born February 2, 1784. 8. Japheth, born No-
vember 18, 1785. 9. Seth, of further mention.
10, Sarah, born September 17, 1788. 11.
Howard, born February 18, 1791. 12. Nancy,
born November 16, 1792.

(\T) Seth, ninth child of Xi.iah (31 and
Alary (Palmer) Wiswall, was born in West-
minster, Alassachusetts, Alay 10, 1787, died
in .Albany, New York, about 1834. He grew
up on the homestead farm and was educated
in the town schools. After arriving at ma-
ture years he removed to New York state, set-
tling in -Albany county. He there purchased
a farm overlooking the Hudson which he cul-
tivated for several years, later selling it to his
brother Eben (or Ebenezer) who had become
heavily interested in ferry and real estate en-
terprises. Seth, after disposing of his farm
( now a part of the corporate limits of West •
Troy) settled in Albany where he died. He
was a man of energy and enterprise, and bore
a high reputation in his community. He mar-
ried, about 1814, Nancy Pendleton, who died
in Albany in 1847, a descendant of the Pen-
dleton family of Rhode Island, one of a large
family of daughters (eleven) and one son,
William Pendleton. Children of Seth Wis-
wall: I. Alary, born about 1815, died 1845,
unmarried. 2. Alartha Nancy, born October
26, 1817, see forward. 3 and 4. Two sons,
died in infancy. 5. Angelica Schuyler, born
Alarch. 1823 : married Thomas Barber. 6.
Elizabeth, twin of Angelica S., died in infancv.

(\TI) Martha Nancy, daughter of Seth
and Nancy (Pendleton) Wiswall, was born
October 26, 1817, died in Albany, August 31,
1880. .She married, August 8, 1843, John
Henry Van Antwerp, a descendant in direct
line from Daniel Janse Van Antwerp and
Alaritie, daughter of Samuel Groot, both of
Holland. Daniel Janse was an early propri-
etor of Schenectady, where several of his chil-
dren were killed or taken prisoners to Alon-
treal, when that town was burned by the In-
dians in 1690. He was a fur trader and a
man of means. He was a member of the
Dutch church and donated, in 1715. the land
on which the Dutch Reformed church of Sche-
nectady now stands. John H. \'an .Antwerp's
grandfather, Daniel Lewis \'an .Antwerp, 1771
to 1832, was of Schenectady and Albany: was
a member of the constitutional convention of
1801, member of the legislature from Sara-
toga county, 1808-10: district attorney, 181 r,
for counties of Albany, Schenectady, Sara-
toga. Alontgomery and Schoharie, being ap-

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pointed March 9. 181 1, by Governor Daniel
D. Tompkins. When Albany county was
erected into a separate district, April 21, 1818,
he was reappointed by Governor De Witt Clin-
ton, June II, 1818, his commission being in
each case unlimited, but continuous during the
pleasure of the governor and council. He was
brigade-quartermaster in the war of 1812,
judge of the court of sessions, 1820. \\'illiam
Van Antwerp, son of Judge Daniel Lewis
Van Antwerp, was a prominent lawyer of Al-
bany, 1799-1829. Married Sarah Meadon and
had John Henry, William Meadon, Daniel
Lewis (2) and a daughter. John Henry, son
of William and Sarah (Meadon) \'an Ant-
werp, was born in Albany, October 12, 1823.
He was educated in the private schools and
began business life as a clerk. He rapidly
rose in business affairs and was one of the
founders and original trustees of the National
Savings Bank of Albany, and in May, 1872,
was elected president. His connection with
the New York State National Bank began
July 17, 1847, ^s corresponding clerk. Jan-
uary I, 1856, he was appointed cashier, serv-
ing until 1880, when he was elected vice-presi-
dent. As a financier he was connected with
the banking interests of Albany for over half
a century, and his rare ability is indicated by
the high standing of the institutions with
which he was so long connected. He was a
member for over eighteen years and vice-
president of the New York state board of
charities and gave much of his time to this.
He was one of the originators of the plan for
the creation of Washington Park, Albany,
and one of the commissioners named in the
act of the legislature creating it, was the first
president of the board and served for about
twenty-one years during the formation pe-
riod of the Park, then declining a reappoint-
ment by the mayor. Both Mr. Van Antwerp
and his wife became members of St. Paul
Episcopal Church, Albany, of which he was
for many years senior warden. He was a
member of the Holland Society, Sons of the
Revolution, fellow of the American Geo-
graphical Society and of the Albany Institute.
His clubs were the Manhattan and St. Nicho-
las of New York City, the I'ort Oran.ye and
Country of .Albany.

Children of John II. and .Martha Nancy
(Wiswall) Van .Antwcr]): i. .\melia King,
born December ii, 1844; married, November
8, 1866, John McMurray. of New York City:
sle died May 25, 1867. 2. Henrietta Wiswall,
of further mention. 3. Rufus King, born
July 25, 1849, died Mav 8, 1S8S. 4. Kate Jo-
sephine, liorn June 24. li^S')- •1''^'' .li"if (''■
1907: m;irric(l. June 14, 1882. Jcisiali i\, Stan-

tun, paymaster in the L'nited States navy ;
child, Martha \"an Antwerp, born Octo-
ber 10, 1883; marrie<l, June 8, 1904. I£(hvard
Easton.

(\'ni) Henrietta Wiswall. daughter of
John Henry and Martha Nancy (W'iswall)
\'an Antwerp, was born September 2, 1847,
and is the only surviving member of her fam-
ily. She married, October i, 1873, Major
Junius Wilson MacMurray, of Missouri, an
oificer of the United States regular army.
Major AlacMurray recruited a company and
entered the L'nion army as its first lieutenant,
.\pril 20, 1861 ; was breveted for bravery at
the siege of Corinth, Mississippi ; to captain,
at the siege of Vicksburg, to major and to
lieutenant-colonel for gallant and meritorious
services during the war. Children: i. \'an
Antwerp, born Sei)tember 12. 1874, died No-
vember 22, 1875. 2. Edna Aliens, born June
4, 1876. married, June 15, 1900, James Par-
sons Robinson, captain of Coast Artillery
Corps, L'nited States Army. 3. Ethel, born
February 15, 1878. 4. John Van Antwerp,
born October 6, 1881. Mrs. MacMurray re-
sides in Washington, D. C, and .-Mbanv, New
York.

Lawrence and Lvdia

COPELAND (Townsend) Copeland,' of
Braintree, Massachusetts
(1651), had a family of nine children. Three
of their sons, Thomas, William and John,
lived to manhood and are the progenitors of
nearly all the Copelands in the United States.

(II) William, son of Lawrence and Lydia
(Townsend) Copeland, was born September
15, 1656. Married, April 3, 1698, Mary,
widow of Christopher Webb, jr., and daugh-
ter of John and Ruth (Aldeii) Bass. Ruth
was the daughter of John .\ldcn. the Pilgrim.
William and Mary Copeland had eight sons
and one daughter.

( TIT) William (2). son of William ( i ) and
Mary ( Bass) (Webb) Copeland, was born
March 7, 1695. Married, June 15, 1718.
Mary, daughter of Richard and Rebecca (Mi-
call) Thayer. They had seven children.

(IV) William (3), son of William (2) and
Mary (Thayer) Copeland, was born Decem-
ber (), 1730. Married. May 3, 1753, in Brook-
lyn. Connecticut. Sarah Smith, and lived in
'ilKinipsun, Connecticut. Thc\- had (pmli-
ably ) twelve children.

(\ ) jiinathan, son of William (31 and
Sarah (Smith) Copeland, was born Septem-
ber 29, 1757. Married (first) March 9, 1780,
Esther Chapman of Hampton, Connecticut :
she was born J,anuar\- 12. 1761, died April
LS. 1795; Joiia"tli;ni married (second) Mav

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1805

22. 1795. Sally Cliollar (or Collar), who died
June II, 1826. Children of first wife: i.
Jonathan, born November 15, 1781. 2. Es-
ther. April II, 1783, married Daniel Corbin,
died November 21, 1870. 3. Jonathan, Octo-
ber 16. 1786. died December 5, 1858. 4. Da-
vid, September 8, 1788. 5. Eunice, March 8,
1791, married Harvey Adams, died September
5, 1864. 6. Royal, March 20, 1793, married
Harriet Hyde, d'ied March 2, 1866. 7. Eliza-
l)eth, March, 1795. Children of second wife:
8. Sally, born April lo, 1798. died October 30,
1843. 9. Abigail. April 19. 1800, married
Ichabod Upham, died January 2. 1882. 10.
Asa. October 26, 1801. died .August 26, 1820.
n. Abiel, May 3, 1803. died May 10. 1863.
12. Elizabeth W.. January 26. 1805, died Sep-
tember 29, 1869. 13. Daniel. November 13,
1806. married Pamelia Hibbard, died May 22.
1882. 14. Cynthia. November 14, 1808. died
December 11, 1808. 15. Joel. November 20,
1809, died June 24, 1886. 16. Amasa, Janu-
ary 7. 1812. died May 22, 1859.

(VI) David, son of Jonathan and Esther
(Chapman) Copeland, was born September
8. 1788. died in Rochester. New York. June
10. 1878. He was one of the earlier settlers
of Rochester when it was little more than an
Indian trading village. As the town began
to grow and improve, he became a dealer in
mason's materials of all kinds. He was a
prosperous merchant and transacted a large
inisiness. He was a Whig in politics, and
with his family active in the Presbyterian
church. He was one of the organizers of the
first church of that denomination in Rochester.
He married. June 29. 1814. Martha Shepard,
born and died in Rochester. Children: i.
Jonathan, born February 20. 1816. 2. Gerry
Shepard. July 2, 1819. died December 10.
1873; married Maria Thompson, of Roches-
ter; no living issue. 3. Martha. July 26. 1821,
died August 4. 1821. 4. William Eaton. June
15. 1823, died May 10, 1882; married Mary
Ann Archer, who survives him : children :
George, Robert, Mack, Carrie. 5. Mary May.
December 5, 1825, died June 23, 1827. 6.
Mary, February 19, i82,'i. died March 15.
1828. 7. Mary Jane. January 30, 1830, died
.\ovember 29, 1905 ; married James W. Mc-
Elhenny. deceased. 8. David. .August 17,
1832, died September 16, 1890; married Em-
•Iv Labcv : children : .Albert. Clara. Teunie.
Esther. 9. Martha. June 28. 1835. died Sep-
tember 7, 1843.

(VII ) Rev. Jonathan Copeland. son of Da-
vid and Martha (Shepard) Copeland. was
horn, it is thought, in Connecticut, February
20. i8ifi. died in Rochester, December 9.
1S90. He was educated for the ministry.

graduating at L'ninn College. .^L-lienectad\-,
Xew York. lie was regularly ordained 'a
minister of the Presbyterian church, and
placed in charge as pastor of the church in
Holley, New York, nearby, where he was pas-
tor for sixteen years. He was in charge of
a congregation at Champlain, New York;
Waterbury, Vermont; and Webster, New
York, his ministerial career covering a period
of over fifty years. lie was a faithful min-
ister, and served well his Master's cause. He
died in Rochester, New York, while yet liv-
ing in Webster, being taken ill while on a visit
to the former city, and is buried there. He
married, January 30, 1844, Kezia Clark, born
at Schenectady, New York, died at Webster,
New York, August 8, 1885. She was a
daughter of John and Kezia (Failing) Clark,
of early Dutch ancestry, the former a farmer
of Schenectady county, owning and cultivat-
ing the ground now occupied b}- the Mohawk
Golf Club and much surrounding land.
Children of Rev. Jonathan Copeland: i.
Martha E., born Februarv 21, 184S, died
October 16, 1846. 2. J. Clark, April 26,
1847; married (first) July 20, 1869, Lottie
A. Schenck, who died May 25, 1870; child,
Grace Augusta, born May 24, 1870; married
(second) April 5, 1882. Adella M. Billings.
3. Edward Payson, October 9, 1849, died Sep-
tember 13, 1876. 4. William Henry. Septem-
I er 5. 1852; married, October 12, '1881, Julia
I'urchard. 5. Emma Catharine. April 3. 1854.
6. Mary Kezia. October 18, 1856; married.
December 29, 1886, Frank Holley: children:
Ralph, born January 29, 1889. and Alma Ke-
zia, February 8, 1893. 7. .Alice Moore. Octo-
ber 26. 1861. died September 23, 1889; mar-
ried. .May 6, 1885, J. R. Hawley : child. Kath-
leen Alice, born February 27, 1887.

(Mil) William Henry Copeland. third .son
of Jonathan and Kezia (Clark) Copeland. was
born at Holley, near Rochester, New York,
September 5, 1852. He was educated in the
public schools, and began his business career
as clerk in a general store at Waterbury, \'er-
mont. He was then only a lad but well grown
and eager for business life. In 1872 he lo-
cated at Hoosick Falls, Ncv '''or'c. and be-
came first, clerk, later boukl:etper frr the firm
of Wallace, Jones & Ely. In 1875 he entered
the employ of the Walter A. Wood Company
as bookkeeper, remaining in the accounting
department until 1892. He was then appoint-
ed jiaymaster. a position he now occupies
(1910). He is a skillful accountant and a
trusted official. He is a member of the Pres-
byterian church at Hoosick Falls, serving as
trustee. In politics lie is a Rc])ublican but
I:il es no active p;irt. His clubs arc the Hoo-

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sick and Hoosick Country. He married,
October 12, 1881, Mrs. Julia E. Burchard,
daughter of Lucius Morgan Cooley and widow
of Walter Howard Burchard. She had by
first marriage: i. Anson Wood, graduate of
Stevens Institute, Hoboken, New Jersey, class
1889, now connected with the General Elec-
tric Company, in New York City ; he is a
trustee of his alma mater, Stevens Institute.
2. Jessie i\Iay, married Hinsdill Parsons and
resides in Schenectady, New York; Mr. Par-
sons is a son of the late J. Russell Parsons,
and was born in Hoosick Falls ; he is now con-
nected with the General Electric Company of
Schenectady, and is one of the vice-presidents.

Lucius Morgan Cooley, son of Horace and
Lucretia (Morgan) Cooley, and father of Ju-
lia E. (Cooley-Burchard) Copeland, was born
at White River Junction, Vermont, Novem-
ber 30, 1806, died at Hoosick Falls, New
York, September 15, 1873. He was a Whig
and a Republican, holding many of the local
offices in his town. He was a deacon of the
Presbyterian church. He married, February
4, 1834, Sally Maria Bussey, born in Hoosick
Falls, died there March 31, 1881, daughter of
Esek Bussey, of Rensselaer county, later of
Lysander, Onondaga county, New York,
where he died. He owned a large tract of
land now a part of the village of Hoosick
Falls. Esek Bussey married Elizabeth (Bet-
sey) Sickles, born March 18, 1781, died at
Lysander, New York, May i, 1857. They
had eleven children, of whom Sally Maria was
the eighth.

Children of Lucius Morgan and Sally
Maria Cooley: i. Francis Morgan, born June
18, 1835, died at San Francisco, California,
November 24, 1890; he was educated at
BalFs Academy, Hoosick Falls, and Poult-
Tiey Academy, Poultney, Vermont : he taught
school for a few months, then entered the
■employ of the Walter A. Wood Company,
later in 1857 engaging in business in Hoosick
Falls on his own account ; at the outbreak of
the civil war he recruited a company at his
own expense : the company wiis mustered into
the United States service, April 20, 1861, at
Ilarrisburg, Pennsylvania, as Company H,
Fifth Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteer
Infantry, of which he was captain; he was at
Alexandria in 1861 and saw the killing of
Colonel Ellsworth at the Marshall House by
the enraged Jackson; May 14, 1861. he was
ordered to I'.oston, Massachusetts, where he
assisted in recruiting and organizing a regi-
ment ; in 1862 his command was attached to
what was later known as the Second Division,
Fifth Army Corps; they were engaged in the
Peninsular campaign with McClellan and with

the Army of the Potomac under its many com-
manders ; in 1864, with Grant in command, his
regiment was in one of the battles of the
Wilderness, Laurel Hill, Spottsylvania, Be-
thseda Church, and Cold Harbor; he was
wounded several times, and during the assault
on Petersburg, June 19, 1864, he received a
severe wound ; during the time between May
5 and June 19, 1864, he was under fire twen-
ty-four days ; he was breveted major for gal-
lantry at Spottsylvania, lieutenant-colonel for
his services at Petersburg, and colonel for his
patriotic services in the final campaign ; after '
the war he continued in the service of the
government until his resignation in 1870; he
engaged in cotton planting in the south, then
removed to San Francisco where he was in the
internal revenue service ; he was a member of
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; he
married (first) Adeline Hickok, who bore him
Charles, Walter and Anna; married (second)
Alice Kingsbury ; children : Frank, Earl,
Sarah, \'erdenel and Edmund. 2. Thomas
Bussey, born August 23, 1836, died April 8,
1896; he also served in the civil war, going
out as private and returning as lieutenant ;
after the war he returned to Hoosick Falls,
New York, then removed to Minnesota where
he represented the Walter A. Wood Machin-
ery Company ; he was an Episcopalian and a
member of the Grand Army of the Republic ;
he married, November 8, 1859, Sarah Eliza-
beth Hewitt, who died November 29. 1899 ;
children: Rev. Frank E., an Episcopal min-
ister; Howard B. ; Morgan S. ; Mary E. 3.
Julia E., aforementioned as the wife of Wil-
liam H. Copeland. 4. Henry Clay, born April
6, 1842, died June 10, 1843. 5- Sarah, married
(first) Jacob Merritt, of Troy, Hoosick I-'alls,
and Danbury, Connecticut, son of Charles H.
Merritt; she married (second) Joseph M.
Ives, of Danbury. Connecticut, who died Sep-
tember, 1908; she survives her husband, a
resident of Danbury, without issue. 6. Lucius,
born at Hoosick Falls, New York. January
10, 1846, died October 24, 1888, at Danbury,
Connecticut ; he enlisted in the Union army
in 1864 '• after the war he entered the employ
of the Walter A. Wood Company and filled a
responsible position with that company for
many years ; he married, September 4, 1886,
Mary L. Wait; children: Sally M., married
Edgar L. Green, of Hoosick Falls, and has
Edgar Lucius and Howard Burchard; Helen,
married Frank V. Milliman, of Boston, Mas-
sachusetts, and has Frank L., born May 3,
1896, and Julian, born .\pril 23, 1901. 7.
Priscilla Cooley, born July 8, 1847, died May
4. i8s2. 8. Charles, born ]une 14, 1850, died
May "18. 1852.

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1807

Stephen Paine, immigrant, witli
PAYN wife Rose and three children came
to New England in the ship "Dili-
gence," of Ipswich, in 1638, and settled in
Hingham, Massachusetts, as early as 1660.
He was one of the first proprietors of Reho-
both, Massachusetts. He was freeman, 1639,
deputy, 1641, and many years townsman, 1644,
and held the office for several years. He mar-
ried (first) Rose , who died January

20, 1660; (second) Alice or Elizabeth Par-
ker, widow of William Parker, of Plymouth
or Taunton. She died December 5, i(j82. He
died August, 1679. His will is one of the
earliest on record in the State House, Boston.
Children : Stephen, mentioned below ; Nathan-
iel, born in England.

(H) Stephen (2), son of Stephen (i)
Paine, was born in England, in 1629, and came
to New England with his father. He went
first to Hingham, and removed to Rehoboth in
1643-44, where he became a prominent citi-
zen and land holder. He took the oath of
fidelity in 1657. He was a tanner by trade.
Both he and his father owned land in Swan-
sea, Massachusetts, and may have lived there
for a time. He served in King Philip's war,
under Major Bradford, and contributed money
to carry it on. He married Anne, perhaps a
daughter of Francis Chickering, of Dedham.
She married (second) Thomas Metcalf, of
Rehoboth. Children : Stephen, born Septem-
ber 29, 1654; Rebecca, October 20, 1656;
John, April 3, 1658; Mary, May 11, 1660;
Samuel, mentioned below; Elizabeth, August
2-/, 1664; Sarah, October 12, 1666; Nathaniel,
September 20, 1667; Benjamin, March 9,
1674-75-

(HI) Samuel, son of Stephen (2) Paine,
was born at Rehoboth, May 12, 1662. He held
various town offices in Woodstock, and in
1695 bought two hundred acres at Pomfret,
Connecticut. He was a wealthy man for his
day. He died at Woodstock, May 11, 1735.
He married (first) Anne Peck, of Rehoboth,
December 16, 1685; (second) Mrs. Abigail
Frissell, of Woodstock, Connecticut, where he
settled in 1708. Anne Peck was born Decem-
ber 22, 1667, eldest child of Deacon Samuel
and Sarah (Hunt) Peck. Sarah Hunt was the
daughter of Peter Hunt, Sr., and granddaugh-
ter of Enoch Hunt, the immigrant. Deacon
Samuel Peck was the son of Joseph Peck, who
came in the "Diligent." Abigail Frissell was

the daughter of Bartholomew, and

widow of Joseph Frissell, of Woodstock.
Children of first wife, born at Rehoboth : Sam-
uel, September 13, 1686; Ann, September 15,
1688: Seth, -August 20, 1690: Sarah, Decem-
ber II, 1692: Judith, February 18, 1694;

Noah, May 21, 1696; Stephen, June 21, 1699,
mentioned below ; Daniel, February 22, 1702 ;
Ebenezer, 1711; Rebecca, 1713.

(I\') Stephen (3), son of Samuel Paine,
was born June 21, 1699. He married, 1727,
in Pomfret, Sarah Leach. Children, born at
Woodstock or Pomfret: Judith, December
31, 1727; Noah, November 29. 1729; Stephen,
mentioned below.

(V) Stephen (4). son of Stephen (3)
Paine, was born in Woodstock or Pomfret.
He married Anna Bushnell. In 1773 he re-
moved from Woodstock to what was then the
frontier of western Massachusetts. Here he
settled at Partridgefield. now Hinsdale, Berk-
shire county, just south of the old Boston
and Albany turnpike, and cleared and culti-
vated a farm. Among his children was Eb-
enezer Leach, mentioned below. This branch
of the familv has spelled the name Payne and
Payn.

(\T) Ebenezer Leach Payn, son of Stephen
( 4 ) Paine, was born in Anrlover, Connecticut,
September 21, 1762. When eleven years of
age. he removed with his parents to Partridge-
field, and at the age of fourteen became a sol-
dier in the revolution as a substitute for his
father, who was ill. He was present at Ti-
conderoga when the English under General
Burgoyne compelled the evacuation of that
fort by the patriots, and took part in the re-
treat of the latter, which involved the cross-
ing of Lake Champlain on rafts of logs. He
participated in the battle fought at Hubbard-
ton, Vermont, where the overwhelming num-
l;er of the British forces again compelled the
American troops to retreat. He married. ?^Iay
12, 1783, Keziah Kenny, born in New Milford,
Connecticut. June 18. 1766. They settled in
that part of Hinsdale known as the "North
Woods," about two miles from the center of
the town. Children: .Alpheus. born, 1787;
Daniel, 1789; Stephen. 1791 ; Bushnell, 1793;
Noah, 1795; Chauncey, 1798: Sally, 1800;
James, 1803 : Elijah, 1806. mentioned below ;
Keziah. 1809; Lyman, 181 1 : Elvira, 1813.

(VII) Judge Elijah Payn, son of Ebenezer
Leach Payn, was born 1806, died in Hudson,
New York. He married Rachel Dunspaugh.
Child, Louis Frisbie. mentioned below.

(\TII) Louis Frisbie Payn, son of Judge
Elijah Payn, was born in Ghent. Columbia
county. New York, January 27, 1835. He
was educated in the schools of Chatham, New
York. He has always been active in business
and political life, and has given much time to
the public service. In 1872 he built a mill for
the manufacture of paper at Chatham, and in
1890 added machinery for the manufacture of
box board. He is president of the Stony

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IJi-ook Box Board Mills, and iiresidt-nt of the
Louis F. Payn Oil Com];an\ of \\'est \ir-
ginia, and has interests in silver mines in Col-
orado. From youth he has been an ardent
member of the Republican party and an in-
fluential supporter of its interests. Since
1864 he has attended as a delegate every na-
tional convention, but has never been a candi-
date for any elective public office of impor-
tance. He achieved a national reputation in
1880 on account of his strong support of Gen-
eral Grant as a candidate to the presidency
for a third term. He has, however, made the
political fortunes of many other men now high
in public life, and is still active and alert in
I)olitics. He has held several important ap-
pointive offices in the state: January 28. 1856,
he was appointed deputy sheriff of Columbia
county ; 1866 harbor master of the port of
New York City: in 1877 he was appointed by
President Grant United States marshal for
the southern district of New York : February
2, 1897, he was appointed by Governor Black
state superintendent of insurance and served
until January 21, 1900. He is a member of
Columbia Lodge, No. 98, Free and Accepted
Masons. He married (first) 1857, Margaret,
daughter of John Stafford, and niece of Gen-
eral Worth, of Mexican war fame. She died
in 1898. He married (second) December,
1902, Marion K. Heath, of Albany, New
^'ork. He now resides at Chatham, New
^'()rk, where he lias lived for seventy years.

William .Arthur, A.
\'AX ALSTYNE M., in his dictionary

of Family and Chris-
tian names says: "Van Alstyne" Local, from
the old or high stone Dutch. Records in
Holland show the family to be of ancient ori-
gin being traced under different names back
to the crowning of "Otho" in the year A. D.
936. The family first appears under the
name, Ralsko, which it abandoned in order
to take that of Warternberg, wdiich they bore
for several centuries. Jean Ralsko who died
in Flanders in 1236, had built there the Cha-
teau de Waldstein, the name of which he
took to distinguish himself from his brother
who bore that of Warternberg. The family
has been traced under the name of Balstein
in Spain, \'allenstein in France, Halsteyn in
Flanders and \'an .Alstein in Holland. I*"rom
Waldstein the name changed to Wallenstein,
W^nlstein, Valstein, and finally became Van
.Alstein, which with slight variations in spell-
ing has ever since been used.- On early rec-
ords in America, it appears as Van -Aelsteyn,
\an Aalstvnc. \'an Alstyn. \'an .Mstein. A'an
Alstvne and \'an Alstine. One branch

dro];ped the \'an and are 1 n<nvn as Al-tvn.
In the present day three forms of spelling are
found: Van Alstine, \'an Alstyne and Alstyn.

(I) The direct ancestor of the family in
America was Jan Martense, signifying John,
son of Marten Van Alstyne, the final se mean-
ing son of. Jan Martense was of record in
New Amsterdam (New York) as early as
1643. In the Dutch manuscripts there is a
bill of sale to him, dated December 11. 1646.
How long he remained in New .Amsterdam is
not known but in 1657 he is recorded in Al-
bany, New A^ork, as owning a lot lying "East
of Broadway and North of Columbia Street."
This he held as late as 1693 and in the mean-
time became patentee of two tracts of land
in the county of "LTster." At that period Al-
bany county embraced about all of the state of
New A^ork lying north and west of Dutchess
and Ulster counties. He also purchased a
large tract of land "behind Kinderhook"
where he resided until his death about 1698.
L: 1695 he conveyed his home farm to his
son Abraham, the latter giving back a cove-
nant to pay the other heirs certain sums of
money as provided in the conveyance. His
wife was Dirkje Harmense (Dirkje being the
feminine form of Richard). Their sons were:
I. Abraham, see forward. 2. Marten, born
July 18, 1655 : married (first) Jannetje Bo-
gart: (second) Cornelia Van Den Bergh.
3. Isaac, born July, 1657, married (first) Mar-
ritje \'osburgh : (second) Jannetje J. \^alken-
burg. 4. Lambert, married Jannetje Mingael.
.All had the middle name Janse, signifying
they were sons of Jan (John).

(II) Abraham Janse. son of Jan Martense
and Dirkje Harmense A'an .Alstyne, born
1650, owned and cultivated the homestead
farm at Kinderhook, deeded him by his father.
This land as well as the deeds of conveyance
has ever since been in the possession of his
descendants. The name of his fir.st wife is
not recorded. He married (second) January
17. 1694, Maritie A'an Deusen. Children: i.
Jannekc, born March 15, 1685. died May 31,
1727. 2. Jan, born May 22, 1687: buried
.September 27, 1738; married Elizabeth

. 3. Jacob, born September 8, 1689,

see forward. 4. Johannes, born August 26.
1694. 5. Matthews, born June 14. 1696. 6.
Dirkje, born December 4, 1698. 7. Sander,
born January 5, 1701. 8. .Abraham, born .Au-
gust 15, 1703. 9. Lena, born November 18,
1705. 10. Isaac, born January 28, 1708: bur-
ied July 6, 1746: married ]\iaritje Van den
P.ergh. January 23, 1728. 11. Dirkje, born
.Ajiril 30, 1710. 12. Catryntje, born Octo-
Iier 12, 1713. 13. Jacobus, born April 21,
1717. 14. ATartcn, born May 3, 1719.

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(HI I Jacob, son of Abraham Janse \'an
Alstync, was born at Kinderhook. New York,
September 8. 1689. He was buried Novem-
ber 4, 1730. He married, October 10, 1722,
Pietertje \'an Iveren (alias of Myndertse),
born August 22, 1703. daughter of Alyndert
and Saartje (Bratt) \'an Iveren. Children:
I. Jannetje, born Xovember 22, 1723. 2.
Rinier, born April 4. 1725, sec forward. 3.
Sara, born June 4. 1727. 4. .Maria, born July
27, 1729.

(I\') Rinier, son of Jacob and Pietertje
(\'an Iveren) Van. Alstyne, was born at
Kinderhook, New York, .A.pril 4, 1725. He
settled near Blooming Grove, town of North
Greenbush, Rensselaer county, which he
bought from the Rensselaers. He married,
Xovember 5, 1748, Cornelia \'an Den Bergh,
born May 24, 1724, daughter of Matthias and
Cathalyna ( \"an Deusen) Van Den Bergh.
Children: i. Jacob, born May 28, 1750. 2.
Catalyntje, born March 17, 1751. 3. Mat-
thew, born June 3, 1753, see forward. 4.
Pietje (Peter), born August 30, 1776.

(V) Matthew, son of Rinier and Cornelia
(Van Den Bergh) Van Alstyne, was born
June 3, 1753. He served in the revolution as
a member of Tryon county, first regiment,
militia (Land Bounty Rights). He married,
March 31, 1782, Rachel De Forest, born
March 23. 1764, daughter of Marten and Tan-
neke (W'inne) De Forest, a descendant of
the early DeForest family of Harlem and
New Amsterdam. Matthew \"an .Alstyne lo-
cated in the town of North Greenbush, Rens-
selaer county, on the homestead farm. Chil-
dren: I. Marten. 2. Cornelia, born Feb-
ruary 3, 1788. 3. Rinier. see forward. 4.
Peter, lived a mile north. 5. Cataline, mar-
ried Martinus Lansing. 6. .Antoinette, mar-
ried John R. DeForest. 7. Catherine, married
John R. Fonda.

CVT) Rinier (2), son of .Matthew and Ra-
chel (DeF'orest) \'an Alstyne, lived on
homestead in Rensselaer county. New York.
He married Catlierine \Miitbeck, born about
1790. died Alarch 2S, 1880. He died .\ugust
14. 1865. Children: i. Matthew, see forward.
2. Catherine, married John K. De Forest. 3.
Catalina, married William P. Whitbeck.

(YU) Matthew (2), son of Rinier (2)
and Catherine (Whitbeck) Ynn .Alstyne, was
born December 11, 1812, died October, 1886.
He married Rachel De Forest, born March
18, 1819, died July 29, 1877. Children: Ri-
nier, see forward : Frank Pruyn : Van Dyke ;
Elizabeth: .Ann. married Dr. Ten Evck ; Isa-
bella.

(VTTI) Rinier (3), son of Matthew (2)
and Rachel TDe Forest) \'an .Alstvne, was

born March 22, 1845, died October 30, 1877.
He married, December 8, iSfxj, .Mice Cath-
erine Brownell, born December 21, 1847,
daughter of Edwin and Catherine (Whit-
beck) Brownell. Child, Matthew, see for-
ward.

(IX) Matthew (3), son of Rinier (3) and
Catherine (Brownell) Van Alstyne, was born
at Bath-on-the-Hudson (Rensselaer), New
York, October 9, 1870. He was educated at
Troy Academy, finishing his studies at .Al-
bany high school. He at once -entered upon
an active business that has continued without
interruption, with the Albany Belting & Sup-
ply Company. He is an energetic, capable
man of business and has fairly won the im-
portant position he occupies. He is a mem-
ber of the First Dutch Reformed Church of
Albany and in political preference a Democrat.
His clubs are the Fort Orange and .Albany
Country. He married at ^Albany, December 14,
1899, Adaline Yerks, born in tliat city, Janu-
ary I, 1875, daughter of George Wilbur and
-Adaline Maria (Benjamin) Yerks, of .Albany.
(ieorge W. Yerks was born at Unionville,
Westchester county. New York, February 4,
1848, died at Albany, August 9, 1903, son of
William H. and Mary A. (Clark) Yerks.
Marv A. was a daughter of Amos and Eliza-
beth (Van Wart) Clark. Through both Clark
and \"an Wart lines, she was of splendid rev-
olutionary stock. George W. Yerks was edu-
cated at Amenia and finishetl at Claverack
Academy. After graduation he entered the
employ of the United States government. He
came to Albany and established in the fancy
grocery business on Broadway, under the firni
name of Benjamin & Yerks, in 1877 becoming
sole proprietor. In 1878 he admitted a part-
ner under the firm name of George W. Yerks
& Company. He held offices of honor and
trust in the city ; was trustee of the Madison
Avenue Reformed Church and a member of
the b'ort Orange Club. He married, July 8,
1868, .Adaline Maria, born in Cleveland, Ohio,
died in .Albany, New A^ork, October 30, 1900,
daughter of George Whitman and .Adaline
(Powell) Benjamin. George Whitman Ben-
jamin was born in Williamstown, Massachu-
setts, and was a descendant of Governor John
Webster. His mother was a Seymour of
Hartford. Connecticut, and descended from
the famous English house which bears the title
of Dukes of Somerset. .Adaline (Yerks) Van
Alstyne was educated at Albany Female .Acad-
emy and St. Agnes School, and is a member
of the .Albany Country Club, the Mohawk
Chapter, Daughters of the .American Revolu-
tion, and the Society of Graduates of St. .Ag-
nes School. Child of ATatthew and .Adaline

HUDSON AND MOHAWK \'ALLEYS

(Yerks) Van Alstyne: W'illiur Verks, born
in Albany, December i6, 1904.

The early Havilands of
HAVILAND England 'were of French
birth, the original name be-
ing De Havery. The earliest records state
that three brothers of that name emigrated
from France to England. While crossing the
Channel it was agreed that the first to see land
should say, "Have I Land" and that became
their English surname. The Havilands of
Flushing, Long Island, descend from William
Haviland, who came from England and set-
tled first at Newport, Rhode Island. He was
freeman there, May 17, 1653, and a commis-
sioner to the general court at Portsmouth,
May 21, 1656. He removed to Flushing, Long
Island, New York, in 1667, where he pur-
chased one hundred acres of land on what is
now Little Neck. He married, while in New-
port, Hannah, daughter of John and Horod
(Long) Hicks. They had four sons, Joseph,
Benjamin, John and Jacob.

(II) Benjamin, son of William and Han-
nah (Hicks) Haviland, was born at Newport,
Rhode Island, 1654. He settled with his father
William, at Flushing, Long Island. He mar-
ried and had three sons: Benjamin, John and
Isaac.

(HI) Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin (i)
Haviland, was born in 1698. He married
Charlotte Park and settled at Rye, Westches-
ter county. New York. His will, dated May
21, 1759, was proved January i, 1761 (see
Westchester county Wills, Pelletreau). Chil-
dren: (sons all mentioned in will) Benjamin
(3), Roger, Thomas, Daniel, Solomon, Isaac.
John, Sophia, Charlotte, Althea, Sarah, Abi-
gail and Mary.

(IV) Roger, son of Benjamin (2) and
Charlotte (Park) Haviland. was born in
17^5. Lot No. 16 is in the town of South
East, Putnam county, New York. .A. branch
of the Croton river, called Quaker brook,
runs through it, and in the beautiful val-
ley Roger and his brother Daniel settled,
the place being known as "Haviland Hollow."
The old Quaker burying ground and church
(now deserted) is on ground given by Dan-
iel, who is buried there with his wife. Flis
children were: Roger (2). Nathaniel, Edward.
Sarah, Charlotte, Abigail and .\he\.

(V) Roger (2), son of Roger (i) Havi-
land, was born in 1765. He married and had
four sons: David, Solomon, Joseph and
Roger.

(VI) David, son of Roger (2) Haviland.
was born .April 13, 17S5. He lived a farmer's
life until his death, which occurred April ft.

187 1, near Cdens Falls, New York. He
married (first) Rosetta Lapham, and by this
marriage had one child, Hannah. Upon the
death of his first wife he married (second)
-Vnna Hoag and had the following children:
Rosetta, Lovina, Charlotte, David J., George
and Sarah Ann. The death of his second wife
again left him a widower, and he married
(third) Hannah Anthony, having children as
follows: Mason, William (both dying during
childhood) ; .Abbie A., married Calvin Mason";
Roger E., of further mention.

(VII) Roger E., youngest son of David
and Hannah (Anthony) Haviland, was born
August 20, 1842. He always lived near Glens
Falls, New York, dying there June 29, 1883.
He was a leading member of the Society
of Friends, being an elder of the church and
occupying one of the high seats in its meet-
ings. By occupation he was a farmer, and was
a man of quiet tastes and highly respected in
the neighborhood. He married, September 15,
1869, Ellen Gardner, born near Evans Mills,
Jefferson county. New York, March 7. 1849.
dying at South Glens Falls, New York. June
21, 1896. She was a daughter of David and
Persis Gardner, and both of her parents had
also been actively identified with the Friends
church. Children: i. Hannah, born July 4,
1870: married Madison S. Gardner, and is
now living at Union Springs, New York,
with children: Nellie E., Roger W., Phoebe.
2. Clarence D., born March 19, 1873 ; married
Elizabeth Wauful, lives at Leraysville, New
York, and has three children : Harold, Elmer
and Arthur. 3. Theodore R., of further men-
tion. 4. A. Gardner, born November 28.
1881 ; married Daisy Everetts. lives at South
Glens Falls, New York, and has a daughter.
Hazel.

(\TII) Theodore R., son of Roger E. and
Ellen (Gardner) Haviland, was born near
Glens Falls, New York. February 15. 1877.
He was educated at the Glens Falls .Academy,
from which institution he graduated in 1894,
but continued his studies there, taking ad-
vanced work until June, 1895. In the fall of
that year he removed to Gloversville, New
York, where he began his legal education un-
der the preceptorship of William S. Cassedy,
with whom he remained one and one-half years,
and then entered the law office of Frank Talbot,
where he com])leted his course of study of law.
He was admitted to the New York state bar
in September. 1900. but did not sever his con-
nection with Mr. Talbot's olifice until January
1. 1902, when be opened an office in Glovers-
ville and began the practice of his profession
alone, and so continues. In the fall of 1901
he was elected justice of the i)eace, commcnc-

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1811

ing his duties January 1, 1902. Iiut after hold-
ing that position six months he resigned as
such to take the office of city recorder, to
w hich he was then appointed to fill an iniex-
pired term. He was thereafter twice elected
to the same office, retiring December 31, 1907.
He was admitted to practice in both the dis-
trict and circuit courts of the United States
in December, 1908. In January, 1909, he was
appointed the Gloversville city attorney, and
in iQio was reappointed as such. He is a
member of the state, county and city bar as-
sociations, and stands high in his profession.
He is a member of. the Masonic order, the In-
<lependent Order of Odd Fellows and the Ec-
centric Club. In religion he was for a num-
ber of years a member of the Friends church
at South Glens Falls, New York, but since
making Gloversville his home has united with
tiie Congregational church. He married, Sep-
tember 6, 1899, Lula, born September 4, 1876,
at South Glens Falls, New York, daughter of
Benjamin B. and Mary (Putnam) Brush.
Children: Roger B., born November 29, 1900;
Florence P., born December 4, 1909, died May
3, 1910.

Simon Huntington, the

HUNTINGTON ancestor of the 'Hunting-
ton family, was born in
England. He married Margaret Baret. In
1633 he, with his wife and son, emigrated to
.America. He died on the voyage and was
buried at sea.

(II) Simon (2), son of Simon (i) and
]\fargaret (Baret) Huntington, was born in
England in 1629. He married Sarah, daugh-
ter of Joseph Clark, of W'indsor, and later
of Saybrook, Connecticut.

(HI) Deacon Joseph Huntington, son of
Simon (2) and Sarah (Clark) Huntington,
was born at Norwich. September, i66r. died
December 29, 1747. He was one of the found-
ers of Windham, Connecticut. He married
Rebecca .Adgate, born June, 1666.

(I\' ) Nathaniel, son of Deacon Joseph and
Rebecca (Adgate) Huntingto'', was born at
Norwich, September i, 1691. He married
Mehitable Thurston. Children: Enoch, of
further mention; Samuel, one of the signers
of the Declaration of Independence, president
of the colonial congress, and afterward gov-
ernor of Connecticut.

(Y) Rev. Enoch Huntington, son of Na-
thaniel and Mehitable (Thurston) Hunting-
ton, was born December t^, 1739. He grad-
uated from Yale in 1759; studied for the min-
istry and was ordained and installed over the
First Church of Middletown. January. 1762,
and there spent his life. He was considered

during his collegiate course a man of remark-
able talents and his classical and general
scholarship subsequently justified the decision.
He won the Berkely premium of his class. In
the pulpit he was very popular. He took a
great interest in politics during the revolu-
tionary period, and many of his sermons and
addresses of that day were printed and have
been preserved. He married, at Windham,
Connecticut, July 17, 1764, Mary, born Oc-
tober 14, 1744, daughter of Samuel Gray.

(\T) Judge Samuel Gray Huntington, son
of Rev. Enoch and Alary (Gray) Huntington,
was born at Middletown. Connecticut, May 21,
T782, died at Troy, New York, July 5, 1854.
He graduated from Yale in 1800, taking the
Berkely premium. .At a meeting of the Rensse-
laer county bar, held the day after his death,
ample testimony was given of his ability and
great worth ; we quote from the resolutions
passed at that time. "Resolved, That the bar
of this city, by the death of the Honorable
Samuel G. Huntington, have lost their oldest
member, a lawyer and a scholar ; a man thor-
oughly bred to his profession, and ever ready
to impart to others that knowledge which his
careful training, advanced age and varied ex-
l)erience had given him. Resolved, That the
extent and variety of his classical and legal
learning, may well awaken the emulation of
us, his survivors."

In seconding the resolutions, Hon. D. L.
Seymour spoke as follows: "We are again
assembled to take appropriate notice of the
death of one of our members. The oldest
member of the Rensselaer bar has fallen. Al-
though past three score years and ten, yet
such had been the vigor and animation of his
declining years, that his sudden demise af-
fected us almost as if he had been struck
down in the full strength of manhood. We
feel deeply this sudden providence, and as
brethren of the legal profession feel that the
iiar of our County has sustained a loss, and
that we individually mourn the loss of a
friend." Samuel Gray Huntington was the
son of the Reverend Enoch Huntington, and
like most of the youths of his native State,
received the rudiments of a thorough educa-
tion in the excellent school, then and still lib-
erally and carefully sustained by the able leg-
isolation of that State. .After leaving the com-
mon school he passed through the education
preparatory to admission to a collegiate course,
and was admitted to Yale College, where he
graduated with the honors of that ancient Uni-
versity, in 1800. Judge Huntington left col-
lege with a thorough classical education and
at once entered upon the study of law, in the

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then a [iracticing lawyer of good standing in
his native town. After the usual period of
study he was admitted to the bar of Middle-
sex County. It is profitable to dwell for a mo-
ment upon this period of his life. He had
selected the law for his profession, and in
making that choice he doubtless felt that the
legal profession yielded to no other in dignity
or importance. That the first object of the
young lawyer, whether he consulted his repu-
tation or his fame, was to master not only the
forms, precedents and superficial structure of
the science, but its first principles, its very
fountain opening up through the social and
political condition of man and disclosing the
necessary wnles regulating his rights of per-
son and property. At that day, too, the great
lights of the bar and bench of his native State
beckoned him onward in a course of honor-
able distinction in his profession. Such men
as Reeve and Swift adorned the bench, while
Pierpont Edwards, Goddard, Daggett, and
Gould, shone at the bar. Entering upon the
practice of his profession with such an excel-
lent preparation and under such incentive his
success was almost certain. He had already
attained a reputable standing among the
younger members of the bar of his native State
when, about the year 1806, he removed to New
York State, and settled in Waterford. Sara-
toga County. Here he soon rose to eminence
as a lawyer, and ranked among the ablest of
the many distinguished men who have graced
the bar of that County. He removed to Troy
in 1825. For many years his professional
business here was among the largest and most
lucrative. His counsel was sought in the most
important cases, particularly in those relating
to real estate. In this branch of the law he
was master, as well from his intimate ac-
quaintance with the decisions of the English
Courts as from the fact that the period of his
j)ractice reaching to upward of half a cen-
tury, embraced that space in the history of
our country during which not only the system
of our law of real estate, but in fact almost
Ihe entire body of American common law,
had been formed. When he commenced prac-
tice there was no American Commentator on
the law, and the reported cases, either in Con-
necticut or New York, did not exceed half a
dozen volumes. Under the administration of
Governor Clinton, he was appointed to the
office of judge of the Court of Common Pleas,
Rensselaer County, and discharged its duties
with great ability and impartiality. His de-
cisions always commanded respect, as they
were felt to be the result of an honest convic-
tion of the right of the case in a mind guided
by patient research and stored with legal lore.

In the death of Judge Huntington, his breth-
ren of the bar mourn the loss of one in whose
counsels they have often confided, whose legal
acquirements did honor to their profession,
whose professional relation to them all was
kind, courteous and honorable, and whose so-
cial intercourse so often helped to strip labor
of its drudgery, relieved life of its tedium,
and to strew our pathway with pleasant, harm-
less trifles and gay flowers."

He married (first) ^lary Johnston, of Mid-
dletown. He married (second) June 23, 1825,
Janette C. Cheever, who died November 4,
1856. Samuel G. Huntiygton had a daugh-
ter, Sarah Sayr, born in Waterford. New
York; married, November 30, 1841, John H.
Whitlock, of Trov, New York.

r)ne authority defines the name

TERRY Terry thus:' "Not 'the tearful

one," as some entomologists have

it, but a corruption of Theodoric, the persona!

name."

Mr. Ferguson in his "Teutcmic Name Sys-
tem," classes together the old German names
Tarro, Terra, Torro, ninth century Terri,
the English names Darr, Darrow, Door.
Dorey, Dorre, Tarr, Tarry, Terry, Torrey, and
the French names Dary, Dorre, Dor, Dore,
Tarie, Terray, Terre, and he derives these
from the old Norse word doerr, meaning
spear, probably from the Sanscrit root tar.
Mr. Samuel Terry, of New York City, has
made investigation and thinks it originated
among the early French, where under the form
of Therry it was not an uncommon personal
name, and through the Franks coming to be
regarded as French, and is now sometimes
found there as a family name in this form
and as Therry, and also Terry. The earliest
information of the founder of the family in
this country is an agreement formed by Wil-
liam Pyncheon and Samuel Terry, OctolDer 15,
1650, whereby the latter is to receive a cer-
tain amount for his services, and be taught the
trade of linen spinner, he binding himself to
be diligent in service. Signed by Samuel
Terry, Benjamin B. Cooley (his mark), and
William Pyncheon, witness Richard Maund
and John Benham. Hon. William Pyncheon
was in England in the spring of 1650 and
there made the contract, and doubtless it was
then that he took into apprenticeship the boy
Samuel Terry, who may have been of Rarnet,
a village eleven miles from London. He may
have been an orphan whom Mr. Pyncheon had
known, and it is unlikely that he would have
taken such a boy for less than the entire time
of his minority, accordingly he was probably
liorn about the year 1633 or 34. Mr. Pyn-

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1813

cheon returned to England, and was relieved
of the contract.

Samuel Terry, born about 1633, in Eng-
land, arrived in America about 1650, was of
Springfield, iMassachusetts. in 1654, and was
granted land, January 7, 1654, consisting of
ten acres on "Chuckapee Plain" on condition
that he remain in the town five years. In 1658
he forfeited it by leaving. He was granted
land at Wononaco town, 1664, and land at
I'resh Water Brook (now Enfield) in 1665.
lie was granted thirty acres of upland, along
by his meadow land beyond Chicopee Plain
in 1670. He with others was assessed two
loads of firewood for the use of their pastor.
In 1678 he was appointed a surveyor of high-
ways. His name and that of his son Samuel
a])pear in a list of persons, who took the oath
of allegiance, December 31, 1678, and Janu-
ary I, 1679. He married. January 3, 1660,
Ann Lobdell, and the town settled with him
for his claim to the land before mentioned by
making him a grant a little further south. In
May, 1684, his wife died, also his adopted
child, Johny Matthews. In 1685 he was one
of a town committee to establish boundaries
between Springfield and adjoining towns, and
the records speak of him as Sergeant Samuel
Terry. In 1690 he married Sarah, widow of
John Scott, and daughter of Thomas and Mar-
garet Bliss. In 1693 he made an agreement
to teach the art of weaving to his stepson,
Ebenezer Scott, whence it appears he still
practiced it himself. He was also chosen con-
stable this same year. He and his wife parted
in 1694, and she died September 27, 1705. In
1730 the administration of his estate was
granted to his sons, Samuel and Thomas, and
in the record he is called "husbandman," "for-
merly of Springfield." This was doubtless the
year of his death. He signed his name in a
free hand, as one much in the habit of writing,
so probably he was better educated than most
men of his time. His children were : Samuel,
Ei^hraim. died young, Thomas, Mary, Rebec-
ca, died young, Ephraim, Rebecca, Elizabeth
and Ann. The line herein traced descends
from this family through Enfield. Connecticut,
but it has been impossible to get the connec-
tion from public records. The absence of any
vital statistics, in nearly all the state of New
York, in early days renders it extremely diffi-
cult to trace any line in this state withcnit the
aid of private records.

( I ) Horace G. Terry was a farmer near
the present village of Alton, in Wayne county.
New York. He is mentioned as residing near
the pioneer church in that section, but no rec-
ord can be found showing his wife and family.

(11) Griffith Pritchard. ,-on of Horace G.

Terry, was born at Alton, Wayne county, Xew
N'ork. He married l-lleanor Lasher. Chil-
dren: Horace Gerry and Charles Thaddeus.

(HI) Horace Gerry, eldest son of Griffith
Pritchard and Eleanor (Lasher) Terry, was
born in Albany, New York. August 9, 1859.
He was educated in the public schools of Al-
bany, finishing his studies at the high school.
After completing his years of study he en-
tered the employ of the Albany Banking and
Loan Company and later was for two years
with the New York Central Railroad Com-
pany. In 1881 he entered the employ of H.
F. Hemingway & Company, and in 1896 was
admitted a partner under the firm name of
Hemingway, Terry & Company and engaged
in the wholesale oyster trade. Later the firm
became Clark, Hemingway, Terry & Company,
ctjntinuing the same lines. The firm was re-
organized as the Albany Oyster Company and
as such transacts a large business. Mr. Terry
is a member of the Aurania Club of .Albany,
antl in politics is a Republican.

He married. July 15, 1884, Jessie L., daugh-
ter of Barnard and Ma'ry (Le Clair) Winne,
of Albany. Children : Katherine, married
Percy S. Brown ; child, Priscilla, born July 4,
1910: Griffith Pritchard: Charles Thaddeus.

(HI) Charles Thaddeus, son of Griffith
Pritchard and Eleanor (Lasher) Terry, was
born in Albany, New York, September 16,
1867. He was educated in private and public
schools of Albany, was graduated from Wil-
liams College, A. B., class of 1889; Columbia
University Law School. LL. B., 1893, L'"'"
versity of Berlin, Germany. 1890. He began
the practice of law as junior partner of an
old established firm in New York City, contin-
uing two years, then partner of a law firm of
three for six years, then practiced alone.
From 1893 to 1895 he was prize lecturer on
Practice and Pleading under the New York
Code of Civil Procedure, at Columbia Law
School; regular lecturer on same 1896-1901,
and since then Professor of Law. In 1903,
as counsel for the National .Association of
-Automobile Manufacturers, he conducted sev-
eral test cases and succeeded in having the
Xew York state restriction law declared un-
constitutional. During the administration of
Governor Higgins he was ai)pointed by the
governor commissioner of Xew York state on
"Uniformity of laws in the United States."
In 1905 he was elected secretary of the Na-
tional conference of uniform law commis-
sioners. He is shade tree commissioner of
the Tree Planting Association of New York
City and actively interested in that movement.
He is a member of the New York City and
State Bar associations: American Bar .\sso-

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ciation ; president Albany Society of New
York City ; a member of the Phi Beta Kappa;
the Phi Delta Phi; ex-president of the Na-
tional Society ; vice-president of Williams
Alumni Association of New York. His clubs
are the University, Lawyers, Graduates (vice-
president), Phi Delta (ex-president), Phi
Delta Phi (ex-president). He married, in
New Scotland, Albany county. New York,
June 22, 1898, Katherine Lansing Hendrick.
Children : James Hendrick, Katherine Hen-
drick. Thaddeus and Beatrice.

Tlie line of descent
VAN RENSSELAER of General Ste-
phen \"an Rensse-
laer and Cornelia Paterson, descendina; from
Kiliaen A'an Rensselaer, the first Pa-
troon :

General Stephen \'an Rensselaer was the
eighth Patroon of the Manor of Rensselaers-
wyck, which became Albany, New York, on
the province of New York, passing from the
Dutch to the English rule. He was sixth in
descent from Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, the first
Patroon. He was born in the house of his
respected grandfather, Philip Livingston, the
signer, in New York City, November i, 1764,
and died in the Manor House at Albany, Jan-
uary 26, 1839, having lived a life which
brought him great respect throughout his state
and nation, for he had not only been elected
lieutenant-governor of New York state, in
1795, and sent to Congress, in 1823, but he
had served his country as an officer on the
battlefield in the war of 1812. Besides this,
he was a philanthropist in the cause of educa-
tion. His father was Stephen Van Rensselaer,
baptised, Albany, June 2, 1742; died there,
October 19, 1769, who married. New York,
New York, January 23, 1764, Catherine Liv-
ingston, born New York, August 23, 1745,
died, Albany, April 17, 1810.

General Stephen Van Rensselaer married
(first) at Schuylerville, New York, then called
Saratoga, June 6, 1783, Margaret Schuyler,
third daughter of General Philip and Cather-
ine (Van Rensselaer) Schuyler, who was born
at Albany, New York : baptised there Sep-
tember 24, 1758, and died there March 14,
1801. By this marriage there were three
children : i : Catherine Schuyler, born at
Albany, July — , 1784, baptised there August
9, died there April 26, 1797. 2. Stephen, born
at Albany, June 6, 1786, died there in 1787.
3. Stephen, born at Albany, March 29, 1789,
died at the Manor House in Albany, May 25,
1868 ; married, New York, New York, January
2, 1817, PL-irriet Elizabeth Bayard.

(The line of descent of 'tiie third child.

Stephen, has been carried down elsewhere, the
other two of the above children having no
issue.)

General Stephen Van Rensselaer had twelve
children, fifty-one grandchildren, and fifty-
eight great-grandchildren, and one or two
generations before 1910.

General Stephen Van Rensselaer married
(second) at New Brunswick, New Jersey,.
May 17, 1802, Cornelia Paterson, who was
born at New Brunswick, June 4, 1780, died
at New York, August 6, 1844. Cornelia Pat-
erson's father was Justice William Paterson
(son of William Paterson), a resident of New
Brunswick, New Jersey, who was born De-
cember 24, 1745, died while on a visit at the
Manor House in Albany, New York, Septem-
ber 9, 1806. He was a member and secretary
of the first provincial congress of New Jersey,
1776; attorney-general of that state, 1776-86;
a framer of the federal constitution ; United
States senator, 1789 ; was chosen the second
governor of New Jersey in 1791, and General
Washington appointed him a justice of the
United States supreme court in 1793. which
position he held when he died. He married,
February 9, 1779, Cornelia, daughter of John
Bell.

General Stephen and Cornelia (Pater-
son) Van Rensselaer had issue, born at Al-
bany, New York: 4. Catherine, born in the
Manor House, October 17, 1803, died at New
York, November 5, 1874; married, Albany,
June 2, 1830, Gouverneur Morris Wilkins,
who died in New York, New York, February

7, 1871, and was the son of Martin and

(Nutter) Wilkins: no issue. 5. William Pat-
erson, born March 6. 1805, see forward. 6.
Philip Stephen (or Philip Schuyler), born
October 14. 1806: died at New York, New
York, June i, 1871 : married, October 17,
1839, j\L-iry Rebecca Tallmadge. 7. Cortlandt,
born May 26, 1808; died at Burlington. New
Jersey, July 25, i860; married, Hartford, Con-
necticut, September 13, 1836, Catherine Led-
yard Cogswell. 8. Henry Bell, born May 14,
1810; died at Cincinnati, Ohio, March 23,
1864; married, Jamaica, Long Island, August
22, 1833, Elizabeth Ray King. 9. Cornelia
Paterson, born July 8, 1812: died at New
York, New York, January 16, 1890; married,
New York, New York. February 16, 1847,
Robert James Turnbull, M. D. 10. Alexander,
born November s. 1814, died at New York,
New York, May 8, 1878 : married (first) Octo-
ber 21, 1851, Mary Howland : married
(second) June 30, 1864, Louisa Barnewell.
II. Euphemia White, born September 25, 1816,
died at Crnger's Island, Barrytmvn, New
A'ork, .\pril 27, 188S: married Piurlington,

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New Jersey, May _', 1S43, J..lin Cluirch
Cniger. 12. Westerlo, born March 14, 1820,
(lied at Albany, July 8, 1844. without issue.

( \'l ) William Paterson, second child of
General Stephen and Cornelia (Paterson)
\'an Rensselaer, was born in the Manor
House at .Albany New York, March 6, 1805,
died at New York, New York, November 13,
1872. He received a thorough preparatory
education and then entered Yale College, grad-
uating in the class of 1824. On leaving col-
lege he went to Edinburgh, Scotland, where
he studied law through four years, completing
his studies in Paris. He was a scholarly man,
with intellectual tastes, eminent as a philan-
thropist and, as was said of him, "was re-
garded widely as an ideal Christian gentle-
man." He built the handsome residence on
tiie brow of the wooded hill on the east side
of the Hudson opposite the northern end of
Albany, around 1840, or about the time of his
marriage. It was a mansion comparing favor-
ably with that of his elder brother, Stephen
\'an Rensselaer, who had inherited the Manor
House in .-Xlbany. He laid out the extensive
grounds with the idea of making the place
one of the finest estates in the entire state.
He furnished the interior with objects of art
gathered abroad, and his library was a notable
feature of his home. The winding staircase
of selected Italian marble has been greatly ad-
mired by critics of architecture. On the
southern side, as a wing, he built a mammoth
conservatory. The stables were at the further
end of a lawn extending nearly half a mile
eastward. The west entrance faced upon a
plateau which dropped abruptly to the river,
affording a charming vista of the Hudson
and the city of Albany spread along its shore,
while in the far distance were the Catskill
mountains as a background for the picture.
Owing to the serious "Anti-Rent Feuds"
which disturbed the conduct of the \'an Rens-
selaer landed estate, he left this home to take
u]) his residence in New York City and at
Manursing Island, Rye, New York. The
above property was finally purchased by Paul
Forbes, and for many years thereafter was
popularly known as the "Forbes Manor," and
for the twenty-five years previous to 1910
was practically unoccupied excepting by care-
takers.

William Paterson Van Rensselaer married
(first) New York. New York, May 13, 1833,
F.liza Rogers, who was torn at New York
City, in 1812, died in Cuba. March 20, 1836.
He married (second). New York, New York,
April 4, 1839, Sarah Rogers, who was born
at New York City, October 29, 18 10, died at
Manursing Island, Rye, New York. November

19, 1S87. The two wives were sisters, daugh-
ters of Uenjamin W'oolscy and Susan (Bay-
ard) Rogers, and the latter was a sister of
Harriet Elizabeth P.ayard, who married Wil-
liam P. \'an Rensselaer's half-brother. Ste-
])hen Van Rensselaer, whose mother was
Margaret Schuyler and not Cornelia Pater-
son. Of the following nine children, one was
by the first wife, Eliza Rogers, and eight were
by the second wife, Sarah Rogers. Children :
I. William Paterson, born at New York. New
York, January, 1835, died at Rye, New York,
July, 1854. 2. Susan Bayard, born at
New York. New York, January 31, 1840,
died at Rye, New York, July 19, 1863.
3. Cornelia, born at Albany, New York,
September 22, 1841. see forward. 4.
Walter Stephen, born at Albany, New
York, November 2, 1843, died at Rye, New
York, May 14, 1865. 5. Kiliaen, born at
Albany, New York, February 14, 1845, s^^
forward. 6. Sarah Elizabeth, born at New
York. New York, January 18, 1847, died at
Rye, New York, June 29. 1859. 7. Arthur,
b(_)rn at New York, New York, September 28,
1848, died at New York City, March 4, 1869.
8. Catherine Goodhue, born at Norwalk, Con-
necticut, July 25, 1850 : married. Rye, New
York, June 11, 1891, Rev. Anson Phelps
Atterbury : no issue. 9. Eleanor Cecilia, born
at Rye. New York, November 3, 1853, see
forward.

(\TI) Cornelia \''an Rensselaer, daughter
of William Paterson and Sarah (Rogers) Van
Rensselaer, was born at Albany, New York,
September 22, 1841. She married, New York
City. ,\pril 22. 1862. John Erving, born at
Philadelphia. Penn.. July 6. 1833; lawyer,
practicing in New York City in 1911; son of
Colonel John Ervint;, United States army, and
Emily Langdon (Elwyn) Erving. Children:
I. Susan \'an Rensselaer, born at New York,
New York, May 11, 1863; unmarried. 2.
Cornelia, born at New York, New York, April
6, 1865; married (first), .Mbany, New York,
June II, 1895, John V. L. Pruyn, Jr.; chil-
dren : John V. L., Jr., horn at Florence, Italy,
June 6, 1896, died' at Albany, May 17, 1897 ;
Erving, born Albany, October 26, 1897;
Hendrik, born New York City, December 28.
1900. John \'. L. Pruyn, Jr. died Sept. 22,
1904. She married (second). New York City,
.\pril 6. 1908. Hamilton L. Hoppin. 3. John
Langdon, born at Rye, New York, July 31,
i8r)r): associated with the Mexican Telegraph
Company, New York City, in 191 1; married.
New York, November 3. 1904, Alice H.
Rutherford : children : .Mice Rutherford, born
at New ^'ork City, May 23. 1906: Cornelia
\;ui Rensselaer, horn at .\'ew York, Novem-

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I)er 24, 1907; John Lan^i'.i n, Jr.. burn at
Lslip, Long Island, August 1, 1909. 4. Emily
Elvvyn, born at Rye, Xe.v York, June 29,
1868; married, New York City. January 22,
1895, Henry Woodward Cooper ; children :
Cornelia Van Rensselaer, born at Rye, New-
York, February 6, 1896, died September 20,
1898; Lamberton, born at Stuttgart, Germany,
February 16, 1899: John Erving, born at
Rye, New Y'ork, September 30, 1906. 5.
Sarah Elizabeth, born at New York, New
York, May 4, 1870: married, New York City,
April 22, 1895, James Gore King; children:
James Gore, Jr., born at New York City, May
25, 1898; Eleanor Erving, born at New York
City, November 29, 19JJ; Edward Ramsay,
born at New York City, May 20, 1905, died
at New York, September 21, 1907; Cornelia
Van Rensselaer, born at New York City,
February 7, 191 1. 6. William Van Rensselaer,
born at New York, New York, November
IS, 1871 ; practicing law at Albany in 1911;
unmarried. 7. Catherine Van Rensselaer,
born at New York, New York, November 19,
1873; unmarried. 8. Eleanor Cecilia, born at
New York, New York, September 20, 1875 :
unmarried. 9. Shirley, born at Rye, New
York, January 3, 1880: unmarried. 10. Justine
Bayard, born at Albany, New York, Decem-
ber 22, 1882; unmarried. 11. Philip Living-
ston, born at Bermuda, March 12, 1884; died
at Rye, New York, May 11, 1885.

( VH) Captain Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, son
of William Paterson and Sarah (Rogers)
Van Rensselaer, was born at Albany, New
York, February 14, 1845, died at New York,
New York, November 26, 1905. He served
during the civil war and was a captain ; mem-
ber of the Loyal Legion, the Holland and St.
Nicholas societies, and was prominent in re-
ligious and philanthropic work. He married,
New York City, December 13, 1870, Olivia
Phelps Atterbury. She was born at New
York, New York, February 15, 1848, daugh-
ter of Benjamin liakewell Atterbury, a des-
cendant of Bishop Atterbury, of England, and
Olivia Egleston Phelps, daughter of Anson
G. Phelps. Children: i. Olivia Atterbury,
born at New York, New York, September
21, 1871 ; married, New York City, October
31, 1899, Lewis Brown Gawtry ; children:
Olive, born at New York City, April 29, 1901 ;
Beatrice, born at New York City, May 25,
1904. 2. Sarah Elisabeth, born at New York,
New York, April 7, 1873 : married. New York
City. November 5, 1903, Benjamin Walworth
Arnold, Jr., of Albany, New York, born there
April 30. 1865, son of P.. W. and Frances
Treat (.Avery) Arnold. 3. Katharine Boudi-
not, born at New Ymk, New York. January

8. 1875. died there I-ebruary 18, 1896. 4.
Edith Bayard, born at .Xew \'ork, New York,
March 22, 1877, died there, April 2, 1885. 5.
Kiliaen, born at Seabright, New Jersey, May
21, 1879; married. New York City, November
23, 1905, Dorothy Manson ; child : Barbara,
born at New York City, April 13, 1908. 6.
MeHssa Atterbury, born at New York, New
York, March 14, 1883. died there April 28,
1884. 7. William Stephen, born at New York,
New York, April 7, 1886.

(VH) Eleanor Cecilia Van Rensselaer,
daughter of William Paterson and Sarah
(Rogers) Van Rensselaer, was born at
Manursing Island, Rye, New York, Novem-
ber 3. 1853. She married. Rye, New York,
June I, 1887, Hamilton Rogers Fairfax, born
at Alexandria, Virginia, March 2, 1852, son
of John Walter and Mary Elizabeth (Rogers)
Fairfax. Children: i. Katharine Van Rens-
selaer, born at New York. October 26, 1888.

2. Hamilton Van Rensselaer, born at New-
York, January 26, 1891.

(VI) Philip Stephen \'an Rensselaer, third
child of General Stephen and Cornelia (Pat-
erson) \'an Rensselaer, was born in the
Manor House at Albanj-, New York. October
14, 1806, died at New York, New York, June
I, 1871. He married, in Washington Square,
New York City, October 17, 1839, Mary Re-
becca Tallmadge, born May 16, 18 17, died at
Albany, August 3, 1872, daughter of General
James and Laura (Clinton) Tallmadge. Chil-
dren, born at No. 6 Washington Square, New
York: i. James Tallmadge, born February

3, 1842, died at Boston, Massachusetts,
August 28. 1899; married. New York, July 15,
1897, Mrs. Minnie (Sackett) Parker, widow
of General Parker; no issue. 2. Cornelia
Paterson, born October 6, 1843, died at
Morence, Italy, December 30, 1857. 3. Philip
Stephen, born November 11, 1844, died at
New York, New York, March 22, 1882; mar-
ried, Philadeljihia, Pennsylvania, September 5,
1872, Edith, daughter of Edward Biddle : no
issue. 4. Clinton, born April 29, 1846, died
at New York. New York, April 24, 185 1. 5.
h'ranklin. born May 26, 1852, died at New
York. New York, April 29. 1853. 6. Cort-
landt. died in New York.

(\M) Cortlandt \'an Rensselaer, fourth
child of General Stephen and Cornelia (Pat-
erson) Van Rensselaer, was born in the
Manor House at Albany, New York, May
26, 1808, died at Burlington, New Jersey.
July 25, i860. Rev. Cortlandt \'an Rensse-
laer graduated from Yale in 1827, and took
up the stufly of law, being admitted to the bar
of New \'ork state in 1830. He decided to
enter the ministry, studying at Union Theolo-

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gical Seminary of Prince Edward county. \'ir-
ginia. and at tlie Princeton Theological Semin-
ary; was ordained in 1833 as a Presljylerian
minister.

He devoted himself to arduous mission-
ary work among the X'irginia slaves, and in
1837 ^^''i'^ iIl^italled pastor of the First Pres-
byterian Church at I'urlington, New Jersey,
but three years afterward resigned. He then
resided for three years at Washington. D. C,
and in 1843 was persuaded to undertake the
work of increasing the endowment fund of
the Princeton Seminary. He accepted, and
inaugurated the eiTort by contributing $2,000.
and his efforts resulted in augmenting the
fund by $100,000. He was corresponding
secretary and principal executive officer of the
Presbyterian board of education from 1847
until his death, and during this time extended
the scope of the work, also founding and
editing the "Presbyterian Magazine. " and
"The Home, the School and the Church."
Tlie University of Xew York conferred on him
the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1^45.
Whatever money he received for services, he
donated to charitable causes and added other
sums from his resources. A number of his
writings were published in 1861, entitled
"Miscellaneous Sermons, Essays and Ad-
dresses," which included his oration delivered
at the centennial celebration of the battle of
Lake George.

Rev. Dr. Cortlandt \'an Rensselaer mar-
ried, at Hartford, Connecticut, September 13.
1836. Catherine Ledyard Cogswell, born at
Hartford, September 22. 181 1, died December
24. 1882, daughter of Dr. Mason Fitch (Yale,
1780) and Mary Austin (Ledyard) Cogswell.
Children: i. Cortlandt, born January 5,
1838 ; captain in Thirteenth Infantry. United
States army, serving with distinction in the
civil war ; died at Nashville, Tennessee, Octo-
ber 7. 1864, from wound received in the battle
of Mission Ridge: unmarried. 2. Philip Liv-
ingston, born November 24, 1839, died at
X'evey, Switzerland, March 10, 1873; was
major in Second New Jersey Cavalry ; mar-
ried. Ijoston Massachusetts, Anne, daughter
of Charles O. and Lovice (Ay res) W'hitte-
more : no issue. 3. Charles Chauncey, born
January 16. 1842, died May 17, 1843. 4.
Ledyard, born November 20, 1843 ; physician
practicing in Burlington. New Jersey ; died
March 26, 1893. 5. Alice Cogswell, born
Alarch 19. 1846, see forward. 6. Elizabeth
W'adsworth. born February 22, 1848. see for-
ward. 7. Alexander, born October i. 1850;
graduate of Princeton, 1871 ; resident of
Philadelphia. Pennsylvania : married. Phila-
delphia, January 27, 1898. Sarah, daughter of

.\ntliony Joseph and Ellen ( Rozel ) Drexel,
and willow of John l-'ell ; no issue.

( \'ll ) Alice Cogswell \'an Rensselaer,
fifth child of Rev. Cortlandt and Catherine
Ledvard (Cogswell) \'an Rensselaer, was
borii March 19, 1846, died April 18. 1878.
She married. May 7, 1868, Rev. Edward
I'lanchard Hodge, D.D., who was born l'"eb-
ruary 5. 1841, died June IS, 1906, son of
Hugh L. Hodge, M.D., LL.D., and Margaret
Elizabeth (Aspinwall) Hodge. He was a
graduate of the LIniversity of Pennsylvania,
in 1859, and of Princeton Theological Semin-
ary, in 1863: pastor of the Presbyterian
Church t)f IJurlington, New Jersey, from 1864
to 1893; corresponding secretary of Presby-
terian board of education ; trustee and director
of the Princeton Theological Seminary, from
which he received the degree of D.D.. in 1893.
Children: i. Margaret. 2. Cortlandt \'an
Rensselaer, medical missionary of Presbyter-
ian church, killed in China during the "Boxer"
uprising of 1890: married, Philadelphia. Penn-
sylvania, Elsie Sinclair. 3. Edward Blanch-
ard, Jr.. married Gretchen Green. 4. Cather-
ine.

(\'n) Elizabeth Wadsworth Yan Rensse-
laer, sixth child of Rev. Cortlandt and Cather-
ine Ledyard (Cogswell) Yan Rensselaer, was
born February 22. 1848, died April 17, 1886.
She married. October 6. 1868, General Edward
Burd Grubb, born at Burlington, New Jersey.
November 13, 1841, son of Edward Burd
Grubb. Sr.. descendant of the family which
obtained a large estate by patent from William
Penn. He graduated with honor from Bur-
lington College, i860 ; served in civil war
with distinction, rising finally to rank of liriga-
dier-general ; was the Republican candidate
for governor of New Jersey in 1888, and
President Harrison appointed him the next
year L'nited States minister to Spain, in which
capacity he participated actively in negotiating
the treaty with Spain. Child : Euphemia
Yan Rensselaer, married. November 20, 1895,
Charles Day Halsey ; children : Yan Rensse-
laer, and Charles Day, Jr.

( \T ) Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, fifth
child of General Stephen and Cornelia I Pat-
erson) Van Rensselaer, was born in the
Manor House at Albany. New York, May 14,
1810," died at Cincinnati, Ohio, March 23,
1864. He was educated at West Point Mili-
tary .Academy, graduating in 1831 ; resigned to
engage in farming near Ogdensburg. New
York, and inherited land in Saratoga county
from his father. He was a congressman in
1841-43; was associated -with mining enter-
pri-^cs, nn<l upon the outbreak of the civil war
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General \\'infield Scott's chief of statif, with
rank of brigadier-general, but on the general's
retirement was made inspector-general, with
rank of colonel, serving in the Department of
the Rappahannock from April until August,
1862, and afterwards in the Third Army
Corps as well as in the Department of Ohio,
from September 17 until his death.

General Henry Bell Van Rensselaer mar-
ried, at Jamaica, New York, August 22, 1833,
Elizabeth Ray King, born at New York, New
York, August 17, 1815, died there March 5,
1900. daughter of Governor John Alsop and
Mary (Ray) King. Children: i. Mary, born
in 1834, died in New York, New York; mar-
ried. New York, New York, April 28,
1874, Church of the Holy Communion,
New York City, John Henry Screven,
born at Charleston, South Carolina. Child,
Elizabeth Ray, born in New York : mar-
ried, January 5, 1897, Ernest E. Lorillard ;
children : Mary Van Rensselaer and John
Screven. 2. Cornelia, born in 1836. died in
New York, New York, in 1864; married, April
26, 1859. James Lenox Kennedy, who died in
1864. Child. Henry \'an Rensselaer, born
in New York City ; married. New York City,
March 4. 1886. Marion Robbins ; children:
Rachel, Marion. Maud. 3. Stephen, born at
Ogdensburg, New York, October 29, 1838,
see forward. 4. Henry, died in infancy. 5.
Euphemia, born in 1842: became a Sister of
Charity, and took the name Marie Dolores.
6. Elizabeth, born in 1845, died at Staten
Island, 191 1 ; married, in Church of the Holy
Communion, New York, New York, June 3,
1873, George Waddington, son of William
Waddington ; child, ATary E., born in New
York City ; married, at Venice, Italy, Christo-
pher B. Wyatt. 7. John King, born at
Ogdensburg, New York, July 17, 1847, see
forward. 8. Katharine, born in 1849: mar-
ried, January 17, 1870, Dr. Francis Delafield,
son of Dr. Edward Delafield ; children : Eliza-
beth Ray, born in New York City ; unmarried ;
Julia Floyd, born in New York City, married.
New York, November 11, 1896, Frederick S.
Crosby; children: Katharine Van Rensselaer
and Floyd, born in New York City. 9. Rev.
Henry, born in 185 1 ; joined the Society of
Jesuits, and died in New York City. 10.
Westerlo, born in 1853, died in 1857.

(\"IT) Stephen A'an Rensselaer, third child
of General Henry Bell and Elizabeth Ray
(King) Van Rensselaer, was born at Ogdens-
burg, New York, October 29, 1838. died at
New York. New York. January 20, 1904. He
was a captain in the United .States army dur-
ing the civil war, and a member of (lie Union
Club. St. Nicholas Society ami other leading

organizations of New York City. He mar-
ried, New York, New York, December 9,
1863, Alathilda Coster Heckscher, born in
New York City, December 18, 1838, daughter
of Charles Augustus and Georgiana Louisa
(Coster) Heckscher. Children: i. Charles
Augustus, born at New York, New York,.
June 28, 1867; merchant of New York City
in 1911; married, Brookline, Massachusetts,
December 12, 1899, Caroline Elizabeth Fitz
Gerald, born at Brookline, Massachusetts,
April 4, 187 1, daughter of Desmond and
Elizabeth (Salisbury) Fitz Gerald, of Brook-
line, Massachusetts ; children : Charles Augus-
tus, Jr., born at Brookline, September 29,,
1902, and Stephen, born at New York City,
November 28, 1905. 2. Elizabeth Ray, born
at Orange, New Jersey, April 13, 1870; mar-
ried. New York City, February 27, 1900, John
Magee Ellsworth, born at Penn Yan. New
York, son of Stephen S. Ellsworth; children:
born in New York City: Elizabeth Van Rens-
selaer, born December 8, 1900; Mathilda Cos-
ter, born January 25, 1904 ; Stephen Van
Rensselaer, born March 15, 1905. 3. Stephen,
born at Orange, New Jersey, December 29,
1871 ; married, at Elizabeth, New Jersey, July
25. 1905, Marian W'atson Farlin, born at
Elizabeth, New Jersey, July 25, 1884, daugh-
ter of James Augustus Farlin ; child, Marian,
born April 23, 1907. 4. Mathilda, born at
Orange, New Jersey, April 11, 1879; married,.
October 29, 1908, George Curtis White, Jr.,
born at Brooklyn, New York, October 29,
1871, son of George Curtis and C(jrde!ia (Cur-
tis) W'hite.

