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Genealogy  and  Biography. 


ISSUED      QUARTERLY, 


VOLUME  XV.,  1884. 


PUBLISHED  FOR  THE  SOCIETY, 

MOTT    MEMORIAL    Ha^   No.    64    Madison    Avenue, 

New  York  City. 


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PUBLICATION     COMMITTEE. 


SAMUEL    S.    PURPLE,  JOHN   J.    LATTING 

:HARLES    B.    MOORE,  JAMES    GRANT   WILSON 

HENRY   R.    STILES, 

Mott  Memorial  Ball,  64  Madison  Avenue. 


INDEX  TO    SUBJECTS. 


Alexander,  James,  Esq.,  Copy  of  Letters  to  and  from,  by  Miss  Elizabeth  C.  Jay,  130. 
American  Branch  of  the  Pruyn  Family,  by  John  V.  L.  Pruyn,  Jr.,  17,  97. 
Ancestor  of  Assistant  Bishop  Potter,  of  New  York,  43. 

Ancestry  and  Writings  of  James  Fenimore  Cooper,  by  William  Remsen  Mulford,  g. 
Anniversary  Meeting  of  the  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Society,  138. 
Antiquity  and    Origin   of  the   Livingston  Family,  by  E.  Brockholst  Livingston,  F.  S.A. 
Scot.,  15,  105,  159. 

Berry,  John,  Deputy  Gov.  of  New  Jersey,  and  his  Family,  by  Thomas  H.  Edsall,  49. 
Biographical   Sketch  of  Hon.  Robert  H.  Pruyn,  LL.D.,  by  John  V.  L.  Pruyn,  Jr.,  97. 
Biography  of  Deputy   Gov.  John  Berry,  of  New  Jersey,  by  Thos.  H.  Ed?all,  Esq.,  49. 

"  of  Jonathan  S.  Lawrence,  M.  D.,  by  Dr.  George  H.  Butler,  179. 

"  of  Col.  Ricliard  NicoU,  by  Edward  Holland  NicoU,  103. 

"  of  Hon.  John  Stevens,  of  Perth  Amboy,  by  Richard  F.  Stevens,  145. 

Baptisms  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  the  City  of  New  York,  23,  81,  1 14,  162. 
Birth,  Marriage,  and  Death  Registers  of  the  French   Protestant  Church  in  New  York 

City,  Notice  of,  139. 
Butler,  George  H.,  M.  D.,  his  Biographical  Sketch  of  Jonathan  S.  Lawrence,  M.D.,  179. 

Dutch  Church  (Reformed)  of  the  City  of  New  York,    Records  of  Baptisms  in,  23,  81, 

114,  162. 
Dwight,  Rev.  Benjamin  W.,  his  Account  of  the  Rogers  Lineage,  150. 

Edsall,  Thomas  H.,  his  Account  of  Deputy  Gov.  John  Berry,  of  New  Jersey,  49. 
Epitaphs  of  the  Floyd  Family  at  Setauket,  L.  I.,  by  William  Kelby,  41. 
"         in  Hunt's  Point  Cemetery,  by  Genl.  James  Grant  Wilson,  42. 

Floyd  Family  Epitaphs  at  Setauket,  L.  I.,  by  William  Kelby,  41. 
French  Protestant  Church  in  New  York  City,  Notice  of  Registers  of,  139. 

Genealogy  of  the  Berry  Family  of  N.  J.,  by  Thomas  H.  Edsall,  52. 

"  "        Hart  and  Hooker  Families,  by  Mrs.  Almira  Hart  Lincoln  Phelps,  loS. 

"  "       Moore  Family  of  Southold,  L.  I.,  by  Charles  B.  Moore,  57. 

"  "        Pruyn  Family,  by  John  V.  L.  Pruyn.  Jr.,  17,  87. 

"  "       Rogers  Family,  by  Rev.  Benjamin  W.  Dwight,  150. 

"  "       Willi?  Family  of  L.  I.,  by  Benjamin  D.  Hicks,  170. 

Hicks,   Benjamin  D.,  Marriage  Records  of  St.  George's  Church,  Hempstead,  L.  I.,  77, 

III,  176. 
Hicks,  Benjamin  D.,  Genealogy  of  the  Willis  Family  of  L.  I.,  170. 
Holland,  Knighthood  and  Nobility  of,  by  James  Riker,  49. 
Hunt's  Point  Cemetery,  Epitaphs  in,  by  Genl.  Jas.  Grant  Wilson,  42. 

Lnmigrants  to  New  Netherland,  List  of,  by  Van  Brunt  Bergen,  33,  72. 

Jay,  Miss  Elizabeth  Clarkson,  Copies  of  Letters  to  and  from  James  Alexander,  Esq.,  130. 

Kelby,  William,  his  Collection  of  Floyd  Family  Epitaphs  at  Setauket,  L.  I.,  41. 
Knighthood  and  Nobility  of  Holland,  by  James  Riker,  49. 

List  of  Early  Immigrants  to  New  Netherland,  by  Van  Brunt  Bergen,  33,  72. 
Livingston    Family,    Notes    on    the  Antiquity,   etc.,   of,   by   E.   Brockholst  Livingston, 
F.S.4.  Scot.,  15,  105,  159. 


iv  Index  to  Subjects. 

Marriages  in  the  First  and  Second  Presbyterian  Churches  of  the  City  of  New  York,  30, 

89,  132. 
Marriages  in  St.    George's  Church,  Hempstead,   L.  I.,  communicated  by   Benjamin  D. 

Hicks,  77,  III,  176. 
Moore  Family  of  Southold,  L.  I  ,  by  Charles  B.  Moore,  57. 
Mulford,  William  Remsen,  his  Ancestry  and  Writings  of  James  Fenimore  Cooper,  9. 

New  Netherland,  List  of  Early  Immigrants  to,  by  Van  Brunt  Bergen,  33,  72. 

New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Society,  Anniversary  Meeting  of,  138. 

Nicoll,  Col.  Richard,  Deputy  Gov.  of  New  York,  Biography  of,  by  Edward  Holland 
Nicoll,  103. 

Notes  on  Books. — Miscellanea  Marescalliana,  44  ;  Pollock  Genealogy,  45;  "Evacua- 
tion Day,"  1783,  45  ;  Humphrey  Family  in  America,  45,  144  ;  The  Townshend 
Family  of  Lynn,  46  ;  Book  of  the  Wilders,  46  ;  Memorial  of  Zachariah  Allen, 
1795-1882,  46  ;  The  Papers  and  Biography  of  Lyon  Gardiner,  1599-1663,  94  ; 
Historical  Account  of  the  Celebration  of  the  One  Hundred  and  Fiftieth  Anniver- 
sary of  the  Organization  of  the  First  Church  of  New  Canaan,  Conn.,  June 
20,  1883,  95  ;  Memorial  of  Daniel  Tyler,  95  ;  Records  of  William  Spooner,  of 
Plymouth,  Mass.,  and  his  Descendants,  Vol.  L,  1S83,  96;  Windsor  Farms;  A 
Glimpse  of  an  Old  Parish,  1883,  140;  The  Halls  of  New  England,  Genealogical 
and  Biographical,  1883,  141  ;  Proceedings  of  the  New  England  Genealogical  and 
Biographical  Society,  January  2,  1884,  141  ;  Some  Records  of  the  Dyer  Family, 
1884,  141;  History  of  the  First  Church  in  Hartford,  Ct.,  1884,  142;  Our 
French  Allies  .  .  .  in  the  American  Revolution,  1778-1782,  142  ;  Acadia:  A 
Lost  Chapter  in  American  History,  1884,  143  ;  Memorial  Biographies  of  New 
England  Historic  Genealogical  Society,  Vol.  HL,  1856-1859,  143;  Ralph 
Waldo  Emerson  :  A  Paper  read  before  the  N.  Y.  Genealogical  and  Biographi- 
cal Society,  1883,  143;  Sketch  of  the  Life  of  Samuel  F.  Pratt;  with  some  Ac- 
count of  the  Pratt  Family,  1874,  143  ;  The  Deaborns,  144  ;  History  of  Chicago, 
Vol.  L,  1884,  144  ;  Centennial  of  the  Incorporation  of  Charleston,  S.  C,  18S3,  178; 
Genealogical  Records  of  the  Carpenter  Family  [1883],  178. 

and   Queries. — Anniversary  Meeting  of  the  N.  Y.    Genealogical  and   Biographi- 
:al  Society,  138  ;   British  Flag,  92  ;  Book,  Couitly,  94,  138  ;  Beach,  138  ;  Brock- 
A'ay,   92  ;  Coggeshall  Family  Reunion,  138,  177  ;  Cogswells  in  America,  92,  138 
Correction,    161,    177;  Davis,    41;   De    La    Noy,    178;  Floyd  Family  Epitaphs 
at  Setauket,    L.    I.,    41  ;  Gilley,    139;    FLart,  177;    Hawley,  138;    Hayden,   92 
Hunt's  Point  Cemetery,  42  ;   Index  to  Names,  178;   Johnston  Family  of  Jamaica 
W.  1.,  139;   Knowlton,  139;  Lintol-Trotler,   93  ;   Ludlum,  193;   Mathews,  44 
Merritt,  177;  Moffit-Miller,  93  ;  New  Barbadoes  Neck,    139;   Nicoll,  177;    Pot- 
ter, 43  ;    Quency,  93  ;    Registers  of  the  French  Protestant  Church  of  New  York 
City,  139;  Schuyler,    140;    Seaman  Family,    140;    .Sloo,    140;    Smith,   94,  140; 
Stoughtenburgh,  178  ;  Van  Tienhoven,  178  ;   Van  Vleck,  178  ;  Voorhees  and  Van 
Voorhees,  140  ;   Woolsey,  94. 

Obituary  of  George  C.  Arnold,  180;  Rev.  C.  S.  Henry,  180;  W.  H.  Hunt,  96;  Dr. 
Philip  L.  Jones,  48;  Dr.  Jonathan  S.  Lawrence,  179;  Charles  J.  Palmer,  47; 
Eliza  S.  Quincy,  48  ;   Schuyler  Van  Rensselaer,  96. 

Phelps,  Mrs.  Almira  Hart  Lincoln,  her  Account  of  the  Hart  and  Hooker  Families,  108. 
Pruyn  Family — American  Branch,  by  J.  V.  L.  Pruyn,  Jr.,  17,  97. 

Registers  of  the  French  Protestant  Church  of  New  Y'ork  City,  Notice  of,  139. 

Riker,  James,  on  the  Knighthood  and  Nobility  of  Holland,  69. 

Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  New  Y'ork  City,  Baptisms,  23,  8i,  114,  162. 

"  "       Presbyterian  Church  in  New  York  City,  Marriages,  30,  89,  132. 

"  "       St.  George's  Church,  Hempstead,  L.  I.,  Marriages,  77,  iii,  176. 

"  "       French  Protestant  Church  in  New  York,  Notice  of,  139. 

Rogers  Lineage,  by  Rev.  Benjamin  W.    Dwight,  150. 

Stevens,  Richard  F.,  Sketch  of  Hon.  John  Stevens,  of  Perth  Amboy,  145. 
St.  George's  Church,  Hempstead,  L.  I.,  Marriage  Records,  by  Benjamin  D.  Hicks,  77, 
in,  176. 

Wilson,  Genl.  James  Grant,  Collection  of  Epitaphs  in  Hunt's  Point  Cemetery,  42. 


THE   NEW   YORK 


Vol.  XV.  NEW  YORK,  JANUARY,   1884.  No.   i. 


JAMES  FENIMORE  COOPER,  HIS  ANCESTRY  AND  WRITINGS. 


By   William  Remsen  Mulford. 


The  publication  of  a  "Life  of  J.  Feniuiore  Cooper"  has  drawn  con- 
siderable attention  to  that  already  justly  celebrated  author.  The  work, 
while  commencing  in  a  strain  rather  commendatory  of  the  graceful  and 
natural  novelist,  becomes  toward  the  middle  and  conclusion  not  only 
acrimoniously  critical  but  is  found  to  contain,  here  and  there,  quite  a 
tinge  of  bitterness.  Nor  is  this  work  calculated  to  advance  the  dignity 
of  one  of  the  greatest  American  authors  and  certainly  one  of  the  sub- 
stantial foundation-stones  upon  which  the  fair  superstructure  of  American 
literature  so  securely  rests.  We  think  that  Prof.  Lounsbury  would  have 
shown  better  taste  only  to  have  referred  to  the  disagreements  between  the 
novelist  and  the  press  in  a  general  way,  instead  of  dealing  so  minutely  with 
all  the  unjust  and  violent  remarks  that  were  made  in  the  heat  of  battle. 
The  result  of  the  repetition  of  these  has  been  to  give  rise  to  false  im- 
pressions of  Cooper's  origin  and  antecedents,  two  very  important  ingre- 
dients in  any  man's  biography,  and  leads  to  the  opinion  that  Mr.  Cooper 
had  a  reprehensible  weakness  for  an  ancestry  which  he  could  not  claim, 
and  that  so  abjectly  miserable  was  the  condition  of  the  stock  from  which  he 
sprang  that  he  was  unable,  or,  as  it  is  more  unkindly  conjectured,  unwill- 
ing to  name  his  own  grandfather  ! 

Now,  first  of  all  let  it  be  understood  that  Cooper  came  of  the  ordinary 
"good"  American  family.  Let  us  get  rid  at  once  of  the  incorrect  notion 
that  he  did  not.  Instead  of  having  come  from  such  gross  obscurity  James 
Fenimore  Cooper  was  descended  in  the  fourth  generation,  from  (i)  James 
Cooper,  of  Stratford-upon  Avon,  Warwickshire,  England,  who  was  born  in 
1661,  and  "in  1683  bought  a  lot  on  Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia  (oppo- 
site the  marble  Custom  House),"  and  who  was  identified  with  various  pur- 
chases of  land.  His  name,  as  a  witness,  is  on  many  deeds  recorded  at 
Philadelphia.  His  "actual  signature  is  on  the  Friends'  Petition  of  1694, 
addressed  to  William  IH.,  King  of  Great  Britain  (original  in  possession 
of  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania),  and  on  the  original,  in  the  Phila- 


lO  James  Fenimore  Cooper,  his  Ancestry  and  IVrilings.         [Jan., 

delphia  Library,  of  another  petition  made  in  the  year  1710."  He  was 
twice  married,  but  had  no  issue  by  his  second  wife,  and  died  in  1732.  By 
his  first  wife,  Hester,  he  had,  among  other  children,  a  son  (2)  WilHam,  who 
married  Mary,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  EUzabeth  Groom,  of  Byberry,  a 
township  of  old  Philadelphia  County,  and  died  in  1736,  In  tax  list 
of  1735,  William  Cooper  is  rated  for  150  acres  of  land  in  Byberry 
Township,  named  in  Philadelphia  in  his  father's  will,  and  also  in  deeds. 
William  Cooper  had  among  other  children  a  son  (3)  James,  born  in  1729, 
in  Byberry  township,  now  the  most  northerly  ward  of  Philadelphia,  in  a 
dwelling  near  the  present  Somerton  post-office,  and  married  at  Christ 
Church,  Philadelphia,  on  September  18,  1750,  to  Hannah  Hibbs,  daughter 
of  William  Hibbs  and  Ann  (Carter),  who  were  married  at  Friends'  Meeting, 
in  Wrightstovvn,  Bucks  County,  Pa.,  April  13,  1728,  and  descended 
from  English  settlers  who  were  at  Burlington,  N.  J.,  in  1678.  James 
Cooper  owned  a  plantation  at  Buckingham,  in  Bucks  County,  devised  to 
him  in  the  will  of  his  uncle,  Samuel  Cooper,  but  did  not  take  personal 
possession.  He  was  a  resident,  in  1753,  of  Moreland  Township,  now 
Montgomery  County,  Pa.,  but  "soon  after  returned  to  the  vicinity 
of  the  homestead  in  Byberry."  By  his  first  wife,  Hannah  Hibbs,  he  had 
with  other  children  a  son  (4)  Judge  William  Cooper,  the  father  of  the  novel- 
ist. His  first  wife,  Hannah,  dying  April  22,  1777,  James  Cooper  married 
his  second  wife,  Elizabeth  Wager,  daughter  of  Jacob  Wager  and  Gertrude 
Supplee,  descendants  of  early  Swedish  settlers  on  the  Schuylkill,  near  the 
present  site  of  Norristown,  Montgomery  County,  Pa.  By  this  mar- 
riage there  are  also  descendants,  among  whom  is  VV'illiam  AVager  Cooper, 
Esq.,  late  of  the  United  States  Coast  Survey,  to  whom  the  honor  of  com- 
piling the  genealogy  of  the  Cooper  family  is  due,  and  from  this  genealogy, 
which  he  has  kindly  furnished,  we  are  quoting  liberally.  James  Cooper 
afterward  removed  to  the  Western  part  of  Chester  County,  Pennsylvania, 
and  there  bought  260  acres  of  land,  partly  in  West  Cain  and  partly  in 
Honeybrook  Townships.  His  farm  house  was  located  about  two  miles 
northeast  of  the  hamlet  of  Com|)assville.  Thus  we  find  that  he  was  seized 
of  no  less  than  two  tracts  of  land  in  two  different  counties  of  Pennsylvania. 
His  will  was  executed  January  12,  1790,  proved  May  5,  1795,  and  recorded 
at  West  Chester,  Chester  County,  Pa.,  in  Will  Book  i,  Vol.  9,  page  325. 

This  is  the  grandfather  whom  it  is  supposed  the  novelist  was  either 
unable  or  unwilling  to  name  from  his  extreme  obscurity.  Surely  the  facts 
in  the  case  do  not  make  it  appear  that  the  grandfather  of  Cooper  was 
enveloped  in  such  worthless  obscurity  and  abject  penury  ? 

To  return  to  the  pedigree  of  the  novelist.  As  we  mentioned  before, 
James  by  his  first  wife  was  the  father  of  (4)  Judge  William  Cooper,  who  was 
born  December  2,  1754,  in  Byberry  township,  then  in  Philadelphia  County, 
and  in  1775  married  to  Elizabeth  Fenimore,  at  Burlington,  N    J, 

We  will  not  go  into  detail  about  Judge  Cooper's  extensive  land  trans- 
actions at  Otsego.  Suffice  it  to  say  that  he  became  a  large  land-holder  in 
that  place  and  finally  removed  thither.  He  was  appointed  February  17, 
1 791,  Judge  of  the  first  Court  of  Common  Pleas  for  Otsego  County. 
Judge  Cooper  was  also  a  member  of  Congress  from  the  State  of  New  York 
in  1 795-1 797  and  1799-1801,  died  at  Albany,  in  1809,  and  was 
buried  at  Cooperstown,  N.  Y.  Certainly  a  man  who  could  commence  and 
carry  out  successfully  landed  operations  where  settlement  jad  failed 
before,  fill  the  bench  of  the  principal  court  of  his  county,  represent  his 


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district  in  the  Congress  of  tlie  United  States,  and  write  a  series  of  letters 
upon  the  country  which  he  had  settled,  to  a  cultured  Irish  gentleman  and 
prominent  lawyer  of  New  York,*  which  he  must  have  tliought  worthy  of 
publication  (for  they  were  published  in  Dublin  under  the  title  of  "A  Guide 
to  the  Wilderness"),  could  not  have  been  an  ordinary  vulgar  adventurer, 
dependent  for  his  success  upon  mere  temporary  political  popularity. 

Judge  Cooper  was  the  father  of  twelve  children,  among  whom  was 
(5)  James  Fenimore,  born  September  15,  1789,  at  Burlington,  N.  J.,  removed 
in  childhood  to  Cooperstown,  N,  Y.,  entered  Yale  College  in  1802,  Mid- 
shipman United  States  Navy  1806,  married  in  181 1  Susan  Augusta  Delan- 
cey,  and  died  at  Cooperstown  September  14,  1851.  Thus  we  find  the 
novelist  descended  in  the  fourth  generation  from  the  first  ancestor  of  his 
family  in  America  and  himself  constituting  the  fifth  generation  here. 

As  regards  the  story  of  Judge  Cooper  having  been  a  wheelwright,  we  do 
not  know  whether  he  was  or  not,  and  it  is  a  matter  of  small  moment.  But 
we  may  state,  for  the  benefit  of  those  who  have  not  followed  genealogy  as  a 
profession  or  as  a  hobby,  nor  obtained  that  acquaintance  with  the  social 
history  of  this  country  which  the  study  of  that  subject  imparts,  that  the  fact 
of  a  man  following  a  trade  a  century  ago,  or  even  sixty  years  ago  in  many 
parts  of  the  country,  did  not  stamp  him  as  a  vulgar  or  uneducated  person 
who  had  no  claim  to  distinction  of  blood  or  social  station,  or  as  one  who  had 
renounced  any  claim  of  this  kind.  On  the  contrary,  there  are  instances  of 
persons  following  trades  who  were  members  of  highly  respectable  families 
and  who  thought  not  a  little  of  ancestry  ;  their  position  in  this  respect  being 
acknowledged  by  others.  We  have  in  mind  a  very  old  and  distinguished 
family,  the  head  of  which,  though  his  family  escutcheon  was  carved  in 
stone  above  the  doorway  of  his  colonial  built  home,  and  a  window  of  the 
church  to  which  he  belonged  was  ornamented  with  his  coat-of-arms,  was  a 
tailor  by  trade  and  was  so  designated  in  the  early  records. 

Thus,  instead  of  the  novelist  having  sprung  from  nothing,  he  was 
descended  from  a  respectable  family  and  from  what  in  a  new  country  might 
be  called  a  long  line  of  ancestors.  Cooper  was  probably  as  well  brought 
up  as  the  majority  of  young  gentlemen  of  respectable  birth  and  breeding 
in  his  day  in  the  Northern  and  Eastern  part  of  the  country,  and  came  by 
his  love  of  solidity  and  refinement  quite  honestly. 

Of  course  it  is  understood  that  Cooper  enjoyed  fair  educational  advan- 
tages. Having  been  placed  under  the  care  of  the  Rector  of  St.  Peters  at 
Albany,  as  a  private  pupil,  he  undoubtedly  imbibed  something  of  the  broader 
culture  and  higher  polish  that  were  imparled  at  one  of  the  great  universi- 
ties of  the  mother  country  from  the  constant  and  intimate  association 
between  private  pupil  and  tutor  at  an  age  when  the  mind  of  the  pupil  had 
become  particularly  assimilative  and  his  habits  and  tastes  were_  forming. 
From  the  intimacy  of  association,  under  these  circumstances  ideas  are 
more  deeply  impressed  upon  the  mind  of  the  learner  than  in  the  case  of 
ordinary  academical  instruction.  Some  stress  is  laid  upon  the  inadequate 
classical  training  at  Yale,  but  we  have  too  much  respect  for  the  proud  old 
university  of  Connecticut  not  to  dislike  to  see  her  stamped  as  such  an 
insignificant  and  insufficient  institution  of  learning.  Of  course  any  person 
of  reasoning  powers  must  know  that  Yale  was  then  essentially  different 
from  now,  ^ :^  we  think  it  only  fair  to  assume  that  there  must  have  been 
some  thoroughness  and  efficacy  in  her  training  when  she  turned  out  so 

*  Mr.  Sampson,  a  friend  of  the  Emmets. 


12  James  Fen'miore  Cooper^  his  Ancestry  and  Writings.         [Jan., 

many  men,  even  in  early  times,  who  afterward  became  famous  ;  and  we 
doubt  not  that  Cooper  derived  much  benefit  from  his  sojourn  at  that  cele- 
brated seat  of  learning. 

Cooper  doubtless  had  a  general  acquaintance  with  literature,  even 
though  he  was  unable  to  translate  Latin  and  Greek  verse  with  the  same 
ease  as  the  modern  graduate  of  Yale,  and  what  he  did  not  obtain  in  the 
way  of  mental  strength  from  the  discipline  of  the  study  of  the  classics,  he 
gained  in  the  deeper  study  of  the  great  book  of  nature,  of  which  he  was  so 
fond,  and  which  love  he  so  often  and  beautifully  expresses  in  his  works.  It 
is  absurd  to  undertake  to  imply  that  one  having  Cooper's  educational  advan- 
tages, and  afterward  extending  his  information  by  extensive  travel  among  the 
capitals  of  Europe  and  in  the  grand  primeval  wilds  of  the  great  Western 
Continent,  and  combining  with  the  knowledge  gained  from  these  a  practi- 
cal acquaintance  Avith  life  on  the  vast  ocean,  was  a  man  of  slender  educa- 
tion, whose  views  were  narrow  and  whose  opinion?  were  founded  upon 
prejudice  because  he  saw  fit  to  cast  his  lot  with  the  opposites  to  Crom- 
wellianism  and  Congregationalism,  to  defend  Episcopacy,  to  seek  to  raise 
the  code  of  etiquette  and  good  manners  to  a  standard  to  which  it  has  never 
generally  risen  in  this  country,  and  to  believe  in  high  birth.  Surely  Mr. 
Cooper  had  as  good  a  right  to  take  the  standing  which  he  did  as  the  now 
most  noisy  portions  of  the  community  have  to  take  the  opposite.  He  had, 
we  should  think,  the  same  right  to  defend  and  advocate  these  institutions 
that  they  have  to  disbelieve  in  and  oppose  them,  without  being  charged 
with  ignorance,  prejudice,  and  weakness. 

All  men  of  great  force  of  character  are  likely  to  use  strong  expressions 
when  engaged  in  the  defence  of  that  for  which  they  entertain  a  high  regard, 
and  though  Cooper  may  have  made  a  spiteful  remark  or  two  about  the 
religion  of  Cromwell,  he  has  said  no  more  against  that  and  New  England- 
ism  than  we  who  are  opposed  to  New  England  in  religion  and  politics  are 
continually  called  upon  to  bear,  but  which  we  bear  silently,  or  at  least  vve 
are  too  reasonable  to  try  to  underrate  New  England  ability  because  the 
prevailing  opinion  of  New  England  does  not  agree  with  our  own.  In 
contrast  to  all  this,  and  in  excuse  of  much  detail  from  us  we  may  refer  to 
Bryant's  handsome  "  Memorial  Address." 

In  referring  to  Cooper's  inclination  for  the  Episcopal  Church,  Prof. 
Lounsbury  says  :  "  In  the  midst  of  a  story,  remote  as  possible  from  the  occur- 
rences of  modern  life,  suddenly  turn  up  remarks  upon  the  apostolic  origin 
of  bishops  or  the  desirability  of  written  prayers  and  the  need  of  a  liturgy. 
The  impropriety  of  their  introduction  from  a  literary  point  of  view  Cooper 
never  had  sufficient  delicacy  of  taste  to  feel."  Further  on  he  says : 
"  There  is  little  reason  to  doubt  that  under  proper  conditions  Cooper 
could  easily  have  developed  into  a  sincere,  narrow-minded,  and  ferocious 
bigot."  It  is  almost  needless  to  observe  that  we  feel  the  latter  remark  to 
be  unnecessarily  caustic.  We  do  not  think  that  bigotry  to  a  degree  of 
ferocity  has  generally  been  assigned  to  the  Episcopal  character. 

In  order  to  understand  Cooper's  enthusiastic  love  of  the  Episcopal 
Church,  it  is  necessary  for  a  dissenter  to  study  a  little  the  churchman's 
theory.  He  will  then  see  that  what  by  the  sects  is  called  bigotry  may  not 
be  so  in  the  church.  For  instance,  a  man  who  thoroughly  accepts  the 
church  in  all  its  parts  and  firmly  believes  in  Apostolic  succession,  and  feels 
that  he  can  look  back  through  its  long  line  of  bishops  from  our  own  Bishop 
Seabury  or  White  through  Cranmer,  Wilfred,  and  Augustine  to  "  Paul  an 


1884.]         James  Fenimore  Cooper,  his  Ancestry  and  IVritings.  ]  •s 

Apostle,"  must  have  peculiar  feelings  about  the  church,  and  however  highly 
he  may  regard  the  n)inisters  of  the  sects  around  him  and  the  members  of 
dissenting  congregations  as  good  Christian  men,  he  cannot  look  upon  them 
as  anything  but  religious  societies,  though  he  does  not  for  one  instant  deny 
that  they  may  be  accomplishing  good.  Thus  while  he  has  the  highest 
respect  for  them  and  their  endeavors,  he  cannot  but  prefer  that  himself 
and  his  friends  be  admitted  into  that  church  militant  by  the  laying  on  of 
hands  of  a  bishop  "  whose  spiritual  lineage  ends  with  the  twelve,"  and  the 
institution  of  whose  office  is  referred  to  in  the  Acts  of  the  Apostles.  Let, 
therefore,  these  considerations  soften  a  little  the  bitter  feelings  which  the 
remarks  about  Cooper's  great  desire  to  impress  Episcopacy  at  all  times  and 
in  all  i)laces,  proper  and  improper,  upon  everybody,  may  engender.  And 
furthermore,  we  would  say  that  we  do  not  think  Cooper  so  completely 
disregarded  all  efforts  for  good  outside  the  Episcopal  Church  or  he  would  not 
have  caused  Leatherstocking  to  talk  so  feelingly  about  the  good  Moravian 
missionaries,  neither  would  he  have  brought  such  excellent  moral  senti- 
ments from  him  and  represented  them  as  having  been  derived  from  that 
same  religious  source. 

Prof.  Lounsbury  seems  to  think  the  interest  that  Cooper  took  in 
etiquette  rather  belittling.  He  says  :  "  It  could  scarcely  fail  to  inspire  a 
sentiment  almost  like  disgust  to  hear  the  creator  of  Leatherstocking  argue 
with  heat  the  question,  whether  it  is  right  for  a  lady  to  come  into  a  drawing- 
room  at  a  party  without  leaning  upon  the  arm  of  a  gentleman,  or  discourse 
solemnly  upon  the  proper  way  of  eating  eggs  and  announce  oracularly  that 
all  who  were  acquainted  with  polite  society  would  agree  in  denouncing  the 
wine-glass  or  egg-glass  as  a  vulgar  substitute  for  the  egg-cup." 

We  certainly  do  not  see  the  impropriety  of  Cooper's  taking  an  interest 
in  matters  pertaining  to  etiquette,  but  think  it  very  natural  and  very  proper 
for  a  gentleman  of  his  literary  standing  and  culture  to  do  so.  VVe  think  if 
more  well-educated  gentlemen  would  exhibit  this  same  interest  a  great 
improvement  might  be  made  in  American  manners,  and  that  some  of  those 
things  of  which  polished  people  froai  abroad,  sometimes  not  without  reason, 
complain  might  disappear.  VVe  see  no  reason  why  the  correct  taste  of  the 
author  of  the  "Leatherstocking  Tales,"  with  all  his  glowing  descriptions  of 
the  American  wilderness,  should  not  desire  the  same  graceful  symmetry  and 
accuracy  in  the  drawing-room  which  his  thorough  knowledge  of  nature 
had  caused  him  to  observe  and  admire  in  her. 

