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received in 1880 under the will of
JONATHAN BROWN BRIGHT
of Waltham, Massachusetts, is to be expended for
books for the College Library. The other half of the
income is deroted to scholsirships in Harvard Uni-
versity for the benefit of descendants of
HENRY BRIGHT, JR.,
who died at Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1686 In
the absence of such descendants, other persons are
elifi^ible to the scholarships. The will requires that
this announcement shall be made in every book added
to the Library under its provisions.
THE NEW YORK
Genealogical and Biographical
Record.
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF AMERICAN
GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY.
ISSUED QUARTERLY.
VOLUME XLVI, 1 91 5
PUBLISHED BY THE
NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
226 West 58TH Street, New York.
Publication Committee:
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FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN. ABRAHAM HATFIELD. JR.
RICHARD SCHERMERHORN. JR. MRS. ROBERT D. BRISTOL
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
Accessions to the Library, 99, 210, 318,
425
A Check List of Biographical Direc-
tories and General Catalogues
of American Colleges, 51
A Complete List of all the Brown-
Stone and Slate Tombstone In-
scriptions in the North End
Burying Ground, Southampton,
L. L, N. Y., 19
Akerly, Mrs. Charlotte Manigault
(Taylor), Obituary, 416
Albertson Bible Records, 289
Andrews - Andrus - Andross, Correc-
tions and Additions, 188
Authors, see Contributors
Ay res- Ing ram-Cutt-Moulton-Foster-
Fellows-Sherbume, Corrections
and Additions, 82
Banns of Matrimony Published in the
Parish of Trinity Church, 167
Batcheller, George Clinton, Biograph-
ical Sketch, 321
Biographical Sketches —
Akerly, Mrs. Charlotte Manigault
(Taylor), 416
Batcheller, George Clinton, 321
Brodhead, Lucas, loi
Champlin, John Denison, 324
Draper, Mrs. Anna Palmer, 193
Fargo, James Congdell, 213
Heam, George Arnold i
Lea, James Henry, 86
Winslow, General Edward Fran-
cis, 217
Book Reviews —
Abiel Washburn and His De-
scendants, 97
A Genealogical History ' of the
Ficklin Family in America, 96
A Handbook History of the Town
of York, Maine, 1023- 1914, 314
A History of Muhlenberg County,
Kentucky, 121
A History of Old Kinderhook,
209
A Little Book on Heraldry, 91
A List of the Records of the Meet-
ings Constituting the Yearly
Meetings of the Society of
Friends, 98
Allied Ancestry of the Van Culem-
borg Family of Culemborg, Hol-
land, 422
Book Reyiew9 {Ctmtinued)
Alumni Bulletin of the University
of Arkansas, 1876-1913, 208
Alumni Directory of the Univer-
sity of Chicago, 111., 317
Alumni Directory of the Univer-
sity of Maine, 191 4, 317
Alumni Record and General Cat-
alogue, Syracuse (N. Y.) Uni-
ver8ity,4i8
Alumni Register, Michigan Col-
lege of Mmes, 419
Alumni Register, State Univer-
sity of Iowa, 208
Alumni Register Virginia Poly-
technic Institute, 1875- 191 4, 4iS
American Authors' Ancestry, 420
Ancestral Chart of William Lin-
coln Palmer, American Lines
Only, 207
Andrews Genealogy, 205
Andover, Mass., Tneological Sem-
inary, General Catalogue, 1808-
1908, 312
Annals of the Leonard Family, 93
Annals of Oxford, N. Y., 422
Anniversary History of Lehigh
Valley County, Pennsylvania,
310
A Supplement to the Frost Gene-
alogy, 97
A Walloon Family in America, 202
Bacon Genealogy, 309
Baker Ancestry, 90
Baylor University, Waco, Texas,
Bulletin Alumni Directory, 1854-
1914,317
Beloit College, Beloit, Wis., Reg-
ister and Directory of Alumni,
1851-1914, 209
Bethany, Conn., Sketches and
Records, 206
Biographical and Historical Cata-
logue of Washington and Jeffer-
son College, 418
Biographical Catalogue of Laf-
ayette College, Easton, Mass.,
1832-1912, 312
Blin Genealagy, 313
Book of Old New York, 424
Brace Lineage, 203
Brett Genealogies, 310
Bryn Mawr (Pennsylvania) Col-
lege, Calender Register of Al-
umnae and Former Students, 317
Index of Subjects.
Book Reviews (ConHnued)
Bryant Family History, 309
Bulletin of the Massachusetts In-
stitute of Technol<»y, Register
of Graduates, Marcn, 191 1, 317
Bulletin of the Purdue University,
Alumni Register, 1875-1911,418
By-Gone Days in Ponsett-Had-
dam, Middlesex County, Conn.,
315
Catalogue of Ottawa University
(OtUwa, Kansas), I9i4-I9i5» 4i9
Chisholm Genealogy, 1254-19 14,
311
Chronicles of Erthig on the Dyke,
3M
Colgate University, Hamilton, N.
yI, General CaUlogue, 1838-
1910, 208
Colonial Mansions of Maryland
and Delaware, 93
Connecticut Soldiers in the Pequot
War of 1637, 207
Coxe and Connected Families,
Cumberland Lay Subsidy, 416
Days and Ways in Old Boston,
Directory of Graduates University
of Nebraska, 1873-1914. 418
Dwelly's Parish Records, 421
Earlham College, Richmond, Ind.,
Bulletins, 317
Early Northampton, Mass., 94
Early Records of the Town of
Providence, R. I., 421
Edmond Hawes, of Yarmouth,
Mass., 91
Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania
Biography, 98
Erasmus Stevens, Boston, Mass.,
1674- 1690, 98
Facts Relating to the History of
Groton, Mass., 203
Feet of Fines, Cumberland, 316
Fox Family News, Vol. Ill, 203
Franklin and Marshall College,
Lancaster, Pa., Catalogue of
Officers and Students, 1787-1903,
317
From One Generation to Another,
90
Fuller Genealogy, Vol. Ill, 204
Genealogical Chart of 28 Gener-
ations of a Branch of the Rice
Family, 425
Genealogical Frost Record, 1635-
1906. 312
Genealogy of the Cadle Family
includmg English Descent, 422
Genealogy of the Darby Family,
422
Book Reviews (Continued)
Genealogy of the Fishback Fam-
ily in America, 204
Genealogy of the Kollock Family
of Sussex County, Delaware,
1657-189A 422
Genealogy of the Somersetshire
Family of Meriet, 92
Genealogy of the Van Pelt Family,
312
General Catalogue and Necrolojey,
Ripon College, 1851-1900, 418
General Catalogue, Hobart Col-
lege, Geneva, N. Y., ao8
General Catalogue, McCormick
Theological Seminary of the
Presbyterian Church,^i7
General Catalogue of Colby Col-
lege, Waterville, Maine, 1820-
1^,208
General Catalogue of the Centre
College of Kentuckv, 317
General Catalogue ot the Mead-
ville. Pa., Theological School
1844-1910, 313
General Catalogue of the Union
Theological Seminary in the
City of New York, 1836-1908,419
General Catalogue of the Univer-
sity of Michigan, 1837-1911, 418
General Catalogue ot the Uni-
versity of Rochester, N. Y., 1850-
1911,419
General Catalogue Rutgers Col-
lege, 1766- 1009, 419
General Catalogue, University of
Vermont, 1 791 -1900, 419
General Catalogue Wake Forest
College, North Carolina, 1834-5-
1981-2,418
Graduates and Fellows of Johns
Hopkins University, 187^1913,
208
Great-Grandfather*s Clock, 205
Gresham Family, 315
Guide to the Borough of Maid-
stone, £n£[land, 7x&
Harris Family of Virginia, 161 1-
IQM, 3>3
Historical Catalogue of Brown
University, 1764-1914, 206
Historical Catalogue of the Mem-
bers of the First Church of
Christ, in New Haven, Conn., 94
Historical Catalogue of the Stu-
dents of Kalamazoo, Michigan,
College and Kalamazoo Theo-
logical Seminary, 1851-1902, 317
Historical Rutland, 95
Historical Sketches of the Town
of Milford, Conn., 90
Historic Homes of New England,
Q4
Index of Subjects,
Book Reviews {Continued)
History and Genealogical Record
of One Branch of the Stilwell
Family, 91
History and Genealogy of the
Page Family, 204
History and Reminiscences of
Lower Wall Street and Vicinity,
History of Carbon County, Penn-
sylvania, 209
History of Cheshire, Conn., 310
History of De Kalb County, Tenn.,
205
History of Garland, Maine, 97
History of Scranton, Pa., and Its
People, 316
History of the Barwick Family,
1652-1907, 423
History of the Class of 1868, Yale
College, 1864-1914, 95
History of the Descendants of J.
Conrad Geil and his Son, Jacob,
Geil, 209
History of the First Baptist
Church of Athol, Mass., 312
History of the Ladds and the De-
scendants of Mordica Ladd to
History of the Oread Collegiate
Institute of Worcester, Mass.,
1 849-1881, 207
History of the Province of Penn-
sylvania, 311
History of the Town of Rocking-
ham, Vermont, 98
History of the Watson Family in
America, 1 760-191 4, 208
History of the Woodcock Family
from 1692 to 1912, 92
Holy Cross College, Worcester,
Mass., Bulletins, 317
Horace Ward Bailey, 312
In Ancient Albemarle, 315
Independence Day in 1797 in Oak-
ham, Mass., Tjorj
Indiana University Register of
Graduates, 1830-1910, 208
In Loving Memory of Henry D.
Van Orden, 93
In Memoriam of William Thorn-
ton Parker, Jr., B. S.„ 204 309
John Cary, the Plymouth Pilgrim,
312
John French, Jr., of Taunton,
Berkley, Middleboro and Oak-
ham, Mass., 205
John Hay, Author and Statesman,
92
Johnson Genealogy, 423
Book Reviews {Continued)
Leland Stanford Junior University.
Alumni Directory and Ten Year
Book, 1891-1910,313
Lewis Institute, Chicago, 111., Bul-
letms, 1907-1913, 317
Lieut.-Col. Moses Parker, 205
List of Degrees Granted at Clark
University and Clark College,
Worcester, Mass., 209
Louisiana State University, Baton
Rogue, La., Alumni Bulletin,
I9U»3I7
Lower Norfolk County and Nor-
folk County (Virginia) Wills,
1637-1710, 204
Magna Charter Barons and Their
Descendants. 316
Major Abner Morse, Esq., 313
Major Abraham Kirkpatrick and
his Descendants, 423
Major Thomas Savage of Boston
and His Descendants, 205
Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio,
General Catalogue, 1835- 1901,
317
Maternal Ancestry of Charles
Whiting McNair, 06
McGill University, Montreal, Can-
ada. Directory of Graduates
Corrected to July, 1913, 317
Middlebury College in State of
Vermont General Catalogue,
1800-1900, 419
Morrill Kindred in America, 90,
202
Mount Holyoke College, General
Catalogue, 1837-1911, 410
Mount Union College (Alliance,
Ohio) Alumni Catalogue, 1910,
419
My Ancestors. A Memorial of
John Paine and Mary Ann May,
424
Nantucket, Mass., A History, 92
Newton Genealogy, 419
New York University (N. Y. City)
Alumni Catalogue, 1833-1905,
418
Northrup Genealogy, 1637-191 4,
315
Notes on the Tuckerman Family
of Massachusetts and Some Al-
lied Families, 203
Ogden-Preston Genealogy, 422
Old Deep River, Town of Say-
brook, Conn., 318
Our Plymouth Forefathers, 203
Owners and Occupants of the Lots,
Houses and Shops in the Town
of Providence, Rhode Island, in
1798. 95
VI
Index of Subjects.
Book Reviews (Continued)
Partial Genealogy of the Sellers
and Wampole Families of Penn-
sylvania, 422
Patterson Genealogy, 424
Personal and Family History of
Charles Hook and Margaret
Monk Harris, 92
Personal Reminiscences of James
A. Scrymser, 423
Pioneer Settlers of Grayson
County, Virginia, 311
Political History of the Session to
the Beginning of the Civil War,
205
Pomona College Alumni Regis-
ter, 191 4» 419
Pomona College Triennial Reg-
ister, 191 X, 419
Read Genealogies, 310
Records of the Courts of Chester
County, Pennsylvania, 168 1-
1697,311
Records of the Graduates, Acadia
College, Acadia University,
Wolfvllle, Nova Scotia, 1843-
1908, 317
Records of the Town of Jamaica,
Long Island, N. Y., 165^1751, 97
Scotch-Irish Presbyterians in Mon-
roe County, Indiana, 208
Simeon Church, of Chester, Conn.,
1708-1792, 93
Society of Colonial Wars in the
State of New York, I9i3-I4> 92
Soldiers of Oakham, Mass., 94
Some of the Descendants of Balt-
haser and Susanna Philipina
Loesch, 315
Spencer Fullerton Baird, 314
Spirit of Patriotism, 421
State College of Washington,
Pullman, Wash., Alumni Pocket
Directory, 419
Strange Family, 315
Strang Genealogy, 208
Stetson Kindred of America, 98
Stiegel Glass, 318
Supplement to the History of the
County of Annapolis, Nova
Scotia, 93
Swarthmore College, Alumni His-
torical Catalogue, 1873- 1902, 419
Swarthmore College, Alumni
Number, 1914, 419
The Alumni Directory of the Uni-
versity of Missouri, 1843-1942,
418
The American Family of Rev.
Obadiah Holmes, 423
The Andrew Branning Farafily,
Pioneers to the Territory of
Florida, 423
Book Reviews (Continued)
The Ancestry of Katharine Choate
Paul, 310
The Book of the Duffs, 95
The Centennial Celebration of the
Foundation of the Universary
of Maryland, 314
The Clan Macfarlane, 420
The Clan McNary of the U. S. A.,
309
The Colonial Society of Penn-
sylvania, 312
The Crawford Family of Oak-
ham, Mass., 207
The English Ancestry of Abra-
ham Belknap, 97
The Fobes Memorial Library,
Oakham, Mass., 207
The Googins Family in America,
423
The Greenwood Genealogies,
II54-I9I4»204
The Haviland Genealogy, 96
The Heiligh and Harley Family,
93
The History of Nevada, 206
The History of New Ipswich, New
Hamp^ire, I735-I9i4» 309
The Hubbard Thompson Mem-
orial, 96
The Journal of the American Irish
Historical Society, Vol. XIII, 95
The McClure Family, 310
The Memoir of Thomas Addis
Emmet and Robert Emmet, 313
The Ohio State University Bul-
letin, 418
The Paine Shepard Genealogy,
1463-1913. 207
The Patriotic Societies of the
United States, 206
The Pioneer Families of Cleve-
land. Ohio, 1796-1840, 314
The Royal Ancestry of George
Leib Harrison of Philadelphia,
Pa., 209
The Sampson Family, 203
The Sharps of Chester County,
Pennsylvania, and Abstracts of
Records in Great Briiain, 206
The Simmons College Quarterly,
419
The Society of Colonial Wars in
the State of New Hampshire, 91
The Story of Anthony Coombs
and His Descendants, 90
The Tyler Genealogy, 98
The University of Arkansas, Cat-
alogue, 191^-1916, 419
The University of Wisconsin Al-
umni Directory, 1840-1011, 418
The Vandcrlip, Van Derlip, Van-
der Lippe Family in America, 91
Index of Subjects*
vu
Book Reviews (Continued)
Tombstone. Inscriptions in the Old
Presbyterian Burving Ground
at Greenwich, N. J., 313
Trustees, Faculty, Alumni and
Students of Rutgers College,
1766-1915, 419
Tufts College Register of Alumni
and Officers, 1^12, 419
University of California, Berkeley,
Cal., Directory of Graduates,
1864-1910. 317
Universitv of Kansas, Lawrence,
Kan., Alumni, Catalogue, Feb-
ruary, 1914, 317
University of Minnesota, Direc-
tory of Alumni, 419
University of Oregon, General
Register, 1873-1910, 418
Various Ancestral Lines of James
Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan)
Goodwin, 420
Vital Records of Woodstock,
Conn., 1686- 1 864, 206
Westminster College Catalogue
of Alumni and all Students
Registered, 1 853-191 1, 418
Williams College General Cata-
logue of Alumni and Officers,
1795-1910,418
Williams College General Cata-
logue of Non-Graduates, 1797-
1910, 418
William Webb, 421
Wills of the Family of Benn and
Others, 316
Winthrop Normal and Industrial
College of 3outh Carolina, Reg-
ister af Alumni, 1887-1911, 419
Worcester Family Genealogv, 94
191 3. A Leaf from the rast —
Dietz — ^Then and Now, 421
Bristol Notes, 63, 164
Brodhead, Lucas, Biographical
Sketch, loi
Brown, Correction, 409
Butterfield, Addition, 411
Champlin, John Denison, Biographical
Sketch, J24
Church Records, see Records
Citv Flaff and Seal Note, 200
Colonel John Livingston of New Lon-
don, Eldest Son of John Living-
ston, First Lord ot Livingston
Manor, N. Y^ 230
Contributors —
Bowmar, Aitcheson Alexander,
loi
Bowen, Clarence Winthrop, 169
Bristol, Mrs. R. D., 411
Bristol, Mrs. William H., 63
Bristol, Theresa Hall, 160, 164
Contributors (Continued)
Burnham, Stewart H., 277
Champlin, John Denison, 4
Champlin, John Denison, Jr., 324
Choate, Hon. Joseph H., 105
Clevenger, William M., 189
Cole, Eva Alice, 51
Conover, J. Dey, i
Depew, Hon. Chauncev M., 105
Drownc, Henry Russell, 80
Eastman, Charles R., 58
Eno, Joel N., 219
Fargo, William Congdell, 213
Gage, Samuel Edson, 414
Giddin£s, Franklin H., 192
GoodelT, Mrs. Thomas D., 189
Green, Franklin, 272
Hanks, Frances, 130
Hatfield, A., Jr., 69, 177. 292* 394
Heely, Mrs. L. C, 85,414
Hillman, E. Haviland, 416
HoaR, Mr. Butler, 122
{acobus, Donald Lines, 63, 164
Celby, Robert H., 167, 279, 337
Kimball, Sarah Louise, 155
Livingston, E. B., 23d
Mathews, Catharine T. R., 414
Monnette, Orra Eugene, 387
Morrison, George Austin, Jr., 269,
330
Mott, Hopper Striker, 289, 321,
414
Pearsall, Miss Nettie E., 412
Pelletreau, William S., 10
Roberts, Louisa Trumbull, 87
Savary, A. W., 85
Schermerhom, Richard, Jr., 9, 302,
343
Sherman, Thomas T., 234, 403
Scott, William Forse, 217
Totten, John R^ 27, 89, 131, 202,
245» 308, 353. 417
Turner, Rev. C. H. B., 290
Vosburgh, Royden Woodward,
103
Willard Mountain Chapter, D.
A. R., 122
York, E. D., 85
Comelis Query, 30^
Conections and Additions to Pub-
lished Genealogical Works, 82,
188, 301, 409
Grossman, Additions and Corrections,
411
Disbrow Query, 89
Draper, Mrs. Anna Palmer, Obituary.
193
Early Settlers of West Farms, West-
chester County, N. V., 69, 177,
392,394
viii
Index of Subjects.
Fargo, Tames Congdell, Biographical
Sketch, 213
Fogg Query, 89
Forms of Bequest and Devise of Real
Property, 100, 428
Gay lord- Westcott, Correction, 189
Genealogical Notes on a very Old New
York Family and Some of its
Branches, 343
Genealogical Records —
Albertson Bible Records, 298
Bristol Notes, 63, 164
Colonel John Livingston of New
London, Conn., Eldest son of
Robert Livingston, First Lord
of Livingston Manor, N. Y^ 230
Early Settlers of West Farms,
69, I77» 292. 394
Gravenraet, 200
Genealoeical Notes on a very Old
New York Family and Some of
its Branches, ^3
Green Family Notes, 272
Richard Higgins of Plymouth and
Eastham, Mass., and Piscata-
way, N. J^ and Some of His
Descendants, 387
Some Early English Records Per-
taining to the Eastman Family,
58
Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy, 27,
131, 245. 353
The Vanderheyden Family, 9
Throop Chapman, 155
Gravenraet, 290
Gravestone Inscriptions, see Inscrip-
tions
Green Family Notes, 272
Hearn, George Arnold, Biographical
Sketch, I
Holmes - Andrus - Sterrv, Corrections
and Additions, 188
Illustrations, see also Portraits
Church of St. Lawrence in Down-
ton, England, 59
Fac-simile Page of the Hamilton
Bible Record, 161
Friends' Meeting House, Easton,
N. Y., 123
The New Site of The New York
Genealogical and Biographical
Society, 170
Inscriptions—
A Complete List of all of the
Brown -Stone and Slate Tomb-
stone Inscriptions in the North
End Burying Ground, South-
hampton, L. I., N. Y., 19
Inscriptions (Continued)
Inscriptions Gleaned from Stones
in the Fort Ann, N. Y., Ceme-
tery, 277
Washington County Gravestone
Inscriptions, 130
Joralemon Query, 308
Knickerbocker Note, 200
Lawrance Query, 89
Lea, James Henry, Obituary, 87
Lear Query, 89
Le Mercier Family, Additional Note,
414
Lindsly-Allen, Addition, 412
Lyndall-Tyndall— Churchill Gene-
alogy, Correction, 85
Millard, Correction, 189
Mountford Query, 89
New York Marriage Licenses, 279,337
Nostrand-Bogert Query, 308
Notes, 200, 417
Notes on a History of Old Kinder-
hook, 192
Obitoaries—
Akerly, Mrs. Charlotte Manigault
(Taylor), 416
Draper, Mrs. Anna Palmer, 193
Lea, James Henry, 86
Oliver Query, 308
Portraits —
Batcheller, George Clinton, 321
Brodhead, Lucas, loi
Champlin, John Denison, 324
Fargo, James Congdell, 213
Hearn, George Arnold, i
Higgins, Richard, 387
Queries, 89, 201, 308, 417
Records —
A Check List of Biographical
Directories and General Cata-
logus of American Colleges, 51
Albertson Bible Records, 289
Banns of Matrimony Published
in the Parish of Trinity Church,
167
New York Marriage Licenses,
279. 337
Records Pertaining to the Hamil-
ton, Dean and Botts Families,
160
Revolutionary War Muster Roll,
269
Revolutionary War Records, 330
Index of Subjects,
Records (Continued)
Some Vital Records of Provi-
dence, R. I., 80
Vital Records of Christ's Church
at Rye, Westchester County,
N. Y^ 234, 403
Washington County, N.Y., Quaker
Records, 122
Records Pertaining to the Hamilton,
Dean and Botts Families, 160
Revolutionary War Muster Roll, 269
Revolutionary War Records, 330
Richard Higgins of Plymouth and
Eastham, Mass., and Piscata-
way, N. J., and Some of His
Descendants, 387
Smith Query, 80
Sneden-Tutts-Ware, Addition, 85
Society Proceedings, 87, 194, 307
Some Early English Records Per-
taining to the Eastman Family,
Some vital Records of Providence,
R. I., 80
Spalding-Andrus, Corrections and
Additions, 188
Special Notice, 193, 302, 416
Storer Query, 89
Tappan, Correction, 414
Taylor Query, 89
The Earliest "Bouweries" in Brook-
lyn, and Their Owners, 219
The New Site of the New York Gene-
alogical and Biographical
Society, 169
The New York Genealogical and Bio-
graphical Society's Department
of Re
303
Registration of Pedigrees,
The Vanderheyden Family, 9
The World War, 105
Thacher- Thatcher Genealogy, 27, 131,
245»353^^
Thompson and Brewster, 4
Throop Chapman, 155
Van der Grist- Van Dyck, Correction,
414
Vanderheyden Family, Corrections
and Additions, 301
Vital Records of Christ's Church at
Rye, Westshester County, N. Y.,
234. 403
Washington County Gravestone In-
scriptions, 130
Washington County, N. Y., Quaker
Records. 122
Willett-De Witt-Willett, Corrections,
Willett Query, 201
Winslow, General Edward Francis,
Biographical Sketch, 217
Young Query, 417
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JANUARY, 1915.-CONTENTS.
iLLUSTRATioNS. PoflinU ui Ci^^oru*^ ,|mij|d lU'Aifi Frtmtispiwe
Churclj oISl LttwrenctJ in DowjiUm, Eiiiilaot! . . h>cinK S9
I, George Arnold Heah?<* By J. Dey Conover . . .1
^, Thompson a?jd Brewstkk. By Jt>hn Denis«>n Champlin * ... 4
3. The VandkkheydEn Famtly. Conmbtited by RictinrdSchermerharn, Jr.
. (Conllfiued from VoL XLV, page 319) . > * * . . . 9
4. A CoMPLETK List of all of the Bk own-Stone a^o Slate Tomb-
STONK INSCHIT^'IOKS LN THE NoiaH EtJD BURYING GkoONU. SoiTlH-
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5. ThackeR'Tkatchek Genealogv. By John R. Touen. (Cotiimued
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Wilham H. Bristol. (Continued trom Vol, XLV, p. 336) .... 63
9. Early Settlers of Wkst Farms, VVei^tcm ester County, N. Y,
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GEORGE ARNOLD HEARN.
By J. Dey Conover,
Middletown, N. J.
George Arnold Heam was born in New York City, Dec. 7, 1835,
and died Dec. 2, 191 3. He was the son of James A. Hearn and
Caroline Lancaster of Philadelphia. He married Laura Frances,
daughter of Howell Hoppock of New York, Feb. 28, 1863. Their
surviving children are Mary Hoppock, wife of Herbert Spencer
Greims, Caroline Lancaster, wife of Clarkson Cowl, and Alice,
wife of George E. Schanck. His son, Arthur Hoppock Hearn,
died Dec. 25, 1910. A daughter, Laura Frances, born Jan. 6, 1871,
died Jan. 15, 1875, and his daughter Grace Arnold, wife of George
B. Wheeler, born Aug. 27, 1875, died Nov. 30, 1899.
Mr. Hearn was a direct descendant of the ancient and knightly
house of Heron of Ford Castle in the County of Northumberland,
England.
The names of Heroun and Hern are in the "Battle Abbey
Roll" of such noblemen and gentlemen of marque as came into
England with the Duke of Normandy, A. D. 1060.
Jordan De Hayrun — Herun or Heyrun, — held a barony in
Northumberland, 13th of King John, by the service of one
knight's fee, married the daughter of Odonellus de Ford, Lord
of Ford, and died in the time of Henry the Third. He had one
son, William de Heyrun, Baron, who also had a son, William,
Knight Baron of Hadeston and Sheriff of that County, Governor
of Bambergh, Scarboro and Pickering Castles, who married Maria,
daughter of Odonel de Ford, Lord of Ford. Died 1256.
His son, William de Heyrun, Baron of Badeston, married
Christiana, daughter of Roger de Notten. Died at Newcastle on
Tyne, 1297.
His son, Roger Heyrun, Governor of Bambergh and Sunstan-
berg Castles in the time of Edward the Second, by his wife
Isabella, had one son. Sir William Heron, Knight Lord of Heron
2 George Arnold Heam, [Jan.
Ford and Bokinfield in the time of Edward the Third. His son,
John Heron of Crowley was living in the middle of the fourteenth
century. He by his wife Abicia had a son, Sir John Heron,
Knight, Master of the Jewel House in the time of Henry the
Fourth. He by his second wife, Johanna, had a son and heir,
John Heron, citizen of London, who died in 15 14, leaving a son
Thomas Heron of Schackelwell. He married Cecily, daughter
of Bartholomew Ledell, who died in 15 18 holding the estate
Adgcomb.
Their son, Thomas Heron, married Elizabeth, daughter and
co-heir of William Bond, and died Oct. 2, 1544.
Their son, Sir Nicholas Heron, married Maria Poole. Was
knighted in 1565, died 1568, and buried in Croydon Church.
His son. Captain Poynings Heron, died in 1595.
His son. Rev. John Heron, B.D. (or Hearn), was born 1578.
Was Rector of Chale, Isle of Wight; died in 1648.
His son. Rev. Mathew Hearn, D.D., Rector of Chale, Isle of
Wight, had three sons and a daughter of whom Thomas Hearn,
ancestor of George A. Hearn, was born April 6, 1685, and died
Oct. 23, 1752. He and his wife Anne had six children of whom
William Hearn ^ancestor of George A. Hearn) married Grace,
daughter of William JoUiffe of Heasley, about 1733, died about
1792, and was buried at Arreton. They had 16 children. Their
son, George Arnold Hearn, born Jan. 30, 1778, married Sept. 19,
1803, Mary, daughter of Richard Arnold of Shalfleet, who was
born July 20, 1783, and died at New York, Nov. 16, 1851. The
said George Arnold Hearn left England May 20, 1821, on the ship
Nepos^ commanded by Captain Collins, arrived in America July 20,
1821, settled in Montgomery County, N. W. Pa., became a citizen
of the United States Jan. 31, 1834, removed to New York City
1834, and died there June 6, 1851.
His son, James A. Hearn, was born Nov. 5, 18 10, and on
Feb. 22, 1835, married Caroline Lancaster, daughter of Moses
Lancaster of Philadelphia, who died Oct. 13, 1864. The said
James Arnold Hearn died Jan. 3, 1886, in New York. They had
six children of whom George Arnold Hearn, the subject of this
memorial was the eldest.
In i860, Mr. Hearn began his business career with his father
in the old firm established in 1827 under the name of Arnold &
Hearn on Canal Street. The name was then changed to James A.
Hearn & Son and the place of business was No. 775 Broadway.
In 1879 the firm moved to its present location on West Fourteenth
Street, where it has long been known and recognized as one of
the most successful retail dry goods houses in the world.
Mr. Hearn's business methods were simple, direct and easily
understood, the fundamental principle being to so conduct the
business as to constantly give the greatest value to those dealing
there. Though at the zenith of his financial strength, during the
period when vast speculative fortunes were being made rapidly
IQIS'] George Arnold Heam, 3
in this country, he never permitted his interest to be diverted
from the great store which was so largely the result of his own
effort and which remains a monument to his success.
As a merchant, Mr. Hearn firmly believed in training and
developing his own employees. His buyers and those who carried
high responsibilities or the firm were all raised from the ranks
and had begun in minor positions. He was a keen judge of
human nature, was quick to recognize merit, and never forgot
those who showed aptitude in advancing the interests of the
firm.
Perhaps one of the traits most marked in Mr. Hearn, was his
love and pride in the city of his birth, New York. He was always
ready to see that no civic cause suffered for lack of counsel or for
financial support and gave freely both of money and time to
further municipal improvements. While always quick to respond,
and most generous in activities to aid suffering communities else-
where in the United States, as at the time of the Johnstown Flood,
the Charleston and San Francisco Earthquakes, and the Galveston
Fire, he was still more keen to realize the necessities of this
City, and to further patriotic celebrations and all endeavors that
tended to add distinction and renown to the name of New York.
Mr. Hearn was an earnest member of the Municipal Art Com-
mission, a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the New York
Genealogical and Biographical Society, Council of the University
of the City of New York, a member of the Merchants, Lotos,
Salmagundi and Aldine Clubs, a trustee of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and a patron of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts
and Sciences, as well as President of the Seamen's Christian
Association.
Mr. Hearn was a genuine lover of art and was known as a
discriminating judge of paintings, ivories and porcelains. His
liberal patronage firmly established him as the greatest benefactor
of American artists. His interest in the Metropolitan Museum of
Art was heartfelt and untiring. His gift of paintings, a wonder-
ful and harmonious galaxy of pictures, is treasured by the Museum
as a separate and choice collection. The fund he gave for the
yearly purchase of works by American artists was an inestimable
boon to the painters of this country.
He was a man of high ideals and charming personality and
his character expressed itself in many acts of public and private
benevolence. Volumes could be written of his deeds of love and
kindness.
Mr. Hearn was an active, eflficient, successful and patriotic
citizen and generations to come will share the benefits of his
worthy achievements.
Thompson and Brewster, [Jan.
THOMPSON AND BREWSTER.
By John Dbnison Champlin, New York City.
Richard Wheeler, in his History of Stonington (1900), in an
attempt to explain the ancestry of William Thompson, who died
in that town, June 15, 1705, says:
''From reliable information we learn that one of the many
John Thompsons who were among the early planters of New
England married Hannah Brewster, daughter ot Jonathan Brew-
ster, and granddaughter of Elder William Brewster of the May-
flower, She married 2nd, Samuel Starr, Dec. 15, 1664."
The "reliable information" which led Mr. Wheeler into this
error was probably derived from Benjamin F. Thompson's History
of Long Island {\%^l), Mr. Thompson says that when the wife of
the Rev. William Thompson of Braintree died in 1643, during
his absence in Virginia, and his children were scattered, ** John,
probably the eldest son, was placed in the Brewster family;
Jonathan, supposed to have been the second son, resided with his
uncle James at Woburn, and was the great-great-grandfather of the
distinguished philosopher. Sir Benjamin Thomson, better known
as Count Rumford. . . . John Thomson, son of William, came
to Long Island in 1656, and settled at Setauket. . . . His
wife was Hannah, daughter of Jonathan Brewster, a son of Elder
William Brewster of Plymouth, . . . and sister of the Rev.
Nathaniel Brewster, afterwards minister of Setauket. . . . He
died Oct. 14, 1688, leaving three sons, William, Anthony and
Samuel. . . . William, the eldest son, married Ruth Avery of
Stonington, where he finally settled and had a family of sixteen
sons and four daughters.*'
This account is virtually accepted by Frederick Diodati
Thompson who contributed articles on the Family of Thompson to
the f}ew York Genealogical and Biographical Record (vols, xxii,
xxvii), but who judiciously omits the twenty children. He clings
however to the legend that "John Thompson married Hannah,
daughter of Jonathan Brewster, and sister of the Rev. Nathaniel
Brewster, who graduated at Harvard in 1642."
It is extremely doubtful if more errors have ever illuminated
any page of 'history,' at least since the days of Baron Munch-
hausen's Narrative^ than are strung together in the above excerpt
from Mr. Thompson's History of Long Island, What is even more
remarkable is that the statements should have gone so long
unchallenged, for nearly three-fourths of a century have passed
since their publication. That they should have been accepted
without Question by expert genealogists like Mr. Wheeler and
presumably Mr. Thompson is an inexplicable marvel.
1915*1 Thompson and Brewster, q
A little investigation by these gentlemen would have brought
to light the following facts:
1. That the Rev. William Thomson of Braintree had no son
John and no son Jonathan.
2. That Jonathan, the great-great-grandfather of Count Rum-
ford was the son of James Thomson of Woburn.
3. That there is no evidence that the Rev. William of Brain-
tree and James of Woburn were brothers.
4. That Jonathan Brewster, son of Elder William, had no son
Nathaniel.
5. That Jonathan Brewster's daughter Hannah married Dec.
23 (not 15), 1664, Samuel Starr of New London, who was her first
and only husband, not her second. Miss Calkins, in her History
of New London^ says Hannah Brewster was ** thirty-five years old
in 1680." She was born therefore in 1645 ^^^ was only nineteen
years old in 1664, when she married Starr.
6. That the Rev. Nathaniel Brewster was probably the son of
Francis Brewster of London, who came to New Haven in 1638
with the party of Eaton and Davenport.
7. If the wife of John Thompson, who settled in Long Island,
were a sister of Rev. Nathaniel Brewster, she was probably a
daughter of this same Francis.
8. That William Thompson of Stonington, called "John
Thompson's eldest son," did not marry Ruth Avery, but Bridget,
daughter of Nathaniel and Hannah (Denison) Cheseborough of
Stonington.
9. That the fruits of this union of Dec. 7, 1692, were five and
not "twenty" responsibilities.
With these few exceptions, Mr. Thompson's account of his
family may be accepted as substantially correct.
Setting aside for the present the question of John Thompson,
it is most remarkable that the identity of so prominent a clergy-
man as the Rev. Nathaniel Brewster should still be an unsettled
question. The compiler of the Brewster Genealogy, published in
1908, says: "The problem upon which numerous genealogists
have been working for many years concerning the parentage of
Rev. Nathaniel Brewster of Brookhaven, L. I., has not been
solved."
Yet Mr. Savage, whose Genealogical Dictionary was published a
half century ago, says that he was probably the son of Francis
Brewster of New Haven, between whom and Elder William
Brewster no kinship has yet been traced, though Mr. William A.
Beers, author of a memoir of Roger Ludlow, quoted by Stiles in
his History of Ancient Windsor, calls Francis, without authority, a
"nephew of Elder William Brewster." Sibley, in his Harvard
Graduates (1873), accepts Mr. Savage's suggestion that Nathaniel
was the son of Francis, who is credited in 1640 with a wife Lucy
and a family numbering in all nine heads. In 1646 Francis Brew-
ster was one of the passengers on the ill-fated ship built in New
Haven and sent out in command of Captain Lamberton, the loss
2A
6 Thompson and Brewster, [Jan.
which at sea is said to have been disclosed to the anxious inhabi-
tants through the apparition of the phantom ship. Mrs. Lucy
Brewster, his widow, married 2nd Dr. Thomas Pell and died in
1669.
Nathaniel Brewster was a member of the first class graduated
at Harvard in 1642, his classmates being Benjamin Woodbridge,
George Downing, John Bulkeley, William Hubbard, Samuel
Bellingham, John Wilson, Henry Saltonstall and Tobias Barnard.
He married, according to Mr. Savage, Sarah Ludlow, daughter of
Roger Ludlow, Deputy Governor of Massachusetts in 1637 ^^^
Chief of the Commission sent in 1639 ^^ govern Connecticut, but
when or where this union took place is not recorded.
The life of Mr. Ludlow, after he left Connecticut, is involved
in some obscurity. Mr. Savage says that after serving as a Com-
missioner of Connecticut in the convention of the United Colonies
of New England in 1651-53, he "went off next year to Virginia
in some disgust and passed there the rest of his days." But the
researches of Mr. Waters, published originally in 1886 {N, E, Gen,
Reg,y xl, 300), show conclusively that Ludlow, even if he visited
Virginia, where his brother George lived, returned almost im-
mediately to England. George Ludlow of Co. York, Virginia, in
his will, made Sept. 8, 1655, makes a bequest to his brother
Roger Ludlow, and in a codicil of Oct. 23, the same year, be-
queaths a part of his estate, in a certain contingency, to ** my
nephew Jonathan Ludlow, the eldest son to my brother Roger,
who lives in Ireland at Dublin," and a residuary remainder to
Roger's other children. In 1656, Aug. I, letters of administration
were granted to "Roger Ludflow, Esq., the father and curator
lawfully assigned to Jonathan, Joseph, Roger, Ann, Mary and
Sarah Ludlow, minors . . . during the minority of the said
minors." This gives us for the first time the names and an
approximation to the ages of Roger Ludlow's children.
Hubbard, in his History of New England^ says that Roger
Ludlow was a brother-in-law of John Endicott. The will of
Philobert Cogan of Chard, Co. Somerset, gentleman, of Feb. 10,
1640, proved April 12, 1641, mentions daughters ** Mary Ludloe
and Elizabeth fendicott." This gives us probably the names of
the wife of Roger Ludlow and of the last wife of Gov. Endicott.
In the Visitation of Somerset, under date of 1623, we learn that
Mary, daughter of Philobert Cogan and of Ann, daughter of
Thomas Marshall, was nineteen years old in that year. She was
born therefore in 1604, and was fourteen years younger than her
husband Roger Ludlow, who was baptized in 1590. When she
married Ludlow is unknown, but it was probably before 1630,
when Ludlow accompanied Winthrop to New England.
We are almost equally ignorant of the movements of Nathaniel
Brewster after his graduation at Harvard, nor do we know when
or why he went to England, though it was probably after the loss
of his father. The earliest note we find of him is in 1649, when
Thomas Pell of New Haven, chirurgeon, constituted Nathaniel
19' 5'] Thompson and Brewster, 7
Brewster of Walberswick, Co. Suffolk, his attorney. This is
Eretty good evidence of Nathaniel's connection with the New
[aven family, for Thomas Pell was his stepfather through mar-
riage with the widow of Francis Brewster. Brewster must have
removed soon after to Norfolk, where he preached at several
places. A church was formed at Alby in that county in 165 1
and Brewster seems to have had some connection with it from
the first, but he did not settle there until 1653. In 1654 an order
of council directed that an augmentation of j^36, which had been
granted for the better maintenance of Nathaniel Brewster, late
minister of Nettisheard and Irsted, Norfolk, be paid to John
Leverington from the time of Brewster's leaving it.
Mr. Brewster seems to have been persona grata to the Lord
Protector Cromwell and to have been employed by him in affairs
of State. In 1655 ^^ was sent to Ireland with the Protector's son
Henry Cromwell, who went with a commission as Major-General
to command the forces there. Oliver, writing to the Lord Fleet-
wood, Lord Deputy of Ireland, under date of "Whitehall, 22d
June, 1655," says of Brewster:
"Use this Bearer, Mr. Brewster, kindly. Let him be near you:
indeed he is a very able holy man; trust me you will find him so."
Carlyle, commenting on this letter, in Oliver CromweWs Letters and
Speeches^ says: "Of Mr. Brewster and the other reverend persons.
Spiritual Fathers, held in such regard by the Lord Protector as is
due to Spiritual Fatherhood, and pious nobleness of Intellect under
whatever guise, I can say nothing: they are Spiritual Great-
grandfather's of ours, and we have had to forget them! Some
slight notices of Brewster, who I think was a Norfolk man; . . .
are in the Milton State Papers: they prove the fervent zeal, faith
and fearlessness of these worthies."
The Milton State Papers referred to are letters and papers
addressed to Oliver Cromwell between 1649 ^^^ 1658, found
among the political collections of John Milton, including several
concerning the churches in Norfolk. Among them is a document
in regard to the parsonages of Alby and Twaite, presided over by
Mr. Nathaniel Brewster, who, having constantly preached in both
places, cannot raise above j^50 per annum out of both. "So as
the said Mr. Brewster, a great family, and much employed in the
country by preaching freely, when there is need, is reduced to
vety great straits, and not like to continue in his function without
assistance from the State."
It was probably in consequence of this report that he was sent
to Ireland by Cromwell. Mr. Brewster was in Ireland somewhat
more than a year, though apparently not continuously, as there is
mention of him at Alby meanwhile. He received, it is said, the
degree of B. D. from the University of Dublin, but his name does
not appear in the catalogue of graduates. He was a widower at
the time if he married, as is said, the daughter of Roger Ludlow.
His first wife is said to have been Abigail Reynes, daughter of
John Reynes of Edgefield, Co. Norfolk, who must have been the
8 Thompson and Brewster, [Jan.
mother of his "great family" mentioned above. Mr. Brewster
was much older than Sarah Ludlow. If the statement of his
grandson to President John Adams be correct, that he was ninety-
five years old at the time of his decease in 1690, he was born in
1595. But this is scarcely probable, as he would have been
forty-seven at his graduation at Harvard and sixty at the time of
his marriage to Miss Ludlow, then a minor. But if, as is usually
stated, he was seventy years old at his decease, Dec. 18, 1690, he
was born in 1620, and was therefore thirty-six years old at the
time of his visit to Ireland. As Jonathan, the eldest of Roger
Ludlow's children, was then a minor, he could not have been
more than twenty, and Sarah, if the youngest, not more than
twelve years old. Of course it is possible that the six children
are not mentioned in the order of their birth, but even if Sarah
were next to Jonathan she could scarcely have been more than
half the age of the Rev. Nathaniel. If she were "eminently
distinguished for her genius and literary acquirements," as we are
told, she must have gained them through her connection with the
learned graduate of Harvard.
Mr. Brewster probably resumed his ministrations at Alby and
Twaite on his return to England, but after the Restoration he
came back to New England and preached in the First Church of
Boston several months from October, 1663. In 1665 he went to
Brookhaven, Long Island, where his sister had settled, and in the
autumn of that year accepted a call as the first minister of the
church there. He was incapacitated from ministerial duties
several months before his death.
Having thus elicited all that is probably obtainable concerning
the life of Rev. Nathaniel Brewster, let us return to John Thomp-
son of Long Island, who is said to have married Mr. Brewster's
sister Hannah. But first let us glance a moment psychologically
at the Brewster-Thompson problem, to discover, if we can, what
actuated the mind of Mr. Thompson, the Long Island historian,
and caused him to fall into the genealogic pit which has since
swallowed up so many others. It w^as undoubtedly the tradition,
if it were a tradition, of the Brewster connection, which led him
to look to Massachusetts at once for both the Brewster and the
Thompson originals. We must remember that Mr. Thompson
wrote before genealogy had assumed the proportions of a science,
before the New England Historic Genealogical Society was born,
and long before Mr. Savage had made his exhaustive investi-
gations. The descendants of Elder William Brewster then held
the stage alone and few genealogists knew of the existence of a
second family of the same patronymic at New Haven.
If Mr. Thompson had known of the New Haven Brewsters, his
attention would probably have been called to the same locality
for the antecedents of the Long Island Thompsons instead of
making them a hypothetical branch of a family whose records
show no such connection. It is by no means my intention to
trace the ancestry of John Thompson, the early settler of Brook-
19 1 5'] The Vanderheyden Family, q
haven, but merely to suggest that his line of descent points
logically in the same direction with that of Mr. Brewster.
Several Thompsons were coadjutors of Eaton and Davenport
in the settlement of New Haven, among them John, William
and Anthony, reported to have come from Lenham, Co. Kent,
though this is disputed {Gen. Reg,, Ixvi, 198). John, of Brook-
haven in 1656, is said to have had sons William, Anthony and
Samuel, which, if there is anything in similarity of nomenclature,
would seem to point the road to New Haven. With him too
is probably bound up the question of the ancestry of William
Thompson of Stonington, and possibly of Isaac Thompson, a
prominent citizen of Westerly, R. I., who died in 1738, leaving a
numerous posterity.
Authorities:
Milton, State Papers Addressed to Oliver Cromwell^ Nickolls, 1743;
Carlyle, Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, 1845; Thompson, History
of Long Island, 1843; Savage, Gen, Die, of New England, 1864; Sibley, Har-
vard Graduates, 1873; Stiles, Ancient Windsor, 1892; Wheeler, History of
Stonington, 1900; Jones, Brewster Genealogy, 1908; New Eng, Genealogical
Register, vols, xl, 300; xli,65; xlii, 181-4; xliii,309; li, 72; Ivii, 197,
THE VANDERHEYDEN FAMILY,
CONTRIBUTBD BY RiCHARD SCHBRMERHORN, JR.
(Continued from VoL XLV, p. 319 of Ths Rrcord.)
14. Dirk,* son of (8) Jochem* Vanderheyden and Anna Keteluyn;
bp. Oct. 24, 1725, m Albany; m. Feb. 28, 1754, in Albany, Mar-
garita Kittle of Schachticoke, dau. of Daniel Kittle (Keteluyn)
and Deborah Viele. Children, bp. in Albany :
Annatie,* bp. Sept. 8, 1754; m. Johannes Isaacse Traex-
Joachim, bp. April 23, 1756; m. Feb. 7, 1779, in Albanyi
Elizabeth Smith. Child: Elizabeth, m. Dec. 13, 1800,
in Schenectady, John Tyce.
23 David, bp. Feb. 26, 1758; m. (i) Emmetje Van Vorst;
m. (2) Gitty Thalimer.
24 Daniel, b. Feb. 22, 1760; m. Maria Van Antwerpen.
Eva, b. March 3, 1762; m. prob. Henry Schafer.
Jacob, b. May 17, 1765.
15. Abraham,* son of (8) Jochem* Vanderheyden and Bata Clute;
bp. Oct. 28, 1744, in Schenectady; m. Ann (Annatje) Boorhais
(Borres, Borris). Children:
Anny,* b. Dec. 13, 1770; bp. in Albany.
^ bchim, bp. March 3, 1771, in Albany.
! Jaatje, bp. April 5, 1777, in Schachticoke.
^ ames, bp. Oct. 16, 1778, in Schachticoke.
Rachel, bp. Dec. 13, 1779, in Schachticoke.
lO The Vanderheyden Family. [Jan.
Mattis, bp. March 28, 1781, in Schachticoke.
Gerrit, bp. April 23, 1783, in Schachticoke; d. May 13,
1850; m. Harriet M. .
Abraham, b. Oct. 16, 1786; bp. in Centre Brunswick.
Johannetya, b. March 14, 1789; bp. in Centre Bruns-
wick.
The census of 1790 lists the family of Abraham Vanderheyden
as follows: 3 males over 16 (inc. father) — 3 males under 16 — 6
females (inc. mother).
16. Jacob D./ Middle Patroon, son of (10) Derick* Vanderhey-
den and Elizabeth Wendel; b. Oct. 28, 1758; bp. in Albany; d.
Sept. 4, 1809; bur. in Oakwood Cem.; m. (1) Jane Yates; b. May
II, 1764; d. Sept. II, 1793; dau. of Adam and Anna G.*Yates;
m. (2) Nov. 22, 1794, in Troy, Mary Owen; b. July i, 1767; d. Feb.
20, 1809; dau. of Joshua Owen. Children by ist m.:
25 Derick Yates,* b. Dec. 25, 1781; m. Julia Y. Bacon.
Catharine, b. July 10, 1783; bp. in Schachticoke; d.
April 7, 1822; bur. in Oakwood Cem.; m. Jacob L.
Lansing.
Elizabeth, b. Dec. 12, 1784; d. July 2, 181 2; m. Feb. 14,
1805, in Troy, Derick L. Lansing.
John Grerritsen, b. Nov. 5, 1786; d. Jan. 5, 1829; m.
about 1812, in Lansingburgh, Sally Gaston.
Children by 2nd m.:
Jane, b. Oct. 14, 1796; bp. in Troy; d. y.
ane, b. Oct. 28, 1798; bp. in Troy; d. Aug. 12, 1813;
bur. in Oakwood Cem.
Samuel, b. May 26, 1801; d. Nov. 27, 1823; bur. in Oak-
wood Cem.; m. Eliza A. . Child: Samuel D.,
b. 1824.
Jacob D. Edward, b. April 10, 1804; bp. in Troy; d.
Dec. 25, 1839, in London, Eng.; m. Catharine Gaston.
Sarah Ann Maria, b. April i, 1806; bp. in Troy; d.
Oct. 8, 1831; m. John H. Bayeux. He d. June 25,
1833, aged 27.
Blandina, b. Tan. 12, 1809; bp.in Troy; d. Sept. 14, 1838;
bur. in Oakwood Cem.; m. Walter R. Morris. Child:
Lewis R., b. 1837.
Henry, b. ; d. May 31, 1831, in Brunswick, N. Y.;
m. Aug. II, 1828, in Wynantskill, Anna Lappaeus.
Jacob D. Vanderheyden was the Middle Patroon of Troy, N. Y,,
though commonly known as the "Patroon," owing to the fact
that the portion of the estate inherited bv him developed into
that part which was the most thickly settled district of Troy in
the early days. He was in possession of the property as early as
1786, the northern boundary of which was marked by a line
passine eastward from the Hudson, through Grand Division St.
(now Grand St.), Troy, and the southern boundary of which was
Division St. This property was surveyed and laid out in 1787, in
streets and lots, by Plores Bancker, and the name '•Vander-
heyden" given to the territory. In 1789 the name of the entire
1915.] The Vanderheyden Family. 1 1
district owned by the Vanderheydens was changed to "Troy,"
in spite of opposition to this on the part of the Patroons. The
town of Troy, however was not actually partitioned from Rens-
selaer County until March 18, 1791, the latter county having been
separated from Albany County earlier in the same year.
The census of 1790 lists the family of Jacob D. Vanderheyden
as follows: residence, Rensselaerwyck — i male over 16 (father) —
4 males under 16 — 3 females (inc. mother) — 4 slaves. He was one
of the first justices of the peace of Rensselaer Co. in 1792, served
also in 1793-4, and was Asst. Court Justice in 1793 and 1794. In
1792 he gave three lots for the First Presbyterian Church of Troy,
atthetimeofitsestablishment, andon June i, 1795, conveyed to the
Church Trustees, 16 lots. He was one of the three Commissioners
appointed to superintend the building of a Court House and Jail
for Troy, and on May 22, 1793, conveyed to the Supervisors of
Rensselaer County, four lots for the site of these buildings. On
March 25, 1794, Jacob Vanderheyden and three others were
appointed Trustees of the town of Troy. On May 10, 1795, he
conveyed three lots south of Congress St., between Second St.
and an alley, for a public square and for a school house, and two
others for a public shipyard and burial ground, respectively.
In addition to conveying four lots for the Court House and Jail,
he subscribed, on Jan. 14, 1793, 300 pounds toward the cost of
erecting the buildings. He was one of the orMnizers of the First
Presbyterian Church of Troy and the first Elder of the church.
A stained glass window was subsequently erected in the church in
memory of Jacob D. Vanderheyden and the Vanderheyden family.
The orififinal mansion of Jacob D. Vanderheyden stood on the
east side of the River Road (now River St.), Troy, where now is
the New York State Armory at the foot of Ferry St. It was
opposite the ferry which for many years had been a source of
income to the family. The first three of his eight children were
bom there. In 1803, he conveyed this old homestead to his son
Derick Y. In 1794 he built a new house near the southwest
corner of Grand Division and 8th Streets and resided there until
his death in 1809. His son, John G., subsequently lived there for
a number of years. From 1834 to 1841 it was occupied by the
Rensselaer Institute and was burned May 10, 1862. John G.
Vanderheyden continued the operation of the Vanderheyden
Ferry after his father's death and was still the owner of it in
1826, when the first steam ferryboat was used. John G. Van-
derheyden was one of the committee of two appointed to obtain
suitable accommodation for a female academy (Mrs. Willard's).
He was elected to the Assembly of Rensselaer County in 1825.
April 6, 1807, his name appears as paymaster of the 155th Regt.,
N. Y. Militia.
An early historian remarks concerning Jacob D. Vanderheyden
as follows: "Descending from a Dutch ancestry of grave, vir-
tuous and industrious people, he was one of Troy's most estimable
citizens." Judge Woodworth stated in his "Reminiscences:"
" His example at that earljr day, shed a moral influence in the
community, the fruit of which is visible at the present day."
1 2 The Vanderheyden Family, [Jan.
The burying ground of the Vanderheydens was at the comer
of River and Ferry Sts., Troy. Some remains were disinterred
in later years during an excavation. The family of Jacob D.
were buried first in a private graveyard at the head of Grand
Division St. In July, 1857, the remains were transferred to
Oakwood Cemetery.
Jacob D. Vanderheyden was a claimant for Land Bounty
Rights at the close of the Revolution as a member of the 6th
Albany Co. Regiment.
17. Jacob I.,* North Patroon, son of (11) Jacob I.* Vander-
heyden and Maria Hallenbeck; bp. Dec. 3, 1749, in Albany; d.
Aug. 23, 1801; m. Maria Van Schaick of Coxsackie; b. i756(?);
d. April 6, 1813; dau. of Aaron Van Schaick and Barentie Parye.
Children:
26 Jacob I.,* Jr., b. ; m. Catharine Schermerhorn.
Maria, b. May 26, 1779; bp. in Coxsackie; d. April 29,
1835; m. Nov. 12, 1797, Abraham Lansing.
Aarent, bp. June 15, 1782, in Schachticoke; d. y.
John I., b. 1784; d. Sept. 6, 1811, aged 27; m. Feb. 2,
1808, in Troy, Mary Wheeler. Child: Jacob, b. Dec.
7, 1808; bp. in Troy; prob. d. y.
Aaron, b. Dec. 9, 1786; d. Feb. 22, 1809.
Robert, b. May 26, 1780; d. June 2, 1810; s. p.
Antje (Nancy), b. May 27, 1791; bp. at the Boght; m.
Feb. 16, 1808, in Troy, Elias Frats.
Derick I., b. Oct. 22, 1795; bp. in Wynantskill; d. June
6, 1829; m. Nov. 19, 1816, in Lansingburgh, Sarah
Turner. She d. Aug. 14, 1863. No issue.
Jacob L Vanderheyden was the North Patroon of Troy. In
1774, through inheritance he became owner of the portion of the
original estate, bounded on the north by the Piscawan Kill and
on the south by a line running east from the Hudson through
what was later known as Grand Division St., Troy. Jacob I.
Vanderheyden was known as "Big Jacob" and he was the first
of the Patroons to be influenced to dispose of anv of his property
to outsiders. In 1793 his property was surveyed and subdivided
by John E. Van Alen, Surveyor, and lots placed on the market.
Vanderheyden St., Troy, was named after Jacob I. Vanderheyden.
In 1790, the census lists the family of Jacob Vanderheyden as
follows: 2 males over 16 (inc. father) — 4 males under 16 — 2
females — 1 slave. He was Asst. Judge of the First Court of
Rensselaer County, May 3, 1791, and served again in 1794. On
Jan. 14, 1793, he subscribed 100 pounds toward the cost of building
a County Court House and Jail. On Feb. 5, 1794, he was ap-
pointed a Justice of the Peace of Rensselaer Co. His name
appears as a claimant for Land Bounty Rights in the 6th Regt.,
Albany Co. Militia. It is said Jacob I. Vanderheyden and wife
were buried in Mt. Ida Cemetery, Troy.
18. Major Derick I.,* son of (11) Jacob I.* Vanderheyden and
Maria Hallenbeck; b. Jan. 5, 1759; bp. in Albany; d. March 2,
1820; bur. in Oakwood Cem.; m. Oct. 4, 1778, in Schachticoke,
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Rachel Fonda; b. Aug. 18, 1760; d. Oct. 3, 1841; bur. in Oakwood
Cem.; dau. of Capt. John P. Fonda and Dirkie Winne. Children:
Maria,* b. March 13, 1779; bp. in Schachticoke; d. Oct.
*7> 1^57; n^- Sept. 16, 1798, Jacob Schermerhom; b.
Jan. 17, 1775; <J« Sept. 29, 1834; son of John C. Scher-
merhom and Annatie Osterhout.
Jacob D., Jr., b. Dec. 13, 1780; bp. in Schachticoke; m.
Alida I. Leversee.
Derica (Dirkje), b. May 2, 1784; bp. in Schachticoke;
d. Dec. 3, 1861; bur. in Oakwood Cem.; m. May 5,
1807, in Troy, Jacob Leversee; b. Aug. 7, 1785; d.
Oct. 31, 185 1 ; bur. in Oakwood Cem.; son of Levinus
Leversee and Maria Vanderheyden.
Caty, b. Dec. 12, 1786; d. June 3, 1841; bur. in Oakwood
Cemetery; m. Dec. 29, 1814, in Troy, Gradus Rouse.
Tyne (Tiny), b. May 8, 1788.
Tyne (Tiney), b. Jan. 15, 1792; bp. in Schachticoke; d.
May 14, 1865; bur. in Oakwood Cem.; m. Oct. 28,
iSiSt Joseph Adams; b. 1789; d. Dec. 6, 1857; bur. in
Oakwood Cem.
Hester, b. Jan. 15, 1792; bp. in Schachticoke; d. Nov.
IS. i79«-
John D., b. May i, 1794; bp. in Wynantskill; m. Susan
D. Adams.
Hester, b. May 4, 1798; d. Aug. 22, 1827; bur, in Oak-
wood; m. Nov. 9, f8i6, in Troy, Levinus Leversee,
Jr., son of Levinus Leversee and Maria Vander-
heyden.
Derick I. Vanderheyden was the brother of the North Patroon
of Troy and was commonly known as " Major Dickie." In the par-
tition of his father's estate, he received the old mansion on River
St., just north of Hoosic, which was built by his grandfather in
1756. Some of his children were bom there. The house is still
in existence although considerably remodeled and added to, now
being occupied by a Catholic Institution. Derick I. inherited
the portion of his father's estate upon which is now located Oak-
wood Cemetery in Troy. He built a new residence and farm
buildings and this property was inherited by his son Jacob D.,
and subsequently by the latter's son Nanning. A later residence
was built which is now occupied by a daughter of Nanning, Jane
Vanderheyden. Jane Vanderheyden is one of the last of the
Troy Vanderheydens, there remaining in the neighborhood but
a handful bearing the name. She is the very last to be in
possession of any of the original Vanderheyden estate, a farm of
about 100 acres still being attached to her property.
Derick I. (J.) Vanderheyden was a private in the 6th Regiment
of Albany Co. Militia in 1775. In 1787 he was a Lieutenant in
Capt. Nanning Vanderheyden's Co., Albany Co. Militia, in 1792
was Captain in Col. John Van Rensselaer's Kegt., in 1797 was 2nd
Major m Lieut. Col, Jacob C. Schermerhorn's Regt., and from
1802 to 1806 was Major in Lieut. Col. Abram Ten Byck's Regt.
A Dirck Vanderheyden was a claimant for Land Bounty Rights at
14 Thg VandtrJuyden Family. [Jan.
the close of the Revolution as a member of the 6th Albany Co.
Regiment.
19. Matthias,* South Patroon, son of (13) Dirk* Vanderheyden
and Sara Wendel; b. Aug. 15, 1760; bp. in Albany; d. Aug. 17,
1825; bur. in Oakwood Cem.; m. May 17, 1782, in Schachticoke,
Mary Daucher (Denker), who d. Jan. 9, 1837, aged 74 years; bur.
in Oakwood Cem. Children:
Derick M./ b. Aug. 26, 1783; d. Feb. 5, 1809; bur. in
Oakwood Cem.
Henry M., b. May 25, 1785; d. June 22, 1820; bur. in
Oakwood Cem.
Matthias, b. Nov. 25, 1788; d. Nov. 23, 1840; bur. in
Oakwood Cem.
Margaret, b. Feb. i, 1791; bp. in Albany.
Jacob M., b. June 11, 1793; m. Rebecca McCarty.
Anna, b. Feb. 26, 1796; bp. in Wynantskill.
Sally, b. March 16, 1798; bp. in Wynantskill.
Maria, b. July 4, 1801; bp. in Wynantskill.
Matthias Vanderheyden was the South Patroon of Troy, N. Y.,
inheriting from his father the southerly portion of the Troy
estate, bounded by Division St. on the north and Poestenkill
Creek on the south. In 1793, he had his property surveyed and
subdivided by John E. Van Alen, Surveyor, and building lots
were placed on the market. On Jan. 14, 1793, ^® gave 30 pounds
toward the cost of building a new Court House and Jail for Troy.
He evidently served in the Revolution, his name appearing
among those of the 6th Regt., Albany Co. Militia, claiming Land
Bounty Rights. Matthias Vanderheyden is known to have had
but one grandchild, a daughter, who left issue.
20. John D.,* son of (13) Dirk* Vanderheyden and Sara Wendel;
b. Oct. 8, 1761; d. April 18, 1825; bur. in Oakwood Cem.; m.
May 23, 1783, in Schachticoke, Susan Van Arnum; b. Nov. 3,
1761; d. Nov. 18, 1807; bur. in Oakwood Cem.; dau. of Hendrick
Van Arnum and Susanna Winne. Children:
Sally (Sarah),* b. ; m. Aug. 24, 1803, in Troy, Henry
Gordinier.
Susanna, b. Feb. 4, 1786; bp. in Centre Brunswick; m.
Philip Ford.
Dirck r., b. ; d. i843(?).
Hendrick, b. Sept. 30, 1791; bp. in Schachticoke; d.
1832; bur. in Oakwood Cem.
John, b. May 16, 1794; bp. in Wynantskill.
Jacob, b. ; m. Olive Estabrook.
William, b. .
Levinus D., b. April i, 1805; d. April 2, 1880; bur. in
Oakwood Cem.; m. Lenchey Reeve; b. Tan. 26, 1806;
d. Jan. 2, 1861. Children: i. Philip Fora, b. Sept. 24,
1839(34?). ii. Harriet I., b. Aug. 2, 1841; d. Oct. 23,
1896; bur. in Oakwood Cem.
John D. Vanderheyden was a claimant for bounty rights at
the close of the Revolution as a member of the 6th Regt., Albany
iQisO The Vanderheyden Family. I J
Co. Militia. In 1798 he was Captain in Brig. Gen. Henry K. Van
Rensselaer's Rensselaer Co. Brigade, vice Dirk J. Vanderheyden
promoted. Levinus D. Vanderheyden was one of the Board of
Managers of the Young Men's Ass'n of Troy, Dec. 19, 1834.
31. Dirk D.,* son of (13) Dirk* Vanderheyden and Sara Wendel;
b. June 3, 1763; bp. in Albany; d. July 15, 1816; m. (i) Ariaantje
Wheeler; m. (2) Feb. 13, 1805, in Troy, Elizabeth Goodheart.
Children by ist m.:
Sara Wendel,* b. Oct. 4, 1796; bp. in Wynantskill.
Lea, b. Jan. 16, 1800; bp. in Wynantskill; m. March 9,
1 8 14, Lawrence Grace.
22. Abraham D.,* son of (13) Dirk* Vanderheyden and Sara
Wendel; b. April 25, 1767; bp. in Albany; d. March 14, 1846, in
Troy; m. Maria Sharp. Children:
Margaret,* b. Aug. 4, 1790; bp. in Albany; d. 1809.
Sally (Sarah), b. May, 29, 1796; bp. in Wynantskill; m.
Dec. 18,1814, in Troy, Henry Oothout. Jr.
George, b. Dec. 6, 1798; m. Catharine Van Alstyne.
Richard, b. March 7, 1801; bp. in Wynantskill; d. 1857;
m. Maria Cooper.
John Francis, b. Dec. 13, 1803; bp. in Wynantskill; d.
1855.
Catherine, d. y.
^3. David,* son of (14) Dirk* Vanderheyden and Margarita Kittle;
bp. Feb. 26, 1758, in Albany; d. July 9, 1840, aged 82; bur. in Vale
Cemetery, Schenectady; m. (i) Emmetje Van Vorst; b. April 5,
1746; d. July 8, 1805, aged 59-3-3; bur. in Vale Cemetery; m. (2)
Gitty Thalimer; b. 1754; d. June 23, 1822, in her 69th year; bur.
in Vale Cemetery. Children, bp. in Schenectady:
Margarita,* July 8, 1781; m. Wessel H. Wessels.
Maria, Jan. 10, 1784; d. Dec. 24, 1805, aged 21-11-0;
bur. in Vale Cemetery.
Annatje, March 5, 1786; d. Nov. 5, 1814; bur. in Vale
Cemetery; m. Garret Stephens.
Johannes, , 1787.
fevah, b. June 25, 1789.
Cornelius, b. Nov. 27, 1791.
Elizabeth, b. Dec. 10, 1794; m. John Tannahill.
Dirk, b. Sept. 19, 1798.
Daniel, b. Nov. 4, 1800.
Debora, b. Nov. 17, 180 1.
David Vanderheyden served in Capt. William Peters' Com-
pany in the Revolution. His name appears on the pension roll
of 1833-4. He was an Indian trader, traveling as far west as
Detroit. His village lot in Schenectady was on the north comer
of Union and College Streets. In the census of 1790, his family
is listed as follows: David Vanderheyden residence, Schenectady,
south of the Mohawk; i male over 16 (father) — i male under 16^
5 females (inc. mother) — i slave.
1 6 Thi VamUrhiyden Family. [Jan.
24. Daniel,* son of (14) Dirk* Vanderhevden and Margarita
Kittle; b. Feb. 23, 1760; bp. in Albany; m. Maria Van Antwerpen,
dau. of Abraham Van Antwerpen. Children:
Dirk/ bp. July 11, 1784, in Schenectady.
Margrietje, bp. Dec. 24, 1786, in Schenectady; m. John
Gillespie.
"^ Annatje, b. March 30, 1790; m. David Francisco.
Engeltje, b. , 1792.
Eva, b. Dec. 2, 1794.
Abraham, b. Aug. 21, 1797.
David, b. April 21, 1800.
25. Derick Yates,* son of ^16) Jacob D.' Vanderheyden and
Jane Yates; b. Dec. 25, 1781; a. Feb. i, 1818, at the Island of St.
Croix; bur. in Oakwood Cem.; m. Jan. 17, 1811, in Troy, Julia Y.
Bacon; b. April 20, 1789; d. March 9, 1817; bur. in Oakwood Cem.
Children:
iacob D./ b. Dec. 18, 1812.
)erick Yates, b. Feb. 10, 181 7; bp. in Troy; d. March
28, 1818.
Jane Elizabeth, b. 1814; m. Dec. 9, 1833, Jacob D.
Lansing. •
Derick Y. Vanderheyden, was son and heir of the Middle
Patroon of Troy. It is not known that he has any living de-
scendants. He was appointed quartermaster of the 155th Kegi-
ment, Rensselaer County Brigade, April 6, 1807. From 181 3 to
181 7 he was village fire warden of the 2nd Ward of Troy, and in
^^ f 1820 was Coroner of Rensselaer County.
26. Jacob I.,* son of (17) Jacob I.* Vanderheyden and Maria Van
Schaick; b. about 1775; m. March 8, 1799, '^^ Schachticoke,
Catharine Schermerhom; b. July 19, 1781; bp. in Rhinebeck; d.
iuly 5, 1841; dau. of John C. Schermerhom and Annatie Oster-
out. Children:
Jacob I.,^ b. Dec. 19, 1800; bp. in Wjmantskill; d. Oct.
6. 1830.
Hannah, b. Dec. 8, 1802; bp. in Wynantskill.
Maria, b. Nov. 25, 1804; bp. in Wynantskill; m. Robert
M. Winne, son of Richard and Sarah Winne.
Jacob I. Vanderheyden was son and heir of the North Patroon
of Troy. It is not known that his children left issue. On April
3, 1802, Jacob I. Vanderheyden was ist Lieut, of a company of
Rensselaer Co. Artillery, George AUin, Capt.
The following is a record of the family of Johannes Vander-
heyden, son of Johannes Vanderheyden and Catharine Van
Brokelen, the latter Johannes being a son of (9) Johannes Van-
derheyden, Jr., and Rachel Vanderheyden. This was omitted
from the on^nal data submitted for publication on account of
some uncertainty at the time of its proper connection.
Johannes, son of Johannes Vanderheyden and Catharine Van
Brokelen; bp. Jan. 14, 1750, in Albany; m. Annatje Pare (Perrie)
1915J ^^^ VantUrheyden Family, \*]
(Price); probably dau. of Isaac Perrie (Price) and Maria Van
bchaick. Children :
John, b. Feb. 12, 1774, in "Helleberg;" bp. in Schoharie;
m. Maria Bratt, dau. of Frederick Bratt.
Maria (Polly), b. March 16, 1779; bp. in Albany; m.
June 30, t8oo, in New Salem, Albertus Becker.
Catharine (Caty), b. Dec. 20, 1781; bp. in Schoharie;
m. Sept. 22, 1804, in New Salem, Garret P. Van Wie.
^ Isak (Isaac), bp. Sept. 11, 1785, in Coxsackie; m. Jan. 25,
^ 1806, in New Salem, Susanna Bratt.
Rachel, b. 1791; bp. in New Salem.
The above Johannes Vanderheyden was a resident of Jeru-
salem, N. Y., according to New Salem church records. His son
iohn was a resident of Bethlehem, N. Y., and the latter made
is will Feb. 3, 1810, which is filed in Albany, and in which are
mentioned his children, John, Magdalen, Polly, Jamymia, Jennv,
his mother Anna, his sisters Polly, Caty and Rachel, and his wife
Maria. Abram Vanderheyden mentioned as supervisor of Beth-
lehem in 1832 and Andrew Vanderheyden supervisor in 1842,
1843 and 1844, were perhaps sons of Isaac Vanderheyden. The
latter was a resident of Albany in the early 1800s. On the roll
(Revolutionary) of the Third Regiment of Albany County Militia
of those entitled to Land Bounty Rijg^hts appears the name of
Capt. John Vanderhevden. This regiment was recruited from
the district south and southwest of Albany, included in which
are the towns of Bethlehem, Jerusalem, New Salem, etc.
Note:
Of those branches of the Vanderheyden family which were of the most
importance in Colonial days and at the beginning of the nineteenth century,
practically no descendants bearing the Vanderheyden name survive. In fact
so many branches had died out absolutely (as far as male issue was concerned)
up to a period about one hundred years ago, that the lines of descent with
which Vanderheydens living ta<lay are connected, are comparatively limited.
The following Vanderheydens have or may have left male issue, among
whose descendants are the Vanderheydens of the present time:
Johannes, b. 1731 (son of No. 8, Jochem Vanderheyden of Schenectady) had a
son Adam, b. 1755, and possibly other children. Adam was a soldier in the
Revolution.
Jacobus, b. 1738, and Mathys. b. 1742 (also sons of above Jochem Vander-
heyden), may have left issue.
Dirk, b. 1729, David, b. 1740, and Matheus, b. 1742 (sons of No. 9, Johannes
Vanderheyden of Albany), may have left issue, although it is not probable,
as they were not mentioned in their father's will.
Joachim, b. 17J6, and Jacob, b. 1765 (son of No. 14, Dirk Vanderheyden), may
have left issue. Joachim m. Elizabeth Smith and is known to have haa
one daughter.
Abraham, b. 1744, of Lansingburgh (son of No. 8, Jochem Vanderheyden), had
sons Jochem, James, Mattis, Gerrit and Abraham, some of whom at least
are known to have left male descendants.
Jacob, b. about 1795, of Troy (son of No. 20, John D. Vanderheyden), had two
sons Levinus and John.
George, b. 1798, Richard, b. 1801, and John F., b. 1803, all of Troy (sons of
No. 22, Abraham Vanderheyden). George m. Catharine Van Alstyne, and
had one son Abraham. Richard m. Maria Cooper and he may have had
issue, also John F.
Johannes, b. 1787, Cornelius, b. 1791, Dirk, b. 1798, and Daniel, b. 1800 (sons of
No. 23, David Vanderheyden of Schenectady), may have had issue.
1 8 Th€ Vanderhiyden Family. [Jan.
Dirk, b. 1784, Abraham, b. 1797, David, b. 1800 (sons of No. 24, Daniel Vander-
beyden of Schenectady), may have had issue.
John D., b. 1794, of Troy (son of No. 18, Derick 1. Vanderheyden), had but one
ereat-grandson bearing the Vanderheyden name, Lewis.
Jacob D., D. 1780, of Troy (son of No. 18, Derick I. Vanderheyden), had five
Vanderheyden grandsons, Jacob D., b. 1829, John D., b. 18^1, Calvin, b.
1833, Edward, b. 1837, smcl William J., b. 1845. Jacob D., b. 1829, is known
to nave had a grandson, Nanning. This family lived in Illinois.
Sources from which Vanderheyden genealogical and his-
torical material was obtained:
Family Bibles.
Baptismal and Marriage Records of the following churches: New York City
Reformed Dutch; Albany Reformed Dutch; Wynantskill Reformed
Dutch; Schachticoke Reformed Dutch; Troy First Presbyterian; Schen-
ectady Reformed Dutch; Gilead Lutheran, Centre Brunswick; Schoharie
Ref. Dutch; New Salem Ref. Dutch; Coxsackie Ref. Dutch.
County Clerk's Offices at New York, Albanv and Troy.
Surrogate's Office at New York, Albanv ana Troy.
Office of Clerk of Court of Appeals, Albany.
Cemeteries at Albany (Albany Rural); Schenectady (Vale), and Troy (Oak-
wood).
Books as follows:
Documentary History State of N, K, O'Callaehan, 1849-51.
Documents of Col. HisL, State of N. K, O'Callaffhan, 1853-87.
Calendar of N. Y. Hist. Mss., DuUK 1630^4, CVCallaghan, 1865.
Calendar of N, Y. Hist. Mss., English, 1664-1776, O'Callaghan, 1866.
Records of New ATHsterdam, Fernow, 1897.
Calendar of N. Y. Hist. Mss., Revolutionary Papers, 1868.
Calendar of Council Minutes, 1668-1783, N. Y. S. L., IQ02.
A^. K Colonial Indorsed Land Papers, 1643-1803, Sec'y State, 1864.
A^. Y. in the Revolution, Fernow, 1887; Roberts, 1898.
A^. K State Census ofijgo.
Report of N. Y. State Historian, 1896-7.
A^. K Marriage Licenses Previous to 1784, Tucker, i860.
Sup, List of Marriage Licenses, N. Y. S. L., 1898.
CcUendar of Wills, i8g6, Fernow (Soc Col. Dames).
Military Minutes, Council of Appt., 178^-1821, Vol. I, N. Y. S. L., 1901.
Early Records of City and County of Albany, Pearson, 1869.
Albany Annals, Munsell, 1850-60.
Genealogies of First Settlers of Albany, Pearson, 1872.
Genealogies of First Settlers of Schenectady, Pearson, 1873.
N. Y. Historical Society Year Books.
N. Y. Gen. &» Biog. Soc, Quarterlies.
Holland Society Year Books.
Collections on the History of Albany, Munsell, 1865-71.
History of Rensselaer Co., Sylvester, 1880.
Landmarks of Albany Co., Parker. 1897.
Albany Chronicles, Reynolds, 1906.
Bi'Centennial Hist, of Albany and Schenectady Cos., Howell & Tcnney, 1886.
Vanderheyden Chart, G. Vanderheyden, Hart Mem. Lib., Troy.
Genealogy of the Thomas Family.
Swartwout Chronicles, Weise.
Valentine's Manuals.
Reminiscences of Troy, Wood worth, 1853.
Tro/s One Hundred Years, Weise, 1891.
Sir William Johnson's Letters.
Old Kent, Maryland, Hanson, 1876.
Note. — The references indicated in the Schermerhom Genealogy, R,
Schermerhorn, Jr., 1914, were also examined for Vanderheyden data, but only
the foregoing found to contain any.
1915.] Tombstone Inscr^tions in the North End Burying Ground, 1 9
A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL OF THE BROWN-STONE
AND SLATE TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS IN THE
NORTH END BURYING GROUND, SOUTHAMP-
TON, L. I., N. ¥.♦
Copied, Veripibd and Contributed by William S. Pelletreau,
Member New York Historical Society and Author of Early Long Island WUls and
Early Westchester Co., N. Y., WUls, etc.
The North End Burying Ground in Southampton, Long Island,
is on the west side of Main street, at the junction of the North
Sea road. It was one of the original home lots laid out in the
"new Town Plot" in 1648, and in 1663 was granted to William
Russell and he sold it to Obadiah Sale in 1678. He in turn sold
it to George Heathcote in 1679. It was described as '*his home
lot of four acres, bounded south by John Jagger's home lot, east
by the Main street, north by the house lot of John Laughton,
and west by the road to North Sea."
John Laughton was for many years the schoolmaster in
Southampton and wrote many of the deeds and wills. George
Heathcote lived in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and by will,
dated May 17, 1710, and proved Nov. 24, 1710, left this lot with
other lands to his cousin. Col. Caleb Heathcote, whose name is
well known in the annals of New York. On Dec. 13, 17 12, Col.
Heathcote sold to the Trustees of the town of Southampton,
'*my dwelling house and home lot, esteemed four acres, being
in Southampton. Bounded east by the Main street, south by
Jeremiah Jagger's house lot, north by Tosiah Laughton's house
lot, which lyeth now common. West by the Common." The
?rice was ;^2o York Currency, or $50. By a resolution of the
'rustees in 1721 the south part was set apart for burial purposes
and the first burial was made the same year, as will be seen in
annexed list. In course of time the whole lot became occupied.
In memory of Thomas Cooper, Esq., Who departed this Life
may the 7th A. D. 1782, In the 73d year of his Age.
In memory of Mrs. Mary, Wife of Deacon Thomas Cooper,
late of Southampton, Who departed this Life May 29th A. D. 1776,
in the 70th year of her Age.
In memory of Mary, relict of Josiah Howell Esq, deceased.
Who died May 20, 1 766, in the 86 year of her Age^ of Southampton.
In memory of Josiah Howell Esq. Who died April ye nth
1752, in ye 78th year of his age.
Here lies the Body of Abigail, the Wife of Elias Howell, Who
departed this Life Oct. the loth A. D. 1771 in the sist year of
her Age.
* There were no brown stone or slate tombstones erected in this burial
f round subsequent to 1809 with the exception of the tombstone of John
^elletreau, whose tombstone inscription is included in this list.
20 Ton^sUme Inscriptums in tki North End Burying Ground, Dan.
In memory of Bethiah, daughter of Obadiah & Esther Jones
[Johnes], Who died August 4th 1768 in ye 17th year of her Age.
In memory of Esther, wife of Mr. Obadiah Johnes Who died
Jan. 20, A. D. 1759, Aged 38 years 5 months 38 days.
In memory of Capt. Jeremiah Rogers, who died Oct. 9th 1797,
aged 25 years.
[He was uncle of Harriet Jones Rogers, Founder of Rogers
Memorial Library, Southampton.]
Here lies buried the body of Doctor John Mackie late of
Southampton, who departed this Life May the 7th Anno 1758,
aged 63 years.
Here lies the Body of Mehetabel Mackie, Relict of Dr. John
Mackie, Who departed this Life the loth day of March, A. D.
177 1, Aged 69 years.
In Memory of Mrs. Jerusha, wife of Mr. John White Who died
Nov. 20, A. D. 177 1, in the 71st year of her Age.
[She was grandmother of Capt. Nathan White.]
In Memory of Capt. Ephriam White, Died Jan^ ye 2* 1752
aged 74 years.
In memory of Sarah, ye wife of Capt. Ephraim White, who
died October 12th A. D. 1756, in ye 73d year of her age.
This Tomb proclaims anew man*s mortality. The remains of
Mr. Parmenas Howell were here, consigned to kindred dust. He
was bom March 27, 1784, and died the 15 of April 1808.
But though deep affliction and regret are left, let survivors
adopt and improve those words, in this place so pertinent, '*I
shall go to him but he shall not return to me."
[When a boy he developed a remarkable talant for drawing
and painting. Through the influence of Rev. David S. Bogart,
he went to New York and became a noted portrait painter. Some
of his miniatures are in Southampton. The epitaph is supposed
to have been written by Mr. Bogart.]
In memory of Melicent, Daughter of Ezekiel & Phebe Howell,
Who died Sept. 26, 1807, Aged 12 years & 10 months.
[Sister of Parmenas Howell.]
In memory of Zenos, son of Moses & Phebe Culver, Who died
June 21, 1806, in the 8th year of his age.
In Memory of Joannah wife of ^ebulon Howell Who died
July loth 1800 in the 79th year of her age.
In Memory of John Woolly who died Sept. 23, 1804, in the 28
year of his age.
In memory of Silas Woolly who died April 12, 1806, in the 61
year of his Age.
[Grandfather of Jane Woolly.]
In memory of Mr. Obadiah Howell, who departed this life
April 23d 1793, aged 68 years.
In memonr of Capt. John Howell, Who died June 16 1791, in
the 81 year of his Age.
In memory of Mrs. Desire Howell, Wife of Capt. John Howell.
She died Jan. 10, 1791, in the 76 year of her age.
1915O SouthampioHt Z. /., N. Y, 2 1
William, san of Mr. Caleb & Mrs. Abigail Cooper, Died Sept.
5, A. D. 1779, aged 15 months and 16 days.
In Memory of Mrs. Susannah Cooper, relict of Mr. Thomas
Cooper, Who died Oct. 21, 1786, aged 41 years.
In Memory of Mary Cooper, the daughter of Thomas and
Susannah Cooper, Who died June i 1779, in the 6 year of her age.
Mary, daughter of Mr. Caleb and Mrs. Abigail Cooper, Died
June 23, 1774 aged 9 months and 16 days.
In memory of Mary, infant daughter of Thomas Cooper Jr.
and Susannah, Who died June 5, 1768, aged about 20 days, of
Southampton.
Prances, dau. of Uriah and Mary Rogers, Who died Sept. 16,
1769, aged 2 months & 4 days.
Frances, daughter of Uriah and Mary Rogers, Died June 18,
1768, aged 16 months and 3 days.
In memory of Mr. Abner Howell, Who died Sept. 6, 1775 ^^
the 76 year of his age.
In memory of Mrs. Phebe Foster, wife of Mr. Christopher
Foster, who died Dec. 6, 1787, in the 37 year of her age.
In memory of Mrs. Ruth Foster, wife of Mr. Christopher
Poster, Who died June 2, 1797, in the 64 year of her age.
In Memory of Hannah, wife of Herrick Rogers and daughter
of Capt. David and Mrs. Mary Rose, Who died April 2, 1803,
aged 25.
[Herrick Rogers was grandfather of Capt. Jetur R. Rogers.]
In memory of Polly, daughter of David and Phebe Foster,
Who died Sept. 11, 1796, aged 8 months and 26 days.
In Memory of Zephaniah Rogers, Who died Oct. 25, 1797 aged
54 years.
[Great-grandfather of Capt. Jetur R. Rogers.]
In Memory of Mr. Nathan Foster, who departed this life
Sept. 8, A. D. 1782, in the 70th year of his age.
In Memory of Mrs. Tamaris, wife of Mr. Nathan Foster, Who
departed this life Sept. 11, 1782, in the 58 year of her age.
In Memory of Mrs. Eunice Poster, wife of Mr. Zebulon Foster,
Who died March 9, 1797, in the 43d year of her age.
In Memory of Mehitabel. relict of Jeremiah Post, who died
April 16, 181 1 aged 72 years.
In Memory of Mrs. Bethiah Post, wife of Mr. Joseph Post,
who died March 30, 1790, in the 80th year of her age.
In Memory of Mr. Joseph Post, who died Sept. 27, A. D. 1780,
in ye 77 year of his age.
[Great-grandfather of late Albert J. Post.]
Philena, daughter of Mr. Joseph and Mrs. Sarah Post, De-
ceased March 19, A. D. 1780, in the 9th year of her age.
In Memory of Mr. Jonas Foster, who died March 7, 1793, in
the %6 year of his age.
In Memory of Mr. Sylvanus Jagger, who died Sept. 5th 1790
in the 33d year of his age.
In memory of Hannah, daughter of Joseph and Mary Hildreth,
who died Dec. 2, 1796, in the 8th year of her age.
2A
22 Tombstone Inscriptions in thi North End Burying Ground, TJ^d.
In memory of Charity, daughter of Henry and Charity Post,
who died Sept. 12, 1796, in the 17th year of her age.
In memory of Nathan, son of Samuel and Deborah Hildreth,
Who died Sept. 30, i^oi aged 3 months and 10 days.
In memory of Mary, daughter of Samuel and Deborah Hil-
dreth, who died Sept. 2, 1794 aged 5 months and 23 days.
In memory of Samuel, son of Samuel and Deborah Hildreth,
who died April 9, 1801, aged i year, 7 months and 21 days.
[Samuel Hildreth was uncle of the late Daniel Hildreth of
Seven Ponds.]
In memory of Samuel Wick, son of Zebulon and Mary Wick,
Who died July 8, 1797, in the 20th year of his aee.
In memory of Mrs. Marv Wick, wife of Mr. Zebulon Wick,
who died April 22, 1789, aged 53 years.
In memory of Mrs. Jerusha Culver, wife of Mr. Zephaniah
Culver, Who died Jan. 5, 1794, in the 37 year of her age.
In memory of Mr. Richard Howell who departed this life
Oct. 23, 1793, in the 67 year of his age.
In memory of Silvanus Howell, who departed this life June 13,
1806, in the 70th year of his age.
In memory of William Pordham who died August 21, 1809, in
the 31st year of his age.
In memory of Mr. Samuel Howell who departed this life
Peb. 24, 1794 m the 87 year of his age.
In memory of Amy, ye wife of Zebulon Howell Esq. who
died Decembr ye 15, 1752 in ye 59 year of her age.
In memory of Mrs. Sibyl Foster, wife of Mr. Blias Poster.
She died May 13, 1793, in the 63 year of her age.
In memory of Mr. Blias Poster, who died March 21 A. D.
1784, in the 50 year of his age.
In memory of Ephraim Hildreth. He died Jan. 16, 177 1 in
the 83d year of his age.
Here lies the body of Sibyl, daughter of Daniel and Johanna
Hildreth, Deceased Oct. ye 15, 1752 in the 7 year of her age.
Here lies buried the Body of Blihu Cooper, He departed this
life Oct. 2 1770 in the 27 year of his age.
In memory of John Reeves, who died August ye 13, 1753, in
the 8ist year of his age.
In memory of Rachel, ye wife of John Reeves who died
August ye 24, 1751, in ye 77th year of her age.
In memory of Mr. Isaac Halsey, who died March ye 23* 1752,
in ye 88th year of his Age.
In memory of Mr. Job Halsey, who died Sept. ye 26, 1750 in
ye 37 year of his age.
Here lies buried the Body of Mr. Isaac Halsey, Died Jan. 3d
1725, in ye 32 year of his age.
In memory of Mrs. Mary Poster, relict of Mr. Hackaliah
Poster, Who died June 15, 1796, a^ed 92 vears.
Here lies the body of Abigail Hildreth, wife of Ephraim
Hildreth, Who deceased March ye 2, 1737 in ye 43 year of her
age.
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In memory of Abraham, son of Hackaliah and Mary Foster
who died Feb. 5, A. D. 1768 in ye 26 year of his a^e.
In memory of Mr. Hackaliah Foster who died April 15, 1775,
in the 76 year of his age.
Here lies the Body of Sybell Foster, the wife of Mr. John
Poster, who deceased Feb. ye 20th 1733 in ye 33d year of her age.
In memory of John Foster, who died Jany ye 30 A. D. 1762,
in ye 68 vear of his age.
Sybill, daughter of John Foster Jr. died Oct. 15, 1759, in ye
6th year of her age.
Mary ye daughter of John and Mary Foster, died September
23, 1754, m ye 4th year of her age.
Here lies the body of John Hildreth, deceased October the
first 1729, aged about 29 years.
David H. Sayre, son of Paul and Mary Sayre Died Sept. 5,
1796, aged 2 years.
Here lies the Body of Abigail Cooper, ye wife of Mr. James
Cooper, Who deceased April ye 16, 1734, in ye 43d year of her
age.
Here lies the body of Phebe, wife of Caleb Gilbert Who de-
ceased Novbr ye 25, 1739, in ye 28 year of her age.
Here lyes ye Body of Mrs. Hannah Hildreth, wife to Mr.
Joseph Hildreth, aged about 23 years. Deceased Dec. ye 22, 1725.
Here lyes buried ye body of Mr. Joshua Halsey who departed
this life June ist Anno Dom. 1734, in ye 60th year of his age.
In memory of Martha ye wife of Joshua Halsey who died Jan.
ye 10, 1754, in ye 74 year of her age.
Here lies ye Body of Jeckomiah Scott Esq. Who departed this
life March 9, 1749, in ye 86 year of his age.
[Great-great-grandfather of John Scott]
Here lies the body of Jeremiah Foster, who departed this life
the 29th day of July, aged 24 years, 1728.
John Foster Esq. whose Body was buried here, deceased June
ye II A. D. 1727, aged 64 years.
Here lyes the Body of Nathan Hildreth, who dyed June ye 13,
1746, in ye 68 year of his age.
In memory of Elizabeth, daughter of John and Elizabeth
Foster, Who died March ye 5th 1756, in ye 13 year of her age.
Here lyes buried the body of Mr. Manassah Kempton who
departed this life Nov. ye 28th 1737, in ye 87 year of his age.
Here lyes buried tht Body of Mr. Richard Wood, Who de-
parted this life May ye 16, A. D. 1754, Aged 57 years.
Here lyes buried ye body of Mrs. Jane Pelletreau wife to
Mr. Francis Pelletreau, Who died Decembar 6, Anno Dom. 1735
in ye 38 year of her Age.
Here lies buried the Body of Mrs. Ann Stevens, Wife to Lieut.
Thomas Stevens, Who died March ye 14 1758, Aged 29 years.
Here lies ye Body of Mrs. Mary Howell, wife to Mr. Elias
Howell, daughter of Hugh Gelston Esq. and Mrs, Mary his wife,
who died Oct. 9, 1740 in ye 29 year of her age.
John Gelston died Feb. 26, 1734, aged i year 7 months & 8
days.
24 Tcmdslofu Inscriptions in thg North End Burying Ground^ [Jan.
Hugh Gelston died May 19 1734, aged 3 years & 10 months.
Ye children of Mr. Hugh and Mrs. Mary Gelston.
Here lyes ye Body of Mrs. Mary Gelston, wife of Mr. Hugh
Gelston, merchant, Aged 36 years Deed. July the 23d, 1737.
Here lyes ye Body of Mary Pelletreau, daughter of Mr. Fran-
cis & Mrs. Jane Pelletreau, who died July 16 A. D. 1736, in ye 13th
year of her age.
Here lyes Buried jre Body of Mr. Jeremiah Jagger, Junr. Who
died March 27, 1736, m ye 46 year of his Age.
Here lyes ye Body of Benjamin Peirce, son of Mr. Jonathan
and Mrs. Abiah Peirce, Who Died August 1st, T747, Aged 19
years and 10 months.
Jerahmeel Peirce, Aged 2 years & 5 months Died in ye year
1738.
Mary Peirce Aged 4 years and 5 months, died in ye year 1738.
The children of Mr. Jonathan and Mrs. Abiah Peirce.
Here lyes ye Body of Mary Pelletreau, Daughter of Mr.
Francis & Mrs. Jane Pelletreau who died July 16 A. D. 1736 in ye
13th year of her age.
In Memory of Hugh, son of Capt. Blias & Sarah Pelletreau,
who died July 30, 1775 aged 8 years, 4 months.
Here lies ye body of Francis, Son of Capt. Blias & Sara Pel-
letreau, dec** Sept. 29, 1765 aged 13 years & 5 months.
In memory of Capt. Blias Pelletreau, who died Nov. 2, 1810
in the 85th year of his age.
In Memory of Mrs. Sary, wife of Capt. Elias Pelletreau, who
died Ap^ 14th A. D. 1789, Aged 59 years.
In memory of Mrs. Sarah, Wife of Capt. Elias Pelletreau, who
died August i6th 1796, aged 63 years.
In memory of John Pelletreau, who died August 26, 1822,
Ae. 67.
In Memory of Mrs. Mary Gelston, wife of Hugh Gelston Esq.
Who died Sept. ist, 1775 1^ the 68 year of her age.
In memory of Hugh Gelston Esq. who died December 139
A. D. 1775, in the 78th year of his age.
In memory of Phebe ye wife of Hugh Gelston Jun'. who died
Sept. 18, 1772, in the 34 year of her age.
In memory of Mary wife of Hugh Gelston who died April 23,
1803 in the 71st year of her age.
In memory of Doct' William Smith, who departed this Life»
August ist A. D. 177s, ^^ t^® 4^ y®3.r of his age.
Nathaniel, son of Doct' William & Mrs. Ruth Smith, died
March 12, A. D. 1775, in the 9th year of his age.
In memory of Ruth Smith, Relict of Doct' William Smith,
who died Dec. 27, 1785, aged 49 years.
In memory of Mrs. Phebe, Relict of Nathaniel Smith Esq.
who departed this life August 26th A. D. 1775, in the 74th year
of her age.
Here lyes ye Body of Hannah Peirce, Daughter of Mr. Jona-
than and Mrs. Abiah Peirce, who died July 23d 1747, Aged 15
years & 6 months.
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Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Anna Huntting the amiable
Consort of Major Benjamin Huntting, who died 9th February
1787, in the 23d year of her age.
Here lyes Buried ye Body of Mrs. Mary Huntting wife to Mr.
Samuel Huntting, and daughter of Mr. David and Mrs. Rachel
Gardiner [date illegible].
In memory of Samuel Huntting Esq, who departed this life
May the 12, A. D. 1773, in the 64th year of his Age.
In memory of Zerviah, Relict of Samuel Huntting Esq. who
departed this life Nov. the 22 A. D. 1780, in the 67 year of her
age.
Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Mary Post, the Amiable Consert
of Mr. James Post, who died 27 December 1788, in the 39 year
of her age.
In memory of Anne, Daughter of Major Benjamin Huntting &
Anne his wife, who died December 6, 1789, aged 10 months and
S days.
Sacred to the Memory of Miss Abigail Rhodes, who departed
this life May 12, 1806, aged 79 years, 3 months and 3 days.
Here lies the Body of Mr. Isaac Bower, who died Jan', ye 20,
1745/6 Aged 78 years.
Here lies Interred the Body of Cai)t. John Post, who deceased
March the 3d 1741, in the 68 year of his age.
In memory of Jonathan Peirce, who died July ye 2nd A. D.
1759, in the 65 year of his age.
Elizabeth, Daughter of Mr. Jonathan & Mrs. Abiah Peirce
died August ye 12, 1747, Aged 8 years & 4 months.
In memory of Deacon Samuel Jones [Johnes] who died May
ye 4th 1760 in ye 88 year of his age.
In memory of Mrs. Ethel, ye wife of Deacon Samuel Johnes,
who died Jan. ye 18, 1753, in ye 74th year of her age.
In memory of Mrs. Jane Chatfield, the wife of John Chat-
field Esq. died Sept. 17th 1753, aged 37 years.
In memory of Hannah Chatfield, daughter of John Chatfield,
Esq. died Oct. 1753 aged 8 years.
in memory of Sarah Chatfield, daughter of John Chatfield
Esq. & Jane his wife, died Oct. 1755 aged 6 years.
In memory of Mr. William Jones [Johnes] who died March 5th
A. D. 1779, ^^ ^^ ^^^ y^^r of his age.
In memory of Lieut. Paul Jones [Johnes] who departed this
life Oct. 6, A. D. 1776 Aged 28 years.
In memory of Sibel wife of Thomas Jessup who departed
this life, June 2, 1804, in the 90th year of her age.
In memory of Mehitabel, the wife of Thomas Jessup, who
died Jan. 31, 1768, in the 49th year of her age,
Thomas Jessup, whose remains are here interred, was bom
Feb. 28, 1721, Old Style, and deceased the 20 of May 1809, in the
89 year of his age. He sustained for many years, with great
reputation to himself and with much usefulness, the office of
Deacon in the Church of Southampton. He was pious and ex-
emplary, lived, respected and lamented died.
26 TombsUmt Inscriptions in the North End Burying Ground. (Jan.
In memory of Abraham Cooper Esq. who departed this life
December the 28th A. D. 1773, in the 85 year of his age.
In memory of Jane, daughter of Abraham and Hannah Cooper^
aged 10 months and 16 days [no datel.
In memory of Hiram, son of Mr. Micaiah & Mrs. Martha
Herrick, who died Feb. 23d 1790, in the 13 year of his age.
James Herrick, son of Mr. Micaiah & Mrs. Martha Herrick^
who died March 19 A. D. 1783, in the 14 year of his age.
In memory of Mr. Edward Herrick, Son of Mr. Micaiah &
Mrs. Martha Herrick, who died August 31, 1796, a few days be-
fore he was to have taken his first degree at Yale College. Aged
23 years.
This Monument is In Memory of the Rev* Silvanus White,
who departed this life Oct' 22 A. D. 1782, in the 79th year of his
Age and 55th year of his Ministery.
In Memory of Mrs. Phebe White the Virtuous Consort of the
Rev* Silvanus White, who departed this Life, July 24 A. D. 1783,
in the 79 year of her age.
In memory of Mrs. Hannah Cooper, Relict of Abraham Cooper,
who departed this life Feb. 18 1805, aged 71 years, 5 months and
3 days.
In memqry of Mrs. Susannah, wife of Silas Howell Esq. who
died Sept. 8th 1783, in the 61 year of her age.
In memory of Silas Howell Esq. who died Nov. 8, 1787, in the
69 year of his age.
In memory of Isaac Post Esq. who departed this life May 8,
A. D. 1785, in the 74 year of his age.
In memory of Hannah, wife of Elias Pelletreau Jun'. who
died July 11, 1804, aged 49 years, 7 months & 8 days.
In memory of Mrs. Hannah White, the virtuous Consort of
Doct' Henry White, who departed this life April 25, 1793, in the
37th year of her age.
In memory of Ann, Daughter of Doct' Henry and Mrs. Ann
White, who died Sept. 24, 1805, aged 2 years & 20 days.
In memory of Mrs. Mehitabel Foster, the amiable Consort of
Capt. Josiah Poster, Who died Feb. ye 18, 1805 in the 34 year of
her age.
In memory of Deborah wife of Samuel Jagger, who died
Dec' 17, 1797, in the 66 year of her age.
In memory of Mr. Samuel Jagger Jun'. who died Oct. 11, 1785,
in the 60th year of his age.
In memory of Mrs. Mehitabel Culver, wife of Mr. Moses
Culver, who died Sept. 3, 1796, aged 29 years.
Elias, son of Mr. Elias and Mrs. Ruth Cooper, died Feb. 27,
Hannah, daughter of Mr. Elias and Mrs. Ruth Cooper died Feb.
27 [no year].
In memory of Elias Cooper Esq. late of Southampton, who
departed this life March 19, A. D. 1777, in the 43 year of his age.
Heare Lyes | ye Body of loseph | Post Deseased
10 November | Aged about I 72 172 1
{On the footstone is the following]
oseph I the first | entered in this f Plas.
iQi 5*J ThachiT' Thatcher Genealogy. 2 J
THACHER-THATCHER GENEALOGY.
By John R. Totten,
Member of the New York GenealogicAl and Bioffraphlcal Society end New England
Hiitoric-Genealogical Society.
(Continued from VoL XLV., p. 360, of tlie RbcordJ
goi. Hannah Bourne^ Thacher (John,* John/ Col. John,* Hon.
0)1. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom January 2nd, 1792,
at Barnstable, Mass.; died September 22nd, 18^4, aged 82
years, 8 months, according to gravestone (accordmg to Barn-
stable Records, September ist, 1874, aged 82 years, 9 months),
and was buried at Cotuit, Mass. ; gravestone. She married at
Barnstable, Mass., May 26th, 1814 (intention published Barn-
stable, April i6th, 1814), to William Sampson, bom Falmouth,
Mass., August 13th, 1786; he lived at Cotuit, Mass., and was
a farmer; he died at Cotuit, Mass., September 27th, 1834,
aged 48, and was buried there; gravestone. He was a son of
Josiah and Mary (Crocker) Sampson of Kingston, Mass.
(according to the statement of Miss Susan A. Crocker of
Cotuit, Mass.). Barnstable Records, Vol. V, p. 233, 1 am in-
formed, states that he was a son of William Sampson.
Children: 8 ^Sampson), 4 sons and 4 daughters, all probably
bom at Cotuit, Mass.
1526 L Mary Crocker,* bom Tune 3rd, 1815; died No-
vember 17th (or i8th), 1845, 21?^ 2P years, 5
months, at Cotuit, Mass., and was buried there;
gravestone ; not married.
+1527 ii. James Thacher,* bom March 2nd, 1817; died
January i8th, 1856; married Mary Stephens
Hinckley.
1528 iii. Nancy,* bom August 13th (or 14th), 1819;
died October 5th, 1848, aged 29 years, i month
and 22 days, at Cotuit, Mass., and was buried
there; gravestone; not married.
+1529 iv. Rebecca,* bom August 30th, 1821; died f
1901 ; married at Barnstable, Mass., ^ 1845,
to ?
+1530 v. William,* bom July 27th, 1823; died ^ 1854;
married Au^sta Crocker.
1531 vi. Freeman Hmckley,* bom April 3rd, 1825 ; died
June 5th, 1850, aged 25 years, 2 months, at
Sacramento, Cal., and was buried there; grave-
stone to his memory at Cotuit, Mass. ; not mar-
ried.
+1532 vii. Benjamin Thacher,* bom March 2nd, 1827;
died August 5th, 1854; married Joanna Bacon
Quids.
28 Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy. [Jan.
1553 viii. Lucy Freeman,® born January 20th, 1829 (or
1830) ; died March 14th, 1851, at Cotuit, Mass.,
and was buried there; gravestone; not married.
Authorities :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 54,
Freeman Genealogy, p. 144.
Cotuit, Mass., Graveyard Records.
Barnstable Record, Vol. V, p. 233.
Miss Susan A. Crocker, of Cotuit, Mass.
903. Betsey Hayward^ Thacher (Dr. James,* John,* Col. John,*
Hon. Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom June (about),
, 1786 (see age at and date of death), at Plymouth,
Mass. ; died February 27th, 187 1, aged 84 years and 8 months,
at Plymouth, Mass., probably, and was buried there on Burial
Hill; i^ravestone. She married, first, , 1804, at , to
Daniel Roberts Elliott of Savannah and Waynesborough,
Georgia; bom December 12th, 1779, at ; died (be-
fore January i6th, 1811, as wife is then spoken of as a
widow), at . He was a son of Col. John Elliott (bora
May 2nd, 1750; died January 7th, 1791 ; married August 9th,
1770), and his first wife, Rebecca Jane Maxwell, who resided
at , Liberty County, Georgia.
Children: 3 (Elliott), daughters.
1534 1. Catherine Elizabeth,* bom ; died .
+1535 ii. Jane Amaranthea,* bom July 30th, 1805; died
March loth, 1871; married Charles Seaver.
1536 iii. Susan Louisa,* bom March — ^ 1816; died
January i6th, 1811, aged 10 months at Plym-
outh, Mass., and was buried there on Burial
Hill; gravestone thus inscribed: "In memory
of Susan Louisa, youngest daughter of Daniel
R. Elliott, Esq., deceased, of Wajmesborough,
Georgia. She died January i6th, 181 1, aged
10 months, leaving a widowed mother who is
consoled for the loss of a lovely child by the
assurance that 'of such is the Kingdom of
heaven'."
Betsey Hayward^ (Thacher) Elliott, widow of Daniel
Roberts Elliott, married a second time (intention pub-
lished Plymouth, October 14th, 1814, and notice of marriage
published at Newburyport, Mass., October 29th, 1814), at
, to Captain Michael Hodge (as his second wife), bom
September 9th, 1780, at Newburyport, Mass. (probably) ; he
lived at Newburyport and Plymouth, Mass., and was a law-
yer and captain of militia; he died July 6th, 1816, aged 36,
at Plymouth, Mass. (probably), and was buried there on
Burial Hill; gravestone. He was a son of Michael Hodge
and his wife Sarah , of Newburyport, Mass., where
Michael Hodge, senior, was a Captain in the Navy and Col-
lector of Customs.
1915O Tkachir'Thatcher Gentalogy, 29
Child: I (Hodge), son.
+1537 iv. James Thacher,* bom March 12th, 1816; died
October 15th, 1871; married Mary Spooner
Russell.
Michael Hodge, the second husband of Betsey Hayward^
(Thacher) Elliott, married first March 21st, 1805, t® Mary John-
son, daughter of Captain Nicholas and Mary ( ), Johnson, and
she, his first wife, died September 29th, 1810, leaving no issue.
In the graveyard on Burial Hill, Plymouth, there are two
stones erected to the memory of Michael Hodge and his second
wife, thus inscribed :
"Michael Hoctee, A. M., graduate of Harvard Collie, formerly
of Newburyport, Counsellor at Law, died July 6th, 1816, aged 30
years. Genius and sensibility, science, virtue and benevolence
adorned his life. The tears of friendship and love embalm his
memory.**
"Betsey Hayward, wife of Michael Hodge, died February 27th,
1871, aged 84 years, 8 months."
AUTHOBITIBS :
Alltf^s Thacher Genealogy, p. 56.
Davij^ Landmarks of Plymouth, Mass., pp. IQ2, 134, 223, 934f 258.
N. E. His. Gen. Register, Vol. XXVI, p. 318.
Hodge FamUy, p. 247.
Burtal Hill Grave Yard Inscriptions, pp. 220, 221.
History of Newburyport, Mass., p. 354.
907. SusAN^ Thacher (Dr. James,* John,* Col. John,* Hon. CoL
John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom , 1794, at Plymouth,
Mass. ; died August 25th, 1862, aged 68 years, at Plymouth,
Mass., and was buried there on Burial Hill, gravestone. She
married November ist, 1814, at Plymouth, Mass. (presum-
ably), to Captain William Bartlett, bom , 1786, at
Plymouth, Mass. ; died July 30th, 1863, aged 77, at Plymouth,
Mass., and was buried there on Burial Hill, gravestone. He
was a son of Joseph Bartlett (bom June i6th, 1762; died
March 4th, 1835 ; married , 1784) and Rebecca Churdiill
(bom , 1766; died March 5th, 1821), of Plymouth, Mass.
Children : 5 (Bartlett), i son and 4 daughters.
+1538 L Susan Louisa,* bom , 1815; died ;
married Charles Otis Boutelle.
1539 il Elizabeth (Betsey) Thacher,* bom , 1818;
died , at Plymouth, Mass., in childhood and
was buried there on Burial Hill, gravestone.
+1540 iii John,* bom June 14th, 1820; di^ ; mar-
ried Hannah Willard, of Cambridge, Mass. He
lived at Boston, Mass.
1541 iv. Eliza Ann,* bom , 1825 ; died , in child-
hood at Plymouth, Mass., and was buried there
on Burial Hill, gravestone.
1542 V. Mary,* bom , 1827.
^O TkachiT'ThcUcher Gefualogy. [Jan.
On Burial Hill, Plymouth, Mass., are to be seen two gravestones
thus inscribed:— "William Bartlett, died July 30th, 1863, aged yj
years." "Susan Thacher, wife of William Bartlett, died August
2Sth, 1862, aged 68 years."
AUTHOKFTIES :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 56.
Davis* Landmarks of Plymouth, Mass., pp. 19, 22, asS-
Burial Hill, Plymouth Graveyard Inscriftions, pp. 166, 219, 2aa
Ftto/ Records of Cambridge, Mass,, Vol I, p. 45-
932, Sylvia^ Rowland (Martha Fearing* Thacher, Rev. Roland,'
John,* Hon. Col. John,* Antonv*, Rev. Peter*), bom Novem-
ber 2nd, 1763, at ; died November 4th, 1825, at ;
married at Barnstable, Mass., November 25th, 1784, to Walley
Goodspeed (named after Rev. Thomas Wallev of Barnstable),
bom , 1757, at ; he resided at Sandwich, Mass., and
was a farmer, following the sea in early life; he died at
Sandwich, Mass. (death also recorded at Bamstable), July
3rd, 1833. He was a son of Joseph Goodspeed (bom Septem-
ber I7tn, 1736; died ; married June ^, 1756) and Sarah
Adams, Jr., of Bamstable, Mass.
Children: 8 (Goodspeed), 6 sons and 2 daughters.
1543 i. Obed,* bom February 26th, 1786; died Octo-
ber 2ist, 1864; married Elizabeth McQellan;
I son.
1544 ii. Celia,* bom November 20th, 1788; died April
8th, 1863; married Braddock Fish.
1545 iii. Walley,* bom February — , 1790; died Septem-
ber 2nd, 1826 ; not married.
1546 iv. Harrison,* bom Au^st 20th, 1791 ; died Octo-
ber loth, 1850 ; married Susan Davis ; 4 children.
1547 v. Rowland,* bom August 26th, 1795; died July
20th, 1817 ; probably not married.
1548 vi. Thomas,* bom March 23rd, 1797; died March
20th, 1872; married Lucy Rowland; 5 children.
1549 vii. Joseph,* bom May i6th, 1799; died September
23rd, 1871 ; married Martha Boume ; 4 diildren.
1550 viii. Lucy H.,* bom June 2nd, 1802; died October
i8th, 1857 ; married Zenas Ewer.
In the above record the dates of death of Walley Goodspeed,
Senior, and Walley* Goodspeed may be confused. Freeman's Cape
Cod, Vol. II, p. 151, says Mr. Walley Goodspeed died July 3rd, 1833 ;
this I have assumed to be Walley Goodspeed, Senior. Another
authority states that Walley Goodspeed died September 2nd, 1826 ;
this I have assiuned to be Walley* Goodspeed, as same authorities
state that he died young.
AUTHOiUTIES :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 87.
Otis Barnstable Families, Vol. I, p. 405.
Freeman's Cape Cod, VoL II, pp. 151, 479.
1915.I Tkacher-Thatcher Genealogy. 31
934, LucY^ Rowland (Martha Fearing* Thacher, Rev. Roland,"
Col. John,* Hon. Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom
June 23rd, 1769, at ; died , at Pittsfield, Mass. ; mar-
ried , at , to John Fairfield, of Pittsfield, Mass. He
was probably the same John Fairfield who also married her
sister Elizabeth^ Howland, No. 940.
Children — ?
Authority :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 87.
936. Martha^ Howland (Martha Fearing" Thacher, Rev. Ro-
land,' Col. John,* Hon. Col. John,« Antony,* Rev. Peter^,
bom August 28th, 1772, at ; died April 13th, 1841, at
Barnstable, Mass. ; married January 2nd, 1798, at , to John
Coleman Howard, bom December 24th, 1769, at West Bam-
stable, Mass. ; he lived at Bamstable, Mass., for many years
in the house where James Otis, the patriot, was bom; he
died November 8th, 185 1, at . He was a son of David
Howland (bom Bamstable, 8-8-1737; died ; married
December 15-12-1763 (or March 15th, 1763), and his wife
Manr Coleman (bom March 27th, 1739; died ; daughter
of James and Martha (Phinney) Coleman), of Bamstable,
Mass.
Children: 5 (Howland), 2 sons and 3 daughters.
1551 i. Lucy,* bom 14-10-1798; died June 17th, 1777;
married Thomas" Goodspeed, No. 1548, and had
5 children.
1552 ii. Thomas," bom 12-1-1801 ; died , 1882; mar-
ried, first, Elsa Cannon; married, second, Bath-
sheba Perry. No issue by either marriage.
1553 iii. Rowland,® bom 10-3-1803; died Sth month,
1882; married Grace Noyes Eldre^e and by
her had 4 children.
1554 iv. David,® bom 25-6-1805; died .
1555 V. Martha,® bom 30-11-1807; died 15-5-1838.
1556 vi. Nathaniel,® bom 10-4-1810; died ; married
Dorinda Fish; 4 children.
1557 vii. Weston,® bom 28-2-1813; died .
1558 viii. Mary,® born 4-7-1815; died 18-5-1843.
Authorities :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 87.
Howland Genealogy, p. 358.
939. Abigail (Nabby) Thacher^ Rowland (Martha Fearing,*
Thacher, Rev. Roland,* Col. John,* Hon. Col. John,® Antony,*
Rev. Peter^), bom September 7th, 1779, at ; died June
24th, 1865, at ; married March 31st, 1802, at Lee, Mass.,
to Gershom Bassett, bom , at ; he resided at Lee,
Mass., and removed to Amherst, Lorain Co., Ohio, where he
died .
32 Thacher'Thatcher Genealogy. [Jan.
Children: 5 (Bassett), i son and 4 daughters, all bom at Lee,
Mass.
1559 i. Lucy Rowland,* bom February 20th, 1803; died
November 14th, 1894; married Crocker*
Thacher, No. 1568, under whose record see con-
tinuation of this line.
1560 iL Mary Anner,* bom August 14th, 1806; died
; married Freeman Nye.
1561 iii. Sophronia,* bom March 14th, 181 1; died ;
married Lyman Cunningham.
1562 iv. Roxanna H ,^ bom June 9th, 1814; died
Febmary 12th, 1817, aged 2 years, 8 months, at
Lee, Mass. ; gravestone.
1563 V. Willian N (or C),* bom March sth, 1817.
Authorities :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, pp. 68, 80, 87.
Vital Records of Lee, Mass., pp. 16, 17, 114, 182.
940. EuzABETH^ Rowland (Martha Fearing* Thacher, Rev. Ro-
land,* Col. John,* Hon. Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter^),
bom June 15th, 1782, at ; died , at ; married
August — , 1859, at SuflFolk, Conn., to John Fairchild (prob-
ably the same John Fairchild who also married her sister
Lucy^ Rowland, No. 934).
Children: — ? I do not know whether there was any issue
from this marriage or not
Authority:
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 87.
941. James^ Rowland (Martha Fearing* Thacher, Rev. Roland,*
Col. John,* Ron. Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom
May 22nd, 1786, at ; died , 1852, at ; married
(intention published at Lee, Mass., April 22nd, 1816),
at , to Ruth Fish (daughter of Prince Fish, bom May
24th, 1773) ; before marriage she resided at Sandwich and
Lee, Mass. ; she was bom , at ; died July i6th, 1841,
at Lee, Mass., aged 43 (or 46), and was bnried there, grave-
stone.
Children: 4 (Rowland), sons.
1564 i. Roland G^ ,* bom ; died , aged 52,
at Jacksonville, 111., in an insane asyltun. He
lived at Quincy, 111., before bein^ placed in the
asylum. Re married Sarah ^r 4 children.
1565 ii. Crocker Thacher,* born September 30th, 1819;
died ; married April 9th, 1848, at Lee,
Mass., to Lucy Lord Barlow, bom December
I Sth, 1819; died October 20th, 1870, daughter
of William B. and Lois (Nye) Barlow, of Lee,
Mass. 4 children.
1566 iii. Nathaniel,* bom , 1821 ; died January — ,
1869; not married.
1915.] Thtuher-Thaicher Genealogy, 33
1567 iv, Harrison," bom November nth, 1825; died
; married, first, November 29th, 1846, to
Lucinda Stedman, bom ; died September
i6th, 1868, by whom he had 2 daughters; mar-
ried, second, January 9th, 1870, to Eliza L
Baker.
Authorities :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, pp. 87, 88.
Vital Records of Lee, Mass., pp. 14, 58, 140.
Freeman's Cape Cod, Vol. II, p. 164.
945. Timothy^ Thacher (Deacon Roland,* Rev. Roland,* Col.
John,* Hon. Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom February
15th, 1774, at Wareham, Mass. ; he lived there and removed
to Lee, Mass.; he was a ship carpenter, builder and farmer;
he died October 30th, 1833, in his 60th year, at I-ee, Mass.,
and was buried there; gravestone. He married at Hebron
(or Marlboro), Conn., December 25th (or 31st), 1799 (inten-
tion published at Lee, Mass., October 6th, 1799) to Dorothy
(Dolly) Phelps, bom August 4th, 1774, at Hebron, Conn., and
lived there or at Marlboro, Conn., until her marriage; died
April I2th, 1859, ^t Tyringham, Conn., and is said to have
been buried at Lee, Mass., although no gravestone marks her
grave. She was a daughter of Captain Solomon Phelps, Jr.,
and his wife, Lucy Lord, whom he married October 24th, 1765.
Lucy Lord was a daughter of Rev. Epapheas and Lucy
(Buckeley) Lord. Col. Solomon Phelps, Jr., lived at Hebron,
Conn.
Children: 7 (Thacher), 4 sons and 3 daughters, all bom at
Lee, Mass.
+1568 1. Crocker,* bom October 9th, 1800; died Octo-
ber i6th, 1863; married Lucy Howland Bassett,
No. 1559.
+1569 ii. Charles Skinner,* bom May sth, 1802; died
December 14th, 1869; married Atteresta
Birchard.
1570 iii. Betsey Freeman,* bom January 23rd, 1803 (or
1804) ; died March 28th, 1820, at Lee, Mass.,
aged 16 years, and was buried there ; gravestone.
Not married.
+1571 iv. Buckley,* bom March 22nd, 1806; died Sep-
tember i6th, 1853 (or 1863) ; married Emerancy
Culver.
+IS72 V. Adah Eells,* bom Febmary 2Sth, 1808; died No-
vember 26th, 1901; married Seth Dickinson
Graves.
+1573 vi. Eliel Tobey,* bom Febmary 12th, 1812; died
December ist, 1894; married, first, Emeline
Gale; married, second, Diantha Stebbins.
+1574 vii. Martha,* bom Febmary 5th, 181 5; died June
(or January) 12th, 1887; married John Sears.
34 Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy. [Jan.
At a town meeting at Lee, Mass., March 3rd, i8cx>, Timothy
Thacher was elected Surveyor of Highways. At Lee, Mass., May,
1808, Timothy Thacher's cattle mark was thus recorded, "cut upper
side of right ear, cut under side of left ear."
Captain Solomon Phelps, Jr., was a son of Lieut Solomon
Phelps, of Hebron, Conn., by his wife Temperance Barber (daugh*-
ter of David and Hannah (Post) Barber, of Hebron, Conn.) Lieut
Solomon Phelps was a son of Captain Nathaniel Phelps (First
Town Qerk of Hebron, Conn.) by his wife Hannah Bissell (daugh-
ter of Samuel and Abigail (Holcomb) Bissell, of Windsor, Conn.).
Captain Nathaniel Phelps was a son of Lieut. Timothy Phelps, of
Wmdsor, Conn., by his wife Mary Griswold (daughter of Edward
and Margaret ( ) Griswold, of Windsor and Killingsworth,
Conn.). Lieut. Timothy Phelps was a son of Williiam Phelps, of
Windsor (the emigrant, and one of the first founders of Windsor)
by his second wife, Mary Dover. Marlboro was set off from
Hebron in 1803 and was established as an ecclesiastical society in
1747. Captain Solomon Phelps lived near the Marlboro and Hebron
line.
AUTHORTTIES :
The late Miles W. Graves of Hartford, Conn.
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, pp. 56-58.
Lef Vital Records, pp. 92, 93, 231.
His great grandson, H. £. Thatcher, of Branford, Conn.
Records of Lee, Mass., from incorporation till 1801, pp. 105, 132, 169.
Hebron Town Records.
History of Lee, Mass,
946. LucY^ Thacher (Deacon Roland,* Rev. Roland,' Col. John,*
Hon. Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom August 17th,
1775, at Wareham, Mass. ; died at Lee, Mass., April ^th, 1802,
and was buried there. She was married September 2nd, 1792,
at Rochester, Mass., to Nathan Tobey, bom February ist,
1757, at Sandwich, Mass. ; he lived successively at Sandwich,
Brookfield, Wareham and Lee, Mass. He was a sailor, a tailor,
and served in the Revolutionary War. He died at Lee, Mass.,
September — (about the last), 1805, and was buried there.
He was a son of Joshua and Maria (Tobey) Tobey, of Sand-
wich, Mass.
Children: 2 (Tobey), sons, both born at Wareham, Mass.
1575 i. Eliel,* bom May 26th, 1793; died at Lee, Mass.,
December 29th, 1809, aged 16, "the last mem-
ber of the family," "of a wound Red* by a
rakestail;" gravestone. Not married,
1576 ii. Joshua,* bom June 13th, 1795 ; died there May
loth, 1796.
Nathan Tobey was a seaman on the portledge bill of the officers
and crew of the sloop Republic, Captain John Foster Williams,
August 26th to November iSth, 1776. Also Nathan Tobey, Jr.,
was a private on muster and payroll of Captain Simeon Fish,'s
Company of Col. Freeman's Regiment, September 8th, 1778; ser-
1915.] Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy. 35
vice on alarm at Dartmouth and Falmouth. Also private on pay
abstract of Captain Simeon Fish's Company of Col. Freeman's
Regiment for 5 days service, marched on Alarm at Falmouth, Sep-
tember, 1779, by order of Brigadier Otis. He learned the trade of
tailor and removed to Brookfield, where he bought a tract of land,
Tuly 2nd, 1782, which he sold April 17th, 1784. He removed to
Wareham and was a trader there in 1793. He removed to Lee,
where he spent the rest of his life. He died about the last of Sep-
tember, 1805. Roland Thatcher administered his estate.
Authorities :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 56.
Tohey Genealogy, pp. 70, iia
947. Abigail^ Thacher (Deacon Roland,* Rev. Roland,* Col.
John,* Hon. Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom May
27th, 1777, at Wareham, Mass. ; died of consumption at Lee,
Mass., January 13th, 1846, aged 68 years, 7 months and 17
days, and was buried there; gravestone. She married
(intention published January 23rd> 1802), at , to Joshua
Briggs, bom October 21st, 1775, at ; he lived at Ware-
ham, Mass., and removed to Lee in 1802; he died July 21st,
1830, aged 54 years, 9 months, at Lee, Mass., and was buried
there; gravestone.
Children: 4 (Briggs), i son and 3 daughters, all bom at Lee,
Mass.
1577 i. Elizabeth,* bom blind, December loth, 1812;
died October 2nd, 1834, aged 21 years, 9 months,
at Lee, Mass., and was buried there ; g^vestone.
Not married.
-1-1578 ii. Emeline,* bom December 15th, 181^; died May
4th, 1866; married William Willard Bridgman.
+1579 iii. Harriet,* bom November (or December) 13th,
1816; died ; married Enoch Comstock.
1580 iv. Joshua,* bom April — , 1820; died April 20th
(or 2ist), 1820, at Lee, Mass., and was buried
there ; gravestone.
Authorities :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, pp. 57, 89.
Vital Records of Lee, Mass., pp. 24, 92, 187.
J. M. Lincoln, an authority on Wareham Records.
948. Roland^ Thacher (Deacon Roland,* Rev. Roland,* Col.
John,* Hon. Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom Febra-
ary 6th, 1779, at Wareham, Mass. ; he lived at Lee, Mass., and
died there May 5th, 1809, and was there buried; gravestone.
He married, first, March 24th, 1803, at Lee, Mass., to Betsey
Freeman, bom March 27th, 1779, at Lee, Mass. ; died Janu-
ary i6th, 1804, aged 24 years, 9 months, 20 days, at Lee,
Mass.; gravestone. She was a daughter of Elisha Freeman
(bom November 21st, 1741 ; died January 20th, 1823 ; married
36 Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy. [Jan.
November 12th, 1767), by his wife Elizabeth Perciva! (born
November 3, 1748; died May 14, 1832), of Lee, Mass.
Children: None.
Roland^ Thacher married a second time, November 28th,
1805, at Lee, Mass., to Lucretia Hinckley, bom October 13th,
I783> at Lee, Mass. ; died , at . She was a daughter
of Herman and Lydia ( ) Hinckley, of Lee, Mass.
Children: 2 (Thacher), i son and i daughter, both bom at
Lee, Mass.
+1581 i. Lucy,* bom November i6th, 1806; died ;
married Samuel Drake.
1582 ii. Roland," bom , 1808; died December 30th,
1828; probably not married.
Lucretia (Hinckley) Thacher, widow of Roland^ Thacher, mar-
ried a second time at Lee, Mass., May 30th, 1810, to James Ball,
and probably removed from Lee, Mass. Whether she had issue by
her second marriage or not is unknown to me ; but it is here imma-
terial, as they would not be of Thacher blood.
AUTHORTTIES :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, pp. 57, 68, 69.
Vital Records of Lee, Afass,,pp, 93, 165, 166, asi, 232.
Freeman Genealogy, pp. 49, 88.
949. Stephen^ Thacher (Deacon Roland,* Rev. Roland,' Col.
John,* Hon. Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom March
6th, 1781, at Wareham, Mass.; he lived until 17 years old at
Wareham, Mass., when he removed to Lee, Mass., until 1852,
when he removed to Saratoga Springs, N. Y., where he died
Monday morning, March ist, 1880, or Sunday evening, Febra-
ary 29th, 1880, and was probably buried at Saratoga, N. Y.,
or Lee, Mass. (I have no record of his burial.) He mar-
ried July 2nd, 1806, at Lee, Mass., to Hannah Bassett, bom
May 30th, 1784, at Lee, Mass. ; died September 13th (or 14th),
1848, aged 64, at Lee, Mass., and was there buried; grave-
stone. She was a daughter of Nathaniel Bassett (bom Sand-
wich, Mass., , 1758; died at Lee, Mass., May 6th, 1846,
aged 88) and Bethiah (bom , 1761, at Sandwich,
Mass. ; died March 20th, 1849, ^^ about 87 or 88 years), of
Lee, Mass.
Children: 3 (Thacher), i son and 2 daughters, all bom at
Lee, Mass.
4-1583 i. Maria Louisa,* bom December 25th, 1809; died
; married Jared Ingersoll, Jr.
1584 ii. George,* bom September 12th, 181 1 ; died March
17th, 1852, at Lee, Mass. ; married October 3rd,
1833, at (intention published at Lee, Mass.,
September 7th, 1833), to Eliza M. Brown, of
Southwick. No issue.
+1585 iii. Caroline,* bom April 28th, 1821 ; died May 21st,
1872; married Dr. Horatio S. Cobb.
igiSO Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy. 37
Stephen^ Thacher lived in Wareham, Mass., until he was sev-
enteen years old, at which time his father decided to remove to
Lee, whither some of his friends had already preceded him. He
was determined to move, but the question of how and when he
became important, for in those davs railroads were tmknown and a
journey of 150 miles was as hiuch of an undertaking as a journey
from Boston to San Francisco would be now. It was finally
decided to move in February while the sleighing was good. Accord-
ingly a large ox-sled was provided, upon which the household goods
were loaded, and which was drawn by a yoke of oxen, with a horse
in the lead. They started about the 20^ of the month and were
seventeen days on the trip, striking the Boston and Albany turn-
pike, the great thoroughfare of those days, near Worcester. So
long were they upon the road that the same stages and drivers passed
and repassed them several times on their trips between Boston and
Albany: They arrived at their destination on Saturday. News of
their coming had preceded them, and a company of their old friends
came out to escort them in, meeting them near what is now known
as "Green Water Pond,^' in the town of Becket. Deacon Roland*
Thacher bought a farm of about; 300 acres a little north of the
yillag^ of Lee. Stephen^ Thacher remained on his farm about
three years, and there determined to ship as a whaler, which was
then a very profitable business. Accordingly in the spring of 1801
he went to Hudson, N. Y., for that purpose; but, finding no imme-
diate chance to ship, he procured work, intending to remain there
tiritil a good opportunity presented itself. None, however, oflFerinp;
itself, he returned home in the autumn, where he remained until
the following spring, when he, in company with others, engaged
to labor on the turnpike then being built between Albany and
Schenectady, N. Y. He continued on this work five seasons of
seven months each, a part of the time as overseer. Returning to
Lee, he engaged in manufacturing, and was the pioneer in several
important enterprises, building a powder mill, which he operated
until the embargo of 1809 caused its suspension in 181 1. He also
built a wire factory and continued the manufacture of wire until
after the War of 1812, when English wire coming in, he could not
compete with it. He also built and operated a chair factory for
several years. He built the first paper mill on the Housatonic River
in Lee, and remained in this business until his retirement from active
life in 1852. In connection with this he established the manufacture
and sale of Navarino bonnets, which were very popular and fashion-
able at that time, and for a season this proved a very profitable
business. His mind was always active and of an inventive turn,
he was always seeking to improve upon the methods tihen employed ;
and thus he introduced many useful improvements in the manu-
facture of paper, some of which are still in use. Not content with
the manner of manufacturing paper a sheet at a time and by hand,
he conceived the idea of making it in a continuous sheet by machin-
ery. He obtained a reluctant consent from his partners and an
appropriation of $1,500.00 from the firm to experiment in that
3A
38 Tkcuher-Thatcher Genealogy, [Jan.
direction. The result was that in less than six weeks and before
the appropriation was exhausted, he presented a sheet of paper
of the ordinary width and several feet in length. His partners were
astonished. This invention of his was the origin of the cylinder
machine for the manufacture of paper, which is still used in many
mills. Stephen^ Thacher possessed the confidence and esteem of the
entire community and was honored with many important trusts.