(VII) John King Van Rensselaer, seventh
child of General Henry Bell and Elizabeth
Ray (King) Van Rensselaer, was born at
Ogden.sburg, New York, July 17, 1847, died at
Hoboken, New Jersey, October 16, 1909 ; mar-
ried. New York City, October 4, 1871, May
Denning King, born at New York. New York,
May 25, 1848, daughter of Archibald Gracie
and Elizabeth Denning (Duer) King. Chil-
dren, born at New York City: i. John .\lex-
ander, born July 5, 1872 ; married, January
30, 1896. Helen F. Galindo. 2. Frederick
Harold, born January 6, 1874, died at Long
Pjeach. New "York, Augu.st 6, 1903; married,
New York City, April 23, 1898, Josephine
Lucy Grinnell, born at New York City,
.August 16, 1876, daughter of Robert Minturn
and .Sophie (\'an Alen) Grinnell; child, L.
Sylvia Grinnell, born at New York City,
January 19, 1899.

(VI) Cornelia Patcrson \'an Rensselaer,
sixth child of General Stephen and Cornelia
( Paterson) Van Rensselaer, was born in the
Manor House at Albany, New York, July 8,

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1S12. died in \c\v York City, January 16,
1890. She married, X'ew York, Xew York,
February 16, 1847, Robert James Turnbull,
^LD., born at Charleston, South CaroHna,
October 3, 1807, died at Cincinnati, Ohio,
June 4, 1854, son of Robert James Turnbull,
of Charleston, and Claudia Butler (Gervais)
Turnbull, of a Huguenot family of South Caro-
lina. Dr. Turnbull's father was one of tlie
most prominent publicists and respected states-
men of his state, and was the intimate friend
and coadjutor of Calhoun. Although Dr.
Turnbull studied medicine and graduated as a
physician, he was not a general practitioner,
as he early inherited from his father the lat-
ter's extensive estates in Issaguena county,
Mississippi, comprising six thousand acres of
productive cotton plantations. It was on these
he passed his winters, personally superintend-
ing the details of business management and
caring for the welfare of his dependents,
among whom his knowledge of medicine was
most useful and highly appreciated. His
summer residence and the family home was
"Everton," at Throgg's Neck, now incorpor-
ated in Greater New Y'ork. On his way north
in June, 1854, he stopped at Cincinnati, where
cholera was then prevalent ; was seized with
sudden illness, and expired after a few hours.
He was buried in old St. Philip's historic
churchyard, Charleston, South Carolina. Chil-
dren : I. Cornelia Paterson, born in New
York City, December, 1848, died at "Everton,"
Westchester, May, 1850. 2. Katharine Euphe-
mia. born in New Y^ork City, March 6, 185 1 ;
unmarried: residing in 191 1, at "Paterson
Lodge." Princeton, New Jersey.

(VI) Alexander Van Rensselaer, seventh
child of General Stephen and Cornelia (Pat-
erson) Van Rensselaer, was born in the
Manor House at Albany, New York, Novem-
ber 5, 1814, died in New York City, May 8,
1878. After his early education, he studied
medicine and took his degree, but never prac-
ticed. He traveled much and was highly es-
teemed. He married (first), October 20, 1851,
Mary Ann, born August 4, 1830, died May
13. 1855, daughter of Samuel Shaw and
Joanna Esther (Hovye) Howland ; two chil-
dren : Samuel Howland, born in 1852 ; died at
Nice. Italy, November 26, 1859, and Mary
Howland, born November 24, 1854, died at
Nice, Italy, November 26, 1859. He married
(second) at New Y^ork, New York. June 30,
1864, Louisa, daughter of William and Clem-
entina (Rutgers) Barnewall, who was born at
New York, New York. October 12, 1836. Chil-
dren: I.Louisa, born at Paris, France. Decem-
ber 18, 186:^: married. New ^■ork Citv. |ami-
arv 18, 1886, Edmund Lincoln ll.ivlics' l"n-n in

Xew ^■.lrk City. December 2, 1857, son of Ed-
numd Lincoln jlaylics, born in Boston, Massa-
chusetts. May 18, 1829, died in Geneva, Swit-
zerland. November 28, 1869, who married, Xo-
vember 27, 1856, Nathalie Elizabeth, daughter
of Robert Ray, who was born at Xew York,
New York, September 9, 1837. No issue. 2.
Mabel, born at New York, New York, No-
vember 19, 1868: married, April 26, 1899,
Rev. James LeBaron Johnson ; no issue. 3.
.'Mice, born at New York, New York, Decem-
ber 22, 1S72: unmarried.

(\T) Euphemia White \'an Rensselaer,
eighth child of General Stephen and Cornelia
(Paterson) Van Rensselaer, was born in the
Manor House at Albany, New York, Septem-
ber 25, 1816, died at Cruger"s Island, Barry-
town, Dutchess county, New Y'ork, April 27,
1888. She married, at "Stone Cottage," Bur-
lington, New Jersey, May 2, 1843, John
Church Cruger, born at Union Hall, October
13, 1807; died in New York City, November
16, 1879, son of Bertram Peter Cruger, born
at St. Croix, D. W. I., March 25, 1774, died
at Brompton, England, September 3, 1854,
who married, March 25, 1802, Catherine
Church, born in Boston, Massachusetts, No-
vember 4, 1779, died in New York City, 1839.
Children, born in New York City: i. Stephen
Van Rensselaer, born May 9, 1844, died at
"Idlesse," Bayville, Long Island, June 23,
1898 ; married. New York City, April 21. 1868,
Julie Grinnell, daughter of Thomas Went-
worth and Sarah (Paris) Storrow, and she
married (second) Wade Chance. 2. Cornelia,
born January 19, 1847; residing in 191 1 at
Cruger's Island, New York ; unmarried. 3.
Catherine Church, born February 7, 185 1, re-
siding in 191 1 at Cruger's Island, New York;
unmarried.

(Hendrick Van Rensselaer Descent.).

(II) Hendrick Van Rensselaer, third child
of Colonel Jeremias (the third Patroon) and
Maria (Van Cortlandt) Van Rensselaer (q.v.)
was born in Rensselaerswyck, October 23, 1667,
died there, July 2, 1740. His eldest brother,
Kiliaen, was the fourth Patroon, and was
known as the "Seconal Lord of the Manor,"
being the second patroon to reside in and
manage affairs of the colony. Besides Kiliaen,
he had no other brother, and only two sisters,
consequently to him came an important share
in the vast landed property of the Manor. A
settlement was made in New York City, No-
vember I. 1695, with all those living in Hol-
land in any way concerned through blood re-
lationship with the estate in this country, and
following that .solution of the future status
of the land, a division was made by Kiliaen,
as the olilc-t cliild. Iiv wliich he conveved to

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Hendrick. on June i, 1704, the Claverack
patent and some one thousand five hundred
acres en the east side of the Hudson river, in
Columbia county, located opposite Albany. This
was commonly called the "Lower Manor." The
name Greenbush was derived from the Dutch,
Greyne Bosch, a title applied to the woods
covering this tract, by the first patroon when
corresponding; with his managers residing in
the colony.

Hendrick \'an Rensselaer married, New
York, New York, March 19, 1688, Catharina
Van Brugh (Van Bruggen or \'erbrugge),
daughter of Johannes Pieterse and Catharina
(Roelofifse) Van Brugh, the latter the daugh-
ter of Annke Jans. She died at her home in
Greenbush (later known as Rensselaer), New
York, December 6, 1730. Children: I.Maria,
baptised in New York City, March 29, 1689 :
married Samuel Ten Broeck. 2. Catrina, bap-
tised in Albany (as were the following chil-
dren), January i, 1692; married Jonathan
Ten Broeck. 3. Anna, baptised October i,
1693. died young. 4. Anna, baptised February
2, 1696: married, October 8. 1717. Petrus
Douw. 5. Elizabeth, baptised May 8, 1698,
died young. 6. Elizabeth, baptised July 21,
1700 ; married John Richard. 7. Helena, bap-
tised October 4, 1702; married, December 19.
1728, Jacob Wendell. 8. Jeremias, baptised
April 29, 1705: buried October 5, 1730. 9.
Johannes, born February 11, 1708, see for-
ward. 10. Hendrick, born April 20, 1712,
baptised May 8, 1712: died July 9, 1793: mar-
ried (first) October 16, 1735, Elizabeth \'an
Brugh ; married (second) November 20, 1762,
Mrs. Alida (Livingston) Rutsen. 11. Kiliaen,
baptised November 27, 1717.

(HI) Johannes, ninth child (and seconil
son) of Hendrick and Catharina (\an Hrugh)
Van Rensselaer, was born in the Crailo house
at Greenbush, New York, February 11, 1708,
died in 1783. Jeremias, his elder brother, died
about ten years before the death of thei;-
father, hence he inherited the Crailo, which
was the name given to the house built close
to the east bank of the Hudson river, and
was constructed with the idea of being a place
of defence in case of attack by the Indians,
for in several places in the brickwork were
stone pieces, pierced for the operation of a
gun. It has been said that the bricks were
brought from Holland in 1642, and the house
then erected, by Van Rensselaer: but one
should notice in this connection that Colonel
Jeremias Van Rensselaer was born in .Amster-
dam, Holland, only ten years previous to this
date, and did not come to Rensselaerswyck
(or .'\merica) until 1658, and the first of the
name to come to this country was liis older

l)ruther, Jan Baptist, who came in 1O51, or
nearly ten years after the date attributed to
the erection of this house, mostly by tradition.
He was a member of the twenty-first provin-
cial assembly ; was appointed captain of a
company of foot in 1743, and promoted to be
colonel. Although at the time of the revolu-
tion he was too aged to participate in its con-
flicts, he was a strong patriot, and three of his
sons took active part, as commissioned officers.
It was. here that General Abercrombie made
his headquarters, with his troops encamped
upon his property along the river shore, in
June, 1758, on which date "Yankee Doodle"
was composed by Surgeon Shackburg, while
seated in Van Rensselaer's garden, before the
army proceeded northward against ]\Iontcalm.
All his children were born in this hmise and
all were by his first wife.

Johannes \'an Rensselaer married (first),
January 3, 1734, Angelica Livingston. She
was baptised July 17. 1698, daughter of Mayor
Robert Livingston, Jr., who married Margar-
ita Schuyler. August 26, 1697. He married
(second) Gertrude Van Cortlandt. Children:

1. Catherine, born November 4, 1734, died in
the Schuyler Mansion at Albany, March 7,
1803 ; married, Claverack, New York, Septem-
ber 17, 1755, Major-General Philip Schuyler.

2. Jeremias, born in 1738, see forward. 3.
Robert, born December 16, 1740; was a gen-
eral, commissioned June 16, 1780: fought at
Ticonderoga : participated in defeat of Sir
John Johnson, when on his Mohawk valley
raid in 1780; died in the Crailo, Greenbush,
1765, Rachel Douw. 5. James, born in 1747:
Cornelia Rutsen. 4. Hendrick Johannes, born
October 23, 1742, died Claverack, March 22,
1814; was a captain of foot in the liritish
army, and in 1777, commissioned colonel of
Continental army; married, November 16,
1765, Rachel Douw. 6. James, born in 1747 :
was aide-de-camp, rank of captain, under
Major-General Richard Montgomery in 1775,
serving in the entire Canadian campaign ; in
April, 1776, made captain in the Second Regi-
ment, New York, under Colonel James Clin-
ton, and aide-de-camp, rank of major, under
(jencral Philip Schuyler ; died at "Crystal
Hill," February i, 1827: married (first) Ca-
therine \'an Cortlandt : married (second) June
24, 1789. Mrs, Elsie (Schuyler) Bogert.

(IV) Jeremias, second child of Johannes
and .Angelica (Livingston) Van Rensselaer,
was born in the Crailo at Greenbush, New
York, in 1738. died in 1769. As his death
occurred about fourteen years before that of
his father, he did not. of course, inherit the
Crailo property as the oldest son ; but it was
given instead, by will, to his only son as his

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1821

by rii^ht uf iirininmniturc. He married, July
3, 1758. Jiulith ila\artl. l)y w h(im one child:
and after his death, his widow married Archi-
liald Bruce. .M.D., of \ew York City, and
thus much of the \'an Rensselaer silver and
household effects passed into another family.

(A) Johaimes jeremias. only son. of Jere-
mias and Judith (Bayard) \'an Rensselaer,
was born about 1769 in the Crailo, died there,
September 22, 1828. He inherited the prop-
erty under the will of his grandfather, and
made some important changes to the interior
of what had been a fortified residence. He
was a soldier, as so many of his relatives had
been before his day, serving as lieutenant-
colonel of the Fourteenth Regiment, Albany
county militia. He married Catharina Glen,
born in 1765, died September 2},, 1807, daugh-
ter of Johannes and Katarina (X'eeder) Glen.
Children, i. Catharina Glen, baptised March
31. 1785. died in Greenbush, July 5, 1865;
married Johannes X'isscher. 2. John Jeremias,
born June 6, 1790, died young. 3. Dr. Jere-
mias, born August 4, 1793, died in New York
City, March 7, 1871 ; married (first) Charlotte
Foster, of Boston. Massachusetts : by whom
Jeremias and Francis: married (second) Anne
F. Waddington. 4. Glen, born June 22, 1795,
died at Greenbush. January 9, 1871, unmar-
ried. 5. Elizabeth Bayard, born September 15,
1797, died in Xew York City, August 28,
1807. 6. Cornelius Glen, born July 27, 1801,
see forward. 7. Archibald, burn February 6,
1803, unmarried.

(\'I) Cornelius (ilen. sixth child of Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Johannes Jeremias and Cathar-
ina (Glen) \'an Rensselaer, was born in
(ireenbush (Rensselaer). New Y'ork, July 27,
1801, died there, June 27, 1871. He married,
Albany, New York, October 31. 1826, Cather-
ine Westerlo Bleecker, born at Albany, Octo-
ber I, 1809, died at Greenbush, September 12,
1886, daughter of John Bleecker, born .Albany,
May II, 1766, who married, Albany, Novem-
ber 17, 1800, Elizabeth \'an Rensselaer
(Schuyler), the latter born at .Albany. .August
15, 1768. died at her home on North Pearl
street. Albany, March 29, 1841, being the
daughter of Seventh Patroon Stephen \'an
Rensselaer, and the widow of John Bradstreet
Schuyler, son of General Philip Schuyler.
Elizabeth Van Rensselaer's mother was
Catherine Livingston, daughter of Philip
Livingston, signer of the Declaration of In-
dependence. Children, born in Greenbush : i.
John, born August 29. 1827, died an infant.
2. Stephen Bleecker, born September 26, 1828,
died young. 3. Cornelia, born March 19,
1831 ; married, September 11, 1856, Rev. Cor-
nelius Winter Bolton, of Pelham. New York :

no issue. 4. Katharine Westerlo. born Octo-
ber 22. 1834: residing in lyii, in the old
mansion on Riverside avenue, Rensselaer, New
York, facing the Hudson river : unmarried.
5. John Jeremiah, M.D., born September 13,
1836: residing in Swartswood, New Jersey, in
tgii : married, Baltimore, Maryland, October
20, 1864, F'lorence Taylor: children: Florence,
born at Baltimore, Alaryland, November 7,

1865, and Lyndsay, born at New Brighton,
Staten Island, New York, September 21, 1870,
who married Lolita A. Coffin, and had Cather-
ine Glen. 6. Visscher, born October 12, 1838.

(VH) Visscher, sixth child of Cornelius
Glen and Catherine Westerlo (l>leecker) Van
Rensselaer, was born in (jreenbush (Rensse-
laer), New York, October 12, 1838, and was
residing there, with his wife, in 191 1. He
married, Schoharie, New York, September 5,

1866, Alary Augu«a Miller, born at Schoharie,
New York, April 22, 1847, daughter of
Charles L. and Sarah (Markle) Miller.
Children: i. Katharine Westerlo, born at
Esperance, New York, September 3, 1867,
died in Albany. New York, February 12,
1896: married, Greenbush, New York, Janu-
ary 23, 1894, Benjamin Walworth Arnold, Jr.,
born in Albany, April 30, 1865, son of Ben-
jamin W. and Frances Treat (Avery) Arnold ;
child. Katharine Westerlo Van Rensselaer,
born at No. 13 Ten Broeck street. Albany,
January 28. 1896. 2. Cornelius Glen, born
in Esperance, New York, September 24, 1869;
married. New York, New York, October 8,
1898, Genevieve, daughter of Philip John and
Nancy Stewart (Keating) Vesel, born at
Ilion, New York, October 20, 1868; children:
Katharine Stewart, born at Schenectady, New
A'ork, June 4. 1903, died at Rensselaer, New
York, February 15, 1909, and Justine Livings-
ton, born at Schenectady, February 26, 1907.
3. Cornelia Living.ston. born at Quaker Street,
New "S'ork. New York, June 5, 1879 : she mar-
ried at Rensselaer, New York. March 21. 1900,
Hon. Theodore Strong, of "Stronghold," New
Brunswick, New Jersey, son of Hon. Benja-
min Ruggles Woodbridge and Harriet A.
(TTartwell) Strong: children, all born at New
Brunswick, New Jersey: Theodore, Jr., bom
Tanuary 3, 1901 : Cornelia Livingston Van
Rensselaer, born November 16, 1902 ; Kathar-
ine \'an Rensselaer, born November 10, 1904 :
Stephen Van Rensselaer, born November 30,
1906: Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, born
May 17, 1910.

George McClellan, son of

McCLELLAN judge Hugh W. and Emma

"(Marvin) McClellan. was

born in the town of Schodack, Rensselaer coun-

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HUDSON AND MOHA\\'K VALLEYS

ty, Xew York, October lo, 1856. His early edu-
cation was obtained in the public scho(5ls.
supplemented by full courses at the academies
of Chatham and Spencertown. He chose the
profession of law ; entered Albany Law-
School, wlience he was graduated LL.B., class
of 1880. He was admitted to the bar the same
year and opening an office in Chatham prac-
ticed alone for a time. When the firm of
AlcCIellan & Brown was dissolved, he formed
a law partnership with his father under the
firm name of H. \V. &r G. McClellan. January
I, 1894. John W. Dardess was admitted and
the firm name changed to McClellans & Dar-
dess. Judge McClellan, the senior partner,
died October 12, 1896, since which time the
business has been conducted as McClellan &
Dardess. The firm has always been a highly
regarded one and transacts a large volume
of important business. For'twenty years Mr.
McClellan has been a member of the Columbia
County Agricultural Society and for the past
ten years has been president. He was
twice elected police justice of Chatham, serv-
ing until the office was abolished by legislative
enactment. In 1907 he was elected surrogate
of Columbia county and has most capably
discharged the duties of this responsible office.
These are the only offices he has ever run
for. He is a Democrat in politics, and a mem-
ber of the Reformed Church. In both public
and private life, he is highly respected and
honored. His unfailing patience, tact, and
good nature peculiarly fit him for his office,
while his knowledge of the law and its just
application command the respect of the entire
bar. He married, November 22, 1882. Eliza-
beth Sliufelt, who died April 4. 1894. Chil-
li ren : Laura C, Hugh W. (2). George.

The \'an Olindas of W'a-
\".\X OLIND.A tervliet descend from

Pieter Danielse \' a n
O'Linda. who married Hilletje Cornelise, sis-
ter of Jacques Cornelise Van Slyck. She w'as
the daughter of a Mohawk mother and Cor-
nelis Antonissen Van Slyck. For several
years Hilletje was employed with Jan Bap-
tiste \'an Epps and Lourens Claese \'an Der
X'olgen. as provincial inter])retcr to the In-
dians. The Mohawk sachems gave her the
great island in the Mohawk river at Xiska-
yuna in 1667, which her husband. Van O'Linda.
.sold to Cantain Johannes Chite in 1669. The
sachems also gave her land at Willow Flat,
below Port Jackson, and at Watervliet. She
died February 10. 1707. Her husband, Pieter
Danielse, made his will .August i, 171 5. w^hich
was proved December 27. 1711'). He gave to
liis eldest son ten shillings, probably having

given him his sliare previously. To his son,
Jacob, he gave the use of the land above
Schenectady, called the Willow Flat, "pat-
ented to me and William Van Coppernol till
my son Matthew (now non compos mentis)
shall die." He also spoke of lands in Water-
vliet.

(II) Daniel, eldest son of Pieter Danielse
and Hilletje (Van Slyck) Van 0"Linda, mar-
ried Lysbeth, daughter of Mortimer Cregier,
of Xiskayuna, June 11, 1696. at Albany.
Children: Pieter, born November 8, 1696;
Johannes, September 3, 1699: Martinus. Oc-
tober 25. 1702: Maria, 1704.

( II ) Jacob, son of Pieter Danielse and Hil-
letje (Van Slyck) Van O'Linda, inherited the
use of a large portion of his father's estate as
sh(nvn. He married Eva. daughter of Claas
De Graff. Children baptized : Pieter. Febru-
ary, 1712, in Albany: Willem, October 13.
1716: ]\Iartin, January 18, 1718; Nicholas. May
30, 1719; Helena, February 12, 1721: jiliza-
beth, June if), 1723.

(III) Martin, son of Jacob and Eva (De
Graff) Van O'Linda, w-as born January 18,
1718. He married (first) July 25, 17^1,

. He married (second) December 7.

1754, Cornelia, daughter of Benjamin Van
\'leck. Children baptized : Jacob, June 13,
1742; Francyntje, January 15. 1744; Eva, No-
vember 24, 1745: Pieter, January 17. 1748;
Frederick, May 13, 1750; Catherine, August
10, 1755; Benjamin, December 25, 1757; Wil-
lem, April 27, 1760, died young; Willem (2),
February 2, 1766: Johannes, October 3, 1768.

(I\') Johannes, youngest child of ]\Iartin
and Cornelia (Van Vleck) Van O'Linda, was
Ixirn October 3, 1768. He married and had
issue.

I \') Jacol) \'an O'Linda. son of Johannes
\'an O'l-inda. was born in 1706. He married
and had issue.

(VI) Abraham, son of Jacoli \'an O'Linda,
married and had issue.

(\TI) Garrett, .son of .\hraham \'an
O'Linda. married.

(\'1I1) Mary G., daughter of Garret Van
( )linda. resides in Watervliet, New York,
where she is a teacher in the public schools.

The name in England was for
STE.\RNS centuries Sterne, coming from

Germany with the Norman in-
vaders under William the Conqueror. For a
brief ])eiiod in .'\merica. the spelling remained
the same, but changes soon crept in until we
have not only the prevalent form Stearns, but
Stearnes, Sternes, Sterns, Starnes and Starns,
all simple variations of the old English name.
I'lu- ancestors of this family in .\merica

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1823

came from England in the "Arabella," landing
at Salem, Massachusetts, June 12, 1630. O.S.
These is a tradition prevalent in Lynn, Mas-
sachusetts, that three brothers, Daniel. Shu-
bael and Isaac, came from England in 1630
and settled near W'atertown. ]\Iassachusetts :
that Daniel died unmarried ; that Shubael and
Isaac brought their families with them ; that
Shubael and wife died soon after landing,
leaving two sons, Charles and Nathaniel, eight
and ten years of age, who were reared and
cared for by their uncle, Isaac ; that these
•sons married, and each, as well as their uncle
Isaac, left a large family, from whom are
descended all of the name of Stearns with
its variations of spelling, excepting that of
.Stern, which is distinctly Jewish.

The family crest is formed with a chevron
and three crosses on a field of gold, together
with various ornamental variations.

(II Charles Sterne, born in England, date
and place uncertain. He was admitted a free-
man of ^\'atertown, May 6, 1646 (this shows
him to have been of legal age and a church
member). "Isaac Sternes" mentions him
in his will as "My kinsman, Charles
Sternes." showing the first change in the
spelling. He was elected constable in
1681, but refused to take the oath;
in that year he sold his land in Watcrtown
to his son, Samuel, and moved to Lynn with
liis son Shubael. He married (first) Hannah

, who died June 30, 165 1, leaving one son,

Samuel ; (second) Rebecca Gibson, June 22,
1654. daughter of John and Rebecca Gibson,
of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Seven children
were born to him : Samuel, Shubael (of fur-
ther mention), John. Isaac, Charles, slain in
the King's service prior to 1695: Reljecca and
Martha.

I II) Shubael Sternes. son of Charles ami
Rebecca (Gibson) Sterne, was born Sejitem-
ber 20, 1655. He settled in Lynn. ^lassa-
chusetis, and was a member of the famous
Narragansett expedition. His will is dated
November 19. 1733, and probated September
2. 1734. There has been discovered no record
of his marriage, but "Mary Upton, of Read-
ing. Massachusetts, married Shubael Stearns,
of Lynn (here showing for the first time the
present spelling of the name). There were
nine children: Shubael (2d). Samuel: Han-
nah, who married Dr. Charles Stimson : Mary ;
John: Ebenezer. of further mention: Martha;
Eleanor, and Rebecca.

(HI) Ebenezer Stearns, son of Shubael and
Mary (Uplon) Sternes, was born in i(')93.
He settled in Sutton, Massachusetts, and mar-
ried Martha Rurnap, of Reading. Massachu-
setts. He had a familv of ten children, all

born in Sutton: Ebenezer (2d), of further
mention ; Elizabeth, John, Jonathan, Hannah,
David, Mary, Bethia, Thomas and Ruben.

(IV) Ebenezer Stearns (2d), son of Ebene-
zer and Martha (Burnap) Stearns, was born
February 26, 1720, in Sutton. Massachusetts.
He was a soldier in the French and Indian
war, and died in the garrison at Lake George,
New York. He married, in 1742, jane Stock-
well, who was born in 1722, and died July 16,
1808, at Hinsboro, Vermont. After his mar-
riage he settled in Sutton. Massachusetts,
where his five children were born : Ebenezer
Isaac, of further mention ; Jonathan, a captain
in the revolutionary war; Rebecca, Abigail and
a daughter.

(\') Ebenezer Isaac Stearns, son of Ebene-
zer and Jane (Stock well) Stearns, born in
Sutton, RIassachusetts, in 1743. He settled in
Northampton. Massachusetts, and married in
1776, Thankful, daughter of Jonathan Alvord,
of Northampton. He died in 1801, and was
the father of seven children : Olive : Achsah :
Ebenezer: Nathaniel Stockwell, of further
mention: Erastus. Hcnoni and Jonathan Al-
vord.

(\T) Nathaniel Stockwell Stearns, son of
Ebenezer Isaac and Thankful (.\lvord)
Stearns, was born in Northampton, Mas-
sachusetts, May 28, 1783, and died June
12. 1861, in Lyden. Massachusetts. He
was commonly known as Stockwell Stearns,
and lived in Westhampton. Massachusetts.
He married, October 31, 1805, Seviah,
daughter of Zebulon and Mary (Litchfield)
W'illcutt. of Goshen. Massachusetts. His wife
was born September 23. 1780, in Cohassett,
Massachusetts, and died February 22, 1859,
ill Colcrainc. Massachusetts. Her name is
variously spelled Zerviah. Serviah and Seviah.
I'liere were eight chiklren : Elienezer, Rev.
Joseph Willciitt, of further mention : Minerva,
Ursula, Rev. .Xnson llo<iker, Mercy L.. and
Edwin F.

(VTI) Rev. Joseph Willcutt Stearns, son
of Nathaniel S. and Seviah (Willcutt)
Stearns, was born February 21. 1808, at West-
hampton, Massachusetts, and died at South
Berlin. New York, April. 1888. He was edu-
cated for the ministry and became a leading
divine of the Christian church, and was a
man of rare ability as an orator and logician.
He was a close personal friend of Garritt
Smith, and an uncompromising Abolitionist.
His home in West Groton. "The old white
house on the corner," was one of the promin-
ent stations on "The Underground Railroad to
Canada," where many a runaway slave found
refuge by day. and at niglit was taken north
by "tliat damned .Vbolitionist, Elder Stearns,"

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in the democrat wagon drawn by "Old Cuff."
He married, 1839, Amanda Sellen, daughter
of Isaac Allen, a descendant of a brother of
General Ethan Allen. There were three sons:
Rev. Joseph Wellington, of further mention ;
Alvin Stuart, and Eugene Allen.

(Vni) Rev. Joseph Wellington Stearns,
son of Rev. Joseph W. and Amanda S, (Al-
len) Stearns, was born July 8, 1840. in West
Groton, New York. He was a schoolmaster
at sixteen, and entered the ministry early in
life. Later he studied theology under Dr.
Austin Craig, president of the Union Theolo-
gical Institute at Stamfordville, New York,
from which he graduated. For over fifty
years he has been in the pulpits of the Chris-
tian church, in the New England States and
New York, The keynote of his ministry has
been "The Fatherhood of God and the Bro-
therhood of Man," His commanding personal
qualities of physique and intellect, together
with quick sympathies and pleasing address,
have combined to produce upon his congrega-
tion an influence both permanent and benefi-
cent. He now lives at South Berlin, New
York. He married, September 24. 1867, Mary
Jane, of .Schenectady, New York, daughter of
John Hull and Susannah Waldron, of old Hol-
land Dutch descent. Eight children : Waldron
Allen, of further mention ; Maus Wellington,
osteopathic physician, born January 30, 1871,
at West Randolph, \'ermont, now living in
Schenectady. New York; Joseph Craig, farm-
er, born December 31, 1873, at Stamfordville,
New York, now living at Pittsfield, Massachu-
setts: John Stuart, born October 2, 1875, at
Danbury, Connecticut, died February 23, 1894,
at Starkey Seminary, Eddytown, New York ;
Ralph Winne, E, E., Union, '07, born De-
cember 12, 1877, at Petersburgh, New York,
now living in Schenectady. New York ; Worth
Rae, fruit grower, born October 31, 1879, at
Petersburgli, New York, now living in Spo-
kane, Washington : Trueman Bennett, real
estate, born .'Xpril 4, i88i, at Petersburgh,
New York, now living in Greater New York ;
Mary Elizabeth, born September 17, 1882, at
Petersburgh, New York, married Wallace J.
Bell, February 14, T905, now living at Pitts-
field, Massachusetts.

(IX) Waldron Allen Stearns. M.D.. Union
Univ., 1900, son of Rev. Joseph W. and Mary
T. (Hull) Stearns, was born in Eastport,
Maine, August 21, 1869. .Xfter graduating in
medicine he secured the appointment on the ,
resident staff to St. Peter's Hospital, Albany,
New York. In June, 1901. he removed to
Schenectady, where he is now engaged in the
practice of bis profession. In lono he was
elc'clc'il to the common cmmcil. Ik' married.

September 19, 1897, Frances Hiscox, daugh-
ter of Henry Edwin and Jeannette (Lapham)
I'"uller, of South Berlin. New York. She was
born June i, 1873, and is a direct lineal des-
cendant of Dr. Samuel Fuller, of the "May-
flower." They have three children : John
Waldron, born September 18, 1898, at South
Berlin, New York ; Henry Fuller, born De-
cember 10, 1901, at Schenectady, New York;
Mary Jeannette, born February 25, 1906, at
Schenectadv.

John ]\IcKie, the first of the name
McKIE of whom we have record, was

born about 1705, in the stewardry
of Galloway, probably in Wigtonshire, Scot-
land, and removed from there to Ayrshire
about 1767, where he resided about seven
years. His sons engaged in business in Ayr,
but through the dishonesty of their partners
failed, their failure involving their father so
that he lost his entire ])roperty. This decided
him to emigrate to America, which be ac-
cordingly did in 1774, settling at Ashgrove.
town of Cambridge. Washington county. New
York, where he died October 27, 1782, He
married Marion Wils(jn. Cliiklren : Alexan-
der, Peter (?), John, lanu>, sec forward,
Mary, Elizabeth.

(II) James, son of John and Marion (Wil-
son) McKie, was born July 7, 1760, in Wig-
tonshire, -Scotland, died June 14, 1843. He
was a private in the revolutionary war, and
on I\Iarch 4, 1848, his widow was granted
a pension of fifty-six dollars and forty-one
cents. He married, January 27, 1785, Eliza-
beth Wilson, born June 19, 1765, died De-
cemljer 27, 1849. Children: i. Sarah, born
November 24. 1785, died August 30, i860.
2. Alary, born September 27, 1787, died No-
vember 27, 1846. 3. John, see forward. 4,
George, born .Vugust 14, 1791. died January

15, 1861, 5. Elizabeth, born September 18,
1793, died llarch 5, 1855. 6. William, born
October 21, 1795, died' April 15, 1863, 7.
.\nn, born November 28, 1797. died January
18, 1856, 8, Margaret, born May 4, 1800. 9.

, born June 11, 1802, 10, James, born

b'ebruary 24, 1805. 11, Peter, born January

16. 1S08, died January 11, 1856.

(Til) John (2), son of James and Elizabeth
(Wilson) McKie, was born June i, 1789, died
Sei^tember 9, 1864, lie married Catherine,
daughter of John and Margaret (Robinson)
Whiteside. Children : William, see forward ;
James, married Anna Whiteside ; John.

(I\') William, son of John (2) and Cath-
erine (Whiteside) McKie, marriel Minerva,
born in West Arlington. \'crmont, daughter
of S;unuci and Miua (Andrews) Buck,

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1825

Child. Kate M., now resident of Cambridge,
New York. (See McKie, p. 1624.)

John Reynolds ( i ) , jiro-
REYXOLDS g;enitor o'f this branch of
the family, is supposed to
have sailed from the port of London — i. e.,
Ipswich, England, in 1633. Sarah Reynolds
(his wife), aged 20, was a passenger on the
ship "Elizabeth," which sailed from Ipswich
"bound for New England the last of April,
1634."

Among the passengers were many who set-
tled at Watertown, Massachusetts, and sub-
sequently removed to Weathersfield and Stam-
ford, Connecticut, but John Reynolds was not
among them. John Reynolds was admitted a
freeman of Watertown, May 6, 1635. Robert,
his brother, had been admitted Septemlier 3,
1634.

Sir Richard Saltonstall, together with a
body of Pilgrims or Separatists, had founded
Watertown, Massachusetts, where a church
was "gathered" under Phillips as pastor, Au-
gust 27, 1630. The latter came from Box-
ford, county Essex, and most of tlie colonists
were members of his former charge. Un-
fortunately, the records describing the settle-
ment of Watertown are not in existence, but
on page 4 of the earliest book of records is
the first entry in which the names of colonists
are mentioned: "Nov. 14, 1635 — agreed that
Daniel Patrick, Brian Pemberton, Richard
Bernard, Ephraim Child. .Abram Browne,
Charles Chaddock and John Reynolds shall
divide to every man his Property and Meddow
and upland that is plowable and the rest to lie
common."

The first book of deeds entitled "The Wa-
tertown Lands. Grants and Possessions" page
157 and constituting the second inventory, de-
scribes his allotment as follows : "John Rei-
nolds. An Homestall of five acres and half
by estimation bounded the North with the
Highway, the South with Isaac Mixer and
the East with John Sherman granted to him."

Learning of the rich meadows along the
Connecticut river, some few of the Water-
town colonists, in the late autumn of 1634,
founded the settlement of "Pyquag," now
Wethersfield, and spent the winter there. On
May 29th of the year following, six persons
(among them Robert Reynolds) under the
head of Rev. Richard Denton, who had re-
ceived their dismissal from the Watertown
church March 29th of that year, set out to
"form a newe in a church covenant in the
River of Connecticut" Conn. Col. Records,
p. I).

On October 15th, 1635, about sixty colon-

ists set out from Watertown to the new set-
tlement. Such was the general distress that
many of them returned in December, but in
the early spring of 1636 once more repaired
to "Watertown on the Connecticut River." It
was not until J'eb. 21, 1637, that the settle-
ment received the name of Wethersfield. The
colonists were continually exposed to danger
from the Pequots. In April, 1637. they way-
laid the settlers as they were going into their
ing with those from Windsor and Hartford
fields and killed six men and three women.
On May 26, 1637, the Wethersfield men, unit-
ing with those from Windsor and Hartford
and with seventy Mohegans under their
sachem, Uncas, attacked the Pequots, burnt
seventy wigwams and killed five or six hun-
dred of the enemy. (See Trumbull, vol. I,
chap, v.)

Both John and Robert were among those
who reinoved from Watertown prior to July
25, 1636, as they did not share in that divi-
sion of land. As stated above, John still
owned property in W'atertown at the time of
the second inventory, i. e., 1644. Robert Feke,
Brian Pemberton and Daniel Patrick are also
included, although all of them had removed to
Wethersfield and Stamford.

Robert removed from Wethersfield to Bos-
ton, where he died April 27, 1659. His will.
executed 20, 2, 1658, proved in Boston, July
27, 1659, gives the names of Mary, his wife,
and children : Nathaniel, Ruth Whitney, Ta-
bitha Abdy, Sarah Mason, and Mary Sanger.
His will concludes with the statement, "I and
my wife being stricken in age and are almost
past our Labour." From this we must con-
clude that he was born about 1590, and was
either much older than his brother John, or
that the latter was born earlier than 1612,
the date of birth attributed to him. (See
New Eng. His. & Gen. Reg., vol. ix, p. 137.)
His only son Nathaniel removed to Bristol,
Rhode Island, where the family still continues.
The tombstone of Joseph, Nathaniel's son,
still standing at Bristol, is well known as a
fine example of early carving and shows the
Reynolds coat of arms — three foxes .statant in
pale proper, crest on an Esquire's helmet, a
fox statant proper.

John Reynolds' house as given in the map
of Wethersfield was on High street, the third
from the meeting .house and near the center
of the town. This and other ]iroperty were
recorded by him, "the 12th month and 11
dale, 1640," and again recorded by John TTol-
lister on 3m 2od 1644, as "bought of John
Reynolds."

It was not long before internal dissensions
were disturbing the church at Wethersfield

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and dividing inhabitants as well as the breth-
ren. The Rev. Richard Denton became the
leader of the more progressive and radical
party. The ministers of the other churches of
the river, and Mr. Davenport from New-
Haven, successively tried to unite the fac-
tions. The latter suggested the expediency
of one of the parties removing and making a
new settlement. At length a number of men
who were the most pleased with the advice
of Mr. Davenport and the New Haven breth-
ren, and to whom the government of that
colony was most agreeable, determined to re-
move and settle in combination with New
Haven. Nathaniel Turner had on July ist,
1640, on behalf of the New Haven Colony,
bought of Ponus, sagamore of Toquams, and
of Wascussee, sagamore of Shippan, a tract
of land which includes the present towns of
Darien and Stamford and part of Greenwich
paying about 33 pounds for a tract of land of
one hundred and twenty-eight square miles.
This tract, Rippowanis, Mr. Andrew Ward
and I\Ir. Robert Coe, of Wethersfield, on
October 30, 1640, purchased of the New Ha-
ven Colony on behalf of themselves and about
twenty other planters on these conditions:
1st. The Wethersfield men were to give the
price paid to the Indians for the land by Mr.
Turner, and. A fifth part of the lands were
to be reserved to be disposed of by the court
to such other settlers as they saw fit. 3d.
They were to join with the New Haven plan-
tation in the form of government there
adopted. Twenty men were to aettle in .Stam-
ford by the last of November, 1641.

It was decided that the majority of the
seven church members, church membership
being essential to becoming a freeman, should
remove, with a minority of the planters and
that they should take the church organization
with them. Thirty men, among them John
Revnolds, volunteered as pioneers of the new
colony. These subscribed "100 bushels of
corne" to be paid May or June, 1641, to the
New Haven Colony, to make good the pur-
chase price of the land, each man giving as
he was able and receiving a proportional
amount of land. In this subscription. Mr.
Denton ranks third with 4.1 bu. : Jo. Rey-
nolds, eighth with 3.2. bu. (Stamford Rec-
ords, p. 5.)

Of these thirty, twenty-eight removed to the
site of Stamford in the summer of 1641. On
October 19th they held their first meeting,
electing five men to form a provisional gov-
ernment and dividing the land between them.
An account of this is to be found at Stam-
ford in the earliest town record entitled "1640-
41 a towne book of yc free holders of ye

towne of Stamford as it was after wards
called but now Rippowan, containing the acts
and conclusions of the companie of Wethers-
field men." At this meeting "the man under
consideration absenting himself while his case
was in hand and so successively and when
he was called in again and demanded if so
much gave him content and so content and
satisfaction was by every one of these men
acknowledged and they set down these num-
bers of acres of marsh and upland after the
same proportion that followeth xxx Mr. Den-
ton 14 acres xxx John Renoulds 11 acres."
(Stamford Records, p. 7.)

The New Haven Colony had not been fully
satisfied by the one hundred bushels of corn,
so that an assessment was laid to make this
good. The following is John Reynolds' ac-
count : "For rate — now 56.10.0 and due at W.
13. s. 6 d and to received Jo Renoulds 17 S.
II d. makes 4. lbs. 08-3.,' each of whom sub-
scribed a 'pick.' The next mention of him is
in a list of twelve men. Here his name ap-
pears as Jo. Renoulds. Latter is a tax list
to make good the loss of the town mill and
dam and for building a "captain's house.'
'Jo. Reynoulds debtor for loss by mill 2 6 9,
house 13 both 39.9 and he hath paid (for loss)
at mill, First bill 9 s. 6. and dam .9 s. 3 s.
house, 12 s. last charge 5. s. all 38 s. 6d.' "

The last mention of him is in a deed recorded
March, 1651, of property in the extreme west
section of the town, near the site of Old
Greenwich, bounded by "ye lot which was
John Renoles." (Stamford Records, p. 51.)

On page 55 of the original Stamford rec-
ords is recorded the marriage of his daugh-
ter: "Peter Ferris and Elizabeth RinealL-
joyned ye 15 July, 1654." Her husband. Free-
man, of Stamford, Connecticut, 1662, repre-
sentative 1(567, was the son of Jeflfrey Fer-
ris, one of the seven original proprietors of
Greenwich, who had, like John Reynolds, re-
moved successively from Watertown and
Wethersfield to Stamford. They had the fol-
lowing children: i. Joseph, son of Peter Fer-
ris, b. 20-6-1657, (Stam. Rec. p. 74.) 2. Illeg-
ible, son of Peter Ferris, illegible. 1659. 3.
Elizabeth, dau. of Peter Ferris, b. 28-11-1659
— d — 5-2-1660, Stamford Rec. p. 98. 4. Mary,
dau. of Peter Ferris, b. May 2, 1662. (Stam.
Rec. p. 76.) 5. Elizabeth, dau. of Peter Ferris,
b. Jan. 2, 1664. (Stam. Rec. p. 76.)

As Peter Ferris is mentioned as Sen. in
the entry of his death, September 28, 1706, it
is probable that the illegible name was Peter.

On page 19 of the Stamford Records is en-
tered the death of the wife of John: "Sarrah
Reanolds died 3i-i()-i657." On page 20 a
second entry gives it as "Sarra Reanols died

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1827

yQ 31 August 1657." We have records of
only tliree of John's chiUhen : i. Lhzaheth,
h. about 1634. 2. Jonathan, b. about 1636. 3.
John, b. about 1638.

'l"he subsequent history of John is unde-
termined. A John Reynolds, often confused
with him, was at Wethcrsfield as early as
June 29, 1674, when he had by Naomi Lati-
mer a son John, and a second son Jonathan.
As Naomi Latimer was born April 4, 1648, he
would have been appro.ximately thirty-six
years older than his wife, and sixty-two years
of age when the first child was born. These
children are not to be confounded with the
John and Jonathan of Greenwich, as the his-
tories of all four are well known. It is said
that only a few years ago there was at Weth-
crsfield a tombstone to a certain John Rey-
nolds who died in 1662. The constant recur-
rence of the names John and Jonathan in the
Greenwich and Wethersfield families implies
an intimate connection.

Jonathan, eldest son of John the Emigrant.

The site of "Old Greenwich," now Sound
Beach, lying some three miles to the west of
Stamford, had been purchased from the In-
dians on behalf of the New Haven Colony,
on July 18, 1640, by Robert Peaks and Cap-
tain Daniel Patrick, the latter a companion of
Tohn Reynolds of W^atertown and Wethers-
field

About 1653 many of the settlers of Stam-
ford had moved there, and among the earli-
est inhabitants were Jonathan and John Rey-
nolds, whose land lay along the Two Brothers'
Brook, which fact probably suggested its
name.

Subsequently to 1653 the name of Jonathan
Reynolds appears but once in the Stamford
Records: "Jan. 7, 1666, Wm. Grimes for
swearing veanly by ye name of God it being
fully proved by Mr. Jones and Jonathan Re-
nolds and Jos. Knapp ye said Grimes is fined
ten shillings and to pay all charges of his be-
ing to Stamford which is four shillings to each
man." This Grimes at that time was an
"Inhabitant" of Greenwich, as were the wit-
nesses.

In the Greenwich Town Records is an ac-
count of a town meeting held February 5,
1664, in which it was proposed to divide the
■"conmion lands by a rule of proportion accord-
ing to what each man's estate shall be visable."
The proprietors are given as follows : "Jeflfre
Ferris Sense, Joshua Knapp Sense, Joseph
Ferris, Jonathan Reynolds, .\ngell Heus-
ted, John Mead Sense, John Hobbe." These
were termed the "Seven Proprietors." (Sense
is an abbreviation for Senior.)

One of the earliest deeds recorded at Green-
wich (p. 3. vol. A.) is a bill of sale bearing
date December 13, 1665, from Richard V'owles
of Rye to Jonathan f^onalds, of Green-
wich, of "seven acres of upland more or lesse
which lieth within the compass of ye land
that was called ye ox pasture, situate in Green-
wich, bounded as followeth, northerly by ye
hye way, westerly by Grimes land and south-
erly by Joseph Ferrises land, Easterly by a
Swamp, also three acres of Maddow more or
less liounded southwest by Jonathan Ronaldoes
land. North east by Joseph Ferris, Westerly
by Joshua Knapps' land and Eastardly by
Jonathan Ronoldes upland also a sartaine par-
soli of upland XXX also my whole rite and
interest Elizabeth Neck also my whole inter-
est in land unto Myanos River." .Xt the bot-
tom of the page is the following:

I, Jonathan Ronalds do by this firndy ahsigne
and make over this within bill of sale unto my
Brother John Ronalds freely oneing and ac-
knowledging the whole rite and interest in ye
aforsayd bill of sale to be his to wit my brother
John Reynolds and for a witness of ye truth of
ye same I have set to my hand according to date
within written, Jonathan Ronalds.
In presence of

Joseph Mead.
Timothy Knapp.

This bill and deed entered in the year of our
Lord 1682. Februari 27.

In 1667 Jonathan Reynolds was made a
member of the .Assembly for Greenwich, and
on October 24th, 1669, he was made a free-
man of Connecticut by the Assembly of Green-
wich. On December 28th, 1669, Jonathan Rey-
nolds, Sargent Lockwood, John Hobby, Joshua
Knapp, John Mead, and Joseph Mead, were
appointed to free the town of all claims by
Daniel Patrick, the son of Daniel Patrick,
formerly Patroon of the Manor, who now ap-
peared laying claims to his fathers land. The
committee for the settlers who held by squat-
ter sovereignty bought him off by paying a
horse, saddle and bridle and fifty pounds. He
served on various important committees for
tlie laying out of lands, for making survey
of Horseneck to see if it be suitable for the
settlement of a township," as surveyor of
highways, etc., all of which appointments are
recorded in the Common Place Book of Green-
wich. The following is a last mention of
Jonathan in the Greenwich Records : ".\t
town meeting 13, 12th month, Joshua Knapp
is chosen to be a townman in the room of
Jonathan Reynolds." No other business was
considered at this meeting. The last previous
meeting was November 13, 1673. ^^ is there-
fore probable that he died in November or
December, 1673.

Letters of administration on his estate now

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filed at Fairfield. Connecticut, January 23,
1673-74, speak of him as "lately deceased,"
and mention his children : Jonathan R., about
13 years: John R., about 11 years; Joseph
R., about 4K' years: Rebecca R.. about 14
years; Sarah R., aged 8 last November 6th;
Elizabeth R., aged 6 last August.

Apportionment was by Angell Heusted and
Jonathan Knapp. He left a "widow Renals"
and a total estate of three hundred and fifty-
eight pounds. Inventory taken March 10,
1673-74. Ebenezer, a posthumous child, was
born in 1673.

The apjiortionment was by Angell Heusted,
and showed a total estate of three hundred and
fifty-eight pounds. The will of Angell Heus-
ted, also filed at Fairfield in 1706, mentions
his "son-in-law Jonathan Renalds." It is
possible that the "widow Renals" mentioned
in the apportionment might have been a
daughter of Heusted. While the above estate
would not to-day be considered a large one,
it was sufficient to place him second among
the "Twenty-seven Proprietors of 1672," who
purchased the Horseneck track, for at that
time the rights in the distribution of land were
based upon the wealth of the colonists.

The following are the descendants of Jona-
than Reynolds as far as they have been as-
certained : unle:ss otherwise stated it may be
assumed that they were all of Greenwich,
Connecticut.

We have no information concerning the eld-
est child, Rebecca, excepting that she was
born in 1659.

2. Jonathan — Jonathan — John.

The second child, Jonathan, was horn in
1660, and married, Dec. 7th, 1682. Nevill
Ridewere. The marriage is recorded in the
Common Place P)Ook at Greenwich, as are the
births of their children, i. e.,

I. Jonathan — Jonathan — Jonathan — John.

Their eldest child was Jonathan, who was
born in 1683, and who married, April 13, 1703,
Rebecca Seaman, and had ist, Rebecca, b.
I'"eb. 12, 1704, married, Jan. 29, 1727, Isaac
Knapp; 2nd, Sarah, b. 1706, married, Feb. 7,
1744. P.cnjamin Holmes, and had Enoch
Holmes; 3rd, Jonathan, b. Jan. 26, 1707-08;
married. May 6, 1731, Elizabeth Briggs, dau,
of Daniel I>riggs of Stamford, by whom he
had: ist, Mercy, b. June 23. 1736: 2n(l, Dan-
iel, b. Aug. 7. i'739:"3i'd. liannah. b. Jan. 21,
1742: 4th, Phillii5. b. Mch. 30. 1744; 5tii, Sam-
uel, b. Mch. 29, 1747.

Abigail, fourth child of Jonathan and Re-
becca Seaman, was born about 1709, and mar-
ried, July 17. 1731, John Martin and had John
Martin, b. Dec. 24, 173 1, and possibly others.
2. John — Jonathan — Jonathan — John.

John, the second child of Jonathan and his
wife, Nevill Ridewere, was born about 1684,
and m. Hannah Jessup, dau. of Edward Jessup
of Stamford. His will, dated at North Castle,
Westchester county, New York, June 14, 1764,
proved in New York City, liber 246, p. 590,
Oct. 25, 1764, mentions his wife Hannah and
his children: ist, Margaret, m. Andrew
Purdy. 2. Robert, of Bedford, N. Y., who, in
his will, executed Apr. 8, 1808, proved at
White Plains, April 10, 18 10, mentions his
wife Ann, widow of John Kipp, his brother
Sutton, and his children :

1. Elijah, of New Castle, whose will, exe-
cuted Jan. 26, 1814, proved at White Plains,
Nov. 1st that year, mentions his wife Abigail
and his daughter Ann Maria, who died unm.,
and whose will is probated at White Plains,
Apr. 9, 1829.

2. Elias, whose will, executed Oct. 7, 1814,
probated at White Plains, Nov. ist, 1814,
mentions no children.

3. Rebecca, of Bedford, who died unm., and
whose will is probated at White Plains, Mch.
2nd, 1818.

John, the third child of John Reynolds and
Hannah Jessup, lived at North Castle, West-
chester, and married .Ann Finch, who died in
1787, and had: ist, John, m. Rebecca Run-
dell, in 1759, he was of North Castle, and she
of Poundridge : she m. after his death Isaac
Clark; they had: 1st, Jonathan, b. 1761, m.
Sarah St. John, and d. at Bedford, N. Y.. in
1823 ; 2nd, Solomon, b. June 3rd,- 1763, m.
Joanna Miller, and d. Jan. 23. 1848, at Elniira,
X. Y., leaving ist, Isaac, b. Feb. 13, 1786, d.
at F'lmira, 1864, and 2nd, Wright, b. Dec. loth,
1787, d. Mch. 14, 1855. Rebecca, third child
of John and Rebecca Rundell, m. Timothy
Newman, and moved to Rensselaer county,
N. 'S'. : 4th, Robert, m. Lydia St. John; 5th,
Jonah, m. 1st Polly Tilton, and 2nd widow

ISetsy White; 6th, John, m. Esther ,

and d. 1809; 7th, Jesse, d. at I'otmdridge ;
8tli, Richard, who d. young.

Ann, second child of John Reynolds and
.Ann Finch, m. Stephen Edgett, and removed
to Nine Partners, N. Y, ; 3rd, Sarah, m. John
Knapp, and removed to Nine Partners, N. Y. ;
4, Polly, m. 1st Jehiel Davis, and 2nd David
Cook and removed to Delaware county, N.
Y. : 5. Edward, who m. Polly Chapman ;
6. Lizzie, m. John Ranks, and d. at North
Castle. 7. Jessup, m. Millicent Green : 8. Han-
nah, m. Jeremy Green and resided in West-
chester county ; 9. Jerusha, m. Jonathan Finch,

and lived in North Castle : 10. Jonah, m.

Ireland; 11. Deborah, m. James Smith, moved
to northwestern part of New York state.

Nothing is known about Joseph, the fourth

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child oi John Reynolds and his wife Hannah
Jessup.

5. Richeson had a son Richeson. 6. James.
7. Sutton, was of New Castle, Westchester
county, N. V.. and his will, executed August
12, 1824, probated April 9, 1829, mentions his
wife Anna and his children: i. Amy. 2.
Sutton, who lived at Billings, in town of
Beekman. Dutchess county, N. Y., and m.
Phebe Seaman, and had Mary, who m. James
Johnson. Sutton and his wife Anna also had :
3. 1 lannah. wife of Thomas Dodge. 4. Joseph.

5. Jonathan. 6. .Vndrew.

.\uthing is known of .Andrew, the eighth
child of John Reynolds and Hannah Jessup.

3. Nathan — Jonathan — Jonathan — John.

Nathan, third child of Jonathan and his
wife. Nevill Ridewere, was born about 1688,
and d. in 1748, and m. Ruth Reynolds, and
had Joim, b. Aug. 16, 1727.

4. Peter— Jonathan — Jonathan — John.

4. Peter, son of Jonathan and his wife Ne-
vill Ridewere. was born about if>gi. We have
no other information concerning him.

5. Josiah — Jonathan — Jonathan — John.

5. Josiah, b. Jan. 13, 1708, m. May i, 1735,
Barbara Briggs, dau. of Daniel Briggs, and
had: i. Elizabeth, b. Mch. 23, 1737. 2. Mar-
tha, b. Dec. 29, 1739. 3. Sarah, b. May 21,
1742. 4. Barbara, b. Nov. 14, 1744. 5. Jo-
siah. b. July 31. 1747. 6. Jonathan, b. ilay

6. 1750. 7. Obediah, b. Jan. 21. 1753. 8.
Briggs, b. July 21, 1754.

3. John — Jonathan — John.

John, third child of Jonathan, the eldest
son of the emigrant John, was born in 1662,
and married Ruth Knapp, b. 1667, dau. of
Joshua Knapp; he d. in 1736, and his will
executed Sept. 22, 1732, proved .■Xpr. 6, 1736,
states that he leaves no issue, but leaves his
property to his wife, Ruth. He describes him-
self as "the present Deacon of West Society."
Ruth, his widow, when the will was proved,
describes herself as the wife of Ebenczer
Mead.

4. Sarah, b. Nov. 5, 1665, m. Joseph Mead.
5. Elizabeth, b. .Aug.. 1667, m. Mch. 16, 1687.
Joshua Knapp.

6. Joseph — Jonathan — John.

6. Joseph, b. in 1669, m. in 1698. Abigail
Finch: d. in 1727. His wife Abigail was dau.
of Joseph Finch, of Greenwich. She d. in
17 1 5. and he then m. .Abigail Rundell.

On June 6, 1727, Andrew l'>urr, judge of
the court of probate of the county of Fair-
field, appointed the widow .Abigail and his eld-
est .son, Joseph, as administrators of his estate.
The widow. .Abigail Reynolds, joined the
Second Society at Greenwich. December 16,
1728. and the church records show that Abigail

Reynolds, wlio was probably identical with
the above, was married at the church, Nov.
19, 1729. to John Benedict, of Norwalk.
I . Joseph — Joseph — Jonathan — John.

Joseph and his wife, Abigail F'inch, had: i.
Joseph, b. at Greenwich. ]\Iay 15, 1699, m.
Ruth Ferris, Mch. 5. 1721-22. They joined
the church F^eb. 28, 1733. He had by her
three children, and the others were by a second
wife: he removed with his brother Nehemiah
to Nine Partners, or North-east Patent, now
Pine Plains, Dutchess county, N. Y., where he
owned an immense tract of land. He had the
following children: i. Ruth, b. Dec. 13, 1722.
2. Rosanna, b. Sept. 6, 1724. 3. Joseph, h.
.Aug. 27, 1727. He was of Crum Elbow in
1748, and d. Nov. 12, 1799. He m. on Jan. 21,
1745. Ruth Rich, who d. Aug. 5, 1750; he m.
at Bedford, N. ¥., for his second wife, Lydia
Parker. Alay 12. 175 1 : she d. Marcli 28, 1789.

Joseph and Ruth Rich had the following
children :

I. Joseph, b. July 23, 1746, ni. Lydia Jenks ;
d. in 1799. 2. Ruth, b. Aug. 5, 1749; bpt. at
.Vnienia, N. Y.. Oct. 25, 1752, and d. Aug. 5,
1776.

Joseph had by Lydia Parker: 3. Lydia,
b. Feb. 20, 1752. d. Sept. i, 1804; m. Joseph
Jenks. 4. Israel, b. Dec. 25, 1753 ; bpt. at
Amenia, N. Y., Mch. 17, 1754, lived at Peru,
in northern N. Y.. and d. Nov. 22, 1812. He
m., Alch. 5, 1778, Deborah Thacher, who was
b. Apr. 9, 1760, and d. Jan. 26, 1813, and had
the following children: i. Lucy, b. Jan. 6,
1779, d. Dec. 6, 1852; m. Simeon Frisbie, Apr.
10, 1796, and removed to Essex county, N. Y.
and left issue. 2. Leonard, b. Jan. 9, 1781. 3.
Solomon, b. Sept. 5, 1783. 4. Raymond, b.
Feb. 18, 1786. 5. Josiah, b. Aug.' 10, 1788.
6. Irena, b. Sept. 2, 1790. 7. Harvey, b. .Aug.
26. 1793- 8. Seneca, b. Mch. 7, 1796, d. Apr.
14, 1872, removed from A'ermont to Michigan,

and m. Ann , July 3rd, 1823 and had: i.

George, b. Feb. 19, 1825, d. Dec. 30. 1891. 2.
Pre.ston, b. :\Iay 5, 1828; d. Oct. i 1847. 3.
Edmund, b. Mch. i8, 1831 ; d. Dec. 13. 1904.
4. -Myron, b. Aug. 12, 1839.

Israel and his wife. Deborah Thacher, had
also a ninth child, Israel, b. July 11. 1800, re-
moved to Michigan.

Joseph and his wife, Lydia Parker, had a
fifth child, the Rev. Parker, b. Oct. 10. 1755,
at Nine Partners, d. at Canton, N. Y., 1826,
m. first Esther Dagett. and second Rhoda
Carter and had : i. Lydia, b. July 6. 1778 ; m.
Ethan Branch. 2. Esther, b. July 4, 1780, m.
Benjamin Warren. 3. John Parker, b. Sept.
21. 1782, m. Rebecca Newell, and second
Patience Wilson and had Laura Patience, b.
Oct. 23. 1818, at Middletown, Ohio; m. An-

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drew Campbell. Ruth, fourth child of the
Rev. Parker, was b. Mch. 7, 1785. 5. Cynthia,
b. May 20, 1787. 6. Werden Peter, b. Feb.
6, 1789; m. I. Emme, dau. of Asa Reynolds;
2nd Beulah Wentworth ; 3rd Nancy Purdy.
7th Lynas, b. Nov. 3, 1790; m. Alice Baker.

Nothing is known of Joanna, the sixth
child of Joseph Reynolds and his wife, Lydia
Parker. Asa, the seventh child', d. Aug. 8,
1729. All of the above seven children were
born at Nine Partners, New York.

Samuel, fourth child of Joseph, the son of
Joseph, the son of Jonathan, the son of John
the emigrant, was born Aug. 8, 1729. 5. Roo-
lah, b. Nov. 8, 1731. 6. Israel Jacob, b. Jan.
16, 1734. 7. Reuhama, b. Feb. 2. 1735. 8. Ra-
chel, b. Aug. 16. 1738. 9. Johanna, b. Dec.
21, 1740. 10. Elizabeth, b. Dec. 9. 1744; m.
Calvin Averill. 11. Phebe, b. Feb. 25, 1749;
m. John Howe.

2. Abigail — Joseph — Jonathan — John.
Joseph had a second child, Abigail, b. Apr.

3, 1701 ; m. David Reynolds, son of John, the
third child of John the emigrant. Their mar-
riage occurred Nov. 24, 1720, and the issue
will be found under the record of her husband.

3. Samuel — Joseph — Jonathan — John.
Samuel, third child of Joseph, was born

July 16, 1703; m. Jan. 26, 1727-28, Rebecca,
dau. of Ephraim Palmer. He d. Mch. 6,
1727-28. and had Rebecca, b. Nov. 4, 1727; m.
Joseph Palmer, Jr., of Crum Elbow, N. Y.
4. Benjamin — Joseph — Jonathan — John.

4. Benjamin, b. Mch. 26, 1705 ; d. in 1727.
5. John — Joseph — Jonathan — John.

5. John, b. May 23. 1708: m. Nov. 19,

1729, Ruth, dau. of John Reynolds, "The
Cooper," the son of John, the son of John
the emigrant and had: i. Ruth, b. Sept. 28,

1730. 2. John, b. Nov. 7, 1732.

6. Nehemiah — Joseph — Jonathan — John.
Nehcmiah. si.xth child of Joseph, was b.

Apr. 8, 1709, at Greenwich. In a deed of
May 20, 1743, he described himself as being
of Filkintown, Nine Partners. N. Y., and to-
gether with Peter Palmer sold over 4,000 acres
to Joseph Reynolds. He m. first Abigail,
who, in the above deed, resigned her right of
dowry, and second in 1743, at Nine Part-
ners, N. Y., I\Iary . He had the fnllow-

ing children:

I. Nehemiah, who m. first, Mary Arm-
strong, and had: i. Jacob, b. 1761 : d. 1831 ;
lived at Chatham, N. Y. ; m. first, Sarah
Hart, and had: i. Robert, b. 1798; hved at
Austerlitz, Columbia county, N. Y., and m.
Amelia Horton, and had: i. Lewis Hart. b.
1822. 2. Truman Horton, b. 1824. 3. Clar-
issa, b. 1826; m. David E. Hawes. 4. Fidelia,
b. 1828; m. Anson E. Barrett. 5. John Mofifitt,

b. 1832 ; m. Lucy Rhodes. 6. Rhoda Elizabeth,
b. 1834; m. James H. Milling. 7. Robert
Edwin, b. 1837 ; m. Mary Reynolds. 8. Milton
Duane, b. 1839 ; m. Ellen H. Smith. 9. Sam-
uel Moore, b. 1842.

Jacob and his wife, Sarah Hart, had: 2.
Hiram, m. Rachel Westcott, and had: i. Hen-
ry. 2. Hiram. 3. Betsy. 4. Frank. 5. Rob-
ert. Jacob and Sarah Hart had also: 3.
Salome. 4. Phebe. 5. Hart.

Jacob, after the death of his wife, Sarah
Hart, m. Mary Olds, and had by her: 6.
Nehemiah. 7. Milton. 8. George. 9. Eliza-
beth. ID. Serepata. 11. Leonard. 12. Sarah.
13. Mehitable. 14. Jacob Alonzo.

Nehemiah had by his wife, Mary Arm-
strong: 2. Benjamin. 3. Nehemiah.

After the death of Mary Armstrong, Nehe-
miah m. Anstres, and had by her: 4.

David N., b. Oct. 3, 1785; d. 1867; m. 1807,
Amy, dau. of Solomon Reynolds, and had : i.
Edward W., b. at Chatham, Sept. 3, 1836; d.
Jiuie 18, 1838. 2. Lewis, b. Oct. 21, 1809; d.
Jan. 17, 1894; m. Ann Goodfellow, no issue.
3. Rachel. 4. Pamelia. 5. Abraham. 6. Ste-
phen, b. Nov. 3, 1815; d. July 30, 1848; m.
1847, Sabrinia Van Alystyne, and had: i.
Frederick; d. Apr. 17, 1893. 2. Stephen, b.
Nov. 19, 1848: m. June 10, 1869, Ida Hatch,
and second Feb. 27, 1883, Elizabeth Rey-
nolds, dau. of Harvey. He had by his first
wife: I. Frederick, b. June 19, 1876; lives
at Ravville, N. V. 2. George N., b. Apr. 7,
1880. '

David N. and his wife, Amy, had : 7. Mal-
vinia. 8th. Salomy. 9. Jane, who m. David
Wickham. 10. Elizabeth, m. Eben Phelps.
II. James, b. Mch. 17, 1831 ; m. at Niverville,
N. Y., Julia Turner, in 1857. 12. Mary.

Nehemiah and his wife, Anstres, had:

5. William, who m. Sarah Mosher, and had:
1, Martin, 2. Seneca, 3. John, who m. Char-
ity Carnell, and had Martin, 4, Isaac, m.
Mary Woodward, and had : Horace. 5, Jane.

6. Wm. Henry, m. Eliza Melius,
Nehemiah had by his wife Anstres:

6. Andrew. 7. Abram. 8. Jane. 9. Mary.
10. Sarah. 11. Rachel. 12. Salome. 13.
Amia. 14. Ruamia.

Nehemiah, sixth child of Joseph, who was
the sixth child of Jonathan, the second child
of John the emigrant, had also: 2. Mary,
who m. Solomon Finch, lived in Chatham,
N. Y,, and had nine children, 3. David, son
of the above named Nehemiah, born Nov. 24,
1745, removed to Chatham, N. Y. in 1764, and
(1. 1820, in Chatham. He m. Lois Finch and
had: T. Joel, m. Elizabeth Crandall, lived in
Clarkvillc, Otsego co., N. Y. 2. Nehemiah,
lived near Hallsville, Otsego co., N. Y. 3.

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Amos, 111. Patty Thompson, removed to Fond-
dii-lac, Wis. 5. Titus, b. Dec. 10, 1770; lived
in Chatham, N. Y., d. Alch. 30, i860; m.
tirst EHzabeth Brown, in 1792; she was b.
Oct. II, 1770; d. July 29, 1826: and second
widow Margaret Brown Finch, her sister, b.
1770; d. i860, and had: ist. Wm. L., b. Aug.
22, 1794; d. Apr. 5, 1871 ; m. Matilda Hotch-
kiss, and had: Eliza, b. Apr. 18, 1815. 2.
Lydia, b. July 25, 1817. 3. George Mead, b.
Nov. 9, 1820.

Titus had by Elizabeth Brown: 2. Chloe,
b. Nov. 8, 1798; m. Nicholas Wilbur. 3. Ira, b.
Nov. 8, 1805 ; m. Elizabeth Burton. 4. Alan-
son, b. Aug. 14, 1808; d. Sept. 23, 1878; m.
first Caroline Ashley, second Patty Shumway
Hunt, third Lydia Ray Gale, and had :

I. Oliver, m. Gertrude Pierce, had an only
son, Orlando. 2. Albert. 3. Smith, m. Julia
Carpenter, lived in Stockbridge, Mass.

Titus had also: 5. Alzena, b. May 29, 1814;
d. Aug. 15, 1856. 6. Lavinia, b. Oct. 17,
1801 ; d. July 4, 1858. 7. Harvey, b. Jan. 29,
1820; d. Feb. 3, 1891, and had: i. Water-
man, b. Jan. 9, 1844: d. June 7. 1883. 2. Wm.
T., b. May 24, 1849; d. Oct. 5. 1855. 3.
Elizabeth S., b. Sept. 18, 1854.

David Reynolds and his wife Lois Finch
had also : 5. Zaida, m. James Murphy. 6.
Rebecca, m. Stephen Finch. 7. Lydia, m.
Arnold Wooley. 8. Esther, m. Oliver Allen.
9. Solomon, b. Dec. 23, 1766; d. Aug. 21,
1850; m. Dec. 24, 1786, Deborah Brown, a
sister of the wives of Titus Reynolds and
had: i. David S.. b. Sept. 4, 1787; d. June
24, 1866; m., Apr. I, 1809, Sarah Gillette,
and had: i. Harris, b. Mch. 18, 1810; d. at
Battle Creek, Apr. 15, 1888. 2. Isiah, b. Oct.

2, 1813: d. at Battle Creek, Mich., Sept. 12,
1889: m. first Mary Hicks, second Har-
riet Marcv, and had:' i. Walter B., b. ATch.
4. 1837, at Nassau, N. Y.. d. Feb. 4, 1885,
at Rochester, N. Y. ; m. Phebe Crandall. 2.
Joseph H., b. Nov. 15, 1846, at Nassau ; d.
Feb. 25, 1848. 3. Bernard H., b. June 28,
185 1, at Nassau. 4. Sarah G., b. Veh. 10,
1848 ; ni. Sterling F. Havward, of Yonkers,
N. Y.

David and his wife. Sarah Gillette, had also :

3. Norman, b. Apr. i, 1816, at Westford,
Otsego CO.. N. Y.. d. Oct. 2. 1888; ni. Clar-
issa Chapman, and left no issue. 4. .\del-
phius. b. May 30, 1812; d. Jan. 13, 1854; m.
Lydia Bowman, who d. Jan. 13, 1859 ; no
issue. 5. Claudius, b. June 30, 1827; d. at
Chatham, Jan. 27. i860, and had: i. Clar-
ence Eugene, b. July 30, 1856; resides at
Battle Creek, Michigan. 6. Charlotte. 7. Or-
pah, b. July 29, 1832. d. unm.

Solomon and his wife Deborah I'.rown also

had : 2. Titus S., b. at Chatham, N. Y., Jan.
9, 1790; d. Apr. II, 1862; m. Dec. 11, 1813,
Hannah Brockway, of Columbia co., who
was born Mch. 12, 1794; d. 1881, and had:
1. Horace, b. 1814. 2. Lester A., b. 1816,
removed to Lucerne, Minn. 3. Sylvester, b.
1816; d. at Toch, Wis., Dec. 4, 1890. 4. Elias
B., b. 1818; d. at Lyons, Wayne co., N. Y.,
May 24, 1880. 5. Mary Ann, b. 1820. 6.
Warren, b. in Chatham, Col. co., Sept. 19,
1821; lived at Amenia, N. Y., and had: i.
Alvah. of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 7. Deborah
J., b. 1823. 8. Laura, b. 1824. 9. Isa?ic B.,
b. 1824. 10. Julianna, b. 1828. 11. Freeman,
1). Apr. 16, 1831 ; lives in .\lbany, X'ermont.
12. Ahda, b. 1833.

Solomon Reynolds, ninth child of David
Reynolds, had by his wife, Deborah Brown:
3. Joseph S., b. Feb. 12, 1794; d. Oct. 11,
1842; m. Delia Brown, and had:, i. Con-
stance. 2. Catherine. 3. Deborah. 4. John.
Solomon Reynolds also had. 4. James, b.
July II, 1796; d. at Chatham, N. Y., Jan. 9,
1864, in. Sarah Irish. 5. Jonathan, b. Mch.
I, 1799: d. ]\Iarch 22, 1858; m. Nancy Green,
and had: i. Henry, d. at Rayville, 1893, who
had: i. Lavinia, m. Rensselaer Palmer, and
d. in 1894. 2. Maria, m. 1858, Emeritt Gillett,
and resides at Rochester, Indiana ; Solomon
also had: 6. Enos, b. May 18, 1807; d. Sept.
3. 1868: m. Caroline Bristol. 7. Eunice, b.
Dec. 27, 1808: d. Feb. i, 1872; m. Abram
Doughty, of Nassau, Rensselaer co., N. Y.
8. .\my. b. Dec, 16. 1791 : d. May 12, 1844;
m. David M. Revnolds. 9. Annis. b. Mch.
ist. 1809: (1. Tune' I, 1886. 10. Allen, b. Dec.
18, 1810: d. Oct. 20, 1835.

David Reynolds, who was born Nov. 24,
1745, and who mar. Lois Finch, had also: 10.
Mary, who m. Job Thompson. 11. Lois, who
m. first Francis l'>arnard : lived at Clarks-
ville, Otsego Co.. .\'. \'.. and second James
Wilbur.

Nehemiah, sixth child of Joseph, the .son of
Jonathan, the son of John the emigrant, had
in addition to I. Nehemiah: 2. Mary. 3.
David, previously mentioned. 4. Rosanna,
1). 1750: d. June 8, 1833; m. Jabez Finch, and
had nine children ; also 5. .Amos, b. June 10,
1759; m. Elizabeth Mosher, lived at Chatham.
They settled at Galway, Saratoga co., N. Y.,
ami had: I. David, lived at Galway. 2. Sam-
uel, lived in Saratoga co. 3. Judith, m. John
Allen. 4. Phebe, no issue. He also liad :
6. .\bigail, b. Nov. 21. 1747; m. John Bishop,
and lived at Granville, N. Y. 7. Anna. b.
Oct. 30, 1754. m. Stephen Howland, lived at
Galway, Saratoga co., N. Y. 8. Rebecca, m.
Noah Ashley and had ten children.

7. Isaac — Joseph — Jonathan — Jolin.

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HUDSON AND MOHA\\K \" ALLEY

Joseph had in addition to x. Joseph: 2.
Abi.i,'ail. 3. Samuel. 4. Uenjaniin. 5. John,
and 6. Xehemiah, whose dc-jondants have al-
ready been given ; a seventh child, Isaac, b.
June 15, 171 1, at Greenwich, and removed to
Crum Elbow, N. Y.

8. Reuben — Joseph — Jonathan — John.

He also had an eighth child, Reuben, b.
Dec. 4, 1713, at Greenwich. He d. in 1765.
He m. Mch. 19, 1734, Elizabeth Alead, who
was b. Apr. 5, 1709. He left a will executed
Aug. 1st, 1765, proved at Stamford, Oct. 31,
1765 ; his widow survived him. The following
are his descendants: i. Reuben, b. Mch. 14,
1735; m. Hepzibah . and had: i. An-
drew, b. Mch.. 1764, wl:o m. Sarah Cleveland
and had the following children: i. Isaac. 2.
Hosea. m. Elizabeth EuUer. 3. Henry. 4.
Sally. 5. Andrew, b. Hepzibah. 7. Lucy.
8. -Amy. 9. Patty. 10. John. 11. Charles.

8. Reuben and his wife, Elizabeth Mead,
liad also: 2. Titus, b. about 1736: lived at
North Salem, Westchester co., N. Y., m.
Sarah — — , who was b. in 1741, and d. 1833.
He d. in 1808, and had: i. Benjamin, b.
1770; d. 1850: and had. i. Mary, b. 1812;

d. 1876; m. Lobdell, and lived at North

Salem, Westchester county, N. Y. 2. Samuel.
lived at North Salem, Westchester co., N. Y.,
and had: i. Frank S.

Reuben and his wife, Elizabeth, had also:
3. Moses, b. about 1739. 4. Elizabeth, b. about
1741 ; m. Chas. Howe. 5. Joel, b. 1743; re-
moved to Albany county, N. Y. 6. Bethania, b.
about 1745. 7. Jonah, b. about 1747, and :

8. David, b. June 6, 1753. He lived during
the Revolution in We-stchester co., and Gen.
Washington and Gen. Lafayette stayed in his
house several times. His house was fired by
the British on three occasions. He d. Aug. 30,
1827, at Scotchtown, Orange county, N. Y.
He m. Margaret Crisey, July 12, 1787; she
was b. Nov. 7. 1863. in Westchester, and d.
Ai:g. 12, 1858, at Lake Sheldrake, Sullivan
CO., N. Y., and had: i. Andrew Reynolds,
b. May 26, 1792: d. May 11, 1876. He m.
Oct. 20, 1813, Katrina Van licncheton, and
had: i. James Yan Bcnchcton, b. Dec. 4.
1816; d. Sept. 13, 1867, at Fallsburg, Sullivan
CO., N. Y. He m. Hannah Knapp, Oct. 25,
1840, and had: i. Elmer E., who m. Nannie
E. Howe, and lives at Oneida, N. Y.

Reuben and his wife, Elizabeth Mead, had,
in addition to the above: 9. Mary, b. alx>ut
1752. 10. Hannah, b. about 1754, m. in 1786,
Israel Wood, of South Salem, N. Y. 11.
Martha, b. about 1757.