Though  many  remarks  which  we  have  had  occasion  to  make  may  seem 
a  little  severe,  yet  we  do  not  think  them  unjust,  and  it  is  but  fair  that 
where  there  is  an  opportunity  history  should  be  made  as  correct  as  possible. 

We  therefore  hope  that  these  brief  statements  may  serve  to  eradicate 
the  mistaken  impressions  which  have  grown  out  of  this  "  Life  of  Cooper." 
We  hope  that  Cooper's  works  may  long  be  read  and  admired.  They  certainly 
inculcate  a  broad,  free,  American  sentiment,  and  yet  combine  with  it  that 
higher  moral  tone  and  that  proper  respect  for  law  and  authority  which  are 
sometimes  overlooked  in  connection  with  republican  institutions. 

That  ennobling  morality  which  runs  through  Cooper's  works  particu- 
larly attracts  our  admiration.  To  us  it  is  far  from  coarse  or  commonplace. 
We  do  not  think  with  Prof,  Lounsbury  that  all  Cooper's  female  characters 
are  such  perfect  artificially  good  automatons.  On  the  contrary,  we  think 
that  he  has  cast  a  healthy  moral  glow  about  his  female  creations  the  effect 
of  which  is  extremely  elevating  to  the  reader. 


I A  James  Fenimore  Cooper,  his  Ancestry  afid  Writings.         [Jan., 

He  begins  to  sum  up  his  remarks  upon  Cooper's  sketches  of  female 
character  as  follows  :  "  But  at  best  the  height  they  reach  is  little  loftier 
than  that  of  the  pattern  woman  of  the  regular  religious  novel.  The  reader 
cannot  help  picturing  for  all  of  them  the  same  dreary  and  rather  inane 
future.  He  is  as  sure  as  if  their  career  had  been  actually  unrolled  before 
his  eyes  of  the  part  they  will  perform  in  life." 

What  author  of  fine  moral  sensibility  ever  started  out  to  create  a  bad 
heroine  to  have  her  admired  ?  However  fascinating  sin  may  be  in  a  man 
to  school-girls  and  young  tittering  women,  who  suppose  that  all  good  men 
are  so  simply  because  they  do  not  know  enough  to  be  bad,  sin  in  a  woman, 
even  to  a  very  young  man  who  possesses  any  beginnings  of  sound  sense,  is 
never  so. 

We  think  that  Mr.  Cooper's  female  creations  have  very  many  of  the  little 
peculiarities  and  imperfections  which  one  observes  in  real  life,  as  well  as 
the  finer  qualities.  We  find  special  satisfaction  in  his  delineations  of  the 
woman  of  rustic  surroundings,  under  which  circumstances  the  truly  natural 
and  beautiful  characteristics  of  that  sex,  which  are  sometimes  suppressed 
under  the  steel-banded  reserve  of  fashion  in  great  cities,  are  brought  out 
and  predominate.  In  addition  we  would  say  that,  instead  of  thinking  Mr. 
Cooper's* female  characters  always  so  unnaturally  good,  we  do  not  see  that 
they  are  all,  without  a  single  exception  even  good  at  all,  as  in  the  case  of 
Judith.  But  Cooper  when  he  created  a  bad  character  never  threw  any 
fascination  about  it  to  cause  it  to  appear  different  from  what  it  should  be 
made  to  appear.  The  character  of  Judith  is  not  unnatural ;  for  the  repent- 
ance which  she  felt,  but  which,  unfortunately,  was  not  sufficiently  severe 
to  reform  her  life,  is  not  unusual  in  the  case  of  persons  of  her  character. 

The  fact  is  that  great  truth  ihay  be  found  in  his  delineations  of  Ameri- 
can character  as  well  as  of  American  scenery,  in  spite  of  the  fact  that  his 
female  creations  may  sometimes  be  lacking  in  individuality  and  force.  His 
portrayal  of  character  is  not  thoroughly  understood  and  appreciated  to-day 
because  of  a  growing  unfamiliarity  of  those  who  would  be  likely  to  fill  the 
position  of  critics  of  his  works  with  the  kind  of  characters  which  he  por- 
trays. In  the  hollowness  and  shoddy  falseness  which  has  j'iervaded  Ameri- 
can society  to  a  great  extent  since  the  civil  war,  many  things  connected 
with  the  early  civilization  of  this  country  have  been  lost  sight  of.  And  the 
prevailing  idea  is  that  the  original  settler  was  either  an  occasional  broken- 
down  grandee,  or  in  the  other  and  more  frequent  case  that  the  old  Ameri- 
can or  colonial  element  was  derived  from  some  stolid  European  boor,  and 
that  it  is  absurd  to  build  anything  on  an  American  ancestry,  and  further 
that  there  was  nothing  worthy  of  study  and  from  which  edification  might  be 
derived  about  the  early  colonists,  except  in  the  case  of  the  occasional 
broken-down  grandee  and  his  descendants.  This  is  all  a  mistake.  We  do 
not  believe  that  this  country  was  settled  by  boors.  The  very  tenacity  with 
which  the  early  settlers  fought  for  the  preservation  of  those  things  which 
exist  only  in  the  abstract  proves  that  it  was  not.  The  settlement  of  our 
old  thirteen  States  may  be  traced  mainly  to  four  important  events  in  the 
history  of  Europe,  two  of  which  occurred  in  Great  Britain  and  two  on  the 
continent.  We  refer  to  the  supremacy  of  Cromwell  and  the  restoration  of 
the  Church  and  legitimate  government  in  England,  the  massacre  of  St. 
Bartholomew  in  France,  and  the  war  between  Holland  and  Spain.  The 
settlements  of  the  Romanists  in  Maryland,  the  religious  liberty  of  whose 
colony  is  so  greatly  admired,  and  of  the  Quakers  in  Pennsylvania  and  on 


1884.]  Notes  on  the  Livingston  Family.  It 

Long  Island,  are  effects  produced  by  the  same  causes.  There  is  no  reason 
to  regard  the  interesting  pictures  of  life  in  colonial  times  and  just  after  the 
Revolution,  in  "The  Pioneers,"  which  must  of  course  describe  to  a  great 
extent  the  early  environment  of  the  novelist,  as  overdrawn,  for,  to  repeat  his 
own  text  from  the  title-page  of  that  very  work  : 

"  Extremes  of  habits,  manners,  time,  and  space, '' 
Brought  close  together  here  stood  face  to  face,"^ 
And  gave  at  once  a  contrast  to  the  view 
That  other  lands  and  ages  never  knew."_ 


NOTES    ON   THE   LIVINGSTON    FAMILY— THE    AxNTIQUITY 
AND  ORIGIN  OF  THE  SURNAME  OF  LIVINGSTON. 


By  E.  Brockholst  Livingston,  F.S.A.  Scot. 


In  an  interesting  account  of  the  town  of  Albany,  N.  Y.,  contributed  by 
Mrs.  Ferris  to  Harpers''  Magazine  (English  edition)  for  March,  188 r,  and 
entitled  *' A  Glimpse  of  an  Old  Dutch  Town,''  the  writer  makes  the  state- 
ment that  "  the  Livingstons  claim  descent  from  Livingus,  who  lived  in  1124, 
through  a  long  and  complicated  line  of  nobility,  for  the  truth  of  which  we 
cannot  vouch,''  and  she  then  goes  on  to  ridicule  their  claim  of  ancient 
descent  by  relating  an  amusing  anecdote  of  the  Lewis  family,  "who  are  said 
to  have  in  their  possession  a  picture  of  the  Ark,  with  Noah  emerging  from 
it,  bearing  a  large  trunk,  labelled,  *  Papers  belonging  to  the  Lewis 
family.'  " 

There  is  no  doubt  that,  owing  to  a  certain  class  of  genealogical  writers 
and  pedigree  makers  compiling  pedigrees  which  are  in  many  cases  purely 
fabulous,  without  taking  the  slightest  trouble  to  inquire  into  the  genuine- 
ness of  the  statements  from  which  they  derive  their  information,  the  inter- 
esting study  of  genealogy  has  been  made  more  or  less  the  subject  of  ridi- 
cule. It  is,  however,  not  my  intention  to  take  up  the  cudgels  on  its  behalf, 
as  that  has  been  done  already  by  abler  pens  than  mine  in  the  pages  of  the 
Record,  but  as  I  have  been  engaged  for  some  years  past  in  collecting  ma- 
terials for  a  history  of  the  Livingston  family,  more  particularly  the  history 
of  the  Callendar  branch,  from  which  the  American  Livingstons  are  de- 
scended, it  may  interest  the  members  of  this  family  on  the  other  side  of 
the  Atlantic  to  know  from  authentic  sources  the  earliest  information  that 
we  have  concerning  the  founder  of  the  family  in  Scotland  and  the  origin 
of  the  surname. 

According  to  a  family  tradition,- Leving  or  Living,  the  earliest  known 
ancestor  of  the  Livingstons  in  Scotland,  was  a  noble  Hungarian,  who  came 
to  that  country  in  the  train  of  Margaret,  when  she  and  her  brother  Edgar 
the  Atheling,  took  refuge  at  the  court  of  Malcolm  Canmore,  in  1070.* 
Margaret  afterward  married  Malcolm,  and  many  of  her  followers  remaining 
in  Scotland  had  lands  granted  them  by  her  husband. 

But  this  tradition,  like  many  others  of  a  similar  kind  relating  to  ancient 
Scottish  families,  cannot  bear  investigation.  There  is,  however,  no  need 
of  going  so  far  as  Hungary  for  the  origin  of  the  name.     In  England  the 

*  Douglas  Peerage,  vol.  ii.,  p.  122. 


1 6  Notes  on  the  Livingsto7i  Family,  |Jan., 

name  of  Living  was  not  an  uncommon  one,  and  even  appears  in  a  Saxon 
charter  of  the  ninth  century.*  It  was  the  name  of  the  Archbishop 
of  Canterbury  who  crowned  Canute,  f  and  the  more  famous  bishop  of  Cre- 
diton  and  Worcester,  the  friend  of  Earl  Godwine,  has  come  down  to  us  in  the 
words  of  the  old  Saxon  chronicle  as  "  Lyfing  the  Eloquent.''^ 

Besides  these  two  great  churchmen,  there  are  many  others  bearing  the 
same  name  mentioned  in  the  Saxon  charters,  one  of  them  being  Staller  or 
Master  of  the  Horse  to  Edward  the  Confessor  ;§  and  moreover,  according  to 
Domesday,  ||  several  individuals  of  the  name  were  Saxon  landholders  before 
the  Conquest,  therefore  it  is  highly  probable  that  the  earliest  known  ances- 
tor of  the  Livingston  family  in  Scotland  were  of  a  Saxon  lineage. 

Owing  to  the  fact  that  original  documents  of  this  period  of  Scottish  his- 
tory are  very  rare,  and  that  surnames  did  not  come  into  use  for  some  time 
after  the  Conquest,  it  is  morally  impossible  to  prove  whether  the  Scottish 
Living  was  one  of  the  Saxon  landholders  mentioned  in  Domesday,  and 
also  as  to  whether  the  Norman  invasion  drove  him  to  take  refuge  in  Scot- 
land ;  but  from  the  following  authentic  charter,  one  of  the  earliest  relating 
to  the  Abbey  of  Holyrood,  we  know  for  a  certainty  that  the  Scottish  Living 
held  lands  in  the  reign  of  Alexander  L  (1107-1124),  where  the  present  vil- 
lage of  Livingston,  in  Linlithgowshire,  now  stands ;  that  his  son  Thurstan,  who 
between  1128  and  1159,  ^^^^  one  of  the  witnesses  to  a  charter  of  Robert, 
Bishop  of  St.  Andrews,  confirming  King  David  L's  grant  to  the  monks  of 
Holyrood, •[  himself  confirms,  in  the  charter  alluded  to  above,  his  father 
Living's  gift  of  the  church  of  Livingston  (ecclesie  de  villa  leving)  with  half 
a  carucate  of  land,  and  a  toft,  in  free  and  perpetual  alms  to  this  same 
abbey.     The  charter  reads  as  follows  : 

•'EccLEsiA  DE  Villa  Leving.** 

"  Thurstanus  filius  Leyingi,  universis  Sancte  Matris  Ecclesie  filiis,  salutem.  Notum 
sit  vobis  meconcessisse  et  hac  mea  carta  confinnasse  Deo  et  Ecclesie  Sancte  Crucis  de  Cas- 
tello  puellarum  et  canonicis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  ecclesiam  de  Leviggestun  cum 
dimidia  carrucata  terre  et  uno  tofto  et  cum  omnibus  rectitudinibus  et  pertinentibus  suis, 
siciit  pater  rueus  eis  dedit,  in  liberam  elemosinam  et  perpetuam.  Volo  itaque  ut  predicti 
canonici  prenominatam  ecclesiam,  ita  libere  et  quiete  possideant  sicut  aliqui  ecclesiaj  in 
tota  Laudonia  liberius  et  quietius  possident.  His  testibus:  Gaufrido  abbate  de  Dunfer- 
melin,  Anfrido  de  Neubotle,  Waltero  monacho  illius,  Gaufrido  de  Lessew,  Petro  capellano 
de  Louvv,  Waltero  capellano  comitis,  Simundo  de  Ramesie,  Rogero  diacono,  Davide  filio 
Gaufrido,  Martino  clerico,  Waltero  camario  regis  de  Rohesburgh,  Willelmo  de  Aldri." 

Translation. 

"The  Church  of  Livingston. 

"  Thurstan,  the  son  of  Living,  to  all  the  sons  of  Holy  Mother  Church  greeting  :  Be  it 
known  to  you  all  that  I  have  granted  and  by  this  my  charier  confirmed  to  God  and  to  the 
Church  of  the  Holy  Cross  of  the  Castle  of  the  Maidens, ff  and  to  the  canons  serving  God 
there,  the  church  of  Livingston,  with  half  a  plough  of  land  and  a  toft,  and  with  all  the 

*  Kemple  :  Codex  Diplomalicus  fEvi  Saxonici,  vol.  ii.,  p.  44. 

+  Speed:  History  of  (Jreat  Britain,  p.  390. 

%  Anglo  Saxon  Chronicle,  vol.  i.,  p.  302.  The  words  in  the  original  Saxon  are  "  Lyfing  se  wordsnotera 
biscop."    See  also  Mr.  Freeman's  account  of  this  Bishop  in  his  Norman  Conquest,  vol.  li.,  pp.  81-83. 

§  Codex  Diplomalicus  ffivi  Saxonici,  vol.  iv.,  pp.  290,  291. 

II  Domesday,  Hants,  fols.  51,  51b,  53b;  Wilts,  72,  etc.,  etc. 

1  Liber  Cartarum  Sancte  Crucis,  No.  2,  p.  7.  The  signature  reads  "Turstino  filio  Levingi."  These 
old  charters  are  undated,  but  Robert  was  Bishop  of  St.  Andrews  from  11 21  to  1159.  The  abbey  of  Holyrood 
was  founded  by  David  L,  anno  1128. 

**  Liber  Sancte  Crucis,  No.  17,  pp.  15,  16. 

t+  The  ancient  name  of  Edinburgh  Castle.  The  canons  lived  there  while  the  Abbey  of  Holyrood  was 
being  built. 


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rights  pertaining  thereto,  as  my  father  gave  them,*  in  free  and  perpetual  alms.  I  will,  theri* 
fore,  that  the  said  canons  of  the  forenamed  church  shall  possess  as  freely  and  quietly  as 
they  possess  freely  and  quietly  other  churches  in  all  Lothian.  Before  these  witnesses : 
Geoffrey,  Abbot  of  Dunfermline  ;  Alfred  of  Neubotle  ;  Walter,  monk  of  the  same  ; 
Geoffry  of  Lessew  ;  Peter,  chaplain  of  Louw  ;  Walter,  the  earl's  chaplain ;  Simon  of 
Ramsey  ;  Roger,  the  deacon  ;  David,  the  son  of  GeofTry ;  Martin,  the  clerk ;  Walter  of 
Rohesburg;  the  King's  chamberlain  ;  William  of  Aldri." 

From  the  above  charter,  and  from  others  preserved  in  the  same  cartu- 
lary, we  see  that  in  these  early  days,  before  the  introduction  of  surnames 
into  Scotland,  that  the  name  of  Living's  lands  was  either  written  in 
the  Latin  form  of  "  Villa  Leving  "  or  in  the  Saxon  equivalent  of  "  Levings- 
tun,"  both  meaning  the  dwelling-place  or  homestead  of  Living.  It  was 
thus  simple  enough,  when  surnames  did  come  into  use,  for  his  descendants 
to  adopt  theirs  from  the  name  of  their  territorial  possessions. 

The  church  and  peel,  or  castle,  of  Livingston  remained  in  the  i)ossession 
of  the  elder  branch  of  the  family  for  many  generations,  but  at  the  extinc- 
tion of  the  senior  male  line,  in  the  early  part  of  the  sixteenth  century, 
they  passed  into  other  hands,  and  at  the  Reformation  the  church  was  sep- 
arated from  the  Abbey  of  Holyrood,  when  the  patronage  of  the  *'  kirk  of 
Levingstoun  "  was  granted  to  the  Laird  of  Dundas  and  confirmed  to  him  by 
Act  of  Parliament  in  i6i2.f 

22  Great  St.  Helens,  London,  E.  C, 
December  ii,  1883. 

[To  be  continued.] 


PRUYN  FAMILY— AMERICAN  BRANCH. 


By  John  V.  L.  Pruyn,  Jr. 


(Continued  from  Vol.  XIV.,  p.  no.) 
186. 

Cornelius  I.  or  J.  Roosevelt,  b.  in  New  York,  December  4,  1820 ; 
eleventh  child  of  Cornelius  I.  or  J.  Roosevelt  and  Ann  Lockwood ;  m. 
September  18,  1850,  (186)  Margaret  Pruyn,  b.  in  Albany,  August  4,  1824, 
d.  in  Macon,  Ga.,  November  14,  1873,  ^^^-  o^  (^°6)  Samuel  Pruyn  and 
Helen  Vandervoort,  of  Albany. 

Mr.  Roosevelt  was  left  an  orphan  at  fourteen  years  of  age,  his  guardian 

being  Joshua  Gilbert,  and  entered  the  mercantile  house  of Waters, 

doing  business  in  the  stove  trade  in  New  York.  Some  years  later  he 
engaged  in  the  drug  business  and  had  a  store  of  his  own  in  Albany.  This 
venture  not  being  so  successful  as  he  had  anticipated,  he  determined  to 
study  medicine,  and  accordingly  completed  the  full  course  of  medicine  in 
the  University  of  the  City  of  New  York,  graduating  in  the  year  1849.  He 
was  a  Homoeopathic  physician,  and  settled  in  Columbus,  Ga.,  marrying 
soon  afterward.  Shortly  after  his  marriage  he  moved  from  Columbus  to 
Macon,  in  the  same  State,  which  proved  to  be  his  future  home.  His  time 
was  entirely  devoted  to  his  profession  and  he  was  for  many  years  the  lead- 
ing Homoeopathic  physician  in  the  place.     He  d.  at  Macon,  December  1 7, 

♦  The  italics  are  my  own.  t  Acta  Pari.  Scot.,  vol.  iv.,  p.  513. 


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1880,  "Showing  the  estimation  in  which  he  was  held,"  writes  his  son, 
"  and  the  character  he  bore,  1  add  below  an  extract  from  an  editorial  in 
our  local  paper,  at  his  death  "  : 

"  He  was  a  man  of  a  great  but  modest  merit ;  literally  and  truly  a 
gentleman ;  that  is  to  say,  to  the  courage,  fortitude,  and  constancy  of  a 
hero  and  martyr  he  added  the  tenderness  and  delicacy  of  a  woman.  The 
doctor  was,  perhaps  for  the  longer  part  of  his  generation  at  active  and 
successful  medical  practice,  an  intense  sufferer  from  inflammatory  rheu- 
matism, and  yet  everybody  familiar  with  him  has  seen  him  about  the  sick, 
busy  in  his  profession,  calm,  pleasant,  and  unruffled  in  his  demeanor,  with 
every  nerve  racked  by  intense  pain.  Two  years  ago,  in  a  very  low  con- 
dition of  health,  he  visited  certain  springs  in  Virginia,  but  returned  appar- 
ently on  the  verge  of  death.  The  best  authorities  said  he  could  not  live 
more  than  a  few  days  at  most,  and  he  was  reported  dead  all  over  the  city. 
But  he  never  lost  heart.  He  was  soon  'better  again,'  until  last  week  he 
contracted  a  cold  which  his  medical  judgment  assured  him  he  had  not  the 
strength  to  throw  off  He  told  his  family  it  must  prove  fatal  and  prepared 
their  minds  for  the  parting.  It  came  on  Saturday  morning  last,  when  with 
perfect  consciousness,  composure,  and  submission  he  breathed  out  a  noble 
soul.  A  strong  illustration  of  the  gentleman,  not  in  the  common  idea  of 
an  impervious  self-assertion  and  a  selfish  and  aggressive  deportment,  but 
in  all  the  virtues  of  self-command,  the  winning  graces  of  a  generous  and 
conciliating  disposition,  and  the  manly  fortitude  of  a  dauntless  courage." 

The  Roosevelt  family  has  always  been  one  of  the  leading  Dutch  families 
of  New  York.     It  was  founded  in  America  by  Claas  Martenzoon  Roose- 
velt (see  "  Holgate's  Genealogy  ").     A  family  tree  may  also  be  found  at  the 
Roosevelt  Hospital  in  New  York. 
Dr.  Roosevelt  left  issue — 

James  Pruyn,  b.  in  Macon,  December  28,  1853;   still  living  there. 
William  Pruyn,  b.  in  Macon,  June  29,  1857;  d.  August  9,  1857. 
Helen  Pruyn,  b.  in  Macon,  January  4,  1859  '■>  ^'^-  October  15,  1879, 
Lenoir  Moss  Erwin,  residing  in  Macon,  b.  December  24,  1848, 
at  Erwinton,   Barnwell  Co.,   S.  C,   son  of  William   Robinson 
Erwin  and  Julia  Caroline  Robert,  all  of  South  Carolina.     She 
has  issue:  (a)  Meta  Roosevelt,  b.  in  Macon,  July  17,   1880; 
(b)  Helen  Pruyn,  b.  June  5,  1882. 
Francis  Pruyn,  b.  August  22,  i860;  d.  March  9,  1861. 
Clara  Pruyn,  b.  in  Macon,  April  7,    1864;  m,  April  18,   1883, 
John  Moore  Walker,  of  Macon,  b.  at  Summerhill,  Aiken  Co., 
S.  C,  August  18,  1852  ;  son  of  GoUothum  Walker  and  Eliza- 
beth Lawrence  Adams,  all  of  South  Carolina. 
Cornelius  Pruyn,  b.  May  18,  1866;  d.  August  15,  1874. 
Frederick  Pruyn,  b.  January  15,  d.  April  14,  1868. 

188. 

David  Ellicott  Evans  Mix,  surveyor  and  civil  engineer,  b.  January 

19,  1827,  son  of  Ebenezer  Mix  and  Jemima ,  of  Batavia,  N.  Y. ; 

m.  November  19,  1855,  (188)  Sarah  Pruyn,  b.  August  30,  1829,  dau.  of 
(106)  Samuel  Pruyn  and  Helen  Vandervoort  of  Albany. 

On  being  asked  to  send  a  sketch  of  himself,  Mr.  Mix  writes:  "My 
principal  education   was  received  at   the  Middleburg  Academy  and   the 


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Collegiate  Seminary  at  Lima,  Livingston  County,  N.  Y.,  except  the  survey- 
ing and  civil  engineering,  which  I  received  from  my  father,  Ebenezer  Mix, 
which  professions  I  have  followed  since  I  was  seventeen  years  old.  As 
draughtsman  I  am  self-educated.  Have  been  engaged  on  several  railroads 
in  this  State,  surveying  and  searching  title  to  their  lands.  I  am  engaged 
on  most  of  the  disputed  and  litigated  boundaries  in  Genesee,  Orleans, 
Niagara.  Wyoming,  Alleghany,  Livingston,  and  Monroe  Counties.  In  1853 
I  projected  and  took  the  levels  for  a  railroad  from  Batavia  to  the  mouth  of 
Oak  Orchard  Creek  on  Lake  Ontario,  which  route  is  now  about  being 
built.  In  1854  I  surveyed  the  eighteen  mile  creek  route  for  the  Niagara 
Ship  Canal.  In  1855  ^  '^'^s  appointed,  by  a  law  passed  by  the  Legislature, 
the  chief  engineer  for  draining  Tonawanda  Swamp,  about  25,000  acres. 
I  was  elected  corresponding  member  of  the  Albany  Institute, 
also  a  member  of  the  Buffalo  Historical  Society.  ...  I  was  born  at 
Batavia,  N,  Y.,  January  19,  1827;  my  residence  has  always  been  there, 
and  /  live  on  the  same  lot  I  was  born  o?i. " 

Mr.  Mix  was  also  a  major  in  the  New  York  State  Militia,  and  was  com- 
missioned engineer  of  the  Twenty-ninth  Brigade,  September  28,  1855,  tak- 
ing rank  as  such  from  that  date. 

[Ebenezer  Mix,  the  father  of  David  Ellicott  Evans  Mix,  was  born  in 
New  Haven,  Conn.,  in  1788,  and  came  to  Batavia  in  1809.  He  was  a 
school-teacher  and  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Daniel  B.  Brown.  In 
March,  181 1,  he  entered  as  clerk  the  office  of  the  Holland  Land  Company, 
at  Batavia,  where  he  continued  twenty-seven  years.  For  twenty  consecutive 
years  he  was  Surrogate  of  Genesee  County.  In  the  war  of  1812  he  was  an 
aide  on  the  staff  of  Gen.  P.  B.  Porter.  He  died  about  1872,  at  Cleve- 
land, O.] 

By  his  marriage  with  Miss  Pruyn,  Mr.  Mix  has  issue — 

Samuel  Pruyn,  b.  October  5,  1856. 

Malcolm  Douglas,  b.  August  15,  1859. 

David  Ebenezer,  b.  June  30,  1865. 

189,  214. 

Stephen  Gerard  Wood,  of  Albany,  b.  March  12,  1832,  son  of  Samuel 
Stebbins  Wood  and  Sarah  Wynkoop,  of  Albany,  m.  firstly,  December  12, 
1852,  (189)  Helen  Pruyn,  b.  October  21,  1831,  d.  October  12,  1855,  dau. 
of  (106)  Samuel  Pruyn  and  Helen  Vandervoort,  and  had  issue — 
Sarah  Elizabeth,  b.  October  9,  1853. 
Mr,  Wood  m.  secondly,  April  21,  1863,  (214)  Emma  Justina  Pruyn,  b. 
August  22,  1842,  dau.  of  (125)  Lansing  Pruyn  and  Anna  Mary  Saltus,  and 
has  issue — 

Lansing  Pruyn,  b.  June  15,  1870. 

190. 

(190)  John  Samuel  Pruyn,  at  one  time  an  accountant  in  Chicago,  b. 
March  30,  1834,  d.  in  Albany,  October  23,  1869,  son  of  (106)  Samuel 
Pruyn  and  Helen  Vandervoort,  m.  October  18,  i860,  Harriet  Anna  Porter, 
dau.  of  the  late  Ira  Porter  of  Waukegan,  111.,  and  had  issue — 

290.  Samuel,  b.  September  26,  1861;  d.  October  6,  1862. 

291.  John  S.,  b.  August  2,  1864;  d.  February  2,  1881. 

Mrs.  Pruyn  has  since  married,  being  now  the  wife  of  Charles  H.  Adams 
of  Chicago. 


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ipr. 

Robert  Strain,  of  Albany,  b.  November  30,  1832,  son  of  Joseph  Strain 
and  Elizabeth  White;  m.  April  12,  i860,  (191)  Agnes  Pruyn,  b.  July  6, 
1839,  dau.  of  (106)  Samuel  Pruyn  and  Mary  Putnam,  his  second  wife. 

Mr.  Strain  was  educated  at  the  famous  Albany  Academy  and  afterward 
studied  law  in  the  office  of  John  A.  Young,  but  finally  chose  a  mercantile 
career.  He  is  the  senior  partner  of  the  firm  of  Strain  &  Reynolds,  oil 
merchants  of  Albany,  and  the  ruling  elder  of  the  Third  Presbyterian  Church 
of  Albany,  of  whose  Sunday-school  he  was  at  one  time  superintendent. 
Although  an  active  citizen  he  is  in  no  sense  a  politician,  but  is  always  ready 
to  do  what  he  can  in  the  interest  of  civil  and  religious  progress. 

[Joseph  Strain,  the  father  of  Robert  Strain,  "was  born  in  County 
Armagh,  Ireland,  April  14,  1792.  He  became  a  resident  of  Albany  in 
1812,  where  he  lived  till  his  death,  June  21,  1863."  His  wife  "was  EUza- 
beth  White,  dau.  of  Matthew  White,  of  Albany.  She  was  b.  December  23, 
1 796,  and  d.  in  Albany,  July  25,  1869.  The  ancestors  of  both  Joseph  Strain 
and  his  wife  were  of  Scotch  descent.  They  were  among  the  number  of  Scotch 
colonists  who  settled  in  the  north  of  Ireland  in  the  seventeenth  century, 
under  the  reign  of  James  I.,  on  account  of  persecutions.  Among  the 
ancestors  of  Mr.  Strain  there  was  a  Presbyterian  minister  in  every  genera- 
tion from  the  time  of  the  fifteenth  century  till  now."  Joseph  Strain  "  was 
of  that  inflexible  principle  and  decision  which  so  characterized  the  early 
Covenanters.  He  was,  in  every  walk  in  life,  just  and  true  and  steadfast  in 
integrity.  He  was  the  soul  of  honor  in  business.  As  a  citizen  his  life  was 
pure  and  blameless,  and  he  was  an  upright  and  uniform  Christian.  Thus 
in  early  years  his  son  learned  by  this  example  and  in  later  life  developed 
many  of  the  distinctive  traits  which  characterized  his  father"  (Extract 
from  letter  to  the  compiler),] 

Robert  Strain  and  Agnes  Pruyn  have  had  issue — 

Elizabeth,  b.  January  9,  1861 ;  d.  January  2,  1865. 

Mary  Pruyn,  b.  August  10,  1862. 

Robert,  b.  October  17,  1865  (now  at  Williams  College). 

Agnes  Pruyn,  b.  September  2,  1867. 

Helen  Knox,  born  October  3,  1873, 

T92. 

(192)  Charles  Elisha  Pruyn,  son  of  (106)  Samuel  Pruyn  and  Mary 
Putnam,  was  born  in  Albany,  November  11,  1840.  On  his  mother's  side 
he  was  descended  from  the  Puritan  family  of  Putnam,  which  gave  General 
Israel  Putnam  to  the  War  of  Independence. 