He was appointed Justice of the Peace for seven successive terms,
28 years m all ; he was known as Squire Thacher so long that his
baptismal name was almost forgotten, and was in fact unknown
to many. He was a member of the Massachusetts Legislature, 1829-
1831, and while in that body was the originator of measures that
were of much value to manufacturers, especially to owners of mill
sites. In the year 1852, being somewhat advanced in years and
desirous of retiring from active business, he sold out his interests
in Lee and removed to Saratoga Springs, where he lived until his
death.
AirrHORiTiEs :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, pp. 57, 69, 70-71.
Vital Records of Lee, Mass,, pp. 16, 93, 166.
History of Lee, Mass,, pp. 10, 21.
950. Adah^ Thacher (Deacon Roland,* Rev. Roland,* Col. John,*
Hon. Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom December 12th,
1783 (or 1784), at Wareham, Mass.; died March 23rd, 1812,
in her 29th year, at Lee, Mass., and was buried there ; grave-
stone. She married at Lee, Mass., June i8th, 1804 (or June
24th, 1805, latter date probably incorrect), to John Eells, Jr.,
of Stockbridge, Mass. (as his first wife) ; after marriap^e he
is thought to have lived at Lee, Mass., as two of his children
by his second marriage were bom there. He was bom May
nth, 1780, at ; he died October 17, 1826, at Stockbridge,
Mass., being killed by beii^ run over by a cartload of apples.
He was a son of John Eells and of Elizabeth Lord, who
lived at .
Children: None.
John Eells, Jr., married a second time, February 9th,
1813, at , to Hannah Comstock, bom , at ; died
Apnl I2th, 1875, 2it . She was a daughter of and
of , who resided at .
Children by second marriage: 6 (Eells), 2 sons and 4 daugh-
ters, first 2 bom at Lee, Mass. Not in Thacher line.
1. Adah Thacher, bom December 6th, 1813; died December
loth, 1865; married Charles Bangs, of Lenox, Mass.;
children, 5 (Bangs), 2 sons, 3 daughters.
2. David B-- — (or E ), bom March 12th, 1815; died
July 3rd, 1879 5 Jnarried Sarah Wells, of Pittsfield, Mass. ;
children, i. William F , lives in Boston, and has i
son. 2. Alice. 3. Elizabeth.
1915-1 ThachiT'Thatcher Genealogy, 39
3. Mary C , bom January 27th, 181 7 ; died December 5th,
1865; married at Lee, Mass., October 13th, 1842, to Bar-
nabas Hinckley, of Lenox, Mass. No children.
4. Richard P , bom July Sth, 1818; died ; married
July 14th, 1845, to Catherine M Onderdonk, bom
; died Febmary — , 1863. Resided at Nyack, N. Y.
No children.
5. Elizabeth H , bom October ist, 1821 ; died May loth,
1843, ^g^d 20, at Lee, Mass., of puerperal fever; married
March 24th, 1842, at Lee, Mass., to John B. Easland (as
his first wife) ; child, i son, Charles Edward, bom at
Lee, Mass., April 23rd, 1843. ]^^ B. Easland married,
second, to Elizabeth Ann Andrews, who died at Lee,
Mass., March 30th, 1845, ^iged 24, of puerperal fever, by
whom he had i chUd, Allen John, bom March 21st, 1845.
John B. Easland married a third time (intention
published at Lee, Mass., September nth, 1847, ^^ which
date he was 28 years old and a widower), at , to
Amelia L. Bentley. (John B. Easland was a son of John
and Sophronia ( ) Easland).
6. Sarah A , bom February loth, 1824; died ; mar-
ried Fernando Kilboume, of New Brighton, S. I., N. Y.
No issue.
AuTH(»aTiES :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 57.
Vital Records of Lee, Mass,, pp. 39i 129, 139, 165, 196.
Miss Nettie Bamum Eells, of New York City.
952. Thirza^ Crocker (Sylvia* Thacher, Rev. Roland,' Col. John,*
Hon. Col. John,* Antony, * Rev. Peter*), bom September 19th,
1769, at Cotuit, Mass.; died April 29th, 1828, at Cotuit,
Mass., and was buried there in Little River Cemetery ; grave-
stone. She married April 5th, 1792, at Cotuit, Mass., to Cap-
tain James Childs, bom May 22, 1767; baptized May 24tn,
1767, at ; died January ist, 1834, in 66th year, at Cotuit,
Mass., and was buried there in Little River Cemetery ; grave-
stone. He was a son of James Childs (bom April 22, 1725)
and his wife Mary Parker (daughter of David Parker, Esq.),
of Bamstable, Mass.
Children: 6 (Childs), 5 sons and i daughter, all bom at
Cotuit, Mass.
1586 i. Daniel,* bom October 17th, 1793; died January
26th, 1857; married September 20th, 1818, to
Abigail S. Lovell. He resided at Bamstable.
1587 ii. James,* bom December 12th, 1797; died May
30th, 1867; married September 21st (or 28th),
1820, to Elizabeth (Betsey) Crocker. 7 children.
1588 iii. Alexander Crocker,* bom November 20th, 1799;
died September sth, 1873; married, first (inten-
tion published Bamstable, January 29th, 1833),
to Sarah Bacon Crocker, No. 1596, who died
40 Thacher'Thatcher Genealogy. [Jan.
June 9th (or loth), 1836, leaving no issue; mar-
ried, second (intention published at Barnstable,
January 6th, 1838), to Lucy Crocker Shaw; 5
children.
1589 iv. George Crocker,* bom April 15th, 1801; died
; married Mary H Nichols, by whom
he had 2 daughters.
1590 V. Dorcas S ,• bom October 26th, 1804; died
April 26th, i8iB3; married February 19th, 1824,
to John Coleman ; i daughter.
1591 vi. Zenas Crocker,* bom January nth, 1808; died
August 8th, 1808, at Cotuit, Mass., aged 7
months and 7 days, and was buried there in
Marston Mills Cemetery; gravestone.
A James Childs married at Bamstable, Mass., September 19th,
1833, to Anna A. Estabrook. It is possible that after the death of
Thirza^ (Crocker) Childs, her husband may have married a sec-
ond time to this Anna A. Estabrook.
Authorities:
Miss Susan Annette Crocker, of Santuit, Be. Co., Mass.
Stanley W. Smith, of Boston, Mass.
Otis Barnstable Families, Vol I, pp. 185, 186.
953. LucY^ Crocker (Sylvia* Thacher, Rev. Roland,* Col. John,*
Hon. Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom August 28th,
177 1, at Cotuit, Mass. ; died October 9th, 1853, at Bamstable,
Mass., aged 82, and was buried at Cotuit, Mass. ; gravestone.
She married November — , 1798, to Rev. Philander Shaw (as
his second wife), bom November 27th, 1767, at Marshfield,
Mass.; Harvard College, 1792; A. M., Brown University,
179s; Congregational Minister, ordained September 23rd,
I795» at Eastham, and held pastorate of Second Congr^-
tional Church there until 1838. Represented Eastham in
Massachusetts General Court, 1837-38. He died at Eastham,
Mass., October loth, 184 1, aged 73. He was a son of Rev.
William Shaw by his wife Ann Crocker, who resided at
Marshfield, Mass.
Children: 7 (Shaw), 5 sons and 2 daughters, all bom at
Eastham, Mass.
1592 i. Philander,* bom December (or November) — ,
1799; died January 17th, 1800, aged 7 weeks, at
Eastham, Mass., and was buried there in Her-
ring Pond Cemetery ; g^vestone.
1593 li. Dorcas Doane,* bom , 1800; died Septem-
ber 23rd, 1804, in her 4th year, at Eastham,
Mass., and was buried there in Herring Pond
Cemetery; gravestone.
1594 iii. William,* bom ; died , young.
1595 iv. Oakes,* bom , 1807; died February 23rd,
1816, aged 9 years, at Eastham, Mass., and was
buried tfiere in Herring Pond Cemetery.
191 5-] Thacher-TkatcJur Genealogy, 4 1
1596 V. Lucy Crocker,* bom June 20th, 181 1 ; died Janu-
ary I2th, 1891 ; married (intention published
January 6th, 1838), at Barnstable to Alexander
Crocker* Childs, No. 1588, as his second wife,
and bv him she had 5 children.
1597 vL Joseph C ,• bom , 1813; died February
4th, 1816, aged 3 years, at Eastham, Mass., and
; was buried there in Herring Pond Cemetery;
gravestone.
1598 vii. Joseph P ,• bom ; died ; he settled
m Roxbury, Mass. ; he married Sarah Heath, by
whom he had 4 children.
Reverend Philander Shaw married, first, November 19th, 1795,
at Eastham, Mass. (ceremony performed by Rev. Jonathan Bas-
com), to Dorcas (or Dorothy) Doane, bora October 12th, 1778, at
Eastham, Mass. ; died "of a languishment'' July 17th, 1797, in her
19th year, at Eastham, Mass., and was buried tfiere m Herrine
Pond Cemetery; gravestone. She was a daughter of Joel and
Mehitabel (Walker) Doane, of Eastham, Mass. By this first mar-
riage there was no issue.
AuTHounEs:
Freemav^s Cape Cod, Vol. II, p. 41a
Stanley W. Smith, of Boston, Mass.
Mayflower Descendant, Vol IX, p. yo.
Otis Barnstable Families, Vol I, p. 242.
Doane Family, p. 152.
Brown University Historical Catalogue, 1764-1894, p. J38.
954. Roland Thacher^ Crocker (Sylvia* Thacher, Rev. Roland,'
Col. Tohn,* Hon. Col. John,' Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom
March 7th, 1773, at Cotuit, Mass. ; he lived at Cotuit, where
he was the first postmaster; he kept a store and sold ''wine,
rum and brandy"; he died October 22nd, 1846, at Cotuit,
Mass., and was buried in Marston Mills Cemetery, Barnsta-
ble Co., Mass. He married (intention published at Barn-
stable, September 3rd, 1808), at , to Rebecca Jenkins
Bacon, bom Barnstable, December 7th, 1784; died at Bam-
stable, Jtme 13th, 1848, and was buried in Marston Mills
Cemetery. She was a daughter of Ebenezer Bacon, of Bam-
stable by his second wife, Rebecca ?
Children : — . I have no record of any issue by this marriage.
Authorities :
Susan Annette Crocker, of Santuit, Mass.
Stanley W. Smith, of Boston, Mass.
History of Barnstable Co:, Mass., pp. 403-4.
Otis Barnstable Families, Vol. I, p. 240.
955. EzRA^ Crocker (Sylvia* Thacher, Rev. Roland," Col. John,*
Hon. Col. John,' Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom March 21st,
^775* 2tt Cotuit, Mass.; he lived at Cotuit, Mass., where he
was a tavern keeper and blacksmith; he died at Cotuit (i. e..
West Barnstable), Mass., April 9th, 1843, ^^^ ^^^^^ buried in
^2 Tkachgr-TheUchir Genealogy. [Jan.
Marston Mills Cemetery; gravestone. He married, first, ,
at , to Temperance Crocker, bom July 28th, 1776, at
Barnstable; died June (or January), sth, 1812, at Cotuit,
Mass., and was buried m Marston Mills Cemetery; grave-
stone. She was a datighter of Daniel Crocker, of Barnstable,
Mass., by either his second wife, Phebe Winslow, of Har-
wich, whom he married in 1735, or by his third wife, Bath-
sheba Jenkins.
Children: i (Crocker), son, bom at Cottiit, Mass.
1599 i. David,^ bom January 24th, 1805 ; died May 20th
(28th or 29th), 1875; married, first, Julia Scud-
der; married, second, Elizabeth Crocker* Childs,
daughter of James* Childs and his wife Elizabeth
(Betsey) Crocker (see Nos. 952 and 1587).
Ezra^ Crocker married a second time November — , 1812,
at Barnstable, to Lydia Nye, bora February 6th, 1777, at ;
died February 3rd, 1870, aged 93, at Barnstable, Mass., and
was bured at Marston Mills Cemetery. She was a daughter of
Silvanus Nye (bom August 12th, 1744, at Sandwich, Mass. ;
died between July 8th and November 14th, 1820) and his
wife Rebecca ?
Children: None.
In Marston Mills Cemetery there are two stones thus in-
scribed :
"In Memory of Ezra Crocker who died April 9th, 1843, ^ig^d 68
A worthy man."
"Here lies the body of Mrs. Temperance Crocker wife of Mr. Ezra
Crocker; she died January 5th, 1812 in the 36th year of her age."
Authorities :
Miss Susan Annette Crocker, of Santuit, Mass.
Stanley W. Smith, of Boston, Mass.
Oti^ Barnstable Families, Vol. I, pp. 240-1.
Nye Genealogy, pp. 108, 109.
956. Alvan^ Crocker (Sylvia* Thacher, Rev. Roland,' Col. John,*
Hon. Col. John," Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom May 6th, 1777,
at Cotuit, Mass. ; he lived at Barnstable, Mass., and died there
November 22nd, 1862, in his 86th year, and was buried in
Marston Mills Cemetery; eravestone; he married, first, ,
at , to Phebe Crocker, oorn March 9th, 1781, atBarnesta-
ble; died October i8th, 1825, in her 45th year, at Cotuit,
Mass.; and was buried in Marston Mills Cemetery; grave-
stone. She was a daughter of Winslow Crocker (bom De-
cember 31st, 1755, at ; died ; married June 30th,
1780), and his wife Mercy Blush (bom April i8th, 1762;
died ; daughter of Silas and Nancy (Tobey) Blush), of
Barnstable, Mass.
Children: 4 (Crocker), 2 sons and 2 daughters, all bom at
Bamstable, Mass.
iQisO Thacker-Tkatcher Genealogy, 43
1600 i. Hannah,® bom December ist, 1806; died ;
married N S Spooner.
1601 ii. Arthur W ,® bom July 7th, 1807; died Feb-
ruary 19th, 1852; married, first, Mary D
Fish ; married, second, Temperance Hall ; he had
3 children by his first wife.
1602 iii. Heman,* bom June i6th, 1809; died ; mar-
ried, first, Sylvia Giflford Holway; married, sec-
ond, Ly(Ua Barber; he had 3 dhildren by first
wife and i by second wife.
1603 IV. Eliza,' bom , 1812 ; died April 19th, 1816,
in her 4th year, at Barnstable, Mass., and was
buried in Marston Mills Cemetery; gravestone.
Alvan^ Crocker was married a second time December
31st, 1832, at Bamstable, by Rev. Phineas Fish, to Lucy T
(or F) Sampson, bom March — , 1793; died October
17th, 1872, aged 79 years and 7 months, and was buried at
Marston Mills Cemetery ; gravestone.
Children: None.
Authorities :
Miss Susan Annette Crocker, of Santuit, Mass.
Stanley W. Smith, of Boston, Mass.
Oti^ Bamstable Families, VoL I, p. 24a
961. Abigail^ Nye (Desire* Thacher, Rev. Roland," Col. John,*
Hon. Col. John,' Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom February 12th,
1775, at Wareham, Mass.; died , at ; she married
at Wareham, Mass., March 3rd (or 30th), 1797, to Ebenezer
White, of Wareham, Mass., by whom she had the following:
Children: 5 (White), sons.
1604 i. Roland Thacher,* bom March ist, 1799.
1605 ii. Andrew,* bom July 14th, 1801; di^ Novem-
ber 13th, 1802.
1606 iii. Albert Galatin,* bom August 31st, 1803.
1607 iv. David Nye,* bom August 22nd, 1805.
1608 V. James Madison,* bom March 2nd, 1809.
The Wareham Records show the marriage of an Abigail Nye
to Ephraim Chubbock on September 5th, 1792. It is possible that
the above Abigail^ Nye (No. 961) may have marned, first, to
Ephraim Chubbock; tnat she married to Ebenezer White is dear
from the name of her first child, who was named after Abigail^
Nye's grandfather. Rev. Roland* Thacher.
Authorities :
J. M. Lincoln, an authority on Wareham and Rochester, Mass., Records.
Nye Genealogy, p. 123.
963. Desire^ Nye (Desire* Thacher, Rev. Roland,' Col. John,*
Hon. Col. John,' Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom , at Ware-
ham, Mass.; died , at ; married , at , to
David Peirce (son of Jesse and Ruth ( ) Peirce of Ware-
^^ Thachit-Thatcker Genealogy. [Jan.
ham, Mass.)f of Wareham, Mass., by whom she had the
following:
Children: 6 (Peirce), 2 sons and 4 daughters, all born at
Wareham, Mass.
1609 L Salome,* bom ; died ; married Hugh
Merriam of Warehain, Mass.
1610 ii. Ruth,* bom ; died ; married John
Bumpas of Wareham, Mass.
I(5li iii. Mary,* born ; died ; married first, John
McCoy; married second, David Harlow of
Sharon.
1612 iv. David,* bom ; died .
1613 V. Otis,* borii ; died ; married Hannah
Bumpas.
1614- vi. Lucy,* born — -\ died — — ; married first,
Rowland S Bumpas; married second,
Deacon Brownell Tripp of Acushnet.
Authority:
Nye Genealogy, p. 123.
Peirce Genealogy^ pp. 88, 17 r, 419.
964. ToANNA^ Nye (Desire* Thacher, Rev. Roland,* Col. John,*
Hon. Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter* J, bom , at Ware-
ham, Mass.; died , at ; mamed , at Wareham,
Mass., to Richard Peirce (son of Jesse and Ruth ( )
Peirce or Wareham, Mass.), of Wareham, Mass., by whom
she had the following:
Children: 3 (Peirce) 2 sons and i daughter, all borh at
Wareham.
161 5 1. Benjamin.*
1616 ii. Richard.*
1617 iil Betsey.*
AUTHOWTY :
Uye Genealogy, p. ia3.
Peirce Genealogy, pp. 88, 171, 419.
965. LucY^ Thacher Nye (Desire* Thacher, Rev. Roland,* CoL
John,* Hon. Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom May
20th, 1781, at Wareham, Mass.; died March 6th, 1845, at
Wareham, Mass., and was buried there in Parker Mills Ceme-
tery; she married October 15th, 1812 (intention published
September 27th, 1812), at Wareham, Mass., to William Bar-
rows (as his second wife), bom November 3rd, 1778, at ;
he lived at Wareham and died there December 27th, 1866,
and was there buried.
Children: 3 (Barrows), sons.
1618 i. Jonathan Thrasher* (sic), bom March 6th, 1814.
1619 11. David Nye,* bom Aufftist 27th, 1816.
1620 iii Charles,* bom July Stii, 1820; died , 1822.
William Barrows married, first, to Ann ? bom 9-9-
1782; died 9-11-1811, by whom he had the following:
I9I5*] Thacher'Thatcher Genealogy. 45
Children: 3 (Barrows), i son and 2 daughters, not in Thacher
line.
1. William White, bom , 1804.
2. Hannah Gushing, bom , 1806.
3. Ann White, bom , 1809.
Dr. Charles C. Barrows of New York City is a grandson of
Lucy Thacher^ Nye.
AuTH(»trnEs:
Nye Genealogy, p. las.
J. M. Lincoln, an authority on Wareham and Rochester Records.
966. Rev. Jonathan^ Nye (Desire* Thacher, Rev. Roland,' Col.
John,* Hon. Col. John,' Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom March
5th, 1783, at Wareham, Mass.; he lived successively at St
Albans and Newfane, Vermont, Claremont, N. H., Philips-
burg P. O., Canada, and Fort Madison, Iowa, in which latter
place he died April ist, 1843, ^^^ where he was buried. He
was a Congregational clergyman. He married July 4th, 1807,
at St. Albans, Vt, to Mary (Polly) Rhodes, bom September
20th, 1790, at St Albans, Vt ; died April 26th, 1837, at Clare-
mont, N. H. She was a datighter of Anthony and Betsey
(Armington) Rhodes, of St Albans, Vt
Children: 7 (Nye), 4 sons and 3 daughters.
1621 I David Thacher Rhodes,* bora October 8th, 1808 ;
died January — ^ 1890; married Emily Betsey
Munson.
1622 ii. William A.,® bora October 9th, 1812 ; died y
at Richmond, Va., where he was connected with
the newspaper Whig; he had no family.
1623 iii. Nelson Blucher,* bora December 19th, 1814;
died ; married Harriet Murdoch Shaw.
1624 iv. Elizabeth Armington,* bom May 20th (or 26th),
1817; died February i8th, 1883; married Rev.
Asa Nye Bodfish.
1625 V. Holden R.,* bom September 28th, 1819; died
January 17th, 1889; married Harriet Augusta
Welch.
1626 vi. Mary Jane,* bora Sratember 22nd, 1821 (or
1822); died April I3tn, 1882; married August
5th, 1846, at Bangor, Me., to Dr. George Augus-
tus Charles Shurtleff. No issue.
1627 viL Sarah Ann,* bora June 23rd, 1825 ; died Febra-
ary 5th, 1898; married Edmund Weston.
It is said that Rev. Jonathan^ Nye was a mason of high d^^ee,
and that he founded a lodge at Fort Madison, Iowa, and that his
portrait is in the rooms of the Lodge. He was the second Pastor
of the Congr^^tional Church at Newfane, Vermont, being installed
there Novemt^r 6th, 181 1, and dismissed therefrom December 26tih,
1819.
46 Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy. [Jan.
Authorities :
Nye Genealogy, pp. 205-6.
Shurtleg Genealogy, Vol. I, p. 155.
J. M. Lincoln, an authority on Wareham and Rochester, Mass., Records.
Miss Mary Agnes Burton, of Detroit, Mich.
Vermont Gazetteer, Vol. V, p. 483.
History of Claremont, N. H.
967. David^ Nye (Desire* Thacher, Rev. Roland,' Col. John/ Hon.
Col. John,' Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bora April 22nd, 1785, at
Wareham, Mass. ; he lived at Wareham, Mass., where he was
a salt manufacturer from 1814 to 1833; he was a Selectman
1831-2-3; Justice of the Peace in 1830, 1838 and 1845 > he was
on the first Board of Directors and was President of the
Wareham Bank and was also an iron manufacturer. He
died at Albany, N. Y., May oth, 1863. He was married at
Wareham by the Rev. Noble Everett on June 14th, 1810 (in-
tention published May 27th, 1810), to Lucy Fearing, bora
Wareham, Mass., June 20th, 1789 ; died at Rhinebeck, N. Y.,
Febraary 22nd, 1868. She was a daughter of Brigadier-Gen-
eral Israel Fearing by his wife Lucy Bourne, who resided at
Wareham, Mass.
Children: 5 (Nye), 2 sons and 3 daughters, all bora at Ware-
ham.
1628 i. Desire Thacher,® bora June 2nd, 1815; died
— -; married Charles C. Ellis of Wareham;
according to Allen's Thacher Genealogy^ p. 88,
she previously married Alfred Wilde of Rhine-
beck, N. Y.
1629 ii. Lucy Ann,* born April 5th, 1816; died June
i8th, 1833; not married.
1630 iii. David,* bora August i, 1821; died , 1858;"
went to Calif oraia ; he married and left issue.
1631 IV. Israel Fearing,® bora April 25th, 1823; died
; went to Calif oraia.
1632 V. Mary Adams,* bora May 22nd, 1825; died- — ;
married Capt. William Nott.
Authorities :
Nye Genealogy, pp. 206, 318.
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 88.
J. M. Lincoln, an authority on Wareham and Rochester Records.
975. Sarah (Sally)^ Thacher (Lot,* Rev. Roland,* Col. John,*
Hon. Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bora August 6th,
1779, at Wareham, Mass.; died September 6th, 1809 (or Sep-
tembiir i6th, 1810), at Hudson, N. Y., and was there buried.
She married , 1799, at Wareham (or Rochester), Mass.,
to Barnabas^ Waterman (Perez,* Perez,* John,* Deacon John,*
Robert,* Thomas*), bora Bridgewater, Mass., September 23rd,
1776; he lived at Bridgewater and Oakham, Mass., and at
Hudson, N. Y*, and was a carpenter and builder. He died
at Hudson, N. Y., June 4th, 1839, and was there buried.
igiSO Thctchir'TheUcher Genealogy. 47
He was a son of Perez Waterman (born June 9th, 1739, at
^ Mass. ; died , 182 1, at Oakham, Mass.), by his wife
Abigail Cofiin Huz2rv (of Nantucket, Mass.), who resided at
Bri^ewater until 1800 and afterwards at Oakham, Mass.
Qiildren: 5 (Waterman), 3 sons and i daughter and sex not
stated.
+1633 i. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney,' bom January
18th, 1801 ; died November 22nd, 1884; married
Qiarlotte Chapouil.
+1634 iL Geoiige,* bom ^ 1805; died ; married
Lucy Ditson (or Delano).
+1635 ^^^* Joshua Tobey,® bom September — , 1807; died
January i6th, 1891; married, first, Delia Hyatt
Fennoyer; married, second, Jeanette Ten Eyck.
1636 IV. Sally Abigatil,* bom ; died ^ aged 2
years.
1637 V. Infant® (sex not stated), bom September 6th,
1809 (or September i6tii, 1810) ; died at birth
at Hudson, N. Y., and was buried in graveyard
with its mother.
AUTHORTTIES :
Alltr^s Thacher Genealogy, p. 57-
N. E. Hist. Gen. Register, Vol. XXXDC, p. ga
Wm. H. Rainey, of Kinderhook. N. Y., a descendant <
Henry Waterman George, of Brooklyn, N. Y., a descendant
976. David^ Thacher (Lot,® Rev. Roland,' Col. John,* Hon. Col-
John,' Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom August 28th, 1781, at
Wareham, Mass. ; he lived at Newport, IL I., and at Boston,
Mass.; he died August 22nd (or 23rd), 184^, at , and
was buried at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Qmibndge, Mass.; he
married October ist, 1808, to Rebecca Deblois, bom October
— , 1787, at Newport, R. I., and was baptized there in Trinity
Church at the age of 3 months on January — , 1788; died
^ 1848, at , and was buried at Mt. Aubum Cemeteiy,
Cambridge, Mass. She was a datighter of Stephen Deblois,
(bom , 1735, at Oxford, Eng.; died Febmary 15th, 1805,
ap^ed 70, at Newport, R. L; married March isth, 1779, and
his second wife Jane Brown (bom October 28th, 1752, at New-
port, R. I. ; died July 8th, 1829, aged 78, at Newport, R. I. ;
dau^ter of John and Ann (Chapman) Brown), who resided
successively at Boston, Mass., Newport, R. I., and New York
City.
Children: 8 (Thacher), 4 sons and 4 daughters; order oi
birth not vouched for.
1638 1. (daughter),^ bom ; died August 4th, 1811,
at Newport, R. I.
1639 ii Geoiige Lewis ist,* bom ; baptized Trinity
Church, Newport, R. I., August 4th, 1812 ; died
, at Newport, R. I., September 3rd, 1813.
^g Thacher-Thatcher Getua/ogy. [Jan.
+1640 iii. Edward H.,® born ; died ; married
?; he was living in New York City in 1872.
+1641 iv. Harriet,* bom ; died ; married, first,
Wm. H Bartlett of Newburyport, Mass.;
married, second, John J. Adams, of New York
City.
-I-1642 V. Anne,* bom ; died ; married, first,
Hervey Gibson; married, second, George Mc-
Donald, of New York.
1643 vi' George Lewis 2nd,* bora ; baptized Trinity
P. E. Church, Newport, R. I., December 28th,
1814; died ; not married.
-I-1644 vii. Stephen Deblois,* bom , 181 5 {Arnold's
Vital Records of Rhode Island, Vol. X, p. 520,
says that he was baptized at Trinity P. E. Qiurch,
Newport, R. I., December 28th, 1802 ; but as his
parents were not married until October ist, 1808,
this year date of baptism must be incorrect) ;
died October — , 1870; married Evelina Qeve-
land Denison.
+1645 viii- Sarah Jane,* bom ; died ; married
Charles Augustus Locke.
Stephen Deblois* first wife was Rebecca Wickham, whom he
married at Newport, R. I., December 9th, 1767.
Authorities :
Arnold's Vital Records of Rhode Island, Vol X, pp. 496, 529, 543.
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, pp. 57, 58» 7i.*
Locke Genealogy, pp. I39» 255.
Russell Family, by James Russell Bartlett (N. Y. Public Library), p. 58.
N, E. Hist. Gen, Reg,, Vol. 67, pp. 12, 13.
977. Harrison O ^ Thacher (Lot,* Rev. Roland,* Col. John,*
Hon. Col. John", Antony*, Rev. Peter*), bom December 24th,
1783, at Wareham, Mass.; he lived in Maine; he died April
I2th, 1833, according to George Winslow Thacher of Yar-
mouthport, Mass. (July 19th, 1853, according to Allen's
Thacher Genealogy, p. 57, which is probably incorrect). He
married (intention published at Machias, Maine, June
— , 1805), at f to Deborah Smith, of Machias, Maine.
Children: None.
Authorities :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 57.
Hon. George Thacher*s MSS. Thacher Genealogy, p. 191.
Bangor, Me,, Historical Magcunne, Vol. IX.
978. Charles Fearing^ Thacher (Lot*, Rev. Roland*, Col. John*,
Hon. Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom May 4th, 1786,
at Wareham, Mass. ; he lived at Machias, Maine, and Middle-
boro, Mass.; he was a farmer; he died February 28th, 1872,
aged 85 years, 9 months, 24 days, at . He was married at
Hanover, Mass., by Rev. Seth Oiapin, February ist, 1820, to
IQISO Thacker'Thatcker Genealogy, 49
Sylvia Crocker (or Crooker), born March nth, 1798, at ;
died November 15th, 1872, aged 74-8-4» at .
Chfldren: 9 (Thacher), 2 sons and 7 daughters.
+1646 i. Charles Tilden,® bom October nth, 1821; died
November iSth, 1895; married ist, Sophia T.
Barrows; married 2nd, Mary Ann Alden.
+1647 ii- Mary C,® bom March 9th, 1824 (or 1826);
died May 26th, 1884 (aged 58 according to
Sears Genealogy, p. 352^robably incorrect, aged
602-17, according to Charles Milton Thacher,
of Middleboro, Mass., probably correct) ; mar-
ried James Butler Sears.
-f 1648 iii. Caroline A.,* bom June 28th, 1827; died March
nth, 1893; married Stephen D. Jordan.
+1649 iv. Eliza T.,* bom November 22nd, 1828; died
April loth, 1901 ; married Horatio W. Wood.
-f 1650 V. Sarah B.,* bom January 31st, 1831 ; died March
i6th, 1872; married James H. Sampson.
165 1 vi. Annie M.,* bom August 25th, 1832; died Octo-
ber 28th, 1853, aged 21 years, 2 months, 3 days;
not married.
1652 vii. Adelaide M.,® bom October 13th, 1834; died
December i8th, 1851, aged 17-2-5; not married.
1653 viii. Priscilla B.,® bom June 12th, 1837; died October
2nd, 1862, aged 25-3-20; not married.
-|-i654 ix. William H.,« bom May 8th, 1839; died ;
married Lillie Cutler.
AuTHORmEs :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 71-72.
Vital Records of Hanover, Mass., p. 142.
Sears Genealogy, by S. P. May, p. 352.
Charles Milton Thacher, of Middleboro, Mass., his grandson.
Hon. George Thacher's MSS. Thacher Genealogy, p. 199.
980. Peter^ Thatcher (Lot,* Rev. Roland,' Col. John,* Hon. Col.
John,' Antony,** Rev. Peter^), bom August 21st, 1790, at
Wareham, Mass. ; he lived at Middleboro and Boston, Mass.,
in which latter city he was a Dry Goods merchant of the firm
of Thatcher, Fearing and Co., of Water Street; he died at
Newton Center, Mass., June 15th, 1873, ^^d was buried at
Mt. Aubum Cemetery, Cambndge, Mass. He married at
Wareham, Mass., December 9th (or 19th), 1815 (intention
published Wareham, November 7th, 181 5), to Elizabeth Fear-
ing, bom , 1795 (see age at and date of death), at Ware-
ham, Mass. ; died March 31st, 1864, aged 69, at Boston, Mass.,
and was buried at Mt. Aubum Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
She was a daughter of John and Abigail (Gibbs) Fearing of
Wareham, Mass.
Children: 7 (Thatcher), 5 sons and 2 daughters, all bom at
Boston, Mass.
50 Thachir-Thatcher Cengalogy. [Jan*
+1655 L John Fearing,® born September 7th (or 17th),
1818; died May 4th, 1891; married Catherine
Gibbs Burgess.
+1656 it Elizabeth Fearing,® bom January 2Qth, 1822;
died November 2ath, 1879; married Wilson Jar-
vis Welch.
1657 iii. Peter Fearing,® bom May 13th, 1824; died Au-
gust 6th, 1847, ^^ Boston, Mass., and was buried
at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. Not
married.
1658 iv. Emeline Henry,® bora March 31st, 1826; bap-
tized Old Soutfi Church, Boston, Jime 25m,
1826; died at Boston, Mass., March 5th, 1838,
and was buried in Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cam-
bridge, Mass.
1659 V. George Henry,® bora November 23rd, 1828; bap-
tized Old Soutfi Church, Boston, November 30m,
1828, in which records his name is given as
George Andrew Thatcher; died at Boston, Mass.,
November 20th, 1842, and was buried in Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
1660 vi. Albert Elbridge,® born May 22nd, 1829; bap-
tized Old South Church, Boston, July i8th, 1830;
he lived in New York City and was at one time
a reporter on the Uew York Evening Express.
I am informed that he was also somewhat of an
astronomer and used to locate himself at night
at the comer of 23rd Street and 5th Avenue,
with a telescope through which passers-by could
view the heavens for a consideration. He died
unmarried in New York City, December 14th,
I905» aged 76, and was buried in Mt Auburn
Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
-f 1661 vii. Franklin Nye,® bom October ist, 1835; died
; married Eunice Harriet Cheney.
Peter^ Thatcher lived for a time in Middleboro, Mass., and
then removed to Boston and engaged in mercantile pursuits. He
afterwards in company with his brother, under the firm name of
David and Peter Thatcher, carried on a heavy dryj^oods business ;
and in 1849 the firm became Thatcher, Fearing and Thatcher. There
was at the same time another firm of tfie name of Fearing and
Thacher (Isaac Thacher bein|f the Thacher in this firm). In the
latter part of his life he was m the insurance business. He was a
man much honored and beloved
AuTH(»trnEs :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, pp. 57, 72.
His son, Franklin Nye Thatcher, No. 144 State Street, Boston, Mass.
Charles Milton Thacher, of Middlehoro, Mass.
{To de continued.)
igi 5.] A Check List of Biographical Directories and 5 1
A CHECK LIST OF BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORIES
AND GENERAL CATALOGUES OF AMERICAN
COLLEGES.
By Eva Alice Cole, Columbia University Library.
All research workers in genealogy and biography who have
occasion to consult the standard biographical dictionaries realize
very soon the many omissions in even the most comprehensive of
such works and recognize the necessity of supplementing them
with other works which furnish information, however brief,
about the persons whose names were omitted from the more
general works. Such excellent compilations as the Dictionary of
rfational Biography and Appleton's Cyclopedia of American
Biography y from the very nature of the case omit more names
than they include, since they furnish information about well
known individuals only and omit those who were obscure or had
only a local or very special celebrity. If the desired biographical
data about such mdividuals are to be found, sq^iething more
than the general biographical dictionaries must be consulted.
For such cases the various college biographical catalogues and
alumni lists often furnish ^' first aid" and sometimes provide the
full information desired.
The college biographical dictionary is by no means a new type
of reference book. Perhaps the most famous book of this class is
Anthony k Wood's A thence Oxonienses^ first published in 1690-91,
and revised and supplemented in later editions. To the value of
that early work the many references to it as source material in
the great Dictionary of National Biography bear eloquent wit-
ness. Of only less value is the companion work on early Cam-
bridge graduates. Cooper's At hence Cantabrigienses^ first issued
in 1857, and completed by the publication of an index volume in
1913. Although \}[i^ Dictionary of National Biography Yi^s been
compiled since the publication of the AthencB Cantabrigienses in
1857, Cooper*8 work is by no means superseded as a reference
tool since by actual count it contains data on some 700 Cambridge
graduates of the sixteenth and early seventeenth century whose
names are not included in the larger general work.
American colleges have not been backward in the publication
of biographical data of their graduates, as the various "General
Catalogues," "Biographical Directories," "Alumni Lists" re-
corded below will show. Unfortunately the same degree of
fulness of data and excellence of articles is not always attained
or even attempted. Such lists vary from the brief alumni
directory of some new western college which attempts merely to
record the name, year of graduation and address of each alumnus,
to the very detailed and satisfactory biographies included in the
six imposing volumes of Mr. Franklin B. Dexter's Yale Biogra-
phies and Annals, Yet even the more meagre list has its use,
52 A Check List of Biographical Directories and [Jan.
and the reference library which has an extended collection of
such catalogues and directories is in the possession of a reference
tool of great value in biographical and genealogical research.
The present list of such publications is based upon a collection
which during the past two years has been formed in the General
Reading Room of Columbia University, supplemented by certain
titles supplied through the courtesy of the Library of the Bureau
of Education at Washington. It includes 152 titles representing
123 American and Canadian colleges and universities, and while
comprehensive makes no claim to completeness. As it is intended
as a preliminary check list it gives only brief information about
each title and does not attempt to supply full cataloguing in-
formation. Date of publication has been given to indicate how
recent the information is and pagination to show the extent of
the work, and the asterisk is used to differentiate lists which
contain some biographical data, however meagre, from those
which are merely directories of names and classes.
The compiler of the list will be very glad to receive infor-
mation about additional titles not included in her list, with a
view to adding them in a later edition.
* Indicates biographical material.
Acadia University, Wolfville, N. S. *Record8 of the Graduates,
1 843- 1 908. 192 p. 1909.
Andover Theological Seminary, Cambridge, Mass. ♦General
Catalogue, 1808-1908. 570 p. 1909.
•Necrology, 1880-1914. 32 nos.
Alabama, University of, University, Ala. Register of Officers and
Students, (1831-1901). 505 p. 1901.
Amherst College, Amherst, Mass. General Catalogue, 1821-1910.
226 p. 1910.
•Biographical Record, 1821-96. 2 vols. 1883-1901.
•Obituary Records, 1864-1913. 48 nos.
List of ^^on-Graduate Students, 1822-71. 1878.
Address List, 191 2.
Antioch College, Yellow Springs, O. Alumni Register (1857-
1911). 16 p. 1911.
Arkansas, University of, Fayetteville, Ark. List of Alumni,
1876-1913. 39 p. 1913.
Bates College, Lewiston, Me. *General Catalogue of Officers
and Graduates, 1863-91, 95 p. 1893.
Baylor University, Waco, Tex. Alumni Directory, 1854-1914.
96 p. 1914.
Beloit College, Beloit, Wis. Register and Directory of the
Alumni (1851-1910). 81 p. 1911.
Boston University, Boston, Mass. Historical Register, 1869-19 11.
3630. 191 1.
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me. ♦General Catalogue, 1794-
1912. 494 p. 1912.
Address List. 72 p. 1912.
Brown University, Providence, R. L *Historical Catalogue, 1754-
1914. 789 p. 1914.
1915J General Catalogtus of American Colleges, cj
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa. Register of Alumnae and
Former Students (1888-1911). 144 p. 1912.
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa. Alumni Catalogue, 185 1-
1910. 117 p. 1910.
California, University of, Berkeley, Cal. Directory of Graduates,
1864-1910. 268 p. 191 1.
Chicago, University of, Chicago, 111. Alumni Directory (1861-1913).
406 p. 1913.
Cincinnati, University of, Cincinnati, O. Alumnal Register, 1874-
1902. 48 p. 1902.
Clark College, Worcester, Mass. Roll of Graduates, 1905-12.
20 p. 1913.
Colby College, Waterville, Me. *General Catalogue, 1820-1909.
246 p. 1910.
Colgate University, Hamilton, N. Y. ♦General Catalogue (1822-
1904). 288 p. 1905.
Colorado, University of, Boulder, Col. General Catalogue, 1877-
1910. 59+134 p. 19"-
Columbia University, New York, N. Y. General Catalogue,
1754-1912. 1151 p. 1912.
Columbian University (see the George Washington University).
Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. Ten Year Book, No. 4, 1868-
1908. 793 p. 1908.
Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H. *General Catalogue (1769-
1911). 839 p._ 1911.
ndson Cc"
Davidson College, Davidson, N. C. Semi-Centennial Catalogue,
1837-1887. 194 p. 1891.
Denison University, Granville, O. *General Catalogue (1840-
1907). Part II of Memorial Volume, 1907, pp. 174-286.
DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind. ♦Alumnal Record (1840-
1910) 352 P- i9'o-
Earlham College, Earlham, Ind. Alumni Catalogue, 1862-1910.
108 p. 1910.
Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa. Catalogue of
OflScers and Students, 1 787-1903. 224 p. 1903.
General Theological Seminary, New York, N. Y. (Alumni, 1822-
1913.) In Catalogue, 1913-14, pp. 69-108.
Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. List of Graduates.
101 p. 1909.
George Washington University, Washington, D. C. Historical
Catalogue, 1 82 1- 189 1. 214 p. 1891.
Alumni Catalogue. 108 p. 1905.
Georgia, University of, Athens, Ga. General Catalogue, 1785-
1901. 244 p. 1901.
Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y. Catalogues (1814-93). ^^ P-
1893.
Directory of Living Graduates. 40 p. 191 3.
Hampden-Sidney College, Hampden-Sidney, Va. General Cata-
logue, 1 776-1906. 246 p. 1908.
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Quinquennial Catalogue,
1636-1910. 757+151 p. 1910.
Directory (Catalogue of Living Students). 1639 p. 1913.
54 -^ Check List of Biographical Directories and [Jan.
Haverford College, Haverford, Pa. ♦Biographical Catalogue,
1 833-1900. 296 p. 1900.
Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y. General Catalogue, 1825-1897.
254 p. 1897.
Addresses of Alumni and Former Students. 50 p. 19 14.
Holy Cross College, Worcester, Mass. Directory and Decennial
Record ( 1 849-1 909). 115 P. 1909.
Idaho, University of, Moscow, Ida. (Graduates, 1896-19 11.) In
20th Annual Catalogue, 1911-12, pp. 249-271.
Illinois, University of, Urbana, 111. * Alumni Record (187 2-1 9 12).
921 p. 1913.
Alumni Directory of the College of Engineering (1872-1913).
201 p. 1913.
Illinois State Normal University, Normal, 111. (Alumni Register,
1 860-1907.) In Semi-Centennial History, 1907, pp. 251-344.
Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind. Register of Graduates,
1830-1910. 241 p. 1911.
Iowa, State University of, Iowa City, la. Alumni Register,
1847-1911. 271 p. 1911.
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Graduates and Fel-
lows, 1876-1913. 145 p. 1914.
Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Mich. *Historical Catalogue,
185T-1902. 99 p. 1903.
Kansas, University or, Lawrence, Kan. Alumni Catalogue (1873-
1913)- ^75 P- 1914.
Kentucky, Central University of, Danville, Ky. General Cata-
logue. 260 p. 1890.
Lafayette College, Easton, Pa. *Biographical Catalogue, 1832-
1912. 814 p. 1913.
Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford University, Cal.
Alumni Directory and Ten Year Book, No. 2, 1891-1910.
321 p. 1910. .
Lewis Institute, Chicago, 111. Alumni. 75 p. 1913.
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La. (Roll of Graduates,
1869-1911.) In 1912 Annual Catalogue, pp. 278-293.
McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, 111. *General Cata-
logue (1830-1912). 242 p. 1912.
Madison University (now Colgate). (*General Catalogue, 1819-
71.) In Jubilee Volume, 1872, pp. 188-503.
McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Graduates. 166 p. 1909.
McMaster University, Toronto, Canada. (Alumni). In Calen
dar, 1913-14, pp. 150-176.
Maine, University or, Orono, Me. Alumni Directory, 1872-1913
102 p. 1914.
Marietta College, Marietta, O. *General Catalogue, 1835-190
163 p. 1901.
Maryland, University of, Baltimore, Md. Historical Catalogue,
1807-1907. 2 vols. 1907.
Maryland Agricultural College, College Park, Md. Alumni
Record. 93 p. 1907.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass. Register
of former Students (1864-1911). 536 p. 1912.
191 5 J General Catalogues of American Colleges. 55
Miami University, Oxford, O. *General Catalogue, 1809-1909.
40+427 p. 1910.
Michigan, University of, Ann Arbor, Mich. General Catalogue,
1837-19"- 1095 P- i9'2-
Death Notices, 191 2-1 9 14. 2 nos.
Michigan College of Mines, Houghton, Mich. *Graduates (1888-
1909). 118 p. 1910.
Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. *General Catalogue, 1800-
1900. 295 p. 1901.
Minnesota, University of, Minneapolis, Minn. Directory of
Alumni, 1873-1912. 194 p. 1912.
Mississippi, University of. University, Miss. Historical Catalogue,
1849-1909. 406 p. 19 10.
Missouri, University of, Columbia, Mo. Directory of Alumni
(1846-1910). 262 p. 1911.
Monmouth College, Monmouth, 111. (Alumni, 1858-1910.) In
55th Annual Catalogue, 191 1, pp. 107-184.
Montana, University of, Missoula, Mont. (Register of Alumni,
1898-1912.) In the i8th Register of the University, 1913,
pp. 166-173.
Montana State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Boze-
man, Mont. (Alumni, 1902-12.) In 20th Annual Cata-
logue, 19 1 2-1 3, pp. 131-137-
Moores Hill College, Moores Hill, Ind. (Alumni.) In Semi-
centennial Catalogue, 1906, pp. 52-60.
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. General Catalogue,
1837-1911. 374 p. 191 1.
Mount Union College, Alliance, O. General Alumni Catalogue.
61 p. 1904.
Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa. (*Biographical Record.)
In Quarter-Centennial Memorial Volume, 1892, pp. 169-518.
Nebraska, University of, Lincoln, Neb. Alumni Directory, 1869-
1912. 222+66 p. 1912.
New Brunswick Theological Seminary, New Brunswick, N. J.
♦Biographical Record, 1784-191 1. 304 p. 1912.
New York University, New York, N. Y. *General Alumni Cata-
logue, 1833-1907, 3 vols. 1906-08.
North Carolina, University of, Chapel Hill, N. C. Catalogue of
Officers and Students, 1 789-1 889. 242 p. 1889.
Northwestern University, Evanston, 111. Alumni Mailing List
(Liberal Arts, 1859-1909). 114 p. 1909.
Alumni Mailing List (Dental School, Chicago, 1890-1907).
54 p. 1908.
Norwich University, Northfield, Vt. ♦Historical Catalogue, 1819-
1911. 3 vols. 1911.
Roster of the Graduates and Past Cadets, 1819-1907. 85 p.
1907.
Oberlin College, Oberlin, O. *General Catalogue, 1833-1908.
184+1187 p. 1909.
Ohio State University, Columbus, O. Alumni Register, 1878- »
1912. 464 p. 1912.
56 A Check List of Biographical Directories and [Jan.
Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, O. loth Quinquennial
Catalogue, 1844-1894. In Fifty Years of History, 1895,
pp. 251-547.
Alumni Directory (1846-1911). 208 p. 191 1.
Oregon, University of, Eugene, Ore. General Register, 1873-
1910. 141 p. 1911.
Ottawa, University of, Ottawa, Can. (List of Graduates, 1872-
1912.) In Calendar, 1913-14, pp. 100-117.
Ottawa University, Ottawa, Kan. (Roll of Alumni, 1886-1913.)
In 49th Annual Catalogue, 191 4, pp. 1 04-1 16.
Park College, Parkville, Mo. Alumni, 1879-1912. 26 p. 1912.
Pennsylvania, University of, Philadelphia, Pa. •Biographical
Catalogue, 1 749-1 893. 567 p. 1894.
Pittsburg, University of, Pittsburg, Pa. Alumni Directory, 1787-
1910. 221 p. 1910.
Pomona College, Claremont, Cal. Alumni Directory (1894-19 12).
24 p. 1913.
Princeton University, Princeton, N. J. General Catalogue, 1746-
1906. 544 p. 1908.
Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind. Alumni Register, 1875-1911.
128 p. 1912.
Ripon College, Ripon, Wis. General Catalogue, 1851-1900. 71 p.
1900.
Rochester, University of, Rochester, N. Y. •General Catalogue,
1850-1911. 348 p. 1911.
Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J. General Catalogue, 1766-
1909. 361 p. 1909.
Alumni and Students (Class and Address List), 1766-1911.
115 p. 1911.
St. Lawrence University, Canton, N. Y. General Catalogue,
1856-1910. 119 p. 1910.
Simmons College, Boston, Mass. Register of Graduates (1903-13).
27 p. 1914,
Smith College, Northampton, Mass. •Alumnae Catalogue, 1875-
1910. 398 p. 1911.
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa. *Alumni Historical Cata-
logue, 1873-1892. 108 p. 1905.
Register, 1862-1914. 221 p. 1914.
Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y. •Alumni Record and
General Catalogue, 1835-1910. 3 vols. 1899-1911.
Texas, University of, Austin, Tex. Historical Catalogue of the
Alumni, 1884-1901. 200 p. 1902.
Tufts College, Tufts College, Mass. Register of Alumni and
OflScers (1857-1911). 194 p. 1912.
Union Theological Seminary, New York, N. Y. •General Cata-
logue, 1 836-1 908. 26-1-394 p. 1908.
Union University, Schenectady, N. Y. Historical Catalogue,
i79S-'907. 3 vols. 1907.
Alumni Register r Union College Living Alumni). 134 p. 1913.
U. S. Military Academy, West Point, N. Y. *Biographical
Register, 1802-1910. 5 vols. 1891-1910.
(List of Graduates, 1802-1902.) In Centennial of U. S. M. A.
1904, vol. 2, pp. 397-433.
1915-] General Catalogues of American Colleges. 57
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. ♦General Catalogue, 1861-
1910. 412 p. 1910.
Vermont, University of, Burlington, Vt. ♦General Catalogue,
1791-1900. 260 p. 1901.
Virginia, University of, Charlottesville, Va. Historical Cata-
logue. 2 vols. 1904.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. Alumni Register
(1875-1911). 223 p. 1912.
Wake Forest College, Wake Forest, N. C. General Catalogue,
1834-1891. 199 p. 1892.
Washington, State College of, Pullman, Wash. (Alumni, 1897-
1912). In 22nd Annual Catalogue, 1913, pp. 356-390.
Washington and JeflEerson College, Washington, Pa. ♦Biogra-
phical and Historical Catalogue, 1802-1902. 714 p. 1902.
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5 8 Sonu Early English Records Pertaining to the Eastman Family, [Jan.
SOME EARLY ENGLISH RECORDS PERTAINING TO
THE EASTMAN FAMILY.
By Charles R. Eastman, American Museum Natural History, N. Y. City.
Until comparatively recentljr nothing has been known of the
origin of the Eastman family in this country beyond the fact
that the first colonist of the name in New England, Roger
Eastman, sailed for Boston in the ship Confidence in 1638, and
was one of the original settlers at Salisbury in Massachusetts Bay.
The new settlement by the Merrimac was founded largely by
Wiltshire emigrants, and a number of these, including heads of
families by the names of Rolfe, Sanders, Whittier and Eastman,
came from the parish of Downton, a few miles south of the shire
town of Wiltshire. What Rowley and Newbury in England are
to their daughter towns on this side the Atlantic, that Salisbury,
England, is to our Salisbury in Massachusetts.
The Downton parish register was first searched for Eastman
records by the present writer in the summer of 1910, and some
notes on the origin of the family were published in the Granite
Monthly y a New Hampshire magazine, for December of that year
and the following October. Thanks to the generosity of Mr.
George Eastman of Rochester, New York, it was possible to
engage the services of an expert antiquary, Mr. Charles H.
Hoppin, for the purpose of making a complete transcript of early
Eastman family records preserved in Wiltshire archives. From
the large quantity of material collected by this historian a
selection has been made relating to the direct ancestral line to
which the pioneer colonist Roger belongs, and this is included
in the present article. Much more space than is here available
would be required to contain all the extant information.
Ancestral Line of the Pioneer Colonist.
First Generation.
The ultimate progenitor of this line of whom authentic
records have been preserved is John' Eastman of Charleton.
Following is a literal transcript of his original will, dated April 26,
1564, and proved May 9, 1565.
"Archdeaconry Court of Sarum, Register 4, folio 193.
TestaUi. Johanis Estman de Downton.
In the name of god amen the xxvi " day of aprill in the yere
of o' lord god m*ccccclxiiii, I, John Estman of Charleton wthin
the pyshe of Downton, wthin the Countie of wyltess, husband-
man, beynge sycke in body but pfitt in memory, do make my last
will and testament after this maner & forme following, flfyrst &
principally I g^ve and bequeath my sowle to almightie god my
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maker, redeamer and savior, trustying by the meyrytts of his
blessed passion to be child of salvation, my body to be buryed
wthin the churche of Saynt lawrence in Downton where my
father doth lye.
Itm, I geve to our Lady church of Sar [= Cathedral at Salis-
bury] vi d. Itm, I geve to m' vicar of Downton for my tythes
forgotten xii d. Itm, I geve & bequeath to the Reparations of
my pyshe churche of Downton iii* iiii**. Itm, I geve & bequeath
to the reparations of Catheryn brydge of Downton xii**. Itm, I
geve & bequeath to Willm Estman my sonne x Itie shepe, v of
them shalbe ewes & v of them shalbe lambes, & in money good
and lawful! v " & ii acres of wheate, the one lying in hoker linche
& one half acre btwn the lyncherd & hym, & the other half acre
by the grene thorne.
Itm, I geve & bequeath to John, Willm, Walter & Florence,
sones & daughters to the said Willm Estman iii shepe apece, &
to ev'y one of [them] in money good & lawfull x* a pece, and to
each of them one pewter platter apece, & betwene the said iiii
children I geve one sparked cowe, w®^ Cowe goeth now in the
forrest, & shalbe distributed by the direction of ther father, yf
any of thes said iiii children do decease or dye before they come
to pfitt age to make ther wills that then the legatye of them that
fayle or dye shall remayne to them that lyveth, equally to be
devyded betwene them & go from the one to the other. Itm, I
geve & bequeath unto John Eastman & to Willm his brother,
sones to Roger Estman, iii shepe a pece & to each of them in
money good and lawfull x s apece & a pewter platter apece, &
betwene them a blacke heyffer. Yf the said John or Willm de-
cease or dye before they come to the age to make ther wills that
then the legatye of the one shall remayne to the other.
Itm, I geve & bequeath to elizabeth barrye my sunt [= ser-
vant] ii yewe shepe. Itm, I geve & bequeath to Willm newman
my sunt one yewe. Itm, I geve and bequeath to ev'y one of my
god children iiii d apece yf they will come & aske hitt of my
executo'. Itm, I geve and bequeath to Richard Carter pyshe
clerke of Downton half a bs of wheat & as mutche of mault.
The Rest of all my goods movable and unmovable herein not
bequeathed, my detts and legatyes payd, I geve & bequeath them
all unto Roger my sonne makynge hym my whole and sole
executor, desyring Rob* Carpeter & Nycholas newman to be my
ov'sears, & they shall have for their paynes iii* iiii<* a pece.
Wytnesses to this my last will & testament, Richard Cockes,
willm Modye & Richard Cates.
6o Some Early English Records Pertaining to the Eastman Family, [Jan.
Pbat fuit test" sup* script Johanis Estman nup de Downton
nre Jure"* Arctimus save defunct cara magno Johe James in
legibz bacc OflSc dni arctii sax ix® Die mes* maij A® Dni m**
ccccc® Ixv^. ac p itm appbat ac Comissqz fuit ec *
The foregoing document proves that the testator had only
six grandchildren living in 1564, all of whom were minors. Two
of the grandsons were named William, one of whom belonged to
the family of Roger* Eastman and lived at Charleton, in the
parish of Downton, and the other, who was son of the testator's
executor, at Weeke, in the same parish. Concerning the family
that lived at Weeke, it will be sufficient to note that William*
Eastman {William^ J ohn^)y was twice married, first in 1599, to
Elizabeth kempe, and secondly to Edith , family name not
found, who died in 16 19. Downton parish records give the
following as his children:
i. William, b. ; d. 1606.
ii. Margaret, bp. 1604.
iii. Elizabeth, bp. 16 10.
iv. Alice, bp. 16 14.
Second Generation,
The foregoing will oijohn^ Eastman is authority for giving
to his son Roger of Charleton only two children who had been
born prior to the year 1564 and were still minors when that
instrument was made. Other oflEspring, however, must have
been born subsequent to the year 1564, for we find at the time
of Roger's death, in February, 1604, he, being then a widower,
had eight children living whose names are known to us, and at
least eight grandchildren. Besides these heirs, a married
daughter of Roger ^ who had been the wife of one William Skeate,
executor under the will of Roger* had previously deceased.
Downton parish records show that Roger* Eastman was buried
Feb. 17, 1604. His will, dated Jan. 11, of the same year, was
J)roved six days following his death. The original will, un-
ortunately somewhat mutilated, together with the complete
detailed inventory of the estate and administrator's bond is on
file with the Consistory Court of Sarum, and is an important
genealogical document.
The injury to the will itself is of such nature that a portion
of the left hand margin has been torn away, or " perhaps eaten
by rats," as suggested by Mr. Hoppin, who prepared an exact
transcript. The names of one or two of the beneficiaries are
unfortunately lost, having been contained in the missing frag-
* The Latin note appended to the will may be modernized as follows:
" The above-written will of John Estmann, late of Downton in our Juris-
diction of the Archdeaconry of Salisbury, deceased, was proved before Master
John James, bachelor of law, official of the Lord Archdeacon of Salisbury, on
the ninth day of the month of May in the year of our Lord 1565, and by him
approved, etc., and [administration] was granted, etc."
1915.] Some Early English Records Pertaining to the Eastman Family. 6 1
ment, but from other sources we are clearly warranted in supply-
ing one of them as William^ who was either the eldest or second
son. There are named as executor the testator's son-in-law,
William Skeate, and as overseers " my well-beloved sonns Walter
Bastman y* eld' & John Eastman." The remaining heirs, named
in the order of their mention, were Nicholas and Roger Bastman,
four Skeate grandchildren, and Mary, Bdith and Thomas Eastman.
Witnesses to the will were John Bebmaton, Thomas Pursley,
Walter Eastman and John Eastman. A seal is attached, bearing
the device of a talbot passant.
Third Generation,
We come now to the generation immediately preceding that
of the emigrant Roger ^^ and find entries in the Downton parish
register for reconstructing the families of his uncle William^ and
father Nicholas as follows:
William* Eastman {Roger* John^)^ born some time prior to
1564; died after 1622. lie married (1) Edith , who died in
Oct., 1605. He married (2) in 1607, (name blank or illegible
in Downton parish register). Resided at Downton. Children:
i. John,* bp. March 29, 1603; d. 1663, leaving son John,
ii. Richard, bp. Oct. 27, 1605; buried Nov. i, 1605.
iii. Greenway, bp. Au^. 26, 1609; was 'Mate of New Aires-
ford in the Countie of Southampton " in March, 1660,
at which time his widow was the wife of Thomas
Bone,
iv. William, bp. Oct. 31, 16 10.
V. Thomas, bp. June 15, 1613.
vi. Richard, bp. May 5, 1615.
vii. GriflSn or "Griffith," bp. Oct. 31, 1619; bur. Aug. 31,
1623.
viii. Hugh, bp. May i, 1622.
Nicholas* Eastman (Roger^ John^)^ born probably between
1564 and 1570; died some time after 1625. He married Barbara
(family name probablv Rooke), who was buried at Downton,
July 9, 1625. Resiaed at Charleton. ^Children:
i. Thomas,* bjj. Jan. 9, 1602/3; m. Oct. 21, 1634, Alice
Sanders, sister of John Sanders of Weeke. He was
living in 1656.
ii. John, bp. Dec. 24, 1605; m. July 28, 1628, Margaret
Newman. His will dated Jan. 5, 1656/7, and proved
April 4, 1657. Her will dated Nov. 8, 1673, ^'^^
probated Dec. 4, 1673; both buried in the parish
church at Downton. They had children:
1. Christiana,* who m. John Noyes.
ii. Barbara.
iii. Alice, who m. James Barrowe.
iv. Margaret, who m. Thomas Wheeler.
62 Some Early English Records Pertaining to the Eastman Family. [Jan.
iii. Margaret, bp. March 36, 1608; m. July 20, 1635, Richard
Howse.
iv. Roger, bp. April 4, 1610; d. at Salisbury, Mass., Dec.
16, 1694; m. Sarah , b. about 1620/21; d. at Salis-
bury, Mass., March 11, 1697/8. Will extant.
V. Nicholas, bp. Nov. 29, 161 2.
vi. Maurice or "Morris," bp. April 26, 1615; will proved
May 8, 1669, hj his executors "William Rooke and
Barbara his wife," designated in the will as "my
kinsmen." Bequest of ;^ioo to "my kinswoman
Barbara Rooke, the daughter of William Rooke,"
and ;^so to sister Mary Moody. Thomas Eastman
overseer,
vii. William, bp. Jan. 21, 1617/8; had a son William; both
living in 1669.
viii. Alexander, bp. Sept. 12, 1620.
ix. Christiana, bp. Nov. 24, 1622.
X. Mar^, bp. March 24, 1625; m. John Moody. She was
living in 1669, as were also her three children: Mary,
Edith and Maurice (or " Morris").
As has already been stated, the earliest ancestor who can be
directly connected by authentic records with the line to which
Roger, the founder of the family in this country belonged, is
iohn' Eastman of Charleton who died in 1565. A number of
lastman items occur in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners' Court
Rolls for the Manor of Downton, ranging in date from 14 Edw. IV
to 30 Henry VIII (1475-1540). Under date of 1539 occur in these
manor court rolls is found in the following entry, where mention
is made of both a John and Roger Eastman of Charleton:
Membrane i. 1539.
Dounton Manor. Court held there 17 December, 30 Henry VIII.
Charleton: The tithingman there presents that Roger Estman
has been sworn into the office of tithingman; and that (in
reckoning the pannage of pigs) Roger Estman has two old and
six young pigs; and John Estman the younger, one old pig. . . .
Noun ton [Nunton]. John Estman has one old and two young
pigs.
In conclusion is offered a copy of Eastman items taken from
the vital records of Romsey, Hampshire, not previously pub-
lished:
Chrystenings,
8 Aprill, 1596. Elizabeth the daughter of John Eastman.
13 Aprill, 1598. Roger the son of John Eastman.
3 Aprill, 1599. Tohn the son of John Eastman.
I February, 1600. Margaret the daughter of John Eastman.
20 October, 1602. Anthony the son of John Eastman.
Burialls.
6 October, 1602. John Eastman.
I9I5J Bristol Notes. 63
BRISTOL NOTES.
CoMPiLBD BT Mrs. William H. Bristol of Milford.
(Continued from Vol. XLV, p. 33^, of the Record^
Milford, Ct., Branch {continued).
1^. David* Bristol (Simeon,* Abraham,* Samuel,* Daniel,*
Henry*), b. Nov. 18, 1798, in Edenburgh, N. Y.; d. Sept. 26, 1893;
m. (i) Dec. 7, 1827, Asenath Nichols of Sandlake; m. (2) Grace
Winne; lived at Troy, N. Y. Child:
i. David N.,' of Troy.
27. John Wesley* Bristol (John,* Abraham,* Samuel,* Daniel,*
Henry'), b. 1793; ni« Catherine Pretz, b. 1818. Children:
i. Clorista,* b. 181 8; d. 1900.
ii. John, b. ; d. Aug., 1854.
iii. Feter, b. Dec. 27, 1820; "living in Eamestown; a
suburb of Buffalo, N. Y."
28. Coleman* Bristol (John,* Abraham,* Samuel,* Daniel,*
Henry'), b. 1795; m. Catherine Way. He and his brother Ben-
jamin are said to have once owned the site of the city of Buffalo,
N. Y. Children:
i. Amos Samuel;* had a son Edmund,
ii. lames, of Napa, Cal.
iii. Lewis; son William C. Bristol (States Attorney), Port-
land. Ore.
iv. Caroline.
V. Sarah,
vi. Catherine,
vii. Mary Ann.
viii. Phoebe.
Data collected by Mrs. Worden.
29. Asa M.* Bristol (Joel,* Abraham,* Samuel,* Daniel,* Henry*),
b. Julv, 1805; d. Sept. 20, 1 851; m. Maria , who petitioned for
a settlement of his estate, March 11, 1852 (Troy Probate Records);
had eight children, seven of whom were then minors. In 1862,
Kate B. Harvey, Harriet M. Bristol, Ellen Bristol and Margaret
'. Barber, his children, deeded land at Sandlake, formerly owned
>y Joel, and later by Asa M. Bristol, deceased.
Contributed by Mrs. Worden.
30. Willis* Bristol (Tehiel,* Hiel,* Samuel,* Daniel,* Henry*),
b. June IS, 1804, at Milford; d. May 8, 1875, at New Haven; m.
Delia Davidson. Children:
i. Susan.'
ii. Willis, b. Sept. 23, 1828.
iii. Augusta,
iv. Julia, d. ap^ed 17.
V. Ella Virginia,
vi. A son.
t
64 Bristol NoUs. [Jan.
32. Johnson* Bristol Hehiel,* Hiel,* Samuel,* Daniel,* Henry*),
b. Nov. 19, 1807, at Miltord; d. Dec. 16, 1891; m. 1830, Elizabeth
Davidson, b. Dec. 10, 1813; d. July 10, 1893. Children:
i. Henry Johnson,' b. May 14, 1830.
ii. Jane, b. Aug. 14, 1831.
iii. Johnson, Jr., b. Nov. 6, 1833; d. 1834.
iv. Anna Maria, b. Aug. 6, 1835; d. 1836.
V. Theodore, b. Feb. 18, 1837.
vi. Harriet, b. June 11, 1839; d. 1854.
vii. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 12, 1842.
viii. Charles, b. June 22, 1849.
ix. Edson, b. Jan. 9, 1852.
f2. Nathan* Bristol (Nehemiah,* Hiel,* Samuel,* Daniel,*
lenry*), b. Oct. 21, 1800, at Milford; m. Dec. 2, 1822, at South-
bury, Conn., Hannah Roswell; d. at Bridge water. Children:
i. Nathan,* d. young,
ii. Walter, b. 1832.
33. Hiel* Bristol (Nehemiah,* Heil,* Samuel,* Daniel,* Henry'),
b. Sept. 5, 1803, at Milford; d. May 30, 1870, at Naugatuck, Conn.;
m. (i) Aug. 25, 1825, Anna C, dau. of Aaron and Lydia (Hickox)
Potter, b. July 12, 1808; d. Oct. 7, i860; m. (2) Mrs. Sarah Judd,
b. 1803; d. 1892. Children:
i. Ben Joseph,' b. June 4, 1827, at Naugatuck; d. Aug.
II, 1864; m. Oct. 31, 1847, Ellen L., dau. of Gerry
and Melissa (Baldwin) Hull, b. 1826; d. 1899.
ii. Bennett Jason, M. D., b. Sept. 15, 1833, at Naugatuck;
d. Nov. 28, 1903, at Webster Grove, Mo.; m. (i)
Emma Jane, dau. of Ruel and Emeline Carrington,
b. Jan. 10, 1836, at New Haven; d. Jan. 2, 1857; m. (2^
Henrietta, dau. of Ralph and Charlotte (Waterman)
Swift; lived at Webster Grove, Mo.
iii. Benjamin Hiel, b. June 19, 1837, at Naugatuck; m.
June 6, 1858, (i) Pauline Spaulding, dau. of Ben-
jamin and Abigail (Phelps) Brooks, b. Dec. 5, 1840;
d. March 26, 1877; m. (2) Mary, dau. of Samuel and
Bets^ (Tomlinson) Russell; m. (3) Sarah Justine
Milligan.
Mrs. £. H. Bristol of Foxborough, Mass.
34. Isaac* Bristol (Isaac,* Hiel,* Samuel,* Daniel,* Henry*), b.
1805, at Milford; d. 1873, at Stratford, Conn.; m. 1828, Susan,
dau. of Isaac and Ruth Booth, b. 1806; d. 1887, at Stratford.
Children:
i. Walter,^ b. Aug. 27, 1829, at Stratford; d. Jan. 21, 1890;
m. 1858, Sarah E., dau. of David and Mary A.
(Peck) Dibble,
ii. Mary, b. 1834; m. Edwin Davis.
35. Jabez* Bristol (Daniel,* Richard,* Richard,* Daniel,* Henry'),
b. April 29, 1781, at New Milford; d. Sept. 25, 1844, at Ravenna,
Ohio; m. Sept. 15, 1803, at New Milford, Sarah Sanford, b. Au^.
28, 1777, at New Milford; d. Sept. 11, 1851, at Ravennna. This
191 5.] Bristol Notes. 65
family moved to Hamilton, N. Y., about 181 2. " Jabish Bristol"
became a Royal Arch Mason at Eaton, N. Y., in 1818. Children:
i. Alonzo,' b. June 5, 1804, at New Milford; m. Harriet
Bostwick. Child: Alonzo B., who m. (i) Amelia
Eddy at Edenburgh, Ohio.
ii. Carios, b. Feb. a6, 1806; d. Nov. 8, 1807.
iii. Uriah Sanford, b. Nov. 19, 1808, at New Milford; d.
March 11, 1863, at Ravenna; m. Nov. 11, 1833, at
Rockport, O., Mary C. Millard. Children: 1. Hiram
W., b. Nov. 3, 1836; Major in the Civil War; m. Polly
M. Whittlesay; d. at Fremont, O., June 21, 1868. 2.
George P., b. July 30, 1838; m. Electra A.Woodford;
Captain in the Civil War. 3. Henry C, b. Oct. 5,
1840; m. Marietta Baldwin; was Captain in the Civil
War. 4. Helen C, b. Oct. 5, 1840 (twin). 5. Everett,
b. Aug. 18, 1842. 6. Everett Alonzo, b. Aug. 17, 1846;
served in the Civil War; m. Mariah L. Chubb; lives
at Fremont, O.
iv. Susan, b. Feb. 11, 181 1, at New Milford; m. William
Colman; d. 1858.
V. Mary E., b. Feb. 8, 1813, at Hamilton, N. Y.; m. June
14, 1832, at Ravenna, O., Hiram Warren; d. 187 1, at
Fremont, O.
Bible Records^ furnished by Everett AIodzo Bristol of Fremont, O.
36. CvRENUS CHApm* Bristol, M. D. (Daniel,' Nathan,* Richard,*
Daniel,' Henry'), b. July 8, 181 1, at Buffalo, N. Y.; d. Dec. i, 1884;
m. April 5, 1835, at Canandagua, N. Y., Martha Hayden, dau. of
(Dr.) Richard and Typhema (French) Childs Wells, b. April 19,
181 1 ; d. Feb. 11, 1866. Dr. Bristol was a druggist of Buffalo, and
compounded the C. C. Bristol Sasarparilla, and was at one time
proprietor of the Buffalo Republic, Children:
i. Tesse,' b. 1842; d. 1846.
ii. Martha H., m. John Beardsley.
iii. Mary Wells, m. Edward S. Ingersoll.
iv. Augusta G., m. (Dr.) David Lovejoy.
Data furnished by Cicero L. Bristol of North Loup, Neb.
[Received too late to appear in its proper place on p. 336, October, 191 4, issue:]
23. Hbnry Peck* Bristol (Nathan,* Richard," Daniel,* Henry*),
b. Oct. 16, 1783; d. at New Haven, Conn., Dec. 21, 1868; m. Nov.
13, 1810, Isabella Dayton of Stratford, Conn., b. Feb. i, 1780; d. at
Bethlehem, Conn., March 29, 1856. Children:
i. Nathan,* b. Dec. 22, 181 1. Killed while young by
being thrown from a horse,
ii. Harriett Ann, b. Aug. 2, 1814; m. June 11, 1845, An-
drew Martin, d. at New Haven, Conn., Oct. 16, 1895.
iii. William Clark, b. Bethlehem, Conn., Sept. 2, 1817; a.
at New Haven, Conn., Aug. 18, 1888; m. July 12,
1848, at Woodbury, Conn., Mary Ann, dau. of David
and Anna Maria (de Forest) Betts, b. Feb. 22, 1822,
in Woodbury, Conn.; d. in New York City, May 6,
5
66 BrisUfl Notes. [Jan.
1903. Children: i. James Perry. 2. Henry Dayton.
3. Willie Pratt. 4. Anna Isabella. 5. Mary De For-
rest,
iv. John Meigs, b. Bethlehem, Conn., June i, 1819; d. at
New Haven, Conn., June 17, 1874. Was a member
of the 27th Regt. Conn. Volunteers in the Civil War;
m. May 2, 1849, Augusta Althea Foote, b. Aug. 25,
1822; d. at North Haven, Aug. 25, 1900.
V. Henry, b. Bethlehem, Conn., Sept. 15. 1822; d. Nov. 11,
1850, unm.
Contributed by H. D. Bristol, New York.
Oxford Branch.
Bt Donald Lines Jacobus, M. A., of New Haven, Conn.
1. Eliphalet* Bristol (Eliphalet,* Henry'), b. at West Haven,
about 17 1 2, removed to Southbury, Conn., where he d. July 8,
1803; m. Sarah Thomas, b. March 28, 1716; d. Sept. 5, 1796.
Children:
2 i. Justus,* b. Dec. 19, 1736.
3 ii. Gad, b. Dec. 4, 1738.
iii. Asher, b. March 9, 1742; of Oxford, N. Y. (ante^ vol. 45,
p. 232).
2. Justus* Bristol (EHphalet,* Eliphalet,* Henry*), b. at South-
bury, Dec. 19, 1736; d. at Oxford, Conn,, Jan. 13, 1820; m. Nov. 26,
1761, Sarah Hawkin, whose name is given as Seymour by de-
scendants. She was b. about 1739, ^^^ d- ^^ <^i^* Children:
4 i. Truman,* b. April 3, 1763.
5 ii. Enoch, b. Jan. 31, 1765.
iii. Esther, m. Oct. 9, 1788, Russell Beebe of N. Y. State,
iv. Sarah, m. May 17, 181 2, Isaac Smith.
V. Justus, b. about 1774; d. Aug. 12, 1779.
vi. Betty, b. June 12, 1776; d. Jan. 5, 1849; o^- April 29,
1790, Medad Candee, b. May 5, 1768; d. 1852; of
Stillwater, N. Y.
vii. John, bapt. July 6, 1777; of Volney, Vt.
viii. Mercy, bapt. March 22, 1780; d. Nov. 22, 1798.
ix. Molly, m. Nov. 27, 1799, Johi^ Smith of Derby.
X. Justus, of Volney, Vt.
3. Gad* Bristol (Eliphalet," Eliphalet,' Henry'), b. at Southbury,
Dec. 4, 1738; m. May i. 1760, Rachel Riggs, b. about 1741; d. m
1813. Children:
i. Gad,* b. about 1761; lived in Middlebury; m. Feb. 17,
1790, Anne Benham.
6 ii. Philo Riggs, b. Dec. i, 1763.
iii. David, b. Nov. i, 1766; d. Dec. 17, 1767.
iv. Anne, b. Dec. 28, 1768.
V. David, b. Sept. 6, 1771; d. 1845, unm.; lived in North-
east, Dutchess Co., N. Y,, and Oxford, Conn.
I9I5-] Bristol NoUs. 67
vi. Clara, b. July 19, 1774.
vii. Eunice, bapt. Sept. 3, 1777; d. Aug., 1821.
7 viii. Sheldon, b. Feb. 8, 1780.
ix. Esther, b. Nov. 7, 1782.
X. Rachel, b. Oct. 15, 1784.
xi. Burritt, b. Nov. 4, 1787; d. Feb. 19, 1796.
xii. Polly, d. Feb. 9, 1796.
4. Truman' Bristol (Justus,* Eliphalet," Eliphalet,' Henry'), b.
at Southbury, April 3, 1763; m. (i) Nov. 26, 1789, Polly Beecher,
b. about 1770; d. Oct. i, 1800; m. (2) Dec. 18, i8or, Betsey Thomp-
son, who d. in Washington, Conn., Aug. 18, 1863, aged 90. Chil-
dren by first wife:
i. Cretia,* bapt. Sept. 18, 1791; d. Oct. 5, 1794.
ii. Lynde, b. June 26, 1791.
iii. Lewis, b. Aug. 29, 1796.
iv. Cyrus, b. Sept. 14, 1798.
V. Truman, b. Sept. 24, 1800; d. Oct. 25, 1800.
Children by second wife:
vi. Polly, b. May 17, 1802; m. Jan. 7, 1827, Amos Osborne.
vii. Sylvania, b. June 24, 1804.
viii. Thompson, b. Oct. 2, 1806.
ix. Abel, b. May 28, 1808; d. Feb. 15, 1876.
X. Cynde, b. Sept. 12, 1810.
xi. Maria, b. July 18, 181 7.
5. Enoch* Bristol (Justus,* Eliphalet,* Eliphalet,* Henry*), b. at
Southbury, Jan. 31, 1765; removed to Volney Vt.; m. (i) Feb. 18,
1790, Jean White; m. (2) Nov. 30, 1794, Sally White. Children
(mother uncertain^:
i. Mira,* a. June 23, 1806.
li. Anne, d. Aug 3, 1806.
Children by second wife:
iii. Bennett, b. April 24, 1795; ^^^ issue including Norris
Bennett' and Enoch (who settled in Wisconsin),
iv. Meritta, [x,^- „ k ?,,«.» «^ .^^m.
V. Melitta, r^^^' ^- J^^^ ^3, i797; ^^ p^ench.
vi. Ira, b. July 20, 1799.
vii. Harriett, b. April 25, 1802.
viii. Emmeline, bap.. Sept. 23, 1804.
6. Philo Riggs' Bristol (Gad,* Eliphalet,* Eliphalet,* Henry'),
b. Dec. I, 1763; lived at Southbury; m. Jan. 6, 1791, Nabby
Lyman. Children:
i. Comfort Maria,* b. Jan. 15, 1793.
ii. Kezia, b. July 16, 1794.
8 iii. Noah Russell Lyman, b. June 9, 1797.
iv. Philo Burrit, bapt. Feb. i, 1803; of Canton, Conn.
V. John, of Cheshire, Conn.
7. Sheldon' Bristol (Gad,* Eliphalet,* Eliphalet,* Henry*), b.
Feb. 8, 1780; m. Feb. 17, i8ii, Agnes Wheeler. Children:
i. William B.,* b. 181 1; d. July 10, 1900; of Ansonia,
Conn.
68 Bristol NoUs. [Jan.
ii. Henry S.
iii. Angeline, b. about 1818; d. Nov. 14, 1828.
iv. David W., b. about 1821; d. Nov. 25, 1828.
8. Noah R. L.* Bristol (Philo R./ Gad,* Eliphalet," EHphalet,"
Henry*), b. at Southbury, June 9, 1797; d. Sept. 8, 1861; m. .
Children:
i. Volney R.,' b. Dec. 2, 1829.
ii. Kezia M., b. Nov. 5, 1832.
iii. Burton H., b. Sept. 26, 1835; d. Feb. 6, 1875.
iv. Anson W., b. June 9, 1840; issue, 10 children.
Authorities:
Cothren's History of Woodbury,
Oxford Vital, Church and Deeds,
Will of Justus Bristol, New Haven Probate,
Family (Private) Records.
Addition to Bristol Record; See Page 69, Vol. XLV.
Daniel' Bristol ^Daniel,* Henry*), was b. at West Haven,
Oct. 15, 1702, and d. tnere in 1745; m. Elizabeth , who m. (2)
March 20, 1749, Thomas Brooks of Cheshire. He was an Epis-
copalian, and had a child baptized in 1735 at Christ Church,
Stratford. Children:
i. Elizabeth,* b. Sept. 22, 1730.
ii. Esther, b. Sept. 15, 1732.
iii. Daniel, b. June 20, 1734.
iv. Benjamin, b. April 26, 1736.
V. Timothy, b. June 12, 1738.
vi. Jonathan, b. about 1740; d. Sept. 16, 1794; m. at
Cheshire, Oct. 16, 1761, Susannah Peck.
Benjamin* Bristol (Daniel," Daniel,* Henry*), was b. at West
Haven, April 26, 1736; removed to Cheshire, where he d. March
28, 1808; m. (i) Lydia (probably Andrews), who d. Oct. 12,
1770; m. (2) Oct. 12, 1771, Sybil Perkins, b. Feb. 28, 1744; d.
March 14, 1794; m. (3) Nov. 21, 1794, Adah Benham. Children
by first wife:
i. Samuel,' b. Sept. 6, 1765.
ii. Eunice, b. March i, 1767.
iii. Lucy, b. Sept. 6, 1768.
iv. Benoni Andrews, b. Sept. 19, 1770.
Child by second wife:
V. Elisha, b. Sept. 16, 1775.
Corrections in Vol. XLV:
p. 68. The name was spelled Bristow, not Britsow,
p. 71. Aaron* Bristol was living in Pan ton, Vt, 179 1, when he deeded land
in Litchfield, Conn., to his son Aaron,^ also of Panton. Aaron^ Bristol, Jr.,
m. Sybil, dau. of Ezekiel and Mindwell (Barber) Scovil of Harwinton. But
two of these sons remained at Rupert. The others settled in St. Lawrence Co.
p. 172. John* Bristol, Jr., had two children bap. at Harwinton, Conn., Sarah,
April 5, 1781, and Philip, June 8, 1783.
p. 173. Truman Bristol, given as son of Samuel,* was son of Aaron, Jr.,
of Panton, Vt., and was bap. at Harwinton.
p. 176. Ira Sherman^ Bristol, b. June 9, not 24, as stated.
1915.] E<*rly SiUlers of West Farms, WesUhister County, N. Y. 69
p. 226. The children of Lawrence Washburae Bristol are: Susan; Caro-
line, m. Rev. Howard B. Grose, D.D.; Ella Louise; Jessie, m. Amos Rich;
Charles Lawrence (Prof.); Margaret.
p. 227. Children of Joseph Dewey Bristol are: Robert Dewey; Helen
Genella; Maud Knox.
p. 234. Col. Henry B. Bristol was b. April 26, 1838, at Detroit, Mich.; d.
May 10, 1907; m. (i) Cornelia M. Jenking; m. (2) Mary Frost Redmond.
Kathryn Ann m. John Fay Bell. Elias Leroy Macomb Bristol, M. D., m.
Matilda White. Charles Robert Navarre Bristol, b. Sept. 25, 1853; m. (i)
May Haines; m. (2) Georgia Beringer.
p. 236. Abner* Bristol m. Eunice Dorchester, noi Emma.
p. 322. Gideon Bristol (No. i^) did not have two daughters, Abigail and
Nancy, but a daughter Abigail Nancy, born April 17, 1788; married in 1808,
Darius Jones.
p. 330. Cut Nehemiah out of Richard, Jr.,* family. Tuitie Gen, in error.
He was son of Nathan,* Richard,' given on same page.
p< 33^- Nehemiah, son of Nehemiah,* m. Elizabeth, dau. of Zina and
Ann (Wilson) Wooding.
p. 334. Lucy Abigail, m. Bennett, son of Lewis and Charlotte (Thomas)
Wooding.
P- 335- Additional information regarding the family of Nathan' (Nathan*),
from Derby records:
iii. Nehemiah, d. Jan. 23, 1829. iv. Charles, m. Sept. 12, 1830, Harriet
Bradley, v. George L., (probably) m. (i) Sept. 30, 1835, Caroline Hull. vi.
Mark, m. Jan. 18, 1835, Emma Duer(d?); d. 1862. vii. Richard, b. July 14,
Viii. Sarah, m. Jan. 29, 1832, Reuben Wheeler, ix. Nathan, m. Dec. 2, 1838,
Mary Ann Hawley. x. Nancy Maria, m. Dec. 24, 1838, James H. Griffin.
p. 336. Nehemiah, m. Elizabeth Stowe not Stone.
(To be continued,)
EARLY SETTLERS OP WEST FARMS, WESTCHESTER
COUNTY, N. Y.
Copied from the manuscript record of the late Rev. Theodore A. Leggbtt
by A. Hatfield, Jr.
(Continued from Vol. XLV, p. 386, of the Record.)
The will of Aaron Leggett names William H. Macy, Thomas
W. Pearsall, and William L. Jenkins as executors; leaves bequests
to niece Eliza Macy, daughter of his sister, Hannah Jenkins, and
wife of William H. Macy, executor; nephews, William L. Jenkins,
Sylvanus F. Jenkins, niece Caroline J. Oddy, daughter of Hannah
Jenkins and wife of John Oddy; nieces, children of sister Mary
Frame, Catherine D., Maria, wife of William Titus, Eliza, wife of
Gilbert Pearsall, William, Joseph L., wife Joanna, Thomas L.,
wife Ann; Reuben Leggett, his deceased brother, and his children
Reuben, Phoebe Ann, deceased, and husband Thomas H. Brown,
Mary E., wife of John Griffin, Esther, deceased, who was first
wife of said John Griffin, Joseph S. Leggett.
The will was dated March 13, 1856, with a codicil dated March
13, 1857; proved April 24, i860.
5A
yo Early Settlers of West Farms, Westchester County, N. Y. [Jan.
Authorities:
Haight Genealogy, p. 444.
Friends* Records, New York City.
New York Gazette, Supplement, Thursday, Nov. 10, 1803. List of deaths
from the " malignant fever. '
Barrett, W., Old Merchants of New York City, vol. i, p. 249-50.
U. S. Government Documents. 30th Congress, ist session. Executive
document No. 83.
67. Charles* Leggett (Thomas,* Gabriel/ Gabriel*), born ;
died ; married .
Children 3 (Leggett), 3 sons.
+ 140 i. Isaac,' b. ; d. ; m. .
141 ii. Benjamin, b. ; d. ; m. — — .
+142 iii. Samuel, b. ; d. ; m. .
(The record of Charles* Leggett is taken from the records of
the Rev. Theodore A. Leggett, and as noted under Thomas*
Leggett, we have not been able to verify the statement that he
was a son of Thomas* Leggett, and not a descendant of William*
Leggett, as stated in the Gustin genealogy.)
Authorities:
Family record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
68. Isaac* Leggett (Thomas,* Gabriel,* Gabriel'), born Sept. 12,
1752; died at Westchester, May 28, 1823. Married, ist, about 1778,
Rebecca Starbuck, born Feb. 24, 1761; died Feb. 24, 1817, aged,
according to death record, 55 years, 7 months, 12 days. She was
a daughter of Benjamin Starbuck and Hepzibah Bunker, who
came from Nantucket, Mass. to Easton, Washington County, N.
Y. Isaac Leggett married 2nd, in 1819, Judith Clark, born ;
died (before 1869).
Children 14 (Leggett), 8 sons and 6 daughters. By ist wife:
+ 143 i. Mary,' b. Jan. 10, 1779; d. ; m. Joseph Bowne.
144 ii. Samuel, b. ; d. , in infancy.
+ 145 iii. Samuel, b. April 4, 1782; d. ; m. Susanna .
+ 146 iv. Isaac, b. March 3, 1784; d. Dec. 21, 1857; m. Nancy
Russell.
+ 147 v. Benjamin, b. Feb. 2, 1786; d. ; m. Rebecca
+ 14? vi. Joseph, b. Jan. i, 1788; d. ; m. Fanny Johnson.
+ 149 vii. Abraham, b. Jan. 13, 1790; d. Nov. 25, 1861; m. Sarah
Deuel.
+ 150 viii. John, b. Jan. i, 1792; d. Jan. 28, 1849; m. Sarah
Arnold.
151 ix. William, b. Aug. 20, 1793; d. ; m. .
152 X. Hannah, b. Aug. 20, 1795; d. Feb. 10, 1874; unm.
+153 xi. Rebecca I., b. Nov. 14, 1797; d. May 27, 1857; m.
Andrew Dorland.
+154 xii. Rosanna F., b. Oct. 27, 1799; d. Dec. 23, 1868; m.
Robert M. Hicks.
+ 155 xiii. Maria, b. Sept. 13, 1803; d. Jan. 8, 1882; m. Israel H.
Watson.
191 50 E<^rly SttiUrs of West Farms, Westchester County, N. Y. 71
By 2d wife:
+156 xiv. Phoebe G., b. Jan. 9, 1821; d. March 14, 1889; m. Paul
Bunker.
Isaac* Leggett settled at Stillwater, Saratoga County, N. Y.,
shortly before the beginning of the Revolution. He was a mem-
ber of the Society of Friends, and with his brother Gabriel founded
the Friends' Society in Stillwater. He served as the first minister
of the Friends there, 1793 to 1820, when he was succeeded by his
son-in-law, Andrew Dorland.
Isaac Leggett later returned to Westchester, where he died in
1823.
Authorities:
Saratoga County, N, V,, A Descriptive and Biographical Record of , p. 38,95.
Family Record of John Leggett.
Friends' Records, New York City.
69. Thomas* Leggett (Thomas,' Gabriel," Gabriel'), bom, at
Westchester, Jan. 17, 1755; resided in Westchestei until 1836, when
he removed to New York City; died, in New York, Oct. 10, 1843.
He married, ist. May 6, 1781, Mary Haight, born Nov. 2, 1762;
died Nov. 26, 1804; daughter of Samuel and Rebecca Haight, of
Flushing, L. I. Thomas Leg:gett married 2d, March 11, 1808,
Mary Underbill, bom ; died April 27, 1849.
Children 13 (Leggett), 6 sons and 7 daughters. By ist wife:
+ 157 i. Samuel,' b. Oct. 4, 1782; d. Jan. 5, 1847; ni» Elizabeth
Powell.
+ 158 ii. Joseph, b. Jan. 5, 1785; d. 1852; m. Elizabeth
Jenkins.
+159 iii. Charlotte, b. Aug. 12, 1787; d. June i, 1871; m. William
W. Fox.
+160 IV. William Haight, b. April 15, 1789; d. Dec. 22, 1863;
m. Margaret Wright.
161 V. Mary, b. Feb. 23, 1791; d. June 4, 1802.
+162 vi. Thomas, b. Jan. 30, 1793; d. Aug. i (or Jan. 8), 1865;
m., ist, Anna Farrington; 2d, Patience Hay dock.
+163 vii. Ann, b. Aug. 2, 1795; ^- 5 ™- Samuel F. Mott.
164 viii. Elizabeth, b. ; d. Aug. 27, 1798.
+165 ix. Rebecca, b. July 2, 1799; d. April 14, 1878; m. George
S. Fox.
166 X. James S., b. Dec. 26, 1800; d. June 4, 1802.
+167 xi. Mary, b. Jan. 13, 1803; d. July 20, 1878; m. Thomas
W. Pearsall.
By 2d wife:
x68 xii. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 24, 1809; d. Jan. 25, 1835; unm.
169 xiii. Jacob U., April 19, 1815; d. Dec. — ^ 1890; m, .
Authorities:
Friends' Records. New York City.
Fan^ily Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett
Family Record of John Leggett.
Haignt Genealogy, pp. 445.
70. Mary* Leggett (Thomas,* Gabriel,' Gabriel*), bom at West-
chester, Oct. 21, 1757; died ; married Feb. 11, 1780, James
J 2 Early SettUrs of IVest Farms, Westchester County, N. Y. [Jan.
Barker of Dartmouth, Mass., born ; died ; son of William
Barker of Dartmouth. Mary (Leggett) Barker married (a) a
Mr. Maxwell.
No record of any children has been found.
Authorities:
Friends* Records, New York City.
Family Record of Rer, T. A. Leggett.
Family Record of John Leggett.
72. Hannah* Leggett (Thomas,* Gabriel,* Gabriel'), bom at
Westchester, Oct. 10, 1763; died ; married , Ostrom.
No further record has been found.
Authorities:
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
Family Record of John Leggett.
73. Abigail* Leggett (Thomas,* Gabriel,* Gabriel*), bom at
Westchester, March 31, 1769; died ; married , Wilbur.
No further record has been found.
Authorities:
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
Family Record of John Leggett.
74. Martha* Leggett (James,* Gabriel,* Gabriel'), born ;
died ; married ; Worden.
Martha (Leggett) Worden is mentioned in the will of her
father. James* Leggett, 1800, but no further records of her have
been found, and the spiven name of her husband is not known.
No record of any children has been found.
Authorities:
Will of Tames* Leggett.
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
75. Gabriel* Leggett (James,* Gabriel,* Gabriel*), bom ;
died ; married . The name of his wife is not known.
Children i(?) (Leggett), a son.
170 i. Henry,* b. ; d. ; m, .
Henry, son of Gabriel* Leggett is named as beneficiary in the
will of his grandfather, James* Leggett, 1800. Whether Gabriel*
had other children is not known.
Authorities:
Will of James* Leggett.
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
76. Thomas* Leggett (James,* Gabriel,* Gabriel'), bom ;
died ; married . The name of his wife is not known.
Children i(?) (Leggett), a son.
171 i. John,* b. ; d. ; m. .
John, son of Thomas* Leggett, is named as beneficiary in the
will of his grandfather, James* Leggett, 1800. Whether Thomas*
Leggett had other children is not known.
Authorities:
Will of James* Lqrgett.
Family Kecerd of Re¥. T. A. Leggett.
IQISO Early SettUrs of We$t Farms, WisUhester County, N* Y. 73
91. Bbbnbzbr* Lbogett (John/ John/ John,* Gabriel'), bom at
West Farms, , 1763; resided at West Farms; died at West
Farms, Dec. 5, 1833. He married ^ Mary , bom , 1769;
died at West Farms, Sept. i, 1851. They, with their children
are buried in the old cemetery on Hunt's Point.
Children 3 (Leggett), i son and 2 daughters.
173 i. Cornelia • b. , 1792; d. Feb. 28, i8ao, unm.
173 ii. Anna (Nancy), b. , 1794; d. Aug. 18, 1852, unm.
174 iii. Robert, b. , 1797; d. June 20, 1816, unm.
Ebenezer* Leggett resided on the old farm at West Farms; he
was a member of St, Peter's Episcopal Church, but his daughter
Nancy was one of the founders 01 the Presbyterian Church at
West Farms.
Nancy* Leggett, who died in 1852, was the last surviving
member of Ebenezer's family. Her will, dated Aug. 12, 1852,
leaves her house and lot, a parcel of land, etc., south of the village
of West Farms, to Ann Elizabeth McGreagor, a school-teacher
who had long boarded with her, and after her death to Mrs*
Mary Gales, an old friend.
AUTHORITIBS:
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
Record furnished by Mrs. Josephine Frost
06. John Haviland' Lbogett (John/ John,* John,* GabrieP),
bom at West Farms, Feb. 21, 1771; resided at West Farms, later
in New York City; died in New York, Jan. 28, 1847. He married,
New York City, May 23, 1799, Gertrude Quackenbos, bom in
New York, Dec. 3, 1777; died in New York, March 19, 1859:
daughter of John* Quackenbos (Johannes,* Wouter,* Peter') and
Catherine DeWitt.
Children xo (Leggett), 3 sons and 7 daughters.
+ 175 1. John Haviland,* b. May 28, 1800; d. May 31, 1873; m.
Mary Noel Bleecker.
176 ii. Edward Henry, b. Feb. 6, 1803; d, ^ 1818, unm.
He was a student at Columbia College at the time
of his death.
+ 177 iii. Caroline Augusta, b. March 25, 1805; d. Aug. 4, 1879;
m. Rev. Richard Cunningham Shimeall.
+ 178 iv. Anna Georgina, b. June 13, 1806; d. Dec, 30, 1878;
m. Charles Radcliffe.
179 V. Maria Clinton, b. ; d. , in childhood.
180 vi. Gertrude Quackenbos, b. Jan 31, 1810; d. y in
childhood.
181 vii. Theodore Augustus, b. July 28, 181 1; d. Aug. 3, 1849.
unm. He was a physician in New York City, and
died there of the cholera, having refused to leave
the city during the epedemic.
182 viii. Catherine Ann, b. Sept. 15, 1814; d. in infancy.
-f 183 iz. Catherine Ann Gansvoort, b. Dec. 21, 1818; d. Aug. 8,
1879; m. Cornelius Nagel.
-f 184 X. Gertrude Quackenbos, b. March 30, 1823; d. ;
m. (x) John H. Lasher; m. (2) J. Bullocke.
74 -fiarfy Settlers of West Farms, WesUhesUr County, N. Y. f Jaiu
John Haviland* Leggett lived ia the house standing near the
present station of the Harlem branch, New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad; and as he was to inherit the house his father
had lived in, this is probably the same. He sold this house,
July 2, 1810, to Thomas Ludlow Ogden for $7,500; he then pur-
chased a house on Greenwich St., New York City, which he also
sold later. From Greenwich St. he removed to a house on
Provost St. where he resided until 1824, removing from there to
87 Fourth St. He was a merchant for some years, but was not
very successful in his business dealings, and later was appointed
Inspector of Customs, a post which he held for many years.
During his life, John H. Leggett had expressed the wish to be
buried in the old tamilv burying-ground on Hunt's Point, but
this wish was not carried out at his death, and he was buried in
the Quackenbos vault, Carmansville, New York City.
Authorities:
Will of John* Leggett.
Records of First Presbyterion Church, N. Y. C. N» Y, Gen, and Biog.
Record^ vol. 12, p. qi.
New York Gen. and B tog. Record, vol. 24, p. 173; vol. 25, p. 17, etseq.
Record furnished by Mrs. Josephine Frost
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
97. Jonathan' Leggett (Cornelius,* John,' John,* Gabrier), bom
; died ; married . The name of his wife has not
been found.
Children 2 (Leggett), daughters, and possibly other children.
185 i. Mary,* b. ; d, ; m. .
186 li. Antoinette, b. ; d. ; m. ,
The only mention we find of Jonathan* Leggett is in the wills
of his father, Cornelius, and of his mother, Mary Leggett. Mary
Leggett also left bequests to his two daughters Mary and
Antoinette. No other records of him or of his children have been
found.
Authorities:
Will of Cornelius* Leggett
Will of Mary Leggett, widow of Cornelius.
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett
98. David* Leggett (Cornelius,* John,* John,* Gabriel*), bom
; d. , before 1823; married . The name of his wife
has not been found.
Children x (Leggett), a daughter, and possibly other children.
187 i. Ann Eliza.*(?)
According to the will of Mary Leggett, widow of Cornelius*
Leggett, David* Leggett was living in 181 7, when he with his
brothers and sister gave the sum of $200 each to their mother, but
he was dead previous to the making of her will in 1823, in which
she leaves a bequest to her granddaughter, daughter of her son
David, deceased. This daughter is not named; but we find the
will of Ann Eliza Leggett, dated Jan. 33, 1837, proved Feb. 10,
1827, in which is mentioned her uncle Lawrence Leggett, so that
she must have been a daughter of one of Lawrence* Leggett's
191 5.J Eorly Settlers of West Farms, Westchester County, N. Y. 75
brothers (either Jonathan, Cornelius or David) and it seems
likely that she was the daughter of David' Leggett, who was
mentioned by Mary Leggett in her will.
Authorities:
Will of Cornelius* Leggett.
Will of Mary Leggett, widow of Cornelius.
New York Surrogate's Office. Wills. Liber 61, p. 148.
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
99. Cornelius' Leggett (Cornelius,* John,' John,' Gabriel'),
bom ; died .
We have no record of Cornelius' Leggett except the mention
of his name in the wills of his parents, Cornelius* Leggett and
Mary Leggett, widow of Cornelius.* It is not known whether he
ever married.
Authorities:
Will of Cornelius* Leggett.
Will of Mary Leggett, widow of Cornelius.*
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
100. Lawrence' Leggett (Cornelius,* John,' John,' Gabriel'),
born ; died ; married , Catherine Ann .
The only records we have of Lawrence' Leggett are those
found in the wills mentioned above. The name of his wife is
found in the will of his mother, Mary Leggett. Whether he had
any children is not known.
Authorities:
Will of Cornelius* Leggett.
Will of Mary Leggett, widow of Cornelius.
Will of Ann Eliza* Leggett.
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett
loi. Anna' Leggett (Cornelius,* John,' John,' Gabriel'), bom
; died ; married (i) before 1802, Phineas Hunt, born ;
died . Anna (Leggett) Hunt married (a) before 1823,
Stevenson.
No record of any children has been found.
Anna TLeggett) Hunt is called the wife of Phineas Hunt in
the will ot her father, Cornelius* Leggett, in 1802; and in the will
of her mother, Mary Leggett, 1823, she is called Anna Stevenson,
so that she was widowed and married the second time between
those dates. No further record of her has been found.
Authorities:
Will of Cornelius* Leggett.
Will of Mary Leggett, widow of Cornelius.*
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
109. Isaac' Leggett (Elijah,* William,' William,' Gabriel'), bom
; resided in his later years in New York; died in New York,
, 1833. He married Barbara , who died about 1842.
Children, 6(?) (Leggett), i son and 5 daughters.
188 i. Sarah,' b. ; d. ; m, John Dusenbury.
189 li. William V., b. ; d. ; m. .
190 Hi. Jane, b. ; d. ; m. Robert McCord.
76 Early SittUrs of Wtst Farms, WtsUhtsUr County, N. Y. [Jan.
191 iv. Mary A., b. ; d. ; m. Kolb; had a son,
Rev. William Leggett Kolb.
192 V. Tamar, b. ; d. ; living, unm., 1841.
193 vi. Henrietta, b. ; d. ; living, unm., 1841.
The will of Isaac' Legget, dated Dec. 29, 1832, proved March
5, 1833, mentions his wife, Barbara, children under age, unnamed,
daughter Sarah Dusenbury. John Dusenbury was appointed
executor.
The will of his widow, Barbara, dated Jan. 25, 1841, proved
April 17, 1843, mentions daughters Tamar and Henrietta, son-in-
law Robert McCord.
It is possible that Sarah, and perhaps other of the children
may have been by a former wife, but there is no record of a
previous marriage and it does not seem that such was the case.
Authorities:
New York Surrogate's Office. Wills. Liber 70, p. (f!\ Liber 86, p. 374.
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
III. Abraham' Leggett (Ezekiel,* William,* William,* Gabriel'),
b. March 7, 1770; was a tanner and resided at Mt. Pleasant, N. Y.;
died Oct. 17, 1857. He married March 27, 1792, Deborah Wood,
born Feb. 27, 1773; ^^^^ ¥q\>, 20, 1858. Abraham' Leggett and
his wife are both buried in the old cemetery at Tarrytown, N. Y.
Children 14 (Leggett), 10 sons and 4 daughters.
194 i. Ezekiel,' b. Oct. 26, 1793; d. Nov. 7, 1859.
+ 195 ii. Jane, b. Tan. 29, 1795; ^' J ^* Thomas Horton.
+ 196 iii. James W., b. Jan. 16, 1797; d. ; m. (i) ; m. (2)
Susan Requa.
Eliza Ann, b. Feb. 4, 1799; d. 1886, unm.
Sarah, b. Jan. 23, 1801; d. ; m. Mead Wheeler.
Abraham, b. Dec. 12, 1803; d. Feb. 21, 1805.
Abraham, 1 b. June 2, 1805; d. Sept. i, 1878; m. Sarah
>• twins. Lee.
201 viii. Isaac, ) b. June 2, 1805; d. Feb. 20, 1841; m. Susan
Swain.
202 ix. Stephen, b. Feb, 21, 1808; d. , 1894; m. Susan B.
Requa.
203 V. William, b. Oct. 15, 1810; d. March 7, 1867, unm.
204 xi. Edward H., b. July 31, 1812; d. March 29, 1837, unm.
205 xii. Elijah, b. March 31, 1814; d. same day.
206 xiii. John N., b. Nov. 2, 1815; d. ; m. Augusta
Wheeler.
207 xiv. Deborah, b. April 27, 1818; d. Aug. 21, 1881, unm.
Authorities:
Family Record of Abraham Hatfield, Jr.
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
1 13. William' Leggett ^William,* Abraham,* William," Gabriel*),
bom March 26, 1786; diea Sept. 10, 185 1. We have no record of
the name of his wife.
Children 4 (Leggett), 2 sons and 2 daughters.
208 i. William Henry,* b. ; d. ; m. .
197
IV.
198
V.
199
vi.
200
vii.
1915.] Early SiitUrs of West Farms, Wtstchester County, N. Y. 77
209 ii. Augustus, b. ; d. ; m. .
210 iii. Caroline, b. ; d. ; m. .
211 iv. Cornelia, b. ; d. ; m. .
Have no further record of this family.
Authorities:
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
122. Elizabeth' Leggett ^Abraham,* John,* William,* Gabriel*),
bom April i, 1778; resided in New York; died Feb. 12, 1859. She
married at New York, Oct. 16, 1800, James Breath, a sea captain.
Children 9 (Breath), 6 sons and 3 daughters:
212 i. fames Saunders,* b. March 18, 1802; d. ^ m. .
213 ii. Elizabeth, b. Jan, 9, 1804; d. Sept. — , 1820.
214 iii. Abraham, b. Dec. i, 1805; d. ; m. .
215 iv. Edward, b. Jan. 22, 1808; d. Nov. 18, 1861; m. .
216 V. John, b. Sept. 20, 1809; d. Nov. 27, 1863; m. .
217 vi. William Leggett, b. June 17, 1811; d. ; m. .
218 vii. Rebecca L., b. Nov. 15, 1813; d. Jan. 10, 1854, unm.(?)
219 viii. Mary Adeline, b. Dec. 15, 1815; d. ; m. .
220 ix. Samuel M., b. Oct. 17, 1817; d. ; m. .
Authorities:
Records of the First and Second Presbyterian Churches, New York City.
New York Gen. and Bio^, Record, vol. 14, p. 41.
Leggett, A., Narrative of Major Abraham Leggett.
Family Record of Rev, T. A. Leggett.
123. Rebecca' Leggett (Abraham,* John,* William,* Gabriel'),
bom in 1780; died . She married in 1827, Ovid Goldsmith of
New York City. We have no further record of her or her family.
Authorities:
Leggett, A„ Narrative of Major Abraham Leggett,
Family Record of Rev. T. A Leggett.
124. Abraham Alsop' Leggett (Abraham,* John,* William,*
Gabriel'), bom at Charleston, S. C, Oct. 23, 1785; died . He
married (i) R. Morgan; married (2) E. Morgan.
Children 5 (Leggett), i son and 4 daughters.
221 i. Anna,* b. ; d. ; m. .
222 ii. Adeline, b. ; d. ; m. .
223 iii Margaret W., b. ; d. ; m. .
224 iv. Mary N., b. - — ; d. ; m. .
225 V. William Henry, b. Feb. 24, 1816; d. April — , 1882,
unm. He graduated from Columbia University in
1837; was a teacher and well known botanist. He
founded the Tarrey Botanical Bulletin, and was its
editor for a number of years.
Authorities:
L^gett, A., Narrative of Major Abraham Leggett,
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography,
134. Mary* Leggett (Joseph,* Thomas,* Gabriel,* Gabriel*),
born ; died . She married Dec. 12, 1798, Jesse Frame,
78 Early Settlers of West Farms, Westchester County. N. Y. Qan.
born ; d. ; son of David and Catherine Frame of New
Jersey.
Children 5 (Frame), 2 sons and 3 daughters:
226 i. Catherine/ b. ; d. ; probably d.unm.; as she
is not mentioned in the will of her uncle, Aaron
Leggett.
227 ii. Joseph L., b. ; d. ; m. Joanna .
228 iii. Maria, b. ; d. ; m. William Titus.
229 iv. Thomas L., b. ; d. ; m. Ann — — .
230 V. Elizabeth, b. Nov. 12, 181 1; d. — — ; m. Gilbert Pear-
sail.
Authorities:
Friends* Marriages, Flushing, N. Y.
Will of Aaron* Leggett.
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
135. Hannah S.' Leggett (Joseph,* Thomas,* Gabriel,* Gabriel*),
born Feb. i, 1781; died ; married Oct. 12, 1803, Silvanus
Folger Jenkins, born June 26, 1782; died Dec. 23, 1818, aged 36
years, 5 months, 27 days; son of Jonathan and Sarah Jenkins of
Nantucket.
Children 8 (Jenkins), 2 sons, 5 daughters, and one child sex
not stated.
231 i. William Leggett,* b. Aug. 23, 1804; d. ; m. .
232 ii. Eliza L., b. Oct. 9, 1806; d. ; m. Oct. 10, 1827,
William H. Macy, son of Josiah and Lydia Macy.
233 iii. Mary, b. June 30, i8o3; d. May 15, 1809.
233a iv. Child (not named), b. ; d. March 4, 1810.
234 V. Mary, b. March 9, 181 1; d. Dec. 25, 1828.
234a vi. Sarah, b. Jan. — , 1813; d. April 22, 1814.
235 vii. Sylvanus Folger, b. ; d. ; m. . One
record states that he d. Feb. 10, 1820, and that the
name of William L. Jenkins was later changed to
Sylvanus F., but both are named in the will of
Aaron' Leggett.
236 viii. Caroline J., b. Aug. 21, 1814; d. ; m. John Oddy.
Authorities:
Friends* Records, New York City.
Will of Aaron*' Leggett.
Family Record of Kev. T. A. Leggett.
136. Thomas H.' Leggett (Joseph,* Thomas,* Gabriel,* Gabriel'),
born Oct. 26, 1787; died June 29, 1867; resided in Flushing, L. I.,
removed to New York City in 1847. H® married (i) about 181 1,
Avis I. , born 1788; died in New York, Feb. 24, 1817, aged 29
years. Her maiden name has not been recorded. Thomas H.
Leggett married (2) in 1823, Frances V. Pleasant(?) of Phila-
delphia, who died June 15, 1876.
Children 10 (Leggett), 5 sons, 4 daughters, and one child, sex
not stated. By first wife:
237 i. Silvanus J.,* b. Sept. 30, 181 2; d. June 8, 1840, unm.
238 ii. Alfred, b. Dec. 5, 1814; d. June 25, 1815.
239 iii. Infant (unnamed), b. ; d. Feb. 27, 1817.
1915.] Early Settlers of West Farms, WesUhester County, N. Y. 79
By second wife.:
240 iv. Avis, b. Nov, 14, 1823; d. ; m. Oct. 17, 1855;
ioseph Fitch of New Orleans, son of Joseph and
lary Fitch of Flushing, N. Y.
241 V. Charles Pleasant, b. Dec. 31, 1824; d. ; m. .
242 vi. Miriam, b. Aug. 26, 1826; d. ; m. Dec. 5, 1854,
Joseph F. Franklin of Cincinnati, son of Joseph L.
and Mary Franklin of Flushing, N. Y.
+243 vii. Thomas H., Jr., b. May 14, 1828; d. ; m. Hannah
H. Hoag.
244 viii. Pemberton, b. Oct. 8, 1831; d. Feb. 3, 1838.
245 ix. Frances Pleasant, b. Aug. 24, 1834; d. Jan. 24, 1838.
246 X. Nancy Bmlen, b. Dec. 5, 1836; d. Dec. 14, 1839.
Authorities:
Friends* Records, New York City, and Flushing, L. I.
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
137, Rbuben' Leggett (Joseph,* Thomas,* Gabriel,* Gabriel'),
born Jan. 29, 1790; died Aug. 15, 1826; resided in New York City.
He married June 2, 1814, at Rah way, N. J., Mary U. March, born
1785; died Jan. 24, 1853; daughter of Samuel and Ann Marsh of
Middlesex, N. J.
Children 7 (Leggett), 3 sons, 3 daughters, and one child, sex
not stated:
247 1. Phebe Ann,* b. Jan. 4, (or April i), 1815; d- before
1856; m. Sept. 3, 1840, Thomas H. Brown of New
York, son of Caleb and Phebe W. Brown.
248 ii. Infant (unnamed), b. ; d. March 17, 1816.
+249 iii. Reuben, b. Feb. 2, 181 7; d. Sept. 13, 1866; m. Anna
Maria Ogden.
250 iv. Alfred(?). (In the Friends' record we find the record
of birth of Alfred, son of Reuben and Mary Marsh
Leggett, Feb. 20, 181 7. As the birth of Reuben is
also recorded as given above, either the name was
changed to Reuben at a later date, and the day of
the month is wrongly entered in one case or the
other, or else they were twin sons. As there are no
further records of a son Alfred, it seems likely that
a change of name is the explanation of the discrep-
ancy in the records.)
+251 v. Esther, b. ; d. April 16, 1849; m. John GriflSn.
252 vi. Joseph Samuel, b. May 9, 182 1; d. , 1895; *^'
Agnes Hotchkiss.
+253 vii. Mary Eliza, b. Aug. 23, 1826; d. ; m. March 6,
185 1, as his second wife, John Griffin, whose first
wife was her sister Esther.
Authorities:
Friends' Records. New York City.
Will of Aaron* Leggett.
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
{To be contintud.)
8o Somi Vital Records of Providence, R. L [Jan.
SOME VITAL RECORDS OF PROVIDENCE, R. I.
CONTRIBUTBD BY HBNRY RuSSBLL DrOWNE.
The following records of marriages, baptisms, etc., were found
in two old account books of Solomon Drowne (2d) of Providence,
R. I., by his great-great-grandson. Solomon Drowne (2d) was
born in Bristol, R. I., Oct. 4, 1706, and died in Providence, R I.,
June 25, 1780.
He settled in Providence as a merchant in 1730 and for half a
century bore a prominent part in the affairs of the town, which he
represented in General Assembly. He was prominently con-
nected with the First Baptist Meeting House there and Dr.
Manning of Brown University writes that he "found him one of
the pillars of the church on his coming to Providence."
He was the son of Solomon Drowne, 1681-1730, a ship builder
at Bristol, R. I., and the grandson of Leonard Drowne, 1046-1729,
the ancestor of the Drowne family who came from England about
1660, settled and carried on ship building at Kittery, Maine, but
in consequence of Indian wars removed his family and business
to Boston, Mass., in 1692.
Said Solomon Drowne (2d) was the father of Dr. Solomon
Drowne and Captain William Drowne of the Revolution.
1. These are to certifie that Timothy Bennet Resident in
Providence & Mary Sweeting of said Providence were Lawfully
joyned together in marriage ye 27th Day of June, 1745.
pr Solomon Drowne, Justice Peace.
2. Who Likewise Lawfully joyn'd in marriage Philip Tilling-
hast & Marcy Olney the 5th Day of December A. D. 1745.
3. These are to Certifie that Thomas Hill of Northkings Town
in Kings County, Esq' and Mrs Ann Tillinghast of Providence,
widow, ware Lawfully joyned together in marriage the 20th Day
of October A. D. 1745.
(per) ^ Solomon Drowne, Justice Peace.
4. January 2d, 1745/6 married Antony & Margrat, molato
man & nigro woman. Servant to Joseph Crawford.
5. These are to Certifie Gideon Smith & Mary Randall Both
of Providence ware Lawfully married on the 30th of January
1745/6. pr Solomon Drowne, Justice Peace.
June the 21st 1759 was ordained in the Baptist Church in
Providence Sam*. Winsor (son of our Late worthy Elder Sam*.
Winsor) an Elder of Said Church and Edw'd. Thurber, Cornilus
Astain, John Dyer, Deacons to sd. Church by the hands of Elders
Job & Russel Mason & Nath* Cook.
I9i5»l Some Vital Records of Providence, R, I, 8 1
July Sth was Baptised & Recv'd a member of the Same Church
of Christ Mary Waterman widow to Capt Joseph Waterman
Dec'd.
10. Was Baptised Benj™ Thurber & Wife.
12. Was Baptised Elizeteah* Ramenton. All By Elder
Sam* Winsor.
March 2d, 1760, was Baptised Elizbeth Eddy wife to Capt
Benj"* Eddy by Elder Sam* Winsor.
Sept.' 21 1 761 was Baptised Jeremiah Wiscoat by Elder Sam*
Winsor.
July 4th 1762. Phebe Dexter was Baptised by Elder Sam*
Winsor.
August i: 1762 Thomas Williams Junior & Wife was Baptised
by Elder Sam* Winsor.
The 26th Mary Ceser, Indian woman, was baptised by Elder
Winsor.
March 3d 1763 Elisabeth Arnold of Charlston was Baptised
by Elder Winsor.
August 25, 1763 Job Olney & Roland Sprage & Wife was
Baptised and Septembr following Patience Eddy wife of Barnet
Eddy was baptised all by Elder Sam* Winsor.
June 14, 1764 Robert Miller Baptised by Sam* Winsor Elder.
August 21, 1764 Elisabeth Rhodes Baptised by Elder S".
Winsor.
August, 30 1764 John Sheldon & Elisabeth Denly Baptised
by Elder Winsor.
Sept. 2. Joseph Sheldon Jr was Baptised by Elder Winsor.
October 19 Ephrem Wheaten Baptised by Elder Winsor.
December 16 George Brown's wife & 23d himself was Bap-
tised by E. Winsor.
Sept. 26, 1765 Hope Sprage was Baptised by E. S. Winsor.
October 16 Amos Olney & Stephen Whipple Baptised (by)
E. S. W.
The Elder Samuel Winsorf of the First Baptist Meeting
House mentioned above, was born Nov. i, 1722, ordained June 21,
1759, retired in 1771, to be succeeded by James Manning, Presi-
dent of Rhode Island College (Brown University).
The father alluded to was Samuel Winsor.f born 1677, or-
dained 1733, and remained in office until his death in 1758. He
had succeeded James Brown, the grandson of Chad Brown.
* Probably intended for Elizabeth,
t Also spelled Windsor.
6
82 Corrections and Additions to Published Genealogical Works, [Ja°«
CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS TO PUBLISHED
GENEALOGICAL WORKS.
Every gleaner in the field of genealogical research has met with errors in
printed volumes which, left by themselves, carry mistaken conclusions to the
end of time. This department has been inaugurated in an endeavor to correct
such spurious data. Readers are requested to forward for publication here
every such error, and such further additions to printed genealogies as are
found, that due correction may be made. The authority for the statement
must be furnished, with name and address of contributor.
22. Ayres — Ingram — Cutt — Moulton — Foster — Fellows —
Sherburne — Corrections and Additions.
According to the Ayres Family, by William Henry Whitmore
of Boston, ** Edward* Ayres was the fifth child and son of Capt.
John^ Ayres, b. Feb. 12, 1658" (Ipswich Town Records), and had
the following children:
i. John, had grant at Brookfield.
ii. Elizabeth, prob. m. Caleb Griffith, Oct 30, 1701.
iii. A daughter, m. Joseph Moulton, as appears by grants.
In 1699 he had a grant of 20 acres in Kittery.
That Edward Ayres, called **of Kittery, Me.,*' on p. 15, of .4
Record of the Descendants of Capt, John Ayres of Brookfield, Mass,,
was of Portsmouth, N. H., as early as 1692, and his brother
Nathaniel, 1700, is proved by land conveyances, and the settle-
ment of ** the estate of Edward Ayres, late of Portsmouth," all of
record at Concord, N. H. This settlement further proves that he
had other daughters than those mentioned above. Letters of
administration were granted to Jno. Ayres and John Cutt, June 22,
1723 (L. 7, p. 555). The inventory amounted to ;^I429.5.5.
The proof that he had other daughters is shown by quit-claim
deeds to and from John Ayres, his only son, of record in the
office of the Secretary of State at Concord, to which the following
were parties:
Moses Ingram of Portsmouth and Elizabeth, his wife, John Cutt
of Portsmouth and Susanna, his wife, Joseph Moulton of Ports-
mouth and Abigail, his wife, John Foster of Boston and Mary, his
wife, Nathaniel Fellows of Portsmouth and Hannah, his wife, and
Joseph Sherburne of Portsmouth and Phebe, his wife, "brothers-
in-law and their wives, sisters of John Ayres."
The first quit-claim deed, dated June 7, 1725, recorded June 19,
1725 (L. 14, p. 280), conveyed 135 acres of land with house, barn
and orchard in Greenland, 85 acres in Portsmouth, and 46 acres,
with house, barn and orchard in Kittery, "all of which were late
the estate of Edward Ayres of Portsmouth, deceased, who was the
father of the said John Ayres and of his sisters." Sixty acres of
the above mentioned land were "laid out to him for his part of
the common land of ye town of Portsmouth." The lands he
1915*] Corrections and Additions to Published Genealogical Works, 83
owned at Kittery and Greenland were purchases. This deed
establishes his early settlement at Portsmouth.
The quit-claim from the sisters and their husbands to their
said brother John, bore the same date and was recorded July 29,
1743 (L. 26, p. 544), by which was conveyed all right, title and
interest to lands mentioned in the above quoted quit-claim,
•*viz.: Dwelling House & Land in Ports'** afd which was y* late
Dwelling House & land of their Hon*d Father Edw'd Ayers late
of Ports*** afd Deceased with ye wharfe warehouse & shop," etc.
Other deeds are:
The same grantors to Samuel Nudd of Hampton, N. H., dated
Sept. 24, 1725, recorded June 3, 1726 (L. 14, p. 564). Consider-
ation ;^522. Land at Greenland.
John Ayres, Susannah Cutt, widow, Joseph Moulton and
Abigail, his wife, in right of said Abigail and Joseph Sherburne
and Phebe, his wife, in the right of said Phebe, all of Portsmouth,
to Ephraim Davis of Durham, dated Jan. 14, 1754, recorded July
30, 1760 (L. 63, p. 237). Consideration ;^250. Land in Harrington
'* belonging to their father Edward Ayres of Portsmouth."
Gershom Griflith of Hampton to Ephraim Davis of Durham.
Quit-claim dated July 29, 1760 (L. 37, p. 239). Lots in Harrington
"belonging to my grandfather Edward Ayres of Portsmouth, de-
ceased."
The statement that Edward Ayres was of Portsmouth as early
as 1692 is proved by a deed to him from Samuel Penhallow and
Mary, his wife, of Portsmouth, dated Jan. i, 1692-3, recorded
Jan. 3, 1 71 7-18 (L. 9, p. 708). On June 13, 1700 (L. 9, p. 710), he
purchased land of his brother Nathaniel and Amy, his wife, ** all
of Portsmouth," and on Jan. 30, 1711-12 (L. 8, p. 183), he acquired
land of Samuel Foulsom and Abigail, his wife.
Maine Historical and Genealorical Recorder^ vol. 3, p. 44. In-
scriptions from Point of Graves Cemetery in Portsmoutn:
Alice Ayres, wife to Edward Ayres, d. 9th Feb., 1718, aged 53
years. [Query: Was this Alice Ayres Alice Shapleigh, dau. of
Alexander of Kittery, Me.?]
Edward Ayres died 30th Nov., 1723, aged 65 years.
There are several other early inscriptions of both Ayres and
Grifliths but nothing that throws any light on the following query
that appeared in the issue of the Hoston Transcript of Wednesday,
June 28, 191 1 :
**(No. 2088.) 2 Griffith, Caleb, m, Elizabeth* Ayres (Edward,*
Capt. John^), and had:
Caleb, b. Aug. 28, 1702, Portsmouth, N. H.
Edward, b. Feb. i, 1703.
Joshua, b. Feb. i, 1704.
Gershom, b. Sept. 23, 1707.
After the death of Caleb, Sr., his widow, Elizabeth, m. Henry
Lyons of York. Joshua Griffiths of Hoston sells the homestead of
father, Caleb Griffiths, deceased, which he bought of George
84 CorrecHons and Additions to Published Genealogical Works. [Jan.
Vaughn, March 9, 1702, to Moses Ingraham of Portsmouth, whom
he calls father-in-law. Deed dated 1726. Savage says Joshua
Griffiths came from England 1635, ^ged twenty-five. New Hamp-
shire State Papers give David uriffiths, Portsmouth, 1681. Who
was Caleb who m. Elizabeth Ay res? e. s. t. l."
Ayers marriages in Portsmouth, N. H. Vol. 24, N, E. Hist,
Reg.:
p. 15. Jos. Sherburn and Phebe Ayers both of Porsm® were
marry^ 15 feb^ 172 1-2.
p. 17. Jno Cutt and Susanna Ayers both of Portsm® w' married
20th Sept 171 5.
Mary Cutt y* Daughter of Jn® and Susanna Cutt was
born 10 Aug 1716.
Susanna Cutt y* Daugh' of y* above Parents was born
22 Dec' 1 71 7.
Sarah y* Daugh' of ye Parents above was born 9 Ap
1720.
Hannah y* Daugh' of y« Parents above was born 26
Jan^ 1 72 1,
p. 18. Jn* Cutt y* son of Jn® and Susanna Cutt was born
6 Jan 1724.
Vol. 23, N. E, Hist Reg,:
p. 271. Edw Toogood and Hannah Ayers both of this Town
were marry** 16 Oct. 171 1.
Mary y" Daugh' of Edw and Hannah Toogood was
born 17 of April 171 3.
Joseph Moses and Rebeck: Ayres both of Portsm® were
Marry* 17 Aug** 171 2.
Joseph y** son of Joseph and Rebeckah Moses was
born 9 Sep' 171 3.
p. 393. Abra™ Ayers and Mary Jackson both of Portsm® w'
marry'* 18 Oct. 1716.
p. 395. Edward Ayers and Hannah Jose both of Portsm® w'
marry** 2 Oct 1718. (Could this have been a second
marriage of Edward* Ayres?)
Johannah y** wife of Edward Ayers Deceased Jan^
1718-19.
Abigail, dau. of Edward^ and Alice Ayres, m. at Portsmouth,
N. H., Nov. 25, 1708, Joseph,* son of Joseph* Moulton, of York, Me.
(N, H GeneaL Record, vol. 3, p. 40; K E, Hist, Reg, vol 23, p. 349;
York Deeds, vol. 10, p. — ). March i, 1758, Joseph Moulton, aged
72, and Abigail, his wife, aged 70, signed a deposition (Liber 55
of Deeds, p. 308, Old Deeds at Concord). Administration on the
estate of the said Joseph was granted July 30, 1762, to son Joseph,*
who gave bond etc. (Liber 22, p. 397). Children:
Joseph,* b. Sept. 29, 171-.
John, b. Dec. 15, 1713; d. Oct 7, 1719, aged 7.
Alice, b. June 4, 1715.
Abigail, bap. North Church 1718.
19' 50 Corrections and Additions to Published Genealogical Works, 85
John (Capt. and Esq.), bap. North Church, Oct. 8, 1 72 1
{N, E. Hist Reg,, vol. 23, p. 394; N. H, Record, vol. i,
p. 16; N, K G, & B. Record, Jan., 1914, p. 92).
Joseph,* son of Joseph,* and Abigail (Ayres) Moulton, b. at
Portsmouth, Sept. 29, 171-; m. Jan. 7, 1732-3, Sarah Sherburne
(A^. E, Hist. Reg,, vol, 25, p. 119). The Moulton Family, by Thomas
Moulton, states that both he and his wife were members of the
Congregational (Old North) Church, to which his father belonged,
also that " they had one son and three or four daughters. One
daughter, Dorcas m. James Day; one m. Fullerton;
another, Nelson. He d. Nov. 15, 1787, aged yy years."
Transcript of deed recorded in Rockingham Co., N. H., Jan. 5,
1790, Liber 126, p. 226. John Nelson of Gilmanton, and Sarah,
his wife, in the right of his said ; and Dorcas Day of Ports-
mouth, widow in her own right, dau. of Joseph Moulton of
Portsmouth, deceased; Nicholas Miller of sd. Portsmouth, and
Abigail, his wife, in her own right; Mary Fullerton of Boston,
single woman in her own right; Benj. Folsom of sd. Gilmanton,
and Agnes, his wife in her own right; all granddaughters of sd.
deceased, for 40 s. convey to Joseph^ Moulton of Portsmouth, all
right, title and interest in the real and personal estate of Joseph*
Moulton, late of Portsmouth, dec'd. Sarah Sherburne, wife of
Joseph* Moulton, was the dau. of Edward and Agnes (Hunting)
Sherburne, and was bap. Aug. 10, 1718, at Portsmoutn. {N, E,
Hist, Reg,, vol. 58, p. 227, for Sherburne Ancestry with corrections
of errors existing in previous articles )
Note: — I have proved up the line of Edward Sherburne myself
and know the truth whereoi the compiler speaks. Benjamin and
Agnes (Fullington) Folsom were my great-grandparents and I
have spent many years endeavoring to unravel the mystery sur-
rounding their lives. I am thankful to say most of the mystery
has yielded to persistent effort and is nearly ready for publication
with much relating to the Fullington and Skinner families.
MRS. L. c. HEELY, i6s West 140th Street.
23. Lyndall — ^Tyndall — Churchill Genealogy — Correction.
Lyndall is a misprint for Tyndall and all of the names should
be corrected. e. d. york,
180 Franklin Ave., Flushing, L. I., N. Y.
24. Sneden — ^TuFTS — Ware — Addition to Supplement to His-
tory OF County of Annapolis, Nova Scotia.
In the record of the Sneden family in the Supplement to the
History of Annapolis County, p. 87, there should be added to the
children of vi John Townshend and Margaret (Robertson) Sneden,
5, Julia, m. Alfred Tufts of Everett, Mass., and had son Otis, and
dau. Annie, m. Albert E. Knox, and Lalia, d. in infancy. John
Townshend Sneden*s 3rd child Annabella, m. James Ware of
Everett, and had two sons, Evelyn P., d. unm., and Norman W.
A. W. SAVARY,
Author of the Supplement to the History of Annapolis
County, N. S., Waverly House, Halifax, N. S.
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86 Obituary. [Jan.
OBITUARY.
JAMES HENRY LEA.
We announce with deep regret the death of James Henry Lea, a member
of The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, who died in Boston
on November 13, 1914. Mr. Lea became a member of the Society February
15, 1906, and since that time has been intimately associated with its affairs,
especially as a contributor to The New York Genealogical and Biographical
Record, of bis valuable series of articles on English wills of American
interest His reputation as a professional genealogist in his chosen field of
"English research" was second to none in his profession, and his work
furnishes a standard to be emulated by his successors. The following is a
brief sketch of his life and activities as published in the Worcester, Mass.,
Gazette on November 27, 1914:
"Another member of the once numerous Trumbull family has passed
away. James Henry Lea, only son of Louisa Jane Trumbull and Henry Lea,
and grandson of George Augustus Trumbull, was born in the ancestral
mansion (formerly the Court House), Trumbull square, Worcester, July i,
1846. On the paternal side he came of old Delaware Quaker stock, and on
the maternal was akin to the Connecticut Trumbulls whose Revolutionary
record (through (jov. Jonathan and the two Johns, painter and poet) is
well known.