9. Elizabeth — Joseph — Jonathan — John.

Joseph, sixth child of Jonathan, the second
child of the emigrant John, had : 9. Eliza-

beth, b. .Aug. I, 1717: ni. l-tichard Everitt, of
.Xorwalk, Conn. ; they sold to Joseph Rey-
nolds, her brother, Dec, 1742, their interest
in the estate of her father, :\lr. Joseph Rey-
nolds, and all claim on the estate of her "Un-
cle Deacon John Reynolds, late of Greenwich,
ileceased."

7. Ebenezer — Jonathan — John.

rSesides the above mentioned children, Jona-
than, the second child of the emigrant, had a
posthumous child, b. 1673-74, who was his
seventh child, named Ebenezer. He was pro-
vided for by a gift of land from his brother,
Jonathan, which is recorded on page 65 of
\ol. Ill, of the Greenwich deeds.

This Ebenezer, seventh child of Jonathan,
the son of the emigrant John, was married to
-Abigail, dau. of Ebenezer Smith, and d. in
1749. He had the following children: i.
Deborah, b. Feb. 3. 1705, who m. Robert
Peck. 2. Ebenezer, b. Mch. 6, 1707, who had :
I. Ebenezer, b. Oct. 23, 173 1 : d. unm., in
1761. 3. Lydia, b. Mch. i, 1709-10. 4. Sarah,
b. 171 1 ; m. Peter Peck. 5. Abigail, b. 1713:
m. William Johnson.

f). Nathaniel — Ebenezer — Jonathan — John.

6. Nathaniel, b. Jan. 27, 1715, m. Nov. 8,
1743, Sarah, dau. of Nathan Lockwood, and

had: i. Nathaniel, b. Sept. 7, 1745, m.

, Jan. 23, 1772, and 2. Apr. 2, 1878, to

Deborah, dau. of Benjamin Heusted and
Sarah Newman. He died June 6, 1822,
and had by his first wife: i. Nathaniel, b.
1773. 2. Zadoc, b. 1775. 3. Rebecca, b. 1777;
by his second wife he had : 4. Ard. b. Mch.
20, 1781 : m. Dec. 13, 1810, Anna Eliza Doell,
who d. Feb. 25, 1858; he d. Apr. 26, 1857,
and had: i. Elizabeth P. 2. Sally D. 3.
lienjamin IL, d. voung. 4. Ann Eliza, d. unm.
5. John G., b. Mch. 25, 1821. 6. Harriet E.
7. Julia H., m. to Seneca T lowland. 8. Maria.

Nathaniel had also by Deborah Heusted : 5.
Harriet. 6. Benjamin. 7. Heusted.

Nathaniel, who was b. Jan. 27, 1715, had by
Sarah Lockwood, his wife: 2. Ezekicl, h.
Oct. 13, 1747, d. Nov. 24. 1833, m. July 4,
1770, Mary, dau. of Captain Caleb Mead. 3.
.\I)igail. b. Dec. 11, 1749, d. May 27. 1839,
m. May 21, 1778. Nathaniel IngersoU. 4.
ncnjamin. who was killed in the Revolution,
iiuni. 5. Phebe, b. Apr. 26. 1757; d. unm.,
June 19, 1829. 6. lames, b. Afav 8, 1759;
d. Mch. 2, 1833; m". Oct. 18, 1786: Abigail
Knapp. who was born Oct. 4, 1755. They lived
at .South Salem. N. Y. Their children were
baptized in the Church of Christ, Salem,
Westchester, N. Y. (see N. Y. Gen & Biog.,
\'ol. xxxiii. p. 38-39). I. Stephen, b. July 29,
4. 1856. 2. Ezekiel, b. Aug. 7,

17SS; ,1. Jan. 24. 1881; m. May

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Phebe. tlau. of Ezekiel Reynolds ; she d. Sept.
21, 1855, and had: 1. Adehne, b. Oct. 20,
1 810 ; m. Erastus Riindle. 2. James, d. young.
3. \Vm. T., b. July 18. 1814; d. Jan. 11, 1881 ;
ni., Feb. 23, 1836, jMary Ann Halsey. 4.
Stephen, b. Dec. 22, 1815; d. unni., in 1841.

5. Elkanah M., b. Sept. 8, 1817: d. Jan. 16,
1892; m. Jan. 31, 1844, Sarah Sackett Wil-
son, who d. Aug. 27, 1903.

James and his wife, Abigail Knap]), had also :

3. "James, b. Sept. 27, 1789; lived at Somers,
Westchester co. ; his will was probated at
White Plains, May 28, 1855; he d. Apr. 29,

1855; and m., Sept. 17, 1820, Sarah . by

whom he had: i. Wm. Edward. 2. Sarah
Louisa. 3. James Richard. 4. Jane Matilda;
m. Randolph.

James and his wife, Abigail Knapp, had also :

4. Josiah, b. Feb. 19, 179 1 ; d. Nov. 24, 1874;
m. Dec. 16, 1815. 5. Silas, b. Mch. 12, 1792;
d. Mch. 23, 1878; m. Dec. 18, 1824. 6. Ebe-
nezer, b. July 4, 1793 ; d. July 2nd, 1869 : m.
Oct. 31, 1815. 7. Enoch, b. Dec. 19, 1794;
d. Sept. 9, 1878; m. first, Dec. 15, 1819,
.Maria Reynolds, dau. of Nathaniel, son of
Nathaniel, son of Nathaniel, son of James,
son of John, .son of John the emigrant ;
m., second, Sept. 11, 1848, Deborah .Ann
Finch; by first wife he had: 1. Ann
.\melia, b. Nov. 3, 1821. 2. Nathaniel,
b. Nov. 2, 1822. T,. James, b. Nov.
8. 1825 ; d. July 18, 1891 ; m. Carrie Cole, Sept.
12, 1849. 4- Josiah, b. Oct. 6, 1827; d. Jan.
17, 1846. 5. Alvah, b. May 22, 183 1. 6.
Hanford, b. Dec. 27. 1833. 7. Catherine, b.
July 7, 1836.

James, b. Alay 8, 1759, had by his wife,
Abigail Knapp, in addition to the i . Ste])hcn :
2, Ezekiel. 3. James. 4. Josiah. 5. Silas.

6. Elienezer. 7. Enoch, enumerated above. 8.
Abigail, b. Mch. 26, 1796; d. Oct. 28, 1858:
m. Dec. 16, 1815. 9. Reuben, b. Oct. 10,
1797; d. Feb. 9, 1855; m. Oct. 9, 1823. 10.
Rachel, b. Sept. 29, 1800: d. .Apr. i, 1879; m.
.Aug. 31, 1826. II. Hanford, b. Jan.gf), 1802;
d. June 3, 1858: m. .Nov. 12, 1829. 12. Lock-
wood, b. Oct. 14, 1804; d. Oct. 25. 188 1 ; m.
Nov. 25. 1829. 13. Joseph, b. Aug. 26. 1807;
d. June 8, 1874: m. Dec. i6, 1835. 14. Sarah,
b. .Apr. 28, 18)39; d. Jan. 15, 1888; m. Nov.

7. 1827. 15. .Amanda, b. Feb. 11, i8ii; d.
Mch. 30. 1861 : m. Nov. 11, 1828.

Nathaniel, b. Jan. 27, 1715, had by his wife
Sarah Lockwood, in addition to the children
enumerated above: 7. Sarah, b. Feb. 8. 1762,

d. -Aug. 31. 1849. m. Mch. 29, 1784.

Smith. 8. Philemon, b. Feb. 21, 1764, d. July
28. 1835, m. first, Oct. 21, 1787, Hannah,
dau. of Caleb Mead, who was born Jan. ft.
1756, d. Feb. 24. iSii, and second .'^arah

Holmes, on I'"eb. 20, 1S14. by whom he had no
issue. His will is recorded in White Plains,
X. V. He had by Hannah .Mead: i. .Amy, b.
Sept. 17, 1788, "m. Samuel I'.uddington. 2.
.Arney, b. Sept. 22, 1790, m. Henry Close,
Sept. 29, 1812, and d. .Apr. 9, 1870. 3. Hiram,
b. Dec. 14, 179^. 4- Hannah AL, b. h^eb. 2,
1795, m. .Amos Searles. 5. Theresa AL, b.
Oct' 10, 1797, m. George Miller, fi. Warren,
b. I-eb. 18, 1800. 7. Rachel, b. June 11, 1802,
m. James Scoffield.

Nathaniel, b. Jan. 2-. 1715. by his wife
Sarah Lockwood, in addition to the above:
9. Ebenezer, d. unm. 10. Deborah, b. Alay
13. 1766. m. L'riah Lockwood. 11. Lockwood,
1). .Mch. 20, 1768, d. June 7, 1827.

Ebenezer, seventh child of Jonathan, the
second child of John the emigrant, had in ad-
dition to the children enumerated above: 7.
Enos, b. about 17 17. 8. Timothy, b. about
1 7 19, d. 1 78 1, served in the French and Indian
war : his widow, Anna, survived him and was
appointed administratrix of his children, all
infants: i. Jeremiah. 2. George. 3. Asa.
4. .Abel. 5. Jared, d. 1822, without issue. 6.
Timothy, d. 1816, had: i. Samuel H. 7.
Elijah. 8. Abigail. 9. .Anna.

Ebenezer, the posthumous son of Jonathan,
the second son of John the emigrant, had also:
Q. Rebecca, who m. Samuel Bursham. 10.
Eliphalet, b. about 1722. settled at Nine Part-
ners, Dutchess CO., N. Y.

The above dates, which have been obtained
from the original records, do not agree as far
as the day of the month is concerned with the
genealogy of the children of Ebenezer. which
dates are probably the dates of baptism.

The above completes the"" descendants of
Jonathan, the second child of the emigrant
John, as far as they have been ascertained.

JOHN REYNOLDS. (SECOND) .SON OF
JOHN THE EMIGRANT.

The first entry on the first page of the first
book of deeds in Greenwich, February i, 1663,
records the purchase from Angell Heusted of
sixteen acres of land on the west side of the
Myanos river, by John Ronalds, of Green-
wich. This purchase was augmented by five
pieces of land which Jonathan Ronalds had
purchased of Richard \'owles, December 15,
1665, and transferred on the same day to his
"brother John Ronalds."

On October 24, 1669, John was made free-
man of Greenwich.

On July 18, 1670, William Grimes left all
his "lands to ye disposal of Joseph Mead,
John Renals and Eliphalet Jones to be dis-
|)osed of by tlicni in such a waye as they
shall judge meet for ye inlarging of ye town

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of Greenwich by accomodating such inhabitant
or inhabitants as shall be admitted into ye
town in an orderly way, provided they bee
such men as ye afore sd Mead, Renols & Jones
shall bee desirable for ye promoting of church
& commonwealth." This William Grimes had
on January 7, 1666, been fined for swearing
and Jonathan Renolds had gone from Green-
wich to Stamford to appear against him. It
was not until March 7, 1694, that it was de-
cided to dispose of the land "for ye use of a
ministrie and if no ministrie be in ye place ye
profit of sd land and meadow shall go to
helpe maintain such as shall be employed in
teaching children to reade."

In 1669 John was appointed one of a com-
mittee of five to purchase from the few re-
maining Indians living about the west end of
the town, the Horseneck tract three miles to
the west of "Old Greenwich," from which it
was separated by the Myanos river. The
original settlers remained for the most part
in the homelots at Old Greenwich and Horse-
neck, now Greenwich, was largely settled by
their children, who styled themselves as the
" 27 Proprietors of 1672. " Among these
Jonathan Reynolds ranked second and his
brother John was the twenty-second among
the proprietors.

By the Greenwich inventory of 1688 it ap-
pears that the number of "Inhabitants" had
increased to fifty, among whom was John
Reynolds, who was the wealthiest man. It
would appear that his homelot adjoined the
Church of the Second Society, for on Novem-
ber 28, 1694, he was appointed "to supervise
the building of a meeting house which is next
his own house." His name constantly appears
in the Greenwich Records up to the time of
his death. John was appointed justice of the
peace for Fairfield county, February 24, 1687,
and King's Commissioner, 1690-97.

His will, recorded in Fairfield, Connecticut,
dated April 21, 1699, and a codicil dated No-
vember 8, 1701, mentions his wife. Judah, and
children John, Judah (or Judith), James,
Mary, Jonathan, Joshua and David. At the
time of his death in 1701 he was the wealthiest
"Inhabitant" of Greenw^ich. The widow was
appointed administratrix and the inventory
was taken prior to December 17, 1701, when it
was filed. The three distributors were all of
Stamford. Joshua, the son of the deceased,
chose his brother, John Reynolds, as guardian,
while David chose Joseph Knapp as guardian.
To James was given land next to Gearsham
Lockwood. Joshua received land next to Jno.
Heusted, and David land next to Joseph Fer-
ris and Ephraim Palmer. The widow, his son
John, and son-in-law Samuel Betts, were ap-

pointed overseers. The daughter, Mary, had
already received her portion.

The town tax list of Greenwich in 1701-02
contains the following of the name:

Mr. John Renalls, 93 pounds; Sargent Jona-
than Renalls. 22 pounds; Joseph, Jr., 5^
pounds: Jonathan. Jr.. 27 pounds; John, Jr., 72
pounds; Ebenezer, 44 pounds; James, 46 pounds;
John. Sr., 71 pounds.

On February 4, 1701-02, the town made
another distribution of land ; eighteen acres
were allotted to "Mr. Renalds deceased."" He
was the largest landholder in Greenwich at
the time of his death, and this land was dis-
tributed among his sons, who, in 1706, .sold
to one another the various portions which
their "honored father, Mr. John Renals de-
ceased" had obtained from the many distribu-
tions of town land, with the evident intention
of concentrating their individual holdings.

Judah, the wife of John, was probably the
daughter of John Palmer, one of the early
settlers of Greenwich. In the settlement of
his estate recorded at Fairfield, Connecticut,
the heirs of Judah Reynolds appear with Wil-
liam, Ephraim, James and Joseph Palmer.
John Palmer is stated to have "died many
years ago." This bears the entry "due .August,
1716," an addition was made to the inventory
on April 17, 1778.

Her mother's name was Judah, who w-as
married after the death of John Palmer to
JefTery Ferris, one of the two purchasers of
Greenwich Point, July 18, 1640, w-hose will,
executed January 6, 1664, recorded in Fair-
field, mentions his wife, "Judy," who was his
third wife. She receipted for her dower May
6, 1667, as "Judah Bowers, lately widow
Ferris, sometime wife to JefTery Ferris."
Ferris left ten pounds apiece to the four
"boies" of his wife, evidently the William,
Ephraim, James and Joseph Palmer above
mentioned.

This is still further confirmed by the will of
Ephraim^Palmer above mentioned, who died
.August 19, 1684, and whose will is filed at
Fairfield in book 1675-1689, page 140. The
inventory was taken by John Reynolds : John
Bowers was the administrator, and mentions
his daughter Judith, aged 11 years. If the
above relationship is correct, John Reynolds
would have been the brother-in-law of Eph-
raim Palmer, John Bowers would have been
his stepfather, and his daughter, Judith, born
in 1673, would have been named for his sister
Judith, w-ife <>i John Reynolds, or for his
mother.

The will of John Bowers, of Greenwich,
drawn March 16, 1693-94, gives property
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Mrs. Jiulah Reynold?," and again speaks of
his "daughter Juda Reynolds and son Mr.
John Ronalds."

In Colonial times the stepchildren were re-
ceived into the family and referred to as sons
and daughters, thus in a deed dated April
8, 1675, and recorded at Greenwich in Vol.
A., p. 64, John Bowers gives land bounded by
that of John Renalds to his son "Rpbraini
Palmer."

Judah, the wife of "Mr. John Ronalds,"
had her first child as early as 1670. As Su-
sanna Lockwood, the second wife of Jeffery
Ferris, did not die until Deceinber 23, 1660,
she could not have been a daughter of Jeffery
Ferris by his third marriage. Since Jeffery
Ferris did not die until May 31, 1666, it is
still less possible that she could have been a
daughter of John Bowers. We are forced,
therefore, to conclude that Judah Reynolds
was the daughter of Judah by a marriage pre-
vious to that to Jeffery Ferris, and the Palmer
records above quoted make us consider the
conclusion warranted that her father was John
Palmer.

John Bowers married, after the death of
Judah, Hannah Knapp. widow of Joshua
Knapp, the parents of Ruth, born 1667, who
married John Reynolds, son of Jonathan,
and of Joseph Knapp, who married Elizabeth,
daughter of Jonathan Reynolds.

John Reynolds and his wife, Judah Palmer,
had the following children :

I. John, born about 1670. 2. Judith, born
about 1672. 3. James, born 1674. 4. Mary.
5. Jonathan, 1682. 6. Joshua, born about
1686. and 7. David, bom about 1689.
I. John — John — John.

T. John was known as "The Cooper," and
was born about 1670. He received from his
father in 1695 his house and homelot at
Horseneck. He died in December, 1732, and
left a will in which he appointed his brother
James and his son-in-law-, Samuel Mills, as
his executors. He left the following children :
I. Peter, born about 1695. 2. Judith, b. about
1697. 3. David, b. about 1699. 4. Lydia and
5. Ruth".

I. Peter — John — John — John.

1. Peter, the eldest son, was b. about 1695,
and i\. in 1743. He m., Jan. 14, 1718, Sarah
Knapp, who survived him. Their children
were the following: i. Peter, b. Dec. 14,
1719. 2. Sarah, b. Aug. 19. 1721. 3. Han-
nah, b. Sept. 6, 1723. 4. John, b. Aug. 16,
1725. 5. Lydia. b. Mch. 6. 1727, who m. a
Ferris. 6. Elizabeth, b. Dec. 14, 1729. 7.
Judith, b. July 29, 1732.

2. Judith — John — John — John.

2. Judith, the second child of John, "The

Cooper," was b. alx)ut 1697, and m. Samuel
Mills.

3. David — John — John — John.

3. David was b. about 1699, ^n<^' <^'- •" ^75^-
Letters of administration recorded at White
Plains, June 3, 175 1. He m. Lydia, a dau.
of Caleb Knapp. lie had three children who
are known: 1. David, who was born about
1730. 2. Penelope, who was b. about 1732.

3. James Reynolds, b. 1738, m. Judith ,

b. 1743. He lived in New Rochelle, and was
elected constable and collector, Dec. 22, 1783.
They had: i. David, b. 1761. 2. Mary, b.
^7^3- 3- Samuel, born 1766. 4. Penelope, b.
1769. 5. Peter, b. 1772. 6. Joshua, b. 1775.
7. Enos, b. 1778. 8. Nathan, b. 1785. 9.
Elizabeth, b. 1786.

7. Enos, b. 1778; married Hannah Love, and
had: i. Mary, b. 1801, m. Job Tripp. 2.
James, b. 1803, m. Harriet Boyden. 3. So-
phia, b. 1804. 4. Sidney, b. 1806, m. Juliana
Brewster. 5. Ira, b. 1807. 6. Francis, b.
181 1. 7. Eliza, b. 1813. 8. Vincent, b. 1815.
9. Milton, b. 1817. ID. Lawson, b. 1820.

Nothing is know^n of the descendants of 4.
Lydia, the fourth child of John, "The Cooper,"
but 5. Ruth, the fifth child, who was born in
1702, m. Nov. 19, 1729, John Reynolds, the
son of Joseph, who was the son of Jonathan,
the son of the emigrant John, and had: I.
Ruth. b. Sept. 28, 1730, and 2. John, b. Nov.
7, 1732.

2. Judith — John — John.

Judith was born about 1672, and married
Samuel Betts, of Norwalk, Dec. loth, 1692,
and had the following children: i. Mary, b.
Sept. 10, 1693. 2. Samuel, b. Oct. 28, 1695.
3. Stephen, b. Aug. i, i6()8. 4. Nathan, b.
Nov. 5. 1700. 5. Hepzibah, b. Oct. 29, 1703.
6. Judith, b. Oct. 25, 1714.

The descendants of James, the son of John,
are given hereinafter.

Nothing is known of the descendants of
Mary, the fourth child.

5. Jonathan — John — John.

The fifth child, Jonathan, b. about 1682,
was made an inhabitant of Greenwich, May 3,
1704, and d. in 1708. He m. Mary Mead, of
Greenwich, and had one child, Hezekiah, who
was born about 1707, and d. in 1756, and m. in
1734, Sarah, dau. of Joseph Webb, and had
the following children: i. Hezekiah, b. May
22. 1738. 2. Jonathan, b. Feb. 28, 1739-40. 3.
Joseph, b. Nov. 19, 1741. 4. David, b. Mch.
'25. 1743-44. 5. Israel, b. May 11, 1746. 6.
Sarah, b. Oct. 4, 1749.

6. Joshua — John — John.

Joshua was born about 1686, and was a
member of the Connecticut -legislature. He
left the following children: i. John, b. about

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1/12. 2. Daniel, b. about 1714. 3. Caleb, b.
about 1717, and 4. ^lary, b. Apr. 28, 1723.
I. John — Joshua — John — John.

I. John (b. about 1712), m. Feb. 16, 1740,
Johannah Winans, by whom he had : i. Eliza-
beth, b. Apr. 5, 1742. 2. Joshua, b. Nov. 30,
1743. 3. Sarah, b. Apr. 15, 1746. 4. Geradus,
b. Oct. 17, 1748. 5. John, b. Oct. 29, 1750.
6. Joanna, b. Dec. 11, 1753. 7. Jacob, b. May
23, 1756, and 8. Alpheius, b. May 11, 1760.

The seventh child, Jacob, was born May 23,
1756, and removed to Westerlo, Albany co.,
N. Y., where he organized a church in 1804.
He died in 1828, and had by his wife, Martha
Winans: i. Alphius. 2. James. 3. John.
4. Ira. The latter was b. in 1794, and d. in
1844, and in 18 14, m. Maria Snyder Westerlo,
by whom he had: Jacob Ira, b. in 1815, d.
1870, who m. in 1840, Amelia Disbrow, of
Westerlo, by whom he had David H., the
father of Hoffman Kissam Reynolds, of New
York City.

2. Daniel — Joshua — John — John.
Daniel, the second son of Joshua, was b.

about 17 14, at Greenwich, and removed to
Courtlandt Manor, Westchester, N. Y. He
died in 1803 and had: i. Samuel, whose de-
scendants are unknown. 2. Daniel, who was b.
Nov. 9, 1768, d. June 2, 1831, and was buried
at Old Greenwich, Conn.; he m. Oct. 3, 1790,
Sarah Heusted, who was b. Apr. 13, 1766, and
d. Nov. 3, 1848. They had: i. John H., b.
July 23, 1791, at Greenwich, and removed to
Courtlandt Manor. 2. Shubal. 3. Isaac. 4.
Hannah, and 5. Anna.

3. Caleb — Joshua — John — John.
Caleb, the third son of Joshua, was b.

about 1717. and d. in 1765, leaving a son:

1. Caleb, who was b. about 1739, and was m.
to Hannah Brown, a granddaughter of James
Winans. He removed to Pine Plains, Dutch-
ess CO., N. Y.. where he had: i. Abraham.

2. David. 3. Daniel. 4. Nathaniel. 5. Isaac.
6. John. 7. Caleb. 8. Anna. 9. Rhuama. 10.
Phebe. and 11. Clara. Caleb, the son of
Joshua, had besides the above: 2. Anna, b.
about 1741. 3. Mercy, b. alx>ut 1743, who m.
a Carjjenter. 4. Joseph, b. about 1745. 5.
Eunice, b. about 1747. 6. David, b. about
1749, d. unm. in 1770. 7. Mary, b. about
1755, and d. young.

Nothing is known concerning the fcnuth
child of Joshua, i. e., Mary, excepting that
her birth is given in the Greenwich records
as .\pril 8, 1723.

7. David — John — John.

Tlie seventh child of John, the son of the
emigrant John, was David, born about 1689.
In October, 172a he was appointed ensign of
the Ea.st Company, and in May, 1729, was

created a lieutenant of the Connecticut Regu-
lars. He died in 1749. He m., Nov. 24, 1720,
at the Second Society of Greenwich, Abigail,
daughter of Joseph Reynolds, who was the son
of Jonathan, the son of John the emigrant.
His widow survived him, and was granted per-
mission by the General Assembly, held in
Hartford. May ist, 1751, to sell enough of his
land to pay 598 pounds, which was the amount
of his debts. The tax books of Greenwich
show that his estate for the times was a very
large one. He had the following children:
I. David, b. Sept. 19, 1722, d. unm., Oct. 12,
1745. 2. Abigail, b. Mch. 9, 1724, m. Mch.

26, 1756, \Villiam Blake. 3. Jemima, b. July

27, 1726. m. James i\Iead. 4. Benjamin, b.
Nov. 27, 1728, d. before 1753, m. Susanna

; no issue. 5. Abraham, b. Sept. 19, 1731.

6. Elizabeth, b. Oct. i, 1733. 7. Deborah, b.
Feb. 24, 1734-5, removed to Xorwalk. Con-
necticut, prior to 1758, and probably married
a Reynolds. 8. Sarah, b. Aug. 7, 1740, m.
Jonas Weed, of Stamford, Connecticut.

James— John — John.

3. James Reynolds, son of Jnhn and his
wife Judah, was born in Greenwich, in 1674,
and on May 10, 1697, together with several
others of "ye young men belonging to the
towne," received an allotment of a homelot
at Horseneck (three acres at Horseneck and
ten between the Two Brothers' Brooks).

Up to 1703 all town meetings had been held
at Greenwich Old Towne, but in that year it
was determined to hold half of them at Horse-
neck, which was rapidly outgrowing in im-
portance the older settlement, and James was
one of those who signed the petition to the
(General Assembly. In 1705 the town was
divided into two societies, and he was ap-
pointed selectman (Dec. 31, 1705) to the Sec-
ond Societv on "ye West sd. of Mvanos
River."

In the Common Place liook at Greenwich
is the entry: "Nov. i, 1706. Recorded unto
James Renals his ear mark which is a cross
upon ye top ye neer ear and two half pennies
under ye side of ye same ear."

James was elected lieutenant of the train
band. May 14, 17 19, and captain May 9, 1728.
1 Ic was the dcjiuty from Greenwich to the
(k-neral Assembly, 1721-24, and 1727-38, and
justice of the ])cace of Fairfield county, 1735-
1741. Beginning with 1723 he was for many
years the moderator of the Second Society.
The last record of him in the books of the
Society is dated December 7, 1750.

That James Reynolds was a very large land
holder is made apparent from the many deeds
recorded in Greenwich. .\s early as April 21,
1706, he obtained by grant of the town eight

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acres at Clap-board-tree-ridge, a hill lying
about a mile and a half back of Greenwich.
This was increased by purcliase from his
brother John, December 2. 1712, and other
grants November, 1707 and 171 2, until he
owned a large tract.

On March 14, 1710, he sold to Edward
Avery "a piece of ground in Horscneck, my
homelot of 14 acres with present dwelling,
house barn and orchard bounded on the east
by a highway, southerly and westerly by ye
highway and northerly by ye land of Kbenczer
Mead and common land."

There was recorded at Wliiic Plains, De-
cember 13, 1745, the deed from James Rey-
nolds an<l three co-partners of a very large
tract of land in Westchester coimty, held "by
virtue of patent granted in 1701 and called the
East Patent."

On ?klay 10, 1736, he deeded his "well be-
loved and dutiful son Gideon Reynolds" a
very large tract of land on Clap-board-tree-
ridge, and augmented it with another granted
February 21st, 1743. On April 29, 1738, he
deeded part of his "homelot in Greenwich to
his loving and dutiful son Justus." On Sep-
tember 24, 1748, he gave his son Jeremiah
fifty acres. On February 17, 1748-49, he
gave his son. James Jr.. his house and or-
chard on Clap-board-tree-ridge. This house,
a large gambrel structure surrounded by enor-
mous box trees, was still standing in 1897, and
was owned by the descendants of Gideon Rey-
nolds. On March 4, 1752, he deeded his lands
on the Indian Fields to his sons James Jr. and
Gideon, both of Greenwich. On Afarch 24,
1752. he gave his lands at North Castle to
his son James Jr.

From the distribution of his property it is
apparent that lie intended moving from Green-
wich to New York state, where he was prob-
ably interested in the Nine Partners Patent.
He figures in the Greenwich tax lists as late
as 1761. and in deeds describes himself as of
Greenwich in 1759-61-62.

Nevertheless, his granddaughter .\nna Pal-
mer, daughter of Nathaniel Reynolds, deeded,
October i, 1760, land on Clap-l)oard-tree-
ridge, "in said Greenwich, which was given to
her by her honored grandfather James Rey-
nolds formerly of said Greenwich but now of
Dutchess in the Province of New York."
(Greenwich Deeds, vol. ^'TH.)

James, in a deed dated August, 1761, de-
.scribes himself as of Peekskill, in the county
of Westchester. James died February 14,
1767, at Amenia. Dutchess county, N. Y.,
and was buried in the .\menia City (Smith-
field) graveyard, where his stone still exists.
I-\imil\- tradition states that he was visiting

his son James, who is also buried there. A
letter written in 1848 states that "he was
large and made a fine appearance."

From a deed signed December 22, 1731, by
Captain James Reynolds and liis wife Sarah,
it appears that she was the daughter of Mary
Hobby, who married, November 18, 1686
(Stamford Records, p. 118), Stephen Holmes
(b. Jan. 14, 1664-65, at Stamford, d. May 15,
1710, Greenwich). The deed (Greenwich,
vol. A, p. 131) covers "part of lot or right
of land that was given by John Hobby of
Greenwich, deceased, unto his daughter Mary
and her children, and I, Sarah Renyalls, am
one of the children of ye said Mary Holmes."
The said land was granted to her by her hon-
ored father John Hobby "Dec. 22, .-Kuno Dom..
1 73 1." The latter was on the voters' list of
Greenwich as early as 1658, and the inventory
of his estate, April 24, 1707, mentions "dau.
Mary Holmes, wife of Stephen Holmes."
John Hobby was the son of John Hobby, one
of the seven original proprietors of Green-
wich (1664).

Stephen Holmes, b. Jan. 14, 1664-5. 'n
Stamford (Stamford Records, p. 76), d. May
15, 1710, in Greenwich (Stamford Records, p.
143), was the son of John Holmes, b. 1635,
d. July 6, 1703 (Stamford Records, p. 113),
and Rachel Waterbury, who removed to Bed-
ford, Westchester county, N. Y., in 1680.
They were married at Stamford, Dec. 3, 1659
(Stamford Records, p. 76). Rachel Water-
bury was the daughter of John Waterbury,
who died at Stamford 3- 15- 1658 (Stamford
Records, p. 20). John Holmes receipted on
behalf of his wife "Rachel out of ye estate
of her deceased father John Waterbury 10-
I2m-i668" (Stamford Records, p. 68).

The Common Place Book at Greenwich
gives the births of four of James' children:
"Sarah Renalds ye daughter of James Renals
was born (?) 25, 1698. James Renalds son
of James Renals b. July 6, 1700. Nathaniel
Renals son of James, b. Feb. 20, 1702-3. Mary
Renals, dau. of James b. Feb. 9, 1704-5.
That he was the father of Gideon, Justus and
Jeremiah, appears from the deeds of gifts
already quoted.

James had the following cliildrcn, though
whether they were all by Sarah Holmes is not
known: i. Sarah, b. 1698, subsequent history
unknown.

2. James — James — John — John.

2. James, b. July 6, 1700, d. June 2, 1773,
buried at .Amenia City (Smithfield), Dutchess
county, N. Y., m. at Greenwich, May 24,
1 73 1, Phebe Fowler, and had the following
chilflrcn. all born in Greenwich: I. Mary,
1). June 30, T732, 2. Phebe, b. June 27, 1734,

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3. Sarah, b. Sept. 5, 1736, 4. Rebecca, b. Oct.
27. 1738, 5. Jemima, b. Feb. 9, 1741, 6. Hep-
zibah, b. Sept. 18, 1744, 7. James, b. Jan. 5,
1746, was in the war of revolution in the
Connecticut forces, 8. Justus, b. Apr. 2, 1748,
was in war of revolution in Connecticut
forces, d. and buried at Amenia, N. Y., 9.
William, b. Jan. 18, 175 1, m. Rhoda, d. Nov.

24, 1813, and was buried at Amenia City, N.
Y., and had: i. Justus, d. 1793 at Amenia, N.
Y., and probably others, 10. Sophia, b. Sept.

25, 1754, II- Dorcas, b. Sept. 9, 1756.

The descendants of Nathaniel, the third
child of James, son of John, the son of John
the emigrant, will be given hereinafter.

4. Mary, b. Feb. 9, 1744-5, entry of her birth
the only record.

5. Gideon, James, Jolm, John.

Gideon, the fifth child of James, the son of
John, the son of John the emigrant was born
in 1706, was a member of tlie Connecticut

legislature, and married Bethia . He d.

in 1769, leaving a will dated Oct. 23, 1765,
proved at Stamford, Mch. 7, 1769. His
widow survived him. He had: i. Gideon,
b. about 1732, m. Hannah Rundle, he d. in
1772, leaving a will dated Feb. 18, 1772,
proved May 5, 1772, at Stamford. His widow
survived him; they had: i. Hannah, b. 1758,
m. at Greenwich, Feb. 8, 1776, Shubal Run-
dle. 2. Tamar, b. 1760, m. at Greenwich, Nov.
14, 1787, Thomas Peck. 3. Gideon, b. in 1763,
d. unm. 1792, leaving a will proved Feb. 7,
1792, at Stamford, devising his estate to his
brothers. 4. Oliver, b. about 1765. 5.
Abraham, b. about 1769.

Horton, the second son of Gideon, the son
of James, b. about 1734, was a sargeant in
the Revolutionary army, wounded in the bat-
tle of White Plains. Admitted to the Second
Society of Greenwich, June 8, 1774, died leav-
ing will executed Aug. 23, 1796, proved at
Stamford, May 2, 1797. He m. Lydia, dau.
of Caleb Knapp and Clemence Mills, who sur-
vived liim and had: i. Horton, d. before
1815, his widow Abigail survived him and
afterwards m. Shadrach Mead, who was ad-
ministrator of his estate. At the time of his
death his children were infants, i. e. : i. James
H. 2. Abigail J. 3. Emeline. 4. John J.

Horton and Lydia Knapp also had : 2.
Charity, m. Benoni Piatt. 3. Mary, m. Caleb
Purely. 4. Lydia, m. Elisha Belcher. 5. Be-
thia, m. Feb. 19, 1789, Nathaniel Sackett. 6.

Rachel, m. Sanford. 7. Anna, m. Feb.

2t. 1790, Davjil Hobby. 8. Ruth, m. Ebenezer
Knapp.

Gideon, fifth child of James, the son of
John, tlie son of John the emigrant, had a
third child, .Sylvanus, b. about 1736, m. in tlie

Second Society of Greenwich, May 7, 1776,
Mary Mead. In his will dated Aug. 27, 1819,
proved at White Plains, Nov. i, 1820, de-
scribes himself as of Bedford, Westchester
county, N. Y. He had: i. Mary, m. James
Piatt. 2. Gideon. 3. Sylvanus. 4. Tyler. 5.
Jesse. 6. Elizabeth. 7. Theodosia. 8. Be-
thia, who m. Caleb Reynolds.

Gideon, son of James, had a fourth child,
William, b. about 1738, m. Polly Knapp; he
was of Poundridge, Westchester county, 1784,
and of South Salem, where he died in 1809.
I lis will executed Feb. 4, 1809, was proved at
W'liite Plains. N. Y., Feb. 14, 1809. He had:

1. William. 2. Clemence, who m. Thomas
Hitchcock, Feb. 26, 1784, and had: i. John,

2. Sarah, 3. Polly, 4. Thirza, 5. William, and

also 3. Sarah, who m. Ames. 4. Mary,

who m. Hobby, and 5. Gideon, who

was h. about 1778, m. Dec. 27, 1804, to Betsy
Reynolds, dau. of Nathaniel, son of Nathaniel,
son of Nathaniel, son of James, son of John,
son of John the emigrant, and (second) Apr.
15, 1831. Theodosia Smith, and (third) widow
Hannah Smith. He was of Cross River, then
of Lewisboro, Westchester county, but was of
Greenwich, Connecticut, when he made his
will May 8, 1847. He had the following chil-
dren: I. William K., b. June 2, 1805, m.
Nancy Heusted, 2. Jane, b. Sept. 3, 1807, m.
— — Brooks, 3. Gideon, b. Jan. 13, 1817, m.
2. Eliza Rich, 4. Mary E., b. Feb. 13, 1815,
m. Alsop Lockwood, 5. Sarah Ann, b. Sept.
23, 181 5, m. Joseph Todd, 6. Elizabeth, b.
Dec. 31, 1820, m. Silas Todd, 7. Silas H., b.
Jan. I, 1823, m. Julie Wood, 8. Nathaniel, 9.
Caroline, who m. Harvey Avery, 10. De Witt
Clinton, b. June 2, 1828, m. Johannah Silkman,
and had: i. DeWitt Clinton, b. Oct. 5, 1859,
2. William Silkman, b. May 18, 1861, 3. Cecil
Keeler, b. Oct. 17, 1862, 4. Lisette Belle, b.
July 2, 1864, 5. Delilah Hanson, b. Julv 24,
1866, 6. Ilda Gertie, b. JMarch 23, 1869, 7.
Catherine Cornelia, b. Feb. 18. 1870, 8. Emily
Johanna, b. June 22, 1872, 9. Denton DeWitt,
h. Feb. 16, 1875, 10. Gideon Wright, b. Apr.

1 1. 1877, 1 1. Clarence Irving, b. Apr. 29, 1879,

12. Edith Amelia, b. Jan. 16, 1882, 13. Etlicl
.\mrenia. b. Jan. 16, 1882, 14. Leila Leah, h.
Dec. 19, 1884.

Gideon had by his second wife, Theodosia
.Smitli, an eleventh child, Emeline, b. Jan. 31,
1832, who m. (first) John Wills, and (second)
John Jennings.

Gideon, fifth child of James, the son of John,
the son of Jolm the emigrant, had a fifth
child, Bethia, b. about 1740, m. Odell Close,
j)rior to 1765, and 6, Gilbert, b. about 1742,
7. Mary, h. about 1744, 8. Abijah, b. about
1748, 9. Ruth, b. about 1749, 10. Ambrose, b.

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1839

about 1750, a soldier in the Revolutionary
war, he m. Ruth Knapp, and his descendants
are residing in Greenwich. He had : i. Sarah,

m. Heusted, 2. Ambrose, b. in 1791, m.

Amy Reynolds, and had: 1. Ambrose, who d.
unm., 2. Oliver, who d. unm., 3. Sylvanus, who
had a son Sylvanus.

Ambrose and his wife Ruth Knapp also
had: 3. Joshua, b. 1793, d. Sept. 29, 1866;
he m. Rachel Reynolds, she d. Dec. 25, 1843,
and had: i. Wm. Todd, b. June 11, 1824, m.
Anna Knapp, and had: i. Jeanette S., b. Sept.
28, 1867, 2. Mary H., b. July 24, 1859, m.
Elbert Mills. 3. Charles A., b. Aug. 3, 1862,
ni. Francis Holly, 4. Joshua, b. Oct. 7, 1863,
5. Gideon, b. March 26, 1865, 6. Everit, b.
.Mch. 8. 1868, m. Anna R. Best, and had, i.
Sarah, ii. Frances, 7. Harriet L., b. June 25,
1869, 8. Frank V. R., b. Jan. 10, 1871.

Joshua and his wife Rachel had also: 2.
Elthea, 3. Rachel Ann, 4. Abraham, 5. Augus-
tus Norman, b. June 21, 1833, m. Martia A.
Mills, and had: i. Elbert N., b. Jan. 24, 1863,
ni. Cora E. Graves, and had: i. Raymond A.,
b. Nov. 25. 1888, 2. Leonard G., b. May 24,
1891. Augustus Norman also had: 2. Lillie
T., b. Jan. 17, 1869, 3. Norman T., b. Dec.
21, 1873, 4. Bethia, b. Oct. 26, 1875.

Joshua and his wife Rachel Reynolds also
had children; 6. Edgar, h. Dec. 10. 1835. d.
unm.; 7. ^lary Louise, b. Jul\- 2~, 1840. and d.
young.

Ambrose, tenth child of Gideon, the son of
James, the son of John, the son of John the
emigrant, had by his wife, Ruth Knapp, a
fourth child, Gideon, who m. Betsy Fountain
and had : i. James, d. unm., 2. Benjamin, also :
5. Mary, d. unm., 6. Bethia, d. unm., 7. Jared,
b. in 1798, m. Julia Rundle, and had: i.
Julia. 2. Sydney, m. Esther Purdy, and had :
I. Frank, 2. Frederick W., 3. Olive, and also
3. Edward, who m. Mary E. Hastings and
had: i. Samuel, 2. Herbert, 3. David, 4. Eliz-
abeth, 5. Mary.

.Ambrose, son of Gideon, had also an eighth
child, Benjamin, who m. Lucinda Mead and
had: i. JuHa, 2. Mary, 3. Isaac, and a ninth
child Eunice, who died unm.

Gideon, fifth son of James, son of John,
son of John the emigrant, had an eleventh
child, Jonathan, b. about 1752, of whom we
have no records.

6, Justus — James — John — John.

James had a sixth child, Justus, b. 1708, d.
1747, m. Apr. 23, 1737, Elizabeth, dau. of
Richard Sackett, and had at Greenwich: i.
Sackett, b. Mch 3, 1738, m. Nov. 21, 1760,
Mary, dau, of Benjamin Jones, and had: i.
Justus, b. July 26, 1761, 2. Mary, b. Feb. i,
1763. 3. Elizabeth, b. Apr. 11, 1765, 4. Han-

nah, b. July 26, 1767, 5. Benjamin, b. Apr.
10, 1770.

Justus and Elizabeth Sackett also had : 2.
Elizabeth, b. May 4, 1740, 3. Sarah, b. July
26, 1742, 4. Anna, b. May 24, 1745, 5. Mary,
b. .\pr. 4. 1748.

7. Jeremiah — James — John — John.

James also had a seventh child, Jeremiah,
b. about 171 1, m. a dau. of Peter Brown and
d. in 1769, he had: i. David, b. about 1741,
and possibly others.

Nathaniel — James — John — John.

3. Nathaniel was born at Greenwich. Feb. 20,
1702-3, where his birth is given in the Com-
mon Place Book. While the Greenwich Rec-
ords of this period make constant mention of a
Nathaniel Reynolds, it is not always impossi-
ble to determine which refer to him and which
to Nathaniel, b. 1715, son of Ebenezer.

He, together with Joshua, Peter and James
Jr., petitioned the General Assembly in 1753
to be "set off from the Parish of Stanvvich in
the South \\^est of which they lived and to be
joined to the Parish of Horseneck." 1 le was
elected constable for Greenwich, Dec. 27,

1728. The records of the Second Church at
Greenwich contain the record of his marriage.
"On ye first day of January 1728-9 Nathaniel
Reynolds was married to his wife Ruth whose
name was Purdy." The Greenwich Common
Place Book gives the births of two of his chil-
dren : "Nathaniel Rcnalds' children : Dec. 8,

1729, Nathaniel: Ian. 8. 1751. Frances Ren-
yalls."

At a court of probate held in Stamford
June 7, 1748. letters of administration were
granted on the estate of Nathaniel Reynolds,
late of Greenwich, deceased, and Ruth his
widow was appointed administratrix. Dis-
tribution was made April 7, 1752 ; after paying
debts amounting to 580 pounds there remained
for tlie children 413 pounds and a large
amount of real estate. His children are stated
to be Nathaniel, Francis, Solomon, Stephen,
Ruth, Anna and Hannah.

In Vol. 7, p. 67, of the Greenwich Deeds,
is recorded the following: "Know all men
that I, James Reynolds, Senior, of Greenwich,
in consideration of the love I have for my
grandsons, namely, Nathaniel Reynolds, Fran-
cis Reynolds, Stephen Reynolds, and Solomon
Reynolds, all natural sons to Nathaniel Rey-
nolds, of Greenwich, and also by the love and
good will I bear to their natural mother, Ruth
Reynolds, widow and relect of the deceased
Nathaniel," etc., Feb. 2. 1749-50.

Ruth Purdy belonged to the well known
family of Rye, N. Y. Francis Purdy in a
deed of 1718 was described as "of Green-
wich," as was John Purdy in 1727. .\s Ruth

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HL^nSOX AND MOHAWK \ ALLEYS

was married in Greenwich and had a son
Francis, the probability is that she was a
daughter of Francis Purdy. Both John and
Francis were sons of Joseph Purdy, who ap-
peared at Rye in 1677. He was the son of Fran-
cis, who was an early inhabitant of Fairfield,
Conn., and died in 1658. The Purdy genealogy
in the "History of Rye" is incomplete, and that
of P.olton is obviously inaccurate. To deter-
mine the line of descent will necessitate a study
of the original town records.

Ruth, after the death of Nathaniel, married
Jonathan Fiske, of Greenwich. In the distri-
bution of his estate recorded at Stamford,
July 21, 1762, mention is made of the use
by his widow of one third part of said de-
scribed lands, being conveyed to said widow
by her father-in-law, Mr. James Reynolds, in
part, and partly came by her husband. Nathan-
iel Reynolds, deceased.

Nathaniel had the following descendants:
I. Nathaniel, b. Dec. 8, 1729, removed to Cross
River, Westchester co., N. Y. Letters of ad-
ministration which were granted to his son
Nathaniel. Dec. 23, 1805, describe him as a
resident of Salem, Westchester county, N. Y.
He had : 1. Nathaniel, b. in Cross River, Feb.
22, 1754, m. Oct. 15, 1778, Hannah Todd (the
widow Cooley), who was born May 26, 1759,
d. Apr. 1 1, 1846. He was a second lieutenant
of the 3rd Regiment of Westchester county
militia, commanded by Col. Samuel Drake, and
was taken prisoner June 24, 1779, released
Oct. 24, 1 78 1.

In his will, drawn December 20th, 1839,
probated Jan. 22, 1844, at White Plains, he
describes himself as being of South Salem,
X. Y. He died Sept. 21, 1843, and had: i.
Deborah, b. July 17, 1779, d. May 24. 1844, m.
1798, Aaron Morehouse, 2. Nathaniel, b. Aug.
7, 1782, m. Lizzie Avery, d. Mch., 1874, 3.
Lydia, b. Aug. 28, 1784, m. Rev. Joshua H.
Hobby, she d. Feb. 3, 1864, 4. Betsy, b. Sept.

5. 1786, d. June 12, 1838, m. Dec. 27, 1804,
Gideon Reynolds, son of William, son of
Gideon, son of James, son of John, son of
John the emigrant: 5. Abraham, b. Oct. 11,
1788, d. in New Orleans, unm.. Aug. 25, 1818,

6. Sarah, b. Sept. 15, 1790. d. Oct. 8, 1876,

7. Hannah, b. Sept. 13. 1792, d. Nov. 9. 1856,
m. Henry Avery, 8. Enoch, b. Sept. 16, 1794,
d. May 5, 1876, m. Lvdia Cross, 9. Alvah, b.
Sept. 23, 1796, d. May 6, 1881, m. Phebe A.
Field, 10. George, b. Dec. 12, 1798, d. unm.
Dec. 30, 1884. IT. Mariah, b. Mch. 22. 1801,
d. Jan. 3rd, 1846, m. Enoch Reynolds, son of
James, son of Nathaniel, son of Ebenezer, son
of Jonathan, son of the emigrant John. They
lived at Bedford, N. V.. 12. Benjamin, b. Aug,.
19, 1803, m. Mary X'ivian.

Nathaniel and his wife Kutli I'urdy also
had: 2. F'rancis, b. July 8, 1731. Nothing
is known of his descendants. There was a
h'rancis Reynolds who lived at Crum Elbow,
Dutchess county, N. Y., at this time, and it is
probable that they were identical. 3. Ruth,

b. about 1733, m. Merritt, and in 1760

she was living on the property at Clap-board-
tree-ridge given her by her grandfather
James. 4. Solomon, b. about 1735, nothing is
known of his descendants. There was a Solo-
mon who lived at Poundridge, N. Y., another
at Crum Elbow, N. Y., and one at Woodbury,
Conn., 5. Anna, b. about 1737, m. Samuel Pal-
mer. In a deed recorded at Greenwich in
\'ol 8. dated Feb. 25, 1760, "Samuel Palmer
and Anna Palmer his wife of Greenwich sells
to David Knapp two acres in said Greenwich
which was given to the said Anna by her hon-
ored grandfather James Reynolds, formerly
of said Greenwich, but now of Dutchess in the
province of New York a lot on Clap-board-
tree-ridge, bounded east by our sister Mer-
ritts, west by our sister Hannah Fiske." Their
descendants lived in Westchester county. 6.
Stephen, b. Dec. 31, 1740 (for his descendants
see hereinafter), 7. Hannah, m. July 21, 1762,
Jonathan Fiske, the son of Jonathan Fiske,
who married her widowed mother Ruth
Purdy. Their descendants reside in Saratoga
county and at Troy, N. Y.

Stephen— Nathaniel — James — John — John.

In a deed recorded at Greenwich, vol. ix, p.
S2. Feb. 2, 1762, Stephen described himself as
of "'Woodbury, county Litchfield," and sells
to Jonathan Fiske his share of his father Na-
thaniel's estate and of his grandfather's James
Reynolds' of Dutchess county, N. Y. The
fact that he removed to Woodbury, Connecti-
cut, as soon as he had reached his majority,
coupled with the fact that there w-as a Solo-
mon there residing, makes the identification of
the latter with Solomon, son of Nathaniel,
more than probable. The Woodbury family
of Reynolds are attributed without apparent
authority to John of Wethersfield. (Note.
.A.ll of the data from the time that Stephen left
Woodbury are derived from family records.)

Stephen removed to Amenia City, Dutchess
county, prior to 1763. where his uncle James
lived, and where his grandfather James died,
and erected in 1764 a residence on the old Al-
bany post road and about a half mile to the
north of the Amenia City (Smithfield)
Church. This contained three rooms of the
entire width of the house, with kitchens and
dependences behind. It was of frame, and a
storv and a half high. It was torn down in
1877.

He is probably identical with the Stephen

HUDSON AND MOHAWK \-ALLEYS

1 841

Reynolds who enlisted in the Continental
Army, Capt. Daniel Shepard's company (see
"New York in the Revolution," pp. 259-454)
during the Revolution, in the New York forces,
since there is no record of any other Stephen
of an age which would have made it possible
for him to take part in this war. He died in
Amenia, August 17, 1815, and is buried in
the "City" (Smithfield) graveyard. His will
is recorded in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

He married. Amenia, N. Y., February ist,
1763, Rachel Denton. She was born April 12,
1742 (o. s. ), and died in Albany, N. Y., No-
vember 10, 1815, while on her way to visit
her son Stephen, at Minaville, N. Y., and was
buried in one of the church burial grounds in
.■Mbany, and in 1856 her remains were trans-
ferred to the Reynolds plot in the Albany
Rural Cemetery. Her father was Benjamin
Denton, of Foster's Meadows, Wallingford,
Connecticut, also of Farmington, Connecticut,
and Amenia, New Y^ork : married at Farm-
ington, December i, 1724, Rachel Wheeler, of
Hartford, Connecticut. He was the son of
Richard Denton (died in 1699), the son of
Nathaniel Denton, of Jamaica, L. I., the son
of Richard Denton, of Halifax, England,
(born in 1586), a clergyman, a graduate of
Cambridge University in 1623, who came to
America in 1634 and settled in Watertown,
Connecticut. He led those colonists who
founded the settlement at Wethersfield and
subsequently removed to Stamford, with the
first settlers. Cotton Mather eulogizes him
in his Magnala. He removed to Long Island,
returned to England and died there.

Stephen and his wife Rachel Denton had
the following children: i. Stephen, b. Sept.
I, 1765 (o. s.), see hereinafter. 2. Rachel,
b. Sept. I, 1767, d. unm., June 2, 1785, 3.
Chloe, b. Dec. 5, 1768, d. unm., June 18, 1789,
4. Israel, b. Oct. 31, 1772. studied medicine
with his brother Stephen, at Minaville, N. Y.,
established the first mail service in Pine Plains,
Dutchess county, N. Y., and died there Mch.
28, 1823, he m. Deborah Dorr, June 1st, 1798,
dau. of George Dorr Jr., of Lyme, Conn., b.
Oct. 26, 1770, d. June, 1850, at Pine Plains.
They had: i. Walter, b. at Pine Plains, N. Y.,
Feb. 5, 1801, d. at Pine Plains, Jan. 3. 1844,
m. May 5, 1839, Julia Husted. He was gradu-
ated at Y'ale, 1822, studied law in Albany and
at a law school in Litchfield, Conn ; he had :
I. Cornelius Husted, b. Sept. i, 1841, d. Nov.
7, 1876, 2. Ellen Husted, b. Oct. i. 1843, d-
July 20, 1865. Walter and his wife Julia Husted
also had : 2. Julia, b. Apr. 23. 1803, d. Sept. 22,
1870, m. Hiram Willson, 3. Eliza, b. Mch. 22,
1805. d. at Pine Plains, Oct. 2, 1892, m. Feb. 18,
1824, ITiram Willson, b. Aug. 12, 1799, at

Smithfield, d. June 22, 1873, at Pine Plains,
and had: i. Ellen Willson, b. Oct. 8, 1825,
d. Sept. 26, 1843, 2. Israel Reynolds Willson,
b. Nov. 2, 1827, m. Sept. 16, 1852, Elizabeth
Conklin, 3. Julia Will.son, b. Feb. 11, 1830,
d. May 22, 1858, m. Aug. 28, 185 1, Isaac
Smith Carpenter. 4. Edward Paysen Willson,
b. Dec. 26, 1832, d. at Leavenworth, Kansas,
Aug. 30, 1910, m. Oct. 13, 1863, Helen Fair-
child, m. (second) Olive Sinks, Sept. 21, 1869,
5. Sarah Rebecca Willson, b. May 2, 1836,
m. Sept. 5, i860, Isaac Smith Carpenter, and
is now living (1911) at Smithfield, Amenia
City, Dutchess county, N. Y., 6. Elizabeth
Deborah Willson, b. July 20, 1838, m. Dec. 7,
1 87 1, Theodore Strong.

Stephen and his wife Rachel Denton also
had: 5. Phebe, b. May 12," 1778, at Smith-
field, Amenia City, d. Mch. 28, 1842, m. Abra-
ham Bockie Pugsley, of Dutchess county, N.
Y. He was born in 1776, at Smithfield, d.
Dec. 9, 1 85 1, they had: i. Jane Augusta
Pugsley, m. James Ridgeway, and had : i.
Frederick A. B. Ridgeway, m. Mary F. Davis
and had seven children, living in 191 1 at
White Creek, N. Y., 2. Eliza Pugsley, m.
Roswell Graves, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and had:
I. ]Mary. 2. Lizzie. 3. P>elle. 3. Cornelius A.
Pugsley, b. 1806, d. Jan. 7, 1865, at Danby,
N. Y., m. Louisa Clark, of Danby, N. Y.,
and had: i. Abraham Bockie Pugsley, b.

1854, m. Blakesley, lives near Ithaca,

N. Y., 2. Cornelia Pugsley, m. Oscar Jennings,
of Danby, N. Y., and had three children, 3.
Mary Pugsley, m. William R. Humphrey, of
Ithaca, N. Y.

Stephen and his wife Rachel Denton also
had: 6. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 14, 1785, d. at
Pine Plains, Apr. 10, 1844, "nm., 7. Rachel,
b. Oct. 14, 1785, d. at Pine Plains, Mch. 24,
1861, 8. Samantha, b. May 27, 1768, d. at
Amenia City, Sept. 27, 1822, unm.

Stephen — Stephen— Nathaniel — James —
John — John.

I. Stephen Reynolds, M.D., son of Stephen
Reynolds and Rachel Denton, was born in
Amenia, Dutchess coimty, N. Y., September
I, 1765 (o. .s.), July 31, 1765 (n. s.). His
class poem written in his freshman year, which
is still in existence, is evidence that he went
to college, but to which one is unknown. He
died in .Amsterdam, N. Y., July 8th, 1833,
while visiting his nephew, Deodatus Wright,
and was buried there.

He studied medicine with James Potter,
M. D., at New Fairfield, Connecticut, 1784;
removed to Minaville, town of Florida, Mont-
gomery rountv, N. Y., in 1785. and practiced
there until May, 1832, when he removed to
Schcni'clady. X. ^■., liaving inirchascd No. 25

1842

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

No. Church street, the next building north
of the Dutcli Church. He was a celebrated
Latin scholar and something of a poet. He
was the founder and president of the Wash-
ington Benevolent Society, and going to Phil-
adelphia he commissioned Sir Gilbert Stewart
to paint a replica of his portrait of Washing-
ton, which he presented to the Society. When
the Society was disbanded the portrait was
returned to him, and it is now in the posses-
sion of his great-granddaughter, ,Mrs. Frank
P. Wilder, of Saratoga (Josephine \'oorhees).
He was the president of the Montgomery
Medical Society, which issued certificates en-
titling its members to practice medicine, and
was one of the first in this portion of the coun-
try to hold clinics.

Portraits of Stephen and his wife Lydia
Bartlett, painted by Ames, about 181 2, are in
possession of their granddaughter, the widow
of Rev. William C. Hopkins, of Toledo, Ohio.

He married, at Warrensburgh, Florida,
Montgomery county, N. Y., October 29, 1787,
Lydia Bartlett, who was born at Lebanon,
Connecticut, August 27, 1770, and died at
Amsterdam, N. Y., August 27, 1843. Her
father was Nathaniel Bartlett, born at Goshen,
Conn., November 23, 1727; removed to Flor-
ida, N. Y., in 1785, then to Charlton, Sara-
toga county, N. Y., died there, and was the
son of Capt. Josiah Bartlett (born Marshfield,
May 24, 1701, removed to Lebanon, Conn.,
died March 16, 1782), who married at Marsh-
field, Jan. 3, 1723, Mercy Chandler, born in
1705; died Feb. 17, 1781 ; she was the daugh-
ter of Edmund Chandler, of Duxbury, b.
1680, d. 1721, and Elizabeth Aldcn, b. 1680.
d. 1732. Edmund Chandler was the son of
Joseph Chandler, died 1666, and Hannah, and
grandson of Edmund Chandler. Elizabeth
Alden was daughter of Jonathan Alden, and
granddaughter of John Alden, b. 1599, May-
flower, 1620, d. Sept. 12, 1686, m. Priscilla
Mullins, b. 1602, Mayflower, 1620.

Josiah was the son of Ichabod Bartlett. born
1664, married Dec. 28, 1699, Elizabeth Water-
man (1679- 1 708), died Plymouth, 171 5. Eliza-
beth Waterman was the daughter of Joseph
Waterman, b. 1643, '^- Jan- i. 1712, m. 1672.
Sarah Snow (b. 1650, d. Dec. 11, 1741). and
granddaughter of Robert Waterman, m. Dec.
II, 1638, Elizabeth Bourne, daughter of
Thomas Bourne, b. 1581, d. May 4, 1634.

Ichabod was the son of Benjamin Bartlett,
born 1638, married Sarah Brewster, 1656, died
1691. She was daughter of Love Brewster, b.
1607. d. 1650, ATayflower, 1620, m. Mch. 15,
1634, Sarah Collier. He was the son of El-
der William Brewster, b. 1560, Mayflower,
J ^120, d. .Apr. 16. 1644.

Benjamin was the son of Robert Bartlett.
born in England, in 1603, came to Plymouth in
ship "Ann" in 1623, and died in 1672, who
married Mercy Warren, daughter of Richard
Warren, who came in the Mayflower, and
whose wife was Elizabeth Jouatt, b. 1588, d.
Oct. 2, 1673.

Lydia Bartlett's mother was Mercy Otis,
born in Colchester, Conn., July 3, 1734; mar-
ried, Dec. 14, 1752, Nathaniel Bartlett, and
was the daughter of Nathaniel Otis (born in
Scituate, Jan. 30, 1690, died in 1772), who
married Hannah Thacher (born Oct. 9, 1690.
died Colchester, 1776), daughter of Col. John
Tiiacher (born Marshfield, Mass., Mch. 17,
1639, at Marblehead, Rep. 1668-1680, d. May
8, 1710, and Lydia Gorham, his wife, b. Nov.
II, 1661, at Barnstable, Mass., who was a
daughter of John Gorham, b. at Bernesfield.
Northampton, England, Jan. 28, 1621, settled
at Marshfield, Mass., later of Barnstable, cap-
tured in King Phillip's war, died Feb. 5, 1776,
and of Desire Howland, his wife. m. 1643, d.
Oct. 13, 1683, who was the daughter of John
Howland, b. 1592, Mayflower, 1620, d. Feb.
-3- 1673, and Elizabeth Tilley, b. 1607, May-
flower, 1620, d. Dec. 21, 1687.

John Gorham was the son of Ralph Gor-
man, who settled in Duxbury, 1637.

Col. John Thacher was son of Rev. An-
thony Thacher, b. 1587, at Salisbury, England,
removed to Holland, removerl to Boston, June
3- 1635. r.emoved to Yarmouth ifi43, and died
there Aug. 22, 1667.

He married, 1635, in England, Elizabeth
Jones. Children of Stephen and Lydia Bart-
lett: I. Marcus Tnllius, b. in Minaville, N.
Y., Dec. 29, 1788, died in Albany, N. Y., July
II, 1864, married first, Cynthia Herrick, mar-
ried second, Albany, May 6, 1823, Elizabeth
.\nn Dexter (see hereinafter). 2. Betsy, b.
Dec. 9, 1790; d. in Amsterdam, N. Y., Feb.
8, 1858. and buried there, married, Amsterdam.
Apr. 24, 181 1, Dr. Samuel Voorhees (Van
Vorhees) of that city, b. Nov. i, 1787, gradu-
ate of Union, 181 1. He studied medicine with
Stephen Reynolds, died .-Xmsterdam, 1870, and
had: i. Marcus Tullius, b. May 19. 1812, d.
in Puebla, Mexico, Dec. 13, 1844, and liuried
there. 2. James Leslie Voorhees, b. July 22,
1815, Union College, 1835, d. unm. at .Am-
sterdam, N. Y., 1891. 3. Stephen Reynolds
\'oorhees, b. in Amsterdam, July 13, 1S18,
died there Nov. 15, 1901. 4. George Max-
well A'oorhees, b. in Amsterdam, March 16.
1826, died there, Sept. 14, 1909; m. in North-
ampton, N. Y., Oct. 5, 1852, Hannah .Mex-
andcr Slocum, b. in Pawling, N. Y., June 5,
1832, died Apr. 3, 187 1, three children. No
descendants. (See Voorhees family.)

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1843

Stephen and his wife Lydia Bartlett also
had : 3. Marcia Pliebe, b. Apr. 7, 1794, died
in Auro^^, 111., Sept. 11, 1856, m. Aug. i,
1825, Alexander Cruikshank Gibson, b. in
Hebron, N. Y., Mch. 6, 1794, mayor of Schen-
ectady, N. v., for many years, died in Au-
rora, 111., Aug. 14, 1874, and had: i. David
Gibson, b. May 27, 1826, d. Aurora, 111., June
4, 1887, m. at Fairfax, Iowa. Dec. 27, 1877,
Laura P.. Hedges (b. at Elmira. X. Y., Oct.
4, 1834), and had one child. 2. Charles James
Gibson, b. Oct. 2, 1827, Union College, 1846,
d. in Aurora, 111., Apr. 14, 1852. 3. Frank-
lin Gibson, b. Mch. 7, 1830, d. Brooklyn, N.
Y.. Feb. 20. 1892 ; m. Mariaville, N. Y., Alch.
26. 1857, .\nn Marilla Marsh, no children. 4.
Julia, b. .Aug. 19, 1832, m. Aurora, 111., Jan.
2, 1877. Rev. William C. Hopkins, and had:
I. Frank Gibson Hopkins, b. Feb. 25, 1879,
at Champaign, 111,

Marcus Tullius — Stephen — Stephen —
Nathaniel — James — John — John.

I. Marcus Tullius. son of Dr. Stephen Rey-
nolds and Lydia Bartlett, was born in Mina-
ville, Florida township, Montgomery county,
N. Y., December 29, 1788; died at his resi-
dence. No. 25 No. Pearl street, Albany, N. Y,,
July II, 1864, and was buried in the Albany
Rural Cemetery.

When he was ten years of age he was sent
to the high school at Canajoharie, N. Y.,
where he remained three years, and on leaving
there he entered a collegiate school at Utica,
where he was fitted for college. In 1805 he
entered Union College, and was graduated,
ranking second in the class of 1808. He was
an excellent classical student, and also en-
joyed the study of philosophy. He began the
study of law in the office of Matthias B. Hil-
dreth, of Johnstown, Fulton county. New
York, who was many years the attorney gen-
eral of New York state. He was admitted to
the bar February 14, 181 1, and early evinced
those talents which enabled him to advance
rapidly. He practiced at Johnstow-n for sev-
enteen years, where he was compelled to con-
tend with the talented lawyer, David Cady. In
May, 1828, he removed to Albany, N. Y.,
where he passed the remainder of his life.

"From the year 1837 down to the adoption
of the Code of Procedure, Marcus T. Rey-
nolds, Samuel Stevens and Nicholas Hill were
regarded impartially as the three most prom-
inent lawyers in New York state. It was
said that a reference to the reports of cases
argued in the appellate courts of the state
from 1817 to 1853, when he retired, will show
that Marcus T. Reynolds was counsel in more
cases adjudicated in the supreme court and the
court for the correction of errors than al-

most any other lawyer of this state. During
a period of twenty-six years he was second
to none as a barrister, and the story of his
career during that time is the history of the
supreme court, court of correction of errors
and the court of appeals,

"He had the faculty of passing from grave
to gay, from lively to severe, with surprising
facility. He carried his cases by being thor-
oughly imbued with them himself, and then,
by a clear and well defined statement to the
court and jury, imparting the impression that
he had no doubt of the right of his case. Be-
fore a jury he had a sort of magnetic power,
by which he photographed his own ideas and
reasons upon the minds of the jury." (See
Proctor's "Bench and Bar," and "Proceed-
ings of the Albany Bar on the Death of Mar-
cus T. Revnolds," Albany Evening Journal,
July 15, 1864,

He was confirmed by the senate as justice
of supreme court, July 7, 1849, and was also
elected congressman. Within a year or two of
the operation of the first passenger railway
train, in 1831, he became concerned in the
organization of steam roads, and when on
May 5, 1836, several small lines consolidated
as the Albany & West Stockbridge railroad,
the last line to the west of what later be-
came the Boston & Albany road, he was
elected president of the new company. He
was also chosen president of the Utica &
Schenectady railroad, later merged into the
New York Central lines, and was president of
the .Albany & Northern railroad. He was
a director of the .-Mbany Insurance Company
from 1835 to 1863 : a director of the New
York State Bank from June, 1840, to July,
1861 : a founder of the Albany Hospital, or-
ganized in 1849; a founder and trustee of the
Albany Orphan Asylum, organized May 19,
1830; an organizer and fourth largest con-
tributor to the Albany Rural Cemetery, and
one of the largest contributors to the found-
ing of the Dudley Observatory in 1852 :
elected a vestryman of St, Peter's Episcopal
Church in 1842, and advanced to warden in
1843, serving through i860, and chairman of
its most important committees, e. g., March
25, 1845, to sell the church land on Maiden
Lane, Pine and Lodge streets : 1845, to pro-
cure a new rectory: 1855, to secure funds for
the new church edifice which was consecrated
October 4, i860.

He resided a long time at No. 7 Park Place.
.Albany, which site was taken about 1870 for
the new capitol. His last residence was at
the south east corner of Maiden Lane and
Pearl street, where he practiced law and lived
with his familv.

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Many years before his deafh he was thrown
from his horse, the fall producing an injury
to one of his knee-pans, of such serious na-
ture that amputation became necessary. He
was immediately carried into a store, where
a skilled surgeon determined that an opera-
tion must inevitably follow, stating further
that perhaps it had better be done on the
following day. "I wish you to proceed in-
stantly, for I cannot have the matter upon
my mind," said Mr. Reynolds. The surgeon
obeyed. This was before the day of either
chloroform or ether, but the patient sub-
mitted without a groan. From this time on
he generally conducted his cases sitting.

Marcus T. Reynolds married (first) Cyn-
thia Herrick, born at Amenia, Dutchess
county, N. Y., December 26, 1794. died at
Amsterdam. N. Y., November 25, 1820, and
was buried there. She was the daughter of
Benjamin Herrick, died at Amenia. March 11,
18 10, aged 54, who was the son of Benjamin
Herrick, died at Amenia, January 10, 1779,
aged 46, and Sarah Denton, died at Amenia,
December 8, 1778, aged 47, who was the sis-
ter of Rachel Denton, the wife of Stephen
Reynolds, where her ancestry is given. All
of the above are buried at the City grave-
yard (now Smithfield), Dutchess county. N.
v., where the inscriptions were copied in
1897.

The mother of Cynthia Herrick was Cyn-
thia Brush, who died at Amenia City, Nov. 19,
1815, aged 50. Cynthia Brush was the daugh-
ter of Richard Brush, of Amenia, who made
his will August 27, 1795. leaving "all real
estate to Richard Brush Herrick, the pres-
ent youngest son of Benjamin Herrick." The
same document mentions his wife Hannah,
and is copied in a Greenwich, Connecticut,
deed. Here also is entered his birth record,
"Richard Brush had a son Dec. 17, 1727,
named him Richard." The Herrick home-
stead at Amenia adjoined on the north that
of Stephen Reynolds.

Children: i. Lydia Maria, died in infancy.
2. Lydia Louisa, b. in Amsterdam, N. Y.,
Sept. II, 1817; d. in Albany, N. Y., Jan. 26,
1876; married Albany, at St. Peter's Church,
by Rev. Horatio Potter, April 29, 1841. Dr.
Thomas Hun, son of Abraham Him and Maria
Gansevoort, who was born in Albany, Sept. 14,
1808, was graduated at LTnion, 1821, died in Al-
bany, June 23, 1896, by whom five children: i.
Edward Reynolds Hun, born Albany. .Apr.
17, 1842 ; was graduated at Harvard, 1863,
married in Troy, N. Y., April 29, 1874, Caro-
line DeForest Gale, died in Stamford, Conn.,
March 14, 1880. 2. Marcus Tullius Hun, b.
in .Mltany, May 22, 1845, ^^'''■^ graduated at

Union, 1865, married Albany, Dec. 21, 1875,
Mary Keith \^anderpoel (see Van Derpoel
Family). 3. Leonard Gansevoort Hun, b. in
Albany, May 10, 1848, was graduated West
Point, 1869, d. unm. in Somerville, Mass.,
March 11, 1891. 4. John Hun. b. at Albany,
June 10, 1852, d. Aug. 16, 1852. .5. Henry
Hun, b. in Albany, Alarch 21, 1854, was grad-
uated at Yale, 1874: m. in Albany, Apr. 28.
1892, Lydia Marcia Hand (see Hun Family).
Marcus T. had also by his wife Cynthia Her-
rick: 3. Cynthia, b. in Amsterdam, N. Y.,
in 1819, d. there Mch. 25. 1837, and buried
there.

Marcus T. Revnolds married (second) at
St. Peter's Church. Albany, N. Y., May 6,
1823, Elizabeth Ann Dexter. She was born
in Albany, March 24, 1797. and died at her
home, No. 7 Park Place, Albany (where the
capitol stands in 1910), on August 30, 1840.
Her father was Samuel Dexter, born in
Northampton, Mass., Nov. 14, 1756, removed
to Albany between 1790-5, where he was a
druggist ; died there at No. 56 State street,
Aug. 27, 1825, being the son of Ebenezer
Dexter, born October 17, 1729, died May 4,
1769, who married, in 1754. Lydia Woods,
born Oct. 17, 1736, died Dec. 24, 1774. (See
Dexter Family.)

Her mother was Elizabeth Province, born
in Northampton, Mass., July 4, 1763, died at
her residence opposite the Middle Dutch Re-
formed Church, on Beaver street, Albany,
October 18, 1846, being the daughter of John
Province, born in Glasgow, Scotland, came
to America, RLiy 10, 1740, settling in Bos-
ton, Mass., died July 6, 1792, who married
May 9, 1748, Sarah Prince, born in 1730,
died March 11, 1810, and was buried in the
Prince tomb in the Granary Burial Ground
at Boston (see Prince Genealogy for an-
cestors). Samuel Dexter and Elizabeth Prov-
ince were married May 29, 1790.

By his wife Elizabeth Ann Dexter, Marcus
'!". liad : 4. Mary Dexter, born in Amsterdam,
X. ^■.. m. .Vug. 14. 1824: d. at 98 Columbia
street, Albany, Jan. 29, 1897, buried in Al-
bany Rural Cemetery ; married by Rev. Hora-
tio Potter, at St. Peter's Church, Albany,
Apr. 29, 1847, Dr. Frederick Cholet Adams,
son of John Adams, and his wife Laura
Farmer, who was born at Catskill, N. Y., May
25. 1823: Williams College. 1843, died in
.\lhany, .Scjit. 22. 1862, by whom two chil-
dren: I. .Vlmiral James Dexter Adams, U.
S. N., born in Catskill, N. Y., May 4, 1848,
married, \'allejo, Cal., May 6, 1873, Margaret
Jane Phelps, dau. of .■\dmiral Thomas S.
Phelps, has (lircc cliildren. 2. William Rev-
nolds Adams, born in Albany, Mch. 7, 1853,

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'845

d. in AIban\-, Jan. 30, 1855. huricil there 5.
Dexter, born in Albany. \^ V.. Dec. 12. 1828,
d. in Albany, Aug. 19, 1906: married in Roch-
ester, N. Y., Apr. 19, 1865, Catherine Maley
Cuyler, born in Cuylerville. Livingston county,
N. v., Dec. 2, 1845. daughter of Col. William
Tremper Cuyler and Nancy Bancker Stew-
art (see hereinafter). 6. Laura, born in .Al-
bany, N. v.. Nov. 22, 1830 : married at her
father's residence, No. 25 No. Pearl street,
.\lbany, N. Y., by Rev. Horatio Potter, Feb.
I, 1854, r.ayard V'an Rensselaer, son of Gen.
Stephen \'an Rensselaer and Harriet Eliza-
beth Bayard, and who was born in Albany,
Sept. 8, 1833, died in Pau, France, Jan. 12,
1859, by whom two children: i. William
Bayard Van Rensselaer, b. at 98 Columbia
street, .Albany, N. Y., Oct. 4. 1856, died in
Albany, Sept. 25, 1909 ; was graduated at
Harvard College, 1880: married in Cam-
bridge, Mass., Nov. 3, 1880. Louisa Green-
ough Lane, born Nov. 21, i860, dau. of Prof.
Geo. Martin Lane, of Harvard University : 2.
Dr. Howard Van Rensselaer, born at 98 Co-
lumbia street, Albany, N. Y., June 26, 1858,
Yale, 1 88 1 (see \'an Rensselaer Family).

Dexter — Alarcus Tullius — Stephen — Ste-
phen— Nathaniel — James — John — John.

5. Dexter Reynolds, son of Marcus T. Rey-
nolds and Elizabeth Ann Dexter, was born
in Albany. N. Y., December 22, 1828, and
died at 98 Columbia street. Albany, August 19,
1906. He received his early education at the
College Hill Academy in Poughkeepsie, N.
\^., and continued his preliminary studies at
the Albany Academy, which he entered in the
fall of 1842, remaining two years, when he
was prepared to enter Union College in 1844.
Here he joined the Sigma Phi fraternity, and
was a classmate of President Chester A. Ar-
thur, who was an intimate friend in later
years. He graduated July 26, 1848, ranking
second in his class of 120, and was honored
with the Latin salutatory. He attended the
Lawrence Scientific School at Cambridge,
Mass., the year of its founding, 1848-9, and
was a graduate of the Harvard Law School,
class of 1850. He was admitted to the bar
at Albany, December 2, 1851, and in 1853
wrote the volume published by Gould, Banks
& Co., Albany. 1853, "A Treatise on the Law
of Life Assurance." He formed a partner-
ship with Orlando Meads. Afterwards he
was in partnership with John Olcott, son of
Thomas Worth Olcott. the banker. Later on
he was associated with the law firm of M. T.
& L. G. Hun, nephews, at 25 No. Pearl street.
With his friends, Erastus Corning and J.
Howard King, he made a nuinbcr of visits to
Western states on inmtiiiii trips, and it was

then he purchased large tracts of land in
Iowa e(|ual in extent to nearly half the area
of that state. His final sale in closing the in-
vestment was 210,000 acres. In the Civil War
he was paymaster of the Third Regiment, and
went to Richmond, X'irginia, under Gen. Fred-
erick Townsend, commanding.

His patented inventions numbered twenty
or more, and each of these was among the
pioneers of very important lines. He first
gave considerable study to the manufacture of
paper from wood pulp at a time such processes
were not practical or paying. In 1858 he pub-
lished a treatise on the subject. His investi-
gation was most thorough, and gave an im-
petus to the trade at a time of di.scouragement.