From  his  parents  he  inherited  the  qualities  of  integrity  and  patriotism 
as  well  as  elevated  religious  sentiments.  In  1852  he  entered  the  venerable 
Albany  Academy,  and  remained  there  four  years.  During  this  period  Mr. 
George  H.  Cook  and  the  Rev.  William  A.  Miller,  successively,  were  prin- 
cipals of  the  institution.  Among  the  faculty  at  that  time  was  the  Hon. 
David  Murray,  LL.D.,  now  the  distinguished  secretary  of  the  Board  of 
Regents  of  the  University  of  the  State  of  New  York.  Young  Pruyn  made 
fair  progress  in  his  studies,  excelling  in  elocution  and  mathematics.  He 
had  hoped  for  a  higher  and  more  complete  education,  but  at  the  early  age 
of  sixteen  was  obliged  to  devote  himself  to  business,  and  accordingly 
entered  one  of  the  city  banks  as  clerk.     He  always  took  a  deep  interest 


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in  higher  education,  and  out  of  ahnost  the  first  money  he  earned  after 
entering  the  armv  gave  $100  to  Rutgers  College. 

At  the  age  of  fifteen  he  became  a  member  of  the  Middle  Dutch  Church 
of  Albany  and  was  successively  a  scholar,  teacher,  and  officer  in  its  Sunday- 
school.     He  was  a  young  man  of  remarkable  purity  of  character. 

When  the  news  of  the  fall  of  Sumter  was  received,  he  wished  to  enhst 
in  the  Union  Armv  at  once,  but  his  parents  and  friends  counselled  delib- 
eration and  prudence.  While  yielding  to  their  wishes,  it  was  evident  that 
he  chafed  under  the  restraint.  "  His  mother,  who  knew  the  decision 
depended  mainly  upon  her  wishes,  and  uho  was  watching  him  with  intense 
and  prayerful  anxiety,  at  last  came  to  the  conclusion  that  it  was  her  duty 
to  give  her  consent." 

The  final  result  was  that  he  was  commissioned  as  First  Lieutenant, 
Company  A,  Ninety-sixth  Regiment,  N.  Y.  S.  Volunteers,  Col.  Fairman, 
October  17,  1861.  The  regiment,  which  had  been  organized  at  Platts- 
burg,  did  not,  however,  go  into  the  field  until  the  spring  of  1862,  when  it 
entered  the  Peninsular  Campaign  under  Gen.  McClellan.  While  in  this 
regiment  Mr.  Pruyn  was  elected  its  adjutant  and  participated  in  the  battles 
of  Gainesville,  Yorktown,  Williamsburg,  and  Fair  Oaks. 

While  he  was  absent  from  home  his  fa  her  died,  and  on  this  account 
and  for  other  reasons  he  resigned,  June  17,  1862,  and  received  his  dis- 
charge. After  his  return  to  the  North  he  was  ill  for  a  short  time,  but  came 
to  the  conclusion  that  he  had  made  a  mistake  in  resigning ;  and,  oppor- 
tunity offering,  he  was  commissioned  on  July  16,  1862,  Adjutant  of  the 
One  Hundred  and  Eighteenth  Regiment  of  New  York  State  Volunteers. 
The  regiment  remained  in  and  around  Washington,  doing  garrison  duty, 
till  the  spring  of  1863.  "  It  is  asserted  by  some  of  the  officers  who  have 
had  a  good  opportunity  to  know,  that  the  set  of  regimental  papers,  pre- 
pared by  him  at  this  time,  are  the  most  complete  and  beautiful  set  now  on 
file  in  the  Adjutant-General's  office." 

Adjutant  Pruyn  was  acting  assistant  adjutant-general  on  Col.  Wor- 
drop's  staff",  commanding  brigade  from  June  20th  to  July  13th,  and  was  post- 
adjutant  at  Gloucester  Point  from  July  14th  to  August  28,  1863,  when  he 
received  his  commission  as  major  of  the  regiment  upon  the  nearly  unani- 
mous vote  of  the  line  officers,  many  of  whom  waived  their  own  claims  in 
his  favor.  He  ])articipated  in  the  battles  of  Suff"olk,  S  uth  Anna,  Drury's 
Bluff",  and  Coal  Harbor,  in  which  latter  battle  he  was  wounded  on  June  5, 
1864.  His  wound  was  very  painful,  but  in  five  days  he  insisted  on  rejoining 
his  regiment.  "  On  the  thirteenth  of  June  his  regiment  re-embarked  for 
Bermuda  Hundreds  and  was  ordered  to  march  upon  and  assault  Peters- 
burg, On  the  fifteenth  of  June,  1864,  Major  Pruyn's  regiment  was  ordered 
to  make  a  charge  on  one  of  the  most  formidable  works  before  the  place. 
While  preparing  for  the  advance,  the  young  major  stood  erect  before  his 
men,  his  countenance  radiant  with  hope,  and  his  eye  flashing  with  enthu- 
siasm. Surveying  the  ranks,  he  uttered,  in  a  clear  and  ringing  voice,  the 
words,  'Attention,  battalion !'  He  was  the  next  instant  about  to  give  the 
order  '  Charge,'  but  before  the  word  had  escaped  his  lips,  a  shell  struck  him 
on  the  breast  and  exploded.  He  uttered  a  single  exclamation  '  Oh !'  and 
instantly  expired.  His  body  was  terribly  mangled,  and  as ^his  comrades 
gathered  around  the  Hfeless  remains  they  wept  like  children." 

His  remains  were  borne  to  their  last  resting-place  in  the  Albany  Rural 
Cemetery,  under  the  escort  of  his  former  companions,  the  Albany  Zouave 
Cadets,  on  Monday,  June  27,  1864. 


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A  very  extended  sketch  of  him  (with  portrait),  from  which  this  brief 
notice  has  been  mostly  taken,  will  be  found  in  the  "  Heroes  of  Albany," 
by  the  Rev.  Rufus  W.  Clark,  D.D.,  pp.  280-317.  Major  Pruyn  was  never 
married. 

195- 
(195)  Samuel  S.  Pruyn,  of  Albany,  N.  Y.,  b.  December  7,  1846;  son 
of  (106)  Samuel  Pruyn  and  Mary  Putnam,  his  second  wife;  m.  January 
12,  1869,  Jane  Agnes  Lasher,  b.  February  20,  1847,  dau.  of  Elias  Lasher 
and  Lucretia  Wessell,  of  Root,  N.  Y.,  and  has  issue — 

292.  Charles  Elisha,  b.  January  i,  1S70. 

293.  Samuel,  b.  October  10,  187 1. 

'',   196. 

WoRTHiNGTON  La  Grange  (more  properly,  de  la  Grange),  of  Albany, 
was  b.  March  6,  1846,  and  was  the  son  of  Stephen  McCrea  de  la  Grange 
and  Anna  Johnston.  His  ancestors  were  Huguenots,  who  fled  from 
France  to  the  Low  Countries,  and  came  to  America  about  1656.  His 
immediate  ancestor,  Omie  La  Grange,  came  from  New  Amsterdam  (now 
New  York)  to  Fort  Orange  (now  Albany)  in  1664. 

In  his  youth  Mr.  La  Grange  attended  the  well-known  school  of  Prof. 
Anthony,  and  subsequently  entered  Williams  College,  from  which  he  grad- 
uated in  1868 — a  member  of  the  Alpha  Delta  Phi  Society.  He  was  a 
member  of  Company  A,  the  "  crack  "  company  of  the  Tenth  Regiment, 
from  which  he  was  promoted  to  the  position  of  aide-de-camp  on  the  staff 
of  Gen.  E.  A.  Brown,  Thirteenth  Brigade,  N.  Y.  S.  N.  G.,  subsequently 
receiving  the  appointment  of  chief-of-staff  with  rank  of  lieutenant-colonel. 
He  was  a  member  of  Master's  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M.  He  was  engaged  in  the 
malt  business,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trade  of  Albany,  From 
a  scholar  in  the  Sunday-school  of  the  Second  Reformed  Church,  he  suc- 
cessively became  a  teacher,  and  held  several  offices,  including  that  of 
assistant  superintendent. 

In  early  manhood  he  united  with  the  church  and  at  one  time  was  a 
member  of  the  Consistory,  holding  the  offices  of  clerk  of  the  Consistory  and 
d-^acon.  It  is  a  remarkable  and  noteworthy  fact  that  his  ancestors  were 
members  of  this  congregation  (the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  of  Albany) 
since  the  year  1664 — his  great-grandfather,  grandfather,  and  father  having 
been  members  of  the  Consistory.  His  father,  Stephen  McCrea  La  Grange, 
is  now  the  senior  eMer  and  president  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the 
Second,  now  know  the  Madison  Avenue  Reformed  Church  of  Albany. 

Mr.  La  Grange:-  >  ■*  for  some  years  been  in  delicate  health  and  had 
sought  relief  at  vari^s„,,aealth  resorts,  but  to  no  purpose.  Aimable  in  dis- 
position, a  devoted  friend,  husband,  and  father,  an  affectionate  son,  he  has 
left  as  a  lasting  memorial,  a  pure  and  noble  character.  He  died  in  Albany, 
August  5,  1883. 

(The  above  notice  has  been  copied  largely  from  an  article  in  the  Albany 
.<4r^«j- of  August  6,  1883.) 

Mr.  La  Grange  m.,  April  27,  1871,  (196)  Mary  Esther  Pruyn,  b.  January 
28,  1849,  dau.  of  (106)  Sanmel  Pruyn  and  Mary  Putnam,  his  second  wife, 
and  had  issue — 

Anna,  b.  August  11,  1873. 

[To  be  continued.] 


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23 


OF   THE    REFORMED    DUTCH  CHURCH  IN  THE 
CITY    OF    NEW    YORK.— Baptisms. 

(Continued  from  Vol.  XIV.,  page  iSo,  of  The  Record.) 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Davidt  Cosaer,  Stynt-  Jacob, 
je  Joris. 

Otto    Van  Thuyl,  Anna. 

Grietie  Dircks. 
Thefinis  de  Key,  He-  Helena. 

lena  Van  Brugh. 

Barent  Kool,  Margre-  Maria, 
ta  Obe. 

Johannes  Bant,  Wil-  Johannes, 
myntie  PhiHps. 

Jacobus    Hassing,  Bernardus. 

Amniarentia     Van 

Gelder. 
Cosyn    Geriits,    Ca-  Jan. 

tharinaVan  Giinst. 
Thomas    Toiuneur,  Thomas, 

Maria  Oblinus. 
Joseph    Smitli,    Afar-  Matheus. 

grieta  Corse. 

Anderies  ten  Broek,  Henderick, 
Lvntie  Splinters. 

Pieter  Burger,  Catha-  Anna. 

rina  Daniels. 
Johannes   Herden-  Gerardus. 

broek,    Sara  Van 

Laar. 
Rip  Van   Dam,  Sara  Jacob  en 

Van  der  Spiegel.        Rachel. 


Pieter    Bant, 
White. 


Mercy  Elizabeth. 


Samuel Sjahaan,Neel-  Belitje. 

tie  Gerrits. 
Reyer  Martense,  Re-  Marten. 

becka    Van    der 

Schure. 
Johannis    Cornelisse,  Meltje. 

Wyntie  Dyknian. 


GETUYGEN. 

Jan  Van  Hoorn,  Jannetie 
Cosaer,  h.  v.  van  Ja- 
cob{is  Goelet. 

Gilbert  Mosis,  Elizabeth 
Van  Thuyl. 

Charles  Van  Briig,  Sara 
Willet,  h.  V.  van  Jac. 
de  Key. 

Cornells  Viely,  Margreta 
de  Riemer,  Wed:  van 
Dom.  Selyus  Zal'. 

Jacob  Van  Deurse,  Ma- 
ria Bant,  h.  v.  van 
Christiaen  Lauwerier. 

Johannis  Van  Gelder, 
TannekeGoderiSjWed. 
van  Jan  Van  Gelder. 

Jochem  Coljer,  Lysbeth 
Cornelisse. 

Johannis  Myer,  Catharina 
Van  Dalse. 

Theiinis  Corse,  Cornelia 
Van  Clj'f,  h.  v.  van 
Benj.  Narred. 

Abraham  Splinter,  Jan- 
netie Beste,  Wed.  van 
Hend.  ten  Broek. 

Joost  Eynse,  Elizabeth 
Daniels,  s.  h.  v. 

Gerret  Van  Laar,  Anna 
Van  der  Heyde,  h.  v. 
van  PoiiP  Miller. 

Thomas   Noel   Mayer  en 

syn    huysvrovv,    Capt. 

John    Bond,    Margreta 

'^"        Dam,    h.    v.  van 

'  •=  ;  ries  Alst. 

Jo.  ^nnes  Hooglant, 
Henderikje  Van  de 
Water,  h.  v.  van  An- 
thony Rutgers. 

Gerret  Hollardt,  Susan- 
na Sjahaan,  s.  h.  v. 

Anderies  Brestede,  Anna 
Van  Biirsing,  s.  h.  v. 

Coinelis  Dykman,  Metje 
Cornelisse,  AVed. 


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Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  Ne^o  York.       [Jan., 


A°   1702.  OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Maert  i.  Jacobus    Cornelisse,  Jacobus. 

Aeltie  Blom. 

dito  4.  Rutgert    Waldrom,  Daniel. 

Debora  Pell. 
[264] 
dito  II.  Gerret  Hyer,  Sara  Jan. 

Bosch. 

dito.  Johannes    Tilburg,  Jan. 

Margriet  Concelje. 
dito  18.  Joseph  Smith,  Maria  Catharina. 

Bedlo. 


dito.  AT  an  gel  Janse  Rol,  Henderick. 

Annetje  Volck. 

dito.  Willeni  Helhakers,  Aefje. 

Tryntie  Boele. 
dito.  Dirk    Uytenbogart,  Apalonia. 

Elizabeth  Eckes. 

dito  25.  Obadias  Winter,  Sii- Anna  Maria, 

sanna  de  Peu. 

dito  29.  Jan    Van   der   Beck,  Jacob. 

Elizabeth  Wodard. 

dito.  Evert  Pels,    Grietie  Rachel. 

Melchior. 
dito.  AnderiesMarschalck,  Abraham. 

Elizabeth  Van  Gel- 

der. 
April  I.  Willeni  Persell,  Ma-  Waters. 

ria  Van  der  Meer. 

dito  5.  John   Woodard,  Eva  Lyntje. 

Winne. 
dito.  Johannes    Vreden-  Maria. 

burg,    Johanna  de 

Laniontagne. 
dito  12.  Luvkas  Kierstede,  Benjamin. 

Rachel  Kip. 
dito.  Jlirian  Bosch,  Geeske  Sara. 

Anna  Bruyns. 
dito  15.  Frans    Wesselse,  Jenneke. 

Tryntie  Janse. 
dito.  Pieter  Cavelier,  Cor-  Helena. 

nelia  Bosch. 


GETUYGEN. 

Theiinis  Quick,  Hester 
Daniels,  h.  v.  van  Arent 
Blom. 

Daniel  Waldron,  Anna 
Waldron. 

Willem  Hyer,  Jannetie 
Bos,  h.  v.  van  Jan  Pie- 
terse  Bos. 

Willem  West,  Fytie  Schot, 
s.  h.  V. 

Robbert  Walters  &  Michi- 
el  Hardon,  Catharina 
Bedlo,  h.  V.  Thom. 
Howardon. 

Abraham  Mesier,  Jan- 
netje  Van  Imburg,  s. 
Suster. 

Jacob  Boele,  Aefje  Boele, 
h.  V.  van  Dirk  Ten  Yk. 

Thomas  Eckes,  Apalonia 
Surts,  h.  v.  van  Jan 
Eckes,  Zenior. 

Luykas  Van  Thienhoven, 
Alaria  Kip,  h.  v.  van 
Dirk  hooglant. 

jan  Woodard,  Helena 
Van  Brug,  h.  v.  van 
Theunis  de  Kay. 

Tryntje  Bensing,  h.  v.  van 
Sampson  Bensing. 

Pieter  Willemse  Romen, 
Ammerentia  Van  Gel- 
der. 

De  moeder  selfs  heeft  het 
kind  gehond  en  ten 
doop.* 

Isaack  Anderson  &  Mar- 
grita  Veets. 

Isaac  Vredenburg,  Hes- 
ter van  Vorst,  h.  v.  van 
Isaak  de  Lamontagne. 

Benjamin  Kip,  Catharina 
Kip  s.  Suster. 

J^rian  Wittveldt,  Maria 
Jeats. 

Isaac  Brat,  Dievertje 
Wessels,  s.  h.  v. 

Pieter  Bant,  Maria  Cave- 
lier. 


*  The  mother  held  the  child  at  its  baptism. 


1884.]        Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  New  York. 


25 


Johannes  Janse,  Sli- 
sanna  Fel. 

Johannes  Jooste,  Ju- 
dith Verwey. 

Daniel  Paeterse 
Coerman,  Maria 
Plevier. 

Jacob  Marius  Graen, 
Maria  Salisbury. 

Abraham  Mesier,  Eli- 
zabeth Van  Cou- 
wenhoven. 

Casparus  Blanck,  An- 
genietie  Post. 

Johannes  Van  de 
Water,  Baefje  Sip- 
kens. 

ChristotTel  Pels,  Ca- 
thalina  Bensing. 


KINDERS. 

GETUYGEN. 

Simon. 

Francis  Vincent,  Helena 

Coepers. 

Johannis. 

Cornells  Jooste,  Sara 

Jooste,  s.  Suster. 

Pieter. 

Johannis  Plevier,  Neeltie 

Plevier,  s.  moeder. 

Maria. 

Pieter    Jacobse    ^^arius, 

]\raria  Salusbury. 

Sara. 

Jacob  Van  Coiiwenhoven, 

Cathalina  de  Lano\>,  h. 

V.  van  Abra.  Kip. 

Casparus. 

Justus  Bosch,  Maria  Post. 

Elsie. 

Johannes    Pouwelse,  Eli- 

Evert. 


Evert    Van    Hoorn,  Catharina. 
Elsje  Provoost. 


Benjamin    Q(iakken-  Elizabeth. 

bos,  Claesje  Web- 
bers. 
Isaac  Van  Giesen,  Claesje. 

Cornelia  Henderix. 
Bastiaan    Machielse,  Johannis. 

Jalante  de  I.amon- 

tagne. 
Willem  Hyer,  Catha-  Abraham. 

iina  Mol. 
Lourens    Thomasse,  Geesje. 

Catharina  Leuwis. 
Gerrit    Burger,    Sara  Johannis. 

Martense. 
Encrees   Power,  Jacobus. 

Grie t j  e  Mande- 

viel. 
Hyman  Conink,  Mar-  Maria. 

retie  Anderies. 
Jacob  Van  Deurse,  Mathefis. 

Aeltje  Gysbertse 

Uyten  bogart. 

Johannis    Hibon,  Jacob. 
Geertruy  Brestede. 


zabeth  Van  de  ^V'ater. 

Rij)  Van  Dam,  Ariaentje 
Rome,  h.  v.  van  Joris 
Elzewaert. 

Willem  Collonel,  Catha- 
rina Provoost,  h.  V.  van 
Davidt  Provoost,  Ser.i- 
or. 

Aernout  Webbers,  Die- 
vertje  Wessels. 

Cornelis  Henderix,  Mar- 
grieta  Henderix. 

Jan  de  La  Montagne, 
Maria  de  Lamontagne, 
h.  V.  van  Jacob  Kip. 

Machiel  Stevens,  Dorathe 
Hyer. 

Leendert  Leuwis,  Geesje 
Leuwis,  s.  moeder. 

Johannes  de  Peister,  An- 
na Banker,  s.  h.  v. 

Louwerens  Janse,  Aeltie 
Mandeviel. 

Titje  Anderies,  Wed.  van 

Johannes  Poel. 
Dirk     Uyten    Bogaert, 

Tryntje  Bensen. 


Jilles  Provoost,  Sara  En- 
nes,  h.  V.  van  Barent 
Hybon. 


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Records  of  the  RefortJied  Dutch  Church  in  New  York.       [Jan., 


A°  1702. 
dito  14. 


dito  21. 
21  dito. 
28  dito. 

dito. 
July  I. 

8  dito. 
dito. 

dito. 

dito. 

12  dito. 

dito. 

dito. 

dito. 

15  dito. 

19  dito. 

[267] 
July  19. 

dito  22. 

dito  26. 

dito. 


OUDERS.  KINDEF 

Jacobus  Van  der  Spie-  Jacob 
gel,  Anna  Sanders.        en 
Sara. 


Robbert    Bossi,    Ca-  Johannis. 
tharina  Jansen. 


Isaac  Stoutenburg, 
Nceltie  Uyten  Bo- 
gart. 

Willem  Pell,  Eliza- 
beth Van  Schaik. 

Abraham  Ryken, 
Margrieta  Buyten- 
huysen. 

Henderik  Jansen, 
Femnietie  Shiys. 

PieterRykeman,  Cor- 
nelia Keteltas. 


Rebecka  i 
Jaar  out. 
Neeltie. 


Debora. 
Jacob. 

Benjamin. 

Nelletje. 


Abraham  Van  Gelder,  Anneke. 
Catharina  Post. 

Frans  Van  Dyk,  Fytie  Nicolaas. 
Henderix. 

Ouke   Reiniers,   Yda  Tryntie. 

Vonk. 
Jan  Wanshaar,  Sii-  Abraham. 

sanna  Nys. 
Jan    Daly,    Geertruy  Jan. 

Van  Romen. 

Albert   Devries,    Be-  Dirck. 

litie  Leurse. 
John  Ciier,  Gerretie  Een  doch- 

Gerrits.  ter  Annies. 

Claas  Bogaart,  Bele-  Evert. 

tie  Van  Schaick. 

Cornelis  Sebering,  Maria. 

Aeltie  Frederiks. 
Joseph    Harton,    So-  Margarita. 

phia  Janson. 
Stephanis  Van  Boek-  Sytie. 

hoven,      Anna 

Hoist. 
Philip  Dallie,  Corne-  Johannis. 

lia  Van  Gelder. 


GETUYGEN. 

Rip  Van  Dam,  Elizabeth 
de  Purees t,  Anderies 
Grevenraat,  Aeltie 
Santvoort,  h.  v.  van 
Thomas  Sanders. 

Jan  Ekkeson  Junior,  He- 
lena Jansen,  s.  h.  v. 

Jan  Ekkeson  Senior, 
Apalonia  s.  h.  vroii. 

Rip  Van  Dam,  Helena 
Van  Balen,  h.  v.  van 
Dom.  Dubois. 

Thomas  Pell,  Aeltie  Cor- 
nelis s.  h.  V. 

Henderik  Martense,  Mar- 
grieta Myers  s.  h.  v. 

Annetie  Sluys. 

Johannes  Rykman,  Grie- 

tie  Keteltas,  h.  v.  van 

Johannis  Nys. 
Pieter   Willemse    Rome, 

Hester  Van  Gelder  s. 

h.  V. 
Willem    Echt,    Elizabeth 

Fliiyt,  h.  V.  van  Joris 

Burger. 
Ouke  Leffertse,  Barber 

Reynierse. 
Johannes     Nys,     Baertie 

Kip,  Wediivve. 
Philip  Dal}',   Maria  Van 

Romen,  h.  v.  van  Pie- 
ter Siinkam  Jun"'. 
Carste  Luerse,  Senior,  en 

Geertie  Quick. 
Gerret    Cosj-ns,  Beletje 

Quick  s.  h.  V. 
Johannis  Bogaart,  Claasje 

Van  Schaick. 

Hans  Bergen,   Catharina 

Bergen. 
Dirk  Jansen,  Maria  Mein- 

ders  s.  h.  v. 
Albartus  Hoist,  Johanna 

Van    Sp)>k,    h.   v.    van 

Evert  Van  Hoek, 
Nicolaes  Daly,  Tanneke 

Van  Gelder. 


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27 


A'  1702. 

OUDERS. 

KINDERS, 

dito. 

John  Fin,  Aeltie  Jon- 
kers. 

Willem. 

Augustus  2. 

Albartus  Van  de  Wa- 
ter,    Petronella 
Kloppers. 

Cornelis. 

dito. 

J  0  h  a  n  n  i  s  V  a  n  d  e  r 
Heiden,    Maria 
Woodard. 

Johannis. 

dito  5. 

Willem  Aertsen,   Su- 
sanna Guiljamse. 

Sara. 

dito. 

Pieter    Simkani    Jn', 
Maria   Van    Rom- 

Maria. 

men. 
dito  9.  Jacob  Brat t,  Aeffie  Jannetie. 

Everts. 

dito  12.  Isaac  Kip,  Sara  de  Elizabeth. 

Mill, 
dito  16.  Johon  Schot,  Helena  John. 

Vicent. 
dito.  Barent   Rei  nders,  Geertrdyt. 

Hester  Leislaar. 

dito  25.  Johannis  Van    Cort-  Johanna. 

lant,    Anna   Maria 

Van  Schaick. 
di^^o  30.  Richard    Flimminge,  Anna. 

Afaria  Brestede. 

dito.  Johannes    Elzewaart,  Maria. 

Antie  Pieters. 
dito.  Thomas  Sikkels,  Jan-  Sacharias. 

netie  Brevoort. 

[268]  Pieter    Jacobsz,    Re-  Sara. 

Sept:  2.  becca  Jans. 

d°  9.  Samuel  Phillips,  Aalt-  Samuel, 

je  Daam. 
d°  9.  Cornelis    Laii,    Mar-  Johannes. 

grietje  Van  Bosse. 
d°  9.  Thomas    Robberts,  Johannis. 

Hrmina    Groenen- 

dal. 
d°  16.  Claas  Burger,  Rebbe-  Maria. 

ca  Brad. 
d°  19.  Willem     Nazereth,  Willem. 

Helena  Brofiwers. 
d*"  20.  Gu  alt  her  d(x  Bois,  Johannes 

Helena  Van  Bael.       Petrus. 


GETUYGEN. 

Thomas  Lourense  Pope- 
ga,  Anna  Chappel. 

Cornelis  Clopper,  Eliza- 
beth Van  de  Water. 

Jan  Van  der  Beek,  Anna 
Waldron. 

Bartholomeus  Vonk, 
Tryntie  Van  Rollegom. 

Pieter  Simkam  Sen',  Ma- 
ria Simkam  s.  dochter. 

W  ess  el  Evertsen,  Jan- 
netie Claes,  h.  v.  van 

Pieter  Lakeman. 
Jan  Wanshaar,  Anna  de 

Mill. 
John    Cholwell,  Pieter 

Craford,  Anna  Vincent. 
Samuel  Staats,  Geertruyt 

Reinders  &  Susanna 

Farton. 
Jacobus  Van    Cortlant, 

Anna  Van  Cortlant,  h. 

V.  van  Steven  Lance. 
Johannis   Bon,   Marrietie 

Pieters,   h.  v.  van  Jan 

Brestede. 
Joris  Elsewaart,  Pieternel 

Romen. 
Johannis  Brevoort,  Maria 

Brevoort,  h.  v.  van  Jan 

Will.  Romen. 
Leendert  Huige  de  Klein, 

A  n  n  a  t  j  e    Van    den 

Burg. 
Wolphert  Seioert,  Celitje 

Daam. 
Egbert    Eertmans,    Mar- 

grietje  Van  Bosse. 
Jan    Woeders,     Engeltje 

Davits. 

Hermaniis    Burger,     An- 

netje  Kros. 
Adwort    Blaek,     Helena 

Donskan. 
Petrus    Bayer,    Isaac    de 

R  i  e  m  e  r,  M  a  r  i  a  de 

Peyster. 


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A°  1702. 

OUDERS. 

KINDERS. 

d°  20. 

Francois    de    Fenne, 
Anna   Margrita 
Blank. 

Susanna. 

d°  20. 

Jacobus  Van  Deurse, 
Caatje  Burgers. 

Jacobus. 

d°  20. 

I.eendert  Lewis,  Eli- 
sabeth Hardenberg. 

Catharina. 

d°  23. 

Willem  Elswart,  Pie- 
ternelle  Van  Rom- 
me. 

Pieternelle, 

d°  23. 

Simon  Claasz,  Trynt- 
je  Gerrits. 

Laurens. 

d  23. 

Jan  Slot,  JennekeAn- 
driesz. 

Johannes. 

den  2  Octob. 

Isaac  Braesier,  Aalt- 
je  Coolevelt. 

Aaltje. 

d»4. 

Hernianus    Meier, 
Helena  Post. 

Maria. 

d^7- 

Gerrit  Diiyking,   Ma- 

Maria. 

d"  II. 

V     d°  14. 
d°  14. 


ria  Abeels. 
Gerrit  Viele,  Jannet- 
je  Van  Veurde. 


Hendrik^ 
e  Jan- I 
netje,      ' 


•■  J 


Grietje  Gillis. 

Hendrik. 


[269] 
18  Octob. 


25- 

den    4    No- 

venib. 
den  8  d^ 

den  8  d°. 
den  8  d°. 
den  8  d°. 


Jan    Meet, 

Mandeviel. 
Hendrik  ten   Broek, 

Try  n  tj  e     Jansz. 

Room. 
Theunis    Xwik,  Jenneke. 

Vrouwtje  Jans. 
Mar  tin  lis    Cregier,  Martiniis. 

Margrietje   Van 

Dalsen. 
Johannes     Narburry,  Johannes. 

Agnietje  Provoost. 

Jacob  Blom,  Maajke  Margrieta 

Jansz.  Bosch. 
Johannes  Rykman,  Nelletje. 

Catharina  Kip. 
Abraham  Abramsz,  Andries. 

Jacomyntje  Viele. 

Johannes   Byvank,  Evert. 
Aaltje  Hooglant. 

Willem  Provoost,  David. 
Aafje  Van  Enveen. 


GETUYGEN. 

Nicolaas  Blank,  Cathari- 
na Boon. 

Gerrit   Wynans,    Debora 

Wynans. 
Barent    Eibon,   P'rancina 

Lewis. 
Clement    Elswart,   Anna 

Maria  Elswart. 

Jacob  Koning,  Anna  Van 

Hoek. 
Johannes  Vrelandt,  Hyla 

Kaerter. 
Theunis  Kuik,  Johannes 

Van  Vorst,    Sara    Van 

Vorst. 
Cornelis   Post,  Abraham 

Van    Gelder,    Marytje 

Post. 
Evert  Ddiking,  Antje 

Kermers. 
g^  Willem  Paerson,  Cornelis 
5I     Viele,  Catharina  Viele, 
•1-a     Susanna  Viele. 

I " 

Jacob  Van  Ooststram, 
Marytje  Mandeviel. 

Andries  ten  Broek,  Ma- 
rytje Jansz.  Room. 