He was educated at the Highland Military Academy and at Union Col-
lege, and resided successively in Alton, 111., Wilmington, Del., Boston, Fair-
haven, Mass., and South Freeport, Me. For many years he was connected
with the book and publishing business in Boston and Philadelphia ; but finally
devoted himself to family research, becoming a professional genealogist of
high standing.
Among others, he compiled the Trumbull-Qap and the Lea genealogies;
and he was a frequent contributor to the New England Historic Genealogical
Register. His chief work in collaboration with bis English partner, J. R.
Hutchinson) was *The Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln in England and
America," a de luxe volume beautifully illustrated. He was a member of
the Society of Colonial Wars, the N. E. Historic (Genealogical Society, the
Old Colony Historical Society (honorary), the New York (Genealogical and
Biographical Society, and many others here and abroad.
His profession took him frequently to England, and he had traveled on
the continent Of late he had lived quietly among his books at Elmlea, his
pleasant seaside home in Freeport.
On Friday, November 13, 1914, he was in Boston on business; and that
evening, on his way to spend the night with a friend, he encountered a severe
windstorm, succeeded in reaching the house, but expired almost immediately
from heart failure. A simple service, conducted by the Rev. J. H. Holden,
was held in Boston, November 16, and he was cremated at Forest Hills, the
ashes being interred in the Lea lot in the old Brandywine cemetery at Wil-
mington.
Mr. Lea married first, Anna Blackwell Williams of Harrisonburgh, Va.,
by whom he had one daughter, Frances Trumbull Lea, an artist and Salon
exhibitor, resident in Paris for several years, now married to Percy Stuart
Moroney of the Associated Press, and the mother of a young child, Sylvia
Lea Moroney. He married second, Ida Florence Heaton of Providence,
1915O Society Proceedings. 87
widow of Henry W. Pope, by whom he had a daughter, Jane Trumbull Lea,
both surviving.
Mr. Lea's favorite diversion was sailing, and he belonged to the New
Bedford and the South Freeport Yacht clubs. He was a man of wide culti-
vation, refined tastes and genial personality; a good story-teller and a
charming conversationalist and correspondent. His epistolary gift was
inherited from his mother, whose letters, compared to Mme. de Sevigne's,
are still remembered by her Worcester contemporaries.
Louisa Trumbull Roberts.**
Worcester Gazette^ November 27, 1914.
Whereas the Board of Trustees of the New York Genealogical and
Biographical Society have received notification of the death of Mr. J. Henry Lea
of Soutn Freeport, Maine, it is hereby Resolved that the Societv has lost a
valued member and noted genealogist, whose services in historical and family
research have been marked by intelligence, learning and integrity.
In the examination and tracing ot English records and pedigrees Mr. Lea
was prominent and his unselfish contribution of many and important discoveries
in family historjr to the pages of the Record was noteworthy and deserved
the commendation of all antiquaries. Mr. Lea was a man of marked char-
acter, genial personality and the soundest judgment in the solving of
historical and genealogical problems. The Trustees deplore his sudden and
untimely death and desire to express to his family their profound regret at his
demise.
It is further Resolved that the Societv record the above resolution in the
minutes and send a transcript of same to his family.
SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS.
Regular Meeting, November 13, 191 4.
The meeting was called to order at 8.45 P. M., President Bowen in the
chair.
President Bowen after some introductory remarks as to the opening of the
season made the following announcements, viz.:
The Executive Committee reported the election of the following new
members:— Mrs. Louis Flickinger, 1416 Center St., Little Rock, Ark., Annual
Member, proposed by Henry P.Gibson; Mrs. Theodore Frelinghuysen Jackson,
555 Park Ave., City, Annual member, assuming the membership of her late
husband, Theodore Frelinghuysen Jackson, proposed by John R. Totten;
Charles Thompson Mathews, 30 West 57th St., City, Annual Nl ember, proposed
bv Alister Greene; George Horace Perkins, 200 Fifth Avenue, City, Annual
Member, proposed by Henry P. Gibson; Johan Waldemar von Rehling Qvist-
gaard, iio West 59th Street, City, Annual Member, proposed by John R.
Totten; Howard Stelle Filz Randolph, 260 West 76th St., City, Annual Mem-
ber, proposed bv Henry P. Gibson; John Canfield Tomlinson, 45 West 57th
St., City, Annual Member, proposed by Clarence Winthrop Bowen; Mrs. Alois
von Isakovics, Vaucluse Park, Monticello, N. Y., Annual Member, proposed by
John R. Totten; Edward McKinstry Whiting, 515 Cathedral Parkway, City,
Annual Member, proposed by Henry P. Gibson.
The following Corresponding Member has been elected: Henry Cady,
Schoharie, N. Y., Corresponding Member to represent Schoharie Co., N. Y.
Since the May meeting of the Society the following deaths have been re-
corded, viz.: Ricnard Hockman Handley, Life Member, died July 14, IQI4,
aged 65; William Nelson, Life Member, died Aug. 10, 1914, aged 67; Mrs.
William H. Perry, Life Member, died May 20, 1914; Gen. Edward Francis
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Winslow, Life Member, died Oct. 22, 1914, aged 77; Lemuel Bolton Bangs,
M. D., Annual Member, died Oct. 4, 1914, aged 72; Lucas Brodbead, Annual
Member, died Oct. i, 1914, aged 70; Mrs. Morris Ketcbum Jesup, Annual
Member, died June 17, 1914, aged 80; Mrs. James Marcus King, Annual Mem-
ber, died Nov. 6, 1914, aged 74; Isaac Parish Smith, Annual Member, died
July 7, 1914; Harrv Dugan Spears, Annual Member, died Sept. 17, 1914, aged
67; Col. Walter Phelps Warren, Annual Member, died Aug. 8, 1914, aged 73.
Also that the following Nominating Committee had been appoint^, viz.: —
Rev. S. Ward Righter, Henry Parsons, Alexander McMillan Welch, John Mil-
ton Gardner, George William Burleigh.
Mr. Bowen then introduced the lecturer of the evening, Justin Harvev
Smith, LL.D., of Boston, who addressed the Society on the subject of "Poinsett s
Career in Mexico," and informed us that Joel R. Poinsett was the first
Minister to Mexico from the United States, 182c.
At the close of the lecture Capt. Richard Henry Greene with remarks
moved that the thanks of the Society be tendered to Mr. Smith for his in-
structive and entertaining lecture which was duly seconded by Mr. David
Harris Underbill and earned.
Mr. Bowen then tendered the thanks of the Society to Mr. Smith.
The meeting then on motion adjourned to the Library where the members
and their guests were served with refreshments.
Regular Meeting, December ii, 1914.
The meeting was called to order at 8.40 P. M., the President, Clarence
Winthrop Bowen, in the Chair.
The President announced that January 8th, IQ15, would be the Annual
Meeting, on which occasion the Hon. Chauncey M. Depew would be elected an
Honorary Member and would address the Society as would also the Hon. Joseph
H. Choate.
Also that an extra meeting would be held on January 29th, 191 5, when Mr.
William Webster Ellsworth would lecture on " Making of Europe, etc.
At the February Meeting Gov. Simeon E. Baldwin would address the
Society on " Centennial of Hartford Convention."
The Executive Committee announced the election of Mrs. Lucas Brod-
head, Versailles, Ky,, Annual Member, proposed by John R. Totten, assuming
the membership ot her late husband, Lucas Brodhead, Esq.; also that Miss
Florence E. Carr, Fayetteville, N. Y., had been elected a Corresponding Mem-
ber to represent Syracuse, Fayetteville and Onondaga County in general.
Since the last meeting of the Society the following deaths have been
recorded: — Mrs. Henry Draper, Life Member and Donor, died Dec. 8, 1914;
Mrs. Sylvanus Reed, Life Member, died Nov. 17, I9i4> aged 93; James Henry
Lea, Annual Member, died Nov. i^, 191 4.
The President then announced the appointment of the following Auditing
Committee, to audit the Treasurer's books for the year 191 4:—
Dwight Brainard Baker,
Edmund Cook Sargeant.
Richard Schermerhom, Jr..
Mr. Bowen then introduced the speaker of the evening, Mr. Thomas
Willing Balch of Philadelphia, who addressed the Society on the subject of
• The Swedish Beginning of Pennsylvania."
At the close of the lecture Rev. John Cornell moved a vote of thanks to
the speaker for his interesting and instructive address which was duly
seconded by Mr. Drowne.
Remarks were made by the Chairman as to the flag of the City of New
York.
Attention was called by the Chairman who announced the gift to the Society
of two volumes, "English Ancestors of the Shippen Famfly and Edward
Shippen of Philadelphia,*' and " International Courts of Arbitration," from the
speaker of the evening, Mr. Thomas Willing Balch.
On motion, duly seconded, the meeting adjourned to the Library for
refreshmenu. Henry Russell Drowne, Secretary.
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QUERIES.
Queries will be inserted at the rate of ten (10) cents per line, or fraction of a line, payable in
adrance; ten (10) words allowed to a line. Name and address of individual making query charged
at line rates. No restriction as to space.
All answers mar at the discretion of querist be addressed to The N. Y. G. & B. Soc. and will
be forwarded to the inquirer.
In answering queries please refer to the Volume and Page of Tus Record in which original
query was published.
1. Lawrance.— Aug, 20, 1784. Elizabeth Hale, Robert Towt and wife
Sarah (Van Voorst), Thomas Lawrance and wife Eleanora, Daniel Lawrence and
wife Jemima (Brevoort), and Nicholas Van Antwerp and wife Mary (Lawrence),
released their interest in real estate situated on the east side of New Street,
near Wall, to Mary Towt (conveyances Liber 93, page 150, N. Y. Register's
Office). Were these people related? From whom was their interest derived?
Will of Thomas Lawrence of the City of New York, blacksmith, dated Feb. 21,
1756; proved April 28, 1784, mentions wife Ann; sons Thomas and John Van
Voorst, and unmarried daughter Mary. Witnesses: Elizabeth Hale, John Van
Voorst and Samuel Bayard. How related to the foregoing?
Taylor, Moses, of Yoncers in Westchester County, New York, black*
smith. Will dated Sept. 5, 1748; proved Oct. 13, 1748 (Liber 16, page 351, N. Y.
Surrogate's Office). Information desired concerning his ancestry.
Taylor, Moses, of New York City, coppersmith. Born elsewhere. Ad-
mitted as freeman, Sept. 12, 1738. Alive Aug. 6, 1753. Information desired
concerning his ancestry.
Disbrow, Hannah, of Maiden Head, married Benjamin Oppie of Somer-
set County, N. J., Jan. g, 1764 (New Jersey Archives, Marriage Licences). In-
formation desired concerning their ancestry. How related to Samuel Disbrow
or Desbro of Cranberry, N. J.?
Smith, Richard, of Hanover, in the County of Morris, N. J. Will dated
Feb. 12, 1763. Filed in Office of Secretary of State, Trenton, N. J., July i,
1763. Mentions sons Samuel and Benjamin (married Hannah Dodd), and
daughters Rachel (married Moses Peirson, March 27, 1754) and Rhoda (mar-
ried John Cobb). Information concerning his ancestry desired.
Taylor, John, bom in New York City, coppersmith. Married Mary
Piper, March 5, 1757. He died July 3, 1798. She died Sept. 30, 1803 (Family
Bible). They resided at No. 96 Maiden Lane, which was sold by Com-
missioners of Partition, May i, 1805. Information concerning their ancestry
desired. Also from whom they acquired the property. The deeds on file in
the Register's Office do not show.
H. SMITH, 170 Central Park West, N. Y. City.
2. Smith — Mountford — Lear — Fogg — Storer. — Information de-
sired of Captain Joseph Smith of Portsmouth, N. H. (d. York, Me., in 1821, aged
48) and his wife Polly Mountford (d. Portsmouth in 1824, aged 40). Who were
Uieir parents or connections? They had daus. Charlotte, who at one time lived
with the Lear family in Portsmouth, and Martha Louisa, who m. a Stillson.
There was in the Lear family an aunt Fogg and an aunt Storer, and Storer was
Polly Lear's name by m. to Samuel Storer and became the mother of Rear
Admiral George Washington Storer. Polly was sister of Tobias Lear,
Washington's secretary. the editor.
BOOK REVIEWS.
By John R. Totten.
EnrroRiAL Notk:— The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society solicits at
donations to its Library all newly published works on Genealogy. History and Biography, as well
as all works on Town, County and State History, or works embodying information regarding the
Vital Records of any and all localities. It also solicits the donation to the manuscript collections
of its library any and all manuscript compilations which bear upon the above mentioned topics.
6b
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In consideration of socb donations the works so presented to the Society will be at once
R laced upon the sbeWes of its librarj and will be reviewed in tbe next subsequent issue of Tub
[bw Yorb Genbalogical and Biographical Kbcord, eacb donation of such cbaracter.
wbetber in printed or manuscript form, will be reviewed under tbe bead of ** Book Notices " and
a copy of Thb Rbcord containing tbe review will be sent to tbe donor.
The Society does not solicit donations of publications or manuscripts on topics foreign to
tbe above mentioned subjects, as its library is specialized and cannot accommodate material
wbicb does not bear directly upon its recognized spbere of usefulness.
Donations for review in tbe January issue of Thb Rbcord sbould be delivered to tbe
Society before December ist of tbe previous year; for tbe April issue, before Marcb ist; for tbe
July issue before June ist; and for tbe October issue, before September ist.
All donations will be generously reviewed witb a view of calling tbe attention of tbe public
to tbeir good points; but, while generous, tbe reviews vrill contain such proper criticism as tbe
interest of the genealogical student would expect from tbe editorial stafif of Thb Record.
The **Book Notices'* of The Rbcord are carefully read by all librarians as well as
genealogical students, and tbe review of a work in Thb Rbcord is equivalent to a special
advertisement of such work.
Letters of transmittal of donations of such works sbould embody tbe price of tbe work
donated and the name and address of tbe person from whom it can be purchased.
The Stoky op Anthony Coombs and His Descendants, by William
Carey Coombs, Amelia, Ohio. 1913. 8vo., cloth, pp. 219, illustrated (no
index). Price, cloth, $2.15; Budo-am, $2.65. Address: author, at Amelia,
Ohio.
A valuable addition to the history of the Coombs family which will be
welcomed by all of the blood. It is recommended to all Genealogical
Libraries.
Morrill Kindred in America, an account of the Descendants of Abraham
Morrill of Salisbury, Mass., 1632-1662 through his eldest son Isaac Morrill,
1640-1713 by Annie Morrill Smith. The Lyons Genealogical Company, New
York, 1914. 8vo., cloth, pp. 144, including index, illustrated. Price, $2.00,
postpaid. Address: compiler, 78 Orange street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
An excellent compilation containing valuable genealogical information
concerning Abraham^ Morrill and his descendants to the 8th generation in-
clusive. It is recommended to all Genealogical Libraries.
From One Generation to Another. Being annals of one branch of the
Langdon Family from Vershire, Vermont, and afterwards of Coltunbia,
(Cincinnati) Ohio. Edited and published for private distribution by Harriet
Nash Langdon and Annie Morrill Smith, of No. 78 Orange street, Brooklyn,
N. Y. 8vo., cloth. Price, $2.00, postpaid
This excellent little book gives much information concerning family
characteristics and customs ; and is enriched by twa genealogical charts, one
giving the descendants of Philip Langdon, of England and Boston, Mass., to
5ie 5th generation, and the second giving the descendants of James Daven-
port^ Langdon to the 8th generation. Recommended to all (Genealogical
libraries.
Baker Ancestry. The Ancestry of Samuel Baker, of Pleasant Valley,
Steuben Cotmty, New York, with some of his descendants. Cxmipiled by
Frank Baker. Quarto cloth, pp. 58, illustrated. Price, $5.00. Address:
compiler, 643 Woodland Park, Chicago, 111.
This excellent work gives the line of ascent of Samuel* Baker of
Pleasant Valley, N. Y., to the original emigrant, Thomas^ Baker, of Milford,
Conn., Thomas*, Samuel", Jonathan*, Samuel* Baker, of Pleasant Valley,
with much valuable information concerning the ancestor of each generation.
In addition there is information concerning the descendants of Samuel*
Baker of Pleasant Valley, N. Y. Recommended to all Genealogical
Libraries.
Historical Sketches or the Town of Milford (C>)nn.), by (jcorgc
Hare Ford, 1914. 8vo., cloth, pp. 80, with map and illustrations. Price, $1.50.
Address: author, New Haven, Conn.
A valuable addition to the history of this old Connecticut town. ^ It
contains amongst other material a fac-simile reproduction of the original
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town patent issued in 1712-13 with names of patentees; names of heads of
families taken from first U. S. Census in 1790; names of residents who
served in Civil War, 1861-1865. It is recommended to all Historical and
Genealogical Libraries.
The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Hampshire. Our
Deceased Members, 1911-1914, sketches of their Honored Lives with por-
traits, Constitution and By-I^ws, List of Officers, Committees and Members,
Chronicle for Twenty Years, 1894 to 1914. Printed by the Society and
Dedicated to the Memory of Our Departed Members. 1914. 8vo.» cloth, pp.
104. Price, $2.oa Address: John C Thome, Secretary-Treasurer, Con-
cord, N. H.
An excellent example of a Society lineage book, and containing, as it
does, not only a list of all the members, but also a Hst of ancestors from
whom eUgibility is derived, will be of value to genealogists. Recommended
to all Genealogical Libraries.
Edmond Hawes, of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, an Emigrant to
America in 1635. His Ancestors, including the allied families of Brome,
Colles, Greswold, Porter, Rody, Shirley and Whitfield, and some of his
descendants, by James William Hawes, A. M. 8vo., doth, pp. 217, including
an excellent index, illustrated. Price, $5.00 (carriage extra). Address:
Author, Harvard Club, 27 W. 44th street, New York City.
This work from the pen of such a well known genealogical writer is in
itself self-recommended, and we find it all that we would expect from such
an imdoubted authority. It contains exhaustive data on the English and
American history of the Hawes Family and the genealogical record of
Edmond^ Hawes (the emigrant ancestor) and his descendants to the 8th
generation inclusive. Recommended to all (jenealogical Libraries.
History and Genealogical Record op One Branch op the Stilwell
Family, by Dewitt Stilwell, with introduction and contributions by Lamont
Stilwell, of Syracuse, N. Y. 8vo., cloth, pp. 94, including index, illustrated.
Price, $2.oa Address : Lamont Stilwell, 331 Union Bldg., Syracuse, N. Y.
A valuable contribution to the history of the Stilwell Family in America
giving the genealogical record of Nicholas^ Stilwell and his descendants to
the 8th generation, inclusive. Recommended to alt Genealogical Libraries.
The Vandbrlip, Van Derlip, Vander Lippe Family in America^ also
including some account of the Von Der Lippe Family of Lippe, (jermany,
from which the Norwegian, Dutch and American lines have their descent.
Compiled by Charles Edwin Booth, Member of New England Historic
Genealogical Society, Connecticut Historical Society, Society of (Colonial
Wars, Long Island Historical Society, etc Privately printed. New York,
1914. 8vo., cloth, pp. 188, including index, illustrated. Although not gener-
ally for sale, a limited ntunber of copies are available by appHcation to the
author. Price, $3.00. Address: Author, National Arts Qub, 15 Gramercy
Park, New York City.
This excellent work contains valuable historical information regarding
the German origin of the family and its American branch and contains the
record of William^ Vanderlip (the emigrant ancestor) and his descendants.
The work bears evidence of painstaking accuracy and is recommended to all
Genealogical Libraries.
A Little Book on Heraldry, by Qara M. Howell Lyons. 8vo., cloth,
pp. 58, with illustrations, 1907. Price, cloth, $1.00 ; paper, 75 cents. Address :
William S. Pelletreau, 64 W. looth street. New York City.
This modest little work contains a fund of information on the laws of
heraldry and will be found a handy reference book to those interested in
the subject. The introduction is an interesting review of the origin and
history of the use of Heraldic insignia and the body of the work is a good
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practical description of the conventional heraldic devices and their peculiar
significance. Recommended to all Historical and Genealogical Libraries.
Genealogy op the Somersetshire Family op Meriet^ traced in an un-
broken line from the Reign of The Confessor to its extinction in the Reign
of King Henry V.; compiled from Public Records and other Authentic
Sources with notes and references, by B. W. Greenfield, Barrister-at-Law,
1883, Taunton. Printed by J. F. Hammond, 67 High street, with additions
and corrections by Douglas Merritt New York, 1914. 8vo., half morocco,
pp. 131. Price, $6.00. Address: Douglas Merritt, Rhinebeck, N. Y.
Mr. Merritt, with the most commendable zeal, has gone to the expense
of issuing this 2nd edition of this now almost unobtainable genealogical work
and has added essentially to its value by the valuable additions and cor-
rections which he has compiled with his well known painstaking accuracy.
The volume is heartily recommended to all Genealogical and Allied Libraries.
John Hay, Author and Statesman, by Lorenzo Sears, L. H. D. 8vo.,
cloth, pp. 150, including index, with portrait frontispiece of John Hay. Dodd,
Mead & Co., 1914. Price, $1.00 net Address: Publishers, 4th Avenue and
30th street. New York City.
A brief, but comprehensive history of this most eminent of American
Statesmen of this modem period. It contains much in a limited space, and
its literary merit is vouched for by the reputation of the author. Recom-
mended to all Historical, Genealogical and General Reference Libraries.
Nantucket (Mass.) A History, by R. A. Douglas-Lithgow, M. D., LL.D.
8vo., cloth, pp. 389, including index, 8 illustrations and i map. Knickerbocker
Press, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2-4-6 West 4Sth street, New York City. 1914.
Price, $2.50. Address: Publishers.
A most interesting narrative history of this Old Massachusetts Island
told in such a manner as to strip the subject of any of the dullness of mere
statistical history. It cannot fail to be of value to all those whose interests
for one reason or another may center in this Atlantic Island. Recommended
to all Genealogical and Historical Libraries.
History of the Woodcock Family from 1692 to 1912, by William Lee
Woodcock. 8vo., cloth, pp. 62. Price $3.00. Address: Author, Altoona, Fa.
An acceptable addition to the history of this family in America, con-
taining a chapter on the English Woodcock Family and chapters on the
descendants of Bancroft and Isaac Woodcock, John Woodcock, Andrew J.
Woodcock, Bancroft* Woodcock, Robert and William Woodcock, Robert*
Woodcock ; and notes on the New England Woodcock Family. Recommended
to all Genealogical Libraries.
Personal and Family History of Charles Hook and Margaret Monk
Harris, by James Coffee Harris. 8vo., paper, pp. 116, illustrated, no index.
Price, Address: Author, c/o Board of Public Education, Rome, Ga.
A most interesting and valuable contribution to the history of the Harris
Family. The branch of the family treated is the southern one of North
Carolina and Georgia, and we welcome it as the southern genealogical field
has not been heretofore sufficiently cultivated. Recommended to all Gen-
ealogical Libraries.
Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New York, 1913-14. 8vo.,
paper, pp. 67, prepared under authority of the Council, by the Secretary and
containing lists of the living and deceased members. Address: the Secretary
of the Society, 43 Cedar street. New York City.
Contains much information of value. Recommended to Genealogical
Libraries.
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Thb Heiligh and Hasley Family, copyrighted 1914, by John R. Wit-
craft. 8vo., paper, 1914, pp. 31, illustrated. Price, $1.00. Address: Author,
Box 13, Merchantville, N. J.
A valuable introductory history of this family and as such is recom-
mended to all of the blood and to Genealogical Libraries.
"In Loving Memory op Henry D. Van Orden." Presented to the
Society by 'The Misses Van Orden," of 105 Hicks street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Svo., doth, pp. 34, illustrated. Name of compiler not given. Price not
stated.
A worthy tribute to the memory of the subject of the essay, containing
much valuable ^[enealoeical and biographical data. Recommended to His-
torical, Biographical and Genealogical Libraries.
Colonial Mansions op Maryland and Delaware, by John Martin
Hanunond. Large 8vo., linen binding, pp. 304, including index and with 65
illustrations of these mansions. Printed from type. Published by J. B.
Lippincott Co., Washington Square, Philadelphia, Pa. 1914. Price, $5.00 net
Address : Publishers.
The author of this work has approached his subject with an inherent
love therefor, and has succeeded in producing a volume the literary merit of
which is pronounced. Artistically it is a pleasure to the eye and in every way
esthetically appealing. The field of this literary effort is rich with material
and we have within the covers of this work verbal descriptions and pictorial
reproductions of many of the most famous homes of Maryland and Dela-
ware. Some 37 of these mansions are described in a pleasing' literary style,
and their exteriors and interiors illustrated by half-tone plates of high class
artistic merit The author is to be congratulated both for the literary merit
of the volume and for the excellence of the work from the publishers' stand-
point Recommended to all Historical, Biographical and Genealogical
Libraries.
Supplement to the History op the County op Annapous (Nova
Scotia). Correcting and supplying omissions in the original volume, by
A, W. Savary, A, M.j D. C. L. Editor and part Author of the original history.
8vo., cloth, pp. 142, mcluding index, illustrated, 1913. Price of Supplement
separately, $2.50 (12 cents postage). Price of both History and Supplement,
$3-7S Address: Author, Waverly House, Halifax, N. S.
This is a most valuable addition to the History of this County of Nova
Scotia, and is replete with genealogical material It should be on the shelves
of all General Reference, Historical and Genealogical Libraries.
Annals of the Leonard Family, by Mrs. Fanny Leonard Koster, of
21 Park Place, New York City. 8vo., cloth, pp. 208, and 58 illustrations and 2
genealogical charts; no index. Price, $5.00 (carriage 15 cents). Address:
Author.
This interesting volume is dedicated to the author's father, and is a
worthy tribute to the memory of one so dear. It is moreover a painstaking
work in so far as the historical and genealogical material therein embraced
is concerned. The History of the English origin of the family is recorded in
a scholarly manner, and the American genealogy of the family is extensive
and accurately recorded. Two comprehensive genealogical charts arc
pocketed in the covers of the volume, one of the English Leonard family,
and one of 6 large pages giving the record of the Leonards of Taunton,
Mass. Reconunended to all Genealogical and Historical Libraries.
Simeon Church, op Chester, Conn., 1708-1792, and his descendants,
compiled by Charles Washburn CKurch. 8vo., cloth, pp. 209+32 of index
illustrated. Price, $3.oa Address: Compiler, Waterbury, Conn.
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A most creditable compilation giving the English and American Histoo'
of this branch of the Church Family and chapters on the Descendants of
Simeon Church by the lines of 8 of his children, viz: Titus, Lois, Eunice,
Simeon, Philemon, Elizabeth, John and Samuel. Recommended to all
Genealogical Libraries.
Worcester Family Genealogy. The Descendants of Rev. William
Worcester with a brief notice of the Connecticut Wooster Family. First
edition, published by J. Fox Worcester, of Salem, Mass., in 1856. Revised
by Sarah Alice Worcester, of Mollis, N. H., and Cambridge, Mass., 1914. 8vo.,
cloth, pp. 270, including an excellent index, profusely illustrated. Price, $7.00.
Address: E. F. Worcester, 146 Summer street, Boston, Mass.
A first class genealogical work in every particular ; and, being a revision
of a former edition, brings the subject matter down to date and eliminates
the errors of the formier work. Recommended to all Genealogical Libraries.
Early North amfton (Mass.). Published by the Betty Allen Chapter,
D. A. R., of Northampton, Mass. 1914. 8vo., cloth, pp. 229, with table of
contents, no index, illustrated. Price, $2.00 (carriage 25 cents extra). Ad-
dress: Miss Helen C. Sergeant, 82 Bridge street, Northampton, Mass.
A most valuable contribution to the history of this old Massachusetts
town, and will be a welcome addition to the shelves of Historical and
Genealogical Libraries. It is to be hoped that the success of this volume may
stimulate the "Betty Allen" Chapter, D. A. R., to supplement it with another
publication containmg the graveyard inscriptions and other vital records of
the town which are so much desired now by genealogical readers. Recom-
mended to all Historical and (Genealogical Libraries.
Historic Homes of New England, by Mary H. Northend, author of
"Colonial Homes and their Furnishings." 8vo., cloth, pp.' 274, including
index, enriched by 95 full page illustrations of these Historic Homes. Boston,
1914. Little, Brown & Co., publishers. Copyrighted. Price, $5.00 net.
Address: Miss Mary H. Northend, 9 Barton Square, Salem, Mass.
An artistically beautiful volume and containing, as it does, chapters on
the following "Homes": The House of the Seven (lables, The Pickering
House, "The Lindens," The Rogers House, The Colonel Jeremiah Lee House,
The Ladd-Gilman House, The Adams House, The Spencer-Pierce House,
The Cjovernor Dummer Mansion, The Macphaedris-Warner House, The
Wentworth House, The Franklin Pierce House, The Savory House, The
Stark Mansion, The Saltonstall House, The Dalton House, The Kittrcdge
House, The Royall House, The Longfellow House, The Quincy Mansion, and
"Hey Bonnie Hall" — ^it will be found to be of great interest and value to
students of family history. It is a work that should be in all general refer-
ence. Historical and Genealogical Libraries.
Historical Catalogue of the Members of the First Church of
Christ, in New Haven, Conn. (Center Church) A. D. 1639- 1914, compiled
by Franklin Bowditch Dexter, New Haven, 1914. 8vo., cloth, pp. 469. Price,
$2.00 (postage extra). Address: Board of Deacons of Center Church, 311
Temple street. New Haven, Conn.
This work is an invaluable addition to the published vital records of
New Haven. It contains as nearly as obtainable the list of members of this
church 1639- 1914; and the earlier lists are enriched by biographical notes
that render it genealogically most valuable. It is heartily recommended to all
(Genealogical and Historical Libraries. The compiler of this work is the dis-
tinguished author of that well known series, "Yale Biographies," the excel-
lence of which work insures the accuracy and value of the volume under
review.
Soldiers of Oakham, Mass., in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812
and the Civil War, by Henry Parks Wright 8vo., doth, pp. 325, including
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copious index, profusely illustrated. Price, $2.50. Address: Compiler, 128
York street, New Haven, Conn.
This work, as its title indicates, will be a source of most valuable in-
formation to all genealogists and historians, and it is therefore heartily
reconunended to all libraries of such affiliations. To genealogists it will be
especially useful, as it is replete with genealogical notes relative to the
individuals who figured in the several wars.
The Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, Vol. XHI.
Edited by Edward Hamilton Daly, Secretary-General. 8vo., cloth, pp. 402,
including index, illustrated. Published by the Society, 1914. Address:
Edward H. Daly, 52 Wall street. New York City. Price, $2.00.
A worthy successor to the 12 preceding volumes of this series. It con-
tains much matter of biographical interest The publication of the Irish
Vital Records of Georgetown, Maine, in the volume renders it of great value
to genealogists. Recommended to all Genealogical and Historical Libraries.
History of the Class of 1868, Yale College, 1864-1914, compiled by
Henry P. Wright, Class Secretary. Svo., cloth, pp. 382, profusely illustrated
with portraits of members of the Qass. Address: Compiler, 128 York
street. New Haven, Conn.
A most excellent example of a College Class History, and contains a
fund of vital facts relative to the members of the class. Reconunended to all
Historical and Genealogical Libraries.
Historical Rutland, Souvenir Edition. An Illustrated History of Rut-
land, Vermont, from the granting of the Charter 1761 to 1911, compiled by
Rev. F. E. Davison, of 45 Clarendon Avenue, West Rutland, Vt. Quarto
paper, pp. 69, profusely illustrated. Address : Compiler. Price not stated.
An interesting brochure containing much valuable information.
The Book op the Duffs, compiled by Alistair and Henrietta Tavler,
34 Kensington Court Mansions, Lonaon, W., England. Printed by T. & A.
Constable & Co., and published by William Brown, 5 Castle street, Edinburgh,
Scotland. 1914. Quarto, cloth, 2 vols., pp. 307, 321 (628), including index to
both volumes in 2nd volume, and includmg 40 full page illustrations, 30 insets
plates, and 29 genealogical tables (or charts). Price £2, 2S. Address: T. & A.
Constable & Co., Thistle Street, Edinburgh, Scotland.
It is a positive pleasure to be permitted to peruse a work of this literary
and artistic excellence, even while appreciating the inability to set forth its
many merits in the circumscribed space of our review columns. Dealing with
the history of this noted and titled Scotch family it conunands the interest of
the general reader as well as the close study of the genealogist and historian.
The genealogical material in the volumes will be found to be of immense
value. The paper, typography, press work and general ensemble set a high
standard for such works which we hope to see emulated in other future
productions of this character. Recommended to all general reference, histor-
ical, biographical and genealogical libraries.
Owners and Occupants of the Lots, Houses and Shops in the Town
OF Providence, Rhode Island, in 1798, located on maps of the highways of
that date. Also owners or occupants of houses in the compact part of Provi-
dence in 1759, showing the location and in whose names they are to be
found on the map of 1798. Compiled by Henry R. Chace, 133 Brown street.
Providence, R. I. Quarto, cloth, pp. 28+20 full page map plates. Price $5.00.
Address: Compiler. (But few copies remaining for sale.)
This rather unusual book, as the title indicates, will be found to be a
mine of valuable information to the historian, biographer, genealogist and
real estate expert. The labor of its compilation and the excellence of the
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result is a monument to the author. It will become an authority in its line,
which fact will be a small portion of the gratitude due to the executor of
this painstaking task. Recommended to all Genealogical and Historical
Libraries.
The Hubbabd Thompson Memorial. A Genealogical Record and His-
torical Account of the Ancestors and Descendants of Ebenezer Hubbard and
Mary Thompson, his wife. Compiled and edited for Ellen Hubbard Skinner,
by Lillian Kimball Stewart. 1914. Quarto, Yi morocco and buckram, pp. 423,
including indexes of names, places and subjects. Limited edition of 50
copies. Not for sale. Presented to the Society by Mrs. Ellen Hubbard
Slanner.
This is a noted example of that class of family memorials of both
genealogical and historical character, which owe their existence not only to a
justifiable pride of ancestry, but also to a willingness and ability to perpetuate
such records in a beautiful and artistic form. The work is of undoubted
authenticity and likewise of literary merit reflecting great credit upon the
author of the enterprise and upon the compiler and editor. The paper, press-
work and binding enhance the general merit of the production. Amongst
the 20 full page illustrations are to be found colored representations of the
Hubbard, Thompson and Conant Coats of Arms, the other illustrations being
portraits of ancestors, illustrations of family homes and localities of interest
The work is not a genealogy constructed along conventional lines. It is
rather a collection of pedigree charts showing the lines of ascent of Ebenezer'
Hubbard along his various blood strains wiUi copious historical data relative
to the family surname of each of these strains. Amongst the various
pedigrees thus set forth may be mentioned the following: George Hubbard,
John Barnard, John Bent, John Bishop, Nathaniel Bowman, WilUam Bridge,
Roger Conant, Edward Converse, Joseph Estabrook, Thomas Flegg, John
Fleming, Richard Gardner, Walter Ha3mes, Edward Howe, Thomas King,
John Knight, Michael LepingweU, Hugh Mason, John Moore, Peter Noyes,
William Palmer, Thomas Pierce, Thomas Plympton, John Raymond, Edmund
Rice, Henry Rolfe, John Roper, Thomas Scruggs, John Sherman, Gregory
Stone, James Thompson, Stephen Upson, Richard Walker, William Walton,
Philemon Whale, Henry Woodis, Edward Wright, Archibald Thompson,
John Gilmore, Robert Gilmore, Matthew Pratt, Nicholas Simpkins, Jeremiah
Smith and William TirrelL The work is a notable addition to any library,
and we count ourselves honored to be one of those favored.
Maternal Ancestry of Charles Whiting MacNair, bv Hannah
Louise MacNair Crawford. 8vo., cloth, pp. 82, illustrated with family por-
traits and genealogical charts, no index. Price, Address: Mrs. Frank
Crawford, 3817 Dewey Avenue, Omaha, Neb.
A most interesting work and replete with historical information relative
to the maternal antecedents of Charles Whiting MacNair in this country and
on the other side of the water. Reconunended to all Genealogical Libraries.
A Genealogical History op the Ficklin Family in America. From
the first of the name in America to the present time, with some account of
the family in England, by Walter Homan Ficklin. Quarto, cloth, pp. 134,
including index, illustrated. Price, $5.20. Address: Author, Littleton, Colo.
This is another valuable addition to the history and genealogy of Vir-
ginia Families, which are so welcome to genealogical students. The work is
well executed and will be found of great value to all those of the blood, and
it is heartily recommended to them and to Genealogical Libraries.
The Haviland Genealogy. Ancestors and Descendants of William
Haviland of Newport, Rhode Island, and Flushing, Long Island, 165^-1688,
with special records of the allied families of Field, Hull, Torrey, WiUetts-
Willis, by Josephine C. Frost, compiler of the Frost and Strang Genealogies
and editor of 3 volumes of the Town Records of Jamaica, L. I. (1656-1751)-
191 5.] Book Reviews. g7
8vo., doth, pp. 551, including a well constructed index and 84 illustrations of
family interest Price, doth, $10.00; half morocco, $i2.5a Address: Mrs.
Samud Knapp Frost, 254 Garfield Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.
This is a first class genealogical work constructed along recognized
standard conventional lines and bears all the evidence of careful and accurate
compilation that might be expected by those intimate with the excellent
previous work of the author. The history of the family prior to its arrival
in this country is carefully set forth and its direct connection with immigrant
ancestor to this country WilUam^ Haviland is therein established. The
genealogy of the family in this country is recorded with exhaustive care to
Uie 8th generation inclusive. We take pleasure in welcoming the book and
recommending it as a necessary addition to all Genealogical Libraries.
The Engush Ancestry op Abraham Belknap, who settled in Lynn,
Mass., 163s, by Henry Wyckoff Belknap. 8vo., doth, pp. 20, reprinted from
the N. £. Hist Gen. Register. 1914. Address: Author, Salem, Mass. Price
not stated.
This excellent ardde will be welcomed in its individual bound form and
it is heartily recommended to all Genealogical Libraries.
A Supplement to the Frost Genealogy, by Josephine C. Frost (Mrs.
Samud Knapp Frost) author of the original Frost Genealogy, published in
1912. 8vo., doth, pp. 42. Price, $2.00. Address : Author. 254 Garfield Place,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
This book of forty-two pages contains corrections and additions to the
Frost Genealogy issued in 1912, with numerous unconnected lines, also the
records of some descendants of Samuel Frost of Wallingford, Conn., vj\2f
1746.
The work is executed with the painstaking care which rendered the
original volume so acceptable to genealogical students. Recommended to all
Genealogical Libraries, and to those of the blood.
Records of the Town op Jamaica, Long Island (N. Y.), 1656-1751,
edited by Josephine C Frost, member of the Long Island Historical and of
the New York Genealogical and Biographical Sodeties and published by the
Long Island Historical Sodety, comer of Pierrepont and Clinton streets,
Brooklyn, N. Y. 8vo., cloth, 3 vols., pp. 454, 457, 448, each volume indexed
Sold only in sets. Price of set (3 volumes) $iaoa Address: The Long
Island Historical Sodety, Brooklyn, N. Y.
These volumes contain an immense fund of information relative to the
early inhabitants of Jamaica, i6s6-i75if and will be heartily welcomed by
historians and genealogical searchers. They will also be an excellent work
of reference for real estate experts of that locality. The Long Island His-
torical Sodety is to be congratulated in having presented to the public such a
valuable addition to Long Island history, and we hope that they may continue
to produce other series of like value chosen from thdr field of operation.
The work reflects great credit upon its editor. Recommended to all Histor-
ical, Genealogical and General Reference Libraries.
Ariel Washrxjrn and His Descendants, compiled by William Lewis
Washburn, of Patchogue, N. Y. 8vo., paper, pp. 23. Price, 50 cents. Address :
Author.
This excellent compilation gives the record of Abiel Washburn and his
descendants to the 4th generation, inclusive. Recommended to all Genea-
logical Libraries.
History op Garland, Maine, by Lyndon Oak. 8vo., doth, pp. 401,
induding index. Address: Hon. John M. Oak, Bangor, Me. Price not
stated.
q8 Book Reviews. [Jan.
This volume gives an excellent historical sketch of this Maine town, and
is enriched by lists of soldiers in several wars of the past history of the town
that renders it valuable to genealogists. Recommended to all Historical and
Genealogical Libraries.
Encyclopedia op Pennsylvania Biogsaphy, by John W. Jordan, LL.D.
Quarto, half morocco, 3 vols., pp. 368+vii; 342, 363, profusely illustrated with
full page portraits. Publishel by the Lewis Historical Publishing Company,
26s Broadway, New York City, 1914. Price per set,
This is another set of volumes published by the Lewis Historical Pub-
lishing Company which is fully up to the excellent standard of their previous
publications. Compiled as it has been by John W. Jordan, who is the
Librarian of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and also the author of
"Colonial Families of Philadelphia" and the "Revolutionary History of
Bethlehem," etc., its literary merit and accuracy is vouched for. We heartily
recommend these volumes to Historical, Biographical and Genealogicd
Libraries.
Erasmus Stevens, Boston, Mass., 1674-1690, and His Descendants from
material collected by Eu^rene R. Stevens. New York, 1837-1905. Revised by
Colonel William Plumb Bacon, M. A., Yale. 8vo., clotjfi, pp. 116, including
index. Press of Tobias A. Wright, 150 Bleecker street, New York City.
Price, $5.00. Address: Publishers.
This is a valuable addition to the history of the Stevens family in
America and as such will be welcomed by those of the blood and by genea-
logical students. It is recommended to all Genealogical Libraries.
History op the Town op Rockingham, Vermont, including the villages
of Bellows Falls, Saxtons River, Rockingham, Cambridgeport and Bartons-
ville, 1753-1907, with family genealogies, by Lyman Simpson Hayes. 8vo.,
cloth, pp. 850, including index, illustrated. Published by the Town. 1914.
Price, $5.00. Address: L. S. Hayes, Town Clerk, Bellows Falls, Vermont
An excellent volume of great historical value, and containing as it does,
some 242 pages of genealogy of the families of the town, is of great genea-
logical interest Reconmiended to all Historical and Genealogical Libraries.
The Tyler Genealogy. The Descendants of Job Tyler, of Andover,
Massachusetts, 1619-1700, by Willard L Tyler Brigbam. 8vo., 2 volumes, pp.
421, 460, including an excellent index. Published by Cornelius B. Tyler, of
Plainfield, N. J., and Rollin U. Tyler, of Tylerville. Conn. 1912. Price,
$12.00. Address: Cornelius B. Tyler, 30 Church street. New York Qty.
A first class genealogical work constructed upon standard genealogical
lines, giving the record of Job Tyler and his descendants to the 9th genera-
tion, inclusive. It will be a most valuable addition to all Genealogical
Libraries.
A List op the Records op the Meetings Constituting the Yearly
Meeting op the Society op Friends^ held at Fifteenth and Race streets,
Philadelphia ("Hicksite"), compiled by Morgan Bunting, Darby, Pa., 1904.
Price not stated. Address: The Representative Committee of the Philadel-
phia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite), 15th and Race streets, Philadelphia, Pa.
This is a most valuable book of reference and will be found to be of
much assistance to genealogical students. Recommended to all Genealogical
Libraries.
Stetson Kindred op America, Booklet No. 4. Biographical Sketches,
Historical Papers, etc., compiled by Nelson M. Stetson, Secretary of the
Association, Abington, Mass. 8vo., paper, pp. 145, illustrated. Price 50 cents.
Address: Compiler, Abington, Mass.
An excellent addition to the previous volumes of this series. Recom-
mended to aU Genealogical Libraries.
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ACCESSIONS TO THE LIBRARY.
September 7, to December i, IQ14,
DONATIONS.
Bound Volumes.
Baker, Frank— Ancestry of Samuel Baker of Pleasant Valley, N. Y.
Board of Deacons. — Historical Catalogue of the Members ot the 1st Church of
Christ, New Haven, Conn.
Booth, Charles Edwin. — The Vanderlip, Van Derlip, Vander Lippe Family.
Chace, Henry R. — Owners and Occupants of the Lots, Houses and Shops in
Providence, R. I., in 1798.
Church, Charles Washburn. — Simeon Church and his Descendants.
Coombs, William Carey. — Anthony Coombs and his Descendants.
Cox, John, Jr.— List of the Records of the Meetinsrs of the Society of Friends.
Crawford, Mrs. Frank. — Maternal Ancestry of Charles Whiting Mac Nair.
Daly, Edward H.— Journal of American Irish Historical Society.
Dodd, Mead & Co. — John Hay, Author and Statesman.
Ficklin, Walter H.— Ficklin Family.
Ford, George Hare — Historical Sketch of Milford, Conn.
Frost, Mrs. Samuel Knapp.— Town Records of Jamaica, L. L, Vols. I, II;
Supplement to the Frost Genealogy.
Hatdeld, Abraham, Jr. — Haviland Genealogy.
Hawes, James W. — Edmond Hawes and his Ancestors.
Illinois State Hist. Library. — List of Genealogical Works.
Koster, Mrs. C. H. — Annals of the Leonard Family.
Lewis Historical Pub. Co. — Encyclopedia of Penn. Biography, Vols. I, II, III.
Lippincott, J. B. Co. — Colonial Mansions of Maryland and Delaware.
Lithgow, R. A. Douglas.— History of Nantucket, Mass.
Merritt, Douglas — Genealogy of the Somersetshire Family of Meriet.
Northend, Mary H. — Historic Homes of New England.
Oak, John M. — History of Garland, Me.
Pelletreau, William S.— A Little Book on Heraldry.
Savary, Hon. Alfred William. — Supplement to the History of the County of
Annapolis, N. S.
Sergeant, Helen C. — Early Northampton.
Skinner, Mrs. Ellen Hubbard. — Hubbard Thompson Memorial.
Smith, Mrs. Hugh M.— Langdon Genealogy; Morrill Kindred in America.
Stevens, Frederic W. — Erasmus Stevens and his Descendants.
Stilwell, Lamont. — Stilwell Family.
Tayler, Henrietta.— Book of the Duffs, Vols. I. II.
The Misses Van Orden. — Memory of Henry D. Van Orden.
Thome, John Calvin. — Society of Colonial Wars, State of N. H.; Thome
Genealogy, 1200-1900.
Tyler, Cornelius B. — Tyler Genealogy, Vols. I, II.
Woodcock, William Lee. — Woodcock Family.
Worcester, Edwin D. — Worcester Family Genealogy.
Wright, Henry Parks— Class of 1868, Yale College; Soldiers of Oakham, Mass.
Yale College.— Class of 1887.
Pamphlets.
Beck, Fanning Cobham Tucker. — Memoir of Mrs. Ann Sands; St. Ann's Epis«
Church, Brooklyn.
Beebe, Clarence.— Beebe Genealogy.
Davison, Rev. F. E.— Historical Rutland, Vt, 1761-1911.
Harris, James Coffee. — Harris Family.
Hill, Mrs. L.C. B.— Caldwell Society Quarterly.
Leonard. Clarence E.— Pub. of N. Y. Soc. of Founders and Patriots of America.
Magruder, E. W. — Year Book, Am. Clan Gregor Society.
Read, Charles F.— Reade Record, Nos. V and VI.
Ruckoian, Mrs. John.— Genealogy of the Family of Josiah Ward.
\
I OO Forms of Bequest and Devise of Real Property, [Jan., 191 S
Rutgers College— John Bogart Letters.
Soc. of Colonial Wars, State of N. Y.— Year Book, 1913-14.
Stetson, Nelson M.— Stetson Kindred uf America, No. 4.
Totten, John R. — Index to Vol. I, Pilgrim Notes and Queries.
Washburn, William Lewis. — Abiel Washburn and his Descendants.
Westervelt, Mrs. Frances A.— Papers and Proceedings, Bergen County His-
torical Society, Nos. i, 3.
Witcraft, John R. — Heiligh and Harley Family.
Woolsey, Theodore S. — William Dunlap.
OTHER ACCESSIONS.
Bound Volumes,
Carter Family.
History of Rockingham, Vt.
History of New Haven Counter, Conn., Vols. I, IL
New York Historical Society Collections, IQ12, 1913.
Records of Londonderry, N. H., Vols. 11, III.
Sprague*8 Journal of Maine History, Vol. i.
Pamphlets,
Bush Genealogy.
Parish Church of Darrineton, Co. York.
Parish Register of Howden, Co. York.
Register " Wootten," Vol. VH.
Manuscripts,
Bamford, Mrs. E. M. — Katharine Searle McCartney Collection.
Eastman, Charles R. — Scoville Notes.
Eells, Nettie Barnum. — Copy of Map of Main St., Hartford, in Time of Revo-
lutionary War; Eells Family.
Wilbur, Percival Coons. — Coons and Wilbur Families, charts.
Clark and Foy Families, pedigree charts.
Records of the Lutheran Church of Stone Arabia, Town of Palatine, Mont*
gomery County, N. Y., Vol. I, Part I, pp. 218; Part II, pp. 214; Vol. H,
pp. 254; Vol. HI, pp. 157.
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3. Washington Cous^rv, N. V., y^'-**^^** Rtc onus, Data taicrm K«fni
THE REt'ORU^ i»F Easton aIonthlv Meetino OF Fkienos. Cmi*
inbuicd by Willard*s Moumain Chapter, D, A, R.« Grceuwichp N, Y.
Reconls c<»pied by Mr* Buvler Hoag^ "..»,.,,
4. VVA,sHiNQTON Co. Gravestosk IkschiptioiNS. Copied by Fniwces Hanks
5. Thachkh-Thatcheu Genealogy, By John R- TaUcii. (ConTi4iucd
from VuLXLVK page 50J , * , . .
6. THROOP Chaj*aian. By S^irab Lautse Kimball
7. Recokos Phkvaiwisg ro the Hamilton. Ue^n ami iioiis i-AMiLrfs.
Taken from Old Famii-y BiHr.r^s in tite Pcxssession cik Mrs.
Horace I>iksmohk Lyon and Miss Hkleji Ldking Sickles, Con-
tribated by Theresn Hall Bnsiol ......*,.
K. Bristol Notes. Ctimjiilcrl by Donald Lines Jacobus, M. A., and Mrs.
Theresii Hall Bristol, (Conliuucd from Vkil. XLVLp. 6q)
9. Baj^ns c^f Matrimony Puhljshku in thk pAitibii of Thimtv Church,
OKiiiiNALs rs thk Archives ok The Nk:w York HiSTQKtCALSuciETY.
Cumrihutcfi by Robert H. Kelby , ..,,,.,,
10. The Nkw Sjte of Vhk Kuw York Gehealooical akd BinuKAi*HiCAL
StJCiETY. By Clareoce Wjolbrop Bowca .,,...,
!K Early Settleu's of West Farms. Westchester Culntv, N. Y.
Copied fRHO the m^iouscript recoid ol the bite Rev. Theodore A, Leggeu,
by A. Hatftdd, Jr, (ContTimed frum VoL XLVL V*79) ^
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Vol. XLVI. NEW YORK, APRIL, 1915. No. 2.
LUCAS BRODHEAD.
Contributed by Aitcheson Alexander Bowmar,
Editor Th4 Woodford Sun, Versailles, Kentucky.
Lucas Brodhead, a meinber of this Society, and one of the
most prominent men in Kentucky, died at "Okalee," his country
residence in Woodford County, Kentucky, on Thursday, October i,
1914.
Mr. Brodhead was born in Frankfort, the state capital, on
April 12, 1844. His father, Lucas Brodhead, Sr. (b. Ulster County,
N. Y., Oct. 31, 1793. graduated Union College, Schenectady, class
of 1816), came to Kentucky in 1820 to look after landed interests
of his uncle, Hon. Lucas Elmendorf, a lawyer, a man of large
affairs and a member of the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Congresses.
Lucas Brodhead, Sr., settled at Frankfort and practiced law there
until his death, Oct. 31, 1849.
The family records of the Brodheads, which are remarkably
full and accurate, form an intensely interesting study in heredity —
such an one as Galton would have delighted to pore over. It seems
to the writer that the researches made some years ago as to the
descendants of Jonathan Edwards are scarcely more convincing
than these as to the value of clean and honest blood. Mr. Brod-
head was a man of truly democratic feeling, but after his re-
tirement from business, entertained himself in leisure hours by
carefully collecting and arranging the records of his family, a
task in which he was greatly aided by a very unusual number of
original family documents of priceless value and by his long ex-
perience in tracing the pedigrees of blooded horses.
The annals of the Brodheads present the interesting spectacle
of a family which for three hundred years of authentic history
has in every generation produced people of consequence, of good
repute and of gentle breeding.
The Brodheads are said to have emigrated from Bavaria to
England in the reign of Henry VIII and to have settled in York-
shire near Royston. The genealogy of a Brodhead family for
nearly four hundred years is on record at Munich. The authentic
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history of the ancestors of Lucas Brodhead in unbroken line be-
gins however, on Feb. 28, 1610, when James II granted the Manor
of Monk Britton in Yorkshire to John Brodhead and Leo Wood.
A record in the Herald's College, London, dated Dec. 22, 1732,
states that the Earl Mareschal confirmed to Henry Brodhead, a
^reat-grandson of John, the arms of his family, stating that ** the
family had for more than a hundred years lived in Yorkshire in
the credit and reputation of gentlemen and had borne for their
arms a lion rampant and two eagles with a demi-lion for their
crest as belonging to their name and family."
Capt. Daniel Brodhead, grand-nephew of the John Brodhead
of Monk Britton above mentioned, came to the United States
from Yorkshire in 1664 and became the progenitor of men of valor
and distinction in the new world. He had been made a Captain
of Musketeers by Charles II on his restoration in 1660 and crossed
the ocean four years later in Col. Richard Nickoll's expedition
against New Netherlands. The following year he was appointed
Commander-in-Chief of the forces at Kingston, New York, where
he remained until his death on July 15, 1667. His wife, Ann Tyc,
and two sons, Daniel and Charles, came with him across the sea,
and a third son, Richard, was bom on this side. Capt Charles
Brodhead, above mentioned (d. Ulster County, N. Y., 1724), mar-
ried Maria Ten Broeck (b. Ulster County, 1764; d. same place,
1717). Their son Daniel married Marichie Cock of Ulster County.
One of the sons of this union, likewise named Daniel (b. Ulster
County, N. Y., 1756, d. same place, 1836), married felandina
Elmendorf and became the father of Lucas Brodhead, Sr., father
of the subject of this sketch.
The original deeds and commissions on parchment pertaining
to the Brodhead family which were in the possession of Lucas
Brodhead at the time of his death, form a collection of great
value. Some of them are:
Grant of land (sheepskin) from William and Mary to Captain
Chas. Brodhead, August 3, 1694, signed by Governor Ben Fletcher.
Royal seals affixed.
Grant of land (sheepskin) to Ann (Tye) Brodhead in recog-
nition of the services of her husband, Captain Daniel Brodhead,
Oct. 1, 1686, by James II of England, Signed by Thomas Donp^an,
Governor of New York, and Vice- Admiral in and over the provmce
of New York and territories depending thereon in America.
Captain Chas. Brodhead — conveyance (sheepskin) for Mt.
Hope and his ** Stony Arabia" from Trustees of Marbletown,
June 7, 1715. Signed by Richard Brodhead, Joris Middagh and
Peter Van Luben.
Five Commissions:
Chas. Brodhead, Commission Ensign Foot Company, 1685.
Signed by Governor Thomas Dongan.
Daniel Brodhead, Commission as Lieutenant, 1726, signed by
Governor W. Burnett.
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Daniel Brodhead, Gentleman, Commission as Captain of the
Co. of Militia, Foot, Marbletown, County of Ulster, at Ft. George,
New York, April 20, 1733. Signed William Cosby, Captain-
General and Governor-in-Chief of New York.
1787. Daniel Brodhead, Commission as Lieutenant. Signed
by Governor George Clinton.
Daniel Brodhead, Commission as Captain of Company Light
Infantry Militia, County of Ulster, 1798. Signed by Governor
John Jay.
Passport for Daniel Brodhead, II, son of Capt. Chas. Brodhead,
to travel in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, 1718.
Marriage contract (in Dutch) of Anne Tye Brodhead, widow
of William Nottingham, to Thomas Garton. 1681. (Gov. De Witt
Clinton of New York, was a direct descendant of Anne Tye
Brodhead and William Nottingham.)
Although the name has sometimes been incorrectly spelled
Broadhead, wherever the signature of one of the family appears it
is spelled Brodhead, as far back as the middle of the 17th century.
It will be seen by the list of documents given above that in every
generation the Brodheads were officers and gentlemen and men
prominent in colonial history.
Mr. Brodhead was a lineal descendant of Anneke Jans.
On the side of Mr. Brodhead's mother the lineage is no less
striking. His mother, Mary Cordelia Upshaw Price (b. Frankfort,
1810, d. same place, 1874), was a daughter of Lieutenant Richard
Price of Maryland, an officer in the war of 1812 (who died in the
service Nov. 11, 1813), and Hannah Upshaw of Virginia (b. Essex
County, 1774, d. Frankfort, Ky., 1853).
Lieutenant Price's ancestors were people of prominence and
distinction in Maryland. Among them were the Thomases, the
Richardsons and the Ewens, as well as the Prices. Several were
members of the House of Burgesses. Two were members of the
High Commission which governed Maryland under Cromwell.
Lieutenant Price's wife, Hannah Upshaw, was the daughter of
John Upshaw of Virginia (b. Essex County, 1715, d. same place,
1801), and of Mary Lafon (b. Essex County, 1744, d. 1807). The
Upshaws or Upshurs, or Upshers, as the name was variously
spelled, were among the best families of Virginia. John Upshaw
was a signer of the articles of the Westmoreland Association,
Feb. 26, 1766. This was the first organization formed to resist the
Stamp Act, and these articles struck the key-note which was later
expressed in the Declaration of Independence. John Upshaw
was also a member of the House of Burgesses and Chairman of
the Conimittee of Safety for Essex County in 1775. The copy of
his will in Mr. Brodhead's papers shows him to have been quite a
wealthy man. His wife, Mary Lafon, was of French Huguenot
stock.
A memorandum niade by Mr. Brodhead shortly before his
death, showed his eligibility to enter the society of Sons of
Colonial Wars by twenty different ancestors. Here is the list:
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Captain Daniel Brodhead, I; Captain Daniel Brodhead, II; Cap-
tain Chas. Brodhead; Wessel Ten Broeck; Lieutenant Benjamin
Smeedes; Jacob DuBois; Louis DuBois; Captain Joris Middagh;
Major Counradt Van Elmendorf; Captain Albert Hermann Rosa;
John Upshaw; Samuel Kock; Major Richard Ewen; Francis Hut-
chins; William Richardson; Philip Thomas; Matthew Blanchan;
Samuel Thomas; Counradt Ten Eyck; Marquis Calmes.
Mr. Brodhead was married on June 29, 1880, to Miss Sallie
Breck, daughter of Rev. Robert L. Breck, an eminent Presbyterian
minister, and granddaughter of Judge Daniel Breck (b. Topsfield,
Mass., 1788) — a distinguished Kentucky lawyer and jurist wno was
Judge of the Supreme Court of Kentucky, 1843-1849, and was a
member of the Thirty-first Congress. Judge Breck was the son of
Rev. Daniel Breck of Boston, who graduated at Princeton in 1774
and was a chaplain in the Revolutionary Army, serving with Mont-
gomery and Arnold at Quebec. Mrs. Brodhead's ancestry has
been traced through eight lines, which render her eligible to the
Colonial Dames' Society. She entered through William Hathorne
(or Hawthorne) of Salem, Mass., who arrived at Boston on the
Arbelia in 1630, and for forty years rendered distinguished service
in civil, judicial, and military capacities. Two others of her Mass-
achusetts ancestors arrived between 1630 and 1640, one in the
Plymouth and one in the Bay Colony.
Lucas Brodhead was educated at the famous classical school
of B. B. Sayre, at Frankfort, where he was the schoolmate of
many brilliant men, and afterwards attended college at Toronto*
Canada, for a short time.
When hardly out of his teens, he engaged in flour milling at
Aurora, Illinois, and was remarkably successful.
In 1869. when only twenty-five years of age, he became agent
for his kinsman, the late A. J. Alexander and assumed the entire
business management of the latter's great estate, the more notable
Eortion of which was the famous Woodburn breeding farm. This
ad been founded by R. S. C. A. Alexander, the elder brother of
A. J. Alexander, a man of wonderfully broad views and remark-
able vision, who laid the foundation for the greatest breeding
establishment in America, but also probably gladly expended
more money upon it than he ever took out of it. Mr. Brodhead
with financial ability of the very first rank, and with a mind of
remarkable constructive powers, rendered to the breeding interests
of America, priceless services by making Woodburn Farm so great
a success — not only along lines of scientific breeding, but in the
way of great financial returns. It is not too much to say that this
was one of the great achievements in America in the seventies
and eighties, and it made Mr. Brodhead*s name as well known in
New York and other eastern cities — in fact, all over the United
States — as in his own community.
Retiring from active business some twelve years ago, Mr.
Brodhead devoted a large portion of his time to public affairs.
His influence, although quietly and modestly exerted, was very
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marked. The Louisville Evening Post, one of the principal
journals in Kentucky, said editorially at the time of his death:
** Mr. Lucas Brodhead died this morning at his home
in Woodford county, after a short illness.
Mr. Brodhead was a gentleman of high character, a
citizen ready to meet all the requirements of citizenship;
a man of business, who carried his moral code into every
transaction; devoted to Kentucky life and Kentucky
interests; a loyal friend; a charming companion; a man
who will be missed from every walk, from every interest
in modern life.
His example remains; his memory smells sweet and
blossoms in the dust; may this example and this memory
serve as an inspiration to young men of Kentucky to
follow the paths he made beautiful for many years."
Mr. Brodhead was a man of great popularity and possessed
the devoted love of very many people. He was the soul of
courtesy, of unselfishness, of generosity, manliness and courage.
There was something gallant and knightly in his bearing which
won all hearts. His purse was open to every one less fortunate
than himself, but with fine judgment — not prodigally or reck-
lessly. No man ever had a finer sense of the fitness of things. In
Eerson he was tall, extremely handsome and graceful and though
is principal lines of blood were English and Dutch, gave strong
evidence of the French Huguenot strain in his appearance and
manner.
He was a great business man, a really great financier, yet he
was so noble a gentleman that his personality dwarfed his achieve-
ments. It was impossible to be so much impressed with what he
had done as with what he was.
THE WORLD WAR.
Reminiscences and Remarks by the Hon. Chauncev M. Depew
AND THE Hon. Joseph H. Choate.
On the afternoon of January 8th, 191 5, at a special meeting,
the Society was honored by the presence of the Hon. Chauncey
M. Depew and the Hon. Joseph H. Choate and an audience which
filled the Hall.
Very appropriately, on this anniversary of the Battle of
New Orleans, the subject discussed by the distinguished speakers
was the world war in Europe. Those who were present and
those unfortunate enough to have missed the occasion will thank
the Publication Committee for the following reproduction of the
addresses in verbatim form.
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In a few felicitious remarks, Mr. Bo wen, the President, intro-
duced Mr. Depew, who spoke as follows:
"Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: The task that has
been imposed upon me is a pretty difficult one, as all the pages
of all the press, with extra pages added, are twice a day trying
to tell this story— to ask me to tell it in thirty-five minutes. I
tell you it simply can't be done!"
Mr. Choate: "The whole hour is yours." (Laughter.)
Mr. Dbpbw: "I gave close study to this question when in
Europe, and was one of that vast army who are now bursting
their throats to death all over the country, narrating their ex-
periences, some of which happened. (Laughter.)
It is a curious and interesting fact that thb most frightful
war of all centuries happens in the semi-centennial year of the Red
Cross Society. The Red Cross Society is the only international or-
ganization since men submitted their disputes to the arbitrament of
the sword which alleviates the sufferings and saves the lives of the
wounded upon the battle-fields and in the hospitals, and of those
who are invalided from exposure and hardship. The first of these
organizations of mercy in a great war was the Sanitary Commis-
sion organized in the North soon after the b^[inning of our Civil
War. Its work was so beneficent and effective that the fame of it
became universal. This led, in 1864, fifty years ago, to representa-
tives of seventeen nations meeting at Geneva and forming the Red
Cross Society. The work of that Society has expanded and it has
done incalculable service for mercy among the victims of earth-
auakes, floods, fires and other calamities which have been beyond
iie means of the neighborhood and have aroused the sympathy of
the world.
When we look for the beginning of this titanic stru&[gle, we
find its genesis in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. The most
wonderful constructive statesman of his generation and rarely
equalled in any period was Bismarck. He was, at the banning of
the war and had been for many years, the Prime Minister and
practical ruler of the Kingdom of Prussia. He had a great ambi-
tion to unite all the kingdoms, principalities, duchies and other sep-
arate TOvemments of Germany into one Empire, under the leader-
ship o? Prussia, with the King of Prussia its Emperor.
Austria was the leader of the German Race. Bbmarck i>icked
a quarrel with Austria and in a short campaign, won the victory
at Sadowa which humbled Austria and transferred the leadership
of the Germans to Prussia. He smashed King George of Hanover,
tumbled him off his throne, seized hb vast treasures, called the
Guelph Fund and annexed Hanover to Prussia. That Gudph
Fund, Bismarck said frankly, years afterwards, enabled him to
overcome the jealousies of the minor German States in forming his
empire and securing the leadership to Prussia's King.
France had occupied for a lon^ time the leading place in
Europe in international influence, in literature, the arts and indus-
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tries. To secure Germany the position held by France, it was nec-
essary by war to crush the empire of the Third Napoleon. The cor-
ruptions of that government were so great and had so weakened
the army and the patriotism of the people, that the conquest was not
difficult, provided France could be isolated and the other great Pow-
ers induced to keep their hands off. Here came one of the greatest
triumphs of diplomacy. Bismarck succeeded in so intensifying the
fears and animosities between Great Britain and Russia that he
brought them to the verge of war. Then, with a clear field, he in-
vaded France and in a short campaign, ended French Power at
Sedan and crowned King William of Prussia, Emperor of Germany
at Versailles.
Having thus united the States of Germany, he thought it
necessary for Germany's future development to render France
helpless, as to power or influence. He unposed in the Treaty of
Peace, terms so severe that, not only Bismarck but all the statesmen
of Europe, felt that it would be impossible ior France ever to rise
to a position where she would be a factor, except under the dic-
tation of Germany, in the affairs of Europe. He took from France
her two richest provinces, Alsace and Lorraine, and annexed them
to Germany. He imposed a fine upon France called an indemnity
of a magnitude greater, by far, than ever had been exacted from a
defeated enemy. He demanded a milliard of francs or a thousand
millions of dollars in gold to be paid at stated intervals, within a
definite period.
To France, deprived of two of the best contributors to her
finances, staggering under the frightful debt incurred, in carrying
on the war, piled onto the debt which was the inheritance of Na-
poleonic wars, Bourbon extravagance and Third Empire corruption,
this fine or indemnity seemed, in the opinion of Europe, to con-
demn France to hopeless poverty for generations. Then occurred
the miracle of the nations. The French people found, in their sav-
ings, in their stockings, under their hearths, in the hiding places of
their peasants and working people and in the credit of their bankers,
the gold to pay to Germany, this thousand millions of dollars in an
incredibly short time. Relieved of the German army, which was
kept in France to enforce the payment of the indemnity, the French
people, with an energy, hopefulness, resourcefulness and spirit,
never equalled, bent their individual and united energies to the
resurrection and rehabilitation of their country. They b^[an to be
the bankers of Europe. They loaned to Russia two thousand mil-
lions of dollars and hundreds of millions to other countries. At the
same time, they have perfected their railway systems, their tele-
graphs and telephones, and other vast works of public improvement
and organized and maintained an army, equal on a peace footing
to that of Germany and a navy the third in the world. Bismarck
and after him, the present Emperor and his advisors, became
alarmed at this miraculous revival of French national spirit and
achievement and the demonstration of its financial and economic
ability. Some years after peace, I have been informed by English
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Statesmen, the Emperor laid before Queen Victoria, who as you
know was his grandmother, the danger to England as well as Ger-
many by this ever increasing power of France. He asked that
Germany be given a free hand to rectify the mistake made by the
terms of peace, and to reduce France by another war. Queen Vic-
toria said, "No," with an emphasis which was final and induced
Russia to deliver an equally emphatic negative.
Return now to the German Empire and its progress and ideals
during these forty-four years. The separate nationalities or states
which made up the German Empire in 1870 were poor and the vic-
tims of jealousies and animosities of centuries, of warring dynas-
ties and religious revolutions. To the young Empire, thus situated,
came this enormous gift of one thousand millions of dollars in
gold. It came to be administered for the uplift of Germany by men
of extraordinary administrative and executive ability. Bismarck
was succeeded by the present Emperor who has demonstrated in
his twenty-five years the highest qualities of a Ruler in the devel-
opment of his Empire's resources and industries, and the expan-
sion of its opportunities for trade and commerce.
We, Americans, speak boastfully and yet our boasts are plain
truths in regard to the progress and growth of our Country since
the end of uie Civil War. But, the advancement of Germany, in-
dustrially and commercially, during the same period, has been quite
as remarkable. Prior to that time, the congestion of population,
forced German emigration all over the world. Bismarck said to a
friend of mine, "To provide for the German cradle, we must ex-
pand in territory. We must have colonies for our surplus popu-
lation." The stimulated industries of Germany have so well taken
care of her increasing numbers of people that immigration has al-
most ceased. The Empire has become a vast workshop. It is sup-
plying, not only the needs of the German people, but is entering the
markets of the world in successful competition, not only with Great
Britain but with all other highly organized industrial nations.
Under the impetus and inspiration of the Emperor, Germany
has built up from insignificant numbers the second greatest mer-
cantile marine in the world. She has become in power and equip-
ment second as a Naval Power. Her Navy and her mercantile
marine working together for the expansion of her commerce have
given her, from an unplaced position, forty-four years ago, a com-
manding influence in supplying the needs and meeting the markets
of South and Central America, of Africa and of Asia. She has en-
tered into formidable competition in the domestic markets of Great
Britain and her colonies and of the United States. Through her
state-owned railroads, the German Government has become a
partner in every industry in her empire, not only for encourage-
ment but assistance, in tfie export of her products. Her banking
resources have advanced with equal strides and most intelligent ad-
ministration. Her schools have specially prepared the advance
agents of her industries to study the wants and meet the require-
ments of civilized, barbaric and semi-savage people of different
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races and continents. Her universities have become the admiration
of other nations and places of pilgrimage for their young men.
She has created a military system upon a basis of universal, com-
pulsory service never equalled. This has made for her a dominant
military class and caused her to be the foremost of military
powers. Though she had already the greatest military establish-
ment of any nation, this last year, when 3ie General Staff asked for
two hundred and fifty millions of dollars to place the army far
and away in advance of all others, the amount was voted unanimous-
ly by a tax upon the capital of the country and not upon its in-
come. The industrial and intellectual classes have put the military
in supreme power in their government. The industrial classes and
the financial interests believe their safety and prosperity are in the
largest and the strongest army they are capable of supporting, while
the teachers of the land have been instructing the youth of every
age in the necessity of German power and the right by might of
the expansion of German ambitions and ideals. Here we have the
spark which required only the match to set the world aflame.
I came recently upon a passage in the works of Heinrich Heine,
who ranks next to Goethe and Schiller in influence upon German
thought, written in 1834, the year in which I was bom.
♦"Christianity — and this is its highest merit — has in some
degree softened, but it could not destroy, the brutal German joy
of battle. When once the taming talisman, the Cross, breaks
in two, the savagery of the old fighters, the senseless Berseker
fury, of which the Northern poets sing and say so much, will
gush up anew. That talisman is decayed and the day will come
when it will piteously collapse.
Then the old stone gods will arise from the silent ruins and
rub the dust of a thousand years from their eyes. Thor, with
his giant's hammer, will at last spring up and shatter to bits
the Gothic Cathedrals."
It is hardly possible to estimate the influence of the philosophy
of Nietzsche and its subsequent enforcement in the long service
in the universities of Treitschke upon German thought and action.
Their philosophy was "might makes right"; that German culture
is the necessity of the world; that nothing should be permitted to
stand in the way of the attainment by Germany of what the Em-
peror would call "her place in the sun", so treaties become scraps
of paper.
In further illustration and more immediately practical, a rela-
tive of mine of superior talent and acquirement, was a student in
one of the German tmiversities — ^a student in laboratory work, came
in close contact with the professors. The talk of the professors
at recess was that war was a necessity for Germany ; that she was
not only threatened by Russia on one side and France on the other,
but was so cramped and confined that she must expand; that Bel-
* Prom "Germania." bv Heinrich Hdae. Leland's English translation, Vol. 1,
pp. 207-8; New York, J. W. LotcD, 1892.
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gium could oflfer no obstacle and as Germany was prepared to
3ie highest point of efficiency, France could be conquered in six
weeks; then with Belgium and Holland, naturally falling into the
Empire, Germany would have a coast line and harbors on the Eng-
lish Channel; that England was not a military nation and under
those conditions, could be easily invaded, but before that, she would
necessarily see that she must yield to Germany her supremacy of the
seas and give to Germany her unquestioned right of the foremost
place in the markets of the world. Thus a barrier would be raised
against an invasion of Europe by Russian barbarism, and German
culture, intellectual, mercantile, financial and industrial would lead
the world. They also said that while they wanted to keep on friend-
ly terms with the United States, Germany could not submit to ex-
clusion from South America and the Pacific Ocean because of the
Monroe Doctrine. There is no question but what these learned
gentlemen clearly and frankly expressed what is the honest be-
lief of every man and woman in tne German Empire.
Now, at this critical juncture, what was the position of Great
Britain and France? The internal situation in Great Britain was
more intense and perilous than it had been in generations. It
was the belief of most Englishmen and of all foreign observers that
Civil War was imminent. The Ulster men had been armed and
trained by experienced soldiers and mustered over one hundred thou-
sand. They were sworn to resist home rule to the last man. The
Southern Irish, to the number of over a hundred thousand, were
arming and drilling to enforce home rule. All eflforts on the part
of the leaders of the different parties to come to an understanding
and peaceful solution had failed. The King had called them all
together at Buckingham Palace and after days of most earnest con-
sultation, the meeting had dissolved; the government could find
no compromise and the King despaired. The German Ambassador
informed his government that civil war was inevitable. Sir Edward
Carson, the leader of Ulster, left the conference and went to Bel-
fast, where he reviewed an immense army, thoroughly armed and
drilled, accompanied by their women as they 'maroied, all singing
as a battle cry the old Covenanter's hymn.
"O God, our help in ages past.
Our hope in time to come,"
while Mr. Redmond had gone South to meet an equally enthu-
siastic and determined army.
Nobody in England, under those conditions, dreamed of a
European war.
France had the largest debt with which any country had ever
been burdened. It amounted to six thousand of millions of dollars.
France had to raise nearly two hundred millions of dollars a year
in interest on her debt before she had anything for her army, her
navy and her civil requirements. She hacl been so frightened as to
the purposes of Germany, because of threats in Morocco, of Al-
geciras and Agadir that she had strained her resources to the utter-
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most with only thirty-eight millions of people to keep an army as
large as Germany with sixty-eight millions. She had reached her
limit The ablest financiers in France said to me last summer,
"Our financial position is perilous. The strain of governmental re-
quirements and increasinp^ taxes is threatening our industrial pros-
perity and financial stability. Nobody in France, under those condi-
tions, wanted war and everybody looked upon its possibilities with
horror. One of the most eminent of French statesmen said to me,
"In our eflforts to keep peace, we have not permitted our troops to
approach within eight kilometers of the frontier, while Germany
has crossed the frontier in several places and occupied positions of
strategic importance.*'
Austria, of course, was, in her diplomacy and international
relations, controlled entirely by Germany. Russia had not yet re-
covered from the eflfects of her war with Japan. Her financial
situation was acute. Her internal troubles great. There were seri-
ous strikes, accompanied by violence in her factories and mines
which were not industrial but revolutionary. Russia was in no con-
dition to declare war.
It was this situation, in these various countries, which misled
the military party in Germany into believing that the time had
come for an unmediate and successful war.
The military mind, in control of government, is always a peril
to its peace. It knows its own power but has a contempt of the forces
of a possible enemy and no broad, diplomatic or statesmanlike com-
prehension of the situation in other countries. The military party
believed Belgium neither could nor would oflfer any opposition to
the German armies, marching across Belgium to the practically un-
defended part, next to Belgium, of the French frontier. It did not
believe that France could resist a successful invasion and that
another Sedan was certain to happen on the anniversary of the
Sedan triumph of 1870. They believed that it would be impossible
for Russia to seriously attack the German frontier. They thought
England entirely out of any possible interference or any effort to
help France or to aid Belgium because she had her hands full with
her domestic troubles and possible revolution.
So, Austria was told to go ahead against Servia, for the Aus-
trian Government was in a state of frenzy because of the assassina-
tion by Servians of the Archduke Ferdinand and his wife, the
Archduke being the heir of the aged Emperor of Austria.
The Austrian Emperor, after a long, remarkable and successful
reign, during which he alone had been able to hold together die
many conflicting races and elements of the dual empire, was in his
eighty-fourth year and the idol of his people. In a remarlrable
pn>clamation, he called upon them to rally to the national standards,
to punish the people who, as he said, have been for years insulting
and injuring me and my house. Never was there such a fateftd
message. Never were a few words weighted with such terrible
consequences.
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As always, when racial and religious passions are stirred, the
unexpected happened. Russia, kindred in blood and religion with
Servia, was swept by a wave embracing all classes, loyalists and
revolutionists, patriots and anarchists. Grand Dukes and the peas-
ants, in a Holy War. The Czar, who had not appeared publicly in
the streets of his capital for many years, rode about everywhere in
an open carriage, to be hailed by the populace as the Saviour of
Fatherland, Servian Brethren and the Orthodox Religion.
Russia began to mobilize, notwithstanding the threat of Ger-
many that if she did, war would be declared, and Germany promptly
declared war. Luxemberg and Belgium, though protected by
treaties, were instantly invaded by the German armies. France
mobilized. England declared war, ostensibly to defend her faith
and honor, pledged to Belgium, but equally for her faith pledged to
France, and above all, a belief that in the struggle, whether she
entered or not, was involved the existence of her empire.
The weight of condemnation of this frightful condition and sit-
uation had fallen upon the German Emperor. After a careful
study, I do not believe that the responsibility rests wholly with him.
A bit of gossip from a very high source, with intimate knowledge
and touch . with conditions in the German governing class, came to
me. It was that when the Emperor had secured the two hundred
and fifty millions for armament and had perfected the military ma-
chine, he felt that Germany was safe. He then took his usual vaca-
tion on his yacht in the North Sea. The Crown Prince was the
leader of the war party. He was enthusiastically seconded by his
five brothers. The war party included the whole of the Gen-
eral Staff and had the sympathy of the German People of
all classes. That the sons said, "If you go ahead and get ready for
war, we will help you in bringing the Emperor (the gossip said,
'the old man') around when he returns". When he did return,
he was swept off his feet.
This year is the centenary of the birth of Bismarck and of
Waterloo and St. Helena for Napoleon. After a hundred years
most of the ideas which these master spirits represented are in
death grips in the most disastrous war of the ages. Its result
may determine for the future whether Napoleon and the democ-
racy of the French Revolution or BismarcK and absolutism shall
govern the world.
This is an age of marvels. They are so wonderful and fre-
quent that we are no longer astonished at anything. It is within the
bounds of possibility, if not expectation, that forces can be found
strong enough to pierce the ether of the universe in which move in
harmony suns and planets and constellations. Astronomers say
that Mars is like our earth and inhabited. If so, the people un-
doubtedly worship the Prince of Peace. If the Martian philosopher
could now communicate with our world, he would discover this
astonishing situation.
There are about one thousand six hundred millions of people
upon the globe. Nine hundred million of them are now at war, kill-
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ing each other and destroying each other's cities, villages and homes.
These nine hundred millions comprise eight-tenths of the professing
Christians of the world. The only peoples who are not involved
are the United States, the Republics of Central and South America,
Spain, Italy, some of the wild tribes of Asia and of Central Africa,
the Scandinavian countries and the Esquimaux. I do not include
Mexico, which is in a state of Civil War.
Is, then, Christianity a failure? I say NO, a thousand times,
NO. God moves in mysterious ways. His wonders to perform. He
teaches the people full knowledge of right and wrong and leaves
them the largest liberty in their conduct and actions. They assume
with their eyes open and fully conscious of the consequences, the
violation of Divine Law. The Old Testament History is filled
with examples of the punishments which would have followed this
kind of disobedience.
There are plenty of illustrations in Modem History. The
most significant is our own Civil War. We all knew slavery to be the
sum of all crimes. We tolerated it and supported it, legislated for
its protection and put the whole power of the government behind
it, for nearly a century. Then came, swift and terrible, the conflict
between different civilizations and ideals and at a cost of a half
million of lives, the slaves were emanicipated. The Republic, freed,
entered upon a career of liberty, humanity and prosperity, which
in the half century, since the close of the Civil War, has made the
United States, the freeest and most powerful of governments and
our people the happiest of all the nations.
The governments of Europe have been, for years, violating
Divine and Human Law. They have been training, beyond reason,
millions of their young men for war and teaching them the
righteousness of the doctrine that "might makes right". They
have violated treaties, which are as solemn and binding upon na-
tions, as contracts and honorable obligations are upon individuals.
Passion, hatred, vindictiveness, cruelty and bloodthirst arc
working their worst, but as in our Civil War, there will come,
from this conflict, national sanity, the end of militarism as a con-
trolling power in government and the reign of the people, by whose
voice alone can, thereafter, nations be plunged into war.
Some incidents connected with my personal contact with
the beginning of the war may be illuminatmg. I was in Geneva
with my family. On the first of August I went to the bank
to draw money and was informed not only by that bank
but by all others in Geneva, that they were paying out no
money upon Letters of Credit or bankers or express checks
or even Bank of England notes. There had been no sign
of war and everything was still going on as usual in Geneva
and had been the day before at Berne, the capital of Switzerland.
I made up my mind, from long experience, that when bankers
shut their doors and lock tiieir safes, they either actually or psycho-
logically know of trouble. I found a train left for Paris in two
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hours, secured a compartment and then informed my family. I
was instantly up against the most serious crisis in my domestic
life. How were two ladies and their servants to pack their trunks
in two hours? The thing was impossible. Any mere man ought
to know that this was a work not of hours, but of days. However,
we caught the train. While standing in the crowd on the station
platform, I heard a conversation which relieved the tension. They
were two English maiden ladies of the spinster t)rpe seen often in
Punch, but rarely met with. One said to the other, in a high key
and a sharp voice, holding in her hand a five-pound note, "Sarah,
was there ever such an outrage? Here is an English bank note which
has been good all over the world, since Christ came to earth, and
these Swiss pigs won't change it." (Laughter.) This was the last train
which left Switzerland for France for tfie next month. The French
trains were all used by the government for the mobilization of the
army. The movement of the train was normal, until it stopped at
the first station in France. There was a notice on the wall, on a
paper, about three feet square, calling all men between certain ages,
instantly, to the colors. About twenty were there to take the train.
The station master told me that notice had been up only one hour.
At the next station, where it had been posted for three hours, there
were five hundred prepared to go. They filled our train, until cars
were added, making it so heavy that, instead of reaching Paris
at ten o'clock that night, we did not arrive until five on Sunday
morning, the 2d of August.
They stood in the aisles so thick that movement was impos-
sible. The women with them fainted and were taken into our com-
partment until we were as close as sardines in a box. Every time
I put my head out of the door of the compartment for air, these
recruits, taking me on account of my side-whiskers, to be an Eng-
lishman, waved their arms and yelled, "Vive 1' entente cordiale.'
Similar scenes of those liable to military duty from the neigh-
borhoods were taking place at every railway station, all over France.
Most of these men, as I saw them, were in the late twenties and early
thirties, and had begun to make a safe position for themselves and
their families in their various vocations. They represented every
walk in life, professional men, farmers, shop-keepers, artisans and
laborers. They had dropped ever3rthing. I heard many instances
where shop-keepers were unable to collect what was due them or
pay what they owed, and their accumulated and active capital
dropped out of existence as if swallowed by an earthquake. Their
farewells had been hasty to their families, but I did not hear a
single regret or complaint. Each man thought that upon him, in
a measure, rested tfie fate of his country.
When we arrived in Paris, the government had taken almost
all of the automobiles, taxicabs and cabs, where the horse was
able to walk. We finally secured a cab which was like Dr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes's famous " One Hoss Shay " and a horse
whose bones belonged to the crows. The ordinary fare to the
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hotel, the day before, was two francs. The ancient driver de-
manded forty and got it.
Thot^h it was so early in the morning, the cafes were all open
and the side-walk tables all filled with crowds of men and women.
They had been there all night. The men, obeying the notice to join
the colors, the women, their mothers, wives, sisters or sweethearts
waiting to bid them good-bye as their trains left, neither knowing
if they would ever meet again.
It was strange to see Paris, which I had left two weeks be-
fore, never so gay, never so crowded, never so brilliant, never so
ideally like Paris at its best, while now, the stores were all closed,
except the provision shops, the streets empty and a general air of
a city in a state of siege.
Now, as to the spirit of the people. I have spoken of Germany.
We must reniember that every man, woman and child in Germany,
France, Russia, Belgitmi and Great Britain think their country abso-
lutely right and that they are fighting and suffering in a Holy War.
The old man who waited upon me at the hotel said, ** My
only son went yesterday. I am sorry I did not have more." I
secured with difficulty a man way in the sixties as a chauflfeur.
He said, *'My four sons have just left me for the war. I wish
I was able to go myself. This means life or death for France and
for all of us. Do you think England will help ? If she don't we can't
win alone."
I met a lady whose name stands high in the roll of famous
statesmen and soldiers of France for a thousand years. I never
met such a picture of concentrated and intelligent sacrifice and de-
termination. She said, "My husband went to the war tiiis morn-
ing. My brothers went last evening. My boy is only eight or I
would send him. If we are beaten, France disappears as a Na-
tion, our glorious past is a memory. We lose everything which
makes life worth the living and there is no future for our diildren.
If England will help, we can succeed, but not alone. Will England
help" ? This was the wistful cry which went up f rcwn every soldier,
statesman and from every home in France.
I never can forget the scene when England declared war and
announced her loyalty and faith with France, Belgium and Russia.
It is the greatest privil^e which has ever come to men to have
lived and been active participants in the events of the last sixty
years. There has been no such period in recorded time. In liberty,
humanity, social service and on the material side in inventions and
discoveries, it has crystallized into achievement, the dreams and
aspirations of all the centuries.
But it is a supreme opportunity to have felt and shared those
emotions of all the peoples of a nation and sometimes of the world,
which lifted our common human nature into the rarer atmosphere
of brotherhood and hope.
As a boy, I used to attend the camp meetin|;s in the woods.
The movement was in charge of intensely religious leaders and
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members. When the Evangelist had brought his whole con-
gregation, including the strangers who came from curiosity, to
tfieir laiees, there was a moment when voices were uplifted and
raised in the ecstasy of belief that Heaven had opened and salva-
tion was sure. Such was the sentiment which swept over and up-
lifted the French when England declared her friendship and sup-
port.
When I left England for France and Switzerland, there was
universal gloom. No one believed that Civil War could be averted.
Sir Edward Carson in the North and Mr. Redmond in the Center
and South of Ireland were marshaling their armies for the war.
When I returned, a month afterwards, the English and the Irish,
the Scotch and Welch were singing, "God save the King", and all
parties volunteering to the colors.
Ancient History is an interesting study. It amuses, interests
and instructs those who have time to read, but arouses no interest
or passion. Yet, there stands out one effort of heroism, patriotism
and sacrifice which thrills and inspires each succeeding generation
as it did the Greeks, three thousand years ago. It is the story of
the Three Hundred who died at Thermopylae. So, when the trage-
dies, victories, defeats and settlements, after the war, have b^
forgotten, except by the student and the librarian, the boys in the
schools and in the academies, the scholars in the universities, the
preachers in the pulpits, the statesmen in the forum, will thrill and
be thrilled by the unequalled heroism, the unparalelled sacrifices and
the indomnitable courage of little Belgium. Her cities, villages and
isolated homes have been burned and ravaged. Millions of her
people, men, women and children are starving by the road-side with
no roof but the skies and no bed but the ground. Their govern-
ment is in exile, but the prayers, which is all these devoted sufferers
have left to eive, is with their sons, their brothers, their husbands
and their famers who are illustrating the finest courage of all the
ages in trenches and on the battlefields.
We can not dwell too long upon the horrors of this war.
When it was possible to leave Paris, the city was in a state
of sieee. It required passports, a certificate of residence and char-
acter from the landlord of your hotel and permission from the po-
lice to leave. When my party arrived in the inclosure of the Pre-
fecture of Police, there were several thousands waiting to secure
these permits. There was only one ofHcial to grant them and he took
ten minutes for each applicant, because the form was the one
used to identify suspicious persons. He asked and recorded the
height of each mdividual, the color of the hair and of the eyes, the
contour of tfie face, the shape of the nose. My wife has never
forgiven him for putting on her certificate and in his book a nose
she never had. I saw that it might take three days or a week to get
our papers and yet, we were passed around the outskirts of the
crowd and through the offices first. Our unpopularity was in-
tense and the protests disagreeable from the angry crowd. How did
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we do it? I can only say I was bom in Peekskill, Westchester
County, on the Hudson, and that explains the trick. (Laughter.)
We found a train, leaving at ten in the evening, but not sched-
uled. By the same "Peekskill methods, we secured a compartment,
and entered the train yard with the mail wagons. We should have
been at Boulogne in four hours, but did not arrive until five the
next morning. There were no vehicles, and we tramped in the rain,
leaving our baggage behind, for forty minutes, until we reached the
pier. We were compelled to remain there in the rain eight hours
before we were permitted on board the Channel Boat. The reason
given by the officers of the boat was that nobody had ever beai per-
mitted to come on board until after the decks were swabbed and Uie
decks had never, during forty years, been swabbed before twelve
o'clock. The most hidebound, conservative "Stand patter" in the
crowd became a progressive. I did not stand the whole time, be-
cause for an hour, I found a reserved seat on the step of a freight
car. When, finally, we were permitted to board the boat, there was
a rush as if for life, though we all knew, she would not sail for two
hours. Most of the men carried suit cases and travelling bags
with which they mercilessly banged those ahead. The situation was
relieved, however, when I heard a weary voice behind me say,
"My God, Julia, only to think that we left Pittsburgh for this."
(Laughter.) England, with its welcome and hospitality, its air of
peace, security and content, its uninterrupted daily life in every
department, business, social, amusements and Sunday normal, was
a wonderful relief and gratification. The Americans who deserve
the greatest credit were the thousands of men and women, mostly
school teachers, whose tickets were worthless and their money gone.
Their courage and patience were beyond praise. The American
Committee for relief to our countrymen and countrywomen in
London and Paris, performed most intelligent and helpful service
in sustaining and sending home the needy.
Our Ambassadors and Diplomatic Representatives in the War
Zone have won high praise and deserve all honor. This is espe-
cially true of Aml^sador Herrick in Paris, Page in London and
Van Dyke at the Hague, Gerard in Berlin, Penfield in Vienna and
Whitlock in Brussels. I have no doubt the others in the war
zone did splendidly, but their work did not come under my ob-
servation.
I heard a delightful story about one of the Diplomats whose
genius for diplomacy had been discovered by the unerring judg-
ment of Mr. Bryan, though hidden from his neighbors. It was said
that his wife was asked how they enjoyed their new honors. She
answered, "It's all very lovely, but people are too kind. We scarcely
ever went out at home, but my husband, poor dear, since we have
been here, has not had his dress coat off his back or his knife out of
his mouth." (Laughter.)
There is salvation even in the midst of war tragedies in the
sense and practice of htunor. All the combatants who heard of it.
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whether Allies or Germans, were laughing. It seems the Burgo-
master, Max, of Brussels, is a confirmed joker. When the German
Army took possession of the city, the General commanding ordered
the Burgomaster to come to his headquarters. When the Burgo-
master entered and was assigned his seat opposite the General,
the General took his revolver out of his belt and placed it on the
table with the muzzle towards the Burgomaster and said, "Sir, I
am now ready for business". The Burgomaster pulled out his
stylographic pen and placed it on the table, with the pen pointing
towards the General, and answered, '*General, so am I." (Laughter!)
What of the future? The war will end as suddenly as it be-
gan. The parties to any settlement will be so full of the passions,
vindictiveness and revenges of this most brutal and destructive of
all the contests of history, that they can make a peace only upon
terms which will give time, rest and recuperation for a renewal of the
fighting. We must be a party to this settlement and upon us de-
volves the gravest responsibility.
The public opinion of the world has been effective in avert-
ing serious crisis. It prevailed in the peace between the Balkan
States and Turkey, and the Balkan States themselves which pre-
vented an inuninent European war. But the United States has the
only public opinion which will have influence with either side. The
South and Central American republics have been too recently in
revolution. In Mexico Huerta has been deposed and exiled, and
in his place is general chaos. Spain is too nearly related and Italy
too closely involved, with China a negligible quantity in the affairs
of the world. All the hostile nations are earnestly arguing their
claims, their rights and the rectitude of their action in tfie American
press and through every meditun of American opinion.
A wonderful opportunity has come to the United States for the
expansion of its commerce m South America and the Orient. It
is a duty as well as an opportunity, for these people require a large
niunber of necessities which they neither produce nor manufacture
and which have come to them from the belligerent nations. But in
occup)ring this field we will act in the broadest spirit of comity.
When peace is declared and the warring nations, exhausted and
demoralized, are reorganizing their industries for the rescue of
their people, we will welcome them to an open door in the markets
of the world.
It would be a fearful calamity if the efforts, subtle and direct
to involve the United States in this war were successful. It is the
duty of all our people to support President Wilson in the main-
tenance of our neutrality.
But our largest and most comprehensive responsibility is to
impress upon the negotiators, the victor and the vanquished, that
for tfie first time in the history of the world an agreement for
disarmament can be made. It must not be left in the power of a
class to declare war, but that must be the right only of the sovereign
people. The Hague Tribunal can be so enlarged that it will become
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an international parliament to which must be submitted all disputes
between governments, and with an international force on sea and
land to compel acquiescence to its decisions and decrees. Then out
of this war will come blessings never dreamed of as possible. Its
sacrifices, slaughter, ruin, and untold sufferings will be forgotten
in the happiness and hope which will come from the era of Peace
on Earth and good will among men.
At the conclusion of Mr. Depew's remarks, Mr. Choate spoke
as follows:
'' Mr. President and Ladies and Gentlemen: In the first place,
let me correct a false impression. I am not going to make an
address. Anybody who undertakes to make an address after an
oration from Mr. Depew— why, it is like grinding on a hand
organ after an overture on the colossal organ of the cathedral,
and I can't do it. I speak by the card, and I am only going to do
what I was asked to do — make a few remarks; and the card says
*Tea at five o'clock.' It now wants ten minutes of five, and the
President told me that under no circumstances was the audience
to remain in this room, or anything to be said, after five o'clock,
and tea is the very appropriate immediate sequel to one of Mr.
Depew's speeches (laughter) because it is like his speeches — the
thing that cheers but not inebriates.
And then, Mr. Bowen had promised to make a speech. It has
been a little disappointing; his speech was altogether too short.
When he speaks it is always to the purpose. I class him always
with the sons of 2yebedee, as one of the Boanerges, because what-
ever he does is always a success. Didn't he set his hand last
year to raising $65,000, so as to buy the adjoining building, and
give us a room for a fit auditorium ? He did it in less than three
months. And he has got it locked up somewhere (laughter)
drawing compound interest. And I am sure he will never call
upon us to meet again in this room. These gentlemen on the
platform have all got cold feet. (Laughter.) They are all dread-
ing bronchitis or pneumonia, for while they have their backs to
the wall, the wall is made up of nothing but windows.
Now I have a duty to perform this afternoon. I was brought
here for a special purpose, and that is to move the initiation of the
Honorable Chauncey M. Depew into the fraternity of honorary
members of The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
(Applause.) I believe I have been authorized and instructed to
tender that distinguished honor to him and to welcome him to
the Brotherhood, and to put to the vote of this company whether
he shall be admitted. Those in favor?
I heard no noes. The vote was unanimous.
Now it was my pleasure to make the acquaintance of the
Kaiser, William II, a good many years ago in London. I met him
there occasionally, but he was always on his good behavior, be-
cause we met in the presence of his grandmother or his uncle
Edward. And I never supposed he was going to be such a
scourge to mankind as some people now think he is. What I
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think myself I won't say. I am bound by the statute of neutrality
and b^ the interpretation of that statute as laid down by our dis-
tinguished President at Washington.
I have been perfectly delighted to hear from Mr. Depew his
experience as a refugee. (Laughter.) I have heard a great
many of the refugees, and they all told the same story before. I
never heard one that varied until he spoke this afternoon. They
all had the same experience, and each one seemed to think that
he or she was the only one that had had any experience at all.
But his experience was most delightful and most instructive.
Now, let me speak about the spirit of the English people. It
is perfectly magnificent the courage and the spirit of endurance
and hope with which they are bearing the terrible struggle in
which they are engaged, and especially the mothers of England,
and the women of England. I don't think anything more grand
has ever been witnessed on the face of the earth.
Let me give you one or two instances of how the families, the
mothers and the fathers take it. I saw by the paper the other
day that one of the four sons of an old friend of mine in England,
a very distinguished woman, had been killed on the field of battle,
and I wrote her a letter of sympathy and condolence, and I im-
mediately received a reply which was perfectly magnificent. I
wish I had it here to read to you. She says, •Yes, we had four
aons, three in the army and one in the navy. The one that you
write about is dead, and we are very proud of it, and we are glad
to have been able to give him to the service of his country.
Another one has been taken prisoner six weeks ago, and we have
not the least idea whether he is dead or alive; and the third is
wounded; and the fourth is safe on one of the ships of war that
has not yet encountered the Germans. But we count it as a very
great prize, a very splendid reward to say that we have been able
thus to devote all our sons if necessary to the service of the Allies
in this cause.'
Well, then, I heard another story from the lips of the man
himself, the father of six sons. He said he had four sons already
In the service, and he was very proud of it. The fifth son was
twelve years old and at school, and he came to him one day with
tears in his eyes and he says, ' Father, now talking as man to man,
(laughter), was there ever anything meaner than that the In-
spectors turned me down and refused to let me enter the service
simply because I was only twelve years old?' No! You may
depend upon it that England is determined never to submit or
yield, and she never will submit or yield until she has reached
the point where she can say that this devil of militarism has
been so completely subdued that it will never trouble the world
again.
We met at the Hague eight years ago, on the isth of June,
1907, for the purpose of devising measures that would preserve
the peace of the world for all time. We agreed to a great many
things there, and everything seemed very auspicious at the time.
The gates of the Temple of Janus were closea— closed was it, or
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open ? I never can remember which. (Laughter.) At any rate,
the fact was that i)eace existed throughout the world. There
was not a single nation, savage or civilized, that was engaged in
war, and so it continued during the four months that our de-
liberations continued.
The representative of the Kaiser was there, and his conduct
seemed a little queer. In the first place, Germany refused to
enter into the conference at all unless it was upon the under-
standing that the question of the suppression of armaments was
not pressed, and the English representative made a statement, as
he was permitted to do, of the reasons why Great Britain thought
that the suppression of armaments ought to be agreed upon by
the nations, and our delegation said amen to that, and the subject
was laid aside. Well, then, all through the conference there was
evidently a hidden struggle, not manifested by words at any
moment, on the great question whether the British Channel was
to be kept open or made possible to be closed; Germany upon
the one side, and Great Britain upon the other; Great Britain
wanting to keep the Channel open so as to permit the feeding of
her population under all circumstances, whenever war might
arise, however long it might be protracted, Germany wishing
to be permitted at any time to make stU possible efforts to
close it if she could. She tried to close it the other day by
getting down to Calais, but she never got there, and she never
will. (Applause.)
Mr. Depew is right in saying that the future is ours — I've got
two minutes more. — Let me say that: The future is ours, and I
can see only two possible benefits that will arise to us from this
terrible conflict. One is that we shall be able to serve as peace-
makers when the time comes. I don't think the time has come
yet. I was glad to see that even the New York Peace Society
said yesterday in an address that it was not time to talk about
peace yet. And we shall be the one great — recognized as the one
Sreat power in the world, and we shall be called upon I have no
oubt to advise and assist and perhaps to suggest the terms of
peace. And that will be a very great service that we can render
to mankind.
And, then, another thing is that this war is going to make us
all a great deal poorer, and it will put an end to some of that
frightful extravagance and luxury now depreciating the character
and quality of our young men and women, especially here in
New York. (Applause.) Poker and bridge and the tango are
too much for the education of our young people, and I think that
all such extravagances as these, as a part of the education of
American youth, will be put an end to.
Now the time has come — I see you all look a little thirsty.
(Laughter.) The teapot is boiling, and if I trespassed upon your
patience a moment longer, I should be violating the instructions
of the President, and my own oath of oflice." (Applause.)
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122 iVashingion County, N, K, Quaker Records. (April
WASHINGTON COUNTY, N. Y., QUAKER RECORDS.
Data takkn from thk Rkcords of Easton Monthly Mkkting
OF Friends.
Contributed by Willard*s Mountain Chapter, D. A. R., Greenwich, N. Y.
Records Copied by Mr. Butler Hoag.
The town of Easton was originally a part of the Saratoga
Patent of 1684, and was afterwards a part of the town of Still-
water and Saratoga of Albany County. In 1789 it was erected
into a separate township, and from being the easternmost town
of the Patent was called East Town or Easton.
In the History of Washington County* published in 1878, is
an account of the great military expeditions which passed up the
Hudson in early times (some of them through Easton); of the
building of Fort Sarahtoga on the banks of the Hudson in 1709,
and its destruction in 1745; of the erection of Port Clinton, some
distance back from the river in 1746, and its destruction in 1747.
As there stated it is probable that there was a settlement around
Fort Sarahtoga previous to 1744.
Whatever may have been the extent of this settlement, the
territory in question remained unoccupied, so far as known, be-
tween the close of the war of 1748 and the breaking out of the
last French War in 1754. Immediately after the close of this war
in 1760, several families moved in, but with the exception of a
few Friends, were driven out during the War of the Revolution,
and returned only after peace was restored. There soon followed
settlers from Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Dutchess County,
N. Y., and one at least, Killian De Ridder, from Holland.
The first Friends who settled in the town were Rufus Hall
and Zebulon Hoxsie. They were brothers-in-law and came from
Dutchess Countv in the fall of 1773. The first Meeting was held
soon after at Zebulon Hoxsie's house. In 1775 Hall brought his
family here, and the Society had then increased by the addition
of several families of Friends from Rhode Island and Dutchess
County. The first Preparative Meeting was established in May
of that year, and a log meeting-house was built in 1778. Other
additions were made to their number from time to time and
they were prosperous and happv. Then the Revolutionary
struggle took place and they found themselves, notwithstanding
their peace-loving principles, in the midst of the theatre of war.
* The Editor acknowledges his indebtedness to the Research Committee,
Willard's Mountain Chapter of D. A. R., Greenwich, N. Y., and to the author
of the History of Washington County for the information in this brief intro-
ductory, much of which is copied verbatim, and refers readers of the Record
to the more extended account of the early settlers of the county given in iu
pages.
1915.1
IVashington County, N, K, Quaker Records,
^23
During the continuation of this struggle they suffered much in
the loss of property and by the persecution of the warriors, who
looked upon the peaceful Friends with scorn.
After the close of the war the Society rapidly grew in numbers
and influence. In 1787 a frame meeting-house was built.
For regular worship this building has been closed for several
Jears, but is open for Half- Year meetings, and occasional funerals,
t is still cared. for by the Society of Friends and is well pre-
served.
In 1 78 1 Elias Hicks made his first visit. In his journal he
says: "After stopping in Albany, rode to Saratoga, since called
Easton, and lodged with our friend Daniel Cornell; it was late in
the night when we arrived and the evening snowy; the country
being newly settled, Friend houses were generally poor, so that
several times I felt the snow on my face when in bed."
Indians still roamed through this section; it is related they
frequently peered in the log meeting house, and once a bancl on
an expedition of murderous intention, with scalps dangling from
their belts, appeared at the door; after watching the silent wor-
shippers awhile, they departed without molesting.
Friends from Peru, N. Y., a distance of one hundred miles,
sometimes came to attend the Quarterly Meetings; on one oc-
casion, Huldah Hoag, made the trip on horseback with a babe
in her arms.
During the anti-slavery times noted speakers were heard in
this old meeting-house, among them Lucretia Mott, Charles
Remond, Parker Pillsbury and Fred Douglass.
On the 25th of 12th month, 1887, an appropriate centennial was
held. [the editor.]
124
IVashmgton County, N. K, Quaker Records,
[April
Births.
David Macomber, born 27th day, 2nd month, 1739.
Hannah Macomber, his wife, born 17th day, 2nd month, 1747.
Their children:
William Macomber, bom 26th dav, loth month, 1770.
Elizabeth Macomber, bom 17th aay, 2nd month, 1772.
Phebe Macomber, born 20th day, 9th month, 1773.
Daniel Macomber, born 2nd day, 6th month, 1774.
Peace Macomber, bom 7th day, 12th month, 177c.
Mary Macomber, bom loth day, 4th month, 1770.
Martha Macomber, bom 6th dav, 6th month, 1780.
iohn Hunt, bora 21st day, ist month, 1782.
^hebe Hunt, bora 8th day, ^rd month, 1784.
Benjamin Coon, Jr., bora 5th day, 7th month, 1783.
David Coon, bora loth day, 4th month, 1777. His parents were Benjamin &
Rachel Coon.
Phebe Coon, bora nth day, 3rd month, 1779. Her parents were Benjamin &
Rachel Coon.
Thomas Folger, bora 8th day, 2nd month, 1777. His parents were Daniel &
Judith Folger.
Daniel Folger, bora 7th day, 9th month, 1779. His parents were Daniel &
Judith Folger.
Susanna Wilbur
Hannah Hoxie
Uriah Gripman
Sarah Peckham
Amos Lancaster
Mariah Haight
Stephen Marshall
Pcleg Wilbur
Joseph Baker
Elizabeth Wecdon
William Gripman
Lydia Dennis
Benjamin B. Coffin
Joshua Macomber
Susanna Barker
Morton Barker
Ricard & Ruth Barker
John Hart
William Hoxie
Samuel P. Townsend
Silas Gripman
Hephzibah Folger
George Folger
Stephen Haight
Hannah Galloway
Charles Taber
Susanna Dennis
David Galloway
Elizabeth & Anna Baker
Elizabeth Wilbur
Amely Taber
DATS PARBNTS' NAMB RBSIDBNCB
9-26-1810 Humphrey & Catherine Easton
WUbur
3-3-1811 Joseph & Eleanor Hoxie Easton
10-9-1810 Uriah & Phebe Gnpman Easton
3-11-1811 John & Hannah Peckham Easton
4-27-1811 Joseph and Elizabeth Lan-
caster Easton
5-11-1811 Israel & Anna Haight Easton
4- 1 4- 1 81 1 Samuel & Catherine Mar-
shall Easton
6-14-1811 John & Sarah Wilbur Easton
11-S-1811 Elisha & Elizabeth Baker Easton
7-26-18 10 Arnold & Mary Weedon Cambridge
4-27- 181 2 Uriah & Phebe Gripman Easton
6-3- 18 1 2 John & Elizabeth Dennis Cambridge
7-27-1812 Benjamin & Mary Coffin
6-2-1813 David & Dorcas Macomber Cambridge
10-8-1811 Slocum & Hannah Barker Cambridge
12-11-1811 Caleb & Sarah Barker Cambridge
6-6- 181 2 Isaac & Mary Barker Cambridge
11-11-1811 Thomas & Mary Hart Cambridge
7-9- 1 81 2 Joseph & Eleanor Hoxie Easton
6- 10- 1 813 Stepnen & Avis Townsend Easton
J2-13-1813 Uriah & Phebe Gripman Cambridge
9-2S-1811 Aaron & Mary Folger Easton
1-17-1814 Aaron & Mary Folger Easton
4-16-1813 Israel & Ann Haight Easton
8-29-1814 William & Martha Gallo-
way Cambridge
4-2-1813 Lewis & Amy Taber Easton
6-27-1814 John & Elizabeth Dennis Cambridge
11-27-1915 William & Martha Gallo-
way Cambridge
9-18-1814 Elisha & Elizabeth Baker Easton
5-13-1815 Humphrey & Catherine
Wilbur Easton
Easton
3-9-1816 Lewis & Amy Taber
1915]
IVashingtan County, N, K, Quaker Records,
"5
Alden G. Sherman 11-22-1815
Samuel Mott Brags; 7-26-1815
Tap pen Townsend 3-1 5-18 16
Elihu Marshall 5-16-1815
Wesson Macomber 6-10-1816
Caleb Gifford 5-29-1817
Dorcas CofEn 9-25- 1 804
William Brown Coffin 11-27-1805
Isaac Barker Coffin 7-2-1807
Elisha Brown Coffin 6-29-1809
Griffin Coffin 11-10-1810
Benjamin Barney Coffin 7-29- 1 8 1 2
Sarah Coffin 7-14-1814
John Wilbur 7-27-1817
John Green 11-29-1816
Samuel Wilbur 5-5-i8i7
Seneca Bragg 5-18-1817
{ane Mariah Dennis 4-1 8-1 817
Nicholas Sherman 8-22-1817
Rachel Folger 12-28-1815
Elisha D. Baker 2-28-1818
Emily Townsend 3-26-1818
Joseph W. Peckham 7-25-1818
William Gifford 10-27-1818
Anna Brown Galloway 9-8- 18 18
Jane Allen 12-5-1818
John Bragg 9-29-1820
William Green 9-10-1820
Edward Gifford 9- 12- 1820
James Allen 3-7-1821
Georfi^e Hussey Dennis 3-23- 1819
Thankful Dennis 12-24-1820
Moses Macomber 2-1 2- 18 19
John Galloway 4-11-1822
David Baker 2-8-1819
Gideon Baker 11 -25-1821
William Marshall i -28-1822
Sarah Hoxie 7-20-1822
Isaac Gifford 3-1-1823
Sarah Butler 3-3-1823
iohn Townsend 7- 12-1823
-ewis Taber 9-3-1823
Matthew Gifford 11-29 1820
Mary Gifford 2-4-1824
Israel Macomber 12-20-1824
Catherine Wilbur 6-27-1824
William Baker 9-19- 1824
Robert Baker 12-6-1824
Ann Wilbur i -5-1825
Rebecca W. Kirby 9-26-1825
Sarah Hoag 2-6-1823
Jacob Hoag 1-20-1825
Hiram Taber 6-1-1825
Cornelia Townsend 3-18-1825
Bridget Adelia Haight 7-23-1825
lane Gifford 5-17-1820
Wilbur John Dennis 7-19-1826
FABBNTS' NAMB RBSIDBNCB
Isaac & Mary Sherman Cambridge
John & Jane Bragg Easton
Stephen & Avis Townsend Easton
David & Hannah Marshall Easton
David & Dorcas Macomber Cambridge
Alden & Roba Gifford Cambridge
Benjamin & Mary Coffin Easton
Benjamin & Mary Coffin Easton
Benjamin & Mary Coffin Easton
Benjamin & Mary Coffin Easton
Benjamin & Mary Coffin Easton
Benjamin & Mary Coffin Easton
Benjamin & Mary Coffin Easton
Humphrey & Catherine
Wilbur Easton
George & Mary Green Easton
Iohn & Sarah Wilbur Easton
ohn & Jane Bragg Easton
ohn & Elizabeth Dennis Cambridge
saac & Mary Sherman Cambridge
Aaron & Mary Folger Easton
Elisha & Elizabeth Baker Easton
Steven & Avice Townsend Easton
John & Hannah Peckham Easton
Alden & Roba Gifford Cambridge
William & Martha Gallo-
way Cambridge
Adam & Martha Allen Cambridge
John & Jane Bragg Easton
George & Mary Green Easton
Alden & Roba Gifford Cambridge
Adam & Martha Allen Cambridge
John & Elizabeth Dennis Cambridge
John & Elizabeth Dennis Cambridge
David & Dorcas Macomber Cambridge
William & Martha Gallo-
way Cambridge
Reuben & Martha Baker Easton
Reuben & Martha Baker Easton
David & Hannah Marshall Easton
Gideon & Hannah Hoxie Easton
Alden & Roba Gifford Cambridge
Moses & Rhoda Butler Easton
Stephen & Avis Townsend Easton
John & Huldah Taber Easton
Gideon & Millicent Gifford Cambridge
Gideon & Millicent Gifford Cambridge
David & Dorcas Macomber Cambridge
Humphrey & Frelove
WUbur Easton
Amos & Mahala Baker Easton
Reuben & Martha Baker Easton
Allen & Fanny Wilbur Easton
Henry & Nancr Kirby Cambridge
Isaac & Lillys Hoag Easton
Isaac & Lillys Hoag Easton
John & Huldah Taber Easton
Stephen & Avis Townsend Easton
Israel & Anna Haight Easton
Gideon & Millicent Gifford Cambridge
John & Elizabeth Dennis Cambridge
126
WaskingtcH County, N. K, Quaker Records.
[April
Mary Kirby
Jane Gifford
Abel Thomas
Isaac Hoag, Jr.
Cordelia Baker
Stephen Galloway
Huldah Eddy
Elizabeth S. Taber
Pbebe Thomas
Hannah Wilbur
Richard Kirby
Sarah Jane Dennis
William Wilbur
Smith Thomas
Anna Hoag
{ob Wilbur, Jr.
lannah Thomas
Elias Buel
Joseph A. Wilbur
Abigail Wilbur
Henry G. Taber
Mary Hoag
Charles Wilbur
Thomas Farr
Mary T. Bragg
Phebe Wilbur
Mary Jane Hoxie
Marietta Robinson
Eliza Anthony
Phebe Baker
Jacob Wilbur
Sarah Wilbur
Stephen M. Wilbur
Seneca Bragg
John Pratt
Kodney Buel
Elizabeth Taber
Huldah Jane Robinson
Francis 5. Wilbur
Mariah C. Wilcox
Jonathan Wilbur
Hannah Mabbitt
Joseph W. Pratt
William A. Bragg
John M. Wilcox
German Brownell
Jane Brownell
Stephen B. Hoag
Hugh M. Taber
Sarah E. Wilbur
Mary Haviland
William Taber
Phebe Hoag
Dorcas Macomber
Tane Bragg
Margaret Taber
William K. Macomber
Francis H. Hoag
12-3-1826
5-17-1826
10-24-1826
1-28-1827
3.11.1827
4-8-1827
9-7-1827
12-11-1827
828
1826
11-28-1
3-17-1828
0-10-1828
8-29-1828
8-14-1829
3-27-1829
7-8-1830
5-27-1831
6-24-1831
12-19-1831
11-12-1831
12-16-1831
11-1-1831
6-24-1832
7-3 1 -1832
9.25-1832
7-26-1833
7-23-1833
10-23-1833
4-22-1832
11-22-1835
4-28-1836
5-19-1836
0-21-1836
3-28-1836
10-21-1836
29-1837
0-27-1836
8-18-1837
12-27-1837
7-18-1838
8-6-1838
11-27-1838
12-12-1839
1-11-1839
3-25-1839
6-9- "833
6-13-1837
3-17-1838
9-7-1838
1 2-9- 1 840
12-31-1840
3-7-1840
12-25-1839
16-1840
1838
3-9-1842
2-V1841
3-18-1841
9-ie
PARENTS' NAM! aiSlDENCm
Henry & Nancy Kirby Cambridge
Gideon & Millicent Gifford Cambridge
Jared & Matilda Thomas Easton
Isaac & Lillys Hoag Easton
Reuben & Martha Baker Easton
William & Jemima Gallo-
way Cambridge
George & Hannah Eddy Easton
John & Huldah Taber Easton
ared & Matilda Thomas Easton
iumphrey & Frelove
Wilbur Easton
Henry & Nancy Kirby Cambridge
Iohn & Elizabeth Dennis Cambridge
ob & Esther Wilbur Easton
ared & Matilda Thomas Easton
saac & Lillys Hoag Easton
Job & Esther Wilbur Easton
ared & Matilda Thomas Easton
Orin & Mary Buel Easton
Allen & Tammy Wilbur Easton
Job, 2nd» & Huldah Wilbur Easton
ohn & Huldah Taber Easton
saac & Lillys Hoag Easton
Job & Esther Wilbur Easton
Samuel & Rebecca Farr Easton
George & Anna Bragg Easton
Job & Huldah Wilbur Easton
Gideon & Hannah Hoxie Easton
Henry & Lydia Robinson Easton
Daniel & Lucy Anthony Greenwich
Reuben & Martha Baker Easton
Job & Huldah Wilbur Easton
John & Lydia Wilbur {2nd) Easton
Allen & Tammy Wilbur Easton
George S. & Anna Bragg Easton
Jacob & Avis Pratt Easton
>ren & Mary Buel Easton
Stephen & Sarah Taber White Creek
Henry & Lydia Robinson Easton
John & Lydia Wilbur Easton
Simon & Sarah Wilcox Easton
Job & Huldah Wilbur Easton
Lorenzo Easton
acob & Avis Pratt Easton
oseph W. & Fanny Bragg Easton
.ohn M. & Eunice Wilcox Easton
Isaac & Anna Brownell White Creek
Isaac & Anna Brownell White Creek
Abram & Rhoda Hoag White Creek
Stephen & Sarah Taber White Creek
Peleff & Eliphal Wilbur Easton
Charles & Anna Haviland Easton
Stephen & Sarah Taber White Creek
David & Mary P. Hoag Cambridge
Joshua & Abigail Macomber Cambridge
George & Anna Bragg Easton
Stephen & Sarah TsUKsr WhiteCreek
Wessen & Eliza Macomber Cambridge
David & Mary Hoag Cambridge
1915]
Washington County, N. Y„ Quaker Records.
127
Sarah & Mary Macomber
Job W. Macomber
Ebenezer Eddy
Edwin Pratt
John Barker
Joseph C. Beul
William W. Wilbur
Humphrey Haviland
Sarah Taber, Jr.
{erusha Pratt
)avid Macomber
William P. Wilbur
James H. Robinson &
John W. Robinson
Susan Wilbur
Walter Westgate Wilbur
Mary M. Wilbur
Louisa Baker
William P. Robinson
Meribah Burdick
David H. Allen
Lydia & Mary Pratt
2-7-1843
4-6-1843
9-39-1753
7-16-1843
8-6-1844
8-16-1844
11-6-1844
7-6-1844
4-9-1846
9-4-1846
9-29-1846
PARENTS' NAMB RS8IDBNCB
Wessen & Eliza Macomber Cambridge
Joshua & Abigail Macomber Easton
Easton
Jacob & Avis Pratt Easton
Orren & Mary Buel Easton
Pelee & Eliphal Wilbur Easton
Charles G. & Anna Haviland Easton
Stephen & Sarah Taber White Creek
Tacob & Avis Pratt Easton
Joshua & Abigail Macomber Easton -
Humphrey & Ann P. Wilbur Easton
5-8-1846 Henry B. & Lydia Robinson
4-6-1847 Pcleg & Eliphal Wilbur
2- 1 2- 1848 Humphrey, 2nd» & Ann P.
Wilbur
2-12-1849 Humphrey, 2nd, & Ann P.
Wflbur
8-5-1848 David & Sarah H. Baker
1 1-7-1848 Henry B. & L^rdia Robinson
6-1-1776 George & Meribah Burdick
8-30- 1 8 10 John & Rosana Allen
10-20-1849 Jacob & Avis PraU
Easton
Easton
Easton
Easton
Easton
Easton
Easton
White Creek
Easton
Deaths.
AGS
8-2i-i8ii
7-26-1811
10-22-18 1 1
1-24-1811
8-22-1812
3-27-1813
7-15-1812
5-14-1812
io-i6-i8ii
12-3-1812
10-15-1813
9-14-1814
Benjamin Starbuck
Mehitable Wright
Alice Gifford
Ruth Eddy
Mary Waite
Patience Durfee
Rhoda Allen
Barnabas Russell
Thomas Smith
Mary Wilbur
Samuel Peckham
Mabel Starbuck
Elizabeth Lancaster
Mary S. Foleer
Hannah Galloway , . _^
(Parents, William & Martha
Anna Hoa^ 3-29- 181 4
Alice Hoxie 2-26-1814
David Allen 8-28-1815
Elizabeth Gifford 1-19-1815
Levi Gifford 1-3-1815
Rhoda Allen 11-6-1815
Deborah Marshall 4-16- 18 15
(Parents, David & Hannah)
Isaac Barker Coffin 8-31-1810
(Parents, Benj. & Mary)
Elizabeth Brown 7-25-1815
Sarah Coffin 3-1-1815
William Coffin 0-19-1810
Daniel Barber 8-22-1817
Jonathan Hoag 5-31-1817
Stephen Hoag 7-5-1817
79 yr. 4. mo. 5 da.
26 yr. 3 mo. 15 da.
85 yr. 7 mo.
40 yr.
75 yr.
69 yr. 6 mo.
19 yr. II mo.
Galloway)
68 yr.
66 yr.
28 yr.
RBSIDBNCB
Easton
Cambridge
Cambridge
Easton
Easton
Cambridge
Cambridge
Easton
Easton
Easton
Easton
Easton
Easton
Cambridge
Cambridge
Cambridge
44 yr. o mo. 28 da.
85 3rr. 10 mo. 6 da.
73 yr. o mo.
about 04 yrs.
about 66 yrs.
Easton
Easton
128
Washington County, N. K, Quaker Records,
[April
Mary Russell 7-2-1817 17 yr. 4 mo. 25 da.
(Parents, Barnabas & Anna Russell)
Mercy Bamum 11-2-181J 31 yr. 10 mo. 15 da.
(Parents, Thomas & Mary Cornell)
81 yr. 5 mo. 23 da.
7 mo. 4 da.
Sarah Bragg 3-21-1818
Seneca Bragg 5-13-1818
(Parents, John & Jane Bragg)
Mary Folger, wife of
Aaron Folger 2-9-1819
Hannah Peckham 5-10-1819
(Parents, Saml. & Avice Peckham)
Daniel Folger 11-17-1819
Peter Barker 1-3- 1820 20 yr. 2 mo. 26 da.
(Parents, Benj. & Sarah Barker)
Catherine Wilbur
Jane Mariah Dennis
Thankful Dennis
Martha B. Allen
William Brown
Martha Galloway
Reuben Baker
Hannah Macomber
Elizabeth Slocum
Zebulon Hoxie
Mary Adcock
{ames Allen
^eonard Cook
Martha Hall
Abiel Gifford
Ann Smith
Charles Eddy
Susannah Barber
Benjamin Deuel
Pardon Tripp
Peleg Lawton
Sarah Hoag
Hannah Dillingham
Meriah Haight
Valentine Sweet
Elizabeth Cook
Alice Anthony
William Galloway
William Wilbur
Henry Kirby
Jedediah Robinson
Cornelia Townsend
James Cornell
Anna Burlinghame
Dorcas Brown
Elizabeth Hoxie
Rebecca Russell
Mary Sweet
Lillys Beard
George H. Dennis
Caleb GifiEord
Joshua Dillingham
Matilda Thomas
Rachel Allen
Phebe Allen
Sarah Hoag
Lillys Hoag
66yrs.
75 yrs.
3 mo. 16 da.
1 1 -29- 1 820 43 yr. o mo. 25 da.
7-3-^821
1-18-1820
5- 1 6- 1 82 1 about 40 yrs.
11-19-1821 77 yrs.
4-25-1822
4- 1 6- 1 822
6-3-1822
5.28-1822
7-27-1822
9-27-1822
6-22-1823
6-12-1823
3-21-1823
5-26-1824
1-26- 1824
3-21 -1824
10-28-1824
2-20-1825
3-21-1825
7-22-1825
7-27-1825
3-10-1826
5-13-1827
11-17-1827
12-15-1827
11-10-1827
7-7-1828
3-7-1829
6-7-1829
5-27-1829
4-25-1829
4-8-1828
12-23-1829
1 0-6- 1 830
5- 1 2- 1 830
12-25-1830
4-20-1830
3-23-1831
8-20-1831
1-21-1832
5-15-1828
4-2-1832
6-5-1832
7-21-1832
3-13-1832
10-6-1832
60 yr. o mo. 2 da.
2 yr. 2 mo. 25 da.
83 yr. 8 mo.
near 88 yrs.
near 79 years
71 yr.
77 yr. 7 mo.
16 vr. o mo. 2 da.
72a. yr. of his age
70th yr. of her age
upwards of 73 yrs.
4 yr. I mo. 14 da.
upwards of 75 yrs.
80 yr. I mo. 11 da.
near 86 yrs.
near 85 yr.
near 75 yr.
86 yr. 5 mo. 16 da.
12 yr. 4 mo. 27 da.
67 & upwards
85 yr. I mq. 14 da.
34 yrs.
64 yr. o mo. 3 da.
42 yr. 6 mo. 7 da.
9 yr. I mo.
44 yr. 2 mo. 6 da.
RBSIDENCB
Easton
Easton
Easton
Easton
Easton
Easton
Easton
Easton
Easton
Cambridge
Cambridge
Cambridge
Easton
Cambridge
Easton
Cambridge
Easton
Easton
Easton
Cambridge
Easton
Cambridge
Cambridge
Easton
Easton
Greenwich
Cambridge
Cambridge
Cambridge
Easton
Easton
Easton
Easton
Easton
Cambridge
Cambridge
Easton
Cambridge
Easton
Easton
Easton
Easton
Easton
Easton
Easton
Easton
Easton
Cambridge
Cambridge
Easton
Easton
Cambridge
Cambridge
Easton
Easton
I9I5.]
Waskingian County^ N. K, Quaker Records.
129
Rhoba Wilbur
Rebecca Fair
Joseph Adcock
Mary Briggs
Israel Macomber
Susannah Smith
Hiram G. Taber
Henry Taber
George B. Taber
Ruth Chase
Mary Jane Hoxie
Eliza Anthony
Anna Russell
Mary Gifford
Abiel Dennis
Sarah Wilbur
(ParenuN.& S.
Isaac Hoag, Jr.
Aaron L. Wilcox
Bethiah Slocum
Slocum Barker
David Wing
Comfort Buel
Elias Hoag
Lewis Tal^r
Joseph Wilbur
Susannah Barker
William H. Macomber
Jemima Worth
Elias Buel
Ebenezer Eddy
John Baker
Abraham Hoag
Phebe B. Baker
11-6-1832
6-21-1833
7-"-i833
10-26-1833
I -31 -1834
4-8-1834
7-7->834
7-81834
7-10-1834
8-27-1834
9-21-1834
5-18-1834
11-19-1836
1.15-1837
4-13-1838
10-31-1838
Bragg)
10-11-1838
4-24-1830
4-11-1838
5-2-1839
8-5-1839
5-9-1839
12-21-1839
1-6-1840
8-1-1840
3-23-1841
3-18-1842
1-18-1842
10-6- 1 842
3-1-1840
12- 1-1842
9-23-1843
io-28-r
53 yr. 8 mo. 16 da.
28 yr. 8 mo. 7 da.
68 yr. 3 mo. 19 da.
51 yr. 9 mo. 6 da.
o yr. 1 mo.
02 yr. II mo. 10 da.
9 yr. I mo. 7 da.
2 yr, 6 mo. 22 da.
yr. 6 mo. 29 da.
67 yr. I mo. 20 da.
1 yr. I mo. 28 da.
2 yr. o mo. 26 da.
91 yr. 9 mo. 28 da.
62 yr.
II yr. 7 mo. 14 da.
92 yr. 4 mo. 21 da.
54 yr. 4 mo. 8 da.
50 yr. 7 mo. 24 da.
29 yr. 1 mo. 10 da.
21 yr. 3 mo. 12 da.
72 yr.
82 yr. J mo. 7 da.
84yr.8]
-1843
2-23-1844
-25-1844
mo. 17 da
85 yr.
II yr. 3 mo.
89 yr. c mo. i da.
85 yr. 8 mo. 26 da.
22 yr. 1 1 mo. 10 da.
7 yr. II mo. 6 da.
Hannah Allen)
71 yr. II mo. 14 da.
Nancy Fish
Adam Allen
(Parents, Joseph &
Eleanor Hathaway 3-8-1845 94 yr. 7 mo.
(Parents, Edward & Upton)
Jerusha Wilbur 2-28-1845 80 yr. 11 mo. 3 da.
(Parents, Samuel & Avis Peckham)
Elizabeth Cornell 4-13-1845 84 yr.
(Parents, Richard & Rebecca Kirby)
Benajah Barker 9-12-1845 86 yr.
Rhoda Butler 10-16-1845 58 yr.
(Parents, Joshua & Hannah Dillingham)
Job W. Macomber 8-3-1846 3 yr. 3 mo. 29 da.
(Parents, Joshua & Abigail Macomber)
Asa Hoag 6-4-1847 58 yr. 7 mo. 17 da.
(Parents, Abram & Tabithy Hoag)
Sylvia Smith 5-29-1847 79 yr. 3 mo. 5 da.
(Parents, Hannah & Judith Russell)
Phebe Hoxie 12-11-1847 81 yr. 1 1 mo. 28 da.
(Parents, Isaiah & Hannah Griffin)
Sarah Ann Brownell 7-1 1- 1848 24 yr. 5 mo. 28 da.
(Parents, Isaac & Ann Brownell)
Walter Westgate Wilbur 8-2-1848 o vr. 5 mo. 21 da.
(Parents, Humphrey & Ann P. Wilbur)
Sylvanus Taber 8-25-1848 73 yr. 6 mo. i da.
RBSIDENCB
Easton
Easton
Greenwich
Easton
Cambridge
Easton
Easton
Easton
Easton
Easton
Easton
Greenwich
Easton
Cambridge
Cambridge
Easton
Easton
Easton
White Creek
White Creek
White Creek
Easton
Easton
Easton
Easton
White Creek
Cambridge
Easton
Easton
Easton
White Creek
Easton
Easton
Easton
Cambridge
White Creek
Easton
Easton
Easton
Easton
Easton
Cambridge
White Creek
Easton
WhiteCreek
Easton
WhiteCreek
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Gravestone Inscriptions,
[April
Mary Allen 12-18-1848 64 yr. 8 mo. i3 da.