-Among the earliest .of his inventions was a
typesetter, which he manufactured in Roch-
ester, previous to 1875, and followed this with
an automatic distributor, which was the first
attempt to di.stribute movable type by
machine. In this comiection he invented the
notching of type. It was placed in a publish-
ing house in Albany about 1876, and was dis-
countenanced by the printers, who saw their
means of support about to disappear through a
saving to the employer. The theory of this
machine was utilized by a manufacturer of
such machines, and a tedious lawsuit for in-
fringement resulted, which was finally com-
promised. A direct steel and wrought iron
process occupied his attention for some twenty
years, which led to an experimental furnace
erected in the early spring of 1903, which was
the first to nodulize fine ores in a revolving
cylindrical furnace, which ores had hitherto
been of value only when briquetted. This proc-
ess, the furnaces now enlarged to over a hun-
dred feet, is in general use throughout the
country for nodulizing flue dust and magneti-
cally separated ores.

Dexter Reynolds married, at Rochester, N.
Y., April 19, 1865. Catherine Maley Cuyler
(see Cuyler Family). Rev. R. Bethell Clax-
ton, of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, officiat-
ing. They resided at 20 Elk street, Albany,
N. Y. She was born in Cuylerville, Living-
ston county, N. Y., December 2. 1845 ; was
educated at a boarding school in Utica, X. \'.,
died while visiting in Rochester, October 23,
1875, and was buried in the Reynolds lot in
the Albany Rural Cemetery. Her father was
Col. William Tremper Cuyler, who was born
in Albany, December 22, 1802, died in Cuy-
lerville, N. Y., December 21, 1864, and was
the .son of John Cornelius Cuyler (born in
Schenectady, N. Y., Dec. 5, 1766, died there
October 25, 1828), and Hannah Maley (b.
Oct. 12. 1769). Her mother was Nancy
I'.ancker Stewart, who was born in Leicester,

1846

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

N. Y., Feb., 1810, died Feb. 3, 1848. and
was daughter of John Stewart and Nancy
Bancker Clute (born in Schenectady, N. Y.,
Dec. 25, 1776, died in Moscow, N. Y., Apr.
28, 1864). Dexter Reynolds and Catherine
Maley Cuyler had children — Cnyler and Mar-
cus Tullius.

Cuyler Reynolds, son of Dexter Reynolds
and Catherine Maley Cuyler. was born at 98
Columbia street, Albany. N. Y., August 14,
1866. At the Albany Academy and a board-
ing school in Catskill, N. Y., he received his
education, which developed particularly his
faculties as a writer, establishing in 1885 the
school paper, of which he was made its editor-
in-chief. He engaged in newspaper work
and followed it some fifteen years, at the same
time contributing to more than a score of
the better magazines. Turning his attention
then to the writing of books, novels and ref-
erence works, he produced ten or more, the
most valuable of which were his "Classified
Quotations," Putnam, 1905, and "Albany
Chronicles," 1907, the latter a volume so com-
prehensive and copiously illustrated that it is
likely to endure and be cited as one of the best
authorities of state history. Later he be-
came editor-in-chief of the "Hudson-Mohawk
Genealogical and Family Memoirs," in four
octavo volumes.

By a scientific study and enumeration of
the letters of the alphabet as they occurred
in books, magazines and newspapers, he ar-
ranged a table of the recurrence of letters,
which results he set forth in a monograph
entitled "The Recurrence of Letters," read be-
fore the Albany Institute in 1894, then pub-
lished in Paper and Press in 1895, and while
it served as a key for the solution of ciphers
or secret writing, its more practical use was
in its application to the keyboards of type-
setting machines, and in this form is univer-
sally used.

Much interested in historical research, es-
pecially as it concerned his home city, he was
made director of the Albany Institute and His-
torical and Art Society at its annual meeting
in 1899, and continued as such for ten years.
He made for this society several of its most
noteworthy collections, numbering a dozen or
more, at the same time filling the office of
librarian. As librarian, he gathered nearly
one thousand books written by Albanians,
which list composed a biographical catalogue
of 114 pages in 1902. The opening of this in-
stitution's new building. May 12, 1908. gave
him opportunity to originate the novel sys-
tem of indexing and the method of keeping
the various record books.

In March, 1907, he received the appoint-

ment of director of the New York State His-
tory Exhibit for the Jamestown Exposition;
collected and installed it in systematic order,
the features of which he set forth in an elab-
orately illustrated Catalogue of Exhibit, with
the Exposition's Gold Medal as the result.
Afterwards he wrote the State's report, a
handsome volume, copiously illustrated, and
of about five hundred pages, published in
1910.

He was elected to honorary membership
in the American Scenic and Historic Preser-
vation Society in 1908, and in the New York
State Historical Association in 1909. He is
also a member of the National Geographic
Society, American Historical Association and
of the American Copyright League. He has
resided all his life in Albany.

He married, at the Cathedral of All Saints,
Albany, N. Y., Dean Wilford L. Robbins offi-
ciating, September 24, 1891, Janet Gray
Gould. -She was born in Albany, July 22,
1871, and was educated at the .'\lbany Female
Academy. Her father was Captain Charles
Gould, born in Albany, October 28, 1848, died
in Albany, July 4, 1896, who was the son of
William Gould (b. in Caldwell, N. J., Nov.
26, 1814, d. in Albany, June 27, 1886), and
Sarah Margaret Hartness (b. in Albany, Sept.
24, 1821, d. there, December 12, 1884), and
married, in Albany, September 12. 1842. Her
mother was Janet Gray, born in Albany, Sep-
tember 20, 1850; married, Albany, October
4, 1870, died at Montclair, N. J., April 6,
19 10, who was the daughter of Daniel Alex-
ander Gray (b. in New York City, in 1817,
d. in Albany, Nov. 19, 1880), and Catherine
Mevers (born in Hanover, Ger., Aug. 2,
iSifi, died Albany, Apr. i. 1880). They' had:
Kenneth Gray, b. in Albany, N. Y., Sept.
17, 1892, educated at the Albany Academy
and St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.

Dexter Reynolds had also by his wife Cath-
erine iVIaley Cuyler: Marcus Tullius, born
at Great Barrington, Mass.. August 20, 1869 :
prepared for college at St. Paul's School.
Concord. New Hampshire, 1882-86; entered
Williams College, 1886, Sigma Phi fraternity,
and was graduated July 2, 1890. He studied
architecture in the School of Mines, Columbia
University, and was graduated, 1893, with the
degree of Ph.B. He is author of "Housing of
the Poor in American Cities," the prize essay
of the American Economic Society for 1893,
and received therefor the degree of M.A.,
Williams College. 1893. He studied archi-
tecture in Paris, Rome, .Athens, etc., and re-
turning to America in October, 1895. began
practicing architecture in .Mhany, N. Y., and
lias there contiinicd. His s])ecialty is tlic dc-

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1847

signing of banks, of which he has been the
architect of sixteen.

He has collected and compiled the earlier
and collateral data presented in the above

genealogical tables, supplementing the work
begun by his father, Dexter Reynolds, who
began with the descendants of James, the son
of John, the son of John the emigrant.

HISTORICAL APPENDIX

ALBANY COUNTY.

The original counties into which the New
York colony was divided numbered twelve.
The division was made pursuant to the act
of 1683. The twelve counties were then named
Albany, Cornwall, Dukes, Dutchess, Kings,
New York, Orange, Queens, Richmond, Suf-
folk, Ulster and West Chester.

It may seem strange in these times, but
Cornwall county consisted of the district
known then as Pemaquid, now in Maine, and
Dukes county was composed of some islands
off Massachusetts. This was because this land
was included in the patent of the Duke of
York and Albany. They were detached
in 1 69 1, upon reorganization of the govern-
ment.

On October 17, 1683, the first "General
Assembly of the Colony of New York," chosen
by "the planters or inhabitants of every part
of the government," met at Fort James in the
city of New York, with "free liberty to con-
sult and debate among themselves all matters
as shall be apprehended proper to be estab-
lished for laws for the good of the govern-
ment of the said Colony of New York and
its dependencyes."

In preparation for this meeting, it was
"ordered that the Sheriff of Albany and Ran-
celaers Colony cause the freeholders to meet
and choose two persons to be their repre-
sentatives in the General Assembly, to be
holden at the City of New York, October ve
17th, 1683."

.\mong the acts bearing the date November
I, 1683, resultant of the meeting mentioned,
was one "To divide this province and depen-
dencyes into shires and countyes * * *
for tlic better governing and settling the courts
in the same."

This act having specified the twelve origi-
nal counties, defined "The County of Albany
to containe the Towns of .Albany, the Collony
Renslaerwyck, Schonectcda. and all the vil-
lages, neighborhoods, and Christian Planta-

cons on the east side of Hudson River from
Roelof Jansen's Creeke, and on the west side
from Sawyer's Creeke to the Sarraghtoga."
Attention is called to the fact that the names
of the original counties were distinctively
English in their derivation ; but after the
Revolution, when new divisions were made
so as to split the original into more numerous
and smaller counties, the names bestowed
were indicative of the Indians who had been
associated with certain sections, or else
honored the name of American patriots.

When the Council held a session at Fort
William Henry in New York City. October
I, 1 69 1, the previous Act was confirmed; but
in describing the County of Albany, there was
an omission of "the Town of Albany," and a
substitution of "Mannor of Ranslaerswyck"
for the "Collony of Renslaerwyck," as well
as an extension, "to the uttermost end of
Sarraghtoga," instead of "to the Sarraghtoga."

At the Council's session held at Fort
George, in New York City, May 27, 1717, the
area of Albany county was enlarged further
by "An Act for annexing that part of the
Mannor of Livingston which now lyes in
Dutchess Cnuntv. unto the Coinitv of .\lbanv."

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

The counties of Dukes, consisting of Nan-
tucket, Martha's Vineyard, Ehsabeth Island
and No Man's Land (now in Massachusetts)
and Cornwall, consisting of Pemaquid and ad-
jacent lands and islands (now in Maine),
which lands were included in the patent given
to the Duke of York, were set off upon the
reorganization of the colonial government,
about 1691, or soon after the abdication of
King James IL, and the succession of William
and Mary to the English throne.

There were but few changes in the ten orig-
inal counties left within the borders of New
York until the year 1770. It is surprising
what the real extent of Albany county was in
those days. It embraced the whole territory
lying north of Ulster county, west of the
Hudson River, and it took in nearly the whole
State, going northward to the lakes and Can-
ada ; and north of Dutchess, on the east side
of that river, including the entire State of
Vermont. Plainly stated, within the bounds
of Albany county were the State of Vermont
and the fifty counties of the State of New
York erected since the 1683-1691 period men-
tioned, excepting Putnam, Sullivan, Rockland,
and part of Greene and Delaware.

The ten counties formed directly from Al-
bany county, and before some of them were
again subdivided into other counties, were :

(i) Gloucester, March 16, 1770; included
what is now Orange, Washington, Caledonia,
Orleans, and Essex, X'crmont.

(2) Tryon, March 12, 1772: changed to

Montgomery, April 2, 1784. from which and
the wilderness then known only as land of the
Indians, the counties west of Greene, Scho-
harie, Schenectady, Saratoga, and the Adiron-
dack counties have since been formed.

(3) Charlotte, March 12, 1772; changed to
Washington. April 2, 1784, from whose terri-
tory have since been erected Warren, Clinton,
St. Lawrence, Essex and Franklin.

(4) Cumberland, April 4, 1786: covering
the present counties of Bennington, Windsor,
Windham, Rutland, Addison and Chittenden,
in \'ermont.

(5) Columbia, April 4, 1786.

(6) Rensselaer, February 7, 1791.

(7) Saratoga, February 7, 1791.

(8) Schoharie, April 6, 1795.

(9) Greene, March 25. 1800.

( 10) Schenectady, March 7, 1809.

.Albany county, in 1900, was bounded as fol-
lows : On the north, by the counties of Sara-
toga and Schenectady ; on the west, by the
county of Schoharie ; on the south, by Greene
county, and on the east by Rensselaer county.

The eastern boundary is very marked, being
the Hudson river, flowing between Albany
and Rensselaer counties, '"a line drawn
through the middle of the main stream * * *
with such variations as to include the islands
!)ing nearest to the west bank thereof."

The northern boundary, between .Vlbany
and Saratoga counties, "made by a line be-
ginning at a point in the middle of the main
stream of tlie Hudson River in the westerly

Map of 1614.

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS v

boundary of Rensselaer cmnity, opposite to of the said Mohawk River, westerly, to a point

the middle of the most nortiierly branch of in said river where it is nearest the north

the Mohawk River, and running thence line of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck, at

throutrh the middle of said northerly branch Xiskayuna."

CITIES AND TOWNS.

Albany. — The city was incorporated by
patent issued by Lieut. -Gov. Thomas Dongan.
July 22, 1686, and is the oldest existing char-
tered city in the United States.

Its history, in its wealth of details covering
three centuries, is of interest equal to that of
any other in the country, and a resume of it
merits attention.

Giovanni de Verrazano, an expert Italian
navigator, commissioned by Francis I., to
seek a direct route to the East Indies, sailed
in 1523, aboard La Dauphine, with about fifty
men, from Dieppe, France, and entered New
York Bay in 1524; but after making investi-
gation, did not pursue his course up the river.

In 1540, a small band of French fur-traders,
bent on bartering with the Indians, sailed up
the river and erected a stone "castle," or forti-
fied trading-post, 26 x 36 feet, on an island at
the southern boundary of the present city of
Albany. Their records were so meagre that
they have not been accorded due fame as the
first white men to sail up the Hudson river'.

Henry Hudson, an English navigator, was
employed by the Dutch East India Co., under
contract dated January 8, 1609, to explore the
Grande (Hudson) river, noticed by him on
a French map, and he sailed on the Half
Moon from the Texel river, Holland, March
25th of that year. He entered New York Bay
September 3rd : passed through the Narrows
on the 6th, and it is calculated that he reached
the site of Albany on September 19th, where
he anchored and investigated, until he decided
to sail down the river on .September 23rd.
His record is preserved.

The Lords States-General at The Hague,
Holland, on October 11, 1614, granted a li-
cense to fur-traders to traffic with natives in
New Netherland, who send Hendrik Cor-
stiaensen, of Amsterdam, in 161 5, and he re-
builds the "castle," which tlic fur-traders of
1540 had erected on the island immediately
south of Albany, calling it Fort Nassau, which
was wrecked by the freshet of 1618. and
abandoned.

The Dutch West India Co. was incorpor-
ated under the seal of Lords States-General of
Holland, June 3, 1621, intending to colonize
or trade in America. The Walloons, or perse-
cuted French Protestants who had fled to
Belgium, liked by the Dutch because of their
thrift, petitioned this company, February 5,

1622. to be allowed to settle along the Hud-
son river. They were given permission in

1623, and in March, 1624, thirty families
sailed on the New Netherland, commanded by
Captain Cornells J. Mey, and entered New
York Bay in May. They proceeded up the
river to the site of Albany; building Fort
Orange close to the western shore, in com-
mand of which they placed Arien Jorise; but
in 1629, the company abandoned sending set-
tlers because of the heavy expense.

The Dutch W^est India Co. having aban-
doned the settlement policy, adopts the plan of
allowing manorial grants, which is approved
by the Lords States-General at Amsterdam,
June 7, 1629. Kiliaen \'an Rensselaer, Direc-
tor of the Amsterdam Chamber and wealthy
pearl merchant of that city, obtained on No-
vember 19. 1629, the first concession to estab-
lish a colony. He wrote at once to Sebastiaen
Jansen Crol, at Fort Orange, to purchase a
tract from the Mohawk Indians for him and
his associates. The first lot of colonists sailed
on The Unity (de Eendrach) Captain Jan
Brouwer commanding, March 21, 1630. On
July 27, 1630, Crol bought the tract on which
.Albany is built, extending it southward by
purchases along the west shore from Beeren
to Smacks Island, .April 30. 1631. The Unity
reached Manhattan Island May 24, 1630. and
arrived at Fort Orange June ist. The deed
of the Indians, dated August 13, 1630, trans-
ferred the land on which Albany is built to
Kiliaen \'an Rensselaer, and in 163 1 he
formed a partnership with a limited number
of Hollanders, who eventually withdrew their
interest in the land. Jan Baptist Van Rensse-
laer was the first of the family to come to
this country, arriving- in 165 1, and became

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Fort Crailo ( VankL-e Doodle house), erected by Ilen-
drick Van Rensselaer, at Greenbnsh. opposite Albany.

"Director" of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck,
May 8, 1652. He was the seventh child of
Kiliaen, and never was the Patroon. The
second Patroon was Kiliacn's second child,
Johannes, never came to this country, and
died in 1662 or 1663. The third Patroon was
Jeremias Van Rensselaer, eighth child of
Kiliaen. and he came to America to take up
his residence in the Manor, marrying at New
Amsterdam, July 12. 1662, Maria \'an Cort-
landt.

The name Beverwyck came into use when
Director-General Pieter Stuyvesant. chief
official for the Dutch West India Co. in New
Netherland, with headquarters on Manhattan
Island, visited Fort Orange on April i, 1652,
and proclaimed that the land built up about
the fort be known as Dorpe Beverwyck.

The name .Albany came into use for the first
time -on September 24, 1664. The English
had coveted New Netherland, claiming it as
a portion of the territory granted by Queen
Elizabeth in 1584 to Sir Walter Raleigh, and
also of right by the discovery of the Cabots
in 1497. The Plymouth Colony had grown
jealous, and influenced King Charles II., of
England, who made a grant of the territory
embraced in New Netherland (and more be-
sides) to his brother, James, Duke of York
and Albany, on March 12, 1664. The English
fleet entered New York Bay August 26th, and
its commander, Colonel Richard NicoUs, de-
manded of Director-General Stuyvesant that
he surrender New Amsterdam. He made re-
sistance as best he could ; but signed the capi-
tulation September 8, 1664, and Vice-Director
La Montague, for the Dutch West India Co.
at Fort Orange, peacefully changed to the
English rule, September 24, 1664.

But the name Albany was to give way in
succession to Willemstadt. This it did on
.August 5. 1673. King Charles II., of Eng-
land, broke the peace of Breda (July 31,

1667), by declaring war on March 17, 1672,
against Dutch provinces. A Dutch fleet of
twenty-three vessels, with si.xteen hundred
men aboard, entered New York Bay on July
-9j 1673, and demanded the surrender of
Fort James. It was not many hours later that
day that it complietl, and when the news had
time to travel to .Albany, Lieutenant Salisbury
concluded that Fori Albany was properly once
more under -the Dutch rule, so he acquiesced
on August 5, 1673, and the place, to the south
of Rensselaerswyck colony became known then
as Willemstadt.

This change to Dutch rule did not endure
a decade, for when the treaty of Westminster
was signed, whereby the Dutch stipulated on
February 19, 1674, that all lands, islands,
cities and forts that they had captured from
the English should revert to that nation, there
was nothing else for the inhabitants of Wil-
lemstadt to do except conclude they were in-
cluded within British territory, and the place
was once more known as Albany. .\lx)ut a
dozen years later, or July 22, 1686, Dongan
granted the charter making Albany an incor-
porated city.

Pieter Schuyler, by the terms of the charter,
became the first mayor. Thereafter the exe-
cutive was appointed by the governor of the
Colony of New York until after the Revolu-
tion, when the Common Council voted for
mayor; but the charter election held May 5,
1840, inaugurated the election of that official
by the people.

The city of Albany is located on the west
bank of the Hudson River, about 142 miles
north of New York City, along which river
it extends for three or four miles, and its
east and west direction is about the same.

The latitude of .Albany is 42°. 39', 13"

Dutch Church in Beverwyck (Albany).

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

North. Its longitude is 73°, 46', 42" West
of Greenwich, or 3', 17', 15" East of Wash-
ington, and is but a fraction east of New York
City. In time, Albany is 4 hours 55 minutes
6.8 seconds later than Greenwich, or 13 min-
utes 9 seconds earlier than Washington, and
about 46.8 seconds earlier than New York-
City.

The river at Albany is only 2.6 feet above
sea level, while the highest street elevation
is 230 feet above this. The depth of channel
permits vessels drawing 12 feet of water to
dock there. It also has the mercantile advan-
tage of two canals and five or more of the
large steam railroads. The average date of
opening of the river is March 17th, and the
average closing date December i6th, making
an average closed season of 90 days.

The average yearly temperature, based on
government records for 30 years, is 48'. The
highest temperature ever recorded there was
100'' on July 3, 1898, and the coldest, minus
24°. on January 5, 1904. The average annual
precipitation is 36.9 inches.

The population was 100,253 by the United
States Census of 1910.

Berne. — This town was formed March 17,
1795, from Rensselaerville, and from it Knox
was taken off in 1822. It derived its name
from Berne in Switzerland, the native place
of Jacob Weidman, one of the first to locate
there. an<l was settled largely by Germans,
who leased farms from Patroon Van Rens-
selaer, beginning about 1750. Many of
Scotch descent arrived during the Revolu-
tionary period. It is the central of the
three western towns of the county, and is
bounded on the north by Knox, on the east
by New Scotland, on the south by Westerlo
and Rensselaerville, and on the west by
Schoharie county. The Helderberg moun-
tains, rising 1,200 feet above tide, extend
along its eastern border. Berneville itself
was once known as Beaver Dam, and was a
stockadoed town. Area : 38,782 acres. Popu-
lation. 1910 Census: 1,753.

Bethlehem. — This town was formed March
12, 1793, and from it New Scotland was taken
off April 25, 1832, and the eastern part of Al-
bany city on April 6, 1870. It was purposely
given its Biblical name. It lies on the bank of
the Hudson, east of the center of the county,
and includes all islands west of the main chan-
nel, and is bounded on the north by Albany city,
on the east by the Hudson river, on the south
by Coeymans, and on the west by New Scot-
land. One of the islands was known as Castle
Island, and it is believed that it was the site
of tlie first settlement in the entire county,
or rather, that it was the site of a fort or

trading-post built thereon by Dutch fur-trad-
ers under Skipper Corstiaensen, in 1614: but
removed in 1617 further inland because of
dangerous freshets in the spring. This island,
of some size, was later known as Westerlo,
and then as Van Rensselaer. It was settled
by the farmer tenants of Patroon Van Rensse-
laer in 1630. Through it flows the Normans
kil, a name derived from Albert Andriessen
Bradt de Noorman, lessee of the land about
the falls for mill purposes at a very early date.
Area: 31.549 acres. Population, 1910 Census:
4,413- "

Coeymans. — This town was formed March
18, 1791, from Watervliet. It was included in
the grant to Van Rensselaer for the tract ex-
tending from Beeren Island northward to Co-
hoes ; but quit-claimed in 1706 by him to Pieter
Coeymans, who settled thereon in 1636. as a
miller, and confirmed by Queen Anne, August
6, 1714. A portion was taken oft" for Westerlo
in 1815. Its name was derived from the paten-
tee. It is the southeast corner town in the coun-
ty, including adjacent islands, and is bounded
on the north by Bethlehem, on the west by
Westerlo, on the south by Greene county, and
on the east by the Hudson river. Through it
flow the precipitous Coeymans and Haanakrois
creeks, the Indian name of the former having
been Oniskethau, and in the village of Coey-
mans the falls have a drop of seventy-five
feet. Area : 30,408 acres. Population, 1910
Census : 4.252.

CoHOES. — This city was formed from
Watervliet, and was incorporated May 19,
1869; previously, since April 12, 1855, it had
been an incorporated village of Watervliet.
The name is of Indian derivation, Gahaoose,
signifying canoe falling, or overshoot. Area,
1,575 acres. Population, i9io"Census: First
ward. 5,371; Second, 4,202; Third. 4,014;
I-'ourth, 5.097; Fifth, 3,011: Sixth, 3,014;
Total. 24,709.

CoLONiK. — TIlis was once an incorporated
town and village : but due to changes in for-
mation of townships passed out of existence.
Originally the term was applied to all the col-
onized territory of Rcnsselaerswyck ; but later
was limited to that portion lying outside of
and to the north of -Mbany city: and for a
long time its southern boundary was Patroon
street, now Clinton avenue in .\lbany city,
which was north of the stockades when they
extended east and west a little north of the
present Orange and Van Tromp streets.
\\'hen Watervliet was formed, in 1788, Col-
onie became a part of it, and the indef-
inite area extended to the south so as to
include Tivoli Hollow fthrough which the
N. Y. Central railroad runs on its route to

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r.iittaltil. wlurc the Patroons had their flour
and sa\v-!iiills. as well as the Manor House,
his agent's pretentious office, etc. It was set
apart as a district. .March 31, 1791, and again,
by an additional .\ct, March 30, 1801. On
April 9, 1804. it was incorporated as a village
in the town of Watervliet, and organized as a
separate towm, .\pril 11. 1808. February 25,
181 5, it was divided and its legal existence ter-
minated, by giving its territory to Albany city
and Watervliet, the former portion becoming
the old-time Fifth ward of Albany. On the
last date mentioned, it had a population of
i>657.

Gl'iij)eri-\nd. — 1 his town was formed Fcl>
ruary 26, 1803. from Watervliet. The name was
derived from Guilderlandt in the Netherlands,
w'hence had come many of its original settlers.
The northwest portion of Albany city was an-
nexed to this town, February 26, 1871. It
is bounded on the north by Schenectady coun-
ty, on the east by Watervliet and .Mbany, on
the south by Bethlehem and New Scotland,
and on the west by Knox. Area : 38,784 acres.
Population. 1910 Census: 3,333, including
Altamont village, with 674.

Knox. — This town was formed Febru-
ary 28, 7822, from Berne. The name was
derived from John Knox, eminent divine
and Scotland's reformer. It is situated
in the northwest corner of the county,
and is bounded on the north by Schenectady
county, on the east by Guilderland, on the
south by Berne, and on the west by Schoharie
county. The inhabitants forcibly resisted the
posse comitatis in the anti-rent feud of 1839,
when Van Rensselaer sought to collect rentals
under the peculiar leases. .Area : 26.402 acres.
Population. 1910 Census: 1,007.

New^ Scotland. — This town was formed
April 25, 1832, from Bethlehem. It derived
its name through the location there of a great
number of settlers from Scotland. The first
settler was Teunis Slingerland. a Hollander,
who Ixiught 9,874 acres there from the In-
dians, and erected mills. It is the central
town of the county, and is bounded on the
north by Guilderland, on the east by Bethle-
hem, on the south by Coeymans and Westerlo,
and on the west by Westerlo, Berne and Knox.
Area: 34,324 acres. Population, 1910 Cen-
sus : 2.834, including Yoorheesville, with 553.

Rf.ns.sei-akrvimj;. — This town was formed
March 8, 1790. Berne was taken off March
17, 1795, and the western part of Westerlo on
Afarch 16, 18 15. It is the southwestern cor-
ner tow-n of the county, and is bounded on the
north by Berne, on the east by Westerlo, on
the south by Greene county, and on the west
by Schoharie county. It was named in honor

I if (icn. Stephen Van Rensselaer, or for his
family. .Area: 37,354 acres. Population, 1910
Census: 1,609.

W.VTERVLiKT. — This town was formed March
7, 1788, and was the first incorporated town in
.\lbany county, and it then included all of
West Rensselaerswyck, and all of the present
county excepting Albany city, as it was at the
time of the Charter, in 1686. Its name is
from the Dutch, signifying "water flood," as
it was situated principally along the flats be-
tween the Hudson and Mohawk rivers, and
large areas of it werp inundated each spring.
This caused the soil to be unusually rich, and
it was consequently early settled upon. In
1809, Niskayuna, now in Schenectady county,
was formed largely from it. Villages in it
were incorporated as follows. ' Watervliet,
March 30, 1801, changed to Colonie, April 9,
1804 : became obsolete and was annexed to
.Albany city; Gibbonsville, April 23, 1824;
changed to West Troy, April 30, 1836; Co-
hoes, incorporated April 12, 1855: changed to
city of that name, May 19, 1869 : Green Island,
387 acres, incorporated April 5, 1853. Within
its limits are also Newtonville. named for John
M. Newton, four miles north of .Albany; Lou-
donville, at the same distance to the north of
Albany ; Menands, named after its first set-
tler, Louis Menand. two miles north of Al-
bany. It surrendered a large tract (105 acres)
to the Federal authorities by the cession laws
of 1830 and 1833, conditionally "for the pur-
pose of erecting and maintaining thereon ar-
senals, magazines, dockyards and other neces-
sary buildings," the first of which was erected
thereon in 1814, under Col. Geo. I^urnford.
The Albany Rural Cemetery Association se-
cured a large tract, about one mile long in its
shortest direction, chartered April 2, 1841, and
adjacent tracts were secured by St. Agnes'
and the .Anshe Emeth cemeteries. The State
Fair Grounds occupied a large tract therein
for years, until removed to Syracuse, and the
Shakers established a settlement, or commu-
nity, in 1776, under leadership of Mother Ann,
a native of Manchester, Fng., who died there,
September 8. 1784. Later changed name to
Colonie. Area: 30.697 acres. Population,
1910 Census: 8,385.

Watkkvliet. — Incorporated as a city on
May 26, 1896. Population. 1910 Census: First
Ward. 1,936; Second, 1,326; Third. 1,283;
Fourth, 1,737; Fifth, 1,582; Sixth, 1,603;
Seventh, 1,804; Eighth. 1,944; Ninth, 1,859.
Total, 15,074.

Westerlo. — This town was formed March
16. 1815, from Coeymans and Rensselaer-
ville. It was named in honor of Dominie
Filanlus Westerlo, wlio married Catherine

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Livingston, widow of Patroon Stephen \'an
Rensselaer, in 1775, and was minister of
the Dutch Church in Albany. 1760-1790.
It is located in the center of the south-
ern border of the county, and is bounded
on the north by Berne and New Scotland, on
the east by New Scotland and .Coeymans, on
the south by Greene county, and on the west
by Rensselaerville. It contains extensive
quarries. Area : 35.976 acres. Population,
1910 Census: 1,237.

Albax'

Inhabitants.

6.827

5.357

5.781

4.979

5.354

4.278

5.085

S.004

3.78s

4.055

5.057

City
Ward

Inhabitants.

2 6,074

3 3.944

4 5.103

5 4.083

6 7.123

7 5.364

8 5,166

9 7.834

Total 100,253

United

Year. City. County. State. States.

1850 50.763 93.279 3.097.394 23.191,876

i860 62,367 113,917 3.880,735 31.443.321

1870 69.422 133.052 4.382,759 38,558,371

1880 90.758 154,890 5,082,871 50,155.783

1890 94.923 164,555 5.997.853 62,622,250

1900 94.151 165.571 7.268,894 75,568,686

1910 100,253

PROGENITORS OR EARLIEST SETTLERS
OF ALBANY COUNTY.

Interest that is taken in the history of a
country or in a family centers largely in the
facts relating to the origin. The person who
studies either desires accurate and compre-
hensive information, and that means the
names of the chief characters, together with
definite dates and facts about their lives and
where they were located. This is the perfectly
natural scope, and it is as definite in its way
as is any of the sciences.

The person concerned with understanding
particulars about his or her family is led on,
generation by generation, each with its own
wealth or paucity of detail, until it becomes
more desirable than all else to learn as much
as possible about the Progenitor, or founder
of the family in .America.

The accompanying list has been prepared as
an enutneration of those first persons who set-
tled in .\lbany or vicinity previous to the year
1700. It is practically a list of the heads of fam-
ilies founding Albany city and the entire coun-
ty. It does not pretend to deal with the descent ;
but in those instances where two of the same
surname, unrelated, were earliest settlers, both
are given equal mention, for each started an
independent line. The names of brothers are
also treated, for the same reason, — each the
"arriving" head of a family. .Accordingly,
this not being a series of genealogies of fam-
ilies, it has not been the aim to include facts
relating to the issue of the founders, except
to the extent of being in some instances proof
of residence in the county before the year
1700, if it is found that the baptism of his
child was recorded, which may be the only
clue to the fact of his early residence.

It is well to speak of the scope or extent
of this list in its usefulness. Most likely it
shows the names of a great proportion of the
different families who lived within a radius
of one hundred miles of the city of .-Mbany
during the first one htmdred years of this
country's existence, and therefore the research

is decidedly extensive. It should be decidedly
heli)ful to any person seeking information
about a Progenitor in tlie section of the coun-
try covered. This may be explained more
clearly by calling to mind that nearly all the
people who lived in early times at the few
places of settlement, such as Schenectady,
Kinderhook, Amsterdam, Coeymans, Coxsac-
kie, Catskill, Hudson, Claverack. Esopus,
.Amsterdam, and a few other localities, settled
first at Albany, and then removed as it suited
their inclination.

There are other reasons giving this list even
broader significance. It has its interest even
in New York City, to a large extent, without
giving thought to the ever constant shifting
of family location. Those families arriving in
this country by way of New .Amsterdam quite
frequently remained there a time, establishing
relationships before moving up the river. It
was often the case that the newly-arrived
youth took to himself a bride in Manhattan
before desiring to risk adventure in an un-
known kind of territory. Frequently fam-
ilies would divide on landing, certain mem-
bers remaining on the island, others prefer-
ring to seek their fortune in the new colony
of Rensselaerswyck. There were so few other
localities whither a young man in either place
might turn to find a bride, previous to 1700,
that the intermarriages were of common oc-
currence.

The list might have suited a greater num-
ber of persons the better by shifting the date
of limitation to the year 1750; but that would
have made it voluminous. As it is, the names
of more than 450 distinct families are ade-
quately mentioned as progenitors before 1700.
Those who are surprised that they do not
find their family name in the list should seek
it in the list of .Albany County Freeholders of
1720, or in the 1790 U. S. Census of "Heads
of I'amilies."

To avoid semblance of conceit, it might be

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stated that with the application of from ten
to twenty years devoted to the work, a dili-
gent compiler could render excellent service
to a large circle of genealogists by confining a
volume to the subject, giving full biographies
of each subject. Such a work should include
the names of children of the progenitor, and
would make a book of about five hundred
pages limited solely to the Albany settlers, for
it is not claimed that herewith are all the
facts commonly known about these men. With
the records carefully sifted, a page to each
name would be an ordinary average, for what
genealogist would not welcome an entire page
filled with' the data on his progenitor.

It is not claimed that the material comprised
in this list has not been known in its several
parts to some one previously, or that it cannot
be discovered in the same manner as was the
case when this list was specially prepared.
But it has never been gathered as in this
arrangement for reference, because it com-
bines all the material in a number of works,
and it is decidedly superior to anything like
it. This can be maintained because it has
those revisions or corrections suggested by
following closely the information provided by
the most excellent recent work of the New
York State Archivist, .Arnold ]. F. van Laer,
when translating with exceeding care and na-
tive skill the documents of Patroon Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer, preserved still in Holland,
from which one gains much information re-
garding when the colonist sailed, and specifi-
cally, by the contract, learn definitely regard-
ing his occupation.

It is doubtful whether there is any family
line more difficult to understand, or trace,
than the Dutch. The pioneers in this par-
ticular well deserve abundant credit. It is
highly desirable for one to be an expert, or
else leave it strictly alone. Every muddler
creates more havoc for others to puzzle upon
and untangle.

Pointing out a few of the simplest forms
of error may be a warning to others The
novices and not infre(|uently the printer, quite
commonly misinterpret the old form bouwcric,
or bowery, for brewer. It is surprising to find
it so often stated "he owned a brewery," when
it is meant the person had a farm or home-
stead. Some persons in an attemjit to an-
glicize the Dutch names fall into error
through ignorance. They misconstrue a name
such as Jacobus to mean Jacob, not realizing
that it means James, and they imagine the
Dutch family name Jacobs to be Hebraic,
whereas it signified in those early days a con-
traction of Jacobse or Jacobsen, meaning a per-
son who was the son of Jacob. Novices should

be wary regarding the literal significance of
Dutch measures, for many in their writing
family descents have overlooked the fact that
possibly the original statement was in Rhine-
land measure.

A large majority of the early Dutch set-
tlers spelled their own names indiiiferentlv,
that is, in a number of ways, possibly a dozen,
when a man had an alias. Clerks would enter
them on the records each according to his idea
of phonetic spelling, and while we may not
blame then:, we are bothered. Often the per-
son who was a lowly emigrant could not be
of much assistance in elucidating. Hence,
it is difficult to make a list that shall be read-
able like a directory.

The classification of names of the first set-
tlers of Albany is a most difficult task even
for the most .skilled. The expert is non-
plussed, for he is forced to make statements
which show it. When a large percentage of
the colonists signed contracts with Patroon
Kiliaen \'an Rensselaer in Amsterdam, to go
to his colony in .America, they frequently
signed simply their Christian name. It was
all by which the\- were known. If he was
named John, or in their language Johannes
or Jan, he could be distinguished in a few
primordial ways from any other Jan. If his
father were named Pieter, they called him
'■John, the son of Pieter," or "Jan Pieterse."
If he hved at some pecuHar location, as on a
hill, he might be called "John from the Hill,"
or "Jan van den Berg," and again, if from a
city, it would be associated with his name,
and the John who lived in Vechten would be
known to his fellow-men as Jan Van Vechten.
Often his trade would suggest his future sur-
name, and "John, the baker." would write his
name "Jan Backer." In one case a colonist
named Jan with a father named Pieter, after
he had built a mill for the Patroon, was
known as Jan Pieterse Meulenmaecker. A
young fellow might have his name written in
the contract "Jan Pieterse Jonger." Given
such a mixture, of one set of names when they
resided in Holland, and known by an alias
after living in this country, it is a problem
to distinguish father and children of the same
family, but passing under diflferent names.
The man named Jan Pietersen might have
sons signing their names Jan Backer, Hen-
drick Van Vechten, Pieter Meulenmaecker,
Arent van den Berg.

It merits attention that throughout the first
one hundred years of .Albany's history, true
of the city and possibly so about the county,
there was hardly a person living in that re-
gie m who was not a Dutchman. Let the
doubter dissect the following list most care-

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fully, and those of other nationality than Hol-
lander can be counted on the finsjers of one
iiand. It is true that New Ln^land was prac-
tically Cdiiteniporanei >u:^ in settlement, yet the

English did not intermarry with the Dutch,
at least not in Albany, before the year 1700.
CuYM-.R Reynolds.
Albany, March 12, 191 1.

PROGENITORS.

AiiEEL. — Stoffel Janse, born about 1623, was
master carpenter at Beverwyck in 1653 ; mar-
ried Neeltje Janse Croon, and their son,
Johannes, born in 1667, was the 2nd Mayor
of Albany, Oct. 14, 1694 — Oct. 14, 1695, and
1709-1710.

Adri.aensen. — Gysbert, came from Bun-
nick, near Utrecht, sailing on "'den Cabner
Sleutel," from the Texel, Holland, December,
1637 ; aged 22 years ; began service as farm
servant at Rensselaerswyck, Apr. 2, 1638, for
Brant Peelen. Jacob Adriaensen, from
Utrecht, was at Beverwyck, from 1639 to
1657. Marinus Adriaensen, from Veere,
Province of Zealand, arrived on the Unity,
which sailed from the Texel shortly after July
7, 163 1, under contract with Patroon Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer as a tobacco-planter for three
years: in 1632 was made schepen there; is
termed "a noted freebooter" in Pearson's.
Rutger .Adriaensen, brother of Gysbert, came
from Bunnick ; tailor, employed by Jan Mich-
ielsen, and while the \'. R.-Bowier Documents
state there was no record of him in Rensse-
laerswyck after October, 1651, Pearson states
he held a patent for a lot there in 1652.

.A.ERTSE. — Rutger, owned a house on north
side of State St., bet. Broadway and James
St.. Beverwyck, in 1674. Wouter Aertse (van
Nieukerck) was sashmaker and a soldier in
the Dutch West India Co. employ ; bought a
lot on west corner of Broadway and \'an
Tromp St., Beverwyck, in 1678. Jacob .\ertse
married Sarah Pels, and their child, Jacob,
was baptized in Beverwyck. Feb. 20, 1695.

Alderts. — Elbert (or Albertsen), came
from Xykerck. Gelderland, sailing on "den
Calmer Sleutel" from the Texel, Holland, De-
cember, 1637: aged 18 years; weaver; set-
tled in Beverwyck. Frans .Albertsen came on
"den Harinck" (the Herring), arriving at
New .Amsterdam, March 28, 1638; cooper; re-
corded at Rensselaerswyck Apr. 27, 1638 ; re-
moved later to New .Amsterdam. Hendrick
Albertsen came from Doesburch, Gelderland ;

recorded at Rensselaerswyck Apr. 2, 1641 ;
aged 28 years ; baker ; contracted with the Pa-
troon as ferry-master, June 7, 1642; died in
1649.

Andriesex. — Arent (van Frederickstadt ),
came to Rensselaerswyck in 1636; was pos-
sibly the same person as Arent Andriesen
ISrait. Jan Andriesen came from Dublin;
Pearson says was in Rensselaerswyck before
1645; the V. R.-Bowier Documents show he
was there by 1648; leased farm north of
Stony Point (near Albany), Sept. i, 1649; re-
moved to Catskill, 1656, where he bouglit 69
morgens of land from Pieter Bronck ; was
complained of by Hans de Vos, in 1657, for
selling brandy to Indians there, and died in
1664. Pieter .Andriesen was mentioned in
Rensselaerswyck records as having the alias
"Soogemackelyck" and also "Pieter Mack-
lick" : tavern-keeper ; ordered sent to New
.Amsterdam in 1656, for not paying the ex-

Antiioxvse.— Egbert, had a child, ISarent,
born in Beverwyck, May 10, 1684.

.Appel. — Jan Louwrensen. also known as
Jan Louwrensen, first recorded at Rensse-
laerswyck, Oct. 12, 1648. Adriaen Janse Ap-
pel came from Leyden, Holland : received pat-
ent for lot in Rensselaerswyck in 1654, and
was schoolmaster.

.Appi-:i.STor\vx. — Julm (or .\p])letnn). was
born in Leicester, Eng., and married Amietje
Casparus at .Albany, October 11, 1701.

-Ari.aen. — Doctor, was in Albany in 1665.

.Ari.ssen. — Gerrit. had a son, .Arien. bap-
tized at Beverwyck, Sept. 9, 1683.

B.AKER. — Willem Juriacns (Backer), known
al.so without the surname "Backer," arrived
at New .Amsterdam on "dc Liefde," Dec. 27,
1638; recorded at Rensselaerswyck as a baker.
Hendrick Backer (or Baker) was in Rens-
selaerswyck in 1642; fined 12 guilders, in
1660, for bringing load of hay into the village
on .Sunday.

P),\Mi;i-s. — Harnicn Jacobse, was in Rens-

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selaerswvck in 1656. and had a sloop, "Eiken-
boom" ; shot by an Indian at Esopus in 1658,
and buried in New Amsterdam.

Bancker. — Gerrit. was in New Amsterdam
before 1655 : removed to Rensselaerswyck in
1657. where he resided on south side of State
street, three doors east of Pearl st. ; died
there. Feb. 27. 1691 ; his son, Evert, born in
All)any. Jan. 24. 1665. was 3d Mayor of .Al-
bany. Oct. 15. 1695 — Sept. 28, 1696, and 1707-
1709.

B.\RENTS. — Thys, arrived at New Amster-
dam on the "Arms of Rensselaerswyck,"
March 4. 1637: a shoemaker: charged at
Rensselaerswyck, June 5, 1637.

1!.\RHEIT. — Jeronimus Janse, married at
Reverwyck. April 9, 1684.

B.^ssETT. — Michiel. son of man of same
name, was born in Albany, January 21. 1705,
the parent evidently living there about 1700.

Basti.\xsex. — Harmen, carpenter, first re-
corded in Rensselaerswyck in 1647 • but was in
New Netherland as early as Sept. 13, 1639,
when he leased a sawmill on Nooten (Gov-
ernor's) Is. ; built house on south side of State
St., Rensselaerswyck, in 1650: surveyor, 1667:
some consider his last name was \'isser or
\'isscher.

Becker. — Jan Jurrianse, in 1656, was clerk
at Fort Casimir on the Delaware ; resided in
Greenbush in 1663, and later a schoolmaster
in Albany.

Beeckman. — Marten, son of Hendrick, and
godson of ]\Iarten Hendricksen of Fort
Orange, came from Hamehvaard, in Duchy of
I'.remen, in 1638. in the service of Patroon
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer: married Susanna
Jans, and died previous to June 21, 1677. This
branch of family settling in Albany retained
the "c" in the name : those in New York did
not.

Beekm.nx. — \\'illem. settled in New .Am-
sterdam.

I'lKNSox. — Dirck (Benseni, came from Gro-
ningen, a carpenter, resided a time in .Am-
sterdam, where he married Catalina Berck (or
Bercx ) : arrived at New .Amsterdam about
1648: but was resident of Rensselaerswyck as
early as 1653. and they had Johannes, Cater-
yna and Maria, born there, up to July 15,
1659, although he died there, Jan. 6, 1659.

Bercii. — Gysbert Cornelise. came from
Breuckelen, near Utrecht ; employed on the
Hoogeberch farm, hence commonly called
"van den Hoogenberch," or "van den Berch,"
which probably resulted in "A'andenberg." He
was charged at Rensselaerswyck with rentals
beginning in 1648.

Bo(;.\Ri)is. — .Anneke Jans, came to Rensse-
laerswyck in 1630, as wife of Roelof Jansen

(which see), and married, in 1637 or 1638,
Dominie Everhardus Bogardus, or Bogart,
minister of Dutch church in New .Amsterdam,
after whose death, in 1647, she returned to
Rensselaerswyck, where she died in her house,
northeast corner of State and James street,
soon after making her will, when sick, Jan.
29. 1663.

B()(;art. — Cornelis Tennis, son of Teunis,
lived and died at the homestead at Schoender-
woert,.near Leerdam. So. Holland, and when
he died, in 1661, his son. Gysbert, was liv-
ing at Catskill, another son, Cornelis, then in
Beverwyck, the latter born at the homestead,
came to Rensselaerswyck previous to 1640
and buried in .Albany, July 28, 1665 ; the first
son of the latter, named also Cornelis, settled
in Co.xsackie. and the second son, Jacob, born
in 1654. remained in Albany. The name is the
same as Bogert, Bogaert and Bogardus. all
signifying orchard in Dutch.

BoGi. — Pierre, had a child, Marie, born in
-Albany in 1686.

BoxT. — Hendrick Lambertse, removed from
Albany to Schenectady, previous to massacre
there, Feb. 8, 1690.

Boox. — Francis, a French trader, in Rens-
selaerswyck in 1654.

BoRDiXGH. — Claes, a trader in Rensselaers-
wyck in 1654.

Borrelingen. — Joris (Borlingen), English-
man, servant of Cryn Cornelisen, arrived on
"den Houttuyn," at New Amsterdam, Aug.
4, 1642. and was recorded at Rensselaerswyck
in 1642.

Bos. — Cornelis Teunise (or Bosch), came
to Rensselaerswyck in 1631, as bouwknecht to
Cornelis Maase A^an Buren.

Bout. — Willem Frederickse, came from
Leyden, arriving on "den Houttuyn," at New
.Amsterdam. .Aug. 4, 1642, and recorded at
Rensselaerswyck soon after, as free carpen-
ter : his surname, Bout or Boudt, given after
his arrival : made the pulpit (existing in 191 1 )
and other pieces of furniture for the Dutch
church, which edifice was the Patrcx)n's store-
house then, converted into house of worship
until church was built.

Bouw. — Salomon Frederickse. married An-
natje Bratt at .Albany, Jan. i. 1686.

BoviE. — Matthys (or Beaufils), married
Catherine Barrois, and had a daughter, Cat-
arina, baptized at .Albany. Feb. 12, 1690.

r>KADT. — .Albert Andriese, came from Fred-
erikstad, in southeast of Norway (hence his
designation in .America as "Noorman"), sail-
ing on the ".Arms of Rensselaerswyck," Oct. 8,
1636: tobacco-planter; aged 29: arrived at
New .Amsterdam, March 4. 1^137. ad apjieared
first at Rensselaerswyck under date .\pr. 17,

HUDSOX AND MOHAWK X'ALLEYS

1637; by contract with the i'atniun made Aug.
26, 1636, erected a mill : witli him came his
brother Arent Andriese, alsf a tobacco-planter,
and leased a farm opposite l]everwyck. May
I, 1658. Arent removed to Schenectady, and
Albert's son, Rarent, succeeded to the occupa-
tion of his father's mill on the Normanskill,
1672. The spelling of the name then was as
commonly Bratt as Bradt.

Bries. — Hendrick, a shoemaker in Bever-
vvyck, had a son, Antony, sufficiently- old to
marry Catrina Ryckman, Sept. 21, 1692.

Briggom. — Richard (Brigham?), an Eng-
lishman, employed by Antony de Hooges,
1645-7, chopping wood, and by Sander Leen-
dertse, in 1646.

Bro.vdhi'Rst. — Jonathan, from Derington,
Eng. ; married Catalyntjc Bensing (or Ben-
sen) at Albany. Apr. 23, 161/1, and was sheriff
of Albany county 1701-03.

Brockhols. — Capt. Anthony, was a senior
officer and commander of the military at Fort
Orange : married Susanna Schrik. ^lay 2,
1681. The name also spelled Brockholst.

Bron'CK. — lieter. was in New Amsterdam
in 1643 ; leased a lot at Rensselaerswyck, in
1650, paying four beavers per annum, and re-
ceived permit to erect tavern near house, Sept.
7, 1651, according to the \'. R.-Bowier Docu-
ments ; but according to Pearson was a brewer
in Beverwyck as early as 1645, the owner of
several house lots, and Ixjught lands at Cox-
sackie in 1662.

Brouwer. — Jacob, received permission to
build at Rensselaerswyck in 1649. Philip
Hendrickse I'rouwer was a brewer of Bever-
wyck as early as 1655. and became one of the
original proprietors of Schenectady. 1662.

Brown. — Robert, baptized a child. Thomas,
at Albany, Dec. 20, 1693.

Bru.ssy. — Christoft'el. was father of twins.
Cornells and Michael, liajitized at P)Cverw\ck.
July 2, 1686.

Bri'yn. — Jan Hendrickse. dealer in real es-
tate; took oath at Albany, 1678, that he had
been a burgher of Beverwyck upwards of
twenty years.

Bruyns. — Hage, from Smallandt. arrived
in New Amsterdam in 1653. and owned a lot
at Beverwyck in 1656.

BuRGii.vRT. — Isaac Hendrickse (or Bogart),
married Judic Janse Hoes, and they had a
daughter, .Mida. liaptized at .\lbanv. Sept. 4.
1698.

Burgi:k. — Jori^. came from llersberg (or
Hirschberg), Silesia, on "Arms of Rensselaers-
wyck," arriving at New .\msterdam, March 4.
1637 ; went to Rensselaerswyck. as a smith,
where recorded May 26, 1637.

Buys. — Jan, married Hendrikje Damon.

and their son. Johannes, was baptized at Al-
bany. Nov. I, 1685.

Bvv.\xcK. — Johannes, came from Olden-
zeel, Holland: born in 1634: was at .\lbany
in 1665.

C.\.\i[!i:i oRT. (or Comfort), had

remiived to Schenectady in 1690, buying land
at Hoffman's Ferry, which he sold in 1694
to Carel Hansen Toll.

C.\RSTE.\SEX. — Hendrick, came from Xor-
den. East Friesland. sailing on ''d' Eendracht"
("The Unity"), May, 1634; served at Rens-
selaerswyck as farmer under Brant Peelen for
seven-years. Carsten Carstensen (or Christen
Christens) arrived on "Arms of Rensselaers-
wyck" at New Amsterdam. March 4, 1637:
first recorded at Rensselaerswyck, .4pr. 17,
1637; sawyer and roof-thatcher. Johan Cars-
tensen. came from Barlt, Schleswig-Holstein,
Prussia, arriving on "den Houttuyn," at New
Amsterdam, Aug. 4, 1642. and drew wages
in Rensselaerswyck beginning Aug. 13. 1642;
appears as servant of Michiel Jansen. Jul)',
1644.

Ch.\mbers. — Thomas, a car])enter. first re-
corded at Rensselaerswyck in 1646. as a ma-
son : occupied farm on the Poesten kill ( Troy,
N. Y.). for five years from Nov. i, 1647:
then removed to Esopus : nicknamed Clab-
bordt, or Clapboard.

CiiRi.STi.\AN.si-:x. — Christian, Ijuught a mor-
gen and half of land at Schenectady from
Paulus Janse in 1671, and sold it in 1694.

Ci.AERHOUT. — Pieter, was in Beverwyck in
1659, where he was "voorzanger" in the
church, and died before 1674.

Cl.vesex. — Claes, came from Fleckero.
Norway, arriving at New Amsterdam aboard
"d" Eendracht" ("The Unity"). 1631, and was
a farm-hand on De Laets Is., opposite Albany,
Cysbert Claesen. of Claes, also known as
Ciysbert Claes Jongen, "the boy," a carpenter,
arrived on "Arms of Rensselaerswyck" at New
.Am.sterdam, March 4. 1637; wages first re-
corded at Rensselaerswyck, Apr. 2, 1637. Pie-
ter Claes (or Niclaesj came from Norden,
East b'riesland. on same ship, beginning serv-
ice at Rensselaerswyck Apr. 3, 1637: farmer
at Bethlehem, Albany county; left colony be-
fore June 5, 1649. Tjerck Claes was recorded
at Rensselaerswyck for horse hire beginning
May I, 1657. Tryntie Claes was servant girl
of Director Jan Baptist \'an Rensselaer, 1656.

Cr.AUW. — I'"rans Pieterse (Klauw). was a
car])enter in Beverwyck as early as 1656. and
resided in Kinderhook in 1683.

Clock. — Abraham, carjienter. recorded at
Rensselaerswyck in 1644.

Cmtk. — Capt. Johannes, came from Nu-
remberg to r.cverwyck. about 1656. and was a

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Hl'DSOX AXD MOHAWK X'ALLEYS

trader, owning much land at Xiskayuna. Loo-
nenl>erg; and Albany. He also spelled his
name Cloet. That he had children is un-
known. On his death, his property passed to
his nephew. Johannes Clute, the "boslooper."
This nephew resided in Xiskayuna. and mar-
rier Bata \'an Slechtenhorst. Frederick
Clute came uj) the river from Kingston, about
1703 ; bought land at Niskayuna from
Johannes, and was at Half Moon. X. Y., in
1720. Their relationship is unsettled.

Codes. — Ludovicus, was born in Herentals,
Brabant, and was court messenger in Bever-
■wyck as early as 1656.

CoKYMANS. — Pieter (also spelled Koije-
mans), came from Utrecht. Holland, with his
four sons, .■\rent, Barent, Jacob and Lucas,
and (according to Pearson) was at Rensse-
laerswyck in 1636. According to the V. R.-
Bowier Documents. Barent Pieterse Coeymans
came on "den Harinck" ("The Herring"), ar-
riving at New Amsterdam. July 7, 1639 : re-
corded at Rensselaerswyck, Aug. 14, 1639:
worked four years under Pieter Cornells, the
millwright ; contracted, Oct., 1645, to saw the
boards at the Patroon's mill on the 5th creek ;
leased it May 18, 1648: granted permit Aug.
3, 1656, to erect a third mill thereon ; was
known as Barent de Molenaer : settled, proba-
bly after latter date, on the large tract now
known as village of Coeymans, which he
claimed to have Ixjught from the Catskill In-
dians and which Van Rensselaer disputed ; but
quit-claimed to Coeymans by him in 1706.
which patent was confirmed by Queen Anne.
Aug. 6. 1714. Lucas Pieterse Coeymans was
mentioned in Rensselaerswyck court proceed-
ings, January. 1650, antl styled brother of
Barent Pieterse Coeymans.

Collier. — Michiel (or Caillier). son of Jo-
chem Collier, or Caillier. of Xew Amsterdam,
was born about 1657 ; married Fitje Jurriaense
Van Hoesen. and some of their children (born
between July 17, 1686. and Dec. Ci. T711 ) were
baptised at .Albany.

Collins. — Lieut. John, was both an officer
and an attorney at .Albany, and married Mar-
garita Schuyler there, X'ov. 2, 1701.

Coneel. — John (or Conel). was a .soldier at
Albany in 1666, and bought land from Capt.
Johannes Clute and Harmen Gansevoort at
fatskill. about 1678.

CoNi.NGH. — Thomas, was in Rensselaers-
wyck before October, 1647 • *^old brewhouse,
Feb. 19. 1655. Frank Jacobsen Coningh
rented a garden from Adriaen Janse Appel
at Rensselaerswyck , May i, 1658.

Cow.v. — Leendert (Leonard) Philipse. was
in Beverwyck as early as 1655.

Const.\ble. — Andries Herbertse (Consta-

pel). this surname l)cing his alias (meaning
"the gunner"), came from Blae>. Holland, on
"den Houttuyn," arriving at Xew Amsterdam,
Aug. 4, 1642, where he remained until 1654,
when he removed to Beverwyck, where he
jnirchased half of the island given his name,
opposite Fort Orange, which, after his death
in 1662, was sold to Jeremias Van Ressselaer ;
was engaged fir.st at Rensselaerswyck to do
gardening, cut timber, build fences and work
in grist-mill ; killed Segar Cornelis \'an \'oor-
hout in self-defense in 1662.

C(W)L. — Pieter liarentse. married in .Albany
in 1688.

CooRN. — Xicolaas. F'rof. Pearson may have
reason to .state that he was in Rensselaers-
wyck in 1642: but the \'an Rensselaer-Bowie
Documents set forth the facts that he came
from Holland on ".Arms of Rensselaerswyck."
arriving at Xew Amsterdam in March, 1644,
having been commissioned by Patroon Kiliaen
\'an Rensselaer, Aug. 26. 1643, ^t .Amster-
dam, as commander and "commis" on Rensse-
laerssteyn (also called "Castle") on Beeren
Island, fortified as the southern limit in the
Hudson river of Van Rensselaer's colony, and
because of dispute with Director Pieter Stuy-
vesant, of the Dutch West India Co., fired
on the ship "Good Hope," July i, 1644, be-
cause Skipper Govert Loockermans on sailing
to Xew Amsterdam failed to lower his colors
to \'an Rensselaer's fort; .succeeded Adriaen
\"an der Donck as "sellout" of Rensselaer.s-
wyck in sjiring or summer of 1646, until ar-
rival of \'an Slechtenhorst, March 22. 1648.

Cornells. — .Adriaen, came from Barsinger-
horn. Xo. Holland, sailing from the Texel
on "hct Wapen van Xoorwegen," arriving at
Xew .Amsterdam, Aug. 4. 1638: recorded as
foreman at Rensselaerswyck, May 10, 1638,
and also referred to as Berghoorn and Van
Barsingerwout. Jan Cornelis came from
ITouten, near Utrecht, sailing from the Texel
on "den Waterhondt." June, 1640; recorded
at Rensselaerswyck. September, 1640. Cryn
(Or Ouiryn) Cornelis came from Houten. on
"Arms of Rensselaerswyck." arriving at New
.\nisterdam, March 4 ,1637: recorded at Rens-
selaerswyck, Apr. 20, 1639, as farm-hand in
Greenbush, opposite Albany ; permitted to
erect saw-mill on west side of the Hudson,
north of Beeren Is. Roelof Cornelis. a
brother, came with him, and was a thatcher.
Pieter Cornelis came from Munnickendani,
Xo. Holland, on same shi]j. and being mill-
wright under contract with the Patroon, was
know-n by surname "Meulenmaecker" ; re-
corded in colony May 4, 1637.

C0.STER. — Hendrick (also Costar and Kos-
teri, died at .Albany, 1678, and his son, An-

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HUDSON AND MOHAWK \ALLEYS

thun\-, a baker, married Elizabeth Ten Broeck,
Dec' 15, 1698.

Ckeevk. — Tain (Thomas), had a daughter,
Neeltje, baptised at Albany. June 28, 1684.

Ckiccikr. — Martyn, Jr. (Cruger), son of
Capt. Martyn Cregier (ist Burgomaster of
New Amsterdam and an exemplary magis-
trate who removed to Niskayuna where he
died in 1713). was a public clerk at New
Amsterdam, 1646-61 : removed to .Albany,
about 1685, where he owned lot on east side
of No. Pearl, south of Steuben st. ; married
at Albany. Oct. 11, 1671, Jannetje Hendrickse
\'an Doesburgh, a widow.

Cromwell.— Jacobus (James), had re-
moved from Beverwyck to Schenectady,
where he married Maria Philipse, Sept. 26.
1703-

Ckdox. — Dirck Janse, came from Amster-
dam ; carpenter ; erected a house at Beverwyck
in 1650: appointed magistrate there, in 1655
and in 1658: superintendent of wells in 1660.

Cruvf. — Eldert Gerbertse (Cruijfif or
Kruyf), from Hilversum, in Gooiland, No.
Holland, also known as Eldert de Goijer (or
Goyer), on account of coming from there:
rented more than one sawmill at Rensselaers-
wyck, 1654-1658: leased Pieter Winne's farm,
May I, 1655. for three years: rented mill
(probably at Bethlehem), 1 658-1 671, and Jan
Dircksen, from Bremen, conveyed his Catskill
farm to him, Feb. 20, 1659, for house in Bev-
erwyck.

Crvnkn. — Cornelis. Jr. (Crijiien). came
from Houten. near Utrecht, sailing on "den
Waterhondt," June, 1640 : a mason : con-
structed cellar of Dominie Megajjolensis'
house at Rensselaerswyck. Jan Crynen came
from same place at same time : entered service
of Symon Walichs at Rensselaerswyck, and
probably was son of former.

CuvLER. — Hendrick. born at I fasselt, I'rov-
ince of Overyssel, Holland, where he was liap-
tised .Aug. it. 1637: son of Isebrant and
Evertien Cuyler : settled in Beverwyck in
1664: a tailor and trader: the name derived
from "Keiler." a wild lioar, and signifying a
powerful man.

CuYPER. — Gerrit Janse, arriving origiiiallv
as "Gerrit Jans." came from Haerlem, sail-
ing on "den Waterhondt," June, 1640: was
a cooper, hence was given surname "Cuyper"
or "Kuijper." Evert Janse Cuyper was in
Albany, 1675-1725.

D.\MEN. — Maritje. owned a house and land
at Niskayuna and on Pearl street, in liever-
wyck; married a third iiu^band, Cunu'li^; \'an
Nes, 1664.

Davids.— Chri-toflVl ( Davidts. l)avid>e.
Davidscn). said to be native i>f l'jii,dand and

born in 1616. arrived at New Amsterdam on
"bet Wapen van Noorwegen." Aug. 4, 1638;
aged 22 : traded in tobacco : leased the Dom-
inie's Hoeck (\'an Wie's Point) on west side
of Hudson below Albany. July 22, 1650, where
he was to build his own house, the Patroon
furnishing livestock : married Cornelia De
\'os. of Beverwyck. who died in 1657.

Decker.— Johan ( Deckere, Dekker. De
Deckere). was appointed vice-director and
secretary of New Orange. June 21, 1655; re-
turned to New Amstertlam in 1656.

De Forest. — Hendrick ( De Foreest), came
from Utrecht : owned a bouw^erie on Manhat-
tan Is., and died in 1638: his second son,
Isaac, a brewer, married Sara Du Trieux, or
Truax, at New Amsterdam. June 9. 1641, and
their son, Philip, baptised July 28, 1652, re-
iniived to Beverwyck. where he was a cooper.

Dei-reeze. — Douwe Aukes (De Foreest),
born in 1640. was innkeeper at Schenectady;
killed in massacre there, Feb. 8. 1690, along
with his wife and two children : had married
at .Albany, Feb. 4, 1685. Maria \'iele. widow
of Matth'ys Vrooman.

De G.\rme.\ulx. — Pierre (alias Mlleroy),
known also as "Pieter, the Frenchman," was
in Albany as early as 1665, and marrying
Caatje \"ander Heyden there, had a first child,
Annatje, baptised there. Oct. 15, 1684.

De Goyer. — Tys Evertse, was a planter at
Rensselaerswyck in T664.

Di'. (^RA.VF. — Andries. was a brickmaker in
New Amsterdam in 1661. and his son, follow-
ing same trade, lived in Beverw-yck in 1655, and
was fined 500 guilders for selling liquor to
Indians in 1658: his son. Claes .Andries De
Graaf, born in 1628. settled in Schenectady.

De Groot. — Symon, was employed on de
X'lackte farm at Rensselaersw-yck. as early as
.\pr. 10, 1647.

Die Haex. — Isaac, was a trader in Bever-
wyck, in 1663.

De Hooces. — .Antony, sailed from Amster-
dam. July 23, 1641, on "den Coninck David."
arriving at New Amsterdam, Nov. 29. 1641,
and reached Rensselaerswyck by .Apr. 10.
i'i42; had business management of Rensse-
laerswyck from time of \'an Curler's depart-
ure for Holland, October. 1644, until Van
Slechtcnhorst's arrival, March 22. 1648. and
from then, until his death, about Oct. ii, 1655,
was secretary.

De Hui.TEK.— Jnb.-m. -ailed with his wife,
Johanna De Laet. on the (Irafl ((iraef. or
(iraaf), in May, 1653: obtained lease of farm
north of 5th creek, Rensselaerswyck, March
7. 16^4: member of its court, April. 161^5:
died before August 7. 1^158: also said "he
established a pantile bake.

HUDSON AXD MOHAWK \ ALLEYS

D'Hi.NSSK. — Jacob, was a surgeon, coming
to Beverwyck between 1654 and 1657, from
Fort Casimir on the Delaware ; sued Thomas
Powelson (or Powell), in 1657. for whose
family he agreed to care, for two beavers
($6.40) a year, insisting that only natural
sickness, and not willfully inflicted wounds,
was intended in the yearly contract.

Dk La Gra.nck. — Johannes, a Huguenot
irom La I^oclielle, France, settled in New
.Amsterdam about 1656, and his second .son,
Omie, born there, came to Beverwyck as a
trader in 1665, when he owned lots and also
bought a tract on the Xormans kill from
Johannes Hendrickse X'rooman, in 1686.

Del.\.M().\t. — Jacob, lived in .Albany before
1700., and died there, March 14, 1719, aged
81 years; his son, Jan, moving to Schenectady,
and his son. Marten Jacobse. marrying Lys-
beth \'iele, .Albany, Xovemher 14. 1702, and
removing to Scliagticoke.

Du La\-.\i.. — Capt. Thomas, was a trader in
Xew .Amsterdam and Beverwyck, owning
houses at the latter place in 1668-82.

Di-: La Warde. — Jan. came from .Antwerp
in 1662. settling in Beverwyck; owned land
at Xiskayuna and on an island in the Mohawk
aliDve Schenectady, which he sold in 1698 to
Juris .Aertse \'ander Baast : died at .Albany,
January 28, 1702.

r^E LooPER. — Jacobus Teunise, was in Be-
verwyck in 1657, when he had an affray with
Frans Barentse Pastoor ; he was a constable in
1658.

Deelius. — Godefridus (van Dell), came to
.Albany in 1683, as assistant minister to Do-
minie Schaets, at salary of $360 per annum,
residing northeast corner State and Pearl
streets.

De Maecker. — Pieter, was a house-builder
in lieverwyck ; furnished the iron-work for
thv Dutch church there, in 1657, as his con-
tribution, and returned to .Amsterdam. Hoi.,
i6^(;. authorizing sale i;f his lot in Bever-
wyck.

De Marchal. — U'illem. a trader in Bevcr-
w}ck in 1662.

De Moer. — Philip Philiiisc. married l-'Iiza-
beth Gansevoort at Beverwyck, and his son,
Sander, was baptised there. January 24, 1686.

De Net.er. — Jan, a negro, recorded at Rens-
selaerswyck in 1646; was hangman there, pro-
vided such office existed, as it was known he
performed an execution.

De Pevster. — Johannes, grandson of Abra-
ham De Peyster of New .Amsterdam, was
born there, January 10, 1694; married .Anna
Schuyler, .Albany, 1715, and was Mayor of
Albany in 1729.

De Ridder. — Evert, was schoolmaster at

Beverwvck. and married .Anna \'an Ness in
1688. ■ ■

De \'oe. — Jean, born in New Amsterdam;
removed to Half-Moon, above .Albany, prob-
ably before 1700, marrying Catharina X'ander
W'erken, .\lbany. May n, 1706.

De \'os. — .Andries, arrived at New .Amster-
dam on "den Eyckenb(Jom," .August, 1641 ; a
carpenter; occupied farm at Bethlehem, 1642;
magistrate of Rensselaerswyck court, 1648 ;
owned several lots there. Cornelis De V'os
was in employ of Dutch West India Co. at
Beverwyck, in 1652, and married Dirckje
Pieterse Coeymans, who died, 1665.

De Vries. — Cornelis, appears on Rens.se-
laerswyck records September 28, 165 1. .Ad-
riaen Dirck.se De \ries owned a lot in Bever-
wyck, in 1654.

De V'roome. — Hubert Jansc. owned a lot
on Maiden Lane, next east of iiroadway, .Al-
bany, 1667-77.

De W'axdelaer. — Johannes, a trader who
came from Leyden, Holland ; married Sara
Schepmoes in New .Amsterdam, March 17,
1672, and bought a lot in .Albany from Jan
Tomase, in 1678.

De Wever. — Jan Martense, owned a house
in Beverwyck in 1657; removed to Schodack
in 1664. and bought a farm at Kinderhook,
in 1 67 1.

De Winter. — liastiaen, came froiii Middle-
burgh. Holland ; had house in .Schenectady in
1662, which he sold in 1670. and in 1678, the
Dutch church claimed his property, he being
dead.

Dk Witt.— Tjerck Clacssen, son of Xico-
laas De Witt, came from Zundcrland, Hol-
land; married at New .Amsterdam, April 24,
1656, Barbara .Andriese from Am.sterdam ;
had house and lot in Beverwyck, which he
sold in 1666.

DiNG.MAN. — .Adam, was born in Harlem,
Holland, and was residing in (Ircenbusli, op-
posite .Albany, in 1663; bouglit a farm at
Kinderhook. 1677.

DiRCK.sEN. — Jan. came from .Amcrsfoort,
I'treclit. sailing from the Texel. Holland, on
■■hot Wapen van Xoorwegen," arriving at
New .Amsterdam, .August 4, 1638: began serv-
ice as farm laborer at Rensselaerswyck, Aug.
16, 1638. Jan Dircks, or Dircksen, came from
Bremen, Ger., arriving on ".Arms of Rensse-
laerswyck," at New .Amsterdam. March, 1644;
commissioned skipper of colony's yacht,
"Rensselaerswyck,'" .Aug. 25, 1643; occupied
a farm at Bethlehem, Sept. 14, 1648; removed
to Catskill, in 165 1 : returned to Beverwyck,
in 1659. The name the same as Dickson.

Dorw. — \'olckert Jansen, was driven from
his home in Leeuwardcn, Holland, by reason

HUDSON AND MOHAWK \ ALLEYS

of religious persecutions. I'rof. Pearson prob-
ably had reason to state that he was residing
in Bevervvyck in 1638, as did S. V. Talcott,
in his book ; but since then the \'an Rensse-
laer-Bowier Documents have shown definitely
that he arrived on "den Coninck David" at
New Amsterdam, Nov. 29, 1641, when entered
as "Volckert Hansen" ; his name first men-
tioned at Rensselaerswyck, Apr. 27, 1642 ; in
harvest of 1647, was employed on the Vlackte
farm ; charged with ground rent for "house on
hill" at Beverwyck. built by him. 1649 to 1652:
leased Papscanee Is., opposite lower part of
.Albany, from May i, 1653 to May i, 1658,
which he bought the latter year, with Jan
Tomase, for 950 beavers : had patent for land
at Schodack, Nov. 3, 1663 from Pieter Stuy-
vesant ; owned a brewery at northeast corner
Broadway and State street, Beverwyck, which
he sold to Harmen Rutgers in 1675. Jan
Andriese Douw, relationship to former un-
known, bought a house in Beverwyck in 1678.
and removed to New Amsterdam in 1690.

DoxiE. — Samuel, born on Long Island ; re-
sided some time in Schaghticoke, and married
I'.arbara Janse Goewey, Albany, Sept. i, 1669;
their children baptised in Albany.

DoYSE.x. — Egbert, servant of Sander Leen-
dertse Glen, was mentioned in Rensselaers-
wyck court records, Apr. 3, 1649.

Dret. — Jan, came from Utrecht : married
Ryckie Van Dyck at New Amsterdam, Nov.
I. 1654, and soon after removed to Bever-
wyck, where he dealt in property and died
there. May, 1669.

Drie.s. — Hendrick (Driesen, or Andriesen),
came from Doesburch, Gelderland, arriving at
New Amsterdam on "den Houttuyn," Aug.
4, 1642; aged 21 ; a])pears in Rcii-'-^elacrswyck
until 1 65 1.

Dui.i.EMAN. — Jan liarentse, son of Barent
Barentse Van Ernst, was a baker from Zwoll,
Holland, and was in Beverwyck in 1661.

Du MoREE. — Pieter. owned land near Kin-
derhook in 1676.

DuNB.\R. — John, was jjrdljahly in Albany
before 1700, for in 1714 he was associated
with Rev. Thomas Barclay in building St.
Peter's Episcojial church there: but in 1730,
removed to Sclienectady, and died in 1736.

DvcK.MAN.^ — Jan, came to New Amsterdam
in 165 1, as bookkeeper, and to Beverwyck
in 1654, as "commis," and died in 1672; his
son, Johannes, was of Benthem, Holland ;
married Magdalcna Tourneurs, New Amster-
dam, June 15, 1673, and their son, Johannes,
was baptised in Albany, May 11, 1690.

Eencluvs. — Hans Jansen, came from Rot-
terdam, arriving at New Amsterdam, in 1639,
and at Rensselaerswyck as early as 164 1, when

emplo}ed in cleaning cannon; interpreter in
1650: operated sawmill for Evert Pels in 1651,
and had permit, Nov. 3. 1651, to erect saw-
mill on west side of tlie Hudson, north of
Becren Island.

Eguert.se. — Barent, son of Egbert Teunise
de Metselaer; married Maria De Garmeau,
Albany, August 26, 1704, where their cliildren
were born.

Eg.moxt. — Jacob Clae.-e. had a son, Nico-
laas, baptised at Beverwyck, April 13, 1684,
and Jacob, December 27, 1685.

Ellis. — Frederick, had a son, Nathaniel,
baptised at Albany, Sept. 25, 1687.

ItLBEKTSEN. — R e y e r, from Breuckelen,
Utrecht, and his wife, ]\laritje Baerentse,
were recorded at Rensselaerswyck. Sept. 25,
1651, when leasing land between the 3rd and
4tli creeks. Lucas Elbertsen recorded at
Rensselaerswyck, May 29, 1643.

Elmenixjrf. — Coenraad (ConraedtJ, mar-
ried Ariaantje Gerritse, widow of Cornelis
Martense Van Buren, at Albany, June 28,
1693.

EssELSTEVx. — Marten Lornclisc, horn at
Ysselsteyn, Holland, was one of the first set-
tlers of Schenectady, and on Oct. 23, 1668,
sold his bouwerie to Claas Frederickse Van
Petten and Cornelis \iele, removing to Cla-
verack, where he died before 1705.

Enertsen. — Jan, was a master shoemaker
at Bevervvyck in 1661. l\s Evertsen testified
at Rensselaerswyck Jan. 12, 1651. Dirck Ever-
tsen had children baptised at New Amsterdam
as early as Aug. 31, 1664, and at Albany,
l'"cb. 24, 1684. Janse Evert, possibly .son of
last named, had a house in Albany, in 1706.

Kaireax. — Thomas, an Englishman, em-
ployed as a mason at Rensselaerswyck by
Christoflfel Davidsen, in 1649.

Ferlvn. — Jasper (Farlin), from Middle-
burgh, Province of Zealand, arrived on
"d'Eendracht" ("The Unity"), which sailed
from the Texel .soon after July 7, 1631 ; en-
tered service of Marinus Adriaen^en as to-
bacco-planter, for three years.

b'lXE. — John, a cooper, came "van Water-
fort in Yrlandt" : married Jopje Claase Van
Slyck, June 4, 1696, and their first child, Wil-
lem, was baptised in .Albany, Feb. 13, 1698.

I'Onda. — Gillis (Jillis, Jellis, or Jellice), was
probably at Rensselaerswyck about 1646, when
Pieter Hartgers advanced money to a lad
named Gillis, working for Antony de Hooges,
and Oct. 19. 1651, Gillis Fonda was given
permit to distill in Greenbush, next to Evert
Pels' house; later spoken of as Gillis Douwes
Fonda: probably a Fresian : his wife, Hester,
sued in 1666 for removing neigIil)or's petti-
coat from fence.

HUDSON AND MOHAWK \AIJ.KYS

Fort. — Jan, resided at Rensselaerswyck,
and when a widower, married Maria Grande,
Xew Amsterdam. Nov. 24, 1641.

F"ki:di;rickseni.— Hendrick, from Bunnick,
near Utrecht, arrived on "den Soutbertr," in
April, 1633; aged 26 years: thatcher of roofs.
Carsten Frcderickse van Iveren, or Yveren,
had a brother, Myndert (the family taking the
name Mynderse ) living in Albany, and he
made a will with his wife, Trynljc Warner,
July I, 1689.

G.McxEN". — Francois, married .\riaantje
Janse, at Albany. June 3. 1688.

Gaxsevoort. — Harmen llarmense. was in
Beverwyck as early as 1660: bought a lot at
southeast corner of Broadway and Maiden
Lane, in 1677, from Paulns Martense Van
Benthuysen, where he conducted a brewery.