Leendert  de  Grauw,  An- 
neke  Van  Vorst. 

Nicolaas  Dally,  Margriet- 
je Van  Dalsen. 

Johannes  Provoost,  Hes- 
ter Lyslaar,  h.  v.  van 
B:  Rynders. 

Pieter  Bosch,  Elisabeth 
Montagne. 

Abraham  Kip,  Tryntje 
Bries. 

Cornelis  Viele,  Andries 
Abramsz,  Susanna 
Viele. 

Jan  BjWank,  Evert  Bj- 
vank,  Annatje  Hoog- 
lant. 

Davidt  Provoost,  Tryntje 
Provoost. 


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A' 
den 

'  1702. 
15  d°. 

den 

15 

d°. 

den 

22 

d^. 

den 

22 

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den 

22 

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25 

d°. 

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25 

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29 

d°. 

[270] 
den    4    De- 

cenib. 
d°  6d. 

den  6  d°. 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Jan  Van  Hoorn,  Ca-  Catharina. 

tharina  Meyers. 
Harmen     J  orisz,  Joris. 

Neeltje  Staats. 
Jacobus  Goelet,  Jan-  Lea. 

netje  Cosaar. 
Adriaan    Man,    Hes-  Geertje. 

ter  Bordina:. 
•^Pieter  de   Milt,  Ma- Antony. 

ria  Van  d'  Heul. 

Daniel  Berkels,  Lys-  Elisabeth. 

betje  Gerrits. 
Joost    Lynze,    Elisa-  Daniel. 

beth  Daniels. 
Johannes  Vreelandt,  Maria. 

Marytje  Cregiers. 

-     Johannes    Van    Gel-  David, 
der,  Aafje  Roos, 
Will  em   Rosebooni.  Elisabeth. 

Beatris..^oolevelt. 
Jan    Denipfort,    Re-  Aafje. 
beca  Waldron. 


den 

9  d°. 

den 

9  d". 

den 

13  d°. 

den 

16  d°. 

den 

16  d°. 

dito 

16. 

den 

20  d°. 

dito. 

dito. 

den 

25  d°. 

den 

27  d°. 

Petr6s  Bayart,  Ra- 
chel Van  Bael. 
Karel  Tucker,  Anna 

Wesses. 
Isaacq  de    ]\lil,  Sara 

Jooste. 
Cornelis   Fielie,   Ca- 

thar}'na  Bogardes. 
Thomas  E  c  k  k  e  s  e, 

Elisabeth    Slinger- 

lant. 
Joris  Elsewaert,  Ari- 

aentie  Jans. 
Jores    Walgraef,    Su 

sanna  Woeder. 
John  Careny,  Maritie 

Van  Benthuyse. 
Anthony  Rutgers, 

Henderikje  Van  de 

Water. 
Dirck  de  Groov,  Ari- 

aentie  Kierstede. 
Isaacq  de    Lamon- 

tagne,  Hester  Van 

Vorst. 


Helena. 
AV'arnar. 
Petrus. 
Corneles. 
Annatie. 

Annetie. 
Jores, 
Jannetie. 
Catharyna. 

Dirck. 
Isaacq. 


GETUYGEN. 

Gualtherus  du  Bois,  Elsje 

Meyer. 
Joris  Jacobsz,    Annetje 

Cornelis. 
Evert  Van  Hoek,  Styntje 

Joris. 
Tryntje  Tienhooven. 

Isaak  de  Mill,  Johannes 

Van  d'  Heiil,  Anna  de 

Milt. 
Cornelia  Laa,  Coenradus 

Berkelo. 
Leendert  Huige  de  Klein, 

Catharina  Kip. 
Andries  Meyer,  Maria  de 

Peyster. 

Andries  Marschalk,  Em- 
merentja   Van  Gelder. 

I>aurens  Heddens,  Anna 
Van  Vorst. 

Willem  'AValdron  Senior, 
Willem  Waldron  Juni- 
or, H\-tie  Forkert,  Sara 
Podinton. 

Hendrik  Van  Bael,  He- 
lena Rombouts. 

Jacob  Mariurs  Groen, 
Marytje  Groen. 

Cornelis  Jooste,  Cornelia 
Ceteltas. 

Gerrit  Fielie,  Jacemyntie 
F'ielie. 

Anthony  Riithgers,  Ca- 
tharyna Rutgers. 

Stoffel  Elsewaert,  Maritie 
Jans. 

Math\'s  Boekholt,  Elsie 
Walgraef. 

Jan  Harperdinck,  Mayke 
Herperdink. 

Harmanes  Rtitgers,  Ca- 
tharyna Rutgers. 

Corneles  Kierstede, 
Tryntie  Kookers. 

Finsent  de  Lamontagne, 
Johannes  Vredenburg, 
Janna  de  Lamontagne. 


30 


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A'  1703. 
January  i. 

5  dito. 

5  dito. 

5  dito. 

[271J 
January  6. 

6  dito. 


10 

dito. 

13 

dito. 

13 

dito. 

13 

dito. 

13 

dito. 

18  dito. 

27 

dito. 

29 

dito. 

31 

dito. 

31 

dito. 

31 

dito. 

31 

dito. 

Fe 

bruary  3, 

10 

dito. 

[272] 
Feb:  10. 

GETUYGEN. 

Huybert  Van  den  Berg, 
Margrieta  Douwe. 

Abraham  Bradjor,  Susan- 
na Schriek. 

Willem  Elsevvaerdt,  Ca- 
telyn  Bensen. 

Jan  Peek,  E 1  y  s  a  b  e  t  h 
Slechtenhors. 

Barent  Pieterse  Bos,  Jan- 
netie  Bos. 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Jochem   Koljer,  Ma-  Jan. 

ria  Van  Gunst. 
Joris   Reyerse,  Antie  Jores. 

Scho^te. 
Johannes    Lange-  Johannis. 

straet,  Antie  Pels. 
Gerret    Lansen,  Ka-  Susanna. 

tharyna  Gelyn. 
Johannis  Herden-  Janneke. 

broek,     A  n  n  e  k  e 

Bos. 
Nicaesie   de  Lanion-  Samuel    ge-  Jan  de  Lamontagne,  Ni- 

tagne,  Styntie  Ro-      boren  den       colaes  Rosevelt,   Elsie 

sevelt.  2    Juny         Rosevelt. 

1698. 
Nicaesie  de  Lamon-  Jesse, geboo-  Jan  de  I>aniontagne,  Ni- 

tagne,  Styntie  Ro-      ren    den       colaes  Rosevelt,  Elsie 

sevelt.  21     No-       Rosevelt,     A  n  n  a  t  i  a 

V  e  m  b  .       Montarye. 
1699. 
Isaacq  Bratt,  Diever-  Calharina. 

tie  VVessels. 
Pieter  I^nt,  Martha  Marvtie. 

Wyt. 

Thomas  Kiluian,  An-  Annatie. 

natie  Wyt. 
Frederik  Blom,  Antie  Antie. 

Montanje. 
Frans  Candle,  Mari-  Frans. 

tie  Brestede. 
Jan  Herris,  Jannetie  Elisabeth. 

Nessepat. 
H  e  n  d  e  r  i  k  Meyer,  Johannis. 

Wyntie  Rhee. 
Elyas  de   Hart,    Ca-  Symon. 

thalyna  leaning. 
Pieter    Chaiqneau,  Maria. 

Aeltie  Smith. 
Wander    Diedericks,  Cornelis. 

Aeltie  Gerrets. 


Machiel  Basset,   He-  Annatie. 

lena  Basset. 
Machiel  Janse,  Mari-  Jan. 

tie  Jans. 
Leendert    de    Graw,  Rachel. 

Gerretie  Quick. 
Jan  Parmyter,  Susan-  Parocullis. 

na  Peuw. 
D  e  n  y  s    Woertman,  Maretie. 

Margrietie     Beek- 

man. 


Frans  Wesselse,  Tryntie 

Wessels. 
Thomas  Kilman,  Annatie 

Wyt. 

Pieter    Bant,     Catharina 

Davids. 
Arent    Blom,     Elvsabeth 

Blom. 
Johannis  Hibon,  Ariaen- 

tie  de  Grad, 
Pieter   Lakeman,    Mara- 

greta  Selynes. 
Johannes  Myer,  Cathary- 

na  Potters. 
Gysbert  de  Hart,  Tryntie 

'de  Hart. 
Justus   Bosch,  Anna 

Smith. 
Johannes   G  e  r  r  e  t  s  e, 

Klaertie  Post, 
Thomas  F>vens,  Jannetie 

Evens. 
Jacobus  B  e  r  r  i  e,  Elysa- 

betli  I^uykas. 
Theunis  Quick,  Janneke 

de  Kay. 
Cornelis  Fiely,  Catharyna 

Piero. 
Abraham     Messelaer, 

Harmpje  Woertman. 


1884.]     Records  of  the  First  and  Second  Presbyterian  Churches.         31 

RECORDS  OF  THE  FIRST  AND  SECOND  PRESBYTERIAN 
CHURCHES  OF  THE  CITY  OF  NEW  YORK.— Marriages. 
1756  TO . 

(Continued  from  Vol.  XIV.,  p.  172,  of  The  Record.) 

The  following  is  a  transcript  of  a  portion  of  a  MS.  volume  entitled 
"Record  of  Marriages  from  1793  &  Record  of  Preaching  from  1795,  by 
Samuel  Miller."  The  portion  here  transcribed  covers  the  period  of  Dr. 
Miller's  Pastorate  in  the  F'irst  Presbyterian  Church  of  New  York  City. 
The  volume  is  now  in  possession  of  his  son,  Rev.  Dr.  Samuel  Miller,  of 
Mt.  Holly,  N.  J. 

1793-  (^) 

Sept''        7.  John  Swartout  to  Mary  Smith. 
Dec'        8.  John  Tiebout  to  Margaret  Todd. 
Dec'      12.  Peter  Van  Der  Hoef  to  Ann  Coe. 

1794. 

Jan^  23.  William  Wheaton  to  Sarah  Norwood. 
Feb''  19.  William  Wyche  to  Louisa  Bates. 
May  31.  Reuben  Root  to  Hannah  George- 
June  15.   Lewis  Smith  to  Mary  North. 
June  25.  Nathan  Crane  to  Mary  Smith. 
Aug'  10.  John  Allger  to  Elizabeth  Dubois. 
Aug'  20.  George  Campbell  to  Janett  Hay. 
Sepf  6.  William  Werts  to  Abigail  McGee. 
Oct'  30.  William  Wilson  to  Phebe  Mills. 
Nov'  I.  Benjamin  Shaw  to  Charity  Smith. 
Dec'  I.  James  Davenport  to  Hannah  Brantingham. 

1795-  (2) 

April  29.  Robert  Mott  to  Lydia  Stansbury. 
May         3.   Elisha  King  to  Mary  Webb. 
May         5.  George  Upright  to  Catherine  Greenwall. 

May  II.  Joseph  Snow  to  Jane  Brazel. 

May  22.  Alexander  Black  to  Jane  Isan. 
June         8.  John  Scott  to  Elizabeth  McFaddin. 

June  25.  Donald  N.  McI>eod  to  Mary  van  Derwater. 

Aug'  10.  James  McKnight  to  Ann  Decatur. 
Sept'        5.  John  A.  Chapman  to  Sarah  Leland. 
Sept'        6.  Charles  Handasyde  to  Lydia  Munson. 
Oct'  I.   Robert  McGowan  to  Margaret  Sherman. 

Oct'         7.  Thomas  Dempster  to  Helen  Dodds. 

Nov'  19.  Tunis  Van  Pelt  to  Lucretia  McDonald. 

Nov'  21.  John  Jones  to  Sarah  Maurice. 

Nov  22.  Abraham  Crook  to  Sarah  Parsons. 

Novr  23.  Samuel  Smith  to  Mary  McKnight, 

Nov'  24.  Joseph  Conkling,  Jun'.,  to  Eliza.  Dawson. 

Nov'  29.  Jacob  Forsythe  to  Lucretia  Devebber.  (3) 

Dec'  12.  John  Stilhvell  to  Ann  Gumming. 

Dec'  12.  David  Gibson  to  Lydia  Chamberlain. 


32 


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[Jan., 


Dec' 
DeC^ 


Jan" 

Feb" 

Feb" 

March 

June 

Sepf^ 

Oct' 

Oct' 

Dec' 

Dec' 

Dec' 

Dec' 


April 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 

July 

July 

Aug' 

Aug' 

Oct' 

Oct' 

Nov' 

Nov' 

Nov^ 

Nov' 

Dec' 

Dec' 


Jan" 

Feb" 

March 

March 

May 

May 

May 

June 

June 

June 

July 

Aug' 
Aug' 


1 7.  Yalles  Hopper  to  Amy  Van  Tassell. 

17.   George  Buckmaster  to  Eleanor  Whitefield. 

1796. 

27.   Patrick  Stewart  to  Mary  Ann  Rae. 
6.   Alexander  Hutchison  to  Elizabeth  Hutchinson. 
27.  Isaac  Ross  Winans  to  Eliza  Kip. 

10.  Peter  Goynard  to  Susannah  Richards. 
23.  James  Pendergast  to  Mary  Burjeau, 

11.  John  Hunt  to  Adah  Morris. 

22.   Israel  Currie  to  Keziah  Nuttman. 
29.  Abraham  Van  Alstyne  to  Margaret  Hill. 
3.   Henry  Baslow  to  Mary  Garrick. 
II.   David  A.  Mead  to  Ann  Hays. 
22.  Thomas  Loutit  to  Catharine  McKenzie. 
25.   Thomas  Fairchild  to  Raciiel  Kingsland, 


(4) 


1797. 
I  7.   Joseph  Ogden  to  Mehitabel  Smith. 
9.  Michael  Warren  Frazer  to  Elizabeth  Springer. 

11.  Peter  Havves  to  Nancy  Post. 

14.  Ephraim  Bailey  to  Mary  Greaves. 

16.  Joseph  Labrey  to  Margaret  Read. 

18.  Samuel  Watson  to  Maria  Murphy. 

27.  Nebringson  Grenard  to  Mary  Frazer. 
9.  Robert  Newson  to  Jane  Dolbeer. 

15.  John  McMillan  to  Mary  McVicker. 

14.  Lewis  Ferdinand  Van  Loewenstein  to  Ann  Marie  Tribie. 

17.  John  Randall  to  Sarah  Larzelere. 
7.  John  Boggs  to  Jane  Cummings. 

28.  John  Cunningham  to  Mary  Walker.  (5) 

19.  Isaac  Whitney  to  Elizabeth  Price. 
19.   Samuel  Clark  to  Dorothy  Miller. 

21.  Thomas  Black  to  Rebecca  Jones. 
26.   Enos  Thompson  to  Abigail  Andress. 

3.   Isaac  Emmons  to  Mary  Smith. 

3.   Thomas  Chrystie  to  Margaret  Kennedy. 

1798. 
24.  Oliver  Smith  to  Martha  Hemmer. 

22.  William  Johnston  to  Catharine  Hardenbrook. 
7.  Thomas  Ward  to  Mary  Leishman. 

22.  Benjamin  EUstone  to  Nancy  Lane. 
6.  Jacob  Smith  to  Hannah  McChesney. 

12.  Alexander  McCarter  to  Elizabeth  Kennedy. 

26.  Abraham  Wheeler  to  Elizabeth  Dunn.  (6) 

3.   Richard  Morris  to  Mary  Ford. 

9.  James  Badgely  to  Elizabeth  Titus. 
12.   George  Thomas  Wright  to  Margaret  Lemmon. 

29.  Nicholas  Van  Antwerp  to  Anna  Munson. 

16.  Job  Wade  to  Lydia  Store). 

21.  Scipio  Piatt  to  Flora  Blackney  (Black  People). 


1884.] 


Churches  of  the  City  of  N'ew  York. 


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Aug' 

31- 

Sept' 

22. 

Sept' 

25- 

Oct' 

II. 

Dec' 

6. 

Dec' 

15. 

Dec' 

16. 

Dec' 

16. 

Dec' 

i7- 

Dec' 

30- 

Jan" 

7. 

Feb" 

2. 

Feb" 

23- 

March 

3- 

March 

9- 

March 

9- 

April 

13. 

April 

27. 

May 

19. 

May 

21. 

May 

23- 

May 

27. 

May 

27. 

July 

6. 

Aug' 

11. 

Aug' 

29. 

Aug' 

31- 

Sept' 

6. 

Nov' 

18. 

Nov' 

26. 

Dec' 

5- 

Dec' 

ir. 

Dec' 

28. 

Dec' 

30- 

Jan" 

I. 

Jan" 

14. 

Tan" 

15- 

Jan" 

25- 

Tan" 

26. 

Tan" 

27. 

Feb" 

II. 

March 

15- 

March 

27. 

April 

20. 

April 

20. 

May 

3- 

May 

8. 

May 

10. 

31.  Herman  Johnson,  Jun'.,  to  Sarah  Place. 
22.  John  Fiatt  to  Rosetta  Newman. 

Henry  Pilson  to  Sarah  Kateley. 

William  Carson  to  Catharine  Dougherty. 

Isaiah  Welmot  to  Rachel  Mcintosh. 

William  H.  Cook  to  Fanny  Burr. 

Clement  Miner  to  Jane  Long. 

Abraham  Hazzard  to  Maria  Webb. 

Vulcart  Van  Husen  to  Mary  Evans. 

Lewis  Gordon  to  Sarah  Baker. 

1799. 

Robert  Blush  to  Elizabeth  Brown. 
John  Hall  to  Hagar  Rankins  (Black  People). 
Peter  Jarvis  to  Charity  Sherrard. 
John  Gordon  to  Sarah  Corrington. 
Thomas  Gaston  to  Elizabeth  Ludlow. 
John  Whitlock  to  Catherine  Morrell. 
John  Millan  to  Jane  Hosack. 
William  Cone  to  Phebe  Smith. 
Thomas  G.  Hackett  to  Ann  Keteltas. 
William  L.  Vandervoort  to  Margaret  Bruce. 
Robert  Speir  to  Maria  Wood. 
John  Adams,  Jun'.,  to  Elizabeth  Dunham. 
Israel  Seaman  to  Jane  Sieman. 
Gurdon  Mainwaring  to  Ann  Adams. 
Cornelius  Myer  to  Phebe  Hutchings. 
John  Dougherty  to  Mary  Springer. 
Wendell  Mace  to  Mary  Duffie. 
Thomas  Cooper  to  Joanna  Upton. 
Robert  Alexander  to  Ann  Dunn  Ayres. 
Philip  B.  Sands  to  Elizabeth  Brinckley. 
Stephen  Baker  to  Martha  Fowler. 
Robert  Eastburn  to  Mary  Lackey. 
Ebenezer  Sammis  to  Ruth  Wheeler. 
John  Sinclair  to  Sarah  Smith. 

1800. 

William  Harrison  to  Catherine  Van  Alstyne. 
Nathaniel  Bloodgood  to  Harriet  Seymour. 
Benjamin  Tucker  to  Jane  Davis. 
George  Brown  to  Prudence  Ketchum. 
Charles  L.  Lewis  to  Nancy  Rowe  (Black  People). 
Michael  Harris  to  Rebecca  Cahoon. 
John  Barnard  to  Ann  Bartlett. 
George  Whitefield  to  Barbary  Buckmaster. 
Jacob  Mills  to  Waitstill  Hatch. 
Joseph  Starry  to  Elizabeth  McKinney. 
20.  Joseph  Bates  to  Jane  Compton. 

Richard  Burchan  to  Catharine  Ward. 
John  Morris  to  Priscilla  Ford. 
Simeon  Skilling  to  Amelia  Conkling. 


(7) 


(8) 


(9) 


-^A  A  List  of  Early  Immigrants  to  Ne7v  Netherland.  [Jan., 


A  LIST  OF   EARLY   IMMIGRANTS  TO   NEW  NETHERLAND. 

Alphabetically  Arranged,  with  Additions  and   Correc- 
tions,   FROM    Manuscripts    of    the    late 
Teunis   G.    Bergen, 


Communicated  by  Van  Brunt  Bergen,  of  Bay  Ridge,  N.  Y. 

(Continued  from  Vol.  XIV.,  p.  19c,  of  The  Record.) 


Note.  — The  numbers  on  the  left  of  the  page  refer  to  the  list  of  ships  as  printed  in 
VqI.  XIV.,  p.  190. 

J 

39  Jansen,  Claes,  from  Amsterdam,  wife  and  3  children,  ag.  15,    12,  6, 
Sept.,  1663. 

14  Jansen,  Claes,  from  Parmerend,  wheelwright,  wife,  servant,  and  child, 

April,  1659. 

31  Jansen,  Dirck,  from  Bommelderweert,  and  2  children.  May  24,  1662. 

22  Jansen,  Dirck,  from  Bytwelt,  soldier,  April  15,  1660. 

35  Jansen,  Elias,  from  Fiel,  Mar.  30,  1663. 

39  Jansen,  Grietien,  from  VVeldorp,  Sept.,  1663. 

18  Jansen,  Hendrick,  from  Amersfoort,  wife  and  4  children.  Mar.  9,  1660. 

16  Jansen,  Hendrick,  from  Wagening,  Dec,  1659. 

34  Jansen,  Hendrick,  painter.  Mar.,  1663. 

21  Jansen,  Jacob,  from  Mulleni,  soldier,  Mar.  9,  1660. 

31  Jansen,  Jacob,  of  New  Netherlands,  farmer,  May  24,  1662, 

16  Jansen,  Jacob,  from  Amersfoort,  Dec,  1659. 

6  Jansen,  Jan,  house  carpenter,  wife  and  5  children,  Maria,  Magdalena, 
Arien,  Sophia,  Christina,  May,  1658. 
42  Jansen,  Jan,  from  Amsterdam,  Jan.  20,  1664. 
21  Jansen,  Jan,  from  Dimker,  soldier.  Mar.  9,  1660. 
39  Jansen,  Jan,  from  Norway,  and  wife,  Sept.,  1663. 
39  Jansen,  Jan  Jun.,  wife  and  child,  ag.  2^,  Sept.,  1663. 
34  Jansen,  Jeremias,  from  Westerhoot,  Mar.,  1663. 

11  Jansen,  Joris,  from  Hoorn,  house  carpenter,  June,  1658. 

32  Jansen,  Jouriaen,  from  Holsteyn,  Sept.  2,  1662. 

17  Jansen,  Maritje,  maiden.  Mar.,  1660. 

12  Jansen,  Nettert,  from  Embden,  Feb.,  1659. 

34  Jansen,  Peter,  from  Amersfoort,  and  4  children,  ag.  19,  16,  7,  3,  Mar., 

1663. 
29  Jansen,  Peter,  from  Amsterdam,  farmer,  Jan.  28,  1662. 
20  Jansen,  Peter,  from  Drenthe,  shoemaker,  wife  and  4  children,  April 

15,  1660. 
34  Jansen,  Theunis,  from  the  country  of  Luyck,  wife  and  6  children,  ag. 

18,  16,  14,  9,  7,  2,  Mar.,  1663. 
34  Jansen,  Thys,  from  the  country  of  Luyck,  and  4  children,  ag.  17,  15, 

13,  II  (his  wife  died  on  passage),  Mar.,  1663. 

15  Jansen,  Thys,  from  the  Gooy,  farmer,  April,  1659. 

16  Jansen,  Tys,  from  Amersfoort,  Dec,  1659. 
a  Jansen,  Volckert,  1638. 


1884.J  A  List  of  Eai-ly  Immigrants  to  New  Netherhuid.  •5  c 

15  Jansen,  Willem;  from  Rotterdam,  fisherman,  wife,  sucking  child,  and 

maid  servant,  April,  1659. 
20  Janss,  Albert,  from  Drenthe,  April  15,  1660. 

2  Janssen,  Arent,  house  carpenter,  wife  and  daughter,  April,  1657. 

b  Janssen,  Hans,  1640. 
12  Janssen,  Lawrens,  from  VVormer,  Feb.,  1659. 

b  Janssen,  Swaen,  1654. 

35  Jaspers,  Grietje,  from  Fiel,  maiden,  Mar.  30,  1663. 
44  Jeppes,  Jentje,  wife  and  3  children,  April  17,  1664. 
26  Jochems,  Hendrickje,  May  9,  1661. 

26  Jochems,  Geertje,  May  9,  1661. 

12  Jochems,  Geertruy,  from  Hamburgh,  wife  of  Claes  Claessen,  from  Amers- 

foort,  and  2  children,  Feb.,  1659. 
39  Johannis,  Foppe,  servant  of  Schout  Olferts,  Sept.,  1663. 

39  Johannis,  Minne,  wife  and  4  children,  ag.  8,  8,  6,  i,  together  with  his 

wife's  sister  and  his  servant,  Sept.,  1663. 
32  Joosten,  Jan,  from  Tielderweert,  wife  and  5  children,  ag.  15,  12,  9,  6, 
2i-,  Sept.  2,  1662. 
a  Joris,  Burger,  1637. 
2y(i  Journai,  Moillart,  from  Walslant,  April  16,  1663. 

b  Juriaense,  Barent,  1658. 
41  Juriaensen,  Jannecken,  from  Grevckeur,  Jan.  20,  1664. 

K 

b  Kamminga,  Hendrick  Janse,  1679. 
b  Kat,  Claes  Cornelissen,  1662. 
20  Keirs,  Jan,  from  Drenthe,  and  wife,  April  15,  1660. 

22  Kemmes,  Brant,  from  Dockum,  soldier,  April  15,  1660, 
a  Kenningh,  Tomas,  1646. 

36  Kerve,  Jacob,  from  Leyden,  and  wife,  April  16,  1663. 
b  Kiersen,  Jan,  1649. 

b  Klock,  Pelgrom,  1656, 

10  Kock,  Jan  Gillessen,  from  Utrecht,  wife  and  3  children,  Dec,  1656. 

23  Kockuyt,  Joost,  from  Bruges,  soldier,  April  27,  1660. 
b  Kockuyt,  Joost,  1660. 

b  Koeck,  Laurens,  1661. 

20  Koorts,  Steven,  from  Drenthe,  wife  and  7  children,  April  15,  1660. 
Koerten,  see  Coerten. 
a  Korn,  Nicolaus,  1642. 
a  Koyemans,  Barent  Pieterse,  1636. 
2  Kraey,  Teunis,  from  Venlo,  wife,  4  children,  and   2  servants,  April, 

32  Kraffort,  David,  mason,  wife  and  child,  Sept.  2,  1662. 
a  Krol,  Bastiaen  Jansen,  1630. 

24  Krypel,  Anthony,  from  Artois,  farmer,  and  wife,  April  27,  1660. 

40  Kume,  Ariaen  Peters,  from  Flissingen,  Oct.,  1663. 
b  Kume,  Adriaen,  1660. 

L 

a  Labbadie,  Jan.,  1634. 
b  La  Febre,  Isaack,  1683. 


26  A  List  of  Early  Immigrants  to  New  Neiherland.  [Jan., 

b  La  Forge,  Aclriaen,  1672. 
b  I.amberse,  Thomas,  165 1. 
34  I.ammerts,  Hendrick,  from  Amersfoort,  Mar.,  1663. 

34  Lammertsen,  Adrian,  from  Tielderveen,  wife  and  6  children,  ag.  17, 

i5>  ii>  7,  5j  3.  Mar.,  1663. 

26  Lammertsen,  Jan,  from  Bremen,  May  9,  i66t. 

16  Langelens,  Philip,  farmer,  wife  and  2  children,  Dec,  1659. 
36  Laurens,  Jans,  from  Rypen,  April  16,  1663. 

35  Laurens,  Maria,  Mar.  30,  1663. 

39  Laurense,  Jan,  from  New  Netherland,  Sept.,  1663. 
a  Laurenssen,  Laurens,  1630. 

12  Lawrense,  Jan,  Noorman,  and  wife,  Feb.,  1659. 

32   Le  Chaire,  Jan,  from  Valenciennes,  carpenter,  Sept.  2,  1662. 
15   Leenders,  Aertje,  from  Amsterdam,  widow,  April,  1659. 

a  Leendertsen,  Cornells,  1658. 

a  Leendertsen,  Willem,  1646. 
23  Lengelgraaff,  Daniel,  from  Amsterdam,  soldier,  April  27,  1660. 

11  Lequie,  Jan,  from  Paris,  June,  1658. 
b  Lequie,  Jean,  1657. 

22  Levelin,  Johannes,  from  Milhausen,  soldier,  April  15,  1660. 

23  Leysseler,  Jacob,  from  Francfort,  soldier,  April  27,  1660. 
23  I^ocker,  Conraet,  from  Nieuenburg,  soldier,  April  27,  1660. 

b  Lott,  Pieter,  1659. 
2,2^  Louhman,  I^ouis,  wife  and  3  children,  ag.  6,  4,  2,  Oct.,  1662. 

36  Lourens,  Jan,  from  Schoonder  Woort,  wife  and  2  children,  ag.  7,  4, 

April  16,  1663. 
18  I-,ourens,  Peter,  the  wife  of.  Mar.  9,  1660. 
32  Lourensen,  Adriaen,  from  Loenen,  carpenter,  Sept.  2,  1662. 
b  Loyse,  Cornelis,  165 1. 
b  Lubberse,  Thys,  1637. 
31  Lubbertsen,  Lubbert,  from  Meppel,  farmer,  wife  and  4  children,  ag. 

17,  13,  9,  May  24,  1662. 
31  Lubbertsen,  Willem,  from  Meppel,  farmer,  wife  and  6  children,  ag. 

19,  16,  9,  7,  4,  May  24,  1662. 
35   Lucas,  Dirck,  Mar.  30,  1663. 

27  Luten,  Walraven,  from  Flanders,  wife  and  suckling.  May  9,  1661. 

13  Luycas,   Jan,  from  Oldenseel,   shoemaker,   wife   and   suckling,    Feb., 

1659. 

40  Luycase,  Willem,  from  Maeslands-sluys,  Oct.,  1663. 
b  Luyster,  Pieter  Cornelis,  1656. 

M 

15  Mandeville,  Gillis,  April,  1659. 

22  Mannaet,  Gerrit  (Van  Haen),  soldier,  April  15,  1660. 
a  Mannix,  Geertje,  1642. 
10  Marritje,  Juriaens,  Dec,  1656. 

12  Marschal,  Evert,  from  Amsterdam,  glasier,  wife  and  daughter,  Feb., 

1659. 
12  Marschal,  Nicholas  Gillissen,  Feb.,  1659. 
20  Martensen,  Arent,  from    Gelderland  (in   the  service  of  Roeloff  Swart- 

wout),  April  15,  1660. 


1884.]  A  List  of  Early  Imtnigranis  to  New  Netherland.  ^7 

34  Martensen,  Peter,  from  Ditmarsum,  and  child,  ag.  7,  Mar.,  1663, 
32  Martin,  Piere,  from  Walslant,  Sept.  2,  1662. 