I Parents, Zach & Elcner Hathaway)
loag 1-3-1849 99 yr. ii mo. 13 da.
(Parents, Stephen & Ann Hoag)
Caleb Griffih 1-27- 1849 62 yr. 3 mo. 2 da.
(Parents, Gursham & Sarah Griffin)
Mary M. Wilbur 4-29-1849 o yr. 2 mo. 16 da.
(Parents, Humphrey & Ann P. Wilbur)
Anna Chase 81 yr.
( Parents, Jeremiah & Hope Wilkinson)
Weston Macomber 1-27-1849 32 yr.
(Parents, David & Dorcas Macomber)
Nancy Kirby 9-13-1848 5S yr.
William P. Wilbur 10-29-1849 3 yr. i mo.
(Parents, Humphrey & Ann P. Wilbur)
John Wilbur 2-23-1850 83 yr. 5 mo. 16 da.
(Parents, Jonathan & Sarah Wilbur)
Meribah Allen 2-15-1850
(Parents, George & Patience Burdick)
David H. Allen 3-25-1850
(Parents, John & Rosann Allen)
Mary Pratt 1-15-1850 3 mo. \\ da.
Lydia Pratt 1-18-1850 3 mo. 16 da.
(Parents, Jacob & Avis Pratt)
KBSmiNCE
White Creek
White Creek
Easton
Easton
White Creek
Cambridge
Easton
Easton
Easton
White Creek
I Easton
GRAVESTONE INSCRIPTIONS.
Copied by Miss Frances Hanks.
Prom stones on the Enoch Hanks* farm (now called the
Beveridge farm) on Bunker Hill, Cossayuna Heights, eleven
miles northeast of Greenwich, Washington County, N. Y.
In memory of Lucius, son of Enoch and Hannah Hanks, died
Aug. 5, 1812, aged 4 years, 10 months.
In memory of Worthy Hanks, son of Enoch and Hannah
Hanks died Apr. nth, 18 15, aged 7 months, 24 days.
In memory of Martin, son of Amos Hanks & Polly Pisk
Hanks, died in Middle age of Typhus fever.
Stephen, infant son of Amos and Polly Fisk Hanks.
In memory of John Hanks, who died Feb. 23, 1815, in the 85
year of his age. " Stone made by R. Perkins."
Note. — This Tohn Hanks married Tabiatha Hall, Jan. 24, 1750.
He was the father of Enoch Hanks and grandfather of Amos
Hanks of Bunker Hill, Town of Greenwich, N. Y. He was
the son of Benjamin Hanks who married Mary White, daughter
of Richard and Catherine White, of Plymouth Colony, Mass.,
April 24, 1724.
His grandparents, Uriah and Urany Hanks, came from
Birmingham, England, to Plymouth Colony, Mass., A. D. 1700.
He was closely related to Nancy Hanks, the mother of Abraham
Lincoln.
191 5.J Tkachtr- Thatchtr Gmtalogy. 1 3 1
THACHER-THATCHER GENEALOGY.
By John R. Totten,
Member of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society and New England
Historic-Genealogical Society.
(Continned from VoL XLVI., p. So, of the Rbcord.)
981. Allen Crocker^ Thatcher (Lot,« Rev. Roland,* Col. John/
Hon. Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom June (or July),
17th, 1793, at Rochester, Mass.; he lived at Rochester and
Middleboro, Mass., in which latter place he died May 13th,
1885 aged 91-1026, and was there buried. He married at
Middleboro, Mass., December 7th (or 8th), 1816, to Elizabeth
Rounseville Peirce, bom Middleboro, Mass., November 20th,
1796; she was a member of the 4th Baptist Church in that
town; she died at Middleboro, January 27th, 1871, aged
74-2-7, and was there buried. She was a daughter of Major
and Deacon Levi Peirce (bom Middleboro (now Lakeville),
Mass., October ist, 1773 ; died there August 22nd, 1847, ^tged
74 years; married December 13th, 1795), and his wife Sally
Bourne (bom ; died Febmary 23rd, 1853, aged 75, at
Middleboro, Mass.), of Middleboro, Mass. Col. Levi Peirce
and his wife were both baptized by immersion November 7th,
1824, and admitted to the Fourth Calvinistic Baptist Church,
and he was made a Deacon, May 27th, 1826, and bodi were
dismissed to Central Baptist Church in Middleboro, August
loth, 1828.
Children: 3 (Thatcher), 2 sons and i daughter; first 2 bom
in Rochester, third in Middleboro.
1662 i. Levi Peirce ist,* bom December 7th, 1817 ; died
August I2th, 1823, aged 5-8-5, at North Roches-
ter, Mass., and was buried at Rock Cemetery,
Plymouth Co., Mass.
-f 1663 ii. Levi Peirce 2nd,* bom May Tor March) 2nd,
1827; died ; married Sarah A. Darrow.
-f 1664 iii. Elizabeth Allen,* bom November 12th, 1832;
died ; married Robert Knight Remington.
"Middleboro, Mass., May 13th, 1885.— Mr. Allen C. Thatcher,
an old and honoured citizen, died at his residence on Main Street
this aftemoon of pneumonia, after a short illness. Mr. Thatcher
was bom at Rochester, June 17th, 1793, and was, therefore, very
nearly 92 years of age. He was educated in the public schools of
Rochester. He went to Boston at an early age, where he entered
upon a mercantile life as a derk in a West India goods house. He
then retumed to Rochester, where he carried on a grocery and dry
goods store. Mr. Thatcher came to Middleboro in 1831, when he
became prominently connected with the Newmarket woolen mills.
132 Thaehtt'Thatcher Genealogy. (April
He continued hb relations with the Company until 18^5, when he
retired on account of advancing years; and he has since resided
witih his son Mr. L. P. Thatcher. Mr. Thatcher married a daughter
of Col. Levi Peirce, the founder of the Peirce Academy, who died
about 2 years ago after having lived to celebrate his daughter's
Slden weddii^. Mr. Thatchers funeral will take place from the
tntral Baptist Church on Saturday."—//. 7. Herald.
Authorities :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 7^-
grandson, Levi Pdrcc Thatch
Charles Milton Thacher, of Middleboro, Mass.
His grandson, Levi Peirce Thatcher, of Middleboro, Mass.
982. Israel Fearing* Thacher (Lot,* Rev. Roland," Col. John,*
Hon. Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom November 29th,
(or 20th), 1795, at Rodiester, Mass.; he lived at Middleboro
and Arlington Heights, Mass., and was a farmer; he died
May 19th, 1884, aged 88-5-21, at Arlington Heisrhts, Mass.
He married (intention published May 25th, 1825, at
Middleboro, Mass., and on June 6th, 182^, at Rochester,
Mass.), at , to Susan Marshal Wood, born , 1803,
about, at , died April 21st, 1880, aged 77, at . Her
parentage is not known to me.
Children: 6 (Thacher), 4 sons and 2 daughters.
-J- 1665 '• Nelson Wood,* born July 9th, 1826; died ;
married Deborah M. Pratt.
-J-ii66 li. Lewis,* born June 27th, 1828; died ; mar-
ried Clarinda Thompson.
+1167 iii. Francis,*born August nth, 1830; died August — ,
1880; married Eleanor B (or R ) Cobb.
+1668 IV. Henry,* bom ; died ; married Eliza-
beth Marble Allen.
+1669 V. Susan F.,* bom March 27th, 1847; ^^ 1
married Capt. Reuben A. Briggs.
+1670 vi. Mary,* bom ; died ; married Robert F.
Shaen.
Authorities :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 73.
Charles Milton Thacher, of Middleboro, Mass.
Vital Records ofRochesUr^ Mass,, Vol. I, p. 291; Vol. II, p. 302.
His grandson, Henry Stanford Thacher ot Yonkers, N. Y.
983. Abigail Fearing* Thacher (Lot,* Rev. Roland,* 0)1, John,*
Hon. Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom April ist, 1798,
at Rochester, Mass. ; died July i6th, 1878, aged 80, at Roches-
ter, Mass. ; married at North Rochester, Mass., by Rev. Oliver
Cobb, September 23rd, 1821, to Nathaniel' Sears (Nathaniel,*
Nathanid,* Paul,* Paul,* Paul,* Richard^, bom August 15th,
1799, at North Rochester, Mass. ; he lived at Rochester, Mass.,
and died at Long Plain, Mass., June 23rd, 1883, aged 83. He
was a son of Nathanid Sears (bom Rochester, Mass., ,
1766; died March ^oth, 1816, aged 51 ; married at New Bed-
ford, Mass. (intention published Rochester, April 19th, 1785),
IQISO Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy, 133
and his wife Hannah Keene of Freetown, Mass. (bom Feb-
ruary i8th, 1768; died September 25th, 1846, aged 78, at
Rodiester, Mass.), of Rochester, Mass.
Children : 8 (Sears), 4 sons and 4 daughters, all bom at Roch-
ester, Mass.
+1671 i. Sarah Thacher,® bom July 3rd, 1823 ; died ;
married Stephen (S — — ?) Waite.
+1672 ii. Harrison uray Otis,® bom November loth,
1825; died ; married Mary Kelly Sherman.
+1673 iii. Emily M.,* bom September 2nd, 1827; died
April 2 1st, 1889; married Qiarles M. Blackmer.
-f 1674 iv. Elizabeth A.,; bom May 20th, 183 1 ; died ;
married Elihu D. Manter.
+1675 V. Lot Thacher,® bom October 3rd, 1834; died
; married Hannah M. Tripp.
+1676 vi. Abby Fearing,® bom March 4th, 1838; died
; married, first, Qiarles A Howland;
married, second, Waterman ; married, third,
?; married, fourth, ?
+1677 viL James H.,* bom March 31st, 1839; died ;
married Helen E. Swift.
+1678 viii. Nathaniel,® bom ; died .
AuTHORmES :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, pp. 56^ 57.
Sears Genealogy, by S. r. May, pp. 219, 352-3.
Charles Milton Thacher, of Middfeboro, Mass.
Hon. George Thacher's MSS. Thacher Genealogy, p. 199 and corrections
eto, p. 56e.
Vitai Records of Rochester, Mass., Vol. II, p. 302.
990. Zerviah* Crocker (Fear* Thacher, Rev. Roland,* Col. John,*
Hon. Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom July loth, 1781,
at Wareham, Mass.; died April — , 1839, ^tt ; married
, at , to Hawley.
Axtthowty:
Roland Crocker Thacher, of Pawtucket, R. I.
992. Clarissa^ Crocker (Fear* Thacher, Rev. Roland,* Col. John,*
Hon. Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom April nth,
1786, at Wareham, Mass.; died September 20th, 1810, at
Plympton, Mass. ; married , at , to Dexter of
Pl3rmpton, Mass.
ATrrHORiTiES :
Roland Crocker Thacher, of Pawtucket, R. I.
Hon. George Thacher's MSS. Thacher Genealogy, p. 192.
995. Betsey^ Crocker (Fear* Thacher, Rev. Roland,* Col. John,*
Hon. Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom August 22nd,
1795, at Tiverton, R. I. ; died July 6th, 1862, at Geneva, 111.,
and was there buried. She married at Tiverton, R. I. (re-
corded at South Dartmouth, Mass.), May 30th, 1813, to Dea-
con Matthews* Thatcher (No. 523), bom June 8th, 1788, at
134 Thacher'Thatcher Genealogy. [April
Yarmouth, Mass. ; he was a ship carpenter and lived most of
his life at Dartmouth, Mass.; he died at Centerville, Mass.,
October 25th (or 26th), 1868, aged 80, and was buried at
South Dartmouth, Mass. He was a son of John* Thacher
(No. 146) and his wife Hannah Matthews, who resided at
Yarmouth, Mass.
Children: 10 (Thacher), 4 sons and 4 daughters and 2 sex not
stated.
1679 i. (child, sex not stated*), bom May 21st, 1814;
died May 22nd, 1814, at South Dartmouth,
Mass., and was buried there.
*+i68o ii. Isaiah Crocker,* bom July 2nd, 1815; died
March i6th, 1880; married, first, Elizabeth
Reynolds Hyde; married, second, Mary Catha-
rine Hyde; married, third, Lydia Waters
Proctor
1681 iii. Rodolphus W ,• bom July 3rd, 1817; died
December 20th, i8i8,at South Dartmouth, Mass.,
and was buried there.
♦+1682 iv. Ophelia Crocker,* bom June 23rd, 1819; died
September 9th, 1868; married Capt. Peter
Butler.
♦+1683 V. Qarissa Dexter,* bom June loth (or nth),
182 1 ; died August 13th, 1892; married Rev.
George Denham.
*-f 1684 vi. Harriet Dunbar,* bom September 14th (or
19th), 1823; died March 4tii (or 6th), 1896;
married Hilman Crosby.
1685 vii. Betsey,* bom December 26th, 1825; died July
— , 1889, at Centerville, Mass., and was buried
there ; not married.
*+i686 viii. Henry Martin,* bom August 23rd (or 28th),
1827; died October — , 1902; married Mary
Louisa Hight.
♦+1687 ix. John,* bom July 9th, 1832; died March 7th,
1897 ; married Achsah Leonard Dexter.
1688 X. (child, sex not stated),* bom November 27th,
1834; died November 28th, 1834, at South Dart-
mouth, Mass., and was buried there.
AUTHORTTIES :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, pp. 46, 62.
Memorial of Rev. Isaiah Crocker Thacher, published in 1880.
Emerson Family, by B. K. Emerson, p. 275.
Congregational Church Quarterly, Vol. XI, pp. 293-4.
Miss Anna Thacher.
Roland Crocker Thacher.
Mrs. Qara L. Howes.
*For continuation of the records of these children (Nos. 1680, 1682,
i683f 1684, 1686, 1687), see Nos. 523 and 1137, 1139, 1140, 1141, 1143, ii44.—
as they will be carried forward no further under the numbers of diis par*
ticular record
1915.I Thacher'Thatcher Genealogy. 135
1008. Luther Robinson* Thacher (Deacon John,* Rev. Roland,*
Col. John,* Hon. G>1. John,* Antony,^ Rev. Peter^), bom
January 15th, 1791, at Lee, Mass.; he lived at Lee, Mass.,
and at Newark, N. J.; he was a carpenter; he died
(about 1870), at ; he married ist , at , to
Prudence Bennett, bom March 3rd, 1792, at Lee, Mass. ; died
January 18th, 1825, aged 33, at Lee, Mass., and was buried
there. She was a daughter of George Bennett (bom ,
at ; died Febmary 20th, 1836, aged 84, at Lee, Mass.)
and his wife Elizabeth (Betsey) ? (bom , at ;
died April 17th, 1820, aged 64, at Lee, Mass.), of Lee, Mass.
Children: i (Thacher) son, bom at Lee, Mass.
1689 i. John,* bom December 30th, 1824; died ^
1846 (about), at ; he was living with his
father November 25th, 1846, at Newark, N. J.
He was a sea faring man and made voyages to
the West Indies, and also a whalinfir voyage to
the northwest coast of America, and was after-
wards in the merchant service to the Mediterra-
nean up to Trieste in the Gulf of Venice. I
have no record of his marriage.
Luther Robinson' Thacher married a 2nd time , at ,
to Comelia Poinier of , N. J. ; bom , at ; died , at
. Her parentage is not known to me, they were said to be living
in Newark, N. J., in 1846.
Children: 7 (Thacher), i son and 6 daughters.
1690 li. Elizabeth Ann,* bom ; died , before
1846.
1691 iii. Rachel,* bom ; died , before 1846.
16^ iv. Mary,* bom ; died , before 1846.
+ 1693 V. Harriet,* bom , 1837, she was 9 years old
in 1846 ; died ; married Nelson Jacobus.
+ 1964 vi. Louisa,* bom , 1841 ; she was 5 years old in
1846; died March 12th, 1885; married George
Anton Roemer.
1695 vii. Catharine,* bom , 1843; she was 3 years
old in 1846; died , 1858; not married.
+ 1696 viii. Charles Poineer,* bom , 1846; he was 5
months old November 25th, 1846; died ;
married Amelia ?
AUTHOKITIES:
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, pp. 57-58.
Vital Records of Lee, Mass,, pp. 93, asi.
Records of the Town of Lee, Mass., p. 169.
Charles A Thatcher of 1249 Broadway, Rensselaer, N. Y., grandson of
Deacon John* Thacher.
loio. LucY^ Thacher (Deacon John,* Rev. Roland,* Col. John/
Hon. Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. PeterM, bom Jmie ist, 1796,
at Leicester, Mass.; died April isth, 1842, aged 46, of
136 Thacher'ThaUker Genealogy, [April
dropsy and consumption, at Lee, Mass., and was probably
buned there. She married (intention published at Lee,
Mass., May , 1820), at , to Henry W. Bennett, bom
at Lee, Mass., June 21st, 1788; he lived at Lee, Mass., and
died there March 21st, 1840, aged 53, and was probably
buried there. He was a son of ueorge Bennett (born ,
at ; died February 20th, 1836, aged 84, at Lee, Mass.)
and his wife Elizabeth (Betsey) ? (bom , at ;
died April 17th, 1820, aged 64, at Lee, Mass.) of Lee, Mass.
Children: 5 (Bennett) sons, all bom at Lee, Mass.
1697 i. Alexander Henry,* bom March i6th, 1822.
+1698 ii. Allen Thacher,* bom Febmary 6th, 1824; died
; married Catharine J. Platner.
1699 lii. Charles Addison,® bom October 7th, 1825;
died .
1700 iv. Chauncey Nelson,® bom August 17th, 1827;
died .
1701 V. Francis Flavel,® bom July 6th, 1832 ; died .
AUTHOKITIES:
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 58.
Vital Records of Lee, Mass., pp. 19, 93, 115, 183-4.
Town Records of Lee, Mass., p. 169.
Charles Austin Thatcher of Rensselaer, N. Y.
loii. Thomas* Thacher (Deacon John,* Rev. Roland,^ Col. John,*
Hon. Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom September 9th,
1798, at Lee, Mass.; he lived at New York City, N. Y.; Rock-
ford, 111.; in Canada and at Albany, N. Y.; and was a builder;
he died at Brooklyn, N. Y., November 25th, 1884, and was
buried at Albany, N. Y., in the Rural Cemetery. He mar-
ried, first, at Albany, N. Y., January i8th, 1830, to Rebecca
Maria Williams, bom at Trenton, N. J., January i8th, 1803 ;
died at Albany, N. Y., June 5th, 1855, aged 52, and was bur-
ied there in Rural Cemetery. Her parentage is not known
to me.
Children : 4 (Thatcher), i son and 3 daughters, first bom
in New York City; rest in Rockford, 111.
1702 i. Charlotte Elizabeth,* bom October 24th, 18^2;
died September 14th, 1834, at New York City.
+ 1703 ii. Almeda Sophia,* bom October 27th, 1834; died
May 2 1st, 1878; married, first, Lyman Gordon
Dart; married, second, Martin Van Buren
Talmadge.
+ 1704 iii. Charles Austin,* bom February 8th, 1838;
died ; married Emeline Phinney.
+1705 iv. Emily Dmsilla Adelaide,* bom September 8th,
1841; died Febmary 25th, 1862; married
Thomas Charles Faulkner.
Thomas^ Thatcher married a second time at Cohoes,
N. Y., May 14th, 1856, to Adeline Antoinette Chaflfin, of
1915.] Thacher'Thatcher Genealogy. 137
Cohoes, N. Y.; born , 1830 (about), at ; died
(she was living in December, 1905, at ; she was a step-
daughter of Lucius Alexander, a butcher in Cohoes, N. Y.
Children: i (Thatcher), daughter, bom at Cohoes, N. Y.
+1706 V. Alice Adelaide,* bom August 22nd, 1858; died
; married Fred C. Covely.
Authorities :
His SOD, Charles Austin Thatcher, of 1249 Broadway, Rensselaer, N. Y.
Town Records of Lee, Mass,, p. 169.
I0I2. Sylvia^ Thacher (Deacon John,* Rev. Roland,* Col. John,*
Hon. Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom March 22nd,
1800, at Lee, Mass. ; died July 24th, 1828, aged 27, of typhus
fever, at Lee, Mass., and was there buried ; gravestone. She
married July loth, 1828, at Lee, Mass., to Benjamin Fish (or
Fisher, probably Fish), of Sandwich, Mass.
Children: None; she died two weeks after her marriage.
Atjthoritiss :
Vital Records of Lee, Mass,, pp. 130, 197.
Town Records of Lee, Mass,, p. 169.
Charles Austin Thatcher, of Rensselaer, N. Y.
1014. Harriet^ Thacher (Deacon John,* Rev. Roland,* Col.
John,* Hon. Col. John,* Antony,^ Rev. Peter^), bom March
7th, 1808, at Lee, Mass. ; died , at Brooklyn, N. Y., and
was buried in Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y. She
married at Buffalo, N. Y. (recorded at Lee, Mass.), Septem-
ber 25th, 1827 (intention published at Lee, September i8th,
1827), to Abijah K (or R.) Benton, of Buffalo, N. Y.,
bom — — , at ; died at San Francisco, Cal. ; date of
death — '— (before the Civil War). Parentage not known
to me.
Children: 3 (Benton), i son and 2 daughters, ist child bom
at Lee, Mass.
1707 i. Emily Thacher,* bom March 3rd, 1829; died
January 12th, 1892 (Tuesday), at Brooklyn,
N. Y.; her funeral took place January 14th,
1892, at St. Ann's P. E. Church, Brooklyn,
N. Y., of which church she was a member for
many years. She was buried in Cypress Hill
Burying Ground, Brooklyn, N. Y., alongside of
her mother. She was an author. She married
Bennett
1708 ii. Thomas,* bom ; died , before July
loth, 1905.
1709 lii. Helen H ,* bom ; died ; she was
living, not married, January 21st, 1892, at No.
195 Adelphi Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. She was
a school teacher.
9A
138 Tkacher'Thatcher Gitualogy, [April
AUTHOKITIES:
Vital Records of Lee, Mass,, pp. 18, 115, 165.
Town Records of Lee, Mass,, p. 169.
Charles Austin Thatcher (her nephew), of Rensselaer, N. Y.
1015. Abigail* Thacher (Solomon,* Joseph," Judah,* Hon. Col.
John,' Antony,* Rev. Peter^, bom October 28th, 1775, at
Yarmouth, Mass.; died , at ; married December
23rd (or 27th), 1799, at (Yarmouth probably), to Wil-
liam Hallett, bom March 13th, 1775, at Yarmouth, Mass.;
he lived at Yarmouth, Mass., in a house that stood on the
line of the present fence between Thacher Taylor's house
and the Loring house, at Yarmouthport, Mass.; he was a
laborer; he died , at . He was a son of Thomas
Hallett (bom July 7th, 1729, at Yarmouth; died ; mar-
ried November 21st (or 27th,) 1754), and his wife, Sarah
Hamblin (bom ; died Jime I2tfi, 1800, in her 77th year,
at Yarmouth, Mass.; gravestone, old bur3ring ground), of
Yarmouth, Mass.
Children: 6 (Hallett), 2 sons and 4 daughters, all bom at
Yarmouth, Mass.
+ 17 10 i. Solomon,* bom September 14th, 1800; died
October 22nd, 1826 ; married Almira MiUer.
171 1 ii. Temperance,® bom October 7th, 1802.
1 7 12 iii. William,* bom July 30th, 1807.
1713 iv. Abigail,* bom July ist, 1809.
1714 V. Betsey,* bom December 13th, 1817.
1715 vi. Sarah,* bom .
AuTHOftlTIES:
Hon. George Thacher MSS. Thacher Genealogy, p. 244.
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. $8.
Otis Barnstable Families, Vol. I, p. 52a
Yarmouth Register Cape Cod Families, No. 84, pp. 3, 5, 8.
Yarmouth Graveyard Inscriptions, p. 19.
1017. Phebe' Thacher (Solomon,* Joseph,* Judah,* Hon. Cx)l.
Tohn,* Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom November loth, 1778, at
Yarmouth, Mass.; died , 1859; she married at Yar-
mouth, Mass., Febmary 4th, 1800, to Captain Hezekiah Gor-
ham, Jr., bom Yarmouth, Mass., August sth (or 15th), 1776;
he resided at Yarmouth, Mass., and died there August 8th,
1835, aged 59, and was buried there in Woodside Cemetery;
gravestone. He was a son of Hezekiah Gorham (bom Sep-
tember 14th, 1732; died April — , 1794; married March 15m,
1759) and his wife, Abigail Sturges, bom ; died ),
of Yarmouth, Mass.
Children: 12 (Ciorham), 8 sons and 4 daughters, all bom at
Yarmouth, Mass.
+ 1716 i. Abigail* (Nabby), bom February i6th, 1801;
died ; married diaries Layman, Da::ember
— , 1824.
I9I5.J
Thacher'Thatcher Gtnealogy.
139
1720
+I72I
V.
vi.
+1722
vii.
+1723
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Via.
+1724
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+1725
X.
+1726
XL
+ 1717 ii. John,® bom May 4th, 1803; died , 1831;
married Mercy Baker.
-f-1718 iii. Lucy,® bom October 26th, 1804; died ;
married Freeman Taylor, , 1825.
+1719 iv. Thacher,* bom August 12th, 1806; died De-
cember 6th, 1874; married, first, Dinah Hall
Bray; married, second, Frances (Bray) Mat-
thews, his first wife's sister; married, third,
Caroline (Ainsworth) Percival.
Hezekiah,* bom September 22nd, 1807.
Josiah,* bom July 24th, 1809; died ; mar-
ried Harriet Barber, , 1835.
Phebe,* bom August 25th, 181 1; died
married Frederick Lewis, , 1832.
Oliver,® bom October 29th, 1813; died
married Eunice T. Hall, July 27th, 1844.
Susan* (Sukey), bom February ipth, 1816,
died ; married Thomas Ryder, Nov. ^
1840.
Joseph,® bom December 15th, 1818; died —
married Mehitable S. Ryder, October 21st, 1849.
Benjamin® (twin), bom December 15th, 1818;
died ; married Clara C. Matthews, Novem-
ber 28th, 1850.
1727 xii. Allen,® bom ; died , in infancy.
AuTHOBims:
AUtn't Thacher Genealogy, p. 58.
N. E, His. Gen, Reg,, Vol. LII, pp. 360^ 445-6.
Yarmouth Graveyard Inscriptions, p. 38.
Hon. George Thacher's MSS. Thacher Genealogy, p. 244*
Yarmouth Register, Cape Cod FanUUes, No. S/, pp. 45> 6, 7, 8.
1018. Lydia* Thacher (Solomon,* Joseph,* Judah,* Hon. Col.
John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom June ist, 1781, at Yar-
mouUi, Mass. ; died , at Chatham, Mass., and was buried
there, g^vestone. She married November 21st, 1799, at
Yarmouth, Mass., to John Hallett, bom January 28th, 1775,
at Yarmouth, Mass. ; he lived at Yarmouth, Bamstable and
Chatham, Mass., and was a yeoman; he died at Chatham,
Mass., January 30th, 1854, aged 79 years and 2 days, and
was buried there. He was a son of. Deacon Isaac Hallett
(bom August 24th, 1742; died October 5th, 1814; married
February 4th, 1762) and his wife Elizabeth Eldric^ (bora
; died March ist, 1831), of Yarmouth, Mass.
Children: 1 1 (Hallett), 5 sons and 5 daughters, first child, sex
not stated ; all bom at Bamstable, Mass.
1728 L (Infant, sex not stated),* bora December ist,
1800; died December ist, 1800.
-I-1729 ii. Edmund,* bom September 4th, 1802; died Sep-
tember 20th (or 26th), 1879; married ?
140 Thacher'Thatchtr Genealogy. [April
1730 iii. Henry,® bom January ist, 1804; died Septem-
ber 2Sth (or 28th), 1806.
-f-1731 iv. John,® bom September i8th, 1806; died March
31st, 1864; married Charlotte Wing Mayo.
+ 1732 V. Lydia,® bom August 8th, 1808; died April 30th,
1904; married Frederick Gorham.
-f-1733 vi. Benjamin,® bom August 28th, 1810.
1734 vii. Solomon,® bom June i8th, 1812; died Febm-
ary ist, 1894, at Chatham, Mass., not married.
173s viii. Elizabeth,® bom April 19th, 1814; died Septem-
ber 2Sth, 183s, at Chatham, Mass. ; not married.
-f-1736 ix. Anna,® bom April 21st, 1816; died August
3rd, 1894 ; married Thomas Young of Dorches-
ter, Mass. No issue.
-f-1737 X. Mary,® bom June 23rd, 1818; died December
24th, 1866; married ?
1738 xi. Catherine,® bom June 2Sth, 1820; died August
1st, 1893, at Chafliam, Mass.; not married.
AUTHOEITIES :
Town Qerk of Chatham, Mass.
Mrs. Solomon Eldridge Hallett, of Dorchester and Chatham, Mass.
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 58.
Otis^ Barnstable Families, Vol. I, p. 515.
Hon. George Thacher's MSS. Thacher Genealogy, p. 243.
Yarmouth Register Cape Cod Families, No. 84, pp. 3, 6, 9.
1019. Anner^ Thacher (Solomon,® Joseph,* Judah,* Hon. Col.
John,® Antony,^ Rev. Peter^), bom August 29th, 1783, at
Yarmouth, Mass. ; died September 8th, 1858, at Yarmouth,
Mass., and was buried there in Woodside Cemetery. She
married December 3rd (or 7th), 1803, at Yarmouth, Mass.,
to Captain Edward Bangs Hallett, a sea captain of Yar-
mouth, Mass. ; bom March i6th, 1782, at Yarmouth, Mass. ;
died September sth, 1847, at Yarmouth, Mass., and was
buried there in Woodside Cemetery, g^vestone. He was a
son of Edward Hallett (bom Yarmouth, April 6th, 1747;
died March 8th, 1796, at Yarmouth; married , 1767)
and his wife Sarah Hedge (bom May 21st, 1748; died Feb-
ruary 22nd, 1825) of Yarmouth, Mass.
Children: 8 (Hallett), 6 sons and 2 daughters, all bom at
Yarmouth, Mass.
^739 1- (^ son),® bom , 1805; died , 1805.
-f-1740 ii. Bangs,® bom August 30th, 1807; died ,
1893 ; married Anna Eldredge.
-f-1741 iii. Francis,® bom November 22nd, 1809; died
, 1846; married Lucy Bray.
-J- 1742 iv. Gorham,® born Febmary 20th, 1812; died Jan-
uary 30th, 1902; married Deborah Hdlett
Hamblin.
1915.] Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy I4I
1743 V. Susan,® bom May 9th, 1814; died October nth,
1897, at Yarmouth, Mass., and was buried
there ; not married.
1744 vi. (daughter),® bom Febmary 20th, 1817; died
Febmary 20th, 1817, at Yarmouth and was
buried there in old cemetery, gravestone.
1745 vii. Oliver,® bom March 2nd, 1818; died April
29th, 1819, aged 1-1-28 at Yarmouth and was
buried there in Old Cemetery, gravestone.
-f-1746 viii. Edward Bangs,® bom April 30th, 1826; died
Febmary 21st, 1906; married, first, Elizabeth
Crocker; married, second, Ellen Gorham.
AXTTHORITIES .*
Edward Bangs Hallet, his grandson.
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 58.
Hon. George Thacher's MSS. Thacher Genealogy, p. 245.
Otis' Barnstable Families, Vol. I, p. 514.
Yarmouth, Mass,, Graveyard Inscriptions, pp. 17, 39.
Yarmouth Register Cape Cod Families, No. 84, pp. 4, 7, 11 ; No. 64, p. 3.
1020. Deacon Samuel^ Thacher (Solomon,® Joseph,* Judah,*
Hon. Col. John,' Antony ,2 Rev. Peter^), bom October 4th,
1786, at Yarmouth, Mass.; he lived at Yarmouth and was
chosen Deacon of the church there November 13th, 1816; he
was a salt manufacturer, grocer, and was selectman of Yar-
mouth for 29 consecutive years. He died at Yarmouth,
October 12th, 1871, and was buried there in Old Cemetery.
He married , 1808 (int. pub. October 17th, 1808), at
Yarmouth, to Nancy Hallett, bom January 4th, 1787, at
Yarmouth; died there June 19th, 1862, aged 75 y., 6 mo.,
15 days, and was buried in Old Cemetery Siere. She was a
daughter of Edward Hallett (bom Yarmouth, April 6th,
1747; died Yarmouth, March 8th, 1796; married , 1767)
and his wife Sarah Hedge (bom May 21st, 1748; died a
widow at Yarmouth, February 22nd, 1825, in her 77th year)
of Yarmouth, Mass.
Children: 5 (Thacher), 3 sons and 2 daughters, all bom at
Yarmouth, Mass.
-f-1747 i. Samuel,® bom November 8th, 1809; died Jan-
uary 30th, 1898; married Polly Hamblin.
-J-1748 ii. Solomon,® bom Febmary 13th, 1813; died No-
vember 2nd, 1887 ; married Mercy Welden.
+1749 iii. Watson,® bom September nth, 1816; died Feb-
ruary nth, 1900; married Emeline Hamblin.
-f-1750 iv. Nancy,® bom April 7th, 1822; died January
31st, 1878; married Gorham Bray.
+1751 V. Sarah,® bora May 2nd, 1825; died ; mar-
ried David Gorham Eldridge.
Authorities :
Captain Edwin Thacher, of Yarmouth, Mass., his grandson.
Alleys Thacher Genealogy, pp. 58, 73.
142 Thacher'ThcUcher Genealogy. [April
Otis Barnstable Families, VoL I, p. 519.
Yarmouth Register Cape Cod Families, No. 64, p. 3; No. 84, pp. 7» ";
No. 86^ p. 2.
1023. Susannah^ Thacher (Solomon,* Joseph,* Judah,* Hon. Col.
John/ Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom December 2Sth, 1793,
at Yarmouth, Mass.; died October i6th, 1827, in her 34m
year, at Yarmouth and was buried there in old mveyard,
Gavestone. She married January , 1817, at Yarmouth,
ass. (int pub. there December 21st, 1816), to Deacon
Joseph White (as his first wife), bom June i6th, 1795, at
Yarmouth, Mass.; died at Yarmouth, Mass., January 15th
(or i6th), 1856, aged 60 years and 7 months, and was buned
there in old graveyard, gravestone. He was a son of Josmh
White (bom September ist, 1768; died July 3rd, 1816, in his
48th year, at Yarmouth, Mass. ; married January 13th, 1791)
and his wife Lucy Howes, who resided at Yarmouth, Mass.
Children: 4 (White), 3 sons and i daughter, all bom at
Yarmouth, Mass.
1752 i. Lucy,® bom November 13th, 1817; died July
20th (or 2ist), 1818, at Yarmouth, a^ed 8
months and 7 days, and was buried there m old
graveyard, gravestone.
1753 "• Joseph,* bom June 14th, 1820.
1754 iii. son/ born July 21st, 1822; died July 21st,
1822, at Yarmouth, a^ed 5 hours, and was
buried there in old burying ground, gravestone.
1755 IV. George,® bom May isth, 1827; died .
Deacon Joseph White married a second time November
— , 1828, at Yarmouth, Mass., to Tryphosa Crowell, bora
Yarmouth, Mass., February ist, 1795; died , at .
She was a daughter of Prmce Crowdl (bom At^st 15th,
1764; died March 21st, 1807; married May 8th (or 28U1),
1794) and his wife Elizabeth Hallett (bora February 23rd,
1769; died March 26th, 1866, as the widow of Isaac Gorham,
whom she married as her second husband, August — , 1809,
and who died July nth, 1814), of Yarmouth, Mass.
Children: 2 (White) sons, bora in Yarmouth, Mass. Not in
Thatcher line.
1. Winslow, bom December nth, 1833.
2. Franklin, bom April 20th, 1837.
AUTHOKITIES :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 58.
Hon George Thacher's MSS. Thacher Genealogy, p. 241.
Yarmouth Graveyard Inscriptions, p. j6.
Yarmouth Register Cape Cod Famdies, No. 71, pp. 3, 7; No. 84* p. a;
No.«7. P.7; Na8^pp.7, 8.
1024. Benjamin* Thacher (Solomon,* Joseph,* Judah,* Hon.
Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter^, bom Srotember 14th,
1796; he lived at West (or South) Dennis, Mass., and was
191 5J Tkacher'Thatcher Genealogy. 1 43
a blacksmith, a captain of Militia, selectman and town clerk ;
he died at West (or South) Dennis, Mass., April oth, i860,
and was buried there. He married, first, at South Dennis,
Mass., April 2nd, 1818 (int. pub. Brewster, Mass., March
1st, 1818), to Sukey Snow Hopkins, bom Brewster, Mass.,
^ 1794; died at South Dennis, Mass., September 8th,
1819, aged 25, and was buried there. She was a daughter
of Captain Freeman Hopkins and his wife Sukey Snow, of
Brewster, Mass.
(Thild: I (Thacher) son, bom and died at West Dennis,
Mass.
1756 i. Freeman Hopkins,® bom September 2nd, 1819;
died September 2Sth, 1819.
Benjamin^ Thacher married a second time at South
; Dennis, Mass., March 23rd, 1820, to Myrinda Baker, bom
South Dennis, Mass., April 19th, 1799; died West Dennis,
Mass., February 20th, 1835, and was there buried. She was
a daughter of Judah Baker (bom October 2nd, 1771 ; died
June loth, 1830; married ) and his wife Mercy Howes
(daughter of Ezra Howes), who resided at Dennis, Mass.
Children: 7 (Thacher), 5 sons and 2 daughters, all bom at
West Dennis, Mass.
+1757 ii. Benjamin,* bom March 3rd, 182 1; died Au-
gust 8th, 1873; married Nancy Berry Nick-
erson.
+1758 iii. Prentiss,* bom October ist, 1822; died October
i6th, 1858; married Dinah Hall Nickerson.
+1759 iv. Sukey Snow,® bom July 21st, 1824; died ;
married Daniel Baker.
+1760 V. Joseph Freeman,* bom June loth (or nth),
1826; died June 29th, 1880; married Susan
Howes Nickerson.
+1761 vi. Ezra,* bom May nth (or 12th), 1829; died
March nth, 1896; married Lucy Ann Baker.
+1762 vii. Mary Ann,* bom October loth, 183 1; died
August 17th, 1866 (or 1856) ; married Henry
K. White.
+1763 viii. John (Sorham,* bom June 24th, 1833; died
; married, first, Almira (jorham; married,
second, Hannsih Sturgis Cotelle.
Benjamin^ Thacher married a third time at South Dennis,
Mass., May 3rd, 1835, to Nancy (Berry) Nickerson (widow
of Eleazer Nickerson), bom May nth, 1793, at Brewster,
Mass. ; died October 29th, 1879, ^^ West Dennis, Mass., and
was buried there. She was a daughter of Scotto (or Scott)
Berry by his wife Hannah Mayo.
diild : I (Thacher) daughter, bom at West Dennis, Mass.
-1-1764 ix. Olive,* bom January 25th, 1836; died June
23rd, 1858; married Ansel C. Collins.
144 Thacher'Thatcher Genealogy, [April
Authorities :
Eleazer N. Thacher, No. 70 Long Wharf, Boston, Mass.
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, pp. 58, 73. 74-
Freeman's Cape Cod, Vol. II, pp. 707, 7", 7I7.
Brewster, Mass., Vital Records, pp. 17.
Hon. George Thacher's MSS. Thacher Genealogy, p. 241.
Yarmouth Register Cape Cod Families, No. 73, P- 6.
1025. Captain Peleg^ Thacher (Ebenezer,® Josq)h,» Judah,*
Hon. Col. John,' Antony,' Rev. Peter^), bom June isth,
1787, at Yarmouth, Mass.; he was a sea-captain and lived
at Yarmouth ; he was lost at sea, body never recovered ; he
sailed about the Spring of 1816 when his son Alfred* Thacher
was about 2j/$ years old and the vessel was never heard of
afterwards. He married , 1812, at (int. pub. No-
vemberSth, 1812), to Betty Hallett. born May 12th (or nth),
1793, at Yarmouth, Mass.; died , 1874, at Galesburg,
111., and was buried in Fulton County, 111. She was a daugh-
ter of James Hallett (bom Yarmouth, September nth,
1752; died November i8th, 1824; married December 24th (or
26th), 1778) and his wife Susannah Taylor (born Yarmouth,
May 17th, 1756; died Yarmouth, September 4th, 1823, in her
68th year), of Yarmouth, Mass.
Children: 2 (Thacher), i son and i daughter, both bom at
Yarmouth, Mass.
+1765 i. Alfred,* born October 22nd, 1812 (or 1813);
died September 3rd, 1891; married Elizabeth
Leaverton.
1766 ii. Eleanor,® bom May 28th, 1815; died ,
1836 (about), at , Fulton Co., 111., of con-
sumption, aged about 21, and was buried in
, Fulton Co., 111.; not married.
Betsy (Hallett) Thacher, widow of Captain Peleg^
Thacher, married a second time, at Franklin, Mo., March
22nd, 1822, to Charles* Newcomb (Daniel,* Jonathan,* Jona-
than,' Peter,' Francis^), born at Keene, N. H., November 28th,
1792; died May 6th, 1859, at Farmington, 111. He resided in
youth at Keene, N. H.; spent 2U years at Harvard College,
leaving on account of ill health; he travelled several years in
New York, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, leaving Illinois in
1818, and went thence to Franklin, Mo., where he married.
He lived in Missouri 4 years and removed in 1824 to Spring-
field, 111., and soon after to Farmington, Fulton Co., 111.,
where he lived until he died. He was a farmer and for
many years sheriflF of Fulton Co., 111. He died at Farmington,
111., and was buried in Fulton Co., 111. He was a son of
Hon. Daniel Newcomb (bom Norton (Mansfield), Mass.,
April 19th, 1747; died at Keene, N. H., July 14th (or 15th),
1818 ; married November , 1781 ) and his first wife Sarah
Stearns (bom Lunenburgh, Mass., April 25th, 1758; died
at Keene, N. H., November 13th, 1796; daughter of Rev.
ipiSj Thacker-ThtUcker Gtfualogy, 145
David and Ruth (Hubbard) Steams, of Lunenburgh, Mass.)>
of Keene, N. H.
Children: 8 (Newcomb), 3 sons and 5 daughters. Not in
Thacher line.
1. Sarah Steams, bom December 29th, 1822 ; died at Galva,
Henry Co., 111., February — , 1868; married December
29th, 1845, to Abraham J. Rockyfellow, of New Jersey;
7 children.
2. Walter Whitney, bom October 22nd, 1824; died Feb-
mary 24th, 1872, at Galesburgh, 111. ; not married.
3. Harriet Adams, bom April 5th, 1827; died February
14th, 1863, at Oneida, 111.; married May sth, 1847, to
Rev. Lyman Beecher Ferris ; 7 children.
4. Emily Fhelps, bom January 26th, 1830; died ; not
married.
5. Heniy Robins(m, bom February 22nd, 1831 ; died ;
married November 3rd, 1856, to Martha E. Grey, of
Mt. Pleasant, Iowa ; 6 children.
6. Mary, bom March sth, 1833; died ; not married.
7. Charles Thacher, bom August 31st, 1834; died ; not
married.
8. Laura Phelps, bom January 31st, 1838; died ; mar-
ried April 4th, 1861, to John Graves, who died March
28th, 1863, at Downer's Grove, 111. She resided at Gales-
burgh, III. ; I child.
AUTHQRITIES:
His grand-daughter, Lucy Alice (Thacher) Howland.
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, pp. 58, 74.
Newcomb Family, by J. B. Newcomb, pp. 463, 63, 64, 419-3.
Otis Barnstable Families, VoL I, p. 521.
Vital Records of Keene, N. H., pp. 46, 209.
Yarmouth Register Cape Cod Families, No. 75» P* 3 ; No. 84t PP* 5» 9*
Yarmouth, Mass., Graveyard Inscriptions, pp. i8^ 20.
Steams Genealogy, pp. 13, 34-36.
1026. LoTHROP Taylor^ Thacher (Ebenezer,* Joseph," Judah,*
Hon. Col. John," Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom June 24th,
1790 (or 1791), at Yarmouth, Mass.; he lived at Yarmouth
and South Dennis, Mass., and was a Master Mariner; he
died , 1865, at SouA Dennis, Mass., and was there
, buried. He married , 1809 (or 1812, at South Dennis,
Mass., to Thankful Nickerson, bom , 1790 (or 1792),
at South Dennis, Mass.; died , 1886 (or 1888), at
South Dennis, Mass., and was there buried. She was a
daughter of Eleazer Nickerson, Jr., bom ; died ;
married , 1769) and his wife Thankful Chase (bom
March 8th, 17501; died ; daughter of Rev. Richard
Chase, by hb wife Thankful (Berry) Chase), of Yarmouth,
Mass.
Children: 7 (Thacher), 3 sons and 4 daughters, all bora at
South Dennis, Mass.
1^6 Thactur'Thatcher Gemalogy. [April
+1767 i. Emeline,® bom October 9th, 1813; died ;
married Seth Taylor Whelden.
+1768 ii. Lothrop,® bom May 23rd, 1816; died October
i6th, 1898; married Mercy Baker Kelley.
+1769 iii. Anthony,® bom May 23rd, 1820; died April
7th, 1866; married Martha Blodgett
1770 iv. Data," bom , 1823; died , at South
Dennis, Mass. ; not married.
+1771 V. George Engs,* bom May i6th, 1826; died
— - — ; married Paulina Baxter.
-1-1772 vi. Olive,* bora , 1831; died May 4th, 1877;
married Thomas Webb Hutchinson.
1773 vii. Mary Bangs,* bom , 1838; died ; liv-
ing, not married, December ist, 1906, at
South Dennis, Mass.
AuTHORrriEs :
His grand-daughter, Jennie Maude Thacher.
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, pp. 58* 74-
Yarmouth Register Cape Cod Families, No. 59, pp. i, 2.
1028. LucY^ Thacher (Ebenezer,* Joseph," Judah,* Hon. Col.
John," Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom April 29th, 1795, at Yar-
mouth, Mass.; died January nth, 1830, "in her 44th year,"
at Yarmouth, Mass., and was buried tnere in old graveyard,
gravestone. The inscription on her gravestone as printed in
Yarmouth, Mass., Graveyard Inscriptions, published by the
Mayflower Society, says she died "in her 34th year," which
statement is incorrect She married , at Yarmouth,
Mass. (intention published July 29th, 1818, marriage re-
corded lor the quarter ending March ist, 1819), to Jonathan
Hallett, Jr. (as his second wife), bom October 2nd, 1783,
at Yarmouth, Mass.; died July 8th, 1864, at Yarmouth,
Mass., and was presumably buried in Old Graveyard, Yar-
mouth. No gravestone. He was a son of Tonathan Hallett
(bom June 13th, 1751; died December 27th, 1837; married
March 17th, 1774) and his wife Sarah Hedge (bom Atmist
i8th, 1751 ; died January 26th, 1828), of Yarmouth, Mass.
Children: 6 (HaUett), 5 sons and i daughter, all bora at
Yarmouth, Mass.
1774 i. Charles Sears,* bom March 7th, 1820; died
(drowned) December i6th, 1845, ag^ 25. "He
was first officer of Bark Zamora, wrecked near
Monument Point, Plymouth. He lost his life
attempting to reach shore to save the lives of
those on board;" buried in old graveyard, Yar-
mouth, gravestone. I have no record of his
marriage.
1775 il Jonathan,* bom May 25th, 1822.
1776 vL Augustus,* bora September 19th, 1824.
I9I5«] Thachir'Thatcher Gentalogy. 1 47
1777 iv. Ebenezer Thacher,® bom March 30th, 1827;
died September — , 1827.
1778 V. Lucy Thacher,® bom October 22nd, 1828; died
September 3rd, 1868.
1779 vi. Joshua Dyer,* bom February 24th, 1832 ; died
^ril 1st, 1832.
Jonathan Hallett married first in ^ 1809, at Yar-
moudi, Mass., to Julianna Crowell, bom October loth, 1784,
at Yarmouth; died December 29th (or 2nd), 1816, in her
33rd year, at Yarmouth and was buried in Old Burying
Ground there, gravestone. She was a daughter of WiUard
and Patience (Sears) Hallett, of Yarmouth, Mass.
Children: 4 (Hallett), 3 sons and i daughter, all bom at
Yarmouth, Mass. Not in Thacher line.
1. Sears, bom February 26th, 1810; died October 12th,
1811.
2. Lothrop, bom June 9th, 181 1.
3. Olivia (name changed to Juliana Crowell), bora No-
vember isth, 1812.
4. Leander, bom May 13th, 1814.
Authorities:
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 58.
Hon. George Thacher's MSS. Thacher Genealogy, p. 242, and corrections
thereto, p. sS^.
Yarmouth Register Cape Cod Families, No. 64, p. 2 ; No. 71, p. 9 ; Na 84,
pp. 8» 12.
1030. Temperance* Thacher (Ebenezer,* Joseph,* Judah,* Hon.
Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom October sth, 1800,
at Yarmouth, Mass.; died August 14th, 1867, at Roxbury,
Mass.; married February 22nd, 1826, at Yarmouth, Mass.,
to Ebenezer Taylor, bom January 9th, 1795, at Yarmouth,
Mass.; died April 30th, 1858 (or 1868, probably correct), at
Boston, Mass. He was a son of Lothrop Taylor (bom ,
1761 ; died March 12th, 1841, in his 80th year; married May
7th, 1791) and his wife Abigail Taylor; she was a Taylor
before marriage (bom , 1760; died July i6th (or 17th),
1834, aged 74), of Yarmoutih, Mass.
Children: 4 (Taylor), 2 sons and 2 daughters.
1780 i. Elhanan,* bom December roth, 1828; died June
3rd, 1829, at Yarmouth, Mass., and was buried
there, gravestone. Old Burying Ground, "aged
Lmonuis.'*
Dthrop,* bom August 6th, 1830.
1782. iii. Julia Tamsen,* bom July 23rd, 1833.
1784 iv. Mary Abigail,* bora June 28th, 1836.
AuTHaunss :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, pp. 58» 59.
Hon. George Thacher's MSS. Thacher Genealogy, p. 242 and corrections
thereto p. 58A.
Yarmouth Register Cape Cod Families, No. 75, pp. 6^ 8.
Yarmouth, Mass., Graveyard Inscriptions, p. 31.
148 Thacher'Thatcher Genealogy. [April
io32. Charles* Thacher (Ebcnezer,® Joseph,* Judah,* Hon. Col.
John/ Antony," Rev. Peter*), bom June 30th, 1807, at Yar-
mouth, Mass. ; he lived at Yarmouth, Mass., and at the age
of 14 he was apprenticed to Ezekiel Thacher, a blacksmidi
at Barnstable, Mass. ; at the age of 19 or 20 he went to sea.
He was captain of a coasting vessel about 10 years, subse-
auently he was a surveyor and conve)rancer, and Justice of
ie Peace at Yarmouth in 1844; he died Februaiy isth,
1886, at Yarmouth, Mass., and was buried there in Old Ceme-
tery. He married, first, at Yarmouth, Mass., April 13th,
1832, to Hannah* Thacher (No. iioi), bom Yarmouth,
Mass., August 13th, 1813; died June nth, 1871, at Yarmouth,
Mass., and was buried there in Old Cemetery. She was a
daughter of Josiah® Thacher (No. 508) by his wife Lydia
Matthews, who resided at Yarmouth, Mass.
Children: None.
Charles^ Thacher married a second time, August 24th,
1881, at , to Armenia C — — (Bull) Eldridge (widow
of Benjamin Eldridge), as her 3rd husband; bom August
— , 1820, at Dimkirk; died January 6th, 1891, at Yar-
mouth, Mass., and was buried there in Old Cemetery. She
was a daughter of Hezekiah Bull (an Englishman) and his
wife Electa , of Leona, N. Y.
Children: None.
AUTHOUTIBS :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, pp. 59^ 61.
Charles W. Swift, Editor of the Yarmouth, Mass., Register.
1033. Rebecca^ Hallett (Lydia^ Thacher, Joseph,* Judah,* Hon.
Col. John," Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom June 30th, 1778,
at Yarmouth, Mass.; died August 7th, 1846, at Yarmouth
and was buried there in old graveyard, gravestone ; she mar-
ried October 31st, 1799, at Yarmoutfi, to Captain Joshua
Gray, bom Yarmouth, Mass., October 3rd, 1777; he lived
at Yarmouth and was captain of a packet ship mnning be-
tween Yarmouth and Boston; he died October ist, 1828,
at Yarmouth, aged 51, and was buried there in old burying
ground, gravestone. He was a son of Captain Joshua Gray
(bom January 22nd, 1743; died March 31st, 1791, in his
47th year; married March 20th, 1766) and his wife Mary
Hedge (bom Yarmouth, Mass., December 5th, 1745; died
August 3rd, 1822, aged 76; daughter of Thomas and Mary
(Gorham) Hedge of Yarmouth), of Yarmouth, Mass.
Children: 7 (Gray), 3 sons and 4 daughters, all bom at
Yarmouth, Mass.
1784 i. Mary,® bom December 31st, 1800; died Jan-
uary 14th, 1863; married Barnabas* Thacher,
No. 1056, imder which number will be found
her complete record and that of her descend-
ants.
191 50 Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy, 149
1785 li. Lydia Thacher,® bom November 22nd, 1802;
died July 4th, 1835 ; married Edward^ Thacher,
No. 1057, under which number will be found
her complete record and that of her descend-
ants.
1786 iii. Rebecca,® bom November 23rd, 1804; died
Febmary 17th, 1838; married Henry Matthews
as his first wife. (See Yarmouth Register
Cape Cod Families, No. 81, p. 4; and Gray
Gen,, by Julia Edgar Thacher, pp. 63, 64, 67.)
1787 iv. Charles,® bom January nth, 1807; died ;
married Rebecca Perkins Johnson. (See Gray
Gen., by Julia Edgar Thacher, pp. 63, 64, 67,
68.)
1788 v. Eunice,® bom August 7th, 1809; died March
7th*, 1841, aged 31 years, 7 months, at Yar-
mouth, Mass., and was buried there in old
graveyard, gravestone. Not married.
1789 vi. Joshua,® bom October — , 181 1; died July
22nd, 1829, aged 17 years, 9 months, at Yar-
mouth, Mass., and was buried there in old
graveyard; gravestone. Not married.
1790 vii. Joseph Warren,® bom October loth, 1814; died
September 28th, 1845; niarried Lucy Gray.
(See Gray Gen,, by Julia Edgar Thacher, pp.
63, 65.)
Authorities :
Gray Genealogy, MSS. by G. W. Thatcher, pp. 5, 11, 28, 29, 30, 31.
Yarmouth Graveyard Inscriptions, pp. 15, 27, 38, 43.
Yarmouth Register Cape Cod Families, No. 64, pp. i, 3; No. 81, p. 4.
Gray Genealogy (1914), by Mrs. George Winslow Thacher (Julia Edgar
Thacher), pp. 9, 18, 19, 20, 63-73.
1034. Charlotte^ Hallett (Lydia® Thacher, Joseph,® Judah,*
Hon. Col. John,® Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom May 23rd,
1780, at Yarmouth, Mass.; died December 17th, 1815, in
her 35th year, at Yarmouth and was buried there in Old
Burying Ground ; gravestone. She married November 29th,
1798, at Yarmouth, Mass., to Andrews Hallett (as his first
wife), bom August 31st, 1775, at Yarmouth, Mass. ; he lived
at Yarmouth ; he died , at . He was a son of Jona-
than Hallett (bom June 13th, 1751 ; died December 27th,
1837 ; married March 17th, 1774) and his wife Sarah Hedge
(bom August i8th, 1751; died January 26th, 1828), of
Yarmouth, Mass.
Children: 8 (Hallett), 3 sons and 5 daughters, all bom at
Yarmouth, Mass.
1791 i. Rebecca,® bom Febmary 17th, 1800; died ;
married Edward Hallett.
1792 ii. Olive,® bom November 21st, 1802; died June
22nd (or isth), 1804, aged 19 months, at Yar-
10
150 Thacher'Thatcher Gengalogy. [April
mouth, Mass., and was buried there in old
grave)rard ; gravestone.
1793 iii. George,® bom January 24th, 1804 (or 1805) ;
died September 4th, 1825, in his 21st year, at
Yarmouth, Mass., and was buried there in Old
Burying Ground ; not married.
1794 iv. Sally,® bom January 22nd, 1807; died June
i8th, 1846 ; married Joseph Hall.
1795 V. Charlotte,® bom Febmary 26th, 1809; died
September 26th, 1848; married Ansel Hallett.
1796 vi. Warren,® bom January i8th, 181 1; died .
1797 vii. Jane,® bom January 30th, 1812; died ;
married Charles S— — (or T- ) Norton.
1798 viii. Andrews,® bom December 21st, 1813.
Andrews Hallett married a second time ,1816, at
-, to Hetty D Crocker, bom , at ; died ,
at
Children: 6 (Hallett). Not in Thacher line.
1. Elizabeth Davis, bom January 23rd, 1818; died ;
married William S Fisher.
2. (child, sex not stated), bom June 21st, 1819; died ,
1819.
3. Harry, bom June 27th, 1822.
4. George, bom June 5th, 1825 ; died September — , 1826.
5. Hetty Davis, bom May 13th, 1827; died August loth,
1869.
6. John Cobb, bom Febmary 24th, 183 1.
AUTHOBITIES :
Hon. George Thacher's MSS. Thacher Genealogy, p. 122.
Otiy Barnstable Families, Vol. I, p. 519.
Yarmouth Graveyard Inscriptions, pp. 17, 19, 38, 39.
Yarmouth Register Cape Cod Families, No. 64, p. 2; No. 84, pp. 8, 1 1, 12.
1036. George^ Hallett (Lydia^ Thacher, Joseph,* Judah,* Hon.
Col. John,' Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom July 17th, 1784, at
Yarmouth, Mass.; died at Boston (Roxbury), Mass., Sep-
tember 13th (or 3rd), 1845. He was a merchant and lived
in Boston (Roxbury), Mass.; "he was long known as an
eminent and successful merchant whose noble heart and
public spirit made him extensively honored and greatly re-
spected." He was married at Boston, Mass., by the Rev.
Samuel Stillman on January 26th, 1806, to Eliza Gordon,
of Boston, Mass., bom , at ; died , at ;
she was a daughter of James Gordon, who married at Bos-
ton, October 20th, 1785, to Elizabeth Bennett.
Children: 13 (Hallett), 4 sons and 9 daughters.
1799 i. Adeline,® bom ; died ; married B
F Wing.
1800 ii. George Warren,® bom ; died .
IQI 5.] Thacher- Thatcher Genealogy. 151
1801 lii. Eliza,® bom ; died ; married Asa
Eldridge.
1802 IV. Frances,® bom ; died ; married Joseph
Andrews.
1803 V. James Gordon,® bom ; died .
1804 vi. Mary Ann,® bom ; died ; not married.
1805 vii. Harriet,® bom ; died ;
1806 viii. Almira,® bom ; died ; married Oliver
Eldridge.
1807 ix. Charles Thacher,® bom ; died .
1808 X. Maria,® bom March 15th, 1820, at Boston,
Mass.; died August i6th, 1857, at Gloucester,
Mass.; married as his first wife, Joseph Wil-
liam Balch, June 8th, 1846; 4 children.
1809 xi. Henry Staunton,® bom ; died .
1810 xii. Georgianna,® bom ; died ; married
Stephen Weld.
181 1 xiii. Ellen,® bom ; died ; married Edward
Flint.
AuTHCMtrnES :
Hon. George Thacher's MSS. Thacher Genealogy, p. 123.
OHj^ Barnstable Families, Vol. I, p. 516.
Freeman's Cape Cod, Vol. II, p. 232.
Boston Record Commissioners Reports, Vol. XXX, pp. 83, 223,
Yarmouth Register Cafe Cod Families, No. 84, p. 10.
Balch Genealogy, by G. B. Balch, p. 310.
1038. Charles^ Hallett (Lydia® Thacher, Joseph,® Judah,* Hon.
Col. John,® Antony,® Rev. Peter^), bom July 31st, 1789, at
Yarmouth, Mass.; died September 26th, 1832, aged 43, at
Yarmouth, Mass., and was buried there in Woodside Ceme-
tery; gravestone. He married November 17th, 1812, at
, to Betsey Parker, bom , at ; died , at
. Her parentage is not known to me.
Children: 2 (Hallett) daughters.
1812 1. ,• bom July 21st, 1819; died .
+1813 ii. Mary Gorham,® bom Febraary 2nd, 1822; died
September i8di, 1850, at 4 A. M., at No. 52
Charles Street, Boston, Mass., aged 28. She
married June 21st, 1840, to Thomas® Thacher,
No. 1307, under whose record and its continua-
tion will be found her complete record and
that of her descendants.
AUTHGRITIBS :
Hon. George Thacher's MSS. Thacher Genealogy, p. 124.
Freeman's Cape Cod, VoL II, p. ^32.
Yarmouth Register Cape Cod Families, No. 84, p. 13.
Yarmouth, Mass,, Graveyard Inscriptions, p. 39.
1040. Oliver^ Hallett (Lydia^ Thacher, Joseph," Judah,* Hon.
Col. John," Antony,' Rev. Peter*), bom November 8th, 1792,
at Yarmouth, Mass. ; died July 2nd, 1842, at Yarmouth and
152 Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy. (April
was buried there in Woodside Cemetery; gravestone; he
married October 7th, 1823, at , to Betty Hamblin, bom
, at ; died , at . She was a daughter of
Joseph Hamblin by his first wife Hannah , who resided
at Westminster, Vermont.
Qiildren: (Hallett). I have no record of his descendants.
AuTHoiaTiEs :
Hon. George Thacher's MSS. Thacher Genealogy, p. 123.
Otis' Barnstable Families, Vol. I, p. 516.
Yarmouth Graveyard Inscriptions, p. 40.
Yarmouth Register Cape Cod Families, No. 84, p. 10.
1043. Captain Joseph^ Thacher (Joseph," Joseph,* Judah,* Hon.
Col. John,' Antony,^ Rev. Peter^), bom July 4th, 1789, at
Yarmouth, Mass. ; he lived at Yarmouthport, Mass., in the
house subsequently occupied by Captain Thomas Matthews;
he was a sea-captain, and died , 1823, at ; he mar-
ried , 181 1, at (intention of marriage published
September 29th, 181 1), to Phebe Gage, bom , at ;
died , at . She was a daughter of Ebenezer Gage
(bom October 29th, 1752; died November ist, 1830) and
his wife Jane ? (bom , 1759-60; died December
28th, 1834, in her 75th year), of Yarmouth, Mass.
Children: 4 (Thacher), 2 sons and i daughter and i sex not
stated, all bom at Yarmouth, Mass.
1814 i. (child, sex not stated®), bom ; died be-
tween March ist, 1814, and March ist, 1815.
1815 "• Joseph Freeman,* bom January 12th, 1817;
died September 5th, 1821, at Yarmouth, Mass.,
and was buried there in Old Burjring Groimd;
gravestone.
1816 iii. Patia,® bom March 27th, 1823; died , 1823.
1817 iv. Joseph,® bom March 27th, 1823 (twin) ; died
, 1823.
AuTHomnEs :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, pp. 59, 74.
Hon. George Thacher's MSS. Thacher Genealogy, p. 242.
Yarmouth Graveyard Inscriptions, pp. 33, 38.
1044. Samuel Gorham^ Thacher (Joseph," Joseph,* Judah,* Hon.
Col. John,' Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom at Yarmouth, Mass.,
May 20th, 1792; he lived at South Hanson, Mass.; died at
, date of death ; he married , at , to Eliza
Simonds Royce, bom , 1798 (see age at and date of
death), at Salem, Mass., died August 15th, 1873, in her
75th year, at Hanson, Mass., and was buried at Bryantsviile
Cemetery, Pembroke, Mass. Parentage unknown to me.
Children: None.
AuTHoiaTiES :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 59.
Charles M. Thacher, of Middleboro, Mass., Graveyard Inscriptions.
Charles W. Swift, Yarmouthport, Mass.
1915.] ThcLcher-Thatcher Genealogy, 153
1047. Abigail^ Thacher (Joseph/ Joseph,*' Judah,* Hon. Col.
John," Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom at Yarmouth, Mass., July
1st, 1798; died ^ at ; married, first, September ,
1822, at Yarmouth, Mass., to Captain Leonard Smalley (or
Small according to public document in Harwich, Mass.), of
Yarmouth and Harwich, Mass., bom April 6th, 1796, at
; died , at . He was a son of Isaac and Sally
( ) Smalley. She married a second time , at New
York, to Henry Moore, of New York (City or state?), bom
, at ; died , at .
Children : None, according to Hon. George Thacher's MSS.
Genealogy.
Authorities :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 59-
Charles W. Swift, of Yarmouth, Mass.
Hon. George Thacher's MSS. Thacher Genealogy,
1048. Betsey^ Thacher (Joseph,® Joseph,* Judah,* Hon. Col.
John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom at Yarmouth, Mass., July
i6th, 1802; died , at ; married , at , to
Rev. Samuel Currier, born , at ; died , at .
Children: It is not known by me whether or not she had
children.
Authorities :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 59.
Charles W. Swift, of Yarmouthport, Mass.
1049. Joseph^ Vincent (Sarah* Thacher, Joseph,* Judah,* Hon.
Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom at Yarmouth, Mass.,
November 3rd, 1790; he lived at Ashfield, Mass., and was
a farmer; he died at Ashfield, Mass., January 23rd, 1879,
aged 88 years, 2 months and 20 days, and was buried there
in Old Cemetery. He married , at Ashfield, Mass., to
Lucy Rude, bom , 1791 (see age at and date of death),
at Ashfield, Mass.; died November 23rd, 1874, aged 82, at
Ashfield, Mass., and was buried in Ashfield Plain Cemetery.
She was a daughter of Libeus and Lucy (Moulton) Rude,
who lived successively at Warren, Ashfield, Hawley, Ches-
terfield, and Buckland, Mass.
Children: 5 (Vincent), 3 sons and 2 daughters, all bom at
Ashfield, Mass.
1818 i. Thacher,® bom June 23rd, 1815; died Septem-
ber 23rd, 1880, at Ashfield, Mass., and was
buried in Ashfield Plain Cemetery. He was
a farmer and was not married.
1819 ii. Sarah,® bom June 25th, 1817; died June ist,
1862, at Ashfield, Mass.; married December
25th, 1845, to Phillip Bassett, born September
i8th, 1807, at Ashfield, Mass., and died there
June 17th, 1874. He was a farmer and was a
son of Henry and Hannah (Phillips) Bassett,
of Ashfield, Mass.
lOA
154 Thacher'Thatcher Genealogy. [April
Children: 3 (Bassett), i son and 2 daughters,
all bom, died and buried at Ashfield, Mass.
i. Charles,® bom July i8th, 1847; died Sep-
tember 19th, 1852.
ii. Mary,® bom March 19th, 1851 ; died Febra-
ary nth, 1855.
iii. Mary S ,• bom March 6th, 1857; died
August 29th, 1859.
1820 iii. Joseph,® bom June 28th, 18 19; died January
22nd, 1876, at Ashfield, Mass.; married July
3rd, 1845, 2it Hadley, Mass., to Mary Hawley,
bom May 23rd, 1822, at Hadley, Mass; died
March 12th, 1896, at Ashfield, Mass. She was
a daughter of Levi Hawley (bom November
28th, 1798; died Febraary i6th, 1844; married
November 23rd, 1820; son of Chester Haw-
ley) and his wife Harriet (Nash) Hawley
(bom March 24th, 1804; died ; daughter
of Elijah and Electa (Norton) Nash), of Had-
ley, Mass.
Children: 3 (Vincent), i son and 2 daughters,
all bom at Ashfield, Mass.
i. Levi Hawley,® bom July 3rd (or 13th),
1847; died November 15th, 1899; married,
first, Rosina Mary Scott; married, second,
Mary Elizabeth Rand, i child by second
marriage.
ii. Lucy Moulton,® bom April 30th, 1850 ; died
March 7th, 1869, at Ashfield, Mass.; not
married.
iii. Hattie Maria,® bom October 4th, 1854; died
December 17th, 1896; married Clarence
Henry Holden; 2 children.
182 1 iv. Charles Hallett,® bom November i6th, 182 1;
died December i6th, 1851, at Ashfield, Mass.;
he was a dentist; he married Jemsha Putney,
bom September 12th, 1827; died October 6th,
1880; no issue. She married a second time to
Luther B Ranney, of Ashfield, Mass. She
was a daughter of Zadocand Jerusha (Belding)
Putney, of Ashfield, Mass.
J822 V. Lucy,® bom August i6th, 1824; died Novem-
ber loth, 1885, at Hawley, Mass.; married
Lucius Scott, bom May 26th, 1825, at Hawley,
Mass.; died there November 21st, 1885. He
was a son of Reuben and Electa (Harmon)
Scott, of Hawley, Mass.
Children: 3 (Scott) daughters.
I9I5-] Throop Chapman, 1 55
i. Sarah Paulina,® bom November (or May)
, 1856; died June nth, 1884; married
May 9th, 1882, to Roswell Putnam; i son.
11. Mary Bassett,® born August 30th, i860;
died ; married February ist, 1882, to
Wesson E Mansfield; i son.
iii. Elvira Russell,® bom May 15th, 1863; died
; married March 23rd, 1883, to Oscar
Rood; I daughter.
Authorities :
Town Qerk, Ashfield, Mass.
Zebulon Bryant Taylor, Tacoma, Wash.
History of Hadley, Mass,, p. 165.
George Howes, Ashfield, Mass.
History of Hawley, Mass,, pp. 42, 74, 82.
(To be conlinued,)
THROOP CHAPMAN,
By Sarah Louise Kimball,
181 Addison Avenue, Palo Alto, Cal. (1910).
Thomas Chapman and Mary, daughter of Capt. William and
Martha (CoUyer) Throope, were married by Rev. Solomon
Williams at Lebanon, New London County, Conn., on Jan. 26,
1729-30. They subsequently resided at Ashford, in Wmdham
County, and Bolton, in Tolland County, being admitted to the
church at Bolton in 1746-7. Thomas Chapman died at Bolton,
March 2, 1793. Their ten children are recorded at Ashford, as
follows:
i. Thomas, b. Jan. 3, 1731.
ii. Mary, b. Nov. 26, 1732.
iii. Martha, b. July 2, 1735.
iv. Bethethan(?) (daughter), b. Jan. 11, 1737.
V. Throop, b. March 25, 1739.
vi. William, b. Nov. 25, 1741.
vii. Sybbel, b. Aug. 7, 1744.
viii. Ann, b. Sept. 13, 1746.
ix. Joseph, b. May 9, 1747.
X. Elias, b. May 26, 1749.
Throop Chapman, second son, subject of this sketch, served in
both the French and Indian and the Revolutionary wars. When
only eighteen years of age he enlisted, on April 9, 1757, in Capt.
John Slapp's 8th Company of Connecticut Volunteers, serving
until the following Sept. i. He was also corporal in Capt. Hugh
Ledlie's Company, March 17, to Dec. 3, 1762. Capt. John Slapp
was from Mansfield, Conn. The General Assembly of Feb., 1757,
voted to raise 1400 men to meet and act in conjunction with the
regular army under the Earl of Loudon, for the ist Regiment.
156 Throop Chapman. [April
These companies were in Col. Phineas Lyman's Jlegiment at
Fort Edward. ^See Connecticut Historical Society's Collections,
French and Indian War Rolls, vol. ix, p. 184, and vol. x, p. 316;
Com. Adam's Papers, in Connecticut State Library.) Subse-
quently to Dec. 3, 1762, and prior to April 12, 1774, he removed
to Belchertown, in Hampshire County, Mass., and sometime be-
tween the year 1783 and 1785 he settled at Readsboro, in Ben-
nington County, Vt., of which he and Daniel Davidson and a Mr.
Sloane, from Conway, Mass., were the first settlers, and where
his name appears as head of a family in the first census of the
United States, 1790. He was a selectman of Readsboro, and with
Joseph Hartwell, called the first meeting of that town, March 17,
1794. (See Vermont Hist. Gaz, Mag,^ vol. vii, p. 219). He en-
listed at Belchertown, Sept. 22, 1777, in Capt. Jonathan Bard-
well's Company, Col. Elisha Porter's Regiment, in the Revolu-
tionary War, and received his discharge Oct. 17, 1777, in which
latter month he reenlisted for three month's service in Capt.
Elijah D wight's Company of the same regiment. (See Massa*
chusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution^ vol. iii,
p. 335)
He married, first, Susanna Barney, who died at Belchertown,
April 12, 1774; and secondly, June 22, 1774, Deborah Willson,
daughter of Jacob and Amy (or Ruth Smith) Willson of Ashford
and Woodstock, Conn., and Belchertown, Mass., granddaughter
of Joseph and Mercy (Parker) Willson of Ashford, and great-
granddaughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Jackson?) Willson of
Newton, Mass., and Jacob and Thankful (Hemenway) Parker of
Roxbury, Mass., and Woodstock, Conn. His first wife was mother
of seven of his children, and his second of nine.
On March 30, 1783, Throop Chapman and his second wife*
were admitted to the Congregational Church of Belchertown,
and on May 7 following, several of their children, together with
two of his daughters by his first wife, were baptized in that
church. This was evidently just prior to his departure for
Readsboro, Vt., his daughter Hannah, bom 1785, being the first
child born in that town. Children by first wife:
i. William, ensign; m. Amy Wilson, March 21, 1782; d.
at Belchertown, May 3, 1807, aged about 48 years,
ii. Ebenezer, m. Lydia Wilson, Nov. 9, 1784, farmer at
Hebron, N. Y.
iii. Mercy, d. at a "good old age," Amherst, Mass.
iv. Esther, bap. May 7, 1783; d. May 4, 1843, aged 75 years*
at Stowe, Mass., and buried at Amherst. She m.
Sept. 15, 1791, John Robbins of Hadley, Mass., son
of Ephraim and Lydia Robbins of Hadley, and had a
son: E. R. Robbins, who was living in 1869.
V. Susanna, bap. May 7, 1783; m. late in life, Mr. Alex-
ander, and d. at Bloomfield, Mass.
vi. Throop, d. Nov. 22, 1775, of throat distemper, aged
Serhaps 5 years, and buried with his little sister,
lary Throop.
191 50 Throop Chapman, 157
vii. Mary Throop, d. Nov. 22, 1775, of throat distemper,
aged perhaps 3 years, and buried in the same coffin
with her brother, Throop.
Children by second wife:
viii. Jonathan Wilson, bap. May 7, 1783.
ix. Throop, b. Aug. 28, 1776; bap. May 7, 1783; d. June 15.
1864, Granville, Washington Co., N. Y. He m. (i)
Sally Hubbard; m. (2) Sophia Burnell, and had by
his second wife two sons: Elijah and Chandler Bur-
nell, the latter of whom m. Mary Eugenia Pease and
had: Chandler Pease Chapman of Madison, Wis.,
who compiled his family history, member of the
Society of Colonial Wars and of the Sons of the
American Revolution; m. , and has at least
two children living, viz.: Chandler Burnell Chapman
of Madison, Wis., member of the Sons of American
Revolution, and Miss Anne Turner Chapman of
Williamsburg, Va., who has given the writer the
benefit of her father's genealogical notes.
X. Mary Throop, b. Nov. 29, 1777; bap. May 7, 1783; d.
after 1827, at Nelson, Madison Co., N. Y. She m.
John Clough (b. Nov. 7, 1777), Jan. 27, 1799, ^^^^
went to Madison, in Madison Co., N. Y., 1810, thence
to Nelson, same county, 1813, where he d. Nov. 23,
1827. He served in the war of 181 2. They had ten
children, as follows:
1. Elizabeth Clough, m. William Pierson.
2. Anna Clough, m. Archibald Bates of Nelson.
3. Walter Clough, m. Laura Coman, and lived near
Racine, Wis. Children: (i) Hannah, m. Steele
Jackson of Cazenovia, N. Y., and had two sons,
Walter Clough Jackson and Frank Clough
Jackson. (2) John, m. Mary Jane Tillinghast,
and lived in Denver, Col. Had five children, of
whom four are living in Denver, viz.: Clark
Tillinghast Clough, Anna Laura Clough ^m.
Chester S. Morey), Florence Belle Clough fm.
John Prentice Farrar), Carrie May Clough (m.
Frederick Wilbor Standard). (3) Mary, m.
Henry Gilbert of Newark, N. T., and Darien,
Wis., and had Jennie and Minnie Gilbert.
(4) Laura, m. (his second wife) Enoch F.
Barnes, no children. (5) Ziba, m. Rhoda
Stubbs, resided in Chicago, 111., and had Laura,
who is m. and resides in Chicago, and Florence,
who d. y.
4. Maria Clough, b. Aug. 27, 1810; d. Aug., 1886;
m. Nov. 4, 1830, Joseph Sims, Jr., and lived at
Plainfield, 111., where they celebrated their
golden wedding, Nov. 4, 1880, surrounded by
their seven surviving children and ten of their
IjS Throop Chapman, [April
twenty-four grandchildren. Their children
were: (i) Adeline Elizabeth, m. (i) William
Cooley, and had two sons, both of whom d. y.;
she m. (2) George Hubbard, who has since de-
ceased and she resides with her sister Helen at
Winona, Minn. (2) Helen, m. Henry J. Keeler
of Winona, Minn., who d. July 3, 1910, and has:
Florence, m. Adelbert Porter; Gertrude, m.
Benton Hatcher. (3) John, m. Adelia Spencer,
and lived at Racine; of their five children three
survive, viz.: Elizabeth, m. Mr. Gillett of
Racine, and has two sons; J. Frank, m. and
has a son and daughter; Jessie May, m.
Charles Edgar Russell. (4) Emma, m. Malcolm
NcNae, and resides at Bayonne, N. J.; their
only child, Florence, m. James Stewart of New
York City and Bayonne, N. J. (5) Florence,
m. Edward Jordan of Ottawa, 111., and has six
surviving children, viz.: Fred; Dr. Louis Ed-
ward, who served in the Spanish-American
War; Burton Sims, who also served in that
war; Mabel and William, twins, and George.
(6) Aurelia, m. Dr. George West Beggs of
Sioux City, la., and has three daughters, viz.:
Harriet Elizabeth, m. George Thorpe; Alberta
Aurelia, m. William Chaffee; Mae Georgina.
(7) Edward, d. y. (8) Harriet, m. Frank Childs,
who d., and she is living at Del Rio, Tex.; five
children, viz.: Henry; Lulu, m. Dr. White-
head; Frank; Arthur and Carrie.
5. William Ward Clough, m. Sarah Brewster, and
had: (i) Cornelia, m. William Nelson and re-
sides at Sacramento, Cal. (2) Fanny, m. and
resides at Rochester, N. Y. (3) Darwin, m.
and resides at Darien, Wis. (4) William, m.
Kitty .
6. Emily Clough, m. Mr. Carpenter. She d. in the
'70s at Racine, Wis., leaving no issue.
7. Alfred Clough, unm. Last heard of was on his
way to Pike's Peak.
8. Simeon De Witt Clough, b. Aug. 13, 1814; d.
Feb. 9, 1884, at Racine, Wis.; m. Sept. 9, 1835,
Marie Louise Hyatt, youngest daughter of Dr.
Hezekiah and Deborah (Crosby) Hyatt of
Fenner, Madison Co., N. Y. He served during
the Civil War as Assistant-Commissary General
for Wisconsin, with the rank of Colonel on
the Governor's staff. Both Colonel and Mrs.
Clough were members of the Church of the
Good Shepherd (Universalist) at Racine. He
went to Racine in 1848, and took an active
interest in business affairs. His home, " Elm-
1915O Throop Chapman, 1 59
wood," was long the gathering place for those
of the family who found their way to Racine.
Of their five children two lived to maturity,
viz.: (i) Mary Anne, m. Charles Bradbury Kim-
ball of La Crosse, and Racine, Wis., and East
Oakland, Cal. (see History of the Kimball
Family, p. 810), and had ten children, of whom
eight lived to maturity, and five of these are
married and have families; Mrs. Kimball now
residing in Palo Alto, Cal. ^2) Walter, m. Salena
Wells, and had seven children, of whom five
lived to maturity, and of these the youngest
son is Simeon De Witt Clough, author. Ravens-
wood, Chicago. Walter Clough served in the
Civil War, enHstin^^ in the Belle City Rifles,
2d Wisconsin Regiment of Volunteers, and
was wounded in the first battle of Bull Run.
Mrs. Clough is now residing with her elder
daughter, Jessie L., at Richmond Hill, Long
Island, N. Y.
9. Chester Clough, m. Eunice Smith, and lived in
Ohio. They had three children: (i) Maria, m.
Mr. Brydges, and had four children; (2) Alfred.
(3) Venello W.
10. Marianne Clough, m. Enoch P. Barnes, and had
a son: Simeon De Witt Barnes, b. Feb. 2,
1852; m. and d. about 1876, leaving no issue,
xi. Isaac Cutter, bap. May 7, 1783; d. y.
xii. Deborah, bap. May 7, 1783.
viii. Sybil, bap. May 7, 1783; m. Mr. Crowner.
xiv. Hannah, b. 1785, Readsboro, Vt.; m. Mr. Wilder.
XV. Dorcas, m. Mr. Bailey.
xvi. Benjamin, b. at Readsboro, Vt.; m. Sybil Amidon, and
had:
1. Hiram Chapman, b. 1814; lived at Syracuse,
N.Y.
2. Daughter, m. Rice Woodcock, of Hamilton,
N. Y., and had two sons.
3. William Chapman, b. about 1822; d. Feb. 11,
1904, Delphi Falls, N. Y.; m. Nancy Ga^e, and
had one son: O. S. Chapman of Delphi Falls,
N. Y., who is m., and has three children, viz.:
(i) W. W. Chapman of Delphi Falls. (2) Fred
Chapman of Delphi Falls. (3) Mrs. Charles Pat-
terson of Syracuse, N, Y. Mr. William Chapman
gave the facts concerning his branch of the
Chapman family to Mrs. Adeline E. fSims)
Hubbard of Winona, and stated that ne re-
membered his "Aunt Polly Clough " very well.
("Polly Clough" was Mrs. Hubbard's grand-
mother, Mary Throop (Chapman) Clough of
Nelson, N. Y.)
1 60 Records Pirtaining to thi Hamilton^ Dean and Botts Families. [April
RECORDS PERTAINING TO THE HAMILTON, DEAN
AND BOTTS FAMILIES.
Taken from Old Family Bibles in the Possession of Mrs.
Horace Dinsmore Lyon and Miss Helen Loring Sickles.
Contributed by Theresa Hall Bristol.
Alexander James Hamilton was the only son of James Hamil-
ton, Esq. ("Keeper of His Majesty's Stores, appointed as of
Chattam, now at Woolwich "), and Miss Daes. James Hamilton,
Esq., was the eldest son of Alexander Hamilton of Ballincrieflf
("undoubted male representative of the ancient family of Inner-
wick, who had a charter under the Great Seal of all his lands,
dated Anno, 1720**); who married Lady Mary Kerr, daughter of
William, Marquis of Lothain. {Baronage of Hamilton of Inner-
wick.\
Alexander James Hamilton was commissioned Lieutenant in
the 4Sth Regt., May, 1775. In 1775 this regiment was in Ireland;
served three years in America, 1776-77-78. (British Officers of
the Regular Army serving in America, by Worthington Chauncey
Ford.) Evidently he did not return with his regiment, as his
marriage here in 1778 and the births of his children prove. He
was elected a member of St. Andrew's Society, 1786, and was
Manager, 1787-90, 1793-94, 1799-1800; 2nd Vice-President, 1801-9.
He married Mary Deane of New York, and it is her father's
Bible which contains most of the earliest records which follow:
Richard Deane's Bible.
1755, April 3^. I was married to Mary Odium, in Fullamore in
Kings County, Ireland, by whom I have had
the following children. Vizt.:
1756, April 23^. Mary Ann Deane was born
1757, July 16**^. Elizabeth Deane D^
1759, Sept. 22^. Mary Deane D®.
1 761, Feby. 14**^. Elkanah Prussia Deane D^
1763, Jany. 19***. Henry Deane D*.
1764, Dec'. 28***. Ann Deane D*.
1766, Sept'. II *»». Richard Deane D^
1763, October 23^. My Wife and I, and my children Elizabeth
Mary & Henry arrived at New York in North
America from Ireland.
L. B. S.
These are to certify that Alexander James Hamilton, Esq.,
Lieutenant in His Majesty's 45*** Regiment, and Miss Mary Deane,
of New York, have on the 11*^ Day of February, annoque Domini
1778, been lawfully joined together in the Holy Bands of Matri-
mony by me the Subscriber. In Testimony whereof I have
hereto set my Hand and Seal. New York, March 24, a. v. s. 1778.
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1 62 Records Pertaining to the Hamilton, Dean and Botts Families, [April
Witnesses present: "j Bernard Michael Houseal [seal]
Minister of the Antient Lutheran
^Trinity Church, and by Royal Charter
one or the Governors of King's College
. in the City of New York.
Family Record, Hamilton Bible, New York.
Alexander James Cranston
Hamilton, b. 8 Feb., 1788
Eliza Ann Ferris,
b. II June, 1 79 1
Alex. J. C. Hamilton m. to Eliza
Ann Ferris, 14*** Mch, 1816, by the
Righ* Rev*. J. H. Hobart, Bishop of
the Protestant Episcopal Churches,
New York.
Sarah Adeline, b. Jan. 4, 181 7, at 5 O'clock afternoon at her
Grandfathers, Mr. James Ferris, No. 86 Bayard St., N. Y.
Helen Cordelia, b. the 15th Oct., 4 O'clock in the morning, 182a,
at her G. F. Mr. James Ferris, Westchester.
Elizabeth Oakley, b. 9**^ Aug., 1825, 5 O'clock in the morning at
No. 90 Canal St., N. Y.
Alexander James Ferris, b. the 15*** Nov'., 1828, at 7 O. c. A. M.,
at No. 88 Canal St., N. Y.
Catherine Morton, b. the 20 Feb., 1830, at 9 O'clock A. M., at 88
Canal St., N. Y.
Margaret Laura, b. Oct. 25, 1831, at 77 Thoinpson St., N.Y.,
10 O'clock P. M.
Henry Ferris, b. i8**» June, 1837, Sunday P. M. 3 O'clock, 201
Spring St., New York.
Deaths.
Elizabeth Oakley Hamilton, d. July 4, 1826, at 90 Canal St., buried
at Westchester in the bunal ground of James Ferris — aged
10 mos., 26 days.
Henry Ferris Hamilton, d. Nov. 18, 1857, ae. ao.
Alexander James Cranston Hamilton, d. Feb. 20, 1867, ae. 79 jrrs.,
12 d.
Eliza Ann Hamilton, d. Apr. 18, 1877, ae. 85 yrs., 10 mos.
Thomas Lawson Botts, d. Nov. 13, 1888, ae. 34 yrs., 3 mos.
Sarah Adeline Hamilton, d. Dec. 22, 1898, ae. 81 yrs., ix mos.
Helen Hamilton, d. Feb. 24, 1900, ae. 77.
Margaret Loring Hamilton, d. April 9, 1900, ae. 68.
Family Record or
George Coxe Hamilton, bom 10"* of Nov., 1797; lost at sea, Jan.,
1836, in his 40th year; m. May 24, 181 7.
Catherine Furgason, wife of, bom 25*** August, 1797.
CHILDREN
Mary Deane Hamilton, born 25^^ of Feb., 1818; m. Abraham
Cole; d. April 13 1867, 50 of age.
Adeline Clinton Hamilton, bom 26^^ of Oct., 1819; m. John Ran-
dolph Winant, 30*** Dec, 1837.
George Washington Hamilton, born 18 of Jan., 1823; lost at sea,
Jan., 1836, in his 13th year.
Alexander James Hamilton, bom 15th of April, 1824; shot in S. F.,
1853 (April).
191 5*] Records Pertaining to the Hamilton, Dean and Botts Families, 1 63
Ann Eliza Hamilton, bom 28 of Aug., 1826; m. Robert Morris
Martin, March 26, 185 1; d. 27 Jan., 1876.
Archibald Wade Hamilton, born 25 of July, 1828; d. 11 Aug., 1828.
Catherine Louisa Hamilton, born 3 of Aug., 1829; d. 19 Aug., 1829.
Catherine Louisa Hamilton, born 14 of Aug., 1830; m. (i) John
Watt Matthews, 14 Nov., 1849; m. (2) Edward WoodruflE
Derby.
According to tradition, Alexander James Cranston Hamilton,
as the oldest surviving son of Alexander James Hamilton, was
entitled to a commission in tho British Army. This he refused,
and passed it on to a younger brother, Archibald Wade Hamil-
ton. The following, copied from a newspaper, is in the writing
of the late Catherine Morton Botts, his niece:
"Archibald Wade Hamilton, Esq., has received an appointment
in the staff of the United States army. This gentleman was a
commissioned officer in the British army, and much esteemed for
his gallantry and good conduct. At the commencement of the
late war he tendered his resignation, which was refused, under
an express stipulation that he should not be called upon to bear
arms against his country. Notwithstanding this assurance he
was landed at New Orleans, and when ordered to the attack he re-
solutely refused to draw his sword against his country and fellow
citizens. He was placed under arrest, and Sir Edward Pachen-
ham expressed his determination to have him put to death after
the battle. The total defeat of the British in that action frus-
trated the object, and we are now happy to fjerceive that our
government has not been insensible to patriotism so distin-
guished."
On the record there is given no marriage of Eliza, daughter of
Alexander James Hamilton, but the following written on a small
slip of paper, was found between the leaves:
'• Dr. James Wyeth and Miss Eliza A. Hamilton have intended
Marriage on Monday 27th Day of March — -. Jacob Wyeth.
Witness, J. Patten. C. A. Hamilton.
[On the back of the paper]
Josiah Patten.
Catherine Morton Hamilton, who beaueathed these Bibles to
her ^anddaughters, was born in New York City, Feb. 20, 1830;
married 185 1, Thomas Lawson Botts, who died . The follow-
ing is a record of his family as taken from the Bible records:
Alexander L. Botts, b. 6 May, 1799, ^^ Virginia [Harris-
burg — T. H. B.).
Susan P. Randolph, b. 25 Aug., 1800, in Virginia.
Children:
iane, July 24, 18 19, in Virginia,
lary Page, Aug. 30, 182 1, in Virginia.
William Henry, Nov. 19, 1823, in Virginia.
Alexander Tyler, Dec. 10, 1826, in Virginia.
Thomas Lawson, April 14, 1828, in Virginia.
Julian, Sept. 3, 1830, in Virginia.
1 64 Bristol NoUs. [April
iulian, Sept. 25, 1832, in Virginia.
Landolph, Nov. 22, 1833, in Virginia.
Stevens King, Oct. 24, 1836, in New York.
Virginia Ann, Sept. 29, 1841, in New York.
Mary Page, d. Sept. 31, 1823.
Alexander Tyler, d. May 18, 1828.
Infant child, d. Sept. 29, 1832. All in Virginia.
Susan F., wife of Alexander L. Botts, d. July 4, 1850, in New
York.
Thomas Lawson Botts, d. June 5, 1854, in New York.
BRISTOL NOTES.
Compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus, M. A., New Haven, Ccmn., and
Mrs. Theresa Hall Bristol of New York City.
(Continued from Vol. XLVI, p. 69, of the Record.)
Additions to the line of Samuel' Bristol (see New England
Hist, and Gen, Register, July, 1903).
Bezaleel^ Bristol (Sergt. Bezaleel,* Samuel,* Henry*), of
East Guilford and Killingsworth, b. Oct. 22, 17 10; d. Sept. 8, 1753;
m. Eunice Dudley. Children:
i. Eunice,* b. March 12, 1743; m. David Rossiter.
ii. Amy, b. April i, 1745; d. March 3, 1807; m. Dan
Collins,
iii. Lois, b. July 4, 1747; m. John Page,
iv. Bezaleel (Capt.), b. March 30, 1749; d. Tune 20, 1828;
m. Dec. I, 1774, Mary Redfield; served in the Revo-
lution. Children: i. Nancy, b. Aug. 20, 1775; '^^
Edmund Field. 2. Anson, b. July 23, 1776; m. Mary
Burr. 3. Lois, b. Dec. 16, 1777; m. Benjamin Bartlett.
4. Philip Redfield, b. Feb. 12, 1780; m. Harriet Camp.
5. Bezaleel, b. June 17, 1782; m. (1) Olive Gillett;
m. {2\ Diana . 6. Eunice, b. Feb. 17, 1785; m.
Josian Dean. 7. Oliver, b. Jan. 27, 1787; m. three
times. 8. Isaac, b. Nov. 7, 1790; m. wid. Elizabeth
Lane. 9. Amy, b. June 8, 1792; m. Daniel Blatchly.
10. Richard, b. July 15, 1794; m. Charlotte Norton.
11. Uri, b. Feb. 22, 1796; m. Naomi Johnson.
Desire^ Bristol (Sergt. Bezaleel*), b. Feb. 6, 17 19; d. Oct. 13,
1800; m. Ebenezer Fowler.
Sarah^ Bristol (Sergt. Bezaleel), b. May 26, 1725; m. Timothy
Hall.
Talcott MS. in library of the New Haven Colony Historical Society.
The family of Nathan* Bristol (Bezaleel,* Samuel,* Henry*),
settled at Cornwall, Conn. (Census 1790), with the exception of
Richard, who went early to Harpersfield, N. Y. The census of
19 1 5.] Bristol Notes, 1 6 5
1801, destroyed in the library fire at Albany, gave the names of
Nathan (probably Sr.), i Freehold; Richard, i Freehold; John,
I rents. John kept the inn. Amos (Capt.) probably went to
Lanesborough, Mass., where he enlisted in the Revolution, 1777-8,
aged 18. He settled at Meredith, N. Y. (see ante, p. 235.)
Nathan* Bristol, Jr., b. April 5, 175 1; lived at Cornwall; he d.
in 1788. His wife was Hannah, who d. 1796. Children: i.
Daniel.* 2. Horace, b. about 1779. 3. Charles, b. about 1781. 4.
Anna, b. about 1783. 5. Nice, b. about 1785. 6. Abel Lyman, b.
about 1787.
Isaac* Bristol (Reuben,* Aaron,* Eliphalet*), b. at Harwinton,
Conn., Oct. 21, 1762, served in the Revolution from Litchfield Co.;
removed to Lewis, N. Y., and d. Jan. 28 1828. He m. Chloe
Barber. Children: i. Isaac, b. 1792; Capt. of Militia, Essex Co.,
N. Y., 1816; m. Sophia Holcomb. 2. Reuben, b. 1794; d. 1823.
3. Rachel, b. 1795; ^' 1881; m. 1816, Julius C. Abel. 4. Hezekiah,
d. 1869. 5. Dorastus, b. 1800; d. 1862; m. Hannah Holcomb.
Simeon* Bristol (George Augustus,* Simeon,* Augustus,*
Henry*), removed from Southington, Conn., to Perrington, N. Y.;
m. (2) April 17, 1816, Lucy Newell, who m. (2) Rev. Moses Ord-
way. Children: 4. Simeon C, b. April 24, 1817. 5. Newell B.,
b. Oct. IS, 1818. 6. Lucy, b. March 20, 1820. 7. John, b. July 4,
1822. 8. Eliza, b. Sept. 28, 1824.
Louis* Bristol (William,* Simeon,* Augustus,* Henry*), re-
moved from New Haven, to New London, Conn.; m. (i/Majr 9,
1844, Mary Cleveland; divorced in 1865. Children: i. William
Cleveland/ b. March 10, 1845; d. Sept. 7, 1852. 2. Louis Bacon,
b. Dec. 30, 1847. 3- John Cleveland, b. Oct. 26, 1854. 4. Fanny
Louisa, b. Jan. 11, 1857.
Luther* Bristol (Reuben,* Amos,* Henry*), removed from
Cheshire, Conn., to N. Y. State; joined the church at Durham,
Greene Co., 1803, and had land in Wayne Co., X824--9.
Ebenezer* (SergtJ, John* and Gideon* Bristol (Joseph,* John,*
Henry*); Joseph* (Corp'l) and Cornelius* (Corp'l) (John* John*);
Richard* (Capt J and Ambrose* (DanieH; Benjamin,* Timothy*
and Jonathan* (Daniel,* Daniel*) ; Stephen* and Benjamin* (Corp*l)
(Eliphalet*); Austin* (Amos,* Henry*); and Samuel, Jr., served
m the French and Indian Wars from Conn. (Conn, Hist. Col-
lections^ vol. 9 and 11.)
In addition to those mentioned in the text, the following served
in the Revolutionary War: Bezaleel* (Capt.) (Bezaleel,* Sergt.
Bezaleel,* Samuel*); Amos* (Nathan,* Sergt. Bezaleel,* Samuel*);
John, Jr.,* and David* (John,* Joseph,* John*); Benjamin* (Daniel,*
Daniel*); John* and Daniel* (Abraham,* Samuel,* Daniel*); Abner*
(Stephen,^ Eliphalet*); Justus* (Sergt.) (Eliphalet*); Aaron,* be-
fore he went to Vt., Eliphalet* and Abel,* before they served in
N. Y., served in Conn.; lost their guns "in the retreat from York
Island" (Aaron,* Eliphalet*); Isaac* (Reuben,* Aaron,* Eliphalet*);
Silas* and Amos* (Benjamin,* Eliphalet*); Reuben* and Thomas*
(Amos,* Henry*); Gideon* (Jonathan,* Henry*); Samuel of Wood-
II
1 66 Bristol Notes. [April
bury; Stephen of Waterbury, pensioned 1818, a«. 70; d. 1827;
Jonathan of Milford, pensioned 1832, ae. 74; Caesar of Newtown,
left money for family supplies; Tobey of Sandgate, Vt.; Elnathan,
on an Arlington, Vt., list; Jonathan of Sandgate, Vt. {Conn, Men
in the Rev,; Conn. Hist, Collections^ vols, x and xii; Archives of
New York, Revolution; N, Y. in the Rev,; Vt, Rev, Rolls; Mass,
Soldiers and Sailors in the Rev,
Preserved* Bristol (John, Jr./ John,* Joseph/ John*), m. Sept.
22, 1806, at Schoharie, N. Y. (Schoharie Ch, M^S, in N, Y, Gen.
& Biog, Soc, library.)
Sergt. Job' Bristol had a dau. Amy, who m. Asa Palmer, and
another dau. who m. Holcomb. Job m. Oct. 18, 1772, Han-
nah Bristol, his second wife.
Anson* Bristol (Job,* Enos,* Joseph,* John*); wife Deborah ,
rented land near his father at Aurelius, N. Y., 1801, bought 1803;
sold 1809, and settled in Bethany, Genesee Co., where he is said
to have been Sheriflf. Children: Horace, Hiram, Henry, Har-
rison.
Lathrop S.^ Qames,* Job'), m. July 18, 1825, Maria Seevart.
Lived at Newark, Wayne Co., N. Y. Children; Catherine Eliza,
d. 1842; Anthony Ira, b. May 25, 1830; Theodore Moran, b. June
26, 1832; William Merriam, b. June 20, 1834; David Cushion, b.
Sept. 27, 1836; Adeline Amelia, b. June 20, 1840.
Lester Shepherd' Bristol (James,* Job'), m. 1834, Auzalitte
Cleland. Children: Walter Lester, b. May 2, 1836; Edward Cle-
land, b. March, 1838; Geo. Lathrop, b. Nov. 11, 1839; Sarah
Adeline, b. May 5, 1841.
Corrections in Vol. XLV:
p. 176. Harriet Maria m. (i) Ahaz French Barlow, not Alzo ; m. (2)
Robert Cutting.
p. 232. Abel Bristol went from Canaan, first to Richmond, Ontario Co.,
and then to Lima, N. Y. His son Miles m. Clarissa Hand, Aug. 10, 1802, and
had children: Eli Hand, Mary and William Augustus.
p. 234. Charles Bristol (Benj.^), Lieut. 1816; Capt. 1817, Genesee Co.
Militia.
&235. Wheeler* Bristol (George,* Benjamin*), N. Y. State Treasurer,
eorge H.* Bristol (Amos,* Benjamin*), Town Treasurer of Tompkins,
N. Y.
p. 236. Nathan* Bristol (Capt. Amos,* Nathan*), State Senator, 23d District,
Tomkins Co., N. Y.
P' 331' Justus* Bristol (Simeon,* Abraham*), of Syracuse, had children:
John, b. Sept. 17, 1813; d. same day; Betsy Ann, b. Nov. 16, 1814; Abram L.,
b. March 7, 1817; David E., b. May 15, 1819; Isaac A., b. Feb. 6, 1822; Har-
riet A., b. Aug. 29, 1824; James H., b. Aug. 30, 1826; Lewis S., b. Aug. 13, 1829;
Edgar G., b. Oct. i, 1832; William S., b. Jan. 29, 1835; Salina, b. June 19, 1839.
Corrections in Volume XLVI:
p. 63. Peter Bristol, b. 1820, is living in Eamestown, Canada: not "near
Buffalo."
Record in the handwriting of Russell T. Bristol, 1893:
" Uncle Chauncey* " (Aaron, Jr.,* Aaron,* Eliphalet«), *
Oct. 3, 1868. Marion, wife of Chauncey, d. Sept. 22, 18^4. MarriecT March 4,
'Uncle Chauncey*" (Aaron, Jr.,* Aaron,* Eliphalet«), "b. Oct. 13, 1775; d.
3, 1868. Marion, wife of Chauncey, d. Sept. 22, 1854. Married March 4,
1798. Children: Lydia, b. Jan. 29, 1799; d. Feb. 22, 18 13; Wait, b. July 29,
1800; Johanna, b. Jan. 7, 1802; Olive, b. March 17, 1804; Moses, b. Jan. 30, 1807;
Eliphalet, b. Aug. 30, 1810; d. Jan. 6, 1847; Lemon, b. July 8, 1813; Joseph, b.
Dec. 28, 1815."
IQIJ.] Banns of Matrimony Published in the Parish of Trinity Church, 167
p. 66. Asher, son of Eliphalet, lived and died in Canaan. His sons v^ent
to Oxford, N. Y.
p. 67. Enoch, son of Justus, moved to Volney, N, K, not K/., and settled
on Bristol Hill with his brothers John and Justus, Jr. The latter married Phcbe
Greenleaf of Volney, who was b. 1798. Greenleaf Gen,
BANNS OF MATRIMONY PUBLISHED IN THE PARISH
OF TRINITY CHURCH.
Originals in the Archives of The New York Historical Society.
Contributed by Robert H. Kblby, Librarian.
DATB
1782, March 30.
1777, Feb. II.
1783, May
1779, Sept.
1783, April
1780, Nov.
1780, Nov.
1777, Jan.
18.
15.
13-
6.
26.
I.
1777, Jan. 13.
(?) Tune 29.
1782, July 28.
1775, Sept. 20.
1782, Oct.
1780, Oct.
1783, May
1780, Nov.
1777, Jan.
29.
29.
14.
31.
1780, Sept. 10.
1779, May 27.
1783, March 3.
1782, Jan. I.
1777, Jan. 30.
1782, April 21.
1781, Oct. 28.
1783, May 18.
Jan. I.
fuly 20.
fan. 31.
Mar-
NAMES, MALES
Allison, Thomas & Bridget King.
Bagley, Francis & Mary Dean. Married Feb. 1 1,
1777.
Baillia, Alexander & Jane Campbell.
Baldridge, John & Jane Ball.
Barncoop, David & Ann Stewart.
Bond, John & Ann Johnson.
Bosby, John & Barbara Rowdebush.
Bowes, Richard & Jane Ward. Married Jan. i,
1777.
Brooks, William & Catharine Brooks. Married
Jan. 13, 1777.
Cambridge, Nathaniel & Elizabeth Lee.
Campbell, tames & May Thornton.
Chattin, William & Elizabeth Whitehand.
ried Sept. 20, 1775.
Clark, William & Mary Paulding.
Donohoe, Danl. & Margt. Smith.
Drummand, James & Elizabeth Birk.
Egbert, Moses & Abigail Martinoe.
Gahagen, Hugh & Barbara McDougle.
ried Jan. 31, 1777.
Holley, William & Jane Tellson.
Jenkins, John & Ann Egbert.
Johnson, Andrew & Eleanor Robinson.
Kidder, William & Jane Duron.
Knap, James & Sarah Tedeman. Married Jan.
30, 1777.
Lent, Henry & Elizabeth Ryker.
Lovell, John & Mary Clouser.
Manley, Christopher & Elizabeth Finch.
Mortimer, William & Sarah Sneden.
Prow, Richard & Sarah Massenburgh.
Quince, William & Sarah Amory. Married Jan.
31,1771.
Mar-
1 68 Banns of Matrimony Published in the Parish of Trinity Church, [April
NAMBS, MALES
1780, July
1777, Feb.
1779. Oct. II.
1782, April 28.
1783, March 30.
1783, May 16.
DATS
i77i,Jan. 31.
1779, Sept. 15.
1783, May 25.
1777, Jan. 13.
1783, May 18.
1781, Oct. 28.
1777, Feb. II.
1777, Feb. 3.
1782, Jan. I.
1779, May 27.
1783, May 18.
1782, April 28.
1780, Nov. 6.
1782, March 30.
(?) June 29.
1777, Jan. 31.
1780, Nov. 14.
17^31 July 20.
1783, May 16.
1782, Oct, 29.
1783, March 30.
1783, March 3.
1780, Nov. 26.
1782, April 21.
1780, Oct. 29.
1782, Jan. I.
1779, Oct. II.
1783, April 13.
1777, Jan. 30.
1780, Sept. 10.
1782, July 28.
1777, Jan. I,
177s, Sept. 20.
1780, July 3.
Roberts, John Jenkinson & Susanna Wilev.
Robinson, Joseph & Ann Drake. Married Feb.
3, 1777.
Trotman, Thomas & Levine Springsted.
Ward, William & Ann Gay.
West, Lewis & Mary Roach.
Woderspoon, William & Idia Miller.
Mar-
NAMBS, FBM ALBS
Armory, Sarah & William Quince. Married Jan.
31.1771.
Ball, Jane & John Baldridge.
Birk, Elizabeth & James Drummond.
Brooks, Catharine & William Brooks. Married
Jan. 13, 1777.
Campbell, Jane & Alexander Baillia.
Clouser, Mary & John Lovell.
Dean, Mary & Francis Bagley. Married Feb. 1 1,
1777.
Drake, Ann & Joseph Robinson. Married Feb.
3, 1777.
Duron, Jane & William Kidder.
Egbert, Ann & John Jenkins.
Finch, Elizabeth & Christopher Manley.
Gay, Ann & William Ward.
Johnson, Ann & John Bond.
King, Bridget & Thomas Allison.
Lee, Elizabeth & Nathaniel Cambridge.
McDougle, Barbara & Hugh Gahagen.
ried Jan. 31, 1777.
Martinoe, Abigail & Moses Egbert.
Massenburgh, Sarah & Richard Prow.
Miller, Idia & William Woderspoon.
Paulding, Mary & William Clark.
Roach, Mary & Lewis West.
Robinson, Eleanor & Andrew Johnson.
Rowdebush, Barbara & John Bosby.
Ryker, Elizabeth & Henry Lent.
Smith, Margaret & Daniel Donohoe.
Sneden, Sarah & William Mortimer.
Springsted, Levine & Thomas Trotman.
Stewart, Ann & David Barncoop.
Tedeman, Sarah & James Knap. Married Jan.
30, 1777.
Tellson, Jane & William HoUey.
Thornton, May & James Campbell.
Ward, Jane & Richard Bowes. Married Jan. i,
1777.
Whitehand, Elizabeth & William Chattin. Mar-
ried Sept. 20, 1775.
Wiley, Susanna & John Jenkinson Roberts.
191 5 •] 1^^ A^«t/ Site of the New York Gen, and Biog. Society, \ 69
THE NEW SITE OF THE NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL
AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.
By Clarence Winthrop Bowen.
An article appeared in the New York Genealogical and
Biographical Record in April, 1914, written by John Reynolds
Totten, Chairman of the Executive Committee, giving full par-
ticulars of the Building Fund of $65,110 raised in December of
1913. With this fund in hand the Trustees of the Society spent
more than a year's time in searching for an available site. Every
section of the city was considered, and the conclusion was finally
reached that accessibility was most desired and that no better
selection could be made than a site near 59th Street and Park
Avenue. After careful deliberation, therefore, three lots with
dwelling houses thereon, numbers 122, 124 and 126 East 58th
Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues, each 19 feet wide,
making a total frontage of 57 feet, were purchased by the Trustees
on January 16, 191 5. The New York Public Library is directly oppo-
site and the Liederkranz Society joins, the Library building on the
West. The proposed Lexington Avenue Subway will have a station
extending from 58th to feth Street, where express and local
trains may be taken. The 59th Street Crosstown Line, the Madi-
son Avenue route and other modes of travel are close by. The
Grand Central Station, Wall Street and Brooklyn can be quickly
reached on the South; and from the West Side a member of the
Society by using the Subway or Elevated Railroad and the 59th
Street Crosstown Line can easily get to the proposed new building.
The location, therefore, is regarded as an ideal site. The asking
price for the three buildings was $126,000, but the Society was
advised by real estate experts who were members of the Society
to make the purchase in January, because it was thought a better
price could then be obtained. The three lots and buildings were
finally secured for $106,000 and title was taken on March i6th.
After purchasing the property on January i6th, the Trustees
did not deem it wise to issue a circular soliciting subscriptions,
but thought it desirable to have letters written or calls made
upon members who might be interested in making a second or a
new subscription to the Building Fund. The subscriptions thus
secured between January i6th and March i6th were $13,797; and
the interest and net profits on sale of bonds, less expenses for
Printing, postage and architect's plans, amounted to $2,648.25.
hese two items plus the Building Fund of $65,110 above referred
to made a total Building Fund of $81,555.25. The Trustees found
it necessary, therefore, to raise in subscriptions $24,444.75 more
in order to make up the $106,000. As however, there was not
sufficient time before March i6th to do this, money was borrowed
to secure funds sufficient to pay for the site.
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The subscriptions received during the few weeks before March
i6th were so numerous that it was thought best to make a de-
termined effort after March i6th to raise the required II24444.75.
A circular, has therefore been sent to every member of the Society,
so that those who have not given or who may wish to make a
second subscription during the year 191 5 may do so at their con-
venience. Until this debt is paid, the Trustees do not wish to
f)roceed with the construction of the new building. As many
riends of the Society will be interested in knowing just what
amounts have recently been given to the Building Fund, a list of .
the subscriptions amounting to $13,797 's given below. On the
following pages are also given the subscriptions to the December,
1913, Building Fund.
SUMMARY OF BUILDING FUND:
Building Fund of December, 1913, .... ^5,110.00
Interest and net profits on sale of bonds, less expenses, 2,648.25
Subscriptions recently received, 13,797.00
Total Building Fund, $81,555.25
Necessary to raise in subscriptions, .... 24,444.75
To make up cost of new site, 122, 124, 126 E. 58th St., H 106,000.00
Subscriptions to the Building Fund Received in
February AND March, 191 5.
Mrs. Russell Sage $5,000 Lawrence Eugene Sexton... 100
Charles Deering 1,000 Mrs. William Watts Sherman 100
Lawrence Bogert Elliman... 530 Mrs. Charles Stewart Smith 100
Charles Griswold Thompson. 500 Emily Frances Southmayd.. 100
Mrs. Joseph C. Hoagland... 250 Tames Talcott 100
William Rhinelander Stewart 250 Edwin Henry Thatcher 100
Mrs. Edwin H. Weatherbee.. 250 Joseph Tuckerman Tower... 100
Mrs. William L. Harkness... 200 David Gardiner 75
Ogden Mills 200 A Member 50
Richard Henry Williams 200 William Delavan Baldwin .... 50
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie 100 Mrs. Thomas Smith Bassford 50
Mrs. Frederick A. Constable 100 Elihu Dwight Church 50
James Douglas 100 Charles Albert CoflSn 50
Col. Henry Algernon Du Pont 100 Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting 50
Austin Barclay Fletcher 100 Henry J. Duveen 50
Walter Gcer 100 Charles Anthony Fowler 50
Charles Albert Gould 100 Mrs. James Hamilton Gill... 50
{ohn Gerald Hilliard 100 Alister Greene 50
Irs. Edwin Babcock Holden. 100 Franklin Ludwig Gunthcr 50
Mrs. John Sherman Hoyt .... 100 Edward S. Harkness 50
Woodbury Gersdorf Langdon 100 Frank Browne Keech 50
Marshall Oifford Leff erts . . 100 William Adams Kissam 50
Francis Lewis Leland 100 Katharine Thompson Martin 50
Mrs. Franklyn Hallett Lovell 100 Thomas J. O. Rhinelander.. 50
Robert Maxwell 100 Isaac Newton Seligman 50
Lloyd Phoenix 100 Mrs. Frank Sullivan Smith.. 50
Moses Taylor Pyne 100 Charles Dickinson Stickney.. 50
Philip Rhinelander 100 Henry Richmond Taylor 50
William Rockefeller 100 Hamilton Bullock Tompkins.. 50
F. Augustas Schermerhom.. 100 Alexander McMillan Wdch.. 50
172
The New Site of the New York Gen, and Biog, Society. [April
Howard Willcts 50
Tames Alfred Ellis 27
John Stillwell Applegate 25
Dwight Brainard Baker 25
Willard Goldthwaite Bixby ... 25
Emily Bailey Braman 25
George Tuttle Brokaw 25
Eleanor de Graff Cuyler 25
Joseph Paul Day 25
Maturin Livingston Delafield 25
John Stewart Durand 25
Charles Mason Dutcher 25
Mrs. Melatiah Everett Dwight 25
John French 25
William Edwards Fulton 25
Merrill Williams Galloway.. 25
John Milton Gardner 25
John Peter Haines 25
Bayard Hawthorne 25
William Henry Lefferts 25
Mrs. Russell Wellman Moore 25
George CHanlon, M. D 25
Andrew Joseph Onderdonk. . . 25
Mrs. Frederic Lamed Osgood 25
Edward Codman Parish 25
Howland Pell 25
Edmund Penfold 25
Cornelia Prime 25
William Ross 25
William Salomon 25
Mrs. Mary Floyd Seymour... 25
Robert Bowne Suckley 25
Theodore Sutro 25
Harry Bates Thayer 25
William Aug. Valentine, M. D. 25
A Member ; 25
Edward Motley Weld 25
Horace White 25
Mary Livingston Willard... 25
Edward Guyre Burgess 20
Mrs. Levi Holbrook 20
Douglas Merritt 20
Abraham G. Mills 20
Robert Latimer Redfidd 20
Mrs. Charles Francis Roe... 20
William Frederick Stafford.. 20
Mrs. Charles E. Sherman... 15
Fanning Cobham Tucker Beck 10
Andrew Arthur Benton 10
John L D. Bristol 10
George William Burleigh... 10
Rev. John Cornell 10
Henry Membiy W. Eastman. . 10
Frederick de Peyster Foster. . 10
William Con^dcll Fargo 10
Tames Francis Fargo 10
Frederick Keily Gaston 10
Frank Scott Gerrish 10
Richard Thurston Greene... 10
Susan Dannat Griffith 10
Edward Doubleday Harris.. 10
Mrs. Robert Hoc 10
Smith Ely Jelliffe, M. D 10
Mrs. Adrian Hoffman Joline. 10
Francis Effingham Laimbeer 10
Alrick Hubbel Man 10
Frederick K. Middlebrook.. 10
Henry Chapman Needham... 10
Mrs. Ansel Oppenheim.... 10
Henry Parsons 10
George Horace Perkins 10
Henry Axtell Prince 10
Mrs. Charles Lincoln Seabury 10
Mrs. George Beekman Shep-
pard 10
Elizabeth Almy Slade 10
Wilson Schuyler Smith 10
Ira Otis Tracy, M. D 10
Richard Webber 10
Lucy Dubois Akerly 5
Mrs. L Percy Blackman 5
Paul Gibson Burton 5
Mrs. Isabel H. Crombie 5
Murray Whiting Ferris 5
Winchester Fitdi 5
Mrs. Samuel Knapp Frost... 5
William Livermore Kingman 5
Edwin Scott Matthews 5
Alfred Brooks Merriam 5
Howard Stelle Fitz Randolph 5
William Alfred Robbins 5
Carlton Van Valkenburg. .... 5
William Gordon Ver Planck 5
Samuel Copp Worthen 5
Total $13,797
Subscriptions to the Building Fund Received in
December, 1913.
J. Pierpont Morgan 110,000
John Davison Rockefeller.. 10,000
Mrs. Frederick Ferris Thomp-
son 5,640
James Junius Goodwin 2,000
Clarence Winthrop Bo wen. 1,500
Mrs. Henry Draper 1,500
William Ross Proctor 1,500
Miss Emily F. Southmayd. 1,500
Miss Annie Burr Jennings. 1,250
William Isaac Walker
Andrew Carnegie
Charles Deering
James Douglas
Charles W. Harkness
Edward S. Harkness
Mrs. E. Henry Harriman. .
William Rockefeller
Mrs. Russell Sage
Mrs. William B. Dinsmore
1,078
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
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850
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173
George F. Baker 500
George Sullivan Bowdoin.. 500
Samuel Reading Bertron.. 500
William Bradhurst Osgood
Field 500
Mrs. Robert Hoc 500
Samuel Ver Planck Hoff-
man 500
Charles Griswold Thomp-
son 500
Frederick William Vander-
bilt 500
Richard Henry Williams. . . 500
{ames Stokes 400
Irs. Anson Phelps Stokes. 300
Felix Moritz Warburg 300
Col. Henry Algernon Du
Pont 250
Mrs. Adrian Hoffman Jo-
line 250
Francis L. Leland 250
Norman B. Ream 250
William Earle Dodge
Stokes 250
Samuel Thorne 250
Henry Sayre Van Duzer.. 250
Mrs. James M. Varnum 250
Mrs. Edwin Henry Weath-
erbee 250
Edward Dean Adams 200
iames Benedict 200
Irs. Amory Sibley Car-
hart 200
Mrs. F. A. Constable 200
Mrs. Melatiah Everett
Dwight 200
Ogden Mills 200
Samuel Putnam Avery 150
Mrs. WilUam Walter
Phelps 150
Hamilton Bullock Tomp-
kins 150
Miss Mary Livingston Wil-
lard 110
A Life Member 100
A Life Member 100
Dwight Brainard Baker 100
William Delavan Baldwin. . 100
Mrs. Thomas Smith Bass-
ford 100
Col. George Clinton Bat-
cheller 100
Willard Goldthwaite Bixby 100
Elihu Dwight Church 100
Banyer Clarkson 100
Edmund Cogswell Con-
verse 100
Rev. John Cornell 100
William Nelson Cromwell. 100
Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting.. 100
Eugene Delano 100
Chauncey M. Depew 100
Mrs. George Gosman De
Witt 100
Henry Russell Drowne 100
Miss Adelia A. Dwight.... 100
Ellsworth Everett Dwight. 100
Austin Barclay Fletcher... 100
Charles Anthony Fowler.. 100
Elbridge Thomas Gerry... 100
Henry Pierson Gibson .... 100
Mrs. James Hamilton Gill. . 100
Charles Albert Gould 100
Capt. Richard Henry Greene 100
Mrs. William L. Harkness. 100
Abraham Hatfield, Jr 100
John Gerald Hilliard 100
Clayton Wood Holmes... 100
Mrs. John Stewart Ken-
nedy 100
William Adams Kissam 100
Woodbury Gersdorf Lang-
don 100
Charles Lanier 100
Marshall Clifford Lefferts.. 100
Douglas Merritt 100
R. Burnham Moffat 100
Mrs. Russell Wellman
Moore 100
George Austin Morrison,
Sr 100
George Austin Morrison,
Jr 100
Hopper Striker Mott 100
Mrs. Henry Fairfield Os-
born 100
John E. Parsons 100
Howland Pell 100
Lloyd Phoenix 100
Moses Taylor Pyne 100
Henry Cole Qumby 100
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid 100
Philip Rhinelander 100
Thomas Jackson Oakley
Rhinelander 100
William Salomon 100
Isaac N. Seligman 100
Lawrence Eugene Sexton.. 100
Thomas Townsend Sher-
man 100
Mrs. William Watts Sher-
man 100
Mrs. Frank Sullivan Smith. 100
James Speyer 100
Francis Lynde Stetson.... 100
Charles Dickinson Stickney 100
John Edwin Stillwell, M. D. 100
Mrs. Willard D. Straight.. 100
Walter Lispenard Suydam. 100
James Talcott 100
Henry Richmond Taylor.. 100
John Reynolds Totten 100
Joseph Tuckerman Tower. 100
Dr. Ira Otis Tracy 100
John L Waterbury 100
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The New Site of the New York Gen, and Biog. Society,
[April
Edward Motley Weld 100
Mrs. Anna Chesebrough
Wildcy 100
Howard Willets 100
F. W. Woolworth 100
Tobias Alexander Wright. . 100
Royden Woodward Vos-
burgh 65
Prof. Bashford Dean SO
Henry Membry Western
Eastman 50
Edward Courtland Gale 50
Alister Greene 50
Roland Knoedler 50
Mrs. Frederick Larned Os-
good 50
Mrs. William Hunt Perry.. 50
William Poillon 50
Charles Hobby Pond 50
F. Augustus Schermerhorn 50
Mrs. Elliott F. Shepard.... 50
Mrs. , George Beekman
Sheppard , 50
Alexander McMillan Welch 50
John Stilwell Applegate 25
John Winthrop Auchincloss 25
James Cunningham Bishop 25
Charles Moore Bleecker... 25
George Blumenthal 25
Mrs. Harry Samuel Bowen 25
Ronald Edgar Ketchum
Brown 25
Edward Guyre Burgess.... 25
{ohn Caldwell Calhoun.... 25
lermann Henr^ Cammann 25
{ohn Adams Cfhurch 25
lenry Clews 25
Maturin Livingston Dela-
field 25
Miss Grace H. Dodge 25
Richard Everett Dwight... 25
Dr. William Kirby Dwight. 25
Lawrence Bogert Elliman . . 25
Henry Lane Eno 25
Winchester Fitch 25
Mrs. Montague Flagg 25
William Edwards Fulton.. 25
Merrill Williams Callaway ... 25
David Gardiner 25
John Milton Gardner 25
Frederick Keily Gaston. ... 25
Frank Scott Gerrish 25
Franklin Ludwi^ Gunther. . 25
John Peter Hames 25
Richard Hockman Handley 25
Bayard Hawthorne 25
Mrs. Levi Holbrook 25
Mrs. Edwin Babcock
Holden 25
Rev. George Clarke Hough-
ton, D. D 25
Smith Ely JelliflFe, M. D.. . . 25
Mrs. George Walker Jen-
kins 25
Charles Landon Jones 25
Frank Browne Keech 25
William Henry LeflFerts 25
Philip Livingston 25
Alrick Hubbel Man 25
Frederick Gregory Mather. 25
Robert Maxwell 25
Henry W. Munroe 25
Rev. Thomas White Nick-
erson 25
Andrew Joseph Onderdonk 25
Mrs. Ansel Oppenheim. . . 25
Mrs. Charles Parsons 25
Henry Parsons 25
Miss Cornelia Prime 25
Mrs. Erastus Gay lord Put-
nam 25
Hector Craig Fitz Ran-
dolph 25
Robert Latimer Redfield... 25
Herman Ridder 25
Mrs. Charles Francis Roe . . 25
William Ross 25
Mrs. Charles Lincoln Sea-
bury 25
Philip Henry Waddell
Smith 25
William Frederick StoflFord 25
John De Witt Sterry 25
Erastus Theodore Tefft 25
Mrs. George Winslow
Thacher 25
Harry Bates Thayer 25
Jonathan Thome 25
Frank Tilford 25
Henry Graff Trevor 25
Evert Jansen Wendell 25
Horace White 25
Mrs. George Luther Whit-
man 25
John Jabez Williams 25
Miss Helen Beach 20
William Seton Gordon 20
Francis Le Roy Satterlee,
M. D 20
Thomas B. Clarke 20
Dr. John Hendley Barnhart 15
Charles Harold Floyd 15
Miss Emma Habicht Lock-
wood 15
Arthur Charles Rounds.... 15
A Non Member 10
Mrs. Albro Akin 10
Frederick Innis Allen 10
Dr. Lemuel Bolton Bangs.. 10
Henry Wyckoff Belknap. . . 10
Charles Best Benson 10
Andrew Arthur Benton 10
William Denton Bloodgood 10
Charles F. Bostwick 10
Mrs. Henry Snowden Bouron 10
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The New SiU ofthi New York Gen, and Biog, Society.
175
Mrs. William Brookfield... 10
John Denison Champlin. . . 10
Charles Thomas Church... 10
James Austin Church 10
Albert Edward Cowdrey.. 10
Henry Everett Darling 10
Mrs. William Gilbert Da-
vies 10
George Toffey Davis 10
Edward Coleman Delafield 10
John Ross Delafield 10
William Maison du Bois... 10
John Steward Durand 10
Webster Cummings Estes. 10
James Francis Fargo 10
William Congdell Fargo... 10
Arnold William Francis ... 10
Richard Butler Glaenzer.. 10
Mrs. J. Warren Goddard. . . 10
Charles Edward Goodhue.. 10
De Forest Grant 10
Robert Hager 10
Miss Sarah Cooper Hewitt 10
A. Howard Hopping 10
Orrin Reynolds Judd 10
Richard Kalish, M. D 10
John Qapperton Kerr 10
William Mattoon King 10
Judson Alexander Lamon.. 10
Tohn Burling Lawrence. . . . 10
Mrs. James Marsland Law-
ton 10
Mrs. Thomas A. Lawton.. 10
James Henr^ Lea 10
Edward Livmgston Ludlow 10
Spencer Percival Mead 10
William Nelson 10
Miss Catherine Norwood.. 10
Miss Margaret Morris Nor-
wood 10
Howland Haggerty Pell... 10
Edward Bunnell Phelps 10
John Buckley Pine 10
Edward Truex Piatt 10
Mrs. Isaac Hull Piatt 10
Franklin Atkins Plummer. . 10
Charles Pryer 10
Josiah Collins Ptmipelly. . . 10
William Alfred Robbins... 10
Edmund Cook Sargeant. ... 10
Miss Marion Scofield 10
Mrs. Edward Searle 10
Abel L Smith 10
Charles Wadhams Stevens,
M. D 10
Charles Delamater Vail 10
Jeremiah Rutger Van Brunt 10
Miss Kathlyne Knicker-
backer Viele 10
Walter Phelps Warren 10
Miss Julia Chester Wells.. 10
Mrs. William Hartmann
Woodin 10
Edwin Dean Worcester 10
Wilbur Fenelon Young 10
Orville Burnell Acker ly. ... 5
William Benford Aitken 5
Miss Lucy Dubois Akerly.. 5
Lucius Barnes Barbour. ... 5
Miss Frances Baxter 5
William Sohier Bryant
M. D 5
Mrs. Harry Conrad Chris-
tianson 5
Franklin W. Christman. .. . 5
Francis Timothy Cuddy... 5
Mrs. Theodore de Laporte 5
M. O. Dellplain 5
Mrs. William Alexander
Ewing 5
Mrs. William E. Fuller.... 5
Marshall Winslow Greene. 5
Francis Butler Griffin 5
Mrs. John Jasper Heely... 5
Mrs. Augustus Thatcher
Holbrook 5
G. Fortunatus Judah 5
Reid Alexander Kathan 5
William Judson Lamson,
M. D 5
Clarence Ettienne Leonard 5
Miss Charlotte Lucia Liv-
ingston 5
Henry Chapman Needham. . 5
William Russell Prall, Sr... S
Rev. S. Ward Righter 5
Ferdinand Van Dervecr
Sanf ord 5
Mrs. Ruth R. M. See 5
Frank Dempster Sherman. 5
Henry Brengler Shope 5
Rev. William Jones Skill-
man 5
Miss Anne Elizabeth
Smith 5
Mrs. George Thomas Ste-
vens 5
Selah Brewster Strong.... 5
George Newell Vanderbilt. 5
Henry Alson Ward, M. D.. 5
Mrs. Nathan Herbert Weed 5
Alain Campbell White.... S
William Ra3miond Wilde.. 5
Louis Benjamin Wilson .... 5
Charles Keeler Winslow. . . 5
Miss Nettie Barnum Eells.. 2
Francis Johnstone Hopson 2
Emory Delos Lapham 2
William Scott Lyon 2
Mrs. Katherine Searle Mc-
Cartney 2
William QiflFord Moore 2
Total 165,110
1 76 The New Site of the New York Gen. and Biog, SocUty. [April
Notices from the Press.
The newspapers in New York gave in January particulars
of the purchase of the new site. Below are printed extracts from
the articles in the New York Times and in the New York Evening
Post.
SOCIETY TO BUILD A HOME.
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society purchased a site
for a new home yesterday at 122 to 126 East 58th Street, between Park and
Lexington Avenues. The site is now occupied by three four-story private
dwellings covering a frontage of 57 feet by 100 feet in depth. The house at
122 was bought from Prof. Alexander Lambert and the two others were
purchased from Henry B. Anderson. Although no plans for the new struc-
ture have been prepared, it is understood that building operations will begin
at an early date, as the present home of the Society, at 2^ West 58th Street,
near Broadway, has for many years been too small for its needs.
It was just a year ago diat the Society closed a campaign to raise a
building fund of $65,000. The late T. Pierpont Morgan, several months
before his death, offered to contribute $10,000 toward the fund provided the
members raise $55,000. In January the Society announced that the required
sum had been obtained. Since that time several sites have been under
consideration. The East 58th Street site was obtained several weeks ago by
Pease & Elliman.