Gardenier. — Jacob Janse, came from Kam-
pen. Ovenvssel, Holland, on "den Harinck"
("The Herring"), arriving at New Amster-
dam, March 28, 1638; a carpenter; had saw
and grist-mill at Greenbush, opposite Albany,
in 1647. snd leased mill at Bethlehem, Feb.
2. 1654: alias "Flodder." His son, Albert
Jacobse, carpenter in Beverwyck in 1677.
Hendrick Jacobse Gardenier had son, Hen-
drick, born Albany, Aug. 18. 1686,

Gerritsex. — The following bore the sur-
name Gerritsen, Gerritse, or Gerrits, signi-
fying that the father was named Gerrit. It
is possible that each had his alias, such as
"van Utrecht" : "but they did not so appear on
the records. Albert Gerritsen, a carpenter,
was granted a lot north of Laurens Jansen's
house in Rensselaerswyck. Nov. 7. 165 1.
Barent Gerritsen worked on a farm called
"de Vlackte," about 1646. Claes Gerrits came
from Schoonrewoerd, So. Holland, sailing on
"den Waterhondt," June, 1640: recorded at
Rensselaerswyck, Sept. 24, 1640, as farm la-
borer. Goossen (or Goosen) Gerrits came
from Westbroeck, Utrecht, on "Arms of
Rensselaerswyck," arriving at New Amster-
dam, March 4, 1637; wages began at Rensse-
laerswyck, Apr. 8. 1637: became magistrate
there, Nov. 19, 1648: became a tapster. July
18, 1650, and about July 19, 1659, was a tan-
ner. Jan Gerritsen arrived on "Arms of Rens-
selaerswyck," at New Amsterdam, March,
1644; a carpenter: recorded at Rensselaers-
wyck, March 26. 1644. Reyer Gerritse mar-
ried widow of Gerrit \'an Schaick at Bever-
wyck, and in 1653. -had patent for land on
the Vossenkill, south to Columbia St.. and
from Broadway to No. Pearl St., .-Mbany.
Wolfert Gerritsen came from Amersfoort, or
from Couwenhoven, four miles northwest,
Province of Utrecht ; engaged by Patroon
\an Rensselaer to superintend establishing of

farms: hut in 1632 was released from con-
tract, and went to New Amsterdam.

Gekhertsen. — Elbert, born at Hilversum,
in Gooiland, Holland: was a sawyer; married
Tryntje Janse, widow of Jan Janse Ryck-
man. at Beverwyck. and they made a joint
will, in 1663.

(iiLBERT. — John, was a baker at Beverwyck,
who married Cornelia Van den Bergh, and
had a daughter, Maria, who was baptised
there. May 24. 1685; he died May 11, 1707.

Gilbertsen. — Claes, believed to have sailed
from the Texel on "het Wapen van Noorwe-
gen." arriving at New Amsterdam, Aug. 4,
1638; served for Michiel Jans, at Rensselaers-
wyck, in 1 64 1.

Glen. — Sander Leendertse, sailed from the
Texel on "den Harinck," ("The Herring"),
May. 1639, arriving at New .Amsterdam, July
7. 1639. 3nd located as Rensselaerswyck, en-
gaging in transportation of colonists by yachts,
according to translation of papers of Patroon
K. Van Rensselaer : but according to Prof.
Pearson, he was in the employ of Dutch West
India Co.. at Fort Nassau (Albany), in 1633,
receiving a grant in 1651 ; and in 1665, he ob-
tained a patent in Schenectady, which land
along the Mohawk, opposite that place, he
named Nova Scotia, as his family was origi-
nally from Holland, known as Alexander
(hence Xander, or Sander) before removing
to Holland to escape religious persecution.
His became the most important family there,
with descendants residing in the same place
in 1910.

GoYER. — Claes .\ndriesen (or Goijer),
came from Hilversum, North Holland, arriv-
ing on ".Arms of Rensselaerswyck," at New
Amsterdam, March, 1644: was servant of Jan
Harentse Wemp (or Webb), at Rensselaers-
wyck, March. 1650: surname applied after
arrival, as he came from locality of Gooi, or
Gooiland.

Goes. — Matthys Janse (or Hoes), was in
Beverwyck in 1661, and his son, Jan Tysse,
removed to Kinderhook.

GoYVERSENi. — Jacob, came from Fleckero,
Norway, arriving on "d'Eendracht" ("The
Unity"), May 24. 1630.

GoEWEV. — Salomon .Xbelse, born in Amster-
dam, was a carpenter at Beverwyck, and had
sons. Jacob and Jan. living there in 1668.

(iRASMEER. — Wilhelmus, son-in-law of Do-
minie Megapolensis, pastor of the Dutch
church in Rensselaerswyck, sailed from Hol-
land shortly after Apr. ifi, 1650. and preached
in the Patroon's colony in 1650 ; returned to
Holland, November. 1651.

Gr.\uw. — Leendert .Arentse, had a child,
Gysl)crtje, bajitiscd in .Mbany, May 19. 1689.

HUDSON AXD MOHAWK \ALLEYS

Greveraad. — Henricus. of New Amster-
dam, married Sara Sanders at Albany, May
4, 1686, and their child, Lysbeth, baptised
there, Dec. 25. 1686; but later ones in New
York City.

Groexendvck. — Johannes, son of Pieter, of
New Amsterdam, and baptised there. March
24, 1675 : but came to Albany, where he was
sheriff in 1698 ; married Delia Cuyler, daugh-
ter of Hendrick Cuyler, of Albany, the pro-
genitor of that family, Sept. 19, 1694.

Groenwout. — Juriaen Janse, was in Be-
verwyck in 1662, where he was a licensed
butcher in 1670, and bought land.

Groesbeck. — Nicolaas Jacobse, came from
Rotterdam, Holland, and in 1662, was a car-
penter of Beverwyck, with house on west
side of Pearl, the second north of Maiden
Lane.

Groot. — Synion Symonse, was in employ
of Dutch West India Co. at Beverwyck in
1654, and became one of first settlers of
Schenectady.

Gysbertsen. — Lubbert, came from Blari-
cum, near Naarden, Province of North Hol-
land, sailing with wife, Divertgen Cornelise,
and three sons, Gy.sbert, Theus and Jan, on
"d'Eendracht"' ("The Unity"). May, 1634:
wheelwright, under contract with Patroon K.
Van Rensselaer.

H ALEX BECK. — Caspar Jacobse, was in Be-
verwyck in 1654, and died there about August,
1703, leaving sons Isaac and Jan.

Hansen. — Capt. "Hans" (Johannes), came
to Beverwyck as trader ; married Eva Gillise
there, Apr. 26, 1643; resided on east side
Broadway, not far south of Maiden Lane,
and was dead in 1697; his son, Hendrick, mar-
ried Debora Van Dam at Beverwyck. Sept.
21, 1692, and was Mayor of Albany, 1698-99.
Volckert Hansen (or Jansen), see Douw. as
he was later called.

Hardenbercii. — Gerrit Janse (Hertten-
berch), was in Beverwyck as early as 1677,
and in 1690 owned a sloop, "Royal Albany."

Harding. — Frank, resided at Claverack :
married Catrine Jansen Van Hoesen, and
their daughter, Gertrude, was ba])tised Jan.
17, 1692.

Harmensen. — Robert, arrived on "Arms of
Rensselaerswyck" at New Amsterdam, March
4, 1637, and his account in Rensselaerswyck
began Apr. 17, 1637 ; employed by Gerrit de
Reux in splitting wood, thatching and grind-
ing. Marten Harmensen was in Rensselaers-
wyck as early as Jan. 12, 1651 : possibly the
same as Marten de Metsclaer, or a mason,
as early as May 25, 1647.

Harris. — Jan, born in England : married
L\sbet Claese, and their first child, Maria,

was baptised at Beverwyck, Nov. 22, 1685,
as were many others of their children.

Hartgers. — Pieter (Hartgerts, Hartgars,
Hartgras, Hertgers), recorded at Rensselaers-
wyck Nov. I. 1644; had a brewery in 1646;
joint lessee of Papscanee Lsland, near Al-
bany, 1653; was a magistrate; married Sytje
Roeloffse, daughter of Anneke Jans.

Heemstraat. — Takel Dirckse (van Heem-
straaten), had a son, Dirck Takelse, of Half-
Moon, north of Albany, who married Claartje
Quackenbos. .Albany, Nov. 3, 1700.

Helmes. — Jan (Helms, Helmsen, Helmes-
sen, Helmichsen), came from Barlt, Schles-
wig-Holstein, Prussia, arriving on "den Hout-
tuyn," at New Amsterdam, .\ug. 4, 1642;
drew wages at Rensselaerswyck, Aug. 13,
1642: rented farm at Bethlehem, Albanv co.,
1650-58.

He.n'dricksen. — .\ndries. liorii at Otmars,
in Twent : resided in Kinderhook, and made
will Jan. 5. 1681. Dirck Hendricksen came
from Hilversum. North Holland, arriving on
the ".Arms of Rensselaerswyck," at New Am-
sterdam, March, 1644: also known as Dirck
Goi jer, or (ioyer : went to Rensselaerswyck
as farm laborer, and removed to Catskill in
1652. Gerrit Hendricksen came from Ny-
kerck, Gelderland, sailing on "den Calmer
.Sleutel" from the Texel, December, 1637 ;
aged 15 then; shoemaker; recorded at Rens-
selaerswyck, .Apr. 2, 1641. Hendrick Hen-
dricksen (van Ilarstenhorst) -was a baker at
Beverwyck in 1656. and was dead Sept. 23.
1662. ATarten Hendricksen came from Ham-
elwoerden, Hanover, on "den Harinck" ("The
Herring"), arriving at New Amsterdam, July
7, 1639; recorded at Rensselaerswyck, Aug.
[4. 1639. as farm hand under Michiel Jans,
and had interest in brewery at Greenbush with
Evert Pels, in 165 1 ; may be same as Marten
Hendricksc N'erbeeck. Pieter Hendricksen
came on "d'Eendracht" ("The Unity"), in
1630, from Soest, either in Province of
Utrecht or in W^estphalia ; engaged in that
year as shepherd or plowboy, to serve four
years. Rutger Hendricksen came from same
place at same time, was a farmer on Castle
Island, south of Albany city ; appointed schout
in 1632; but did not qualify. Robbert Hen-
dricksen sailed on "The Unity" from the
Texel, May, 1634, engaged in furnishing
stockade posts for the farm on Castle Island.

Henvpot.- — Symon Jans, came from Mun-
nickendam, sailing on "het Wapen van Noor-
wegen," arriving at New Amsterdam, Aug.
4, 1638; in Rensselaerswyck in 1639.

Hessei.ingh. — Dirck. was in .Albany in
1666. subsequently in Schenectady, where he
lionght a bouweric in 1 671 froin Juriaen Teun-

HUDSON AXD .MOHAWK XAI.Ll'.VS

ise Tappen, which he sold next year to Har-
ineii \ etlder, and bought land at Lubberde's
land, or Troy, N. V.

Hevick. — Jacob, born in Mecklenburg ; was
employed on de X'lackte farm beginning with
1646: rented bouse and garden opposite Cas-
tle Island, March 3, 1649-1655, and in com-
pany with Reyndert Pieterse bought Pieter
Bronck's house, lot and brewery in 1666. The
name was also spelled "Hevingh."

HiGOiNS. — Thomas (Higgens, Higges. Hcg-
gens, alias Compeer), worked on de Vlackte
farm at Rensselaerswyck in 1647, in employ
of Thomas Chambers ; removed to Catskill
about 1650.

HiLTEN. — W'illem (or Hilton 1, married
Anna Berkhoven at Reverwyck, Apr. 6, 1693.
The progenitor of the Hilton family in Amer-
ica was probably Edward Hilton, who left
Durham, Eng., settling at Dover, N. H., 1623.

HoFFM.vN'. — Marten, was a saddler from
Revel : married a second wife. Emmerentje
De Witte, of Emberland. in New Amsterdam,
May 16, 1664. although resident of Bever-
wyck, 1662-76.

HoFFMEYER. — Willem,was fined 500 guilders
in 1656 for transporting beer from New Am-
sterdam to Reverwyck and selling it to In-
dians ; had to remove to latter place in 1657.

Holland. — Capt. Henry, was probably in
Albany before 1700, for he married Jenny
Sehly, and their child, Mary, was baptised
there, Feb. 9, 1701, he residing on west cor-
ner of Rroadway and Beaver St., 1713-17, and
commanding the garrison at Albany in 1732.
His son, Edward, was i8th Mayor of Albany.
Oct. 24, 1733 — Oct. 30, 1740, appointed by
Gov. Crosby.

HoND. — Willem (or Hunt), was born in
London. Eng. : married Gertrude Gerritse \"an
Schoonhoven at Albany, Oct. 27. 1700, and
their four children were born there.

HoNDECOUTRE. — Daniel, came to Beverwyck
from New Amsterdam as a trader, living
there 1661-73.

HooGEP.ooM. — Cornelis Pieterse. a tile and
brick-baker, came to New .Amsterdam in 1636:
had a son living in Beverwyck in i''>57, and
went there himself in 1660.

HooGiiKERKE. — Lucas Lucasc, married at
Beverwyck (first) Hendrickje Janse. Feb. 10,
1686; (second) Judik ^farselis, at .\lbany,
Nov. 23, 1692.

HooGHTEELiNG. — Matthys, was in Bever-
wyck in 1676, then aged 32 years ; died there
in 1706, and his son, Coenraad, married
Tryntjc \\'illemse Van Slyck there, in 1688.

Hrx. — Harmen Tomase, was the son of
Tomas Hun, and came to Beverwyck, from
.Amersfoort, Holland, in 1661 ; married at Be-

verwxck. in 1661. Catalyntje Berck (or Bercx)
who was born in 1625. and died at .\lbany,
.\pril 14, ifKj3. while he was living there as
late as 1703. Their son, Thomas Harmense,
was born at .Albany, Oct. 2, 1668, and married
.Mayeke Oothout. .Albany, Nov. 20. 1692.
They had four children, born in .Albany up
to June 9, 1700, hence three generations at
.Xlbany previous to year 1700.

Hint. — Willem. same as Willem Hond.

HuviiERTSEN. — Adriaen, arrived on the
".Arms of Rensselaerswyck," at New .Amster-
dam, March 4, 1637, and is credited in Rens-
selaerswyck, .Apr. 8, 1637 ; worked for Cor-
nelis Teunise ; rented farm irom Rutger
Jacobs, on 5th creek, in 1652. Jan Huybert-
sen arrived on the ".Arms of Rensselaers-
wyck," at New .Amsterdam, March, 1644. and
was a tailor at Rensselaerswyck.

HiYCK. — .Andries Hansc (or Huyk or
Huygh). resided in Kinderhook before 1700,
probably previously at .Albany, as in his old
age he made his will, .Aug. 23. 1705 ; his sec-
ond son, Lambert, resided in .Albany, where he
married .Anna Ratcliffe (Radcliiif), .Aug. 28,
1707.

J.xcoBSEx. — .Aert, occupied a farm at Beth-
lehem, Albany co., as early as 1648; then
leased one in Greenbush, opposite .Albany,
north of that of Cornelis Hendricksen Van
Nes; removed to Esopus. about 1661. Caspar
Jacobsen obtained lease of house-lot at Rens-
selaerswyck in 165 1. Cornelis Jacobsen came
from Martensdyck, near Utrecht, engaged as
farm laborer for Rutger Hendricksen, on
Rensselaers Burg. Frans Jacobsen testified
at Rensselaerswyck in 1649 to being 17 years
old. and may have been De Bruyn. Jan Ja-
colxsen sailed from the Texel on "d'Eendracht"
("The Unity"), May, 1634, and was farm
hand under Brant Peelen on Castle Island.
Nijs Jacobsen sailed from the Texel on "den
Waterhondt," June, 1640; began service at
Rensselaerswyck, Sept. 4, 1640. Rutger Ja-
cobsen came from Schoonrewoerd (commonly
written in records "Schoonderwoert," from
which the name in .Albany, "\'an Woert")
South Holland, arriving on the ".Arms of
Rensselaerswyck," at New .Amsterdam, March
4, 1637: began service in Rensselaerswyck,
Apr. 8, 1637. on farm of Cornelis Tennis;
engaged as foreman on the Great Flat, Feb.
9. 1643 : lessee of farm on the 5th Creek from
Jan. I, 1645, and rented sawmill thereon in
1654: owned a yacht about 1648: authorized
to brew beer in 1650. Tennis Jacobsen came
from Hamersvelt, Utrecht, when 20 years old,
contracting with Jercmias Van Rensselaer, at
.Amsterdam, June 14. i^.s6. to sail on "the
Cotter," to do' farm work at Rensselaerswyck.

HUDSON AND MOHAWK \ALLEYS

Jansen. — This name is equivalent to John-
son, or "son of John." It appears written
"Ian" with any sort of a fanciful pen scroll fol-
lowing the last letter, in order to indicate
"Jan, son of Jan," and simply another form
of Johannes, or contraction of it. It is tliere-
fore possible to write out this scroll, indica-
tive of possession, as Jans, Janse, or Jansen.
It may be more clearly understood by remem-
bering that the English, in olden times, wrote
"John his book," which became after a while
the custom to write "John's book." Doubt-
less many have desired to know in what form
to write the name which has often appeared
as "Anneke Jansen," so as to follow her own
form ; but one could simply write "Ian" or
"Jan," and follow it with a flourish. The
following names appear variously as Jans,
Janse and Jansen on the old records ; but it
would be correct to treat them all as "Jan-
sen." In any event, it would merely depend
on which particular signature is selected, for
the same man wrote it differently at various
times. Adriaen Jansen was schoolmaster, ap-
pears recorded at Beverwyck, Nov. 23, 165 1 ;
still so employed in 1657, and possibly was
same as Adriaen Jansen Croon. .A.driaen Jan-
sen came from Leyden, alias "Appel" ; was
in Rensselaerswyck as early as 1649: bought
house and brewery, Feb. 19. 1655; tavern-
keeper in 1656. Albert Jansen came from
Amsterdam, arriving on "den Houttuyn," at
New Amsterdam, Aug. 4, 1642: carpenter;
recorded at Rensselaerswyck that year as
building a house for Dominie Megapolensis.
.\ntony Jansen was court-messenger of Bever-
wyck in 1662 : innkeeper at Beverwyck, 1662-68.
Arent Jansen was a master carpenter, in em-
ploy of Dutch West India Co. at Fort Orange
in 164T, and bought .southeast corner Broad-
way and Maiden Lane, in 1667. Barent Jan-
sen came on "d'Eendracht" ("The Unity"),
in T630, on the sailing list as from De.sens,
in another place as from Esen, to be farmer
for Brant Peelen. Broer Jansen had a child,
Heyltjc, baptised at Beverwyck, A])r. 19, 1685.
Claes Jansen came from Waelwyck, North
P.rabant, arriving on "den Houttuyn," at New
.Amsterdam, Aug. 4, 1642, and was in Rens-
selaerswyck until 1649. Claes Jansen came
from Breda, North Brabant, arriving on "den
Houttuyn." at New .Amsterdam, Aug. 4, 1642 ;
recorded then as a boy in service of Adriaen
Van der Donck at Rensselaerswyck. Claes
Jansen came from Nykerck. Gelderland, sail-
ing from Texel, Holland, December, 1637,
then aged 17; a tailor, at Rensselaerswyck.
Claes lansen came from Bockhoven, North
Brabant, also mentioned as Claes de Brae-
bander; appeared at the Rensselaerswyck

court in 1 65 1. Cornelis Jansen was first re-
corded in Rensselaerswyck, Sept. 9, 1648.
Dirck Jansen came from Edam, North Hol-
land, on the "Arms of Rensselaerswyck,"
arriving at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637,
and was charged on accounts at Rensselaers-
wyck, May 9, 1637; chosen member of the
council of the colony the same year ; was de-
ceased May 29, 1643. Evert jansen, tailor,
was at New Amsterdam as early as February,
1643; granted permission to reside at Rensse-
laerswyck, Oct. 13, 1648, provided he build
house and obtained a lot, Nov. 7, 1651. Ger-
rit Jansen married Maritje Louys (or Lewis),
and had daughter, Antje, baptised at Albany,
Feb. 12, 1693. Jacob Jansen came from Am-
sterdam on the "Arms of Rensselaerswyck,"
arriving at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637;
carpenter ; charged on accounts at Rensse-
laerswyck, Apr. 2, 1637; employed by Arent
Van Curler in 1641, to do copying. Jacob
Jansen came from Nordstrand, island off
.Schleswig, arriving on "den Houttuyn," at
New Amsterdam, Aug. 4, 1642, and was em-
ployed at Rensselaerswyck that year, by Cor-
nelis Hendrickse \'an Nes. Jacob Jansen
came from Stoutenburch, Utrecht; recorded
in Rensselaerswyck as farmer on de Vlackte,
June 18, .1648. Jacobus (same as James)
Jansen was living in Greenbush, opposite Al-
bany, in 1663. Laurens Jansen lived, with his
wife, Styntje Pieterse, on a farm on the 5th
creek at Rensselaerswyck. January, 1650.
Marten Jansen married Jannetje Mingael and
had a daughter, Maritje, born at Beverwyck,
Dec. 27, 1685. Marten Jansen married Jan
netje Cornelise and had a daughter, Maritje,
baptised at Beverwyck, Feb. i, 1685. Michiel
Jansen came from .Schrabbekercke, Zealand,
sailing from the Texel, Holland, arriving at
New Amsterdam, Aug. 4, 1638 ; foreman of
farmers at Rensselaerswyck in that year.
Paulus Jansen came from Geerlruydenbergh,
North Brabant, arriving on "den Houttuyn,"
at New Amsterdam, Aug. 4, 1642; wages
began as "young man," at Rensselaerswyck.
.Aug. 13, 1642. Paulus Jansen came from
Hoorn. North Holland, also known at Pieter
Jansen de Boer and Pieter de Boer, or farm-
er; first recorded at Rensselaerswyck, Dec. 17,
1648. Paulus Jansen came from Corinchen,
South Holland; testified at Rensselaerswyck,
Jan. 20, 165 1, as to witnessing event there
in 1649. Remmer Jansen came from Jever,
Oldenburg, a smith, at New .Amsterdam in
1638; on Long Island in 1643; leased garden
at Rensselaerswyck, May, 1650. Roelof Jan-
sen came on ship "d'Eendracht" ("The
LTnity"), arriving at New .Amsterdam, May
24, 1630, from Mastcrland (Marstrand, on

HUDSON AND MOHAWK \ ALLEYS

coast of Sweden ) in coin]iany with his wife,
Annetje Jans, also with his daughters, Sara
and Trijntje (or Tryntje ) and another child ;
was a farmer on de Laets Burg, near Albany
and was apix)inted "schepen," July i, 1632.
Steven Jansen was a master carpenter, coming
from New Amsterdam to Rensselaerswyck,
July. 1649. Tomas Jansen came from Bun-
nick, near Utrecht, on the "Arms of Rensse-
laerswyck," arriving at New Amsterdam,
March 4, 1637: farm hand; began service at
Rensselaerswyck, Apr. 8, 1637; occupied a
farm there from May i, 1646: rented farm
on east side of the Hudson, from Mav i,

1655.

JoCHEMSE. — Hendrick, was in Rensselaers-
wyck, 1654-69 ; lieutenant of the Burgher
Company ; had lot northeast corner Broaclway
and State st.

JoNASEN. — Jacob, recorded in Rensselaers-
wyck, June 12, 1643.

Kalf. — Claes, was in Rensselaerswyck
about 1647. and was son-in-law of Brant
Peelen, who operated a farm on Castle Island,
below Albany.

Keiler. — (Cuijler), see Cuyler.

Kettel. — Jochem (Kettelhuyn, Kettelheym.
Kettelheun, Kuttelheym), came from Cremyn
(or Kremmin), near Stettin. Pomerania, ar-
riving on "den Houttuyn," at New Amster-
dam, Aug. 4, 1642; began service as farmer
in Rensselaerswyck under Andries de Vos,
Aug. 13. 1642, and from Sept. 20, 1646, to
Apr. 20, 1648, was employed on de Vlackte
farm ; took over part of lease of farm of Evert
Pels, in Greenbush, Jan. 14, 1649: also had
lot on west corner Broadway and Maiden
Lane, Albany.

Kidney. — Jan (Cittene), came from Bar-
bados: married Maritje Roeloffse van den
Werke, May i, 1698, and had son, Roeloff,
baptised at Albany, June 7, 1700.

Kip. — Abraham, married Geesie Van der
Heyden. .-Mbany. Oct. 16, 1687: resided south
corner of Maiden Lane and North Pearl st.

Ki^\uw. — Frans Pieterse ; see Clauw.

Klevx. — Elderick, was in Beverwyck, with
wife, in 1657; town herder of cattle, 1667-69.
Johannes Kleyn resided in Schenectady ; mar-
ried daughter of Ludovicus Cobes, and had
child, Wevntje. baptised at Albany, Jan. 23,
1684.

Kr.oMP. — Jacob Symonsen, took oath of
fealty to the Patroon, at Rensselaerswyck,
Nov. 28, 165 1, and rented a lot next to Ste-
ven Jansen'?, Feb. i, 1652.

KNicKERBACKER.^Wouter. resided in Al-
bany, where he married Elizabeth Fonda, Jan.
9. 1735, and died at Saratoga (now Schuyler-
ville), N. Y., Aug. 8, 1797, aged nearly 95

years. 'Die name, signifying baker of marbles
or small clay toys, was later more commonly
written Knickerbocker.

Knikkelhakker. — Harmen Janse, came
from Wye : married Lysbeth Janse Bogart,
and had children baptised in Albany: Cornelis,
Sept. 2, 1688 ; Cornelis, Jan, 6, 1692 ; Cornelia,
July 21, 1695: Evert, Sept. 3, 1699; Pieter,
Apr. 19, 1702.

Koijemans. — Barent Pieterse : see Coey-
mans.

Koorenheurs. — Jacob, had a daughter,
Catalyntje, baptised in Albany, Aug. 26, 1683.

Koster. — Hendrick ; see Coster.

KooRN. — Nicolaas; see Coorn.

KuiTPER. — Gerrit Janse; see Cuyper.

KuvPER. — Evert Janse, was in Willemstadt
(Albany), 1675-1725.

Lahatie. — Jean, also known on records as
Jan Labaddie), was a native of France and
consequently his name was sometimes written
■'Jolian Labatie fransman" ; arrived on the
■■.\rms of Rensselaerswyck," at New Amster-
dam, March 4, 1637; journeyman carpenter;
Ijegan service at Rensselaerswyck, Apr. 2,
1637, for the Patroon; received permission,
June 15, 1647. from West India Co., to erect
a house in Fort Orange, and to brew therein ;
was referred to as being in charge of the fort,
in 1649 ; married Jillesje (or Jellice) Claes
Swits, of Schenectady.

Lambertsen. — Cornelis, came from Doom,
near Utrecht, Holland, arriving on "den Hout-
tuyn," at New Amsterdam, Aug. 4, 1642 ; but
although he sailed with Dominie Megapolen-
sis, with e.xpectation of continuing to Rensse-
laerswyck, his name does not appear in the
colony, and probably remained in Manhattan.

L.^N.siNC. — Gerrit Frederickse (Lansingh,
Lansinck). was son of Frederick Lansing,
came from Hassel, near Zwoll. Province of
Overyssel, Holland, to New .'\mstcrdam, with
his three sons and three daughters, and prob-
ably settled in Rensselaerswyck about 1650.
Gerritt F. Lansing was probably dead before
Oct. 3, 1679, when his children executed a
joint conveyance. Gerrit, the oldest child,
was a baker, and had nine children, living in
.Albany, the last of whom was baptised Jan.
20. 1689.

Lassinc. — Pieter Pieterse (Lassingh), ran
away from his master, Volckert Janse Douw,
in 1659, to Hartford, Conn. ; purchased a
brewery of Harmen Rutgers at northeast cor-
ner Broadway and State St., Albany, in 1675,
in company with Goosen Gerritse Van
.Schaick : was at Esopus in 1685 ; his son,
Pieter, born in Albany, married there, Cor-
nelia Rees, of Claverack, Oct. 28. 1704.

Laurensen. — Laurens (Laurence), came

HUDSON" AXD MOHAWK VALLEYS

from Copenhagen on "d'Eendracht" ('"The
Unity"), sailing in July, 1531: engaged to
erect a sawmill at Rensselaerswyck.

Leendertsex.^ — Willem, was referred to as
"Willem leenertsz geelgieter" and as "Willem
de geelgietter," or brass-founder ; was em-
ployed on de V'lackte farm in Rensselaerswyck,
from July I, 1647. The name would signify
Leonardson.

LespiiNARD. — Antiiny, a baker at liever-
wyck ; leasing that of Jan Kinckhout, in 1670,
with permit to bake for both Christians and
Indians ; made will Apr. 2, 1685.

Levy. — Asser, a Hebrew trader of \ew
Amsterdam, who owned a house and lot and
did business in Beverwyck, 1661-65.

Lewis. — Tames (Luwes), married Alary
French and probably resided in Albany pre-
vious to 1700, as their child. Tames, was bap-
tised there, Nov. 19, 1707.

LiEVENS. — Jans, conveyed his house and
plantation of 25 morgens, near Hell Gate, to
Andries Andriesen, in 1657, and removed to
Beverwyck. Harmen, probably his son, had
a farm on \'an Schaick's Island, at mouth of
Mohawk river, in 1681 : married Maritje Teu-
nise, and had these children, baptised there or
in Albany : Tomas, Feb. 24, 1684 : Egbertje,
Apr. 2, 1686: Pieter, Dec. 15, 1689: Rachel.
Jan. 13, 1692.

Livingston. — Robert, was the son of a
Scotch clergyman, and for political reasons
removed to Holland : came to Albany in 1674,
and in March. 1675. bought land "on the hill,"
at the northwest corner of State and Pearl
streets ; appointed secretary of Albany, Sep-
tember, 1675, serving until 1721 ; married
Alida Schuyler, .Albany, 1679, she being widow
of Rev. Nicolaas \'an Rensselaer, who died
November, 1678; petitioned for his first tract
of land near Roelof Jansen's kill, Claverack,
which was granted Nov. 12, 1680, and secured
a deed for larger tract from Mohegan Indians,
dated July 12, 1683, which patent was granted
by Dongan Nov. 4, 1684.

Lock. — Claes Hendrickse, was in Albany in
1665; owned a sloop in 1674; master of sloop
"Sarah," plying Albany to New York City
in 1684; married Cuiesje Hendricksen, widow,
at New York, in 167 1.

Lodewycksen. — Thomas, a carpenter at
Rensselaerswyck in partnership with Reynier
Wisselpenningh : recovered 270 guilders in
suit brought for building the baptistrj', in
1658; built a sloop in 1661.

Loockerm.\ns. — Jacob and Pieter Janse,
two brothers, settled in Beverwyck. Jacob
was there as early as 1657; commissioner to
make peace treaty between Mohawk and Nor-
thern Indians, in 1664. Pieter came there

in 1656: boatswain for Dutch West India
Co.. in 1658. .\ third brother, liovert, re-
mained in New Amsterdam, and was skipper
of the "Good Hope," on which Coorn fired
when the vessel was passing Rensselaerssteyn.
stone fort of castle, on Beeren Island, 14
miles south of Albany, July i, 1644, because
Peter Stuyvesant's man refused to dip his
colors in recognition of the staple right of
\'an Rensselaer.

Loveridge. — William, a hatter : bought
house from Pieter Jacobse Borsboom on east
side of Broadway (where crossed when Hud-
son ave. was opened), Albany, 1671 ; owned
farm at Catskill, 1680.

Lubbertson. — Gerrit, came from New York
cit\- ; married .Alida Evertsen, .Albany, March
12. 1684, and their three children baptised
there, up to March 4, 1688.

Ll'vcassen. — Evert, a baker at Beverwyck
in 1657: bought land from Indians at Kinder-
hook, 1655, which he sold to Jacob Janse
Gardenier, 1677.

Luversen.— Jacob, was in Rensselaerswyck
before Oct. 19, 165 1.

LvDRs. — Dominie Johannes, arrived in Al-
bany from Holland with Dominie Barnhardus
Freerman, July 20, 1700, officiating in Dutch
church until his death, March i, 1710.

Ma AT. — Jacob Hendrickse, innkeeper at
i'everwyck : farmer of the excise in 1654; had
alias "van Loosereght."

Maesen. — Cornells, came from Buurmal-
sem. Province of Gclderland, sailing from the
Texel, Holland, on "d'Eendracht" ("The
Unity"), July, 163 1 ; engaged by Patroon Van
Rensselaer as laborer, for three years. Possi-
bly this name was corrupted into "Mason."

Mangelse. — Jan, was in lieverwyck as
early as 1657.

AIarinus. — Willem, resided in Schenectady;
married Baata Klein, and their child, Maria,
was baptised at Albany, June 19. 1709. He
was probably citizen of Albany before going
there.

Marselis. — Hendrick, was one i>f Melyn's
colonists of Staten Island, arriving on the
"New Netherland's Fortune," 1650 ; had
grant of land at Beverwyck. in 1654, and lo-
cated there ; removed to Kinderhook, 1673.
Janse \'an Bommel Marselis was born at
Bommel. Gelderland, Hoi. ; early settler at
Beverwyck ; farmer of the excise, 1655 ; died
before 1700. Gysbert Marselis, shoemaker,
bought house on east corner of Maiden Lane
and Pearl st., .Mbanv. from Gerrit \'an
Slechtenhorst. 1680: buried. Albany. June 8,
1740.

MiciuiC. — Jan Pieterse. removed to Schenec-
tady ; married Antje Pieterse Borsboom, and

ni'DSOX AND MOHAWK \ALLEYS

had three chikheii baptised in Albany up to
Apr. 1 6, 1693.

^Iegapolensis. — Dominie Johannes, was a
minister at Schoorl and Bergen, near Alkmaar,
Province of North Holland ; entered into con-
tract with i'atroon Kiliaen V^an Rensselaer at
Amsterdam, Apr. 6, 1642, to preach in his
colony; sailed on "den Houttuyn," from the
Texel, June, 1642, with wife and four chil-
dren; arrived at New Amsterdam, Aug. 4,
1642; serving from August 13, 1642, until
summer of 1649, and appears to have lived
in the grenen bosch, or Pine Woods, and as
the village opposite Albany, on east bank of
the Hudson, was so called (Greenbush), it
may be that he resided over there, which idea
is strongly advocated by State Archivist A.
J. van Laer, who also states that his real
name was probably "Grootstadt," for in
Kieft's letter of Sept. 11, 1642, he is men-
tioned as "Do'e Grootstedius."

Mensen. — Marcus, came from Culenburgh,
or Cuylenborch, Gelderland, arriving on "den
Soutberg," April, 1633; engaged as farm-boy,
aged 17, by Brant Peelen.

Metselaer. — Harmcn, was a mason at Al-
bany in 1666; died there in 1667. Marten
Metselaer (or De Metselaer) wounded Pieter
Jacobse Borsboom in a fight at Reverwyck,
in 1657, and was confined in the stocks. Ten-
nis Teunise De Metselaer came to Rensselaers-
wyck in 1641 ; married Egbertien Egbertse,
and made will Aug. 7, 1685.

MECLEWEL.S. — Jacques, testified at Rensse-
laerswyck, March 4, 1649-

Mevn'tex, — Willem, arrived at New .Am-
sterdam on '"het Wapen van Noorwegen,"
Aug. 4, 1638: began service at Rensselaers-
wyck as farm laborer. Aug. 14, 1638; carted
the stone for house of Dominie Megapolensis.
Probably a name similar to Minturn.

MicniELSEN. — Jan (or Michaels), came
from Edam, North Holland, arriving with his
son on "het Wapen van Noorwegen," at New
Amsterdam, Aug. 4, 1638; a tailor; was able
to own his own house at Rensselaerswyck in
165 1, in which ])lace he located late in 1638;
married Tryntje Jansen, who died in 1665; he
left descent.

MiLLiNCTON. — Thomas, was horn in Eng-
land ; public carman ; married Tryntje Wendell
at .-Mbany, Sept. 17. 1699.

MoL. — Jacobus (or James), married Lydia
Winne at Albany, and their child, Engeltje,
was baptised there, Apr. 16, 1704; removed
to New York.

Moor. — Richard, born in the West Indies,
married Geesje Janse Salzbergen (Salisbury),
Nov. 3, 1700. and residing a time in Albany.

Morris. — Frans, married Zytje Matthys

Hooghteeling, and had two children baptised
in Albany: Lysbeth, June 7, 1691 ; Maria, Oct.
23, 1692.

.Mulder. — Jan Pieterse, soldier in service
of Dutch West India Co., at Beverwyck, 1660-
61 ; at Esopus, 1663.

Mui,LEK.— Cornells Stephense, was in
Greenbush (Rensselaer), N. Y., 1663; in
Claverack, 1720; owned large lot on west
side of Broadway, north of Maiden Lane,
Albany; married Hilletje Loockermans, and
had ten children born there, previous to 1700.
Jeremias Muller lived at Claverack, and mar-
ried Lysbeth Halenbeck, I'^eb. 10, 1705, at
Albany. Probably the name then was same
as iMueller, or Miller.

MvxDERSE. — Barent, was a master shoe-
maker in Beverwyck as early as 1659, and
(hed aooLu li^y, wuen t^ieter Vosburgn admin-
istered his estate. It is unknown that he left
a family. Myndert and Carsten Frederickse,
two brothers, were smiths, came from iveren,
hence some of the descendants assumed the
name "Van Iveren"; owned house at north-
west corner Broadway and State street, Al-
bany. Myndert was the elder of the Lutheran
church and Carsten the deason, in 1680.
Myndert was armorer to the fort in 1697;
married (first) Catharyn Burchharts (or
Burger), New Amsterdam, Aug. 5, 1656;
(second) Pietertje Teunise Van \echten,
1663; had five children living at date of will,
1704; and some of his children took the name
Myndertse (later becoming Mynderse), others
the name Van Iveren or Van Yvercn. Car-
sten married Tryntje Warner, had four chil-
dren, who were known by surname Freder-
ickse, later as Fredericks, and died about 1690.
Their descendants are to be found mainly in
Schenectady and New York City.

Nak.— Jan, a trader and gunstocker at
Beverwyck ; married Catharina Roomers, in
New Amsterdam, Oct. 28, 1663; had son,
Matthys, and died Dec. 12, 1708.

Nannincks. — Geertje (Nanning), came
with her son and daughter on "den Cuninck
David,"' from Holland, in 1641. settling in
Rensselaerswyck.

NijssEN. — Wolf, known also as Wolphert
Nys. or Nijs, came from t'Stift, bishojiric of
Utrecht, and bound himself, June 15, 1643. ^o
serve Evert Pels at Rensselaerswyck, the lat-
ter having farm at Greenbush.

Nobel. — Willem, married Maritje Pieterse,
and had son. Willem, born at .Albany, Feb. 14,
1(192. The name probably same as Noble.
Thomas Noble married Catharine Morris and
had son, David, baptised at .Albany, March 8,
1704.

NoLDK.N. — Evert, accorded permit to be

HUDSON AND MOHAWK \ ALLEYS

schoolmaster at Rensselaerswyck. Apr. 30,
1648.

Nottingham. — William, a trader in Albany,
1674-76; removed to Kingston, N. Y., where
he was living in 1722.

NoxoN. — Tomas, married Gertrude Hooge-
boom at Albany, Dec. 23, 1691, and had child,
Alida, baptised there, Apr. i. 1694. May be
same family as Nixon.

OoSTERu.M. — Gerrit Willemse, came to Be-
verwyck in 1631.

OoTHOUT.^ — Jan Janse (Oothoet), brewer
in Greenbush (Rensselaer), N. Y., came to
Albany as early as 1665, and had children:
Hendrick, Johannes, Adriaen, Mayke, .\ntje
and Jannetje, when he made will, March 13,
1688. Ihe son, Hendrick, was a surveyor of
Albany in 1700, and married Caatje Volck-
ertse Douw, Albany, Apr. 30, 1684. The son,
Johannes, married Aeltje Evertse, Albany,
May 5, 1689. The son, Adriaen, married
Lammertje Loockermans, Albany. Nov. 3,
1700. Similar to the name "Ootland," which
was also used then.

Orchard. — Robert, was in Albany before
1671, for on May 31st, he and his wife. Jan-
netje Donckertse, conveyed land at Kinder-
hook to Lourens Van Alen and others.

OsTR.\NDER. — Pieter, lived in Albany about
1700, or earlier; married Rachel Dingmans,
and they had son, Petrus. baptised in Albany,
Feb. 6, 1709. A rent Ostrander married Ger-
trude \'an Bloemendaal, and had son, Petrus,
baptised in Albany, Oct. 7, 171 1.

Otte.w — Helmer, came from Isens (Essen?)
was a baker in Beverwyck, 1663-1676, when
he died; married Ariaantje Arentse Bratt ;
conveyed his lot on north corner of Pearl and
State sts., Albany, to Df)minie Nicolaas \"an
Rensselaer, in 1675.

Otterspoor. — Aert, was living at Bethle-
hem in 1649, Albany co., on arrival was
known simply as Aert Aerntse van Otters-
poor, a place in Utrecht.

Ouderkerk. — Jan Janse, a coojjer in Be-
verwyck as early as 1664; resided on north
side of State st., in 1692. Johannes Ouder-
kerk married Neeltje Claase, widow of Hen-
drick Gardenier, at Albany, May 20, 1695.
Isaac Ouderkerk was living in Albany when
he married Mayke Van Nes, May 3, T696; at
Kinderhook, in 1709. and at TLilf-Moon. in
1720.

Owens. — Owen, might Jiavc been in Al-
bany before 1700. as he married Maria Wen-
dell there, June 10, 1704. His name written
also "Oyje," and "Oyjens"; "geboren tot
Gork in lerlandt."

Papenoorp. — Adriaen ( Icrritsc. was in
Rensselaerswyck, probably in i<^>34 ; magis-

trate; married Jannetje Croon; will made,
Oct. 7, 1688.

Parker. — Sergt. William, owned lot on the
hill at .\lbany, which he sold to Dirck Alber-
tse Bradt (or Bratt) and Ryck Claese (Van
Vranken) in 1671.

Pars. — Matthys, also known as Puis, was
in Kingston, 1701 ; came to Albany; married
Tanna Winne there, Nov. i, 1701 ; child,
.•\dam, baptised there. Jan. 13, 1706; removed
to Kinderhook that year.

Pastoor. — Frans Barentse, a brewer, one
of iJeverwyck's magistrates in 1654.

Pauwelsen. — Juriaen (Pouwelsen, Powell,
Pauwesen, Poulisen and Poulis), came from
Sleswyck, or Schleswig. arriving on "den
Houttuyn," at New .A.msterdam, Aug. 4, 1642,
and recorded in Rensselaerswyck as farm
hand (boy), Aug. 13, 1642; was servant of
Michiel Jansen, July, 1644.

Pearse.' — Nehemiah, bought house on the
hill at Albany, from Evert Janse \\'endell, in
1675, and sold it to Samuel Holman, in 1676.
The name allied with Parse, Parson, Peersen
and Pierson.

Peek. — Jan (also written Peeck), innkeeper
of New Amsterdam ; removed to Beverwyck
where he sold two houses to Johannes Dyck-
man in 1655 ' Peekskill creek takes name from
him, as owner of land there ; married Maria
\olchers (widow of Cornelis \'olckertse), in
New Amsterdam, Feb. 20, 1650; their son,
Jacobus (or James), was born in New Am-
sterdam, Jan. 16, 1656, and had a son, Ludo-
vicus, born in Schenectady, baptised July 14.
1686 ; hence three generations in the colony
previous to 1700.

Peelen. — Brant (also written Brandt),
came from Nykerck. sailing on "d'Eendracht"
("The Unity"), arriving at New Amsterdam,
May 24, 1630; engaged by Patroon Van Rens-
selaer as a farmer for four years, at 1 10 flor-
ins per annum, and in 1632 was appointed
"schepen" ; had a farm on Castle Island ; mar-
ried (first) Lubbertje Wouters ; (second)
Maritje Pieters, the widow of Claes Sybrant-
sen, and died before May i, 1644. His des-
cendants known by name of Brandt.

Peereni. — Wilhclm, married Lysbeth Sick-
ell, and had child, Maria, baptised at Albany.
March i, 1693.

Pels. — Evert, came from Stettin, Pomcr-
ania, arriving on "den Houttuyn," at New
Amsterdam, Aug. 4, 1642, with wife and serv-
ants ; engaged by Patroon V'an Rensselaer to
be brewer at Rensselaerswyck ; leased farm
on Papscanee Island, Feb. 28, 1647; but after
erecting house, turned property over, March
23, 1649, having on the i8th leased a farm on
.Mill Creek in Greenbush (Rensselaer), New

HUDSON AXD .MOHAWK \ Al.l.l'.VS

York; owned a sloop, sending 2,100 beaver-
skins to New Amsterdam in 1657; removed
to Esopus in 1661 : his son, Evert Evertse,
married Brechtje Elswaerts. New Amsterdam,
Aug. 13. 1670, and their son. Evert Evertsen,
married Grietje Van Deusen. New Amster-
dam. Sept. 29. 1695 ; hence three generations
in the colony before 1700.

Pennim.v.v. — James, bought a lot at Albany
from John Cornell (Johannes Cornelis),
which he sold to Andries Teller in 1677.

I'lETiiRSEN. — -This family name the same as
Peterson, Pieters. Peters, and Pieterse.
.Adriaen Pietersen came from .Mkmaar, North
1 lolland province; leased house north of Fort
Orange in 1 65 1. Arent Pietersen arrived at
New Amsterdam on the "Arms of Rennse-
laerswyck," March 4, 1637, and appears on
records at Rensselaerswyck as "Arent Pietersz
Jongen" (the boy), began service in charge
of the granary there, Apr. 3, 1637. Carsten
Pietersen came to Rensselaerswyck before
1646. Jacob Pietersen came from Utrecht on
the "Arms of Rensselaerswyck," arriving at
New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637 ; also re-
corded at Rensselaerswyck as "Jacob Pie-
terse van Uijtrecht, alias Veeltje," and as
"Jacob Pieterse Veeltje" : engaged there under
date Apr. 8, 1637, serving under Brant Peelen
on his farm on Castle Island ; left the colony
before Nov. 16, 1644. Meyer Pietersen was
a carpenter at Bevervvyck ; married Elsie
Hendricksc at New Amsterdam, July 6, 1642 ;
bought house at Beverwyck in 1654; died in
1676. Ryndert Pietersen bought Pieter
lironck's brewery at Beverwyck in 1662; died
in 1673. Thys Pietersen recorded as being
in Rensselaerswyck July 31, 1649.

PiKK.\RT. — Bartholomeus, came to Albany
from Leicestershire, Eng., married Aagje
Claase, of Schenectady, Nov. 12. 1698. Name
similar to Picard.

Planck. — Jacob .Albertsc, came from
Edam, Province of North Holland, sailing
on "d'Eendracht" ("The Unity"), May, 1634,
bound as the "schout" and agent of the Rens-
selaerswyck colony by contract of March 4,
1634, with Patroon Kiliaen \"an Rensselaer
at Amsterdam, and although the second per-
son appointed "schout," was probably the first
to take the oath and hold court. The name
was also written "Plank," and appears as
"N'erplanck."

Pi.OEG. — Pieter, was probably in Albany be-
fore 1700; married Aeltjc Pels 'there, and
their child. Catharina, baptised there. Jan. 25,
1708.

PoE.XTiE. — for Poentje) .\lias for Tcunis
Cornelis Van Vcchten.

I'ooTM.W'. — \'ictor, removed from ."Xlliany

to Schenectady, where he married Grietje
Mebie, Dec. 13, 1706. Changed later to Put-
nam and Putman.

Poov. — Jan, also written Poeij, arrived in
New .Amsterdam on "den Ilouttuyn." Aug.
4. 1642, and was sailor of the colony's yacht,
■' Ivcnsselacrsvvyck."

I'ossi. — -Henri, born in England, came to
.Albany, where he married .Antje Hoogeboom,
.Sejjt. 10, 1695, and had child, Catri;ie, born
there, baptised Jan, 12, 1697.

Post. — Symon Janse, came to Albany,
where he married Jannetje Paulusse, Feb. 11,
1685: their children baptised there: Jan, Nov.
14, 1682: Jan, Jan. 8, 1688; Maritje, Aug. 10,
1690. Elias Post came from .Amsterdam,
marrying Catalyntje Coninck of Albany, May
6, 167 1, in New York City.

Powell. — Thomas, was sergeant of Dutch
West India Co.'s service in Brazil, 1641-1653;
came to Beverwyck, 1657, where he owned
land, residing there until he died in 1671.
.Same name as Paulussen : being derived from
"son of Paul."

Pretty. — Richard, was collector of the ex-
cise at Albany in 1677, and sheriff. 1678-90;
owned lot at west corner Pearl and State
sts., Albany, which he sold to wife of Capt.
Silvester Salisbury, 1673.

Provoo.st. — Johannes, was clerk at Fort
Orange under Johannes De La Montague;
notary public there, 1656 to Nov., 1664, when
he became secretary of Albany, until August,
1665, and from October, 1673 to .August, 1675 ;
sheriff, 1678; died 1696. Also spelled Pre-
voost and Prevost.

Pruvn. — Johannes Pruyn. came from .Am-
sterdam, Holland, and was enrolled as a
burgher of New .Am.sterdam, Apr. 18, 1657;
his son, Frans Janse Pruyn, removed to Al-
bany as early as 1665, and was a tailor.

Puis. — Matthys; see Pars.

Ou.ACKENBos. — Pieter, bought .\driaen van
llpendam's brickyard at Albany, in 1668; had
a son, Wouter Pieterse, who married (first)
Neeltje Gysbertse; (second) Cornelia Bogart,
at .Albany, Oct. 4, 1696: liis third son, Jo-
hannes, removed to Niskayuna, marrying
(first) Magtelt Jan.se Post: (second) Anna
Clute, Oct. 20, 1700. Renier (or Reynier)
Quackenbos came from Oestgeest, Holland,
and married (first) Lysbet Janse, of Flush-
ing, at New Amsterdam, March 2, 1674;
(second) Claesje Jacobsen, .Sept. 13, 1692,
and their children were baptised in .Albany.
.Adriaen Quackenbos resided for a time at
.Schodack, marrying Catharina Van Schaick,
Jan. 18. 1699. The name was also spelled
( )uackcnbush, Ouackcnbusch, and Ouacken-
bosch.

HUDSOX AND MOHAWK \ ALLEYS

Radcliffe. — Jan, was appointed city porter
at Albany, in place of Hendrick Marselis, in
1697, and "klockluyer," instead of Hendrick
Rosebooni, in 1703 ; married Rachel Lambertse
Jochemse \'an \'alkenburgh, and they had six
children born in Albany when William was
baptised on Nov. 3, 1700. The name was also
written Radclief, Radcliff, Ratecliffe, Ratte-
lief, Redlif and Redhff.

Rademaecker. — Jacob Adriaensen, probab-
ly came' from Hilversum, North Holland, ar-
riving on the "Arms of Rennselaerswyck," at
New Amsterdam, March, 1644; went to Rens-
selaerswyck, where he leased land opposite
Mill kill, seeded by him in 1648. The sur-
name was given to him after his arrival, being
a wheelwright.

Rees. — Willem. was a resident of Albany,
where he married (first) Catrina Janse ;
(second) Maria Goewey, and had (baptised)
in Albany: Cornelis. Sept. 16, 1685; Benja-
min, Feb. 7, 1694; Hendrick, Feb. 16, 1696;
Willem, Oct. 31, 1703: was residing in Cla-
verack in 1720. Andries Rees, who resided
at Albany and Claverack, married Ariaantje
Andries Scherp, Albany, Jan. i, 1697, and
had children born there.

Reims. — Edward, was victualler to the mili-
tia at .'Mbany : made will Sept. 14, 1702.

Reur. — Hendrick Janse, came from Mun-
ster. West])halia ; made court messenger at
Rens.selaersvvyck, Aug. 18, 165 1 : obtained
lease of lot next to Juriaen Teunisen, Feb. i,
1652; owned property at Lubberde's land
(Troy), and died before Feb. 4, 1664.

Reux.^ — (jerrit Theusen (or de Reus), ar-
rived on "den Soutberg," April, 1633: was a
farmer engaged by the Patroon, on Blom-
maerts kill, near .Albany ; appointed "schepen"
of the colony, and died before -Aug. 4. \<\V>-

Reydt. — Hendrick, resided in .\lbany.
where his .son, [onathau, was born. |une ^o,
1689.

Reyersen. — Jan, came fmm Houten, near
Utrecht, sailing on "den Waterhondt." from
the Texel. June, 1640: began service as farm-
er at Rensselaerswyck, Sept. 4, 1640: leased
Bethlehem Island, immediately south of .\1-
bany, March 17. 1650, succeeding ivyckert
Rutgersen : died in 1665.

Revndektsen. — Rarent. a smith, bought lot
in lieverwyck in 1(157. and lived there until
death, 1682, which year he conveyed lot on
.State St., Albany, to his son-in-law, Joachim
Staats.

Ri.NCKHoiT. — Daniel, was born in Pomer-
ania. Prussia : was in Beverwyck as early as
1653. when he owned house on south corner
Broadway and Exchange st. ; died in 1662,
aged T,2. .-md left his house and all property

to his brother. Jan, a baker, also living there.

RoDGERS. — William, was probably in Al-
bany before 1700, as a soldier in Capt. James
Weems" company; married .Mary Johnson, of
Boston, July 3, 1706.

RoELOFKSE. — Jan. son of Anneke Jans by
her first husband, Roelofl:' Jansen, came from
Holland on "d'Eendracht" ("The Unity"),
with his i)arents. arriving at Xew Amsterdam.
Ma}- 24, 1630, having lived previously at
Marstrand, on coast of Sweden. See Jansen
and Bogardus.

RoESO. — Frans ; see Roos.

RoL.'\NTSEN. — Adam, schoolmaster at Be-
verwyck in 1639, afterwards in Xew .\mster-
dam. Name same as Rolandson.

RoM\iLLE. — Antoine, said to have been
born "tot Vienne," was probably in Albany
before 1700, marrying Heyltje FJekker there.
Feb. 8, 1707.

Roos. — Johannes, son of Gerrit Janse Roos,
had a wife named Cornelia, and he died at
Albany in 1695 : their children baptised
there: Catrina, Oct. 7, 1683; Cornelia, May
f>, i'i88; Jacobus (or James), March 29, 1689.
i'os>ibly same family as of Frans Roeso, or
Rousseau, who was born in Flanders, resided
in -Albany, and married Maria Palsin, Apr. 11,
1758. Isaac Rosa married Marytje Van
X'ranken, Albanw Xnv. 22. 1763. Jan Rosie
was an early settler in Albany, .-uid was buried
there in 1709.

RosiE. — Jan, — See Roos.

RoSEHooM. — Hendrick Janse, a trader,
"voorlezer" and sexton, has suit in court
against an "interloping grave-digger of the
Lutheran church" in 1674; owned house on
northeast corner of \o. Pearl and Columbia
sts., through which land the stockades passed
in 1677, hence the opening called "Roseboom's
(iate": married (iysbertje Lansing, and their
son, Johannes, was a trader, marrving (lerritje
Coster. Albany. Xov. 18, 1688.

RofssEAf. — Frans, — See Roos.

Rr.M.NKY. — Jonathan, born in London. Eng.,
came to .Albany, where he married Johanna
\'an Curler, Xov. 17, 1707, and died there.
Sept. 16, 1722; their child. Robert, baptised
at Albany, Oct. 30. 1709.

Rutgers. — Rijck (Richard), arrived at
Xew .Amsterdam on "het Wapen van Xoor-
wegen," .Aug. 4, 1638; recorded as farm la-
borer at Rensselaerswyck, .Aug. 16, 1638, and
leased Bethlehem Is., south of Albany, Nov.
29, 1648. Rutger Jacobsen and Tennis Jacob-
sen, brothers, came from Schoenderwoert and
settled early in Beverwyck. each originating
distinct families at diflferent localities. The
former's descendants were known as Rutgers.
settling in and near Xew ^■ork city. The lat-

HUDSON WD .MOHAWK \ Al.

:vs

ter's family became known as \'an Sclioeii-
derwoert. or simply as Van Woert, settling
in Albany county. Rutger Jacobsen, also
known as Rut Van Woert, was a man of in-
fluence and wealth, serving long as magis-
trate in Beverwyck ; owned a sloop ; dealt in
lots : owned in part both Mohicander's and
Constapel Islands ; bought Jacob Janse Van
Noorstrant's brewery on north side of Beaver
St., .-Mbany. in 1654; died in 1665: married
Tryntje Janse Van Breestede, New .Amster-
dam, June 3, 1646. and their son, Harmen
Rutgers, born at Beverwyck, .soon after his
father's arrival, was a brewer, still living there
in 1720. .Antony Rutgers, son of the latter,
was a baker, admitted freeman in New York,
ifx)9; married Hendrickje X'andewater, New-
York, Dec. 30, 1694. Hermanns Rutgers
(second son of latter, Harmen), was a brewer,
admitted freeman. New York, 1696; married
Catharina Myer, New York, Dec. 25, 1706.

RuYTixii. — Gerrit Janse. had a child, Louys
(or Lewis), baptised at .Albany, June 22, 1690.

RvCKM.\xx.— Harmen Janse, was a resi-
dent of .Albany, 1666-1677. Jan Janse Ryck-
mann resided in Beverwyck, where he died
before 1663, when his widow, Tryntje Janse,
married Eldert Gerbertse Cruyff : had a son,
Capt. Albert Janse Ryckmann, born before
1663 at Beverwyck, a brewer, residing near
southwest cor. laroadway and Hudson ave.,
formerly owned by Pieter Bronck, and was
appointed 9th .Mayor of Albany, 1702-1703;
buried at .Albany. Jan. 12, 1737. His son,
Pieter, was a tailor, married Cornelia Ketel-
tas. New A'ork, May 6. 1696, and his will
proved Oct. 21, 1749.

RvKRSK. — Gerrit, probably the son of Reyer
Elbertse of Beverwyck, had children baptised
in -Albany, — VVouter, .Aug. 12, 1683: Barent,
Oct. 14, 1683: Goosen. Alarch 7, 1686; Bar-
ent. June 4. 1688.

RvvKRDiNT.n. — Pieter. was a clerk and court
messenger at Beverwyck, 1654-55.

S.\NDERS. — Thomas, was a smith in .Am-
sterdam, Holland, before which time he was
a member of the .Alexander family living in
Scotland, the name thereafter being contracted
to Xander, or Sander, and according to the
usual transmutation, his children would be
known as Sanderse, Sanders or Sandersen.
the latter Sanderson when Anglicized. He was
living in New .Amsterdam when he married
Sara Cornelise Van Gorcum there. Sept. 16,
1640. who died in Albany. December. 1669.
He received a patent from Gov. Kieft for
house and 25 morgens of land on Manhattan :
located in Rensselaerswyck about July 13,
1650, on the court granting permission to
settle there. His oldest son, Robert, was bap-

tised. .\ew .Amsterdam, .Nov. 10, 1641, was
a smith in 1667; merchant in 1692; settled
in .Albany in 1665; married Elsie Barentse,
had four daughters and one son, Barent, who
married Maria Wendell, .Albany. Sept. 19.
1704. and they had a son, Robert, born at .Al-
bany. July II, 1705. a merchant, appointed
23rd Mayor of Albany by Gov. Geo. Clinton,
serving 1750- 1754. This family was for two
and a half centuries thereafter, 1650, prom-
inent in .Albany and Schenectady.

Scn.\KTS. — Dominie ("lideon. engaged on
.May 8, 1652, as the second minister of the
Dutch church at Rensselaerswyck at annual
salary of 800 florins, evidently beginning his
officiate July 24. 1652, and continued as
pastor until death, Feb. 27, 1694, aged 82
years : was assisted in old age by Dominie
Dellius, beginning in 1683; his oldest son,
Reynier. a "chyrurgion," early settler in
Schenectady, where he was appointed justice
of peace by Leisler. 1689: and married Ca-
trina Bensing, or Bensen. The name some-
times and as properly spelled Schaats.

Scii.\.\s. — Christiaen. lived in .Albany alxiut
1700: married Catharina \'an liuren, Nov. 8.
1 719. Same name as Schawns, .Schauns. T'
Jaans or Jones.

Scii.\RP. — Andries Hanse, was in Bever-
wyck as early as 1660: bought farm behind
Kinderhook, 167 1. The name same as Scherp
and Sharp.

-ScHKRMKRHORN. — Jacob Jansc. was born in
1622. it is said in Watcrland. Holland, and
came to New .Amsterdam from Hoorn, Prov-
ince of North Holland: was in Rensselaers-
wyck in 1650, perhaps as early as 1648, yet
Prof. Pearson states he was a brewer and
trader at Beverwyck in 1636, and died soon
after making will, Alay 20, 1688. He married
Jannetje Seegers (van \'oorhoudt) and had
nine children, of whom Reyer Jacobse. the
eldest, born in Beverwyck in 1652, settled in
Schenectady, marrying .Ariaantje Bratt of .Al-
bany, in 1676: and the second son, Symon
Jacobse. born in 1658. made Ihe heroic horse-
back ride to .Albany the bitterly cold niglit
of Feb. 8. 1690, to announce tlie massacre of
Schenectady.

ScHKRP. — .\ndries Hanse. — See Sharp and
Scharp.

ScHOON. — Jan Willenise. was a farmer at
Rensselaerswj'ck in i6C)0.

SciiooxM.AKKR. — Jan Barentse. came from
Edam. Holland, was at Rensselaerswyck in
1636: still there in 1665. Harmen Schoon-
maker owned house at .Albany in 1676.

.SciiouTKN. — Gerrit Jacobse. was in .Albany
and later in Kinderhook : marrying Lysbeth
.Arnoutse (or .Arnold) X'iele, June 17, 1693.

HUDSON AND MOHAWK \- ALLEYS

SciioL-TiCK. . removed to Xiskayuna

and had (bap.) Jurriaen. March 23. 1684 ;
Jan, Apr. 18, 1686: Jacob. .March 2, 1690.
Same as Schoute and Shuter.

ScHUT. — W'illem Janes, was in P.ever-
vvyck, 1657-68. a tailor, alias Doiiimclacr.
Same as Schuldt. Jan Willemsen Schut wa--
a carpenter at Rensselaersvvyck in 1646.

Schuyler. — David and Philij), two broth-
ers, sons of Pieter Schuyler, came from Am-
sterdam, Holland, and settled at Rensselaers-
vvyck in 1650. David Pieterse married Cata-
lyn \'erplanck at Xew .Amsterdam. Oct. 13,
1657, and resided in Rensselaerswyck on the
south corner of jiroadway and Steuben street.
Nov. 29, 1692. Col. Philip Pieterse was a
trader ; married Margarita \"an Slechtenhorst,
Dec. 12. 1650. and had his bouwerie in Water-
vliet. four miles north of Albany, known as
"the Flatts," which lie purchased in 1672.
The name was written "van Schuyler" or "van
Schuijler" when first in this country, as com-
ing- from place of that title in Holland, — the
Dutch word "schuil" signifying a place of
shelter, and some of the early records at
Rensselaerswyck show the spelling "Scheu-
ler" and "Scheuller." which is close to the
German word "schuler," a scholar or learned
man.

Seger. — Janse. came from Nykerck. Hol-
land, on "d' Eendracht" ("The Unity"), in
1630, and was a farm laborer at Rensselaers-
wyck.

.Se(;i:ks. — Cornclis. came to Rensselaers-
wyck in 1642, and succeeded \an der Donck
on his W'elysburgh farm on Castle Is. ; mar-
ried Bregje Jacobsen, and had five of his six
children living when he died in 1663; was
known as Cornells Segerse van Voorhoudi.

SiCKELS.— Zacharias, in employ of Dutcli
West India Co., as corporal, first at Curacoa.
then from 1656-59. at Fort Orange: was
town-herder, 1670-72. and 1681-83: "rattel-
watch." 1689: had five or more children born
in .A.lbany, and removed to New Amsterdam
in 1693. Same name as Zikkels and Zichelson.

Seickoten.— Willem Janse, was resident of
Albany before 1700, where he was recorded
as husband of Neeltje Frederickse, widow of
Claas Hendrickse van Schoonhoven, in 1661.

Slingere.v.n'd. — Tennis Cornelise. came
from Holland, purchased tract of 9,874 acres
along the Onisquethau creek in New Scotland
township in 1658, wliere he erected mills:
married (ist) F.ngeltje .Xlbertse Piratt : (2nd)
Geertje Fonda (widow of Tan P>ikker). .\pr.
9, 1684.

Smit. — Lucas (Smitt or Smits),came trom
Johannisburg. in Fast Prussia, arriving on
"den Coninck David" C" ), at Xew Amsterdam.

Xov. 29. 1 64 1, when he entered the service of
Dominie Bogardus : came to Rensselaerswyck
.Aug. 13, 1642, from when until Alay i, 1644,
employed at the Patroon's house: from when
until Apr. 13, 1646. farm laborer and as a
clerk on de \'lackte farm. Ren Janse Smit
was in New Amsterdam. 1643-51 : in Bever-
wyck. 1655-60: in Waleboght, 1663-85, own-
ing a house in each ]ilace : married Jannetje
Joris Rapailie.

Slvter. — Captain, was charged with board
at Director \"an Slechtenhorst's house, Rens-
.selaersvvyck, beginning June 27, 1651, and the
latter on being in New Amsterdam then, he
appears to have managed the colony in con-
junction with Jan Baptist \'an Rensselaer.

SoEGEMAKELYK. — Pieter and Jacob Adri-
aense, settled early in Beverwyck with their
mother (Anna Pietersen Soegemakelyk).
where both were innkeepers. Pieter bought
a bouwerie in Schenectady in 1664, and his
son. Captain Pieter, was skipper of a yacht
named "The Unity" plying between Albany
and New York, who bought a lot and garden
at Lubberde'sland (Troy) in 1669.

Soesisergex. — Reyer Cornelise, a miller:
hired horse-mill from .Arent \'an Curler at
I'>everwyck in 1660.

Spierinck. — Cornelis. sailed on "den Wa-
terliondt," June, 1640, from the Texel, Hol-
land, and did copying at Rensselaerswyck for
A rent \'an Curler.

-SpiTsiiERGEN". — Tennis Cornelise (also writ-
ten Spitsenberg, Spitsenberch. Spitsenbergh,
Spitsenbergen. Spitsbergh, Spitsberghen and
\'an Sjiitsbergen ), came early from Holland
to Beverwyck, renting a mill on the 5th creek
with llarent Pieterse Coeymans, Dec. 14,
I '134 : authorized to build a mill on same, Aug.

3, 1656: member of Rensselaerswyck court
in 1658, 1660. 1661 and 1664. See \'an der
Poel. being same family.

Spoor. — Jan (alias Wybesse), resided a
time at Beverwyck, and (as Jan Wybesse van
Harlingcn) bought 16 morgens of land on
Catskill creek; removing to Niskayuna. where
he bought land in 1698: married .Annatje
Maria llanse, and their son, Johannes, lived
in Kinderhook, joining the .Albany church in
1700, and married Maria Singer.

Springsteen'. — Caspar, a miller early in Al-
bany, residing in Selicnectady in 1707: liis
fourth child, .Simon. ba])lisi'd in .\lb;ui\. June
19. 1709-

St.xats.— Maj. Abraliam ( Staas. Staes,
Staet), came from .Amsterdam, arriving on
"den Houttuyn." at New .Amsterdam, Aug.

4. 1642: surgeon, aged 24 on arrival: located
at Rensselaerswyck under contract with the
1',-itroon made Feb. 1. 1642. coming in com-

IIUDSOX AND MOHAWK \ALLEVS

pany witli Dominie Megapolcnsis ; member of
the council, 1643; its president, 1644; also a
trader, sending 4,200 beaver-skins to New
Amsterdam in 1C57; owned a large bousverie ;
after 1658, was styled "Captain," as com-
mander of sloop "Claverack," which he owned
and operated between Albany and New York
up to 1684: married Catrina Jochemse, daugh-
ter of Jochem Wesselse.

Stavast. — Cicrrit and Claas Janse, came to
All)any about 167J, the former dying aljiuit
\uy(i. and the latter returned to New York
in I (.86.

Stekric\ Ei.T. — Cornelis Cornelisc, owned a
house in Beverwyck, 1657-60.

Stevens. — Abraham, arrived at New Am-
sterdam on "het Wapen van Noorwegen."
Aug. 4, 1638 : recorded as farm laborer at
Rensselaerswyck, Aug. 14th, and leased the
\'aleije farm, Feb. 3, 1650.

Stol. — Jacob Janse, signed himself Jacob
Jansen Map ; also Stoll ; first recorded at Rens-
selaerswyck in 1645, according to the \'. R.-
Bowier Documents ; but Prof. Pearson states
he was there in 1630; was skipper of sailing
vessel between there and New York in 1649;
succeeded Hendrick Albertsen as ferryniaster
about that time : bought land at and removed
to Esopus, 1657-8. Willem Janse Stoll, prob-
ably a brother, was a cooper, leasing a lot in
Rensselaerswyck, May 20, 1650, which he ■sold
to A rent \'andenbergh in 1661, which year he
removed to Esopus, when he was known on
records as husband f)f widow of Claas Hen-
drickse van Utrecht.

Story. — Robert, a trader at jMhany in i67r);
bought house at north corner c^f Maiden Lane
and North Pearl st.

Stridi.es. — (labriel Tomase. hired liimself
as breadbaker to Thomas I'owel at Iicver-
wyck in 1662: leased Jochem Ketelhuyn's
house there, 1665 ; bought Jan Chile's house,
1670; master of sloop "Hoijewell." 1684: re-
moved to New York, about 1690, where was
innkeeper. Same name as Strudles.

Stuart. — Jan (or Stewart), bought a lot
on the hill at Albany, in 1670. of John Co-
nell, wliich his administrators .sold to Laurens
\an Alen in 1675.

Si'iDAM. — Tennis Pieterse. married Mar-
gariet Lawrense, and they had child, Pieter,
baptised at Albany, Jan. 28, 1694.

Swart. — Gerard (on some Rensselaers-
wyck records as "Gerrit"), contracted to be
"schout." or iM-osecuting officer of Rensse-
laerswyck. Apr. 24, 1652, succeeding Brant
\^an Slechtenhorst, July 24, 1652, serving un-
til 1665. when the courts of Rensselaerswyck
and Albany were consolidated, and he became
sheriff of Albany county. Gerrit Swart ap-

pears ti> have been made schoolmaster. 1676:
also owned property at Lubbarde'sland
(Troy), and a lot on upper Broadway, .Al-
bany ; married .Anthonia Ryswyck, and made
joint will in 1661. Cornells Swart, resident
of Schenectady, was eldest son of Teunis Cor-
nelise Swart and Elizabeth \'an der Linde,
ant! was born in 1652: lived in Clster county
in 1715. Esias Teunise Swart resided in
Schenectady and married Eva Teunis \an
W'oert. Adam Antonisse Swart was living
in Schenectady in 1690: at Kinderhook in
1706: married Metie Willemse \'an Slyck of
Albany, Jan. 15, 1690.

Swartwoct. — RoelofY. a freeholder of Bev-
erwyck until 1660. wiien made sheriff of Eso-
])us : married Eva .\lbertse Bratt of Albany,
widow of Antony de Hooges of Beverwyck.

Swir.'^. — Isaac Cornelise, removed to Sche-
nectady and married Susanna Groot, and their
child. Isaac, baptised July 28, 1691.

SvMONSE. — Willem, employed by V^ilckert
Janse Douw at Beverwyck in 1659. Pieter
Symonse was a tobacco-planter at Beverwyck
in 1661. The name same as Simonson.

Tack. — Aert Pieterse, was liorn at Etten. in
Breda, Brabant, resident of P.everwvck in
i6to.

Tappex. — Juriaan Teunise, alias Glase-
maecker, was innkeeper at Beverwyck, 1654-
■//. and large dealer in real estate there : mar-
ried Wybrecht Jacobse Dochter. and they
made joint will. 1661.

Teller. — Willem. arrived at New Amster-
(him in 1639, and was sent as a corjOTral to
I'ort Orange by Gov. Kieft : was promoted to
be "wachtmeester" of the fort, residing at
Fort Orange. Beverwyck and Albany from
1639 to 1692. when he removed to New York,
where he died in 1701 ; was one of the earliest
proprietors of Schenectady. 1662. and men-
tioned as one of the five patentees in first pat-
ent of the town, 1684; married (ist) Mar-
garet Donchesen; (2nd) Maria Varleth.
widow of Paulus Schrick. in 1664. One of
his nine children, Andries, born in 1642. was
merchant: married Sophia \'an Cortlandt.
New York, May 6, 1671. whither he removed,
and died Dec. 16, 1702.

Tex P.roeck.— Dirck Wesselse, son of Wes-
sel Ten Broeck of Munster, Westphalia, was
born Dec. t8, 1638, and was employed at Bev-
erwyck by Pieter \'an .Men as early as 1662 ;
became a trader, exporting as many as 3,000
skins yearly : ap])ointcd commissary by Gov.
Andros. 1676: Indian commissioner for thirty
vears; a major of militia, 1691 ; deacon, 1673:
alderman. 1686: first recorder of Albany from
date of Charter, July 22, 1686 to 1696: mem-
ber of first Assembly, 1691. and of four subse-

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

quent sessions ; appointed 4th Mayor of Al-
bany by Gov. Benj. Fletcher, serving 1696-
98; bought tract of 1,800 acres on Roelof
Jansen's kil, in Claverack, Columbia county,
from Robert Livingston, Oct. 26, 1694, where
he had his "bonwerie" and erected mansion,
and died there, Sept. 13, 1717; married Chris-
tina Cornelise Van Buren at Albany, 1663, in
which year, following the death of .Anneke
Jans, he bought her house at northeast cor.
State and James sts., Albany.

Ten Evck. — Coenraad, was a tanner and
shoemaker, residing in New Amsterdam : his
son, Jacob Coenraetse, born there, removed
to Albany, where he was a shoemaker ; mar-
ried Geertje Coeymans, and they had a son,
Coenraedt, born Albany, Apr. 9, 1678, a sil-
versmith, who married Geertje Van Schaick,
.Albany, Sept. 24, 1704, and they had a son,
Jacob Coenraedt, born, Albany, Apr. 21. 1705,
who was appointed 22nd Mayor of Albany by
Gov. Geo. Clinton, serving Oct. i, 1748 — Oct.
14.1750; Indian commissioner, 1752-54; Com-
mittee of Safety, 1775 ; Judge of Court of
Common Pleas; married Catharyna Cuyler,
.Albany, Aug. i, 1736, and died. .Albany, Sept.
9, 1793-

Teinisex. — Lornclis. came from Meer-
kerck. Province of -South Holland, arriving at
New .Amsterdam on "den Soutberg," April,
1633, being then 20 years of age; engaged in
cutting and hauling timber at Rensselaers-
wyck. Cornelis Teunisen came from West-
broeck. in Utrecht, on the ".Arms of Rensse-
laerswyck," arriving at New .Amsterdam.
March 4, 1637; shoemaker; began service at
Rensselaerswyck, .Apr. 8. 1637; magistrate of
Fort Orange prior to .Aug. 19, 1662; granted
use of garden between first and second creeks,
Apr. I, 1650. Jacob Teunisen was a tailor at
Rensselaerswyck before 1649. Jan Teunisen
came from Leyden on "den Coninck David,"
arriving at New Amsterdam, Nov. 29, 1641 ;
was a carpenter at Rensselaerswyck in 1642.
fannetie Teunisen arrived on "den Coninck
David." and was recorded at Rensselaerswyck
before Nov. 6, 1642; but married Dirck Janse
Croon at New .Amsterdam, Dec. 22, 1641. Ju-
riaen Teunisen, often mentioned as Juriaen de
Glasmaecker, also signing his name "Jure
Jan lunsen Tappen" or "van Tappcn" ; granted
a lot at Rensselaerswyck, Jan. 25, 1652; kept
a tavern, in 1659. Pieter Tetuiisen came from
Brunswick, Ger., and was first recorded at
Rensselaerswyck, ATarch 28, 1648, when lie
removed to Catskill. Teunis Teunisen came
from Loenen, Utrecht, on "den Houttuyn,"
arriving at New .Amsterdam, .Aug. 4, 1A42; a
mason ; constructed chimnev in \';\u der
Donck's house in 1642: cnntracted to i)tiilil a

brick house for Jeremias Van Rensselaer,
Sept 8, 1659. The above includes all those
who wrote their name indicative of being the
son of Teunis, — such as Teunis, Teunise, Teu-
nisen or Teunisz, and sometimes in the form
Theunis. Barent Thonisen (writing it "Tho-
nisz") came from Hellesund, on south coast
of Norway, .sailing on "d" Eendracht" ( "The
Unity"), from the Texel. July. 1631: en-
gaged to erect sawmill for the Patmon at
Rensselaerswyck.

Thom.as. — The early arrivals wrote their
names Ihomase, Thomasen, Tomase or To-
masen, therefore all were properly known by
the same form, "Thomasen," which appears
in most records, meaning a son of Thomas.
Cornelis Thomasen came from Rotterdam,
with his wife, on the "Arms of Rensselaers-
wyck," arriving at New Amsterdam, March
4, 1637. a smith, was stabbed to death by his
helper, Dec. 8. 1636, at Rensselaerswyck. Jan
Thomasen was first recorded at Rensselaers-
wyck in 1644, as servant of Adriaen Van der
Donck ; joint lessee of farm on Papscanee
Island. 1653-8. Paulus Thomasen testified at
Rensselaerswyck, Feb. i. 1652, that he had
removed to Catskill.