22  Mattens,  Peter,  from  Laeren,  soldier,  April  15,  1660. 
36  Matthysen,  Peter,  from  Limborgh,  April  16,  1663. 

a  Megapolensis,  Dominie  Johannes  Jr.,  1642. 
39  Megelio,  Hessel,  from  Friesland,  Sept.,  1663. 
44  Mellis,  Claes,  from   Great   Schermer,    wife,  2   children,  and  servant, 

April  17,  1664. 
16  Melyn,  Cornelis,  and  2  sons,  Dec,  1659. 
-^2,  Merlitt,  Gideon,  wife  and  4  children,  ag.  15,  8,  6,  4,  Oct.,  1662. 

b  Messcher,  Adam  Machielse,  1647. 
36  Mesurole,  Jean,  from  Picardy,  wife  and  sucking  child,  April  16,  1663. 

23  Mettermans,  Paulus,  from  Louren,  soldier,  April  27,  1660. 

12  Meynderts,  Egbert,  from  Amsterdam,  wife,  child,  and  servant,  Feb., 

1659. 
12  Meynderts,  Jan,  from  Joeren,  farmer,  and  wife,  Feb.,  1659. 
a  Meynten,  Willem,  1638. 
14  Michielsen,  Cornelis,  from  Medemblick,  April,  1659. 

26  Middagh,  Aert  Teunissen,  May  9,  i66r. 
b  Middagh,  Jan  Aertsen,  1659. 

b  Miseroll,  Jean  Jun,  1667. 

27  Mol,  Dirck,  Afay  9,  i66r. 

20  Mol,  Jan  Jansen,  April  15,  1660. 
14  Monier,  Jacques,  Frenchman,  farmer,  Ajiril,  1659. 
14  Monier,  Pierre,  Frenchman,  farmer,  April,  1659. 
16  Moors,  Maria,  from  Arnhem,  maiden,  Dec,  1659. 


N 

19  Niesen,  Cornelis,  the  wife  of.  Mar.,  1660. 

36  Niu,  Pierre,  from  Pays  de  Vaud,  sister,  wife,  and  sucking  child,   April 

16,  1663. 
21   Norman,  Andries,  from  Steenwyck,  soldier.  Mar.  9,  1660. 

a  Nostrandt,  Jacob  Jansen,  1638. 

a  Nyssen,  Wolf,  1646. 

O 

39  Olferts,  Schout,  from  Friesland,  wife  and  child,  ag.  2\,  Sept.,  1663. 

a  Oosterum,  Gerrit  Willems,   1631. 
31  Ooencamp,  Casper,  servant  of  Abel  Hardenbroeck,  Afay  24,  1662. 


b  Palmentier,  Michiel,  1664. 

b  Para,  Pieter,  1659. 
36  Parmentie,  Pierre,  from  Pays  de  Vaud,  wife  and  son,  ag.  9,  April   16, 

1663. 
27  Paulessen,  Gommert,  from  Antwerp,  May  9,  166 1. 
2,Z  Paulus,  Claus,  from  Ditmarsen,  and  wife,  Oct.,  1662. 


^8  A  List  of  Early  Immigrants  to  New  Netherland.  [Jan., 

2  2  Peters,  Peter,  from  Amsterdam,  cadet,  with  his  wife  and  3  children, 

April  15,  1660. 
15  Petersen,  Albert,  mason,  April,  1659. 
35  Petersen,  Andrees,  from  Fiel,  Mar.  30,  1663. 
22   Petersen,  Claes,  from  Detmarsen,  cadet,  April  15,  1660. 
26  Petersen,  Evert,  the  son  of,  Consoler  of  the  sick.  May  9,  1661. 
15   Petersen,  Gerrit,  April,  1659. 

22  Petersen,  Jan,  from  Detmarsen,  soldier,  April  15,  1660. 
31  Petersen,  Jan,  from  Deventer,  tailor,  wife  and  3  children,  ag.  9,  6,  4, 

May  24,  1662. 
21   Petersen,  Marcus,  from  Steenwyck,  soldier,  Mar.  9,  1660. 

15  Petersen,  Peter,  alias  Para,  from  Picardy,  wife  and  daughter,  April, 

1659. 

29  Petersen,  Siewert,  from  Hoesem,  maltster,  Jan.  28,  1662. 

16  Petersen,  Willem,  from  Amersfoort,  Dec,  1659. 
6  Pieters,  Tryntje,  maiden,  May,  1658. 

b  Pieterse,  Lefferd,   1660. 

30  Pietersen,  Reynier,  from  Idemland,  farmer,  May  24,  1662. 
a  Pietersen,  Wybrant,  1638. 

a  Planck,  Jacob  Albertzen,  1634. 

II   Pies,  Michiel,  from  Holstein,  wife  and  3  children,  June,  1658. 
37  Pont,  Vieu,  from  Normandy,  June  27,  1663. 

a  Poog,  Johan,  1639. 

a  Pos,  Simon  Dircksen,  1630. 

3  Pouuelson,  Claes,  from  Detmarsum,  mason,  Dec,  1657. 

21  Princen,  Matthys,  from  Waltneel,  soldier,  Mar.  9,  1660. 
b  Probasco,  Christofifel,  1654. 

22  Pronck,  Johan,  from  Bonn  above  Ceulen,  soldier,  a  smith,  and  baker, 

April  15,  1660. 
16  Pynacker,  Joost  Adriaensen,  from  Delft,  Dec,  1559. 


R 

17  Reinders,  Wiggert,  from  the  Grouw,  farmer,  Mar  ,  1660. 
14  Reneau,  Jacques,  Frenchman,  farmer,  April,  1659. 
-^(^  Renare,  Martin,  from  Picardy,  wife  and  child,  April  16,  1663. 
2)(i  Richarvie,  Pierre,  from  Parys,  April  16,  1663. 

b  Ridder,  Parent  Joosten,  1652. 
23  Riet,  Jan,  soldier,  April  27,  1660. 
12   Roelofs,  Sophia,  Feb.,  1659. 
40  Roelofs,  Boel,  from  Friesland,  Oct.,  1663. 
12   Roelofs,  Matthys,  from  Denmark,  wife  and  child,  Feb.,  1659. 
12   Roelofsen,   Boele,   joncker,  wife,  3  children,  wife's  sister,  and  a  boy, 

Feb.,  1659. 
27  Roelofsen,  Jacob,  May  9,  1661. 
27  Roelofsen,  Jan,  May  6,  1661. 
39   Roelofsen,  Jan,  from  Norway,  Sept.,  1663. 

b  Ronieyn,  Stoffel  Janse,  1653. 
35   Rosens,  Clement,  Mar.  30,  1663. 

a  Rutgersen,  Ryckert,  1636. 
14  Riiytenbeeck,  Annetje,  maiden,  April,  1659. 


1 884.  J  A  List  of  Early  hnmigrants  to  New  Netherland.     *         39 

a  Ruyter,  Claes  Jansen,  1638. 

b  Ryerse,  Adriaen,  1646. 

0  Ryersen,  Jan,  1637. 

S 

32  Saboriski,  Albert,  from  Prussia,  Sept.  2,  1662. 

27  Samsons,  Geerlje,  from  )Veesp,  May  9,  1661. 

27  Santvoort,  Jacob  Abrahamsen,  May  9,  t66i. 
36  Sardingh,  Hans  Jacob,  April  16,  1663. 

14  Savariau,  Matthieu,  Frenchman,  farmer,  April,  16.S9. 
17  Schaets,  Cornelis  Davitsen,  wheelwright,  Mar.,  1660. 

b  Scharnp,  Pieter,  1672. 

b  Schenck,  Jan  Marteuse,  1650. 

b  Schenck,  Roeloff  Marteuse,  1650. 

a  Scherinerhorn,  Jacob  Jansen,  1645. 

35  Schiltman,  Dirck,  from  Tiel,  Mar.  30, '1663. 

32  Scholts,  Symon,  from  Prussia,  Sept.  2,  1662. 

35  Schot,  Willem,  Mar.  30,  1663. 

a  Scuth,  Jan  Willemsen,  1646. 

b  Seen,  Cornelis  Jansse,  1660. 

Ty2^  Setshoorn,  Abelis,  Oct.,  1662. 

28  Slecht,  Parent  Cornelissen,  Nov.,  166 1. 
b  Sleght,  Hendrick,  1652. 

b  Smack,  Hendrick  Mathysse,  1654. 

30  Smet,  Stoffel,  from  Keurle,  farmer,  May  24,  1662. 
2  Smetdes,  Joliannis,  April,  1657. 

II  Smith,  Dirck,  ensign,  wife  of,  and  a  sucking  child,  June,  1658, 

34  Smith,  Edward,  from  Leyden,  Mar.,  1663. 

a  Smith,  I.ucas,  1642. 

4  Snedick,  Jan,  wife  and  2  children,  Dec,  1657. 

20  Souvanich,  Jan,  from  Byle  in  Drenthe,  April  15,  1660. 

31  Spiegelaer,  Jan,  and  wife.  May  24,  1662. 
b  Spiegelaer,  Jan,  1662. 

a  Spierinck,  Cornelis,  1639. 

a  Spierinck,  Jacques,  1630. 

45  Spiers,  Hendrick  Jansen,  wife  and  2  children,  Dec.  23,  1661. 

a  Staes,  Abraham,  1642. 

15  Steenhuysen,  Englebrecht,  from  Soest,  tailor,  April,  1659. 

21  Steffen,  Johan,  from  Herborn,  soldier.  Mar.  9,  1660. 

16  Stepfer,  Harmen,  from  the  Duchy  of  Cleef,  Dec,  1659. 
16  Sterrevelt,  Adriaen  Huybertsen,  farmer,  Dec,  1659. 

a  Steveniersen,  Arent,  1636. 

a  Stevensen,  Abraham,  1637. 

7  Stevenson,  Jacob,  cooper,  and  wife,  Aug.  3,  1654. 

20  Stintham,  Peter,  from  Nimwegen,  tailor,  April  15,  1660. 

2  Stoeff,  Hertwich,  April,  1657. 

b  Stoffelse,  Dirck,  1657. 

b  Stoffelse,  Gerrit,  165 1. 

II  Stofifelsen,  Machteld,  widow,  June,  1658. 

a  Stoffelsen,  Ryer,  1639. 

a  Stol,  Jacob  Jansen,  1630. 


40  A  List  of  Early  Immigrants  to  New  Netherlajid.  [Jan., 

13  Stolten,  Marten  Warnarts,  from  Swoll,  Feb.,  1659. 

h  Stoothoof,  Elbert  Elbertse,  1637. 
32  Storm,  Dirck,  from  the  Maiery  of  Bosh,  wife  and  3  children,  ag.  6,  2, 
i:^,  Sept.  2,  1662. 

b  Strycker,  Jacob,  165 1. 

b  Strycker,  Jan,  1652. 

b  Stryker,  Gerrit  Janse,  1652. 

4  Sudeich,  Claes,  Dec,  1657. 

b  Suydan,  Hendrick  Rijcken,  1663. 
20  Swartvvoiit,  RoelofT,  farmer  (on  his  return  to  N.  Netherland,  his  former 

residence),  April  15,  1660. 
22   Swetermik,  Hendrich,  from  Osenburg,  soldier,  April  15,  1660. 
32  Symonsen,  Willem,  from  Amsterdam,  Sept.  2,  1662. 


T 

^ 

41  Tack,  Evert,  from  the  Barony  of  Breda,  Jan.  20,  1664. 

44  Taelman,  Jan,  April  17,  1664. 

32  Ten  Houte,  Souverain,  baker,  Sept.  2,  1662. 

12  Tenuis,  Magalantje,  from  Voorhuysen,  Feb.,  1659. 

41  Teunis,  Sara,  Jan.  20,  1664. 

27  Teunissen,  Aerent,  from  Amsterdam,  wife  and  2  children.  May  9,  1661. 

39  Teunissen,  Cornelis,  from  Norway,  Sept.,  1663. 

a  Teunissen,  Claes,  1645. 

a  Teunissen,  Jan,  1640. 

a  Teunissen,  Jannitje,  1640. 

23  Teunisen,  Peter,  from  Fleensburgh,  soldier,  April  27,  1660. 

45  Theunissen,  Claes,  from  Goreum,  servant  and  boy,  Dec,  23,  1661. 
27  Theunissen,  Jan,  from  Amsterdam,  wife  and  2  children.  May  9,  1661. 
26  Thysen,  Wouter,  from  Hilversom,  May  9,  1661. 

b  Tierckse,  Thomas,  1652. 
a  I'iers,  Johan,  1631. 

31  Tinmer,  Jan,  from  Gorchum,  and  wife,  May  24,  1662. 
14  Tollenaer,  Peter,  from  Hasselt,  April,  1659. 

a  Tomassen,  Barent,  1630. 

a  Tomassen,  Cornelis,  1636. 
36  Tomassen,  Juriaen,  from  Rypen,  April  16,  1663. 
12  Toonson,  Joris  Jorissen,  from  Redfort,  mason,  Feb.,  1659. 

b  TuU,  Pieter  Pieterse,  1657. 

32  Tymonsen,  Hendrick,  from  Loosdrecht,  Sept.  2,  1662. 

16  Tysen,  Claes,  cooper,  the  wife  of,  and  2  children,  Dec,  1659. 
a  Tyssen,  Claes,  1639. 
a  Tyssen,  Jan,  1630. 


U 
24  Uslie,  David,  from  Calais,  farmer,  and  wife,  April  27,  1660. 

[To  be  continued.] 


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Notes  and  Queries. 


41 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

Davis. — Information  is  desired  througli  the  columns  of  the  Record  of  John  Davis, 
who,  with  his  brother  Thomas,  came  to  America  from  Kidderminster,  Eng.,  resided  a 
while  in  Lynn,  Mass.,  from  thence  tiiey  went  to  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and  finally  settled 
at  East  Hampton,  L.  I.,  about  the  year  1700.  Did  the  parents  of  John  and  Thomas 
come  to  America  with  them?  What  were  their  (the  parents)  first  or  Christian  names? 
Did  other  children  come  with  them?  If  so,  what  were  their  Christian  names?  Did 
John  marry  at  East  Hampton.  If  so,  whom?  Did  he  marry  more  than  once?  Did  lie 
have  children  ?     What  were  their  names  ?  A.  H.  D. 

Floyd  Epitaphs  at  Set.a.uket,  L.  I. — The  following  inscriptions  were  copied 
August,  1S83,  in  the  ancient  burial-place  of  the  Floyd  family,  situated  at  Setauket,  in 
the  town  of  Brookhaven,  Long  Island,  N.  Y.  The  enclosure  contains  twenty-seven 
tombstones,  two  of  which  are  illegible  : 


Here  lies  the  body  of 
Mrs.  Margaret 

NiCOLLS 

Wife  of 

Col  Richard  Floyd 

who  died 

Feb  I.  1718 

in  her  57th  Year  of  her  Age. 

In  Memory  of  ELIZABETH 

wife  of  Collonel  Richard 

Floyd,  who  Departed 

this  Life  April  10  1773 

Aged  69  Years. 


Here  lies  buried  y^ 

Body  of  JoHX  Floyd, 

Son  of  Col"  Richard 

Floyd  and  Mrs  Elizabeth 

his  wife,  who  Departed 

this  Life  Aug.  y  2d. 

A.  D  1756  in  y^'  21st 

Year  of  his  Age. 

Mrs  Elizabeth 

y«  Wife  of Floyd 

[broken  stone] 


Sarah  W. 

Wife  of 

Gilbert  Floyd, 

died  Feb.    r.  1826 

in  the  52  Year 

of  her  age. 


Richard 
Son  of  Gilbert  & 

Sally  Floyd. 

died  Aug.  5.  1824 

M.   18. 


Here  lies  the  body  of 
Richard  Floyd  Esq'' 

late  Collonell  of  this 

County  &  a  Judge 

of  y  Court  of  Common 

pleas,  who  Dec'  Feb'y 

Y  28th  1737  8  in  the 

73"'  Year  of  his  Age. 

Here  lyes  buried  y'  Body 

of  Margratt  Floyd,  daug'' 

of  Col"  Richard  Floyd 

&  Mrs.  Elizabeth  his  wife 

who  dep"'  this  life  Nov. 

8  A.  D.  [stone  chipped] 


In  Memory  of 
Ann  wife  of 
Col.  benjamin 

Floyd,  who 

Departed  this 

Life  May  29th 

A.  D.  1773  Aged 

28  Years. 

Col.  Benjamin  Floyd 

died  Dec.   27.  1820 

M.  80. 


In 

Memory  of 

Capt.  Gilbert  Floyd 

who  died 

July  27th  1832 

Aged  61  Years 

6  days. 

Abraham  W.  Floyd 

Counsellor  at  Law  son  of 

Capt.  Gilbert  &  Lydia 

Floyd.     Died  Dec  5 

1859  M.  32  Years. 


WILLIAM   KELBY. 

In  Memory  of 

Richard  Floyd  Esq' 

the  Collonel  of  the 

County  &  Judge  of 

the  Courts  of  Common 

Pleas,  who  Departed 

this  Life  Apr'  21st  1771 

Aged  68  Years. 

Here  lyes  buried  y''  Body 

of  Ann  Floyd,  daug"^ 

of  Col"  Richard   Floyd 

&  Mrs.  Elizabeth  his  wife. 

who  departed  this  Life 

August  y  14  A.  D.  1756 

in  y°  6th  year  of  her 

Age.- 

Margaret  daughter 
of  Col.  Benjamin 

&  Mrs.  Ann 
Floyd,  who  died 

June  1770 

In  the  2d  Year 

of  her  Age. 


Sally  wife  of  Gilbert 

Floyd,  died  April  6  1822 

M.  39  y*  5  mo^ 

18  days. 

Lydia  wife  of  Capt. 

Gilbert  Floyd 

Died  Jan.  30,  1864 

J^.  72  Years  7  mos. 

&  10  days. 


In  Memory 

of 

Richard  Floyd 

who  died 

May  9th  1803 

in  the  34,  year 

of  his  Age 


42 


Notes  and  Queries. 


[Jan., 


Anna 

Relict  of  Richard  Floyd 

died  June  28,  1803 


Thomas  S.  Floyd 

died  Sept  9.  1849 

aged  49  Years  &  6  mos. 


Polly  wife  of  Thomas  S. 

Floyd,  died  Oct.  13  1851. 

aged  51  years  &  i  month 


Edmond  Thomas  Floyd 
son  of  Thomas  S.  &   Polly 

died  at  Sea  July  18  1859 
aged  20  years  2  mo.  6  days 


Mary 

daugh''  of  Richard 

&  Anna  Floyd 

died  June  1797 

M..  7  mos. 

Margaret  A  wife  of 

Capt.  Alonzo  L.  Tuthill. 

&  daughter  of  Thos.  S.  & 

Polly  Floyd,  died  Feb  18 

1857  M    21  Years. 

Anna  Cornell 
Died  Aug  17,  1867 

Lilll\n  Ellis 
Sept  4.  1S69 

Infant  Children  of 
William  &  Julia  Ann  Floyd. 

Julia  Ann  wife  of 

William  Floyd,  died 

Dec  27  1S72  aged 

41   Years 

Hunt's  Point  Cemetery.  By  Gen.  Jas.  Grant  Wilson. — A  few  miles  from 
Harlem,  in  Westchester  County,  is  a  road  which  leads  from  the  town  of  West  Farms  to 
the  Great  Planting  Neck,  called  by  the  Indians  Quinnahung,  upon  which  are  many 
ancient  and  modern  country  seats.  t)f  these,  perhaps  the  most  ancient  stands  at  the 
southern  extremity  of  the  Neck,  on  an  estate  which  for  almost  two  hundred  years  has 
been  known  as  Hunt's  Point.  It  passed  into  the  hands  of  Thomas  Hunt  by  his  marriage 
with  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Edward  Jessup,  one  of  the  first  patentees.  The  old  mansion, 
erected  in  1688,  occupies  a  cliarming  situation  overlooking  the  East  River  and  Flushing 
Bay,  and  near  the  mouth  of  the  Bronx  River,  celebrated  in  song  by  Joseph  Rodman 
Drake.  The  Hunt  family  continued  to  own  and  occupy  the  property  until  a  score  of 
years  ago,  when  it  passed  into  otiier  hands.  During  its  possession  by  the  Hunts,  a  small 
tract  of  rising  ground,  comprising  less  than  an  acre,  was  used  by  them  as  a  burial-place, 
and  also  by  several  other  families  living  in  that  neighl)orhood  who  had  intermarried  with  the 
Hunts.  The  spot  would  have  been  unknown,  or  at  least  unvisited  by  the  writer,  but  for 
the  circumstance  of  its  being  the  burial-place  of  Drake,  and  the  spot  where,  a  few  days 
after  his  death,  his  friend  Fitz-Greene  Halleck  composed  those  exquisitely  touching  and 
tender  lines,  in  which  he  mourned  the  early  death  of  his  chosen  companion  and  literary 
partner.      They  are,  and  will  continue  to  be,  an  enduring  monument  to  both  the  poets. 

My  second  visit  to  Hunt's  Point  was  made  on  a  mild  day  near  the  close  of  November, 
1883,  in  company  with  Dr.  Ellsworth  Eliot,  who  suggested  that  some  brief  notice  of  the 
burial-place,  with  a  few  of  its  inscriptions,  might  be  of  interest.  Near  the  gate  we  ob- 
served a  broken  stone  lying  on  the  ground,  on  which  were  these  words  : 

A  Private  Cemetery 
for  the  families  of 

Thomas  Hunt, 

Cornelius  Willett, 

John  Leggett. 

A  few  yards  from  the  entrance,  on  the  southern  slope  of  the  ground,  is  an  obelisk  and 
pedestal  of  about  nine  feet  in  height,  surrounded  by  a  substantial  iron  railing,  with  a  wil- 
low clinging  closely  to  it.      On  the  monument  is  the  following  inscription  : 

Sacred 

to  the  Memory 

of 

Joseph  R.  Drake,  M.D., 

who  died  September  21*',  1820, 

Aged  25  years. 

None  knew  him  but  to  love  him. 
Nor  named  him  but  to  praise. 


[884-]  Notes  and  Queries. 


43 


Among  the  numerous  names  to  be  seen  in  this  now  neglected  burial-place,  which  has 
not  been  used  since  1S65,  we  observed  those  of  Bartow,  Dixon,  Fleming  Tallman,  Tillou, 
Ward,  Whitehead,  and  Winship,  and  noticed  among  other  trees,  the  ailantus,  wild 
cherry,  locust,  oak,  pine,  and  sassafras.  From  some  of  the  oldest  or  largest  tombstones 
we  took  the  following  inscriptions  : 

Here  lies  y'  body  of  Here  lies  y«  Body 

Thomas  Hunt  of  Elizabeth   Hunt, 

a^ed   73  years,  wife  Cap' 

Died  October  29,  1770.  Thomas  Hunt, 

aged  57  years 
Dec''  April  27,  1729 

Here  lies  the  Body  In  memory  of  Jane 

of  Christian  wife  The  wife  of 

of  Robert  Hunt,  Cornelius  W.  Van  Raust 

Died  Dec""  y"  12,  who  departed  this  life, 

1749,  aged  41  Years  May  5"'  1793 

II  M"  &  17  D^  Aged  30  years  5  months  and  i  day. 

In  memory  of  In  memory  of 

D.  P.  Morthier,  Elizabeth  Willeti', 

who  departed  this  life,  Daughter  of 

January  xg,   1S07,  Cornelius  &  Elizabeth  Willett, 

Aged  32  years.  who  departed  this  life, 

Virtue  is  beloved  in  this  life,  the  19"'  June  1772, 

And  rewarded  in  the  life  to  come.  aged  27  years  and  3  months. 

Behold  and  See  as  you  Pass  By, 
As  you  are  Now  so  Once  was  I, 
As  I  am  Now  you  Soon  will  Be 
Prepare  for  Death  and  Follow  Me. 

In  memory  of 
'■  Thomas  Hunt, 

who  departed  this  life, 
July  4">   1S08, 
In  the  So""  year  of  his  age. 
He  possessed  the  cardinal  virtues  in  an  eminent  degree  ; 
He  was  temperate,  brave  and  just. 
The  solid  rock  shall  sink  beneath 
The  iron  hand  of  time, 
But  virtue  dwells  with 
Immortality. 

A  few  weeks  before  the  date  of  our  excursion  a  venerable  lady  from  the  West  visited 
the  cemetery  and  the  old  mansion  at  Hunt's  Point,  inspecting  with  warmest  interest 
everything  connected  with  the  place  where  she  had  spent  the  happiest  days  of  her  life 
with  Halleck,  De  Kay,  Clinch,  and  others  who  frequented  the  spot  some  fifty  or  sixty 
years  since.  She  did  not  tell  her  name,  but  mentioned  that  it  was  her  last  visit  to  a  place 
hallowed  by  so  many  delightful  recollections  of  the  days  of  her  youth,  and  of  all  that  gay 
and  happy  circle,  with  members  of  which  she  sometimes  scattered  flowers  over  Drake's 
grave,  she  was  the  last  survivor ! 

Potter.  The  Ancestor  of  Assistant  Bishop  Potter. — In  an  account  of  the 
meeting  of  the  Huguenot  Society,  held  November  15,  1883,  in  the  New  York  Tribttne 
of  November  i6th,  our  much-respected  Assistant  Bishop  is  reported,  saying  :  "  My  an- 
cestors are  Quaker  and  I  am  a  Puritan.  Nov^^,  though  the  Puritans  were  distinguished 
for  an  austere  morality,  and  perhaps  for  a  large  charity,  it  is  undeniably  rather  to  the 
Huguenots  than  the  Puritans  that  the  finest  manners  belong;  certainly  they  cannot  be 
proud  of  the  kind  of  fine  manners  which  drove  my  ancestors  from  Massachusetts  to  Rhode 
Island." 

Is  Robert  Potter,  mentioned  in  the  Rev.  John  Eliot's  ("Apostle  to  the  Indians") 
Records  of  the  first  church  in  Roxbury,  Mass.,  the  Bishop's  ancestor?  "1643,  month 
8  day  29.  Robert  Potter  was  excomvnicate,  his  sins  w'  first  in  the  tims  of  M"'  Hutch- 
inson, w"  divers  of  o''  Church  w''  seduced  to  familesme  and  scizme,  he  was  of  theire  side 


A  A  Notes  oti  Books.  [Jan., 

&  company,  &  so  fild  w*^  them  as  y'  he  departed  to  the  Ila''^  rath''  then  would  forsake 
them,  &  being  there  he  refused  to  heare  the  church  who  had  lovingly  sent  after  him : 
secondly  for  that  he  was  now  tossed  w'**  oth'^  winds  of  new  doctrine  forsakeing  the  Hand 
&  joyning  w""  Gorton  and  y'  not  only  in  his  heresys  but  also  in  his  hereticall  blasphea- 
mous  &  rep'chfull  writings  and  publickly  owned  them  in  Court,  &  maide  himselfe  guilty 
of  all  those  wicked  ways." 

In  a  foot-note  to  the  above  quotation,  it  is  stated  that  "  Mr.  Potter  came  to  this  coun- 
try in  1634,  in  the  ship  with  the  Rev.  Nathaniel  Ward,  afterwards  minister  of  Ipswich, 
who  says,  that  he  expressed  '  by  the  way  so  much  honesty  and  godlinesse  as  gained  my 
good  opinion  and  affection  towards  him.'  He  was  a  member  of  the  Rev.  John  Eliot's 
church  in  Roxbury.  Savage  says  he  was  admitted  in  1634,  the  same  year  of  his  arrival ; 
had  a  wife  Isabell.  He  became  an  inhabitant  of  Rhode  Island  in  1638  ;  took  the  oath  of 
allegiance  there,  April  30,  1639,  was  one  of  the  'surveyors  for  y*  highways'  that  year, 
and  one  of  the  twelve  grantees  of  Warwick,  R.  I.,  in  1642-3.  For  his  heretical  opinions 
he  was  ordered  by  the  Court  to  be  confined  in  Rowley,  Mass.  Gorton,  Holden,  and 
others  were  imprisoned  in  Charlestown,  Ipswich,  Salem,  Roxbury,  Dorchester,  and  Bos- 
ton. While  in  prison  Mr.  Ward  visited  him,  had  '  free  speech  with  him.  in  the  open 
prison  yard,'  where  he  gave  him  good  advice.  Mr.  Potter  was  an  assistant  in  Rhode 
Island  in  1648;  commissioner,  1651,  1652  ;  licensed  to  keep  an  ordinary  or  tavern  in  War- 
wick, 1655.  'He  died,'  says  Fuller,  'in  the  latter  part  of  1661,  leaving  a  son  John 
and  a  daughter  Deliverance,  who  married  James  son  of  John  Greene.  John  died  in 
1694,  intestate,  and  his  estate  falling  to  John,  Jr.,  he  shared  it  with  his  brother  William, 
as  per  deed  of  April  lo,  1694.'"  (The  "New  England  Historical  and  Genealogical 
Register,"  Vol,  33,  p.  62.)  E. 

Van  Volkenburgh  Family. — We  have  been  shown  a  neatly  prepared  manuscript 
volume  giving  the  lineage  of  Mr.  Philip  Henry  Van  Volkenburgh,  whose  descent  is  traced 
from  Lambert  van  Valckenburgh,  of  Albany,  one  of  our  early  colonists  from  Holland. 
It  is  prefaced  by  a  historical  inquiry  into  the  origin  of  the  family  in  Europe,  which  adds 
greatly  to  its  interest  and  value.  Two  maps,  a  chart  of  the  lineage,  and  the  Volken- 
burgh coat-of-arms  serve  for  embellishments.  It  seems  to  be  prepared  with  the  usual 
fidelity  of  the  author.  Mr.  Riker  is  quite  at  home  in  matters  of  Dutch  pedigree,  as  at- 
tested by  the  several  valuable  works  which  he  has  written.  pub.  com.  of  record. 

Mathews. — Under  date  Boston,  November  19,  18S3,  the  Publication  Committee  of 
the  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Record,  have  received  the  follow- 
ing communication  : 

Gentlemen— \  find  in  one  of  the  past  numbers  of  your  periodical  reference  to  one 
Jaines  Matthews,  taxpayer  in  1676.  A  James  Matthys  also  figures  in  tlie  Records  of  the 
Reformed  Dutch  Church.  Is  anything  known  concerning  this  individual  ?  Was  he  a 
Dutchman  or  an  Englishman?  If  you  or  any  of  your  readers  could  answer  these  queries 
or  insert  them  in  the  RECORD,  you  would  confer  a  favor  upon  yours  very  truly, 

N.    MATTHEWS,   JR. 
62  Devonshire  Street. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS. 


Miscellanea  Marescalliana,  being  Genealogical  Notes  on  the  Surname  of  Mar- 
shall. Collected  by  George  William  Marshall,  LL.D.  Volume  I.  To  all 
Marshalls  all  over  the  world  I  bequeath  this  work  gratis.  8vo,  pp.  32S,  appendix, 
pp.  44,  indices,  pp.  56. 