The site is in the growing clubhouse district, between Fifth and Park
Avenues, just north of 59th Street On the Fifth Avenue comer of 62nd
Street the new home of the Knickerbocker Oub is nearing completion. The
Metropolitan Qub is at 60th Street, and at Park Avenue and 62nd Street,
the northwest comen the new home of the Colony Qub is being erected. A
short time ago the Calumet Qub left its old lower Fifth Avenue home for
the former H. B. Hollins residence in 56th Street, just off Fifth Avenue. The
Grolier Oub, which recently sold its present home in 32nd Street, near
Madison Avenue, is looking for a convenient site further uptown, and sd-
though no purchase has yet been made, it may join this new east side club
centre. Opposite the site just purchased are die Liederkranz Oub and a
public library branch building.
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society was organized
forty-six years ago, and its first home was at 124 West 54th Street, the
residence of the Vice-President, Dr. David Parsons Holden. Several re-
movals were made until 1896, when the present home at 226 West 58th Street
was presented to the Society by Mrs. Elizabeth Underbill Coles. A fireproof
addition, with a large assembly hall, was erected in the rear about ten years
ago.
The steady growth in membership and the large acquisitions to the
library made it necessary to look for larger quarters. The late Mr. Mor-
gan's offer of $10,000 started the building campaign, and among the con-
tributors were John D. Rockefeller, Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson. James
J. Goodwin, the late Mrs. Henry Draper, Andrew Carnegie, Miss Emily F.
Southmayd, Mrs. E. H. Harriman, William Rockefeller, Mrs. Russell Sage,
Edward S. Harkness, Charles Harkness, William R. Proctor, and Frederick
W. Vanderbilt.
The Society has a library of more than 20,000 volumes, almost ex-
clusively devoted to genealogy and local history.
—New York Times, Jan, i';,igij.
THE NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SOCIETY BUYS.
To erect a larger home for its growing activities, the New York Genea-
logical and Biographical Society has purchased the old dwellings at 122, 124
191 Sj ^^rly SettUrs of West Farms, Westchester County, N. Y. 177
and 126 East 58th Street, from Henry B. Anderson and Prof. Alexander
Lambert The site, 57 x 100.5, was obtained through Pease & Elliman, and
will be improved with a fund started last year, and to which the late J. P.
Morgan, who was a life member, subscribed $10,000. Other contributors
include John D. Rockefeller, Mrs. Russell Sage, George F. Baker, Andrew
Carnegie, James Junius Goodwin, Mrs. E. H. Harriman, and Mrs. Frederick
F. Thompson. The Society, organized about forty-six years ago, is now
housed in 226 West 58th Street, and has one of the finest and largest
biographical libraries in this country.
The Society's first home was at 124 West 54th Street, the residence of
the vice-president, Dr. David Parsons Holton, and later it moved to 54 East
25th Street, the home of the corresponding secretary and librarian, Dr.
William Frederic Holcombe. Subsequent locations were at Mott Memorial
Hall, 64 Madison Avenue, the Berkeley Lyceum, in West 44th Street, and in
1896 the Society moved to its present home, 226 West 58th Street, which it
owns. A fireproof addition was built ten years ago, but the growth of the
Society in recent years has been so marked that it has been found absolutdy
necessary to secure larger quarters.
The Society publishes a 100-page quarterljr magazine which has been in
continuous existence since 1869. Ilie new building will enable the Society
to enlarge its libranr and to form a collection of portraits of distinguished
Americans.— AT. K Evening Post, Jan. 18, iQij.
EARLY SETTLERS OP WEST FARMS, WESTCHESTER
COUNTY, N. Y.
Copied from the manuscript record of the late Rev. Theodore A. Legoett
by A. Hatfield, Jr.
(Continued from Vol. XLVI, p. 79> of the Rbcord.)
139. Esther* Leggett (Joseph,* Thomas,* Gabriel,* Gabriel'),
born March 31, 1795; ^^^^ Feb. 14, 1820. Married July 8, 1818,
Joseph W. Corlies, born ; died 1860; son of Briton and Sarah
Corlies of Shrewsbury, N. J.
We have no record of any children to Joseph W. and Esther
(Leggett) Corlies. Joseph W. Corlies married (2) Nov. 10, 182 j,
Lydia L. Titus, born , 1797; died Nov. 2, 1869, and had:
Alfred W., b. Dec. 5, 1826; Joseph W., b. March i, 1829; Eliza-
beth, b. ^ 1832; d. June 7, 1832.
Authorities:
Friends* Records, New York City.
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
Correction of record of descent of Charles Leggett (No. 67).
(Note by compiler.)
As was noted in vol. 45, p. 375, under Thomas* Leggett (No.
23), the statement made by Rev. T. A. Leggett that Charles
Leggett was a son of Thomas* Leggett, had not been proved to
the satisfaction of the compiler, but lacking proof to the con*
trary, the records were put in as they stood, with a querv as to
their correctness. Since the publication of these records, the
I 78 Early Settlers of West Farms, Westchester County, N. Y, [April
descent of Charles* Leggett (No. 67) has been established;
records have been found which prove him to have been the son
of Isaac* Leggett (No. 24) and his wife, Hannah Wiggins. The
corrected records are as follows (beginning with Isaac* Leggett,
p. 376):
24. Isaac* Leggett (Gabriel,* GabrielM, born at West Farms,
; died , before 1781; marriea Feb. 2, 1761, Hannah
Wiggins.
Child I (Leggett), a son:
+67 i. Charles,* b. Sept. 17, 1762; d. Aug. 14, 1834; m. Phebc
Williams. (As it is not possible to change the num-
bers throughout the line, we are merely transferring
No. 67 from its former place under Thomas* Leggett,
to this, the proper place for the record of Charles.)
AUTHOKITIES :
New York Marriages, p. 229.
Friends* Records, Queensbury, N. Y.
Notable Americans, vol. 6.
67. (Vol. 46, p. 70.) Charles* Leggett ^Isaac,* Gabriel,* Gab-
riel*), born at Westchester, Sept. 17, 1762; died at Chester, Warren
Co., N. Y., death recorded at Queensbury, N. Y., Aug. 14, 1834,
aged 72 years, 10 months, 28 days; married Phebe Williams (or
Wilson?).
Children 8 (Leggett), 4 sons and 4 daughters:
+140
i.
Isaac,* b. ; d. ; m. Mary Strong.
141
ii.
Benjamin, b. ; d. ; m. .
+142
iii.
Samuel, b. ; d. ; m. .
+ i42a
iv.
Wilson, b. ; d. ; m. Eunice Haight.
-♦-142b
V.
Hannah, b. ; d. ; m. Stephen Brown.
+ 142C
vi.
Rebecca, b. ; d. ; m. Isaac Starbuck.
+ i42d
vii.
Mary, b. ; d. ; m. Benjamin Battey.
i42e
viii.
Susannah, b. ; d. ; m. Feb. 4, 1824, Samuel
Peasley, son of Micajah and Jane Peasley of Peru,
Clinton Co., N. Y. (No further record.)
The record of birth of Charles* Leggett is taken from the
death record, as found in the Friends' Records of Queensbury,
Warren Co., N. Y., the record reading as follows: "Charles
Leggett, died 14-8-1834, aged 72 years, 10 months, 28 days, of
Isaac and Hannah;*' thus establishing both the date of his birth
and his parentage. We do not find the maiden name of his wife
amongst the Friends* Records, but in the biographical sketch of
General Mortimer D. Leggett {^Notable Americans^ vol. 6), it is
stated that he, Mortimer, was the grandson of Charles Leggett
and Phebe Williams; but the fact that one and probably the
the eldest of their sons was named " Wilson ** might indicate that
her name was not Williams but Wilson.
The arrangement of the children is probably not the correct
one, but failing any birth dates, the three sons named by Rev. T.
A. Leggett are ^iven first, and the others arranged according to
the dates of their marriages. The record of Isaac*s marriage is
!9i5'l Early Settlers of West Farms, WesUhester County, N. Y. 1 79
from the biography mentioned above, but it is probable that
Wilson was the eldest son, and Isaac one of the younger children.
The names of Benjamin and Samuel are only found in Rev. Mr.
Leggctt's record.
In the marriage records of their children, Charles and Phebe
arc called "of Chester, Warren Co., N. Y." Nov. i, 1838, Phebe
Leggett removed to Scipio, Cajruga Co., N. Y., where her daughter
Hannah, wife of Stephen Brown was then living. No record of
the death of Phebe Leggett, widow of Charles has been found.
AuTHOKinEs :
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Lezgett.
Fricnas' Records, Qaeensbury, Warren Co., N. Y.
Friends' Records, Hudson, Columbia Co., N. Y.
Notable Americans, vol. 6.
140. Isaac* Leggett (Charles,* Isaac,* Gabriel,* Gabriel'),
bom ; d. ; resided for a time in or near Ithaca, N. Y., re-
moved to eastern Ohio in 1836, and settled on a farm. He married
Mary Strong, daughter of James Strong and Eleanor Denton.
Children? (Leggett), a son, and probably other children:
+as4 i. Mortimer Dormer,* b. April 19, 1821; d. Jan. 6, 1896;
m. (i) Marilla Wells; m. (2) Weltha Post.
Authorities:
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
National Cychpadia of American Bio^afihy, vol. 2, p. 350.
Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography,
142. Samuel* Leggett (Charles,* Isaac,* Gabriel,* Gabriel*^,
bom ; died ; married . We have no records of his
wife's name or parentage.
Children 4 (Leggett), 3 sons and i daughter:
Isaac,* b. ; d. ; m. .
John, b. \ d. ; m. .
Lichard W., b. — »— '; d. — — ; m. -,
Lydia, b. — »— ; d. ; m. .
Authorities:
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett
142 A. Wilson* Leggett (Charles,* Isaac,* Gabriel,* Gabriel*),
bom ; d. ; resided at Hudson, Columbia Co., N. Y., at
time of marriage; removed to Chester, N. Y., 1815. He married,
at Hudson, Aug. 24, 1809, Eunice Haight, daughter of David and
Phebe Haight of Chatham.
Children ? (Leggett), 2 daughters, and possibly other children,
i. Eliza Ann,* b. ; d. ; m. .
ii. Ruth, b. ; d. ; m. .
Authorities :
Friends* Records, Hudson, Columbia Co., N. Y,
142B. Hannah* Liggett (Charles,* Isaac,* Gabriel,* Gabriel*),
bom ; d. ; married at Chester, Warren Co., N. Y., March
7, 1810, Stephen Brown, son of Justus and Desire Brown of
Queensbury, Warren Co., N. Y. They removed to Scipio, Cajruga
Co., N. Y., Feb. 2, 1837.
^^s
i.
256
ii.
aS7
iii.
aS8
iv.
l8o Early Settlers of West Farms, WestchesUr C<mnfy, N. K [April
Children 7 (Brown), 3 sons and 4 daughters:
1. Phebe L./ b. ; d. ; m. .
ii. Lidia, b. ; d. ; m. .
iii. Hulda, b. ; d. ; m. .
iv. Benjamin W., b. ; d. ; m. .
V. David, b. ; d. ; m. .
vi. Isaac L., b. ; d. ; m. .
vii. Abigail, b. ; d. ; m. .
Authorities :
Friends* Records, Queensbury, N. Y.
142c. Rebecca* Leggett (Charles,* Isaac,* Gabriel,* Gabriel'),
born at Saratoga. Saratoga Co., N. Y., Sept. 9, 1791; died ;
married, at Chester, Warren Co., N. Y., April 7, 1813, Isaac Star-
buck, born at Stillwater, Saratoga County, N. Y., Dec. 30, 1787;
died at Hartland, Niagara Co., N. Y., March 22, 1844; son of
James and Content Starbuck. They removed to Scipio, Cayuga
Co., 1815, and from there to Hartland, Niagara Co., N. Y., about
1820.
Children 8 (Starbuck), 3 sons and 5 daughters:
i. William,* b. at Chester, Aug. 30, 1813; d. ; m. ,
ii. James, b. at Scipio, Sept. 5, 1815; d. ; m. .
iii. Charles L., b. at Scipio, Jan. 23, 1817; d. ; m. .
iv. Phoebe C, b. at Hartland, March 30, 1820; d. ;
m. .
V. Delia, b. Oct. 28, 1824; d. ; m. .
vi. Ariadne, b. July 3, 1825; d. ; m. .
vii. Susan E., b. May 8, 1828; d. ; m. .
viii. Harriet, b. Dec. 27, 1831; d. .
Authorities:
Friends* Records, Queensbury, Warren Co,, N. Y.
Friends' Records, Hartland, Niagara Co., N. V.
142D. Mary* Leggett ^Charles,* Isaac,* Gabriel,* Gabriel*), bom
; died ; marriea at Chester, Warren Co., N. Y., July 10,
1816, Benjamin Battey, son of Nicholas and Thankful Battev, of
Starksborough, Addison Co., Vt. They, with six minor chilareuy
were granted removal certificate from Queensbury, N, Y., to
Richland, Oswego Co., N. Y., Dec. 29, 1831.
Children 6 (Battey), 2 sons and 4 daughters:
i. Susan L.,* b. ; d. ; m. .
ii. Lydia, b. ; d. ; m. .
iii. Phebe L., b. ; d. ; m. .
iv. Isaac Newton, b. ; d. ; m. .
V. Benjamin Wilson, b. March 12, 1828; d. ; m. .
vi. Ruth Leggett, b. Dec. 26, 1829; d. ; m. .
Authorities:
Friends* Records, Queensbury, N. Y.
143. Mary* Leggett (Isaac,* Thomas,* Gabriel,* Gabriel*), bom
Jan. 10, 1779; died ; married Joseph Bowne.
Children 7 (Bowne), 5 sons and 2 daughters:
igiS-l Early SettUrs of West Farms, WestchesUr County, N. Y. i8l
as9 i. Richard/ b. ; d. ; m. .
a6o ii. Abigail, b. ; d. ; m. .
261 iii. Samnely b. ; d. ; m
262 iv. Rebecca, b. ; d. ; 1
263 V. George, b. ; d. ; m
264 vi. Joseph, b. ; d. ; m
26s vii. William, b. ; d
9
m.
AUTHORITIBS:
Family Record of John Leggett.
Family Record of Kev. T. A. Leggett.
145. Samuel* Lbggett (Isaac,* Thomas,' Gabriel," Gabriel*),
bom April 4, 1783; died when quite a young man, though the
exact date is not known; married Susanna . His widow
married (a) a Mr. Hare.
Children 2 (Leggett) daughters:
266 i. Mary,* b. ; d. ; m. LeBaron Goodwin.
267 ii. Sarah, b. ; d. ; m. Isaac Deuel.
Authorities:
Family Record of John Leggett.
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
146. Isaac* Leggett (Isaac,^ Thomas,* Gabriel,* Gabriel*), born
March 3, 1784; died Dec. 21, 1857; married Nancy Russell.
Children 8 (Leggett), 4 sons and 4 daughters:
268 i. Eliza,* b. ; d. ; m. .
269 ii. Samuel, b. ; d. ; m. .
270 iii. Lydia, b. ; d. ; m. .
271 iv. Peleg, b. ; d. ; m. .
272 V. Rebecca, b. ; d. ; m. .
273 vi. Alfred, b. ; d. ; m. •
274 vii. Barnabas, b. ; d. ; m. .
275 viii. Mary Ann, b. ; d. ; m. .
Authorities:
Family Record of John Leggett.
Family Record of Kev. T. A. Leggett
147. Benjamin* Leggett (Isaac,^ Thomas,* Gabriel,* Gabriel'),
bom Feb. 2, 1786; died ; married Rebecca . Ben-
jamin Leggett resided in Butternuts, Otsego Co., N. Y.
Children 5 (Leggett), 4 sons and i daughter:
276 i. John,* b. ; d. in infancy.
277 ii. Isaac, b. ; d. ; m. .
278 iii. Edward, b. ; d. ; m. .
279 iv. Charity, b. ; d. ; m. .
280 V. John, D. ; d. ; m.
Authorities:
Family Record of John Leggett.
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
148. Joseph* Leggett (Isaac,* Thomas,* Gabriel,* Gabriel"), bom
Jan. I, 1788; died ; married Fanny Johnson.
Children 6 (Leggett), 3 sons and 3 daughters:
281 i. George A.,* b. ; d. Aug. 16, 1902; m. .
12
1 82 Early Settlers of West Farms, WesUhester County, N. Y. [April
282 ii. Jane, b. ; d. — ; m.
283 lii. Rebecca, b. ; d. ; m.
284 iv. Edwin, b. ; d. ; m. —
285 V. Sarah, b. ; d. ; m.
286 vi. Isaac, b. ; d. ; m. .
Authorities:
Family Record of John Leggett.
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
149. Abraham* Leggett (Isaac,* Thomas,* Gabriel,* Gabriel'),
bom Jan. 13, 1790; died Nov. 25, 1861. He married May 26, 1813,
Sarah Deuel, born March 25, 1792; died May 14, 1875; daughter
of Abner Deuel and Abigail Tripp, who were bom at Dartmouth,
Mass., married there in 1780; removed to White Creek, Washing-
ton Co., N. Y., in 1800, and in 1809 to Saratoga Co., N. Y.
Children 7 (Leggett), 4 sons and 3 daughters:
+287 i. Abraham William,* b. Sept. 15, 1814; d. Dec. 6, 1899;
m. Phebe Briggs.
-1-288 ii. Mary P., b. Nov. 13, 1818; d. March 28, 1885; m.
Charles F. Swain.
-^289 iii. Maria W., 1 b. Aug. a6, i8ao; d. Jan. 6, 1853; m. Zebu-
> twins. Ion Mott.
290 iv. Rosanna, ) b. Aug. 36, 1820; d. Sept. i, 1830.
291 V. Robert H., b. April a8, 1825; d. June 7, 1826.
-^292 vi. Joseph B., b. Jan. 14, 1828; d. July 25, 1894; m. Alice
E. Marks.
293 vii. John (H.), b. June 2, 1835; d. June 22, 1909; m. .
Authorities:
Family Record of John Leggett.
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
150. John* Leggett (Isaac,* Thomas,* Gabriel,* Gabriel*), born
Jan. I, 1792; died Jan. 28, 1849; married at Troy, N. Y., Nov. 6,
1823, Sarah H, Arnold, born Aug. 7, 1795; died July 25, 1873,
aged 78 years.
Children 5 (Leggett), 2 sons and 3 daughters:
394 i. Maria A.,* b. Jan. 29, 1825; d. May 24, 1891, unm.
295 ii. Mary B., b. Sept. 9, 1826; d. Jan. 23, 1887, unm.
296 iii. James K., b. Nov. 13, 1828 (Friends' Record, Nov. 8,
1827); d. July 17, 1885; m. .
297 iv. Elizabeth A., b. Nov. 11, 1830; d. June 26, 1839.
298 V. Isaac G., b. Aug. 13, 1833; d. Oct. 23, 1887; m. .
Authorities:
Friends' Records, New York City,
Family Record of John Leggett.
Family Record of Kev. T. A. Leggett.
153. Rebecca I.* Leggett (Isaac,* Thomas,* Gabriel,* Gabriel*),
born Nov. 14, 1797; died May 27, 1857. She married at West-
chester, Oct. 20, 1819, Andrew Dorland, born July 2, 1794; died
April 9, 1883; son of Samuel and Rebecca Dorland. Andrew
Dorland was a Friend, and was for many years minister of the
Friends' Meetings in Stillwater, Saratoga Co., N. Y.
Children 7 (Dorland), 4 sons and 3 daughters:
1915.] Early Settlers of West Farms, WesUhesur County, N. Y, 183
299 i. Maria L.,* b. Oct. 13, 1820; d. April 12, 1886; tn. .
300 ii. Charlotte F., b. April 16, 1822; d. Feb. 21, 1881;
m. .
301 iii. William L., b. Feb. 2, 1824; d. April 22, 1887; m. .
302 iv. Edward H., b. March 2, 1826; d. Sept. 8, 1901;
m. .
303 V. Philip S., b. Dec. 13, 1834; d. ; m.
304 vi. Elizabeth, b. Nov. 21, 1836; d. June 24, 1856, unm.
305 vii. Isaac L., b. Feb. 24, 1838; d. Feb. 7, 1908; m. .
Authorities:
Friends* Records, New York City.
Family Record of John Leggett.
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
154. RosANNA P.* Leggett (Isaac/ Thomas,* GabrieV Gabriel"),
bom Oct. 27, 1799; died Dec. 23, 1868. She married Aug. 14,
1822, Robert M. Hicks, born March 15, i793(?); died ; son
of Benj. and Mary Hicks(?). (The Friends' marriage record of
Robert M. Hicks and Rosanna P. Leggett states that he was the
son of Benjamin, deceased, and Mary Hicks of North Hemp-
stead, L. I.; in the Friends' births we find Robert of Isaac and
Sarah born, 15 day, 3 month, 1793, which is the date of birth
which Mr. John Leggett gives.)
Children 5 (Hicks), 2 sons and 3 daughters:
306 i. Maria L.,* b. April 17, 1823; d. ; m. (i)
Valk; m. (2^ Courtney.
307 ii. Matilda, b. Nov. 15, 1824; d. March 3, 1884; m.
Richard F. Haviland, b. Dec. 5, 1819; d. Oct. 4, 1898;
and had two children, Maria L., and Robert H.
308 iii. Benjamin L., b. ; d. ; m. .
309 iv. Willett, b. Nov. 4, 1831; d. ; m. .
310 V. Elizabeth, b. ; d. ; m. .
Authorities:
Friends* Records, New York City.
Family Record of John Leggett.
Family Record of Kev. T. A. Leggett
155. Maria* Leggett (Isaac,^ Thomas,* Gabriel,* GabrielM, bom
Sept. 13, 1803; died Jan. 8, 1882. She married Israel Watson,
bom Sept. 15, 1797; died Sept. 12, 1869.
Children 7 (Watson), i son and 6 daughters:
311 i. Emmeline A.,* b. ; d. ; m. .
312 ii. Jemima H., b. ; d. ; m. .
313 iii. Amelia C, b. ; d. ; m. .
314 iv. William, b. ; d. ; m. .
315 V. Marie Antoinette, b. ; d. ; m. .
316 vi. Rebecca, b, Jan. 31, 1833; d. May 7, 1889; m. .
317 vii. Martha V., b. ; d. ; m. .
Authorities:
Family Record of John Leggett.
Family record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
156. Phoebe G.* Leggett (Isaac,* Thomas,* Gabriel,* Gabriel'),
bora Westchester, Jan. 8, 1821; died Hudson, N. Y., March 14,
184 Early SettUrs of West Farms, Westchester County. N. V. [April
1889. She married, in New York, April 27, 1869, Paul Bunker,
born July 3, 1805; died Dec. 6, 1876; son of Reuben and Abigail
Bunker. Paul and Phoebe (Leggett) Bunker had no children.
Authorities:
Friends* Records. New York City.
Family Record of John LeggeU.
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett
157. Samuel* Leggett (Thomas,* Thomas,* Gabiiey Gabriel'),
t>om Oct. 4, 1782; d. Jan. 5, 1847; resided in Flushing in 1840.
He married Elizabeth Powell, bom ; died April 17, 1849.
Children 8 (Leggett), 2 sons and 6 daughters.
318 i. Elizabeth,* b. ; d. ; m. .
+319 ii. Mary E., b. ; d. ; m. Barney Corse.
+320 iii. William P., b. ; d. ; m. Sarah C. Hull.
+321 iv. Charlotte P., b. ; d. ; m. William H. Schermer-
horn.
322 V. Martha, b. ; d. ; m. Benjamin Cox, b. about
1812; d. ; son of Abram and Susan (Wright)
Cock. No issue.
4-323 vi. Rebecca P., b. ; d. ; m. Thomas S. Willetts.
324 vii. Margaret, b. Dec. 13, 1825; d. Oct. 11, 1831.
+325 viii. Samuel, b. Sept. 10, 1828; d. ; m. Ann Eliza .
Authorities:
Bolton. R., History of Westchester, vol. 2, p. 446.
Friends* Records, New York City.
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
158. Joseph* Leggett (Thomas,* Thomas,* Gabriel,* Gabriel'),
bom Jan. s, 1785; died before Nov. i, 1852. He married, about
1808, Elizabeth Jenkins.
Children 6 (Leggett), 3 sons and 3 daughters:
James Shaw,* b. Sept. 14, 1809; d. ; m. .
Caroline, b. April 15, 1811; d. Jan. 4, 1833, aged 21
W^ears.
illiam Jenkins, ) b. July 17, 1813; d. Aug. 19, 1818;
\ twins. aged 5 years.
m. Lewis W. Sturtevant.
330 V. Sally Ann, b. ; d. ; m. Gustavus A. Benson.
No issue.
331 vi. Edward William, b. June 19, 1818; d. Peb. 3, 1828;
aged 9 years.
Joseph* Leggett was a merchant in New York City during a
part of his life, but in his will he calls himself '' late of Phila-
delphia.'' In his will, dated Oct. 4, 1850, proved, New York,
Nov. 1, 1852, he mentions his wife, Elizabeth^ daughter Sally Ann
Leggett ^so that she was probably not married at that date), son
James Snaw Leggett, and his late father, Thomas Leggett.
Executors: his brother-in-law, George S. Fox, and his friend,
Joseph Walker.
Authorities:
Bolton, R«, History of Westchester, vol. 2, p. 446.
3»7
i.
ii.
3a8
iii.
+329
iv.
Mary Haight, ) b, July 17, 1813; d. July 21, 1849;
1915.] Early SeUlers of West Farms, Westchester County, N, Y, 1 85
Friends* Records, New York City.
New York City Surrogate's Office. Wills. Liber 106, p. 63.
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
159. Charlotte* Leggett (Thomas,* Thomas/ Gabriel,* Gab-
riel*), bom August I a, 1787; died June i, 187 1; married June 9,
1808, William W. Fox, born Sept. a6, 1783; died March i, 1861.
William W. Pox was a son of George Fox and his first wife, Lydia.
Children 3 (Pox), 2 sons and i daughter:
33a i. George S.,* bom Nov. 6, 1809; d. ; m. Oct. 9,
i833» Maria Clark, b. Jan. 31, i8ia; d. July 8, 1836;
dau. of Benjamin and Deborah M. Clark, and had:
j[i) William W., b. Aug. aa, 1834; d. March. 9, 187 1, no
issue, (a) Sarah, b. Dec. 34, 1835; d. May aa, 1836.
333 ii. Thomas Leggett, b. Oct. 6, 181 1; d. Feb. 5, 1853, unm.
334 iii. Mary Lydia, b. March 15, i8i6; d. Dec. a9, 1897; m.
, i836(?), Francis A. Tiflfany of Boston, and had:
li) George P., b. April 5, 1837; d. Feb. la, 1868, unm.
(a) Lyman, b. May ai. 1838; m. Sarah Stanton, and
has five children. (3) Francis, b. Nov. 2$^ 1839; d.
March 19, 1868, unm. (4) Henry Dyer, b. Dec. 13,
1841; m. Caroline C. Poxhurst, and has six children.
($\ Charlotte, b. Sept. i, 1843; ni. Miner Trowbridge.
(6) Mary P., b. May 9, 1847; d. Sept. a;, 1885; m.
George P. Tucker, and had one son. (^y Isabella,
b. Nov. s, 1850; d. May aa, 1887; m. Charles P.
Perry, and had six sons.
Authorities:
Bolton, R., History of Westchester, vol. 2, p. 446.
Friends' Records, New York City.
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett
160. William Haight* Leggett (Thomas,^ Thomas,* Gabriel,*
Gabriel'), bom April 15, 1789; resided at Rosebank, West Farms;
died Dec. a a, 1863. William H. Leggett married at the Brick
Presbjrterian Church, New York City, Dec. a8, 1814, Margaret
Wright.
Children 9 (Leggett), 8 sons and i daughter:
+335 i. Catherine Maria,' b. ; d. ; m. before 1861,
William M. Allen.
+33^ ii- Jp^° W-> ^' y ^- about 1887; m. Mary E. .
+337 iii- Francis W., b. ; d. , 1907; m. Laura Acker.
+338 iv. Augustus W., b. ; d. ; m. Eliza Seaman.
+339 V. Edward W., b. ; d. ; m. Susan Post.
+340 vi. Samuel M., b. ; d. ; m. Julia Coles.
341 vii. William H., Jr., b. Oct. a, i8a7; d. June 8, 1839, aged
I yr., 8 mo.
+34a viii. Thomas B., b. ; d. ; m. Sarah Huggins.
+343 ix. George P., b. ; d. , 1887; m. Charlotte L.
Macy.
William H. Leggett was a merchant in New York City, and a
very wealthy man for his day. In his will, dated Oct. at, 1861,
proved in New York, Jan. 19, 1864, he makes bequests to his wife,
I2A
1 86 Early StUiers of West Farms, Westchester County, N. Y. [April
Margaret W., daughter Catharine Maria, wife of William M.
Allen, sons John W., Francis W., Augustus W., Edward W.,
Samuel M., Thomas B. and George F.
Authorities:
Bolton, R., History of Westchester, vol. 2, p. 446.
New York Surrogate's Office. Wills. Liber 152, p. 194.
Friends* Records, New York City.
Records of the Brick Church, New York City.
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
162. Thomas* Leggett, called Thomas, Jr. (Thomas,* Thomas,*
Gabriel,* Gabriel*), born Tan. 30, 1793; resided in New York City,
and later in Flushing, L. I.; died at Flushing, Jan. 8, 1865 (8-i-
1865, according to the Friends' death records, but 1-8-1865, or
Aug. I, according to their burial ground record). He married, as
his first wife, April 11, 1816, Anna Farrington, bom Dec. 25,
1793; died March 16, 1833; daughter of Walter and Mary Far-
rington. Thomas Leggett, Jr., married secondly, Oct. 26, 1836,
Patience Haydock.
Children 9 (Leggett), i son and 8 daughters. By first wife:
344 i. Walter F.,* b. Tan. 26, 1817; d. ; m. . One
record gives his name as William F., but several
other records give it as Walter, and it seems prob-
able that he was so named for his mother's father.
Sarah, b. Oct. 5, 1818; d. in childhood.
Catherine F., b. July 23, 182 1; d. March 25, i9oi,unm.
Mary, b. ; d. ; m. Parsons.
Sarah F., b. June 23, 1830; d. , 1905, unm,
Anna F., b. July — , 1832; d. Feb. 10, 1833, aged 7
months.
By second wife:
+350 vii. Anna Farrington, b. Aug. 10, 1837; d. ; m. Joseph
T. Moore.
+351 viii. Caroline H., b. Sept. 11, 1842; d. ; m. Brooks.
+352 ix. Susan H., b. ; d. ; m. Thomas.
Authorities:
Friends* Records, New York City, and Flushing, N. Y.
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
Bohon, R., History of Westchester, vol. 2, p. 446.
163. Anna* Leggett (Thomas,* Thomas,' Gabriel,* Gabriel"),
bom Aug. 2, 1795; died . Anna Legeett married May 11, 1814,
Samuel F. Mott, born Feb. 7, 1789, son of Samuel and Sarah Mott,
Children 8 (Mott), i son and 7 daughters:
Caroline,* b. March 26, 1815; d. , 1830.
Margaret, b. Sept. 8, 1818; d. ; m. (1) George
Ring; m. (2) Lindley Murray Hoffman.
Louisa R., b. Sept. 11, 1820; d. ; m. .
Samuel F., Jr., b. Sept. 22, 1822; d. ; m. .
Charlotte F., b. Aug. 9, 1824; d. Aug. i, 1826.
Emily, b. ; d. ; m. .
Virginia, b. ; d. ; m. .
viii. Ann Elizabeth, b. March 17, 1835; d. Jan. 19, 1842.
345
346
ii.
iii.
347
348
iv.
V.
349
vi.
353
i.
354
ii.
355
iii.
356
iv.
357
V.
358
vi.
359
vii.
360
viii.
191 5 ) ^f^rly Settlers of West Farms^ Westchester County, N, Y, 187
Authorities :
Friends* Records, New York City, and Flushing, N. Y.
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
165. Rebecca* Leggett (Thomas,* Thomas/ Gabriel,' Gabriel*),
born Feb. 7, 1799; d. April 14, 1878, aged 79 years, a months, 7
days. She married, at Westchester, June 16, 18 19, George S. Fox,
bom Sept. 30, 1796; died June 29, 1864, aged 67 years, 9 months;
son of George Fox and his second wife Esther. George S. Fox was
a half-brother to William W. Fox, who married Charlotte Leg-
gett, sister to Rebecca.
Children 5 (Fox), a sons and 3 daughters:
361 i. Esther F.,* b. June 29, 1820; d. Oct. 24, 1893; m. Jan.
II, 1849, James W. Tucker, b. \ d. ; son of
James W. and Harriet Tucker, and had one son,
Ernest.
362 ii. Eliza L., b. Aug. 10, 1822; d. April 6, 1891; m. (i^ April
II, 1854, Benjamin Merritt, b. April i6, i8io; a. ;
son of Nehemiah and Phebe Merritt; m. (2) as his
second wife, June 6, 1874, Jonathan Thorne, b.
April 20, 1801; d. Oct. 9, 1884; son of Samuel and
Phebe Thorn of Washington, Dutchess Co., N. Y.
Jonathan Thorne married (i) July 9, 1823, Lydia
Ann Corse, bom Nov. 30, 1805; d. Oct. 14, 1872;
daughter of Israel and Lydia, and sister of Barney
Corse who m. Mary E. Leggett (No. 319^, and their
son, Edwin Thome, m. Charlotte Pearsall (No. 366).
363 iii. George Henry, b. Oct. 10, 1824; d. ; m. , and
had a son, Austin G., and a daughter Rebecca.
364 iv. William J., b. Nov. 4, 1827; d. Aug. 12, 1888; m.
Bertha .
365 V. Anna, b. ; d. ; m. Augustus Schell.
Authorities:
Friends' Records, New York City, and Purchase, Westchester Co., N. Y.
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett
167. Mary* Leggett (Thomas,* Thomas,' Gabriel,* Gabriel*),
born Jan. 13, 1803; died July 20, 1878, aged 75 years, 6 months,
2 days, by death record. Mary Leggett married, at Westchester,
April 14, 1824, Thomas W. Pearsall, bora Dec. 8, 1795; d. ;
son of Edmond and Rachel Pearsall.
Children 6 (Pearsall), 3 sons and 3 daughters:
366 i. Charlotte,* b. Jan. — , 1825; d. July 3, 1867; m. May 6,
1857, Edwin Thorne, b. ; d. ; son of Jona-
than and Lydia Ann Thome, and had: (i) Thomas
P.; (2) Chester; (3) Oakleigh.
367 ii. Anna, b. July 29, 1826; d. ; m. .
368 iii. Caroline, b. , 1828; d. July — , 1832, aged 4 years.
369 iv. Edward, b. ^ 1830; d. June 6, 1832, aged 2 years,
3 months.
370 V. Thomas W., Jr., b. ; d. ; m. Pauline Spoflford,
and had: (i) Charlotte T.; (2) Mary L.; (3) Paul S.;
(4) Thomas W.
1 88 Corrections and Additions to^ Published Genealogical Works, [April
371 vi. Robert W., b. Aug. 30, 1833; d. May 29, 1871; m. July
2, i860, Elizabeth W. Phelps, daughter of Thomas
W. and Elizabeth B. Phelps, and had a son Harold.
AuTHOsmES :
Friends* Records, New York City, Flushing, N. Y., Purchase, N. Y.
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
(To be continued.)
CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS TO PUBLISHED
GENEALOGICAL WORKS.
Every gleaner in the field of genealogical research has met with errors in
printed volumes which, left by themselves, carry mistaken conclusions to the
end of time. This department has been inaugurated in an endeavor to correct
such spurious data. Readers are requested to forward for publication here
every such error, and such further additions to printed genealogies as are
found, that due correction may be made. The authority for the statement
must be furnished, with name and address of contributor.
25. Andrews — Andrus — Andross — Corrections and Additions.
Miss Caulkins, in her History of Norwich^ Conn, (1866), under
the above names (pp. 222 and 223), gives the following: "Jere-
miah Andrews admitted 7 May, 1714. John Andrews, Sr., ad-
mitted 1716. They were probably sons of Francis Andrews who
died at Fairfield in 1663, ^"d in his will enumerated nine children,
among whom were John and Jeremiah. John Andrews, Jr., ad-
mitted 1716. John and Sarah, children of John Andross, Jr., were
baptized July 5, 1713. David and Benjamin Andross appear also
as inhabitants about 171 5.**
More recent investigations have proved that this Norwich
Andrews-Andrus family were descended from Lieut. John An-
drews of Chebacco Parish, now Essex, Mass. John,* the eldest
son of Lieut. John^ Andrews, bought land in 1704 on the east side
of the Shetucket River, and removed to that place with his wife
Judith (Belcher) and his eight children, among whom were the
above John, Jeremiah, David and Benjamin. The descendants of
this branch of the family have spelt the name Andrus, Andros, or
Andross. Essex Probate Files; Norwich Land Records^ Book 2b,
p. 909; KnowUon Ancestry^ p. 23; Norwich ToTvn Records,
Spalding — Andrus.
In the Spalding Memorial (1897), by Charles Warren Spaldin
it is stated (p. 70) that Lydia, daughter of Thomas' (Joseph,* Ed-
ward^) Spalding, born 9 Dec, 1729, married Mr. Andrus. The
full name should be Benjamin Andrus. He was son of Benjamin*
and Ann (Mix) Andrus (John,* Lieut. John^ Andrews). Plainfield
Probate Records^ vol. 4, p. 266; Norwich Probate Files^ Jan. 12, 1762.
Holmes — Andrus — Sterry.
In Wheeler's History of Stonington^ Conn. (1900), there are some
inaccuracies in the genealogy of the Holmes family. I give here
IQISO CorrecHons and Additions to Published Genealogical Works. 1 89
one correction that I am certain of. Wheeler says that Temperance
Holmes, born 27 Jan., 1728, daughter of John and Abigail (Frink)
Holmes, married Roger Sterry. It was Abigail, daughter of this
same John, who married Roger Sterr>s 4 May, 1748, while Temp-
erance married 7 Oct, 1747, Daniel Andrus. This is proved by
the will of their father, Capt John Holmes, which is dated March
1, 1783, and mentions daughters Temperance "Andris" (quotation
marks are mine) and Abigail Sterry (Stonington Prob. Records).
The parentage of this Daniel Andrus has not been positively
proven, but the circumstantial evidence is so strong that there is
scarcely room for doubt that he was the Daniel Andrus, baptized
at Preston, Conn., 14 April, 1723, son of David* and Hannah
(Haskell) Andrus (John,^ Lieut. Tohn^ Andrews of Chebacco
Parish). Was he the father of Jucfge John Holmes Andrus, born
in 1768, and who lived later in Danby and Pawlet, Vt.? Can any-
one throw light on this point?
MRS. THOMAS D. GOODELL, New Haven, Conn.
26. Gaylord— Westcott — Correction.
In vol. i, pp. 446-47, of the Early Connecticut Probate Records^
Hartford District^ idjs-iyoo^ by Manwaring, in the abstract of the
will of Samuel Gaylord, Senior, 4th line from bottom, it reads:
"I give to my daughter Abigail, wife oi Joseph Wascoat of Stam-
ford," etc.
The given mmt Joseph is in error. Abigail Gaylord married
Daniel VJ^stcoXX, of Stamford, Conn. The release on file in the
settlement of the Gaylord estate dated April loth, 1696, is so
executed. This Daniel Westcott is the same Daniel who removed
to Fairfield, Salem Co., N. J., about 1696. The signature to the
original release on file at Hartford in the Gaylord estate settle-
ment is the same as that affixed to his original will on file in the
Secretary's office at Trenton, N. J.
WILLIAM M. CLEVENGER, 1 7 South Stenton Place,
Chelsea, Atlantic City, N. J.
27. Millard— Correction.
In Tlie Commemorative Biographical Record of Dutchess County,
.242-243, and in the Genealogical and Family History of Southern
^ew Yorky vol. i, pp. 65-68, a wrong ancestry is assigned to John
Millard, Jr., of Cornwall, Conn., from whom and his wife Christiana
(not Christina) Rust, many families in Western Massachusetts,
Western Connecticut, New York City, the Hudson Valley, and
Northeastern New York are descended. Also, the list ot the
children of John Millard, Jr., and Christiana, his wife, as printed
in the works named, is incomplete.
John Millard, Jr., of Cornwall, Conn., was not a son of Robert*
iNehemiah,' Robert,* John^) Millard of Rehoboth, Mass., and
^awling, N. Y., and he was not born at Rehoboth on Jan. 15, 1736.
He was born at East Haddam, Conn., on Dec. 21, 1736 {East
Haddam Town Records^ vol. ii, p. 1115), and he was the eldest son
%
1 90 Corrections and Additions to Published Genealogical Works, [April
of John Millard, Sr., of East Haddam and Cornwall, by wife
Mehitabel Willey (John,* John,' Isaac^), as the East Haddam Record
explicitly proves (vol. ii, p. 11 15).
John Millard, Sr., of East Haddam and Cornwall, was the
youngest son of Thomas Millard, Sr., called also "Thomas Miller,"
of Charlestown, Mass., and East Haddam, Conn., by wife Rebecca
Button (Joseph,* Thomas^), as is proved by the will of Thomas
Miller otherwise Millard, Sr., datecl at East Haddam, July 26, 1728
(Hartford Probate Records^ vol. xii, pp. 146-148, and printed in
Manwaring, pp. 546-548).
Finally, Thomas Millard, Sr., of East Haddam, was the eldest
son of Humphrey Millard, called also " Humphrey Miller," of
Charlestown and Reading, Mass., by wife Elizabeth Smith (Mat-
thew,* Matthew^) (Wyman's Charlestown^ pp. 673, 872, and Paige's
History of Cambridge^ p. 610), as is proved by a quit-claim deed
given Dec. 29, 1736, by Thomas Millard, Jr., of East Haddam, to
James Hay of Boston, relinquishing rights to land in Westminster,
Mass., granted to Humphrey Millard on account of services in
King Phillip's War ( Worcester District Deeds, book 29, p. 209), and
by the will of Thomas Millard, Jr., presented for probate at Col-
chester, Conn., May 16, 1752, and recorded there (Probate Records ^
vol. ii, p. 234).
The will explicitly identifies the Millards of Cornwall with the
Millards of East Haddam, and the quit-claim deed describes the
Westminster land as ** one of the Lotts in Narragansett Township
Number Two and all undivided Land in said Town, Descended to
me by my Honoured Grandfather Humphrey Miller Dec**." In
the first sentence of the document the grantor calls himself
"Thomas Miller," and at the end he signs his name "Thomas
Millard."
That the ** honoured " grandfather deserved the adjective is
revealed by two further documents, happily preserved. One is a
petition to the ** Hon'^ John Leveret Esg., and other worshipfull
members of the Councell," signed by Timothy Wily, Humphrey
Millard, Samuel Bull and Henry Sparkes, asking redress for an in-
justice inflicted by Major Waldron while they were serving under
Captain Hunting in the expedition **to the Eastward" {Mass. Ar-
chives^ vol. 69, p. 120, and printed by Baxter, Collections of the
Maine Historical Society : Documentary History, Second Series, vol.
vi, pp. 167-168). The other document is a letter from James
Stoakes, dying in Rhode Island, written 3 (9) 1675, to his "loving
friend Humphrey Miller, living in Charlestown." (^With the order
of Oct., 1676, granting to Humphrey Miller administration on the
estate of James Stoakes, it was filed, Midlesex County Court Records,
vol, iii, p. 150. Not quite accurately copied it was printed in the
Genealogical Bulletin, vol. i, p. 157).
The parentage and place of birth of Humphrey Millard have
not been ascertained. The names associated with his in public
records, and the known circumstances of his life, inclnding pur-
chase of land at Reading, Mass., in 1680, death at Reading, April
1915.] Corrections and Additions to Published Genealogical Works, 191
5, 1684, and administration of his estate {Midksex Probate Records,
vol. vi, p. 264), appear to connect him with the Millards of Salem,
Newbury and " the Eastward." He may have been a grandson of
John^ Millard of Salem, tailor, who bought house, shop and land
in that town in 1652, and sold them in 1657; and a son of Jasper*
Miller, who was of Strawberry Bank (Portsmouth), N. H., in 1660,
of Sagadahoc, Maine, in 1679, and of Pemaquid, Maine, in 1687.
Jasper appears to have had connections with Charlestown, and
may have lived there in 1653.
Assuming that Humphrey Millard was probably of the third
generation of his kindred in New England, John Millard, born at
East Haddam, Conn., Dec. 21, 1736, was of the sixth generation.
He married at Cornwall, Conn., May 21, 1761, Christiana **Hamb-
linton," daughter of Simeon and Sarah (Long) Rust (Nathaniel,*
Nathaniel,* Israel,* Henry*). {Cornwall Vital Records, p. 40, and
Church Recordsy p. 122.) Whether she was a widow, or obtained
the name ** Hamblinton " by adoption is not known. She was
born at Coventry, Conn., July 31, 1743 {D\moc]s^^ Births, Marriages
and Deaths in Coventry, Conn,, p. 104). She died, according to
family records, June 17, 183 1, and is said to have been buried in
the cemetery near Cornwall Bridge on the road to Kent. The
stone has disappeared. John* Millard died Nov. 22, 1812 (grave-
stone lately standing in cemetery near Cornwall Bridge). In 1757
he was enrolled in Captain Samuel Dunham's Militia Company
i^Conn, Hist. Soc, Coll,, vol. xi, p. 206). A will made April 16, 180 1,
is in the possession of Mr. Walter P. Millard of New Hamburg,
N. Y. A later will was proved at Litchfield, Dec. 8, 1812.
The children of John* and Christiana (Rust) Millard recorded
at Cornwall, as born there, and named in the will of 1801, were:
Charles, b. Feb. 19, 1762.
Rufus, b. Feb. 12, 1764.
Roswell, b. March 22, 1766.
Philo, b. April 27, 1768.
Sarah, b. April 19, 1770.
Jerusha, b. Feb. 24, 1773.
Chloe, b. Tan. 10, 1776.
Diantha, b. March 30, 1778.
Ira, b. Nov. 12, 1780.
Russell, b. April 15, 1785.
Charles' Millard, the eldest of these children, married Lydia
Pride of Poughkeepsie, and from them are descended many of
the Millard families of New York City and the Hudson Valley.
Philo' Millard, the fourth son of John* and Christiana, married
(i) Mary Russell, and (2) Olive Lydia, a daughter of Abraham
and Lydia (Gillett) Fuller of Kent. A daughter, Olive Lydia,
bom of the second marriage, married at Kent, Sept. 6, 1826,
Augustine Giddings of Great Barrington, Mass. The present
writer is her grandson.
Among the younger children of John* and Mehitabel (Willey)
Millard were Matthew,* who lived at Pittsfield Mass., and left de-
1 92 Corrections and Additions to Published Genealogical Works. [April
scendants, and Joshua,* who lived at North Egremont, Mass., and
left descendants.
Among the sons of Thomas* and Ruth (Dutton) Millard of
East Haddam, were Jason,* who left descendants at North Bolton
and Vernon, Conn., and Nathan,* who lived at Cornwall and left
descendants there. franklin h. giddings,
Columbia University.
28. Notes on a History of Old Kinderhook, Collier.
Page 96. Lambert Jansen Van Alstyne m. about 1682 to Jan-
netje Mingael; she was bp. in New York, Jan. 18, 1660; her
parents were Thomas Janszen Minsar and Marritje Abrahams;
see N. Y, Gen, & Biog. Soc. Coll., vol. i, p. 55, Dutch Church, N. Y.,
Baptisms. The first child of Thomas Janszen (the above couple)
was bp. in N. Y., Oct. i, 165 1; see N. Y. Gen. & Biog. Coll., vol. i,
p. 30. To assume that Marritje Abrahamsen was the daughter of
Abraham Pietersen Vosburgh means that she was married and
bore her first child before any of her brothers or her sister were
bom. See record of the Vosburgh Family, New Netherland Register,
No. 8, p. 120. As a matter of fact this was Marritje Abrahamsen
(Van Deursen), daughter of Abraham Pietersen (Van Deursen)
and Tryntje Melchiors. See Van Deursen Genealofy, vol. i, p. 8.
Page 98. The progenitor of the Vosburgh lamily in New
Netherland was Abraham Pietersen Vosburgh. See Van Rens-
selaer-Bowier Manuscripts, p. 840. It is true that Dr. 0*Callaghan
in the Hist, of New Netherland, vol. i. p. 439, mentions Pieter
Jacobsen and wife as settlers in Rensselaerwyck in 1639. But
there are no grounds for assuming them to be the parents of Abra-
ham Pietersen Vosburgh, as Prof. Pearson also has done. The
Albany County records show that Pieter Jacobse went down the
river with 1500 beavers from Beverwyck, June 28, 1657. Prof.
Pearson is in error in stating that Jan Andriese, Pieter Jacobse
Voosboarg and Kipp Haecker required surities in court, Jan. 25,
1658; see Albany CO. Records, Pearson, p. 247. The original docu-
ment will be found in Albany County Deeds, Liber 2, p. 145. It
is written among some hasty memoranda, chiefly notes of com-
plaints of assault, etc. The name in question is very hurriedly
written, and by close comparison with other specimens of the
same writing it appears to be Pieter Jacobse borsboom not Voosboarg.
The case before tne court was for selling brandy to the Indians.
For further reference to this case see Court Mmutes, 1658-1660,
pp. I, 12, and 23; where in each case the name clearly appears as
borsboom or Bosboom. The foregoing is the only occasion in the
Albany records where the name Vosburgh appears following the
name Pieter Jacobsen. And this is now proved to be an error in
transcription, as can be seen from the original record.
Pieter Jacobse Bosboom, an early Schenectadjr settler, was a
brickmaker and Indian trader; he was several times before the
court for cheating the Indians. 0*Callaghan, having assumed
Pieter Jacobse, the fur trader, to be a Vosburgh, erroneously gives
the same occupation to his supposed son, Abraham Pietersen.
1915 J Specitil Notice, Obituary, 193
The Court Minutes, 1652-1656, contain many references to Abra-
ham Pietersen Vosburgh, a carpenter, surveyor of buildings, bridge
builder, and later as an owner with Wynant Gerritsen (Van Der
Poel) of a saw mill on Wynants Kill. But never as a fur trader.
Abraham Pietersen Vosburgh was killed by the Indians at Esopus,
on Sept. 21, 1659. His three sons, Peter (the eldest), Jacob and
Isaac, were among thr freeholders of the Kinderhook patent.
If there is any documentary evidence to show that Isaac Vos-
burg, who married Aug. i, 1686, Annetje Jans Goes, daughter of
Jan Th5rse Goes and Steyntje Janse Van Hoesen, was either a
carpenter or trader^ I have failed to find it in a search covering the
past fifteen years. Isaac Vosburgh was still a minor, on Sept. 5,
1676, when his elder brother Pieter sued Jan Thyse Goes, for an
assault upon Isaac who had been chasing Jan Thysen's cows.
ROYDEN WOODWARD VOSBURGH.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Attention of The New York Genealog^ical and Bio-
graphical Society having been called to the fact that
certain genealogists have used, and are using, its name
as a reference, or otherwise, in the prosecution of their
business :-— Notice is hereby given that the Society
authorizes no one to so use its name; and that it is not,
nor will it be responsible in any way for the acts of such
individuals who use its name as a reference, or other-
wise, in violation of this specific prohibition.
OBITUARY.
MRS. ANNA PALMER DRAPER.
Mrs. Anna Palmer Draper, a Life Member of this Society, and who con-
tributed a year ago $1,500 to the Building Fund, died December 8th, 1914, at
her residence in this city, 271 Madison Avenue. Mrs. Draper was the ^ster
of Courtlandt Palmer, the Founder of the Nineteenth Century Qub, who
died in 1888. Her husband, Prof. Henry Draper, whom she married in 1867,
was a noted astronomer, and she worked with him in his observatory for many
yearS) becoming proficient in astronomy. She gave to the Harvard Observa-
tory the 1 1 -inch telescope used by her husband. The Draper Memorial was
also one of her gifts, costing more than $100,000, and comprised part of the
Harvard Observatory. It contains the spectra of more than 10,000 stars, and
the catalogue, known as the Draper Catalogue, is regarded as an authority the
world over. In 1898 Mrs. Draper was appointed a member of one of the
Visiting Committees of Harvard University.
194 Society Proceedings. [April
Her great-grandfather was Capt Amos Palmer, who took a prominent
part in the defense of Stonington, Conn., when that town was bombarded
by the British in 1814. Her grandfather, Courtlandt Palmer, was a promi-
nent merchant in New York in the early part of the nineteenth century. Mrs.
Draper was acquainted with scientific and literary men in all parts of die
United States, and for many years had gatherings at her home on Madison
Avenue, which were unique in the history of the United States. The Em-
peror Don Pedro, of Brazil, was entertained by Prof, and Mrs. Draper when
he visited this country. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, Gen. Francis A.
Walker, the President of the Massachusetts School of Technology, and others
equally prominent, were frequent guests at her home during toe past 30 or
40 years. Her estate in the country was on the Hudson at Dobbs Ferry.
Mrs. Draper's death is a conspicuous loss to the dty and to the New York
Genealogical and Biographical Society.
SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS.
Regular Meehng, January 8th, 1915.
Meeting called to order at 4:00 o'clock, President Clarence Winthrop
Bowen in the jfhair.
Mr. Bowen introduced the Hon. Chauncey Mitchell Depew, who ad-
dressed the Society on "The Present War in Europe: Its Causes and Im-
pressions."
At the end of Mr. DepeVs address Mr. Bowen introduced the IHosl
Joseph Hodges Choate, who had been invited by the Trustees to apprise
Mr. Depew of his election by the Trustees as an Honorary Member of the
Society.
At the close of Mr. Choate's address M^r. Henry Parsons moved that a
vote of thanlra be tendered to both speakers, which was seconded by Capt
Richard Heniy Greene.
The meeting then adjourned.
Forty-fourth Annual Meeting, January 8th, 1915.
The President, Clarence Winthrop Bowen, in the Chair.
The minutes of the last Annual Meeting, held on January 9th, 1914, were
read for information and on motion approved.
Announcement was made that Thomas Whittaker, Life Member, died
Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 1915, aged 73.
The following new members have been elected: Mrs. James Herman
Aldrich, 150 West 59th Street, City, Life Member, proposed by Clarence
Winthrop Bowen; McDougall Hawkes, 8 East 59th Street, Gty, Life Mem-
ber, proposed by Clarence Winthrop Bowen; Gustav Maurits Emfrid Lind,
200 West 72nd Street, City, Annual Member, proposed by Qarence Winthrop
Bowen; Henry Suydam Reynolds, 950 Madison Avenue, Gty, Annual Mem-
ber, proposed by Abraham Hatfield, Jr. ; Mrs. Charles Edwin Sherman, Law-
rence, Long Island, N. Y., Annual Member, proposed by Clarence Winthrop
Bowen ; Rev. Ernest Mihnore Stires, 3 West 53rd Street, Gty, Annual Mem-
ber, proposed by Clarence Winthrop Bowen.
The Annual Reports of Officers and Committees being next in order, the
Secretary, Mr. Henry Russell Drowne, reported as follows:
Our membership now consists of 6 Honoraiy, 153 Life and 341 Annual
Members, being a gain of 44 for the year, and in addition thereto we have
104 Corresponding Members.
The lapses in membership for the year were 24 died, 17 resigned and 5
dropped.
Seven meetings of the Society have been held on which occasions the hall
was often crowded to its fullest capacity.
igiSA Society Proceedings, igj
The more important transactions of the Board of Trustees were as fol-
lows, viz:
Annual Ejection of Oflficers, Committees, etc., on January 13th, 1914.
The election as Life Members of such persons who not being members
had subscribed One Hundred Dollars or more to the Building Fund as a
recognition of their interest in the objects of the Society and the enrollment
as Benefactors of J. Pierpont Morgan and John Davidson Rockefeller.
As Patron: Mrs. Frederick Ferris Thompson.
As Donors: James Junius Goodwin, Qarence Winthrop Bowen, Mrs.
Henry Draper, William Ross Proctor, Miss Emily Frances Southmayd, Miss
Annie Burr Jennings, William Isaac Walker, Andrew Carnegie, Qiarles
Deering, Charles William Harkness, Edward Stephen Harkness, Mrs. £.
Henry Harriman, William Rockefeller, and Mrs. Russell Sage.
Messrs. William Ross Proctor and Walter Geer have been elected Trus*
tees to fill the vacancies caused by the death of Gen. James Grant Wilson and
the resignation of Mr. Howland Pell.
The resignation of Prof. Frank Dempster Sherman as Registrar of Pedi-
grees, has been accepted.
On motion report was received and ordered on file.
The Treasurer, Mr. Hopper Striker Mott, presented his Annual Report,
a printed copy of which will be attached to the minutes of this meeting. He
showed the Society free from debt with a cash balance for general purposes
on hand of $824.20.
The assets of the Society from various sources are valued at $i40450.7a
Liabilities none.
It was duly moved and seconded that the report be received and ordered
on file.
Mr. Abraham Hatfield, Jr., Chairman of the Executive Committee, re-
ported that the Society had received from Room Rents $1,316.00, being $150.00
less than in 1913. The Lecture Hall was used 53 times, bringing in $405.00.
which was $31.00 less than in*i9i3. The building has been Ircpt in good
repair. The total receipts for general purposes were $12,546.03.
The Society has outstanding Bills Receivable amounting to $896.00 and
unpaid bills $i7i5.67.
The transactions on Church Records for 1914 show a net expense of
only $331-14-
We have added ten volumes to our Collection of Church Records and
have ten additional volumes which are for sale at an average price of about
$7Soo each.
The subscriptions to The Record were 606 as compared with 576 for 1913.
On motion report was received and ordered on file.
Mr. Hatfield, as Librarian, reported accessions of 339 bound volumes, an
increase of one over 1913. That 206 volumes were donated, 133 added by
purchase and exchange, 382 pamphlets, 89 manuscripts, making total acces-
sions from all sources of 810 as compared with 822 for 1913.
The Library now consists of about 9,100 bound volumes and 5400 man-
uscripts, pamphlets, etc The Library attendance for the year was 1,373.
On motion report was received and ordered on file.
The Necrologist, Mr. Winchester Fitch, reported the death of three
Corresponding Members : Livingston Crofts, Rev. William Durant and Hon.
Alonzo Rex Fuller. Eight Life Members: Mrs. Henry Draper, Richard
Hockman Handley, William Nelson. Mrs. WilUam Hunt Perry, Mrs. Syl*
vanus Reed, Rev. William Jones Skillman, Gen. James Grant Wilson and
Gen. Edward Francis Winslow. Thirteen Annual Members: Lemuel Bolton
Bangs, M.D., Lucas Brodhead, Mrs. Morris Ketchum Jesup, Mrs. James
Marcus King, James Henry Lea, Mrs. Katharine Searle McCartney, John
Edward Marsh, Samuel Dayton Pierson, Isaac Parish Smith, Harry Dugan
Spears, Warner Van Norden, Mrs. Alice Dean Ward and CoL Walter
Phelps Warren.
Mr. Hopper Striker Mott, Chairman of the Publication Committee, made
a vcrtwd report, calling attention particularly to The Recoed, and that the
196 Society Proceedings. [April
long continued Thacher-Thatcher articles had been the source of increased
income, further that the new department devoted to Corrections and Addi-
tions had brought forth material from all over the country. He stated that
The Recqbo now paid its own way, and was a dignified publication, fully
equal if not superior to anv other similar Society magazine.
The report of the Archivist, Mr. Royden Woodward Vosburgh, was read
giving a list of the many church records which had been copied during the
year, which when transcribed, amounted to a grand total of 2300 pages with
200 pages of introductory and historical matter.
He called attention to the fact that while the plan of the work was to
copy only records up to 1800, all records prior to 1850 would be copied. Ad-
ditional records from Schoharie, Troy and Lansin^urg^ are now in prep-
aration.
On motion report was received and ordered on file.
The report of the Chairman of the Research Conunittee and Historian,
Dr. William Austin Macy, was read.
He mentioned the addition of Mr. Henry Cady and Miss Florence E.
Carr as Corresponding Members, and Miss Nettie Bamum Eells to the Re-
search Committee, and stated that the manuscript additions during the year
had been fully set forth in the issues of The Recoid. He called attention
at some length to the study of eugenics as adding so much to the knowledge
of mankind and stated that all inquiries made of the Historian had been
answered as promptly as possible.
On motion report was received and ordered on file.
The report of the Chairman of the Committee on Heraldry, Mr. Charles
Pryor, was read. He stated that the usual notices had been sent out during
the year, but with no results as yet, but that he hoped we might yet hear
from some of our members, for the Armorial Ensign ought to be to the
f am^ what the National Flag is to a nation.
The report of the Nominating Committee being next in order, the Chair-
man, Mr. Henry Parsons, presented the names of the following five candi-
dates for term 1915-1918:
Thomas Townsend Sherman.
Willisun Ross Proctor.
Abraham Hatfield, Jr.
William Isaac Walker.
Tobias Alexander Wright
On motion report was received.
It was duly moved and seconded that nominations be closed and that the
Chair appoint Tellers.
The Chairman appointed Messrs. Charles Keeler Winslow and George
Horace Perkins as Tellers.
In the interim President Bowen made a few remarks, stating that addi-
tional moneys collected for the Building Fund had been sufficient to pur-
chase an additional bond, and that t)iose previously purchased now showed
a profit of about $700.00; that the question of securing a new location for
the Society was receiving very serious consideration, and that several sites
had been suggested and were being carefully investigated. He congratu-
lated the Society on the fact that all the subscriptions to the Building Fund
had been collected and the money was safely invested.
The Report of the Tellers being next in order, they reported that 99
votes had been cast, of which ^^ were by proxy, and that 19 unstamped
proxies had been rejected, all for the Regular Ticket
The President declared the candidates duly elected as Trustees to serve
for the term 1915-1918.
Mrs. Levi Holbrook spoke as to the advantages of having the Library
open on Monday evenings as of old, instead of on Sunday afternoons, and
moved that the Board of Trustees be requested to change the Sunday after-
noon opening to Monday evening. Tms was duly seconded and carried
unanimously.
On motion adjourned.
igiSj Society Proceedings, 197
Special Meeting, Januahy 29th, 1915.
The President, Clarence Winthrop Bowen, in the Chair.
The Board of Trustees reported that at the meeting of the Board, held
on January 12th, 1915, the following oflficers were elected for the year
191S. viz :
Qarence Winthrop Bowen, President,
William Bradhurst Osgood Field, First Vice-President.
William Isaac Walker, Second Vice-President,
Henry Russell Drowne, Secretary,
Hopper Striker Mott, Treasurer,
John Reynolds Totten, Chairman Executive Committee,
Abraham Hatfield, Jr., Librarian,
Royden Woodward Vosburgh, Historian.
Alexander McMillan Welch^ Necrologist,
Henry Pierson Gibson, Registrar of Pedigrees,
Executive Committee;
Abraham Hatfield, Jr. George Austin Morrison, Jr.
William Isaac Walker. Thomas Townsend Sherman.
Publication Committee :
Hopper Striker Mott, Chairman. George Austin Morrison, Jr.
Royden Woodward Vosburgh. John Reynolds Totten.
Richard Henry Greene. Tobias Alexander Wright.
William Alfred Robbins. Frank Dempster Sherman.
Josiah Collins Pumpclly. Mrs. Robert Dewey Bristol.
Richard Schcrmerhom, Jr.
Committee on Heraldry.
Charles Pryer, Chairman.
Charles Landon Jones. Howland Pell.
Committee on Research;
Royden Woodward Vosburgh, Chairman.
Rev. John Cornell, for Southern Rhode Island.
George W. Cocks, for Long Island.
John Edwin Stillwell, M.D., for Monmouth Co., N. J.
Alphonso Trumpbour Clearwater, for Ulster Co., N. Y.
Miss Lucy Dubois Akerly, for Suffolk Co., N. Y.
Tobias Alexander Wright, for Washington Co., N. Y.
Edward Myers, for Westchester Co., N. Y.
William Maison du Bois, for White Plains, N. Y.
Mrs. Charles Dod Ward, for Oswego, N. Y.
Rufus King, for Suffolk Co., N. Y.
William Austin Macy, M.D., for Seneca Co., N. Y.
Evelyn Briggs Baldwin.
Charles Landon Jones, for Litchfield Co., Conn.
James Benedict
Miss Nettie Bamum EeUs, for Conn, and Mass.
Rev. S. Ward Righter.
William B. Van Alstyne, M.D.
Douglas Merritt.
Archivist :
Royden Woodward Vosburgh.
Mr. Bowen then announced that since the last meeting of the Society
the following deaths had been recorded, viz: John Edward Parsons, Life
Member, died January 16, 1915, in his 86th year; George Clinton Batcheller,
Annual Member, died January 25, 19x5, in his 81 st year ; John Denison Cham-
plin. Annual Member, died January 8di, 191 5, in his 81 st year.
The Executive Conmiittee reported the election of the following new
members, viz : Mrs. Richmond Mayo-Smith, 305 West 77th Street, City, Life
Member, proposed by Qarence Winthrop Bowen; John Denison Champlin,
Jr., 201 West 78th Street, Qty, Annual Member, proposed by Qarence Win-
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198 Society Proceedings. [April
throp Bowen ; Joseph P. Day, 34 Gramercy Park, City, Annual Member, pro-
posed by Qarence Winthrop Bowen; Mrs. Joseph C. Hoagland, 640 Park
Avenue, City, Annual Member, proposed by Clarence Winthrop Bowen;
Edwin Scott Matthews, 117 West 58th Street, City, Annual Member, pro-
posed by Qarence Winthrop Bowen; Miss Caroline Lucy Morgan, 521 rark
Avenue, City, Annual Member, proposed by Qarence Wmthrop Bowen; Ed-
ward Codman Parish, 52 Wall Street, City, Annual Member, proposed l^
Clarence Winthrop Bowen; William Macklenberg Polk, M.D.. 310 Fifth Ave-
nue, City, Annual Member, proposed by Qarence Winthrop Bowen; Alfred
Tuckerman, 58 Kay Street, Newport, R. I., Annual Member, proposed by
Clarence Winthrop Bowen; John Griswold Webb, 109 Orchard Place, Ithaca,
N. Y., Annual Member, proposed by Qarence Winthrop Bowen; Miss Julia
Chester Wells, 30 West 31st Street, City, Annual Member, proposed by Clar-
ence Winthrop Bowen.
Mr. Bowen announced the selection of a site on East 58th Street, between
Park and Lexington Avenues, for the new building, which he felt sure
would be heartily approved.
The lecturer of the evening was then introduced :
Mr. William Webster Ellsworth, President of the Century Company, read
a paper entitled **The Making of Europe ; How Wars have changed the Map,"
which was illustrated by the stereopticon with Maps and Pictures in Color,
Portraits, Documents, etc.
At the close of Mr. Ellsworth's lecture Mr. Henry Parsons, with a feel-
ing of personal indebtedness, moved the thanks of the assembly to the speaker
for his very instructive address.
Mr. Josiah Collins PumpeUy seconded the motion.
Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson made remarks regarding the graphic presen-
tation of warfare in Europe and hoped that hereafter Peace would have its
Victory.
General Asa Bird Gardiner said a few words on the subject of violation
of treaties and that Peace would only be permanent when these violations
were punished.
Mr. Charles Gifford Finney Wilcox spoke on universal justice as the
solution for universal Peace.
Vote of thanks was unanimously carried.
The Chairman announced the regular meeting on February 12th, stating
that the Speaker would be Hon. Simeon E. Baldwin, LL.D., ex-Governor of
the State of Connecticut, who would read a lecture on the Hartford Con-
vention; and in March, George Francis Dow, Secretary of The Essex Insti-
tute, Salem, Mass., would address the Society on "Life on a New England
Farm a Century Ago." In April Rear Admiral William S. Cowles, United
States Navy, would lecture on "The Navy of the United States," and in May
the Speaker would be William Milligan Sloane, LL.D., Vice-President of
the New York Historical Society and Professor of History in Columbia
University, on "The Battle of Princeton."
The meeting then adjourned.
Rbgulab Meeting, February 12th, 1915.
The President, Qarence Winthrop Bowen, presided.
Mr. Bowen appointed Robert S. Swords as Secretary of the meeting and
then made the following statement:
One of the special objects of calling this meeting was for the purpose
of allowing die Society to vote upon the changing of the date of the Annual
Meeting of the Society from the second Friday in January each year to the
second Friday in February.
The Board of Trustees deem it necessary to make this change in the date
of the Annual Meeting in order to allow the Treasurer ample time to make
his Annual Report after the closing of the books on December 31st of the
precedhig year and for other necessary administrative reasons.
Capt Richard Henry Greene offered the following resolution, viz :
iQ'S-l Society Proceedings, igg
Resolved, That the time of holding the Annual Meeting* of this
Society and Corporation be and is hereby changed from the second
Friday of January to the second Friday of February, and that the
President and Secretary of this meeting make, verify and file the
necessary certificate of this change as required by law.
This resolution was seconded by Mr. James Benedict and was unani-
mously carried.
Mr. Bowen then announced that since the last meeting of the Society the
following deaths had been recorded, viz: Edward Livingston Ludlow, Life
Member, died February nth, 1915, in his 80th year; Norman Bruce Ream,
Life Member, died February gth, 1915, in his 71st year; James Congdell
Fargo, Annual Member, died February 8th, 1915, in his 86th year.
Also that the following name had been restored to the membership roll
of Annual Members, viz : John Buckley Pine, and that Edward H. Leggett,
Attorney-General State of New Yorl^ Albany, N. Y., had been made a cor-
re^>ondmg member, to represent the State of New York.
The following new members of the Society had been duly elected, viz:
Frederick Augustus Schermerhom, loi University Place, City, Life Member,
proposed by Clarence Winthrop Bowen; Mrs. William Adams Brown, 114
East 30th Street, Gty, proposed by Clarence Winthrop Bowen ; Samuel Edson
Gage, 28 East 49th Street, City, Annual Member, proposed by Lawrence
Bogert Elliman; George Corson Hdhier, 11 East 77th Street, City, proposed
by Clarence Winthrop Bowen; Miss Helen Kenyon, Qiffdale, Poughkeepsie,
N. Y., Annual Member, proposed by John Reynolds Totten; Mrs. Franklyn
Hallett Lovell, 37 Madison Avenue, City, Annual Member, proposed by John
Reynolds Totten; William Alexander Nash, 19 West 73rd Street, Gty, An-
nual Member, proposed by Clarence Winthrop Bowen; Miss Mary Van
Bnren Vanderpoel, 30 East 53rd Street, City, proposed by Clarence Winthrop
Bowen.
Mr. Bowen then introduced the Hon. Simeon £. Baldwin, LL.D., ex-
Govemor of the State of Connecticut, who delivered a lecture entitled "The
Hartford Convention."
At the dose of the lecture Capt. Richard Henry Greene, Yale University,
Class of 1861 and 1862, moved a vote of thanks to Governor Baldwin. The
motion was seconded by Rev. Richard C. Morse, Yale University, Qass of
1862, a nephew of Prof. Morse, the inventor of the Telegraph, and a grand-
son of Rev. Dr. Jedediah Morse, the geographer. As Governor Baldwin
graduated from Yale, Class of i8i5i, these three gentlemen were in college
together.
The meeting then adjourned.
Regular Meeting, March i2Th, 1915.
The meeting was called to order at 8.40 P. M., the President, Mr. Bowen,
in the Chair.
Since the last meeting of the Society the following death has been re-
corded, viz: Ethan Allen Doty, Life Member, died March 10, 1915, aged 78
years.
The Executive Committee reported the following members had been
elected: Mrs. Charles Stewart Smith, 25 West 47th Street, City, Life Member,
proposed by Clarence Winthrop Bowen; Mrs. Eleanor M. Bamford, 204 West
94tn Street, City, Annual Member, proposed by John R. Totten; Mrs. George
Clinton Batcheller, 23 West 72nd Street, Annual Member, City, proposed by
Hopper Striker Mott; T. Wain-Morgan Draper, 106 West 13th Street, City,
Annual Member, proposed bv Clarence Winthrop Bowen; Inomas William
Lamont, 23 Wall Street, City, Annual Member, proposed by Clarence Winthrop
Bowen; Miss Jane Parsons, Troy, Penn., Annual Member, proposed by Henry
Parsons.
The Board of Trustees reported the election of Mrs. Dora P. Worden of
Ithaca, N. Y., as a Corresponding Member and a member of the Research
Committee.
2CX) NoUs, [April
Mr. Bowen then introduced the speaker of the evening, Mr. Geora^e
Francis Dow, Secretary of the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass^ who spoke on the
subject " Life on a New England Farm a Century Ago."
At the close of Mr. Dow's address, Capt. Richard Henry Greene moved a
vote of thanks and made some interesting remarks in regard to his visits to
Essex. Motion was seconded by Mr. D wight Brainard Baker.
On motion meeting adjourned.
Henry Russexl Dsowne, Secretary.
NOTES.
Knickerbocker. — The State Historical Society of Wisconsin at Madison
having requested enlightenment on the use of the term "Knickerbocker," the
result of investigation proves that it applies to such residents of New Nether-
land as arrived before the English gained possession. It would accordingly
apply to families who were here prior to 1664 ^n<l might with justice extend
to 1674 when the final transfer was effected.
Washington Irving hit upon this name when he decided to announce the
publication of his facetious History of New York, in which, to quote his
words, he "opened a vein of pleasant associations and quaint characteristics
peculiar to my native place." The name first appeared in an advertisement
in the New York Evening Post, Oct. 26, 1809, which asked the whereabouts
of "a small elderly gentleman, dressed in an old black coat and cocked hat,
by the name of Knickerbocker," who had left his lodgings in a hotel on Mul-
berry Street sometime since. The same paper, Nov. 28, announced the dis-
covery in his room of "a very curious kind of a written book" and that the
work would be published in order to discharge certain debts he had left
behind.
The American Citizen of Dec. 6 stated that the book would be issued
that day. With this happy method of inciting public curiosity the history
made its appearance.
Some years later the author returned to New York and in an "Apology"
he justified the work as a parody which was intended to burlesque the
pedantic lore displayed in certain American works, but added: "When I
find, after a lapse of nearly forty years, this haphazard production of my
youth still cherished among them [the descendants of the Dutch worthies] —
when I find its very name become a ^household word' and used to give the
home stamp to everything recommended for popular acceptation, such as
Knickerbocker societies, Knickerbocker insurance companies, Knickerbocker
steamboats, Knickerbocker omnibuses, Knickerbocker bread and Knicker-
bocker ice— and when I find New Yorkers of Dutch descent priding them-
selves upon being 'genuine Knickerbockers* — I please myself with flie per-
suasion that I have struck the right chord." And so it has come to pass
that die original settlers have received a designation of which, when living,
they were not cognizant and their descendants a name with which to conjure.
The word is derived from "Knikker," which stands for "marble** pure
and simple — a marble such as boys play with, and "bakker," a baker. There
was a Knickerbocker family which settled in New York State prior to 1683,
the particulars of which can be found in Vols. 39 and 40 of the N. K. G, & B.
Record. It is related that one of the name was a great friend of Irving, and
after his death his personality so impressed the writer that for sentimental
reasons it was chosen as representative of the early settlers.
City Flag and Seal.— The Art Commission has presented to the Board
of Alderman of the City a design for a city official flag Dased upon the United
Netherlands tricolor (orange, white and blue), charged with tne city seal on
the center or white bar.
1915] Queries, 201
The said colors in the United Netherlands flag adopted in 1582 at the
suggestion of William, first Prince of Nassau and Orange, were arranged in
three equal horizontal stripes and not in perpendicular stripes, with the blue
nearest the staff as proposed; again, the orange was not the last of the perpen-
dicular colors, but " Orange Boven *' with the orange color at the top. We
submit that if a change is made it should be historically accurate.
The proposed arms thereon was not adopted on the date inscribed below,
for the American Eagle at the top was unknown in 1664, but was added in
place of the crown theretofore used as a crest, in September, 1784. The date
should be omitted or made correct and if any change m the color be determined
upon the arrangement should be as originally adopted by the United Nether-
lands, with the New York seal upon the white bar above the blue.
RICHARD HENRY GREENE, 235 Central Park West.
QUERIES.
Qaeriet will b« inserted at the rate of ten (10) cents per line, or fraction of a line, payable in
advance; ten (10) words allowed to a line. Name and address of individual making query charged
at line rates. No restriction as to space.
All answers mar at the discretion of querist be addressed to The N. Y. G. & B. Soc. and will
be forwarded to the in<^uirer.
In answerinff queries please refer to the Volume and Page of Thb Rbcord in which original
query was published.
5. WiLLETT.—E. Haviland Hillman, F.S.G., 4 Somers Place, Hyde Park,
London, England, is compiling a Genealogy of the Ancestry (if possible) and
Descendants of Col. Thomas' Willett (Thomas') of Flushing, L. I., and will
gladly correspond with descendants wishing to contribute data relative to their
own immediate ancestry and with others having information. Data regarding
following branches especially wanted:
New York City.
(I.) Richard. By second wife Frances Dervall had Martha, Margaret.
Wanted evidence, also had sons Thomas (died 1766-8), Richard (died 1785).
Did latter marrjr? Issue, descendants. Did John (Thomas) marry? Issue,
descendants. Did Richard have other issue?
Westchester County.
(2.) Col. William* (Col. Thomas'). First wife Anna's surname. No evi-
dence it was Doughty.
(3.) Thomas* (Col. William*). Was wife's name Abigail Stephenson?
Issue: Gilbert,* Isaac,* Mary,* Euphemia.* Marriages, issue, descendants.
(4.) Cornelius* (Col. William*), wife Elizabeth^ surname.
(5.) Anna* (Col. William*). Did she marry Edward Jones? Issue.
Flushing, L. I.
(6.] Cornelius,* Samuel,* Sheriffs of Queens County, 1708, 1720, respectively.
Proof from local deeds (1600 to 1722), or other sources, of undoubted fact that
they were sons of Colonel Thomas.* Married, issue, descendants.
(7.) Charles* (Thomas,* Thomas,* Col. Thomas*). Wife Helena's surname.
Did sons James,* Thomas,* marry? Issue, descendants.
(8.) Lawrence* Willett, grandson of John* Willett, Jr. (Thomas,* Col.
Thomas*). Parents' name. Wife's name. Issue, descendants.
(o.) Samuel and Augustin Willett. Mother Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel
and Mary (Hicks) Lawrence. Who was their father? Marriages, issue, de-
scendants.
Albany, N. Y.
(10.) Elbert* (Edward,* Elbert,* Col. Thomas'), married Catalina AbecL
Issue, descendants.
(II.) Edward* (Edward*). Marriage, issue, descendants.
(12.) Isaac* (Edward*). Marriage, issue, descendants.
Please reply direct
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202 Book Reviews. [April
BOOK REVIEWS.
By John R. Totten.
Editorial NoTB:~Tbe New York Genealogical and Biographical Society iolicita at
donations to it« Library all newly published works on Genealogy. History and Biography, as well
as all works on Town, County and State History, or works embodying information regarding the
Vital Records of any and all localities. It also solicits the donation to the manuscript collections
of its library any and all manuscript compilatioAs which bear upon the above mentioned topics.
In consideration of such donations the works so presented to the Society will be at once
placed upon the shelves of its library and will be reviewed in the next subsequent issue of Thb
Nbw York Genealogical and Biographical Record, each donation of such character,
whether in printed or manuscript form, will be reviewed under the head of "Book Notices" and
a copy of The Record containing the review will be sent to the donor.
The Society does not solicit donations of publications or manuscripts on topics foreign to
the above mentioned subjects, as its librarv is specialized and cannot accommodate material
which does not bear directly upon its recognized sphere of usefulness.
Donations for review in the January issue of The Record should be delivered to the
Society before December ist of the previous year; for the April issue, before March ist; for the
July issue before June ist; and for the October issue, before September ist.
All donations will be generously reviewed with a view of calling the attention of the public
to their good points; but, while generous, the reviews will contain such proper criticism as the
Interest of the genealogical student would expect from the editorial staff oi The Record.
The "Book Notices** of The Record are carefully read by all librarians as well at
genealogical studenU, and the review of a work in The Record is equivalent to a special
advertisement of such work.
Letters of transmittal of donations of such works should embody the price of the work
donated and the name and address of the person from whom it can be purcbased.
MoKRiLL Kindred in America. An account of the Descendants o£ Abra-
ham Morrill of Salisbury, Mass., 1632-1662, through his eldest son, Isaac
Morrill, 1640-1713, by Annie Morrill Smith. The Lyons Genealogical Com-
pany, New York, 1914. 8vo, cloth, pp. 144, including index, illustrated. Price,
$3.00, postpaid. Address compiler, 'fi Orange Street, Brooldyn, N. Y.
An excellent compilation containing valuable genealogical information
concerning Abraham^ Morrill and his descendants to the ^ generation in-
clusive. It is recommended to all Genealogical Libraries.
(In reviewing this book in the January, 191 5, issue of the Record, we
erroneously stated that the price was $2.00. The price is as above stated,
$3.00).
A Walloon Family in America, Lockwood de Forest and his Forbears,
1500-1848, together with a Voyage to Guiana, being the Journal of Jesse de
Forest, 1623-1625, by Mrs. Robert W. de Forest 8vo, art paper binding, 2
voltmies, pp. 314+391, including index in 2nd voltmie, pronisely illustrated
with portraits, scenes and maps; copyrighted. Published by Houghton,
Mifflin Co. Price, $5.00, postpaid. Address: Publishers, No. 16 East 40th
Street, New York City.
These richly constructed voltmies present in most attractive form die
fortunes of a sturdy and prosperous family from sixteenth century France
to nineteenth century America. The careers of some of its important mem-
bers are set forth with an admirable sense of the life of bygone days, and
the book has considerable historical importance as well as every-day interest
Of special interest is the Journal of Jesse de Forest and his colonists,
recently found in the British Museum, telling of a colonizing vojrage to
Guiana in the seventeenth century under the auspices of the West India
Company. The Journal entire in the original French, and translnted into
English, is herein published. Another important figure is Lockwood de
Forest (i775-i848), a leading merchant of Connecticut and New York, and
the center of a long and bitter church trial
It is the appendix to the 2nd volume that contains the genealogical and
other vital records that will render the work of great value to genealogists.
These volumes are heartily recommended to all historical and genealogical
libraries.
191 5.] ^00^ Reviews, 203
The Sampson Family, by Lilla Briggs Sampson. 8vo, cloth, pp. 238,
including index, with charts and illustrations; cop3rrighted 1914 by author.
Waverly Press of Baltimore, 1914. Price, $3.00. Address: author, Broad-
way and 29th Street, Flushing, L. I., N. Y.
This most creditable work is replete with valuable information on the
Sampson Family presented in narrative form and bound together genealog-
ically by charts. It contains notes on the Sampson Family in England, Scot-
land and Ireland and in the United States in the particular States of Penn-
sylvania, Ohio, Virginia and Maryland. Recommended to all Genealogical
Libraries.
Facts Relating to the History op Groton, Mass., by Samuel Abbott
Green. Vol. II. 8vo, cloth, pp. 215, including index. Groton, 1914. Price,
$2.50. Address : George E. Littlefield, 67 Comhill, Boston, Mass.
The first volume of this work is entitled *The Natural History and To-
pography of Groton." Like all of the author's writings, the volume is char-
acterized by a painstaking accuracy of statement which will render it an
authority on Groton history. This volume is made up largely of biographical
and genealogical articles and will be welcomed to the shelves of all historical
and genealogical libraries.
Notes on the Tuckerman Family op Massachusetts and Some Allied
Families, by Bayard Tuckerman. Svo, art paper binding, pp. 263, including
index, illustrated. Limited edition of 60 copies on hand-made Unen paper;
copyrighted, 1914. Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass. Address: Bayard
Tuckerman, 59 Wall Street, New York Gty.
This artistically presented volume contains the annals of the Massachu-
setts Tuckerman Family in America up to and including the 6th generation,
with notes on the allied families of Wolcott ^d Gibbs. It is a notable addi-
tion to the genealogical pubUcations of the year and will be welcomed by
those of the blood and by genealogists in general. The work is enriched by
illustrations of marked artistic merit We congratulate ourselves in having
been presented with this rare and beautiful volume.
Our Plymouth Forefathers, The Real Founders of Our Republic, by
Charles Stedman Hanks. Svo, cloth, pp. 339, index, illustrated. Price not
stated. Address: author, Seacroft, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass., or pub-
lishers. The Page Co., 53 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass.
Here the story of the Pilgrims is told in a most interesting narrative
form and from a genealogical standpoint will be welcomed as throwing
light on the history and atmosphere of those times. Recommended to all
historical and general reference Ubraries.
Brace Lineage, by T. Sherman Brace, M.E., Counsellor at Law and Mem-
ber of the Wyoming Historical Society. Svo, cloth, pp. 54+1, with index.
Limited edition of 100 numbered copies. Published by George E. Elwell &
Son, Bloomsburg, Pa. Price, $2.50. Address: author, Bloomsburg, Pa.
This genealogical essay gives the record of Stephen Brace, who died in
1692 in Hartford, Conn., and of certain of his descendants, together with an
introduction which sketches outlines of the family history from the conquest
in 1066 to the settlement of the family in Hartford, Conn., in 1660. It is a
careful and satisfactory compilation and is recommended to all genealogical
libraries.
Fox Family News, Vol. Ill, 1914. Svo, cloth, pp. 2S. Edited by How-
ard Fox, M.D., 616 Madison Avenue, New York City, 1914. No price stated.
This is the third volume of the published collections of the Society of
the Descendants of Norman Fox and adds to the material already pubhshed
which will, we hope, stimulate the Society to in the future publi^ing of an
exhaustive Fox Family Genealogy. This series of volumes should find its
way to all genealogical libraries.
204 Book Reviews, [April
In Memosiam op William Thurston Pakker, Jr.» B.S. Beloved son of
William Thurston and Elizabeth (Stebbins) Parker, January 3rd, 187^— June
7, 1900. 8vo, cloth, pp. 131, illustrated. No price stated. Address: Dr. W.
Thornton Parker, Valley View, 65 Columbus Avenue, Northampton, Mass.
A beautiful tribute to a departed loved one; and while mainly bio-
graphical in its character, yet contains much of interest to the genealogist
Lower Norfolk County and Norfolk County (Virginia) Wills, 1637-
1710, by Charles Fleming Mcintosh, of Norfolk, Va. Svo, cloth, pp. 222, in-
cluding index. Published by the Colonial Dames of America in the State of
Virginia. 1914. Price not stated. Address: Society of Colonial Dames, 609
West Grace Street, Richmond, Va.
This is a most valuable work and will be found a great aid to genealog-
ists searching in that part of Virginia. There are two wills therein recorded
giving clues to Long Island, N. Y., and to Rhode Island connections, viz.:
that of Francis Finch and that of George Bradley relative to family history
in that section of the country. Recommended to all genealogical libraries.
Mr. Mcintosh, the compiler, is an authority on Virginia genealogy and has
solved many difficult problems.
Fuller Genealogy, Vol. III. Some Descendants of Capt Matthew
Fuller, John Fuller of Newton, John Fuller of Lynn, John Fuller of Ipswich,
Robert Fuller of Dorchester and Dedham, Mass., to which is added Supple-
ments to Vol. I, Fuller Genealogy, some descendants of Edward Fuller of
the Mayflower; and to Vol. II some descendants of Dr. Samuel Fuller of
the Mayflower (which volumes I and II were previously published), com-
piled by William Hyslop Fuller, of 23 School Street, Palmer, Mass. 8vo,
cloth, pp. 325, illustrated. Price of Vols. I, II and III $5.00 each, postpaid.
Address: compiler.
This third volume of this excellent series brings the genealogy of this
well-known American family well up to date. Like its predecessors. Vols.
I and II, it is of first-class merit and renders the material on this family prac-
tically complete to date. The author is to be congratulated on the completion
of an arduous task and deserves the gratitude of those of the blood and name.
Recommended to all genealogical libraries.
Genealogy of the Fishback Family in America, the Descendants of
John Fishback, the Emigrant, with an historical sketch of his family and of
the Colony at Germanna and (jermantown, Virginia, 1714-1914, compiled and
edited by Willis Miller Kemper, of Cincinnati. Svo, clodi, pp. 359, including
index, illustrated. Price $4.00. Address : Publisher, Thomas Madison Taylor,
12 West 44th Street, New York City. 1914.
A most creditable contribution to the genealogical record of this Ameri-
can family of German origin. Recommended to all genealogical libraries.
The Greenwood Genealogies, 1154- 1914. The Ancestry and Descendants
of Thomas Greenwood of Newton, Mass. ; Nathaniel and Samuel Greenwood
of Boston, Mass.; John Greenwood of Virginia, and many later arrivals in
America. Also die early history of the Greenwoods in England and the
arms they used, by Frederick Greenwood of East Templeton, Mass. 8yo,
cloth, pp. 5i^6, including copious indices and some 40 illustrations of family
interest. Limited edition of 300 copies. Price, $10.00 in advance. Address:
audior at East Templeton. Mass. Lyons Genealogical Co., Publishers, New
York. 1914. Copyrighted.
A first-class genealogical work constructed along standard genealogical
lines and will be welcomed by all of the name and blood in this country.
Recommended to all genealogical libraries.
History and Genealogy op the Page Family from the year 1257 to the
? resent, with brief history and genealogy of the Allied Families of Nash and
^eck, by Charles N. Page. 8vo, cloth, pp. 141, illustrated. No index. Price,
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paper cover, 50 cents; cloth, $1.50; full soft leather, $3.00. Address: Charles
N. Page, 2940 Kingman Blvd., Des Moines, la.
An excellent contribution to the history and genealogy of this family in
America and should be found in all genealogical libraries.
History of De Kalb County, Tenn., by Will T. Hale. 8vo, cloth, pp.
254. Table of contents, no index, illustrated. Price $1.00. Address: Pub-
lisher, Paul Hunter, 401 Church Street, Nashville, Tenn.
An excellent narrative history of this county. It contains lists of the
names of soldiers of the Revolutionary War buried there and of the Vet-
erans of the War of 1812 and Mexican War and also rolls of those of the
county who served in the Civil War on Federal and Confederate sides. Rec-
ommended to all historical and genealogical libraries.
Political History of the Secession to the Beginning of the Civil War,
by Daniel Wait Howe, President of the Indiana Historical Society. 8vo,
cloth, pp. 649, including index. The Knickerbocker Press, G. P. Putnam's
Sons, New York and London, 1914. Price $3.50. Address: author, Rooms
3-S, Union Trust Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind., or the publishers, New York City.
The author traces the causes, of which slavery was the chief, but by no
means the only one, that led to the Civil War. It is an important contribu-
tion to the history of a momentous period. The author has arrayed his facts
in such a way as to give them a new interest, and to enable the reader to
understand the issues and the attempted compromises that antedated the final
outbreak. Though a descendant of old Massachusetts stock and a veteran of
the Union side of the Civil War, the author has presented his subject with
the impartiality of the true historian. Recommended to all historical and
general reference libraries.
LiEUT.-CbLONEL MosES Parker, 27th Rcgt of Foot of the Continental
Army, by Captain William Thornton Parker, M. D., Son of the American
Revolution. 8vo, paper, pp. 20. Published 1914. Address: author, 63 Co-
lumbus Avenue, Northampton, Mass. Price, 50 cents, postpaid.
Great Grandfather's Clock, at the Old Parker Homestead, Bradford,
Mass., A.D. 1760, by William Thornton Parker, M.D. 8vo, paper, pp. 10,
illustrated. Price 35 cents. Address: author, 63 Columbus Avenue, North-
ampton, Mass.
Both of these pamphlets are of great genealogical interest to those of
Parker lineage and as such are heartily recommended to genealogical libraries.
John French, Jr., of Taunton, Berkley, Middleboro and Oakham,
Mass., and his Descendants, by Henry B. Wright, Secretary of the Oakham,
Mass., Historical Society. 8vo, paper, pp. 33-I-, index, illustrated, and list of
officers and members of the Oakham, Mass., Historical Society. Price not
stated. Address : Henry B. Wright, 20 Livingston Street, New Haven, Conn.
A most satisfactory compilation bearing all evidence of accuracy of state-
ment and constructed along standard genealogical lines. Reconunended to all
gen^ogical libraries.
Andrews Genealogy, Ancestry of Henry L. and John C. Andrews, Wo-
bum, Mass. Pamphlet, 8vo, pp. 19, second edition, 1914. Price not stated
Address: H. L. Andrews, 397 Main Street, Wobum, Mass.
A creditable contribution to the genealogical record of this family in
America. Recommended to all genealogical libraries.
Major Thomas Savage of Boston and His Descendants, by Law-
rence Park, Esq., of Groton, Mass. 8vo, pamphlet, pp. 78, illustrated, includ-
ing an excellent index. Price $2.25. Address: author, at Groton, Mass.
This work is a reprint of the excellent articles which have recently ap-
peared in the New England Historic Genealogical Register, and it is more-
over enriched by the addition of some 18 portrait illustrations which did not
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form a part of the articles as they appeared in the Register. For painstaking
care and accuracy of statement, this compilation cannot be exceUed, and it
should be secured by all of the name and blood and by all genealogical
libraries.
Bethany (Conn.) Sketches and Recobos, compiled and published by
W. C. Sharpe, Editor of the Seymour Connecticut Record. igoS. 8vo, 2
parts. Part I, cloth, pp. 1-132 ; Part II, paper, pp. 133-188. Address : author,
Seymour Record, Seymour, Conn. Price for both, $2.60.
Within the 188 pages of its contents this little work contains a fund of
valuable genealogical information concerning this community and is heartily
recommended to genealogical libraries.
The Sharps of Chester County, Pennsylvania, and Abstracts of
Records in Great Britain. PubUshed by W. C. Sharpe, Seymour, Conn.
8vo, paper, pp. 36. Price not stated. Address: pubUsher.
This little pamphlet is a worthy contribution to the history and genealogy
of the Sharp Family in America. Recommended to genealogical hbraries.
The Patriotic Societies of the United States, by Sydney A. Phillips.
8vo, cloth, pp. 140, illustrated by reproduction of complete coat lapel insignia
of the various societies. Price, $1.50 for single copies, $1.25 per copy for
orders for 5 or more copies. Address : Broadway Pubh^iing Co., 835 Broad-
way, New York City.
This excellent hand book gives much information relative to the various
patriotic societies of this country and will be fotmd to be a handy book of
reference for genealogical hbraries and a good guide for prospective appli-
cants for membership in these societies.
Historical Catalogue of Brown University, 1764-1914. 8vo, doth, pp.
789, including full index. PubUshed by the University, 1914. Address: Brown
University, Providence, R. I. Price not stated.
This is an excellent example of the general catalogues of colleges which
gives the names of all graduates from the incorporation to date. These vol-
umes are frequently found to be the court of final resort of genealogists who
have failed to find clues elsewhere. Genealogically these volumes are of im-
mense value and this volume adds greatly to the increasing story of gene-
alogical information. Recommended to all genealogical and historical
libraries.
Vital Records of Woodstock, Conn., 1686-1864. 8vo, doth, pp. 622, in-
cluding excellent index. Price $6.50. Address: publi^ers. Case, Lockwood
& Brainard Co., Hartford, Conn.
This is the third of the series of Connecticut Town Vital Records, the
first and second of which were the excellently prepared records of Bolton-
Vernon (one vol.) and Norwich (two vols.), which were so enthusiastically
received by the genealogical pubUc. The present volume is fully up to the
excellent standard estabUshed by those preceding it The continuation of this
series of publications is sincerely to be hoped for and the enterprise should
receive the active support of all genealogical libraries. We cannot too hear-
tily recommend the volume. The full series of these volumes may be obtained
from the pubUshers. Bolton-Vernon $3.00; Norwich (2 vols.) $12.50; full
series $i9.5a
The History of Nevada. Edited by Sam P. Davis. 8vo, 54 morocco,
2 vols., pp. 1279-f-xxiii of index, illustrated. Press of The Ekns Publishing
Company, 822 North Kingsley Drive, Los Angeles, CaL Price $25.00.
This is an exhaustive history of this prominent western mining state con-
taining chapters on the spedal history of its various counties and also on
the general activities of the state. It is enriched by much biographical ma-
terial and is fully illustrated with portraits of its distinguished dtizens. Rec-
ommended to all historical and genealogical libraries.
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The Crawford Family of Oakham, Mass., by General William Craw-
ford. 8vo, paper, pp. 20. Published by the Oaldiam, Mass., Historical So-
ciety. Address: Henry P. Wright, 128 York Street, New Haven, Conn.
Price not stated.
This modest pamphlet contains much information of value to those of
the Oakham, Crawford stock, and it is recommended to genealogical libraries.
Independence Day in 1797 in Oakham, Mass., being an address de-
livered by Henry P. Wright, of No. 128 York Street, New Haven, Conn.,
before the Oakham Historical Society, Dec. 16, 191a Svo, paper, pp. 17.
Price not stated. Address: author.
The subject matter of this address is of much historical value to those
of Oakham and embodies much information available for use in a more ex-
tended history of the town.
Connecticut Soldiers in the Pequot War of 1637, by James Shepard,
M.A. 8vo, paper, pp. 32. Price 25 cents, postpaid. Adchress: author, 139
Lake Street, New Britain, Conn.
The three Connecticut levies for the Pequot War called for 61 men from
Hartford, 42 from Windsor and 26 from Wethersfield, in all 129 men. The
records of 95 of these soldiers in this war is given in this pamphlet with the
authorities quoted for each record. An excellent compilation recommended
to genealogical libraries and patriotic societies.
Ancestral Chart of William Lincoln Palmer, American Lines
Only, compiled by William Lincoln Palmer, of P. O. Box, 2388, Boston,
Mass. Bound in cloth, mounted on linen. Price $5.00. Address : compiler.
An excellent compilation and presented in very comprehensible form.
Recommended to genealogical libraries.
The Fobes Memorial Library, Oakham, Mass., with the addresses at
the laying of die corner-stone and at the dedication, prepared at the request
of the Library Building Committee by Henry P. Wright 8vo, cloth, pp. 121,
including index, illustrated. Price not stated. Address: Tuttle, Morehouse
& Taylor Ca, cor. Temple and Crown Streets, New Haven, Conn.
An interesting historical sketch of the founding of this beautiful library
building in Oakham which was presented to the town of Oakham by Celia
£. Fobes and Harriet Fobes Gifford, in memory of Hiram Fobes and Hiram
Nye Fobes, and also by Charles A. Fobes in memory of his father, P. Ames
Fobes.
History of the Oread Collegiate Institute, of Worcester, Mass., 1849-
1881, with Biographical Sketches. Edited by Martha Burt Wright and Anna
M. Bancroft 8vo, cloth, pp. 517, including an excellent index, illustrated with
portraits of graduates, views of the college. Published by The Tuttle, More-
house & Taylor Co., Temple and Crown Streets, New Haven, Conn. Price
not stated.
A most interesting example of a college general catalogue which is ren-
dered the more valuable to genealogists as it contains many biographical
sketches and a list of present addresses of graduates. Recommended to all
genealogical libraries.
The Paine-Shepard Genf.alogy, 1463-1913. Ancestors and Descendants
of David Paine and Abigail Shepard, of LucUow, Mass., compiled by Clara
Paine Ohler (compiler of the James-Denison Gen^ogy). Svo, cloth, pp. 252,
including index and illustrated. Price $3.00. Address: Mrs. Clara Paine
Ohler, 559 West Market Street, Lima, Ohio.
A painstaking compilation containing valuable notes on the following
families: Paine, Ohler, Compton, Roby> Shepard, Spur, Leonard, Tileston,
Bridgman, Adams, Webb, Pierce and Bass. Recommended to all genealogical
libraries.
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History of the Watson Family in America, 1760-1914. 8vo, pamphlet,
pp. 50, illustrated, no index. Price not stated. Address: Clajrton Keith,
Louisiana, Mo.
An interesting historical sketch of the Pike County, Missouri, Watson
Family and other branches of the family.. Recommended to genealogical
libraries.
Strang Genealogy, Descendants of the French Protestant Exiles, Daniel
and Charlotte Streing of New Rochelle and Rye, N. Y., 1685-1722, by Jose-
phine C. Frost. Svo, cloth, pp. 190, including index. Limited edition of lOO
copies. Price $7.50. Address : author, No. 254 Garfield Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.
This excellent work contains a copy of the family coat of arms in colors
and a picture of the old French Church at New Rochelle, N. Y. In addition
to the information contained therein on the Strang Family it also gives
special records of the Purdy, Ganung, Kissam, Sackett, Bloomfield, Keeler,
Belcher, Morgan, Whitney and Thome Families. The work is fuUy up to
the excellent standard of the author as evidenced in her numerous other pub-
lications. Recommended to all genealogical libraries.
Graduates and Fellows of Johns Hopkins University, 1876-1913. 8vo,
paper, pp. 145. Price 10 cents. Address: Secretary of University, Balti-
more, Md.
Recommended to genealogical and historical libraries.
Guide to the Borough of Maidstone (England), compiled by order of
the Mayor and Corporation. 1914. Boards, pp. 116. Price 6d. Address:
Walter Ruck, 11 High Street, Maidstone, Englsmd.
Full of interesting information and fully illustrated.
Alumni Register, State University of Iowa. 8vo, paper, pp. 271. Pub-
lished September, 191 1. Price $1.00. Address: Alumni Bureau, Iowa City,
Iowa.
Recommended to all genealogical and historical libraries.
General Catalogue of Colby College (Waterville, Maine), 1820-1908.
8vo, cloth, pp. 246. Price, cloth $1.00; paper, 10 cents. Address: College
Library, Waterville, Maine.
Recommended to all genealogical and historical libraries.
Alumni Bulletin of the University of Arkansas, 1876-1913, paper,
pp. 38. Free upon application. Address: University, Fayettevillc, Ark.
Recommended to all genealogical and historical libraries.
Colgate University (Hamilton, N. Y.) General Catalogue, 1858-1910,
paper, pp. 390, well indexed. Price 50 cents. Address : the University.
Recommended to all genealogical and historical libraries.
Indiana University Register of Graduates, 1830-1910, paper, pp. 241.
No price stated. Address: University, Bloomington, Ind.
Recommended to all genealogical and historical libraries.
Scotch-Irish Presbyterians in Monroe County, Indiana, by James
Albert Woodbum, Prof, of American History at Indiana University. 8vo,
paper, pp. 438 to 522, being VoL IV, No. 8, of Publications of the Indiana
Historical Society Publications. Address: Indiana Historical Society. No
price stated.
An excellent contribution to the history of the Scotch-Irish stock in this
county. Recommended to all genealogical and historical libraries.
General Catalogue Hobart College (Geneva, N. Y.). Students, grad-
uates and officers, 1825-1897. Goth, pp. 254. No price stated. Address:
Librarian of College, Gieneva, N. Y.
Recommended to all genealogical and historical libraries.
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List op Degrees Granted at Clark University and Clark College
(Worcester, Mass.), 1889-1914. Paper, pp. 52. No price stated Address:
Librarian, Clark University, Worcester, Mass.
Recommended to all genealogical and historical libraries.
Beloit College (Beloit, Wis.) Register and Directory op Alumni, 1851-
1914. Paper, pp. 122. No price stated. Address: College, Beloit, Wis.
Recommended to all genealogical and historical libraries.
History op the Descendants op J. Conrad Geil and his Son, Jacob
Geil, emigrated from Wurttemberg, Germany, to America in 1754, and a
complete genealogical family register and biographies of many of their de-
scendants, from the earliest available records to the present time; dates in
three centuries by Joseph H. Wenger, of South English, Iowa. 8vo, doth,
pp. 275, including index. Price $140, postpaid.
An excellent genealogical record of this family of German extraction,
and is recommended to all genealogical libraries.
The Royal Ancestry op George Leib Harrison op Philadelphia, Pa..
by William Welsh Harrison, LL.D., Member of the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania and of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. Edited by
William M. Mervine. Quarto, half morocco, pp. 122, illustrated, fully in-
dexed, 1914. Limited edition of 100 copies on Whatman's hand-made paper ;
copyrighted. No price stated. Address: Dr. W. W. Harrison, 119 N. nth
Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
This beautiful work forms a companion volume to the **Harrison, Waplei
and Allied Families," issued in 1910. In recording the Royal Ancestry of
this particular branch of the Harrison Family the work necessarily contains
much valuable genealogical information relative to the princely houses of
England, France, Spain and Holland. The volume is also enriched with some
37 full page illustrations of much artistic merit The volume is a notable
addition to our library.
History op Carbon County, Pennsylvania. Also containing a sepa-
rate account of the several Boroughs and Townships in the county, with Bio-
graphical Sketches, by Fred Brenckman. Svo, half morocco, pp. 626, illus-
trated; table of contents, no name index. Price $5.00. Address: author,
Weatherly, Pa.
A valuable historical work which is rendered very useful to genealogists
by the section of some 258 pages devoted to biographical sketches. Recom-
mended to genealogical and historical libraries.
A History op Old Kinderhook, from the aboriginal days to the present
time, including the story of the early settlers, etc. By Edward A. Collier,
D.D. Svo, cloth, pp. xiv, 572, with 100 illustrations and 3 maps. Price $S.oa
G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, or the author at Kinderhook, N. Y.
The author has spent the past seven years in the preparation of this
work, the inception of which began over 50 years ago, when he was called
to the pastorate of the Reformed Church at Kinderhook. As a history of
one of the oldest Dutch settlements in the Hudson vallev, one that was set-
tled independently between the two Manors, and whicn retains to-day its
original name, Uiis volume cannot fail to be recognized as a valuable adc&tion
to the local history of the State. Dr. Collier's thorough and systematic
research through a complex and varied mass of sources of information has
enabled him to present clearly an exhaustive study of the subject. The
chapter on land titles and litigation, with the maps and the documents printed
in the Appendix, drawn principally from the originals at Albany, will be
found to be of great value in bringing to light additional clues as to the
relation^ip and ancestry of the early Kinderhook settlers. In the chapter
devoted to the sketches of the first Patentees and Freeholders of Kinderhook,
the author would have attained more accuracy, if he had quoted less from
O'Callaghan and Prof. Pearson, and had drawn more from the Van Rensse-
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laer Bowier Manuscripts and the Index of Albany County Grantors and
Grantees. In this chapter we find a list of Communicants, 1716 to 1730, and
Marriages, 1717 to 1734, from the Kinderhook church record; a list of con-
tributors to the salary of the Rev. J. Van Driessen, 1729; and what is still
more valuable, a list of taxpayers, 1744, the original of which was destroyed
in the fire at the State Capitol. In the succeeding chapters the author has
treated in a style both interesting and attractive, the usual topics which make
up a local history, such as traditions, reminiscences, gleanings from news-
papers, biographical sketches and data pertaining to civil, sodad, political and
religious life. Particularly delightful is the chapter devoted to old home-
steads and their people, which contains much genealogical information. The
beautiful illustrations of the homesteads with which the book abounds, form
a strong bond between the past and the present, and will add materially to
the value of the book for all descendants of the old Kinderhook families.
Only a few pages are occupied by the index, which can scarcely be called
more than index of topics discussed in the various chapters. This may call
for criticism from "he who runs and reads," but scarcely from those who
have more than a passing interest in the subject The inadequate index urp^
a careful reading from page to page, lest some long sought for information
may be overlooked, and in this respect the reviewer at least is well satisfied
with the index as it is.
While some parts of the book, mostly extracts from documentary data,
would ordinarily be considered as "dry reading," if compiled in the usual
manner. Dr. Collier has even there succeeded in interspersing little flashes
of wit and humor, which not only do not detract from the historical nature
of the subject at hand, but also serve to entertain the reader. As an illustra-
tion, in speaking of the numerous Van Alen deeds, he says: "The Index
leads us to suspect that when any of the nine children of Lawrence Van Alen
had a family party title deeds were passed instead of cake." The citizens
of Kinderhook and those who claim the right of citizenship as descendants
of the early settlers, may justly feel proud of their local history, and all
should join in congratulating Dr. Collier, who has lived among them for fifty
years, in having brought to successful completion an exhaustive compilation,
which is stamped on every page with the sterling mark of excellence.
R. W. V.
ACCESSIONS TO THE LIBRARY.
December /, /p/^, to March /, /p/j.
Bound Volumes.
Andreini, Joseph Manuel— Family Record on the Webster, Ingersoll, Moss,
King, Hawley and McHarg Families.
Balch, Thomas Willing— International Courts of Arbitration; English An-
cestors of the Shippen Family.
Brace, J. Sherman — Brace Lineage.
Brenckman, Fred — History of Carbon County, Pa.
Bristol, Mrs. Robert Dewey— Retrospection.
Brown University— Catalogue, 1764-1914*
Burleigh, George William— History of Durham, N. H., Vols. I-II.
Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co. — ^Vital Records of Woodstock, Conn.
Colby College— Catalogue, 1820-1908.
Collier, Rev. Edward A.— History of Old Kinderhook.
Colonial Dames of America in the State of Va.— Lower Norfolk and Norfolk
Co. Wills, 1637-1710.
Comstock, William O. — ^Four Mounted Messengers of the Revolution.
De Forest, Mrs. Robert W.— A Walloon Family in America, Vols. I-II.
Ehns, F. G.— History of Nevada, Vols. I-IL
Fox, Dr. Howard— Fox Family News, VoL III.
19 ISO Accessions to the Library, 2 1 1
Frost, Mrs. Samuel Knapp — Strang Genealogy.
Frye, Jed —History of Andover, Mass.
Fuller, William Hyslop— Fuller Genealogy, VoL III.
Graves, John Card— Graves Genealogy, Vol. I.
Green, Samuel Abbott— Facts relating to the History of Groton, Mass..
VoL n.
Greenwood, Frederick— Greenwood Genealogies, 11 54-1914.
Hank, Stedman S.— Our Plymouth Forefathers.
Harrison, Dr. William W.— Royal Ancestry of George Leib Harrison, of
Philadelphia.
Haverford College— Catalogue, 1833-1900.
Hecly, Mrs. L. C— Folsom Family.
Hobart College — Catalogue, 1825-1897.
Hotchkiss, J. S.— Winchester Notes.
Howe, Daniel Wait— Political History of Secession.
Hunter, Paul— History of De Kalb County, Tenn.
Livingston, Charles L.— Sketches and Biographies, St Nicholas Society of
Nassau Island.
Long Island Historical Society— Records of the Town of Jamaica. L. I..
N. Y., 1656-1751. Vols. MI-IIL
Manning, Rev. Dr. William Thomas— History of Trinity Church, New York
City— Parts I-IV.
Morton, Mrs. Jennie C— Catalogue Ky. State Historical Society.
Ohler, Mrs. Qara Paine— Paine-Shepard Genealogy, 1463-1913.
Page, Charles Nash — Page Genealogy.
Palmer, William Lincoln — ^Ancestral Chart of William Lincoln Palmer.
Parker, Dr. W. Thornton— Memory of William Thornton Parker, Jr.
Phillips, Sydney A. — ^Patriotic Societies of the U. S.
Ruck, Walter— -iGuide of Maidstone, England.
Sampson, Mrs. Lilla B. — Sampson Family.
Sharpe, W. C — ^Bethany Sketches and Records, Parts I-II.
Taylor, Thomas Madison— -Fishback Family.
Tuckerman, Bayard — ^Tuckerman Family.
Wenger, Joseph H. — Geil History.
Williams College — Catalogue, 1914-15.
Wright, Henry P. — ^Fobes Memorial Library; Oread Collegiate Institute.
Pamphlets.
Andrews, Henry L. — ^Andrews Genealogy.
Arkansas^ University of — ^Alumni Bulletins.
Baylor University— Bulletin, 1854-1914.
Beloit College — Catalogue, 1914-15.
Boston University— Catalogue, 1869-1911.
Bowen, Clarence W. — ^Tappan and Toppan Family, newspaper.
Colgate University— Catalogue.
Colonial Dames of America — ^Year Book, 1913-14.
Earlham College— Bulletins, 1862-1910; 1862-1013.
Green, Mary Wolcott — ^Reports of the Soc of Desc of Henry Wolcott
Holy Cross College — Catalogues.
Indiana University — Catalogue, 1830-1911; Scotch-Irish Presbyterians of
Monroe County, Ind.
Johns Hopkins University— Catalogue, 1876-1913.
Justice, Theodore — ^Warner Family.
Kalamazoo College— Catalogue, 1851-1902; 1913.
Keith, Clayton— Watson Family, 1760-1914.
Morton, Mrs. Jennie C. — Boone-Bryan History.
Park, Lawrence — Savage Family.
Parker, Dr. W. Thornton— Lieut-Col. Moses Parker; Great-Grandfather's
Qock.
Rhode Island Historical Society— R. I. Imprints.
St Andrew's Society— Report
St Nicholas Soc. of N. Y.— Pioneers of New York.
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San ford. Rev. A. B. — Sanford Assn. of America Reports.
Sharpe, W. C. — Sharps of Chester Co., Pa.
Shepard, James — Conn. Soldiers in the Pequot War, 1637.
Steel, John P. — Cumberland Feet of Fines ; Cumberland Law Subsidy ; Wills
of the Family of Benn.
Stevens, Mrs. John Austin — Biographical Sketch of John Austin Stevens.
Tower, William B. — Tower Family Reports.
Village Library Co. — Historical Addresses.
White, Horace — ^Lincoln and Douglas Debates.
Wing, Wm. A. — Some Wings of Old Dartmouth; Old Dartmouth Sketches,
No. 3.
Wright, Henry P. — ^John French, Jr., and his Descendants; Independence
Day in 1797; Crawford Family.
Manuscripts,
Browning, William H.— Doughty, Stockton & Hall's Family Bible Notes.
Durkce, C. E. — Green Ridge Cemetery, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Epitaphs.
Edwards, John H. — Journal and Letters of Rev. Samuel Smith.
Eells, Nettie Bamum— Deaths at Guilford, Conn., 1870-1878.
Gage, S. Edson — Entries from the Lindsly-AUen Family Bible.
Gould, Aubrey V. — ^Jeremy Gould and his Descendants.
Green, Benjamin Franklin — Green Family Notes.
Griffen, Zenos T. — Griffen Family Notes.
Stark, Helen — Some Yates Co., N. Y., Cemetery Inscriptions.
Tyrrell, Henry Grattan — Biographical Sketch of Henry Grattan TjrrrelL
Van Auken, A. M. — ^The Family of Lyons.
Washington, W. Lanier— Statement of the Portrait of Mary Ball Washing-
ton ; Pedigree of W. Lanier Washington.
Wells, Julia Chester— Pedigree Chart of Lucy Tracy Lee.
OTHER ACCESSIONS.
Bound Volumes,
Alden Memorial.
Armistead Family.
Babbitt Family.
Braley Family.
British Invasion of Maryland.
Colonial Families of the U. S. of America, VoL FV.
Dover Farms.
Early Mass. Marriages, Vol. III.
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PubHcaihn C&mmifUe:
HOPPER STRIKER UOTl, Edii^r.
GEORGE AUSTIN MORRISON; JR.
ROYDEN WOODWARD VOSBURGH-
CAPT, RICHARD HENRY GREENE.
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RICHARD SCHERMERHORN. JR,
MRS. ROBERT D. BRISTOL
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JULY. 1915.— CONTENTS.
I LttlST RATION. Fortr*!! Qt jAl!S««i CoikB^vll f'afia Fn^nUsijiece
K jAmes CoNGUJiLL Fargo, Cmnributcd by William Cotigdcll Fargo . 213
3. Geheral £dwakd FttANCts WiNSLuw. By William Forse Scoti . , itj
y The Earliest *'Bouwekies" in Bkooklyn. and Tueik Owners, Bv
Joel N* Eno, A. M. .,..,. 2ig
4. Colonel Jqhm Livingston of New Lonron, Conn., Eldest Son of
RoBEHT Livingston, First Lokd of Livingston Manor, N. Y.
Contributed by E. B* Livingston , , 230
5. Vital Records op Cmkist's Church at Rye, Westchester County,
New York. Commyiikated by Thotnas T. Sherman . . , , 234
6, Thacher-Thatcher Genealugv* By Jobii R. Tottcn. (Comtnued
from VoL XLVL page IS5) * , 24^
7, Revolutionary War Muster Roll. Contributeil by George Austin
Morrison^Jr. .,..,.♦*».... 269
8, GREiiN Family Notes. Contributed by Fratiklin Green . . , . 271
q. Inscriptions Gleaned from Stones in the Fort Ann, N. Y„ Ceme-
terv. Contribuled by Stewart H. Burnham -.-,♦, 277
10. New Yorr Marriage Licenses. Contributed by Robert H. Kelby . 279
It, Albertson Bible Records. Copied by Hopper Sinker Moil ,.289
t2. Gravenraet. Contributed by Rev, C. H. B. Turner , , . . 290
13. Early Settlers of West Farms, Westchester County, N, Y.
Copied Erom the mauuscripi record of the late Rev, Theodore A, Leggctt^
by A. Hatftekl, Jr. tContuiued from VoL XLVI, p, iSS) .... tqz
14, Corrections and Additions to Pubhshed Genealogical Works , 301
i|. Special Notice , 302
16. The New York Genealogical and Bioqrafhical Society's De-
fartment op Registration of Pedigrees, (Contmued from Vol,
XLIV, p. tgt) ............. 303
17. Society Proceedings 307
18. QuERiES.—Nostrarjd-Bogert— Corn elis— J oralemoti— Oliver ... 308
iQ« Book Reviews. By John R. Toiien 308
aa Accessions to THE Library ..*..,..,. 31S
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Vol. XLVI. NEW YORK, JULY, 1915. No. 3
JAMES CONGDELL FARGO.
CONTRIBUTBD BY WiLLIAM CONGDELL FaRGO,
Member of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
James C. Fargo, the dean of all officials who had spent a life-
time in the Express business, and who was President of the
American Express Company from 1881 until June, 1914 — a period
of thirty-three years — died at his residence, 56 Park Avenue, New
York City, February 8th, 1915, in his 86th year.
The funeral services were held at St. Barnabas* Church,
Irvington-on-the Hudson, N. Y., February loth, with interment at
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Tarrytown, N. Y., the obsequies being
attended by many prominent express and railroad officials. An
impressive tribute of respect was the stoppage of all business by
the American Express Company and its employes, in pursuance
of a general order issued by President George C. Taylor. On the
stroke of 12 noon, February 10, throughout the Company's terri-
tory, not a package or wagon was moved, for a period of five min-
utes, and every employe revered, by silence, the memory of the
great departed expressman.
In speaking of Mr. Fargo's death, Dr. Ernest M. Stires, Rector
of St. Thomas Church, New York, had this to say:
"Mr. Fargo was one of the oldest and one of the
most valuable members of St. Thomas* Church. For
many years he has been a member of the vestry and the
treasurer of the parish. The one outstanding quality in
a character remarkably strong was his perfect conscien-
tiousness. He cared for every responsibility with prompt-
ness and thoroughness. This was true, also, in his attend-
ance at the services of the church; when his health per-
mitted he was invariably in his place. The carrying of
great responsibilities for many years caused many to
regard him as an austere man, but those who really knew
him discovered in him a sympathetic heart. It was my
privilege to make this discovery, and I felt a deep affect-
ion for him.
14
214 J^^f^s Congdell Fargo, [July
In a period when heads of corporations have been
abundantly accused in public print of almost every crime
on the calendar, Mr. Fargo was so universally recognized
as possessing all the essential virtues in his public and
private life that his name was never mentioned except
with complete respect. The Church and the community
have sustained a c^reat loss, but we will be grateful for
his life, and hope for the wide influence of his example.'*
The Fargo family is of Welsh extraction, Moses Fargo having
emigrated from Wales about 1680, and settled in New London,
Conn., and the family was identified with the development of
New England and New York State. William Fargo, a great
grandson of Moses, and the grandfather of James C, was among
the first to enlist with the Colonial forces in the Revolutionary
War, served faithfully during the struggle for independence, and
was present at the siege of Yorktown. William C. Fargo a son
of William and the father of James C, also served his country
during the war of 1812, and was wounded at the battle of
Queenstown.
James C. Fargo was the seventh son of a family of twelve
children, and was born at Watervale, N. Y., May Sth, 1829. He
was a graduate of the old red school house at Watervale, and at
the age of 15 went to Buffalo and entered the office of his brother,
William G., who was eleven years his senior, and who, with others,
had established an express line from Albany to Buffalo under the
name of Livingston, Wells & Pomeroy, and another line from
Buffalo to Detroit, known as Wells & Company. At that time
there were no railroads west of Buffalo, and the express business
amounted to a single carpet bag of perhaps a dozen articles a day
between Albany and Buffalo, and the same quantity once a week
between Buffalo and Detroit.
In the spring of 1847 Mr. Fargo accompanied his brother to
Detroit, and soon after was placed in charge of the business in
that city, first as local agent, and subsequently, as the railroad was
extended west, as superintendent of Wells & Company's business
in the state. Early in 1850 the American Express Company came
into existance by the consolidation of the three separate organi-
zations known as Wells & Company, Livingston & Fargo, and
Butterfield, Wasson & Company. Mr. Fargo continued with the
new concern, and in Januaiy, 1855, was appointed agent at
Chicago. Shortly after assuming charge he was transferred to the
general superin tendency of the Northwestern Division of the
Company's lines, which position he held until after the close of
the war, and in 1867 was called to New York City to assume the
duties of general superintendent of the Company's entire lines.
From this point forward the history of the American Express
Company is the history of Mr. Fargo, so closely did he identify
himself with its interests.
In 1866 a powerful competitor in the shape of the Merchant's
Union Express Company had been organized, with a capital stock
igi5.1 Jcanes Congdell Fargo, 215
of {20,000,000, but through reckless expenditures the company
became stranded inside of two years, anci in 1868 was consolidated
with the American Express Company under the name of the
American Merchants Union Express Company, with a combined
capital stock of $18,000,000, as at present. In 1873 the name of
the company was again changed to that of the American Express
Company.
In 1881, upon the death of his brother, Mr. Fargo was elected
President of the American Express Company, and for one-third
of a centuiy was its guiding spirit In addition to the engrossing
responsibilities of his position, Mr. Fargo found time to reorgan-
ize the Merchants Dispatch Transportation Company in 1871, of
which he became President. The company operated a fast freight
service over what is now the New York Central lines, and by
which system it was later absorbed. Mr. Fargo was also President
of the National Express Company, the Westcott Express
Company, and a Director of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway.
Many innovations in the express business were introduced by
Mr. Fargo, and it was greatly owing to his ability and energy that
the company reached its present standard and magnitude. He was
constantly looking for opportunities to improve every department
of the service. In 1882 he introduced the money order system,
which in a few years grew to be an important feature of the
company's business and was taken up by all of the other com-
panies. Following this success, in 1891 Mr. Fargo inaugurated
the travelers cheque system, which has carried the name and
standing of the company to all quarters of the civilized world, and
the value of the Company's cheques to American tourists stranded
abroad at the beginning of the present war is so familiar to every
one that it need hardly be mentioned. To such an extent did
the money order and travelers cheque system enlarge the influ-
ence of the Company that Mr. Fargo soon saw the necessity of
extending the Company's lines into Europe, and accordingly in
1896 offices were established in London and Paris, to be followed
soon after with offices at other important points and agencies
throughout Europe.
On May 5th, 1914, Mr. Fargo attained his 85th year of age, and
the almost unequaled record of seventy years' active service with
practically one organization. Few men can discount such a
record by fifty per cent, and yet, with his wonderful vitality, Mr.
Far^o's perception was as keen and his hand as steady as in the
earlier days of his career. Owing, however, to the advancement
of years and his failing strength, Mr. Fargo tendered his resigna-
tion to the Company, which was accepted June i6th, 1914.
On that occasion the Directors of the American Express
Company adopted the following resolution:
"The Board desires to record its keen regret in accept-
ing Mr. Fargo 's resignation as President of this Company,
and its high appreciation of his loyal, devoted and
2 1 6 Janus Congdill Fargo. [July
valuable services during his long incumbency of that
office.
Mr. Fargo entered the service of the Company in
February, 1844 — seventy years ago— when a boy of fifteen
years of age. He was elected a Director in 1859 and
has served on the Board continuously since that time. In
1867 he was appointed General Superintendent of all
lines of the Company, and in August, 1881, its President,
since which time he has been its Chief Executive.
Blessed with good health during this lon^ period of
service, and highl)^ endowed with the qualities of per-
severence, application, integrity and executive ability,
he is identifiea as no other man with the growth, progress
and success of the Company. During all these years, its
interests have been the controlling purpose and interest
of his life. He has unsparingly devoted to its affairs his
rare capacity for work, unflagging energy, keen broad
vision, high principles, courage and experience. The
history, expansion and achievements of the Company are
the record of his life's work, of which he may well be
proud as we, his associates, are.
In now laying down the arduous duties of Chief
Executive of the Company in his eighty-sixth year, he
closes his long and distinguished pericxl of service with
the esteem and affection ot his associates in the manage-
ment of the Company and their best wishes for his
health and happiness.'*
Mr. Fargo married Frances Parsons Stuart, daughter of Col.
John Stewart of Battle Creek, Mich., December 2Sth, 1853. Mrs.
Fargo died August 31st, 1896. Their children were: William C.
Fargo, James F. Fargo, Annie Stuart Fareo — died January i,
1884 — and Grace Brownell Fargo— died October 20th, 1873. The
sons are connected with the various Express Companies of which
their father was an officer. William C. Fargo is Secretary, and
his brother James F. Fargo is Treasurer of the American, National
and Wescott Express Companies. Among the immediate
relatives are: Mrs. S. P. Womley, Mortimer Fargo, Livingston W.
Fargo, William Preston Fargo, Fayette C: Fargo, James C. Fargo,
2d, Stanley Fargo, and George W. Fargo.
In commenting upon his career, the Express Gazette said:
"The dean of all Express Executives, Mr. Fargo's
judgment was held in profound respect by all his col-
leagues. Possessed ot the highest ideals in the conduct
of business, his influence was far reaching. He was
singularly quiet in his habits and manner, but all who
knew him admired him for his sterling worth and char-
acter, and if there is one word in the English language
that can be applied to his memory it is * integrity.' "
191 5.] General Edward Francis Winsiow. 21 J
GENERAL EDWARD FRANCIS WINSLOW*
By William Forsb Scott,
Formerly Adjutant 4th Iowa Cavalry,
233 Broadway, New York City.
In October last, at Canandaigua, New York, there passed
away a man who was a perfect type of the pure American stock.
In the little band who landed on Plymouth Rock, in a savage
wilderness, relying onlv upon their free minds, their strong arms,
and faith in their God, were three brothers, Kenelm, Josiah and
Edward Winslow. The second voyage of the Mayflower brought
their younger brother, John. The family had long been of the
gentry of England,, and the sacrifices they made in abandoning
their homes for the sake of liberty must have been great These
brothers were, by natural powers, among the leaders of men, and
they and their descendants stood high in the councils and ad-
ministration of the colony. Every generation of their descendants
has furnished men who stood at the head in the affairs of the
country — governors, judges, ministers, generals and admirals.
In the seventh generation from Kenelm Winslow appeared
Edward Francis Winslow, who was born at Augusta, Me., Sept. 28,
i837« ^^ ^^^ ^^ Stephen Winslow and Elizabeth Bass. He had
all the independence of judgment and serene confidence of power
characteristic of his ancestors. In the nearly forty years of his
working life, he accomplished an extraordinary amount of work,
always of a high order and of great value to his country, always
as a leader, always ready and fearless in meeting dangers and
difficulties, and always successful. In the projection and con-
struction of railways he showed the same confident grasp and
unhesitating spirit which had been conspicuous in his brilliant
career as a soldier.
Before he was 20, though not an engineer hy education or
experience, he undertook the construction of railways in Iowa,
where railways were just then projected. When Secession took
to arms, he was only 23, and without knowledge of the militaiy
art; but, with equal patriotism and confidence, he abandoned his
business and enlisted a company for the war. His younc^ wife,
just married, also descended from an old New England family,
zealously supported his purpose.
Beginning in the great war as Captain of Co. F, Fourth Iowa
Cavalry, his boundless energy found apt employment in the
arduous cavalry operations of 1862 throughout Missouri and Ar-
* Seventh in generation from Kenelm,* throus^h Job,* James,* Benjamin,^
William,* and Stepnen.* General Winslow died of heart failure on Thursday,
October 22, 191 4, at the home of Mrs. Frederick Ferris Thompson, Canandahnia,
N. Y. He had been a Life Member of this Society since December 14, 1888.
THE EDITOR.
I4A
2 1 8 General Edward Francis IVmsiow, [July
kansas. Promoted then to Major, he caused his regiment to be
specially chosen for service with Grant in the great Vicksburg
campaign, in which he so distinguished himself, that, before he
was 26, he was advanced to Colonel and to the command of
Sherman's cavalry brigade.
From that time to the end of the war he commanded a series
of brigades and divisions of cavalry in many campaigns in Missis-
sippi, Tennessee, Missouri, Alabama and Georgia. For four years
he was never off duty but twice for a short time, when disabled
by wounds received in battle. Twice he was severely wounded
and twice his horse was shot under him.
Successful in every campaign, he made the name of his regi-
ment and brigade famous throughout the Mississippi valley. In
1864, when General Thomas was anxiously mustering his forces to
oppose the great invasion by Hood, he and the War Department
insistently called for the aid of ''Winslow*s Brigade,** then 700
miles away, in pursuit of the rebel forces it had defeated and
routed in Missouri and Kansas. This untrained volunteer had
easily become a soldier of the highest military skill and ability.