TiETSooRT. — Willeni Abrahamse. removed
from .Albany to Schenectady and then into
Dutchess county; married Neeltje Swart, and
they had a child, .Ariaantje, baptised, Albany,
Aug. 2, 1685.

TiMMEL. — Jan, was a resident of (Ireen-
bush (Rensselaer), N. Y., in 1671.

TiMMERMAN'. — Jan Cornelise, came jjroba-
bly from Leyden, arriving on "den Ilarinck"
("The Herring"), at New Amsterdam, July
7, 1639; tobacco-planter and master carpenter;
was employed that year at Rensselaerswyck,
and engaged by the Patroon to build a church,
July 1 8. 1 64 1.

TjERKSEN. — Isaac, had a child, W'illcm.
baptised at .Albany, May 23, 1686.

ToiNMcr.. — Anthony, a trader of I'.evcrwyck
as early as 1661 ; secretary of Rensselaers-
wyck; married widow of Dedrick Van llamel.

Toll. — Carel Hansen, arrived early in .Al-
bany and among the first to remove to Sche-
nectady, settling near Hoflfman's Ferry ; owned
Cuyler's flat. Cambefort flat, seventh flat and
Maalwyck, and in 1712 had house on l^nion
St.. .Schenectady; married I.ysbet Rinckhont
(if Albany, and their first child, .Xeeltje, bap-
ti>cd there, June 20, 1686.

TdMASEN. — Jacob, had child. Rutger, bap-
tised at .\lbany. .Apr. 17. 1687. Cnrneli'^e To-
mase had child. Ayiiict. l)apti^ed at Allinnv.
.\pr. 10, 1687.

Tkki'IIAOicn. — Ji)h;innes. was jirobablv in
Allianv before 1700, where he married .Aasjie

HUDSON AND MOHAWK \ ALLEYS

W iniic. and tlu-y had a cliild, W illcni. baptised
tiiere, Jan. 8, 1706.

Truex. — Pliilip, same' family name as
Trnax, and a corruption both in spelling and
pronunciation of De Trieux ; was an early set-
tler in Xew Amsterdam, where he was court
messenger : oldest child, Isaac, baptised there,
Dec. 7, 1645, removed from .\lbany to Sche-
nectady, where he married Maria Willemse
Brouwer, and descendants living; there in
1910.

1A\i;rts. — Jan, came from I'Vanicker, Prov-
ince of Friesland. on "d" Eendracht" ("The
L'nity"), sailing from the Texel, July, 1631 ;
was farm worker soon after in Kensselaers-
wyck.

TiRK. — Jactjbus (or James), resident of
Albany probably before 1700, where he was
high sheriff of Albany county in 1703: but
later removed to Kinderhook : married Catha-
rina \'an Pienthuysen at Albany (who died
Feb. 4. 1705). they having had eight children
born at Albany up to July 21, 1700.

Turner. — \\'illiam, was born in England,
and probably resided in Albany before 1700,
where he married .Abigail Bogart. Nov. 7,
1702. thereafter removing to Kinderhook.

Tv.MANSEX. — Reynier, came from Edam.
Prt)vince of North Holland, on the "Arms of
Rensselaerswyck," arriving at New Amster-
dam, March 4, 1637. and recorded in Rensse-
laerswyck, May 7, 1637.

TvME.NSEX. — Cornelis, probably resided at
Albany before 1700, although in later life in
Niskayuna, marrying Maritje Ysbrantse, who
made her will in 1713, and their first child,
Tymen. bap. Dec. 13, 1691 : their second child,
Eldert Cornelis. residing in Niskayuna and
marrying Hester \'isscher, Nov. 7, 1709.

\'.\x Aecken. — Jan Coster, was a trader in
PiAerwyck, 1654-72, dealing in houses and
lots: married Elsie Jansen.

\ AX Alex. — Lourens, resided in Rensse-
laerswyck, on east side of Pearl, between
Maiden Lane and Steuben St., possibly as
early as 1630, and had two sons, Pieter and
Lourens. Pieter was a trader and tailor in
Beverwyck, 1658-74; also owned a bouwerie
in Kinderhook, some time before January,
1674. when he died; married AFaria Teller,
and their son. W'illem. married Maritje Van
Petten, Nov. 4, 1694. Lourens \'an Alen re-
sided in Kinderhook, 1673-99; but in 1677
owned a lot on west side of Broadway, be-
tween Maiden Lane and Steuben st.. Albany;
justice of peace, 1703; and married Elbertje
Evertsen. Lourens equivalent to Laurence,
and some of the descendants preferred the
spelling \'an Allen.

\ AX .Ai.stvxe. — Isaac Janse, resided in Al-

bany a time, but removed to Kinderhook, mar-
rying (1st) Maritje Abberdje N'osburgh, Oct.
20, 1689; (2nd) Jannetje Jochemse Van Val-
kenburgh. Feb. 10, 1689. Abraham Janse \'an
Alstyne resided in Kinderhook and married
Maritje \an Deusen. Jan. 17. 1694. Lam-
bert Janse \'an .Alstyne lived in Kinderhook,
and married Jannetje Mingael, dying Oct. 16.
1703. Marten (or .Martin) Janse \'an .Al-
styne married (1st) Jannetje Cornelise, (2nd)
Cornelia \'an den Bergh, Nov. 10, 1705. The
name was then also spelled \'an .\lsteyn and
Van Alstine. Their descendants by the name
remained there to present time.

\'ax Axtwerp. — Daniel Janse, was born in
1635, and came from Antwerp, .settling in
Beverwyck between 1656-1661, .shortly there-
after buying the "Third Flatt" on the south
side of the Mohawk, some eight miles above
Schenectady, owning also a house on the east
side of Church street, there ; married Maritje
droot. of that place ; possibly their first two
children were baptised in .Albany, — Neeltje,
July 27, 1690, and Rebecca. Dec. 25. 1692.
The name was then more commonly written
\'an .Antw-erpen.

\'ax Arxhem. — Jan Janse, resided in Al-
liany, marrying Hester Fonda, Oct. 14, ifx/i.
and died. .Albany, Apr. i, 1708.

Vax Baal. — ^Jan Hendrickse, was a trader
in Beverwyck, 1661-78; with house in that
village and land on the Normanskill.

\'.\x Bexthuvsex. — Paulus Martense. set-
tled early in Beverwyck. owning much prop-
erty, including .southeast corner of Broadway
and Maiden Lane, which he sold to Harmen
Cansevoort in 1677: had sons, — Balthus (or
P.altus), Barent, and Marten, the latter re-
moving to Schenectady.

\ AX I'lERGKX. — Ca]3t. Marten Gerritse, had
lease of Castle Island, immediately .south of
.Albany. in 1668, which was named ^larten Ger-
ritsen's Island: residing in 1690, on west side
of river, opp. this island ; bought 69 morgens
of land at Coxsackie, 1699; magistrate. 1673-
85; captain of foot. 1685; married (i.st) Jan-
netje Martense; (2nd) Neeltje Myndcrtse.
Jan. 21, 1686.

\"ax BoECKiiovEX.— Claas Janse, owned
land on the \'ossen kill, P>everwyck (Canal
and Columbia sts.. .Albany) in 1662; bought
land in Niskayuna in 1672; married (ist)
\'olckertje Jansen; (2nd) Catalyntjc De \'os.
and died about 171 2.

\'ax Bom MEL. — Harmen Janse. lived at .\1-
bany, where his son. Lourens. was baptised,
Jan. I. 1686, and Cornelis, in 1688.

\'ax Bra k el. — Gerrit Gysbertse, married
(isti Reyntje Stephens: (2nd 1 Elisabeth
[anse (widow of Jan \an Ejis), All)any, July

HUDSON AND .MOHAWK \ ALLEYS

23, 1693; several children born in Albany,
and then removed to Schenectady.

Van BREifEN. — Jan Dirckse, was in Bever-
wyck, 1655-62, contracting in the latter year
to deliver 400 logs to Frans Pieterse Clau on
the Plodder's kill in Columbia county.

V.AN Breuckelen.- — Cornelis Teunise, was
in Beverwyck, 1631-62. Same name as Van
Brakel.

Van Broeckhuysen. — Maurits Janse, was
a young relative of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer,
the first Patroon, arriving on the "Arms of
Rensselaerswyck," at New Amsterdam, March
4, 1637, and was authorized. May 12, 1639,
to establish a farm on de Laets Burg. opp. Al-
bany; returned to Holland just previous to
Feb. 12. 1642.

\'an Brugh. — Johannes Pieterse, was born
in 1624; came from Harlem, Holland, and
was a fur trader in both Rensselaerswyck and
New Amsterdam, before 1657; married Ca-
trina Rdcloffse (daughter of Anneke Jans,
and widow of Lucas Rodenburgh), at New
Amsterdam, March 29, 1658, and their son,
Capt. Pieter, was 6th Mayor of Albany, 1699-
1700, and 1720-1723; who married Sara Cuy-
ler, daughter of the progenitor, at New York,
Nov. 2. 1688. Name also written then \'cr-
brugge and \'erbruggen.

Van Buren. — Cornelis Maas, came from
Holland on the "Arms of Rensselaerswyck."
and had a farm on Papscanee Island : he and
wife died in 164.9, leaving five children, living
in I ()(]_'.

\'a.\ Copper n'oll. — Claas Willemse, re-
sided a time in Albany ; but removed to Sche-
nectady and married a Mohawk Indian
woman, they contracting to serve Jan Conell
on his Catskill farm for 42 beavers a year,
in 1678; their son, Willem, born in .•\lbany,
baptised May 22, 1691 : others born in Sche-
nectady.

\'an Corlaer. — Benoni (or I'ennony), a
glazier and master of sloop "Endeavor,"
1684; married Elisabeth Van dcr Poel (widow
of Sybrant Van Schaick), Albany, June 2,
1686, and died in 1704.

Van Ci'RLER. — .'Krent, came from Nykerck,
Gelderland, Holland, sailing on "den Calmer
Sleitel," from the Texel, December, 1637,
when 18 years old ; commissioned secretary
and bookkeeper of Rensselaerswyck, May 12,
1639, holding the office of "Commis" from
1642 to 1644; took oath as "Gecommitteerde,"
Jan. 5, 165 1 ; became one of the leaders under-
taking the settlement of Schenectady, making
his application to Director Stuyvesant to set-
tle upon the "Great Flat," by letter of June
18. i66r, and was drowned in Lake Clianii)lain
in 1667. lie married Anthonia Sla.ghboom

( \\i(k)w of Jonas Bronck) about 1643: but
left no issue. The spelling "A'an C(Mler" is
also proper, and it has been written 'A'an
Corlaer."

\'.\N CovELENS. — Jacob Joosten (van der
Coulen), owned a house in Beverwyck which
he sold to Jan Dareth for 570 guilders in
1657, and was living near soutliwest cor. of
Broadway and Hudson ave., in iCk/j: mar-
ried .^driaantje \'an \elpen.

Van Dam. — Claas Ripse, a carpenter at
Beverwyck, 1657-93. residing on Bergh
(Chapel) St.; married Maria Bords, and had
son. Rip, born there about 1660; removed to
New York about 1684, where he was mer-
chant and became president of Provincial
Council, and a daughter. Debora, who married
Hendrick Hansen, Mayor of .Albany.

\'an de.\ Berg. — Gysbert Cornelise Berch
(alias "van den Berg") came from Breucke-
len, near L'trecht, was ^ employed on the
Hoogeberch farm, hence commonly called
"van den Hoogenberch," or "van den Berch" :
charged at Rensselaerswyck with rentals be-
ginning in 1648. .Arent \'an den Bergh (or
Van den Bergh) was a corporal in Dutch
West India Co. service at Fort Orange, 1654.
and still residing in Albany in 1666. Claas
Cornelis \'an den Ber,gh was in Beverwyck,
1660-65. Gysbert Van den Bergh was in Bev-
erwyck, 1660-67, buying property north of
Bethleheiu. Gerrit \'an den Bergh was in
Bexerwyck in 1663, as a wurker on Jan ISa-
reiitse Wemp's farm.

\'an de.n Uvtiioi-|-. — Wijuter Alhertse. a
baker, was at Beverwxck in 1657. when he
owned a house near southeast corner liroad-
way and State st.

Van der Baast. — Joris Aertse, a surveyor
employed in Beverwyck, removed to Schenec-
tady and was killed in the Indian massacre
there, Feb. 8, 1690.

\'\N DER BiET. — .\driaeii Tennis, came from
the village of de Bill, near Utrecht, sailing
from the Texel on "den VVaterhondt," June,
1640; recorded at Rensselaerswyck, Sept. 24,
1640, as a farm person in employ of Symon
Walichs. Symon Walichs van Bilt (or Symon
Walichs van der P.ilt), also known as Symon
Walingen. came from Wijngaerden, district
of "het Bildt," Friesland, on the ".Arms of
Rensselaerswyck," arriving at New -Amster-
dam, March 4, 1637 : recorded at Rensselaers-
wyck, Apr. 17, 1637 ; occupied farm on Paps-
canee Is., until May i, 1647; killed by In-
dians near Paulus Hoek. March, 1649. .Adri-
aen Dirckse \'an der Bilt, came from Bildt,
Friesland, and had an action in the Rensse-
laerswyck court, March 24. 165 1.

Van DER BoGART. — Cornelis. died in Albany

HUDSON" AKI^ MOHAWK \AI.I.I':YS

about July lo, 1666. Hannen Mynciertse Van
der Bogart came from Holland on "d' Een-
dracht'' ("The Unity"), in 1631, as a surgeon.
Myndert Harmcnse Van der Bogart was a
gunstocker at Albany in 1689; trader in 1692.
residing on south side of State street, west of
Pearl ; removed to site of Poughkeepsie. which
big tract he bought with Robert Sanders, and
married Helena Schermerhorn.

Van der Donck. — Adriaen, came from
I'.reda, Xorth lirabant province, Holland, sail-
ing from Amsterdam on "den Eyckenboom,"
arriving at New Amsterdam, August, 1641 ;
commissioned "schout" or officer of justice of
Rensselaerswyck, May 13, 1641, before his de-
parture on May 17th ; occupied farm on Cas-
tle Island, until Jan. 17, 1646; soon after May
3, 1646, established a saw-mill and plantation
on the Saegh kill in his own colony, Colen-
donck, or Yonkers, and died in 1655.

\'ax der Hevden. — Jan Cornelise, was
born at Sevenbergen, Brabant, Holland, was a
trader in Beverwyck, 1663; married Aeltje
Janse Wemp of Rensselaerswyck. Jacob Tys-
sen Van der Heyden came to Beverwyck from
New Amsterdam in 1654: married Anna Hals,
July 25, 1655, and other son, Dirck, purchased
a bouwerie of Pieter Van Woggelum at Lub-
berde'sland (Troy, N. Y.), and married Ra-
chel Jochemse Kettelhuyn, March 9, 1687.

\'an der Hoeven. — Jan Cornelise, married
Dorothe Jansen, and had seven children born
in Albany, the first of whom. Cornelis, was
baptised Sept. 16. 1683: removed to Kinder-
hook.

\'an der Kar. — Jan, was probably a resi-
<lent of Albany before 1700, where he mar-
ried Magdalena Baart, Sept. 25, 1718, and had
several children baptised there. Also spelled
\'an der Karr, \'an der Kerre, and \'an de
Car.

\'a.\ der Mei-ten. — Hendrick Gerritse, a
master tailor at Beverwyck in 1662, when he
i>vvned a house on the east side of Broadway,
opp. Beaver st.

\'an der Poee. — Wynant Gerritse, came
from Holland and settled at Beverwyck as
early as 1657, the name signifying from the
lake or marsh : bought sawmill on east side of
the Hudson river, opposite the Schuyler
l-latts, the stream since then known as the
W'ynantskill ; married Tryntje Meljers ; died
in if)99. Tennis Cornelise Van der Poel, alias
"Spitsbergen," was a resident of Beverwyck
•IS early as 1660; owned half of Constapel
Island: magistrate, 167 1 ; married Catrina
Janse Croon : made will June 17, 1687.

\'an der Volgen. — Claas Lourentse, alias
"van Purmerent," married Maritje Swart at
Albanw where their children were baptised,

tile first. Lysbeth. May 9, 1686; removed to
Schenectady.

Van der Werken. — Roeloff Gerritse, came
to Albany ; but removed to Half-Moon in the
Hudson above Cohoes, where he had a farm
as early as 1677, also land on Haver Island, at
mouth of the Mohawk, 1680; married Geer-
truy Jacobsen, and had many children.

Van der Wiege. — Johannes, was probably
a resident of Albany before 1700, where he
married Catryna Heyps, Sept. 6, 17 17.

\'an der Zee. — Storm, son of Albert An-
dries Bratt de Noorman, and according to tra-
dition was born on the voyage to America ; ar-
rived at Rensselaerswyck in 1630. The fam-
ily name was evidently Bratt, for in a deed
of Storm's son, it reads, — "Wouter Storm
Bratt, alias Wouter \'an Der Zee." He was
a trader, and married Hilletje Lansing.

\'an Deu.seni. — Abraham, came from Hol-
land, and his son, Teunis Abrahamse, was in
Beverwyck, 1657-1700. Another son, Jacob
.Mjrahamse, was a cooper, in Albany as early
as 1677 ; married Catalyntntje Van Eslant,
New Amsterdam, Sept. 23, 1663. Melgert
.Abrahamse, resident in Albany, and married
Engeltje Rutgertse Jacobsen there. Many
descendants removed to Kinderhook and Cla-
verack.

Van Doesburgh. — Hendrick Andriese,
alias Driessen, was in Beverwyck earlier than
1654; married Maritje Damen (widow of
Dirck \'an Eps ) at Albany, and had a daugh-
ter. Jannetje, born in 1653.

\'an Dorlandt. — Jacob Lambertsen, came
from Hilversum, arriving on the "Arms of
Rensselaerswyck" at New .Amsterdam, March,
1644; probably same jierson as Jacob Lam-
bertsen Goyer, or Goijer.

\'an Driessen. — Dominie Petrus, came to
.Albany, April, 1712, marrying there, Aug. 26,
1712, Eva Cuyler, daughter of Hendrick Cuy-
ler, the progenitor, and the dominie was bur-
ied in the Albany Dutch church, Feb. 3, 1638.

Van Dwingeeo. — Gertrudy Barentse, was
wife of Jacob Hevick, at Beverwyck, in 1663.

Van Dyck. — Hendrick, came to Fort
Orange from Utrecht in 1645; was an official
under Pieter Stuyvesant. His son, Cornelis,
qualified as surgeon at Beverwyck, in 1661 ;
married (ist) Elizabeth Lakens : secondly,
Elizabeth Beck (widow of Capt. Silvester Sal-
isbury), and after he died, in 1687, she mar-
ried Capt. George Brad.shaw. Oct. 29, 1691.

\'an Eeckeeen. — Jan Janse, resided at Be-
verwyck, 1657-67 ; removed to Flushing, where
he was a schoolmaster, 1691.

Van Eps. — Jan Dirckse, removed from Al-
bany to become one of the earliest settlers of
Schenectady, where he bought a house, bouvv-

HUDSON AND MOHAWK \ALLEYS

€rie, mill-house, etc., of the late i'liilip Hen-
drickse Brouwer, in 1O64, and Curnelis \'an
Nes, his step-father, convexed to him a house
and bouvverie there, in 1667.

\'ai\ Gudsenhoven. — Jan I'.astiaense. was
first recorded in Rensselaerswyck as early as
Feb. 8. 1652, when he appeared in court to
testify and where he owned a house opposite
the City Hall, which then stood on northeast
corner of Broadway and Hudson ave. ; and
died there between Apr. 3. 1666, and July 6,
1667. The name is also written \'an (iutsen-
hoven.

\'.\N (JrvsLi.NG. — Ehas, came from Zealand,
arriving' on the "Bonte koe" ; was at Bever-
wyck in 1659; removed to Schenectady, where
he ])urchased Bastiaen De Winter's plantation
in 1670: married Tryntje Claase : died Ijetore
Apr. 13, 1695.

\'.\x H.\.MEL. — Uirck, succeeded .\nton\- de
Jlooges as secretary of Rensselaerswyck, Octo-
ber, 1655, serving until his death, July 2, 1660:
bought Madam Joanna De Hulter"s house for
2,100 guilders; married Sophia Wyckersloot.

V.^.\• HoECK. — Arent Isaackse. was master
shoemaker at Beverwyck in 1659; had son,
liennony .Arentse, who lived in Schenectady,
where he married Jaquimina Swart (widow of
Pieter Cornelise V'iele) and he was killed in
the Indian massacre there, Feb. 8, i6yo.

Van Hoesen. — Jan F'rans, came to Bever-
wyck about 1645 ; was a helper to Jan Barentse
Wemp ; assigned a garden between the first
and second creeks, Apr. i, 1650; married
Vokkertje Juriaens, and their son, Jurriaen
Janse, ijrobably came with them ; were Lu-
therans ; bought land from Indians at Claver-
ack in 1662. Descendants continued to reside
in Albany, Kinderhouk, Claverack, Athens.

€tC., up to 191 1.

Van Ii.pendam. — .^driaen Janse, was teach-
ing school in New Amsterdam in 1645 ; notary
public in Albany, 1669-85 ; committed suicide
by hanging, in 1685.

Van Loon. — Jan, came from Luxck, iiol-
land ; bought land at Coxsackie. 16S4: mar-
ried Maria Albcrtse, New York, Feb. 23, 1676:
blacksmith at Loonenburgh, 1699; at Cox-
sackie, 1720. Descendants of name living at
Catskill and along the Hudson, in 19 10.

Van LfX)SEREr,HT. — Jacob I lendrickse. an
alias of Maat, which see.

Van Marcken'. — Jan Gerritse. came on the
"St. Jacob" : received patent for lot at Ft.
Casimir on the Delaware, 1657; came from
New .-\msterdam to I'.everwyck in 1657, where
he was a farmer of the excise : appointed
"sellout" in Schenectady in 1673: married
Geertje Gysbertse \'an den I'ergh at P>ever-
wyck.

\'an Mari.e. — Barent, was a trader in Be-
verwyck. 1661-64.

Van Neck. — Lambert Alhert^e. was in Be-
verwyck, 1655-65, when on latter date he re-
moved to New York.

Van Nes. — Cornelis Hendrickse (\'an
Ness, Van Es. or \"an Ess), came from
X'ianen, South Holland, on "den Eycken-
boom," arriving at New Amsterdam, August
1641, and from following spring was charged
at Rensselaerswyck with tithes of farm at
Bethlehem, occupied until 1648: leased farm
in Greenbush, Aug. 25, 1650, formerly occu-
pied by Tennis Cornelis \'an Vechten : was a
brewer there : served as councilor of Rensse-
laerswyck, 1652-58: when living upon the
Havendyck in Holland in 1625. he married
M'ayl-en Hendrickse I'.urchgraaf, wlin died
])revious to his coming to .America, and he
married Maritje Damen (widow uf Dirck
Van Eps). Their first child. Hendrick, mar-
ried .A^nnatje Evertse and secondly Catryna
Van Dam, Nov. 25, 1688. Their second child,
Jan, was living in Greenbush in 1663: at
Cohoes, in 1681 : at Half-Moon, in 1700. and

married Aaltje . Their third child, Ger-

rit. born in 1645, resided in Greenbush, and
married Maria Pieterse Loockermans, in 1667.

Van Xieuwkerk. — Cornelis Brantse. pos-
sibly being the son of Brant Peelen van
Nieuwkerk, was a resident of Beverwyck. for
he was to sail from Holland with Gerrit Hen-
drickse Reis, m 1664

Van Noorstrant. — jan Jacuh-e (van Oos-
trand, becoming \'an Nostrandi, had a farm
on Cohoes Island, in 1677, which he bought
from Annetje Lievens (widow of Goosen Ger-
ritse van Schaick) known in 1900 as \'an
Schaick Island; bought land at Coxsac'-o and
.Xiskayuna, 1685. Pieter \'an Noorstrant,
resident of Beverwyck, removed to Kinder-
hook, and married Rebecca Trephagen ; their
sons, Pieter and Jacob, baptised before 1706.
Willem Van Noorstrant married Maritje De
Hooges, and had son, Johannes, bajitised
Sept. 19, 1708.

Van Norden. — Claes Jans, came from
Naerden, Province of North Holland, on "den
Harinck" ("The Herring"), arriving at New
.Amsterdam, March 28. 1638; also known as
Claes Janse Ruyter. or de Ruijter; a house
carjjcnter ; aged 35 years on arrival ; was cre-
dited with 60 weeks' board by \'an Curler at
Rensselaerswyck ; but apj^arently was living
in May. 1640. with his wife. Pieterje Jans,
at the Manhatans.

\'an Oi.ino.x. — Pieter Danielse ( \'an Der
Linde), was a tailor; married Hilletje Corno-
iisc \'an Slyck. a half-hrocd interi)rctcr ; her
father. Cornelis Antonissen \an Slvck and

HUDSON AND MOHAWK XALLl'.V^

her mother, a ^lohawk liulian, to wliom the
Alohawk sachems gave Great Island in the
Mohawk at Xiskayuiia, in 1667, sold to Capt.
Johannes Cliite, in 1669, and she died in 1707.
Their son, Daniel, married Lysheth Kregier,
June II, 1(^)96. and was living at Half-Moon
in 1720. Descendants of name living in 1900
at Albany, Troy, Cohoes and Schenectady.

\'an Pettex. — Claes Frederickse, married
Aefje Bratt, and was among the earliest fam-
ilies living in Schenectady.

Van Ravensteyn. — Elias, was in Alljany.
1666, until Feb. 9. 1696.

\'an Rensselaer. — The progenitor of the
family in tracing descent is recognized as Kil-
iaen \an Rensselaer, the founder of the Col-
ony of Rensselaerswyck (Albany), son of
Hendrick \'an Rensselaer and Maria Pafraet,
who was born in Hasselt. Province of Over-
yssel, Holland, about 1580, and died in Am-
sterdam, Holland, in 1644, without visiting this
country, whose large tract in and about Al-
bany was acquired by various deeds from the
Indians, the first certificate bearing date Aug-
ust 13, 1630. His son, Colonel Jeremias, born
in Amsterdam in 1632, was the first Patroon
to come to America, and was known as the
Third Patroon, being the successor of his
elder brother, Johannes, (born in 1625 and
died in 1662), without coming to this coun-
try, Jeremias sailed from Holland on "de
Gelderse Blom," Aug. 4, 1654 ; returned on
"den Beer," Oct. 28, 1655 ; sailed from Am-
sterdam on the "Otter," shortly after June 14,
1656; succeeded his brother, Jan Baptist Van
Rensselaer, as Director, Sept. 24, 1658, and
held office until death, in 1674; stated in his
letter to his mother that he married Maria
\'an Cortlandt, July 12. 1662; but marriage
entered in records of Reformed Dutch church
of \ew York, as on April 27, 1662. Jan Bap-
tist (Johan Baptista) Van Rensselaer, the
first of the name in America, came from Hol-
land, and was in Rensselaerswyck as early as
June 29, 1651 ; member of the court from Oct.
18, 165 1, in place of Rutger Jacobsen ; cre-
dited with annual salary of 1,000 florins as
Director of the Colony, from July 24, 1652, to
Sept. 24, 1658, when he returned to Holland,
and was also paid salary for 13 months, June
29, 165 1, to July 24, 1652, when acting as
Director in absence of Van Slechtenhorst at
Xew .Amsterdam. He was not the progenitor
of the family in .America.

\'an Rotterdam. — Jan Janse, had children
(baptised) in .Mbany: Rachel, Jan, 20, 1686:
Sander, June 8, 1690; removed to Schenec-
tady.

\'an Salsbercen. — Jan Hendrickse (or
later Salisbury), recorded convevance of land

from Hudson river to Stone kill at Claverack,
from Gerrit X'isbeeck, 1673; married (first)
Emmeke Luycasse, (second) Tanneke Janse
(widow of Ryk Riddersen), Jan. 30, 1693.
and he died October, 1706. Their son, Lucas
Janse, married Maritje Evertsen, .Apr. 4, 1689,

\'an Saxtvoord. — Cornelis, went from .Al-
bany to Schenectady as the fifth minister,
where he died, Jan. 6, 1752: married .Annatje
Staats, daughter of Johannes Staats, of Sta-
tcn Island, Their eldest son, Cornelis, re-
moved from Schenectady to .Albany, about
1747, marrying Ariaantje Bratt, Dec. 31,
1747, residing on Broadway, -Albany, site of
the X. Y. Central depot in 1910. Their second
son, Staats, was a gunsmith in .Albany about
1747, marrying \\111em])ie I'.ratt, of .Albany,
Dec. 31, i7'47-

\'.\x ScH.MCK. — Capt. (ioosen Gerritse, was
a brewer in Beverwyck, 1649: married (first)
Geertje Brantse Peelen van Xieuwkerk, who
died about 1656; (second) .Annatje Lievens,
1657: he purchased Half-Moon Island, at the
mouth of the Mohawk, from Indians, with
Philip Pieterse Schuyler, in 1664, hence known
as Van Schaick Island : bought house at north
corner of Broadway and Columbia st., Albany,
1664, and died about 1676.

\'ax Schelluyxe. — Dirck. arrived at Be-
verwyck in 1650: was a notary public: secre-
tary of Albany, 1665-68: given a tract at Nis-
kayuna by Indians, 1667: married Cornelia
\'an Buren. and had three children, baptised
at X^ew Amsterdam, the third, Johannes, Sept,
14, .i653-

\ AX ScHiE. — Dominic Cornelis, minister of
Dutch church at Fishkill, 1731-33: called to
.Mijany, May 11, 1733, where buried, Aug. 16,
1744: married Josyna Prys.

\'ax Schi.ixck. — Cornelis Antonis, gener-
ally referred to as Cornelis Teunisen, and
often as Broer Cornelis, although signing his
name as given above, came from Breuckelen,
near Utrecht : was a carpenter and mason ;
sailed on "d'Eendracht" ("The Unity"), May,
1634, from the Te.xel : much of the time be-
tween 1643-48, in Manhattan, received patent
for land at Catskill, from Director Kieft, Aug,
22, 1646: appointed the Patroon "s representa-
tive, ^lay 12, 1639,

\'an Schooniioven. — Geurt Hendrickse. a
carpenter: was living at Half-Moon in 1675:
had farm at Cohoes Island, 1681 : made will
.Aug. 20, 1700. Claas Hendrickse \'an
Schoonhoven was probably a brother of the
former, coming from I'trecht : car|)enter at
Beverwyck, 1634: married Cornelia I'reder-
ickse, and died March 15, 1661,

Van Sr.iCHTENHORST, — Barent .Aertse,
came from Xvkerck, Gelderland, Holland, ar-

xl

HUDSON AND MOHAWK \ALLEYS

riving at Rensselaerswyck, March 22, 1648,
and was director of the colony, serving until
July 24, 1652, when Jan Baptist Van Rensse-
laer succeeded him ; was still in the colony
July, 1655; but returned to Nykerck in 1660,
where he died about 1668; his daughter, Mar-
garita, married Col. Philip Pieterse Schuyler.
The name is also sometimes \'an Slecht-
enhorst.

Van' Slvck. — Cornelis Antonissen, alias
"Broer Cornelis," was given a large tract at
Catskill for service in bringing about peace
with the Indians ; married a Mohawk Indian
woman, by whom sons, Jacques, Cornelise and
Marten, the former settling in Schenectady,
where he owned half of an island in the Mo-
hawk given by the natives, and the latter was
in Beverwyck in 1661. Cornelis Teunis \'an
Slyck was in Beverwyck, 1659-68, where he
was "raets persoon." Willeni Pieterse \'an
Slyck was at Beverwyck in 1655. Pieter Wil-
lemse Van Slyck married Johanna Barheit,
April 9. 1683, and resided in Kinderhook.

Van Stefi-eniers. — Arent. arrived on the
"Arms of Rensselaerswyck." at New Amster-
dam, March 4, 1637 ; hog dealer : engaged at
Rensselaerswyck, Apr. 17, 1637: married on
March 22, 1637, at Manhatans. widow of Cor-
nelis Tomasen.

Vani Stettyn. — Evert : see Pels.

Van Strev. — Jan, was a resident of Albany
before 1700; married Johanna (or Annatje)
Van der Poel, widow. New York, June, 1694,
and had child, Lysbet, baptised .Albany, Jan.
5, 1700.

\'an Tricht. — Abraham, resided in Al-
bany before 1700: married Lysbeth Teller,
daughter of Willem Teller, and had children
(baptised) Magdalena, Oct. 21, 1683; Helena,
May 30. 1686. His widow married Melgert
Wynantse Van der Poel.

Van Twiller. — Jan, probably a brother of
Wouter Van Twiller, and cousin of Jeremias
Van Rensselaer, was a commissioner in Rens-
selaerswyck in 1649; boarding then with Van
Slichtenhorst : was a councilor, July 24, 1652
— July 24, 1657; probably left colony in 1657.
Johannes Van Twiller was a merchant in
Beverwyck, 1654-62. Aert Goosense Van
Twiller came from Nykerk, Geklerland, Hol-
land, and was in Beverwyck. 1661-63.

Van VAi.KENiiERf,. — Lambert (van Valck-
enburch, X'alkenburg or \'alkenburgh), was
mentioned in court records of Rensselaers-
wyck, March 7, 1652: but was in New Amster-
dam as early as January, 1644, where he
bought a house and 25 morgens of land, re-
ceiving a patent there, March 16, 1647: prob-
ably an inhabitant of Fort Orange and not
of Rensselaerswyck : married Annatje ,

in 1645; their son, Jochem Lambertse, bap-
tised in New Amsterdam, Nov. 4, 1646; mar-
ried Eva Hendrickse Vrooman, who died in
1706; secondly, Jannetje Mingael (widow of
Lambert \'an Alstyne, Feb. 23, 1713, and
was living in Kinderhook in 1720.

Van V'echten. — Teunis Cornelise, came
from Vechten, near Utrecht, on the "Arms of
Rensselaerswyck," arriving at New Amster-
dam, March 4, 1637, when a boy; entered at
Rensselaerswyck, Apr. 8, 1637; served under
Alichiel Jans until May i, 1646, and then suc-
ceeded him on his farm called "de Hooge-
berch," which he occupied until May i, 1648;
leased south end of "het greenebos" (pine
woods, Greenbush), Oct. 15, 1648, from Di-
rector Van Slechtenhorst, and the same sold
to him a house south of fifth creek, Rensse-
laerswyck, March 17, 1650. Teunis Dirckse
\'an \echten came from \'echten, Holland, on
"het Wapen van Noorvvegen" ("Arms of Nor-
way") arriving at New Amsterdam, Aug. 4,
1638, with wife and one child; farmed first
for others at Rensselaerswyck ; but from 1640
occupied his own farm at Greenbush, formerly
that of Teunis Cornelise Van Vechten, and in
1648 had a half interest in the colony's brew-
ery (bouwery?) in Greenbush ; known by alias
"Poentie." Dirck Van Vechten, son of Teu-
nis Dirckse, came by "den Waterhondt," sail-
ing June, 1640.

Van Velsen. — -Sweer Teunise, alias Van
Westbroeck, was residing in Albany about
1666, when he married Maritje Myndertse
(widow of Jan Barentse Wemp) ; received
conveyance of land at Lubberde'sland (Troy),
where he had sawmill on the Poesten kill ;
also bought west corner of Broadway and Van
Trom]3 street, .\lbany, 1667; built grist mill
in Schenectady, 1669, and thereafter resided
there. Killed in Indian massacre there, Feb.
8, 1690.

Van Vorst.— Gillis, resided first in .\lbany,
and married Lysbeth Van Eps, Schenectady,
July 16, 1699, where he continued to reside.

Van Voorhout. — Cornelis Segersen (Zeger-
sen), appears as "van Egmont" in contract
with the Patroon, Aug. 25, 1643, before sail-
ing, arrived with wife, Brechtje Jacobsen, 45
years old, and six children, on "Arms of Rens-
selaerswyck," at New Amsterdam, March,
1644: leased Brant Peelen's farm on Castle
Island. Cornelis Cornelise, eldest son of Cor-
nelis Segersen Van Voorhout, arrived on
"Arms of Rensselaerswyck," and leased farm
in Greenbush. Claes Cornelise Van Voorhout,
also called Claes Segersen, second son of Cor-
nelis Segersen Van Voorhout, arrived on
"Arms of Rensselaerswyck." at New Amster-
dam, March, 1644. came to Rensselaerswyck

HUDSON AXl) MOHAWK \AI,LEYS

xli

and (Kcupied a farm on Papscanee Island, in
1648-58.

\'an Vranken. — Claes (alias "van Frank,"
\an I-'ranke, or \an Franken) early settler
at Albany, then bought land at Niskayiina,
1672.

Van Vredenbergh. — Willem, resided in
Albany about 1700: married Heyltje \'an Et-
ten. and removed to Kinderhook. where their
child. Appolonia, was born. Jan. 13. 1706.

\'an Wencom. — Gerrit (Gerardus). was at
Bethlehem, Dec. 8, 1649, when assaulted by an
Indian ; still living in the colony in 1653.

Van Westbroeck. — Cornelis Teunise, came
to Rensselaerswyck in 163 1, where he was an
extensive trader in furs, sending 700 beavers
to Manhattan in 1654: might have been a
brother of Sweer Teunise Van Westbroeck,
alias "X'an Velsen,"' who removed to Schenec-
tady.

\'an- Westervelt. — Juriaen (Bestval, Best-
vall, Bestivall, Westval, Westvael, Westvaelt,
\'an Westvaele. etc.), came from Leiderdorp,
near Leyden. on "den Houttuyn," arriving at
New Amsterdam, Aug. 4, 1642: wages in
Rensselaerswyck began Aug. 13, 1642, and
mentioned July, 1644, as servant of Michiel
Jansen, but on Jan. 14, 1649, took over lease
of Evert Pels' farm on Papscanee Island.

\'an Wie. — Hendrick Gerritse, was in Be-
verwyck, 1654-91 ; went on the expedition to
Canada, where he was wounded, and Col.
Pieter Schuyler petitioned the governor for
his relief in 1691. about which time he died.
Teunis Gerritse \'an Wie. perhaps brother of
the former, resideci at Albany in 1666. \'an
Wie's Point, south of Albany, named after
his family. The name was also written Van
Wye. \'an Wey. and \'erwey.

Va^ Witbeck. — Jan Tomase : see Witbeck.

\'an' Woert. — Teunis Jacobse and Rutger
Jacobse, came from Schoonderwoert, Province
of South Holland, sailing from the Texel.
June, 1640, on "den Waterhondt" : engaged
at Rensselaerswyck from Sept. 4. 1640. The
name a contraction of \'an Schoonderwoert.
See Rutgers.

Van Woggelum. — Pieter and Jacob Adria-
ense : see Soegemalyk.

Van Wormer. — Henri, came from Wor-
mer. Holland, about 1655, settling first in New
Jersey, the family moving northward in New
York state, settling even as far as the northern
counties.

Van Yveran>. — or Van Iveren ; see Myn-
derse.

Van Zandt. — Jan, the progenitor of this
family was of Spanish origin and came to

Albany, marrying Jannetje , by whom

Johannes and Joseph, the former a turner.

married ^Margarita \'an der Poel. removing
to New York about 1693, after birth of five
children in Albany : the second son, Joseph,
marrying Seitje Alarselis at Albany, 1688;
was naturalized Dec. 6, 1715, and had several
children born at Albany. The first, Jannetje,
baptised Aug. 11, 1689.

Vastrick. — Gerrit. a commissioner of Rens-
selaerswyck in 1650: but in New Amsterdam
as early as July 16. 1644. Robert Vastrick
was first mentioned at Rensselaerswyck, Jan.
II, 1652; left the colony before Sept. 30, 1657.

\'edder. — Harmen Albertse. a trader, early
bought land at Schenectady and at Steen Raby
( Lansingburg, near Troy), and several house
lots in Albany : his son. .Arent, residing in
Schenectady, married Sara Groot, and their
first child, Rebecca, was born Oct. 25, 1691.
Families of this name living in 19 10 in Sche-
nectady. Catskill and Hudson river towns.

\'eeder. — Symon \'olckertse, a baker,
owned a house in Manhattan in 1654. one in
Beverwyck, and bought a bouwerie in Sche-
nectady, where he settled among the first in
1662, and his four sons continue the name
there to this day.

V^ERBEECK. — Jan (or Johannes |. was born
in 1612, came from Breda. North Brabant
province, Holland, arriving at New Amster-
dam. Nov. 29, 1641. on "den Coninck David"
("King David"), with wife, child and maid;
was a tailor ; spent winter there, and was re-
corded at Rensselaerswyck in 1642: house in
Greenbush ; took oath as member of court of
Rensselaerswyck, Jan. 12, 1651, and was or-
phan master.

Verbrugge. — Johannes Pieterse : see \'an
Brugh.

Vermeulen. — Hendrick Gerritse, was re-
siding in Albany. 1667-71, buying a house on
south corner of Broadway and Maiden Lane,
from Cornelis Van Nes,' in 1667, which he
sold to Arent Jansen.

Vernoy. — Cornelis, probably resided in Al-
bany before 1700, as he married Sara Ten
Broeck there, and they had a child baptised
in Albany, Jan. 6. 1706.

Verplanck. — Abraham Isaacse, came from
Holland, settling in New Amsterdam until he
obtained a patent for land from Governor
Kieft. at Paulus Hoeck. in 1638; married
Maria, daughter of Guleyn Vigne and Ad-
riaantje Cuilje, and died about 1691. Their
second child. Catalyna, married David Piet-
erse Schuyler of Rensselaerswyck. Their
third child, Guleyn (born Jan. i. 1637, died
Apr. 23, 1684: remained in New Amsterdam,
marrying Hendrikje Wessels. Their ninth
child, Isaac, baptised Feb. 26, 165 1, was a
shoemaker in Albany, married Abigail Uyten-

xlii

HUDSDX AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

bogart, and left ciescendanls of name living
in Albany in 19 lo.

Verwey. — Hendrick Gerritse ; see Van Wie.

ViELE. — Cornelis Cornelise, owned a lot on
west corner of State and Pearl sts., Albany,
which he sold to Richard Pretty in 1673;
bought a bovnveric in Schenectady in 1668.
and exchanged it in 1670 with Jurriaan Teu-
nise Tappen, for house on south side of State
St., west of Pearl st.. Albany: had children:
Arnout (or Arnold), Cornelis and Pieter.

\'iLLEROY. — Pierre; see De Garmeaulx.

X'lxiiAGEX. — Jan Dirckse, was born at Gee-
men, Holland, in 1633; a tailor in Albany
where he owned house on northeast corner
of Broadway and State St., in 1669, and still
living in 1708.

VisBEECK. — Gerrit, was master of a sloop at
Albany in 1665 : conveyed land at Claverack
to Jan Hendrickse V^an Salsbergen and Gerrit
Van Slechtenhorst, in 1672.

VisscHER. — Harmen Bastiaanse, was a car-
penter in New Amsterdam, as early as 1649,
and soon came to Beverwyck where he had a
garden near the southeast corner of Broadway
and Hudson avenue, and house-lot on west
side of Pearl st., between Maiden Lane and
Steuben St.; was village surveyor in 1666;
married Hester Tjerkse. The name was at
that time frequently written Visser, Visger,
Visselaer (or laar). De Visser, De Vyselaer
and Fisher.

Vos.— Cornelis Cornelise. was in Bever-
wyck, 1654-67: owned sloop plying lietween
there and New Amsterdam: married Dirckje
Pieterse, who died in 1665. Han (or Jo-
hannes) Vos came to Beverw^yck from Baden
in 1642, and removed to Catskill ; was deputy
sheriff, 1661. Jacob Cornelise Vos, alias Bo-
gart, P.ogert, Van der Bogart, etc., married
Jannetje Quackenbos at Albany, and their first
child, Cornelis, baptised there, Sept. 28, 1683.
The name was tlien also written Vosje, and
meant fox.

VosBURGH. — Pieter Jacobse. was the first of
the name at Rensselaerswyck, and his son,
Abraham Pieterse, was living there in August,
1649 ; the latter being a carpenter and trader,
sending 1,500 beavers to New Amsterdam in
1654; leased a mill on creek south of Jan
Barentse Wemp's farm, Sept. 30, 1656; died
about 1660: owned sawmill on the Wynants-
kill which his widow sold in 1674 to Wyant
Gerritse Van der Pocl. The name was then
also written Vosburch, \^osbergen, \^osber-
ghen.

Vrooman). — Bartholomeus, was an early set-
tler in Beverwyck, where he had sons, Pieter.
Jacob and Hendrick. Each of these in taking
the father's given name contracted it to Mees.

I'ieter lived on State St., near Broadway, Al-
bany, in 1677; married \'olckje Pieterse (wi-
dow of Gerrit Janse Stravast) and died in
1684. Jacob was a carpenter; married Eliza-
beth (widow of Teunis Cornelise Swart) of
Schenectady ; resided near Broadway and
State St., Albany, and will probated Sept. 22,
1 69 1. Hendrick removed to Kinderhook,
about 1670, engaging the farm of Robert
Sanders at Steen Raby (Lansingburg, N. Y.)
same year; removed to Schenectady in 1677,
residing on site of the N. Y. Central railroad
depot of 1910 ; killed in Indian massacre there,
Feb. 8, 1690.

Vysel.\er. — Jan Cornelise, alias Gouw, was
in Beverwyck 1654-91 ; bought land and saw-
mill on the Poestenkill (near Troy) in 1675.

Waelingen. — Jacob, came from Hoorn,
Province of North Holland, was living at
New Amsterdam, Jan., 1639; and likely at
Rensselaerswyck, May 12, 1650, when re-
corded that he was about to leave the colony.

Waert. — Gysbert Cornelise, came from
Weesp, near Amsterdam ; was a tavern-keeper
at Rensselaerswyck in the fall of 1644.

Wagenaer. — J a c o b Arentse, originally
known without this surname, was a wagoner,
who had sailed from the Texel, Holland, on
"den Calmer Sleutel," December, 1637, when
25 years old : was employed first at New Am-
sterdam : but recorded at Rensselaerswyck,
June 26, 1639.

Wakefield. — Tonias, was an early resident
I if .Albany, where his child, .\nna. was baptised
-Aug. 25, 1689.

Waldrox. — Willem, came from .Amster-
dam, Holland : married Engeltje Stouten-
burgh. New Amsterdam, Feb. 10, 1671, and
their son, Pieter, was baptised there, June 25,
1675, married Tryntje Cornelise A'an den
Bergh there, Sept. 9, 1698, and they removed
to Albany two years later, where all but their
first child were born, and where he died : bur-
ied. May 3. 1725.

Warmond. — -Matthys, resided in .Albany,
where he married Susanna Heghs (or Hicks),
and their first child, Willem, bajitised there,
.April 13, 1696.

Wemp. — Jan Barentse, was nicknamed
Poest : appears on the Rensselaerswyck re-
cords as early as 1643, serving under Cornelis
Teunisen : from Apr. 10, 1645, to June 11,
1646, in charge of the Patroon's farm called
"de \'lacktc," and Aug. 13. 1646, contracted
to take charge of a grist-mill on the fifth
creek : took a farm on the Poestenkill. Nov. i,
1654: married Maritje Myndertse; owned half
of the Great Flat at Schenectady, where most
of his descent resided.

Wendell. — Evert Janse, was born at Em-

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

xliii

den, in 1615, was a cooper; resided some years
in New Amsterdam before coming to Bever-
wyck, where lie owned house on northwest
corner of James and Stale sts. ; married (first)
Susanna Du Trieux (or Truax), New Am-
sterdam, July 31, 1644: (second) ^Liritje
Abrahamse Vosburgh in 1663, and died about
1702. The name was then also commonly
spelled W'endel.

Wessels. — Jochem, was a baker at Rens-
selaerswyck ; recorded there first on his peti-
tion of Sept. 28, 165 1, for a place in the vil-
lage ; married Geertuy Hieronimus ; resided
on southeast corner of Broadway and State
St., and died in 1681. Name was also then
spelled as properly Wesselse or Wesselsen.
See Ten Broeck.

W'estercamp. — Hendrick Janse, was a
baker, permitted to locate at Rensselaerswyck,
Apr. 2, 1648 ; granted a garden between the
first and second creeks, Apr. i, 1650; married
Femmetje Albertsen ; resided at northeast cor-
ner of Broadway and State St., and died in
Eieverwyck about 1655.

W'iBUSSE. — Gerrit, was probahly residing in
Albany before 1700, where he married Maria
Gilbert, June 8, 1706.

WiLLEMSEN. — Adriaen. stole beaver-skins
from Arent Van Curler in Rensselaerswyck
and was banished Aug. 13. 1644. David Wil-
lemsen married Rachel Hansen at Albany,
and they had a child, Johannes, baptised there,
Apr. 6. 1692. Teunis Willemsen was born at
Heyvelt, Province of Utrecht, Holland, and
came from Woutbergh. and after residing in
Albany, occupied a farm at Niskayuna, 1678;
marrying Jannetje Hendricksen. Name same
as Williamson.

Williams. — Thomas, came to Albany from
New York City, and married (first) Agnietje
Gansevoort, Aug. 7, 1692; (second) Ililletje
(or Helena) Bronck, June 26, 1712; sheriff
of Albany county, 1699, resided on east corner
of Green St., and Hudson ave.

Wii.i.ETT.- — Thomas, was a trader at Be-
verwyck in 1663 ; originally from Bristol,
Eng. : married Sara Cornell, New Amsterdam,
Sept. I, 1643, and died about 1677. The
name then also spelled Willet.

Wir.sox. — Samuel, was a merchant in New
^'nrk and Albany, with house in latter place
near the southwest corner of Broadway and
Maiden Lane, in 1677.

WixNE. — Pieter (Winnen). also recorded
as "Pieter de Mamingh," meaning "the Flem-
ing" ; was born in Ghent, Mandcrs ; charged

on Rensselaerswyck accounts from the fail of
1652, for a farm, apparently at Bethlehem,
just below Albany; bought half of Constapel
Island from Volckert Janse Douw, in 1677,
and a sawmill in Bethlehem from Nicolaas
Van Rensselaer; married Tannetje Adams;
made joint will July 6, 1684, which was pro-
bated Feb. 22, 1696; their first child, Pieter,
born at Rensselaerswyck, in 1643.

WissELPENNiNGH. — Rcynicr, was a carpen-
ter at Beverwyck, 1654-61 ; married widow
of Symon Root, and she was dead in 1654.

WiTBECK. — Jan Tomase, was born at Wit-
beck, in Holstein ; one of the largest real es-
tate dealers in Beverwyck, 1652-78; bought
the whole of Apje's, or Little Monkey's, island
(Schodack), with Volckert Janse Douw, in
1664. and the mainland opjiosite on the east
bank; married Gertrude Andriese Dochter.
Also called Van Witbeck.

WiTiiARDT. — Johannes, was a trader in New
Amsterdam as early as 1654; was at Bever-
wyck in 1656; where he owned a liouse next
west of northwest corner of Pearl and State
streets.

WiTMOND. — Jan and Cornells, owned a
brewery in Greenbush (Rensselaer, N. Y.), in
1657, which they sold to Willem Brouwer
for 1.207 guilders.

Woodcock. — John, was born in Yorkshire,
Eng., and probably lived in Albany before
1700, as he married Ariaantje Gardenier there,
May 3, 1702.

WvNCAART. — Lucas Gerritse. was a baker
at Albany; married Annatje Janse Van Hoe-
sen, and their second child, Maria, was bap-
tised there, Feb. 15, 1685; his oldest son,
Gerrit Lucasse, was a trader at Albany, and
married Sara Harmse Visscher there, Nov.
4, 1694.

WvNKoop. — Pieter, came from Holland on
tlie "Arms of Rensselaerswyck," and was in
Rensselaerswyck in 1644, and his son, Cor-
nelis, bought a lot there in 1657.

Y.XTES. — Joseph, was living in Albany prob-
al)ly before 1684, where his son, ChristofTel,
was baptised, April 16, 1684; was a smith;
married Hubertje Marselis ; resided on the
east corner of Green and Beaver sts., in 1713,
and was buried May 22, 1730. The descen-
dants of name resided in Albany and Schenec-
tady in 1 9 10.

Young. — Simon (Jongh), was sheriff of
Albany county, 1696; married Anna Rowe,
and their child, Elizabeth, baptised. Albany,
Sept. 6, 1696.

ADDENDA AND ERRATA
INDEX

ADDENDA AND ERRATA

The following addenda and errata were received after the narrative pages had gone tliroiigh tin- press.

Blaisdell, p. 796, 2d col. ; a son, Thomas Houghtahng. was horn to Robert V. B. and Marguerite V.
(Briggs) Blaisdell, November 3, 1910.

Bovie, p. 969; in this narrative the name Hoosac is preserved. The ancient spelling was Hoosac, or
Hoosack, an Indian word meaning Owl Valley, but when the town was incorporated, for some unaccountable
reason the spelling was changed to Hoosick, which means nothing. Every name is Hoosac across the state
line m Massachusetts — Hoosac Tunnel, Hoosac Mountain, Hoosac River, etc. Mr. George M. Bovie"s
first school attendance was in Hoosac, New York, not Vermont.

Boyd, p. 444, 2d col. ; John Logan Boyd, or John Jr., as he was usually called (eldest child of John
Boyd (l), was born October 8, 1758, in Ireland, and came to Albany with his parents in 1762. He was
a millwright and farmer in Ballston, now Charlton, Saratoga county. Was first supervisor of Charlton,
1791, and later a justice of the peace; was therefore of good standing and repute. In politics he was
undoubtedly a moderate Royalist, or "Tory" ; was once arrested on suspicion, by the commissioner of con-
spiracies of .Albany county, and his father was one of his bondsmen in the sum of i200. He was driven
from home, however, by Burgoyne's approach, and with his neighbors petitioned the authorities for better
military protection. He married Anna Northrop, March 25, 1779. They had twelve children, ten of whom
were born in Charlton, one, Polly, in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1782, and the youngest child was born
in Newark, now Niagara, Ontario, Canada, to which place the family removed about 1799; there they prob-
ably died and were buried.

Burritt, p. 1437 ; for narrative of Robert Fulton see p. 302.

Burton, p. 1097, par. i ; Richardson Clarke was evidently born in 1806. instead of 1866, as stated in the
text.

Conger, p. 1674, 2d col.; for William M., second child of William Conger, read William H.

Culver, p. 532; David Culver (IV), lived in Northampton, L. I., and moved to Hebron, Conn.; he
was in the battle of Germantown. David Culver (V) was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Stephen
Lee was a great-grandson of Thomas Lee.

Culver, p. 533, 1st par.; Charles Bellamy married Caroline Smith; same par., for Maria Eliza, daugh-
ter of James Culver, read Mary Eliza, p. 534; Dr. Charles M. Culver is still (1911) a U. S. pension exam-
ining surgeon.

Cuylcr, p. 1727, 2d col., last par.; Charlotte Hanford wa> a daughter of Gershom Selleck Hanford and
Sarah Hayes.

Dempster, p. 1634, 2d col., last par. In correspondence received after pages had gone through the
press, the name Putnam appears as Putman. Ralph Putnam (Putman) was son of Lewis; he married
Mary Schenck ; her father was Ralph Schenck ; he was in the revolutionary war, and was in the battle of
Monmouth, and others; he married Ann Taylor. P. 1635; corrected data of children of David S. Dempster:
Willard J., born June 18, 1877; Rena L., March 15. 1879; David Dudley, July 29, 1884; Dorothy, Septem-
ber 9, 1902.

Everts, p. 1708; birth date of James Evarts, evidently incorrect, and not ascertainable. P. 1709, 2d col.,
1st par.; for Miriam (McNitt) 'Woodard, read Mariam. Par. 2; for Evarts, read Everts. Same column ;
wherever name Woodward appears, read Woodard. P. 1710, 2d col., last par., for Miriam, read Mariam.
P. T711. 1st col., 1st par.; for Georgia Bockes read Georgianna Bockes. Same par.: Martin Woodard
married Jemima Rea. Same par.; Supplemental dates: Lydia Woodard married William Shaw. August 26,
1863; Emma Woodard married Capt. Joseph Hays, November 15, 1866; Mariam Woodard married S. F.
Farrar. February 14, 1887.

Fuller, p. 173, 2d col., 1st par.; Charles H. Douglas and Sarah M. Root were married June 7, 1893.

Gilchrist, p. 9.38; Robert Cuthbert writes to Mr. Frank Gilchrist: "Our great grandfather's name was
.'\ndrew Gilchrist, father of Andrew, Robert and Thomas. Grandmother's- name was Elizabeth Dawson.
Grandfather and family came to this country from Ncwbliss, county Monaghan. Ireland."

Hilton, p. 370, 2d col.; Copies of headstones in Hilton burying plot at Meredith, N. H. : Capt. Daniel
Hilton died July 30, 1827. aged 69. Major Daniel Hilton died Feb. 27, 1867, aged 72. Elizabeth M.. wife
of Daniel Hilton, died May 13. 1869, aged 70. George, son of Maj. Daniel and Elizabeth M. Hilton, died
.\pril 15, 18,30, aged 4 years and 6 months. George O., son of Maj. Daniel and Elizabeth M. Hilton, died
.■\ugiist 22. 1838, aged 6 years and 6 months. Mrs. .-Xmanda .M. Garman, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth
Hilton, died Oct. 10, 1904. aged 81. Fannie E., daughter of Jabez J. and .Xmanda M. Garmau. died June
13. 1909. aged 63. Capt. D.miel was father of Maj. Daniel, who was the father of Maj. Charles, father of
Col. George.

xlvii

xlviii HUDSON AND .MOHAWK \ALLEYS

Husted, p. 985; corrected ancestry of lliaddeus Husted (V): (1) Robert Husted. CH) Angel Hus-
ted. (Ill) Samuel Husted, born about 1670. probably in Greenwich, Connecticut; record not found; died
1741, in Stamford, Connecticut; married, about 1696, Sarah, daughter of Moses and Abigail (Wescoat)
Knapp; she died November 20, 1717, in Stamford. Connecticut. Children; i. Nathaniel, born 1698, died
April 9, 1758, in Greenwich, Connecticut, unmarried. 2. Joseph, married, December 2, 1731, in Stamford,
Connecticut, Deborah Ferris, who bore him nine children. 3. Zebulon, see forward. 4. Elizabeth, died
1730; married, 1715, in Stamford. Connecticut, John Adams, of Greenwich ; five children, S.Sarah. 6. De-
borah, married Samuel Adams, of Fairfield, Connecicut. (IV). Zebulon Husted, married Abigail ;

children, born in Stamford, Connecticut: i. Samuel, born February 22, 1733, died young, 2. Sarah, born
November 22, 1736. married, November 22, 1759, Josiah Waterbury. 3. Samuel, born October 7, 1738,
4. .'\bigail, born December 30, 1740, married, January 7, 1762, Peter Weed. 5. Hannah, born March 14,
1742-43. 6. Nathaniel, born May 19. 1746, married, .^pril 14. 1768, Hannah Webb. 7.. James, born August
II, 1748. 8. Thaddeus, see forward. 9. Mary (twin), baptized August 5, 1755. in Congregational church,
Stamford, unmarried in 1791. 10, Martha (twin), same as Mary, (V), Thaddeus Husted, born August
31, 1750; married (first) May 25, 1775, in Stamford, Connecticut, Rhoda Davenport; children: Sliadracli.
Deborah, Catharine. For second marriage and children of second wife see p. 5^5.

Miller, p. 1107, 2d col., 2d par.; for marriage date of Abraham J. D. Miller and Cornelia W, \'an
Home, read December 29, 1857.

Rossman, p. 1649, 1st col., ist par. ; for Catherine, daughter of Daniel Rossman, read Katherine M.

Rudd, p. 1442, 2d col.; at the time of the Battle of Bennington. Joseph Rudd (IV) went to the battle,
and his wife and four children went to Williamstown, slie and three children riding a horse, and Celinda,
the oldest, seven years old, walking alongside, a distance of nineteen miles — a case of unusual hardship, espe-
cially for the daughter Celinda.

Serviss, p, 789, ist col,. 2d par.; concerning Sclniyler Bussing Serviss, for "leading educators" read
"leading scientists."

Thayer. Nathaniel. Jr., p. 27, ist col., 2d par.; he died at Boston, March 21, 1911,

Vanderheyden, p. 683-685 ; later generations give the family name in the -form of Vanderheyden. instead
of Van der Heyden.

Van Rensselaer, p. 19, 1st col., 2d par.; for Philip Schuyler (Van Rensselaer), read Philip Stephen,

Van Rensselaer, p, 1819, 1st col., 1st par.; Cornelia Paterson Turnbull was born Dec. 2, 1848, and died in
Westchester, N. Y,, May 29, 1850,

Wakeman, p, 1042; Abram Wakcman (VII) married (second), Kate Billings (widow), daughter of
Dr. Price, of Utica, New York.

Wheeler, p. 575, 2d col., last par.; Elizabeth ( B jyd ) Wheeler died January 2, igii,

Younglove. p, 829, 2d col., 2d par.; for David, fifth child of Isaiah Vounglove (IV), read Isaiah.

INDEX

1409 to end. Where

ises pp. 1-484; Volume II, pp. 485-948; \'nlui
;m asterisk (*) appears against a name, referenc

Abel .'Vncestry, 1027

Alvan, 1028

Andreas, 1027

Andrew, 1028

Michael, 1027

Philip, 1028
Abrams Ancestry, 1218

Augustus C, 1219

Benjamin, 1218

Elijah, 1218
Adams Ancestry, 9^)0,

Amos M., g6i

Charles H., 1508

Henry, 1507

Henry, Dr.. 1508

Ira L., 961

Isaac, 1508

Jacob, 960

Joab, 960

Joel, 960

John, 960

John, 1507

John Q., 961

Joshua, 1508

Peter, 1507

Peter C, Dr.,

Robert, 960

Williaip P., 1509
Adriance Ancestry, 425

.•\braham, 426

1508

Abraham J., 426

Elbert, 425

John, 426

Rem, 426

Thomas B,, 427

Thomas F,, 427

Thomas M,, 426
.'\gard .'Vncestry, 1706

Amos, 1706

James, 1706

John, 1706
.•\kin Ancestry. 124, (

David, 124

David, 913

Edward, 124

James, 124

John, 124

John, 913

Jonathan, 913

Martha T.. 914

William, 913
.•Mbright Ancestry,

.\dam, 1483

Hendrick, 1480

Isaac, 1481

Isaac, 1482

Jacob, 1 48 1

Jacob, 1482

John W., 1482
Aldon ,\ucestrv, 42

480

HI. pp. 949-1408; Volume I\'. pp,
i made to addenda and errata page.

Charles L., 431

Charles S., 432

David. 429

Henry, 429

Henry, 430

Isaac, 430

John, 429

John. 430

John ('.., 432

Langford T., 432

William, 430
Aldrich, Charles F.. 1581

Charles S., 1581
.\lex .\nccstry, 1786

John F.. 1786

Kark, 1786

Nicholas, 1786
.'Mien Ancestr>-, 2O8, 348, 632,
1109, 1274, 1650

Bradford, 1275

Caleb, 632

Clifford H., 1706

Cyrus. 632

Daniel, 1109

David, 349

David, 1274

David I., 1274

Elisha, 1 109

Genevieve L., 165 1

George. 348

HUDSON AND MOIIAWK VALLEYS

xlix

George, 1437

George M., 349

Harry J., 1650

Henry A., 268

Henry A., 269

Hiram, i iii

Horace, 268

Howard W., 165 1

James, 632

John. 34«

John, 632

John. 1109

John, 1274

John C, 1650

Joseph, 268

Judah, 348

Loren, 1109

Marcus B., 349

Marcus C. iiii

Mary, 632

Mary J., 1437

Prince, 348

Ralph, 348

Richard B., 1651

Rufus, 268

Samuel, 1437

Samuel, 1650

Samuel G., 165 1

William, 632
Alvord, Thomas G.. 669
Andros Ancestry, 1332

Abel, 1332

Benjamin, 1332

Charles B., 1333

Charles H., 1333

Daniel, 1332

John, 1332

William N.. 1333
Angell. Sarah, 1576

Thomas. 1576
Argersinger Ancestry, 1145

Catherine W., 1145

Chauncey E., 1147

Hiram, 1146

James P.. 1149

John, 1 145

John, 1147

Leonard, 1 148

Margaret S., 1149

Michael, 1312

Michael J., 1 148

Philetus P.. 1146

Philip, 1 145

Sidney, 1 148

Winfield S.. 1312
Arkell .\ncestry, 1327

James, 1,327

William, 1327

William J.. 1328
Armitage Ancestry, 1052

Aaron A.. 1053
.John P., 1053
John W., 1052

William. 1053
William P., io=;3

William P., 1052
Armstrong .Ancestry, 1349, 16

Albert B.. 1350

Barber C, 1350

Benjamin, 1349

Benjamin, 1681
George A.. Lieut., 1350

Hopestill, 1349
James C. 1681
John, 1349

Reuben, 1349
William. 1081
William. 1O81
William. 1O81
Zepbaiiiah, 1349
Arnold .\iiccslry, 126
Alice v.. 126
Anthony. 128
Benjamin W., 1816
David, 128
John, 127

Richard, 127

Sarah E., 1816

Thomas, 127

William, 1479
Arthur, Ale.xander, 1232

John. 1232

William, 1232
Ashton .-Xncestry, 14G6

David B., 1467

Edward B.. 1468

James, Maj., 1466

John, 1467

Thomas, 1467
Atwater Ancestry, 315

Caleb, 316

David, 315

John. 316

Joshua, 316

Joshua, 317
Atwood .\ncestry, 1346

Albert, 1347'

Barbara, i.i47

Elisha. 1347

John. 1347

John X.. 1347

JonatlKui. Dr., 1347

Oliver, 1347

Ihomas, Capt., 1346

Wheeler. 1347
Avery Ancestry, 779

Christopher, 779

Eliphalet, 781

James. Capt., 780

John, 780

John, 782

John S., 782

Nathaniel, 780

Philo, 781

William, 781
Ayres .'\ncestry, 13 17

Alexander, Dr., 13 18

Douglas. Dr.. 1319

Henry. 1318

Jabcz. 1318

John. Capt.. 1317

Samuel. 1318
Babcock .\nccstry, 1093

Garret E., 1094

Gersham. Capt., 1094

James. 1093

James. Capt., 1093

John, 1093

Oliver, 1093

Sarah, 1094
Babbit .\ncestry, 267

Edward. 267

Levi. 267

Nathan, 267

Nathan, Lieut., 267

Sophia, 268

Williard, 267
Backus Ancestry. 1737

Ebenezer, 1740

Ebenezer, 1740

Eleazar F.. 1740

J. Bayard, 1742

Jonathan T., Rev., 1741

Joseph, Lieut., 1739

Mary W., 1742

William, 1738

William, 1738
Baebler Ancestry. 1237

Henry S., 1237

Louis H., Rev., 1237

Pierre B., Rev.. 1237
Bagley Ancestry, 1679

Francis H., 1680

John, 1680

Luther, 1680
Bailey Ancestrv. 1394

Charles. i.?'95

John. 1394

Joseph. 1394

Tbcnuas. 1.395
Bain Ancestry. 1768 -

Archibald, 1768

Hugh, 1406

John, 1406

.Mary E., 1407

Norman, 1406

Proscus J., 1407

William H.. 1768 -
Baird .-\ncestry, 1423

Benjamin, Hon., 1423

W. lloagland, 1423

William, 1423

William, 1423
Baker Ancestry, 869

.-Monzo E., 870

Ashley D. L.. 870

George O., 870

Joseph. 869

Samuel P.. 869

S. Park, 869

William H., 869
Ball Ancestry, 570

Allen, 570

Ailing, 570

Dayton, 571

Edward, 570

Ezckiel, 570

Jonathan I. D., 571

Mabel A.. 571

Thomas. 570

William. "571
Banker .Ancestrv. I0S5, 1152

Albert .M., '1355

Carlton B., 1153

Eleanor A., 1153

Ellen G., 1 153

Evert, 1152

Evert, I3S.S

Gerit. 135.=;

Gerrit. 1 152

Gershoni, 1 153

Grace L., 1153

Henry, 1355

Johannes, 1152
Johannes, 1 153

Mary E. A., 1356

Peter, 1153
Barbour, Francis E., 1329

William M., Rev., 1329
Barckley Ancestry. 1605
Edward L.. 1605

Eunice. 1606
Eunice E., i6o6
Evert, 1605

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

Henry, 1605

Michael, 1605

Sarah. 1606
Barhydt Ancestry, 881

Andries, 881

Charles, 881

Charles H., 882

Frank, 882

George, 882

Jane, 882

Johannes, 881

Nicholas, 881

Tennis, 881

William P., 882
Barker Ancestry, 320, 13;
1749

Francis, 1750

Francis, 1750

FVank L., 1340

Jesse, 1339

John, 1339

John S., 1340

Thomas, 1750

William, 1750

William F., 1339

William, Jr., 1750
Barkley Ancestry, 1052

Alexander, 1052

Carrie M., 1052

James, 1052
Barney .Ancestry, 689

Constant, 690

Daniel, 690

Earl S., 691

Howland S., 690

Jacob, 690

Joseph, 690

Mary A., 691

Reuben, 690

Sarah C, 691

Zadoc, Dr., 690
Bartholomew Ancestry, 309

Jedediah, 310

Joseph, 309

Nancy, 310

Samuel, 310

William, 309
Bartlett Ancestry, 320

Amos G., Rev., 323

Ezra, Dr., 322

Ezra A.. Dr., 323

Frank S.. 323

Josiah, 321

Richard, 320

Stephen, 321
Barton Ancestry, i

Andrew, 1195

Benjamin, 1194

Benjamin, Capt..

Maria L., 1196

Rufus, 1 194

Rufus, 119s

William, 1195

William, Gen.,
Bascom Ancestry, 260,

194

II9S

'19.S

Artemidorus, 261
Benjamin H., 1123
Daniel, 981
Daniel W., 981
Elias, 260
Elias, 1 122
Ezekiel, 260
Ezckicl. 1 122
Frederick G., 263

Henry C, 981

John, 981

Joseph, 1 122

Mary L., 263

Robert O., 261

Robert P., 263

Samuel H., 261

Thomas, 260

Thomas, 980

Thomas, 981

Thomas, 1121

Thomas, 1122

William S., 1123

Wyman S., 263
Bassett Ancestry, 423

James, 423

John. 423

Oscar M., 423

Richard O., 424

William, 423
Battershall Ancestry, 217

Fletcher W., 219

Ludlow A., 217

Walton W., 217
Bauder Ancestry, 1379

Flovilla, 1381

Frank W., 1380

George U., 1379

John G., 1380

Nathan, 1380

Uriel, 1379

Victor S., 1381
Baxter Ancestry, 1436

Charles M., 1436

Elihu, 1436

Erastus, 1436

George, 1436
Bay Ancestry, 798

Anna, 799

John, 798

John W.. Dr., 799

William, Dr., 798
Baylies, Edmund L., 1819

Louisa, 1819
Beach Ancestry, 1630

Asa, 1630

Daniel, 1631

Frederick H.. 1631

George R., 1631

John, 1630

Joseph, 1630

Nathaniel, 1630

Nathaniel, 1630
Becker Ancestry, 628, 1648

Abraham. 628

Abraham, 1648

Abram, 628

Charles B., 629

Cornelius, 1648

Emma S., 1208

Frederick F., 1648

Henry, 629

Henry W.. 1208

Jan J., 628

Johannes, 628

Johannes, 1648

John, 628

John A., 628

Martinus, 1648

Willem, 628 '
Beebe Ancestry, 596

Edward. 597

John. 596

John T., 597

Samuel, 596

Thomas, 596

Thomas T., 597

Thomas W.. 597

William H., 597
Behan .Ancestry, 1684

John, 1684

Thomas, 1684

Thomas F., 1684
Belding Ancestry, 163:

Daniel, 1631

Melancthon, 1632

Richard, 1631

Samuel, 1632

Samuel, 1632

Samuel, 1632

Samuel, 1632

William, 1631
Bell Ancestry, 1204
Bellows, Anna M„ 728

Edwin P., 728
Belser. Joseph, 941

Joseph. 942

Mary E., 942
Bennett Ancestry, 1314

Abraham, 1315

George W., 1315

Gethrue, 1315

Ida M.. 1315
Benschoten, Neeltje, 927

Solomon, 927

Theunis, 927
Benson Ancestry, 695, lOll

Albert v.. 696

Barak, 1012

Gerrit, 695

Gerrit, 696

Johannes, 695

Johannes, Capt., 695

John, 695

John, loii

Joseph, ion

Richard v., 696

Russell F., 1012

Russell F., 1012

Squire. 1012
Berhaupt .-Ancestry. 1254

Anna M.. 1255

August, 1254

August J., 125s

Mathias C. 1255
Berry, John. 1240

John R.. 1240
Bessoc. Henry \V.. 1 114
Best Ancestry. 264, 1691

Alonzo, 264

Dean, 1692

Henry, 1692

Herman B., 1692

Jacob, 264

Jacob, 1692

Johannes. 1692

John M., 264

May G., 264

Peter, 1692

Vroman H.. 264
Betts .Ancestry. 642. 643

Burwell. 642

Edgar K.. 644

Henry, 644

Hezekiah. Capt., 644

John T., 642

Nelson B.. 642

Thomas, 643

Thomas, 644
Beveridgc .Ancestry, 739

HUDSON AND .M01IA^^•K VALLEYS

David I.. 740

James, 7J9

John, 740
Bigelow Ancestry, 971

Jason, 972^

John, 971

Samuel, 972
Bird Ancestry, 1193

Aaron, 1 194

Eleanor R., 1194

Joseph, 1 194

Matthew, 1194

Thomas, 1193

Thomas, 1194
Birdsall Ancestry, 1779

EHas, Rev., 1780

Nathan, 1779

Paul. Rev., 1780

William, 1779
Bishop. Charles B., 823

John, 823
Black, .Arthur, 1737

Frank S., 1736
Blaisdell Ancestry, 792

Anthony H., 795

Fletcher, 794

Henry, 792
Jonathan, 793
Levi, 793
Mary McC, 796
Oliver, 793
Ralph, 792
♦Robert V. B., 796
Samuel, 793
Blanchard Ancestry, 1589
Almira, 1589
Harriet T., 1589
John, 1589
Joseph, 1589
Justus, 1589
Samuel, 1589
Simeon, 1589
Thomas, 1589
Bleecker Ancestry, 128
Garrett, V. S., 129
Jacobus, 129
Jan J., 128
Johannes, 129
Rutger, 128
Blessing Ancestry, 90, 1196,
1283
Aaron F., 1197
Adam, 1196
.\dam. 1283
.•\lfrcd, 1 197
Charles, 1197
Frederick, 1283
Frederick A., Iig6
James H., Hon., 90
J')lin. 1 197
.Martin. 1197
Martin, 1283
Martin F., 1283
William H., 1 197
William M„ 1284
Blood .'Ancestry. 761, 888
Daniel, 889
Jeremiah. 889
Mary D., 889
Reuben, 761
Robert, 761
Robert. 889
Boardman .Ancestry, 1 137
Cyrus, 1137
Cyrus T., 1138

Samuel, 1137

ius Ancestry, 504, 1583
Anthony, 1584
Charles, 1584
Cornel is, 505
Cornelis, 506
Ephraini, 510
Ephraim, 1584
Dominie Everardus, 1583
Everart B., 504
John. 510
John J., 510
Lewis, 507
Maria S., 509
Peter, 510
Pieter.'i584
Robert. in<)
RoluTt. r.cn.. 507

WnshiUHton A^ H.'.' 509
Wa.sbinston, E., 509
Bolton, Joseph, 902
Samuel, 902
Sarah J., 902
Thomas, 902
Bourgeois, Henri, 1261
Henri J., 1261
Pierre A., 1261
Bovie .Ancestry. 967
Abraham, 967
*George M., 969
Lsaac, 968
Isaac W., 968
Jacob, 967
Boyd Ancestry. 444
Alexander. 576
James, 445
Jesse Conde, 446
John, 444
"John L., 444
William A., 576
Brackett Ancestry, 1429
Edgar T., 1431
James, 1430
James, 1431
John A.. 1431
Nathan, 1430
Nathan, 1431
Richard. Capt., 1429
William W., 1431
Bradford Ancestry, 1733
Anna A.. 1733
James. 1386
James T.. 1387
William, 17-?^
William, 1733
William, 1733
William, Gov., 174-?
William. Maj., T743
William II., 1733
Bradt Ancestry, 606
.Abraham. 606
.Abraham A.. 607
Arent. 606
Henry. 607
John, 606
Samuel, 606
Brass .Ancestry, 797
Anna, 801
Charles W., 797
Elizabeth, 801
Richard W., 801
Brate .Ancestry, IT08
Belthassar. 119,?
Ella A., 1199

1047

Henry. 1 1 98
Nicholas, 1198
Orville H.. 1 199
William, 1198
Braymer Ancestry, 171
Daniel, 1712
David. 171 1
George W.. 1713
Jacob. 171 1
Brayton Ance
Francis, 1047
Gideon, 1047
John, 1048
Thomas, 1047
Thomas, 1048
William, 1048
Bresler, Frederick. 894

Frederick U., 894
Brethus, Frederick, 897
Brett Ancestry, 557
Arthur H., 559
Charles P., 559
Edgar, Rev., 558
Edgar A., Capt., 558
Francis, 558
George, Gen., 558
Roger. Lieut., 558
Brewster Ancestry. 99, 115
Anthony, 474
Foster, 474
George H., 893
Gilbert, 893
Hannah, 117
Henry, 474
John, 473
Jonathan, 99
Jonathan, 115
Valentine, 893
William, Elder, 99
William, Elder, 115
William, Elder, 473
Briggs Ancestry, 1092
Brockway Ancestry, 378
Artemas, 380
Emma, 380
Joseph, 380
Samuel, 379
Wolston,\v8
Wolston, 379
Wolston. 380
Bronck .Ancestry, 1585
Jan, 158;
Jan L., 1585
Jonas. 1585
Leendert j., 1585
Leonard, 1586
Pieter J., 1585
Bronk, Charles H., 1595

Mary L.. 1594
Brooks Ancestry, 1705
Peter V. W., 1705
James E., 1705
James E., 1705
Brewer Ancestry. 875
Adam, 875
Jacob, 87^
John, 876
John H., 876
Nicholas, 87s
Peter, 876
Philip H., 875
Brown Ancestry,
1563. 1576, 1685.
Albert. Col., 1686
A. Louise (Gurley). 1350

1.303.
1706

Hi

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

Chad, 1576

Chad, Rev., 1303

Charles R, 1706

Daniel, 1576

Devillo P., 1706

Edward J., 1563

Emma K., 1706

George N.. 1388

George W., 1686

Hattie M., 1563

Henry, 1685

Hiram, 1577

Isaac. 1387

James. 1303

John, 1563

John 1., 1303

Joseph, 1577

Joseph H., 1563

Josiah. 1577

Judah, 1577

Mary E., 1563

Mary J., 1686

Mott D., 1706

Nathaniel, 1350

Nathaniel. 1387

Nathaniel, 1685

Pel eg, 1563

Philip P., Rev., 1350

Richard C, 1686

Robert. Col., 1563

Thomas. 1303

William, 1303

William. Rev., 1350

William A., 1304

William E., 1304
Browne. Emma, 380

Grace E., 380

Henry L.. 380

William H., 380
Brower Ancestry, 875

Adam, 875

Jacob, 875

John, 876

John H.. 876

Nicholas, 87s

Peter, 876

Philip H., 87s
Buckbee Ancestry. 1577

Israel, 1577

John, 1577

Phoebe, 1577

Richard, 1577

Richard F., 1577
Buchheini, Peter A., 1376

William J., 1375
Buckingham Ancestry, 89

Ann, 90

Josiah, 89

Thomas, 89
Buckley Ancestry. 1216

Joseph J.. 1217

Marguerite G., 1217

Paul M., 1217

Peter H., 1216
Buchman, Edwin, 1310

Raphael, 1310
Buhrmaster Ancestry, 1644

Christian, 1644

Christian F., 1644

Frederick, 1644
Bulkley Ancestry, 1316

Esther, 1316

John, 1316

Peter, Rev., 1316

Thomas, 1316

Bunker Ancestry, 481

George, 481

Jabez, 483

Jonathan, 481

Peleg, 481

Samuel, 483

William, 481

William, 483
Burden Ancestry, 777

Henry, 777

Henry, 778

James, yTi

John, 779

Peter, ^^^.