This  work,  in  two  parts,  is  without  date  or  place  of  publication.  Fifty  copies  only 
vi'ere  printed  for  private  distribution.  It  is  the  result,  in  greater  part,  of  Dr.  Marshall's 
])eisonal  labors,  during  the  last  twenty  years,  in  making  researches  into  the  genealogy  of 
his  own  family.  In  doing  this,  and  from  the  ficilitief  afforded  by  his  position  as  editor 
of  the  Genealogist,  he  naturally  accumulated  a  considerable  quantity  of  notes  relative  to 
other  persons  bearing  the  same  common  surname.  He  says  in  his  brief  preface,  "'  I  offer 
these  memoranda  to  tliose  of  my  name,  neither  as  a  model  of  accuracy  nor  as  a  family 
history,  but  as  a  ronghindex  to  the  sources  of  genealogical  information  they  ought  to 
consult  if  desirous  of  tracing  the  history  of  their  ancestors.     Unless  some  notes  of  this 


1884.]  Notes  on  Books.  ac 

kind  are  made  of  those  in  whose  genealogy  we  are  led  by  circumstances  to  take  an  inter- 
est, it  may  well  be  said  (I  quote  from  Martial)  that,  like  their  times,  they  also — pereunt 
et  imputantur."  These  Miscelhutea  which  Dr.  Marshall,  in  the  spirit  of  a  true  genealo- 
gist, lias  thus  given  to  the  family  at  large,  cons-ist  of  excerpts  from  parish  registers,  mar- 
riages, notes  of  wills,  etc.,  etc.,  from  all  available  sources  in  Great  Britain,  and  form  a 
most  invaluable  fund  of  reference  for  all  enquirers  of  the  name.  H.  R.  s. 

Pollock  Genealogy.  A  Biographical  Sketch  of  Oliver  Pollock,  Esq.,  of  Carlisle, 
Pennsylvania,  United  States  Commercial  Agent  at  New  Orleans  and  Havana.  1776- 
1784.  With  Genealogical  Notes  of  his  Descendants.  Also  Genealogical  Sketches 
of  other  Pollock  Families  settled  iti  Peuusylvania.  By  Rev.  Horace  Edwin  Hayden. 
Harrisburg,  Pa.:  Lane  S.  Hart,  Printer  and  Binder.  1883.  Price,  $1.50.  Svo, 
pp.  58. 

This  is  another  of  those  interesting  and  exceedingly  well-executed  genealogical  brochures 
Mr.  Hayden  is  of  late  issuing  from  his  workshop.  The  Pennsylvania  Pollocks  are  all  of 
Scotch-Irish  descent,  tracing  to  Petrus,  son  of  Hulbert,  who  lived  in  the  time  of  Malcolm 
IV.,  and  died  1695,  in  Renfrewshire,  Scotland,  a  man  of  mark.  James  and  Oliver 
Pollock  emigrated  to  America  from  Ireland  before  1760 — the  former  settling  in  East 
Pennsboro,  Cumberland  Co.,  and  the  latter  (b.  1737)  at  Carlisle,  Pa.  His  biography 
and  the  genealogies  and  personal  histories  of  his  descendants  is  very  pleasant  reading. 
There  is  also  a  North  Carolina  family  of  Pollocks  (1740I.  who  are  connected  by  marriage 
with  some  of  the  best  of  the  earliest  New  England  families.  H.  R.  s. 

'•  Evacuation  Day,"  1783  ;  Its  Many  Stirring  Events  with  Recollections  of 
Capt.  John  Van  Arsdale,  of  the  Veteran  Corps  of  Artillery,  by  whose  efforts 
on  that  day  the  enemy  were  circumvented,  and  the  American  Flag  successfully 
raised  on  the  Battery.  With  illustrative  notes.  By  James  Riker,  Author  of  the 
"  Annals  of  Newtown,"  and  "  History  of  Harlem  ;"  Life  Member  of  the  New  York 
Historical  Society,  etc.     Printed  for  the  author.     New  York.      1883.     Svo,  pp.  56. 

This  very  interesting  little  brochure  is  not  the  least  valuable  among  the  mass  of 
Centennial  literature  which  the  close  of  the  first  century  of  the  United  States  has 
evoked.  Its  author,  the  well  known  historian  and  genealogist  of  Newtown  and  of 
Harlem,  N.  Y.,  is  a  grandson  of  Capt.  John  Van  Arsdale,  whose  descent  he  traces  from 
Simon  Jansen  Van  Arsdalen,  an  emigrant  to  this  country  from  Holland,  in  1653.  The 
second  chapter  of  this  work  is  entirely  devoted  to  the  biography  of  Capt.  Van  Arsdale, 
and  is  an  exceedingly  interesting  contribution  to  our  Revolutionary  history.  The  first 
chapter  portrays  in  graphic  and  accurate  manner  the  memorable  events  of  that  day  in 
1783  connected  with  the  departure  of  the  British  Troops  from  New  York.  The 
pamphlet  is  illustrated  with  the  Van  Arsdalen  .\rms,  a  map  showing  Washington's  line 
of  march  upon  entering  the  city,  and  a  view  of  Sergeant  Van  Arsdale  tearing  down  the 
British  flag  from  the  flag-staff  on  the  Battery,  where  it  had  been  left  flying,  in  defiance 
by  the  departing  British  troops.  H.  R.  s. 

The  Humphreys  Family  in  America.  By  Frederick  Humphreys,  M.D.,  As- 
sisted by  Otis  M.  Humphreys,  M.D.,  Henry  R.  Stiles,  M.D.,  Mrs.  Sarah  M. 
Churchill.  New  York:  Humphreys  Print,  1883.  Part  II.,  pp.  93-204;  Part 
III.,  pp.  205-298. 

In  the  April  (1883)  number  of  The  Record  we  noticed  Part  I.  of  this  work.  Two 
additional  parts  have  since  been  issued,  completing  the  genealogy  of  the  family  in  the  line 
of  Michael  Humphrey,  the  emigrant,  and  of  his  son  John,  and  bringing  it  down  in  the  line 
of  his  son  Samuel  to  the  fourth  generation.  Part  II.  is  illustrated  with  facsimiles  of  in- 
teresting family  correspondence  and  ]:)ortraits  of  General  David  Humphreys  of  Revolu- 
tionary fame,  poet,  author,  and  first  Minister  Plenipotentiary  from  the  United  States  to 
Portugal  (1791-97),  and  to  Spain  (1797-1802),  and  of  Alfred  Humphrey  Pease,  late  resi- 
dent of  this  city,  deceased.  Part  III.  contains  an  admirably  engraved  portrait  of  the 
Hon.  Lyman  W.  Humphrey,  now  of  Independence,  Kansas.  The  promises  held  out  in 
the  prospectus  of  this  work  have  been  well  sustained.  Without  a  notice  more  extended 
than  we  are  allowed  space  in  The  Record  to  occupy,  we  can  convey  to  the  reader  no 
adequate  conception  of  the  interesting  biographical  and  historical  data  furnished  to  every 
name  of  note  contained  in  this  work.  We  cheerfully  commend  it  to  more  extended  pub- 
lic patronage.  The  fourth  number  is  in  press,  and  is  promised  for  issue  in  March  of  the 
present  year.  L. 


A  6  Notes  on  Books.  [Jan., 

The  Townshend  Family  of  Lynn,  in  Old  and  New  England.  Genealogical  and 
Biographical.  By  Charles  Henry  Townshend,  of  New  Haven,  Conn.  Tuttle, 
Morehouse  &  Taylor,  Printers.  8vo,  pp.  138.  No  date  of  publication,  probably 
1883. 

This  thin,  compactly  printed  octavo,  elegant  though  without  pretence,  is  the  expan- 
sion of  a  genealogical  sketch  first  publislied  in  the  NclV  England  Genealogical  Register, 
Vol.xxiy.,  Jan.,  1875.  It  shows  a  very  large  amount  of  excellent  research,  especially 
on  the  English  stock  from  which  the  American  family  sprang,  some  forty-nine  pages 
being  devoted  to  this  subject.  Thomas  Townshend,  a  settler  of  Lynn,  Mass.,  in  1637- 
8,  is  here  fairly  proved  to  be  the  son  of  Henry,  of  Geddings,  Suffolk  County,  England. 
The, late  Col.  Joseph  L.  CJiester,  of  London,  was  of  opinion  that  the  family  tradition 
on  this  point  was  justifiecl  by  the  genealogical  data  gathered  by  the  author.  Of  the 
remaining  ninety  pages  of  this  work,  seventy-one  are  filled  with  wills,  deeds,  extracts 
from  town  records,  etc.,  illustrative  of  both  the  English  and  American  families  of  the 
name.  In  short,  this  third  edition  proves  that  the  author  has  "  taken  his  three  degrees," 
in  the  noble  guild  of  genealogists.  H.  R.  s. 

Book  of  the  Wilders.  A  Contribution  to  the  History  of  the  Wilders,  from  1497,  in 
England,  to  the  emigration  of  Martha,  a  widow,  and  her  family  to  Massachusetts 
Bay,  in  1638,  and  so,  through  her  family  down  to  1875  ;  with  a  genealogical  table, 
showing,  as  far  as  may  be,  their  relationships  and  connections.  By  Rev.  Moses 
H.  Wilder.  [Arms.]  New  York  :  Printed  by  Edward  O.  Jenkins,  20  North  Wil- 
liam Street,  for  Compiler,  No.  4  Dean  Street,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  1878.     8vo,  pp.  394. 

In  the  year  1638  there  were  in  the  colony  of  Massachusetts  Bay  five  persons  of  the 
name  of  Wilder,  supposed  to  be  of  one  family.  These  were  the  motlier  ant'  two  sons 
and  two  daughters,  and  in  two  hundred  and  forty  years  they  are  numbered  by  thousands. 
This  book  is  the  first  attempt  to  trace  their  origin,  connection  and  history.  It  is  natu- 
rally divided  into  two  parts,  first,  A  History  of  the  Wilders,  from  the  origin  of  the  name, 
showing  whatever  can  be  found  at  tliis  late  date  concerning  their  residence,  occupation, 
influence,  physical  and  mental  characteristics.  This  exceedingly  interesting  portion  of 
the  volume  is  illustrated  with  portraits  of  Frederick  Wilder,  Esq.,  of  Purly  Hall,  County 
Berks,  the  present  head  of  the  English  family ;  Rev.  Moses  H.  Wilder,  Samson  V.  S. 
Wilder,  Alexander  Wilder,  M.D.,  Marshall  P.  Wilder,  and  a  view  of  the  original  seat  of 
the  Wilders,  Sulham  House,  1560.  The  second  portion  of  the  book  is  devoted  to  The 
Genealogy  of  the  Wilders,  which  is  admirably  done,  although  the  author  pleads  in  ex- 
tenuation of  any  faults  which  may  appear,  that  it  "  was  prepared  for  the  press  while  in  a 
state  of  extreme  suffering."  The  merit  of  the  book  is  greatly  enhanced  in  our  eyes  by 
its  very  copious  and  thoroughly  constructed  index.  The  author  died  subsequently  to  its 
publication,  but  copies  may  be  obtained  from  his  widow,  Mrs.  N.  B.  Wilder,  of  Cherry 
Street,  Somerville,  Middlesex  Co.,  Mass.,  on  remittance  of  three  dollars  for  each  copy. 

h.  r.  s. 

Memorial  of  Zachariah  Allen,  1795-1882.  By  Amos  Perry.  Cambridge:  John 
Wilson  &  Son,  University  Press.  1883.  Portrait  and  five  facsimile  pages.  8vo,  pp. 
io8. 

This  elegantly  printed  memorial  is  mostly  composed  of  selected  tributes  of  respect,  of 
affection,  and  honor  paid  to  the  memory  of  the  Hon.  Zachariah  Allen,  LL.D.,  who 
died  March  17,  1882.  Mr.  Allen  was  graduated  at  Brown  University  in  1813,  and  was 
the  last  survivor  of  liis  class.  Among  his  classmates  were  the  Rev.  Dr.  Joel  Hawes  and 
Rev.  Dr.  Enoch  Pond.  Mr.  Allen,  though  educate<l  a  lawyer,  went  early  into  manufac- 
turing, and  did  much  to  make  Rhode  Island  prominent  in  that  industry,  giving  special 
attention  to  the  development  of  water  power  and  the  improvement  of  the  steam-engine 
and  of  machinery.  He  himself  invented  the  automatic  cut-off  valve  for  steam-engines, 
and  the  extension  rollers  still  in  use  in  mills.  He  also  invented  an  improved  fire-engine, 
and  contrived  a  hot-air  furnace  for  houses.  His  treatises  on  both  scientific  and  historic 
subjects  have  been  numerous  and  of  high  merit.  He  was  probate  judge  and  member 
of  assembly  ;  was  first  to  urge  and  to  secure  for  the  city  of  Providence  its  water  supply 
system  ;  was  among  the  earliest  advocates  of  puclic  schools  •  was  trustee  of  Brown 
University  for  fifty-six  years  ;  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Athenaeum,  of  the  Butler  Hos- 
pital, of  the  Free  Library,  and  of  the  Historical  Society,  and  was  president  of  the  last 
named,  by  which,  we  believe,  this  volume  was  published.  h.  r.  s. 


1884.]  Obituary.  a"? 


OBITUARY. 

Charles  John  Palmer,  a  distinguished  Fellow  of  the  Royal  Society  of  Anti- 
quaries, and  an  Honorary  Member  of  this  Society,  died  at  his  residence,  Villa  Graham, 
Great  Yarmouth,  England,  on  September  24,  1SS2,  after  a  long  illness.  This  family  of 
Palmer  are  of  long  continuance  in  Yarmouth,  and  bear  for  their  arms  :  or  two  bars  gu. 
each  charged  with  three  trefoils  vert,  and  in  chief  a  lion  pass,  guard  ppr. ;  and  for  a  crest, 
a  leopard  guard,  and  reguard,  holding  in  his  paws  a  branch  of  palm,  with  flames  issuing 
from  the  nostrils  and  ears,  all  ppr.  Motto,  "  Palmer  virtute."  Mr.  Palmer  impaled  quar- 
terly with  his  arms  those  of  Lacon,  Ward,  Stirling,  and  Graham.  The  latter  arms  appear 
engraved  and  the  former  by  wood-cut  in  ''  Perlustration  of  Great  Yarmouth."  He  was  the 
grandson  of  William  Danby  Palmer,  who  died  in  17S8;  whose  daughters  Mary  and 
Elizabeth  married  respectively  James  and  William  John  Hurry.  Mr.  Palmer  was  the 
only  son  of  John  Danby  Palmer,  who  died  in  1841,  aged  seventy-two,  having  twice  filled 
the  office  of  mayor."  In  1S40  Mr.  Palmer  married  Amelia  Graham  (who  survives  him), 
eldest  daughter  of  John  Mortlock  Lacon,  by  Jane  his  wife,  sister  and  co-heir  of  William 
Stirling  Graham,  of  Duntrevill,  in  Forfarshire,  Scotland,  who  was  the  nearest  of  kin  and 
heir  male  to  the  Grahams  of  Claverhouse,  Viscounts  Dundee.  Mrs.  Palmer's  paternal 
grandfather  was  Sir  Edmund  Lacon,  Knt.  and  Bart.  Mr.  Palmer  left  no  issue.  In  the 
year  of  1809  his  father  purchased  an  old  house  in  Yarmouth,  No.  4  South  Quay,  and 
where  Mr.  Palmer  resided  for  fifty-six  years.  Mr.  Palmer  when  but  a  child  showed  evi- 
dence of  those  tastes  that  afterward  were  to  become  the  means  of  advancing  antiquarian 
research.  He  greatly  admired  the  marble  in  the  hall,  the  wide  staircase,  and  the  carving 
in  the  rooiJis  of  his  father's  residence,  and  as  soon  as  his  hand  was  able  to  hold  a  pencil 
began  to  take  drawings  of  the  same.  These  drawings  were  afterward  engraved  by  Henry 
Shaw,  of  London.  After  some  years  at  school  he  was  articled  to  the  late  Mr.  Robert 
Corey,  a  gentleman  who  had  a  great  liking  for  antiquarian  research  archaeology,  and 
heraldry,  thus  furnishing  young  Palmer  the  opportuntiy  to  further  indulge  in  his  favorite 
pursuits.  In  1839  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Antiquarians,  and  he  was 
afterward  asked  to  join  the  Archceological  Association.  In  1874  he  was  elected  an 
honorary  member  of  the  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Society.  This  dis- 
tinction was  conferred  upon  him  by  our  Society  chiefly  in  acknowledgment  of  his  very 
valuable  services  in  the  interest  of  genealogy  by  his  noted  work,  "  The  Perlustratiin  of 
Great  Yarmouth,"  one  of  the  most  exhaustive  and  interesting  publications  on  local 
history,  including  genealogical  data  of  the  numerous  families  connected  with  the  borough, 
that  has  ever  been  issued  from  the  press.  It  contained  forty  odd  numbers,  issued  from 
time  to  time,  and  most  carefully  indexed.  The  work  is  replete  with  engravings  and 
wood-cuts  of  various  places  of  interest  in  the  borough,  including  coats  of-arms  and 
portraits.  To  its  production  he  gave  a  considerable  portion  of  his  time  for  many  years. 
It  was  not  undertaken  or  carried  out  with  the  idea  of  profit  to  its  author  ;  but  as  a  lalior 
of  love,  for  the  perpetuation  of  the  local  history  of  his  native  town.  It  was  the  chief 
means  of  earning  for  him  the  name  of  "The  Antiquarian  of  the  Eastern  Counties.  ' 
He  also  published  in  1847,  from  the  original  MS.  then  first  discovered,  "  A  Booke  of  the 
Foundacion  and  Antiquitie  of  the  Towne  of  Great  Yarmouth,"  written  by  Manship  the 
elder,  in  the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  followed  in  1S53  by  "  The  History  of  Great 
Yarmouth,"  by  Henry  Man.-hip  the  younger,  written  in  1619,  and  never  previously  pub- 
lished. The  valuable  notes  by  the  editor  appended  to  these  works  were  supplemented  in 
1S56  by  "A  Continuation  of  Manship's  History,"  brought  down  to  that  period  by  his 
own  pen.  These  publications  paved  the  way  for  his  most  perfect  work  already  alluded 
to.  He  also  edited  in  1873  (for  private  distribution)  "  Memorials  of  the  Family  of  Hurry," 
of  Great  Yarmouth  and  of  New  York,  U.  S.  A.,  as  he  afterward  did  of  the  Palgrave 
family,  who  were  closely  identified  with  the  former  place.  As  it  has  been  said  by  more 
than  one  of  the  local  papers,  by  his  masterly  effort  to  delineate  local  history  Mr.  Palmer 
has  preserved  his  name  to  future  generations.  Another  paper  edited  in  the  county,  in 
referring  to  his  last  illness  having  incapacitaf^^d  him  for  a  considerable  period  from  the 
active  pursuits  of  his  profession  as  a  solicitor,  says  :  "During  his  long  connection  with  the 
borough,  Mr.  Palmer  by  his  position  and  utilities  was  regarded  as  one  of  the  leading 
inhabitants  and  was  thrv.^  times  elected  to  the  mayoralty,  a  post  that  he  held  with  mnch 
dignity,  and  to  the  great  satisfaction  of  his  fellow  townsmen.  He  was  also  Deputy 
Lieutenant  for  the  County  of  Norfolk."     The  deceased  gentleman  was  also  a  frequent 


48  Obituary.  [Jan.,  18S4. 

contributor  to  Notes  and  Queries  and  other  publications,  his  extensive  knowledge  of 
archgeological  and  general  antiquarian  lore  rendering  him  specially  fitted  for  the  duties 
of  correspondent.  Throughout  his  career  Mr.  Palmer  was  closely  identified  with  all 
the  improvements  carried  out  within  the  Borough,  and  it  would  be  difficult  to  pouit  to  a 
single  movement  for  the  good  of  the  town  or  its  inhabitants  that  had  not  the  benefit  of 
his  active  support.  In  recognition  of  his  many  services,  in  the  latter  part  of  1S76  Mr. 
Palmer  was  the  recipient  of  a  valuable  memorial  gift  from  his  many  friends,  and  at  the 
banquet  given  on  the  occasion  a  large  representation  of  them  were  present  at  Great 
Yarmouth  to  do  him  honor.  This  short  sketch  but  draws  an  outline  of  the  industrious 
life  passed  by  Mr.  Palmer.  He  was  a  man  of  the  highest  sense  of  honor,  and  as  is  well 
known  of  him  by  his  friends,  no  sacrifice  was  too  grtat  if  he  felt  that  it  was  needed  in  the 
line  of  duty.  The  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Society  showed  its  appre- 
ciation of  him  when  it  conferred  on  him  an  Honorary  Membership,  and  the  distinction 
was  appreciated  by  him.  It  is  owing  to  the  fact  that  sufficient  data  to  warrant  a  notice 
of  Mr.  Palmer's  life  and  death  was  not  readily  to  be  procured  that  this  outline  of  his 
life  has  not  been  earlier  presented  by  the  Society.  E.  A.  H. 

Dr.  Philip  Livingston  Jones  was  a  son  of  the  eminent  counsellor  David  S.  Jones, 
and  of  his  first  wife,  who  was  a  daughter  of  Dr.  Thomas  Jones  of  New  York,  and  a  grand- 
daughter of  Philip  Livingston,  one  of  the  signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence. 
He  was  educated  at  Columbia  College,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1832,  and  he  then 
left  his  father,  his  elder  brother,  and  his  uncle  and  cousins  to  follow  the  legal  line,  in  which 
his  branch  of  the  family  had  been  distinguished,  and  he  fixed  upon  the  study  of  medicine 
as  his  department.  He  was  instructed  by  Dr.  Alexander  H.  Stevens,  then  at  the  head 
of  his  profession  in  New  York  (or  next  to  Dr.  Mott),  and  he  became  a  member  of  the 
medical  college  of  the  city,  and  a  house-surgeon  of  the  New  York  Hospital.  These 
were  appropriate  steps  for  the  earnest  student.  But  it  may  be  that  this  was  too  hard  a 
life  to  be  pursued  when  such  severity  was  thought  unnecessary.  We  knovi'  of  none  more 
exacting. 

A  gentleman  in  manners,  dress,  and  habits,  an  adept  in  the  game  of  chess,  a  musical 
amateur,  and  a  debater,  fond  of  social  conversation  and  discussion,  but  not  of  strong 
powers  of  endurance,  we  can  estimate  the  bonds  of  a  cultivated  taste  which  have  influenced 
or  controlled  not  a  few  of  our  college  students. 

After  marriage  in  1836  he  left  the  city,  and  practised  a  few  years  at  Lyons,  in  Western 
New  York,  and  afterward  resided  for  seven  years  in  South  Carolina.  Perhaps  in  neither 
place  did  he  pursue  long  enough  the  slow  gathering  of  confiding  patients  to  secure  much 
support.  He  became  himself,  after  leaving  college,  a  constitutional  invalid.  Coming 
North  in  1848,  not  a  propitious  period,  he  did  not  attempt  practice  at  his  profession,  but 
opened  a  drug  store,  and  sought  to  earn  his  support  for  many  years  in  that  business.  Of 
course  he  encountered  active  competition.  He  settled  in  Brooklyn,  and  retired  from 
active  life  more  than  twenty  years  ago.  Losing  his  wife,  having  no  cliildren  surviving,  and 
having  a  small  income,  he  became  more  and  more  a  lonely  student,  but  gave  fair  atten- 
tion to  assist  the  needy,  and  offered  no  disturbance  to  any  one. 

His  relatives  being  distant,  it  was  a  sad  terminus  to  such  a  life  for  the  reckless  news- 
mongers to  manufacture  wild  and  unfounded  stories  about  his  lonely  death.  They  deserve 
no  further  notice. 

His  next  brother,  William  Alfred,  who  has  resided  several  years  in  Connecticut,  the 
former  librarian  of  Columbia  College,  we  can  well  bear  in  mind,  and  if  further  recollection 
of  the  family  be  desired  we  have  only  to  turn  to  the  well-written  memorial  of  his  father, 
to  gather  what  is  needed  or  desired.  We  have  too  much  waiting  publication  to  repub- 
lish even  the  best.  C.  B.  m". 

Miss  Eliza  Susan  Quincy,  eldest  daughter  of  the  late  Josiah  Quincy,  many  years 
Mayor  of  Boston,  Member  of  Congress,  and  for  seventeen  years  president  of  Harvard 
University,  died  at  the  family  mansion,  Quincy,  January  17th,  in  her  eighty-sixth  year. 
She  was  her  father's  principal  assistant  during  his  whole  public  career  of  nearly  half  a 
century,  and  was  the  author  of  a  privately  printed  memoir  of  her  mother,  Mrs.  Josiah 
Quincy.  From  her  diary,  extending  back  to  iSio,  her  brothers  Josiah  and  Edmund 
Quincy,  both  deceased,  drew  much  material  for  several  of  their  published  volumes,  and 
from  her  well-stored  mind  and  remarkable  memory  the  writer  is  indebted  for  much  valu- 
able information  concerning  by-gone  days.  The  house  in  which  Miss  Quincy  was  born 
stood  in  Pearl  Street,  Boston;  the  one  in  which  she  died  stands  on  the  estate  purchased  of 
the  Indians  in  1636,  by  her  ancestor,  Edmund  Quincy,  the  first  of  the  honored  name  to 
appear  in  the  New  World.     He  landed  at  Boston  September  4,  1633.  j.  g.  w. 


THE   NEW   YORK 

(icneabgital  aiib  §iogriip|iciiI  ^iftort. 


Vol.  XV.  NEW  YORK,   APRIL,   1884.  No.  2. 


DEPUTY    GOVERNOR  JOHN  BERRY,    OF  NEW  JERSEY,  AND 

HIS  FAMILY.* 


By  Thomas  Henry  Edsall. 


On  the  loth  of  June,  1669,  Governor  Philip  Cartaret  and  Council  of 
East  Jersey  granted  to  "  Captain  John  Berry,  of  Barbadoes,  Gentleman,"  a 
tract  of  about  10,000  acres,  "  towards  the  head  of  Pesawack  [Passaic]  Neck, 
now  called  New  Barbadoes,  beginning  at  the  East  end  of  Captain  Sandford'sf 
bounds  at  the  great  spring  called  Sandford's  Spring, J  and  thence  with  the 
whole  breadth  of  the  neck  between  Hackingsack  and  Pesawack  Rivers,  six 
miles  up  into  the  country."  On  the  T2th  of  June,  Captani  Berry  received 
another  large  grant  from  the  Governor  and  Council,  consisting  of  about 
1,500  acres  along  the  palisades  of  the  Hudson,  "lying  North  of  the  bounds 
of  Captain  Nicolas  Verlett  and  Mr.  Samuel  Edsall,"  and  extending  inland 
about  a  mile  and  a  half  to  Overpecks  Creek.  In  July,  Captain  Berry  bought 
from  Mr.  Edsall  §  some  lots  in  the  village  and  town  of  Bergen,  where  he 
soon  afterward  took  up  his  residence. 

*  The  only  biographical  accounts  of  John  I5erry  which  the  writer  has  seen  in  print,  consist  of  a  note  of  five 
lines  to  2  N.  Y.  Col.  Doc,  576,  and  one  of  nine  lines  in  i  N.  J.  Archives,  122.  For  the  statements  in  the 
former.  Dr.  O'Cnllaghan  refers  to  Mr.  Whitehead,  and  the  latter  is  iy  Mr.  Whitehead,  the  historian  of 
New  Jersey.  Each  notice  erroneously  conjectures  that  Mr.  Berry  came  to  New  Jersey  from  Connecticut  (one 
presuming  that  he  so  came  some  years  previous  to  1669),  and  that  he  died  before  or  m  1692. 

t  Captain  William  Sandford  had  come  from  Barbadoes  to  East  Jersey  in  1668,  and  procured  a  grant  of  the 
lower  seven  miles  of  the  neck  between  the  Hackensack  and  Passaic.  Although  taken  up  in  his  own  name. 
Captain  Sandford  had  acquired  this  large  tract  for  the  joint  account  of  himself  and  Major  Nathaniel  Kmgs- 
land.  ••  of  the  Parish  of  Christ  Church  in  the  island  of  Barbadoes."  Major  Kmgsland  afterward  held  the 
northerly  two-thirds  in  severalty  and  Captain  -Sandford  retained  the  southerly  one-third  and  resided  upon 
it.  His  settlement  was  near  the  banks  of  the  Passaic  opposite  to  Newark,  The  Labadists  mention  it  as- 
"  the  place  called  Sand/ort,  an  English  village  opposite  jMil/ort"  [i.e.  Newark].  As  the  Neck  had  al- 
ready got  the  name  of  "  New  Barbadoes  "  in  1669,  it  was  no  doubt  so  named  by  Captain  Sandford  after 
the  island  whence  he  had  removed  to  New  Jersey.  He  died  in  1692,  having  meantime  served  as  a  magis- 
trate and  Councillor  of  the  province  during  many  years.  ,_     r     ,  r,     .     xt    t 

t  Recendy  known  as  Boiling  Spring.     The  present  name  of  the  place  is  Rutherford  Park,  N.  J. 

§  The  dealings  between  Mr.  Edsall  and  the  group  of  Englishmen  which  came  from  Barbadoes  to  New 
York  and  New  Jersey,  about  this  time,  indicate  that  he  may  have  had  something  to  do  with  their  removat 
hither.  In  the  summer  of  1668.  Captain  Richard  Morris  came  out,  and  purchased  from  Mr.  Edsall,  for  the 
joint  account  of  himself  and  his  brother.  Colonel  Richard  Morris,  the  estate  of  •'  Bronck's  Land,  late  Mor- 
risania,  and  now  Twentv-third  Ward,  New  York  City.  At  the  times  of  the  grants  to  Captains  Sandford 
and  Berry  (1668-69),  Mr.  Edsall  was  a  member  of  Governor  Cartaret's  Council,  and  would  seem  to  have 
aided  to  procure  those  large  tracts  for  the  grantees.  In  1669,  two  other  Englishmen,— •' Mark  Noble  and 
Samuel  Moore,  of  Barbadoes.  INIerchants,"  purchased  from  Mr.  Edsall  lots  in  the  town  and  village  of 
Bergen,  one  in  the  northwest  corner  of  the  village  plot,  having  on  it  a  "kitchen,  barn,  and  brew-house. 
Mr.  Edsall  was  then  a  merchant  and  probably  traded  with  Barbadoes.  Either  personally  or  by  letter  he 
may  have  induced  those  gendemen,  who  appear  to  have  been  men  of  substantial  fortune,  to  transfer  their 
investments  and  homes  from  that  overcrowded  island  (said  to  have  been  then  the  most  populous  spot  of  its 
area  in  Europe  or  America),  to  these  sparsely  peopled  provinces  which  had  so  recently  passed  under 
English  rule. 