Among many other campaigns, he led a raid from Vicksburg
to Memphis, 300 miles, through a country occupied by rebel
cavalry numbering three or four times his command, avoiding
defeat of his purpose only by constant boldness and energy of
movement. With 1200 cavalry he led Sherman's army of 20/xx)
infantry from Vicksburg to Meridian, 150 miles, forcing the enemy
in front with such unbroken success that for twelve days Sherman
halted onl^ to bivouac for the night. He commanded a brigade
or a division of cavalry in each of the campaigns against the
famous Forrest in northern Mississippi in 1864, invariably dis-
tinguishing himself and his command by his readiness, resource-
fulness and courage. In one of these campaigns (June, 1864) he
held back, with a single brigade, through a night and a day, with
almost incessant fighting, Forrest*s whole command of four
brigades, and thus saved General Sturgis' defeated army. In
August-October, 1864, when the rebel General Price invaded Mis-
souri with three divisions of cavalry, he commanded a brigade of
1400 cavalry, which strenuously pushed after Price from Little
Rock to St. Louis, and thence to Kansas City, and on overtaking
him, at once dashed into and broke up one' of his divisions
(Battle of the Big Blue), receiving another severe wound at the
moment of victory. By a special order of President Lincoln he
was then brevetted Brigadier-General "for gallantry in the field.'*
^ In the greatest cavalry campaign of history, in 1865, he led a
brigade of 2500 veterans (First brigade, Fourth Division, Cavalry
Corps, M. D. M.). This was one of the three divisions commanded
by the famous cavalry leader, Maj.-Gen. James H. Wilson, which
in four weeks marched 600 miles through the enemy's country,
crossed four large rivers at flood, constructing their own bridges,
fought successfully five battles, took two heavily fortified cities
by assault dismounted (Selma, Ala., and Columbus, Ga.), wholly
19 1 5-] Th4 Eariust **Bcuw€ries " in Brooklyn, and Their Owners. 2 1 9
routed all Forrest's forces, and destroyed war material valued at
hundreds of millions of dollars. The forts at Columbus were car-
ried by Winslow's brigade alone, led by himself, in a battle by
night, and it was the last battle of the war (April 16, 1865). He
was then distinguished in the administration of civil affairs in
Geoi^ia, under military orders, until his command was mustered
out Aug. ID, 1865.
After the war he engaged in railway construction and manage-
ment; was a leading i^ure in half a dozen roads in the west;
built also the West Shore in New York; was President of the
New York, Ontario & Western, of the St. Louis & San Francisco,
and of the Atlantic & Pacific, as well as Inspector for the United
States of the Union Pacific.
Twenty-five years of this strenuous labor seriously endangered
his health, and he was forced to retire. Though compelled there-
after to limit carefully his physical movement, his mind never lost
its vigorous activity; he was always keenly interested in the
affairs of his country and always occupied in helpful services to
his friends.
A soldier without fear and without failure; a citizen spiritedly
patriotic and self-sacrificing; a friend who never lost an occasion to
prove his loyalty; a husband who, during the long years of his
married life, brought unalloyed happiness to his wife, he was a
true American, worthy of his American ancestry.
THE EARLIEST "BOUWERIES*** IN BROOKLYN, AND
THEIR OWNERS
By Jobl N. £no, A. M.
The earliest Ehitch settlers of Brooklyn obtained individual
grants by patent, first on the East river.
I. The first patent was granted in 1636 to Jacques Bcntyn
and William Adriansc (Bennet), who had bought from the Indians
a tract of 930 acres, extending from near the present 28th Street,
along Gowanus cove and bay to New Utrecht line; that is, from a
certain tree on Long Hill (now "Ocean Hill" in Greenwood ceme-
tery), on the rear of the farm owned (in 1869) by Cornelius W.
Bennett and that late of Abraham Schermerhom, and on the boun-
dary between Brooklyn and Flatbush, to the third meadow creek
on the bounds between Brooklyn and New Utrecht, land formerly
* The Dutch of the period of the Dutch Governors is Bouwery, plural
Bouwery/9f. Such^pellings as wyn, wys» zvn, firelyk, now uijn, etc., are com-
mon as late as Marin's Franschen Nederdeutsch Woorden-boek, 1762. I
thought it fittest to use the corresponding English of Stuyvesant's time,
("Bouwery" and) "Bouweries." 0*Callaghan, Hut. New Neikerland, vol. a,
p. agi and footnote 3; and Brodhead*s New York, vol. i, pp. 504, 681, 743, 76a.
2 20 Th4 Earlust **Bouwiriis *' in Brooklyn, tmd Thnr Owners. [July
of Henry K. Kent and Winant & Bennett. Bennet became owner
of the whole or nearly the whole tract ; a deed from Jacques Bentyn,
December 26, 1639, acknowledging that he sold to William Adri-
ansen land adjoining said Adriansen for 360 guilders. Bennet built
a house on present Third Avenue, near 28th Street, burned by the
Indians in 1643 ! ^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^ Schermerhom house. His
widow married Paulus van der Beeck. On May 25, 1668, a con-
firmatory patent was granted to Thomas Fransen of a tract on
Gowanus meadow, divided into four parts; Numbers 2 and 4 of
which were transferred to Fransen; No. 4 had been conveyed by
Adrian Willemsen Bennet, son of Willem to Paulus van der Beeck,
and on September 5, 1666, by van der Beeck and hb wife, Maria
Thomas (Bennet). Van der Beeck was one of the patentees to
whom the township of Brooklyn was granted by Gov. NicoUs, Octo-
ber 18, 1667. The Bennet farm was in possession of Adrian, son of
the original owner, in 1696. The stone De Hart or Berroa house
was near the first meadow, on Gowanus Cove, west of Third Ave-
nue, near 37th and 38th Streets. This, and the Schermerhom house
are both older than the Cortelyou or Vechte house in Fifth Avenue
built in 1699, and till 1859 supposed to be the oldest house in Brook-
lyn. The swamp, Cripplebusn, on the land of Bennet is identical
with that formerly between Third and Fifth Avenues near 28th
Street. The second of the three meadows was at 45th and 46th
Streets on First and Second Avenues, and came into possession of
Simon Arison (Aertsen, or De Hart) and joined land of Agias van
Dyck, southwest of 47th Street; later the farm sold by H. A. Kent
to Winant Bennet partly in Brooklyn and partly in New Utrecht
This Van Dyck farm was bought by Hendnck Van Dyck, the deed
being dated October 6, 1708, and sold by him in 1760 to John Ber-
gen, who conveyed it to his son Teunis, father of Cornelius Bergen ;
and lay between 57th and 59th Streets.
In 1869 it was owned by William C. Langley and Thomas
Hunt. The Theodorus and LeflFert Bergen farms at 52nd to s6th
Street, together formed a tract ori^nally sold April 6, 1724 to
Joseph Hegeman for £824; he sold it May 10, 1734, to Cornelius
Sandford for £500; August 28, 1744, it was sold by Theodorus Van
Wyck of New York and his wife Helen, only daughter of said
Sandford, to Hans Bergen ; the first of several farms bought by the
Bergens at Gowanus, Yellow Hook, and Bay Ridge. From Hans it
descended to his son Michael, who divided it between his sons Theo-
dorus and LefFert; the portion of LefFert was owned in 1869 by
Thomas Hunt and M. McGrath. The Peter Bergen and Van
Pelt farms from 46th to 52nd Streets, were once owned by the Van
Pelt family, and divided between two brothers; of whom Wouter
conveyed his to Peter Bergen, who divided it between his sons Mar-
tenus and Peter. Land in dispute between Arison and Adriaen Ben-
net, was confirmed November 2, 1696, to Arison (de Hart) and
later comprised the farms of Simon and John S. Bergen. Arison
(Dutch Aertsen) emigrated to New York in 1664, and bought land
adjoining Bennet soon after; his house, the De Hart house, is on
191 50 Tfu Earliest **B<mw€rus " in Brooklyn, and Their Owners. 221
record in 1679. He bequeathed his farm to Simon, Jr., who died
childless, bequeathing his farm to his sister Geertje, who married
Simon Bergen ; he divided it between his sons Simon and John S.,
the former taking the plot on which the De Hart house stood, be-
tween 37th and 40th Streets, which was inherited by his daughter
Leah, wife of Jacob Morris. The land devised by Willem Ariaense
Bennet to his widow Maria Thomas (alias Badge) was patented
September g, 1644, to the widow; it lay between 28th and 41st
Streets and in 1869 was held by Abraham Schermerhorn, Garret S.
and John S. Beigen, and the heirs of Henry Pope, besides that part
of Greenwood cemetery which is taken from the rear of the
Schermerhom and Bergen farms.
2. April 5, 1642, Kieft granted a patent to Cornells Lambert-
sen (Cool) of lands extending from the wagon road between said
lands and Jan Pietersen's, along the river to a certain swamp,
(Krepplebosch), next to the land of Willem Adriaense (Bennet) ;
which land was formerly occupied by Jans Van Rotterdam and
Thomas Beets (i. e. Bescher.) This appears on Butts' map as
farms of Peter WyckofF, John '^ckoff, Henry Story, and Winant
Bennet. A deed of Thomas Bescher to Cornells Lambertsen
(Cool) of May 17, 1639, for these premises, is the earliest convey-
ance from one settler to another which has been found for lands
in Brooklyn; of which the English translation follows — ^as to de-
scription: "A plantation before occupied by Jan van Rotterdam,
and afterward by Thomas Bescher, situate on Long Island. . .
on which borders the plantation of Willem Adriaensen (Bennet),
cooper; and to the north, Claes Comelise Smits', reaching tfie woods
in longitude; for all of which Comelis Lambertsen (Cool) shall
pay to said Thomas Bescher 300 Carolus guilders, at 20 stu3^ers the
guilder." This deed, and most patents for the Dutch period, con-
tain "Lange Eyland" the Dutch equivalent for "Long Island," not-
withstanding W. E. Griffis' bold assertion that it does not occur for
more than a century later. Jan Pietersen (Staats) lands are set
down on Butts' map to J. Dimon, R. Berry, H. L. Clark, A. Van
Brunt, and heirs of Rachel Berry. The land set down to Edwin C.
Litchfield in 1869, was originally the Vechte farm; ist to 5th
Streets, on which the Cortelyou house stood; on the west side of
Fifth Avenue near 4th Street What remains of the Cortelyou
house is now the club house in Washington Park. The founder of
the Vechte family was Claes Adriaentse van Vechten of Norch
in Drenthe province, Holland. In the Revolution, his grandson,
Nicholas Vechte, owned the house; his heir, Nicholas R. Cowen-
hoven in 1790 sold the house and part of the farm, for £2500 to
Jacques Cortelyou, the first Cortelyou, who emigrated in 1652 to
New Utrecht; his sons were Adrian and Jacques; the latter sold
off city lots. The land between 5th and 7th Streets is set down on
the map to Theodorus Polhemus, who received it from his father.
Between 7th and 9th Streets, Rem Adriance's; his daughter mar-
ried Cornelius Van Brunt ; the farm on Gowanus creek between 9th
and I2th Streets, was owned about 1810 by Cornelius Van Brunt,
222 The Earliest "Botiwtrus *• in Brooklyn, and Their Owners. [July
and divided between his son Adriance, and Henry L. Clarke. The
Berry farm on Mill credc, I2th to 14th Streets was sold before the
Revolution by Cornelius Van Ehiyn to Walter Berry, and conveyed
by Richard Berry to A. W. Benson. From isth to Middle Streets,
the tract was conveyed about 1751 by Christophel Scarse and Peter
Van Pelt to. John Bergen, and by him to his brother Dirick Bergen,
and fell to his three daughters; Mrs. Joseph Smith, Mrs. Walter
Berry, and Mrs. Ebenczer Carson; on Butts' map set down to J.
Dimon, Peter Wyckoff, and the heirs of R. Berry. From Middle
Street to 20th Street, was originally one farm, owned by Cornelius
Van Duyne, and conveyed during the Revolution to Peter Wyckoff;
in 1869 held by John Wyckoff. From 20th to 25th Streets was
originally one farm owned by Jacob Fardon, and sold in 1720 to
Anthony Hulsaart of New Utrecht. He sold to Joseph Woodward
and Wynant Bennet, and Woodward sold to Henry Story. It was a
tract originally sold by Paulus Vander Beeck to Wm. Huycken in
1679, whose son Conradus deeded it December, 1699, to Cornelius
Gerritse Van Ehiyne, who had married Huycken's oldest daughter.
Blokje's Berg, a small hill on Gowanus Cove near the comer of
Third Avenue and 23rd Street, had the old Wjmant Bennet house,
near the place where the British received their first check in the
Long Island battle, August 27, 1776. The farms of Cornelius Ben-
net and Joseph Dean (1869) were originally one, reaching from
2Sth to 28th Streets. Along the bay between 24th and 28th
Streets, was the hamlet of Gowanus, laid out in village lots.
3. Red Hook (Dutch, Roede Hoek) included all the land west
of Sullivan Street. Its use was granted in 1638 to Director Van
Twiller, to be relinquished at the demand of the W. I. Company.
He had already obtained Nutten or Governor's Island and other
islands, besides lands at Catskill and on Long Island; in all, 3000
to 3750 acres. In 1652 these grants were d^dared null and void,
and reverted to the Company, which through Stuyvesant in 1657,
granted Red Hook to the town of Breukelen. It was sold by the
patentees and freeholders of Brooklyn, Aug. 10, 1695, to Col.
Stephanus van Cortlandt; estimated at 50 acres. The Van Cortlandt
heirs deeded to Mathias Van Dyke, Red Hook, ''on the Island of
Nassau, formerly Long Island, 50 acres more or less,'' with a mill
on it, comer of Dikeman and Van Brunt Streets. Matthias Van
Dyke deeded it to his son John, Feb. i, 1736, and it fell to his sons
Nicholas and Matthias in 1784.
4. Frederick Lubbertsen's patent, dated May 27, 1640, in-
cluded the whole neck of land between East river and Gowanus
creek. He was boatswain to Director Kieft in 1638, and then lived
in New Amsterdam. His^ tract is described as "lying on Long Isl-
and, near Werpos;" in 1869, bounded by Degraw and Harrison
Streets west of Court Street, and by the East river and Hamilton
Avenue. Lubbertsen did not settle on his land until 1653 ; on Nov.
22, 1679, ^^ devised it to his two daughters, Aeltje, wife of Cor-
nells Seabring, and Elsie, wife of Jacob Hansen Bergen, and to his
wife's two sons, Peter and Hendrick Corssen (Vroom). Bergen's
1915J Th4 Earliest ''BouwirUs ** in Brooklyn, and Their Owners. 223
land, over 200 acres, was given to his oldest son, Hans Jacobus Ber-
gen, in 1732; he by will in 1743 gave it to his only son, Jacob, who
occupied tfie old Lubbertsen house near the comer of Ho)rt and
Warren Streets. He conveyed 130 acres near Court Street and
Gowanus creek to John Rapalje in 1750 for £700, and bought part
of Gerret Wolpherts Van Couvenhoven's patent, and of Jan Evertse
Bout's, March, 1698; Vroom, who then owned the land given to
himself and brother, conveyed 100 acres to Seabring for maintain-
ing Corssen for life. John Marsh, of New Jersey, had built a mill
on the meadows Corssen and Seabring held in common, about 1689;
hence the mill became known as "Seabring's", later Cornell's or
the "Red Mill"; at Columbia Street and Tiffany Place, opposite
Sedgwick Street The I. Seabring mill, built after 1766, near the
head of Gowanus bay, northeast comer of Hicks and Hunting-
ton Streets, was later caJled the "Luqueer Mill."
5. Claes Jansen Van Naerden (or Ruyter) obtained a patent
Sept. 30, 1645, of land bounded southwest and southeast by Fred-
erick Lubbertsen's and northeast by Jan Manje's; 21 morgens and
200 rods. (A morgen is about two English acres, and a EHitch rod
is 12 feet 3.62 inches English.) Van Naerden sold to Michael Tud-
dens, March 11, 1660; he to Michael Hayneste (Hainelle), April 3,
1666, who sold to Dirck Janse Woertman.
6. Jan Manje's patent was next to the foregoing, and was
l^anted Sept. 11, 1642. From this land to D. J. Woertman's ad-
joining, in 1674, was Andries Hudde's patent. He, with W. Ger-
ritse, bought several flats in Flatlands and Flatbush in 1636 ; but the
Brooklyn patent was obtained Sept. 12, 1645. Hudde never occu-
pied it himself, but it was conveyed by power of attomey through
Pieter Comelissen to Lodewyck Jongh for 400 guilders ; the order
being approved by the Director, Jan. 2, 1651. Jongh's widow in
1676 conveyed part to Jeronimus Rapalje ; in 1679 another part to
D. /. Woertman, and in 1685 the rest to the heirs of Joris Dirckse.
The Hudde, Manje, and Ruyter patents comprised the whole ter-
ritory which was later the Remsen, and Philip Livingston estates,
Ralph Patchen's, Comelius Heeney's, Parmenus Johnson's, etc.
From Atlantic to Clarke Streets, and from Court Street to East river
was bought by D. J. Woertman, and sold Oct. 10, 1706, to his son-
in-law, Joris Remsen, for £612, ids. current money of New York.
Joris Remsen was the second son of Rem Jansen Vander Beeck,
ancestor of the Remsen family in the United States. Philip Liv-
ingston became owner of a large part before 1764. His mansion
stood on the east side of Hicks Street, 400 feet south of Joralemon
Street. His distillery property was sold July, 1785, to Daniel Mc-
Cormick ; and the property south of the distillery on the 29th April,
1803, to Teunis Joralemon ; and the mansion became known as the
Joralemon house.
8. Qaes Comelissen (Mentelaer) van Schouw received a
patent Nov. 14, 1642, for land probably reaching to the ferry at
the foot of Fulton Street.
2 24 7^ EarlUst *'Bouw€ries " in Brooklpt, and Their Owners, (July
9. North of the ferry was a small parcel of land of Cornells
Dircicsen (Hooglandt) "the ferryman"; he sold Jan. 24, 1643, ^^
Willem Thomassen (or Janssen), and Dirckse obtained another par-
cel behind the first, Dec. 12, 1645. He conveyed land to Cornells
de Potter, Aug. 28, 1654, and a part to Egbert van Borsum, then
ferryman, adjoining Potter's. The Thomassen tract lay next to
Henry B resells originally.
10. Jacob Wolfertsen (van Couwenhoven) received a grant
July 3, 1043; confirmed to Breser Sept. 4, 1645, and conveyed by
him Aug. 29, 1651, to Cornells de Potter for 1125 guilders. The
patents of Lubbertsen and Breser comprised the balance of the Com-
fort and Joshua Sands property, as on the Butts map, — ^up to the
line of Fulton Street; and before the Revolution was owned by
John Rapalje, great grandson of the first Rapalje, and owner of the
largest estate in Brooklyn, but banished for loyalism in 1779, and
his estate confiscated to the State. He was reimbursed, however,
by the British government. The portion between Gold and Fulton
Streets was bought July 13, 1784, by Comfort and Joshua Sands for
£12430 in State scrip.
11. Frederick Lubbertsen, Sept 4, 1645, obtained a grant of
land between H. Breser's and Edward Fiscock^s.
12. Fiscock's widow married Jan Haes. Her land was near
Martyn's (later Martyr's) Hook, and embraced a part of the Navy
Yard site. A part was sold to Cornells de Potter in 1652, afterward
to Aert Aertsen (Middagh), ancestor of the Middag^ family, now
extinct, though it gave name to Middagh Street. Aertsen married
Breckje, second daughter of Hans Hansen Bergen and Sarah Ra-
palje, and received a patent for land adjoining Joris Rapalje, of 100
acres Oct. 24, 1654, named "Cripplebush" (Ehitch Kreupelbosdi,
underbrush) ; with his stepfather, Teunis Gysbert (Bogaert).
13. Next to Haes, was Hans Lodewyck's grant, by patent of
Nov. 3, 1645.
14. Next was a grant to M. Picet, but regranted to Willem
Comelissen Feb. 19, 1646 (25 morgen), confirmed and regranted
by the Governor July 12, 1673, to Michael Heynell, Dirck Jensen,
and Jeronimus Rapalje.
15. Peter Caesar Italien, alias C. Alberti, received a grant
for a tobacco plantation June 17, 1643; 25 morgen and 24 rods
sold in 1647 to John Damon; May i, 1647, 24 morgen and 450 rods
sold ; the tract extended from Qermont to Hampden Avenue.
16. Peter Montfoort received a patent May 29, 1641, for land
between Hamilton and Clermont Avenue.
17. Jan Montfoort, probably Peter's brother; his "patent" ad-
joined. In 1869 it was held by John and Jacob Ryerson (between
Hamilton and Grand Avenues), they were sons of Marten, who
originally owned the whole tract ; and descendants of Martin Ryerse,
emigrant from Amsterdam, and first husband of Annetie, daughter
of Joris Janse de Rapalje; and brother of Adrian Ryerse of Flat-
I915.] The Earliest *'Bouwerus " m Brooklyn' and Their Owners, 225
bush. Of the descendants of Adrian's sons, from Elbert come the
Adriance family, and from Marten the Martense family of Flatbush.
18. Joris (i. e., George) Jansen de Rapalje came from Ro-
chelle, France, in 1623, in the ship Eendracht to Fort Orange; in
1626 to New Amsterdam, north side of Pearl Street; 1654 to Waal-
bogt, now Wallabout; bought a tract (Rennegaconck) of the In-
dians, June 16, 1637, reached from the kil or creek to Kreupelbush,
for which Kieft gave him a patent June 17, 1643; now the site of
the Marine Hospital and the land between Nostrand and Grand
Avenues. He had 11 children. Part was conveyed to Jeronimus
Remsen in 1714; by him to John Van Nostrand in 1719; by him
to Daniel Rapalje in 1729; by him to Garret Nostrand in 1765.
19. Hans Hansen Bergen received a patent March 30, 1647,
of 200 morgen, from Rennegaconck creek to the present Division
Street, bound between Brooklyn and Williamsburgh ; on Butts' map
lands of Gen. Jeremiah Johnson, James Scholes, Abraham Remsen,
Abraham Boerum, Abndfiam Meserole, McKibbin, Nichols, Powers,
Schenck, Mills, etc. Bergen came from Bergen in Norway by way
of Holland in 1633 to New Netherland ; he settled on Pearl Street
adjoining J. J. de Rapalje, whose daughter, Sarah, he married in
1639 ; she was the first white female bom in New Netherland, June
9, 1625, at Fort Orange. This was the origin of the Bergens of
Long Island and New Jersey. The Bergen land went to Bogaert,
Sardi's second husband, 1664. The later Johnson homestead was
bought from Rem Jansen Vanderbeeck, who married Janet je de
Rapalje, whence it fell to their two sons Isaac and Jeremias Rem-
sen; the latter buying out Isaac, it fell to Jeremias, Jr., who be-
queathed it to his relative, Barent Johnson, father of Gen. JeremiaJh
Johnson. The Boerum farm was originally owned by Teunis Bo-
gert, whose son Adrian sold it to Jacob Bloom ; his grandchild sold
it to Abraham A. Remsen, March, 1816 ; sold by him Nov., 1816,
to Abram Boerum, and his brother Cornelius' land to Abraham
Remsen.
20. The second tier from East river: first Gerrit Wolphert-
sen (van Cowenhoven) ; patent March 11, 1647, on the road from
Flatbush to Brooklyn village. Next Jacob Stoffelsen, who left Brook-
lyn in 1656. 22. Jan Evertsen Bout received patent July 6, 1645,
for land west of van Cowenhoven; it went to Joris Jurianse, who
married Bout's widow. She married, 3d, Jan Janse Staats. The
original tract included Freke's and Denton's or the "Yellow Mill."
Bout gave the neck to the children of Adam B rower, ancestor of the
Browers. Jurian Andriese sold 27 morgen Feb. 19, 1708, to Carell
Debevoise* for £400. 23. Huyck Aertsen (van Rossum) obtained
♦Girel De Beauvois (or Bevoise), ancestor of the family in the
United StateSj came from Leyden, Holland, arriving Feb. 17, 1659, with
his wife Sophia, and children Jacobus, Gertrude and Catherine: Cornells
was born March 3, 1659, at New Amsterdam. The family is Huguenot,
originating in Beauvais, an important town in the Department of the
Oisc, northern France; earlier Beauvois.
2 26 Th4 Earlust '*B(mwerUs " in Brooklyn, and Their Owners, [July
patent Feb. 22, 1646, to land next to Bout; it went to Albert Cor-
nells Wantenaer, who married Rossum's widow. 24, 25 and 26
patents were lands between the present Fulton Street and Avenue,
Raymond Street and a line a little south of Tillary Street ; taken up
by Joris Dircksen, Pieter Comelissen, and G^melis Dircksen in
1646; (see Dircksen "the ferryman").
BROOKLYN FIFTY YEARS AGO, AND NOW.
Brooklyn had its origin by the settlement of Jan Evertsen Bout
in 1645 near the spot where Hoyt and Smith Streets join Fulton;
the latter was then the road to the "Ferry," which is now nearly
under Brooklyn Bridge. Most of the land near the Ferry almost
to Wallabout was granted to Jan Rapalje in 1643, but a g^eat part
of it was sold by his grandson, John Rapelje, to Comfort and Joshua
Sands in 1784, for £12430 sterling. They founded a settlement
called Olympia. John Jackson sold the site of the Navy Yard
to the United States in 1801, and on the rest of his land near
founded "Irishtown" in the Fifth ward, adjoining Olympia. In
1790, the first United States Census found only 1600 population in
Brooklyn. Brooklyn when incorporated as a village April 12,
1816, was bounded as follows : From the foot of JonJemon Street
to Red Hook. Lane; thence to Jamaica Turnpike; thence to
Wallabout Pond and the East River. The village had in-
creased to 7000 population in 1820, and was incorporated a dty
April 18, 1834. The First Ward, on Butts' map, 1869, and Fulton's
Farm Line map, 1874, was on the lands of Ralph Patchen (on State
Street), Philip Livingston (on Livingston Street), Remsen (on
Remsen Street), R. Benson (on Montague Street), Pierpont from
De Bevoise (on Pierrepont Street), Swartcqpe at Monroe Place,
Jackson, Kimberly, and Waring, between Pierrepont and Clark
Streets, Middagh at the foot of Henry Street, and Jacob and John
Hicks on Hicks Street, and Columbia Heights. The Second ward
was on lands of Comfort and Joshua Sands ; the Fourth on lands
of C. and J. Sands and J. B. Johnson, except Tillary's small tract at
the beginning of Tillary Street; the Fifth on C. and J. Sands, ex-
cept a small section on J. Jackson (Irishtown), next to the Navy
Yard, and another on Samuel Jackson, about the comer of Concord
and Duffield Streets, with part of J. B. Johnson's and John Duiiield's
(the latter at Duffield Street). A considerable number of street
names throughout the city remain as monuments locating the early
farm ownership. The Third ward is an extension from the old
village, from Boerum Place to Fourth Avenue, on lands of J. Cor-
nell, Schermerhom, S. Smith, Samuel L. Gerrison, George Martense,
De Bevoise, and Mary Powers (sold later to Castelar, Christmas,
and Lloyd). The Sixth ward extended along Buttermilk Channel
from the First ward and South Ferry,. to Hamilton Avenue and
Fourth Place, on Lands of Ralph Patchen, Cornelius Heeney, Par-
menus Johnson, Selah Strong (on Strong Place), Degraw (at De-
graw Street), John Cornell (on Columbia Street), Simon Cornell
igi 5.] Th4 Earliest **Bouwerus** in Brooklyn, and Their Owners, 227
(from Strong Place to President Street, and east on Red Book
Lane), Hoyt's Prospect Hill, adjoining; to Hamilton Avenue, were
lands of Kellogg and Blake, Kellogg and Qark, Brush and Benja-
min, and Hicks and Smith, between Court Street, Red Hook Lane
and Fourth Place. The Tenth ward adjoined the Third and Sixth ;
owners, J. Boerum, W. Boerum, J. Reid, Jacob Bergen, J. C. Freake
(who sold to Brady & Fiske), Poole, Clarke. The Twelfth ward ex-
tended from the Tenth to Brooklyn and Erie Basins ; owners, John-
son, S. Cornell, Nicholas Luqueer (at Luqueer Street), Jordan
Coles, Remsen's Island and Gerritson's Island, Tyson Van Dyke,
N. Van Dyke, and Mathias Van Dyke, at the Basins. Eleventh
ward, nortfi of Third, from Fulton Street to Portland Avenue;
owners, John Duffield, Sam. Fleet (at Fleet Street), Samuel James.
Between Myrtle and De Kalb Avenue were De Bevoise, Hamilton
H. Jackson, St. Felix (at St. Felix Street), John Jackson east of
Washington Park, and John Jackson and John Skillman, north of
City Park. Twentieth ward, adjoining Eleventh, is bounded by Port-
land Avenue, Flushing Avenue, Washington Avenue, and Atlantic
Avenue, on lands of Nicholas Cowenhoven, Post Farm (Washing-
ton Park), John Jackson, John Ryerson, Jeremiah V. Spader, John
Spader, heirs of Jacob Ryerson, W. Hunter, Jr., Qark, Hunter,
Jacob Ryerson. The Seventh ward joins the Twentieth on Wash-
ington Avenue; other bounds are Flushing Avenue, Bedford Ave-
nue, and Atlantic Avenue, on lands of John Ryerson (at Ryerson
Street), Martin Ryerson, John Jackson, Schenck (at Schenck
Street). Gen. Jeremiah Johnson, John Skillman (at Skillman Street),
Clark and Manley, Tunis Johnson, W. J. Cornell and P. Reid, the
tract of the last four half inclosed in the land of Timis Cowenhoven
from beyond De Kalb Avenue to Gates Avenue ; on Gates, Ryerson
owned from Monroe to Madison Streets, Meserole, from Madison
Street to Jefferson Avenue ; the estate of Leffert Lefferts, and from
Fulton Streets to Leffert Place, Rem Lefferts. The Ninth ward is a
Triangle between Flatbush Avenue and Franklin Avenue, on James
Pearsall, Parmenter, J. Lefferts, James Underbill, Cornelius Van
Qeef, Nehemiah Denton, Nicholas Cowenhoven, Anthony Kerr,
Wm. Powers, Evans, and Evans to Glover, Levi Hart, Mary John-
son, Wm. J. Cornell, J. C. Freeke, Moses Smith, S. Fleet, Poole,
Estate of Leffert Lefferts, Rem Lefferts, Robert Wilson, Abraham
Selover, Robert De Bevoise. The Twenty-second ward adjoins the
Ninth on Flatbush Avenue to Prospect Park and Fourth Avenue
and the Canal leading to Gowanus Bay; on Poole, Sebring, Ino. C.
Ham, (to P. Remsen), Charles Hoyt, late Brower, Eliza Powers,
Thomas Poole, Theodorus Polhemus, Polhemus, Jr., Adrian Cor-
telyou and A. Cortelyou to E. C. Litchfield, Jaques Cortelyou to E.
C Litchfield, Cooper, Theodorus Polhemus, Thomas G. Talmage,
Rem Adriance, Van Brunt, H. L. Qarke and H. L. Qarke to A. W.
Benson & Fiske, E. W. Benson, Richard Berry, Joseph to Berry,
Debora Carson, Rachel Berry to E. B. Litchfield. Between Pros-
pect Park and Prospect Avenue were Joseph Dean, John Vander-
bilt, Cornelius Bennet, A. Martenus and John and Peter Wyckoff.
2 28 The Earliest '* Bouweries"" in Brooklyn^ and Their Owners. (July
The Eighth ward runs southward from the Twenty-second at
Prospect Avenue to the City line between New Utrecht and
Gowanus Bay, (including Greenwood Cemetery) continuing tracts
of John and Peter Wyckoff, and John Vanderbilt; it has also
Jeremiah Vanderbilt (north of Greenwood Cemetery), and H.
Story and Wynant Bennet alongside the cemetery and southward;
Joseph Dean, Cornelius Bennet, Schermerhom, Gerrit and John
Bergen, John G. Bergen, G. Bergen, Delaplaine, Henry Poole, Simon
Bergen to Jacob Morris, and to Lott, and Lott to Delaplaine, John
Bergen, and Bergen to John Delaplaine, Van Pelt to Hunt, Martenus
and Peter Bergen, Leffert Bergen, Theodorus Bergen, Cornelius
Bergen to Hunt & Langley, and Wynant Bennet again. The Pol-
hemuses descend from Rev. Johannes Theodorus Polhemus, first
Dutch preacher at Brooklyn, Midwout, Amersf oort, and Gravesend,
till 1659. The first Dutch church of Brooklyn was at Fulton Street
between Smith and Hoyt Streets. Ward Nineteen is the triangle
on Wallabout Bay and the Navy Yard between Flushing Avenue
and Broadway; on land of Abraham Boerum, Abraham Remsen,
James Scholes, Gen. Jeremiah Johnson, Delmonico, and De Bevoise.
Division Street was the boundary between Brooklyn and Bushwick
(Williamsburgh section), in which Broadway is situated.
The Twenty-first ward adjoins the Nineteenth on Flushing
Avenue to Lafayette Avenue, with Broadway on the north. From
Nostrand Avenue to Broadway ; Henry Boerum, Rapelyea, Jacobus
Lott, F. Vandervoort, Delmonico, J. Meserole, Samuel Meeker, and
Wright and Butler (formerly Thomas Brown). Ward 25 am-
tinues this last g^oup of tracts, running triangularly between Broad-
way and Atlantic Avenue to the New Lots line. Ward Twenty-
three adjoins jicard Twenty-five along Lafayette Avenue 'from Bed-
ford Avenue to Yates (now Sumner) Avenue and includes Tompkins
Park, which with the land south belonged to Tunis Johnson; at
Greene and Bedford Avenues, Wm. Spencer; Bedford between
Quincy and Monroe Streets, including Leffcrts Park, was Rem Lef-
ferts (later R. Graves); from Monroe Street to Putnam Avenue along
the east side of Marcy Avenue James De Bevoise owned; to Han-
cock Street, Estate of Leffert Lefferts; to Halsey Street, Rem Lef-
ferts; Macon and McDonough, Mrs. Lott, nearly to Nostrand Aven-
ue, where T. N. Redding, Betts, and Isaac Brinkerhoff owned; be-
tween Fulton Street and New York and Brooklyn Avenues, Rem
Lefferts, Jr., adjoining Sarah Millard, between whom and Yates
(now Sumner) Avenue was James Lefiferts, Jr.
Ward Twenty-four runs from Atlantic Avenue to Flatbush
town bounds, between Nostrand and Troy Avenues; contains Lefferts
tracts ; Estate of Leffert Lefferts, Cornelia Lefferts, Rem Lefferts,
Rem Lefferts to Bell, to Rogers, and to J. Moser; southward, John
Jackson, Isaac Cortelyou, S. Smith, S. Caton, R Malbone, Jona-
than Trotter, Joralemon, L. Green, Wheaton, Johnson Leake, Del-
monico, Schomaker, Bowne, Skillman, John Dittmar, T. M. Sother,
N. E. Mason, J. Spader, Jeremiah Meserole, J. H^eman, Z. Coffin,
Sam. Welles, Backhouse, Boerum, Stillwell, John Lefferts, Vander-
191 5-] ^^ Earliest **Bouweries " in Brooklyn, and Their Owners. 229
veer, John Halsey Bergen, Chapin; and from near Nostrand Ave-
nue along <jreene Avenue, Jeremiah Remsen ; between the Remsen
and the Leffert estate, the heirs of Samuel Gerritson; from near
Utica Avenue to Ralph Avenue, Hoogland, J. Lefferts, Carregan,
Schomaker, Paul Porter, Delius, Overton, Stanbury, Powers, J.
Halsey, Skillman, Redding, Leflferts, Johnson, Leake; beyond, in
third division of woodland to New Lots line were long narrowish
strips of Thompson, C. Bostwick, James T. Johns, Williamson,
Cornelius Suydam, Mary Powers, Jane Bergen, Lunington Van
Sickle, Heirs of John Devoe, Mrs. Macomber, Thomas P. Graham
(late Jacobus Lott), Michael Stryker, A. O. Millard, James Lef-
ferts, Moses Suydam (to Johnson Leake), Mrs. Sarah Lefferts,
Estate of Leffert Lefferts, Rem Lefferts, Robert Lane.
Twenty-fifth ward, from Atlantic Avenue to Broadway; on
Gabriel De Bevoise and Jacobus De Bevoise, Mrs. Lott, Moses and
Lambert Suydam, Daniel Lott, Bailey, James Lefferts, J. L. Strat-
ton, Ryerson, Estate of Leffert Lefferts, Gideon Tucker, Wm. Phil-
lip, Dr. N. A. Garrison, Mrs. Lott, Rem Lefferts, Philip Reid, Hen-
drick Suydam. The foregoing cover all of the original city of
Brooklyn; the city and borough have since absorbed the town of
Bushwick. In Bushwick, Williamsburgh was incorporated a vil-
lage April 14, 1827; from Brooklyn line (Division Avenue) to
Union Avenue, thence down Bushwick Creek to East river; now
mostly in wards 13 and 14; an addition, now wards 15 and 16, was
made April 18, 1835 ; with the rest of Bushwick consolidated with
Brooklyn, July 18, 1853.
Ward 13 is on land of Jacob Berry, Abraham Meserole, David
Griswold, Boerum, Frederidc K. Devoe, David Dunham, Conselyea,
John Miller, Noah Waterbury, Grover and Garrett Furman, Van
Mater, Abraham Canon. Ward 14 is on J. H. Maxwell, M. Judson^
Richard M. WoodhuU, Francis Titus, Lewis Sandford, Sharp &
Sutphen, Wm. Vail, Wm. Burnett, Frost, Butler, Hurdy & Sinclair,
John Skillman, David Meserole, Mackerell & Richardson. Ward 15
continues the last few, and adds J. Skillman to Joshua Newton, An-
drew and Wm. Conselyea, John Devoe, P. Devoe, W. P. Powers,
Vandervoort L. Richardson, Morgan L. Smith, Vandervoort &
Conselyea to W. P. Powers. Ward 16 joins 15 on Ten Eydc
Street; other bounds. Flushing Avenue, Broadway, and Bushwidc
Avenue; on James Scholes, Abraham Meserole, Boerum to Mc-
Kibbin (at McKibbin Street), and Nichols, Abraham Bogart to
Francis Varet, John Cook to Thomas Moore, Gabriel Cook, Abra-
ham Varet to Francis Varet, Jacobus De Bevoise. Ward 17, known
as "Greenpoint," lies on East river, Newton Creek, Meeker Avenue,
and wards 14 and 15. On East river, heirs of J. Meserole, and
(formerly) Crane & Co.; next east, David Provost, J. B. Taylor,
Keziah Bliss, Cunningham, Williams & Sneeden, Samuel J. Tilden,
heirs of Peter Calyer (on Calyer Street), heirs of Peter Meserole,
heirs of Capt. John Meserole, John G. Van Cott, D. C. & A. C.
Kingsland, Abijah Mann, Jacob Bennet to A. Mann, Bradford, E.
2 30 CoL John Livingston of New London^ Conn, [July
Bridge. Ward i8 extended from bounds of wards i5» i6, 21, and
25 to Queens county bounds, and from Meeker Avenue to Ever-
green Cemetery. Beginning from 17th ward bound (Meeker Ave-
nue), heirs of John Waters, Anthony Hulst (at Anthony Street),
Estate of John Devoc, Charles J. De Bevoise, Gabriel De Bevoise,
J. W. & M. Y. Beadell, Wm. Cooper, Peter Cooper, Coope & Hayne,
Joseph Conselyea, Stephen B. Masters, Van Alst, ^^oah Water-
ury, heirs of Charles Schenck, Allen & Decevee, Corlies & Leeds,
George White, Abraham Vandervoort, James B. Taylor, John Har-
rison, Dr. Troutman, and estate of John Troutman (at Troutman
Street), Nicholas 'Wyckoff, Wm. Covert, Catherine Wyckoff, Peter
Schoonmaker, Qifford, John Nostrand, Andrew Stockholm, Abra-
ham Stockholm, Stockholm & Coit (formerly) Hendrick Suydam,
Richard Lewis, Wm. Wall, Jacobus Daniel, Debevoise Barker,
Whittemore, Andrew Jackson, Wm. T. Mills, Miss Susan A.
Wyckoff, Ralph Lane (at Ralph Street), Stephen, Mary and
Charles Schenck, Gabriel and James De Bevoise, heirs of Jacob
Suydam, Wm. H. Furman, Miss Margaret Duryea (from whom are
named Maiigaretta and Duryea Streets), William Covert (at Covert
Street), William Van Voorhis (Van Voorhis Street), T. W. Fields,
Robert and John Cooper, heirs of John Moffat (Moffat Street),
Francis Dubois, James Pilling (Pilling Street), John Vanderveer
(Vanderveer Street), Watson Bowron.
Ward 26, "East New York," was taken from New Lots, and
lies east of wards 24 and 18, thence extending northward on both
sides of Atlantic Avenue. Former owners, John R. Pitkin, Horace
A. Miller, land of Gilliam Schenck, Samuel J. Stewart, and Walter
Nichols (Nichols Street).
Wards 27 and 28 have been taken from the old ward 18 as de-
scribed above.
The four other wards, absorbed in Brooklyn in 1894 by act of
the L^slature, were in 1890 the following towns: ward 29 was
Flatbush; ward 30, New Utrecht; ward 31, Gravesend; ward 32,
Flatlands.
COLONEL JOHN LIVINGSTON OF NEW LONDON,
CONN., ELDEST SON OP ROBERT LIVINGSTON,
FIRST LORD OF LIVINGSTON MANOR, N. Y.
CoNTRiBUTBD BY £. B. Lfvingston (iQn), LondoD, England.
Since the publication of the Livingstons of Livingston Manor ^
I have come across some further references to this somewhat
neglected member of the New York Livingstons, one of which
clearly proves he died in London, England, and not in New
England, as I inferred might have been the case, owing to the
rather ambiguous entry of his death in Musgrave's Obituary.
191 5'] ^^^* John Livingston of New London, Conn. 2 3 1
1706-1707. One of the Representatives for New London in the
General Assembly at New Haven, Conn.*
1 709-1 7 10. Member of the Council, and attended the meetings
of the same from June, 1709, to July, 1710.!
17 13. Mary Livingston, nie Winthrop, his first wife, died on
Thursday, 8 January, and was buried on Saturday,
17 January, 1712-13, at New London.^
17 13. He married his second wife, Elizabeth Knight, at Boston,
Mass., on i October, 17 13. The ceremony was performed
by the Rev. Dr. Increase Mather. §
1 7 18. According to Miss Caulkin's History of New London^
Colonel Livin^ton went to England in November, 1718,
«< on some business, and died there." |
1720. This is confirmed by the following announcement of his
death, which appeared in the February, 1719-20, number
of a monthly publication, issued in London, England,
called The Political State of Great Britain^ and is the
authority for the entry in Musgrave's Obituary:
1720. "On Friday the 19th [February, 1719-20], died of the
gout. Colonel Livingston, a gentleman who had dis-
tinguished himself bv many services to his country
abroad; particularly, he commanded a regiment of In*
dians at the reduction of Nova Scotia, and had several
times been sent hj the Government of the Massachusetts
to execute commissions at Canada, which he performed
with great resolution."^
1 72 1. According to Miss Caulkin's, "the inventory of Lieut.-Col.
John Livingston, late of New London, taken at the
ouse of Mrs. Sarah Knight in Norwich, at the desire of
Mrs. Elizabeth Livingston, widow of ye deceased, who is
appointed administratrix, March 10, 1720-21.
"The list of effects under this heading is slender.
The principal items are 103 ounces of wrought plate at
10 s., 6 d. per ounce, a japanned cabinet, and a field tent.
Col. Livingston died abroad."**
1736. Mrs. Elizabeth Livingston, the widow, died on Wednesday.
17 March, 1 735-36. of apoplexv, aged about 48 years, and
was buried in the New London cemetery the next day.
Mr. Joshua Hempstead, the contemporary diarist of
New London, was one of the pall bearers. ft
* Public Records, Colony of Connecticut, from October, iyo6, to October,
lytO, pp. 1, 37.
t Ibid, vol. XV, Appendix, pp. 562-583.
X Diary of Joshua Hempstead of New London, p. 19.
§ Boston Marriages from 1700 to //j/, p. 46.
J I Page 257. This author was, however, unaware of the place or date of
eath, also of the place and date of the colonel's second marriage.
^ The Politiccd StaU of Great Britain, vol. xix, p. 247.
*♦ History of New London, p. 364.
tt Diary of Joshua Hempstead of New London, p. 301.
232 Col. John Livingston of New London^ Catm, [July
A Pew Additions and Corrections to the Family Genealogies
IN THE " Livingstons or Livingston Manor."
Appendix B.
Family of the Rev. John Livingston of Ancrum.
Page S40. No. IX. James was apprenticed to Edward Steven-
son, merchant, Edinburgh, 24 Sept., 1662.*
Appendix C.
Family of Robert Livingston, First Lord of the Manor
of Livingston.
Page S4I. No. I. John, was married to his second wife, Eliza-
beth Knight, I Oct., 17 13, at Boston, Mass.f He died in
London, England, 19 Feb., 17 20. J
Appendix E.
Family of Robert Livingston, Third Lord of the Manor
of Livingston.
Pftge 545- The marriage license of the above Robert Livingston
and his second wife, Gertrude Schuyler, is dated New York,
27 Sept., i766.§
Appendix P.
Family of Gilbert Livingston.
Pftge 547- Cornelia Beekman, wife of Gilbert Livingston, was
baptised at Kingston, N. Y., 15 Aug., 1693.I
Pages 547-548. The following children of above:
No. II. Henry,
III. Alida,
IV. Johannes,
were baptized in the Dutch Reformed Church, New York
City, and not at Kingston, N. Y. The dates of baptism are
however correct.^
Appendix G.
Family of Peter Van Brugh Livingston.
P*ge 549. Peter Van Brugh Livingston married Mary Alexan-
der, his first wife, on 3 Nov., 1739.* *
Pages49. He married his second wife, Mrs. Ricketts, relict of
William Ricketts, at Elizabethtown, N. J., on 9 April, i77i.tt
P^ge 549* No. I. Date of Philip Livingston's marriage should
be 20 Oct., i79o.Jt
* Edinburgh Register of Apprentices, 1^83-1666, (Scottish Record Society.)
t Boston Marriages, 1700 to lys', p. 46.
X Th4 Political State of Great Britain^ vol. xix, p. 247.
§ New Yerk Marriage Licenses, p. 235.
I Hoes, Kingston Church Registers, p. 40.
\ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol. xvii, p. 268;
vol. xviii, p. 31; vol. xix, p. 18.
** New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol. xii, p. 13.
tt Archives of New Jersey, First Series, Newspaper Extracts, vol. xiii,
pp. 43i» 442.
Xt New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol. xii, p. 140.
1915O CoL John Livingston of New London t Conn, 233
Appendix I.
Family of William Livingston.
Page 554. No. XI. Philip French Livingston was drowned at
Hackensack, N. J., on the last Sunday in May, 1768, aged
about 8 years.*
Appendix J.
Family of Judge Robert R. Livingston of Clermont.
Page 556. No. VII. John R., was married to Margaret Sheaffe,
at Boston, Mass., on 20 July, 1779 f
Appendix K.
Family of Colonel Peter R. Livingston.
Page 558. No. V. According to Register of Baptisms, First
Presbjrterian Church, New York City, Margaret was bom
6 June, and baptised 3 July, 1768. J
Appendix M.
Family of Robert Livingston of Albany, N. Y., the nephew.
Page 562. No. II. James Livingston died 7 Sept., 1763; will
proved 31 Aug., 1764.8
Page 562. No. IV. Date of Peter's marriage to Zelia Holland
should be 13 Nov., 1728.I
Additions to Gbnbalooical Table No. i.
Second Generation — Under John Livingston.
Add to description of offices: — "Representative in General
Assembly (for New London), Connecticut, 1706, 1707.
Member of Council, 1709, 17 10."
Second Generation— Under Robert Livingston of Clermont.
Add:—" Clerk Court of Chancery, 1720.''
Fourth Generation — Under Chancellor Robert R. Livingston of
Clermont.
Add: — "Recorder of New York, 1773."
Fourth Generation — Under Henry Brockholst Livingston.
Add: — " a son, Jasper Hall Livingston, Secretary of Legation,
Madrid, 1844.*'
Additions to Table No. 2.
Fourth Generation — Under William Smith Livingston.
Add: — "Member of New York Assembly, 1792, 1793."
Fourth Generation— To this generation add:
"Susanna (daughter of Robert James Livingston and Susan
Smith), wife of Rev. James Francis Armstrong, Chaplain
Second Brigade Maryland Forces, 1778."
* Archives of New Jersey^ First Series, vol. vii, p. 177.
t Boston Marriages from iy^9 to 1809 1 p. 407.
X New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol. vii, p. 137.
§ Collections New York Historical Society, Year igoa, p. 184.
II Munsell's Collections of Albany, vol. iv, p. 143.
15A
234 ^^^ Records of Christ's Church at Rye, New York. [July
VITAL RECORDS OP CHRIST'S CHURCH AT RYE,
WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NEW YORK.
COMMUNICATBD BY ThOM AS T. ShBRMAN, OP RYB, N. Y.»
Clerk of the Vestry.
(Continued from Vol XXXVIII, p. flfU. of the RacORD.)
Baptisus.
Rev. John Murray Forbes, Rector.
1831.
March 15. Friday evening in the church, the following persons:
James Davenport, son of Philemon and Deborah
Halstead, born 20 Oct., 18 10, parents sponsors.
Sarah Ann, daughter of Isaac and Mary Purdy, bom
Oct. 27, 1 812, parents sponsors.
Sarah H., daughter of Wm. and Susan Horton, and
wife of David Brooks, bom 25 June, 1793, David
Brooks, sponsor.
William Edgar, son of David and Susan H. Brooks,
born II Feb., 18 14, David Brooks, sponsor.
Mary Ann, daughter of Berry.
Mary Smith, daughter of Gilbert and Phebe Barker.
April 3. In St. Thomas* Church, Mamaroneck:
Matilda Ann, daughter of Wm. and Dorothy Harriet,
born 23 March, 1812. Sam^ and Margaret Purdy,
sponsors.
6. In Christ Church, Rye, Wed'y Eve'g, the following
persons:
William, son of Isaac and Mary Purdy, born Jan. 14,
1 8 1 5. Parents sponsors.
Henry Morgan, son of Thom" and Sarah Purdy,
born . Parents sponsors.
Joshua R., son of Isaac and Mary Purdy, bom Aug.
31, 181 7. Mary Purdy, sponsor,
ao. In Christ Church, Rye, on Wed'' Eve«, the follow-
ing persons:
John, son of Josiah and Anna Buckley, bom April 13,
1 8 1 5 . Parents sponsors.
James Whetmore, son of Josiah and Anna Buckley,
born 10 Aug., 1819. Parents sponsors.
Hollis, son of William and Sniffen, bom .
Evans Hollis and parents, sponsors.
Amanda, daughter of W". and Bamacut. James
and Melicent Stebbins, sponsors.
26. At Rye on Tuesday evening:
William, son of Giles and Elizabeth Green, in his
3'* year.
May 22. At Rye, in Christ church, on Sunday:
Elizabeth Mary, daughter of Thomas and Martha
Marsh, bom Aug. 29, 1813. Dr. McDonald, sponsor.
igi 5-1 y^^ Records of Christ* s Church at Rye, New York. 235
1831.
June 19. In Christ Church, Rye, on Sunday:
Deborah Jane, born Nov. 11, 1820.
David Munson, born Dec. 15, 1822.
George Lewis, bom July 31, 1825.
Barnabas Bertram, born Nov. 31 [sicj, 1827.
Edgar Buckley and Edwin Forbes, bom Nov. 13,
1829, children of John and Caroline Osbom.
Parents sponsors.
27. Ann Knapp, daughter of Dan^ and Mary Park, bom
June 19, 1815. Parents sponsors.
Samuel R., son of Dan^ and Mary Park, bom ai Feb.,
1818. Parents sponsors.
Oct. 2 On Sunday morning in Christ Church, Rye:
Giles and Elizabeth Green. Peter A. Jay and wife,
sponsors.
26. At Rye:
John, born 16 May, 1825.
Charlotte Haviland, born 28 Oct., 1826.
Oliver, born 30 Oct., 1827, and Thomas Stanley, born
Oct. 7, 1830, children of Giles and Elizabeth Green.
Parents sponsors.
Rev. William M. Caruichael, A. M., Rector.
1832.
April 1. In Christ Church, Rye, the following adult persons,
viz.:
Pierre Teller Babbit. Dr. McDonald, sponsor.
Newberry Davenport Halsted. Parents si>onsor8.
Sam' Haviland and his wife, Mary Haviland, and
daughters Sarah Haviland, Matilda Haviland.
Aug. 5. In Christ Church, Rye:
Mary Choppin, infant daughter of Sarah and Andrew
Fairbanks.
22. John Gidney and Ann, children of Sam' and Mary
Haviland.
Sept. 25. Gloraner Hannah, infant daughter of Sam' and Mar-
garet Purdy, born Feb. 20, 1832. Sponsors: the
parents and Hannah Purdy, sister of Sam' Purdy.
By the Rev. Wm. H. Delancey, D. D.,
Provost of the Univ. of Pennsylvania.
4. Monmouth Lyon of Mamaroneck, an adult, sick,
bom Dec. 7, 1791. Sponsors, Alathea Lyon and
John Peshine.
Oct. I. Alonzon Alvord, son of Jonathan and Sally Ophelia
Purdy, bom Feb. 12, 1831. Elizabeth Purdy,
sponsor.
Nov. 4. At Mamaroneck, Sunday:
Richard Shaw, a sick child, born Aug. 7, 1830, and
Thomas Shaw, bom Nov. 2, 1832, children of Rich*
S. Laycock and Elizabeth, his wife.
2 36 Vital Records of Christ* s Church at Rye, New York. [July
183a.
Dec. 4. Alonzo, child of William and Jane Wallace (colored
people), bom 17 March, 1832.
1833.
Jan. 10. John Henry, son of John and Caroline Osborne, bom
Aug. 23, 1832.
7. At New Rochelle:
Archibald Daingerfield, son of Fozhall A. and Sarah
J. Parker, bom May 23, 1832.
May 19. At Mamaroneck:
John H. Guion, son of Peter Guion of Rye Neck.
July 21. At Mamaroneck:
Archibald and John, sons of Alexander Campbell.
Aug. 26. At Sawpitt [Port Chester]:
Mary Thompson, daughter of Howell and Maria
Clarke, born Nov. 27, 1831.
Sept. 3. Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin and Melicent Purdy,
bom 27 Nov., 1832.
5. At Mamaroneck:
Caroline Louisa, daughter of Leonard and Eliza
Ogilby, bom Feb. 12, 1831.
Nov. — . At Rye:
Henry Hobart, son of William and Eliza Bush.
1834.
June 26. William Miller Carmichael, son of Giles and Eliza-
beth Green, born Dec. i, 1833.
Aug. 3. William J., son of Jonathan and Ophelia Purdy, bom
Aug. IS, 1833.
Rev. Peter S. Chauncey, Rector.
Dec. II. In Christ Church, Rye, on Thursday:
Elizabeth Tyler and Eliza, her daughter, of Sydney,
Delaware County, New York. Mrs. Read Peck,
sponsor.
22. At the house of John Hawkins:
John Henry, aged 10 years,
Horace, aged 7 years, 6 months,
Charles, aged 5 years.
Children of William and Martha Hawkins. Spon-
sors: the mother and Mr. and Mrs. Read Peck.
Aug. 31. At Mamaroneck, by the Rev. W. H. Delancey, D.D.:
William Marks, son of John and Agnes Marks, bom
June 17, 1824. Parents sponsors.
1835.
May 10. In St. Thomas* Church, Mamaroneck, Sunday after-
noon:
Hannah Coles, wife of Griffin Coles. Mrs. Margt.
Munro, sponsor.
At the same time
Griffin Coles, aged 5 months,
Elizabeth Coles, aged 3 years.
1915.I y^^ Records of Chris fs Church at Rye, New York, 237
1835.
Mary Ann Coles, aged 5 years and 5 months,
iohn Coles, aged 7 years and 1 1 months,
Lobert Coles, aged 10 years and 7 months.
Children of Griffin and Robert Coles. Sponsors:
Miss Marfift. Munro and Hannah Coles. Also
Lot Henry Lee, aged 2 years,
Martha Jane Lee, aged 7 years.
Tames Lee, aged 9 years,
Sarah Lee, aged 10 years and 7 months,
John Lee, aged 15 years and i month.
Children of Joseph and Hannah Lee. Mother
sponsor.
Jnly a. In the church, Rye, Thursday evening:
Maria Willard, wife of Howell Clarke, and
Ann Watson, daughter of Howell and Maria Clark,
born Feb. 22, 1834. Miss Betsey Brown, sponsor
for the adult, Mrs. Clark for the infant.
At the same time,
William Henry, son of Daniel and Elizabeth Stevens.
Mr. David Brown, sponsor.
a6. Sunday morning:
Mary Ann, wife of Servenus Van Sicklin (very ill).
Oct. II. In the church. Rye, Sunday evening:
Louisa Phoebe Ward (adult). David Brooks and his
wife witnesses.
Nov. 17. Tuesday morning:
Julia Ann Griffin (a coloured adult very ill). Cath-
erine Peterson, witness.
Nov. 27. In the church. Rye, by the Rev. Joseph H. Nichols,
Rector of Christ Church, Greenwich, Conn., Fri-
day evening:
Augusta, daughter of P. S. and Mary Chauncey, bom
Oct. 18, 1835. Godfather, John Mason. God-
mothers: Maria and Caroline Renshaw. Sponsors:
parents.
1836.
Jan. 29. Thursday afternoon:
Anna Lyon, an adult, very ill. Parents witnesses.
April 24. In the church. Rye, Sundav evening:
Jane Choppin, infant daughter of Andrew and Sarah
Fairbanks. Read Peck and Mary Choppin, spon-
sors.
July 3. By Rev. P. S. Chauncey, Rector. In the church,
Rye, Sunday evening:
Clarinda, wife of Ezra Wetmore.
W™. Stanley, her infant son, bom June 24, 1835.
Cornelia Guion, daughter of Tho". Purdy, bom July
17, 1819.
Jane Chauncey, daughter of James and Frances
Penn, bom May 31, 1836.
238 Vital Records of Chrisfs Church at Rye. New Vorh. [July
1836.
Sept 17. At the house:
Sylvia, aged 3 years and 4 months,
William Henry, aged i year and 8 months,
Julia Frances, aged 3 months,
children of Charles and Jane Johnson (colored
persons).
1837.
Jan. 3. At the house:
Francis Hall, bom Sept. 17, 1834,
Joseph Bradshaw, bom Sept. i, 1836,
children of John H. and Caroline Osbora.
Aug. 3. James Jackson, son of James and Maria Lyon (col-
ored), aged 4 years and 25 days.
29. At the house of Sevenus Van Sicklen, Rye:
Cornelia Van Sicklen (very ill), aged 17 years, 5
months, 10 days. Maria Renshaw, witness.
Sept 8. In the church, Rye, Friday evening:
Newberry Davenport, child of William and Eliza
Bush, bom Dec. 6, 1834.
Oct 24. At the house of Roger Purdy, Sawpit:
W". Henry, son of Jonathan and Phebe Haviland,
bom Nov. 27, t8i2.
Nov. 30. In the church. Rye, Thursday morning:
Charity W., wife of Josiah Purdy, and Mary Wilson,
their daughter.
1838.
Feb. 25. In the church, Rye, Sunday morning:
John Proctor, son of James and Frances Fenn, bom
Nov. 17, 1837. The mother and Mrs. Renshaw,
sponsors.
April 19. At the parsonage. Rye, by the Rev. E. N. Mead,
Rector of St. Pauls Sing Sing, Thursday evening:
Maria Catherine, daughter of P. S. and Mary
Chauncey, bom Sept. 22, 1837. Parents sponsors.
Mrs. Renshaw Godmother.
May 20. By Rev. P. S. Chauncey. At the Methodist M. H.,
Sawpit, Sunday afternoon:
Celia, wife of S. W. Kelly and
William Thomas, their child, bom Jan. 10, 1832.
June 8. Harriet Husted (a colored adult) very ill.
Sept 9. In the Church, Rye, Sunday momine;
James Horace, son of Christopher ana Eliza Wemple,
of New York, bom Sept. 26, 1837.
24. At her residence, Monday afternoon:
Frances Henrietta, wife of James Dixon. Witness
Mrs. Mary Chauncey.
Oct. 18. At Sawpit, Thursday evening:
Caroline Brown ^colored) an adult very ill.
31. Atthe house of Jonn H. Osborne, Wednesday evening:
Abby Jane, daughter of J. H. and Caroline Osborne,
bom July 29, 1838.
IQIS'I yi^l Records of Christ s Church at Rye, New York. 2 39
1838.
Nov. 25. At her residence, Sawpit, Sunday afternoon:
Hannah Reynolds, born March 22, 1779.
1839
Jan. 6. At the Parsonage, Sunday afternoon:
Sarah Jane, daughter of John and Elizabeth Town-
send, bom Dec. 9, 1838.
March 24. At the Methodist Meeting House, Sawpit, Sunday
aftemon:
Joseph Cliam, son of Mary and William Mould,
born Feb. 12, 1834. Mother sponsor.
At the same time and place:
Edward, bom July 10, 1833,
Alvah Augustus, born Oct. 21, 1835,
Gurdon S. born Nov. 29, 1838,
children of Daniel and Mary Ireland. Mother
sponsor.
26. At the house of Howel Clark, Tuesday:
William Stevens, son of Howel and Maria Clark,
bom Oct. 4, 1837. Mother sponsor.
April 29. At Rye, Monday:
Charles Gedney, a coloured adult sick.
May 26. In the church. Rye, Sunday morning:
Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Purdy,
born Aug. 12, 1821.
June 30. In the church, Rye, Sunday morning:
Mary Caroline,
William Henry,
Philemon Carpenter,
children of William and Mary Bulkley.
Abbe Maria, infant child of Daniel and Caroline
Bulkley, aged 5 months.
1840
April 5. In the church, Rye, Sunday morning:
Rosa, daughter of James and Prances Fenn, bom
Dec. 14, 1839.
May 17. At Port Chester, Sunday afternoon:
Charles Wilkins, son of Samuel W. and Celia Kelly,
bom Dec. 23, 1839.
Aug. 17. At the parsonage. Rye, Monday:
Elizabeth, child of John and Elizabeth Townsend,
bom June 21, 1840.
Aug. 30. At Rye, Sunday:
emes, bom Oct. 11, 1836,
therine, bom Nov. 10, 1838,
Stephen Henderson, bom May 20, 1840,
children of James S. and Catherine Petrie, of New
York.
Aug. 30. At Rye, Sunday:
George Washington, bom Sept. 27, 1834,
Nina Robertson, bom Oct. i, 1837,
240 Vit(ii Records of Chris fs Church at Rye, New York, [July
1840.
David Irwing, born Aug. 4, 1839,
children of George and Isabella Miln, of New York.
Sept. I. At the parsonage, Kve, Tuesday:
Mary Stockton, child of John S. and Maria Chauncey,
born Sept. 13, 1839. Parents sponsors. Mrs.
Harrison and Mrs. Chauncey, Godmothers.
23. Henry Weeks, son of Howell and Maria Clark, bom
Aug. 18, 1840.
27. At Rye, Sunday:
Clark, born Aug 2, 1832,
Maria C, bom Feb. 22, 1834,
Daniel S., born Feb. 14, 1836,
George, bom April 18, 1837,
William, bom Feb. 28, 1838,
children of Harvey and Mary Lorlett.
Nov. 6. At the house of John H. Osborne, Friday evening:
Caroline, daughter John H. and Caroline Osborne,
bom July i, 1840.
1841.
April 23. At the house of Billa Theall, Rye, Friday:
Mary, daughter of Mrs. Ann Theall, (widow of
William Theall) aged 6 years.
May 26. At the house of Isaac Emmons, King Street,
Wednesday:
Amelia, bom Oct. 8, 1838,
Caroline, bom Sept. 29, 1840,
children of Isaac and Mary B. Emmons.
June 13. In the church, Rye, Sunday morning:
Elizabeth Ann, child of Nasses and Lucretia Odell,
born Aug. 11, 1840.
July 21. At the house of Thomas Lyon, Bjrram, Wednesday:
Helen Julia, child of Thos. and Sarah Lyon, born
Nov. 6, 1840.
At the same time:
Catherine Jane, child of John C. and Adelaide Taylor,
(of New York) bom Aug. 26, 1840.
Sept. 5. In the church. Rye, Sunday afternoon:
Jane Eliza, daughter of John and Lydia Wetmore,
born Sept. 10, 1840.
Oct. 17. In the church. Rye, Sunday morning:
Mary Antonia Decondres, aaughter of Antonio and
Cornelia Ann Martinez, bom March 15, 1831.
1842.
Feb. 20. Sunday morning:
James, son of William and Annie Sniflfen, bom Sept.
I, 1823.
March 8. At Port Chester, Tuesday morning:
Susan Smith (colored) born Oct. 31, 1791. Mrs,
Kelley, witness.
igiSj Vital Records of Chrisfs Church at Rye, New York, 241
1842.
June 19. In the church at Rye, by the Rev. B. M. Yarrington,
Rector of Christ Church, Greenwich, Conn., Sun-
day afternoon:
James Renshaw, son of Rev. P. S. and Mary
Chauncey, bom March 28, 1842. Wm. Bush ana
Hackaliah Brown Godfathers. Rosa Renshaw
Godmother.
At the same time by Rev. P. S. Chauncey:
Augustus Merwin, bom Nov. 22, 1836,
James Mandeville, bom March 30, 1842,
children of James D. and Elizabeth Halsted.
Parents sponsors.
26. At Port Chester, Sunday afternoon:
Augusta Brientnall, daughter of Charles and Delia
Merritt, bom Aug. 16, 1841. Almira Berger
sponsor.
Aug. 9. At the house of Nehemiah Brown, Tuesday afternoon :
Mary Parmela, bom Feb. 2, 1826,
Anna Euline, bom April 22, 1828,
daughters of Nehemiah and Parmela Brown.
20. At her residence, Saturdav evening:
Emeline Augusta, wife of Joseph Gregory (colored)
21. At his residence, Sunday afternoon:
Laban Russell, (a sick adult) bom Oct.5, 1780.
Sept. 4. In the church, Kye, Sunday afternoon:
Caroline Amelia, daughter of John and Lydia Wet-
more, bom July 15, 1842.
5. Eliza Jay, daughter of Giles and Elizabeth Green,
bom April 28, 1842.
Oct. 9. In the church, R^e,' Sunday morning:
Sarah Hunt, child of Allen and Elizabeth Strang,
bom Nov, 23, 1 83 1.
Nov. 27. Mary Adee, bom May 31, 1829,
Sarah Eleanor, bom June 23, 1832,
children of Horace and Sarah Booth, (now Mrs.
Van Sicklin)
At the same time:
Clementine, daughter of Sylvanus and Mary Ann
Van Sicklin, bom Sept. 10, 1831. Mrs. Howel
Clark, sponsor.
1843.
Feb. 16. At Port Chester, Thursday afternoon:
Jane Amanda, wife of Robert McNeil. Mrs. Cross,
witness.
April 13. In the church. Rye, Thursday morning:
Parmela Beatty, wife of William Beatty of Port-
Chester. S. W. Kelley and wife, witnesses.
At the house of Thomas Lyon, Byram, Thursday
afternoon:
Charles Hillsburgh, child of Thomas and Sarah
Lyon, bom Oct. 9, 1842.
242 Vital Records of Chris fs Church at Rye. New Yorh, [July
1843.
April 14. On Good Friday mominfi^ in the church. Rye:
Daniel Ireland, (adult) of Portchester. Samuel W.
Kelley, witness.
May 37. At the parsonage, Saturday evening:
Athelinda Brown of Portchester, bom Jan. 25, 1793.
Mary Chauncey, witness.
June 7. At the parsonage, Wednesday morning:
Mary Ann, child of John and Elizabeth Townsend of
Port Chester, bom March 20, 1843.
II. On Sunday evening:
Hannah Jack, child of James and Maria Lyon
(colored) bom May i, 183S.
15. At the house of J. C. Jay, Thursday:
Ann Maria, child of John C. and Laura Jay, bom
Feb. 16, 1843. J^^^ C. Jay, Anna M. Fierrepont
and Elizabeth C. Jay, sponsors.
25. In the church. Rye, Sunday morning:
Willet Moseman, bom Oct. 10, 1786,
Lavinia Moseman, bom July 20, 1791,
Jeannette Augusta, wife of Joseph Husted and
daughter of W. and L. Moseman, bom Jan. i, 1814.
At the same time:
Hannah Reynolds, child of Henry and Ann Eliza
Strang, bom Oct. 25, 1837.
Sept. 10. In the church, Rye, Sunday afternoon;
Chauncey, child of Thomas K. and Elizabeth Park,
bom Feb. 26, 1842.
At the same time:
Augustus, child of John Augustus and Julia A.
Park, bom Aug. 22, 1842.
Oct. 21. At the parsonage, Saturday morning:
Sarah Ann, child of John and Sarah Moseman (of
Port Chester) bom Dec. 23, 1842. Mrs. C.
Chauncey and Mrs. M. Chauncey, witnesses.
Dec. 15. At Rye, Friday afternoon:
Augustus Garritt, bom July 4, 1837,
Jane Eliza^ bom Aug. — ^ 1839,
George Williams, bom March 11, 1842,
children of Thomas and Eliza Wall.
1844.
Feb. 4. In the church, Rye, Sunday evening:
Harvey Lorelett, bom April 30, 1807. Samuel W.
Kelley, witness.
May 10. At the house of Isaac Emmons, King Street, Friday
morning:
Virginia, child of Isaac and Mary Emmons, bom
Oct. 6, 1843.
July 21. In St. Peter's Chapel, Port Chester, Sunday afternoon :
Sarah Jane Bush, child of John and Lydia Wetmore,
bom April 22, 1844. Mrs. Cross and Miss Steer,
sponsors.
1915O yiUU Records of Christ* s Church at Rye, New York. 243
1844.
July 28. On Sunday morning:
Mary Chauncey, child of Harvey and Mary Lorelett,
bom April 8, 1843.
Aug. 19. At the house of Elbert I. Anderson, Mamaroneck,
Monday:
Sarah Charlotte, bom July 18, i8a6,
Martha Maria, born Dec. 5, 1829,
children of Elbert I. and Martha Maria Anderson.
George F. Gorrissen, witness.
31. At Port Chester, Saturday:
Elizabeth Jane, bom Oct. 7, 1841,
Agnes; bom April 29, 1843,
children of Robert and Sarah Matthews. Parents
sponsors.
Sept. I. In St. Peter's Chapel, Port Chester, Sunday afternoon :
Abraham Francis, born Nov. 8, 1833,
Augustus Mead, bom Aug. 11, 1838.
children of Joseph B. and Jeannette A. Husted. W.
Moseman, sponsor, also
John Edward, bom May 6, 1844, child of John and
Ann Eliza Brooks. Parents, sponsors, and
Henrietta Berger, bom Nov. 17, 1843, child of
Charles and Delia Merritt. Parents, sponsors.
7. At Port Chester, Saturday:
Edward Wyman, child of Robert and Jane McNeil,
bom May 21, 1844.
9. At the parsonage, Mondav:
Elizabeth, chila of Howel and Maria Clark, of New
York, born Jan. 3, 1844.
13. At Rye, Pridav evening:
Ann, child 01 George and Ann Cox, bom Aug. 17,
1844. Mrs. Odell, sponsor.
30. At the house of Isaac Purdy, Rye, Monday:
Mary Louisa, child of Elisha and Sarah Haight, of
New York, bom April 8, 1844. Mr. Isaac Purdy
and mother, sponsors.
Oct. 8. At the house of Thomas Clark, Tuesday:
Mary Lyon, wife of William Horton, bom June 25,
1820. Mrs. Close and Mrs. Kelley, witnesses.
24. In the City of New York, Thursday:
Catherine Augusta, child of John S. and Maria
Chauncey, bom Jan. 6, 1843. Mrs. C. Chauncey
and Mrs. Graham, Godmothers: David Graham,
Godfather.
3. At St. Peter's Chapel, Port Chester, Sunday after-
noon:
Henry Hobart, child of Rufus and Sarah Stivers,
bom June 25, 1843.
Dec. I. John, infant son of James and Margaret Burrel (of
Scotland), bom Jan. 5, 1844. Elizabeth Ann
Proctor, sponsor.
244 ^^^ Records of Chrisfs Church at Ry€, New York. [July
1844.
Dec. 5. At Rye, Thursday:
John Clarkson, child of John C. and Laura Jav, bom
Oct. 20, 1844. Peter Augustus Jay, John Clarkson
Jay and Laura Jay, sponsors.
1845.
Jan. 30. At Rye, Thursday:
Albert Todd, an adult, verjr ill, bom July 29, 1815.
July 6. In St. Peter's Chapel, Sunday afternoon:
David, child of John and Elizabeth Townsend, born
Feb. If, 1845, and
George Henry, child of Thomas and Mary Ann
Preston, born Nov. 24, 1844.
24. At the parsonage, Thursday:
David Ferguson, child of John and Sarah Moseman,
bom Feb. 12, 1845.
30. At the parsonage, Wednesday:
Daniel Jay, child of Lawrence and Sarah Odell, bom
Dec. 8, 1844.
1846.
March 22. At St. Peter's Chapel, Port Chester, Sunday after-
noon:
Ella Susanna, child of Caleb and Joanna H. Dow,
bom Dec. 20, 1842.
At the parsonage, Sunday afternoon:
Henry Harrison, child of Harvey and Mary Lorlett,
born April 7, 1841.
April 10. In the church. Rye, Good Friday:
James Soveraine Purdy, bom Sept. i, 1826. John
Brooks, witness.
Aug. 30. In St. Peter's Chapel, Port Chester, Sunday after-
noon:
Isaac Cross, child of John and Lydia Wetmore, bom
June 9, 1846. Daniel Ireland, Mrs. Ireland and
tr. Cross, sponsors.
Sept. 15. Eliza, child of Isaac and Mary Emmons, bom June
13. 1846. Parents, sponsors.
17. Alice, child of John C. and Laura Jay, bom July 12,
1846. Parents, sponsors, Mrs. Prime, Godmother.
27. In St. Peter's Chapel, Port Chester, Sunday after-
noon:
George Edwin Waring, child of Rufus and Sarah
Stivers, Mrs. Stivers, Augustus Jay Burger and
Almira Burger, sponsors.
1847.
Jan. 3. In the church, Rye, Sunday morning:
Joseph Edgar, born April 7, 1834, and
Sarah Isabel, bom March 23, 1843,
children of William E. and Maria Brooks. Parents,
Mrs. David Brooks and John Brooks, sponsors.
(To b€ cotUinuid,)
ipiS'J ThiuJur'Thatcher Genealogy, 245
THACHER-THATCHER GENEALOGY.
By John R. Totten,
Member of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society and New England
Historic-Genealogical Society.
(Continned from VoL XLVI., p. isSi of the Rbcokd.)
1051. Abigail^ (Nabby) Vincent (Sarah'* Thacher, Joseph,*
Judah,* Hon. Col. John,' Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom at
Ashfield, Mass., November 15th, 1798; died November 27th,
1846, aged 48, at Plainfield, Hampshire Co., Mass., and was
buried there in southeast part of the town. She married,
first, (about 1825, see date of birth of first child), at
Ashfield, Mass., to Zebulon Taylor, bom at Ashfield, Mass.,
J 1796 ; he lived at Ashfield, and was a farmer, and died
there (killed by the kick of a horse) September 25th, 1829,
aged 33, and was buried in the northwest burying groimd,
Ashfield, Mass. He was a son of Isaiah Taylor (bom Yar-
mouth, Mass., September 24th, 1765 ; died at Ashfield, Mass.,
Jime 2ist, 1819, aged 54) and his wife Ruth Bryant (bom
, 1768 ; died August 22nd, 1867, aged 99 years, 7 months,
at Ashfield, Mass., and was buried there), of Ashfield, Mass.
Children: 2 (Taylor), i son and i daughter, both born at
Ashfield, Mass.
1823 i. Ruth,® bom June 31st, 1826; died January 31st,
1829, aged 2 years and 7 months, at Ashfield,
Mass., and was buried there.
1824 ii. Zebulon Brjrant,® bom August 8th, 1828; died
; married April 3rd, 1851, at Hadley,
Mass., to Harriet Worthington Hawley, bom
Hadley, Mass., November 2nd, 1826; died May
6th, 1902, at Northampton, Mass., and was
buried in Plainville, town of Hadley. She was
a daughter of Levi and Harriet (Nash) Haw-
ley, of Hadley, Mass. Zebulon Bryant* Taylor
was a farmer and a broom manufacturer until
32 years of age, and afterwards a general com-
mission mercnant for 25 years. He lived suc-
cessively in Ashfield 20 years, Hadley, Mass.,
8 years, Oshkosh, Wis., 5 years, Chicago, 111.,
21 years, and Tacoma, Wash., 25 years, in
which latter place in 1907 he was living at No.
210 St. Helen's Avenue.
Children: 3 (Taylor), i son and 2 daughters,
i. Julia Abby,' bom at Hadley, Mass., August
6th, 1853; died at Chicago, 111., January
i8th, 1863, and was buried in Plainville,
town of Hadley, Mass.
16
246 Thach^-TkaUhir Gingalogy. [July
ii. William Henry,* bom at Oshkosh, Wis.,
August i6th, 1856; he was living in June,
1907, at No. 220 Soto Street, Los Angeles,
Cal. ; he is a physician and a merchant. He
married at Los Angeles, May 15th, 1895, to
Catherine Mulrein, bom San Francisco, Cal.,
September 8th, 187 1, daughter of David and
Mary (McSweegan) Mi5rein, of Los An-
geles, Cal.
Children: 3 (Taylor), all bom at Los
Angeles, Cai.
i. Julia Abbie,** bom April 2nd, 1896.
ii. William Bryant,** bom May 2Sth, 1897.
iii. Thacher,** bom May i6th, 1899.
iii. Carrie Maria,* bom at Oshkosh, Wis., De-
cember 2nd, 1859; died at Chicago, 111.,
April 22nd, 1862, and was buried at Plain-
ville, town of Hadley, Mass.
Abigail' (Vincent) Taylor, widow of Zebulon Taylor,
married a 2nd time at Hawlejr, Mass., March , 1844, to
Oakes Dyer (as his second wife) ; he was bom at Plainfield,
Mass., February 22nd, 1799; he was a farmer and lived at
Plainfield, Mass., and died there January 28th, 1877, and
was there buried. He was a son of Jesse Dyer (bom ,
1769, at Abingdon, Mass.; died ; married October 4th,
1795) and his wife Sally Pool (dau|[hter of Deacon Samuel
Pool), who resided at Plainfield (just over the line from
Ashfield), Mass.
Children by her second marriage: None,
Oakes Dyer had 5 children by his first wife ; he married
a third time, Aufi[ust — , 1850, to Mary Ford, of Windsor;
she died April 8m, 1858, aged 56 years.
Authorities:
Vital Records of Ashfield, Mass,
Zebtilon Bryant Taylor, of Tacoma, Wash.
History of Plainfield, Mass,, by Qiarles N. Dyer.
William Henry Taylor, of Los Angeles, CaL
Yarmouth Register Cape Cod FamUies, No. 75, p. 2,
1052. Temperance' Vincent (Sarah* Thacher, Joseph,* Judah,*
Hon. Col. John,' Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom at Ashfield,
Mass., April 20th, 1802 ; died at Hawley, Mass., January 16th,
1868, and was buried at Center Hawley, Mass. She mar-
ried June 9tfi, 1829, at Ashfield, Mass., to Deacon Gains
Harmon, bom Hawley, Mass., November 26th, 1799; he
was a farmer and cooper, and died there April 17th, 1841,
and was buried in Center Hawley, Mass. He was a son of
Elijah and Rebecca (Qark) Harmon, of Hawley and Sun-
derland, Mass.
1915.) Thacher'Thatcher Gifualogy. 247
Qiildren: 6 (Harmon), 5 sons and i daughter, all bom- at
Hawley, Mass.
1825 i. Paulina West,® bom February 23rd, 1830; died
April i6th, 1858, at Hawley, Mass.; not mar-
ried.
1826 ii. Elijah ist,® bom October 7th, 183 1 ; died May
nth, 1832, at Hawley, Mass.
1827 iii. Gains Enos,® bom Febmary 17th, 1833; died
; married October 15^1, 1862, at Williams-
burg, Mass., to Julia Elizabeth Qapp, bom
January 20th, 1838, at Williamsburg, Mass.;
died ; she was a daughter of William Hor-
ace and Nancy Parsons (Pomeroy) Qapp, of
Williamsburg, Mass.
Children: 5 (Harmon), 2 sons and 3 daugh-
ters, all bom at Hawley, Mass.
1. Charles Franklin,* bom August 7th, 1863;
died June 20th, 1864,
2. Julia Elizabeth,* bom July 20th, 1865 ; died
; resided at Hawley, Mass.; not mar-
ried.
3. Horace Qapp,* bom April 27th, 1869; died
; married at Ashfield, Mass., March
loth, 1897, to Mary Emma Church, bom
November 27th, 1870, at Ashfield, Mass.;
died ; daughter of Hennr Sumner and
Eliza Emma (Barber) Church, of Ashfield,
Mass.
Child: I (Harmon) daughter.
i. Maiigaret,** bom June 21st, 1898.
4. Nellie Paulina,* bom May 2nd, 1873; died
; married October 15th, 1901, at Ash-
field, Mass., to Herman Linus Andersen,
bom May nth, 1869, at Quennestad, Swe-
den; died ; son of August and Anna
Christina (Johnson) Andersen, of Quen-
nestad, Sweden.
Children: 2 (Andersen) daughters.
i. Hazel Beatrice,** bom July 22nd, 1903;
died July 26th, 1903.
ii. Carroll Elizabeth,** bom January 8th,
1908.
5. Lou Maria,* bom October 24th, 1878; died
; resides at Hawley, Mass.; not mar-
ried.
1828 iv. Rev. Elijah,* bom March 22nd, 1835; gradu-
ated Amherst Coll^^e in 1861, and at Hart-
ford, Conn., Theological Seminary in 1867 ; or-
248 ThachsT'ThaUher GenetUogy. [July
dained Winchester, N. H., October 17th, 1867,
and was installed and remained there 18 years ;
installed December 15th, 1885, at Wilmington,
Mass., and remained there 15 years; removed
to Randolph, Mass., in 1899; Con^^;ational
minister, served in Civil War, enhsted Sep-
tember 4th, 1862, Co. "E," 52nd Regt; dis-
charged August, 1863; he was living August
1st, 1907, at Randolph, Mass. He married,
first, at Southbury, Conn., July 12th, 1866, to
Lucy Maria Smith, bom Waialua, Sandwich
Islands, May 19th, 1838; died at Buckland,
Mass., June ist, 187 1, and was buried at Win-
chester, N. H. He married, second, at Keene,
N. H., March sth, 18^2, to Eunice Moore
Smith, bom at Jaflfna, Ceylon, Febmary nth,
1846; died at Winchester, N. H., August 14th,
1872, and was buried there ; he married a third
time at Plymouth, N. H., October 14th, 1874,
to Martha Alcesta Homans, bom Ashland,
N. H., December loth, 1844; died ;
daughter of James W. and Sarah Ann (Flan-
ders) Homans, of Ashland, N. H.
Children: 3 (Harmon), all by third marriage,
2 sons and i daughter; first 2 bom at Win-
chester, N. H., and third at Wilmington, Mass.
1. Lucy Moore,' bom April 23rd, 1877; ^^^^
; married George Leonard Hosmer, Au-
gust 28th, 1901, at Randolph, Mass.; he
was bom at Lynn, Mass., December 31st,
1874; died ; son of George Franklin
and Laura Caroline (Tracy) Hosmer, of
Lynn, Mass.
Children: 2 (Hosmer), i son and i daughter.
i. Chester Harmon,^® bom January 19th,
1903.
ii. Miriam Jewell,^® bom December 13th,
1906.
2. Mary Flanders,' bom May i6th, 1879; liv-
ing 1907, at Randolph, Mass. ; not married.
3. Gains Elijah,' bom June 13th, 1887; living
1907, at Randolph, Mass. ; not married.
1829 v. Joseph Vincent,® bom March 26th, 1837; he
lived in Florence, Mass., in 1887, and at Ash-
field, Mass., in 1907. He married at Ashfield,
Mass., January loth, 1866, to Abbie Kelly
Church, bom Ashfield, Mass., June 14th, 1839;
died at Ashfield, Mass., January nth, 1880.
1915-] Tkacher-Thatcher Genealogy, 249
She was a daughter of Sumner and Abigail
(Kelly) Church, of Ashfield, Mass.
Children: None.
1830 VI. Charles Thacher,® bom July loth, 1839; liv-
ing in 1907, at Ashfield, Mass.; married at
Hawley, Mass., December 28th, 1864, to Mary
Ann Clark, born Hawley, Mass., June ist,
1841 ; living in 1907, at Ashfield, Mass. She
was a daughter of Samuel AUis and Clarissa
Robinson (Williams) Qark, of Hawley, Mass.
Children : 6 (Harmon), 4 sons and 2 daughters.
1. Charles Henry,' bom November 25th, 1866;
died ; married May nth, 1892, to
Flora May Howes.
2. Frank Clark,' bom December 7th, 1869;
died ; married December 2Sth, 1895,
to Florence May Graves.
3. Minnie Bell,* bom May loth, 1872; died
; married November 25th, 1897, to For-
dyce Alden Thayer.
4. Carrie May* (twin), bom May loth, 1872;
died May 8th, 1904 ; married November 7th,
1900, to Dwight Alphonse Keyes.
5. Henry Elijah,' bom August 7th, 1874; died
; not married in 1907.
6. Earl Williams,' bom December 26th, 1883;
died January 21st, 1905 ; not married.
AUTHOKITIES :
Ashfield, Mass., Vital Records.
Zebulon Bryant Taylor, of Tacoma, Wash.
George Howes, of Ashfield, Mass.
Rev. Elijah Harmon, of Randolph, Mass.
History of Hawley, Mass., pp. 31, 59, 75, 8a
Charles Thacher Harmon, of Ashfield, Mass.
Julia Elizabeth Harmon, of Ashfield, Mass.
1053. Ezekiel' Thacher (Bamabas,® Josg)h,' Judah,* Hon. Col.
John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom Yarmouth, Mass., May
1st, 1794; he lived at Bamstable, Mass., just over the line
from Yarmouth, in house formerly owned by Ebenezer Gor-
ham ; he was a blacksmith ; he died , at . He married
first, December , 1816 (intention of marraige entered at
Brewster, Mass., November 7th, 1816, and made public the
following Sabbath), at (Dennis, Mass., probably), to
Lucy Sears, bom Dennis, Mass., May 29th, 1797, baptized
July 2nd, 1797; died at Bamstable, Mass., November 20th
(or 27th), 1852, aged 55, and was buried probably at Bam-
stable, Mass. She was a daughter of Eltamah Sears (bom
Yarmouth, Mass., October 22nd, 1758; died Dennis, Mass.,
June 1st, 1836, aged 78; gravestone; married at Yarmouth,
Mass., January loth, 1788) and his wife Mary (or Marcy)
i6a
250 ThachsT'Tkatcher Gifualogy, [July
Bray (born Yarmouth, April 7th, 1765; died January 9th,
1846, aged 83; gravestone; daughter of William and Sarah
(Joice) Bray), of Dennis, Mass.
Children : I have no record of any children by this marriage.
Ezekiel Thacher was married a second time at Boston,
Mass., by Rev. T. Parker, on February ist, 1853, to Alice
H Easton, of Boston, bom , 1800, about (she was
S3 years old at marriage), at Barnstable, Mass.; died ,
at . She was a daughter of Pel^ Easton.
Children : I have no record of any children by this mar-
riage.
Authorities :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 59.
Vital Records of Brewster, Mass., p. 12
Sears Genealogy, by S. P. May, p. 151.
OHs Barnstable Families, Vol. I, pp. 432-3.
Yarmouth Register Cape Cod Families, No. 86, p. i.
1054. George^ Thacher (Barnabas,* Joseph,* Judah,* Hon. Col.
John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom Yarmouth, Mass., April
2nd, 1796. He was a merchant in Boston of the firm of
George Thacher & Co., Long Wharf, his partner being his
brother Isaac' Thacher. He died at Boston, Mass., January
2nd, 1847, and was buried in his own family lot in Mt
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass., where the monument
and gravestone of himself and family are to be found. He
was married, first, at Boston, Mass., by Rev. Thomas Bald-
win, to Irene Scudder, bom at Bamstable, Mass., March nth,
1796; died at No. 27 St. Matthews Street, Boston, Mass.,
April 7th, 1838, of childbirth, and was buried in family lot in
Mt. Aubum Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. She was a daugh-
ter of William and Sarah (Howland) Scudder, of Bam-
stable, Mass.
Children: 9 (Thacher), i son and 8 daughters, all bom at
Boston, Mass.
1831 i. Mary Howes,* bom August 31st, 1820 (or
1821) ; died September 14th, 1899, aged 79, at
Wellesley, Mass., and was buried in Mt. Au-
burn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. ; gravestone.
She did not marry.
1832 ii. Irene Scudder,* bom September 14th, 1822;
died March (or May) 14th, 1905, at Wellesley,
Mass., and was buried in Mt. Aubum Ceme-
tery, Cambridge, Mass.; gravestone. She did
not marry.
+1833 iii. William Scudder,* bom August 24th, 1824;
died September 15th, 1867; married Mary Eliz-
abeth Chessman.
+1834 iv. Ellen H ,* bom , 1827; died ,
1859; niarried Aaron Hobart, Jr. She died
childless.
1915.] ThachsT'Thatcher Genealogy. 25 1
1835 V. Elizabeth,® bom Sq)tember 15th, 1829; died
January 6th, 1908, at Wellesley, Mass., aged
79 years, 3 months and 22 days, and was buried
at Mt. Aubum Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.;
?"avestone. She did not marry,
arah,® bom November 7th, 1832; died Jan-
uary 1st, 1900, at Boston, Mass. (probably),
and was buried at Mt. Aubum Cemetery, Cam-
bridge, Mass. ; gravestone. She did not marry.
+1837 vii. Martha Crocker,® bom September nth, 1835
(or 1836); died June 9th, 1882 (or 1883); mar-
ried Francis H Jenny.
1838 viii. Louisa,® bom Mardi ist, 1838; died August
I2th, 1846, aged 8 years, 5 months, at Boston,
Mass., and was buried at Mt Auburn Ceme-
tery, Cambridge, Mass. ; gravestone,
1839 ^- Emily® (twin), bom March ist, 1838; died
September i5tli, 1839, at Boston, Mass., and
was buried at Mt. Aubum Cemetery, Cam-
bridge, Mass. ; gravestone.
George^ Thacher was married a second time, at Boston,
Mass., by Rev. Thomas Driver, on March loth, 1839, ^0 Eme-
line E^te, bom Boston, Mass., September ist, 1812 ; died at
No. 69 Moreland Street, Roxbury, Mass., of chronic pul-
monary trouble, November 21st, 1873, ^^^ 61 years, 2
months, 20 days, and was buried at Mt. Auburn Cemetery,
Cambridge, Mass.; gravestone. She was a daughter of
Caleb and Mary (Wales) Este, of Boston.
Children : 2 (Thacher), daughters, both bom at Boston, Mass.
1840 X. Emily,® bom ; died ; living Decem-
ber, ipi4; not married.
1841 XL Sophia E ^,® bom January 2nd, 1842; died
; living December, 1914; not married.
Authorities:
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 59.
Vital Records of Cambridge, Mass., VoL I, p. 645; VoL II, Marriages
and Deaths.
Inscriptions from Mt, Aubum Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass,, taken from
Thacher lot
Boston, Mass,, Vital Statistics, State House, Boston.
Probate Records, Boston, Mass,
Miss Mary Levering Holman, genealogist, No. 4 Park Vale Ave., Alls-
ton, Mass.
Vital Records of Mass,, State House, Boston^ Mass.
1056. Barnabas' Thacher (Barnabas,® Joseph,® Judah,* Hon. Col.
John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom at Yarmouth, Mass.,
April 4th, 1800 ; he lived at Yarmouth, Cotuit, Brewster and
Boston, Mass. ; he was a merchant and died at Boston, Mass.,
October 30th, 1864, aged 64 years, 7 months and 26 days,
and was buried at Mt. Aubum Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
252 Thacher'ThaUhir Gentalogy. [July
He married at Yarmouth, Mass., Atigust 13th, 1822, to Mary
Gray, bom Yarmouth, Mass., December 31st, 1800 (Decem-
ber 30th, 1800, according to Vital Records of Cambridge,
Mass., Vol. I, p. 64s) ; died January 14th, 1863, at Boston,
Mass., and was buried at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge,
Mass.; gravestone. She was a daughter of Joshua Gray
(bom October 3, 1777; died October ist, 1828; mar-
ried October 31st, 1799) and his wife Rebecca Hallett, see
No. 1033 (bom June 30, 1778; xiied August 7th, 1846), of
Yarmouth, Mass.
Children: 5 (Thacher), 2 sons and 3 daughters.
-I-1842 i. Mary Gray,' bora July isth, 1823; died June
20th, 1887 ; married Dr. Luther Whipple Clarke.
+ 1843 "• Rebecca,® bora February nth, 1825; died
March 31st, 1889; married Louis Philip Mor-
rison.
1844 iii. Joseph,® bom October loth, 1827, at Bam-
stable, Mass.; died September 21st, 1853, at
Eagle Harbor, Mich., and was buried at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.; grave-
stone. Not married.
+1845 iv. Charles,® bom October 2nd, 1830; died October
8th, 1891 ; married Eliza Jane Snow.
1846 V. Charlotte,® bom September 27th, 1836; died
October 4th, 1836, at Yarmouth, Mass., and
was buried there ; no gravestone.
Authorities :
Allen's Thacher Genealoay, pp. 59, 79.
MSS. Gray Genealogy, by George Winslow Thacher, pp. 28, 59, 60, 61.
His grandson Joseph Thacher, of Yartnouthport, Mass.
Cambridge, Mass,, Vital Records, Vol. I, p. 695.
Gray Genealogy, bv Mrs. George Winslow Thacher (Julia Edgar
Thacher), pp. 63, 05, 66^ 67, 68.
1057. Edward' Thacher (Barnabas,* Joseph,' Judah,* Hon. Col.
John,' Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom Yarmouth, Mass., Jan-
uary 25th, 1802 ; he lived at Boston, Mass., and was a manu-
facturer of railroad spikes and also had salt works at Charles-
town, Mass.; he died at Yarmouth, Mass., of softening of
the brain, October loth (or 17th), 1871, aged 69
years, 8 months. He married, first, at (Yar-
mouth, probably), on August 13th, 1822 (August
29th, 1822, according to Family Bible), to Lydia Thacher*
Gray (see Nos. 1033 ^^^ ^7^5) > bo™ ^t Yarmouth, Mass.,
November 22nd, 1802 ; died July 4th, 1835, ^^ 33» ^t »
and was buried at Yarmouth, Mass., in Woodside Ceme-
tery ; gravestone. She was a daughter of Joshua Gray (bom
October 3rd, 1777; died October ist, 1828; married Octo-
ber 31st, 1799) ^"d his wife Rebecca Hallett (see No. 1033)
(bom June 30th, 1778; died August 7th, 1846), of YarmouA,
Mass. He was married a second time at Bamstable, Mass.,
1915.] Thachtr-Thatcher Genealogy. 253
by the Rev. George W. Woodward, on January 3rd, 1839,
int. pub. at Barnstable, December 5th, i838,to Eliza Ann®
Thacher (see Nos. 898 and 1523), bom June 3rd, 1816, at
Barnstable, Mass. ; died March 12th, 1852, at Boston, Mass.
She was a daughter of John^ Thacher and his wife Eliza
(Hewitt) Thacher, of Barnstable, Mass. (See No. 898.)
He was married a third time at Barnstable, Mass., by the
Rev. Theodore P. Doggett, on December 31st, 1855, to
Hannah Bourne* Thacher (see Nos. 898 and 1524), sister
of his second wife, bom January 23rd, 1819, at Bamstable,
Mass.; died July 7th, 1897, aged 78-5-14, at Yarmouth,
Mass., and was buried there.
Children by first marriage 7 (Thacher), 5 sons and 2 daugh-
ters.
1847 i- Warren,® bom November 26th, 1823; died
September isth, 1852 (or December 29th, 1853,
according to Vital Records of Massachusetts,
at State House, Boston), of cholera, at Or^on
Bar, Cal. ; not married.
1848 ii. Joshua,® bom March 12th, 1825 ; died Septem-
ber I2tii, 1826, at Yarmouth, Mass., and was
buried there in Woodside Cemetery ; gravestone.
1849 "i- Martha,® bom Febmary 25th, 1827 ; died Sep-
tember 8th, 1896 ; not married.
1850 iv. Joshua Gray, ist,® bom April i8th, 1829; died
May 19th, 1829, at Yarmouth, Mass., and was
buried there in Woodside Cemetery ; gravestone.
4- 185 1 v. Joshua Gray, 2nd,® bom May 28th, 1830; died
Febmary 27th, 1866; married Melinda Crowell.
+1852 vi. Edward,® bom August nth, 18^; died at Yar-
mouth, Mass., November loth (or nth), 1868,
aged 36 years, 3 months, of consumption ; mar-
ried y at , to
-f 1853 vii. Lydia Gray,® bom May 30th, 18^5; died May
19th, 1861; married Nehemiah Nickerson
Hinckley.
Children by second marriage: i (Thacher) daughter,
-f 1854 viii. Gertmde,® bom August 5th, 1839; died April
15th, 1875; married Captain Henry Arey.
Children by third marriage: None.
Edward^ Thacher was apprenticed to a blacksmith at the age
of 13, and later to a carriagemaker in Boston* He was a partner
of his father at the age of 20. He fitted the first wheel tire by heat
in Bamstable County. He went to Boston to live in 1850 and to
Charlestown, Mass., in 1854, and retumed to Boston in i860.
AUTH(«ITIES :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, pp. 59, 68, 75.
Gray Genealogy, by M. D. Raymond, p. 251.
MSS. Gray Genealogy, by Mrs. George Winslow Thacher, pp. 11, 29,
62.
254 Thacktr-Tkatchgr Geneahgy. [July
Yarmouth Grai'eyard Inscriptions, p. 43.
Barnstable, Mass., Vital Records, Vol. VI, p. 137.
Gray Genealogy, by Mrs. George Winslow Thacher (Julia Thachcr),
pp. 63, 64, 66.
1060. Isaac' Thacher (Barnabas,* Joseph,* Judah,* Hon. Col.
John,' Antony,* Rev. Peter^), born at Yarmouth, Mass.,
July 7th, 1808; he lived at Boston, Mass., where he was a
merchant in the East India trade and a mill owner, **noted
for his liberality and benevolence" ; he died at Boston, Mass.,
February 15th, 1883, and was buried at Mt. Auburn Cem-
etery, Cambridge, Mass. He was married at Boston, Mass.,
by tfie Rev. Chandler Robbins, on November 5th, 1835 i^^
October 12th, 1835), to Eliza C Hichbom, bom Boston,
Mass., August 26th, 1806; died at Boston, Mass., of con-
stunption, on August 23rd, 1856, aged 49 years, 11 months,
27 days, and was buried at Mt Auburn Cemetery, Cam-
bridge, Mass. She was a daughter of Samuel and Mary
(Doll) Hichborn, of Boston, Mass., who were married at
Boston, Mass., March 4th, 1804, by Rev. Samuel Stillman.
Children: 2 (Thacher), i son and i daughter, both bom at
Boston, Mass.
1855 i. Sarah Eliza,* bom January 2nd, 1842; died
February 8th, 1886, at Boston, Mass., and was
buried in Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge,
Mass. ; gravestone. Not married. She lived at
No. 12 Mt. Vemon St., Boston, Mass.
+ 1856 ii. George,' bora September 7th, 1843; d*^ April
4th, 1905; married Isabel Gourlay.
Authorities :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy,
His grandson Archibald Gourlay Thacher, of N. Y. City.
Vital Records of Cambridge, Mass,, Vol. t P. ^5;
Boston Records Commissions Reports, Vol. aXX, p. 214.
1063. LoTHROP Russell' Thacher (Hon. David,* Hon. David,*
Judah,* Hon. Col. John,* Antonv,* Rev. Peter*), bom Yar-
mouth, Mass., May 22nd, 1788. He resided at Boston, Mass.,
and Philadelphia, Pa., and was a merchant He died ,
at sea, and is said to have been buried at , on Staten
Island, N. Y. He was married by Rev. Asa Eaton, at Christ
Church, Boston, Mass., on March ist, 181 1 (or 1812), to
Ann Bowditch, of Salem, Mass., bom , at ; died
, at . Her parentage has not been determined by me.
Children: 5 (Thacher), 2 sons and 3 daughters.
1857 i. William Russell,* bom ; baptized at
King's Chapel, Boston, February 28th, 1813;
died .
1858 ii. Sarah,* bom ; died ; said to have
married Gamer.
1859 iii. Ann,* bom ; died .
1915.] Thacher'Thatcher Gtnealogy 255
i860 iv. Mary Gray,^ bom August 2nd, 1817 ; died De-
cember 2ofli, 1817, aged 4 months and 18 days,
and was buried in Trinity Qiurch Graveyard,
Bridgewater, Mass. ; gravestone.
1861 V. Samuel Bowditch,® bom January 19th, 1819;
died March 9th, 1819, s^ed i month, 21 days,
and was buried in Trinity Church Graveyard,
Bridgewater, Mass.; gravestone.
The tradition in regard to Mr. Thacher's marriage to Ann Bow-
ditch is that he first saw her in the street and, being attracted by
her personality, followed her home, found out her name, and sub-
sequently made her acquaintance. She was at the time engaged to a
gentleman by the name of Poor. Mr. Thacher one evening while
paying a game of forfeits with a party including Miss Bowditch
was, as a penalty in the game, required to marry Miss Bowditch ; the
ceremony was performed in jest by one of the guests, who after-
wards was found out to be a Justice of the Peace, and, according
to the then existing laws of Massachusetts, this make-believe mar-
riage was binding. They were subsequently married again. Mr.
Thacher was a prosperous merchant in Boston until the embargo
of 1812, which compelled him to suspend business there. He after-
wards removed to Philadelphia, where he died, leaving his family
in poor circumstances. Mr. Poor, the former fianc6 of Miss Bow-
ditch, saw her daughters in the street and, attracted by their likeness
to their mother, followed them home and, renewing his friendship
with Mrs. Thadier in her destitution, aided the famfly in their need.
The following inscription taken from Latham's Epitaphs of Old
Bridgewater, Mass., is to be found in Trinity Church Graveyard,
Bridgewater.
"'They are even as asleep, and fade away suddenly as the
grass.* This stone records the departure from life of two infants
dear to affection and to memory : — Mary Gray, died December 20th,
1817, aged 4 months and 18 days. Samuel Bowditch died March
9th, 1819, aged I month and 21 days. Children of Lothrop R. and
Ann Thacher."
Mrs. Arthur Thacher, of No. 74 West Johnson Street, Ger-
mantown. Pa., thinks that descendants of Lothrop Russell^ Thacher
were in 1907 living in Marblehead, Mass.
Authorities :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, pp. 60, 75, 76.
MSS. Gray Genealogy, by Gfeorge W. Thacher, p. 25.
Gray Genealogy, by Julia Edgar Thacher, p. 51.
Hon. George Thadicr's MSS. Thacher Genealogy, p. 247.
Chas. M. Thacher of Middleboro, Mass., Graveyard Inscriptions.
1066. David^ Thacher (Hon. David,* Hon. David,* Judah,* Hon.
Col. John,* Antonv,* Rev. Peter*), bom Yarmouth, Mass.,
April 28th, 1797 ; he lived at Shelbyville, Indiana. He died
, at Shelbyville, Indiana. He married , at , to
Amelia Connor, bom , at ; died , at . Her
parentage has not been determined by me.
256 Thacher'ThaUhir Genealogy. [July
Children: 2 (Thacher), i son and i daughter.
1862 1. (Son),' bom ?
1863 ii. Elizabeth,' bom ?; married Toner.
The son is said to have been a prominent Democratic politician
at Shelbyville, Ind. The daughter is said to have married a man by
the name of Toner, and on April 22nd, 1913, was living, a widow, at
No. 32 West Washington Street, ShelbyvUle, Ind.
Authorities :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 60.
Loomis Genealogy, p. 481.
Noble Genealogy, p. 659.
George Winslow Thacher, of Yarmouthport, Mass.
1067. Oliver Noble^ Thacher (Hon. David,* Hon. David,"
Judah,* Hon. Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom Yar-
mouth, Mass., August (or April) 9th, 1798. He lived at
Boston, Mass., until 1824; at Flemineton, N. J., until 1835,
and afterwards at Philadelphia, Pa. ; he was an actor, and a
spiritualist in belief; he died at Philadelphia, Pa., December
27th, 1871, and was buried in Woodland Cemetery, West
Philadelphia, Pa. He married at Burlington, N. J., August
13th, 1840, to Hannah L Ayers, bom at Long Branch,
Monmouth Co., N. J., , 1813; at time of her marris^
she lived at Bordentown, N. J. She died at Philadelphia,
Pa., Febraary 29th, 1888, and was buried at Woodland Ceme-
tery, West Philadelphia, Pa. She was a daughter of Zepha-
niaJi Ayers, of Monmouth Co., N. J.
Children: 8 (Thacher), 7 sons and i daughter.
+1864 i. Oliver Noble,* bom November 22nd, 1841 ; died
December 20th, 1914, at Lynn Haven, Fla.;
buried at Sawtdl, Cal. ; married ? he Kved
at Sawtell, Cal., where his widow and one
daughter reside.
+1865 ii. Watson Freeman,* bom September 24th, 1843;
died November 19th, 1899; married Katharine
Louisa Pfeifler.
1866 iii. Eunice Weld Russell,* bom March 28th, 1846 :
died ; married Dr. Frank McDowell, of
Philadelphia. She died giving birth to twins,
both of whom died at birai.
1867 iv. Zachary Taylor,* bom April 19th, 1847; d^^d
, in infancy.
1868 V. Alfred Ayers,* bom August 9th, 1848; died
; he entered the U. S. Navy at age of 14 as
a page to Admiral Farragut ; he was in the Mar-
ine Corps, U. S. N., and is said later to have
been in Sailors' Home in Philadelphia. Not
married.
igiSO Thacker'Thatcher Genealogy. 257
1869 vi. Joshua Sears,® bom July 29th, 1850 ; died ,
in infancy.
+1870 vii. Peter Fritz,® bom October 23rd, 1853; died
; married Bennetta Harvey.
187 1 viii. Frederick Augustus Plummer,® bom July i6th,
1856; died December 24th, 1885, at Philadel-
phia, Pa., and was buried at Woodland Ceme-
tery, West Philadelphia, Pa. He was a painter
and was in politics. He took his own life by
shooting himself. Not married.
AUTHOIUTIES :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 60.
Loomis Genealogy, p. 481.
Noble Genealogy, p. 659.
His grandson Frederick Oliver Thacher.
1069. Frederick^ Thacher (Hon. David,* Hon. David,* Judah,*
Hon. Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom at Yarmouth,
Mass., July i6th (or 15th), 1800; he lived at Indianapolis,
Ind. ; he died , at Indianapolis, Ind. He married ,
at , to Love.
I have been unable to obtain further information regarding
this family.
AUTHOUTIKS :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 60.
Loomis Genealogy, p. 481.
Noble Genealogy, p. 659.
1070. Arthur^ Thacher (Hon. David,* Hon. David,* Judah,*
Hon. Col John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom at Yarmouth,
Mass., September 14th, 1801 ; he lived at Philadelphia, Pa.,
and was a wholesale hardware merchant of the firm of
Reeder & Thacher; he died at Philadelphia, Pa., October
26th, 1870, and was buried in the Dunker Cemetery, Ger-
mantown, Philadelphia, Pa. He married , 1833, *o Cath-
arine McMinn, bom Philadelphia, Pa., September 2nd, 1810;
died at Philadelphia, Pa., January 2nd, 1877, and was buried
in the Dunker Cemetery, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.
She was a daughter of and of , who resided at
Children: 7 (Thacher), sons, all bora at Philadelphia, Pa.
1872 i. William Russell,* bom October 27th, 1834;
died ; living in 1907 at the Presbyterian
Home for old men in Philadelphia, Pa. Not
married.
+ 1873 ii. Arthur,* bora January 19th, 1837; died Octo-
ber 30th, 1894; married Emma Russell® Thacher
(See No. 1891.)
+ 1874 iii. Justus McMinn,* bom April 30th, 1839; died
June 26th, 1892 ; married Virginia Childs Led-
yard.
258 Thacher'Thatcher Gemalogy. \]m\^
+ 1875 iv. Henry Githins,' bom , 1841; died ;
married Emma Thomas.
1876 V. Edward,* bom , 1845; died , 1855
(about), at Philadelphia, Pa., and was buried
in the Ronaldson Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
+ 1877 vi. James Duncan,' bom ; died December loth,
1905; married Fanny ?
1878 vii. Albert Edward,' bom January 21st, 1849; died
January 20th, 1905, at , and was buried in
)unker Cemetery, Germantown, Philadelphia,
Pa. Not married.
AUTHCKITIKS :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 60.
Noble Genealogy, p. 659.
Loomis Genealogy, p. 481.
Philadelphia Directory, 1907.
1071. Abigail Russell^ Thacher (Hon. David,* Hon. David,*
Judah,* Hon. Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom Yar-
mouth, Mass., December 29th, 1802; died at Philadelphia,
Pa., January 29th, 1876, aged 73, and was buried at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa. She married at Philadel-
phia, Pa., on , to Dr. Samuel Hunter, bom , at ;
died , at Philadelphia, Pa., and was buried at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa. He was a dentist.
Children : None.
AuTHORmss:
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 60.
Noble Genealogy, p. 659.
Loomis Genealogy, p. 481.
Family Records.
1072. Lucy Weld^ Thacher (Hon. David,* Hon. David,* Judah,*
Hon. Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom Dartmouth,
Mass., Mardi 24th, 1804; died at Philadelphia, Pa., September
29th, 1890, and was buried at Ronaldson Cemetery, Phila-
delphia, Pa. She married , at Philadelphia, Pa., to
James Calbreath.
Children: None.
Authorities :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 6a
Noble Genealogy, p. 659.
Loomis. Genealogy, p. 481.
Family Records.
1073. Alfred^ Thacher (Hon. David,* Hon. David,* Judah,* Hon.
Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom at Dartmouth, Mass.,
October 8th, 1806. He lived 25 years at Philadelphia, Pa.,
in Columbus, Miss., 1842- 1848; and in Ointon, Ala. He
was a cotton merchant and wholesale grocer in Columbus,
Miss. ; in 1865 he was of the firm of Weaver, Stock & Co.,
cotton brokers in Mobile, Ala., and had a plantation at Qinton,
Ala. He was a Colonel of Militia in Mississippi, and in the
1915.] Thachtr-Thatcher Genealogy. 259
Confederate army from Mississippi, and served in Alabama
in Zolicofer*s command. He died at or near Qinton, Ala.,
April 25th, 1870, and was buried in the Presbyterian Cem-
etery at Qinton. He was married on the Hutton estate at
Qinton, Ala., on November 29th, 1848, to Mary Elizabeth
Hutton, bom in Perry County, Ala., February 19th, 1827;
died at Oakland, Miss., January nth, 1879, ^i^d was buried
in the Henderson burying ground, Oakland, Miss. She was
a daughter of William Josephus Hutton (a nephew of John
C. Calhoun) by his wife Aim Callaway, who lived at Qin-
ton, Ala.
Children: 6 (Thacher), 4 sons and 2 daughters, Nos. i, 2, 3
and 6 bom in Greene Co., Ala., Nos. 4 and 5 in Columbus,
Miss.
+1879 L William Hutton,* bom October 20th, 1849;
died ; married Julia Williams.
-|- 1880 ii. Orline,' bom March 27th, 185 1 ; died ; mar-
ried Samuel Ashmead* Thadier. (See No.
1890.)
1881 iii. Walter Noble,' bom May 25th, 1853 ; died ,
1878 (in the fall), in Oakland, Miss., and was
buried there in Henderson Cemetery. Not mar-
ried. He graduated from the University of
Mississippi; he taught school at, and was per-
haps proprietor of, the Seminary at Oakland,
Miss.
1882 iv. Marietta,* bora Febraary 21st, 1855 ; died Au-
Sst 27th, 1856, at Columbus, Miss,
fred Clarence,* bora February 28th, 1857;
died January 6th, 1882, at Shdl Mound, Le
Flore Co., Miss. Not married.
1884 vi. Emest Milton,* bom October 4th, 1859; died
May 22nd, 1875, aged 15, at St Louis, Mo.
Not married.
AUTHOKITIES :
George Winslow Thacher, of Yarmouthport, Mass.
Allen's Thicker Genealogy, p. 60.
Noble Genealogy, p. 659.
Loonns Genealogy, p. 4S1.
His son, Wm. Sutton Thacher, of Bronxvillc, Westchester Co., N. Y.
1074. Cyrus Sylvester^ Thacher (Hon. David,* Hon. David,"
Judah,* Hon. Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom at
Dartmouth, Mass. (or Philadelphia, Pa.), March 12th, 1808.
He lived at Philadelphia, Pa., and was a hat manufacturer;
he was a "Millerite" (Adventist) and preached in the streets
and made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. He died at Phila-
delphia, Pa., March 9th, i8p2, and was buried in Mount
Peace Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa. He married , at
Philadelphia, Pa., to Elizabeth Runner, bom , 1813, at
26o Thachir'Thatchtr Gemalogy. [July
Philadelphia, Pa. (of German descent) ; died at Philadelphia,
Pa., May ist, 1875, and was buried at North Laurel Hill
Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa. She was a daughter of Samuel
and Susan (Fisher) Runner, of Philadelphia, Pa.
Qiildren: 3 (Thacher), 2 sons and i daughter, all bom at
Philadelphia.
+1885 i. Cyrus Sylvester,* bom October 8th, 1836; died
May 1st, 1897; married Frances Chadwick.
+ 1886 ii. Susan,® bom , 1838; died August ,
1877; married Joseph Dinan.
+1887 fii. Charles Fox,* bom December i8th, 1843; died
; married Kate Montgomery.
AuTHORrriEs :
His son Charles Fox Thacher.
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 60.
Noble Genealogy, p. 659.
Loomis Genealogy, p. 481.
1075. Eunice Noble^ Thacher (Hon. David,* Hon. David,"
Judah,* Hon. Col. John,' Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom March
23rd, 181 1, at Dartmouth, Mass. (or Philadelphia, Pa.) ; died
, at Philadelphia, Pa. ; married , at , to James
Latta, a lawyer in Philadelphia, Pa., bom , at ; died
, at .
Children: 2 (Latta) daughters.
1888 i. Sarah,« bom ; died .
1889 ii. Catharine,* bom ; died , previous to
1907.
In 1907 Sarah* Thacher was living in the Presbyterian Old
Ladies' Home in Philadelphia, Pa.
Authority :
Mrs. Arthur^ Thacher.
1076. Charles Fox^ Thacher (Hon. David,* Hon. David,* Judah,*
Hon. Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom October 9U1,
1812 at Dartmouth, Mass. ; he lived all his life in Philadelphia,
Pa., at No. 529 North 4th Street; he was a wholesale boot
and shoe merchant, and a member of Co. **E," ist Regiment,
N. G. Pennsylvania ; he died at Philadelphia, Pa., November
13th, 1874, aged 62, and was buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery,
Philadelphia, Pa. He married May 24th, 1837, at Philadel-
phia, Pa., to Amanda Malvina Ashmead, bom February 8th,
1818, at Philadelphia; died at her home, No. 74 West John-
son Street, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa., January 25th,
191 1, and was buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia,
Pa. ; she was a daughter of Samuel and Susan (CoUaday)
Ashmead, of Philadelphia, Pa., and subsequently of Beesley's
Point, N. J., in which latter place Samuel Ashmead died.
Children: 9 (Thacher), 3 sons and 6 daughters, all bom in
Philadelphia, Pa.
IQIS-I Theuher-Thatcher Gemalogy, 26 1
+ 1890 i. Samuel Ashmead,* born July ist, 1838; died
April 1st, 1^2; married, first, Emily Malvina
Willis; married, second, Orline^Thacher. (See
No. 1880.)
+1891 i. Emma Russell,® bom November 23rd, 1830;
died ; married Arthur* Thacher. (See No.
1873.)
1892 iii. Amanda Malvina,® bom Febmary 28th, 1842;
died August 17th, 1868, at Philadelphia, Pa.,
and was buried there in Laurel Hill Cemetery.
Not married.
+1893 iv. Julia,® bom November 14th, 1843; d>cd ;
married Charles Bowman Baeder.
+1894 V. Helen Woddrop,® bom June nth, 1845; died
; married Louis Ewald Pfeiffer.
1895 vi. Laura,® bom Febmary 28th, 1848; died Octo-
ber 13th, 1887, at Philadelphia, Pa., and was
buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Not married-
+ 1896 vii. Annie CoUaday,® bom December 28th, i&©;
died ; married Charles Edwin Grange,
1897 viii. Charles Fox,® bom December 24th, 1853 ; died
June 20th, 1893, at Philadelphia, Pa., where he
lived all his life ; he was a tmnk merchant, be-
longed to many clubs in Philadelphia; he was
a 32nd degree Mason, and a member of Co.
"E," 1st Regt., N. G. Penn. Not married.
-I-1898 ix. Lothrop,® bom January 22nd, 1859; died ;
married Emma White.
AuTHOBmss:
Her daughter, Mrs. Grange.
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 60.
Noble Genealogy, p. 659.
Loomis Genealogy, p. 481.
Philadelphia Directory, 1907.
1078. Abigail^ (Nabby) Hedge (Mercy® Thacher, Deacon Josiah,'
Judah,* Hon. Col. John,® Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom Yar-
mouth, Mass., July nth, 1786 (see age at and date of death^ ;
died November 19th, 1865, aged 79 years, 4 months^ 8 days,
at Yarmouth, Mass., of paralysis ; married , at ^ to
Edmund Eldridge, bom , 1782 (see age at and date of
death), at ; he was a farmer and lived at Yarmouth,
where he died of lung fever, March , 1853, aged 71
years. He was a son of David Eldridge (bom , ^750;
died August 4th, 1831 in his 8ist year; married September
2ist, 1775, at Bamstable, Mass.) and his wife Bethia Bearse
(born , 1755 ; died August 28th, 1826, in her 69th year),
who resided at Yarmouth, Mass.
Qiildren: 7 (Eldridge), 3 sons and 4 daughters. The order
of birth here given is not vouched for.
17
262 Thacktr'Thatcktr Gitualogy. [July
1899 1. Mercy Thacher,* bom ; died .
1900 ii. Ellery,® bom January ist, 1809; died August
3rd, 1810, aged I year, 7 months, 3 days, at
, and was buried in old cemetery, Yar-
mouth, Mass. ; gravestone.
1901 iii. Andrews,* bom March 4th, 181 5; died April
4th, 1815, aged 31 days, at , and was buried
in Old Cemetery, Yarmouth, Mass.; grave-
stone.
1902 iv. Alvira,' bom ; died .
1903 v. Nabby Hedge,' bom ; died .
1904 vi. David Gorl^m,' bom October ist, 1818; died
May 17th, 1819, aged 7 months, 16 days, at
, and was buned in Old Cemetery, Yar-
mouth, Mass. ; gravestone.
1905 vii. Lucy Annah,* bom , 1824 ; died ; mar-
ried July 20th, 1852, to Leander Merchant (as
his second wife), a merchant of Mobile, Ala.;
at marriage he was 51 years old and she was
28 years old. He was bom in Yarmouth, Mass.,
and was a son of Josiah Merchant
AUTHOUTIES:
Hon. George Thachcr's MSS. Thacher Genealogy, p. 232.
Yarmouth, Mass., Graveyard Inscriptions, p. 13.
Massachusetts Vital Records, subsequent to 1842, in State House, Bos-
ton, Mass.
1079. PoLLY^ Thacher (James,* Deacon Josiah,* Judah,* Hon.
Col. John,' Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom at Yarmouth, Mass.,
July 25th, 1796; died January 29th, 1870, aged 73 years,
6 months, 4 days, at Yarmouth, Mass., of nervous prostra-
tion; she married September iiUi, 1817, at Yarmouth, Mass.
(probably), to William Hall, bom Yarmouth, June (or Jan-
uary) 22nd, 1791 ; he lived at Yarmouth; he died January
loth, 1865, at . He was a son of Isaac Hall (bom Jan-
uary 5th, 1740-41; died November 27th, 1826; married Oc-
tober 29th, 1789) and his second wife Hannah Taylor (bom
, 1746; died August 7th, 1828, in her 82nd year), of
Yarmouth, Mass.
Children: 6 (Hall), i son and 5 daughters.
-I-1906 i. Hannah,' bom , 1818; died ; married
Dexter Wheeler and died without issue.
-1-1907 ii. Elisha,® bom February 14th, 182 1; died ;
married in Jacksonville, Fla.
+1908 iii. Eunice Thacher,* bom January 20th, 1825 ; died
November , 1896; married Captain Oliver
Gorham.
-f 1909 iv. Mary,* bom , 1827; died ; married
Edmund B. Hamblin.
igisO Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy. 263
1910 V. Eliza Hallett,® bom , 1832 ; died February
loth, 1858, aged 26 years. Not married.
191 1 vi. ?•
Authorities :
Hon. George Thacher's Thacher Genealogy, p. 227, and corrections to
same by George Winslow Thacher, p. 60.
Allen's Thacher Genealopy, p. 60.
Hall Genealogy, by David B. Hall, p. 254.
Yarmouth Graveyard Inscriptions, p. 16.
Yarmouth Cape Cod Families, No. 67, p. 5.
Mass. Vital Records, at State House, Boston, Mass.
1084. Nancy^ Thacher (James,* Deacon Josiah,» Judah,* Hon.
Col. John,' Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom at Yarmouth, Mass.,
April loth, 1806; died , at ; married , at ,
to Enoch Brown* (of Pawtucket and North Providence, R.
I.) , bom , at ; died , at .
Children: 3 (Brown) sons.
1912 i. James,* bom .
1913 ii. George,* bom .
1914 iii. Alfred Augustus,* bom .
Authorities :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 227, and corrections to same by G. W.
Thacher, p. 60 X.
General Catalogue, Brown University, 191 4, p. 71.
Vital Records of Rhode Island, Vol. XIX, p. 381.
Vital Records of Ahington, Mass., Vol. I, p. 39; Vol. II, p. 38.
1086. SusAN^ Thacher (James,* Deacon Josiah,* Judah,* Hon. Col.
John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom at Yarmouth, Mass., Sep-'
tember 26th, 1810; died May 25th, 1893, aged 82 years, 8
months, 19 days, at Yarmouth, Mass.; married January
, 18^3, at , to Captain Ansel Matthews, bom at
Yarmoutn, Mass., September 20th, 1807; died April 25th,
1884, aged 76 years, 7 months, at Yarmouth, Mass. ; he lived
at Yarmouth, Mass., and was a sea captain. He was a son
of Isaac Matthews (bom Febraary 21st, 1773; died October
5th, 1827 ; married March 3rd, 1798) and his first wife Re-
becca Crowell (bom March ist, 1775; died July 4th, 1818, in
her 44th year), of Yarmouth, Mass.
Children: 2 (Matthews), i son and i daughter.
191 5 i. Frederick Thacher,* bom , 1834; died Sep-
tember 7th, 1858, at sea, drowned. He was a
♦An Enoch Brown graduated at Brown University, Providence, R. I.,
in class of 1801. He was A.B., and A.M., and was a lawyer, bom in Maine,
and while a student he lived at Abington, Mass. ; he died m 1839.
An Enoch Brown, of Boston, and Mary Wells Tyler, of Wrentham,
Mass., were married at Wrentham, November 19th, 181 1.
An Enoch Brown, son of Samuel and Deborah ( ) Brown, was
bom at Abington, Mass., October 19th, 1781.
An Enoch E. Brown of Bangor, Maine, and Elizabeth Whitn^an were
married at Abington, Mass., September 21st, 1835, (he aged 29 and she 21
at marriage).
264 Thachgr'Thatchtr Ggnealogy. [July
carpenter and ap^ed 24 years at death. No rec-
ord of his mamage.
1916 ii. Maryette," bom ?
AUTHOUTIKS :
Hon. George Thachcr's MSS. Thacher Genealogy, p. 227.
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 61.
Yarmouth Register Cape Cod Families, No. 8i» pp. 6, 7; No. 71, p. 4-
1087. Frederick^ Thacher (James,* Deacon Josiah," Judah,* Hon.
Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom Yarmouth, Mass.,
November 25th, 1812; died , at Brooklyn, N. Y.; mar-
ried , at , to Hannah Elliot (who lived in New
York City before marriage and after husband's death (in
1872) lived in Brooklyn, N. Y.), bom , at ; died
, at . Her parentage is unknown to me.
Children: 3 (Thacher), 2 sons and i daughter.
1917 i. Henry Elliot,* bom ; died , 1868.
1918 ii. Frederick,* bom ; died , young,
drowned.
1919 iii. Josephine,* bom ; died ; married ,
1870, to ?
Authorities :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 61.
Hon. George Thachcr's MSS. Thacher Genealogy, pp. 227, 228.
1088. Alfred^ Thacher (James,* Deacon Josiah,* Judah,* Hon.
Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom at Yarmouth, Mass.,
July i8th, 1816; he lived in 1872 in Illinois; died , at
; he was married at North Providence, R. I., by the
Rev. S. S. Bradford, on September 5th, 1843, to Susan
Baker, bom , at ; died , at .
Children: 2 (Thacher), i son and i daughter.
1920 i. Edmund,* bom .
192 1 ii. Mary Ellen,* bom .
Authorities :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 61.
Hon. George Thachcr's MSS. Thacher Genalogy, p. 228.
Vital Records of Rhode Island, Vol. 2, p. 40.
1089. Prentiss^ Thacher (James,* Deacon Josiah,* Judah,* Hon.
Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom at Yarmoutfi, Mass.,
October 9th, 18 18; he lived at North Providence and Paw-
tucket, R. I., and at New York City. He died , at ;
he was married at Providence, R. I., May 20th, 1845, by Rev.
Henry Waterman, to Catharine J Harris, bom ^
1825, at ; died , 1892, at . She was a daugh-
ter of William Harris (born , 1782; died , iJ^S;
married January 4th, i8op; son of Joseph and Hepsibah
(Bunker) Harris) and his first wife Sarah Greene (bora May
5th, 1788).
1915.] Theuher-Thatcher Genealogy. 265
Chfldren: (Thacher) ?
I have obtained no further record of this family.
Authorities :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 61.
Vital Records of Rhode Island, Vol. II, p. 184.
Greenes of Rhode Island, p. 493.
1091. Harriet^ Thacher (Josiah,* Deacon Josiah,^ Judah,* Hon.
Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom at Yarmouth, Mass.^
March 14th, 1792; died , at ; married , 1813
(int. pub. October i6th, 1813), at , to David Ryder^
bom at Yarmouth, Mass., August 2nd, 1789; died ^
1834, at . He was a son of Edward Rider (bom Octo-
ber 4th, 1761; died December 27th, 1817) and his wife
Mercy Rider, daughter of John Rider by his second wife
Susannah Crowell (bom June 24th, 1764; died ), ol
Yarmouth, Mass.
Children: 7 (Ryder), 2 sons and 3 daughters and 2 sex
not given, all bom at Yarmouth.
1922 i. Calvin,* bom March 20th, 1814; died ;
lived in New York.
1923 ii. Watson,' bom September 28th, 1815 ; died .
1924 iii. Mary Hedge," bom July 29th, 1817; died Sep-
tember , 1837.
1925 iv. Harriet,* bom July 8th, 1819; died ; mar-
ried , to Gorham and lived in Cam-
bridge, Mass.
1926 V. Jane,' bom September 15th, 1821 ; died .
1927 vi. Twins,' bom July , 1823 ; died .
1928 vii. Twins,' bom July , 1823 ; died .
Another daughter of Harriet (Thacher) Ryder is said to hav^
married Simpson and lived in Boston, Mass.
AuTHosmss :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 61.
Hon. George Thacher's MSS. Thacher Genealogy, p. 236.
Yarmouth Register Cape Cod Families, No. 60^ pp. ^ 3, 4, 5, 6.
1092. Desire^ Thacher (Josiah,* Deacon Josiah," Judah,* Hon.
Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom at Yarmouth, Mass.^
September 23rd, 1793; died at Yarmouth, Mass., August
22nd, 1846, aged 51 years and 11 months', and was buried
in Old Cemetery there ; gravestone. She married , 1817,
at Yarmouth, Mass. (probably), to Josiah Nickerson, of
Dennis, Mass. ; bom , at ; died , at . His
parentage has not been ascertained by me.
Children: 4 (Nickerson), sons.
1929 L Allen,' bom ; died ; married Louisa*
Gorham. (See No. 1133.)
17A
266
Thacher'ThaUhtr Genealogy.
Uuly
1930 11. George Russell,* born
died
mar-
ried Lydia Hedge* Thacher. (Sec No. 1940.)
193 1 iii. Dustin,* bom ; died .
1932 iv. Charles,* bom ; died, .
AUTHGRITXES :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 61.
Yarmouth, Mass,, Graveyard Inscriptions, p. 29.
Hon. George Thacher's MSS. Thacher Genealogy, p. 237.
Yarmouth Register Cape Cod Families, No. 87, p. 8.
I094. Paddock^ Thacher (Josiah,* Deacon Josiah,* Judah,* Hon.
Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom Yarmouth, Mass.,
June 25th, 1797; he lived at Yarmouth, Mass., and died
there December 25th, 1867, aged 70 years, 6 months, of har-
dening of the arteries. I have no record of hfa place of burial.
He married at Yarmouth, February 28th, 1&22, to Luqr
Hallet, bom Yarmouth, Mass., October 4th, 1794; died Yar-
mouth, Mass., March 3rd, 1872. She was a daughter of
Nathan Hallet (bom December loth, 1768; died ; mar-
ried August 23rd, 1791) and his first wife Azubah White
(bom October 22nd, 1770; died July 7th, 1805, aged 35),
of Yarmouth, Mass.
Children: 7 (Thacher), 3 sons and 4 daughters, all bom at
Yarmouth.
1933 i. Russell, 1st,* bom April 13th, 1823; died Au-
?ist 4th, 1824, aged 15 months and 21 days, at
armouth, and was buried there in Woodside
Cemetery; g^vestone.
1934 ii. Harriet H ,® born September 28th, 1825;
died October 14th, 1826, aged i year and 15
days, at Yarmouth, Mass., and was buried
there in Woodside Cemetery; gravestone.
+ 1935 iii. Russell, 2nd,* bom April 26th, 1827; died at
sea, drowned, April 17th, 1855, aged 27 years,
II months, 21 days; married Harriet A
Cobb. (V. R. Mass. says he was "single" and
"seaman.")