Burdick Ancestry. 1301, 1567

Daniel, 1567

Hubbard. 1301

Joel W., 130J

John, 1302

Palmer. no2

Peleg, 1568

Robert, 1301

Robert, 1567

Russell M., 1302

William, 1302
Burhans Ancestry, 986

Barent, 987

Jacob, 986

Jan, 987

Johannes, 987

Peter, 987

William, 987
Burke. Peter U.. Dr., 2i2

Thomas M. A.. Rt. Rev
232
Burns Ancestry, 1031

Cornelius F., 1031

James H., 1031

John. 1 03 1

John W., 103 1
Burrell .-Xncestry, 281

Harry. 281
*Burritt, Mary J., 1437

Oscar C, 1437
Burton Ancestry, 1094, 1331

Abraham, 1331

Abraham, 1332

Abram, 1332

Boniface, 1331

Elias C, 1095
*Frank, 1096

Huldah, 954

Isa.ic. 1 33 1

Jacob. 954

John, 1331

John R., 1332

Joseph. 1095

Judah, 954

Jiulah. 1095

Natlian, 1095

Seth C, 1096

Solomon, 1095
Bussing Ancestry, 789

Arent. 789

Harman. 789

Harman, 790

Harmanus, 789
Butler .Ancestry, II 12

Charles E., 11 13

Charles H., 1343

Eloise R., 1 1 13

Ezckiel, 1 1 12

Ezekiel, 1 1 13

John. 1 1 12

Jonathan, 11 12

William G., 1343
Button Ancestry, 667

Elizabeth, 667

Hazzard, 667

Lysander, 668

Matthias. 667

Matthias. Capt.. 667
Cadby .Xncestry. 569

Harold W., 570

John H. W., 570

John W., 570

William. 569
Cadman Ancestry, 867

Charles M., 867

Christopher. 867

Edward, 867

Henry. 867
Cady .\ncestry, 1171. 15 16

.Karon, 1171

David. 1 171

David. 1517

Da\id. Capt.. 1516

Jonathan, Capt., 1517

Joseph, Capt.. 1516

Lewis, 1517

Nicholas, 1 171

Nicholas, 1516

Sarah. 1171
Cagger, Mary C. 561

Peter, 559
Caleb. Daniel B., 1238

Harrictle .M.. 1238

Madison M.. 1238
Caldwell Ancestry. 956, 959

Edw-ard, 957'

Edward H., 956

James, 959

James H.. 956

James H., 958

Vee<ler, 959

William S., 957
Cameron Ancestrv, ;38

Edward M., 54''

Frederick W., 539

James. 539

James, Hon., 539

John, Rev., 539

Truman D., 539
Camp .Vncestry, 618

Abel, 618

Angelinc, 618

Charlotte. 618

John R., 618

William, 618
Campbell Ancestry, 1432. 1435

Alexander, 1433

Archibald, 1433

Archibald, 1435

Charles D., 1433

Charles J., 1436

Duncan, 1433

Jacob. 1435

James J.. 1258

John, 1258

Laughlin. Cap!.. 1432

Melancthon. W., 1433
Carey. Joseph. Rev.. 1401

Robert. 1400

Thomas, 1400
Carhart .'\ncestry, 1615

Daniel. 1616

John. 1616

Leonard A., 1617

Leonard R., 161 7

Solomon. 1616

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

liii

Thomas, 1615

Thomas, 1616
Carlisle, James, 1102

John, 1 102

William, 1102
Carmichael Ancestry, 620

Daniel, 620

Henrietta P., 620

John, 620
Carpenter Ancestry, 523, 1363

Daniel, 1363

Edward M., 527

Emma .M., 1364

George W., 1363

Hiram. 526

John, 1363

Joseph, 524

Seaman, 526

Timothy, 526

William, 524

William, 525

William, 526
Carr Ancestry, 561

Benjamin, 564

Caleb, 564

Eleazer, 565

Joseph B.. Gen., 562

Lewis E., 56s

Robert, 564

William, 562

William G., 563
Carroll Ancestry, 340

Amos, 341

Davis. 341

Edward T., 342

Frederick L., 343

John, 341

John D., 343

John M.. 342

Nathaniel, 340

Nathaniel, 341

Robert. 340
Cary, Charles H., 1262

James, 1262
Cass Ancestry, 291

Amos A., 294

Catherine E.. 294

Elkanah, 292

Joel, 292

John. 291

Joseph, 291

Levi. 292

Levi. 293

Lewis, 292

Lilbern A., 292

Thaddeus G., 292
Catlin, Charles L., 811

Charles T., 81 1

Leonard, 811
Champlin Ancestry, 759

Catharine, 760

Geoffrey, 759

Jeffrey, 760

Jeffrey W., 760

Job C. 760

Samuel, Capt., 760

Stephen G.. 760

William, 759

William, 760
Chapin .\ncestry, 609

.Xmelia E., 610

Henry, 609

Japhet, 609

Samuel, 609

Sarah, 610

Whitfield, 609

William. 609
Chapman .Ancestry, 1555

Ashbcl, 1555

Edward, 1555

Elijah, 1555

Frederick A., 1555

John B., ISSS

Samuel, 1555

Sarah L., 1555

Simon, 1555
Chase Ancestry, 210, 462, 483

Abel, 463

Albert, 465

Aquila, 483

Benjamin, 464

Emory A., Judge, 465

Isaac. 483

Isaac, Lieut., 462

Jacob, 210

James, 483

John, 462

Joseph, 463

^Litthew, 462

Meribah, 211

Moses, 210

Richard, 462

Richard, 483

Sylvanus G., 210

Thomas, 462

Thomas, 462

Thomas, 462

Thomas, 483

Thomas, 483

Zephaniah, 463
Chester Ancestry, 113, 1742

Alden, 114

Alden, Judge, 114

John, 114

John. 1742

John. 1742

John. 1742

John, Col., 1742

John. Hon., 1742

Leonard, 1742

Leonard, T742

Samuel, Capt., 113

William, 1742
Child Ancestry, 765

James J., 765

Joseph, 76s

Marion E., 766
Chilton .Ancestry, 308
Chittenden Ancestry, 656

Daniel. 657

Harlow N., 657

Helen M., 657

Marian C, 657

Nathaniel, 656

Nathaniel, 657

William, 656

Wise, 657
Chmielewski, Alex. K., Rev.

1231
Christie, John, 1240

John T., 1241
Churchill Ancestry, 876

Amos. 877

Elizabeth R., 878

Henry. 877

Jesse. 877

Joseph. 877

Josiah. 876

Nathaniel, 877

Sibyl E.. 878

Clark Ancestry, 1004

Henry, 1004

James, 1004

James H . 1004
Clarkson, Alida, 904

Butler, 904

John. 904
Qement Ancestry, 850

Jacob, 851

Johannes, 850

John F.. 850

Lucas W., 850

Pieter, 850

Samuel, 850
Clements Ancestry, 851

John, 851

Joseph H.. 852

Robert, 851

Robert, Col., 851
Clizbe Ancestry, 785

Darius, 787

James, 786

Joseph, 786

Samuel, 786

Samuel J.. 787
Close Ancestry, 1774

Abram B., 1775

Harriet H., 1775

Peter, 1774
Cluett .A.ncestry, 821

Frances A., 823

Frederick H., 822

Robert, 824

Robert, 825

William, 821
Clum. Aaron, 1405

Alvah, 1405

Annie C, 1405
Clute Ancestry, 242, 808. 974

Andrew. 242

Fanny L., 975

Frances, 975

Frederick. 974

Frederick C, 808

Frederick H.. 809

Jacob. 8a8

Jacob, 974

Jacob, 975

Jan J., 974

John, 242

Nicholas, 808

Pieter, 8aS

Pieter. 809

Pieter, 974

Veeder S., 809
Cobb Ancestry. 438

Augustine, 438

Benjamin, 438

Morgan, Ensign, 438
Coffin Ancestry, 481, 1461

George B., 481

Judith. 1463

Noah, 481

Stephen. 481

Stephen. 481

Stephen. 481

Stephen. 1463

Tristram, 1462

Zephaniah. 481
Collin Ancestry, 11 16

Clara R.. 11 17

James, 11 17

John, 1 1 16

Paul, 1 1 16

William M., 11 17

liv

HUDSON AND AIOHAWK VALLEYS

Collins Ancestry, looo, 1255

Annie E., 1255

Charles, 1255

Daniel, looi

Daniel, Rev., lOOl

David R., 1001

David S.. lOOi

Electa, 1255

Joel, lOOi

John, 1000

John, 1255

Lewis, 1000

William B., lOOl
Colvin Ancestry, 4S7

Andrew J., Hon., 458

James, 458

John, 457

Verplanck, Hon., 459
Combes Ancestry, 1769

Charles I., 1769

Elisha B., 1769

Isaac. 1769

John, 1769
Conable Ancestry, 1327

David, 1327

Frederick, 1327

John, 1327

Oscar F., 1327

Samuel, 1327
Conger Ancestry, 1674

Alexander M., 1676

Gershom, 1674

Hannah E., 1675

Sarah E., 1676
*William, 1674

William A., 1676

William H., 1675

William H., 1676
Conkling Ancestry, 399, 1165

Annanias, 399

Annanias, 1165

Benjamin, 400

Benjamin, 1165

Caroline, 1166

Daniel, 400

Daniel, 1 166

Gurdon, 1166

Henry, 400

Henry, 1 166
Connor Ancestry, 1321

Garrett, 1321

Gilbert, 1322

James, 1322

Lancaster, 1321
Conover Ancestry, 871

Abraham L, Capt., 872

Albert W., 872

Cornel is A.. 872

Gerret W., 871

Isaac, 872

William G., 872

Wolfcrt G., 871
Conrad, Frederick J., 941

John, 941

Joseph, 941
Consalus Ancestry, 680

Emmanncl, 680

Emmanuel, 681

Emmanuel G, 680

John. 681

Joseph. 680
Conway. Henry A., 1261

John, 1261
Cooke Ancestry, 308, 1629

Aaron, 1629

Aaron, 1629

Elizabeth. 308

Francis, 308

Henry, 1629

Jane. 308

Joshua A., 1630

Samuel, 1629

Samuel, 1629

Thomas B., 1630
Cooley Ancestry, 1806

Francis M., 1806

Lucius, 1806

Lucius M., 1806

Thomas B., 1806
Coon Ancestry, 618
Coonley Ancestry, 1639

Frederick. 1640

Jacob. 1639

John. 1639

Piatt, 1640
Copeland Ancestry, 264. 1804

David, 1805

Ebenezer, 265

George, 265

Ithamar W.. 266

Jonathan, 265

Jonathan, 1804

Jonathan. Rev., 1805

Lawrence, 264

Lawrence. 265

Lawrence. 1804

Oakes, 265

William, 265

William, 1804

William H., 180S
Corey, Barnett L.. 940

David P.. 940

Giles. 939
Cornell .Ancestry. 878

Frank C, 879

John, 879

Peleg, 879

Richard, 879

Samuel. 878

Thomas, 878

Thomas, 179
Corning Ancestry, 770

Bliss, 771

Edwin, 773

Erastus, 772

Erastus, Dr., 773

Erastus, Hon., 771

Joseph, 770

Nehemiah, 770

Parker, ■]■;■>,

Samuel, 770

Samuel. Ensign, 770
Coss Ancestry. 1213

Abraham. 1213

David, 1213
Cottrell .Ancestry, 1716

Horace. 1717

John, 1717

John H.. 1717

Nathan, 1717

Nicholas, 1716
Cowee Ancestry, 1622

David. 1622

Farwell. 1622

Farwell M., 1623

James. 1622

James R, 1623
Cramer Ancestry, 997

.•\bram, 1000

Barney. 999

Conrad. 997

Conrad, 1336

George H., 998

Henrietta C, 999

James L., 1336

John, 997

Louis H., 1337
Crandell Ancestry, 1661

Homer. 1662

James. 1661

James, 1661

John, Rev., 1661

Joseph. 1661

Joseph, 1661

Solomon, 1661
Crane Ancestry. 1134

Azariah, 1134

Edwin, 1 134

Timothy, 1134
Crannell Ancestry, 1412

Charles R., 1414

Edward G, 1414

Francis F., 1413

Robert, 1412

William, I412

William W., 1412

William W., 1413
Crary Ancestry, 1752

Nathan. 1752

Peter. 1752

Peter. 1752
Creble Ancestry. 328, 918

Francis, 328

Francis, 919

Henry, 328

Henry. 919

Sarah B., 328
Creighton. Daniel, 1049

Lsabella, 1050

James, 1049
Crissey .Ancestry, 1013

Cyrus H.. 818

Gilbert R.. 10T3

Isaac W.. 1014

Nelson, 818

Rufns B.. 1014
Crocker .Ancestry. 1485

Benjamin, 1485

Eleazer, 1485

Mary W'., 1485

William. 1485
Crounse Ancestry, 1266

Adam, Rev., 1267

Franklin A., 1268

Frederick, 1266

Frederick, 1267

Henry, 1268

James P.. 1268

John. 1267

Peter, 1268

William P., 1268
Culver Ancestry. 531
♦Charles M., Dr., 534

Cyrus L., 533

*David, 532

Edward, 531

Gershom, 532
*James, 532'
Cunningham, Major, 943

Thomas, 942
Curran Ancestry, 1134

Edward, 1 134

Electa E. II3S

James. 1134

John, 1 134

HUDSON AND .MOHAWK VALLEYS

Mary A., 1 135
Philpot, 1134
Curtis Ancestry, 625, 627

Charles H., 626

Edgar S., O27

Frances A., 627

Frank C, 627

Gilbert, 627

Henry, 625

Henry, 626

James, 626

John, Capt., 626

Josiah, 625

Samuel G., 627

Silas, 627
Gushing Ancestry, 646

Alvin D., 647

John, 647

Matthew, 646

Matthew, 647

Noah, 647

Peter, 646
Cushney Ancestry, 1153

James, 11 53

Richard H., 1153
Cusson, Harold J., 1452

John L., 1452
Cuyler Ancestry, 1720

Abraham, 1723

Cornelis J., 1725

Hendrick, 1721

Hendrick, 1725

Johannes, 1722

Johannes, 1725
♦Johannes C, 1726
♦William T., Col., 1726
Daggett, David, 698

Harriet, 697

Stephen A., Judge, 698
Dalev Ancestry, 1654, 1682

Daniel, 1682

Emma C. 1682

George K., 1682

Joseph. 1682

Mary B., 1655

Michael, 1654

Michael, 1655

Obadiah, 1682
Dake Ancestry. 418
Danforth Ancestry, 221

Helen A., 223

Jonathan, 221

Jonathan, 222

Jonathan, Capt., 222

Keyes, 223

Samuel, 222
Dauchy .Ancestry. 1028

Charles. 1028

Charles H., 1028
Daum, Jacob. 1386

.Margaret, 1386
Davis .\ncestry, 990, 1199

Charlotte T., 1200

Erastus C, 991

Isaac M., 990

Jonathan, 1199

Matthew O., 990

Oscar F., 1199

Reuben, 1199
Daw, George W.. 1450

Peter F.. 1450
Daw.'Jon, Henr)', 1270

Herbert, 1270

John. 1270

Mary, 1270

William H., 1270
Dayton Ancestry, 1 75 1

Nathan, 1751

Nathan, Capt., 1751

Nathan C, 1752

Ralph, 1751

Robert, 175 1

Samuel. 1751

Samuel H., 1 75 1
Dealy. Jacob H., 939

Katherinc C, 939

Patrick, 939
Dean, .\inos, Hon., 540
Deane .Ancestry, 1695

James, 1696

James A.. M. D.. 1697

John, 1696

Silas, 1696

Silas, 1697

Silas, Hon., 1696

Walter, 1696

Zephaniah, 1697
Decker .Ancestry, 1700

Cornelius, 1701

Cornelius, 1 701

Edward C, 1701

Jan B., 1700

Johannes, 1701

John G., 1 701

John H., 1 149

John H., 1701
De Forest Ancestry, 422, 447

Benjamin. 422 "

Caroline, 422

David, 422

David, 448

Elihu, 422

Henry S., 449

Isaac, 447

Jacob, 448

Jesse, 447

Lansing, 449

Marten, 448

Obadiah L., 448

Philip, 448
De Forrest .Ancestry, 705 -
De Graff .Ancestry, 1275, 1574

Alfred. 1575

.Andries, 1276 "

Andries, 1575

Claas .A., 1574

Daniel, 1574

Edward T., 1277

Emanuel, 1276

Emanuel, Capt., 1276

Emanuel E., 1276

Howard A., 1575

Jesse, IS74

Jesse, Judge, 1575

John Teller, 1277

John Teller. 1277

Prince. 1276
Deiseroth, George, 934
De Lamatcr .Ancestry, 1056.
1593

Abraham, 1057

-Abrahsm I., 1057

Claude, 1057

Claude, 1593

Claudius, 1593

Dirck, 1593

Frank S., 1595

George, 1594

Henry, 1594

Ira G., 1594

Jacobus. 1593
John. 1057

RadclifTe, 1057

Tunis O., 1593
De Land, Bertha, 900

James B., 900
De Long Ancestry, 317

Cutler J., 318

Daniel P., 318

James L., 317

John B., 318

Peter L., 317

Zopher I., 317
Dempster .Ancestry, 1634
♦David S., 1634

James, Rev.. 1634

Joel, 1634

Sarah J., 1634
Denise, Edna J., 1378

Frank T., 1378

Joseph, 1377

Tunis, 1377
Dennis, Burton C, 1593

Ella J., IS93
Derby .Ancestry, 1294

.Archibald S., 1295

Benjamin, 1294

George P., 1294

James, 1294

Jesse, 1294

John, 1294

John H., 1294

John H., 1295
Deresewski, Joseph, Rev., 1230
Devine .Ancestry, 1046

Abram, 1046

George S., 1047

Sctb, 1046
Devoe .Ancestry, 1670

Anthony. 1671

Cornelius, 1671

Daniel .A., 1671

Daniel I., 1671

David, 1670

George. 1670

George, 1670

John, 1670

Peter, 1670
Dewey Ancestry, 736

Grotius, 738

Howard G., 738

Israel. 737

Jedediah, 737

Thomas, 736

Thomas. 737

William, 738
De Witt .Ancestry, 362

Andries, 363

.Andries. 364

Egbert, 363

Richard V., 366

Richard V., 367

Sarah W.. 366

Simeon, Gen., 364

Tjerck, 362
Dexter .Ancestry, 1728

Fbenezer, Dr., 1731

George, 1732

John, 1730

John, 1730

Richard, 1729

Samuel, 1731

Samuel. Rev., 1730
Deyoe .Ancestry, 1547

Christian, 1547

Ivi

HUDSON AND .MOHAWK VALLEYS

Pierre, 1547
Dickinson Ancestry, 550, 1571

Anthoyne, 1571

Augustus, 551

Elias, 550

Elias, 1573

Elijah, 550

Ellen S., 1573

Eliphalet, 1572

Experience, 550

Harvey, 1573

Joel, 550

John, 1571

Joseph, S50

Nathaniel, 550

Nathaniel, 1572

Obadiah, 550

Obadiah, 1572

William, 1571
Dievendorf Ancestry, 1007

Charlotte, 1008

Henry, 1007

Jacob, 1007

William B., 1008
Dillenbach Ancestry, 1092

Almira, 1092

Baltrus, 1092

Daniel, 1092

John D., 1092
Dillingham Ancestry, 349. 11 14,
1502

Aaron, 1115

Abraham, 350

Abraham, 1503

Allen J., II 15

Charles E., 1 115

Edward, 349

Edward, 11 14

Edward, 11 15

Edward, 1502

Edwin A., 1115

Hannah K., 350

Hannah K., 1593

Henry, 349

Henry, 350

Henry, 11 14

Henry, 1502

Ignatius, 11 15

John, 349

John, 1502

Joseph, 1 1 15

Joshua, 350

Joshua, 1502

Lemoyne, 350

Meletiah, 349

Mcletiah, 1502

Otis, 350

Otis, 1503

Stephen, 350

Stephen, 1502
Dix Ancestry, 1409

Edward, 1409

James L., 1410

John, 1410

John A., Gov., 141 1

Leonard, 1409

Moses, 1410

Ozias, 1410

Samuel, 1410
Doane Ancestry, 392

Daniel, 393

Ebenczer, 394

George W., 395

John, 392

Jonathan, 395

Joseph, 394

William C, Rt. Rev., 396
Donaldson Ancestry, 1228

Charles A., 1229

Samuel, 1228
Donnan, Marguerite B., 691
Doolittle Ancestry, 1632

Abraham, 1632

Eliasaph, 1633

James P., 1633

Miles, 1633

Thcophilus, 1632

Theophilus, 1632
Dorn, Elizabeth V., 812

John Y., 812
Dornin Ancestry, 480

Thomas, 480

William C, 480

William C, Jr., 481

William H., 480
Dorr Ancestry, 1603

Edmund, 1604

Elisha, 1604

Emma L., 1605

Joseph, 1603

Margaret E., 1605

Matthew, 1604
Dorrance Ancestry, 1770

Alexander, 1770

James A., 1771

Samuel, Rev., 1770

William J., 1771
Doty Ancestry, 1540

Almira P., 1059

Asa, 1541

Edward, 1058

Edward, 1540

Elizabeth, 1540

Prank A., 818

Isaac, 1058

John, 1540

John A., I0S9

Joseph, 1540

Joseph, 1058

Joshua L., 1541

Lena M., 818

Peter, 1058

Rachel, 1059

Samufi, 1540
Dougall Ancestry, 1222

Alfred ^^, 1223
Thomas, 1222

William, 1222
Douglas Ancestry. 392

Alan.son, 392

Asa, 392

Curtis N., 1702

John P.. 1702

Mary A., 392

Nancy S., 1702

Wheeler, 392

William, 392
Douw Ancestry, 383

Anna, 391

Jan. 384

Johannes D., 390

John D., 390

John D., Capt., 391

Jonas v., Capt., 385

Pctrus, Capt., 385

Volkcrt J., 384

Volkcrt P.. Maj., 387

Volkert P.. 390
Dowling .'\nccstry, 306

Isaac. 306

John, Rev., 306

Joseph I., 306

Joseph I., Dr., 306
Downing Ancestry, 1599

David, 1599

Edward, 1599

Harold K., 1599
Draper Ancestry, 110, 477

Andrew S., Dr., 112

Ebenezer, 478

Edward E., 479

Prederick E., 479

Prederick E., 480

James, 110

James. 477

James, 477

Joshua, no

Joshua, III

Philip H., 479

Stephen, 478

Stephen, 478

Stephen, 478

Sylvester, in

Sylvester B., 112

Thomas, 477

William H., 479
Du Bois Ancestry, 1579

Charles, 1580

Cornelius, 1580

Jacques, 1579

Jonathan, 1580

Louis, 1579

Peter, 1580

Richard. 1580
Dudley Ancestry, 766

Edgar S., 768

Ella C, 769

Prancis, 769

George Harwood, 769

James M., 767

Peter, Gen., 767

Samuel, 766

Samuel, 767

Stephen, 767
Dufel Ancestry. 1659

Prederick, 1659

Henry, 1659

Henry, 1659

Henry, 1660

Henry A.. 1660
Dufresne, Arthur, 1244

Joseph, 1244

Oliver, 1244
Dunham Ancestry, 855

Ann M., 857

Eleazer, 856

Gamaliel, 856

John, Deacon, 855

Jonathan, 856

Joseph, 856

Lemuel, 856

Mary E.. 857

Sala E.. 856
Dunn .Ancestry. 1362

Andrew, 1362

David, 1362
Durham Ancestry, 1713

Durfee, 1713

Joseph. 1 7 13

Richard, 1714

Rosalinda, 1715

Uzziel. 1713
Durkee, William J., 305
Dussault Ancestry, 1241

Achille, 1242

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

1160

Antoine, 1241

Frank A., 1242
Dwyer Ancestry, 1126

John, 1126

John, Maj., 1126

Peter, 1 126
Dyer Ancestry, 1220

Bradbury, 1220

David S., 1220

James, 1220

Zeb A., 1220
Easton Ancestry, 440

Charles P., 441

Edward, 443

Edward, Jr., 444

Ephraini, 440

Robert, 440
Eaton Ancestry, 1059

Barnabas, 1059

Daniel O., 1060

Darius, 1059

Francis, 1059

Oliver L., 1060

Samuel, 1059
Eddy Ancestry, 58

Constant, 589

Isaac, 1161

John, 5S9

Joshua, 1161

Mary E., 1 162

Newbury, 1161

Obadiah, 589

Samuel, 589

Samuel, 1161

Thomas J., 1 161

William, Rev., 589

William, Rev., 1 160

Zachariah, 589

Zachariah, 1161
Edwards Ancestry, 701, 740,
742

Alexander, 701

Alexander, 740

Harriet E., 762

Henry A., 742

Henry E., 701

Henry S., 701

Isaac, 741

Isaac, LL. D.. 741

John, 741

John, 742

Nathaniel, 741

Nathaniel, Capt, 741

Samuel, 701

Samuel, 741

William, 742

William H., 742

William H., 743
Ehle, Frank J., 1389

John, 13^^

John E., 1389
Eighmey Ancestry, 805

Benjamin, 806

Elias L., 806

Eugene, 806

Sidney S., 806
Eisenmenger, Frederick, 900
Eldredge Ancestry, 1715

Barnabas, 1716

Christopher, 1399

Clinton, 1716

Henry M., 1716

Herbert Q., 1399

James, 1399
Eliot Ancestry, 422

Elizabeth, 422

Hannah, 422

Jared, Dr., 422

Joseph, Rev., 422
Ellers, Margaret A., 1522

William F., 1522
Elliott Ancestry, 436 .

Andrew, Hon., 436

Nathaniel, 436
Ellis Ancestry, 1035

Charles G.. 1037

Edward, 1036

Edward C, 1037

John, 1035

Mary C, 1036

William D., 1036
Elwood, David, 1265

Emery, 1265

Henry D., 1265

Peter, 1264

Thomas, 1264

Walter, 1265
Erving, Cornelia \'. R., 1815

John, 1815
Engle Ancestry, 510

Ardella B., 510

Martha C, 510

Wheeler W., 510
Evans Ancestry, 949

Carrie S., 1304

Cornelius, 1304

Cornelius H., 1573

Ellen S., 1573

Harold, 1304

Mary B. Y., 949

Richard, 949

Richard M., 950

Robert, 949

Robert J., 949

Robert W., 1304

Robert W., Jr., 1304
Everts Ancestry, 1707

Amaziah, 1708

Caleb, 1708

Caleb, 1708
*James, 1707

John, 1707

John A., 1708

Judah, 1708

Palmer D., 1709

Silas E., 1709
Fahrcnkopf, Francisca, 1248

Frank Jf., 1248

Joseph, 1248
Fairweather, Alexander A., 924

David, 924
Fanning Ancestry, 1589

Anna H., 1591

Benjamin, 1590

Edmund, 1589

Harriet C, 1591

Mary, 1591

Nelson, 1590

Nelson, 1591

Sarah E., 1591

Thomas, 1590

Walter, 1590
Farrell Ancestry, 544

James, 544

James C, 546

John H., 544
Farrington Ancestry, 1767

Ann, 1767

John, 1767

John, 1767

Fassett Ancestry, 521

Amos, 521

Asa, 521

Edgar S., 523

Lawrence i., 523

William H., 522

William N., 521
Faulds, Carrie L., 1336

James, 1336
Faulknor Ancestry, 760

Caleb, 760

Daniel, 762

David C, 762

James J., 760

Joel, 761

Mary A., 762

Mary E., 761

William A., 762
Favreau Ancestry, 908

Louis, 908

Napoleon, 908

Pierre, 908
Feke Ancestry, 230
Ferguson, .Alexander, 909

Alexander, 910
Ferris Ancestry, 866, 1050

Benjamin, 1050

Cyrus, 1050

George A., 105 1

James, 867

James, 1050

Jeiifrey, 866

John, 866

John M., 867

Jonathan, 867

Lyman R., 105 1

Reed, 1050

Zachariah, 1050
Field Ancestry, 549

Ebenezer, Dr., 550

Franklin, 550

Mary C, 549

Mary C, 550

Samuel, 550

William, 550

Zachariah, 550

Zachariah, Capt., 550
Fieldhauer, Benjamin A., 762

Charles, 762

Mary A., 762
Fikes, Adam, 1338

Harvey, 1338

Mary T., 1338
Finch Ancestry, 1541, 1636

Daniel, 1636

George H., 1637

George W., 1636

Henry C, Dr., 1542

Jonas, 1636

Jonathan, 1541

Joshua, 1541

Obadiah, 1636

Samuel R., 1540

William W., 1541
Finegan, Michael, '^Tj

Thomas E., 378
Finley Ancestry, 323

David, 326

Goin, 324

Horace B., 326

John H., Dr., 324

Samuel, 325
Fisher Ancestry, 1060, 1061,
1646

Alice, 1062

Iviii

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

Burton, 1061

Daniel, 1060

Daniel G., 1060

David A., 1061

Duncan, 1060

Ellison E., 1646

George, 1063

George \\'., 1063

Isaac, 1062

James, 1062

Jay, 1647

Joseph P., 1062

Oliver L., 1060

Samuel, 1646
Fiske Ancestry, 1317

Hannah, 1317

Jonathan, 1317

Josiah, 1317

Samuel, 1317

William, 1317
Fitch, Eleazer, 1743

Joseph, 1743
Fitchett Ancestry. 1581

Caroline, 1582

Charles, 1582

Frank L., 1581

Gilbert I., 13S2

James H.,' 1581
Myra S., 1582
Peter, 1581
Sarah E., 1582
iMtzpatrick. David M., 8S9
James C. 858
James S., 859
Jesse A., 859
John T., 859
Marion A., 859
Mary R., 859
Sarah H., 859
Fix, John, 135-'
John. 1353
Sarah A., 1353
Flack Ancestry, 1020
Isaac G.. 1021
James, 1020
Richard, 1020
Robert, 1020
William A., 1020
Flanders Ancestry, 93
Arthur, 93
Daniel, 93
George L.. 93
Jedediah, 93
Stephen, 93
Fliegcl, Christopher, 1353
Philip, 1353
Philip J., 1353
Flynn Ancestry. 868
Daniel, 868

George, 868

John, 868
John W., 868
Folger Ancestry, 1460

Clarinda, 1461

Daniel, 1461

Elezer, 1461

John. 1460

Peter, 1460

Peter, 1461
Foil, Arthur M., 1386

George, 1386

John M., 1385

John M., 1386

Margaret, 1386

Fonda Ancestry, 1002, 1642

Abraham, 1002

Abraham D., 1642

Adam, 1006

Albert, 1006

Clinton, 1003

Douw, 1002

Douvv, 1005

Douw A., 1642

Douw H., 1006

Edwin M., 1004

Henry, 1006

Isaac, 1002

Jennie D., 1003

Jesse A., 1002

Jillis A., IOCS

Lansing S., 1004

Nicholas V. B., 1007

Santvoord L., 1004

Sarah E., 1007
Foody Ancestry, 1227

Anthony, 1228

Bartholomew, 1228

James, 1227

Thomas, 1228

William, 1227

William, 1228
Foote Ancestry, 124

Daniel, 125

Lois, 125

Nathaniel, 124

Nathaniel, 125

Samuel, 125
Forbes, John, 982
Ford Ancestry, 1799

James, 1799

John, 1799

John W., 1799

Simon, 1799
Fort Ancestry, 1260

Charles H., 1260

John, J 260

Julia A., 1260
Foster Ancestry, 1689

Asa F., 1690

Henry S., 1690

John N., 1690
Fowler. Byron B., 1140

Charles, 1140
Frame Ancestry, 647

Elizabeth V., 648

John, 647

William H., 648
Frascr Ancestry, 319, 1649

Altonah, 1649

Elizabeth N., 1649

George R., 1649

John, 1649

Robert. 1649
Frear Ancestry. 468

Cliarles W., 471

Edwin 11.. 472

Joseph. 46')

William, 469

William B., 471

William H., 469
French Ancestry, 102

Edward, 102

Harriet N., 103
Nathaniel, 102

Samuel, 102
Frisbie Ancestry, 618

Chester C, 619
Miles R., 619

Russell, 619

Fritts, Crawford E.. Dr., 1369

Wilham. 1369
Fryer Ancestry, 1438

Abram, 1438

Abram. 1439

Albertus, 1439

Jacob, 1440

John, 1438

John, 1440

John F., 1439

William, 144O
Fuller Ancestry, 169

Anna E.. 173

Ebenezer, 171

Edward. 169

Edward D., 176
*Emma L.. 173

Howard N., 172

James. 175

Jeremiah, 174

John, 170

John, 171

Menzo R., 176

Peter, 176

Roger, 171

Samuel. 169

Samuel, 173

Samuel. 174

Thomas, 170

Wesley J., 176

William, 171

William H., 176

Zada C, 173
Fulton Ancestry, 302

Robert, 302 (Portrait 1437)
Furbeck Ancestry, 1190

John, 1 1 90

John, 1 191

John T., 1191

Peter, 1190
Furman Ancestry, 1068

Catharine A., 1068

H. E:trl. 1068

James, 1067

Robert, 1068

Robert. Col., 1068

Russell W., 1067
Fursman .•\nccstry, 1064

Edgar L., 1064

Elizabeth R., 1405

James C, 1064

Jesse B., 1064

Jesse, B.. 1405

William, 1064

William, 1405

William H.. 1405
Gale Ancestry, 419

Abell, 419

Edmond, 419

Edward C, 421

Ezra T., 421

George, 1223

John, 419

John, 1223

Samuel, 419
Gallagher, John, 1231

Patrick, Capt., 1231
Gallup Ancestry, 1798

Carrie N.. 1799

Charles K., 1799

John, 1798
Galusha Ancestry, 601

Amos, 601

Daniel, 601

Elijah, 602

HUDSOiN AND .MOHAWK VALLEYS

iClizabeth O., 602

Henry, 602

Jacob, 601
Gander Ancestry, 1361

Adam, 1361

Anton, 1361

Casper. 1361

Joseph, 1 361
■Gangloff Ancestry, 1691

Anthony, 1691

Joseph F., 1091
Gansevoort Ancestry, 65

Harme, 66

Henry S., Col., 69

Peter, Gen., 67

Peter, Judge, 68

Susan, 68

W'esselias, 65
Gardiner Ancestry, 99

David, 99

Jerusha. 99

John, 99

Lion, 99
Gardner Ancestry, 482, 1270,
1662, 1703

Benoni, 1703

Charles H., 1270

Elisha, 483

Frederick D., 1662

George, 482

George, 1703

Henry, 1270

James D., 1662

James I., 1662

Jefferson, 1703

Jeremiah, 482

John, 482

John, 482

Nathaniel, 1703

Peter J., 1662

Robert, 1662

Stephen, 1703

Stephen, 1703

William H., 1271
Garner Ancestry, 1684

Aaron C, 1684

Christopher, 1684

George R., 1685

Godfrey, 1684
Garnsey. Lewis R., 706

Lizzie, 706
Garrett, Angus, 1237

ThoiTias, 1236
Gavit Ancestry, 1039

Erastus P., 1041

Helen P., 1040

John, 1039

John E., 1039

John P., 1040

Joseph, 1039

Joseph, 1040

Joseph, 1040

Joseph B., 1039

Phillipe, 1039

Walter P., 1040
Gccr Ancestry, 219

Asahel C, 220

Danforth, 223

Helen A., 223

Shubael, 219

Thomas, 219

Walter, 219

Walter, 220
Geigcr Ancestry, 1608

Albert, i6og

George, 1608

Leonard, 1608

Rosa, 1609
Geise .\ncestry, 937

Frederick, 937

Johann. 937

William, 937
Gelston Ancestry, 270

Elizabeth, 270

Hugh, 270

Jane, 270

Maltby. 270
Genet, Augusta G. K., 519

Edmond C, 520

George C, 519
Getman Ancestry, 1651

Benjamin, 1652

Christian, 1651

David, 1653

David. Jr., Capt., 1653

Frederick, 140^

Frederick, 165 1

George, 1408

George. 1651

George, 165 1

George, 1652

George, 1653

Oliver, 1652

Robert, 1408

Thomas, 1408

Volkert L., 1408
Gibson Ancestry, 1787

James, Judge, 1787

James B., 1787
Gifford. Alfred, 1704

Ebenezer H., 1704

Eliza, 1704
Gilbert Ancestry. 1483

Daniel, 1483

Henry S., 1484

Hettie C, i486

John, 1483

John, Capt., 1483

Matthew, 1483

William, 1483

William S., i486
*Gilchrist Ancestry, 938

Alexander, 938

Frank, 938

Robert, 938

Thomas, 938

Thomas B., 939
Giles Ancestry, 84

Henry, 84

Henry G., 85

Henry S., 85

Leonard H., 85
Gillett Ancestry, 1463

Aaron, 1465

Ely, 1465

Ely H., 1465

Jonathan, 1464

Jonathan, Gen., 1465

Josiah, 1465
Gillette, John E., Hon., 1465

John W., 1466
Gilmour Ancestry, 995

Jennie M., c/of)

John, 995
Gleason. Michael, 1354

William J., 1354
Goetz, Conrad, 1224
Goldring Ancestry, 121 1

Catharine, 1213

Esther, 1213

Frederick, 1212

Grace. 1213

Marjorie, 1213

William, 121 1

Winifred, 1213
Goodspeed Ancestry, 240

Anthony, 240

Anthony, 241

John, 240

Mary. 241

Roger, 240

Samuel, 240
Goold Ancestry. 310

Jacob. 310

Joaiuia, 310

John, 310

Robert. 310
Gordon Ancestry, 1677

David, 1678

Edgar D., 1678

Ezekiel, 1678

William J., 1678
Gorski Ancestry, 910

Anton, Rev., 911

Kasimir ^L, 911

Matthew, 910
Gorton Ancestry, 531

David. S3 1

David A., 531

Harriet B.. 531

John. 531

Joseph, 531

Samuel. 531
Graham Ancestry, 1271

Charles C, 1271

Daniel S., 1271
Granger Ancestry, 746

David, 746

Moise A., 746
Gray Ancestry, 502, 632

Archibald, 502

Daniel. 502

Jacob, 633

James A., 503

James S., S04

John J.. 633

Niel, 502

Samuel. Maj., 633

William J., 503
Green .\ncestry, 238

Arba R., Dr., 239

Crawford R., Dr., 239

John C. 2.^9

Lansdale B., 239

Richard, 238

Sara C, 239

William F., 239
Greene Ancestry, 241, 608, 1356,
1795

Adaline M., 242

Adelaide E., 1461

Barlow. 658

Beaumont, 658

Benjamin, 241

Benjamin, 1357

Benjamin F.. 241

Benjamin F., 1357

Chauncey O., 1461

Dyer, 658

Elijah P., 1797

Elizabeth E., 1461

Elizur, 658

Frank, 1357

Fred R.. 1798

Harold C. 242

Ix

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

Harvey S., 242

Henry E., 1798

James, 241

James, 1357

John, 241

John, 658

John, 1356

John F., 1357

John S., Dr., 558

Joseph, 241

Joseph, 1357

Langford, 241

Langford, 1357

Nancy J., 658

Ohver, 658

Peter, 658

Phoebe, 658

Samuel, 1796

Samuel, Capt., 1795

Samuel, Deacon, 1796

Thomas, 1795

Thomas, Rev., 1796

William K., 170

William K., 1797
Griffith Ancestry. 187

Edwin H., 188

Joshua, 187

Smith, 188

William, 187

William H., 189
Groate Ancestry, 864
Groesbeck Ancestry, 907
Gurley Ancestry, 1129

Ephraim, 1129

Jonathan, 1129

Lewis E., 1 130

Samuel, 1129

William, 1129

William P., 1130
Haff, John. 926
Hale Ancestry, 568

Abner, 569

Jacob, 569

John, 569

Joseph, 568

Joseph, 569

Thomas. 568
Hall Ancestry, 1366, 1511

Benjamin H., 1513

Cornelius V. H., 1366

Daniel, 1512

Daniel. 1513

Derick L., 1515

Jacob W., 1366

James S., 1514

John, 1511

John, 1512

Joseph. 1512

Joseph N", 1515

Josiah. 151S

Lot, 1512

Lot. Hon., 1512

Margaret M., 1514

Peter, 136s

Peter, 1366

Richard F., 1514

William L., 1515
Hallenbeck Ancestry, 1,142

Caspar J., 1342

Hendrik, 1342

Isaac C, 1342

Jacob H., 1342

Jacob J., 1342

Jasper J., 1343

[13

Margaret J., 1342

Walter H., 1343
Hammond Ancestry, ii

Abner, 1 1 14

Benjamin. 11 13

John, 1 1 13

Maretta, 11 14

Paul, II 14

Samuel, 11 13

William, 1113
Hand Ancestry, 927, 1600

John, 928

John, 1600

Joseph. 1600

Joseph, 1601

Josiah. 160 1

Julia, 1601

Marcus, 928

Peter, 928

Peter M., 928

Stephen, 1600
Hanratta, Eugene. 1234

Eugene J., Dr., 1234

Hugh, 1234
Hanson Ancestry, 263. 838

Abram. 263

Douw, 839

Hans. 838

Hendrick, 838

Hendrick, 839

John J., 839

May G., 264

Nicholas, 838

Peter, 839

Peter D., 263

Walter H.. 1780

Walter L., 1780
Hardin Ancestry, 933

Benjamin, 933

Emmor C, 934

James, 933

Jonathan T., 933
Harlfinger Ancestry, 1256

Augustus B.. 1256

Frederick, 1256

Frederick, Jr., 1256

Joseph, 1256
Harran. Matthew, 930

Patrick, 930

Thomas, 930
Harrington. David. 907

Horace, 907

Nicholas, 907

William H., 907
Harris Ancestry,

Daniel, 305

Ebenezer H.. 304

Elmira N., 306

Frederick W.. 286

Hamilton H.. 287

Ira, Judge, 286

John L., 306

Jo.seph. 304

Josiah. 306

Nathaniel. 305

Robert, 305

Thomas. 306
Hart Ancestry. 638

Frances. 639

Nicholas. 638

Philip, 639

Richard, 638

Richard. Capt.. 638

Richard P., 639

304

Hartley .•\ncestry, 782

Isaac, 783

Reuben M., 784

Robert, 783

Robert M., 783
Hartt Ancestry, 1693

Arthur, 1695

John, 1694

John G., 169s

Nicholas, 1693

Richard, 1694

Richard, Capt., 1694
Harvey Ancestry, 1755

Asahel, Capt., 1755

Asahel G., Capt., 1756

Charles S., 1756

Thomas, 1755
Haswell Ancestry, 997, i8o<

Amelia E., 1801

George, 997

George S., Dr., 997

Harriet J., 1802

Isaac M., 997

John, 997

John, 1800

Joseph, 1801

Joseph M., 1801

Robert, 1801

Thomas, 997
Hathorn Ancestry, 1537

Collins, 1538

Ebenezer, 1538

Emily H., 1538

John, IS37

John, 1538

Orrin, 1538

William, 1537
Hatt Ancestry, 803

Joel, 804

Josiah. Rev., 804

Mary P., 805

Samuel S., 804
Haverly. Charles, 1335

John. 13.3s

Josiah, 13.3.S
Haviland Ancestry, 1810

Benjamin. 1810

David, 1810

Roger, 1810

Roger E., 1810

Theodore R.. 1810

William. 1810
Hawley .Vncestry, 1295

Gideon, 1297

Gideon A., 1297

Grace S., 1297

James L., 1297

Joseph, I296'

Obadiah, 1296

Roswell. 1297

Samuel, 1296
Hayden -Ancestry, 1490

Adelbert C, 1494

Daniel, 1492

Gideon. 1492

Henry, 1491

John, T491

John C. 1493

^[oses. 1492

Robert. 1491

Samuel. 1492

Solomon, 1493

Thomas. 1491

William, 1491

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

bd

William, 1492
Hays Ancestry, 1140

Alexander, 1140

Alexander, 1 141

Daniel, 1141

David, 1 141

David A., 1141

James, 1141

John E.. 1 141
Hayes Ancestry, 1637

George, 1O37

Harry. 1O37

William, 1637
Heacock Ancestry, 1370

Eugene D., 1372

David, Capt., 1370

David G.. 1372

Elbert L., 1371

Job, 1370

Lemuel, 1370

Philander C, 1371
Heath Ancestry, 6yi

Bartholomew, 692

Daniel N., 693

George W., 693

John, 692

Joshua, 693

Richard, 692
Solomon P., 693
Heckeler, Christopher, 892

Gustave, 892

Thomas, 892
Hellenbeck Ancestry, 1341

Ephraim G.. 1341

Isaac, 1341

Isaac B., 1341

Millard F., 1341
Herrick Ancestry, 1087

Daniel, ro88

Daniel D., io88

David, 1321

Ephraim, 1088

George I., 1088

Henry, 1087

Jacob, 1321

Marvin, 1321

Rufus. 1088

Samuel, 1088

Sarah A., 132 1

Stephen, 1088
Herrington Ancestry,

Benjamin, 1132

John, 1 132

Josiah, 1 132

Merritt, 1389

Philip, 1 132

Silas, 1 132

Silas, 1389
Hewett, Daniel P., 1 172

John K., 1 1 72

Ozias, 1 1 72
Hewitt, Delevan, 1173

Joseph, 1173

Richard, 1173
Hicks Ancestry. 1524

Asa, 1525

David, 1525

Edwin B., 1525

Frank E., 1525

Joseph, 1525

Mansir W.. 1526

Thomas, 1525
Hilderbrand. James G.,

John, 1245

[132

182

Hildreth Ancestry. 1055

George W., 1056

James, 1055

Joshua, 1055

Noah, 1055

Rhoda J., 635

Survarus G.. 1056

Thomas. 1055

Timothy P., 635
Hill Ancestry, 1315

.^aron, 1316

Ida M., 1316

John, 1315

Jonathan. 1316

Lydia. 13 16

Nathan. 1316

William, 1315
Hilton .Ancestry, 367. 975.

Abraham L.. 976

Andrew J., 976

Charles, 3/1
*Daniel, 370

Dudley. 370

Edward. 368

Edward. 369

Frank R.. 1184

George P., 372

Jacobus, 1 181

James. T181

James. 1183

Joseph. 370

Joseph, 1184

Joseph. Capt.. I

Maria V., 1184

Peter L.. 975

Robert. 1181

Robert J., 1 184

Thomas, 976

Willem. 1 181

William, 975

William C, 975
Hilts. George H.. 1099

Harry G., 1099

Helen V.. 1099
Hinckel .'Xncestry. 1249

Antonc. 1249

Antone C. 1249

Frederick. 1249

Frederick. 1250

Helena. 1249
Hinckley Ancestry. 59s

Ebenezer. 596

Harriet L.. 596

John. 596

Joseph. 596

Samuel. 595

Thomas, Gov.. 595
Hitchcock .(Xncestry. 1102

Alfred F., 1104

Alfred W.. 1104

Asahel, 1103

John, 1103

John, Capt., 1 103

Luke. 1 102

Noble B.. 1 103

Samuel. 1 103
Hoagland .Ancestry. 1319

Christopher. 1319

Christopher. 1320

Cora L.. 1321

Delmcr E.. 1321

Jacob. 1320

James, 1320

John. 1320

Nathaniel K., 1320
Hoff, Jacob. 1643

John, 1644

Richard, 1643
Holbrook, Catherine L., 1034

George N., 1035
Holdcn Ancestry, 964

Abigail, 1623-4

Abncr, 1624

Charles J., 965

Clarence E., Capt., 1368

Daniel, 964

Daniel, 965

James, 964

Joseph, 1624

Josiah. 1368

Justinian, 964

Richard, 964

Richard. 1368

William H., 965
Holmes Ancestry, 427

Burras, 427

Daniel, Rev., 427

Gilbert. 1351

Hector A., 1351

John. 427

Reuben. 427

Marv E.. 428

Wntsnn M., I3SI

William S., 427
Hopkins Ancestry, 296

Caleb. 297

Charles V., 297

Giles, 297

Henry, 297

James, 297

Josephine, 297

Samuel C. 297

Stephen, 297
Hooker Ancestry. 839

Hezekiah. 841

James. 841

James. Col., 841

John, 840

Marquis de L., 841

Mary J., 841

Samuel. Rev.. 840

Thomas. Rev.. 839
Horsfall Ancestry. 863

Deborah. 864

Eleanor G.. 864

Elizabeth. 864

John O.. 864

Joseph. 863

Joseph. 864

Mar\' A.. 864

Rebecca. 864

Sarah, 864

William, 864
Hotalincr Ancestry, 1504

.Aaron, 921

Aaron. 1505

Anna H., 1506

Coenrad. 1504

Coenradt. 1504

Frank. 687

Hiram. 1505

John, 687

Jonathan. 1504

M.itbys. 1504

Osrar. 921

Willom. I!;04

William. 687
Houck .Ancestry. 713

Ixii

Adrian, 713
Andries, 713
Burger, 713
Elizabeth A., 714
Hannes. 713
Jacob, 1266
Jacob A., 714
John G., 1266
Hough Ancestry, 544
Edward, 544
James, 544
Martha A., 544
Fhineas, 544
Reuben, 544
Samuel, 544
William, i44
Houghton Ancestry. 1213, 1767
Eli, 1214
H. Arthur, 1214
James T., 1767
James W., Judge, 1767
John, 1213
John, 1767
Nathaniel, Dr., 1767
Tilley, 1767
William, 1214
House, Eleazer, 85
Harriet. 86
Leonard, 86
Hovemeyer, Ernest H , 936
Henry, 935
Wilham, 935
Hover, John R, 87^
John P., 873
Peter, 873
Peters., 873
Hovvgatc, John A., 1437
Joseph. 1437
Josephine, 1438
Hoysradt, Albert, 1550

Jacob W.. 1550
Hoyt Ancestry, 1018
Eastman, 1019
Frederick M., 1019
John, 1018
John, 1019
Joseph, 1019
■^Hudson Ancestry, 472
Daniel. 472
Henry W.. 473
John. 472
Jonathan, 472
Samuel, 472
Thomas, 472
Willi.-,m H., 47,3
HiiglKs, Annie, i ,6o
l-;duar.l M.. ,360
I'hnnias. 1360
Hull Ancestry, 1501
Carrie, 1502
Daniel, 1501
Joseph, 1501
Lulu N., 1502
Nelson, 1501
Otis D., 1502
Peter, 1501
Hulst Ancestry, 1064
riarbara, 1064
Barbara A., 1065
Johannes, 1064
John, 1064
Matthias, 1065
Peter, 1064
Hun Ancestry, 195

HUDSON AND MOHAWK

Abraham, 197
Edward R., 198
Harmen, 195
Henry, 202
Johannes, 196
Leonard G., 201
Marcus T., 199
Thomas, 196
Thomas. 197
Thomas H., 196
Hungerford Ancestry, 1268
Alexander, 1269
Alfred, 1269
Daniel, 1269
Henry, 1269
Isaac, 1269
John, 1268
Myron, 1269
Oliver W., 1269
Stephen, 1269
Hunter, .Alfred, 1242
Joshua W., 1242
Huntington Ancestry lyjj
1811 ■*' '^■^'

Enoch, Rev., 181 1
Jabez, Gen., 1744
Joseph, 181 1
Joshua, 1744
Nathaniel, 181 1
Samuel G., 181 1
Simon, 1743
Simon. 181 1
Simon, Deacon, 1743
Simon. Deacon, 1744
Hurst, David T., 1218
Francis J., 1217
Robert, 1217
Husted Ancestry. 084
Albert N., Dr. 986
Angel, 985
Jonathan, 985
Mary J. K., 1348
Nathaniel, 985
Peter, 985
Robert, 985
Seymour, 1348
*Thaddeus, 985
William H., 1348
Wutchmson, James. 1230

John, 1230
Hutton .Ancestry. 1644
Christopher, 1644
James, 1645
John v., 1645
'1 miothv, 1644
Huyck Ancestry. 397
Andries H., 397
Andnes L., 398
Edmund N., 399
Francis C, 398
Francis C, 399
Henrie, 397
Jan, 397
John A,, 398
John N., 399
John S., 398
Lambert, 397
Solomon, 398
Hyatt Ancestry. 866
Esther A., 866
Eugene, 866
John S., 866
Louis E.. 866
Nathaniel, 866

VALLEYS

Hyde. Jedediah, Rev., 1746
Samuel, 1746
William, 1746
Ida .Ancestry, 106
Alba M., 108
Benjamin, 107
George P., 107
Nicholas, 106
Nicholas, 107
William, 107
Inch, John VV., 1204
Joseph P., 1204
Ingalls Ancestry, 416
Daniel, 418
Edmund, 416
Edmund. 417
George VV., 418
Harriette A., 418
Henry, 416
Hosea, Rev., 417
John, 416
Robert, 416
Wallace, 418
Ingalsbe Ancestry, 402
Aaron, 402
Ebenezer, 402
Grenville H., 405
Grenville M.. 404
James, 402
Milo, 403
Ingram Ancestry, 142-
Henry, 1428
Henry, 1429
John, 1428
Jonathan, 142S
Martha A., 1429
Nathaniel, 1428
Randolph, 1427
Richard, 1428
Robert, 1427
Sir Arthur. 1428
Inwood, George J., 1340

Robert, 1340
Ireland, David, 887
David, 888
James, Rev., 887
Irwin .Ancestry, 912
Anna .M., 912
James, 912
William, 912
William P., 912
Isburgh Ancestry, 605
Alexander, 606
Charles H., 606
Grace V. B.. 605
Karl, 605
Ives Ancestry, 630
Chester, 631
Chester J., 631
Christopher, 630
Lazarus. 630
Tnunaii. 630
JaiiK-s Ancestry. 1466
Francis. 1466
Henry L,, ,466
John. I4«j
Lyman D., 1466
Philip, 1466
Thomas, 1466
Jenkins .Ancestry, 582
Edgar. i;82 "
Edgar M., 583
Joseph. 582
.Marshall, 582

HUDSON AND MOHAWK \ALLEYS

Jermain Ancestry, 224

Ann R., 225

Barclay, 220

Catherine A., 225

Catherine B., 225

James B.. 225

John, Maj., 224

JuHa P., 225

Maria C., 225

Sylvanus P., 225
Jewett Ancestry, 631

Charles A., 632

Elijah, O31

Georgiana G., 632

Henry \V.. Dr., 631
Johnson Ancestry. 1289, 1291

Barcnt, 1290

Benjamin P., 1292

Benjamin \V., 1293

David, 1293

Evert, 1 29 1

Henry, 1291

Henry N., 1294

Isaac, 1290

Jellis, 1290

Noble H.. 1293

Sarah .A., 1294

William, 1291
Jones Ancestry, 1074, 1229

Abraham. 1077

Alfred A., 1076

Arthur O., 1229

Christina. 1075

Collins P., 1229

Cornelius, 1074

Edward L., 1075

Edward W., 1229

Isaac, 1078

James V. Z., 1075

John, 1074

Joseph, 1074

Joshua L., 1076

Lindell J. W., 969

Louis, 1075

Morgan A., 1076

Morgan L., 1229

Samuel. 1074

William, 1229

William J., 1075
Joy Ancestry. 1519

John, 1520

Joseph, 1519

Joseph, 1520

Relief, 1520

Thomas, 1519
Judson Ancestry, 735, 1238,
1368

Alanson, 1238

Charles W., 1238

Daniel, 735

Daniel, 1238

Daniel B.. 735

Edward W., 736

Elisha, 735

Elisha, 1238

Emma J., 1369

Isaac, 1369

John, 1368

John B., 736

Joseph. 1368

Timothy, 1369

William, 1368

William. 1369
Kaufman, Edward, 813

Karl, 813

William H., 814
Keck Ancestry, 1775

George, 1775

Isaac, 1775

Jeremiah, Judge, 1 776

Philip, 1778

Timothy. 1776
Keefer, Albert, 1365

Charles. 1365
Keeler, Daniel, 905

William H., 905
Keiner, Edward A., 1273

Henry C, 1273

John H.. 1273
Kclley Ancestry, 1174

David. 1 174

David H., 1175

Frances B., 1568

Harry, 11 75

Harry L., 1175

Jeremiah, 11 74

Joseph, 1 1 74

Joseph, 1 175

Thomas C. 1568
Kellogg Ancestry, 649

Ebenezer, 650

John, 650

John, 651

Joseph, 650

Joseph, Lieut., 650

Martin, 649

Nathaniel, 1429

Samuel, 1429

Seth, 650

bupplina. 651
Kelly Ancestry, 1395, 1627

James C, 1627

James E.. 1627

Joseph S., 1395

Robert. 1627

William, 1395

William N.. 1396
Kendrick Ancestry, 1762

Abraham, 1762

David, 1762

George. 1762

John, 1762

John R., 1762

Richard J.. 1762

William. 1762
Kennedy Ancestry. 299. 1151
1209

Elizabeth A., 1152

Everett M.. 1151

Howard S., 1210

Howard W., 121 1

James, 299

James C, 1151

Martin. 1151

Martin, Jr., 1152

Peter H.. 1209

Richard, 1210

Richard O.. 121 1

Thomas, 299

William L., 299
Kenyon Ancestry. 1570

Hiram, 1570

John, 1570

Sylvanus H., 1571

William, 1570
Ketchum .Ancestry. 1132

Charles L, 1133

Daniel R., ii.vi

Edward, 1132

Edward, 1133

Henry, 1133

Jonathan, 1133

Joseph, 1 133

Joseph, Lieut., 1133

Nathaniel, 1133
Kidd, Archibald. 454

James, 454
Kimball Ancestry, 610

Charles P., 612

Ebenezer, 611

Edmund, 612

James E., 612

Richard, 610

Richard, 611

Samuel, Ensign, 611
King Ancestry, 978

Charles, 1097

Dwight, 978

Dwight, 979

George, 979

James H., 1406

John v., 1097

John v., 1098

Michael, 1406 •

Robert, 1097

Thomas, 979

Timothy, 979

William II., 979
Kinum Ancestry, 922

Andrew, 923

Frederick, 922

George J.. 923

Hans, 922
Klaar, Frederick. 1393

Frederick W., 1393

Nicholas, 1393
Klapp, Annie E.. 945

ilatthias, 945
Klein, .August, 839
Kline. George, 1760

Henry V., 1761

William, 1760
Knickerbocker Ancestry, 906
Knowlton Ancestry, 190

Daniel, 192

George W., 193

John, 191

John, 192

Manasseh, 193

Mary L., 193

Nathaniel, 192

William. 191

William. 192
Knox .\nccstry, 337, 833

Charles B.. 835

Charles M.. 834

Charles M., 836

Hugh, 338

Hugh. Rev., 337

James, 833

John H., 338

John L., 338

Mary E., 338

William. 834
Krank Ancestrv, 832

Charles J.. 833

George. Col., 832

George F., 833

Lawrence. 832
Kurlhaum. Ernest, 1347

Louise, 1348
L'Amore.iux .Ancestry, 424

Ixiv

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

Jesse, 425

Jesse S., 425

Peter, 424
Lagrange Ancestry, 1323

Christopher C, 1324

Christopher 1., 1324

James, 1323

John, 1323

John C, 1324

Oniie, 1323
La Grange Ancestry, 1664

James, 1664

Myndert, 1665

Vanderzee, 1665
Lamg Ancestry, 1753

Adam, 1753

Minerva A., 1754

Thomas, 1753

Uzziel D., 1754

William F., 1755
Lally Ancestry, 903

Frederick, 904

George A., 903

Mary E., 904
Lampman Ancestry, 1584
~ John P., 1584

Lewis, Rev., 1585

Obadiah. 1584

Peter, 1584

Stephen, 1584
Landon Ancestry, 621

Ashbel, 622

James, 621

James, Capt., 621

Judson S., 622

Mary T., 623

Nathan, 621

Robert J., 623

William, 622
Langford Ancestry, 435

George, 435

George, 436

John, 435

Northrnp. 435
Lansing Ancestry, 72, 904, 1 175,
1640, 1641

Abraham, 73

Abraham, 80

Abraham F., 1641

Abraham G., 73

Abraham J., 79

Abraham J., 905

Abraham L., 79

Abram W., 80

Alida M., 1642

Andrew, 80

Catharine, 79

Caroline M., 83

Charles B., 74

Christopher V.. 73

Cornelius, 905

Egbert P., 81

Egbert W., 80

Evert, 82

Francis P., 1 176

Franciscus, 1175

George W., 164 1

Gerrit, 72

Gerrit, 76

Gerrit, 76

Gerrit, 1640

Gerrit, 1640

Gerrit, 1641

Gerrit F., 72

Gerrit F., 1175

Gerrit J., 72

Gerrit J., 1640

Gerrit Y., 74

Gerritt, 904

Helen M., 1641

Hendrick, 979

Hendrick (Henry), 1641

Hendrick G., 904

Hendrick G., 1175

Hugh H., 83

Isaac De F., 76

Jacob C, 905

Jacob G., 72

Jacob H., 904

Jacob H., 1 175

James, 82

James E., 82

Johannes, 80

Johannes, 80

Johannes E.. 82

John P., 1 1 76

John T., 75

John V. S., 81

Levinius, 79

Levinius, 1175

Lewis E.. 1641

Mary J., 83

Matthias M., 1641

Nanning V. H., 79

Philip S., 76

Rutger, 76

William, 1641
Larrabee Ancestry, 747

Greenfield, 747

John, 747

John, 748

John E.. 748

Richard. 748

Roswell, 748

Seth, 748
Lasell Ancestry, 1663

Edna L., 1663

Edwin Q., 1663

James, 1663

John, 1663

Samuel H., 1663
Lasher .Vncestry, 1595, 1617,
1683

Alva J., 1619

Conrad, 1595

Conrad, 1683

Edward, 1683

Jacob B., 159s

James. 1618

John. 1618

John. i(xS3

Marcus. 1618

Peter B., 1683

Samuel, 1683

Sebastian, 1595

Sebastian, 1618

Sebastian, 1683

Thomas, 1595
Laughlin. Edwin B., 906

Hough, 906
Lawrence Ancestry, 668

Egbert C. Rev., 670

John, 669

Silas R.. 6f)8

'I'homas. (/x)

Willi.im. (169
Lawlon .Ancestry , 607

Edward P., 609

George, 607

George, 608

George F., 608

Robert, 608

William, 608
Le Boeuf Ancestry, 1735

Peter J., 1735

Randall J., Hon., 1735
Lee, Richard H., 1543

Thomas, 1543
Leeman Ancestry. 1359

George, 1359

Harvey, 1359

Robert, 1359
Lefevre Ancestry, 1361

Frances A., 1362

Roswell T., 1361

Sieroit, 1361
Leggett Ancestry, 1679

Jacobus, 1679

John, 1679

William, 1679
Lemon Ancestry, 723

George F., 723

George M., 723

Harold S., 723
Leo. James. 1247

Patrick. 1247
Leonard Ancestry, 553

lliMijamin. 554

Daniel, 555

Darnel. Capt., 555

Daniel. Lieut.. 555

Edgar C, 556

Gardner C, 556

Harriet O., 557

James, 555

John, 554

Nathaniel, 553
Lester Ancestry, 1297, 1591

Andrew, 1297

Andrew. 1591

Benjamin, 1297

Benjamin, 1591

Charles C, 1299

Charles C, 1592

Charles G., 1298

Charles G., 1591

Charles S.. 1298

Charles S., 1591

Jonathan, 1298

Simeon, 1298

Simeon, 1591

Willard, 1299
Levey Ancestry, 1444

Frank H., 1444

Hiram, 1444

James, 1444
Liddle. Harriet E., 702

Henrv S., 702

William J.. 702
Lincoln, Harvey, 1501

William P., 1501
Link, David, 1458

Frances W., 1458
Lipe Ancestry, 1561

Adam, 1562

Ephraim, 1562

Fred W., 1563

John, 1561

Raymond P., 1563

Walter H., 1562
Lipes Ancestry, 1772

Henry, 1773

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

Ixv

Myron D., M.D., 1773
Lithgovv Ancestry, 1607

David C, 1608

Robert, 1607

William, 1608
Little Ancestry, 281

David W., 263

Elmer, 283

George F., 282

Henry, 283

John, 282

John C, 282

Lawrence, 281

Naaman, 282

Seth, 283
Livingston Ancestry, 42, 302

Charles, 1346

Harriet, 302

Herman, 45

Herman, 46

Herman T., 45

James, Col., 1154

John, 45 ^

John, 1345

John, Rev., 42

John P., 1607

Peter, 1346

Peter G., 1607

Philip,. 44

Robert, 42

Robert, 44

Robert, 302

Robert R., 439

Robert R., 439

Walter, 302
Lobdell -Ancestry, 1530

Bradley N., 1532

Daniel, 1531

Daniel B., 1532

Hiram W., 1532

James H., 1532

John, 1531

Joshua, 1530

Nathan B., 1531

Simon, 1530
Lockwood .\ncfstry, 1426, 1543,
1762

Charles D., 1763

Duane, 1762

Jeremiah, 1762

Jonathan, 1426

Jonathan, 1544

Joseph, 1427

Joseph, 1544

Joseph, Capt., 1427

Robert, 1426

Robert, 1543

Robert, 1762

Solomon, 1427

Solomon, 1545
Lohnas Ancestry, 1546

Adam, 1546

Deyoe, 1546

Jacob, 1546
Longshore .-Xncestry, 1328

David. 1328

Solomon, 1328
Loomis Ancestry, 124, 641, 1819

David, 124

Eunice, 642

Ezekiel A., 1420

Hezekiah, 1420

Ichabod, 124

Isaiah, 642

Jeduthan, 1420

John, 124

John, 642

John R., 1420

Joseph, 124

Joseph, 641

Joseph, 1419

Lois, 124

Nathaniel, 1420

Solomon, 1420

Solomon, Ensign, 1420

Thomas, 642

Timothy, 124

Veach, 642 .
Loucks Ancestry, 326

James H., 328

James H., 921

John A., 921

John A. S.. 328

John H., 328

Peter, 327

Philip, 327
Ludlow Ancestry, 300

Gabriel, 300

Henry, 300

Robert F., 301

Robert M., 301

William B., 301

William H., 300
Lunn Ancestry, 717

George R., Rev., 717

Martin, 717

Richard. 717

Thomas, 717
Lusk Ancestry. 1586

Anna L., 1586

Elizabeth C, 1586

John, 1586

John K., 1586

Matthias, 1586

Sarah C, 1586
Lyon .Ancestry, 1764

Charles W., 1766

Irving W., .M.D., 1766

Israel, 1765

Jonathan, 1765

Seth, 1765

Solomon R., 1766

Spardon, 1765

Thomas, 1764

Thomas, 1764
Lyons. Patrick, 1403

William H., 1403
MacDonald .Vncestry, 1719

Alexander, 1719

Alexander, 1719

William A., 1719
MacMurray, Henrietta W.. 1804

Junius W., 1804
McBurney Ancestry, 120

Alexander, 121

James, 121
McCabe .A.ncestry, 1612

James, 1612

John, 1612

Patrick E., 1612
McCall .\ncestry, 1660

Andrew. 1660

Andrew. 1660

Harry, 1660
McClellan Ancestry, 884

Charles H., 885

George, 1821 ,

Hugh, 88s

Hugh, Col., 884

Michael, 884

Michael, 885
McClumpha Ancestry, 734

Thomas, 734

W. Frank, 734

William, 734
McClure Ancestry, 1626

Daniel, 1626

James E., 1626
McConnell .Ancestry, 796
McCoy, Harmon, 895

Henry. 895

-Matilda E.. 895

Shubboleth, 895
McCreedy, Charles, 1403

Charles O., 1403

Gordon S., 1403

John, 1403
McCulloch .\ncestry, 511

Aiken, 516

Andrew, 512

Anne C, 517

Hathorn, 511

Walter B., 518

WiUiani A., 512

William A., 517

William H., $1$
McElroy .-Xncestry, 566

Ebenezer E., 566

Hugh, 566

James F., 567

John, 566

Thomas G., 566
McElwain Ancestry, 854

Henry C, 855

Hoel S., 854
McEwan, Walter, 168
McFarlan Ancestry. 1048

Alexander, 1049

Archibald. 1049

Patrick, 1049
McGiniiis, Malachi. 1407

Mary M.. 1407

Patrick, 1407
McGrath, Edward, 1262

Edward C, 1263

Henrietta F., 1263

Mary E., 1263

Patrick, 1262
McKee, James, 838

James F., 838
McKie, Catherine, 1624

James, 1824

John, 1624

John. 1824

Kate M., 1625

William. 1624

William. 1824
McKinney .-Niicestry, 1448

.Mexander. 1448

Calinas, 1448

Ella F., 1450

James, 1449

James, Rev., 1448

Julia A., 1450
McKinstrv. Fred B. S., 889

Mary D., 889
McKissick .\ncestry, 168

Abby S., 168

Moses, 168

Stuart, 168

Zebulon. 168
McKnight .Ancestry. 1402

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

Horace E., 1402

Horace R, 1402

John, 1402
McLeod Ancestry, 547

Augustus D., 549

Charles A., 547

Harvey S., 548

Hubert, 547

Murdock, 547

Sayre, 549
McMichael Ancestry, 757

Daniel, 757

Henry, 758

Robert, 758
McMillan. Alexander, 1676

Emerette, 1676

Henry, 1676

Taylor, 1676
McNab, Finley, 1096

John, 1096
McNair Ancestry, 343

Alexander, 344

Antoine, 344

Antoine de R., 344

David, 343
McPherson, Catherine \'. H., 79

John W., 79
McQuade Ancestry, 1667

Anthony, 1667

Anthony, 1667

Anthony, 1669

Anthony, 1669

John D., 1670

Patrick H.. 1669

Peter, 1667

Peter, 1669

Raymond, 1667
McWharton Ancestry, 371
Mabee Ancestry, 1601

Douglas W., 1602

George J. W., 1601

Jan, 1601

Jan P., 1601

Pieter, 1601

Simon, 1601
Machold Ancestry, 932

George N., 932

P. Bernhard, 932
Mackwirth Ancestry, 1259

Frederick J., 1259

John, 1260

Martin, 1260

Peter, 1259
Magivny, John, 901

John G., 901

Mary C, 901
Maisonneuve Ancestry, 1659

Antoine, 1659

George W., 1659

Joseph I., 1659

William, 1659

William, 1659

Victor, 1659
Mallary Ancestry, 1209

Augustus L., 1209

Ebcnczcr. 1209

David, 1638

Henry A., 1638

Martha A., 1209

Sarah J., 1638

Theodore A., 1209
Mann Ancestry, 841, 846

David, 846
Elias P., 845

Francis N., Col., 844

Francis N., Hon., 843

Herbert R., 846

Herbert R., 847

Jeremiah, 843

Joel, 843

Joseph, 842

Michael, 846

Nathaniel, 842

Richard, 842
Manning Ancestry, 213

Daniel, Hon., 213

James H., 214

John, 213
Mansfield Ancestry, 1789

Joseph, 1789

Joseph, 1789

Joseph, 1789

Joseph, Capt., 1790

Lewis W., 1790

Richard, 1789

William K., 1791

William P.. 1790
Marchant Ancestry, 482

Abishai, 482

Gamaliel, 482

John, 482

John, 482

John, 482

John, 482
Mark Ancestry, 352

George, 353

Isaac, 352

Sarah, 353

Thomas, 352
Markham, Annie L., 1033

Daniel. 1033

John H., 1033
Marley, John C. 1392

Joseph, 1392

Richard, 1392

Thomas, 1392
Maronc, Joseph, 1257

Michael, 1257

Niccoli, 1257
Marshall Ancestrv, 307, 726

Caleb, S., 308

Caroline A., 308

Daniel, 307

Elijah, 308

John, 307

Levi, 727

Levi T., 727

Samuel, Capt., 726

Thomas, 726

Thomas, 727

Thomas, Capt., 307

Thomas, Capt., 308
Martin Ancestry, 1205, 1277,
1279

Abraham, 1279

Albert, 1279

David, 1205

Frank, 1279

Frank W., 1279

John. 1277

John, 1279

John D., 1205

Peter, 1277

Phoebe R., 1206

Robert, 1278

William, 1278
Martratt, George B., 683

Martha A., 683

Marvin Ancestry, 496

Benjamin, 500

Benjamin, 501

Daniel M., Capt., 498

F"rederic R., 502

John 500

Reinold, 496

Reinold, Capt., 497

Reinold, Deacon, 498

Reinold, Lieut., 497

Richard P., 499

Selden, 498

Selden E., Col., 500

Selden E., Gen., 499

Uriah, 501

Uriah, Rev., 501
Mason Ancestry, 951

Amanda, 952

Caroline. 952

Isaac, 952

Mary A., 952

Nathaniel, 952

Sampson, 951

Sampson, 952
Matthews, Barnet, 1238

John, 862

John, 1238

John W., 863
Mattoon Ancestry, 857

Amasa, 857

David, 857

David, 858

David, 859

Marion A., 859

Philip, 857

William, 858
Maudrich, Ernest H., 1252

William H., 1252
May Ancestry, 610

Eleazer, 610

George, 610

John, 6ia

Luke, 610

Thomas P., 610

William, 610
Mead Ancestry, 617

David, 617

Joseph, 617

Nehetniah, 617

William, 617

Zachariah, 618
Melville Ancestry, 61

Allan, 63

Sir John, 62

Thomas. 62

Thomas, Maj., 62

Thomas, Rev., 62
Merchant Ancestry, 527

Eliakim, 527

John, 527

Walter, 527
Merriani Ancestry, 1623

Abigail, 1623

Joseph, 1623

Nathan, 1623

Samuel. 1623

Thomas, 1623
Merriman .\ncestry, 1299

Harmon N., 1300

Jehiel, 1300

Moses, 1300

Nathaniel, 1299

Porter L.. 1301

Theophilus, 1299

HUDSON AND MOHAWK \'ALLEYS

Ixvii

Theophilus, 1300

Titus L., 1300

Willis E., 1301

Willis E., Jr., 1301
Merritt, Henry, 1264

Henr>- A., 1264

Sarah, 1264
Mickel, Augustus, 922
Millard Ancestry, 1458

Adelaide E., 1460

Anthony G., 1459

Edward W., 1460

Grace G., 1459

Herbert B., 1458

John, 1458

John A., 1459

Jonathan, 1459

Nehemiah, 1459

Robert, 1458

Robert, Rev., 1459
Miller .Vnccstry. 343, 391, 1033,
1 106, 1556, 1719
♦Abraham J. D., 1107

Abram P., 1557

Charles, 1558

Christian, 1719

Conrad, 1556

David, 1108

Duncan F., iiots

Eleanor P., 343

Elisha, 391

Ernest, 1558

Ernest J., 1719

Frank, 1558

George D., 392

Henry, 343

Jacob, 1107

Jacob, 1557

Jacob P., 343

James, 343

James, 1033

James, 1105

James, 1558

James A., 1034

John, 391

John, 1556

John P., 1 1 07

John P., 1 108

Justus, 1 106

MacNaughlon, 1720

Nathaniel, 673

Peter, 1557

Peter I., 1556

Robert. 1034

Russell. 1108

Russell, 1557

Samuel, 391

Solomon, 391

Thomas, 391

Victor, 1558

William, 1033

William C, 1719

William H., 673
Milliman Ancestry, 1761

John, 1761

John, 1 761

Myron C, 1761

Myron C, 1762

Nathaniel, 1761

Nathaniel N., 1762

Samuel, Capt.. 1761
Mills Ancestry, 527

Borden H., 529

Borden H., 530

Charles H., 530

George, 527

George, 528

George, 529

John, 528

John, Capt., 528

Jonathan, Rev., 528
Millspaugh -Ancestry, 1676

Ale.xander, Rev., 1677

Charles. 1676

Jacob, 1676

Matthias, 1676
Minicr Ancestry, 940

Abraham, 940

Belle, 941

Catherme T. B., 940

Katherine E., 941

Sylvester, 940
Moffitt, .Andrew W. M., 917

James, 916
Moir, John, 774

Robert 1 ., 775
Monroe Ancestry, 1568

Clarissa, 15O8

Eliphalel. 15O8

John, 1568

Rhoda, 1568

Rosbotham, 1568

Thomas, 1568
Montague Ancestry, 231

Johannes, Dr., 231
Monteath Ancestry, 576

George, Capt., 577

Harrictte, 577

Peter, 577

Sarah Anne, 577

Sara J., 577
Monty Ancestry, 1051

Abraham, 1051

Daniel M., 1051
Moore Ancestry, 825. 828, n

Charles H., Dr., 826

De Witt C, 828

Eugene, 827

Frederick, 827

Frederick J., 827

George W., 1143

Godfrey, 827

Hugh, 828

James, 825

John, 826

John F., 827

Joseph, 825

Levi, 825

Levi, Dr., 825

Michael, 826

Robert H., 828

Sarah, 827

Spencer, 1142

William, 828
Morange Ancestry, 8og

James, 8og

James W., 809

Pierre L., 8og
Morey .Xncestry, 685

Charles. 685

Elizabeth, 685

Nathan, 685
Morgan Ancestry, 1076

Edwin, 1077

Miles, 1076

Miles, 1077

Nathaniel, 1076

Phineas, 1077

Morrow .\nceslry, 1568

Anna, 1570

James, 1506

James L., 1570

Samuel 1-., Kev., 1569

bamuel R., Dr., 1509
Morton Ancestry, 859

Ephraim, 600

George, 859

George, iJeacon, 861

Manasseh, 861

Reuben, 861

Reuben, 861

Seth W., 861

Taber, 801

Warner G.. 861
Moseley Ancestry, 90

Abigail, 90

Abner, 90

John, 90

Joseph, 90
Moses Ancestry, 1479

John, 1479

Joshua, 1479

Salmon, Dr., 1480

Thomas, 1480

Thomas S., 1480
Mosher Ancestry, 659

Abijah C, 659

Albert B., 659

George A., 659

Hugh, 659

Nicholas, 659

Rodman, 659
iloul Ancestry, 1372

Cornelius !•'., 1373

Henry S., 1373

Jacob, 1372

John, 1372

Richard, 1372
Murdock Ancestry, 88

James, Rev., 89

John, 88

Louisa, 89

Peter, 88
Munsell Ancestry, 534

Charles, 538

Elisha, 535

Frank, 538

Hezekiah, 535

Jacob, 535

Jessie, 538

Joel, 536

Julia A., 538

Minnie, 538

Thomas, 535

William A., 538
Munson Ancestry, 785, 1497

Amy T., 1500

Daniel, 1498

Edward G., 1500

Garry, 1499

Harriet L., 1500

Obadiah. 1498

Oscar P., 1500

Paul B., 1500

Peter, 785

Reuben, 785

Samuel, 785

Samuel, 1497

Samuel L., 1499

Samuel L., 1500

Stephen, 1498

Thomas, 785

Ixviii

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

Thomas, 1497

Thomas, 1498

Wilham, 785

William, 1500

William L., 1500
Murphy Ancestry, 289

Edward, 289

Edward, 291

John J., 291

Joseph J., 291

Richard C, 291

William E., 291
Murray Ancestry, 1543

Daniel, 1545

Francis N., 1545

William H., 1545
Mussey Ancestry, 745

Abraham, 745

Benjamin, 745

Daniel, 745

Elbridge G., 745

James E., 746

John, 745

Reuben, 745

Reuben D., 745
Myers Ancestry, 374, 748

Augustus, 749

Benjamin, 374

Benjamin i., 374

John, 748

John, 750

John B., 374

John G., 375

Mary A., 377

Nicholas I., 750

Stephanus, 374

Teunis, 374

William F., 749
Mynderse Ancestry, 1619

Aaron. 1620

Barent A., 1621

Carsten, 1619

Herman V., Dr., 1621

Johannes, 1620

Johannes, Col., 1620

Myndert, 1619

Myndert, 1620
Nadeau, Ale.xis A., 802

Charles .M., 802

Moses, 802
Nason Ancestry, 1756

Adelbert W.. 1757

George W., 1757

Jesse, 1757

Thomas. 1756

Williard H., 1757

William E., 1757

Willoughby, 1756
Naylon Ancestry, 897

Daniel, 897

Daniel, Jr., 897

Donald, 897

Thomas, 897
Neary Ancestry, 909

Charles E., 909

Frank W.. 909

James H., 909

John, 909
Neher, John H., 1203

Philip, 1203
Nelson, Charles C, 1384

Cora A., 1384

Oscar, 1384
Neuser, George, 896

John, 896
Newcomb Ancestry, 750, 1021

Andrew, 1021

Andrew, Lieut., 751

Daniel, 752

David, Dr., 1023

Edward, 753

Edward T., 754.