CQ  Deputy  Governor  John  Berry,  [April, 

It  is  probable  that  Captain  Berry  came  from  Barbadoes  for  the  first  time 
ill  1669.* 

After  receiving  the  grants  above  mentioned,  being  a  man  "  of  good 
estate,"  he  was  made  a  member  of  the  Council  of  East  Jersey  by  Governor 
Cartaret  in  1669,  and  continued  to  hold  that  office  so  long  as  Cartaret  was 
Governor  of  the  province. 

In  January,  1670,  he  purchased  two  parcels  of  land  in  New  York  City. 
The  same  month  he  went  out  to  Barbadoes,  and  returned  (probably  bring- 
ing with  him  his  family)  in  July  following. 

Captain  Berry  continued  to  reside  in  Bergen  for  several  years,  while  he 
cultivated  his  plantations  by  the  aid  of  negroes,  which  he  may  have  brought 
from  Barbadoes.  In  1673,  he  had  removed  to  one  of  his  plantations,  as 
his  house  in  Bergen  was  made  the  "  prison  for  ye  province  "  until  one 
could  be  built  for  that  purpose. 

On  the  death  of  Captain  Richard  Morris  in  1672,  Captain  Berry  was  ap- 
pointed trustee  of  the  estate,  which  descended  to  his  infant  son  Lewis 
Morris,  afterward  the  Chief  Justice. 

In  1672,  when  Governor  Cartaret  went  to  England  to  lay  before  the  Lords 
Proprietors  the  grievances  of  himself  and  Council  at  the  attempted  usur- 
pation of  their  authority  by  the  Assembly  and  Captain  James  Cartaret,  he 
appointed  Captain  Berry  to  be  Deputy  Governor  daring  his  absence  from 
the  Province.  While  so  acting  he  received  a  letter  from  the  King  con- 
firming the  authority  of  himself  and  the  Council  in  the  government  of  East 
Jersey.  When,  however,  the  Dutch  Commanders  retook  New  York  in  the 
summer  of  1673,  ^'^d  their  authority  was  "quietly  re-established  over 
New  Jersey,"  the  rule  of  Governor  Berry  was  necessarily  suspended. 

During  the  Dutch  reoccupation  (1673-74)  Captain  Berry  and  his 
neighbors,  Sandford  and  Edsall,  were  confirmed  in  their  plantations  and 
goods,  but  denied  "the  privileges  obtained  from  their  previous  patroons." 
This  denial  referred,  no  doubt,  to  their  official  positions  and  emoluments 
as  members  of  the  late  government.  Captain  Berry  held  no  office  under 
the  Dutch,  but  on  the  return  of  English  rule,  resumed  his  place  in  the 
Council. 

In  1676  he  was  made  President  of  the  Bergen  Court  of  Judicature, 
and  in  1677-78-79,  was  President  of  the  County  Court.  From  1675  to 
1681  inclusive,  he  was  Captain  of  the  Bergen  Foot  Company. 

In  1680  he  was  appointed  by  Cartaret  to  succeed  him  in  the  govern- 
ment of  East  Jersey,  and  afterward  continued  in  the  Council  until  the  sale 
of  the  Province  to  the  "Twelve  Proprietors,"  in  1682. 

At  this  time  he  was  residing  at  the  west  side  of  his  plantation  lying 
between  the  Hudson  and  Overpecks  Creek,  adjoining  that  of  Mr.  Edsall. 
There  was  "  a  good  house  thereon  and  a  good  quantity  of  land  cleared 
and  improved  by  20  negroes  or  more."  He  had  formerly  cultivated 
certain  "  old  plantations "  which  were  "  to  the  East  at  Hudson  River's 
side  " — [at  the  locality  now  known  as  Fort  Lee].     Upon  his  great  tract 

*  In  12  N.  Y.  Col.  Doc,  492,  there  is  mention  of  3  bus:  wheat  due  from  "Captain  John  Berrj-,  and 
Mr.  Edsall,  and  Others"  on  a  patent  for  lands  in  [on  the]  Delaware,  dated  in  '"67."  If  that  was  the 
date  of  a  patent  to  them,  it  is  likely  that  Mr.  Edsall  invested  in  the  land  in  advance  of  Captain  Berrj''s 
actual  removal  from  Barbadoes.  They  afterward  owned  together  the  e,\tensive  tract  '"  Chiepiessing"  in  the 
bend  of  the  Delaware  on  the  Pennsylvania  side,  between  Trenton  and  Burlington,  which  they  had  pur- 
chased from  Secretary  Matthias  Nicol'ls.  Their  bond,  dated  August  21,  1669,  to  Nicolls  for  "  3000  weight  of 
good  sound  merchantable  tobacco,  to  be  delivered  at  the  W'eigh  House  "  in  New  York,  before  January  i, 
1670,  is  preserved  at  Albany.  It  describes  Capt.  Berry  as  "of  the  island  of  Barbadoes,  Merchant,"  and 
may  have  been  given  for  part  of  the  purchase  money  of  "  Chiepiessing  ;  "  and  the  ttrrenrs  may  have  been 
due  upon  a  patent  for  this  tract  granted  to  Nicolls  or  some  other  in  1667. 


18S4.]  of  N'eio  Jersey,  and  his  Family.  rj 

on  New  Barbadoes  Neck,  the  Labadists,  at  the  tune  of  their  visit  in  1680, 
came  to  another  house  of  Captain  Berry's  on  the  northeast  side  of  the  Hack- 
ensack,  "  which  was  large  enough,  but  poorly  furnished."  They  "  found 
nobody  there  except  a  negro,  who  could  speak  nothing  but  a  little  broken 
French."  Captain  PJerry  had  already  disposed  of  a  part  of  this  tract,  but 
is  said  to  have  had  ten  thousand  acres  left. 

In  December,  1682,  Deputy  Governor  Rudyard  assumed  the  govern- 
ment of  their  province  of  East  Jersey  for  the  new  '•  Twenty-four  Pro- 
prietors," and  Captain  Berry  was  appointed  "  to  bee  of  the  Councill."  He 
took  the  oath  of  office  February  28,  1683,  and  on  March  ist  attended  the 
first  meeting  of  the  Council,  William  Penn,  one  of  the  proprietors,  being 
present.  On  the  24th  he  was  appointed  a  Justice  of  the  Quorum,  and  in 
August  was  commissioned  Justice  of  the  "  Court  of  Com'on  Right."  On 
December  3d  lie  was  appointed  Major  for  the  County  of  Bergen,  and  the 
same  day  "  Chief  Ranger  for  the  County  of  Bergen  and  Corp'ac'on." 

Major  Berry  was  reappointed  to  the  Council  by  Governor  Towrie  in 
1684,  by  Governor  Lord  Cam[)bell  in  1686,  and  by  Governor  Hamilton 
in  1687.  His  last  recorded  attendance  at  a  meeting  of  the  Council  was 
in  May,  1687,  although  he  was  a  member  of  that  body  for  some  years  later, 
probably  until  1692. 

In  1696,  Major  Berry  donated  one  morgen  of  land  for  a  church,  and 
subsequently,  in  1712,  confirmed  the  gift  by  deed  absolute,  "  for  the  con- 
sideration of  love  and  good-will  toward  his  loving  friends  and  neighbors  of 
the  township  of  Hackensack,  New  Barbadoes,  and  Hackquackenong."  On 
this  plot  was  erected  in  1696  the  First  Reformed  Dutch  Church  of  Hack- 
ensack, and  a  part  of  the  plot  now  forms  a  large  portion  of  "the  Green" 
or  Park,  on  the  west.  Among  the  old  memorial  stones  contributed  to  the 
first  edifice,  according  to  ihe  Dutch  custom,  and  now  set  in  the  walls  of 
the  present  building,  is  one  of  free-stone  in  its  easterly  side,  having  the 
initials  J.  B.  in  monograni  above  the  date  "Anno  1696"  within  a  shield. 
This  was,  no  doubt,  contributed  by  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

In  1702  Major  Berry  was  recommended  by  Lord  Clarendon  for  mem- 
bership of  the  Council  of  (lOvernor  Lord  Cornbury  ;  but  he  does  not  ap- 
pear to  have  been  appointed. 

During  a  few  years  after  the  beginning  of  the  century  Major  Berry  had 
controversies  about  some  parts  of  his  extensive  landed  possessions.  For 
a  time  before  1709  he  resided  in  New  York  City ;  but  in  that  year  he  had 
returned  to  live  at  his  plantation.  He  continued  to  reside  there  until  his 
death,  which  must  have  occurred  at  an  advanced  age.  His  will  was  dated 
May  16,  1 712,  and  proved  February  16,  i7i| ;  in  the  early  part  of  which 
year  it  is  probable  that  he  died. 

Of  Major  Berry's  ancestry  nothing  has  been  positively  learned.  In  a 
petition  of  July  7,  1674,  he  mentions  "  the  highly  prized  pledge  of  an 
honorable  name,  which  I  esteem  far  more  than  all  riches,"  He  may  have 
been  of  the  ancient  Devonshire  family,  whose  ancestor  Ralph  de  Bury 
possessed  Berry  Narbor  in  that  count)'  in  the  early  part  of  the  thirteenth 
century,  during  the  reign  of  Henry  III,  Of  a  younger  branch  of  that 
family  was  Sir  John  Berry  (1635-91),  an  eminent  naval  officer  of  the 
reign  of  William  III.,  who  was  sent  to  Virginia,  in  1676,  to  reduce  the 
sedition  of  Bacon,  There  was  in  1640,  a  Sergeant-Major  John  Berry  of 
the  1 6th  Regiment,  commanded  by  Colonel  the  Marquis  of  Hamil- 
ton, in  Northumberland's  expedition.    In  1642,  there  was  a  Captain  Berry 


C2  Deputy   Governor  John  Berry,  [April, 

in  the  yth  Regiment  of  Charles  I.,  and  a  Captain  Berry,  of  the  Horse, 
was  in  General  Fairfax's  army. 

Many  of  the  inhabitants  of  Barbadoes  were  Englishmen  of  good  birth 
or  station,  who  went  thither  during  the  troublous  time  of  the  Common- 
wealth, or  upon  the  Restoration,  and  it  is  more  than  probable  that  the 
title  of  Captain  borne  by  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  designated  the  rank 
which  he  had  held  in  one  or  other  of  the  armies  in  England.* 

Major  Berry's  wife  was  Francina.  She  was  living  in  1682,  when  she 
joined  with  her  husband  in  a  deed  of  land  in  New  Barbadoes,  to  their  son 
Richard  Berry.  Their  children,  so  far  as  they  are  known,  were  Sarah, 
Richard,  Francina,  Hannah,  and  perhaps  John. 

I.  Sarah  Berry  mar.  Dr.  John  Springham,  of  the  Parish  of  St. 
Michaels,  Barbadoes.  Dr.  Springham  owned  in  1680,  twentv-two  acres  of 
land,  had  one  hired  servant,  and  twenty-eight  negroes.  In  1685,  he  pur- 
chased Henry  Gibbons,  a  rebel  who  had  been  convicted  for  taking  part 
in  Monmouth's  rebellion,  and  transported  from  Bristol  to  Barbadoes.  His 
wife  appears  to  have  died  before  her  father,  who  devised  an  one-sixth  in- 
terest in  his  Bergen  County  estates  "  to  the  children  of  my  daughter  Sarah 
Springham  in  Barbadoes."  The  name  of  but  one  of  these  children  has 
been  ascertained,  viz.  :  , 

I.   Hannah,  bp.  25   July,  1678,    St.  Michaels'  Parish   Church,  Bar- 
badoes. 

II.  Richard  Berry  probably  came  from  Barbadoes  with  his  father.  He 
was  High  Sheriff  of  Essex  County,  New  Jersey,  in  1683-84,  and  Deputy  "  for 
New  Barbadoes  and  Aquickannuc,"  in  the  Assemblys  of  1686-87-88  ;  and 
again  in  1695.  He  married  Nedemiah  (daughter  of  Capt.  William  Sandford 
by  his  first  wife),  and  died  before  his  father,  whose  will  devised  one-third 
of  his  estate  to  Richard's  children  named  as  follows  : 

1.  Charity. 

2.  Richard. 

3.  Mary. 

4.  Sarah. 

5.  William. 

III.  Francina  Berry  was  twice  married  :  first  to  Lieut.  Michael 
Smith,  and  second,  some  time  in  or  before  1686,  to  Major  Thomas  Law- 
rence. 

Lieutenant  Michael  Smith  was  at  one  time  a  merchant,  and  afterward 
a  planter.  He  had  an  extensive  estate  in  Bergen  County,  near  Overpeck's 
Creek,  adjoining  a  plantation  of  his  father-in-law.  June  22,  1677,  Mr. 
Smith  was  appointed  Lieutenant  of  the  Bergen  Foot  Company,  of  which 
Mr.  Berry  was  Captain.  In  1683,  he  was  the  first  High  Sheriff  of  Bergen 
County  under  the  Twenty-four  Proprietors.  He  died  some  time  prior  to 
June  9,  1686,  when  his  widow,  then  re-married  to  Captain  Lawrence, 
administered  upon  his  estate.  The  children  of  Lieutenant  Smith  and 
Francina  Berry  were  : — 

I.  Mary  Smith,  married  February  i,  1696,  Major  William  Sandford 
(the  son  of  Captain  William  Sandford  by  his  second  marriage  with 

*  Further  researches  among  the  ancient  records  of  New  Jersey  than  the  writer  of  this  sketch  has  had 
time  or  opportunity  to  make,  might  discover  some  clue  to  Mr.  Berry's  earlier  history  and  ancestry. 
The  bequest  of  his  personal  estate  contains  this  clause  :  "  excepting  such  particulars  as  I  have  given  my 
Executors  (hereinafter  named)  orders  to  deliver  to  divers  of  my  relations  as  are  expressed  in  a  schedule 
bearing  date  with  these  presents,  signed  by  me  in  the  presence  of  the  witnesses  to  this  my  will."  This 
schedule  is  not  recorded,  but  may  be  yet  preserved,  with  other  papers  of  the  decedent,  by  some  of  his  de- 
scendants. 


[884.]'  of  New  Jersey,  and  his  Family.  c^ 

Sarah  Whartman  "on  board  the  Pink  Susannah  in  the  river  of 
Surinam,  March  27,  1667.")  He  was  a  member  of  the  House  of 
Deputies  of  East  Jersey  in  1698  ;  President  of  Essex  County 
Court,  1700-02  ;  Justice  of  the  Court  of  Sessions,  1704;  of  the 
Council  of  East  Jersey  under  Governor  Hamilton  in  1 700-1-2  ; 
of  the  Council  of  New  Jersey  under  Governor  Lord  Cornbury 
in  1703-4-5-6-7-8  ;  and  under  Governor  Lovelace  in  1708-g. 
Major  Saniiford  was  of  the  so  called  anti  quaker  party  which 
went  out  of  power  on  the  arrival  of  Governor  Hunter.  In 
January,  1711,  when  a  member  of  Assembly  for  Bergen  County, 
he  was  expelled  for  having  signed  an  address  to  the  Queen  in 
1707.  Being  re-elected  to  the  i\.ssembly  he  was  refused  admit- 
tance. He  survived  Major  Berry,  whose  will  appointed  him 
(describing  him  as  "  grandson")  to  assist  the  executors  named 
therein.  His  wife  Mary  had  died  before  her  grandfather. 
The  children  of  Afary  Smith  and  Major  William  Sandford  were  : 

1.  William,  bap.  November,  1696. 

2.  Richard. 

3.  Peregrine. 

4.  Frances.  ' 

5.  Jennie. 

6.  Anne. 

2  Charity  Smith,  mar.  May  3,  1691,  at  Bergen  Dutch  Church, 
John  Edsall,  b.  1660,  d.  1714  (son  of  Samuel  Edsall  by  his  first 
wife  Jannetje  Wessels).  John  Edsall  .does  not  appear  to  have 
held  any  public  office.  He  was  a  man  of  good  education  [hav- 
ing enjoyed  the  advantage  of  tuition  by  the  Rev,  Charles  Wol- 
ley.  Chaplain  at  the  Eort  in  New  York,  during  his  sojourn  in 
America]  ;  but  he  seems  to  have  preferred  the  quiet  life  of 
a  country  gentleman  to  the  turmoil  of  public  life.  He  in- 
herited the  paternal  estate  in  what  is  now  called  English  Neigh- 
borhood, N.  J.  Afajor  Pierry  appointed  him  to  assist  his  ex- 
ecutors, describing  him  as  his  "  grandson."  The  will  of  "  John 
Edsall,  Gentleman,"  bore  date  July  21,  1714,  and  was  proved 
October  26,  1714.  He  devised  the  plantation  and  buildings 
thereon,  wliere  he  lived,  to  his  wife  and  youngest  son,  giving 
to  her  its  whole  management  until  that  son  came  of  age,  and 
appointing  her  one  of  his  executors.  Other  plantations  were 
given  to  the  older  children.  Mrs.  Edsall  became  a  member 
of  the  Church  at  Hackensack  after  her  husband's  death,  did  not 
re-marry,  and  was  living  so  late  as  the  year  1721. 

The  children  of  Charity  Smith  and  John  Edsall  were  : 

1.  Pjancyntie  [Frances],  bap.  Oct.    2,   1694;  sponsors,    Ben- 

jamin Edsall  (uncle),  and  Mary  Smith  (aunt). 

2.  Johannah  [Joanna]. 

3.  Samuel,  bap.  Aug.  6,  1699  ;  sponsors  Samuel  Edsall  (grand 

father),  and  Mary  Edsall  (aunt.  wid.  Peter  de  la  Noy). 

4.  Mary,    kip.    Jan.    14,    1702;    sponsors    Elyas    Magghielse 

Vrelandt,   and   Judith   Edsall   (aunt,  wid.  Capt,   Benjamin 
Blagge). 

5.  Samuel,  bap.  July  30,  1704  ;  sponsors  Edward  Blagge  (cou- 

sin), and  Sarah  Smith  (aunt). 


I 


CA  Deputy   Govenior  John  Berry.  [April, 

6.  Aune,  bap.  Jan.  i8,  1708  ;  sponsors  Richard  Edsall  (uncle), 

and  Anna  Lawrence  (who  afterward  mar.  Richard  Edsall). 

7.  Michael,  bap.  Jan.  6,  1710  ;  sponsors  Samuel  Moore  (sub.), 

and  Francina  Douhen. 

8.  Johannes  [John],  bap.  Feb.  3,  1712  ;  sponsors  John  Smith 

(uncle)  and  Deborah  Lawrence,  his  wife. 

3.  Sarah    Smith,  mar.  Sept.  14,  1705.  Samuel  Moore  (stepson  of 

Samuel  Edsall,  by  his  mar.  in  1676  with  Xaomy,  wid.  of  Samuel 
Moore,  of  New  York,  merchant).  Samuel  ^Nfoore  became  a 
planter.  In  1723-28,  he  had  acquired  from  the  heirs  of  ex- 
Mayor  Thomas  Noel  and  others  a  large  plantation  in  Bergen 
County,  which  Noel  purchased  from  Major  Berry  in  1699. 
ALijor  Berr}''s  will  appointed  him  to  assist  his  executors. 
The  children  of  Sarah  Smith  and  Samuel  Moore  were  : 

1.  Michael,  bap.  June  28,  1706  ;  sponsors  John  Smith  (uncle) 

and  Francina  Lawrence  (grandmother). 

2.  Naomy,  bap.  Afay  24,  170S  ;  sponsors  Francis  Moore  (uncle) 

and  Charity  Edsall  (aunt). 

3.  Samuel,  bap.  Oct.  4,  1712  ;  sponsors  Major  Thomas  Law- 

rence (grandmother's  husband)  and  Anna  Lawrence. 

4.  Michael,    bap.    Feb.    20.    1.7 15  ;  sponsors    Richard    Edsall 

(uncle's  brother)   and  Deborah  Lawrence  (wife  of  uncle 
John  Smith). 

5.  John,  bap.  June   10,  1717;  sponsors  Major  Thomas  Law- 

rence and  his  wife. 

6.  Francis,  bap.  July  5,  1719  ;  sponsors  Ane  Pieterse  ue  Groot 

and Laroe. 

7.  Edward,  bap.  Aug.  12,  1722  ;  sponsors   Philip   Rerton   and 

Naomy  Moore  (cousin). 

4.  JoHX  Smith,  mar.  Nov.  27,  1711,  Deborah  Lawrence,  a  native 

of  Long  Island,  perhaps  daughter  of  Major  Thomas  Lawrence, 
by  a  former  marriage.     He  was  a  planter,  occupying  the  plan- 
tation which  he  had  inherited   from  his  father,  and  which   ad- 
joined that  of  John  Edsall,  in  the  valley  west  of  Fort  Lee. 
The  children  of  John  Smith  and  Deborah  Lawrence  were  : 

1.  Francina,   bap.    Dec.    14,    1712;  sponsors   Major    Thomas 

Lawrence  and  Francina  his  wife  (grandmother). 

2.  Michael,    bap.  April    18,    1714;  sponsors  John  Edsall  and 

Charity  his  wife  (aunt). 
3.' John,  bap.  Jan.  22,  1716;  sponsors  Richard  Edsall  and 
Anna  Lawrence  his  wife, 
^lajor  Thomas  Lawrence,*  the  second  husband  of  Francina  Berry, 
was  a  native  of  Long  Island.  He  was  a  Judge  of  Common 
Pleas  in  Bergen  County.  He  and  his  wife  were  appointed 
executors  of  Major  Berry's  will,  which  gave  to  her  two-thirds 
of  his  personal  estate,  and  to  her  and  her  children  two  and 
one-half  sixth  parts  of  his  real  estate.  They  became  members 
of  the  Hackensack  Church  July  i,  1704.  The  time  of  Mrs. 
Lawrence's  death  has  not  been  ascertained.  She  and  her  hus- 
band united  in  a  deed  of  lands  in  Bergen  County  so  late  as 

•  Major  Lawrence  \\-as  probably  a  descendant  of  Major  Thomas  Lawxence  of  Newtown,  L.  I.,  but  the 
printed  genealogies  of  the  Lavnencc  families  fail  to  indicate  his  true  place  therein. 


1884.J  of  A'ew  Jersey,   and  his  Family.  r  r 

June   7,  1730.     Child  of  Francina  Berry  and  Major  Thomas 
Lawrence  : 
5.  Anna  Lawrence,  bap.  July  29,  1695. 

IV.  Hannah  Berry,  who  was  thrice  manied.  Her  first  husband  was 
Richard  Hall,  of  New  York.  He  was  owner  of  the  ship  "  Nevin."  With 
Capt.  John  Palmer  and  others,  he  obtained  a  large  grant  of  lands  on  the 
Raritan  River,  "next  unto  the  bounds  of  Piscataway."  Between  1677  and 
1681  he  had  a  suit  in  the  IVfayor's  Court  against  William  Darvall  for  breach 
of  charter  party,  in  which  Hall  was  on  the  trial  unsuccessful,  but  the  judg- 
ment was  reversed  on  appeal  by  the  Court  of  Assizes.  The  defendants 
appealed  to  the  King  in  Council,  where  the  judgment  in  Hall's  favor  was 
confirmed  by  the  King  December  7,  1681.  Before  this  result,  however, 
Mr.  Hall  met  his  death  by  drownmg,  and  his  widow  obtained  in  this  city 
letters  of  administration  on  his  effects  November  2,  16S1. 

There  was  one  child  by  this  marriage  : 

I.  Richard  Hall,  who  married,  Afay  4,  1703,  Anne,  daughter  of 
James  Evets,  of  ^t\v  York,  one  of  the  founders  and  first  ves- 
trymen of  Trinity  Church.  They  had  two  children  :  (i.)  Eliza- 
beth, who  mar.  William  Patterson,  of  Elizabethtown,  N.  J., 
innholder;  and  (2.)  Anne,  who  mar.  James  Martin,  of  same 
place,  cordwainer. 

Major  Berry,  who  survived  this  grandson,  devised  ^'y  of  his  estate  to 
the  children  of  his  "  grandson,  Richard  Hall,  begotten  on  the  body  of 
Anne  Evet,  equally  to  be  divided  between  them."  Their  mother  was  after- 
ward married  to  Robert  Urummond,  of  New  York,  vintner. 

The  second  husband  of  Hannah  Berry  was  Thomas  Noel,  of  New  York, 
merchant,  to  whom  she  was  married  December  2,  1691,  by  the  Rev.  Alex- 
ander Innes,  Presbyter.  In  1699  Mr.  Noel  purchased  from  his  father-in- 
law,  Major  Beriy,  a  large  plantation  in  Bergen  County,  N.  J.,  bordering 
on  the  Hudson  River,  and  also  a  parcel  of  land  from  Samuel  Edsall,  ad- 
joining the  plantation,  "  at  a  place  called  Aquapoke."  He  also  owned 
some  land  in  New  York  City.  He  received  a  grant  of  citizenship  in  1698, 
and  on  October  14,  1701,  was  conmiissioned  and  sworn  mayor  of  the 
city  of  New  York.  Mayor  Noel  assumed  office  at  a  timt  when  party 
spirit  was  at  its  height  between  the  Leislerians  and  Anti-Leislerians.  His 
journal  of  their  political  disputes  in  October  and  November  of  that  year 
forms  an  interesting  chapter  in  the  history  of  the  city. 

Mayor  Noel  died  at  his  plantation  in  New  Jersey  in  October,  1702. 
By  his  will,  dated  October  4,  1702,  he  gave  his  whole  estate  to  his  wife  for 
her  life,  with  remainder  to  his  son,  Montieth  (miscalled  "  Noah  "),  and  his 
stepson,  Richard  Hall,  in  severalty. 

Mr.  Noel  was  an  Englishman,  and  a  member  of  "  the  vfrry  ancient 
family  of  Noel,  of  Norman  extraction,  of  which  the  Earls  of  Gainesborough 
represented  a  junior  branch.''  The  head  of  this  family  was  called  "  Lord 
of  EUenhall"  or  "Lord  of  Hilcote."  The  family  seat  was  Hilcote  Hall, 
in  Staffordshire.  [Their  arms  were  :  or  freity  gu,  a  canton  ervi.  Crest, 
a  buck  at  gaze  ar.  attired  or.     Motto,  Tout  bien  ou  rien,  for  Noel.  J 

Mr.  Noel  was  probably  near  in  the  line  of  succession  to  the  Hilcote 
estate,  and  his  son,  Montieth,  appears  to  have  fallen  heir  to  it  after  his 
father's  death.  In  his  will  (dated  May  16,  1712)  Major  Berry  devised 
to  this  grandson  gJj  part  of  his  estate,  with  a  j^roviso  that  "in  case 
my  said  grandson,  Montieth  Noel,  decease  in  his  non-age,  or  recover  the 


r5  Deputy   Governor  John  Berry.  [April, 

estate  of  Hilcot  Hall,  in  Staffordshire,  or  agree  with  the  person  in  posses- 
sion, whereby  he  will  have  no  need  of  my  help,''  the  share  so  given  to 
him  should  go  to  the  other  grandchildren. 

The  only  child  of  Mayor  Noel  was  this  son  : 

I.  Montieth  Noel,  who  died  unmarried  and  intestate  in  1713.  Gov. 
Hunter  granted  to  Robert  Drumniond  and  Anne  his  wife 
(supra)  administration  upon  his  effects  for  the  benefit  of  the 
children  of  his  half  brother,  Richard  Hall. 

The  third  husband  of  Hannah  Berry  was  Charles  Wolley,  of  New  York, 
merchant.  Their  marriage  license  was  granted  April  14,  1704.  The 
writer  was  for  a  time  of  opinion  that  this  was  no  other  than  the  Rev.  Charles 
Wolley,  former  chaplain  at  the  Fort  under  Governor  Andros,  who  had  carried 
out  his  wush  and  returned  to  this  country  as  a  merchant.  But  on  careful 
investigation  he  is  found  to  be  the  son  of  Robert  Wolley,  described  as 
"citizen  and  cloth  worker,  of  London,"  and  as  "woolen  draper,  near  Aid- 
gate,  in  London,"  who  was  a  brother  of  the  chaplain,  Mr.  Riker  thinks. 
(Hist.  Harl.,  409.)  Robert  Wolley  had  made  several  ventures  in  trade  to 
New  York  as  early  as  1675,  out  of  which  considerable  litigation  subse- 
quently arose. 

Mr.  Charles  Wolley  came  to  New  York,  probably  for  the  first  time,  in 
May,  1698.  He  was  then  a  merchant  and  servant  (agent)  to  Jeremiah 
Basse,  of  West  Jersey.  In  December,  1701,  Mr.  Wolley  signed  the  address 
from  New  York  to  the  King.  He  was  in  England  in  the  spring  of  1702, 
but  had  returned  to  New  York  and  was  admitted  as  a  freeman  of  the  city 
in  August.  In  1703  he  resided  in  the  Dock  AVard  and  had  a  family  of 
three  males,  and  one  negro.  On  his  marriage  to  the  Widow  Noel,  next 
year,  he  became  jiossessed  of  he  life  interest  in  the  plantation  and  country 
seat  of  ex-Mayor  Noel,  in  New  Jersey.  In  1705  he  bought  from  his  step- 
son, Richard  Hall,  the  latter's  lialf  interest  in  the  fee  of  these  premises. 

In  the  years  1706-07  Mr.  Wolley  appears  to  have  become  embarrassed 
in  his  aftairs.  He  suffered  judgment  in  numerous  suits  in  the  Mayor's 
Court.  In  June,  1708,  he  gave  his  wife  a  power  of  attorney,  describing  him- 
self as  "late  of  New  York,"  and  authorized  her  to  collect  claims  due  him 
in  New  York^  New  Jersey,  Pennsylvania,  and  elsewhere,  and  to  sell  all 
personal  estate,  including  negro  men  and  women,  both  of  his  own  pur- 
chase and  of  his  predecessor's  [Mayor  Noel],  but  excei)ted  "one  Diamond 
Ring  and  other  rings,  and  all  plate."'  In  July  Mr.  Wolley  and  his  wife  con- 
veyed to  Jacobus  Van  Cortlandt,  of  New  York,  merchant,  as  surviving 
executor  of  Nicholas  Dumaresq,  of  same  place,  mariner,  deceased  (in 
settlement  of  claims  of  Dumaresq's  estate  against  the  estate  of  Mayor 
Noel)  their  half  interest  in  the  Bergen  County  plantation,  the  deed  being 
acknowledged  by  Mrs.  Wolley  September  13th.  In  December  Mrs.  Wolley, 
as  her  husband's  attorney  and  as  executrix  of  Mayor  Noel,  sold  three 
negroes.  The  power  of  attorney  was  recorded  in  New  York,  February  1  7, 
i7oy"jj,  "at  request  of  Mr.  Montieth  Noel,  son-in-law  of  Mr.  Charles 
"Wolley."  No  later  mention  of  either  Mr.  or  Mrs.  Wolley  has  been  found, 
and  it  is  likely  that  they  w-ent  to  England,  perhaps  to  succeed  to  his  father's 
business  and  estate.  There  was  probably  no  issue  of  their  marriage,  and 
they  are  not  mentioned  in  Major  Berry's  will. 