+1936 iv. Phebe,* bom Febmary i6th, 1829; died Au-
gust 2 1 St, 1862, aged 33; married David S
Russell.
+1937 V. Oliver,* bom May 26th, 18^; died July 8th,
1866, a|^d 34 years, i month, of fever; mari-
ner, residence Hyannis ; married Hannah G
Crowell.
-{-1938 vi. Azubah Hallet,* bom May 25th, 1835; died
April 13th, i860; married Simeon H
Brown.
1939 vii. Lucy Ellen,* bom November 3rd, 1837; died
at Yarmouth, June ist, 1839, aged 19 months,
and was buried there in Woodside Cemetery;
gravestone.
1915O Thacher-ThaUher Genealogy. 267
Authorities :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, pp. 61, 76.
Hon. George Thacher's l/LSS. Thacher Genealogy, p. 237.
Yarmouth Graveyard Inscriptions, pp. 43, 44.
Yarmouth Register Cape Families, No. 84, p. 10; No. 88, p. 6.
Vital Records Mass., State House, Boston, Mass.
1905. JosiAH^ Thacher ( Josiah,* Decan Josiah," Judah,* Hon. Col.
John,' Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom at Yarmouth, Mass., July
6th, 1799; he lived at Yarmouth, Mass., and at Brooklyn,
N. Y., and was master and part owner of the ship Catharine
and made foreign voyages, also of the ship Lewis Cass and
the ship Warsaw. He was granted letters of marque and
permission to carry gims signed by President Jackson. He
died at sea on a voyage from Mobile, Ala., to New York
City, , 1840, and was buried at sea. He married ,
1821 (about) (see date of birth of his first child), at
(South Dennis, Mass., probably), to Daty Baker, bom at
South Dennis, Mass., , 1802 ; died , 1889, at Brook-
l)m, N. Y. She was a daughter of Baker and his wife
Huldah ( ) Baker, of South Dennis, Mass. ,
Children: 5 (Thacher), 3 sons and 2 daughters, first bom
in South Dennis, rest in Brooklyn, N. Y,
+1940 i. Lydia Hed|;e,* bom Febmary 22nd, 1822; died
; married George Russell* Nickerson. (See
No. 1930.)
1941 ii. Josiah,* bom ; died ; in 1907 he was
an inmate of the Sailors' Snug Harbor, Staten
Island, N. Y.
+1942 iii. Daty Ann,® bom ; died , 1888; mar-
ried Comelius Martin.
1943 IV. William,* bom March nth, T834; died ,
1887, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was a sea captain
and was not married.
+1944 V. George,* bom January 21st, 1837; died ;
married Elizabeth May Skippon.
Authorities :
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, pp. 61, 76.
Hon. George Thacher's MSS. Thacher Genealogy, p. 237.
1097. Mary Gray^ Thacher (Josiah,* Deacon Josiah," Judah,*
Hon. Col. John,' Antony,* Rev. Peter^), bom at Yarmouth,
Mass., August 5th, 1804; died , at ; married ^
at , to Francis Albert Jarrot, of Boston, Mass.; bom
, at , France; died , at .
Parentage not known to me.
Children: 2 (Jarrot) sons.
1945 i. Jarrot,' bom ; died »-.
1946 ii. Francis,* bom ; died -^ — .
l6S ThacJUr'TkaUJUr Ggngaloiy. [July
AuTHounss:
AlUn's Thacher Genealogy, p. 6i.
Hon. George Thacher's MSS. Thacher Genealogy, p. ^
1098. Fanny^ Thacher (Josiah,* Deacon Josiah,* Judah/ Hoil
Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter*), born at Yarmouth, Mass.,
June nth, 1806; died at Yarmouth, April 20th, 1850, aged
43, and was buried there in old cemetery; gravestone. She
married December 20th, 1836, at Yarmouth (probably), to
Ophir Josselyn, a peddler, of Yarmouth, Mass., as his first
wife; he was bom , at ; died , at . Hfa
parentage has not been ascertained by me.
Children : None that I know of.
Ophir Josselyn married a second time to , and his chil-
dren are all said to have been by his second wife.
AuTHounxs:
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, p. 61.
Hon. George Thacher's MSS. Thacher Genealogy, p. a33.
iioi. Hannah^ Thacher (Josiah,* Deacon Josiah,* Judah,* Hon.
Col. John,* Antony,* Rev. Peter*), bom at Yarmouth, Mass.,
August 13th, 1813; died at Yarmouth, Mass., June nth,
187 1, and was buried there in old cemetery. She married
at Yarmouth, April 13th, 1832, to Charles^ Thacher (see
No. 1032), as his first wife, bom Yarmouth, June 30th,
1807; he lived in Yarmouth and died there February 15th,
1886, and was there buried in Old Cemetery. He was a son
of Ebenezer* Thacher (see No. 480) and his wife Tamsen
Taylor, who resided at Yarmouth, Mass.
Children: None.
Charles^ Thacher was married a second time at Yar-
mouth, on August 24th, 1881, by the Rev. Azuriah Eldridge,
D. D., to Armenia C- — Elddridge, as her third husbwd
(whose second husband was Benjamin Eldridge), bom Au-
gust , 1820, at Dunkirk, (or Leona, N. Y.) ; died
January 6th, 1891, at Yarmouth and was buried there in
Old Cemetery. Her father's name was Hezekiah Bull, of
England, and her mother was his wife Electa ( ) Bull;
her parents are said to have lived at Leona, N. Y.
Children: None.
Charles^ Thacher was apprenticed to Ezekiel Thacher (see No.
1053), a blacksmith at Barnstable, Mass., at the age of 14; at the
age of 19 or 20 he went to sea and was captain of a coasting vessel;
subsequently he became a surveyor and conveyancer and Justice
of the Peace.
AuTHosinEs:
Allen's Thacher Genealogy, pp. 58, 59, 61.
C W. Swift, Publisher of the Yarmouth Register, Yarmouthport, VLum.
(Tc be amtmued.)
1915J Revolutionary War Muster Roll. 269
REVOLUTIONARY WAR MUSTER ROLL.
Contributed by George Austin Morrison, Jr.
In examining the "Swartwout Manuscripts/' now deposited
in the New York Historical Society, a number of papers of the
period of the Revolutionary War were found and among them
an original Muster Roll of one of the companies in the Fourth
Regiment of Dutchess County, New York, commanded by Colonel
John Frear.
The Fourth Regiment of Dutchess County, New York, has
hitherto been known as the " lost regiment,*' from the fact that
no roll of enlisted men in this regiment has been discovered,
although a fragmentary list of its ofiBcers, and of land bounty
rights granted to the oflScers and some of the men is preserved
at Albany. Both Femow in the Archives of State of New York^
vol. XV, and Jas. A. Roberts in New York in the Revolution^
give the following:
" Dutchess County Militia — 4th. Regiment.
Colonel John Frear
Captains:
Isaac Conklin Samuel Smith
Hageman Luke Stoutenburgh
Elijah Herrick Straight
— Kilsey Bernardus Swartwout
Low Hugh VanKleek
David Ostrand John Van Kleek.
Lieutenants:
Abraham Fort Jonas Weeks
Ensigns:
Alexander Furman (Reuben) Spencer
(No enlisted men found.)*'
The list of Captain Bernardus Swartwout's Company dis-
covered among the Swartwout manuscripts contains the names
of seventy-five o£Bcers and men. A cross has been marked with
the pen on four names and one name has been erased, but the
remaining seventy names are undoubtedly those of soldiers who
saw active service in the war. Comparatively little is known of
Colonel John Frear and his descendants, and such information
as exists may be summed up as follows:
John* Frear (Abraham,* Abraham,^ Hugo'), of Poughkeepsie,
New York. He was baptized at Poughkeepsie, 27 May, 1739,
witnesses being Baltus van Kleek and Algjen Freer. He fought
in the Revolutionary War as Colonel of the 4th Regiment of
Dutchess County. The list of enlisted men of this regiment
cannot be found, but the list of officers and the list of land bounty
rights for this regiment has been preserved. At the commence-
ment of the war m 1776 Colonel Frear was appointed one of the
270 Revolutionary War MusUr Roll. [July
" Committee of Correspondence " to look after the interest of the
patriot cause. In 1794 his name appears as one of those who
manumitted their slaves. He had a brother Thomas^ born in 1741,
and a brother Jacobus who lived east of present city limit of
Poughkeepsie. (See LeFevre's History of New Paltz,)
John Freer lived one and one-half miles south of Poughkeepsie
and is named as sole executor in the will of Elizabeth Van Kleeck
of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., dated 8 Oct., 1772, proved 17 May, 1782.
He married Maria Van Kleeck, daughter of Elizabeth Van
Kleeck, and resided in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
He as " John Frear of the town of Poughkeepsie," left a will,
dated 20 Feb., 1807, proved 17 Aug., 1809, L C. of Wills, page 371,
Dutchess County Surrogates Office, in which he mentions his
eldest son Simon; the children of late son Baltus, viz.: — Maria
Flagelar, Sarah Martin, John, Elizabeth, James, Lawrence and
Baltus; daughter Elizabeth Deyo; children of deceased daughter
Maria Lemtngton, viz.: Maria and Hannah; a house and lot in
village of Poughkeepsie; grandson John Frear, son of son Simon;
grandson John Deyo, son of daughter Elizabeth. Executors,
nephew James Frear, son of late brother Jacobus Frear; Jacob
Nelson, son of Thomas, and grandson John Frear, Jr. He had
known issue:
Simon, b. 10 March, 1753, at Poughkeepsie.
Baltus.
Elizabeth, m. Deyo, and had issue:
Maria.
Hannah.
John.
Maria, b. 28 July, bap. 13 Aug., 1755, at Poughkeepsie;
witnesses: Peter Low and Maria Low; m. Cornelius
Lemington, and had issue:
Maria, b. 16 July, 1794, at Poughkeepsie.
Hannah, b. 15 March, 1796, at Poughkeepsie.
The muster roll is written in a clear, firm hand, and is in an
admirable state of preservation. It reads as follows:
A True List of Capt. Bamardus Swartwout's Company of
Militia in Coll. John Prayer's Regiment in the State of New York
as it was taken June the 6th, 1778.
Lt. Will" Lawson, Clerk.
Barnadus Swartwout, Capt. Josepf Scot jnr.
Abraham Fort, ist Lieut. John Dearen
Simon Lason, 2d Lieut. Jeames Dearen
Abraham Van keuren. Ensign George Ames
Underbill Budd
Mark Dimsey, ist Sergt. Peter Ab' Lawson
iohn Wilsey, 2d Sergt. Gilliad Hunt
lazereth Broiser, 3rd Sergt. Yerry fetch
William Els worth, 4th Sergt. Cornelius Brower
Benjamin Westervelt, Sen,
John Brower, ist Corpl. Benjamin Westervelt, jnr.
eames Westervelt, 2d Corpl. Cornelius B. Westervelt
»915.1
Revolutionary War Muster Roll,
271
Samuel Matthews, 3rd Corpl.
Robert Luckey, 4th Corpl.
John Medler
Abraham Ferdun
iohn Lawrence
'homas Lawrence
Aaron Laurence (name crossed)
Wilhelmas Ploughe
William Yates
Henry Dimond
Joseph Scot, Sen'.
Casparus C. Westervelt
Derick Westervelt
David Sypher
Jeremiah Duboys
Simeon Leroy
John Records (name crossed)
William hamilton
John Miller
Cornelius Bergardus
Thomas Duboys
Mathew Puboys
Andress Lawson, junr.
ON BACK.
George Garlin (name crossed)
Matthew Van keuren, junr.
Isaac Van Deusen
Peter Bogert
Abraham Wilsey
John Low
Fetter fordon
Matte P. Lason
Thomas W. jacocks
Thomus f jacocks
Sinion v — kleek
A List of Capt.
Bamerdus Swartwout
Company
John Cumpton
Aaron Medler
Zaccherias Ferdun
Francis Jacocks
Coonraat Philips
William Phillips (name erased)
Isaac Per. Lawson
Beyani jacocks
Thomas jacocks
John French
saac Forgeson
Matthew Lawson
John Hendrick mires
Leny Quimbey
Casparus B. Westervelt
Nicholas Anthony
Jacob Van Bunscoten
Jeames Cumpton
John Campbel (name crossed)
The printing of this roll is an attempt to preserve for all time
the record of these men who fought for the liberty of the colonies
and whose names otherwise might have remained unknown.
There must be a number of other original Revolutionary
Muster Rolls in the archives of various historical and genea-
logical societies throughout the country, and preserved in private
collections or family records. It would seem to be a patriotic
duty that these Muster Rolls should be photographed and copies
E laced in the Government Archives at Washington and in the
tate Archives at Albany, and that the lists of men contained in
such Muster Rolls be printed and published in historical and
genealogical magazines. Only thus can a more complete record
of the patriots of 1776 ever be collected and preserved. A move-
ment to print and preserve such Muster Rolls could readily be
organized and would undoubtedly receive patriotic and financial
support from private sources — as up to the present time neither
the United States nor the respective State governments have
taken any interest or initiative m such work.
272 CrgiH Family NoUs. [July
GREEN FAMILY NOTES*
Contributed by Franklin* Grbbn, Cornell University, Qass 1868-1871, Agr.
No. 9o8 N. 7th St., RowvUle. Eiwx Co., N. J.
Nathaniel* Green (Rev. Nathaniel,* Nathaniel,* William,*
William,* Thomas*), born in Leicester, July 7, 1755; died at Mad-
ison, N. Y., where he was killed by a horse, Jan. 17, 1798, aged
43 years; he married Esther Bunn. Children (8):
4- i. Arnold,* b. ** Charlestown End" (now Stoneham),
Mass., March 17, 1780; d. at Rushford, Allegany Co.,
N. Y., aged 7a; m. Aliathyna Roberts,
ii. Esther,
iii. Charlotte,
iv. Polly.
V. Manon.
vi. Francis,
vii. Sandford.
viii. Deliverance.
Arnold* Green (Nathaniel,* Rev. Nathaniel,* Nathaniel,*
William,* William," Thomas'), born in " Charlestown End" (now
Stoneham), Mass., March 17, 1780; died at Rushford, Allegany
Co., N. Y., aged 7a; in i8oa, "at the age of aa," he married at
Augusta, Madison Co., N. Y., Aliathyna Roberts. Her father,
Joel Roberts, was a patriot who was killed at the Battle of Lex-
ngton, Mass., her brothers, Joel, Josh and Jorum were also all at
the Battle of Lexington, but they survived the engagement.
Aliathyna (Roberts^ Green was a descendant of John Roberts,
who came trom Wales to Roxbury, Mass., in 1636, accompanied
by his aged mother then 93 years of age (she lived to the age of
103). Arnold* Green removed from Augusta, N. Y., to Pompey
Hill, Onondaga Co., N. Y., in 1814. On July i, 1815 fwhen his
son Benjamin Franklin* Green was bom), he removed to Pike,
Wyoming Co., N. Y., where he purchased a large farm of 700
acres. In early manhood he was a Grand Master Mason of the
Grand Lodge of the State of New York. His widow died at Por-
tageville, Allegany Co., N. Y., aged 89. They were both members
of the Baptist Church at Portageville, N. Y. Children (18):
1. Infant son,* b. Oct. — , 1803.
+ ii. Alvah Sherman, b. Nov. 8, 1804; d. , 185a; m.
Lucy Hislop.
-I- iii. Lucetta, b. May 15, 1806.
iv. Mary Ann, b. May ai, 1808.
* [Editorial Note:— In the Vinton Memorial^ by John Adams Vinton,
Boston, 1858, there will be found a fairly extensive genealogical record of the
descendants of Thomas' Green[e], 160&-1667, of Maiden, Mass. On pp. 395,
397, 400, 412, 423 and 43Q of that work is given a record of the following Green
line, viz.:— Thomas/ William,* William/ Nathaniel,^ Rev. Nathaniel/ Nath-
aniel.* The line of Nathaniel* Green and his wife, Esther (Bunn) Green, is
not continued in the Vinton Memorial^ and the following is a contribution
towards completing the record of their descendants, j. r. t.]
1915J Green Family Notes, 273
V. Julicetta, b. March 26, 1810.
vi. Allathyna, b. June 30, 1811.
vii. Addison, b. Sept. 19, 1813.
+ viii. Benjamin Franklin, b. July i, 1815.
ix. Francis, b. July 28, 18 16.
X. Roccena, b. July 6, 1818.
+ xi. Nelson Winer, b. July 30, 1819.
+ xii. Elizabeth R., b. Sept. 9, 1820.
xiii. William O., b. April 22, 1822.
xiv. Eliza U., b. May 20, 1823.
XV. Infant son, b. Oct. — , 1824.
+ xvi. George W., b. Oct. 8, 1825.
xvii. Augustus C., b. July 4, 1827.
xviii. Infant son, b. Dec. — , 1828.
Alvah Sherman' Green (Arnold,* Nathaniel,* Rev. Nathaniel/
Nathaniel,* William,' William,' Thomas*), born at Augusta, Madi-
son Co., N. Y., Nov. 8, 1804; d. at Dansville, Livingston Co., N. Y..
^ 1852; he was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. He married Lucy Hislop and removed to Pikeville,
Allegany Co., N. Y., in 1825. Children (3):
i. Horace,' b. at Pike, N. Y., , 1827; d. at Portage,
N. Y., , aged 82; m. Anna Thompson, at Rush-
ford, Allegany Co., N. Y.
ii. Ellen, b. at Pike, N. Y., , 1830; d. at Oakland,
Cal. (at home of her son Alvah G. Briggs), in the
fall of 1909; she m. ^ 1852, Dr. Martin C. Briggs,
the same year that California became a State in the
Union. She was one of the passengers in the ship
Republic which bore the great news of California
being admitted as a State. Dr. Briggs was one of
the three pioneer Methodist ministers to the land of
gold and flowers. Two of their sons were in the
ministry. Dr. Martin C. Briggs, D.D., was born in
Ohio in 1830; he died at San Francisco, Cal., June 11,
1902. He was of commanding personality in Cali-
fornia for more than fifty years. He came to that
State in 1850 and at once took a prominent part in
all of its affairs both religious and secular. As a
pastor his ability and eloquence easily gave him the
most influential position. He was one of the foun-
ders of the University of the Pacific and of the
California Christian Advocate and was closely asso-
ciated with their interests. He was a great power
in the State up to the close of the Civil War. His
eloquent voice was heard everywhere. No one did
more than he to hold California in the Union. In
recognition of this service, he was made a delegate
from California to the National Convention in 1864
which gave Abraham Lincoln his second presidential
nomination. Children (4 sons all bom in California):
i. Arthur H.," b. .
274 Green Family Notes. [Ju^Y
ii. Alvah G., b. .
lii. Herbert Fish, b. .
iv. Horace, b. ; d. in California; he was
drowned.
iii. Allen A., b. at Portage, N. Y., Feb. 2, 1840; d. ;
he m. Olivia Frisbie of Galesburgb, 111. He was a
rare man of great integrity and unsullied honor. He
removed to Williamsport, Penn., where he and his
brother engaged in the mercantile business up to
the time of his death. He was a trustee of the
Methodist Episcopal Church at Williamsport; he
was buried at Portage, N. Y. Children (3 sons):
i. Herbert Fisk.'*
ii. Allen A.
iii. Horace.
Lucetta' Green (Arnold,* Nathaniel,' Rev. Nathaniel,* Nath-
aniel,* William,' William," Thomas*), born at Augusta, Madison Co.,
N. Y., March 16, 1806; died ; married in Pike, Wyoming Co.,
N. Y., to John Windsor (son of John Windsor, a Revolutionary
soldier), born in Hartwick, Otsego Co., N. Y., Feb. a, 1804. Chil-
dren (4 sons):
i. William.*
ii. Samuel,
iii. Tudson.
iv. Norton.
Benjamin Franklin' Green* (Arnold,* Nathaniel,' Rev. Nath-
aniel,* Nathaniel,* William,' William,' Thomas*), born at Pompey
Hill, Onondaga Co., N. Y., July i, 1815. Mr. Green, the father of
the compiler of these notes, was still living at the time they were
submitted for publication, May 23, 1910, having reached the ripe
age of 95 years, with still a full share of health and happiness
and having grown up with this country during its great advances
in commercial and industrial life. As his pedigree shows he is
of good English blood. In 1849 he came to New York City from
the western part of the State and received a position as clerk with
Williams, Bradford & Co., dry goods merchants. He rose rapidly
in the business and soon became a partner in the firm of Goddara,
Green & Co., dealers in what was then known as •* Yankee
Notions." Withdrawing from that house in 1861, he started a
general commission business, operating with leading dry good
houses. The men who were associated with him were in active
business life remembered him as a genial friend full of sparkling
humor and always ready with a pleasant greeting. On Jan. 6,
1 841, he married Lydia M., daughter of Eliphas and Ruth (Bow)
Pride, natives of Middletown, Conn. Mrs. Green was bom at
Hartwick, Otsego Co., N. Y., March 14, 1817. She died at her
home in Orange, N. J., on Oct. 3, 1895. "^^^ fiftieth anniversary
of their wedding was celebrated Jan. 6, 1891. Children (8):
* Benjamin Franklin Green died at his home, 14 Fulton Ave., East
Orange, N. J., Sept. 22, 1910, aged 95 years, 2 months, 22 days. Interred at
Rosedale Cemetery.
IQIS'I Green Family Notes, 275
i. Virginia,* b. at Mixville, Wyoming Co., N. Y., Oct. 21,
1841; m. by the Rev. William Day to Hon. George J.
Ferry (son of Sylvester and Emily ( Downing) Ferry),
b. Nov. 28, 1830. George J. Ferry is a merchant and
banker. He united with the Methodist Episcopal
Church, March 7, 1848. Removing to Newark, N. J.,
in Nov., 1855, ^® engaged in mercantile business.
From the beginning of his commercial career he has
been successful and prosperous amid the many fluc-
tuations which have occurred during the last twenty-
five years. He has manifested an intense interest in
the educational and general benevolent agencies of
the Church and has been active in promoting the
spiritual culture of young people. He was a chief
donor in behalf of the Centenary Collegiate Institute
fHackettstown, N. J.), having given some $100,000
for its buildings and organizations alone. He has
been president of the Board of Trustees from 1868 to
19 10. He was also a trustee of Weselyan University
(Middletown, Conn.), and of the Drew Theological
Seminary, Madison, N. J. He was a member of the
General Conference of 1876 and took an active part
in its deliberations. He has been twice elected
Mayor of Orange, but having little inclination for
political life he retired from politics. Mr. Ferry is
an ardent advocate of temperance reform and other
philanthropic movements. The firm of George J.
Perry & Co., later known as Ferry & Napier and
afterwards as Ferry, Weber & Co., is one of the
oldest firms of hat manufacturers in Newark, N. J.,
engaged in the manufacture of soft fur hats; and
their plant is one of the largest in America. Mr.
Ferry, the founder of this important industry, is still
the head of the firm. He became a practical hatter
in 1856, and established business on his own indi-
vidual account in Market Street, Newark. He built
up a trade and pushed this industry into substantial
recognition by means of his own eflforts until 1879,
when he admitted Ernest Napier to partnership, and
adopted the firm name of Ferry & Napier. Mr.
Napier retired Oct. i, 1900, and Messrs. John Weber,
George J. Ferry, Jr., William H. Ferry, Clarence
Monroe Ferry and Charles Downing Ferry were
admitted under the firm name of Ferry, Weber &
Co. George J. Ferry, Sr., has not only been a leader
in the hat industry, but has been a very prominent
and popular citizen of Essex Co., N. J., in both
political and social life. He has held several offices
of trust in the city, and has ably served as a member
of Congress, and also as before stated as Mayor of
Orange, N. T. He is now an esteemed citizen of
Summit, N. J., where his son Charles D. Ferry is a
276 Gnen Family NoUs. [July
member of the Common Council. His four sons
were all practically raised in the business and are
thorough experts in hat manufacturing. Mr. Weber
has been associated with the house as a salesman for
fifteen years; he is a citizen of New York City and
now manages the Metropolitan offices of the firm.
The large works on Fifth Avenue and Fifth Street
were erected and occupied in 1890; and the almost
equally extensive works at Bloomfield Avenue and
Third Street were built in 1897. Altogether the
plant comprises six large brick buildings giving em-
ployment to about 500 hands,
ii. William Wallace, b. at Mixville, N. Y., Aug. 15, 1843;
a veteran of the Civil War, 1861-63.
iii. Ellen Augusta, b. at Rushford, Allegany Co., N. Y.,
, 1845; m. in the fall of 1863, to Richard Rouse
(son of John Owen Rouse of Derby, England).
Children (5):
i. John Owen."
ii. Emma, m. Dr. Casey,
iii. Harry, d. y.
iv. Richard, Jr., an inventor.
V. Harry Burt.
iv. Bradford, b. 1847; ^- ^^ infant.
V. Benjamin Franklin, b. at Rushford, AUeganv Co.,
N. Y., March 15, 1849; not married. Cornell Uni-
versity, 1868-1871, agricultural. (Compiler of these
notes.)
vi. Monroe, b. at Rushford, N. Y., Oct. 3, 1851; m. Alice,
daughter of Benjamin H. Carey, at Brooklyn, N. Y.,
by the Rev. Albert S. Hunt, June 6, 1878. He is an
inventor. Children (2):
i. Infant daughter," d. y.
ii, Irving Carey,
vii. Flora G., b. at Rushford, N. Y., Oct. 16, 1855; m. Dr.
Wm. P. Richards, a dentist, on April 19, 1885. Chil-
dren (2):
i. Dora," b. in Orange, N. J., Jan. 22, 1888; d.
Jan. 29, 1903.
ii. Stanley William, b. Orange, N. J., Feb. 22,
1893; d. y.
viii. Anna, b. Jersey City, N. J., Feb. 22, i860; d. at Orange,
N. J., aged 12.
Col. Nelson Winer* Green (Arnold,* Nathaniel,* Rev. Nath-
aniel,* Nathaniel,* William,* William," Thomas*), born at Pike,
Wyoming Co., N. Y., July 30, 1819; ^i®^ *^ Stoneham, Mass.,
May 7, 1907, aged 88; he married at , N. Y., in 1847, J^Ha
M. Pratt. He was an inventor and a veteran of the Civil War,
1 861-1865. His widow died in the fall of 1908. Children (5):
i. Nora.*
iQi 5-] Inscriptions Gleaned /rem Stones in the Fort Ann, N, V., Cemetery » 277
ii. Maynard.
iii. Mason,
iv. Nelson G.
V. Clara.
Elizabeth R.' Green (Arnold/ Nathaniel/ Rev. Nathaniel/
Nathaniel/ William/ William/ Thomas'), born at Pike, N. Y.,
Sept. 9, 1820 (still living in 1910, aged 90); married Wm. R.
Knapp in early life and removed to Howell, Mich. He was a
farmer and blacksmith and very successful in business enter-
prise. Children (4):
i. Theodore.*
ii. William R.
iii. Alvah S.
iv. Florence.
George W.' Green (Arnold,' Nathaniel,* Rev. Nathaniel,*
Nathaniel,* William/ William/ Thomas'), bom at Pike, N. Y.,
Oct. 8, 1825; died at Fairport, Monroe Co., N. Y., , 1891; mar-
ried , 1847, Matilda Gordon, daughter of John Gordon of
Rushford, N. Y. Children (2):
i. Adelphia,* b. at Rushford, N. Y.; m. Patrick McAuliflfe,
a native of Ireland. Children (4):
i. George W.'*
ii. Jesse.
iii. James Gordon,
iv. Jennie,
ii. Ellen, b. ; d. y.
INSCRIPTIONS GLEANED FROM STONES IN THE
FORT ANN, N. Y., CEMETERY.
Contributed by Stewart H. Burnham of Hudson Falls, N. Y.
These data from gravestones in the old cemetery, in the
southern part of the village of Fort Ann, Washington County,
N. Y., on the road to Hudson Falls, were copied on May 18, 1904.
The yard has been neglected for manv years and is partly over-
grown by thickets of rose and hazel; the graves lay on two
hillocks, separated by a little hollow. The majority lie on the
south hillock and there were apparently but very few, if any,
unmarked by marble stones. The "Harper" stones were of a
peculiar grayish hard rock, reticulated with white veins. A con-
spicuous Lombardy poplar stands on the north hillock.
Died April 13, 1816, Caroline Baxter in the 15 year of her age.
In memory of Levi D. Baxter who died Aug. 17, 1823, aged
39 years.
Comfort, wife of Capt. Moses Baxter, died May aa, 1816, in her
6a year.
18
278 Inscriptions GUanedfrom Stofus in M/ Fort Ann, N, K, Cemetery. [July
Died March 23, 1814, Moses Baxter in the 37^^ year of his age.
Abraham Boyce died April a6, 1831, aged 59 years.
Died Nov., 1801, Jeremiah, son of Abraham & Phebe Boyce,
aged 5 months.
Died Feb. 13, i8oa, Phebe, wife of ( ), in the a8 year of
her age.
[This stone had fallen and was partly covered with sod. She
was probably the wife of Abraham Boyce. J
In memory of Mrs. Mary T. Bush who died August ay*^, 1806,
in the 40'th year of her age.
Died Dec. 7, 1809, Elizabeth, Consort of Capt. John Clark,
In Memory of Lydia, wife of John Crosbee, Esq., who died
Sept. 10, 1793; in the 34 year of her age.
In memorjr of Mary, wife of John Crosbee, Esq., who died
Oct. 31, 1837, m the 60 year of her age.
In Memory of Mary, Wife of Charles Cushman. She died
march 39***, 1803, in the a8*^ year of her age.
In Memory of J. C, son of R. C, who died March ao, 1799,
Aged 3 m**. & 3 weeks.
Died Dec. 31, i8ii, Merribah, Consort of Erastus Day, JS> 3a.
David, son of John & Huldah Eldredge, died Nov. 33'*, 1808,
aged 3 years & 6 months.
[This stone stood by the poplar tree.]
Died July la, 1810, Daniel Gilmore, M^ 37.
put Up By wa. & ar. Moores & j. Barney. In Token of there
Esteem for his virtues he being absent from his friends.
Robert Harper, died July 31, 1814, Aged 66 years.
Sarah, Consort to Robert Harper, died Sept. i, 1814, Aged
63 years.
Mrs. Martha, wife of Mr. Medad Harvey, died Jan. a, 1800, In
her 54 year.
Also William Isaac & Prudence, their children.
In memory of Alexander Kincaid of the Kingdom of Ireland,
who departed this life march 36***, 1804, aged 45 vears.
In memory of John Kincaid, Esq., a native of the Kingdom of
Ireland, who died July 6"*, 1806, aged 39 years.
In memory of Nancy, daughter of Mr. Caleb & Mrs. Dorcas
King. She was born August the i3**», 1783, and died March l7*^
1798.
Malissa, daughter of w. & s. parish, died July the la, i8ai.
Age 3 years, 5 m***.
In memory of Tames Stiles, born in Lunenburg, Mas., 13 July,
A. D., 1779; died in Fort Ann, N. Y., 14 Feb^ A. D., i8ao, aged
40 yrs., 7 mo. & i day.
Augustin Underbill, died Jan. 17, 1819, aged 83 years, 9 months
and 34 days.
Jerusha, wife of Augustin Underbill, died March 17, 1833,
aged 79 years and 17 days.
David Vosburgh died 6 of march, 1830, Age ^^ years.
In Memory of Esther, Wife of Nehamiah Wing. She died
Nov'. 14***, 1803, in the 36*** year of her age.
1915.] New York Marriage Licenses. 279
NEW YORK MARRIAGE LICENSES.
Contributed by Robert H. Kblby, Librarian New York Historical Society.
In i860 the State of New York published a volume containing
a list of marriage licenses then on record in the office of the
Secretary of State, Albany.
The licenses were issued under the seal of the Prerogative
Court, and acted as a dispensation from the proclamation of
banns, when it was inconvenient or impossible to comply with
the general usage. The information given by the license, and
unfortunately not printed in the volume published by the
State, consisted of the town of residence and occupation of the
parties to the marriage, and the prospective bride was designated
as Spinster or Widow as the case might be.
In the fire at the Capitol, March 29, 1911, a number of the
original manuscript volumes were saved, but all badly burned.
The following additions and corrections are from 432 original
licenses, in the Archives of The New York Historical Society.
The pages mentioned in the additions and corrections refer
to the volume published by the State.
ROBERT H. KELBY, LIBRARIAN.
PAGB
I Ablin, John, N. Y., Mariner, and Chariotte Hall, N. Y.,
Spinster, married July 27, 1775, by Rev. Samuel Auch-
muty.
I For Achyndaey, Alex'., and Jane Flannagen, read Achyn-
dachy, Alexander, carpenter, H. M. S. Loyalist, and Jane
Plannegen, N. Y., widow,
a 1783, April, 28, read April 21. Adam, William, N. Y.,
mariner, and Alley Devoor, N. Y., spinster.
3 Adams, Catherine, N. Y., spinster, and John Mitchell, N. Y.
3 Aget, Agnes, N. Y., spinster, and Thomas Smith, N. Y.,
joyner.
3 Aikins, John, N. Y., yeoman, and Mary Brooks, N. Y.,
spinster.
3 Airs, Joseph, N. Y., and Charity Whetten, N. Y., spinster.
4 Allen, Jane, N. Y., widow, and John Welsh, N. Y., mariner.
4 (insert) 1775, April 5, Allen, John, Phila., and Mary John-
ston, N. Y., spinster, married April 6, 1775, by Rev,
Samuel Auchmuty.
5 for Alloway, John, and Jane Ris, read Alloway, John, ser-
geant 17th regiment of dragoons, and Anne Rix, of the
same regiment, spinster.
S for Aimer, Sarah, and Peter Baker, read Alner, Sarah, N.
Y., spinster, and Peter Baker, Cow Neck, Queens Co.,
shipwright.
S Alsop, Elizabeth, late of Nottingham in Great Britain, but
now of N. Y., spinster, and Richard Hawkins, Ensign
27th regiment of foot.
28o New York Marriage Licenses. [July
PAGE
6 Amory, John, N. Y., whipmaker^ and Mary De Lamon-
tagnie, N. Y., widow.
7 Anderson, Mary, N. Y^ spinster, and John McDonald, (no
place mentioned).
7 Anderson, William, N. Y., yeoman, and Elizabeth McBride,
N. Y. spinster.
9 Applej^ate, Isabella, N. Y., spinster, and William Evans,
N. Y., tailor.
9 Appleton, William, and Mary Huggins, spinster, both of
35th regiment.
10 Armour, William, N. Y., mariner, and Sasannah Richard-
son, N. Y , widow.
10 Arno, Charles, N. Y., mariner, and Henrietta Woodword,
N. Y., widow.
11 Ash, Sarah, N. Y., widow and Walter Birk, carpenter in
His Majesty's Engineer Department.
II for Askins, William, and Elizabeth Campbell, read, Askins,
William, N. Y., tavlor, and Mary Campbell. The latter
name is repeated in the license as Elizabeth Mary
Campbell.
1 1 Atken, Isaac, N. Y., baker, and Effee Curtis of the Manor
on Staten Island, widow.
11 Atkins, James, N. Y., mariner, and Catharine Kelsey, N.
Y., spinster.
12 Babcock, David, N. Y., and Barbara Garlick, N. Y., spinster.
12 Baehr, Christian, N. Y., tailor, and Anna Bennet, N. Y.,
widow.
12 (insert) 1774, Sept. 30. Bailey, William, Westchester Co., N.
Y., Farmer, and Mary Barret, same place, spinster.
12 Bain, John, N. Y., vintner, and Mary McClean, N. Y., widow,
13 Baker, Gardner, N. Y., cordwainer, and Mary Wrighton.
N. Y., spinster.
13 Baker, Peter, Cow Neck, Queens Co., shipwright, and Sarah
Alner, N. Y., spinster.
13 Baker, William, mariner, on board His Majesty's Ship of
War Le Sybel, and Joanna Keys, N. Y., spinster.
14 Baldwin, John, Queens Co., carpenter,and Elisabeth Thomp-
son, N. Y., spinster.
14 Bancker, Abraham, N. Y., cordwainer, and Abigail King,
N* Y., spinster.
14 Bancker, Evert, Jr., N. Y., merchant, and Anne Taylor, N.
Y., spinster.
15 for Barclay, Charlotte A., and Richard Bailey, read Barclay,
Charlotte Amelia, N. Y., spinster, and Richard Bayley,
N. Y., physician.
15 (insert) 1774, June 15, Barclay, Helena, N. Y., spinster,
and Thomas Moncrieflfe, Esq., N. Y. •
16 Barham, Martha, N. Y., widow, and John Newsted, N. Y.,
yeoman.
17 Barnes, Martha, N. Y., widow, and William Brown, N. Y.
191 5'] N^^ York Marriagt Licenses. 28 1
pAom
1 7 Barnett, Joseph, clerk in the ordinance office of His Majesty's
Navy Department, and Jane Bosworth,. N Y., spinster.
17 for Barnes, Mary, and Archibald Kerby read Barnes, Mary,
N. Y., spinster, and Archibald Kerley, N. Y., merchant.
17 Barratt, John, mariner on board His Majesty's Ship the
Lyon, and Hannah Collin, N. Y., widow.
18 (insert) 1774, Sept. 14. Barret, Mary, of Westchester County,
spinster, and William Bailey, same place, farmer.
18 for Barry, James, and Mary Berry, read Berry, James, N.
Y., shopkeeper, and Mary Berry, N. Y., widow.
18 (insert) 1778, Oct. 30. For Barter, Jane, read Barker, Jane,
N. Y., spinster, and John Rote, N. Y.
18 for 1779, Jan. 19, read Jan. 13. Barton, John, N. Y., and
Abby Smith, N. Y., spinster.
18 for 1782, Feb. 2a, read 1782, Feb. 23. Barton, Joseph, N.
Y., gentleman, and Elizabeth Sarly, N. Y., widow.
18 (insert) 1783, Aug. 16. Barton, Joseph Hews, N. Y., mariner,
and Anne Bingham, N. Y., spinster.
18 for Barton, Robert, and Ann McG rigor, read Barton, Robert,
Quartermaster Sergt. of the 52nd Regiment, and Hanna,
McGrigor, same regiment, widow.
19 (insert) 1778, Oct. 5. Barwick, Sarah (also written Mary),
N. Y., spinster, and Peter Lawrence, N. Y.
19 Basden, Robert, N. Y., and Aletta, Shearman, N. Y., spinster.
19 (insert) 1774, Dec. 31. Bassett, James, N. Y., mariner, and
Sarah Morrell, N. Y., Spinster.
19 (insert) 1769, Jan. 21. Baster, John, N. Y., breeches maker,
and Elizabeth Russh, N. Y. spinster.
20 Batten, Anne, N. Y., spinster, and John Webb, N. Y.,
blacksmith.
20 Baxter, James, N. Y., carpenter, and Anne, Williams, N.
Y., widow.
20 for Baxter, Keziah, and William Nikols, read Baxter,
Keziah, N. Y., spinster, and William Nicholls, N. Y.,
blacksmith.
20 Bayard, William, Jr., N. Y., merchant, and Elizabeth Cor-
nell, N. Y., spinster.
20 Bayley (written Bailey), Richard, N. Y., Physician, and
Charlotte Amelia Barclay, N. Y., spinster.
21 (insert) 1776, Nov. 14, Bazo, John, late of the Island of St.
Domingo, and Catharine Olivia, N. Y., widow.
31 (insert) 1780, Dec. 16. Bealey, Thomas, N. Y., mariner, and
Sarah Dyer, N. Y., spinster.
24 Beers, William, carpenter in the Engineer Department of
His Majesty's Army, and Rachel Butler, of County of
Richmond, spinster.
24 Begg, John, N. Y., merchant, and Pheby Willson, N. Y.,
spinster.
24 Bell, John, N.Y., blacksmith, and Hester Tones, N.Y., widow.
24 Bell, Robert, N. Y., taylor, and Magdalen Lownds, N. Y., spin-
ster, married June i, 1775, by Rev. Samuel Auchmuty.
i8a
282 New York Marriage Licenses. [July
24 for 1 78 1, Aug. 24, read Aug. 23, and for Bel ton, Catherine
and Charles White, read Belton, Mary, N. Y., widow,
and Charles White, N. Y., coppersmith.
25 Bennet, Anna, N. Y., widow, and Christiat Baehr, N. Y.,
taylor.
25 Bennet, Mary, N. Y., spinster, and Lewis Jones, N. Y., printer.
26 Bennet, Sarah, N. Y., spinster, and William Harrison,
Waggoner to His Majesty's Royal Artillery
26 Bennett, Thomas, N. Y., and Mary Sexton, N. Y., spinster.
28 Berrow, Sarah, Brooklyn, in Kings County, spinster, and
Robert Tungate, same place, yeoman.
28 for Berry, Mary and James Barry, read Berry, Mary, N. Y.,
widow, and James Berry, N. Y., shopkeeper.
28 Bessonet, John, N. Y.. and Sarah Mitchell, N. Y., widow.
30 for Billington, Jane, and Philip Ruckel, read Billington,
Jane, N. Y., spinster, and Philip Ruckle, N. Y., baker.
30 for Bingham, Anne, and Joseph news Burton, read Bing-
ham Anne, N. Y., spinster, and Joseph Hews Barton, N.
Y., mariner.
30 Birk, Walter, carpenter in His Majesty's Engineer Depart-
ment,and Sarah Ash, N. Y., widow.
30 for 1779, Mar. 23, read Mar. 22.
31 Black, William, N. Y., house carpenter, and Magdalean
Gardiner, N. Y., widow.
31 for 1778, May 17, read May 19. Blair, John, N. Y., and
Mary Plowman, N. Y., spinster.
31 Blair, Samuel, N. Y., and Sarah Ellis, N. Y., spinster.
35 Bo^art, Ann, N. Y., widow, and Forbes Newton, N. Y.,
tinman.
37 (insert) 1781, Mar. 22. Boileau, Lavina, N. Y., spinster, and
John Stevens, N. Y., house carpenter.
38 Bosworth, Jane, N. Y., spinster, and Joseph Barnett, clerk in
the Ordinance Office of His Majesty's Navy Department.
38 for Boulia, Lavina, and John Stevens, read Boileau, Lavina,
N. Y., and John Stevens, N. Y., house carpenter.
39 Bowman, William, N. Y., and Mary Winn, N. Y., spinster.
39 Bowne, Samuel, N. Y., and Mary Stocker, N. Y., spinster.
40 Bradley, James, N. Y., auctioneer, and Catharine Farrell,
N. Y., widow.
41 Brannon, Ann, N. Y., spinster, and Charles Dunn, N. Y.
41 (insert) 1782, Oct. 21. Brannon, John, Quartermaster on
Board His Majesty's Ship the Lyon, and Sarah Walker
N. Y., widow.
41 Branson, Elizabeth, N. Y., spinster, and Daniel Darby, N.
Y., mariner.
42 Branson, Mary, N. Y., spinster, and Stephen Sands, N. Y.,
watchmaker.
42 Branson, Ware, N. Y.. cabinetmaker, and Nancy Palmer,
Westchester County, spinster.
42 for Brasher, Hannah, and John Balton, read Brasher,
Hannah, N. Y., and John Dalton, N. Y., surgeon.
IQISO AVw York Marriage Licenses, 283
43 Bratten, Wilson, N. Y., taylor, and Isabella Ewing, N. Y.,
widow.
43 Bready, Patrick, of the Commissary Generals Department
of the City of New York, and Elizabeth Porter, N. Y.,
spinster.
45 Bride, John Scot, N. Y., currier, and Jane Mathers, N. Y.,
spinster.
45 for Bridgeford, Robert and Sarah Smith, read Bridgford,
Robert, N. Y., mariner, and Sarah Smith, N. Y., spinster.
45 Briggs, Unice, N. Y., spinster, and John Steuart, N. Y.,
ferryman.
45 Brigs, John, N. Y., and Ruth Duncan, N. Y., spinster.
45 for Brinan, John, and Sarah Walker, read Brannon, John,
Quartermaster, on Board His Majesty's Ship the Lyon,
and Sarah Walker, N. Y., widow.
46 Bringfield, Sarah, N. Y., spinster, and John Mason, N. Y.,
mariner.
47 Broadhurst, Benjamin, N. Y., mariner, and Fanny Kenedy,
N. Y., spinster.
48 for Brooks, Mary, and John Aikens, read Brooks, Mary, N.
Y., spinster, and John Aikins. N. Y., yeoman.
48 Brower, Catharine, N. Y., spinster, and John Hyde, N. Y.,
sail maker.
50 Brown, Elizabeth, N. Y., widow, and Matthew Christy 17th
Light Dragoons.
50 Brown, Hannah, N. Y., spinster, and Abraham PuUiblank,
master of His Majesty's Ship Chatham.
50 Brown, John, N. Y., and Hannah Jenkins, N. Y., spinster.
51 Brown, Sarah, widow, late of 23rd Regiment, and James
Evans, mariner.
51 Brown, William, N. Y., and Martha Barnes, N. Y., widow.
5 1 Brown John, Rachel, N. Y., spinster, and John Price, Surgeon
in His Majesty's Qr. Mr. Generals Department.
53 Bryan, Elinor, N. Y., widow, and John Colvin, N. Y.
53 Bryant, Thomas, N. Y., and Elizabeth Hay, N. Y., spinster.
53 Buchanan, David, N. Y., and Mary Connell, N. Y., widow.
54 Buckett, Catharine, Kings County, L. L, spinster, and John
Sickles, Staten Island, in Richmond County.
54 Buckley, James, N. Y., shipwright, and Mary Emmas, N.
Y., spinster.
54 Buell, Abel, Colony of Connecticut, jeweller, and Lettice
De Voe, N. Y., spinster.
54 Bull, Sarah, N. Y., widow, and Gideon Lott, N. Y.
55 Burger, Jane, N. Y., spinster, and Thomas Hill, N. Y.
56 Burgess, Lucy, N. Y., spinster, and John Hillman, N. Y.,
labourer. Married Nov. 19, 1775, by Rev. Samuel Auch-
muty.
57 Burrows, Sarah, N. Y., spinster, and Philip Thompson, N. Y.
58 for Burton, Joseph H., and Ann Bingham, read Barton,
Joseph Hews, N. Y., mariner, and Anne Bingham, N. Y.,
spinster.
284 New York Marriage Licenus. [July
PAGB
58 Busby, Sarah, N. Y., widow, and William Miller, N. Y..
mariner.
59 Buskirk, Rachel, Newtown in Queens County, spinster, and
John Lewis, same place, farmer.
59 for Busteed, John, and Anne Keys, read Busteed, William,
Master of His Majesty's Schooner, the Grain, and Anne
Keys, N. Y., widow.
60 Butler, John, N. Y., mariner, and Margaret Oliver, N. Y.,
widow.
60 Butler, Rachel, County of Richmond, spinster, and William
Beers, carpenter in the Engineer Department of His
Majesty's Army.
60 Butler, Susannah, N. Y., widow, and John Fitzpatrick, N. Y.,
yeoman.
60 Butt, John, N. Y., mariner, and Catherine Thawley, N. Y.,
spinster.
60 Byron, William, N. Y., merchant, and Wilhemina Cannon,
N. Y., spinster.
61 Cabe, Jemina, N. Y., spinster, and James Taylor, N. Y.,
ship joiner.
61 for Caddy, Margaret, and John Hembrow, read Caddy,
Margaret, N. Y., spinster, and John Hambrow, N. Y.,
shipwright.
61 Cady, John, N. Y., and Jane McKenzie, N. Y., spinster.
61 for Carney, William, and Elihu Lesson, read Cagney,
William, Quarter Master Sergeant in the 17th Regiment
Light Dragoons, and Elinor Sesson, first Nurse m the
General Hospital, widow.
61 Cairns, Eleanor, N. Y., widow, and James Coile, N. Y.,
mariner.
61 for Cairns, Grace, and John McDonaugh, read Cairns,
Grace, N. Y., widow, and John McDonough, N. Y., yeo-
man.
61 Cairns, Thomas, N. Y., and Elenor Varnet, N. Y., spinster.
61 Callahan, Eleonora, N. Y., spinster, and James McAllister,
N. Y.
62 Callow, Catharine, N. Y., spinster, and Stacy Stackhouse,
N. Y., chairmaker, married July 6, 1775, by Rev. Samuel
Auchmuty.
62 Campbell, Donald, N. Y., and Margaret Mattidale, Kings
County, spinster.
62 Campbell, Elizabeth, N.Y., widow, and William Askins, N. Y.,
taylor. The name Elizabeth Campbell is repeated in the
license as Elizabeth Mary Campbell.
63 for Cannel, Abraham, and Ann Laturett, read Cannon,
Abraham, Richmond County, and Ann Laturett, same
place, spinster, (as below).
63 (insert) 1777, Oct. 15, Cannon, Abraham, Richmond County,
and Ann Laturett, same place, spinster.
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PAom
64 Cannon, Wilhemina, N. Y., spinster, and William Byron, N.
Y., merchant.
64 (insert) 1779, June 3, Carderet, Mary, and John Francois,
(MS. license issued by John Moore, Deputy Sec'y certify-
ing that Bond is given that there is no lawful impediment
to hinder the above persons being joined in wedlock, no
place mentioned)
64 Carey, Catherine, N. Y., spinster, and George Ellis, N. Y.,
surgeon.
64 for Carey, Stephen, and Anne Gover, read Carey, James, N.
Y., innkeeper, and Anne Glover, N. Y., widow.
65 Carmer, James, N. Y., sailmaker, and Jane Thomas, N. Y,,
spinster.
67 Carr, Jane, Kings County, spinster, late of Philadelphia,
and Thomas Tatham, N. Y., mariner.
67 for Carr, Joshua, and Margaret Templar, read Carr, Joshua,
N. Y., cooper, and Margaret Templer, N. Y., spinster.
67 Carr, Mary, N. Y., spinster, and George Grundy, N. Y.,
merchant.
67 for Carte, William, and Allathea Garretson, read Carty,
William, N. Y., gentleman, and Allathea Garretson, N. Y.,
widow.
67 Carter, Christopher, N. Y., and Priscilla Rogers, N. Y.,
spinster.
68 Carter, James, N. Y., taylor, and Jemime Collins, N. Y.,
spinster.
68 (insert) 1783, Sept. 22. Carty, William, N. Y., gentleman,
and AUethea Garretson, N. Y., widow.
68 for Cary, Rebecca, and William Forster, read Cary, Re-
becca, N. Y., widow, and William Foster, N. Y., gentleman.
68 Casey, Samuel, N. Y., silk dyer, and Catharine Page, N. Y.,
spinster.
69 Catncart, The Right Hon. William Lord, and Elizabeth
Plumstead Elliott, N. Y., spinster.
69 for Catrine, Mary, and John Reed, read Catrine, Mary,
52nd Regiment, widow, and John Reid, Corporal, 45th
Regiment
69 Chads, Henry, Esq., of His Majesty's Navy, and Susannah
Cornell, N. Y., spinster.
69 Chadwell, Benjamin, N. Y., gentleman, and Hannah Ham-
mond, N. Y., spinster.
70. Chapman, Abraham, Lieutenant, British Legion, and Mary
Willis, Flushing, Queens County, spinster.
70 Chapman, George, N. Y., mariner, and Sarah Valentine,
N. Y., spinster.
70 Chapman, Sarah, N. Y., widow, and Drummond Simpson,
N. Y., mariner.
71 Christian, Charles, Master in His Majesty's Navy, and
Elizabeth Galatin, N. Y., widow.
286 New York Marriage Licenses, [July
PAGE
72 Christy, Matthew, 17th Light Dragoons, and Elizabeth
Brown, N. Y., widow.
72 Clark, Abijah, N. Y., and Mary Williams, N. Y., spinster.
72 for 1772, Jan. 19, read 1773, Jan. 19, and for Clark, John,
and Elinor Harper, read Clarke, John, N. Y., upholsterer,
and Elinor Harper, Queen's County, widow.
72 for Clark, John, and Elizabeth Wilkie, read Clarke, John,
N. Y., mariner, and Elizabeth Wilkie, N. Y., widow.
73 Clarke, George, N. Y., mariner, and Ann Grayham, N. Y.,
spinster.
73 (insert) 1772, Jan. 19, Clarke, John, N. Y., upholsterer, and
Elinor Harper, Queens County, widow.
73 (insert) 1778, June 17, Clarke, John, N. Y., and Elizabeth
Wilkie, N. V., widow.
74 Clayton, Mary, N. Y., spinster, and Samuel Plumb, wag-
goner, in His Majesty's Royal Artillery.
74 Clendenny, Elinor, N. Y., spinster, and Thomas Dixon, N. Y.
75 Cock, Isaac, N. Y., merchant, and Elizabeth Seaman, N. Y.,
spinster.
^^ Coffey, Catherine, N. Y., widow, and Charles Keeling, N. Y.,
mariner.
^^ Coile, James, N. Y., mariner, and Eleanor Cairns, N. Y.,
widow.
^^ Colden, Cadwallader, Jr., of the County of Ulster, Gentle-
man, and Christian Griffith, N. Y., spinster.
^^ for Cole, Elizabeth, and Stephen Thorn, read Coles, Eliza-
beth, Queens County, spinster, and Stephen Thorne,
N. Y.
78 for Cole, Sarah, and John Sloan, read Cole, Sarah, N. Y.,
spinster, and John Sloane, N. Y.
78 (insert) 1779, Aug. 2, Coles, Elizabeth, Queens County,
spinster, and Stephen Thorne, N. Y.
79 Collard, Mary, Westchester County, spinster, and Nicholas
Perdue Olding, Ensign in the Loyal American Regiment.
79 for 1783, Oct. 21, read 1782, Oct. 21, Collin, Hannah, N.Y.,
widow, and John Barratt, Mariner on Board His Majesty's
Ship the Lyon.
79 Collins, Jemime, N. Y., spinster, and James Carter, N. Y.,
taylor.
79 Collins, John, Esq., of His Majesty's Ship Camilla, and
Sarah Watson, N. Y., spinster.
79 Collins, Margaret, N. Y., spinster, and Greggs Parish, As-
sistant Commissary to His Majesty's Army.
79 Collins, Mary, N. Y., spinster, and Hugh Hays, N. Y.,
mariner.
80 Collit, Sarah, N. Y., spinster, and James H. Pettit, N. Y.,
mariner.
80 Colvin, John, N. Y., and Elinor Bryan, N. Y., widow.
81 for Concklin, Rachel, and Joseph Pearly, read Concklin,
Rachel, N. Y., and Joseph Fairley, Out Ward, N. Y., farmer.
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PAGB
81 Conn, James, N. Y., and Phebe Stout, N. Y., spinster.
82 Connell, Mary, N. Y., widow, and David Buchanan, N. Y.
83 Cook, Ann, N. Y., spinster, and Peter Stewart, N. Y.,
mariner.
83 (insert) 1777, July 7, Cony or Corry, Francis, Soldier 44th
Regiment, and Catherine Hopton, same regiment, spinster.
83 Cook, William, of the Out Ward, N. Y., taylor, and Elinor
Devoe, same place, widow.
84 Cooper, John, N. Y., mariner, and Jane Van Zant, N. Y.,
spinster.
84 Cooper, John, late of Somerset in New Jersey, but now of
Morrisania, County of West Chester, yeoman, and Mary
Stringham, late of Orange County, but now of N. Y.,
spinster.
84 (insert) 1775, Feb. 15. Cooper, Joseph, N. Y., silversmith,
and Rachel Martin, N. Y., spinster.
84 Cooper, Nathaniel, N. Y., merchant, and Jane Turner, N. Y.,
widow.
84 Corback, Elizabeth, N. Y., widow, and Nicholas Lackman,
N. Y., sugar baker.
85 Corne, Elizabeth, N. Y., spinster, and Charles De Giron-
wurt. Lieutenant in the Hessian Artillery of His Majesty's
Army.
85 Cornell, Elizabeth, N. Y., spinster, and William Bayard. Jr.,
N. Y., merchant.
86 Cornell, Susannah, N. Y., spinster, and Henry Chads, Esq.,
of His Majesty's Navy.
87 Corry, or Cony, Francis, soldier in the 44th Regiment, and
Catherine Hopton of same regiment, spinster.
88 Cosser, Catharine, N. Y., spinster, and Thomas Lawson,
Queen's County, schoolmaster, married Oct. 9, 1775, by
Rev. Samuel Auchmuty.
88 for Cotheret, John, and Elizabeth Timen, read Cotheres or
Cotheras (written both ways), John, N. Y., gardiner, and
Elizabeth Timen, N. Y., widow.
90 Cozens, Mary, N. Y., spinster, and John McFall, N. Y.,
mariner.
93 Cronin, Tady, N. Y., baker, and Catharine Wilcocks, N. Y.,
widow.
93 for 1789, Oct. 7, read 1779, Oct. 7, Crosbey, John, N. Y.,
and Rebecca Kelly, Queens County, Spinster.
93 Crosby, George, N. Y., cooper, and Martha Stevens, N. Y.,
spinster.
94 Crossley, Elizabeth, N. Y., spinster, and Nicholas Flinn,
N. Y., baker.
94 Cumming, James, N. Y., and Mary Williams, N. Y., spinster.
95 for 1775, Dec. 12, read Dec. 13. Cummins, Margaret,
Queens County, spinster, and James Hanrahan, Great
Neck, Queens Countv, schoolmaster. Married Dec. 13,
1775, by Rev. Samuel Auchmuty.
288 ^^^ ^o^^ Marriage Licenses, [July
rAGX
95 Cunard, Robert, N. Y., housecarpenter, and Elizabeth
Travis, N. Y., spinster.
95 for Curtis, Etfee, and Isaac Atkins, read Curtis, Effee, of
the Manor on Staten Island, widow, and Isaac Atken,
N. Y., baker.
96 Cyrus, Lidia, N. Y., spinster, and Joseph Mott, N. Y.,
butcher.
96 (insert) 1781, May 15, Daare, John, N. Y., merchant, and
Mary Roach, N. Y., spinster.
96 Dailey, Owen, N. Y., cordwainer, and Sarah Lavarrah, N.
Y., spinster.
97 Dalton, John, N. Y., Surgeon, and Hannah Brasher, N. Y.,
spinster.
97 Danils, James, Staten Island, Richmond County, cord-
wainer, and Jane Degroat, same place, spinster.
97 Darby, Daniel, N. Y., mariner, and Elizabeth Branson, N.
Y., spinster.
97 Date, Samuel, N. Y., mariner, and Sarah Wheat, N. Y.,
spinster.
98 Davis, Ann, N. Y., widow, and Peter McLean, N. Y., cord-
wainer.
99 Davis, Sarah, N. Y., spinster, and Thomas Hanly, N. Y.,
mariner.
100 Dean, Bridget, N. Y., widow, and James Hallett, N. Y.,
coachmaker.
100 (insert) 1774, July 22, Dean, Hannah, N. Y., spinster, and
Paul Hick, N. Y., cordwainer.
100 Deas, John, Sergeant of the Royal Regiment of Artillery
and Rosana Taylor, of the same Regiment, widow.
102 for Deere, John, and Mary Roach, read Daare, John, N. Y.,
merchant, and Mary Roach, N. Y., spinster (as above).
103 De Givonwurt, Charles, Lieutenant in the Hessian Artillery
of His Majesty's Army, and Elizabeth Corne N. Y.,
spinster.
103 De Grey, Hannah, N. Y., spinster, and Littleton Ford, N. Y.
103 Degroat, Jane, Staten Island, Richmond County, spinster,
and James Danils, same place, cordwainer.
104 De Keller, Frederick, First Lieutenant in the First Regi-
ment of Anspachs, and Catherine Grim, N. Y., spinster.
105 De Lamontagnie, Mary, N., Y., widow, and John Amory,
N. Y., whipmaker.
106 for Dellat, Ann, and William Lamarate, read Dellat, Ann,
N. Y., widow, and William Lamarath, N. Y., shipwright.
(MS. license, **The reason of this certificate being given
Mr. Bayard being at present out of town and no Lycence
by him signed. To whom it may concern." William
Kirby, Clerk, Secretary's Office).
106 De Milt, Isaac, N. Y., cordwainer, and Elizabeth Gordon,
N. Y.. spinster.
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PAGB
108 De Pertuis, Estienne, late of Bar in France, at present of
N. Y., and Teresia Piquet, N. Y., spinster.
109 for Desbrosses, Mary Ann, and Joseph Waddington, read
Desbrosses, Mary Ann, N. Y., spinster, and Joshua
Waddington, N. Y., merchant
109 Devereux, Margaret, Brooklyn in Kings County, spinster,
and John Morrel, same place, carpenter.
no Devoe, Elinor, of the Out Ward, N. Y., widow, and William
Cook, same place,
no (insert) 1774, ftlarch 23, Devoe, Frances, N. Y., widow, and
James Nevin, N. Y., cooper,
no De Voe, Lettice, N. Y„ spinster, and Abel Buell, of the
Colony of Connecticut, jeweller.
no (insert) 1775, Feb. 14, De Voe, Sarah, N. Y., spinster, and
John Sanxay, N. Y., mariner,
no Devoor, Affey, N. Y., spinster, and Alexander Stephens,
N. Y., mariner,
no Devoor, Alley, N. Y., spinster, and William Adam, N. Y.,
mariner.
112 Dingey, Elizabeth, N. Y., spinster, and Richard Edwards,
N. Y., yeoman.
112 Dixon, Thomas, N. Y., and Elinor Clendenny, N. Y., spinster.
113 Dobbs, George, N. Y., and Ruth Marks, N. Y., spinster.
114 Donnell, Simon, and Mary Noe, N. Y., spinster.
114 Doty, Abigail, Queens County, spinster, and William
Mitchell, same place.
115 Doughty, William, N. Y., yeoman, and Catharine Parkin-
son, N. Y., widow.
117 Driscoll, Elizabeth, late of the 57th Regiment, widow, and
George Morrisson, matross in the Royal Artillery.
( To be continued^
ALBERTSON BIBLE RECORDS.
Copied by Hopper Striker Mott.
Record taken from a Bible owned by Mrs. Harry Clay Blye,
200 West 70th Street (oflSce address 143 Liberty Street), daughter
Edward Tenner Swords and Jemima Striker. Printed at Am-
sterdam by Joanes Kannewet, 17 18, initialled on the silver clasp
'•R. D. G." (Rebecca de Grove).
Derrick Albertson was b. Sept. the 12 day in the year of our
Lord 1706, my wife Rebeckah Albertson was born Feby the 15
day in the year of Our Lord 1706.
Derick Albertson was married to his wife Rebeckah Albert-
son the 18th day of June in the year of our Lord 1730.
290 Gravenraet, [Jaly
M7 oldest daughter Rachel Albertson was born on the 19th
day of Sept. and was baptized the 8th day of Oct all in the year
of our Lord 1732, the sureties is Peter Degrove and Rachel de
Grove.
My second daughter Ann Albertson was b. the loth day of
July and baptized the loth day of Aug. all in the year of our
Lord 1734, the sureties is Derick Albertson and Blaner Bissit.
My son Derick Albertson was b. June the 7 day and was bap-
tized in the Dutch Church in N. Y. all in the year of our Lord
1736 and his sureties was Peter de Grove, Joost Goederus and
Mary Bissit.
My third dau. Rebeckah Albertson was b. Nov. the 4th day
and was baptized all in the year of our Lord 1738, her sureties is
Derick Albertson and Rebeckah Albertson.
My twins Daniel and Mary Albertson were b. Feb. the 12 dav
of our Lord 1 740/1, the sureties to their baptism was Derick &
Rebeckah Albertson & Dorothy Anderson.
My son Adolph Albertson was born Jan. 25 day 1743/2 and
died 30 Jan., 1743/4.
My son John Albertson was b. March ye loth, 1745.
GRAVENRAET.*
Contributed by Rev. C. H. B. Turner, Waycross, Ga.
[Translation.]
Copy: — Extract from the register of betrothmeuts (of the
Church) from May 12*^, 1651-May 4*\ 1652. (No. 469 of the series
of books of baptisms, marriages and deaths.)
March 9***, Anno 1652.
Appeared (before the Commissaries of marriage matters)
Abraham Greverae{d)t of Amsterdam, 27 years of age, assisted
by his father Hendrick Grevenra{d)t living in the corner house
of the " Barndesteegh " (a street in the neighborhood of the
archives building), and Maria Heemskerch of Amsterdam, 18
years of a^e, assisted by her father Poulus Heemskerch, living
on the "Nieuwendyk" (the Newditch, now the street of our
large shops).
Requesting their three Sunday proclamations in the Church.
Signature, Abraham Grevenraedt.
" Marrya Heemskerch.
* These data have been received from P. J. Kapleyn, Archivist, of Amster-
dam, Holland, who states that the original name of this New York family was
Gref rath and the description of their coat-of-arms is: '' D'Azur k trois membres
d'aigle d'or, less serres en bas."
1915.] Gravenraet, 29 1
Algemeen Nederlandsch Familieblad^ VIII Jaargang, 1891.
{General Family Newspaper^ Vlllth Year, 1891.)
Page 231.
Septemb. 8th came at Brielle (or den Briel) from Sotntnelsdijk:
Nicasius Pieterszoon van Greveraerdt & Hillegond Daniels
his wife; he was a wine merchant.
Their children were:
Margrieta, bapt. Dec. 8th, 1647.
Anna, bapt. Apr. 93d, 165 1.
July 28th, 167a, came at Brielle from Oude Tonge: Elisabeth van
Grevenraert.
Oct. 17th, 1673, she married Dirck Friese (or Prese) Uyttersen.
Their children were:
Hillegond, bapt. Novemb. 20th, 1676; witnes".: Daniel
& Margar. v. Greveraert.
Hillegond, bapt. Octob. 25th, 1678; witnes".: Daniel &
Margar. v. Greveraert.
April 19th, 1672, married at Brielle, Daniel v. Greveraer, bom at
Brielle, Schoolmaster at Oude Tonge & Catharina van
Kerchem, living at Brielle.
Their children were:
Cornelia, bapt. July 2d, 1673; witnes*.: Gerrit van
Kerchem & Cath. Duyst.
Hillegond, bapt. Sept. 20th, 1675; wits'.: Dirck de Frise
& Hillegond Daniels.
Hillegond, bapt. January 6th, 1677; wits*.: Mr. Dirck
de Friese & Hillegond Daniels.
Gerrit, bapt. July 14, 1680; wits".: Elizabeth van der
Wiel.
Ambrosius, bapt. Oct. loth, 1683; wits".: Elizabeth
Mortons.
Johanna, bapt. Augs. 5th, 1687; wit".: Margaretha van
Greveraet.
Augs. i6th, 1678, married at Brielle, Margaretha van Greveraerd
& Mels Jansz. van Heesteren. He died October, 1685.
May i6th, 1687, Margaretha v. Greveraerd, widow of Mels Jansze
van Heesteren, married Barent Cleyburg.
General Family Newspaper^ Vth Year, 1888.
Book of Baptism in Brasil,
Page 228.
March 2d, 1644. Bapt Elizabeth, daughter of Comelis v. d. Venne»
Janneken Grevenraet. Wits".: Samuel van Gansepoel, Elis-
abeth Grevenraet.
Page 255.
Febr. 8, 1645. Bapt. Johannes, son of Caspar Van Heussen, Geer-
truydt Hacks. Wits".: Matthys Becks, Jan van Hoom, Joan-
na Grevenraet.
292 Early Settlers of Wat Farms, Westchester County, N. Y. [July
Page 38.
Febr. 30th, 1650. Bapt. Jacobus, son of Samuel van Gansepoel
Pauline van der Venne. Wits": The Fiscal le Maire Eliza-
beth von Dortmont instead of the Widow of Guilleaume
Grevenraed.
Page 75.
Decemb. nth, 165 1. Bapt. Mana Elisabeth, daughter of Jacob
le Maire, Catharine van der Venne. Wits'.: Samuel van
Gansepoel, Elizabeth Grevent/aet(!).
Married in Amsterdam (all before 1630).
Carstiaen Greveraet & Tryn. Omna.
Heinrich. Grevenraet & Lysbeth Huyberts.
Jan Grevenraet & Griet Dirca.
Guilleaume Grevenraet & Aldegonde Bonaerts (parents of Ab-
raham).
Tjerch van Grevenraet & Tannetje Roelants.
Cornelis van der Venne & Janneken Grevenraet (who went to
America).
EARLY SETTLERS OF WEST FARMS, WESTCHESTER
COUNTY, N. Y.
Copied from the manuscript record of the late Rev. Theodorb A. Leggbtt
by A. Hatfield, Jr.
(CoDtinned from Vol. XL VI, p. 188, of the Record.)
175. Rev. John Haviland* Leggett (John H.,* John,* John,'
John,* Gabriel*), born New York, May 28, 1800; died May 31,
1873; married May 19, 1824, Mary Noel Bleecker, born June 15,
1805; died July 28, 1887. Mary Noel (Bleecker) Leggett was a
daughter of Alexander,* Bleecker (Anthony Lispenard,* James,'
Rutger,* Jan Jansen*) and his wife Frances Wade.
Children 12 (Leggett), 5 sons, 7 daughters:
4-372 i. John Haviland,' b. Aug. 8, 1825; d. Nov. 27, 1858; m.
Catharine F. Ryer.
373 ii. Frances Wade, b. Dec. 6, 1826; d. ; unm.
+374 "!• Edward Henry, b. March 18, 1829; d. Feb. 17, 1862;
m. Mary C. Randall.
+375 iv. Mary Bleecker, b. March 19, 1831; d. ; m. Elias
A. Woodward.
376 V. Elizabeth b. June 8, 1833; d. March 23, 1889; unm.
377 vi. Alexander Bleecker, b. Feb. ii, 1836; d. ; m.
Dec. 28, 1865, Charlina Everson.
+378 vii. Anna, b. March 11, 1838; d. ; m. John Sharp.
379 viii. Gertrude, b. April 14, 1840; d. June 25, 1903; m.
Charles B. Stirling.
380 ix. Alice, b. Jan. 18, 1842; d. July 12, 1844.
1915] Early Settlirs of West Farms, Westchester County, N, Y. 293
+381 X. William, b. March la, 1844; d. ; m. Maria A.
Carman.
+382 xi. Theodore A. (Rev.) b. Dec. 20, 1845; d. Nov. 25, 1906;
m. Anna F. Dwight.
383 xii. Harriet Black well, b. Dec. 30, 1847; d. at Middletown,
N. Y., Sept. 2, 1856.
Authorities:
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett
177. Caroline Augusta* Leggett (John H.* John,* John,' John,"
Gabrier), born March 25, 1805; died Aug. 4, 1879; married March
20, 1828, Rev. Richard Cnnningham Shimeall, born March 15,
1803, died March 19. 1874.
Children 8 (Shimeall), 2 sons and 6 daughters:
384 i. Gertrude L.,' b. Tan. 31, 1829; d. ; m. April 26,
1865, W. R. C. Latson, and has: William K. C, b.
March 17, 1866; Gertrude A., b. April 7, 1868;
George C, b. Dec. 29, 1871.
385 ii. Richard C, b. Aug. 9, 1830; d. Sept. 15, 1902; m.
Sept. 3, 1856, Harriet E. Perry, and had: Hattie
Albertina,* b. Sept. 16, 1858; Emeline, b. Jan. 13,
1870; Henry R., b. Aug. 6, 1873.
386 iii. Caroline Augusta, b. Jan. 6, 1832; d. , 1900; m.
James W. Waite.
387 iv. Mary Clinton, b. Feb. 2, 1834; d. ; m. Jan. 13,
1869, Frank Timpson, and has: Violette, b. Oct. 9,
1869; John R., b. Nov. 17, 1872; Eliza M., b. Nov.
5. 1875.
388 V. Sarah Duncan, b. Aug. 4, 1836; d. ; m. .
389 vi. Catharine Gansevoort, b. Oct. 14, 1839; d. ; m.
Feb. 20, 1867, Edward Wier, and has a daughter
Kate Augusta, b. March 25, 1870.
390 vii. George Clinton, b. April 16, 1842; d. ; m. May
8, 1880, Georgie Spears.
391 viii. Anna Georgiana, b. Dec. 22, 1847; d. ; m. July
, 1901, John B. M. Bennett.
Authorities:
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
178. Anna Georgina* Leggett (John H.,* John,* John,' John,*
Gabriel*), born June 13, 1806; died Dec. 30, 1876; married Nov. 5,
1834, Charles RadclifEe.
Children 2 (Radcliffe), i son and i daughter:
392 i. Mary,' b. ; d. young.
393 ii. Herman Gansevoort, b. ; d. young, about 1861-65.
AUTHOKITIES:
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
183. Catharine Ann Gansevoort* Leggett (John H.,* John,*
John,* Joha,* Gabriel*), bom Dec. 21, 1818; died Aug. 8, 1879;
married Nov. 27, 1844, Cornelius Nagel, bom Dec. — , 1797, died
Nov. 5, 1870.
Children 2 (Nagel), daughters:
19
294 ^^^^y S$UUrs of W$st Farms, WesUhesUr County, N. Y. [July
394 i. Gertrude/ b. Feb. 7, 1846; d. ; m. J. C. C. H.
Boon, no issue.
395 ii. Cornelia, b. Sept. 15, 1854; d. ; m. June 14, 1885,
John Reinecke Bleecker, no issue.
AuTHOKmss:
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett
184. Gertrude Quackenbos* Leggett (John H.,* John,* John,'
John* Gabriel*), born March 20, 1823; died ; married (i),
June 16, 1846, John J. Lasher; married (2), July 11, 1866, J.
Bullocke (?) (The Quackenbos genealogy, & N. Y. Gen. Record,
V. 25, p, 133, state that her second husband was John H. Nicklay,
who died in 1879.)
Have no record of any children.
AuTHosmss:
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
New York Genealogical Record, v. 25, p. 20, ct scq.
195. Jane* Leggett (Abraham,* Ezekiel,* William,* William,*
Gabriel'), born Jan. 29, 1795; ^^^^ \ married April 22, 1820,
Thomas Horton.
Children 6 (Horton), 4 sons, and 2 daughters:
396 i. Deborah L.,* b. ; d. ; m. Daniel Mangam,
and had: Susan, Dora, Daniel, William, and Ella.
397 ii. Abby Jane, b. ; d. ; m. Buckby.
398 iii. Sylvester, b. ; d. ; m .
399 iv. Floyd, b. ; d. ; m. .
400 V. Beniah, b. ; d. ; m. . His wife and the
wife of his brother Sylvester were sisters.
401 vi. Caleb, b ; d. ; m. .
Authorities:
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
196. James W.,* Leggett (Abraham,* Ezekiel,* William,* William,*
Gabriel*), born Jan. 16, 1797; died . He married (i), June 10,
1819, but his first wife's name has not been recorded; married (2),
Susan Requa.
Children 5 (Leggett), 3 sons, and 2 daughters:
(by his first wife)
402 i. Abraham,* b. ; d. ; m. .
403 ii. Rachel Anne, b. ; d. ; m. Rackett.
(by 2nd wife)
404 iii. Josephine, b. ; d. ; m. Pettie.
4-405 iv. Samuel, b. ; d. ; m. Rebecca Lockwood.
406 V. William, b. ; d. ; m. .
Authorities :
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
Records furnished by Mrs. Corneha Leggett Hatfield.
200. Abraham* Leggett (Abraham,* Ezekiel,* William,* Will-
iam,* Gabriel*), born June 2, 1805; died Sept. i, 1878. He married
Sarah Lee, born Feb. 14, 1807; died April 23, 1876; daughter of
Richard Lee and Hannah Stokes.
IQISJ Early Settlers of West Farms, Westchester County, N.Y. 295
Children 11 (Leggett), 8 sons and 3 daugbteis:
407 i. Caroline Sarah/ b. June 15, 1830; d. in infancy.
+408 ii. Richard Lee, b. Dec. 26, 1831; d. ; m. Clara Cox.
+409 iii. William Abraham, b. Sept. 5, 1833; living 1915; m.
Margaret Berthenia Barmore.
410 iv. Edward Henry, b. Feb. 23, 1836; d. Oct. — , 1876; no
issue.
+411 V. Caroline Hannah, b. March 22, 1838; living 1915; m.
Henry C. Whitmarsh.
+412 vi. Francis Howard, b. March 27, 1840; d. ; m. (i),
Anna E. Stokes, m. (2), Mrs. Bessie McLeod Stur-
ges.
+413 vii. Cornelia Colgate, b. Nov. 3, 1841; living 1915; m.
Abraham Hatfield.
414 viii. James Frederick, b. Oct. 25, 1843; d. ; no issue.
+415 ix. Alfred Stokes, b. Oct. 25, 1845; d. , 1876; m.
Mary Harbison.
+416 X. Theodore A., b. Sept. 10, 1847; d. ,1883; m.
Mary E. McCoun.
417 xi. Clinton Gilbert, b. Aug. 15, 1851; d. ; no issue.
Authorities :
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
Family Bible Records.
201. Isaac* Leggett (Abraham/ Ezekiel,* William,* William,*
Gabriel*), born June 2, 1805; (twin brother with the preceding),
died Feb. 20, 1841. He married Sarah Ann Swain, born ,
died about 1885.
Children 5 (Leggett), 2 sons, and 3 daughters:
418 i. Eveline*, b. ; d. ; unm.
419 ii. Isabel, b. ; d. ; m. Edward Nurse.
420 iii. Sarah, b. ; d. ; unm.
421 iv. George W., b. ; d. ; m. Julia Stokes.
422 V. Isaac R., b. ; d. ; m. .
Will of Sarah Ann Leggett, widow of Isaac, dated Sept. 7,
1872, proved Jan. 12, 1886. names daughters, Eveline, Sarah lane,
sons, George W., and Isaac R., daughter Isabella, wife of
Nurse.
Authorities :
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
New York Surrogate's Office. Wills. Liber 358, p. 429.
206. John N.* L£ggett (Abraham,* Ezekiel,* William,* Will-
iam,* Gabriel*), born Nov. 2, 1815; died ; married Dec. 31,
1839, Augusta Wheeler.
Children 4 (Leggett) 3 sons, and i daughter:
423 i. Henry,' b. ; d. ; m. .
424 ii. Sophia, b. ; d. ; m. .
425 iii. John, b. ; d. ; m. .
426 iv. Mead, b. ; d. ; m. .
Authorities :
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
296 Early Settlers of West Farms. WestchesUr County, N. V. [July
243. Thomas H.* Leggett, Jun. (Thomas H.,* Joseph/ Thomas,'
GabrieV GabrielM, born May 14, 1828; died ; married Feb.
i4> i^55> Hannah H. Hoag, daughter of Lindley M. and Hannah
Hoacr, of Wolfburg, Carroll Co., N. H.
No record of any children has been found.
AUTHORITiBS:
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
Friends' Records, New York City.
249. Reuben* Leggett (Reuben,* Joseph,* Thomas,* Gabriel,*
Gabrier), born Feb. 2, 181 7; died Sept. 13, 1866; married Feb. 26,
185 1, Anna Maria Ogden, daughter of Charles Ogden and Anna
Maria Wade.
Children 3 (Leggett), daughters:
427 i. Alida,* b. ; d. ; m. AUerton.
428 ii. Esther, b. ; d. ; m. .
429 iii. Anna, b. ; d. ; m. .
Authorities:
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
251. Esther* Leggett (Reuben,* Joseph,* Thomas,* Gabriel,*
Gabriel*), born ; died April 16, 1849. She married Mav 10,
1837, Jonn GrifEen, son of John and Esther Griffen, of New York.
John Griffen married (2) his first wife's sister, Mary Elizabeth
Leggett (see no. 253 following.)
Children 4 (Griffen), 2 sons and 2 daughters:
430 i. Mary L.,^ b. ; d. ; m. at Phoenixville,
Chester Co., Pa., May 12, 1858, Wyatt W. Miller, of
Safe Harbor, Pa., son of Josiah and Hetty H.
Miller.
Esther H., b. Aug. 5, 1840; d. Sept. s, 1841.
Henry S., b. May 5, 1842; d. Sept. 27, 1844.
Robert N., b. Sept. 13, 1844; d. Sept. 7, 1867.
Authorities:
Familv Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
Friends* Records, New York City.
253. Mary Elizabeth* Leggett (Reuben,* Joseph,* Thomas,*
Gabriel,* Gabriel*), born Aug. 23, 1826; d. . She married, as
his second wife, March 3, 185 1, John Griffen whose first wife was
her sister Esther.
Children 4 (Griffen), 2 sons and 2 daughters:
434 i. Esther,^ b. Jan. 24, 1852; d. ; m. .
435 ii. George S., b. Jan. 11, 1854; d. ; m. .
436 iii. Clara R., b. Sept. 28, 1855; d. June 26, 1857.
437 iv. Henry R., b. Aug. 23, 1857; d. ; m. .
In the marriage record of John Griffen and Mary E. Leggett,
he is recorded as living in Safe Harbor, Pa., and in 1858, when
Mary L. Griffen (^no. 430) his daughter by first wife, Esther, was
married, he was living at Pleasantville, Pa., but the births of the
four children by his second wife, Mary E. were all recorded in
the New York City Friends' record.
43 »
11.
432
iii.
433
iv.
1915.] Early SeUUrs of West Farms, Westchester County, N. Y. 297
Authorities:
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
Fricnas' Records, New York City.
354. Mortimer Dormer* Leggett (Isaac/ Charles* Isaac,* Gab-
riel,* Gabriel*), born at Danby, near Ithaca, Tompkins Co., N. Y.,
April 19, 1821; died ?X Cleveland, O., Jan. 6, 1896. He married,
^i), July 9, 1844, Marilla Wells, who died in 1876, daughter of
Absalom and Marilla Wells, of Montville, O.; (2). in 1879, Weltha
Post, daughter of H. L. and Sylvia Post of Sandusky, O.
Children 5 (Leggett), 4 sons and i daughter:
(by first wife^
438 i. (a daughter),' b. ; living, 1896; m. H. A. Sey-
mour.
439 ii. (a son), b. ; d. in infancy.
439a iii. Mortimer, b. ; d. 1873, while a student at
Cornell University.
439b iv. Wells W., b. ; d. , 1892; m. .
439c V. Leverett L., b. ; d. ,1894; m. .
General Mortimer D. Leggett removed with his father Isaac*
Leggett from Ithaca, N. Y. to Montville, Geauga Co., O. in 1836,
and settled on a farm there. Mortimer remained there until he
was 18 years of age, then went to Kirtland Seminary, where he
graduated the first of his class; later he studied law at Western
Reserve University, and was admitted to the bar in 1844. The
same year he received the degree of M. D. from Willoughby
Medical College. He was greatly interested in the problem of
free graded schools and in 1846 went to Akron, where he estab-
lished the first free graded school system west of the Alleghanies.
In 1857 he removed to Zanesville, where he practiced law for
several years.
At the outbreak of the Civil War Gen. Leggett went with
Gen. McClellan to West Va., later raised the 78th Ohio Vol.
re|^iment, and served with distinction throughout the war, re-
ceiving the commission of Major-general in 1865. After the war
he resumed the practice of law, was appointed Commissioner of
Patents in 1 87 1, resigned in 187^, and removed to Cleveland,
where he resided the rest of his life. He was one of the organ-
izers of the Brush Electric Co. and served as president of that
company until 1884. His son Leverett L. Leggett who died
about two years before his father, was engaged with him in the
practice of patent law for several years before his death.
Authorities :
National Cyclopadia of American Biography, vol. 2, p. 350.
Notable Americans, vol. 6.
Aopleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography,
Cleveland Herald, Jan. 7. 1896.
Family record of Rev. T. A. Leggett
287. Abraham W.* Leggett (Abraham,* Isaac,* Thomas,* Gab-
riel,* Gabriel*), born Sept. 15, 1814; resided in New York City;
died Dec. 6. 1899. He married July 13, 1840, Phebe Briggs, born
May 4, 1816, daughter of Philip H. Briggs and Phebe Ryer.
19A
298 Early Settlers of Wtst Farms, WesUhester County. N. V. [July
Children 5 (Leggett), 3 sons and 2 daughters:
440 1. Henry/ b. Jan. 20, 1841; d. May 6, 1841.
+441 ii. Frederick William, b. April 20, 1842; d. Oct. 16,
1909; m. Mary E. Freeman.
+442 iii. Emma B., b- July 15, 1845; d- Nov. 22, 1875; m. Isaac
Sherwood Coffin.
443 iv. Anna, b. July 30, 1849; d. Nov. 26, 1857.
+444 V. Edgar A., b. Aug. 5, 1854; d. ; m. Marie Louise
Duyckinck.
Authorities:
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
Family Record of John Leggett.
Briggs, S., Descendants of Walter Brings of Westchester Co., N. Y. p. 381.
288. Mary F.* Leggett (Abraham/ Isaac,* Thomas,* Gabriel,*
Gabrier), born Nov. 13, 1818; died March 28, 1885; married Sept.
3, 1838; Charles F. Swain, born Sept. 13, 1806; died Jan. 3, 1896.
Children 2 (Swain), i son and i daughter:
445 i. Charles Eugene,' b. Jan. 6, 1840; d. Sept. 28, 1883;
m. .
446 ii. Maria Louisa, b. Jan. 6, 1842; d. Jan. 26, 1900;
m. .
Authorities:
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett
Family Record of John Leggett.
289. Maria W.* Leggett (Abraham,* Isaac,* Thomas,* Gabriel,*
Gabriel*), born Aug. 26, 1820; died Jan. 6, 1853; married Sept. 7,
1842, Zebulon W. Mott, born Sept. 11, 1818; died Jan. i, 1903; son
of William Mott and Sarah Merritt.
Children 3 (Mott), 2 sons and i daughter:
447 i. Frederick,' b. Sept. 28, 1843; d. Feb. 13, 1848.
448 ii. Mary Louisa, b. March 13, 1848; d. ; m. Tune 18,
1873, Eugene Russell, b. Aug. 31, 1846, and had a
son William Mott Russell, b. Feb. 16, 1875.
449 iii. William, b. Jan. 16. 1850; d. ; m. .
Authorities:
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
Family Record of John Leggett.
292. Joseph B.* Leggett (Abraham,* Isaac,* Thomas,* Gabriel,*
Gabriel*), born Jan. 14, 1828; died at Dickinson, Galveston Co.,
Texas, July 25, 1894. He was married at Holy Trinity Church,
Brooklyn, Nov. 27, 1867, to Alice E. Marks, born Feb. 13, 1847.
Children 3 (Leggett), 2 sons and i daughter:
450 i. Harry A.' b. Oct. 19, 1868; d. Aug. 8, 1869.
451 ii. Estelle, b. Aug. 10, 1870; d. ; m. June 21, 1898,
Hallock R. Maine, b. April 23, 1865; d. June 13,
1902, and had a son Hallock A., b. July 25, 1899.
452 iii. Arthur, b. Aug. 4, 1872; d. June 7, 1891.
Authorities:
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
Family Record of John Leggett.
1915.] Early Settlers of West Farms, Westchester County, N. Y. 299
319. Mary E.* Leggett (Samuel/ Thomas/ Thomas/ Gabriel/
Gabriel*), born ; died ; married Nov. 12, 1823, in New
York City, Barney Corse, born about 1800, died at Flushing, N. Y.
March 8, 1878; son of Israel Corse and his ist wife Lydia (Troth)
Corse.
Children 6 (Corse), 3 sons and 3 daughters:
453 i. Samuel L.' b. Sept. 5, 1824; d. Sept. 13, 1844.
454 ii. William L., b. April i, 1827; d. ; m. ; and
had: Frederick A., Samuel L., Israel, Edward L.,
William L.
455 iii. Eliza L., b. Dec. 28, 1829; d. ; m. Saunders,
and had: Rodman, Florence.
456 iv. Mary Lydia, b. March 11, 1833; d. Jan. 21, 1837.
457 V. Cornelia, b. Aug. 15, 1836; d. '; m. .
458 vi. Frederick Augustus, b. Oct. 11, 1840; d. ; m. .
Authorities:
Friends* Records, New York City.
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
320. William Fox* Leggett (Samuel,* Thomas,* Thomas,* Gab-
riel,* GabrieP), bom ; died ; married about 1833, Sarah
C. Hull, born March 18, 1810; died July 27, 1876, aged 66
years, 4 months, 9 days; daughter of Wager and Elizabeth Hull.
Children 8 (Leggett), 2 sons and 6 daughters:
459 i. Margaret,^ b. Nov. 14, 1834; d. June 6, 1851.
460 ii. Caroline H., b. Jan. 30, 1836; d. April 7, 1867; m.
Mitchell.
461 iii. Elizabeth, b. Nov. 2, 1837; d. ; m. Mills.
462 iv. William F., Jr., b. April 12, 1839; d. ; m. .
463 V. Sarah Hull, b. Feb. i, 1843; d. ; m. March 13,
1886, John Comegys Emory, son of Stuart R. and
Anna Emory.
464 vi. Louisa, b. May 24, 1845; d. ; m. Ransom.
465 vii. Charlotte S., b. March 24, 1847; d. Aug. 7, 1849.
466 viii. Samuel, b. Sept. 15, 1848; d. Aug. 6, 1849.
Authorities:
Friends' Records, New York City.
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
321. Charlotte Fox* Leggett (Samuel,* Thomas,* Thomas,*
Gabriel,* Gabriel*), bom ; died June — , 1888; married June
9, 1841, William H. Schermerhorn, bom Jan. 11, 1812, died Oct. 14,
1890, son of John P. Schermerhorn and his wife Rebecca H.
Stevens.
Children 2 (Schermerhom), i son and i daughter:
467 i. Louis,* b. July 26. 1842; d. ; m. Hannah Ricker.
467A ii. Mary E., b. Nov. 16, 1844; d. Aug. 12, 1848.
468 iii. Charlotte T., b. Aug. 5, 1849; d- ; °i- •
Authorities:
Friends' Records, New York City.
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
Schermerhorn, R., Jr. Schermerhom Genealogy, p. 175.
300 Early Sf tilers of West Farms. Westchester County. N. Y. [July
323. Rebecca* Leggett (Samuel/ Thomas,* Thomas,* Gabriel,*
Gabriel*), b. ; d. ; m. Thomas S. Willets.
Children 4 (Willets), 2 sons and 2 daughters:
469 i. Anna,* b. ; d. ; m. Townsend.
470 ii. Thomas S., b. ; d. ; m. .
471 iii. Eliza L., b. ; d. ; m. .
472 iv. S. Clinton, b. ; d. ; m. .
Authorities:
Friends* Records, of New York City,
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
325. Samuel* Leggett (Samuel/ Thomas/ Thomas,* Gabiiel,*
Gabriel*), born New York, Sept. 10, 1827; died ; married Ann
Eliza .
Children 5 (Leggett), 2 sons and 3 daughters:
473 i. Linda,* b. ; d. ; m. .
474 ii. Clarence P., b. ; d. ; m. , and had: Mary
Elizabeth, who married, Jan. 29, 1902, Edward
Howard Dodd.
475 iii. Mary, b. ; d. ; m. Swain.
476 iv. Emma. b. ; d. ; m. .
477 V. George, b. ; d. ; m. .
Authorities:
Friends* Records, New York City.
Family Record of Rev. T. A Leggett
326. James Shaw* Leggett (Joseph/ Thomas/ Thomas,* Gab-
riel,* Gabriel*), born New York, Sept. 14, 1809: died ; married.
(No record of his wife's name or parentage has been found.)
Children 3 (Leggett), i son and 2 daughters:
478 i. George P.,^ b. ; d. ; m. .
479 ii. Elizabeth, b. d. ; m. .
480 iii. Isabel, b. ; d. ; m. .
AuTHoarriEs:
Friends* Records, New York City.
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
329. Mary Haight* Leggett (Joseph,* Thomas/ Thomas/ Gab-
riel/ Gabriel*), born New York, July 17, 18 13; diedjuly 21, 1849.
She married in New York, April 9, 1840, Lewis W. Sturtevant,
of Boston, bom Dec. 10, 18 11, died ; son of Consider Sturte-
vant and Katharine Mitchell Pease Kelley.
Children 4 (Sturtevant), sons:
481 i. Thomas L,' b. Jan. 13, 1841; d. ; m. Sept. 12,
1862, Laura Emerson Heaton, daughter of George
and Sarah Emerson (Watts) Heaton, of Boston, and
had: Edith L., Joseph Lewis, Lawrence Heaton.
482 ii. Joseph N., b. ; d. ^ probably died in infancy.
483 iii. Edward L., b. ; d. ; m. (i) March 9, 1864,
Mary Elizabeth Mann, daughter of Ariel Warren
and Harriette (Sanford) Mann, and had: Grace,
Hattie, Thomas J., Edward L., Jr. He m. (2) Oct.
191 50 Corrections and Additions to Published GerucUogical Works, 30 1
22, 1883, Hattie Mann, sister to his first wife, and
had: Robert S.
484 iv. Joseph N., b. ; d. ; probably died in infancy,
as there is no further record of him.
Authorities:
Friends' Records, New York City.
Colonial Families, v. 3, pp. 544-548.
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett
335. Catherine* Leggett (William H.' Thomas,* Thomas,'
Gabriel,' Gabriel'), born West Farms, — — ; died ; married
William M. Allen.
Children 2 (Allen), daughters:
485 i. Margaret,^ b. ; d. ; m. Foote.
486 ii. Sarah R., b. ; d. ; m. Belden.
Authorities:
Family Record of Rev. T. A. Leggett.
Will of William Haight* Leggett.
( To be continued^
CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS TO PUBLISHED
GENEALOGICAL WORKS.
Every gleaner in the field of genealogical research has met with errors in
printed volumes which, left by themselves, carry mistaken conclusions to the
end of time. This department has been inaugurated in an endeavor to correct
such spurious data. Readers are requested to forward for publication here
every such error, and such further additions to printed genealogies as are
found, that due correction may be made. The authority for the statement
must be furnished, with name and address of contributor.
29. Vanderheyden Family — Corrections and Additions.
Vols. 45 and 46, N, Y. Gen. & Biog, Record.
Vol. 45, p. 310. No, 7. Matthys (son of Dirk), m. Margaret
Bratt only. The indication of Geertruy , as his first wife is a
mistake which Pearson made, and it unwittingly was included in
this record. A very apparent inaccuracy in the Albany Dutch
Church records of the baptism of a child of No. 6, David Vander-
heyden, is responsible for Pearson's error.
Vol. 45, p. 315. Baata Vanderheyden m. for the second time
Oct. 30, 1774, in Schenectady, Johannes D. Van Vorst.
Vol. 45, p. 316. In the will of Johannes Vanderheyden, fifth
line, the word "block" should be "clock."
Vol. 46, p. 9. The dates of baptisms in Schachticoke, of the
children of Abraham Vanderheyden should be dates of births.
Vol, 46, p. 10. Samuel, son of Jacob D. Vanderheyden, m.
Aug. 19, 1822, in New York City, Eliza Ann Douglass, dau. of
tohn Hancock Douglass, M. D., and Elizabeth Williams. She was
. Nov. 5, 1801, in New York City, and d. April 19, 1864, in New
York City. Their only child, Samuel Douglass Vanderheyden,
302 special Notice, [July
was b. April 6, 1824, in Troy, N. Y. Samuel Douglass Vander-
heyden m. Sarah Bayeaux. They had children Benjamin and
Hattie, who d. in childhood, and an adopted son, Clarence, who d.
a young man, unm.
Samuel Douglass Vanderheyden was a lawyer from 1852 until
he enlisted at the time of the Civil War. He was very ill in a
hospital in New Berne and he never fully recovered. While he
did return to New York City, he soon slipped out of communi-
cation with his family. He is said to have been a strikingly
handsome man with black hair, dark brown eyes and florid com-
plexion. (Submitted by Mrs. George B. Sheppard).
Vol. 46, pp. 12 and 16. Jacob I., son of Jacob I. Vander-
heyden and Maria Hallenbeck, was bapt. Nov. 2, 1778, in Cox-
sackie.
Vol. 46, p. 16. Derick Yates, son of Jacob D. Vanderheyden
and Jane Yates, could not have been the Derick Y. or I. Vander-
heyden who was Coroner of Rensselaer County in 1820, as he was
deceased then. The Coroner was probably Major Derick I. (pp.
12 and 13), or Derick I., son of Jacoo I. Vanderheyden and Maria
Hallenbeck (p. 12).
From some Union College Records of students and graduates:
Richard Vanderheyden, class of 1800; degree A. B.; of Troy;
probably the son (Derick Y.) of No. 16, Jacob D. Vanderheyden.
Derick L. Vanderheyden, class of 1807; degrees A. B., A. M.;
Lawyer; of Albany; son of No. 12, Jacob Vanderheyden.
Samuel D. Vanderheyden, class of 1819; Lawyer; of Troy;
son of No. 16, Jacob D. Vanderheyden.
Jacob D. E. Vanderheyden, class of 1827; degree A. B.; of
Troy; son of No. 16, Jacob D. Vanderheyden.
References Omitted prom List (vol. 46, p. 18).
Northern Budget, Troy. N. Y.. April 30, igii.
Bordley, Shippen and Ten Broeck Geneaiopes.
Minutes of Common Council, City of New York, 1675, 1776.— N. Y., 1905,
RICHARD SgHERMERHORN, JR., 226 W. 58th St., N. Y. City.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Attention of The New York Genealogical and Bio-
graphical Society having been called to the fact that
certain genealogists have used, and are using, its name
as a reference, or otherwise, in the prosecution of their
business : — Notice is hereby given that the Society
authorizes no one to so use its name; and that it is not,
nor will it be responsible in any way for the acts of such
individuals who use its name as a reference, or other-
wise, in violation of this specific prohibition.
IQISJ Registration of Pedigrees. 303
(Contioned from Vol. XLIV, p. 191 of Thb Record.)
No. 79. BETTS WILLIAM ISAAC WALKER
1. Thomas Betts, b 161 5-16, according to Selleck's History c/Norwaik, p. 226 (or 1618 according
to Betts Genealogy, p. 3, which states that he was " but 21 years old iu 1639 "), at England;
d x688, aged 72, at (Norwalk, Conn., probably) ; ni at to Mary ,
b , at ; d (she survived her husband many years and is known to have been
alive on March 16, 1723-24), at (Norwalk, Conn., probably).
Ret. Came over to this countrr as tarly as 16391 he then being but 21 years old. Settled at Guilford. Conn., where he was nth
on the list of Guilford, Conn., Settlers' Rej^ister, and of which tuwn he was one of the founders, and in which town his
first six children were born. He removed to Milford, Conn., about 1657. where his seventh child was born, and to
Norwalk, Conn., about 1660, where his last two children were bom. He founded the town of Wilton, Conn, (part of
Norwalk), in 1672. Will dated May 10, 1688. estate appraised Dec. 4, 1688.
Children: Thomas, Mary, John, Hannah, Stephen, Daniel, Samuel, James, Sarah.
2. Joim BettSy b. June 20, 1650, according to Betts Genealogy, p. 17 (May 10, 1655, according to Selleck's
Norwalk, p. 226), at Guilford, Conn.; d about 1730, at ; m. (i) , at
to , b , at ; d at ; m. (2) , at to Sarah (Keliogs)
Brinsmade (widow of Samuel Brinsmade, and daughter of Daniel and ( ) Kellogg),
b , at ; d at
Res. Guilford, Conn., up to Feb. 35, 1673. at least, as on that date he was admitted as " planter *' there; he removed to Norwalk,
Conn., prior to 1687. He was Deputy to General Assembly of Conn. 1708, 1711. and in 171S and 1716. Partition of his
estate is recorded on Fairfield. Conn., Records in 1730.
Children (all by ist m.): John, Hannah.
3. John Betts* b. Nov. 17 (or 27), 1692, at Norwalk, Conn.; d. June 27, 1767, aged 75 years, at Norwalk, Conn.
(his will was dated June 23, and proved Nov. 24, 1767); m. April 17, 1722, at Norwalk, Conn., to
Damaris Lockwood Tdaughterof Eliphalet and Mary (Gold) Lockwood, of Norwalk, Conn., b.
Nov. 7, 1701, at Norwalk, Conn.; d. March 24, 1776, aged 74 years, at Norwalk, Conn.
Res. Norwalk, Conn. Rep. to Conn. Assembly 1731, 1736, 1739, 1741, 1743* i743< Audited Accounts of Treasurer of Conn. Colony,
May 10, 1739. Justice of Peace 1746-1748.
Children: Thaddeus, Mary, Hannah, John, Peter.
4. Hon. Thaddeus Betts* b. May 3, 1724, at Norwalk, Conn.; d. March 22 (or 27). 1807, at Norwalk. Conn.;
m. (I) Nov. 8, 1752, at Norwalk, Conn., to Mary Qold (or Qoold) (daughter of John and Hannah
(Slawson) Gold, b ; bapt. June 6, 1731, at Fairfield. Conn.; d. Nov. 20, 1752, at Norwalk,
Conn. He m. (2) May K, 1754, at Norwalk, Conn., to Elizabeth Maltby (dau. of Capt. William
and Sarah (Davenport) Maltby), b at ; d. Feb. 8, 178Q. at Norwalk, Conn. He
m. (3) Nov. 4, 1789, at Norwalk, Conn., to Eleanor (or Hellena) Palrchild-Lyman (widow
of Daniel Lyman, Esq., and daughter of Jonathan and Eleanor ( ) Fairchild, as her 3rd
husband; her ist husband was Seth Benedict), b , at ; d. March 23, 1825, in her
95th year, at Norwalk, Conn.
Ret. Norwalk, Conn. Represented Norwalk in State Legislature in 1776, 178^-5-6, and 1789. Yale College, Class X74S* He was
a physician and during the Revolutionary War was the leading magistrate of Norwalk, Conn.
Children (all by and m.): Sarah, William Maltby, Mary.
5. Sarah Betts, b. March 7, 1757, at Norwalk, Conn.; d. Sept. 21, 1848, aged 01, at Milan, Ohio: m. April 14,
1782, at Norwalk. Conn., to Hon* Stephen Lockwood'*' (son of Joseph and Rebecca (Rogers)
Lockwood, of Norwalk, Conn.), b. Aug. 16, 1754, at Norwalk, Conn.; d. Feb. 13, 1830, at Norwalk,
Conn.
Res. Norwalk, Conn. He was a private in Capt. Mills' Company in Rev. War, and represented Norwalk in the Connecticut
Assembly in 1807.
Children: Sarah, Ralph, Steven, Elizabeth, George, Henry, Esther, Mary Betts.
6. Esther Lockwood* b. July 13, 1797, at Norwalk, Conn.; d. Feb. 29, 1877, at Milan, Ohio; tn. May 5, 1823,
at Norwalk, Conn., to Rev. Stephen Saunders* b , at ; d. June 3, 1835, at Milan,
Ohio.
Ret. South Salem, N. Y.; Pastor Presbyterian Church there 1823-1834; Milan, Ohio. Princeton College 1814; tntor there 1814-
1817; Princeton Seminary 181S-16; A. M., 1817.
Children: Harriet Lockwood, Leroy G., Stephen L., Le Grand.
7. Harriet Lockwood Saunders* b. June 21 (or 22), 1824, at South Salem, N. Y.; d. Jan. 30, 1910, at Milan,
Ohio; m. July 13, 1846, at Milan, Ohio, to Isaac Cushman Walker (son of Henry Goss and
Sarah Steel (Cushman) Walker, of Wyoming, N. Y.), b. Dec. 10, 1823, at Wyoming, N. Y; d.
May 30, 1858, at Buffalo, N. Y.
Ret. Milan. Ohio, and Buffalo, N. Y. He was a shipping merchant and General Agent of the Lake Navigation Company at
Chicago.
Children: Henry Stephen, John Jay, William Isaac, Frederick Albert, Jennie Isetta.
8. WllUam Isaac Walker* b. July 17, 1852, at Milan, Ohio; d , at ; m. March iq, 1883, at New
York City. N. Y., by Rev. M. E. Dwi^ht, to Marion Dwl^ht (dau. of John and Nancy Shaw
(Everett) Dwight), b. Feb. 22, 1856. at New York City, N. Y.; d , at
Res. New York City. N. Y.; No. 11 Mt. Morris Park, West; Trustee and 2nd Vice-President New York Genealogical and Bio-
graphical Society.
ChUd: Miriam Dwight Walker, b. July S. 1889, at New York City.
AUTHORITIBS:
Betis GtfMalogy, by Frederick H. Betts. pp. 3-ao, 23, 34, 30-40, 6a, 63.
Selleck*8 History of Norwalk, pp. 226. 327, 228.
Savage*s Gon, Dictionary ^ vol. i, p. i73*
Hinman's SettUrs of Conn., pp. 20$, 206.
Lockwood Genoalogy, p: 44*
Hall's Normalk, p. 201.
NOTB: * Descendants eligible to Society of Sons of the RoTolution and to the Society of Daughters of the Revolution.
304 Registration of Pedigrees, [July
No. 80. MONNET ORRA EUGENE MONNETTB
MONNBT Arms: Quarterly, ist and 4th azure, a bend, or: 2nd and 3rd or, a lion rampant, ^^x.
Crest: A demi-lion rampant, gules.
Motto: Florens suo orbe monet,
1. Isaac Monnet (the emigrant ancestor), b about 1670, at or near Poitiers in ancient Poitou, France;
d after 1740, at "The Cliffts," Calvert Co., Maryland; m about 1699. at "The
Cliffts,*' Calvert Co., Maryland, to EUzabeth Williams (daughter of William and Sarah ( )
Williams, of Calvert Co., Maryland), b about 1675, at ; d , 1751,
at Calvert Co., Maryland.
Ret. France: Loadon, Eog.. to which place he, belnir a Huguenot, fled an account of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes,
and where he was ** denizened" (i. e. naturalized). March as. 1688; emigrated to America and was settled as an inhabi-
tant of Upper Hundred of " The Cliffts." Calvert County, Md.. at least as early as 1707 (and probably previous thereto)
when his name appeared on Lord Baltimore's Rent Roil. He was a member of Christ Church. Calvert Co., Md.,
and was true to his Huguenot convictions. He was prominent in the local and colonial history of Calvert Co., Md.,
and was probably a colonial soldier.
Children: Ann, William, Abraham, Elizabeth, Isaac, Mary, Aaron, John, Pierre, Sarah.
2. WllHam Monett, b. May 21, 1702, at "The Cliflfts,'* Calvert Co., Md.; d after or about 1776, at
"The Cliffts," Calvert Co., Md.; m , about 1725, at "The Cliffts," Calvert Co., Md.. to
Elizabeth ? (Kent or Tucker; she was a daughter of Jeannette (Dalrumple) Kent, who m.
1st John Tucker and 2nd John Kent, and which one was the father of £^lizabeth ? is as yet
undetermined), b at " The Cliffts," Calvert Co., Md.; d , at " The Cliffts," Calvert
Co., Md.
Res. Manor of '* William's Purchase." Calvert Co., Md.; he was a farmer and churchman.
Children: Isaac, Thomas, William, Elizabeth, Catharine, Abraham, Mary, John, Jeannett, James, Nlnian.
3. Isaac Monnett,* b about 1726, at " The Cliffts," Calvert Co., Md.; d after 1798, at " The
Cliffts." Calvert Co., Md.; m about 1745, at Christ's Church, Calvert Co.. Md., to EUzabeth
Osborne (dau. of Thomas Osborne), b , 1726, at , Charles Co., Md.; d. after
1798, at , Calvert Co., Md.
Res. Manor of ** Gerer," Calvert Co., Mdt; he was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and a churchman.
Children: Isaac, Abraham. Osborne, Thomas, Elizabeth, Judith, William.
4. Abraham Monnett** b. March 16. 1748, at " Gerer," Calvert Co., Md.; d. Dec. 7, 1810, in Salt Creek Town-
ship, Pickaway Co., Ohio; m 1772. at Marlborough, Prince George Co., Md., to Aon
miliary (dau. of William and Margaret (Crabb) Hillian^. b. June 11, 1748, at Prince
George Co., Md.; d. Sept. 2. 1833, at Salt Creek Township, Pickaway Co., Ohio.
Res. Prince George and Frederick Co's., Md.; Swan Pond Lands. H.impshire Co., near Knoblev Mountain, Va. (now W. Va.),
and was a pioneer in 1802 to Piclcaway Co., Ohio; he was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.
Children: Isaac, William. John, Ann, Thomas, Osborn, Margaret. Jeremiah Crabb, Elizabeth, Ralph, an infant, an infant.
5. Rev. Jeremiah Crabb Monnett, b. Sept. 12. 1784, near Knobley Mountain, Hampshire Co., Va. (now
W. Va.); d. Sept. 1.1864, near Monnett Chapel, Bucyrus Township. Crawfoid Co.. Ohio; m. May 2,
1805. at Cumberland. Md.,to Aley Sla^le (dau. of Jacob and Hannah (Burrell)Slagle), b. March i,
1788, at Slagle Manor, on Potomac River, Hampshire Co., Va. (now W. Va.); d. Aug. 12, 1868, at
Monnett Chapel, Bucyrus Township. Crawford Co., Ohio.
Res. Anderson Bottom, Hampshire Co., Va. (now W. Va.); Cumberland. Allegany Co., Md.; Pickaway, Marion and Crawford
Co's., Ohio; he was an Ohio pioneer and a Methodist circuit rider.
Children: Jacob, Isaac, Thomas, Abraham, Elsie, Margaret, Hannah, Ann, John, Jeremiah Crabb. Mary, Thomas Jefferson,
Martha, Nancy, child, d. youog, child, d. young.
6. Abraham Monnett* b. Oct. 12, 181 1, at Anderson Bottom, Hampshire Co., Va. (now W. Va.); d. March 19,
1881. at Bucyrus, Ohio; m. June 9, 1836, near Circleville, Pickaway Co., Ohio, to Catharine
Braucher (dau. of Conrad and Maria Catharine (Reichelsdorfer) Braucher). b. Nov. 7, 1815, at
SaltCreek Township, Pickaway Co.. Ohio; d. Feb. 8. 1875, at Bucyrus Township, Crawford Co., Ohio.
Res. Marion and Crawford Co's.. Ohio, and Bucyrus, Ohio; he was a banker and one of the wealthiest agriculturists in northern
central Ohio.
Children: Ephraim Braucher, Martha Ellen. Oliver, John Thomas, Elsie, Augustus Eddy. Mervin Jeremiah, Mary Jane,
Madison Welsh, Melvin Henry, Amina Josephine, Catharine La Vendue.
7. Mervin Jeremiah Monnette, b. Aug. 24, 1847. at Scott Township. Marion Co., Ohio; d. (living
May 5, 191 5, at Los Angeles. Cal.); m. Jan. 5, i860, at Cardington, Morrow Co., Ohio, to Olive
Adelaide Hull (dau. of George Washington Hull), b. Oct, 6, 1849, at Radnor, Delaware Co., Ohio;
d. March 30, 19 12, at Los Angeles, Cal.
Res. No. on Western Avenue, Los Angeles, Cal.; Vice-President, Citizens National Bank, Los Angeles, Cal.; Member of the
Soc. Sons of the Revolution and of the Society of Colonial Wars.
Children: Orra Eugene, Clark Fremont.
8. Orra Eugene Monnette, b. April 12, 1873, at Dallas Township, Crawford Co., Ohio; d (living
May 5, 1915. at Los Angeles, Cal.); m. Nov. 6, 1895. at Columbus, Ohio, to Carrie LucUe Jane-
way, b. Aug. 3. 1874. at Zanesville. Ohio; d (living May 5, 1915, at Los Angeles, Cal.).
Res. No. 3101 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, Cal.; Attorney-at-Law; President of the Citizens Trust and Savings Bank,
Los Angeles. Cal.; National President of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity; Governor of the Society of Colonial Wars and
Vice-President of the Society Sons of the Revolution, In the State of California; Member of Mayflower Society, Order
of Founders and Patriots and Huguenot Society of America.
Children: None.
AUTHORITIRS:
Monnst Pc
Orra Eugene Bflonnette, bimse'lf.
Monnet Pamilv Genealogy (1911), by Orra Eugene Monnette.
Orra Eugene Monnette, himself.
Colonial Families of the United States <if America, by George Norbury Mackenzie, vol. Ill, pp. 337, et seq.
'OTB: * Descendants eligible to Society of Sons of the Revolution.
IQIS-I Registration of Pedigrees, 305
No. 81. WEBSTER JOSEPHINE (ADAMS) PERRY
1. John Webster* b , at (said to have come to this country from Warwickshire, Eng.); d.
Aprii 5, 1661, at Hadley, Mass., and was there buried; m at (England, probably),
to Agnes (Shatswell?), see W. E. Hist. Gen. Register, vol. 4, p. 271; b , at ....;.;
d at
Ret. Hartford, Coao., in 1636, supposed to have come to Conn, from Mass., bat from what town is tmcertafn. Representatire
to Connecticut Legislature 1637; Magistrate, Connecticut Col.. 1639 to 1655: Deputy Governor 1655: Governor 1656.
Removed to Hadley. Mass.. in ibso. Made Freeman in Massachusetts in 1660; Will dated June 25, 1659, in which he
mentions his daughter, Ann Marsh.
Children: Matthew, Robert, Thomas, WUliam, Ann, Elizabeth, Mary.
2. Ann Webster* b , at , Eng., probably (came to this country with her father previous to 1636);
d. June 9, 1662, at Hadley, Mass.; m , 1642, about, at Hartford, Conn., to John Marsh (the
emigrant, as his ist wife), b , 1618, at , England; d. Sept. 28, 1688, aged 70, at Wind-
sor, Conn.; he m. (2) Oct. 7, 1664, at , to Hepzibah (Ford) Lyman (widow of Richard
Lyman, and dau. of Thomas Ford), b , at ; d. April 11, 1683, at Hadley, Mass.
Res. Hartford, Conn., and Hadley, Mass.
Children: xst m., John. Samuel, Joseph, Isaac. Jonathan, Daniel, Hannah, Grace; 2nd m.. Lydia and Grace, who was an adopted
daughter, being the daughter of Lydia (Marsh) Martin, the sister of John Marsh, the Emigrant.
3. John Marshy b about 1643, at Hartford, Conn.; d , 1727, aged 85, at ; m. (i) Nov. 28,
1666, at , to Sarah Lyman* of Northampton (dau. of Richard and Hepzibah (Ford) Lyman),
b , at Hartford, Conn.; d (between 1688 and 1707), at ; he m. (2) Jan. i, 1707-8,
at , to Susannah Butler, b at ; d. Dec. 24, 1714, at
Res. Hartford, Conn., where he was a selectman in 1677* 1681, 1687, 1688, 1694 and 170X.
Children: ist m., John, Nathaniel, Joseph, Sarah, Elizabeth, Hannah, Ebenezer, Hannah, Lydia, Hepzibah, Jonathan; 2nd m.,
Susannah.
4. John Marsh, b 1668, at Hadley, Mass., probably (or perhaps at Northampton, Mass.); d. Oct i,
IJ44, at Hartford, Conn., and was buried m old burying ground back of Center Church, Hartford,
Conn., where his and his second wife's gravestone still existed in 1895; m. (i) Dec. 12, i69]^>
at to Mabel Pratt» b , at ; d. June 6, i6g6, at ; he m. (2) Jan. 6, 1698,
at , to Elizabeth Pitkin* b , at ; d. Dec. i, 1781, at Hartford, Coun., and was
buried there beside her husband in old burying ground back of Center Church, Hartford, Conn.
Res. Hartford, Litchfield. Hartford Conn.; Selectman, Hartford, 1701, 1710,1714* Pioneer settier of Litchfield, Conn,: Lieut,
and Capt. in Conn. Col. Troops, served in Indian Wars. Justice of the Peace at Litchfield. Representative Con-
necticut Legislature; Associate Judge of County Court and Member of the Council of War.
Children: all by and m., John, Ebenezer, Elizabeth, William, George, Isaac, John, Timothy, Hezeiciah.
5. CoL Ebenezer Marsh, b. Nov. 3, i7oi; bapt. Nov. 11, 1701, at Hartford, Conn.; d. April 18, 1773, aged 71
years, 5 months, at Litchfield, Conn.; m. Nov. . ., 1725, at to I>eborah Bueli (dau. of John
and Mary (Loomis) Buell). b. Jan. 24, 1708, at Litchfield, Conn.; d. July 30, 1784, aged 77, at Litch-
field, Conn.
Res. Litchfield, Conn., where he was Judge of the Probate; Judge of County Court; Representative to Connecticut Legislature
for 48 sessions; Selectman from 1740 for 13 years.
Children: Deborah, Elizabeth, Lois, Hannah, Solomon, Ebenezer, Anna, Ebenezer, Ozias, Hepzibah, John, Molly.
6. John Marsh, b. Jan. 4, 1748, at Litchfield, Conn.; d. Jan. 23, 1781, at Litchfield, Conn.; m. Sept. 14, 1769,
at Litchfield, Conn., to Rhoda McNeil (dau. of Alexander and Deborah (Phelps) McNeil, of
Litchfield, Conn.), b. Nov. 27, 1750, at Litchfield, Conn.; d , at
Res. Litchfield, Conn.
Children: Rachel, Charles, Deborah, Molly, Rhoda, Anna, John.
7. I>eiM>rah Marsh» b. July 18, 1773, at Litchfield, Conn.; d. July 27 (or 28), 1857, aged 84 years, at Litchfield,
Conn.; m. Jan. 26, 1792, at Litchfield, Conn., to Joseph Adams, b. July 11, 1767, at Roxbury,
Mass.; d. July 14, 1856, aged 89 years, at Litchfield, Conn.
Res. Litchfield, Conn, (came there from Roxbury, Mass.); he was a grand juror in Litchfield for 6 years from 1801.
Children: Sally, Henry, Betsey, Amos, John Marsh, Charles, Keziah Holt, William Thomas.
8. John Marsh Adams, b. April 16, 1801, at Litchfield, Conn.; d. Jan. 22, 18^3, at Augusta, Ga.; m. Oct. 9,
1829, at Augusta, Ga., to Sarah Susannah MacMurphy (dau. of Geore^e Galphin Youille and
Keziah Parish (Martin) MacMurphy, of Augusta, Ga.), b. Sept. 16, 1806, in Edgefield District,
S. C; d. July, 26, 1901, at " The Hill," Augusta, Ga.
Res. Augusta, Ga.; he was a cotton merchant and in the wholesale grocery business.
Children: Mary Keziah, Sarah Deborah, Josephine, Elizabeth Bacon, Harriett Henrietta, Anna, Joseph Henry, George Mac-
Murphy, William Marsh, John Marsh.
9. Josefrtiine Adams* b. Nov. 3, 1834, at Augusta, Ga.; d at ; m. June 25, 18^7, at Augusta, Ga.,
to Alexander James Perry, b. Dec. 11, 1828, at New London, Conn.; d. March 26, 1913, at
Washington, D. C.
Res. Various posts U. S. Army: settled at 2003 I Street, N. W., Washington, D. C; U. S. M. A. i8si; Brig.-Gen. and Asst-
8uartermaster*Gen., U. S. A. Retired Dec. 11, 1892. Member Mil. Order Loyal Legion; Soc. Sons of Rev.; Lay
elegate Gen'l Convention Prot. Epis. Ch., N. Y. City, 1874-
Children: Lucretia Thatcher, John Adams, Alexander Wallace, Josephine Adams.
AuTHORrriBS:
Savage's Gsn. Die, vol. iv, pp. 448-440.
History Hadlgy, Mass.^ P* iSo. Genealogies.
Marsh Gtnsafogy. John of Hartford, pp. 6-14, 13, so, si, S3, a6, 97i 28, 29, 30-44.
RtsicUnts of LuchfiAld, Conn,^ n»-i8oo, pp. 40, iV^^ifh 141-143.
Litckfosld and Morris Gravtyard Inscriptions^ pp. 06, 87.
Adams G^ngalogy^ pp. si and 31.
306 Regulraiion of Pedigrees, \}^1
No. S2. WINSLO W JOHN REYNOLDS TOTTEN
I. KeiMtin WI08I0W9 b » at ; d 1607, in the parish of St. Andrews, Droitwich, Worcester
Co, Eng.; m at ; to Catharine b at ; d at
Res. Kempt«v, Eng. His estates were "Clerkeuleap** mid *-Newports PUce." His will was dated April Mi i6o7, •nd was
proved Nov 9. 1607. and is un file in Wurccster, Eng.
Children: Edward and probably others.
a. Edward Winslow, b. Oct. 17, 1560, in the parish of St. Andrews, Droitwich, Worcester Co., Eng.;
d before 1631, at Droitwich. Eng.; m. (i) (probably) , at to Eleanor Pdham
(dau. of Sir Herbert Felhani, by his ist wife), b at ; d at ; m. (2)
Nov. 4, 1594. at St. Bride's Church, London, Eng., to Magdalene Ollyver, b , at ;
d at
Res. Rempsev and Droitwich, Worcester Co.. Eng. The Vital Records of his family are to be found in the Parish Ref later of
St. Peter's Church. Dioilwicli. Eny.
Children: 1st m.. Richard; 2nd m.. Edward, John. Eleanor, Kenelm. Gilbert. Elizabeth. Magdalen. Josiah.
3. Hon. Joslah Winslow,'*' b. Feb. 11, 1635-6; bapt. Feb. 16, 1603-6, at Droitwich. Ens^.; d. Dec. i, 1674, at
Marshfield, Mass.; m 1636, at , to Margaret Bourne (dau. of Thomas and Eliza-
beth ( ) Bourne, of Marshtield, Mass.), b , at ; d 1683; bur. Oct. 2, 1683,
at Marshtield. Mass.
Res. Came over to this country on the Whit§ Angela arriving at Saco, June 37. 1631. lived a while at Scitiiate. and finally settled
at Marshfield. Mass. He wis a rei^reseniative to tho General Court and was town clerk uf Marsbfield from 1646 to his
death in \^\. His will was dated .\pril 13, 1673 aud proved June 4* 1675.
Children: Elizabeth, Jonathan. Margaret. Rebecca, Hannah. Mary.
4. Rebecca Winslow* b. July 15, 1643. at Marshfield. Mass.; d. July 15, 1683. at Yarmouth, Mass.; m.
Nov. 6, 1661. at Marshfteld. Mass.. to Hi>n. Col. John Thacher* b. March 17. 1638-9. at Marble-
head, Mass.; d. May 8, 1713. at Yarmouth. Mass. He m. (21 Jan. I, 1683-i, at Yarmouth, Mass.,
to Lydia Qorham (dau. of Capt. John and Desiret (Howland) Gorham. of Barnstable, Mass.),
b. Nov. 6, 1661, at Barnstable, Mass.; d. Aug. 2, 1744, at Yarmouth, iMass.
Res. Yarmouth. Mass. Dep. and .\sst. G. C. Ply. Col. Asst. Com. Mass. Col. in Mil Serrice. J. P.
Children: ist m.. Peter, Josi»h, Rebecca. Betliiah. John. Elizab'>th. Hannah, Mary, child, sex not stated; and m., Lydia, Mary.
Desire. Hannah, Mercy, Judah. Mercy, Ann, Joseph, Benjamin. Meicy. Thomas.
5. Deacon Joslah Thacher. b. April 26. 1677. at Yarmouth. Mass.; d. May 12, 1701 or 1702, at Yarmouth,
Mass.; m. Feb. 25, 1690-1. at Yarmouth, Mass.. to Mary Hedse* b. March .., 1671, at Yarmouth,
Mass.; d , at ; she is buried at Yarmouth, Mass.
Res. Yarmouth, Mass. Deacon in Church there.
Children: Anthouy. Rebecca, Mary. Elisba. Josiah.
6. Capt. Joslah Thacher* b. July 7, 1701, at Yarmouth, Mass.; d. Aug. 22. 1780, at Norwalk, Conn.; m. (1)
Feb. 17, 1724, at Norwalk. Conn., to Ann Burne* b. March 25. 1699, at ; d. Feb. 25, 1733-4.
at Norwalk. Conn.; m. (2) Aug. 7 (or Sept. 15). 1735, at Boston, Mass.. to Mary Qreenleaf-Blinn
(wid. James Blinn), b. Aug. 29 (or Sept. 25), 1706, at Cambridge, Mass.; d. April 2 (or 6), 1774, at
Norwalk, Conn.
Res. Yarmouth. Mass. Set. at Norwalk, Conn. Sea captain. Large land owner in Norwalk, Conn.
Children: ist m.. Ann, Josiah, Ann. Mary; and m., Elizabeth. Daniel, John. Hannah, Elizabeth, Stephen Greenleaf.
7. Capt. John Thacher^ b. July 25, 1742. at Norwalk, Conn.; d. Jan. 16, 1805. at Stratford, Conn.; m. (i)
, at to Ann Perry, b. Feb. 19, 1744, at Fairfield, Conn.; d at ; m. (2)
1777-8. at Stratford. Conn. (prob.). to Mehltable Uffford-Thompson (wid. of Lieut.
William Thompson), b. March 16, 1745, at Stratford, Coim.; d. Sept. 6. 1807. at Litchfield. Conn.
Res. Norwalk, New Milfurd. Conn. Settled at Stratford, Conn. Capt. Rev. War, wounded and taken prisoner Valcour's Island,
Oct. II, 1776. paroled and exchanged.
Children: ist m., Partridge, Stephen Greenleaf, Betsey; 2nd m.. Anthony, Mehitable, Anthony. Mehitable, DanieL
8. Anthony Thatcher, b. Tan. 7, 1782, at Stratford, Conn.; d. Dec 26. 1841. at New London, Conn.; m.
Feb. 24, 1806. at New London, Conn., to Lucretia Christophers Mumford* b. Aug. 10, 1785, at
Salem, Conn.; d. April 6, 1871, at New London, Conn.
Res. New London. Conn. Cashier New London Bank.
Children: Nathaniel Woodbridge, Lucretia Mumford Mary Woodbridqre, John Christophers. Eloise Hardy, George Thompson,
Daniel Anthony. Henry Perkins, Abby Mumford, Julia Hubbell, Elizabeth Wetmore, Mary Perkins, Anthony,
Antoinette.
9. Julia Hubbell Thatcher* b. March 6. 1823, at New London. Conn.; d. Jan. 31. 1906. at New London,
Conn.; m. Dec. 5. 1843, at New London, Conn., to Qen. James Totten* U. S. Army, b. Sept. 11,
1818. at Cincinnati, Ohio; d. Oct. i. 1871, at Sedalia, Mo.
Res. Various po^ts in service U. S. Army. U. S. M. A. 1841. Lieut. Col. and Inspector General U. S. A. Served Mexican and
Civil Wars.
Children: William Anthony, Charles Adelle Lewis. John Reynolds.
10. John Reynolds Totten* b. Barrancas Barracks, Pensacola, Fla.. Nov. 4, 1856; d at ; m.
Sept. 5, 1889. at Garrisons-on- Hudson, N. Y.. to Elma Smythe Preston- Van Voorfals (wid. of
Arthur Van Voorhis). b, Jan. 10, 1862, at Evansville, Ind.; d at
Res. Various posts U. S. Army and New York City. U. S. M. A., 1878, ist Lieut. 4th U. S. Artillery. Resigned from U.S.
Army April i. i8qi. Mem. S»c. Sons of Rev.. Soc. M. F. D., Soc. Col. Wars. N. V. Gen. and Biog. Soc.. N. E. Hist.-
Gen. Soc. New London County. Conn., Hist. Soc, Soc. American Wars.
Children: None.
Al^THORITIBS:
Winslow Genealogy s vol. i, chart, p. 16. p. 79* between pp. loo-ioi.
Mayflower Descendants^ vol. ii, pp. 4. 5i i8f, ao9, 252.
Sava|fe*s Gen, Dictionary^ vol. i, p. 219: vol. iv, p. 602.
Thacher Gen., by John K. Totten. N. K Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1910-191$.
Notes: * Descendants eligible to Soc of Colonial Wars. f Descendants eligible to Soc. of Mayflower Descendants. % De-
scendants eligible to Society of Sons of the Revolution.
( To be continued,)
1915O Society Proceedings, 307
SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS.
Regular Meeting April 9th, 1915.
President, Clarence Winthrop Bowen in the Chair.
The Executive Committee reported that Miss Katharine Thompson
Martin had been transferred from the list of Annual Members to that of Life
Members and that Mr. DeForest Grant had been restored to the Membership
Roil of the Society.
Smce the last meeting of the Society the following deaths have been re-
corded, viz: Charles Francis Adams, Honorary Member, died Washington, D.
C, March 20th, 1915, in his 8oth year; David Russell Jack, Radcliffe B. Lock-
wood, David Sherwood Kellogg, M. D., Miss Blandina Dudley Miller, Irving
Wilson Near, Howard L. Osgood, W. Max Reid, Corresponding Members.
Mr. Bowen announced the last meetmg of the season would be held on
Friday evening May 14th, on which occasion Prof. William M. Sloane, of
Princeton University, would deliver an address on the Battle of Princeton.
Mr. Bowen introduced as a guest of the evening Hon. Benjamin F. Tracy,
Ex-Secretary of the Navy, and then introduced the speaker of the evening,
Rear Admiral William S. Cowles, United States Navy, who delivered an
illustrated address on "The Navy of the United States.**
At the close of Admiral Cowles* lecture Mr. Bowen introduced Col.
Edward F. Glenn, Chief of Staff on the Staff of Major General Leonard Wood,
stationed at Governor*s Island, representing the Army of the United States, who
spoke regarding the importance of the trip of the 16 U. S. Battle Ships around
the World; the wonderful development of the submarine as shown in the
present war. He then spoke briefly on the history of the United States Army
and its present status.
At the close of Col. Glenn's address Gen. Asa Bird Gardiner moved the
thanks of the Society be tendered to Admiral Cowles and Col. Glenn for their
very interesting addresses, which motion was duly seconded and carried unani-
mously.
On motion, meeting adjourned.
Regular Meeting May 14th, 1915.
President, Clarence Winthrop Bowen, in the Chair.
Since the last meeting of the Society the following deaths have been re-
corded: Grau Nathan, Annual Member, died April 20th, I9i5,in his 72nd year;
Stephen Sanford, Corresponding Member, was reported as having died Feb.
13. 19' 31 James Ausburn Towner Corresponding Member, was reported as
having died some time ago at Washington, D. C.
The Executive Committee reported that the following names had been
restored to the Membership Roll: Mrs. Henry F. Dimock, Spencer Joseph
Estey, Mai. Charles William Whipple.
Also that the following new members have been elected: Mrs. George D.