Simon, 751

Simon, 1022

Simon, 1023

Simon, Dr., 1022

Thomas, 751

Thomas, 1022

Thomas W., 753

Wesley, Dr., 1023

William, 1023

Zaccheus, 752
Newton Ancestry, 1163

Eliza M., 1163

Eliza M., 1164

James, 1163

James, 1164

John, 1 164

John M., 1 164

Thomas, 1163
Nichols Ancestry, 1184, 1187

Charles, 1186

Christian, 1187

Edgar B., 1187

Ephraim, 1 186

Ephraim, Ensign, 1185

Florence E., 1187

Francis, 1 185

Francis, Sergt., 1184

Hobart, 1187

Isaac, 1 185

John H., 1 188

Peter, 1186

Peter, 1187
Nicholls Ancestry, 1481

Charles T., 1490

Francis, 1489

George H., 1704

George T., 1490

Isaac, 1490

Lizzie W.. 1490

Philip, 1490

Richard. 1490

Theophilus, 1490
Nicoll, Maud C, 1720
Nietsch, Charles J., 1243

Edward, 1243
Niles, Henry, 401

John, Hon., 401

Nathaniel, 400
Noble Ancestry, 1791

Arthur M., 1793

Clarence W., 1793

Fred W., 1793

Herbert D., 1793

James A., 1793

John E., 1793

Moses, 1792

Moses, 1792

Moses, 1792

Robert, 1792
Noeltner, Anselm, 925
Nolan, Michael, 898

William, 898

William P., 899
Northrop, Henry J., 1705

Herbert E., 1705

Sarah M., 1705

Northrup Ancestry, 962

Daniel, 962

James L., 964

Joseph. 962

Lewis, 962

Major D., 963

William S., 963
Norton .-Ancestry, 1123, 1650

Alfred D., 1650

Benjamin, 1650

Caleb, 1 123

Caleb, 1 124

Cornelius H., 1650

David, 1124

Eugene R., 1 124

Hiram E., 1124

James, 1124

Joseph, 1123

Rowland, 1 123
Noyes Ancestry, 335. 571

Henry, 573

James, Rev., 335

James, Rev., 571

James, Rev., 572

John, 336

John, 573

Joseph, Rev., 1749

Lucinda V. S., 574

Nathan, 573

Nathan H., 574

Oliver, Dr., 336

Sarah, 336

William, 573

William, Kev., 335

William, Rev., 571
Odell Ancestry, 836, 1602

Charles M., 837

Isaac, 837

Jackson, 1603

John. 1603

John W., i(>03

Jonalhan. lOoj

j-eph.S37

J..>hu;,. S37

Willi.im. 8^6

William. 837

William, 1603
Ogden, Charles G., 1600

Edward, 1600
Olcott .Ancestry, 133

Dudley, 136

Dudley. 137

Frederick P., 136

Josiah, 134

Thomas, 133

Thomas. 134

Thomas W., 134
Oliver Ancestry, 337. 1373

Andrew, Rev., 1373

Carrie C. (Stewart), 137

Charles, 1374

Evert, 1374

Frank D., 1374

Frank O., 1373

Jacob. 1375

Jacob v., 1375

John, 337

John, 1374

John E., 1374

Peter, 337

Richard, 1374

Sarah, 337

Thomas, 337
Olney .-Vncestry. 1588

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

Ixix

Danforth K., 1589

Epenctus, 1588

Ezekici, 1589

Harriet T., 1588

Harriet T., 1589

Jeremiah, 1589

John, 1589

Thomas, 1588
Ord, Joseph P., 254

Susan, 254
Osgood Ancestry, 602

David, 603

David, Capt., 603

Hooker, 603

Jason C., 603

John, 602

Stephen, 603
Ostrander Ancestry, 1521, 1798

George N., 17^

George W., 1798

Hendrick, 1521

John, 1798

John M., 1522

Margaret A., 1522

Nelson, 1798

Peter, 1521

Philip, 1521

Picter, 1219

Wilhelm, 1521

William J., 1522

William P., 1219

William S., 1220
Ostrom Ancestry, X420

Henry, Capt., 1421

John, 1421

Miriam C, 1423

Stephen, 1422
Ouderkirk Ancestry, 722

Charles, 722

Howard R., 722

Isaac, 722

Jan J., 722

Pieter, 722

William, 722
Packer Ancestry, 194

Eleazer, 194

Eli E., 195

Horace, 194

James, 194

John, 194
Page, Edward N., 667

George H., 667

Joseph, 667
Paige Ancestry, 663

Christopher, 664

John, 664

John K., 665

John K., 666

Nathaniel, 663

Winslow, Rev., 664
Paine Ancestry, 1024

Amasa, 1025

Esaias W., 1026

John, 1026

Samuel. 1024

Sarah G., 1026

Seth. 1024

Seth, 1025

Stephen, 1024
Palin, Pierre, 915

Wilfred. 915
Palmaticr Ancestry, 1628

Ketiirah L., 1629

Peter. 1628

Walter W.. 1628

William. 1628
Palmer Ancestry, 1162, 1286,
1456

Amos. Capt., 1162

Amos P., 1 162

Charles V., 1289

Daniel, 1287

Eliza M., 1163

Erastus D., 1040

George, 1457

Gershom, 1456

Gershom, Rev., 1457

Henry, 1288

Ichabod, 1162

James, 1287

Nehemiah, 1287

Peter A., 1458

Reuben, Rev., 1458

Robert, 1288

Robert J., Dr., 1289

Robert M., 1289

Samuel, 1288

Solomon, Rev., 1162

Walter, 1286

Walter. 1456
Pannaci, Charles E., Dr., 1238

Eduard, 1237
Paris Ancestry. 1043

Charles R., 1044

Michael. 1043

Russel C, Dr., 1044

Urias G., 1043
Parker Ancestry, 1503, 1575,
1614

Alexander, 1575

Allen J., 1576

Asa, 1614

Clarence E., 1614

Eliud. 1614

Elizabeth F., 1576

John, 1503

John, 1614

John N.. 1503

John R., 1504

Nathaniel, 1614

Robert, 1503

Samuel M., 1576

William, 1614

William H., IS7S
Parkhurst Ancestry, 1307

Chester, 1308

Edward S., 1308

George, 1307

Hiram S.. 1308

John, 1307

Joseph, 1307

Josiah, 1307
Parmalee, Elias R., 995

Mary L., 995
Parry, John E.. 1189

John, Rev.. 1188

Joseph, 1 188
Parsons Ancestry, 270, 467

Agnes E., 467

Benjamin, 271

Gurdon, 272

Hugh, 271

James, 271

John. 271

John D., 467

John D., Jr., 467

Levi, 272

Samuel, 271

Stephen, 467

Tallniadgc L., 272

Thomas, 271
Patterson Ancestry, 1226, 1577

Andrew. 1578
• Clara P., 1227

David, 1578

David C, 1578

David C, 1579

James, 1577

James, 1578

James F., 1227

Levi, 1578

Merritt S.. 1578

Robert, 1226

Smith. 1578-79
Patton Ancestry, 698

Alexander, 698

Anna J., 698

Robert, 698

Thomas, 698
Payn Ancestry, 1807

Ebenezer L., 1807

Elijah, Judge, 1807

Louis P., 1807

Samuel. 1807

Stephen, 1807
Peck Ancestry, 728, 1 157

Abraham. 728

Abraham, 729

Alanson, 729

Benjamin R., 729

Daniel, 1158

Darius, Judge, 732

Frank B., 729

Ichabod. 1158

Jathniel, 1158

Jeremiah. 730

Joel, 1 158

Joel C, 1158

John, 728-9

John, 731

John, 732

John H., 733

Joseph, 1157

Joseph, II 58

Paul, 728

Paul, Deacon, 728

Samuel, 730

William, 729
Peckham Ancestry, 1155

Allen G., Dr., 1160

Alva G., 1159

Clement, 1158

Giles, 1 158

Giles H.. 1159

Harold P., 1160

Job, 1 1 58

John, 115s

John. 1 156

John, 1 160

Jonathan, 1159

Joseph, 1156

Joseph W., 1 160

Reuben, 1156

Samuel, 1156

William H., IIS9

William M., K57
Peddie Ancestrv, 287

Daniel. 288'

Edgar L., 289

William, 287

William J.. Dr., 288
Peebles Ancestry, 994

Ixx

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

Anthony A., 994
Gerrit, 994
Thomas, 994

Peek Ancestry, 887
James C, 887
Jan, 887
John, 887
John H., 887
Maria, 887
Walter, 887

Pell Ancestry, 297
Benjamin, 2Cj8
John H.,^298
John, Maj., 298
John, Rev., 297
John, Rev., 298
Joshua, 298
Mary H., 298
Morris, 298
Thomas, 298
William R, 298

Peltz Ancestry, 1780
Catharine B., i;
John, 1 781
John D., 1783
Philip, 1781
Richard, 1781

Penfield Ancestry, 1
Ellen, 1588
George, 1588
Harriet T., 1588
Peter, 1587
Peter, 1588
Samuel. 1587
Samuel, 1588

Perry Ancestry, 969
Benjamin. 970
James, 970
James H., 1356
John, 969
John, 970
John B., 970
John U., 1356
William B., 971

Pettee Ancestry, 267
Polly, 267
Samuel, 267
Simon, 267
William, 267

Phelps, Chester, 1453
George R., 1454
Oliver, 1453

Phillip, .'Varon, 1567
Rebecca, 1567
William, 1566

Phillips Ancestry, 353,
1565
De Witt H„ 353
Elijah N., 418
George, 1565
George H., 1566
George W., 1566
Henry, 689
John, 353 -
John, 418
Joseph, 689
Mary A., 689
Philip, 688
Philip, 689
Philip, Rev., 688
Robert, 1565
Schuyler C, 354

Pierce Ancestry, 624
Emily A., 624

83

587

Joel, 624

John, 624

John, Deacon. 624

Joseph, 624
Pierson Ancestry, 226, 775, 950

.■\braham, 226

Abraham V., 776

Caroline. 951

David. 270

Eli, 776

Eli, 951

Henry, 226

Henry, 776

Henry, 950

Henry, 951

Henry, Col., 226

Henry, Col., 270

James D., 777

Joseph. 951

Joseph, Lieut., 776

Josiah, 226

Margaret, 227

Mary A., 951

Samuel, 776

Samuel, 951

Sylvanus, 226

Timothy, 776

Timothy, 951

Winfield S., 776
Pine. James, 648

James K. P., 649

Joshua, 649
Pitkin Ancestry, 155

Caleb, 156

John, 156

John R., 156

Roger, 156

William, 155

Wolcott H., 157
Pitts Ancestry, 1642

Arthur E., 1643

Berwick, 1642

Clarence V. R., 1643

Clifford S., 1643

David W., 1642

John, 1642

Sebastian W., 1643

Sylvester, 1642

William, 1642
Pittz, John, 1506

John, Dr., 1506
Place Ancestry, 977

George M., 978

John, 977

John S., 977

Uriah, 977

William H., 977
Piatt .'\ncestry, 263. 615, 1510

Dan, Capt., 615

Dan, Deacon, 615

Eliphalet, 1510

Elizabeth, 151 1

Elmore, 263

Epenetus, 263

Epcnetus, 1510

Frederick, 615

Gideon, 263

John, 1510

Joseph, 263

Joseph, 616

Joseph C, 616

Katharine J., 616

Mary L., 263

Myron, 263

Obadiah, 615

Richard, 263

Richard, 1510

William B.. 1511
Polk Ancestry, 914

Charles T., 915

Frederick, 914

Peter, 914

William F., 914
Pompili, Jean, 451
Potter, Piatt. 1763

Restcome, 1763
Potts Ancestry, 380

Daniel, 381

David, 380

Jesse, 381

Jesse C, 381

Jesse W., 382

Samuel, 381
Powell Ancestry, 1688

Henry J., 1689

Jacob, 1689

John, 1689

Jonathan R., 1689

Moses, 1689

Thomas, 1688

Thomas, 1689
Powers Ancestry, 1029

Albert E., 1030

Gideon, 1029

Isaac, 1029

Walter, 1029

William, 1030
Pratt Ancestry, 815, 1 174

Abiel, 1174

Henry C, 816

Horace, 11 74

John, 815

Matthew, 1174

Nathaniel, 1174

Peter, 11 74

Samuel, 1 174

William T., 815
Pray, .Arthur W., 442

Alice E., 442
Proudfit, Ebenezer, 77S

Margaret E., 778
Pruyn Ancestry, 137

Anna' M., 227

Augustus, 149

Caspar L., 140

Casparus, 138

Casparus F., 138

Casparus F., 148

Charles L., 140

David. 144

Edward L., 227

Foster, 149

Francis, 137

Francis C, 138

Francis C, 148

Francis S.. 137

Frederic, 228

Johannes, 137

John V. S. L., 144

John V. S. L., 148

Robert C, 227

Robert D., 227

Robert H., 138

Ruth W., 227

Samuel, 137

Sarah T., 140
Pumpelly Ancestry, 451

Harmon. 452

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

Ixxi

John, 451
Putnian Ancestry, 1089

Aaron, 11 19

Abram V., 1092

Arent. io8g

Comelis, 1091

Ernestus, 11 19

Gerrit D., 1090

Johannes, 11 19

John, 1089

John, 1 119

John v., 1091

Lodowyck, 1089

Richard, 1090

Victor, 1091

Victor A., 1091

Victor C. 1091
Putnam Ancestry, 179, 345, 474,
650. 1089 (see Putman)

Albert A., 1090

Alonzo, Dr., 180

Betsey, 651

Cornelis, 179

Cornelius H., 180

Edgar S., 1090

Henry, 179

Israel, Gen., 660

James M., Col., 475

Jan, 179

John, 345

John, 474

John, 475

Mary L., 661

Mehitable, 661

Richard R., 1090

Seth, 346

Seth, 475

Thomas, 345

Thomas, 346

Thomas, 347

Thomas, Lieut., 474

Thomas, Sergt., 475

Timothy, 475

Victor, 179

William B., Dr., 347

William H., 1091
Quinby Ancestry, 1494

Aaron, 1495

John, 1494

Martha, 1495

Moses, 1495

Obadiah, 1495

Samuel, 1495

William, 1494
Race, Cornelius, 1399

George E., 1400

Richard J., 1400
Radley, Francis, 1203

John R., 1202

Richard. 1202
Randerson. John, 759

John P., 759
Ranken Ancestry, 182

Grace, 1131

Henry S., 182

John, 182

John, 1 131

William J., 1131
Rankin .\ncestry, 176

Catharine K. P., 179

Edward E., 177

Edward E., 179

Edward >W., 178

Edward W., 179

278

Herbert E., 179

Isaac O.. Rev., 178

John L., 179

William, 176

William, 177

William, 179
Rathbone Ancestry, 183

Albert, 187

Clarence, 186

Joel. 185

Joel, 187

John, 183

John, 184

Jonathan, 185

Joshua, 185

Samuel, 185

Thomas, 183
Rathbun .Ancestry, 277

.\cors. 279

Eliza C. 280

John, 278

Joshua, 278

Joshua, 279

Joshua, Rev.,

Richard, 278

Solomon, 279
Rawson .\ncestry, 1138

.A.nna, 1140

Anna H., 1140

David, 1 139

Edward, 1138

Eliza K., 1 140

Josiah, 1 139

Simeon, 1140

William. 1 139
Read Ancestry, 489

Delphine M., 496

Emily M., 496

George. Hon.. 490

Harmon P., 495

James, Col., 492

John, Col., 489

John, Hon., 492

John M.. 495

John M., Gen., 494

John M., Hon., 493

Thomas, Com., 491
Rcavy Ancestry, 1127

Frank C, 1127

Grace A., 1128

John, 1 127

John F., 1 128
Rector, Emma, 886

Jacob, 886

William, 886
Reich. Casper, 931

George, 931
Reid Ancestry, 670

Edward, 671

William, 671

William M., 671
Reisslg. Christian, 946

Ernest R.. 947

Frederick, 946
Relyea, .\dam, 1606

Jacob A., 1606

Nancy M., 1606
Repp, John, 1251

John H., 1251

Nicholas, 1251
Resscguie Ancestry, 1533

.-Mexander, 1533

Charles B., 1535

Daniel, 1533

David, 1534

Emily, 1535

Hiram, 1535

John, 1534
Reynolds .Ancestry, 1654- 1825

Adlcy J., 1654

.inlander P., 1654

Cuyler, 1846

David, 1831

David, 1835

Dexter R., 1845

Ebenezer, 1^2

Gideon. 18^

James, 1836

James, 1837

Job, 1654

John, 1825

John, 1828

John, 1833

John, 1835

John, 1836

Jonathan, 1654

Jonathan, 1827

Jonathan, 1828

Jonathan, 1835 v

Joseph, 1829 ^

Joshua, 1835

Justus, 1839

Marcus T., 1843

Marcus T., 1846

Nathaniel, 1832

Nathaniel, 1839

Nathaniel, 1840

Neheniiah, 1830

Peter, 1835

Porter H., 1654

Solomon, 183 1

Stephen, 1840

Stephen R., Dr., 1841
Rich .Ancestry, 1446

Cyrus F.. 1447

John, 1447

Richard, 1447

Waldo L., 1447
Richards .Ancestry, 214

Eber, 216

Frederick B., 216

Jos.ph. 215

OrMMi 215

Will.am, ii4
Richards, ,M, F.dwin C, 685

Elizabeth (Morey), 685
Ricketts, Esther, 1239

Jonathan, 1239

Thomas, 1239
Riggs .Ancestry, 154

Rertha E., 155

Cyrcnus. 155

Edward, 154

Frederick J., 155

Isaac, iss

James. 155

Joseph, 154
Riordan. .Amelia A., 1244

Jeremiah, 1244

John, 1244
Robb .Ancestry, 917

.Alexander, 917

Cornelia V. R., 26

George. 917

James H., 26

James M., 917

Margaret J., 917

Nathaniel T., 26

Ixxii

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

William H., 918
Robertson Ancestry, 675

Angeline, 677

Archibald, 1379

Gilbert, 676

Gilbert, Hon., 676

Grace, E. C, 190

James, 1378

John, 675

Matthew H., 190

Peter, 1378

William, 675
Rogers Ancestry, 406, 657
1045

Azariah, 657

Charles, Hon., 1046

Clara P., 1227

David, 408

Deliverance, 407

Elizabeth, 657

Hannah, 657

Hannah E., 409

Huldah, 657

James, 1045

James, Capt., 1045

James, Rev., 1045

James C, Gen., 1046

John, 407

John, Rev., 406

Joseph. Lieut., 657

Mary, 657

Randolph, 1046

Thomas, 407

Thomas, 657

Thomas, Gen., 1045

Wing, 407.

W. Seymour, 1227
Roome Ancestry, 847

John, 847

John P., 847

Mary E., 847

Peter, 847

Peter W., 847
Rosa Ancestry, 593, 1527

Albert H., 593

Albert H., 1527

Geysbert, 593

Geysbert, 1528

Henry, 595

Heyman, 593

Heyman, 1528

Isaac, 594

Isaac, 1528

Isaac R., 1528

James P., 1528

Jan, 594

Jan, 1528

Jane E., 595

Nelson W., 595

Richard, 594

Richard, 595

Ryckert, 1528
Rose, Charles, 1456

Charles W., 1456

Xathnnicl, 1456

Robert, 1455
Ross. Adam, 1451

George A., 145 1

Josephine B., 1452
Rosseau Ancestry, 1757

Achille J., 1757

Alexander, 1757

Harry H., 1758

Nicholas, 1757

William W., 1757

William W., Jr., 1758
Rossman Ancestry, 1648

*Catherine, 1649

Conrad, 1648

*DanieI, 1648

Daniel P., 1649

Fite, 1648

Johannes, 1648

Peter, 1648
Roth, Henry, 1259

Joseph, 1259
Rothemeier, Frederick, 890

Henry F., 890
Rudd Ancestry, 211, 1442

David. 1443

Jonathan, 211

Jonathan, 212

Jonathan, 1442

Jonathan, Deacon, 211
*Joseph, 1442

Nathaniel, 211

Nathaniel, 1442

Nathaniel, Capt., 211

Sanford H., 1443

William P., 212

William T., 212
Ruff Ancestry, 1452

Benjamin F., 1452

Jonathan, 1452

William A., 1453

William F., 1453
Rugge Ancestry, 1104

Daniel. 1104

George, 1105

John, 1104

Levi, 1105

Levi, Dr., 1 105
Ruhl, George, 946
Rulison Ancestry, 879

Abraham, 880

David A., 880

Frank H., 880

Frederick, 880

Hermanns, 880

Laurens, 880
Rusco Ancestry, 434

Ammi R., 434

David, 435

Nathaniel, 434

William, 434
Sage Ancestry, 682

Amos, 682

Charles R., 683

David, 682

Elisha, 682

Elisha M., 682

Martha A.. 683

Timothy, 683
Sagendorf, George H., 1306

Nicholas, 1306
Salisbury Ancestry, 1596

Abraham, 1597

Anna. isg8

Eli H., 1598

Elizabeth M.. 1598

Francis, 1596

Romcyn, 1598

Silvester, Capt., 1596

William, 1597
Saltonstall, Gurdon, 99

Nathaniel. 99

Richard, 99

Sammons Ancestry, 987

Frederick, 988
Grace M., 990

Henry G., 989

Jacob, 987

Johannes, 987

Sampson, 988

Simeon, 989

'i'homas, 988
Sanders Ancestry, 50, 181,

Barent, 52

Barent, 1069

Charles, 1073

Charles, 1367

Charles J., 1074

Charles P., 1071

Charles P., 1072

James, 1367

James W., 1367

Johannes, 54

John, 1070

Laurence, 51

Livingston, 1073

L. Ten B., 1072

Peter, 1071

Robert, 51

Robert, 1069

Theodore W., 54

Thomas, 51

Thomas, 1069

William N. S., 55
Sanford Ancestry, 485

Ephraim, 485

Ezekiel, 485

John, 486

John, 488

Stephen, 486

Stephen, Hon., 486

Thomas, 485

Williani C, 488
Santoro, Giovann

John, 1236
Savage Ancestry, 10

Asa, 109

Edward W. M.,

John, 108

Mary E., 108

Solomon, Dr., 109

William, 109

William, Deacon, 109
Saxton Ancestry, 103

George, 103

Gordon B., 103

Joseph, Capt., 103

Joseph, Ensign, 103

Noah, 103

Samuel, 103

Solomon B., 103
Schermerhorn Ancestry, 677

Jacob, 678

Jacobus, 678

John, 678

Ryer, 677

Simon, 679

Simon J., 679
Schifferdccker, Charles F., 145S

Frederick A.. 1455

Henry, 1454
Schnurr, George, 1253

Max, 1253

Herman, 1254
Schryver, Abram <j., 927

Johannes P., 927

Peter, 927

1236

109

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

Peter I., 927
Schube, Henry G., 1226

John, 1226

William E./1226
Schupp Ancestry, 943

Carl F., 943

Charles F.. 943

Charles H., 944

Louis, 944

Magdaline, 944

William L., 944
Schuyler Ancestry, 28

Abraham D., 1189

Adonijah, 40

Anna L., 1794

Arent, 30

Arent, 37

Arent H., 41

Arent J., 40

Brandt, 30

David P., 1 189

Dirk, 1 189

Fred, 1190

George S.. 1190

Jacob, 848

Jacob, 1 190

Jacobus, 1 189

Johannes, 30

Johannes Jr., 31

John, 40

John A., 40

John A., 41

John B., 46

Nicholas, l8l

Philip, 30

Philip, 39

Philip, 1794

Philip, Gen., 32

Philip J., 36

Philip P., 181

Philip S., 181

Pieter, 29

Pieter, 39

Pieter P., 28

Ralph S., 848

Robert V. R., 41

Sidney S., 41

Thomas, S48

Van Rensselaer, 41

William G., 849
Scott Ancestry, 1423

George, 1423

George G., 1424

James, 1424

James L., 1424
Searles Ancestry, 1752

Constant. 1752

Nathaniel, 1752

Robert, 1752
Seeger, Fred A., 1658

Martin, 1658
Seaverns Ancestry, 307

Elizabeth M., 307

Francis, 307

Joel, 307

John, 307

Joseph, 307

Samuel, 307

Thomas, 307
Seeley, Charles, 920

Charles E., 921

John H., 920
Selkirk Ancestry, 150

Alexander, 151

Alexander, 152

Charles, 15a

Charles, 151

Frank E., 152

James, 150

William F.. 152
Sclmscr, David, 1272

Henrv, 1272

John 1'., 1272

Michael. I27;2
Senecal. Benjamin, 1135

Charles P., 1 136

Louis. 1135

Zeph, 1 136
Serviss .Ancestry, 788, 790

Alexander, 788

Charlotte B., 789

George, 788

George, 790

John G.. 788

Lawrence, 790
*Schuyler B., 789
Servoss, Cholatt, Dr., 791

Christian, 791

William, 792
Seymour Ancestry, 269

Edward, Sir, 269

Emelescent, 270

John. 269

Richard, 269

Zachariah, 269
Shadbolt, Israel, 1438

James, 1438
Sharp, Andrew, 1221

Gilbert, 1221

Peter A., 1222
Shaver Ancestry, 1665

Bartholomew, 1665

Benjamin, 1666

Henry L., 1666

Henry N., 1667

John, 1665

Nathan, 1666
Shear, Albert, 1364

Daniel, 1364

Isaac. 1364
.^luh.-in. Mary E. C, 926

Ihiinias. 926
Sheldon Ancestry, 1771

Bcrlha G., 1772

Charles A., 1772

Franklin, 305

Fred C, 1772

George W., 305

Henry, 305

John, 1771

John, 1772

Lorenzo, 1772

Mary S., 305

Nathan, 1772

William, 1772
Shelp Ancestry, 1009

Charlotte,' 1008

Henry, 1009

James, 1008

James N., 1009

Nelson, lOio
Shepard Ancestry, 284

Jeremiah, 286

Jeremiah, Rev., 285

Nathaniel, 285

Osgood H., 286

Stephen O., 286

Stephen W., 286

Thomas, 286

Thomas, Rev., 284

William. 284
Sherman Ancestry, 624, 1416

Anna, 625

Arthur W., 1419

Augustus, 1418

Benjamin, 625

Darwin W,, 1419

Edmond, 624

Elijah, 625

Henry, 1416

Henry L., 1419

John, 1417

John, Capt., 1417

Joseph. 1417

Samuel, 624

Samuel, 625

Thomas, 1416

Ware D., 1418

William A., 1418
Sherrill Ancestry, 1065

Darius, 1065

Delia L., 1065

James H.. 1065

Recompence, 1065

Samuel, 1065
Shibley Ancestry, 1647

Andrew, 1647

Henry, 1647

John, 1647

Lucy C, 1647
Shields Ancestry, 1131

Adam, 1131

Andrew, Dr., 1131

Charlotte A., 1132

F'rancis, 1132
Shipley, Cornelius A., 1404

Joseph H., 1404

Simeon W.. 1404
Sholwell .Ancestry, 1084

.Abraham, 1085

Benjamin, 1085

Benjamin, 1086

Edward C, 1087

John, 1085

Samuel H.. 1086

William, 1085
Shuler Ancestry, 165, 1495

Daniel, 1496

F'reeman, 1496

John, 165

John, 1496

Lawrence, 165

Lawrence, 1495

Mary A., 14^

William H., 1496
Shults Ancestry, 1239

Alexander, 1337

Byron G., 1239

Charles S., 1239

l)e Witt C..-'i337

Esther, 1239

John H., 1239

John 1., 1337

Levis S., 1239

William D., 1338
Shumway Ancestry, 1671

Abncr, 1672

Joseph H., 1673

Oliver, 1672

Paul, 1672

Peter. 1671

Ixxiv

HUDSON AND MOHAWK X'ALLEYS

Peter, 1672
Shuttleworth Ancestry, 890

Herbert L., 892

James, 891

John, 890

Walter W., 891

William, 891
Shutts, Harlan P., 1475

Silas, 147s
Sickles, Ann, 1587

Jacob, Rev., 1587

Zachariah, 1586
Sigourney, Andrew, 339

Charles, 339
Silliman Ancestry, 1424

Daniel, 1424

John L., 1426

Joseph, Dr., 1425

Robert, 1425

Robert, Rev., 1425

Solomon A., 1426

Solomon A., 1429
Simkins, Austin, 929

George, 929

Nelson, 928
Simmons, Andrew D., 1263

Francis, 1263

Mary C, 1263
Simons, Meribah C, 210

Nathan E., 210
Simonds Ancestry, 310
Simpson Ancestry, 1360

George, 1360

George C, 1360

Helen M., 1360

Jean G., 1360

John, 1360
Sinclair, John, 1625

John B., 1625
Sisson, Anna B., 511

Noel E., 511
Skiff Ancestry. 1207

Benjamin, 1208

James, 1207

John, 1 208

John P., 1208

Nathan, 1208

Samuel, 1208
Skinkle Ancestry, 11 78

Fred, 1178

Henry, 1178

Peter, 11 78

William F., 11 78
Slade Ancestry, 1054

Benjamin, 1054

Benjamin J., 1054

Edward, 1054

Emmell F., 1054

Joseph, 1054

Philip, ioi4

William, 1054
Slingerland Ancestry, 1180.
1625, 1687

Abraham, 1687

Abram, 1687

Albert, 1180

Arent. 1687
Charles B., 1687

De Witt C, 1625
Elizabeth, 1181
Frank N., 1626
George (i, 1687
George W.. 1 181
llclenc, 1 181

Henry, 1625

Henry C, 1626

Henry H., 1625

Johannes, 1180

John A., 1 180

John H., u8i

Petrus, 1687

Teunis C, 1179

Tuenise, 1687

Tuenise C, 1687

William H., 1180

William H., 1181

William H., 1626
Smith Ancestry, 299, 980, 1169

Adam, 1309

Andrew, 1207

Andrew M., 1206

Andrew S., 1645

Anna, 980

Barrington, 980

Benjamin, 1309

Benjamin B., 1334

Charles, 1645

Charles Q., 1646

Cornelia, 980

David, i6go

David C. 1169

David }., 1691

Dwight, 980

Eleanor F., 11 70

Ellen, 1 170

Florilla, 1381

Frederick, 1435

George, 1 169

George A., 1645

George H., 1645

Gerardus, 1170

Henry, 980

Henry A., 1207

Horace E., 299

Ichabod, 980

Jeremiah, 1690

Johannes, 1435

John F., 143s

Joseph H., 1381

Lucy A., 980

Nicholas, 1206

Paul, 980

Philo R., 1382

Rachel M., 1334

Roger, Dr., 299

Samuel, 980

Sara, 1382

William N., 1310

William W., 1334
SmithMMi. Hugh, 782
Siiell. (leorge. 8iy

Jacob G.. Dr., 819

James K., 819
Snow Ancestry. 86, 249, 432

Anthony, 86

David, 86

Eleazer, 249

Hannah, 432

Henry, 87

Henry, Capt., 87

John, 86

Jonathan, 432

Margaret, 249

Mark, 432

Nicholas, 86

Nicholas, 432

Reuben, 249

Simeon, 249

315

Simeon. Dr., 249

Susan E., 87

William, 249
Snyder, Charles, 1250

John, 1250
Spalding Ancestry, 311

Benjamin. 312

Edward, 311

Ephraim, 312

George B., Rev.,

James, Dr., 314

James R., 314

Mary A., 315

Reuben, 312

Reuben, Deacon, 313

William C, 314
Speed Ancestry, 1678

Abraham, 1679

Harry S., 1679

Richard, i679_

Sylvanus, 1679

William L., 1679
Spicer Ancestry, 586

Cyrus, 588

Edward, 587

John, 587

John, 588

John E., 588

Margaret D., 588

Peter, 587

Sarah J., 588

Theron C, 847
Sponable, Chauncey, 1286

Fox, 1286

Henry. 1286
Sprague Ancestry, 816

Anthony, 817

Edward, 816

Harriet N., 818

Jeremiah, 817

John. 817

William. 816
Sproat. Charles A.. 1385

Charles 11.. Dr., 1385

Henry, 1384
Staats Ancestry. 805, 1333

Abraham, 1333

Abram. 805

Barent, 805

Barent, 1333

Barent G., 1334

Douw L., 1334

Gerrit, 1334

Joachim, 805

Jochem, 1333

Jochem, Capt., 805

John, 1334

Peter P., 805

Philip S.. S05

Rachel .M., 13,Vi
Stafford .•Knccslry, 474

Mcnry .\., 474

John. 474

Palmer, 474

Stulely, 474

Thomas, 474
Staley Ancestry, 847, 849

Garrett, 848
Henry, 849

Henry S., 848

Jacob, 850

John, 847

John, 849

Susan, 850

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

Ixxv

T. Roineyn, 848
Stansfield, John, 1391

Joseph, 1391
Stanton Ancestry. 719, 743, 952

Abraham L., 721

Daniel, 'zo

Daniel, 953

Edward J., 744

Elias C, 954

Freeman, 721

Howard M., 722

Hiildah, 954

Jeannette, 954

John, 720

John, 721

John, 953

John. Capt., 720

John, Capt., 953

Mabel, 954

Nathan, 954

Thomas, 719

Thomas, 744

Thomas, 952

William, 743

William, 744
Starin Ancestry, 1325

Abraham, 1326

Elizabeth E., 1326

Frederick, 1326

Jacob H., 1326

Jennie A., 1326

John F., 1326

Nicholas, 1325

Philip P., 1325
Stearns Ancesto', 303, 1822

Charles, 1823

Ebenezer, 303

Ebenezer, 1823

Isaac, 303

Joseph W., Rev., 1823

Joseph W., Rev., 1824

Mary, 304

Nathaniel, 303

Nathaniel S., 1823

Samuel, 303
Shubael, 1823

Waklron A., Dr., 1824

William. 304
Stedman .-Vncestry, 157

Charles S., 162

George L., 159

George W., 160

John, 158

John P., 159

Joseph, 158

Phineas, 158

Robert, 158
Steers Ancestry, 1200

Cornelius, 1201

Jacob v., 1201

John, 1201

Katharine V., 1201
Peter, 1201
St. Jan, 1201
Stern, Fannie S., 865
Henry, 865
Solomon, 865
Stevens Ancestry, 257, 1476
Albert P., 259
Clarence W.. 259
Cyprian, 257
Frank L., 1477
Fred N., 1478
Frederic B., 260

Gilbert T., 1478

Isaac, 258

Isaac, 259

Joseph, 258

Luther, 258

Nathaniel G., 1476

Samuel S., 1476

Thomas, Col., 257

William N., 1478
Stewart Ancestry, 1396, 1639

Archibald, 1639

Carrie C, 1374

Cyrus, 1398

Damon, 1639

Daniel, 1374

David, 1398

Donald, 1639

Eugenia D., 1398

James, 621

James, 1150

John, 1150

Neil, 1398

Thomas, 620

Willard N., 1397

William, 1396

William S., 1396
Stiles Ancestry, 724

Edwin D., 726

Joel, 725

Martin, 725

Martin, 726

Nathan, 725

Peter M., 726

Robert, 724

Robert, 725
Stockwell .Ancestry, 456

Abel, 456

Abraham, 456

Isaac, 456

Ulysses G.. 457
Stoddard Ancestry, 87, 738,
1573

Anthony, 739

Elizabeth, 88

Elisha, 739

James, 87

Jeremiah, 87

John,' 87"

Jolm. 1573

Jonathan, 1574

Joseph, 1574

Nancy M., 739

Rachel, 1574

Samuel. 87

Susanna, 88

William, 739

Zebulon, 1574
Story, Francis, 1587

Robert F., 1587
Stout Ancestry, 702

Abraham, 703

Ernest A., 704

Joab, 703

John, 703

Jonathan, 703

Mabel L., 704

Richard, 702
Stover .Ancestry, 716

Charles. Dr., 717

Jacob S., 716

Martin, 716

Martin J., Rev., 716
Strecter Ancestry, 882

Asa, 883

Augustme, 883

Lucius L., 884

Samuel, 882

Samuel, 883

Stephen, 882
Strong Ancestry, 639

Ambrose, 640

Asahel, 640

Cornelia L. V. R., 1821

Edward H., 641

Elijah, 641

Henry A., 641

John, 639

John, 640

Josiah, 640

Richard, 639

Theodore, Hon., 1821
Stroud Ancestry, 1767

Ira, 1767

John, 1767

Lament R., 1768

Sylvanus I., 1768
Strover, George, Col., 895
Sumner Ancestry, 1433

Amasa, 1435

Edward, 1434

George, 1434

Jackson \., 1435

John, 1434

Robert, 1434

Roger, 1433

William, 1433
Sutherland .\ncestry, 1329, 1613

Abram, 1613

Frank H., 1613

George, 1613

James, 1613

Jane C, 133°

John B., 1329

Peter, 1329
Swan, Ella, 1074

William, 1074
Swart Ancestry, 11 17

Adam, 1120

Carrie, 1121

Esaias, 1120

Harmanus, 1120

Henry H., 11 18

John, 1 1 20

Maggie E., 1119

Martin, 1118

Nicholas J., 1121

Nicolaas, 1120

Tennis, ti20

Teunise C, 1120

Wouter, 1 1 18
Sweet Ancestry, 1235, 1441

David M., Dr., 1441

Harry L., 1442

Leonard, 1235

Leonard A., 849 J

Leonard, Dr., 1235

Samuel, 1235

Samuel. Dr., 1441

Waterman, 1235

Waterman, Dr., 1441

Waterman J., 1235

William A., 849
Sweeting .Ancestry. 437

Henry. 437

Lewis. 437

Lewis. Dr., 437

Nathaniel. 437

Ixxvi

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

Swortfiguer, George J., 1295

Grace, 1296
Talcott Ancestry, 140

Benjamin, 142

Elizur, Col., 142

George, 143

George, Gen., 143

John, 141

Sebastian V., 143
Tator, Elizabeth, 1383

Henry, 1383

John H., 1383
Taylor Ancestry, 432

Alfred J., 1524

James, 433

James W., 433

John, 1523

Robert, 1522

Robert B., 1523

Simon, 432
Tearse, Archibald C, 320

Peter B., 319

William H., 319
Tefft Ancestry, 1099, 1718

Frances A., not

John, 1099

John, 1X00^

Johii;- 1718 \

John-H., iioi \

Joseph, 1 100 1

Nathan, Judge, J718

Otis A., IIOI

Richard C, 1102

Sainnel, 1 100

Samuel, 1718

William, 1 100
Teller Ancestry, 912

Anna M., 913

David A., 913

Jacob v., 913

John. 912

John, 913

William, 912

William, 913
Temple, Abram, 1754

Azuba v., 1754
Ten Broeck Ancestry, 763

Alma C, 1662

Dirck, 763

Dirck W., 182

Everts, 1662

Harry A., 764

Hendrick, 764

Henry, 764

John, 764

Samuel, 182

Samuel, 764

Wessel, 763

William H.. 1662
Ten Eyck Ancestry. 130, 414

Abraham, 414

.Abraham C, 131

Abraham R., 414

Anthony, 130

Coenraad, 130

Coenraedt, 130
Cuyler, 132

Dirck, 414

Hester G., 132

Jacob, 130

Jacob C. 130
Jacob H., 129

Jacob L.. 132

James, 414

Peter G., 132

Rachel, 132

Richard, 414

V'isscher, 414
Terry Ancestry, 1812

Charles T., 1813

Griffith, 1813

Helen E., 1092

Horace G., 1813

Samuel, 1813

W. Scott, 1092
Tessier Ancestry, 1246

Francis M., 1246

Frank, 1246

Edith J., 1246

Jean, 1246

Louis, 1246

Louis A., 1246

Pierre, 1246

Rudolph F., 1246
Thacher Ancestry, 589

George H., 592

John B., 592

Nathaniel. 591

Peter, Rev., 589

Peter, Rev., 590

Peter, Rev., 591

Samuel, 591

Samuel O., 591

Thomas, Rev., 590
Thayer Ancestry, 27, 1330

Bayard, 27

Cornelia V^ R., 26

Cornelius, 1330

Eugene V. R.. 27

Foster J., 133 1

Hezekiah, 1330

John E.. 27

Levi, 1330

Nathaniel, 26

Nathaniel J., 27

Obadiah. 311

Richard. 311

Richard, 1330

Silas H., 1331

Stephen V. R., 26

Zenas, 1330
Thomas Ancestry, 755, 1098

Andrew, Capt., 756

Annie M., 1098

David, 1098

Francis, 757

Frank W., 757

Helen V., 1099

John, 755

John, 756

John. 1098

John, Capt., 755

Minot, 756

William A., 1099

William H., 1098
Thomson Ancestry, 1702

Benjamin, 1702

Charles, 1702

Charles C, 1702

Lemon, 1702
Thompson Ancestry, 94, 102,
422

Ambrose, 98

Amos, 95

Andrew, 104

Andrew. 105

Anthony, 94

Anthony. 422

Cornelius, 100

David A., 106

Dwinel B., 102

Dwinel F., loi

Ezra, 95

Ezra, 422

Gordon S., 102

Henry. 422

Hobart W., Maj., 97

Isaac, 99

James, 100

James, 1635

Joel, 101

Joel, Col., 100

John, 94

John, 98

John, 422

John, 163s

John L, 96

John L., 95

Joshua, 104

Joshua, 105

Mary, 422

Mary P., 98

Mehitable, 99

Nathaniel F., 102

Samuel, 94

Samuel, 422

William, lOO

William A., 97

William L.. Capt., 98

William, Lieut., 98
Thorne Ancestry, 410

James, 410

Leonard C, 409

Leonard C, 411

Samuel C, 411

William, 410
Thurman Ancestry, 579

Catharine L. M., 580

Francis, 579

Harriet L., 580

James L., 580

John, 579

Ralph. 579

Richardson, 579

Richardson H., 580

Sarah, 580
Tibbits Ancestry, 329

Charles E. D., 333

Edward D., 335

George U.. 331

Henry, 329

John, 329

John B., 332

Le Grand C, 334

Sarah B., 332, 333

William, 329

William B., 333
Tillinghast Ancestry, 652

Allen, 653

Benjamin A., 653

Charles W., 654

Charles W., Gen., 656

Mary B.. 656

Pardon, 652

Pardon, 653
Philip. 653

Thomas, 653

Thomas A., 653
Titus Ancestry, 230
Todd, James S.,' 954

Mabel, 954
Townsend .Ancestry, 484

HUDSOxN AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

Ixxvii

Howard, 4S4

Isaiah, 484

Martin I., 1758

Nathaniel, 1758
Tracey Ancestry, 255

Charles. 256

Eliza, 257

James F., 257

John, 255

John, Col., 256
Tracy Ancestry, 1747

John, Capt., 1748

Joseph, Capt., 1748

Thomas, Lieut., 1748
Treat Ancestry, 799

Joseph, Capt., 800

Richard, Rev.. 800

Richard S., 800

Robert, Gov., 799
Truax Ancestry, 899

Abraham, 899

Bertha, 900

Isaac, 899

Isaac. 1335

Isaac L., 899

Jacob, 1335

Jane E., 900

Philippe, 1334

Phillippe, 899

William, 1335

William J.. 1335
Trumbull Ancestry, 662

Amial P., 662

Charles W., 663

John, 662

Jonathan, 662

Solomon, 662
Tucker, Edward H.. 672

Edward H.. 673
Turner .\ncestry, 1564

James, 1564

John J.. 1564

John P., 1565

Michael, 1564

Patrick. 1564

Richard. 1565

Thomas .'\., 1565
Tyrrell Ancestry, 438

Alexander, 438

Gideon, 438

Samuel, 438

William, 438
Underbill, Capt., John. 231
Underwood .Ancestrj-, 428

Christopher, 429

George F., 429

Jonathan, 428

Joseph, 428

Oliver, 428
Upham Ancestry, 633

Hannah, 636

Jacob, 634

James, 634

James R, 636

John, 633

John, 634

Lucius. 635

Lucy E., 63s

Moses A., Sergt., 636

Nathaniel, 635

Phineas, Lieut., 634

Rhoda J., 635

Samuel, 634

Sarah A., 635

Willard H., 635
Vail Ancestry, 637, 1311

Aaron, 131 1

Benjamin, 637

Charles E., 1312

Gilbert T., 637

Harry E., 1312

John, 637

Joseph, 637

Samuel, 637

Samuel, 131 1

Samuel M., 637

Thomas, 637

Townsend M., 637

William, 1311
Van Alstyne Ancestry, 46 1778,
1808
• Abraham J., 1778

Abraham J., 1808

Jacob, 1778

Jacob, 1S09

Jan M.. 46

Jan M., 1808

Lambert J., 47

Marten. 1779

.Mathys, 1778

-M.-.tthew, 1779

-Mallbew, 1809

Reinier, 1779

Reynicr, 1778

Rinier, 1809

Thomas, 47

Thomas, 4S

Thomas B., Dr., 48

Thomas J., Hon., 48

WilliaiTi, 47
Van .Antw-erp Ancestry, 412, 972

Cornelius, 972

Daniel, 214

Daniel D., 973

Daniel J., 412

Daniel J.. 972

Daniel L., 413

Daniel L., 974

John H., 1S03

Julia A., 972

Henrietta W., 1804

Lewis, 413

Lewis S.. 973

Simon, 214

Simon, 973

Simon D., 412

Thomas I., 413

William, 413

William M., 413
Van Bergen .Ancestry, 1560

Anthony, 1560

Martin G.. 1560

Philip, 1560

Pieter. 1560
Van Brocklin Ancestry, 1759

Frank V., 1760

Gilbert, 1759

Margaret, 1760

Matthias, 1759

William S.. 1760
Van Buren Ancestry, 603. 1529,
1627. 1793

Anna L., 1794

Barcnt, 604

Barent, 1529

Barent, 1627

Charles H.. 1628

Clarence E., 1530

Cornelis, 1529

Cornel is, 1627

Cornelis M., 1793

Cornelius, 604

Cornelius, 605

Francis, 1529

Francis, 1627

Grace, 605

Harmon E., 1530

Harmon F., 1529

Harmon F., 1628

Hendrick, 1793

Maas, 1793

Marten, 604

Martin C, 1627

Mary A.. 1794

Oliver M., 1530

Oliver M., 1628

Peter, 1794

Peter P., 604

Pieter .M., 604

Pieter M., 1627

William, 604
\'an Buskirk .Ancestry. 5S0

Catherine L. M., 582

John. 581

Laurens, 581

Laurens A., 580

Martin, 581

Philip V. N., s8i

Thomas L., Maj., 581
Van Den F.erg Ancestry. 1799

Anna M., 1799

Richard, 1799

Robert, 1799

William, 1799
Van Den Bergh .Ancestry, mo,
1306. 1707

Cornelis, 1306

Cornelis, 1707

Cornelis G., mo

Eliza, 1307

Gysbert, mo

Gysbert, 1306

Helen, 1307

Matthias, mo

Pieter. 1707

Rachel. 1307

\\ yant, 1306

Wyant, 1707

Wyant W., 1306

Wynant, 11 10

Wynant G., m I
Van Deiiburg Ancestry, 1582

Albert. 1583

Hendrick. 1582

Henry. 1582

Richard, 1583

Richard H., 1583

Richard J., 1582

Ryckert, 1582
Vandercook Ancestry, 1556

Gilbert E., 1556

Michael, 1556

Michael S, 1556

Sarah L., 1556

Simon, 1556
Vandcr Heydcn Ancestry, 79

Anna. 80

Dirk, 79

Jacob, 80

Jacob T., 79

Nanning, 80

Ixxviii

*Van Der Heyden Ancestrj',
683

David I., 684

Dirk, 683

Dirk, 684

Elizabeth L., 684

Jacob, 684

Jacob D., 684

Jane K, 685

Nanning, 684
Van Der Poel Ancestry, 251

Isaac, 252

Isaac, 253

James, 253

Johannes, 252

Melgert, 252

Melgert W., 252

Susan, 254

Tennis, 251

Wynant, 251
Van Derpool Ancestry, 714

Abraham, 715

Abraham M., 715

James, 715

Jeremiah F., 715

Melgert, 715

Melgert W., 715

Wynant, 714
Vanderveer Ancestry, 243, 784

Cornelis, 784

Domini cus, 784

Garrett, 784

Ira, Gen., 383
Jacob, 784
John G., 382

Turns, 784
Tunis, Gen., 383
Van Dervecr, Belle, 251
Garret, 250
George, 250
John, 250
Vander Veer .Ancestry, 243
Abraham H., 246
Albert, Dr., 246
Albert, Dr., 249
Cornclise, 243
Dominicus C, 244
Edgar A., 248
Garret, 245
Jacob, 245
James N., 248
Margaret E., 248, 249
Tunis, 244
Van Gaasbeek .■\ncestry, 207
Abraham, 208
Ale.xander B., 209
Jacobus, 208
Jacobus, Dr., 208
Laurentius, 207
Thomas, 208
Van Guysling Ancestry, 1066
Elias, 1066
Myndert, 1066
Peter, 1066
Van Heusen Ancestry, 1266
Albert, 1266
Harriet C, 1266
Jacob, 1266
Van Hoesen Ancestry, 1354
1680
Casper, 1680
Francis, 1680
Garrett, 1354
Isaac E., Dr., 1355

HUDSON AND MOH.AWK VALLEYS

Isaac J., Dr., 1355
Jacob, 1355

Jacob C, 1681

Jacob F., 1680

Jacob J., 1354

Jacob J., 1680

Jan, 1354

Jan C, 1354

Jan R, 1354

Jans F., 1680

John C., 1354
Van Horn Ancestry, 1673

Abraham, 1673

Abrani, 1673

Cornelius, Capt., 1673

Cornelius J., 1673

Jan C, 1673

Richard, 1674

Walter, 1674
Van Home Ancestry, 853, 1016

Abraham, 853

Abraham L., 854

Abram, 853

Alice, 1017

Cornelis, 853

Cornellisen, 1016

Cornelius, 853

Cornelius C. 1017

Cornelius, Capt., 853

Cornelius D., 853

Daniel, 853

Daniel C. 854

E. Garrett, 1017

Jan, 853

John, 1017

John K., 854

Schuyler, 1017

Spencer, 1017
Van Huysen, Richard, 1179
Van Loon Ancestry, 1633

Eugene, 1634
Isaac, 1633
Jan, 1633
Nicholas, 1633
Nicholas I., Maj., 1633
William H., 1633
William T., 1634
Van Ness Ancestry, 1376
Cornelis, 1376
Garrett, 1376
Hendrick, 1376
Henry, 1376
James R., 1377
Jan H., 1376
Johannes, 1376
Van Olinda Ancestry. 1822
Abraham, 1822
Daniel, 1822
Garrett, 1822
Jacob, 1822
Johannas, 1822
Martin, 1822
Mary G., 1822
Pieter D., 1822
Van Ordcn Ancestry. 1559
Edmund H., 1559
Hezekiah, 1561
Ignatius, 1559
Jacob, 1 561
Wessel T. B., 1559
Wessel T. B., 1560
William, 1559
William, 1561

Van Rensselaer Ancestry, i
Ale.xander, 1819
Alice C, 1817
Bayard, 23
Cornelia, 1815
*Cornelia P., 1818
Cornelius G., 1821
Cortlandt, 1816
Eleanor C, 1816
Elizabeth W., 1817
Euphemia \V., 1819
Eugene, 23
Hendrick, 180
Hendrick, 1819
Hendrick, Capt., 4
Henry B., 1817
Howard, 25
Jan, 3

Jan Baptist, 7
Jeremias, 180
Jeremias, 1820
Jeremias, Col., 8
Johan, 3
Johannes, 7
Johannes, 1820
Johannes J., 1821
John K., 1818
Justine, 484
Kiliaen, 4, 11
Killaen, 4
Kiliaen, 180
Kiliaen, Capt., 1816
Kiliaen, Col., 180
Nicholas, Rev., 8
Philip, 180
Philip S., 14
♦Philip S., 19
Philip Stephen, 1816
Ryckert, 8
Stephen, 12, 13
Stephen, 1818
Stephen, Gen., 1814
Stephen, Gen., 19
Stephen, Gen., 1814
Visscher, 1821
William B., 24
William P., 18
William P., 1815
Van Schaick Ancesto', 71, 992
Anthony, 71
Anthony, 993
Catharine, 72
Goosen G., 993
Goosen G., Capt., 71
John G., 993
Maria, 994
Sytrant, 993
Sybrant, 71
Wessel, 72
Wessel, 993
Van Schoonlioven Ancestry,
686

Charlotte L., 687
Gerrit, 686
Gcurt, 686
Jacobus, 686
James, 687
Van Slyck Ancestry, 704
Christopher, 705
Cornelis, 704
Harmanus, 705
Harmen, Capt., 704
Jacques, 704
Nicholas, 705

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

Ixxix

Van Slyke Ancestry, 1609, 1613

Andreis, 1609

Andrew W., Dr., 161 1

Baltus, 1610

Ephraim T., lOlo

Gerrit, 1613

Henry, 1613

Jacobus, 1613

Jane, 1613

Tennis B., 1610

Tennis W., 1613

Teunise W., 1609

WiUem, 1609
Van Tuyl, George C, Jr., 1688
\"an Valkenburgh Ancestry, 613

Caroline H., 614

Harriet, 614

Hcndrick, 613

Jocheni, 613

John L., 613

Lambert, 613

Lawrence, 613
Van Vecliton .Ancestry, 202

Abraham, 203

Anna L., 205

Dirck T., 202

Margaret, 202

Tennis, 203

Tennis, 204

Tennis D., 203

Tennis T., 203
Van Voast Ancestry, 1164

Albert, 1 167

Albert, 1168

Harry R., ii68

Isabella, 1169

Jacobns, 1166

James A., 1168

Joachim, 1 166

Johannes, 1 166

John C, 1 169

John G., 1 168
Van Vorst Ancestry, 1164, 1345

Abraham, 1165

Albert, 1345

Caroline C, 1165

Caroline E., 1165

George A., 1345

George E., 1345

Gillis, 1 164

Jacobus, 1 164

Jacobus, 1 165

Jacobus, 1345

Jacobus G., 1345

James C, 1165

Joachim, 1345

Johannes, 1345

John, 1345

Nicholas, 1 165
Van Vranken Ancestry, 695

Edward W., 696

Gerrit, 695

Mary, 695

Ryckert, 695

Ryckert C, 695
Van Wie Ancestry, 578, 870

Arie, 871

Fletcher, 871

Gerrit, 578

Harriet L., 578

Heiidrick, 578

Hendrick, 870

Hendrick H., 870

Johannes, 870

William, 578
Van Wormer Ancestry, 449, 810

Casper, 810

Emma, 450

Frederick, 450

Henri, 449

Henry, 810

Jasper, 449

John C, 810

Peter, 810
Van Wyck Ancestry, 1 196

Ann, 1196

Cornelius, 1 196

Theodorus, 1196

Theodoras, Judge, 1196

William, 1 196
Van Zandt Ancestry, 1598

Clarence E., 1599

Gysbert, 1598

Henry, 1598

Jan, 1598

Joseph, 1598

Peter H., 1598
Vedder Ancestry, 272

Aaron, 273

Arent, 273

Albert, 274

Cornelius, 274

David F., 275

De Witt F., 273

Francis B., 274

Harmen A., 272

Johannes, 274

John D., 275

John J., 275

Philip, 275

Simon, 273

Simon A., 273

Simon H., 274

Warren W., 276
Veeder Ancestry, 679, 706, 959

Abram, 706

Abram G., 707

.Amanda, 960

Gerrit, 706

Gerrit S.. 706

Harmon, 679

Harmonus, 960

Henricns, 706

Johannes, 679

Johannes, 959

Myndert, 679

Pieter V., 679

Simon, 959

Simon V., 679

Simon V., 706
Veghte .Ancestry, 811

Catharine Y., 812

Claes A., 811

Elizabeth, 812

George, 812

Gerrct, 812

Gerrit C, 812

Hendrick C, 811

Henry, 812

John, 812

Lewis, 812

Mary, 812

Nicholas, 812

Reynier. 812
Vcr Planck .Ancestry, 152

Abraham, 153

Clara H., 154

David, 153

David I. D.. 153

Isaac, 153

Isaac, 154

Isaac D., 153

John McC, 154
Visscher Ancestry, 77, 180, ;

Barent J., 77

Barent J., 807

Bastiacn, 77

Bastiaen, 180

Bastian, 806

Frederick, 180

Frederick, Col., i8q

Gazena, 180

Harmen, 77

Harmen, 806

Harmen B., 180

Harmon, 180

Johannes B., 807

Johannes N., 77

Johannes N., 807

John B., 807

Nanning, 77

Nanning, 807

Sarah A., 78

William L., 808
Von Behren, Christian, 944

Corte, 944
Voorhees Ancestry, 1014

Coert A., 1015

Coert S., 1015

E. Garrett, 1017

Gerrit C, 1015

Hendrick, 1016

Hendrick G., 1015

Isaac N., 1016

John H., 1016

Steven C., 1015

William H., 1016
Vosburgh Ancestry, 1304

Abraham, 1304

Abraham, 1305

Abraham P., 1304

Edward, 1305

Henry. 1305

Isaac, 1304

Mynard, 1305

Mynard A., 1305

Willem, 1305
\"roonian .Ancestry, 874

Barent, 874

Barnelt H., 874

Hendrick, 874

Hendrick U., 874

Jan, 874

Johannes, 874

Louisa J., 87s

Volkert, 874
Wade .Ancestry, 551

Dudley B., 552

Edward, 552

Edward U., 552

James, 551

James, Dr., 551

Jonathan, 551

Nathaniel, 551

Samuel, 551
Wademan, Aaron, 1638

Hannah M.. 1638

John J., 1638
Wagman, Henry, 1314

John, 1314

Nicholas, 13 14
Wait Ancestry, 1078, 1526

HUDSON AND MOHAWK VALLEYS

Charles R, 1079
Clark G., 1527
Gideon, 1080
John W., 1081
Joseph, 1080
Mansir K., 1527
Nelson W., 1 080
Reuben, 1078
Reuben, 1079
Reuben, 1526
Stephen, 1080

Thomas, 1078

Thomas, 1526
William 'i ., loSo
Wakeman Ancestry, 1041, 1316

Abram, 1042

*Abram, 1043

Ebenczer, 1042

Eunice, 1317

John, 1 041

John, 1316

John, Capt., 1042

John, Capt., 1316

Jonathan, 1042

Louise v., 1043

Samuel, 1041

Samuel, Rev., 1316

Stephen, 1317
Waldo .'\nccstry, 475

Cornelius, Deacon, 475

Cyprian, 476

David R., 4/6

Edward, 475

Henry, Capt., 476

John, 475

Zacheus, 476
Walker Ancestry, 1224

Cornelia S., 1226

James, 1037

James, 1225

James, Elder, 1225

John, 1037

John, 1225

William E., 1225

William E., 1226
Walrath Ancestry, 954

Abram, 955

Adolph, 954

Horace. 956

Josiah, 955
Walsh Ancestry, 1191, 1784

Alexander, 1192

Alexander, 1193

Dudley, 1784

Eleanor B.. 1193

Frederick B., 1193

John S., 178s

Miriam L., 1193

Theodore B., 1193

William V. W., 1193
Walworth Ancestry, 584

Benjamin, 585

John, 584

Reuben H., 585

William, 584
Ward, Lcbbeus B., 206

Samuel, 205

Samuel B., 206

Silas, 205
Wardle, .'Mena (McClure). 1626

James H., 1626

John K., Dr., 1626
Warren .•\ncestrv, 354, 1124

Alpheus, 1398

.Anna C, 360

Anna T., 358

Caleb, 1 125

Chester I., 362

Edmund, 355

Eliakim, 355

Eliza, 1399

Esaias, 356

Ethan, 1125

Eugene, 358

George B., 357

George T., 358

George W., 1125

Gideon, 1125

Hannah E., 409

Henry, 1398

James, 1717

John H., 360

Jonathan S., 409

Joseph M., 360

Josephine. 360

Mary B., 358

Mary E., 361

Mary M., 360

Nathan, 358

Ogle T., 358

Phebe E., 360

Richard, 354

Richard, 1125

Sellick, 1717

Stephen, 359

Stephen, 360

Walter P., 361

Walter P., 362

William H., 359

William H., 362

William R„ 1718
Washburn Ancestry, 1517

Charles S., 1520

George W., 1520

Hiram L., 1518

Hiram L., 1519

John, 1517

John. 1518

Lucius H., 1519

Nehemiah, 1518

Samuel. 1518

William E., 1518
Way Ancestry, 1010

Ebenezer, loio

George, lOio

Henry, lOio

John. lOio

Orville W.. ion

Samuel, ion

Thomas, lOio

William, loii
Wayne Ancestry, 1445

Anthony, Capt., 1445

Anthony, Gen., 1445

Catharine S., 1446

David H., 1446

George, 1445

Isaac, 1445

James, 1446

John 11., 1446
Weatherbe, .Aaron, 1592

Orril, 1592
Weaver, Benjamin, 1258

George E., 1259

Jacob, 1258
Weber, .August, 1322

John, 1322
John, 1323

Webster Ancestry, 645

Emily De S., 646

Jasper, 646

John, 645

Jonathan, 645

Jonathan, 646

Nathan, 645

Stephen, 645
Weed Ancestry, 711

Daniel, 712

Harvey. 712

John, 711

Jonas, 711

Jonathan, 711

Josiah, 711

William H., 713
Wells Ancestry, 117, 1143

Alice M., 126, 128

Alice Y., 126

David A., 122-

David A., 123 -

Edward A., 123 -

Eleazer, 122 -

Eleazer M., 123

Elias B., 123

Frederick H., 120

Hugh, 121
John, 122
John, 1 145

Lester, 12b-

Nathan P., 1145
Samuel, 121 -

Samuel, 1144

Thomas, 121

Thomas, Capt., 1144

Thomas, Gov., 1143
Wait, 1 145
William, 118 -
William, 119
William, Prof., 123
Wemple Ancestry, 1176, 1663
Aaron, 1664
Barent, 1176
David, 1 177
Douw, 1 1 77
Isaac, 1664
Jacob D., 1 197
Jan B., II 76
Jan Barentse, 1663
Johannes, 1664
Myndert, 11 76
Myndert, 1663
Robert, 11 77
Wendell Ancestry, 181
Agnes L.. 984
Benjamin, 1284
Evert J., 982
Harmanus, 983
Hendrick, 984
Henry R., 984
Jacob, 983
Jacob, 1284
Jeronimus. 983
Johannes, 983
John, 1284
John D., 1285
Robert H., 984
West Ancestry, 1536
Bartholomew, 1538
Charles, 1707
Emily H., 1537
George. 1536
George, 1537
George H., 1539

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Jonathan, 1539

Matthew, 1538

Matthew, 1539

Stephen, 1539

Wilham, 1707
VVestinghouse Ancestry, 819

George, 820

George, 821

Jay, 820

John F., 820

John H., 819
Wetherbe, David, 456

Hezekiah, 456

John, 455

Thomas. 456
Wheeler Ancestry, 228, 574

Alonzo, 575

Gertrude L., 230

Henry, 228

Henry, 574

John. 574

John T., 228

John '1., Dr., 229

Joseph T., 229
*Seth, 575

Seth, Jr., 576

Thomas, 228

Thomas. 574

Wilham, 228

Wilham, 574
Whish, George A., 803

John, 803

John D., 803
Whitbeck Ancestry, 1549

Andrew. 1551

Andrew J., 1552
Andries. 1551
Caroline, 1550
Charles, 1550
John. 1551

Pieter, 1551

Sherwood V., Dr., 1550
Volkert, 1549
Volkert, Dr., 1549
Whitconib Ancestry, 709
Calvin. 711
Dille, 710
Job, 710
John, 709
Jonathan. 710
Levi, 710
White Ancestry, 352, 1280
Edward, 1281
Franklin, 1281
George. 1280
George W., 352
Grant, 1282
John, 352
John H., 1281
Salem. 1282
Salem H., 1282
Sarah P., 352
William, 969
Whiteman, Hendrick. 1511
Whiteside. John, 1624

Phineas, 1624
Whitney Ancestry. 55, 1552
Asa, 1554
A.sa H., I5S4
Charles L. A., 61
Daniel, 60
David. 1553
Ebenezer, 1553
Henry, 1552

John, 57
John, 1552
Joseph. 1552
Josiah, Gen., 59
Richard, 58
Richard, 59
Warren E., 1554
William M., 60
Wicke, .August, 1253

Henry, 1252
Wickes, Daniel, 434

Silas, 434
Wieting, Henry, 1338
John C. 1338
.Mary, 1338
Seneca, 1338
Wilco.x Ancestry, 166, 579
Asenath, 579
Ephraim. 166
Samuel, 166
Sarah .\nn, 579
Sylvanus. 166-167
Sylvanus, Capt., 579
William, 166
William. 579
Wilde .■\ncestry. 694
John. 694
Joseph, 694
Joshua, 694
Obadiah, 695
Samuel, 694
Wilder Ancestrv, 707
Elihu, 708
John, 708
Jonathan. 708
Nicholas, 707
Spencer, 709
Spencer A., 709
Tliomas. 708
Wiles, Henry, 1026
Peter, 1027
William. 1027
Willard Ancestry, 1381
Clarence P., 1382
Harden, 1381
Reuben, 1381
Reuben, 1382
Sara, 1382
Willett Ancestry, 254
Edward C, 255
Eugene M.. Dr., 255
Thomas, 254
Thomas J., 255
Williams Ancestry, 450, 541
Chauncey P., 542
Chaunccy P., Col., 543
David, 542
Jacob, 542
Jehiel, 542
John, 45a
John, 451
Joseph, Col., 450
Josiah, 542
Lewis, 450
Nathaniel. 450
Robert, 451
Thomas, 542
Thomas L., 451
Wilson Ancestry, 276, 990
Esau. 276
Ira, 990
Jacob, 990
James H., 276
James S., 276

Jay S., 990
Wiltsie Ancestry, 1655

Ambrose, 1657

Ambrose, 1773

Ambrose J., 1657

Cornells, 1656

Hendrick M.. 1656

Hiram, 1657

Jacobus, 1656

John, 1773

John A., 1774

Marten, 1656

Phillippe .Vl., 1655

William, 1656
Winne .Xncestry, 598, 1352

Abraham. 1352

Benjamin, 598

Charles V., 599

Daniel, 599

Daniel, 600

Daniel E., 1352

1-ran.s. 599

George. 1352

Marry Y., 600

Jacob I., 600

Lavinus, 598

Lavmus. 599

Levinus, 686

Major. 1352

Nancy. 686

Nancy. 1352

Nanning V.. Dr., 599

Peter, 598

Peter, 600

Philip, 1352

Willem, 600
Winslow Ancestry, 1414

Edward, 1414

Edward. Gov., 1415
Josiah, 1415
Kenelm, 1414
Thomas, 1414
William. 1414
Wirth. Jacob, 1247

Jacob. 1248
Wiswall Ancestry, 350, 1802
Anna P., ,352
Ebenezer, 351
John, 350
John, 1802
John P., 352
Martha N., 1803
Noah, 351
Noah. 1803
Noah, Capt., 350
Noah, Capt., 351
Noah, Capt., 1802
Seth, 1803
Thomas, 350
Thomas, 1802
Thomas, Lieut., 350
Thomas, Lieut, 1802
Witherbee, Marcena, 456

Waldron S., 456
Wood Ancestry, i486
Aaron, 1487

Benjamin F., Rev., 1699
Charles F., 1581
Ebenezer. 1698
Emory. 1699
Ephraim. 1580
Frank H.. Prof., 1700
Jacob, 1580
Jeremiah, i486

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Jonathan, 1698

Joseph, i486

Josiah, Capt., 1698

Michael, 1580

Thomas, 1698

Waker A., 1487

Walter A., 1489

Wheelock, i6gg

William, 1580

William, 1581
Woodell Ancestry, 1615
Woodward Ancestry, 673. 1709

Abner, 674

Archibald, 1710

Burton K., 675

Daniel, 1710

George, 673

George, 1709

Henry C., 674

Rial, 676

John, 673

John, 1 710

Joseph, 674

Richard, 673

Richard, 1710

Samuel, 1710
Woolverton Ancestry, 162, 578

Charles, 162

Charles, 163

Charles, 578

Dennis, 162

Dennis, 578

Edward, 163

Edward, 578

George A., 164

Nathaniel, 163

Nathaniel, 578

Sarah Ann, 578
Wooster, Philip, 1390

William, 1390
Wormer Ancestry, 1215

Cornelius, 1215

Daniel, 1216

David P., 1216

Frederick C, 1215

Peter, 1215
Wright Ancestry, 1081, 1468

Abbe A., 1083

Albert M., 1471

Anna C, 1475

Charles, 1473

Caleb, 1469

Caleb, Capt., 1469

Ebenezer, 1468

George, 1474

Helen E,, 1475

Henry, 1474

Henry H,, 1084

James, 1082

James, Maj., 1083

John. 1 08 1

John. 1082

John, 1468

John, 1473

John N„ 1084

John T., 1082

John Y., 1473

Josiah, 1082

Lauchlin, 1469

Loraness C, 1084

Mary E., 1475

Matthew, 1473

Nathaniel, 1468

Noah, Capt., 1469

Pliny, 1472

Robert, 1468

Samuel. 1468

Sidney W.. 1471

Silas, 1083

Solomon, 1472

Solomon, 1473

Sophia, 1084

Wilkinson D., 1473
Wynkoop Ancestry, 1370

Cornelius C. 1370

John C, 1370

Jonathan G., 1370

Peter S., Rev., 1370
Yanney Ancestry, 965

Christian, 966

Henry, 966

Isaiah, 966

Philip, 966
Yates Ancestry, 294

Andrew. Rev.. 295

Austin A., 296

Christoffel, 294

Christopher, 295

John A.. 2gS

Joseph, 294
Yelverton Ancestry, 1038

Abijah, 1038

Anthony, 1038
James W., 1038

John, 1038

John H., 1038

Thomas, 1038
Yost, Jacob, 801

John B., 801

John J., 801
Yostmeyer Ancestry, 936

Colon J. H., 936

Ernest H., 936

Heinrich W., 936

Johann H., 936
Young Ancestry, 698

David, 699

James. 699

Jonathan, 699

Levi A., 700

Peter, 791

Peter P., 791

Peter W., 791

Rowland, 698

Rowland. 699

Winthrop, 699
Y''oungIovc Ancestry, 829, i

Anna, 1800

Annie S., 830

Daniel C, 831

David, 829

Frances L,, 832
*Isaiah, 829

Isaiah, 830

James, 830

James I., 830

John, 829

John, 831

John, 1800

John. Rev., 831

John, Rev., 1800

Joseph, 829

Mores, 831

Samuel, 1800
Zeller, Elizabeth, 896

Ernest, 896
Ziehm, .-Mbert, 1233

Augustus, 1233
Zimmerman, Conrad, 1313

Thomas R., 1313

William, 1313
Zweeres Ancestry, 1358

Abraham J., 1359

Dina D.. 1359

John A.. 1358

John A.. I3S9

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