Pratt, 640 Park Ave., City. Annual Member, proposed by Clarence Winthrop
Bowen; Mrs. Gustaf Stromberg, 540 Park Ave., City, Annual Member, pro-
Eosed by Clarence Winthrop Bowen; Mortimer L Schiff, 52 William St., City,
jfe Member, proposed by Clarence Winthrop Bowen; Joshua Lindley Barton,
M. D., 117 East6ist St., Cfity, Annual Member, proposed by Clarence Win-
throp Bowen; Lawrence Smith Butler, loi Park Ave., City, Annual Member,
proposed by Thomas Townsend Sherman; Frederick Heber Eaton, 165 Broad-
way, City, Annual Member, proposed by Clarence Winthrop Bowen; Willis
Tracy Hanson, Jr., 20 Union Ave., Schenectady, N. Y., Annual Member, pro-
posed by Richard Schermerhorn, Jr.; Mrs. John Easton Rousmaniere, 115
East 6oth St., City, Annual Member, proposed by Clarence Winthrop Bowen;
Abram Wakeman, 96 Water St., City, Annual Member, proposed by Clarence
Winthrop Bowen.
Also that Evelyn Brig^s Baldwin had been restored to the Membership
Roll, and appointed upon Research Committee.
The Executive Committee reported further that the following Correspond-
ing Members had been elected: Mrs. Charlotte Taylor Luckhurst, for Schenec-
3o8
Querus, Bock Revuws* Duly
tady Co., 446 Hulett St., Schenectady, N. Y.; Elias Ogden Ross, for Rensse-
laer Co., 18 Sute St., Troy, N. Y.; Miss Helen L. Miller, for Oneida Co., 18
Oxford Road. New Hartford, N. Y.; S. D. Van Alstine, for Wayne Co., care of
The Palmyra Historical Society, Palmyra, N. Y.; Miss Elizabeth Gebhard, for
Columbia Co., Hudson, N. Y.
Also that the following resignation had been received and accepted with
regret, to take effect Dec. ^i, 19x5: William Judson Lamson, M. D.
Mr. Bowen then introduced the speaker of the evening, William Milligan
Sloane, LL. D., Vice-President of the New York Historical Societ^r and Pro-
fessor of History in Columbia University, who read a paper entitled ^'The
Battle of Princeton."
At the close of the Lecture Gen. Asa Bird Gardiner, moved the thanks of
the Society be extended to Prof. Sloane for his extremely interesting and in-
structive lecture which was duly seconded by Mr. James Benedict and unani-
mously carried.
On motion, meeting adjourned.
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4. NosTRAND-BoGERT.— Garret Nostrand and his wife, Cornelia Bogert.
I will pay $25.00 for proof of parentage of either. They went to Nova Scotia
with Loyalists at close of the Revolution; returned with children about 1791.
Eliza, born on the voyage, married Bertrand and lived in Brooklyn.
Family lived in Flushing on or near "Alley Road," where John. Elizabeth and
Deborah were born. Episcopal baptism. Garret died in 1800 while overseer
of Moulton*s farm, at Hyde Park. Cornelia was bom in 1762 in Brooklyn, near
site of Marine Hospital. She lived many years as a widow in Orange Street
and died at age of 82 years. Had other children than named here.
E. H. CRAiGE, 194 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
5. Mrs. Josephine C. Frost, of 254 Garfield Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
desires information regarding the following families. Please reply direct.
Wanted:
CoRNELis. — Parents of Magdeleentie Cornelis of Albany, who m. in Dutch
Church, N. Y., June 10. 1677, Jacobus Franszcn Van Dyke.
JORALEMON. — Ancestry of Annatje or Jannetje Joralemon who m. Jacobus
Van Dyck and was of Hackensack in 1725, and of Second River, N. J., 1735;
also information as to the early Joralemons of N. Y.
Oliver. — Parents and descendants of Charles Oliver, who m. in N. Y.,
Nov. 7, 1704, Margaret Schuyler. They had: Elizabeth, Robert, George and
Jane. Were there others? Male descendants of that issue desired. Also,
parents and descendants of John Oliver, who m. Oct. 28, 1705, in N. Y.,
Catherine Peiterse.
BOOK REVIEWS.
By John R. Totten.
Editorial Note:— The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society solicits as
donations to its Library all newly published works on Genealogy. History and Biography, as well
as all works on Town, County and State History, or works embodying information regarding the
Vital Records of any and all localities. It also solicits the donation to the manuscript collections
of its library any and all manuscript compilations which bear upon the above mentioned topics.
IQIS'I Book Reviews. 309
In consideration of sncb donations the works so presented to the Society will be at once
R laced upon the shelves of its library and will be reviewed in the next subsequent issue of Thb
IBW York Genbalogical and Biographical Record, each donation of such character,
whether in printed or manuscript form, will be reviewed under the head of "Book Notices*' ana
a copy of Thr Record containing the review will be sent to the donor.
The Society does not solicit donations of publications or manuscripts on topics foreign to
the above mentioned subjects, as its librarv is specialized and cannot accommodate material
which does not bear directly upon its recognized sphere of usefulness.
Donations for review in the January issue of Thb Record should be delivered to the
Society before December ist of the previous year; for the April issue, before March ist; for the
July issue before June ist; and for tne October issue, before September ist.
All donations will be generously reviewed with a view of calling the attention of the public
to their good points; but, while generous, the reviews will contain such proper criticism as the
interest of the genealogical student would expect from the editorial staff of The Record.
The '*Book Nonces'* of Thr Record are carefully read by all librarians as well as
genealogical students, and the review of a work in The Record is equivalent to a special
advertisement of such work.
Lettera of transmittal of donations of such works should embody the price of the work
donated and the name and address of the person from whom it can be purchased.
In Memowam op William Thornton Parker, Jr., B. S. Beloved son of
William Thornton and Elizabeth (Stebbins) Parker, January 3rd, 1876-
June 7, 1900. 8vo, cloth, pp. 131, illustrated. No price stated. Address:
Dr. W. Thornton rarker. Valley View, 65 Columbus Avenue, Northampton,
Mass.
A beautiful tribute to a departed loved one ; and while mainlv biographi-
cal in its character, yet contains much of interest to the genealogist
Bryant Family History, Ancestry and Descendants of David Bryant
(1756) of Springfield, N. J.; Washington Co., Pa.; Knox Co., Ohio; and
Wolf Lake, Noble Co., Ind. Compiled by Qara Vaile Braiden. 8vo, cloth,
pp. 258, including index, illustrated. Price, cloth, $3.50; full morocco, $5.00.
Address: Miss Ida £. Fisher, Hebron, Ind., or Mrs. C. V. Braiden, 401
Soutli 3rd St, Rochelle, 111.
A most commendable production giving the record of the ancestor and
his descendants to the 9th generation, mdusive. Recommended to all
genealogical libraries.
Bacon Genealogy. Michael Bacon of Dedham, 1640, and his Descend-
ants, by Thomas W. Baldwin. A. B., S. B., Member of N. E. Hist. Gen.
Society and Author of "Memoir of Col. Jeduthan Baldwin" and the "Patten
Genealogy." 8vo, cloth, pp. 420, includmg index, illustrated, 1915. Price,
^.00. Address: author, No. 41 Hawthorn St., Cambridge, Mass.
A most excellent compilation. It contains the record of the descend-
ants of Michael Bacon to the nth generation, inclusive; and also the records
of the descendants of John and Nabby (Perry) Bacon. The work bears
all evidence of careful compilation and will be welcomed by those of the
blood. It is heartily recommended to all genealogical libraries.
The History of New Ipswich. New Hampshire, 1735-1914, with
genealogical records of the principal families, compiled and written by
Charles Henry Chandler with the assistance of Sarah Fiske Lee. Octavo,
cloth, pp. 782, including index, illustrated. Price, $5.00. Address: Miss
Sarah Fiske Lee, New Ipswich, N. H.
A most valuable addition to the history and genealogy of this old New
Hampshire town. The historical portion is most valuable and contains much
of great interest to the genealogist. The genealogical section from page
171 to 720, inclusive, is the feature which most attracts us naturally and it ren-
ders the work invaluable to genealogists. Heartily recommended to all
historical and genealogical libraries.
The Clan McNary of the U. S. A. Probable Ethnic Origin, Qan
Traditions and Time of Immigration, by Joseph Rea McNary. 1914. 8vo.
paper, pp. 79. Price, $1.00. Address: author, Burgettstown, Pa.
An interesting volume of genealogical interest, recommended to genea-
logical libraries.
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The Ancestry of Katharine Choatb Paul (now Mrs. William J.
Young, Jr.), compiled by Edward Joy Paul, A.M. 1914. 8vo, doth, pp. 386,
including index, illustrated. Price, fc.50. Address: Mrs. W. J. Young, Jr.,
545 Fifth Avenue, Qinton, Iowa.
This work is not a genealogy, but rather a compilation of the blood lines
of the author, and includes vsduable genealogical material relative to some
100 families with which she is connected by blood. Recommended to all
genealogical libraries.
Read Genealogies, of the brothers and sisters, Israel, Abner, John,
Polly (Read) Hetherington, William, Wolcott, Lewis and Nathaniel, com-
piled by Rev. Henry Martyn Dodd, A.B., A.M., of Ginton, N. Y. 8vo, doth,
pp. 278+ index and a supplement which adds valuable matter to the original
work. Price, $2.50, postage 13 cents extra. Address: compiler at Clin-
ton, N. Y.
A very creditable genealogical publication replete with matter of vital
interest to those of the blood of the above mentioned progenitors. Recom-
mended to all genealogical libraries.
Brett Genealogy, Bretts in England, William Brett, Roger Brett Com-
piled bjr Mrs. Lucy B. Goodenow. 8vo, cloth, pp. 535, including excellent
mdex, illustrated. 1915. Price, cloth, $8.00; half morocco, $10.00; full
morocco, $12.00. Address: compiler, 3089 Broadway, New York City
This is a first dass genealogy constructed along standard lines ; and,
as it is the first Brett genealogy published, it will be the more wdcome to the
genealogical public It contains a colored illustration of the Brett arms and
a full description of the same ; a section on the Bretts in England ; the record
of William^ Brett and his descendants to the eleventh generation; a section
on Roger Brett and his descendants; and an appendix containing much
matter of interest to those of Brett blood. Heartily recommended to all
genealogical libraries.
The McClure Family, by James Alexander McOure. 1914. 8vo, cloth,
pp. 224+6 pp. index, illustrated. Price, $4.00 postpaid. Address: author,
419 West Washington Street, Petersburg, Va.
A commendable work, although not constructed along standard genea-
logical lines. It contains an accoimt of the origin and meaning of the name
"McClure" ; the family in Scotland and Irdand ; the Colonial families and
first settlers of the name in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, New
York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Ten-
nessee and Kentucky, and something of their descendants in these and other
States. Colonial, Revolutionary, War of 181 2, and Civil War services.
Early marriages and wills ; other genealogical and historical data. Appendix,
giving in outline the Alexander, Bumgardner, Gilkeson, Humphreys, Pilson,
Sproul, Steele, Tate and Wallace families of Augusta County, Va. Recom-
mended to all genealogical libraries.
History of Cheshire, Conn., from 1694 to 1840, including Prospect,
which, as Columbia Parish, was a part of Cheshire until 1829. Compiled
and written by Joseph Perkins Beach. 1912. 8vo, cloth, pp. 574, illustrated.
Table of contents, no index. Price, cloth, $4.00; special binding, $7.50.
Address: Lady Fenwick Chapter, D. A. R, Cheshire, Conn. Checks made
payable to Mary Brown Stoddard.
This work is a notably good example of a town history and besides
the excellent historical matter of its contents contains the baptismal records
of Parson Hall and those of Parson Foot (baptisms) and the town vital
records, births, marriages and deaths and other important vital statistics
which for the most part are arranged alphabetically, which renders the lack
of index immaterial. Heartily recommended to all genealogical libraries.
Anniversary History of Lehigh Valley County, Pennsylvania, and
a Genealogical and Biographical Record of its families, by Charles Rhoads
Roberts, Rev. John Bacr Stoudt, Rev. Thomas H. Krick and WiUiam J.
1915.] Book Reviews. 311
Dietrich. Quarto, 3 volumes, pp. iioi, 779+xi, 1467 +xi, illustrated, each
volume indexed. Price, $18.00. Address: William J. Dietrich, 242 N. 6th
St., AUentown, Pa.
In the first volume of this exceptionally excellent work the history of
the County and its various townships is set forth in an elaborate and con-
vincing manner. Volumes II and III are devoted exclusively to Bio-
fraphical and Genealogical records of the County families and contains a
und of material which will be gratefully received by the genealogical
public The three volumes are enriched by numerous illustrations of
County interest and with portraits of individuals in connection with the
biographical and genealogical data. The work is a valuable addition to
locai Pennsylvania history, biography and genealogy. It is recommended
to all historical and gen^ogical libraries.
Pioneer Settlers of Grayson County, Virginia, by B. F. Nuckolls, of
Galax, Va. 8vo, cloth, pp. 206, illustrated, table of contents, no name index.
Price, cloth, $1.50; leather, $2.00. Address: author, c/o Qeveland National
Bank, Qeveland, Tenn.
This is a most commendable work and gives valuable information rela-
tive to the early settlers of this portion of Virginia. Among the families
whose history is recorded are to be found the following surnames : Asbury,
Anderson, Bourne, Blair, Bryan, Canute, Coltrane, Comett, Cooley, Carico,
Cox, Dow, Dickey, Dickenson, Davis, Early, Felts, Fulton, Garland, Gar-
rison, Goodykoontz, Gwjrn, Hale, Hash, Hanks, Isom, Jones, Johnston, Kyle,
Kenny, La Rowe, Lenoir, Lundy, McCamant, Moore, McMillan, Nuckolls,
Oglesby, Osborne, Pendleton, Perkins, Pugh, Phipps, Phlegar, Piper, Reeves,
Swift, Smith, Scott, Sheffy, Thomas, Vaughn, Ward, Worrell, Waugh and
Young. Recommended to all genealogical libraries.
Chisolm Genealogy^ 1254-1914. Being a record of the name from
A. D. 1254, with short sketches of allied families, by William Garnett
Chisolm, LL.B., of No. 925 Cathedral St, Baltimore, Md., member of
Society of Colonial Wars. Knickerbocker Press. 1914. 8vo, full morocco,
pp. 95, including index, with frontispiece of Chisholm Arms in black and
white on vellum paper. Privately printed. Not for sale.
This beautifully presented volume contains exhaustive information
relative to the origin of this old South Carolina family and gives the
genealogical record of the emigrant ancestor and much genealogical matter
relative to the descendants of this ancestor in America. It forms an
authoritative basis for a complete genealogy of this family which we hope
will appear in the future. The volume is enriched by a complete list of the
authorities consulted in the compilation and we congratulate ourselves on
having been presented with a copy. Recommended to all genealogical libraries.
History of the Province of Pennsylvania, by Samuel Smith. Edited
by William M. Mervine. Published by the Colonial Society of Pennsyl-
vania. Press of J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, Pa. 1913. 8vo, buckram,
pp. 231, including index. Price, $2.50. Address: The Colonial Society of
Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Samuel Smith, the author of the original manuscript of this volume,
was born December 13, 1720, and died Jiily 13, 1776. He was the author
of the History of New Jersey, published in 1765. The volume under review,
therefore, gives a contemporaneous statement of facts relating to the
settlement and development of Pennsylvania and is rendered the more valuable
on account of the early atmosphere surrounding the work. Recommended
to all historical libraries.
Records of the Courts of Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1681-1697.
Published by The Colonial Society of Pennsylvania. 1910. 8vo, buckram.
fp. 430, including index. Price, $5.00. Address: The Colonial Society of
Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
A most valuable addition to the historical record of this old County of
Pennsylvania. The records of this period are full of information relative
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to the inhabitants at that time and will be of much value as corroborative
evidence to genealogical searchers. Recommended to all genealogical libraries.
Horace Ward Bailey, Vermonter, A Memorial by his friends, com-
piled and edited by Frank L. Fish. Privately printed. 1914. Price not
stated. Address: The Tuttle Company, 11-13 Center St, Rutland, Vt.
A most interesting presentation of the life activities of this well known
and honored Vermonter. It is heartily recommended to all biographical and
genealogical libraries.
John Cary, the Plymouth Pilgrim, by Rev. Seth C. Cary. 8vo, cloth,
pp. 274, including index, with colored plate of Cary Arms and other illus-
trations. 191 1. Price, $5.25. Address: author, No. 43 Moultrie St, Dor-
chester Center, Boston, Mass.
A most excellent presentation of the genealogical record of John Cary,
the emigrant ancestor, and his descendants and will be welcomed by all of
the blood. It is recommended to all genealogical libraries.
Genealogy of the Van Pelt Family, compiled by Effie M. Smith from
Records of Family, Church, State and Nation. 8vo, cloth, pp. 251, includ-
ing index, and colored plate of Van Pelt Arms and other illustrations.
Chicago, 1913. Price, cloth, $5.00; half leather, $7.00. Address: Mrs. Eflfic
M. Smith, City National Bank Bldg., Omaha, Neb.
A valuable addition to the genealogy of this family in America, and
as such it is heartily recommended to all genealogical libraries.
History of the First Baptist Church, of Athol, Mass., by William
G. Lord, and The Story of the Auxiliary Organizations, by Mary B. Lord.
8vo, cloth, pp. 96, including index, illustrated. Price, cloth, $1.00; paper,
75 cents. Address: William G. Lord, Athol, Mass.
An excellent work containing much information of value to genealogists.
Recommended to genealogical libraries.
The Colonial Society of Pennsylvania. Charter, Constitution, By-
laws, Officers, Committees, Members, etc. 8vo, doth, pp. 174, including index.
Published by the Society, 1914. No price stated. Address: Society, 1300
Locust St., Philadelphia, Pa.
An admirable year book, rendered the more valuable as it gives the
main pedigrees of its members and also statement of many supplemental
lines of descent. Recommended to all genealogical libraries.
Andover, Mass., The<mlogical Seminary, General Catalogue, 1808-1908.
8vo, cloth, pp. 568. Edited by C. C. Carpenter. Price not stated. Address :
Secretary of Seminary, Andover, Mass.
A most excellent example of a College General Catalogue, full of
genealogical information. Recommended to all genealogical libraries.
Biographical Catalogue of Lafayette College (Easton, Pa.), 1832-
1912, compiled by John Franklin Stonecipher, Librarian of the College and
Secretary of Alumni Association. 1913. 8vo, cloth, pp. 814, including index.
Price, $2.50. Address: author at Easton, Pa.
Another most valuable college catalo^e replete with genealogical in-
formation. Recommended to all genealogical libraries.
Genealogical Frost Record, 1635-1906, by Charles S. Frost. 8vo, cloth,
pp. Z7f with genealogical chart, with illustration of Frost Arms. Address:
author, No. 105 South La Salle St, Chicago, 111. No price stated.
An interesting compilation, giving the author's line of descent from
Ednmnd Frost, of Cambridge, Mass., 1635. The genealogical chart also
gives much information relative to other Frost lines springing from the same
ancestor. Recommended to all genealogical libraries.
19 1 5.] Book Reviews, 313
Leland Stanford Junior University. Alumni Directory and Ten
Year Book, iSpi-ipia 8vo, cloth, pp. 321, including index. No price stated.
Address : J. E. Hewston, Superintendent, Stanford University, Cal.
Full of genealogical information. Recommended to genealogical
libraries.
General Catalogue of the Meadville (Pa.) Theological School,
1844-1910. Qjmpiled by Rev. Walter Cox Green, A.M., S.T.B., Librarian and
Secretary of the Faculty. 8vo. cloth, pp. 112, including index. No price
pp. I
; Pa.
stated. Address: compiler at Meadville,
First class catalogue full of genealogical information. Recommended
to all genealogical libraries.
Tombstone Inscriptions in the Old Presbyterian Burying Ground
at Greenwich, N. J., with a Historical Sketch compiled by Frank D.
Andrews, Secretary of the Vineland (N. J.) Historical and Antiquarian
Society. 8vo, paper, pp. 50. Price, $1.00. Address: compiler at Vineland,
N. J.
A most valuable contribution to the necrology of this district Recom-
mended to all genealogical libraries.
Major Abner Morse, Esq., of Holliston, Mass., by William Thornton
Parker, M.D., of No. 65 Columbus Ave., Northampton, Mass. 8vo, paper, pp.
32, illustrated. Price, 50 cents. Address: author.
An excellent tribute to the memory of Major Morse and contains much
genealogical information. Recommended to all genealogical libraries.
Blin. a short genealogy of one line of the Blin Family descended from
Peter Blin, the settler of Wethersfield, Conn., with a few notes on the
Tibbits Family, by James W. Hill, of 1015 Hamilton Blvd., Peoria, 111. 8vo,
pamphlet, pp. 20. Price, $2.00. Address: author.
An excellent record of this line of Blins. Recommended to all gene-
alogical libraries.
Harris Family of Virginia, 1611-1914, from data gathered and printed
for Thomas Henry Harris, of 908 Main St., Fredericksburg, Va. 8vo, paper,
pp. 34. Price not stated. Address: author.
An interesting compilation giving much data relative to the Harris
Family of Virginia and allied families. Recommended to all genealogical
libraries.
The Memoir of Thomas Addis Emmet and of Robert Emmet, by Dr.
Thomas Addis Emmet. 8vo, cloth, 2 volumes, pp. 589+644, with index iu each
volume and with 112 full pa^e illustrations. Published in 1915. Price, $ioxx).
Address: Emmet Press, 16 E. 40th St, New York City.
"A book by Doctor Thomas Addis Emmet, on the subject about which
he is above all men most competent to write, needs no recommendation.
"The venerable writer, now in his eighty-eighth year, has succeeded not
only in compiling all that is most authentic about the lives of Dr. Thomas
Addis and Robert Emmet, but also in breathing into his pages their undying
spirit of patriotism and self-sacrifice in Ireland's cause.
"That spirit is manifestly strong in the writer himself, and these two
volumes, a treasure-trove of Ireland's most sacred traditions, will keep it
alive and potent in his fellow countrymen for ages to come."
Those of the blood as well as those interested in biography and gene-
alogy will enthusiastically welcome this monumental contribution to the
history of this noted Irish Family. We regard it as one of the notable
publications of its kind of the year and congratulate the author on the
completion of a labor of love brought to so creditable a conclusion. Recom-
mended to all general reference, historical, biographical and genealogical
libraries.
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A Handbook History of the Town of York (Maine), 1623-1914,
From Early Times to the Present, by Edward C. Moody. 8vo, clothi pp.
251. Price, $1.50. Address: author, York Village, Me.
A valuable addition to the historical information extant on this old
Maine town. Contains much data of value to genealogists. Recommended
to all historical and genealogical libraries.
The Pioneer Famiues of Cleveland (Ohio), 1796-1840, by (Jertrude
Van Rensselaer Wickham. 8vo, buckram, 2 vols., pp. 694, with index in 2nd
volume. 1914. Price, $5.00; autograph copy, $6.00. Address: author, 1712
E. 89th St, Cleveland, Ohio, or publishers, Burrows Brothers Co., Geveland,
Ohio.
These volumes are a compendium of the history, genealogy and romance
of this flourishing Ohio city. "All intelligent users of books will be happy
in the splendid index of these two volumes, which experts consider complete.
"The index of 51 pages is divided into five parts: Pioneer families;
general index; all cities and towns mentioned; soldiers and patriots of the
Revolutionary War; maps."
The volumes are replete with genealogical data and will be found an
important mine of information for genealogists, as it would seem that the
pioneer families of that city have been fully canvassed. Recommended to
all historical, genealogical and general reference libraries.
History and Reminiscences of Lower Wall Street and Vicinity, \xj
Abram Wakeman. Svo, cloth, pp. 216, table of contents, no index, illustrated.
1914. Price, $2.00. Address: publishers, The Spice Mill Publishing Co.,
97 Water St., Mew York City.
A most interesting and valuable contribution to the local history of
New York City. Recommended to historical and general reference libraries.
Spencer Fullerton Baird, a Biography, by William Healey Dall, A.M.,
D.Sc. Svo, cloth, pp. 462, including index, with 19 illustrations. Price, $3.50
net. 1915. Address: publishers, J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, Pa.
"Natural Histor]^ in America is most of all indebted to two remarkable
men. Professor Louis Agassiz and Professor Spencer F. Baird.
"Their activities in a public sense in this country began about the same
time, Agassiz, the enthusiastic, inspiring teacher, and iBaird, the efficient, hard
working and lovable organizer, complemented each other.
"Professor Baird was a bom naturalist and organizer of methods and
men. His biography is not a history of explorations nor a record of technical
investigations; but an account of the life and relation to them of a singularly
eminent, able, efficient and modest devotee of the natural sciences.
"Apart from the scientific side of the activities it endeavors to make the
reader acquainted with the characteristics of a pure and lovable leader of
men to whose modesty and self-sacrifice the country owes a debt which is
still appreciated only by a select few."
Recommended to general reference and historical and biographical libra-
ries.
Chronicles of Erthig on the Dyke, by Albinia Lu<y Cust (Mrs.
Wherry). Svo, cloth, 2 vols., pp. 361+348, including index m 2nd volume
with some 33 full-page illustrations. Price, $7.50 net, postage extra. 1914.
Address: John Lane Company, Publishers, 1 16-120 W. 32d St, New York
City.
It is difficult within the space of a formal review to do credit to the
manifest merits of this excellent work. It contains chapters on Erthig on the
Dyke; on John Meller and the Meller Family; Simon Yorke, the first of
Erthig; Philip Yorke, the first of Erthig, and Simon Yorke, the second of
Erthig. The volumes are replete with valuable genealogical data and inter-
esting historical notes and the volumes are heartily recommended to genealog-
ical and historical societies.
The Centennial Celebration of the Foundation of the University of
Maryland. Svo, buckram, pp. 267. Edited by John C Hemmetcr, M.D.,
IQIS-] Book Reviews, 315
Phil.D., LL.D., 1908. No price stated. Address : Librarian of the University,
Baltimore, Md.
A most interesting volume giving an account of the ceremonies, events
and transactions of this celebration.
History op the Ladds and the Descendants of Mordica Ladd to 1915.
Chart. Compiled by Earl C L. Van Wert, No price stated. Address:
compiler, Valhalla, N. Y.
This chart gives the ancestry of Mordica Ladd and his descendants for
four generations. Recommended to genealogical libraries.
Days and Ways in Old Boston. Edited by William S. Rossiter. 8vo,
boards, pp. 144, illustrated with 51 views of Boston. 191 5. Price, 50c., post-
age extra. Address: publishers, R. H. Steams & Co., Boston, Mass.
A most interesting volume, full of charming sketches by such contributors
as William S. Rossiter; Thomas Wentworth Higginson; Frank H. Forbes;
Maud Howe Elliott ; Robert Lincoln O'Brien ; Heloise E. Hersey ; Walter K.
Watkins, and Francis R. Hart Recommended to historical libraries.
By-Gone Days in Ponsett-Haddam, Middlesex County, Conn. A
story bv Rev. William C. Knowles, Rector of St. James Church, Ponsett.
Privately printed. New York, 19 14. 8vo, cloth, pp. 65, including index, 2
maps, rrice not stated. Address : author, Higganum, Conn.
An interesting contribution to the local history of this section, containing
also valuable genealogical information. Recommended to historical and
genealogical libraries.
In Ancient Albemarle, by Catherine Albertson. Published by the North
Carolina Society Daughters of the Revolution. 1914. 8vo, cloth, pp. 170,
illustrated from drawings by Mabel Pugh. Price, $1.25. Address: author,
No. 209 West Church St, Elizabeth City, N. C.
A valuable contribution to the local history of this section of North
Carolina. Recommended to historical libraries.
NoRTHRUP Genealogy, 1637-1914. A History of the Ancestors and De-
scendants of William Northrup, an early settler in the Town of Mason-
ville, N. Y., bv George Qark Northrup, of No. 256 North Broad St., Eliza-
beth, N. J. 8vo, paper, pp. 16. Limited edition of 50 copies for private
circulation. No price stated. Address: author.
A valuable compilation giving partial record of the descendants of
William Northrup to the 9th generation, inclusive. Recommended to all
genealogical libraries.
Some op the Descendants of Balthaser and Susanna Philip-
PINA Loesch. Palatines from Gernsheim, near Worms, Germany, with his-
torical notes by William W. Lesh (Loesch), of Newport, Perry Co., Pa.
8vo, paper, pp. 47. No index, with portrait of author and cut of Loesch
Arms. Price, i copy, $1.00; 2 copies, $1.50. Address: author, 834 Vamum
St, N. W., Washington, D. C.
An excellent compilation recommended to genealogical libraries.
Gresham. Biographical and Historical Sketches of the Greshams of
America and Across the Seas. Compiled by Alexander Taylor Strange.
1013. 8vo, paper, pp. 53. Price not stated. Address: compiler, Hillsboro,
I§;
Full of valuable information relative to the Gresham Family. Recom-
mended to genealogical libraries.
Strange. Biographical and Historical Sketches of the Stranges of
America and Across the Seas. Compiled by Alexander Taylor Strange.
1911. 8vo, paper, pp. 137+viii. Price not stated. Address: author, Hills-
boro, 111.
3l6 Bock Reviews, [July
A valuable contribution to the Strange Family history, with much genea-
logical information therein. Recommended to genealogical libraries.
Magna Charta Barons and Their Descendants, with the story of the
great Charter of King John; sketches of the celebrated twenty-five sureties
for its observance, and their lineal descents from them of the members of
the Baronial Order of Runnemede, by Charles H. Browning, Genealogist to
the Baronial Order. Quarto, buckram, pp. 366, including index, illustrated.
Issued 191 4 under the auspices of the Publication Committee of the Baronial
Order, John B. Cements, Charles Marshall, Joseph A. Steinmetz. Price,
$20.00. Address: John B. Cement, Keeper of the Purse, Baronial Order
of Runnemede, No. j8oi Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
This beautifully presented volume contains chapters on the Story of the
Magna Charta; A Statement of the Contents of the Charta; List of
Magna Charta Barons ; Memoirs of the Magna Charta Sureties with pedigree
of each ; Statutes of the Baronial Order of Runnemede, and finally, from page
147 to end of volume, page 347 ^200 pages), the Pedigrees of Members of
the Baronial Order of Runnemede.
It is the latter section of the volume that renders it unique and valuable
to genealogists, wherein the pedigrees of the members of this order are
given in full back to the Magna Charta Baron ancestor, thus establishing
many lines of ascent heretofore not published. It is presumed that the
?:enealogist of the order has amongst the archives of the Society the vital
acts relative to each generation of the pedigrees published. These vital
facts are not published in the volume, the mere line being sketched back
to Magna Charta ancestor. The historical matter of the volume is excellent
and we heartily recommend it to all general reference, historical and genea-
logical libraries.
History of Scranton, Pa., and Its People, by Col. Frederick L. Hitch-
cock, Attorney at Law, late Col. U. S. V., War 1801-65. Quarto, half moroc-
co, 2 vols., pp. 532+6951 illustrated. Index in 2nd volume. Published by
the Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 265 Broadway, N. Y. City. 1914. Price,
$25.00. Address: publishers.
This is another of the excellent series of publications of the Lewis His-
torical Publishing Co. The first volume is devoted to the history of the
City of Scranton and is full and complete in its details. The second volume is
devoted exclusively to biographical sketches of those prominent in the affairs
of the city and will be of value to genealogists and historians. Recom-
mended to all general reference and genealogical libraries.
Cumberland Lay Subsidy: Being the account of a fifteenth and tenth
collected 6th Edward III. Edited by Col. J. P. Steel, F. R. G. S., late of the
Royal Engineers. 1912. 8vo, paper, pp. 89, including index. Address : author,
31 Nevern Square, London, Eng. Price, 3s. 6d. net.
'This volume contains particulars of the account of Robert de Barton
and Cement de Skelton, the Commissioners appointed by the Crown for
the raising of a subsidy of a fifteenth and a tenth granted to the King,
Edward III., by the laity of Cumberland in the 6th year of his reign."
Recommended to genealogical libraries.
Feet of Fines, Cumberland, during the reign of Henry VIII. Extracted
from the Public Records by Colonel J. P. Steel, F. R. G. S. Printed for
private circulation. London. 8vo, paper, pp. 19.
"The existence of an almost unbroken series of Records for the trans-
fer of land, from the reign of Richard I. to the year 1834, should be more
generally known than it is, but it is scarcely too much to assert that even
among otherwise well-informed people the most complete ignorance prevails
on the subject." Recommended to all genealogical libraries.
Wills of the Family of Benn and Others, in that part of Cumberland
formerly known as the Copeland Deanery of the Archdeaconry of Richmond,
191 SJ ^o<^^ Reviews, 317
Yorkshire. Proved at Richmondj Yorkshire, between the years 1574 and
1677, now preserved in the Principal Registry at Somerset House, and ab-
stracted at various times from 1894 to 19 12. G>mpiled and published by
J. P. Steel, 31 Nevem Square, London, Eng. 1913. Price, J4 crown. Ad-
dress: publi^er. 8vo, paper, pp. 2j, including index.
A valuable aid to genealogists who seek information from this locality.
Recommended to all genealogical libraries.
Lewis Institute (Madison and Robey Sts., Chicago, 111.), Bulletins,
1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 191 1, 1913. Alumni numbers, 8vo, paper, pp. 38, 100,
93, 79, "8, 75.
Holy Cross College (Worcester, Mass.) Bulletins. Alumni Number
1909, Directory and Decennial Record of Alumni. 8vo, paper, pp. 116.
Earlham (College (Richmond, Ind.) Bulletins. Alumni Triennial,
June, 1910, pp. 108. Alumni Triennial, 1862-1913, pp. 99.
Alumni Directory of the University of Chicago, III. 1913. 8vo, paper,
pp. 406.
General Catalogue, Mc(3qrmick Thechxxsical Seminary of the Pres-
byterian Church, No. 2330 North Halsted St, Chicago, 111. (jeneral (Cata-
logue, 1830-1912. 8vo, paper, pp. 242.
McGnx University, Montreal, Canada. Directory of Graduates cor-
rected to July, 1913. 8vo, paper, pp. 381.
Bryn Mawr (Pennsylvania) College, Calendar Register of Alunmae
and Former Students. 191 5. Compiled by Isabel Maddison, B. Sc, Ph. D.
8vo, paper, pp. 336. Price, 50 cents. Address: Secretary of College, Bryn
Mawr, Pa.
Bulletin of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Register of
Graduates, March, 191 1. 8vo, paper, pp. 344.
Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.) Alumni Bulletin,
1914. 8vo, paper, pp. 76.
Baylor University (Waco, Texas) Bulletin Alumni Directory, 1854-
1914, 8vo, paper, pp. 96.
Historical Catalogue of the Students of Kalamazoo (Michigan)
College and Kalamazoo Theological Seminary, 1851-1902. 8vo, paper, pp.
99, and Bulletin, December, 1913, giving Alumni up to Qass of 1914. 8vo,
paper, pp. 39.
University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kan.) Alumni Catalogue, Febru-
ary, 1914. 8vo, paper, pp. 175.
University of Califo&nla (Bersxley, Cal.) Directory of Ckraduates,
1864-1910. 8vo, paper, pp. 268.
Rec(»ds of the Graduates, Acadla College, Acadla University, Wolf-
ville, Nova Scotia, 1843-1908. 8vo, paper, pp. 192.
Alumni Directory of the University of Maine, 1914. 8vo, paper,
pp. 102.
Franklin and Marshall College (Lancaster, Pa.) Catalogue of
Officers and Students, 1787-1903. 8vo, paper, pp. 224.
General Catalogue of the Centre (College of Kentucky, Danville, Ky.
1890. 8vo, paper, pp. 260+55.
Marietta (College (Marietta, Ohio) General Catalogue, 1835-1901. 8vo,
paper, pp. 163.
All of the above described College (Catalogues are of much value to
genealogists, as the vital facts therein published relative to their respective
alumni often furnish information not to be obtained elsewhere. Recom-
mended to all genealogical libraries.
3 1 8 Accessions to the Library, [July
Old Deep River, Town of Saybrook, Conn. An address delivered there
by Frank T. Mather for the benefit of the Library Association ; giving a true
account of the origin and early growth of a typical New England village.
8vo, paper, pp. 34. Address: Deep River Public Library, Deep River, G>nn.
No price stated.
An interesting essay full of personal recollections of this town. Recom-
mended to all genealogical libraries.
Stiegel Glass, by Frederick William Hunter, A. M. Quarto, buckram,
pp. 272, including index, illustrated with twelve plates in color from auto-
chromes by J. B. Kerfoot and with one hundred and fifty-nine half-tones.
Published 1914 by Houghton, Mifflin Company, Riverside Press, Cambridge,
Mass. Price, $10.00. Address: publishers, 4 Park Street, Boston, Mass., or
16 E. 40th St., New York City.
This beautiful volume gives a comprehensive biography of "Baron"
Henry William Stiegel, the founder of this well-known glass industry of
Pennsylvania, embodying much information relative to the genealogy of his
family. The history of the origin and growth of the industry is compre-
hensively and sequentially set forth and the work is enriched by illustra-
tions in color and in half-tone of manv of the principal productions of this
well-known industry. The volume will be welcomed by students and amateurs
of the glass industry and it is heartily recommended to all general reference
libraries. The publishers are to be congratulated on the artistic presentation
of the volume.
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Albertson, Catherine — In Ancient Albemarle.
Andover Theological Semmary, Catalogue 1 808-1908; Bulletins.
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Baldwin, Thomas W. — Bacon Genealogy.
Bamford, Mrs. £. M.— SmulTs Handbook Legislature of Pa.
Cary, Rev. Seth C— Cary Genealogy.
Chisolm, William Garnett—Chisolm Genealogy.
Clement, John B.— Magna Charta Barons.
Colonial Society of Pennsylvania— Year Book, 1914; Records of Courts of
Chester Co., Pa. 1681-1697; History of the Province of Pennsylvania.
Dietrich, William J.— Historv of Lehigh Co., Pa. Vols. MIL
Draper, T. Wain- Morgan— Drapers in America, 1620-1892.
Hells, Nettie Barnum — Conn. State Register and Manual 1914.
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Fisher, Ida E. — Bryant Genealogy.
Frost, Charles S.— Frost Record, 1635-1906.
Goodenow, Mrs. Lucy B.— Brett Genealogy.
Hicks, Minnie Helen — Stearns Family; Hicks Family.
Iunge, Rev. William T.— History of St. Matthews Luth. Church, N. Y. City,
snowies. Rev. William C— By Gone Days in Ponsett-Haddam, Conn.
Lady Fen wick Chapter, D. A. R. — History of Cheshire, Conn. 1694-1840.
Lafayette College— Catalogue 1832 19 12.
Lee, Sarah Fiske— History of New Ipswich, N. H., 1735-1914.
♦Leggett, Edward H.— Surrogate's Court, Albany Co. Index to Wills and
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Leland Stamford lunior Univ. — Alumni Directory, 1891-1910.
Lewis Historical Publishing Co. — History of Scranton, Pa. Vols. I. II.
* Corresponding Members.
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Library of Congress — Calendar of Correspondence of George Washington,
Vols. 1-1 V.
Lippincott, J. B. Co.— Biography of Spencer Fullerton Baird.
Lord, William C— History ot ist Bapt. Church, Athol, Mass.
McClure, lames A. — McCiure Family.
McNary, Joseph Kea — McNary Family.
Meadville Theological School— Catalogue, 1844-1910.
Monnette, Orra E. — Year Book, Soc. of Colonial Wars, State of Cal. 1915.
Moody, Edward C. — History of York, Me. 1623-1914.
Murray, William H. — Van Pelt Genealogy.
Nuckolls, B. F.— Pioneer Settlers of Grayson Co. Va.
Stearns, R. H. & Co.— Days and Ways in Old Boston
The Tuttle Co.— Memorial of Horace Ward Bailey.
Totten, John R.— Medical Directory of N. Y., N. J., & Conn. 1913; Phi
Alplia Sigma Medical Fraternity Year Book.
University of Maryland— Centennial Celebration.
University of the State of N. Y.— Public Papers of George Clinton, Vol. X.
Wakeman, Abram— History of Lower Wall St. and Vicinity.
Wickham, Mrs. Gertrude V. R. — Pioneer Families of Cleveland, Vols. L IL
Wherry, Mrs. — Chronicles of Erthig on the Dyke, Vols. L IL
Young, Mrs. Wm. J. Jr. — Ancestry of Katharine Choate Paul.
Pamphlets.
Acadia University— Records of the Graduates, 1843-1908.
Amherst College Library— Records of Graduates and Non-Graduates.
Andrews, Frank D. — Tombstone Inscriptions, Presby. Burying Ground,
Greenwich, N. J.
Bates, Onward— Bates Family of Virginia and Missouri.
Bryn Mawr College— Catalogue.
Centre College of Kentucky— Catalogue 1825-1800.
*Cope, Gilbert— Bulletins, Chester Co. Historical Society.
Davis, Fellowes— Davis Family.
Deep River Public Library — History of Old Deep River, Conn.
Dodd, Henry M.— Supplement to Read Genealogies.
Franklin & Marshall College— Catalogue, 1787-1903.
Harris, Thomas Henry — Harris Family of Virginia, 1611-1914
Hill. James W.— Blin Genealogy.
Illinois State Normal Univ.— Register 1860-1912.
Lesh, William W. — Loesch Genealogy.
Lewis Institute — Bulletins.
Louisiana State Univ.— Alumni Bulletin.
McCormick Theological Seminary— General Catalogue, 1830-1912.
McGill University— Directory of Graduates.
Maffett, George West— Mottatana Bulletin
Maine Hist. Society— Proceedings, 1913-1914.
Marietta College— General Catalogue, 1835-1901.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Bulletin.
Mississippi Valley Hist Assn.— Collections, Vol. VII.
Northrup, G. C. — Northrup Genealogy.
Parker, Dr. William Thornton— Maj. Abner Morse; Parker & Morse
Families, 1585-1915.
Schenectady Co. Hist. Society— Year Book, 19V3-U.
Society of Mayflower Descendants — Bulletin, No. 4.
Sons of the Revolution, State of Cal. — Memoir of Francis Marion Lemmon.
Strange, A, T.— Gresham Family; Strange Family.
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M. A. 1913; 191 4; Official Register, 19 14.
University of California— Directory of Graduates, 1864-1910.
University of Chicago — Alumni Directory.
University of Kansas — Bulletin.
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320 Accessions to the Library. [July. 1915
University of Maine — Alumni Directory.
Waters, Elizabeth K.— Waters Family.
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Manuscripts.
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Ancestral chart of Gilbert Cope and his wife.
Drake, Victor Monroe — Tombstone Inscriptions in the Pine Hill Cemetery,
Middletown, Conn.; Old Cemetery, at Milford Pa.
Hawes, Rebecca Williams — Genealogy of Abraham & Zerviah (Ricketson)
Smith.
Hillman, Eduardo Haviland— Principal Freeholders and Inhabitants of
Queens Co., N. Y. in 1702.
*Luckhurst, Mrs. Charlotte Taylor — Dutch Church Members of Schenectady,
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Thomas, Douglas H.— Pedigree Chart of Robert Brooke.
Van Wert, E. C— History of the Ladds, chart.
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GEORGE CLINTON BATCHELLER.
By Hopper Striker Mott.
This Society has lost a valued member in the person of George
Clinton Batcheller, who died at his home, No. 237 West 72nd
Street, on Monday, Jan. 25, 191 5, in his 8ist year. He had just
completed arran^fements to go to Palm Beach to spend the wipter.
Of a distinguished Colonial family, Mr. Batcheller was born at
Grafton, Mass., Sept. 27, 1834. He descended from Hon. Joseph
Batcheller of Canterbury, England, who emigrated to America in
1636 with his wife Elizabeth, one child and three servants, and
brothers Henry and John, settling first at Salem and later at
Wenham. He was the first representative from that town to the
General Court in Boston in 1644. He died in 1647.
John Batcheller, the son, bap. in the First Church in Salem,
Jan. 20, 1638; m. (i) July 12, 1661, Mary Dennis, d. June 26, 1665;
m. (2) May 4, 1666, Sarah Goodale, dau. of Robert of Salem; d.
March 22, 1729. He was one of the jury that tried the famous
witchcraft cases in Salem. His will dated Dec. 16, 1698, is of
record in Old Series Book 6, April, 1667, to Dec, 1699, vol. 306,
p. 141, Essex Co., Mass. His ninth child was
David Batcheller, b. at Wenham, Mass., 1673; m. May 7, 1709,
Susanna Whipple of Ipswich; d. June 13, 1764. He served as
Town Clerk from 1744 to 1748. His will was probated at Ipswich,
March 11, 1766.
Capt. Abraham Batcheller, their son, b. at Wenham, June 5,
1722; m. May 15, 1751, Sarah Newton of Westboro, to which
town he removed. Soon after his marriage he removed to Sutton
where their eight children grew up. In 1763 he was elected
Selectman as "Abraham Batcheller. The following year he held
the same office and was called " Ensign Abraham,'* as he was in
1765 and 1766. In the year 1773 as a member of the Selectmen
he was called ** Lieut. Abraham " and the same in 1782, and in
later records he is referred to as Capt. Abraham. He died Jan. 31,
18 13. The will is on file in the Worcester Probate Office. One
of his sons was
Abner Batcheller, who was bom at Sutton, Sept. i, 1755; m.
Feb. 22, 1 78 1, Prudence Leland, b. Aug. 8, 1759, dau. Moses and
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322 George Clinton BaUheller. [Oct
Mrs. Abigail (Robbins) Leland; d. 1827. He served in Col.
Ebenezer Learned 's company that marched from Sutton on the
alarm to Concord, April 19, 1775, and also took part in the move-
ment on Dorchester Heights, March 4, 1776, which resulted in the
hasty evacuation of Boston.
Moses Batchelier, a son, was bom at Sutton, Nov. 22, 1784;
m. (i) April 18, 1802, Rachel Wakefield, b. June 12, 1777, dau.
Jonathan, Jr.; m. (2) Jan. 7, 1807, Polly Chase, b. Jan. 25, 1791; d.
an. 16, 1871. At the age of 14 he went to Boston, enlisted in
the U. S. Navy, and was assigned as cabin boy to the Frigate
Constitution^ then in command of Capt. Isaac Hull. After serving
his time he returned to Sutton and became a manufacturer of
scythes in which business he continued during life, with plants at
Grafton, Mass., and Burrillville, R. I. Aquilla Chase, the ancestor
of Mrs. Batchelier, was a mariner and came from Cornwall, Eng-
land, in 1640, to Hampton, N. H. He removed to Newbury,
Mass., where he d. in 1670. Moses Batchelier d. Nov. 2, 1864, at
Grafton. His first son and second child was named
Moses Leland Batchelier and was born Dec. 3, 1809. He m.
thepe Nov. 13, 1833, Sarah Ann Phillips, b. July 19, 1813, dau. of
Ebenezer and Sally Leathe. He entered his father's business.
His wife was a descendant of Rev. George Phillips, who came from
Norfolk, England, in 1630. Her grandfather Ebenezer Phillips
enlisted April 24, 1775, ^"^ served as a sergeant in Capt. Luke
Drury's company and was at the battle of Bunker Hill under the
immediate command of Gen. Warren.
George Clinton Batchelier, their first child and the subject of
this biography, received his early education at the local grammar
school and graduated from the Barre Academy, Vermont, in 1855.
The College of William and Mary conferred the degree of LL.D.
upon him in 1907 and the Ohio Northern University that of L.H.D.
in 1913. His business career started in 1855 in the dry goods
house of Turner, Wilson & Co. of Boston, with which firm he re-
mained until 1857 when he became a member of the firm of
Nichols & Batchelier. In 1865 he organized Langdon, Batchelier
& Co., now George C. Batchelier & Co. with factories at Bridgeport,
Conn., and Newark, N. J., and employing more than 2000 persons.
He was president of this company and of the Crown Corset Co.,
the Connecticut Clasp Co., and the Crown Paper Box Co. of
Bridgeport. He was also President of the Board of Trustees of
St. Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church of this city, from which
church his funeral took place on January 27th.
Mr. Batchelier was a member of the Chamber of Commerce, of
the New England Society, the Merchants' Association, the Biblio-
phile Society, the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
which he joined on Jan. 17, 1910, and the American Flag Associa-
tion. He was a charter member of the American Flag House and
Betsy Ross Memorial Association and a Governor of the Society
of Founders and Patriots of America. He was likewise a Son of
the American Revolution, a member of the Washington Contin-
ental Guard, of John A. Dix Post, G. A. R. the West End Associa-
19 1 5.] George Clinton Batcheller. 323
tion and Ye Olde Settlers of Ye West Side. One of the last pub-
lic functions he attended was the dinner of the latter society at the
Hotel Majestic a few days prior to his decease. A lover of art
he also had a literary turn of mind and devoted many leisure
hours to his library which contained miscellaneous and standard
works by the best authors. His clubs were the Union League,
Republican, Lotus, Patria and Merchants* in this City and the Pil-
grims and American Universities in London. He is survived by
his second wife, who was Miss Truene Ruth Geddes of Boston.
The following memorial prepared by A. Otis Walker Esq., was
unanimously adopted by the West End Association at its meeting
held on February i, 191 5 :
**Again death has invaded our ranks and removed from
our companionship an old and respected member of this
Association. George Clinton Batcheller died at his home
in the City of New York on January 25th, 191 5, after an
illness of a single day, at the ripe age of eighty years. It
had been my good fortune to know Mr. Batcheller for
over twenty years, and during that oeriod I learned to
admire his many sterling equalities, (doming of old New
England stock, his entire life has been spent in mercan-
tile pursuits in which he achieved marked success. He
was much interested in patriotic work and belonged to a
number of patriotic societies. One of his principal
achievements in that direction was the purchase and pre-
sentation to a patriotic society of the Betsy Ross house
in Philadelphia, where the first American flag was made.
His hobby was the purchase of rare books, of which he
had a large and valuable collection. An entire story of
his residence on West 72nd Street was used to house
this collection, and it was indeed a pleasure to wander
among these books, as I have done in company with the
owner, and listen to his comments upon them. Mr.
Batcheller was a man whose appearance indicated youth-
• fulness rather than age. He had the characteristics of a
man of sixty, rather than those of an octogenarian. In
his relations with his fellow men his manner was marked
by geniality rare in men of his age, and his cheery smile
was always in evidence. He had been a member of this
Association for thirty-one years and for many years had
been chairman of its Finance Committee. From month
to month he was accustomed to be with us at the meet-
ings of the Executive Committee, where his suggestions
were always listened to with great respect, and where his
presence was a source of pleasure to us all. We shall
miss him in the future councils of that Committee as will
the members of this Association at its monthly meetings.
To his young wife we tender our sympathy and remind
her that her husband has left behind him an honored
name, which will be to her a goodly heritage."
324 Jo^^ Denison Champlin, [Oct
JOHN DENISON CHAMPLIN.
By John Denison Champlin, Jr.
John Denison Champlin was born m Stonington, Conn^ Jan.
29, 18^4, and died in New York Citv, Jan. 8, 1915. He was the
son of John Denison Champlin and Sylvia Bostwick. He mar-
ried at Litchfield, Conn., Oct. 8, 1873, Pranka E. Colvocoresses,
daughter of Capt. George M. Colvocoresses, United States Navy.
Mr. Champlin was the direct descendant of:
1. Geoffrey, Teoffrey or Jeffrey Champlim, who was of the
Island of Aquianeck, now Rhode Island, in 1638. He settled first
at Pocasset (Portsmouth), on the north end of the island, but
removed the next year to Newport, at the south end. He was
admitted an inhabitant of the island the 24th of the nth month,
1638, and a freeman, Sept. 14, 1640. In 1661 he removed, with
many others, to Misquamacut (Westerly), in the Narragansett
country, but returned to Newport in 1675-6, during King Philip's
War, and possibly died there. He is mentioned in 1695, by his
son Jeffrey in a deed as •* my deceased father." GeoflErey Champlin
married, probably in Newport, previous to 1650, but the name of
his wife has not been preserved. He had, so far as is known, but
three children, all of whom left descendants.
i. Jeffrey, b. about 1650; d. Kingstown, R. I., in 1715.
He was the ancestor of Commodore Stephen Champ-
lin, U. S. N., and of Dr. James Tift Champlin, Presi-
dent of Colby University.
2 ii. William, b. in 1654; d. at Westerly, R. I., Dec. i, 1715.
iii. Christopher, b. about 1656; d. at Westerly, April 2,
1732. He was the ancestor of George Champlin,
member of the Continental Congress, and of Chris-
topher Grant Champlin, U. S. Senator of Rhode
Island, in 1809.
2. WitMAM Champlin, born in 1654; married about 1674, Mary
Babcock, dau. of Capt. James and Sarah ( ) Babcock of
Westerly. He was twenty-one years old in 1675, when King
Philip's War broke out. With other young men of the neighbor-
hood he at once volunteered and served in the several campaigns,
both in Narragansett and elsewhere. Though we have no docu-
mentary proof of it, he probably took part m the Great Swamp
fight in December, 1675, as he was one of the 185 volunteers who
received in 1696 from the General Court of Connecticut, for
services in the war, the grant of six miles square, comprised in
the present town of Voluntown.
He was admitted a freeman at Westerly, Oct. 17, 1679.
In 1683-4 he is recorded a juryman; in 1684-5 a member of
the Town Council, and in 1687, when the name of Westerly was
■j/tr^ BjO^^-^^^
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changed to Haversham by Sir Edmond Andros, was appointed
with John Maxon, to go to Boston to "present a petition to his
excellency for a towne Charter and to prossecute the same." In
1690 he is called Captain and was chosen one of the Deputies to
represent Westerly in the first General Assembly summoned
after Andros' deposition. From this time to 17 12 he is recorded
as a moderator of nearly every Town Meeting and as Deputy to
the General Assembly at nearly everjr session, in all twenty-three
times. In 1699 he was one of the six Commissioners for Rhode
Island to confer with the Commissioners of Connecticut in
reference to the settlement of the boundary line between the
two colonies.
Captain William Champlin died at Westerly, Dec. i, 17 15,
in his sixty-second year, and was buried in the family burial
ground about four miles from Westerly, where his tombstone
still remains. Mrs. Mary (Babcock) Champlin, his widow, died
intestate at Westerly in the spring of 1747, aged about ninety-two
years. The inventory of her personal estate amounted to ;^5o8-i3.
They had three children:
i. Mary, b. in 1675; m. in 1700, John Babcock, of John
and Mary (Lawton) Babcock.
3 ii. William, b. 1677; m. Jan. 18, 1700, Mary Clarke, of
Joseph and Bethiah'( Hubbard) Clarke,
iii. Ann, b. in 1678-9; m. Tan. 19, 1698-9, Samuel Clarke,
of Joseph and Bethiah (Hubbard) Clarke.
3. William Champlin, married Jan. 18, 1700, Mary, daughter of
Joseph and Bethiah (Hubbard) Clarke of Westerly. He was a
Justice in Westerly and held other offices. He represented the
town in the General Assembly in 1728, 1731 and 1732. He was a
large landholder. He died in 1746. His will is dated Aug. 3,
1746; executor, son William; inventory of personal estate, Dec. 29,
1 746-7, ;^82 1-4-9. Mrs. Mary (Clarke) Champlin, bom in Westerly,
Dec. 27, 1780; died there in 1760. She was the granddaughter of
Joseph Clarke of Westhorpe, Suffolk, England, and grandniece
of Dr. John Clarke, one of the principal founders of Rhode Island,
several time Deputy Governor, and long the Colony's agent in
London, through whose efforts the Charter of 1663 was obtained
from Charles II. All their children were bom in Westerly. The
first two are of record, the others are given in the order of
mention in William's will:
4 i. William, b. May 31, 1702; m. Nov. i, 1721, Sarah
Thompson.
ii. Jeffrey, b. March 6, 1704; m. 1724, Mary Maxon, of
Joseph and Tacy (Burdick) Maxon.
iii. Joseph, b. about 1706; m. 1730, Deborah Burdick, of
Samuel and Mary ( ) Burdick.
iv. Samuel, b. about 1708; m. 1735, Prudence Thompson,
of Capt. Isaac and Mary (Holmes) Thompson.
V. Joshua, b. about 17 10; m. June 11, 1730, Bridget Thomp-
son, of Capt. Isaac and Mary (Holmes) Thompson.
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326 John DiHison Champlin. [Oct
▼i. James, b. about 171a; m. Jan. 15, 1 734-5* Prudence
Hallam, of Amos and Phoebe (Greenman) Hallam.
vii. Susanna, b. about 17 14; m. Nov. x, 1742, Samuel
Stanton, of Samuel and Lois (Cobb) Stanton.
4. William Champlin. b. May 31, 170a; m. Nov. i, lyai, Sarah
Thompson, daughter of Captain Isaac and Mary Holmes Thomp-
son of Westerly. He held various town offices and in 1734-6 was
Ensign of the ist Co. of Westerly Infantry. He represented
Westerly in the General Assembly in 1741 and 174a. He died in
Westerly, April 14, 1774; will dated Feb. 15, 1774. Mrs. Sarah
(Thompson) Champlin, born in Westerly, March 3, 1703, died
there. Children:
i. Mary, b. July 13, i7aa; m. Aug. 9, 1738, Joseph Stan-
ton, of Joseph and Esther (Gathsrp) Stanton,
ii. Samuel, b. Oct. 6, 17 a4; m. 1744, Hannah Gardner, of
Henry and ( ) Gardner.
iii. JeflErey, b. Sept. 30, i7a6; d. young,
iv. Ann, b. Jan. 15, i7a9; m. 1746, Joseph Pendleton, Jr.,
of Joseph and Sarah (Worden) Pendleton.
S V. William, b. Aug. 14, 1731; m. Dec. 4, 1751, Sarah Pen-
dleton, of Joseph and Sarah (Worden) Pendleton.
vi. John, b. Sept. 30, 1733; m. .
vii. Sarah, b. March 5, 1735; m. June 16, 1751, Sylvester
Pendleton, of Joseph and Sarah (Worden) Pendleton,
viii. Oliver, b. Aug. 21, 1737; d. unm., April 5, 1791.
ix. Anstis, b. Oct. 8, 1739; i^- ^75^1 John Dunbar.
X. Rowland, b. Jan. 8, 1741-a; m. Dec. ai, 1763, Hannah
Stetson,
xi. Eunice, b. Feb. 15, 1744; m. Aug. a4, 1764, Daniel
Larkin.
5. William Champlin, bom Aug. 14, 1731; married Dec. 4, 1751,
Sarah Pendleton, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Worden) Pen-
dleton of Westerly. A large landholder in Westerly, he had, like
other Narragansett planters, a house in Newport, and alternated
between his home there and the farm, part of his family remain-
ing in one place and part in the other. In 1768 he was Lieu-
tenant of the and Co. of Westerly Infantry, and in 1776 was
chosen Captain of the 4th Co. of the ist Newport County Regi-
ment. At the outbreak of hostilities he was preparing to retire
to Westerly when he was surprised, with many others, by the
sudden occupation of Newport bv the British (Dec. 7, 1776), and
was obliged to remain there until Oct., 1779, when the Americans
regained possession. Though thus forced by circumstances to
remain neutral during the early part of the Revolution, he always
favored the patriotic cause, and in 1779 contributed ;i^ao to the
Continental Loan. At the close of the war he did what he could
to build up the new government, and in 1789 was one of the
committee of five, including Isaac Senter, Christopher Champlin,
1915*] John Denison Champlin. 327
Daniel Mason and George Gibbs, appointed in Newport to draft
instructions to its Dejjuties in the General Assembly, impressing
upon them the necessity of calling a convention for the adoption
of the Constitution of the United States.
Mr. William Champlin died in Westerly, Oct. 17, 1798. Mrs.
Sarah (Pendleton) Champlin, born in Westerly, Aug. 7, 1734;
died there April 24, 1799. Children:
6 i. William, b. Aug. 13, 1752; m. 1780, Elizabeth Wells, of
James and Ruth (Hannah) Wells,
ii. Anne, b. May 19, 1754; m. Aug. 17, 1777, Dr. Isaac
Ross Bliven, of Major Edward and ( ) Bliven.
iii. Lucy, b. Mav 17, 1756; m. 1783, Arnold Clarke, of Rev.
Joshua and Hannah (Cottrell) Clarke,
iv. Deborah, b. April 12, X758; m. Nov. 21, 1779, Pones
Greene, of Samuel and Elizabeth (Marshall) Greene.
V. Pamelia, b. June 5, 1760; d. unm., Nov. 8, 1809.
vi. Adam, b. July 24, 1762; m. March 21, 1793, Henrietta
Coggshall.
vii. Lois, b. July 27, 1764; d. unm., Oct* 22, 1855.
viii. Sarah, b. Aug. i, 1766; m. May 17, 1795, Stephen Wil-
cox, of Rev. Isaiah and Sarah (Lewis) Wilcox,
ix. Eunice, b. Sept. 18, 1768; m. Dec. 4, 1800, Thomas
Parke, of Capt. Benjamin and Hannah (Stanton)
Parke.
X. Elizabeth, b. Dec. 24, 1769; m. April 2, 1796, William
Tillinghast, of Pardon and Abigail (Rogers) Tilling-
hast.
xi. Phoebe, b. Feb. i, 1772; d. unm., Aug. 22, 1791.
xii, Joseph, b. Oct. 7, 1774; m. ^ Jane Carr.
xiii. Mary, b. Oct. 23, 1776; d. unm., Feb. 17, 1847.
xiv. Oliver, b. June 6, 1778; m. , Eunice Thurston Mel-
ville, of David and Elizabeth (Thurston) Melville.
6. William Champlin, bom Aug. 13, 1752; married 1780, Eliza-
beth Wells, daughter of James and Ruth (Hannah) Wells, of
Hopkinton, R. L Mrs. Elizabeth (Wells) Champhn, bom in
Hopkinton, R. L, Jan. 14, 1758; died at Newport in 1785. Wil-
liam married, (2) Nov. 19, 1786, Margaret Drew, daughter of
Capt. James and! — Drew. He lived in Newport until 1795,
when he removed to South Kingstown. In 1801 he bought a
farm of -354 acres on the banks of the Pawcatuck River, below
Westerly, and resided there until his decease, Aug. 31, 1803.
Mrs. Margaret (Drew) Champlin, bom in Newport in ; died
in Westerly, Sept. 28, 1830. Children, by first wife:
7 i. Isaac, b. Nov. 20, 1781; m. Nov. 8, 1807, Mary Denison.
ii. James Wells, b. March 20, 1784; lost at sea, 1810.
By second wife:
iii. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 4, 1787; m. Aug. 21, 1807, Col. Jede-
diah Knight.
328 John Denistm Champlin. [Oct
iv. Margaret, b. Nov. a, 1791; m. March 18, 18 10, Barker
Noyes, of Col. Joseph and Barbara (Wells) Noyes.
V. William, b. April 15, 1794.
vi. Sarah, b. June 27, 1796.
vii. John Drew, b. Aug. 26, 1800; d. Aug. 31, 1803.
7. Isaac Champlin, born Nov. 20, 1781; married Nov. 8, 1807,
Mary Denison, daughter of John and Edith (Brown) Denison of
Stonington, Conn. In early life he was a prominent merchant in
Westerly and for many years a director in the Washington Bank,
founded in 1800. In 181 1-13 he was Brigade Quartermaster of
the 3rd Brigade of Washington County, and in 18 14-17 Brigade
Inspector of the same, with the rank of Maior. In 1824-30 be
was a Justice of the Peace in Westerly, and he represented the
town in the General Assembly in 1819-ao, 1824-25, and in 1830.
He removed in 1830 to Stonington, where he was Postmaster
during the administration of General Jackson. Major Champlin
died in Stonington, Aug. 8, x86i. Mrs. Mary (Denison) Champ-
lin, bom in Stonington, Oct. 14, 1787; died there, Jan. 30, 1862,
Children:
i. Mary, b. and d. Aug. 12, 1808.
ii. William, b. Oct. 3, 1809; d. Oct. 28, 1809.
8 iii. John Denison, b. Dec. 5, 1810; m. Sept. 12, 1831, Sylvia
Bostwick.
iv. Mary Elizabeth, b. Nov. 2, 181 3; d. Nov. 9, 18 13.
8. John Denison Champlin, bom Dec. 5, 1810; married (i) Sept.
12, 1831, Sylvia Bostwick, daughter of Joel and Nancy (Stone)
Bostwick of New Milford, Conn., who was bom in New Milforcl,
Conn., Dec. 5, 1810, and died in Lexington, Ky., March 5, 1856.
iohn Denison Champlin married (2) April 5, 1857, in St. Louis,
fo., Nora Crusman, daughter of General Cornelius Crusman of
Clarksville, Tenn., who was born in Clarksville, April 8, 1830, and
died at Hot Springs, Ark., June 2, 1882. Her husband died in
New York City, Sept. 12, 1892. Children, by first wife:
9 ' i. John Denison, b. Jan. 29, 1834; m. Pranka £. Colvo-
coresses.
ii. William Belden, b. July 15, 1836; m. Mary A. Bullitt,
iii. Caroline Brown, b. Peb. 4, 1839; m. John Laing Ma-
caulay.
iv. Edward Elmore, b. June 13, 1841; m. Esther Smith.
V. Isabella, b. Oct. 20, 1843; d. Feb. 20, 1844.
9. Mr. John Drnison Champlin, of the ninth generation, the
subject of this sketch, was a graduate of the famous class of Yale,
•56, which counted amon^ its members Chief Justices Brewer
and Brown and the Hon. Chauncey M. Depew. He was a lineal
descendant of Rev. James Noyes, who served on Yale's first
Board of Trustees. His preparatory training was at the Hopkin's
Grammar School in New Haven. In College he was a member
of the Brothers in Unity, Delta Kappa, Alpha Sigma Phi, Psi
I9I5'] John Denison Champlin, 329
Upsilon, and the Ariel Boat Club. Just before his death he was
elected a postgraduate member of Wolf's Head.
After graduation he studied law with Gideon H. Hollister
JB. A., 1840) in Litchfield, Conn., being admitted to the Bar there
in April, 1859. He soon removed to Milwaukee, Wis., where he
Practiced for a short time, after which he removed to New York
ity, as member of the firm of Hollister, Cross & Champlin, of
William Street.
In Dec, i860, he went to Louisiana, intending to practice in
New Orleans, but soon after the outbreak of the Civil War he
returned to the North. He became associate editor of the
Bridgeport (Conn.) Evening Standard in the spring of 1864, and
about a year later established The Sentinel^ a Democratic weekly,
in Litchfield, editing it until 1869, when he sold it and removed to
New York City, where he had since been engfaged in literary
work. In 1873 ^® edited Fox*s Mission to Russia^ compiled from
the notes of J. £. Lou bat. In April of the same year he was
chosen a member of the staff of revisers of Appleton's American
cyclopaedia^ and for the next two years was one of the corps of
editors.
In 1879 he brought out the Young Folks* Cyclopaedia of Com-
mon Things^ Young Folks* Cathecism of Common Things^ 1880,
1906. Young Folks* Cyclopaedia of Persons and Places ^ 1880, '99,
loii. Young Folks^ Astronomy^ 1881. Young Folks* History of
War for the Union, 1881. .
In 1884 Mr. Champlin went as the guest of Mr. Andrew Car-
negie on a coaching trip through England and Scotland. On the
coach were Matthew Arnold and William Black. After this trip
Mr. Champlin published his Chronicles of the Coach^ 1886.
In 1890 (with Arthur E. Bostwick^ the Young Folks' Cyclo-
paedia of Games and Sports was published. In 1901 Mr. Champ-
lin issued his Young Folks^ Cyclopaedia of Literature and Art,
In 1905, the Young Folk^ Cyclopaedia of Natural History. Mr.
Champlin was the editor of the Cyclopaedia of Painters and
Paintings^ 4 vols., 1886-8; Cyclopaedia of Music and Musicians^
3 vols., 1888-90.
During 1892-94 he was associate editor of the Standard Die-
tionary^ and in 1893 he was one of the three writers (with Rossitor
Johnson and George Cary Eggleston) selected by the Authors'
Club to edit Liber Scriptorum^ an unique volume containing con-
tributions by more than a hundred members of the club, among
them some of the most distinguished literary men in America
and Europe. He also was a contributor of copyrighted articles
in the Encyclopaedia Britannica; he contributed the chapter on
" Music of Two Centuries," for the Memorial History of New York
and for a number of years wrote the Art article in Appleton's
Annual Cyclopaedia. In 1910 he edited the Speeches and Orations
of his classmate, the Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, published in
eight volumes. In 191 2 he compiled "One Hundred Allied
Families of the Seventeenth Century in England and New Eng-
J[and," and the same year, ''Anne Hutchinson: Her Life, Her
*^ncestry and Her Descendants." These last two remain unpub-
330 RivoluHanary War Records, [Oct
lished. The Forum and The Popular Science Monthly^ as well aa
numerous other periodicals received many contributions from
bis pen.
He was a member of the Century Association of N. Y., the
Author's Club, the Barnard Club» the N. Y. Genealogical and
Biographical Society, the New England Historical Society, the
Newport Historical Society, and the Litchfield Historical Society.
In 1866 be was a candidate for the Connecticut State Senate
on the Democratic ticket.
On Oct. 8, 1873, be married Pranka E., daughter of the late
Captain George M. Colvocoresses of the United States Navy, and
the sister of the present Admiral George P. Colvocoresses, who
was Executive Omcer of the Concord at the battle of Manila Bay
and chosen by Admiral Dewey to be the Executive 0£Scer of the
Olytnpia immediately after the action.
Mr. Champlin leaves a widow and one son.
AUTHOUTIBS:
Updike, Hist. Narragansett Church, no, 180.
Gen, and Fam, Hist, of Maine.
Westerly Rec. ; Sionington Rec. ; Fctmily Rec.
R. I. Col. Rec.
REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS.
By Gborgb Austin Morrison, Jr.
Hitherto the patriotic societies throughout the country have
devoted their time and energies to collecting and preserving the
muster-rolls and records of diose men who were engaged on the
fighting line of the Continental and State troops during tfie Revolu-
tionary War.
The glory of the actual battling for freedom has almost com-
pletely eclipsed the duty of fitting out, feeding, clothing and pre-
paring the fighting men for military services. It must be remem-
bered that great numbers of other patriots jeopardised their liberties
and fortunes in providing the ways and means to equip and main-
tain the Continental Armies, and numbers of men were actually
taken from the troops in the field to administer the work of the
giartermaster and Commissary Departments during the campaign,
ttle or nothing has been published concerning the working of these
important departments and the names of hundreds of patriots taking
a prominent and useful part in maintaining the fighting tmits have
been neglected and are still unknown. Fortunately a great mass of
original MSS. documents, letters, papers, etc., of the Quartermaster
Department were preserved in the Department of State and in due
course were turned over to the War Department, although as yet
no adequate calendars or indices have been prepared. Valuable
manuscript letter books, original letters, papers, etc., are also to be
I9I5-] Revolutionary War Records, 331
found in the archives of many of the public and private libraries
and historical societies throughout the country, the difficulty being
to locate where such manuscripts are preserved and to properly
examine, calendar and index same.
For example, no less than twelve of the letter books of Col.
Hugh Hughes of New York, Commissary of Military Stores, i6th
July, 1776, and Deputy Quartermaster General for the Con-
tinental Army, from nth May, 1776, to March, 1782, stationed
at Fishkill, New York, are preserved in the New York Historical
Society. These letter books are filled with the names and deeds of
hundreds of men enlisted in such Continental Army service, and
throw a most interesting light upon the working of the Commis-
sariat and Quartermaster Departments.
The various heads of these departments all held military rank,
as did the heads of the various companies of artificers, waggoners,
carpenters, wheelwrights, batteaumen, blacksmiths, armourers, lab-
oratory men, coopers, clothiers, foragers, etc. They drew the pay,
and received the rations, house-room, firewood, candles, etc., due
their respective positions and ranks in the army and were as much
a part of the Continental Army as the officers and soldiers of the
Lme.
As early as Jime 29th, 1775, the Continental Congress re-
solved: — "That the appointment of Provost Marshall, Waggon
Master and Master Carpenter be left to the Commander in Chief
of the Army, who is to fix their pay, having regard to the pay such
receive in the ministerial army, and the proportion that the pay of
the Officers in said army bears to the pay of our Officers."
Early in the War the necessity of securing and employing proper
workmen to supply the needs of the Army l^came acute and when-
ever a skilled mechanic or tradesman was found enlisted in the
ranks of the Continental or State troops he was transferred to the
various permanent magazines, store-houses and work shops of the
army.
It appears also that mechanics and workmen of all descriptions
were enlisted into the Continental service and certain master work-
men placed in command of the various companies, so enlisted, as
superintendents, or overseers, with corresponding army rank and
pay.
The following letter clearly indicates the methods followed: —
"Schenectady, 3rd March, 1776.
Honored Sir: —
We herewith send you the articles signed by the Carpenters
whom we have engaged. Also the articles signed by those in Albany.
Mr. Carmer refused to serve and we appointed Ahasuerus G. Mar-
selis to be an overseer in his stead and are of opinion the service
will not suffer by the change. They are all to set out to-day for
Fort George.
In consequence of your message to us by Henry Glen, Esq.,
we have appointed John Canoot ( ?), William Peters and Garret G.
332 Revolutionary War Records, [Oct
Lansing to be overseers of the batteaumen and have ordered them
to wait on you with this for your further instructions.
We are.
Honored Sir,
With Great Respect,
Your most Hubl. Servt.,
Hugh Mitchell, Clark.
By order of the Committee.
Maj. Gen. Philip Schuyler,
Albany, N. Y."
"New York, Sept. I2th, 1776.
Sir:—
You are By Order of the Q. M. General to make the best of
your way to New Jersey, New Windsor and the Lime Kilns and
there purchase the tmder mentioned articles as cheap and as soon
as you can, forwarding every Article to Burdets Landing with the
utmost despatch.
You will also engage three companies of Carpenters, each to con-
sist of thirty men, a Capt., and Lieutenant, etc. These you will send
forward as fast as raised. They will receive the same pay, rations,
etc., as those already in the service.
If any hands that are wanting; in your business should be in the
Militia you will apply to Gen. Williamson who on showing him this,
will undoubtedly release them, as the covering of the troops in
Season depends on our getting the necessary materials as soon as
possible."
(No signature.)
(Hughes MSS. Collection, Small Book.)
(Undoubtedly written by Col. Hugh Hughes, D. Q. M. G.)
As early as 30th December, 1776, the Continental Congress re-
solved: — ^*That 15 companies, consisting of a captain and overseer,
and 30 Men each be engaged, upon such terms as CJen. Schuyler*
(Commanding Officer of Northern Army), shall think just and
equitable for the batteau service, and be occasionally engaged on the
high ways and other works in the Quarter Master General depart-
ment, and that four companies of carpenters, to consist of an over-
seer and 25 men each, be engaged in like manner to attend the
Northern Army.
That the Overseers have the Rank and receive the pay of
.^ t» 2i^d be allowed the same rations and the Men be en-
listed and paid as private Soldiers. And that Gen. Schuyler or the
* General Philip Schuyler in command of the Northern Department, Con-
tinental Army, 22nd May, 1777, comprising Albany, Ticonderoga, Fort Stan-
wix, and their dependencies.
t This blank remained unfilled in the original records of the Continental
Congress, but the original lists of Overseers, Superintendents, etc, and the
correspondence with such heads of companies show that the raiik of the
Overseers, etc, was that of a Captain in the Continental Army.
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Commanding Officer of that Anny, grant warrants to the overseer
for enlisting."
Up to tne present time no record of the names of the overseers
of these particular companies of batteau men and carpenters have
been discovered, and with one exception the records of the Con-
tinental Congress are barren of the details concerning such appoint-
ments. The single exception concerns the officers under Col.
Benjamin Flower, Commissary General of Military stores.
On Thursday, September i8th, 1777, in the Continental Con-
gress, a Memorial from Col. Flower was read, together with a list
of the corps of the artillery, artificers, and other officers under the
command and in the department of the commissary general of
military stores : —
"WHEREFOR, RESOLVED that commissions be granted to
the said officers, agreeable to their respective ranks."
On Thursday, November nth, 1777, the president laid before
Congress a copy of a resolution passed in Congress on i8th Sep-
tember last, ordering commissions to be g^ranted to a number of
officers in the department of the commissary-general of military
stores, which was delivered to him by Col. Flower, C. G. M. S.,
together with the list of the officers, who, notwithstanding the fore-
going resolution, have not yet received their commissions —
"WHEREFORE ORDERED that commissions be granted to
the following persons in the department of the commissary general
of military stores, with the dates annexed to their respective names,
agreeable to the said list, viz.: —
Of the Company to work in the laboratory enlisted to serve
during the war as artillery men: —
Isaac Curren, Capt., February ist, 1777.
William E. Godfrey, Capt. Lieut., July ist, 1777.
Anthony Wright, first lieut., March ist, do.
Andrew Caldwell, second lieut, April ist, do.
Of the Company of Artillery artificers, enlisted to serve during
the war, to be attached to the artillery in the field : —
Jesse Roe, Capt., February 3rd, 1777.
Valentine Hoffman, Capt lieut., 12 February.
Christan Beackley, first lieut., 3 February.
William Preston, second lieut., 7 April.
Of the Company of Artillery artificers enlisted to serve for one
year and ordered to be re-enlisted to serve during the war:—
David Pancoast, Captain, loth February, 1777.
John Jordan, Capt lieut., 17th February, do.
James Gibson, first lieut, 17th February, do.
Of the Company of Artillery artificers enlisted to serve for one
year and ordered to be re-enlisted during the war: —
Nathaniel Irish, Captain, 7th February, 1777.
Thomas Wylie, Capt. lieut., 17th do.
George Norris, first lieut., 8th do.
334 Rtvolutwnary War Records, L^cL
James Sweincy, second lieut, 22nd do.
Jonathan Gostelow, major commissary military stores, ist Feb-
ruary, 1777.
Josiah Watkins, major commissary ordinance Stores, 5th Feb-
ruary, 1777.
IVoUory Ming, Captain superintendent of the leather manufac-
tory, 1st April, 1777.
Parks, Foreman* to the leather manufactory, August,
1777.
Samuel Sergeant, Superintendent of the public works at Car-
lisle and keeper of all the stores, August, 1777 ; pay 60. dol-
lars per month and 4 rations a day.
Charles Lukens, Major, commissary military stores and pay
master to the commissary general of military stores in the
department at Carlisle, March 8th, 1777 ; his pay 60. dollars
a month and 4 rations a day.
Johnson Smith, contractor and procurer of all the lumber and
some other materials wanted for the public works at Carlisle,
July 2ist, 1777; pay 60. dollars per month and 3 rations a
day.
Cornelius Sweers, Assistant commissary general military stores
at Philadelphia, February ist, 1777 ; the same pay and rations
as commissary military stores.
Alexander Power, quarter master to the corps of artillery arti-
ficers at Carlisle, 30th July, 1777 ; same pay and rations as
regimental quarter master.
Samuel French, major, conunissary military stores, i8th Jan-
uary, 1777, with the army.
George Everson, captain, deputy commissary military stores,
18th January, 1777.
Alexander Henderson, Captain, deputy commissary military
stores, loth Sept., 1777.
This list is of the greatest interest, showing, as it does, that not
only the heads of the laboratory men, artillery artificers, and com-
missaries (assistant and deputy), were actually commissioned of-
ficers in the Continental Army, but that the superintendents of the
leather manufactory, of public works, store keepers, contractors,
etc., all held commissioned rank.
As further proof that the heads of the mechanical branches of
the Quartermasters Department held official rank, the following
Pay Roll becomes of value : —
"Pay Roll for the Board of Works in the service of the United
States of America, stationed at Springfield, under the direction of
Lieut. Col. David Mason of Artillery for Mo. of June, 1778.
I Master Carpenter as Capt $50. or £1$,
I Foreman 33 1/3 " 10
♦A line is drawn through this word "foreman" in the original records
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16 Carpenters $20 " ;f 144
I . do 20 " 6
I Master Smith as Captain 50 " 15
I Master Wheelright as Captain 50 " 15
I Master Saddler as Captain 50 " 15
I Master Armourer as Captain 50 " 15"
(MSS. Rev. War Miss. Papers— 1778.)
The ration returns also indicate clearly the rank and title of the
head mechanics, and the following two original lists discovered
among the Army Return papers of Gen. Horatio Gates, prove that
Storekeepers, Forage Masters, Barrack Masters, Waggon Masters,
Overseers, Master Blacksmiths and Master Carpenters, and by im-
plication, heads of any companies of mechanics, workmen, batteau-
men, etc., all held Continental Army rank and received rations and
pay in proportion to such rank.
The lists are as follows : —
"Return of the Number of Men .victualled by Bethl. Washburn,
Asst. Comy. of Issues, at Albany, etc., from 14th December, 1777,
to 20th, both Days inclusive.
Regt., Compy., or Dept. Men, No.
Genl. Orders 91
D. Q. M. Genl. Lewis's Departm 19
D. Q. M. Genl. Hay's Departm 37
Col. Baldwin's Artificers 9
Major Stevens' Artificers 38
Mr. Rensslaer's Armourers 45
Capt. Bull's Labratory Men 8
Capt. Lam's Comd. Magaz Sloop 5
D. C. G. Purchc. Cuylers Departm 24
Waggon Mr. Genl. Department 6
Dr. Potts Artificers 21
Commissaries of Cloathing 5
Coll. Gansevort's R^ 18
Coll. Van Schaick's Regt 10
Coll. James Livingston's R^ 5
Capt. Vemor's Batteaumen 21
Capt. Qute's Batteaumen 14
Capt. Vischer's Batteaumen 15
Capt. Peter's Batteaumen 21
Capt. McGee's Batteaumen 17
Capt. Cole's Batteaumen 17
Capt. Van Yevenin's Batteaumen 27
Capt. Bratt's Carpenters , 19
336 Revolutionary War Records. [Oct.
Regt, Compy., or Dept. Men, No.
Capt. Mindersses' Blacksmiths 17
French Officers and Servant 12
Com-)' Forage and Assistants 4
D. C. G. Issues Winship's Family 7
Barrack Master's Deptm 3
Total 535
Bethl. Washburn,
A. D. Cym-y. Issues."
(Gates MSS., Army Returns, 1777-1778.)
2ist August, 1778.
'*A list of Officers, Artificers, etc., employed in the Quarter Mas-
ter General's Branch, in the Northern Department.
Morgan Lewis, D-y, Qr. Mr. General.
Thomas Sickels, Asst, D. Qr. M. Genl.
Teunis F. VanVechten, do.
Philip Lansing, do.
Henry I. Bogert, do.
Henry Glen, do., Schenectady.
Volkert A. Dow, do., Coyemans.
Christopher Yates, do., Saratoga.
Harmanus Schuyler, do.. Still Water.
Cornelius Wendell, do.. Half Moon.
Danl. Tucker, do.. Fort Schuyler.
Zacharias Sickels, Store Keeper, Albany.
Jacob Winney, Clerk.
Garret Ryckmen, Clerk of the Check.
Leonard VanBeuren, Comy. of Forage.
Henry VanVechten, Assistant, do.
John W. Wendell, do., do.
Edward S. Willet, Forage Master.
John Ten Broeck, Dpy. Barrack Mas. General.
Gisbert Marselis, Assistant ditto.
John Marselis, Jr., Issuer of Wood and Qerk to B. M. Genl.
Cornelius Cadmus, Barrack Masr., Saratoga.
Ephraim VanVechten, Dpy. W. Mr. General, Albany.
Jellis Winney, Waggon Master.
Francis Winney, do.
Saml. Bond, do.
Chrisr. A. Yates, do.
John I. Wendell, Overseer of the Public Stables, with Six
Hostlers.
Jacobus C. Peak.
William Peters.
John Vemor.
kyner VanYevenen.
Teunis Vischer.
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Cornelius Barhyt
William Davis.
Stephen Ball.
Simon DeGraflf.
James Dickenson.
John Lesser.
Martin Mynderse, and his G)mpany, containing 12 Blacksmiths.
Anthony E. Bratt, and his Company, containing 25 Carpenters.
Robert Kennieur and 17 Colliers.
Jesse Fairchild and 6 nailers.
20 Carpenters at Batten Kill.
(Signed) M. Lewis,
D. Q. M. Gen.»'
(Gates Papers, Army Returns, 1778.)
The return on this victualling list and several other like lists
among Gen. Horatio Gates' papers shows that the Heads or Over-
seers of the Batteaumen, Carpenters, and Blacksmiths were each
addressed as "Captain" in official conmiunications and undoubtedly
held that rank in the Continental Army, receiving the pay and
rations proportional to such rank.
It is to be hoped that future investigation of the methods used
in conducting the Quartermaster and Commissariat Departments of
the Continental Army will result in the discovery, classification,
calandering and indexing of many MSS. letter books, original cor-
respondence, and documents still hidden away on dusty shelves of
libraries and in ancient boxes in country attics. It is only by such
labor that the names and biographical and genealogical histories of
the officers of the Quartermaster and Commissary Departments of
the Continental Army can be disclosed and their names added to the
list of the line Officers as patriots of equal merit to be remembered.
NEW YORK MARRIAGE LICENSES.
Contributed by Robert H. Kelby, Librarian New York Historical Society.
(Continned from Vol. XLVI. p. 289, of Thb Rbcord.)
PAGB
119 Duff, Eleanor, N. Y., widow, and Thomas English, N. Y.,
butcher.
119 Duffy, Samuel, N. Y., and Catherine Scofield, N. Y.,
widow.
119 Duke, John, N. Y., and Elinor Obrien, N. Y., widow.
119 Dunavon, Hellena, N. Y., widow, and Neal McKennon,
N. Y., cartman.
Note:— The following was omitted from the July Record, page 287,
under letter C:
Pa^e82. 177c, April 2a Conner, Jeremiah, N. Y., schoolmaster, and
Catharine Smith, N. Y., spinster.
22
338 New York Marriage Licenses. [Oct
PAOB
ISO Duncan, John, N. Y., cordwainer, and Sarah Hamilton,
N. Y., spinster.
1 20 Dnncan, Ruth, N. Y.. spinster, and John Brigs, N. Y.
ISO Dunlap, Janet, N. Y., spinster, and George Keith, of His
Majesty's Ship Perseus. MS. license '^ at present I have
no Lycenses signed by His Excellency the Governor,"
John Moore, Deputy Secy.
120 Dunn, Charles, N. Y., and Ann Brannon, N. Y., spinster.
123 for 1783, Jan. 3, read 1782, Jan. 3. Dwyer, Edmund, be-
lon^ng to the Commissary General's IDepartment of His
Majesty's Army and Catharine Paterson, N. Y., widow.
123 Dyer, Sarah, N. Y., spinster, and Thomas Bealey, N. Y.,
mariner.
124 Barle, Rebecca, spinster, and William I. Roome, N. Y.
124 Ebert, Catharine, N. Y., spinster, and William Powers,
N. Y., pilot.
125 Edwards, Richard, N. Y., yeoman, and Elizabeth Dingey,
N. Y., spinster.
126 Elliot, Elizabeth Plumstead, N. Y., spinster, and the Right
Honorable William Lord Cathcart.
126 Ellis, George, N. Y., surgeon, and Catherine Carey, N. Y.,
spinster.
127 Ellis, Sarah, N. Y., spinster, and Samuel Blair, N. Y.
127 Ellis, Thomas, N. Y., shipright, and Sarah Galbreath,
N. Y., widow.
127 Ellison, Abraham, N. Y., and Elizabeth Mumford, N. Y.,
spinster.
127 for Ellison, Mary, and James Heam, read Ellison, Mary,
N. Y., spinster, and James Hearon, N. Y.
127 Ellsworth, Mary, N. Y., spinster, and John Gillesby, N. Y.,
gentleman.
128 Elsworth, John, N. Y., and Margaret Kine, N. Y., spinster.
129 Embree, John, West Chester, and Elizabeth Webo, N. Y.,
spinster.
129 Emery, Elenor, N. Y., widow, and James MoUoy, store-
keeper in the Quarter Master General's Department of
His Majesty's Army.
129 Emmas, Mary, N. Y., spinster, and James Buckley, N. Y.,
spipwright.
130 English, Thomas, N. Y., butcher, and Eleanor Duff, N. Y.,
widow.
130 Erving, John, N. Y., and Prances Ramsay, N. Y., widow.
131 Evans. lianah, N. Y., spinster, and William Letteney,
N. Y., gentleman.
131 Evans, James, mariner, and Sarah Brown, widow, late of
the 23rd Re^ment.
131 Evans, Jane, N. Y., widow, and John Wells, N. Y., sadler.
131 Evans, Sarah, N. Y., widow, and Alexander Prin^l, boat-
swain on Board His Majesty's Ship the Diomedi.
131 Evans, William, N. Y., taylor, and Isabella Applegate,
N. Y., spinster.
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FA6B
131 Everitt, John, N. Y„ mariner, and Mary Polhamos, N. Y.,
spinster.
13a Swing, Daniel, N. Y., and Isabella Macbeth, N. Y., spin-
ster.
13a Swing, Isabella, N. Y., widow, and Wilson Bratton, N. Y.,
tayfor.
132 Pagh, Mary Margaret, N. Y., spinster, and Frederick
Joseph Heysen (place not mentioned).
132 (insert) 1781, June 18. Pairley, Joseph, of the Out Ward,
N. Y., farmer, and Rachel Concklin, N. Y., spinster.
133 Parish, Greegs, assistant commissary to His Majesty's
Army, and Margaret Collins, N. Y., spinster.
133 Parrell, Catharine, N. Y., widow, and James Bradley, N. Y.,
auctioneer.
134 for Pearly, Joseph, read Pairley, Joseph (as above).
134 Penton, Slenor, N. Y., widow, and David Obrien, N. Y.
136 Pisher, Bethia, Westchester, County of Westchester, spin-
ster, and Gilbert Purdy, same place, gentleman.
137 for Pitzgerald, Mary, and Colin Minzies, read Pitzgerald,
Mary, N. Y., widow, and Collin Menzies, N. Y., mariner.
137 Pitzpatrick, John, N. Y., yeoman, and Susannah Butler,
N. Y., widow.
137 for Plannagen, Jane, and Alexander Achyndaey, read
Plannagen, Jane, N. Y., widow, and Alexander Achjm-
dachy, Carpenter of His Majesty's Ship Loyalist.
138 Plemming, Anstice, 64th Regiment, spinster, and Thomas
Robinson, Sergeant 64th Regiment.
138 Pletcher, Nicholas, N. Y., mariner, and Mary Martin, N. Y.,
widow.
138 Plinn, Nicholas, N. Y., baker, and Slizabeth Crossley, N. Y.,
spinster.
138 Plorintine, Ann, N. Y., widow, and John Pafford, N. Y.,
brickmaker.
139 Plowers, George, N. Y., carpenter, and Rebekah Taylor,
N. Y., spinster.
140 Porbes, William, N. Y., housecarpenter, and Mary Thome,
N. Y., spinster.
140 Pord, Littleton, N. Y., and Hannah De Grey, N. Y., spin-
ster.
140 Poresayth, Mary, N. Y., widow, and Nathaniel Wheeler,
N. Y;, blacksmith.
140 Porman, James, Clerk to the Adjutant General, and Sliza-
beth Lawson, N. Y., widow.
141 for Porster, William, and Rebecca Cary, read Poster,
William, N. Y., gentleman, and Rebecca Cary, N. Y.,
widow.
141 Poster, Slizabeth, Rockaway, Queens County, spinster,
and John Todd, Ssq., Purser of His Majesty's Ship Lyon.
141 Poster, Hester, N. Y., widow, and Henry Vinnell, Sergeant
a and Regiment of Poot.
14a Poster, Thomas, N. Y., and Mary Stymers, N. Y., spinster.
340 New York Marriage Licenses. [Oct.
rAGB
14a (insert) 178a, Oct. 7. Fouler, Mary, Morrisania, N. Y., spin-
ster, and Jacob Vanwart, same place, farmer.
143 Fowler, George, N. Y., mariner, and Jane Townsend,
N. Y., widow. Married June 28, 1775, ^1 R®v. Samuel
Auchmuty.
143 for Fowler, Mary, read Fouler, Mary (as above).
143 Fox, Susannah, N. Y., widow, and Robert Knight, N. Y.,
mariner.
144 for Francois, John, and Mary Kendrick, read Francois,
John, and Mary Carderet. MS. license; no place men-
tioned.
144 for Fraser, William, and Catharine McDonald, read Frazer,
William, 42nd Regiment, and Catherine McDonald, same
regiment, widow.
145 PreeDom, Sarah Priscilla, N. Y., widow, and Samuel Har-
rison, N. Y., innkeeper.
145 Freeman, John, N. Y., mariner, and Elizabeth Valentine,
N. Y., spinster. (MS. license, '* at present there are no
Lycenses signed by His Excellency the Governor.'*)
146 Frost, Susannah, N. Y. widow, and Francis Towse, N. Y.
147 (insert) 1774, Aug. 24. Funck, Elizabeth, N. Y., spinster,
and David Morris, N. Y., mariner.
147 Funck, John, N. Y., and Priscilla Potter fN. Y.] (imper-
feet).
147 Galatian, Elizabeth, N. Y., widow, and Charles Christian,
master in His Majesty's Navy.
147 Galbreath, Sarah, N. Y., widow, and Thomas Ellis, N. Y.,
shipwright.
148 for Galilee, Roger, and Ann Simons, read Galilee, Roger,
N. Y., mariner, and Hannah Simons, N. Y., widow.
149 Gardiner, Magdalean, N. Y., widow, and William Black,
N. Y., house carpenter.
149 Gardiner, Jacob, N. Y., and Catharine Garlick, N. Y.,
spinster.
149 for 1779, Jan 22, read 1779, Oct. 22. Gardner, Susannah,
N. Y., spinster, and George Smith, N. Y.
149 Gardner, William, carpenter in His Majesty's En^^neer
Department, and Magdalean McWhirten, N. Y., widow.
149 Garlick, Barbara, N. Y., spinster, and David Babcock, N. Y.
149 Garlick, Catherine, N. Y., spinster, and Jacob Gardinier,
. N. Y.
150 Garretson, Allathea, N. Y., widow, and William Carty,
•N. Y., gentleman.
150 Garrison, Lenah, Richmond County, spinster, and Samuel
Stilwell, same place.
151 Gay, Charles, N. Y., blacksmith, and Rebecca Smith, N. Y.,
widow.
151 Geary, Martha, N. Y., widow, and Stephen Shakespeare,
N. Y., storekeeper.
151 Geree, William, surgeon 38th Regiment of Foot, and Re-
becca Van Denham, N. Y., spinster.
19 1 5'] A^4fw York Marriage Licenses, 341
PAGB
151 Gerow, Phebe, N. Y., spinster, and Jonathan Sherwood,
N. Y., yeoman.
15a Gierson, James, N. Y., yeoman, and Ann Hardman, N. Y.,
spinster.
153 Gilbertson, William, N. Y., mariner, and Mary Regan,
N. Y., widow.
154 Gillesby, John, N. Y., gentleman, and Mary Ellsworth,
N. Y., spinster.
154 for Gillmore, Margaret, and William Haggs, read Gillmore,
Margaret, N. Y., widow, and William Hays, N. Y., house
carpenter.
155 for Glover, Anne, and Stephen Carey, read Glover, Anne,
N. Y., widow, and James Carey, N. Y., innkeeper.
15s Goelet, Alice, N. Y., spinster, and Andrew Lott, N. Y.,
merchant.
156 Goodrich, Bartlet, N. Y., and Mary Wilson, N. Y., spinster.
156 Gordon, Elizabeth, N. Y., spinster, and Isaac De Milt, N. Y.,
cordwainer.
157 Gowey, William, 37th Regiment of Foot, and Ann Watkins,
N. Y., widow.
157 Graham, Joseph, N. Y., farmer, and Hannah Hallett, N. Y.,
spinster.
158 Grayham, Ann, N. Y., spinster, and George Clarke, N. Y.,
mariner.
160 GriflSth, Christian, N. Y., spinster, and Cadwallader Colden,
Jr., County of Ulster, gentleman.
160 Griffiths, Jane, N. Y., widow, and William Lewis, N. Y.,
shipcarpenter.
160 Griffiths, Joanna, N. Y., widow, and James Light, Jr., N. Y.,
cordwainer. Married July 31, 1775, ^7 Rev. Samuel
Auchmuty.
160 Griffiths, Joseph, N. Y., mariner, and Agnes Van Wagenen,
N. Y., spinster.
160 Grim, Catherine, N. Y., spinster, and Frederick De Keller,
First Lieutenant in the First Regiment of Anspach's.
160 Grim, Elizabeth, N. Y., spinster, and Johann Carl Van or
Von Altenstein, Lieutenant in the Troops of the Mar-
■ grave of Anspach,
160 (insert) 1759, March 3. Grim, Eve, and Andrew Merrell
(See Merrell, Andrew, and Eve Grim, printed Crim,
p. 261).
162 Grundy, George, N. Y., merchant, and Mary Carr, N. Y..
spinster.
162 Guest, Letty, N. Y., and James Rollin, N. Y. (MS. license
addressed "to the Rev. Clergy and all concerned" signed
John Moore, Deputy Secy.
162 Guest, Mary, N. Y., widow, and George Gates, N. Y.
162 Guinnell, Thomas, N. Y., and Milleson Haight, N. Y.,
spinster.
164 Haight, Milleson, N. Y., spinster, and Thomas Guinnell,
N. Y.
23A
342 New York Marriage Licenses. [Oct.
PAGE
165 Hall, Catherine, N. Y., widow, and George Povey, Private
4th Regiment of Foot.
165 Hall, Charlotte, N. Y., spinster, and John Ablin, N. Y.,
mariner. Married July 27, 1775, by Rev. Samuel Auch-
muty.
165 Hall, Henry, N. Y., shoemaker, and Mary Thomas, N. Y.,
widow.
166 Hallett, Hannah, N. Y., spinster, and Joseph Graham, N. Y.,
farmer.
166 Hallet, James, N. Y., coachmaker, and Bridget Dean, N. Y.,
widow.
166 Hallet, Moses, Hallett's Cove, Queens County, carpenter,
and Elizabeth McConney, N. Y., spinster.
167 Hambrow, John, N. Y.^ shipwright, and Margaret Cady,
N. Y., spinster.
168 Hamilton, Sarah, N. Y., spinster, and John Duncan, N. Y.,
cordwainer.
168 Hammell, John, surgeon, 4th Battalion New Jersey Volun-
teers, and Hannah Roome, N. Y., spinster.
168 Hammond, Hannah, N. Y., spinster, and Benjamin Chad-
well, N. Y., gentleman.
168 for Hampton, Elizabeth, and Joseph Marsh, read Hampton,
Rachel, late of New Jersey, but now of N. Y., spinster,
and Joseph Marsh, N. Y., mariner.
168 Hampton, Jonathan, of His Majesty's Board Yard, &c., and
Ann Harding, N. Y., spinster. Married Feb. 19, 1777, by
Rev. Samuel Auchmuty.
168 Hampton, Margaret, N. Y., spinster, and Joseph Sheppard,
N. v., tavernkeeper. Married April 15, 1775, by Rev.
Samuel Auchmuty.
168 Hanah, Elizabeth, N. Y., widow, and William Witnell,
N. Y.
168 Hancock, Mary, N. Y., spinster, and James Meade, N. Y.,
merchant.
1 68 Hanly, Thomas, N. Y., mariner, and Sarah Davis, N. Y.,
spinster.
169 for 1775, Dec. 12, read 1775, Dec. 13. Hanrahan, James,
Great Neck, Queens County, schoolmaster, arid Mar-
garet Cummins, Queens County, spinster. Married Dec.
13. »77S» by Rev. Samuel Auchmuty.
170 for Harding, Ann, and John Hampton, read Harding, Ann,
N. Y., spinster, and Jonathan Hampton, of His Majesty's
Board Yard, &c. Married Feb. 19, 1777, by Rev. Samuel
Auchmuty.
170 for Hardman, Ann, and James Grierson, read Hardman,
Ann, N. Y., spinster, and James Gierson, N. Y., yeoman.
170 Hargill, William, N. Y., and Sarah Triglith, N. Y., spinster.
171 Harlin, Ann, N. Y., widow, and John Harris, surgeon in
the General Hospital of His Majesty's Army.
171 for 1772, Jan. 19, read 1773, J^^^^- »9- Harper, Elinor, Queens
County, widow, and John Clarke, N. Y., upholsterer.
( To be continued^
19 1 5-] Genealogical Notes on a very Old New York Family, 343
GENEALOGICAL NOTES ON A VERY OLD NEW YORK
FAMILY AND SOME OF ITS BRANCHES.
(Egmont, Boon, Toll, Post, Wessels, Van Dyck, Segers.)
Contributed by Richard Schermerhorn, Jr.
This article has been written principally with a view of pre-
senting some early records of one of the very oldest Dutch fami-
lies of America. It mav be of further interest, however, in that
it opposes some deductions of certain well-known early genealo-
gists and historians and at any rate it should be valuable as an
illustration of how important it is for all students of history and
genealogy to base the results of their researches on orig^al
sources of information and not from later less authoritive treatises
or compilations.
The Egmont family of Holland was a notable one. It is
descended from Kings and for generations Egmonts have held
high position in the service of their country and the regard of
their countrymen. Their history is part of the history of the
Netherlands and their name appears constantly in Dutch and
Flemish archives. This family first came to the writer's notice
when he took up the study of Schermerhorn Genealogy, There was
a family tradition to the effect that the wife of the original Scher-
merhorn settler (Jacob Janse Schermerhorn) was an Egmont —
Jane Egmont. So, indeed, had the first genealogist of the family.
Rev. John F. Schermerhorn, recorded it. His genealogy was
completed in 1847, taking manuscript form only. He had vis-
ited Holland, not particularly in Schermerhorn interests, but
principally for data in connection with the claims of certain
descendants of the much talked of Annckc Jansz, of Trinity
Church property fame. Unfortunately he gave no authorities for
the various deductions made in connection with Schermerhorn
Genealogy and therefore the extent of his studies can hardly be
gauged. No question was raised, however, at that time, concern-
ing his version of the Egmont connection, and the Egmont name
became circulated through the Schermerhorn family, used both
as Christian name and middle name by many.
It was during the period of the 1830s and 40s that American
families first woke to real interest in ancestor seeking. Com-
mercial enterprise had given fortunes to many besides those pos-
sessing the large landed estates, and the class of the socially
elect had begun somewhat to extend its lines. The fad of pedi-
grees became of importance and coats-of-arms much sought after.
However, some forty or fifty years elapsed before research in
Schermerhorn Genealogy was again taken up, and in the early
90s, two members of the family, of different branches, and work-
344 Gemalogical Notes on a very Old New York Family oftd [Oct.
ing independently, undertook a serious and detailed study of the
subject. Pearson and O'Callaghan had then made their exhaus-
tive researches and compilations. Many of the early New York
State documents had been published and made more easily acces-
sible than before, and the old wills, land papers, court records
and other manuscripts had been gathered together and placed in
form suitable for public reference. Neither Pearson nor O'Cal-
laghan had mentioned an Egmont family among the original
emigrants, and it was a Jannetie van Voorhout, daughter of
Cornelis Segers, who appeared in their works as the wife of
Jacob Janse Schermerhom, and not Jannetie Egmont. Their
authority for this was readily at hand, being contained in the
will of Cornelis Segerse van Voorhout, which had been discov-
ered and translated. Both of the Schermerhom Genealogists
arrived at the same result ; they could find no trace of a Jannetie
Egmont or even very early records of an Egniont family, and
the evidence was quite conclusive that a Jannetie van Voorhout
was the wife of Jacob Janse Schermerhom. Therefore the gene-
alogist of 1840s must have been in error and this decision they
recorded. As both of these gentlemen were of abundant means
and high intelligence and had apparently studied their subject
most comprehensively, the author of the Schermerhom Genealogy,
1914, was prepared to accept their decision, and for the time, he
did. But a chance scrutiny of some early baptismal records of
the Albany Dutch Church called his attention to the coincidences
of a Schermerhom being witness to the baptism of an Egmont
(the Egmont name first appeared in Albany records in 1684)
and close examination of other baptismal records connected with
the Egmont name, determined clearly the Egmont identity with
the family called by Pearson and O'Callaghan, Van Voorhout.
He then searched carefully through the records of the New York
City Dutch Church, and trace of the family was again discovered,
although the Egmont name actually appeared there only twice
(as van Egmont). It occurred again, however, in Staten Island
church records, and it was finally possible to determine positively
that the Egmont families in New York City and Staten Island
were also descendants of the early settler who signed his will
as Cornelis Segerse van Voorhout. To develop the theory com-
pletely, evidence was also found in a copy of the original contract
between Cornelis Segerse and Patroon Van Rensselaer, executed
in Holland previous to the former's departure for America. In
this document Cornelis Segerse signed his name as Cornells
Segerse van Egmont (see Van Rensselaer-Bowier MSS., 1908;
these MSS. discovered and published some years after the pub-
lished articles by Louis Y. Sichermerhom and Wm. C. Schermer-
hom). No other conclusions could be acceptable and therefore
the Reverend gentleman of the 1840s was shown correct after
all, however his deductions had been reached, and family tradi-
tion had vindicated itself.
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Before 1700 the heads of most Dutch families took as sur-
names, their father's Christian name, with se or sen attached, and
in other cases terminations were used indicative of their former
residence in Holland, such as van Amsterdam (Jacob Janse
Schermerhom's first surname), van Antwerp, van Hoom, van
Wyk, van Valkenburgh, etc. Some of the families, however, pos-
sessed distinctive family names in Holland and when for some
reason, or other, they neglected to use these upon their arrival in
America, as the necessity became apparent to take a name which
would positively distinguish them from others, they reached back
in family history and took the name which others of their kin had
borne before them. This happened in the cases of many of the
Dutch families in America, and often this original surname did
not put in an appearance until the third generation in this coun-
try. This was the case with the Egmonts. Voorhout had prob-
ably been their residence immediately before their departure to
America and in a few instances Cornelis Segers and his sons
signed "van Voorhout" after their names. In most cases on rec-
ord, however, the names are simply Cornelis Segerse, Cornelis
Comelise, Claes Cornelise and Seger Cornelise. "Van Voorhout"
was not handed down to later generations as a family name, and
"Egmont" was. The town of Voorhout is a small place near
Leyden, about 20 miles southwest of Amsterdam. Egmont,
which consists of little else than the ancient castle of the family^
is about 10 miles west of the village of Schermerhorn and m
miles northwest of Amsterdam. The sons of Cornelis Segers did
not use the Egmont name but their sons did and so continued it
to later generations. In the case of Seger, the third son, it is
believed that he died without issue. There is at least no record of
any of his descendants, and though Pearson and O'Callaghan
claimed that the Segers (Seeger, Sager) family of New York
were descended from the van Voorhouts, the writer has not only
been unable to find proof that such was the case, but all evidence
is entirely contrary to the assumption. The Egmont family of
America, however, apparently died out at an early day, the
cause being a scarcity of male issue. The writer believes, never-
theless, that the early records of this family have a decided
genealogical value and are worthy of record, for the benefit of
the descendants bearing other names, if nothing else.* If some
* While it is quite reasonable to believe that Cornelis Segerse van Egmont
was a member of the historic Egmont family of the Netherlands and that it is
not beyond possibility that Lamoral Egmont's branch, considering the severe
decline in fortunes ot this family, was also that of Cornells Segers', nevertheless
it should be understood that the author has encountered no data to prove this
and at the present moment assumption founded on certain known conditions,
is his firmest basis of reckoning. There were other branches of the Egmont
family from which Cornelis Segers might easily have' descended. In fact the
author has been informed that there were other individual families of Egmont
in Holland and that the name in some cases mi|fht have been derived from land
belonging to the famous abbey of Egmont, which was destroyed by the troops
under Sonoy in 1572. A careful study of Flemish genealogy and history would
346 Genealogical Notes on a very Old New York Family and [Oct.
time in the future, Holland records could be studied to the extent
of ascertaining the exact connection between the famous
Egmonts of the Netherlands and the American emigrant, Cor-
nelis Segerse van Egmont, one of the most interesting passages
of American-Dutch Genealogy would be developed.
It may be pertinent to note the historical facts concerned with
the passing of^the Egmont influence in Holland and its possible
bearmg on the cause for a member of the family seeking to emigrate
to the wilds of primitive America. The last influential head of
the family of Egmont, Count Lamoral, in company with Count
Hoom, was executed on June 5, 1568, at the instance of the Duke
of Alva. The sentence, especially in the case of Egmont, was
known to have been wholly unjust and for political reasons solely.
It is said that the general indignation arising from this event
furnished the prelude eventually leading to the revolt of the
Netherlands. Soon after this, history informs us, his widow and
eleven children (eight of them girls) had been reduced to ex-
treme want and compelled to take refuge in a convent. It is
quite possible that later on their influential connections made
some provision for them, as the sons are later found enjoying
certain positions of some distinction, but two of the latter, Philip
and Lamoral, became embroiled in political troubles, as had their
father before them, though less creditably, and falling into dis-
g^ce, brought fresh disaster to the family. It seems there was
cause enough in those days for an Egmont to desire to seek new
lands and endeavor to forget.
Genealogical Records.
I. CoRNELis Segerse Egmont (van Egmont, van Voorhout); b.
about 1599; m. Brechie Jacobsen; b. 155^; d. April, 1667.
Children.
2 Comelis, b. 162 1 ; m. Catalyntje Frans.
3 Qaes, b. 1623 ; m. Brechie Maryns.
Lysbeth, b. 1627; m. (i) Gysbert Comelise van Weesp;
m. (2) Francis Boon.
Seger, b. 1629 ; m. Jannetje Teunise Van Vechten.
Jannetie, b. 1633 ; m. Jacob Janse Schermerhom.
4 Neeltje, b. 1635 ; m. Hans Carelse Toll.
Cornells Segerse van Egmont made a contract with Patroon
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Aug. 25, 1643, ^tnd sailed from Amsterdam
be necessary to establish the real facts of the case or at least the most reason-
able probabilities. But the author hardly believes that the last theory of the
origin of the name was likely in connection with Cornelis Segers. He may
have had good reason for discarding the Egmont name upon his arrival in
America, but its recurrence in later generations certainly would seem to con-
vey to it an importance which could hardly be derived from the condition of a
mere residence in a place. If the last were principally considered, then
*' van Voorhout ** would have been continued as the family name.
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in Sept., 1643, on het Wapen van Rensselaerswyck with his wife
and children. On his arrival in the colony of Rensselaerswyck, he
took up a farm, formerly occupied by Brant Peelen, on Castle
Island, near Albany (opposite Bethlehem, Albany Co.). In 1644
his rent consisted of 276 schepels of wheat and 320 schepels of oats,
which was by far the highest rent of any of the farms in Rens-
selaerswyck at that time. In 1646 he took over from Adrian Van-
derdoncic the other farm on Castle Island, called Welysburgh, thus
coming into possession of the entire Island (V). He was one of
the largest farmers, if not the largest, of the period, in Rensselaers-
wyck. He maintained a brewery on his property as well (A i).
In an undated will (1643-8) the sixth child Lysbeth is mentioned
as being married and not living with them and therefore not assist-
ing them in "acquiring property, shall receive as an acknowledge-
ment, one pound Flemish," and nothing else. In 165 1 there were
13 horses and 22 cows on the farm of Comelis Segerse and the
farm contained 70 morgens (140 acres) and the annual rent was
1210 florins (V). Among those signing the oath of fidelit]^ to the
Patroon, May 21, 1653, are foimd the names of Comelis Segers and
Comelis Comelise van Voorhout (A 2). On May 12, 1654, Cor-
nells Segersen was appointed guardian of two children of Gysbert
Comelissen, deceased, at the request of the mother, Elisabeth Cor-
nelissen (B). Comelis Segerse speculated considerably in Albany
real estate, purchasing property in 1654, 1657 and 1658, some of
which he later sold. In 1667 he was the owner of a lot in Albany
on the S. W. comer of what is now Columbia St. and Broadway
(E). He made his will Nov. 22, 1662, which he signed "Comelis
Segers van Voorhout." The following children were mentioned:
Qaes Comelissen, deceased; Lysbeth, the wife of Sr. F. Boon;
Jannetie, the wife of Jacob Schermerhom; Neeltie, the wife of
Hans Carelsen (D). His name last appears in Albany County
Records, Jan. 2, 1676-7.
2. CoRNELis CoRNELiSE, son of (i) Comelis Segerse Egmont and
Brechie Jacobsen; b. 1621; m. Catalyntje Frans, who d. 1690-1, in
New York. She was a widow in March, 1669, when she married
in New York, Dirck Teunissen.
Children :
5 Seger, m. Femmetje Laurens Sluys. (Record follows.)
Jacob, m. Mch. 27, 1678, in New York, Geertje Pieters,
"van N. Amersfort."
6 Marritje, m. Elias Post. (Record follows.)
7 Lysbeth, m. Wamer Wessels, Jr. (Record follows.)
8 Maghdalena, m. Jacob Franse Van Dyck. (Record fol-
lows.)
Comelis, son of Comelis Segerse, sometimes si^ed his name
Comelis Comelise van Voorhout, undoubtedly to distinguish him-
self from others by name of Comelis Comelise. His name first
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appears in Colonial records, when May 21, 1653, he with his father,
signed the oath of fidelity to the Patroon, signing his name Comelis
Comelisz van Voorhout (A 2). According to the Van Rensselaer
papers, he is charged from Jan. 31, 1652, to Jan. 31, 1658, with an
annual rent of fioo, apparently for 6 morgens (12 acres) of land
in Greenbush, formerly owned by Christoffel Davids, which were
leased to Teunis Dircksz van Vechten, Jan. 31, 1650, and would
seem to have been occupied by Comelis Cornelise after that year
(V). Between 1654 and 1659 there are records of numerous real
estate transactions between Comelis Cornelise and others, although
in some of these cases it is possible some other Comelis Cornelise
was the one involved. He evidently maintained a brewery on his
property in Greenbush, which is mentioned in 1661 and again in
1667 when it was disposed of at sheriff's sale (B). His name ap-
pears last on public records, July 3, 1668, when Cornelis Cornelise
van Voorhout was witness to power of attomey given by Tys
Evertse de Goyer to Jacob Schermerhom on the latter's departure
to Holland (G). Cornelis Cornelise evidently died in 1668, and
probably the »next year his family removed to New Amsterdam,
undoubtedly at the instance of the brother-in-law, Francis Boon,
who had located there.
3. Claes Cornelise, son of (x) Cornelis Segerse Egmont and
Brechie Jacobsen; b. 1623; d. before Nov. 22, 1662; m. Oct. 17,
1649, ^ New York, Brechie Maryns, dau. of Mar3m Adriaensen
van der Veere* and Lysbet Tyssen. Brechie Maryns m. (2) Jan
Tyssz Goes and d. before Feb. i, 1663 (B & T).
♦Maryn (Marinus, Marin) Adriansz (Adriaensen) van der Veere en-
tered into an agreement with Patroon Kiliaen Van Rensselaer at Amsterdam,
on Jan. 12, 163 1, to engage in the planting of tobacco at Rensselaerswyck, for
a period of three years. He had evidently been in America previously, as the
farm on which he was to locate was one "which he began to clear before his
departure," and also referred to was "a son born before in that coiuitry."
He sailed for America in "de Eendrachf shortly after July 7, 1631, with
his wife Lysbet Thyssen, a child and four or five assistants. He located on
property "on the north side of Fort Orange (Albany)," and in July, 1632,
was appointed one of the schepens and councilors of Rensselaerswydc. But
he was evidently unsuccessful in tobacco planting, a situation being reached as
late as April 23, 1634, causing the dissatisfaction of Patroon Van Rensselaer,
who expressed the wish that he could have employed Maryn instead as a
"skipper to cruise along the coasts of New Netherland" for trading pur-
poses (V.). Soon after, Mzryn must have removed to New Amsterdam and
on February 19, 1639, Claes Cornelissen Swits deeded to him a house and
plantation on the North River. On August 16, 1641, he received by deed
from Hendrick Jansen another piece of property and September 20, 1642,
he deeded to Jan Jansen Damen, land in Smith's Valley (C). He was one
of the "12 men" chosen by Kieft August 29, 1641, to aid the latter in the
direction of the affairs of the colony.
Maryn Adriaensen took active part in the early Indian troubles with
which New Amsterdam was concerned. On one occasion in 1641, the
burghers became dissatisfied with official action in connection with an affair
resulting in die murder of Claes Cornelissen Swits by an Indian of a neigh-
boring tribe. The Chiefs promised to deliver the murderer to New Amster-
dam for punishment, but actually could not be brought to do so. Maryn
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Chfldren :
Mar3m, b. 1651.
9 Jacob, b. 1653; m. Maria Lucasz. (Record follows.)
Lysbeth, b. 1655; possibly the Lysbeth Qaese who m. (i)
Jan Harris, and m. (2) July 12, 1694, in Albany, Jean
Kerr. (On May 23, 1673, a "Lysbeth Qaes Wipp, j. d.
van N. Albanien" m. in New York, "William Horn
(Horns, Holmes)." They had daughters Brechtie,
Marie, Jannetje, Judith and Presilly, tfie last baptised,
Nov. 3, 1697. "Wip" was attached to the name of
Seger Comelise in several early records.)
10 Tryntje, b. 1658; m. (i) Elias Van Gyseling; m. (2)
William Haal (Hall). (Record follows.)
Adriaensen and two others representing the burghers-at-large petitioned the
Director, William Kieft, for permission, therefore, to descend upon the
Indians, who were encamped at Corlaers Hook and teach them a lesson.
Kieft granted the authority (February 25, 1642) and a party of burghers
and soldiers led by Maryn Adriaensen and Abraham Planck attacked the
Indians two or three days later, killing many and taking a number of pris-
oners. This led to considerable later complication in the community's dealings
with the Indians, and various aflFrays. On one occasion in which the maize
of the Indians had been stolen by some of the settlers, the Indians had in
return burned some houses of the latter. This led to an upbraiding of Maryn
Adriaensen as having been the original cause of this trouble. Maryn's own
bam had been burned and he took the upbraiding much to heart Blaming
Director Kieft for endeavoring to shift responsibility, he became so wrought
up that he proceeded to the Director's house with sword and pistol in han^.
and addressing him saying, "What devilish lies art thou reporting of me?**
would have caused serious disturbance had it not been for the quick action
of some bystanders who overpowered and disarmed him. He was thereupo)i
arrested and sent to Holland for trial despite the protests of many of the
burghers who desired that he be pardoned (F.). Undoubtedly his sentence
was not severe as he returned to New Amsterdam and on May 9, 1647,
received a patent of land called Awiehaken on the west side of the Nordi
River bounded on the North by Hoboken Kill (C). He died before May
4, 1654, when his widow, "married yesterday to "Geerlief Michielsen," re-
quested that guardians be appointed over her minor son Tys Marynsen in
order that the paternal estate mi^ht be settled, and mentioned "her daugh-
ter residing at Fort Orange, who is now come with her husband" (T.).
Maryn Adriaensen was undoubtedly a figure of some individuality in
the early days of New Amsterdam. He possessed little or no respect for
Director Kieft and in the many papers relating to the attempted assassination,
his character is described in various terms. The following extract will give
some idea of what certain of the officials thought of him : "Maryn Adriaen-
sen a resident of this place and formerly one of the freebooters and sailors
of Compaan having at different times behaved very insolently, as endeavor-
ing to force his way on board the Company's ship, when ships arrive, accost-
ing the Director these times with quite an unbearable arrogance and abusing
his good will and aflFection for the community . . ." (F.). But however
this may have been Maryn had much influence among the citizens and was
distinctly a leader amonjj them as is evidenced by the long deliberations and
legal procedure following Maryn's hotheaded assault upon Kieft, in an
endeavor to get at the true facts of the case. One of Maryn's men, in fact,
was killed in attempting to rescue him. We can hardly judge of the rights
of the case as presented in the various documents, but it is even quite possible
^at Maryn may have had much excuse for his attitude.
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Qaes Comelise, second son of Cornells Segers, in one or two
instances signed his name Claes Comelise van Voorhout. It would
appear, however, that in most cases the latter termination was not
used. He occupied a farm on Papscanee Island, near Albany, from
1648 to 1658, and in 1650, this farm contained 28 morgens (56
acres) and there were employed thereon, 7 horses and 10 cows (V).
On Feb. i, 1663, his children were mentioned, with ages given,
and agreements made that Jan Tyssen, their stepfather, sup-
port Mar3m and Jacob, the other two to be supported by their next.
of kin (B).
Gysbert Cornelise van Weesp, first husband of Lysbeth, daugh-
ter of (i) Cornelis Segers Egmont, was in Amsterdam as early as June,
1639, and in 1641 was in Rensselaerswyck (V). He had evidently
been in the service of the West India Co., accounts being men-
tioned as due him in early records (C). He was also called Gysbert
"op de Berg" from the fact of his having a farm called the "Hooge
Berg" situated on the east side of the Hudson River a little below
Albany, which he rented in 1649. He was also referred to as Gys-
bert Comelise "waert" (tavern keeper) and his name is also found
expressed as Gysbert Comelise :Ouwerkerk. He died between Oc-
tober 25, 1653, and August 22, 1654 (J & V). His lot in Albany
was on the south side of Maiden Lane, between N. Pearl and James
Sts. (E).
Francis (Francois) Boon, second husband of Lysbeth Cor-
nelise Egmont, was born in 1629 and married the latter shortly after
her husband's death in 1653-4 (F & G). He was an Indian trader
(L 55) and some years after his marriage removed to New Am-
sterdam. His property in Albany included what is now a strip
comprising the entire south side of Maiden Lane, between N. Pearl
and James Sts. (E). His name appears in Albany records between
1654 and 1663, when he is mentioned as Treasurer of the Town
Revenue ( 1659) ; Deputy to accompany La Montagne to the Esopus
to meet the Director-General (1659) and Magistrate, 1658, 59,60,62,
and 63 (C & G). He figures in New Amsterdam records from 1660
to 1669, when he is mentioned as Attorney, Deacon and Alderman,
1668, 69 (C, F & T). He probably removed to New York in late
1663 or early 1664, as January 13, 1664, he and his wife Lysbeth
joined the N. Y. Ref . Dutch Church. Boon's place of business was
at the "Marketfield" on the east side of Broadway, New Amster-
dam, opposite Bowling Green (V 49). He became a man of wealth
and after some years* residence in New Amsterdam, removed to the
West Indies, where his wife, Lysbeth, died (V 55). The writer
has made no serious attempt to determine the extent of his family.
A son, Jacob, was baptized June 6, 1666, in New York, and a Frans
Boon (widower of Marritie Remmits), possibly another son, was
married February 12, 1697, to Catharine Blanck, in New York.
Records show that a Francis Bond lived on the Island of Barbadoes
as early as 1678 (S). He was bom in Bodruyn, Cornwall, England,
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and in 1696 was President of the Council in Barbadoes. He died
Aug. 3, 1699 (N). The names of the following who may have been
related to Francis Boon are found among the early N. Y. Dutch
records, the name being expressed as Boon, Boons, Boom, Booms,
Bone, Bones, Bonnen, Bonen: Agnietje, 1655-75; Jannetje, 1655-76;
Metje, 1659 ; Mathys, 1659 ; Dirck, 1672 ; Annetie, 1680. A Richard
Boone was the father of Thomas of St. John's, Dominica, who died
in New York, Sept-Oct, 1771 (S).
Seger Cornelise, third son of (i)Cornelis Segerse, apparently
left no issue. At least no record has been found of any, after very
careful search. He died June 24, 1662, of a knife wound inflicted the
day before at the tavern of Anthonis Jansz, in Albany, by Andries
Herbertsz Constapel, whom he had severely wounded in the head
with a piece of wood (B). (When two fought with knives, a
custom of frequent occurrence at this time, the survivor was held
guilty of murder if he stabbed his antagonist and death ensued;
but only of manslaughter if he cut or slashed him. In 1642 fight-
ing with knives was wholly prohibited (A 10).) The records seem
to show that Seger was of very mischievous and dissipated char-
acter, a frec^uenter of drinking places and quarrelsome. His name
is first mentioned in an action by Martin, the Brewer, July 7, 1654,
when the latter stated that "Se^er Comelissen had broken in the
door of their house, because they would not let him in and give
him to drink." A record of Aug. 9, 1654, is to the effect that "Dc
Vryes complains of Seeger Comelis and Harmen Herpertse (?)
for ringing bells at his door and before his house, and complains
of their blowing horns at him, in presence of Jillis Pieterse and the
neighbors about there" (G). On May 29, 1657, evidences of an-
other quarrel appear when a judgment against Steven Jansen was
brought for wounding Seger Comelissen Wip, with a knife (C).
Nothing else excepting a tew minor real estate and other transac-
tions are recorded of him. As his brother Qaes Comelissen testi-
fied against him in the episode with Martin the Brewer, it seems
likely that even his own family had little sympathy with him, and
his untimely death must have been brought about through his own
recklessness and dissipated habits.
J ANNETIE CoRNELiSE, dau. of (i) Comelis Segers Egmont and
Brechie Jacobsen. See Schermernam Genealogy^ 1914.
4. Neeltje Corneuse, dau. of (i) Comelise Segerse Egmont and
Brechie Jacobsen, b. 1635; d* bef. April i, 1670; m. Hans Carelse
ToU.
Children :
11 Card Hanse, b. about 1660; m. Lysbeth Danielse Rinck-
hout (Record follows.)
12 Rachel Hanse, b. about 1665; m. (i) David Willemse
Marinus; m. (2) Jeremi Tickston. (Record follows).
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Hans Carelse Toll was in New Amsterdam between 1659 and
1666, in most cases during this period, his name being expressed
as Hans Carelsen. In 1662 he is mentioned as Hans Carelsen Noor-
jnan (K), and his name appears in Albany Coimty Records, Dec. 9,
1659, as Hans Carelsen Toll. On April i, 1671, were married in New
York, "Hans Carelsen, widower of Neeltie Cornells, residing at
Albany," and "Geertje Teunis, widow of Cors Janszen, residing
here at N. Yorck." The house of Hans Carelsen in Albany is
mentioned May 10, 1671 (B). Hans Carelsen died before May 20,
1685, ^ ^^ ^^^ A^X<t his widow married Francisco Anthony (T).
Key to References.
Index, Name of Book.
A. I. Albany Annals, Munsell, 1850-60, VoL i.
A. 2. Albany Annals, Munsell, 1850-60, Vol. 2.
A. 3. Albany Annals, Munsell, 1850-60, Vol. 6.
A. 8. Albany Annals, Munsell, 1850-60, Vol. 8.
A. 9. Albany Annals, Munsell, 1850-60, Vol. 9.
A 10. Albany Annals, Munsell, 1850-60, Vol. 10.
B. Albany County Records, County Qcrk's Office, Albany, N. Y.
C. Calendar of N. Y. Historical MSS. —Dutch, 1630-64; English, 1664-
1776; O'Callaghan, 1865, 66.
D. Calendar of Wills, Fernow, 1896 (Soc. Col. Dames).
E. Collections on the History of Albany, Munsell, 1865-71.
F. Documents Relating to the Colonial History of New York, CCal-
laghan, 1853-87 .
G. Early Records of the History of the City and County of Albany,
Pearson, 1869.
h. Genelaogies of the First Settlers of Schenectady, Pearson, 1873.
I. History of Greene County, N, Y,, Beers, 1884,
t History of New Netherland, O'Callaghan, 1846-48.
Holland Society Yearbook, 1900.
L. Manual of the Common Council of New York, Valentine.
L.49. Same for 1849.
L. 50. Same for 1850.
L.53. Same for 1853.
L.55. Same for 1855.
L.63. Same for 1863.
M. Minutes of the Common Council of New York.
K. Monumental Inscriptions in the British West Indies, Archer, 1875.
O. New Netherland Register, O'Callaghan.
P. New Jersey Archives.
Q. New York Archives, V. i.
R. New York Genealogical and Biog. Record, Oct., 1913.
S. New York Hist. Soc. Colls. Wills.
T. Records of New Amsterdam, Fernow, 1897.
U. Report of N. Y. State Historian, 1896, 7.
V. Van Rensselaer-Bowier Mss., N. Y. S. Lib., 1908.
W. American Ancestry.
X. Hudson-Mohawk Genealogies.
Y. Genealogical Dictionary, V. 4, Savage, 1862.
Z. Rise and Fall of the Dutch Republic, Motley.
General Authorities.
Baptismal and marriage records of Reformed Dutch Churches of Albany,
New York, Schenectady and Kingston.
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IQIS'J Thacher-Tkatcher dnealogy, 353
THACHER-THATCHER GENEALOGY.
By John R. Totten,
Member of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society and New England
Historic-Genealogical Society.
(Continaed from Vol. XLVI., p. a68, of the Rbcord.)
1 102. Eliza^ Taylor (Desire,* Thacher, Deacon Josiah,' Judah,*
Hon. Col. John," Antony,* Rev. Peter^), born at Yarmouth,
Mass., October 23rd, 1794, Thursday; died , at ;
she married (subsequent to May 28th, 1828, the date
of death of Matthew Crowell Hallet's first wife), to Matthew
Crowell Hallett, as his second wife; he was bom at Yar-
mouth, May 25th, 1787; he lived at Yarmouth; died ,
at ; he was a son of Ebenezer Hallet (bom May 22nd,
1750, at Yarmouth; died October 29th, 1832, aged 82, at
Yarmouth, and was buried there in Old Cemetery; grave-
stone; married March 14th, 1776) and his wife Elizabeth
Crowell (bora April lOth, 1755; died July 31st, 1828, in her
74th year, and was buried in Old Cemetery, Yarmouth;
gravestone), of Yarmouth, Mass.
Children: 6 (Hallet) sons, all bom at Yarmouth, Mass.
1947 i. Matthew Crowell,® bora August 31st, 1829;
died September 8th, 1870.
1948 i. Son,® bora July 24th (or 27th), 1831; died
August 2nd (or July 30), 1831, at Yarmouth,
Mass., and was buried there in Old Cemetery;
gravestone.
1949 iii. Randall,® bom May 29th, 1832; died August
29th, 1832, at Yarmouth, and was buried there
in Old Cemetery; gravestone.
1950 iv. Thacher, ist,* bom December 24th, 1833 (or
January ist, 1834) ; died December 12th, 1834,
at Yarmoutfi 
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