?  V.  John  Berry.  Two  mentions  have  been  found  of  John  Berry, 
Junior,  one  under  date  of  May  18,  167 1,  when  he  served  as  a  juror  in  a 
case  tried  at  Elizabethtown,   N.  J.  ;    and   the  other  in   Charles  ^Volley's 


1 884. J  The  Moore  Family  of  Southold,  L.  L  57 

power  of  attorney  of  June  14,  1708,  which  authorized  liis  wife  to  collect 
claims  against  {ititer  alia)  "John  Berr}',  Junior,  and  John  Berry,  Senior." 
A  John  Berry,  of  New  Barbadoes,  mar.  Nov.  12,  1709,  Marie  Bradbury, 
of  Acquigganock.  It  is  not  improbable  that  this  was  a  son  of  Major  Berry. 
Neither  he  nor  any  descendant  of  his  is  mentioned  in  Major  Berry's  will.  If 
a  son,  he  may  have  died  before  his  father  and  without  issue,  or  he  may  have 
been  disinherited. 


/       THE    MOORE    FAMILY    OF   SOUTHOLD,    L.   I. 


By  Charles  B.  Moore. 


The  father  of  the  first  Thomas,  of  Southold,  is  not  well  described  in 
the  published  records.  That  he  was  born  in  England  before  1600,  and  died 
before  July,  1636,  and  that  his  widow  was  named  Ann,  are  facts  sufficiently 
established.  There  were  many  of  his  name,  and  identification  was  not 
easy.  In  England,  at  his  era,  there  were  easily  traced  two,  named 
Thomas,  each  with  a  wife  named  Ann.  One  of  these  Anns  was  the  sev- 
enth or  eighth  daughter  of  Rowland  Berkeley,  of  Worcester.  Her  father, 
who  married  a  Hay  ward  in  1574,  had  six  sons  and  nine  daughters,  and 
died  in  161 1.  One  of  the  sons  was  the  noted  Judge,  Robert  (6  Foss's 
Judges,  257),  and  one  of  the  daughters  married  Henry  Bright,  master  of 
the  Royal  School  at  Worcester  (Brights,  of  Suffolk,  298-9),  and  another 
married  Edward  Wynne,  of  Thornton  Curtis,  Lincoln  Co.  (2  Burke's 
Commrs.,  227),  both  of  whom  may  have  had  relatives  in  New  England. 
The  other  Thomas  More  and  Ann  his  wife,  had  a  son  baptized  at  Southwold, 
in  England,  in  October,  1630;  and  he  apparently  did  not  remain  there. 
If  obliged  to  decide  between  these  two,  we  should  take  the  latter  as  an- 
cestor. But  we  are  under  no  such  compulsion,  and  have  some  circum- 
stantial evidence  which  may  ripen  into  more  certainty  or  clearness. 

There  is  the  like  difficulty  in  tracing  him,  if  he  came  to  New  England, 
as  to  his  residence,  and  the  place  of  his  death.  About  1631  one  of  his 
name  was,  with  John  Symonds  and  others,  sent  out  by  John  Mason  to  set- 
tle the  province  of  New  Hampshire  (2  N'.  E.  Gen.  Reg.,  39  and  202), 
with  whom  Mr.  Herbert  and  Captain  Thomas  Wiggins  soon  appeared. 
There  were  several  others  of  the  same  name,  the  spelling  appearing  imma- 
terial. Besides  a  son,  Thomas,  he  had  a  daughter,  Mary,  who  became  the 
wife  of  Joseph  Grafton,  of  Salem,  and  probably  other  children. 

ii"*  of  5"*  mo.  (July)  is  the  earliest  exact  date  of  identification  at  Salem. 
It  was  an  entry  that  "  Tho^  More,  sonne  to  wido'  More,  and  his  wife,  were 
admitted  inhabitants  of  Salem." 

12*  mo.  20,  1636  {i.e.,  February  20,  1637),  there  was  a  warrant  for 
laying  out  to  widoe  More  ten  acres,  at  Jeffreys  creek.  And  thirty  acres 
were  allotted  to  Joseph  Grafton. 

On  a  list  of  lands  allotted  at  Salem,  "  Thom.  More's  widow"  is  men- 
tioned as  having  ten  acres.  But  it  seems  the  lands  at  Jeffre}'s  creek  were 
relinquished  to  R.  Goodale,  or  Goodell. 

On  January  8,  1636-7,  widow  Ann  More  was  admitted  a  member  of 
the  church  at  Salem  ;  on  the  roll.  No.  t^6,  of  females. 

Before  August,  1637,  Joseph  Grafton   had   a   village  lot  of  two   acres 


58 


The  Moore  Family  of  Soutliold,  L.  I.  [April, 


laid  oft"  to  him  at  Salem,  fronting  on  the  street  which  ran  along  the  South 
Harbor — perhai:)S  now  Derby  Street,  near  Hardy  Street — upon  which  he 
proceeded  to  build  a  house,  where  he  resided. 

On  August  2  2,  1637,  Goodwife  Grafton  applied  for  a  parcel  of  land 
for  her  ?nother,  at  the  end  of  her  husband's  lot ;  which  was  granted  to  be 
(so)  laid  out. 

In  December,  1637,  in  Salem  town  meeting,  it  was  agreed  that  the 
marsh  and  meadow  lands  previously  in  common  should  then  be  appro- 
priated to  the  inhabitants.  This  has  been  described  in  10  N.  Y.  G.  and 
B.  Rec,  p.  153. 

By  the  division  list  preserved,  it  appears  wid.  Afore,  having  five  in  her 
family,  had  three-fourths  of  an  acre  ;  Thomas  More,  next  to  her,  having  four 
in  his  family,  had  three-fourths  of  an  acre,  and  Jos.  Grafton,  next  to  him, 
having  seven  in  his  family,  had  one  acre. 

In  163S,  June  25th,  it  was  entered  that  Joseph  Grafton's  mother-in-law 
had  half  an  acre  of  meadow  land. 

There  was  another  widow  Moore,  whose  name  was  often,  but  not 
always,  spelt  difi"erently.  Some  expressions  connected  with  their  names 
distinguished  one  from  the  other.  There  was  no  doubt  which  was  meant 
by  Joseph  Grafton's  mother-in-law. 

On  March  10,  1664/5,  ^  deed  was  executed  by  Ann  More,  of  Salem, 
widow,  to  Nathaniel  Grafton,  mariner,  her  grand-son,  son  of  Joseph, 
consideration  ^13,  "against  the  south  harbor,"  "bounded  to  the  west 
and  north  with  land  of  me  the  said  Ann  More,  on  the  east  with  the  land 
of  M'  Joseph  Gral'ton  Senf,  and  on  the  south  with  the  highway  between 
the  said  land  and  the  south  harbor."  Recorded  at  Salem  in  Lib.  2  of 
Deeds,  p.  100. 

On  August  17,  1668,  Ann  More,  of  Salem,  widow,  executed  another 
deed  to  John  Turner,  mariner,  for  a  messuage  or  tenement  at  Salem,  a 
dwelling  house,  with  all  the  ground  adjoining,  containing  one  acre  and 
three-fourths,  partly  an  orchard,  and  part  arable,  lying  on  the  south  by  the 
highway  that  ran  between  the  premises  and  the  south  harbor,  and  west- 
erly with  the  house  and  land  of  Joseph  Grafton  senior,  northerly  with  the 
land  of  Edward  WoUen,  and  easterly  with  the  land  and  house  of  Nathaniel 
Grafton,  formerly  bot  of  Ann  JMore.  The  whole  including  that  sold  to 
N.  Grafton,  containing  about  two  acres.  The  deed  was  acknowledged  on 
February  9,  1668,9  (^^  mo.  9),  and  recorded  at  Salem,  Lib.  3  of  Deeds, 
p.  49. 

This  enables  the  site  of  her  house  and  land  to  be  yet  traced,  as  well  as 
Turner's  wharf  at  the  foot  of  Turner  Street,  now  having  aifiother  name. 
And  it  is  very  satisfactory  evidence  that  she,  the  widow,  was  living  in  1668. 
By  tradition  her  son  Thomas  helped  her  build  the  house,  and  perhaps  he 
lived  in  it,  while  he  lived  in  Salem. 

It  was  a  curious  imitation  of  the  manor  law  in  England,  that  she  had 
to  appear  in  court  at  Salem  to  have  the  sale  of  her  house  and  land  al- 
lowed ;  stating  that  she  sold  the  same  "for  her  necessary  use."  But  the 
allotments  and  titles  of  land  in  Massachusetts  were  generally  upon  the 
same  footing  as  the  manor  courts  by  "copy  of  court  roll"  in  England. 

Other  entries  respecting  her  and  her  family,  all  church  members,  can 
be  gathered,  but  are  unnecessary.  Her  daughter  Mary  (Grafton)  died  in 
November,  1674,  having  three  sons  and  at  least  one  daughter.  On  June 
8  (4  mo.),  1657,  "Sister  Grafton  was  allowed  a  seat  in  church  with  sister 


1884.]  The  Moore  Family  of  Southold,  L.  I.  59 

Elizabeth  Browne,  the  wife  of  John  Browne,  and  others,  on  the  second  seat, 
where  Mrs.  Hathorne  and  Mrs.  Corwen  lately  sate"  (9  Essex  Inst.,  201). 
Her  husband,  Joseph  Grafton,  married  (2)  the  widow  of  Captain  Thomas 
Eathrop,  killed  in  battle  by  the  Indians  in  1675.  His  oldest  son,  Josepn, 
junior,  was  born  January  24,  1637,  and  died  at  Barbadoes  in  February, 
1670.  He  married  at  Hingham,  on  October  29,  1657,  for  his  first  wife, 
Hannah,  daughter  of  Joshua  Hobart,  of  Hingham,  and  for  his  second  \yife, 
in  1664,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Elder  John  Browne,  of  Salem,  who  survived 
him  and  married  again.  The  senior  in  1640  sailed  in  a  Ketch  of  about 
forty  tons  for  Pemaquid.  In  165 1  he  came  in  a  vessel  from  Newfound-  ^ 
land,  with  news  about  parliamentary  frigates.  In  1682,  inventory  of  his  ' 
estate,  ^1,149  \2,s.  2d.  He  held  various  unportant  trusts.  It  is  hoped 
his  descendants  will  exhibit  a  pedigree.  His  family  seems  to  have  been 
intimately  connected  with  many  events  in  New  England  history. 

His  son  John,  born  April  28,  1639,  married  a  daughter  of  Thomas 
Gardiner  second,  of  Salem,  and  had  six  children.  In  1670  he  was  master 
of  the  Ketch  Prudence,  bound  from  New  England  for  the  West  Indies, 
which  was  cast  away  and  several  persons  lost.  In  1673  he  was  owner 
of  the  Ketch  Nightingale,  which  with  John  Ingersoll,  master,  having 
land  at  Huntington,  E.  I.,  was  taken  by  the  Dutch,  on  recapturing  New 
York. 

His  son  Nathaniel,  born  April  24,  1642,  was  one  of  those  lost  in  1670 
at  Barbadoes.  He  married  a  daughter  of  Moses  Maverick,  and  left  three 
daughters. 

Ann  Scarlet,  widow  of  John,  in  her  will,  proved  in  1643,  called  Joseph 
Grafton  her  brother,  and  named  her  brother  Samuel,  then  in  England, 
and  other  relatives  (i  Essex  Inst.,  3).  To  trace  them  out  would  take  too 
much  space  for  the  present  occasion. 

John  Sanders  called  Joseph  Grafton  his  father.  {lb.) 
■  II.  I. — Thomas  More  (Moor  or  Moore),  the  first  of  Southold,  E.  I._, 
son  of  Thomas  and  Ann,  born  by  estimate  about  1615  or  1616,  m  England, 
was  in  New  England  as  early  as  July  11,  1636,  and  probably  earlier,  and 
died  at  Southold,  E.  I.,  by  Surrogate's  account,  on  June  27,  1691,  then  an 
aged  man.  By  tradition  he  was  a  shipwright.  The  head  of  a  ship-car- 
penter's adze,  made  in  England,  and  often  repaired,  was  long  preseived 
by  the  family  as  a  memento,  practically  his  armorial  ensign.  He  acted 
sometimes  as  a  master  of  vessels. 

Before  July  11,  1636,  he  married  (ist)  Martha,  daughter  of  Rev.  Chris- 
topher Youngs,  vicar  of  Reydon,  Suff'olk  County,  England,  to  which  the 
chapel  at  South  wold  was  then  attached,  and  of  Margaret,  his  wife  (see  14 
iV:  Y.  G.  and  B.  Rec,  65).  She,  Mnnlin,  was  baptized  at  Southwold, 
England,  on  July  i,  16 13,  and  came  wiili  inm  to  Salem,  Mass.,  and  thence 
removed  to  Southold,  E.  I.,  with  some  of  her  relatives,  where  she  lived  until 
167 1  or  later.  . 

And  about  1680  he  married  (2d)  Katharine  (probably  Westcote,)  being 
connected  with  the  wife  of  Gov.  Arnold,  of  Rhode  Island,  widow  (ist)  of 
Thomas  Doxy,  of  New  London,  and  (2d)  of  Daniel  Lane,  of  New  Lon- 
don and  Setauket.  She  was  named  in  his  will  as  living  in  June,  1691,  and 
probably  survived  him  (11  A^.  Y.  G.  and  B.  Bee,  152). 
Issue,  all  by  second  wife  [Third  Generation]. 

1.  Thomas,  bapt.  at  Salem,  Mass.,  October  21,  1639. 

2.  Martha,  bapt.  the  same  day  (or  before),  who  mar.  John  Symonds, 


6o  ■2^/'*^  Moore  Family  of  So ut hold,  L.  I.  [April, 

alias   Seaman,   settled   at  "Hempstead,  L.  I.,  and  was  living  in 
1691  and  1698  (see  ii  N.  Y.  G.  and  B.  Rec,  p.  149). 

3.  Benjamin,  bapt.  at  Salem,  August  2,  1640. 

4.  Nathaniel,  bapt,  at  Salem,  July  3,  1642. 

5.  Hannah,  bapt.  at  Salem,  December  29,  1644,  who  mar,  a  Sy- 

monds,  probably  Richard,  and  was  living  in  1691. 

6.  Elizabeth,  bapt.  at  Salem,  August  31,   1647,  who  mar.  Simon 

Grover, 

7.  Jonathan,  bapt.  at  Salem,  June  3,  1649,  d.  March  16,  1689, 

8.  Mary,  bapt.  at  Salem,  December  15,  1650. 

9.  Sarah,  i)robably  b,  at  Southold,  who  mar,  Samuel,  son  of  Charles 

Glover. 

In  1635,  in  the  crowd  of  passengers  that  appeared  in  the  ships  which 
left  England,  there  were  several  of  his  name.  It  appears  useless  to  at- 
tempt a  precise  identification.  One  aged  eighteen,  in  the  Dorset,  sailed 
for  Bermuda  ;  one  aged  nineteen,  in  the  Assurance  of  London,  sailed  for 
Virginia  with  John  Budd,  aged  fifteen,  who  probably  came  to  Southold  ; 
and  one  aged  twenty-six,  in  the  Constance,  sailed  for  Virginia,  with  several 
who  arrived  in  New  England  (10  iV,  Y.  G.and  B.  Rec,  pp.  73,  74,  75),  It 
may  well  be  doubted  whether  we  have  a  full  account  of  passengers  who 
came  with  Captain  Joseph  Youngs, — {Ide7n.) 

In  1636  many  ships  arrived  in  New  England  with  cargoes  and  pas- 
sengers, of  whom  we  have  very  imperfect  accounts.  Several  made  quick 
])assages  (Drake's  Boston,  p.  193).  Henry  Vane  was  then  Governor  of 
Massachusetts. 

In  July,  when  this  Thomas,  his  wife,  and  mother  were  admitted  as  in- 
habitants, it  was  ordered  that  he  might  "  have  one  fishing  lot  on  the  neck." 
This  order  for  his  wife's  brother,  Christopher  Youngs,  has  been  explained 
in  14  JV.  Y.  G.  and  B.  Rec,  p.  66,  and  in  other  places.  They  were  not 
fishermen.  There  was  great  scarcity  of  food.  Captain  Joseph  Youngs  and 
John  Herbert  had  each  his  half-acre  "  in  the  neck,"  and  many  others.  It 
deserves  attention,  because,  as  the  ordinary  fishermen  could  not  be  gath- 
ered very  regularly  to  church  or  to  town  meeting,  where  public  opinion 
was  shaped  and  enforced,  there  was  discredit  thrown  upon  fishermen, 
which  may  not  have  been  deserved. 

The  ship-carpenter  could  act  as  house-carpenter.  It  is  understood 
that  he  worked  hard  to  build  a  house  for  his  mother,  fronting  the  south 
harbor,  adjoining  the  house  and  lot  of  Joseph  Grafton,  and  that  he  and  his 
wife  and  children  lived  with  her.  We  have  seen  no  clear  indication  of  a 
separate  house.  It  is  probable  he  went  to  different  places  to  assist  in 
building  houses  or  vessels,  both  of  which  were  in  great  demand. 

October  21,  1639, — Although  two  of  his  children  were  baptized  at  this 
date,  it  is  believed  that  one  of  them  was  at  this  time  about  two  years  of 
age.  The  baptismal  entry  is  copied  in  6  Essex  Inst.,  237,  with  the  daugh- 
ter's name  "Mercy;"  supposed  a  mistake.  But  if  not  an  error,  then  an- 
other daughter  may  be  traced.  Several  of  that  name  appeared  at  Southold. 
The  other  names  on  the  same  baptismal  list  are  instructive.  The  account 
of  church  members,  for  three  years  after  1637,  was  kept  by  the  Rev,  John 
Fiske,  who  was  from  St,  James,  Suftblk  Co.,  England  (i  Essex  Inst,,  37), 
Perhaps  the  fairest  explanation  would  be  that  Martha,  born  in  1637,  while 
Rev.  John  Youngs  was  at  Salem,  was  baptized  by  him,  as  that  might  be  a 
very  natural  course,  and  no  record  be  found  ;  and  "  Mercy  "  perhaps  was 
a  twin  and  did  not  survive. 


1884.]  The  Moore  Faintly  of  Soiithold,  L.  I.  5j 

In  1640,  1641  or  1642,  Captain  Joseph  Youngs,  his  brother-in-law,  had 
suits  at  Salem  against  Richard  Graves  and  against  Richard  Hollingworth, 
called  the  principal  shipwrights  of  Salem,  and  recovered  judgments  against 
them.  After  judgments  recovered,  they  obtained  from  the  court  exten- 
sions of  time  for  payment  ;  perhaps  very  desirable  for  them  when  money 
was  very  scarce  ;  but  injurious  to  the  creditor  wanting  money  for  other 
adventures.  Some  irritation  connected  with  this,  may  have  affected  T.  M. 
In  1642,  December  2 2d,  27th,  Thomas  More,  doubtless  this  one,  was 
admitted  a  freeman  of  Massachusetts,  and  sworn  as  such  at  Salem  ;  at  the 
same  time  with  Creorge  Gardner  (before  named),  William  Robinson,  and 
Hugh  Cawken,  Richard  Prince  (tailor),  and  some  others  (3  N'.  Eng.  Gen. 
Reg.,  1S9).  Whether  this  was  the  W.  Robinson  executed  as  a  Quaker  in 
1659,  we  know  not.  One  of  the  name  was  at  Southold  in  1675.  With 
the  other  name,  misspelt  for  Caulkins,  the  "  History  of  New  London,"  by 
Miss  Caulkins,  has  made  us  better  acquainted. 

In  1643,  on  11"'  of  10"'  mo.  (December),  there  was  granted  to  Thomas 
Moore  five  acres  on  Darby-fort  side. 

In  1644,  October  13th,  Thomas  More  and  Martha,  his  wife,  were  dis- 
missed from  the  church  at  Salem,  with  no  censure  stated  or  apparent  ; 
doubtless  then  contemplating  removal.  But  the  civil  war  in  England  was 
not  over. 

On  December  29th,  and  at  later  dates,  it  can  be  inferred  that  his  wife, 
at  least,  had  not  departed,  as  the  children  were  baptized  there.  At  this 
date  Hempstead,  L.  I.,  was  one  of  the  prominent  places  for  settlement  by 
Englishmen,  invited  by  the  Dutch.  The  broad-axe  attributed  at  Hemp- 
stead to  Miles  Moore,  of  Milford,  in  1645,  "'^.y  have  been  his.  In  1657 
or  before.  Miles  was  at  New  Eondon. 

In  1647,  4""  mo.  19,  the  death  of  Christopher  Youngs,  brother  of  the 
wife  of  T.  M.,  recognized  him  and  her  as  still  of  Salem,  and  imposed 
some  additional  cares.  (8  N'.  Efig.  Gen.  Heg.,  148;  14  N.  V.  G.  and  B. 
Rec,  67.) 

In  1649  their  brother-in-law,  Captain  Joseph  Youngs,  sold  out  his  two 
houses  and  four  acres  at  Salem,  and  removed  to  Southold  (14  iV]  Y.  G. 
atid  B.  Rec,  68). 

In  1650,  December  15th,  their  daughter  Mary  was  baptized  at  Salem. 
On  Eong  Island  the  truce  line  had  been  agreed  to  by  the  Dutch.  South- 
old  appeared  a  safe  place  and  a  convenient  one  for  ship-building. 

April  14,  165 1,  is  the  latest  date  found  at  Salem  for  any  of  the  family. 
Martha  More  and  Mehitable  King  were  witnesses  to  an  assignment  by 
Robert  Entry  of  John  Wolley's  articles  of  apprenticeship  to  John  Swasey, 
then  of  Salem.  [He  married  Mary  King,  and  the  next  year  conveyed  his 
Salem  dwelling  to  Dorothy  King,  and  soon  after  appeared  also  at  Southold.] 
And  at  that  date,  or  very  soon,  this  Thomas  More  and  his  family  removed 
to  Southold,  E.  I.,  leaving  his  mother  Ann  and  sister  Grafton  residing  at 
Salem. 

Southold  was  then  in  combination  with  the  New  Haven  Colony. 

In  1652,  while  he  was  building  and  fixing  his  new  dwelling-house  and 
ship-yard,  the  English  government  under  Cromwell  was  getting  into  hos- 
tilities with  the  Dutch — war  was  declared.  Englishmen  from  the  west  end 
of  Eong  Island  fell  back  eastwardly,  and  prepared  to  defend  themselves 
from  hostile  Indians  and  from  the  Dutch  also,  if  hostile. 

In  March,  1653,  Captain  John  Young,  in  command  of  a   small  vessel, 


62  The  Moore  Family  of  Southold,  L.   I.  [April, 

trading  in  Long  Island  Sound  [probably  owned  by  T.  More  and  J. 
Herbert],  ventured  to  or  toward  New  York,  and  was  captured  by  the 
Dutch,  imprisoned  on  board  the  King  Solomon,  and  an  inventory  officially 
taken  of  the  contents  of  ffis  "  leatherne  bag,'"  including  comb,  towel, 
pins,  flints,  shoe-strings,  gloves,  tobacco,  paper-guilders  (580)  and  wam- 
pum (original  at  Albany)  ;  but  he  and  his  vessel  were  found  difficult  to 
hold,  for  both  soon  escaped. 

On  April  13th,  upon  bail  being  agreed  to  be  taken,  he  surrendered, 
and  bond  was  given  for  his  appearance  by  Isaac  Allerton,  Edward  More, 
Robert  Coe,  and  John  Lawrence. 

The  "  General  Court  "  was  held  at  New  Haven  on  March  8th.  The 
political  opponents  of  Mr.  Youngs,  as  reported,  charged  him  with  saying  he 
would  "  make  a  garrison  at  Southold,"  to  defend  him  against  the  "  power 
of  New  Haven,"  (a  mistake)  for  which  the  court  (of  course)  "judged  it 
necessary  that  John  Youngs  should  be  called  to  account ;"  but  "  they  hear 
now  by  Richard  Law  "  (of  Stamford)  that  John  Youngs  is  imprisoned  at 
the  Dutch,"  and  they  ordered  that  "  if  any  letter  should  be  sent  from  his 
father  or  others,  soliciting  this  jurisdiction  to  use  some  means  for  attain- 
ing his  liberty,  then  a  letter  sliould  be  sent  from  hence  to  the  Dutch 
Governor  desiring  he  may  be  delivered  to  us  here  at  New  Haven,"  etc.; 
and  the  next  entry  is,  "  Mr.  Herbert  and  Mr,  Moore,  inhabitants  of  South- 
old,  being  here,  the  Court  desired  to  speak  with  them,  and  being  come 
before  the  court,  they  asked  them  concerning  the  affairs  of  Southold  " 
(not  important  for  the  present  purpose,  but  embracing  the  topic  of  oaths 
of  fidelity) ;  and  "  after  Thomas  Moore  was  departed,  he  returned  again  to 
ye  court  and  declared  his  willingness  to  take  the  oath  of  fidelity  now, 
which  the  court  well  accepted  and  administered  the  oath  of  fidelity  to 
him,  and  declared  that  if  he  be  a  member  of  Salem  church,  and  have 
letters  of  recommendation,  and  lies  under  no  offence  to  hinder,  he  may 
have  the  freeman's  charge  given  him  at  Southold  and  be  admitted  a  free- 
man, as  others  are  "  (2d  "  New  Haven  Colonial  Records  "  by  Hoadley,  51", 
52).  A  careful  perusal  to  gather  all  the  surroundings  may  be  necessary 
before  judging  of  this  proceeding.  The  New  Haven  majority  was  appar- 
ently in  favor  of  prosecuting  hostilities  against  the  Dutch,  but  the  magis- 
trates were  restraining  them,  because  Massachusetts  dissented,  and  the 
Commissioners  of  the  United  Colonies  held  back.  The  war  would  be  and 
was  decided  without  them. 

On  March  2 2d,  the  same  topics  were  again  before  the  New  Haven 
Court ;  a  letter  from  Rev.  Mr.  Youngs  had  been  received;  which  was  read, 
desiring  interference.  The  Governor  reported  that  upon  receiving  this 
letter,  the  magistrates  of  New  Haven  met,  sent  for  Mr.  Herbert  and  Mr. 
Moore,  then  in  town,  and  told  them  that  if  they  would  be  bound  in  ^100 
that  John  Youngs  should  appear  before  the  magistrates  of  New  Haven  to 
answer,  etc.,  they  would  interfere;  and  without  pursuing  details,  it  suffi- 
ciently appears  that  this  mode  of  action  to  obtain  a  j^risoner  and  a  vessel, 
supposed  to  be  in  the  hands  of  the  enemy,  was  unsatisfactory. 

A  bark  called  the  Prince  of  Conde,  sailed  by  Jan  Jansen  of  St.  Ubes, 
of  New  York,  had  been  captured  from  the  Dutch.  T.  More  took  some 
pains  to  purchase  and  obtam  this  vessel  from  the  possessors. 

On  July  30,  1654,  a  bond  was  signed  by  T.  More  at  New  Haven,  and 
by  Isaac  Allerton,  senior,  to  Jan  Jansen  of  St.  Obyn,  to  restore  this  vessel, 
upon  easy  terms  [Dutch  records].     Peace  was  proclaimed. 


1884.]  The  Moore  Family  of  Sou/hold,  L.  I.  g-? 

On  April  8,  1655,  T.  More  appeared  at  New  York  with  the  bark,  and 
executed  an  agreement  and  bill  of  sale  of  the  bark  "Prince  of  Conde," 
as  she  lay  there  in  the  roadstead,  with  the  sails,  boat,  etc.,  to  Jan  Jansen 
Van  St.  Obyn,  for  500  guilders,  payable  in  a  piece  of  cloth,  a  silver  mug, 
a  piece  of  Imen,  eight  ells  of  red  kersey,  and  three  ankers  of  distilled 
water?.  It  was  stipulated  that  Jan  Jansen  with  the  bark  should  deliver 
Mr.  More  and  his  passengers  and  their  goods  at  Southold,  on  Long  Island, 
and  should  run  into  Milford,  where  there  should  be  two  or  three  days 
demurrage — witnesses  Isaac  Allerton  and  Jacob  Moerinan — signed  by 
Thomas  More  ;  and  by  the  other  with  his  mark — Jacob  Kip,  Secretary. 
(See  Dutch  Record  book  of  Powers,  etc.,  translated  by  O.  Callaghan  in 
i860,  p.  114.) 

On  September  18,  1655,  he  and  Barnabas  Horton  were  appraisers  of 
the  estate  of  James  Haines  (or  Heynes),  of  Southold  (residing  near  him), 
late  of  Salem. 

On  October  16,  1655,  the  deed  from  Richard  Brown  and  Hannah 
(daughter  of  William  Kmg)  to  Klnathan  Topping,  for  a  house  and  home 
lot  at  Southold,  was  executed,  from  which  were  excepted  apple,  pear  and 
peach  trees  standing  next  to  Master  Thomas  Moore's  house  (Printed 
Southold  Record,  \>.  165).  His  house  was  on  the  south  side  of  the  main 
road,  on  a  fair  site,  and  the  fruit  trees  were  in  a  pleasant  valley  extending 
to  the  creek,  opposite  the  south  end  of  the  north  road,  which  led  around 
by  the  north  beach  to  Sterling,  now  Greenport. 

On  June  4,  1656,  describing  himself  of  Southold,  he  conveyed  his  half 
acre  of  upland  "  on  the  point,  by  winter  harbor,  in  the  township  of  Salem," 
to  Mordecai  Craford,  for  ten  shillings.  On  June  30th,  John  Herbert  sold 
his  adjoining  lot  also  to  Craford.  He  also  removed  to  Southold.  It 
seems  neither  had  built  on  the  Salem  lots,  nor,  judging  by  the  modern 
appearance  of  the  ground,  have  they  ever  been  built  on  since.  They 
might  answer  for  a  ship  yard,  or  a  place  to  dry  fish. 

On  August  28,  1656,  Captain  Joseph  Youngs  (the  brother-in-law  of 
T.  M.)  was  at  Barbadoes,  taking  there  a  cargo  of  provisions  from  Long. 
Island,  and  probably  some  noted  passengers.  The  proceedings  there 
under  Cromwell's  orders  can  be  studied.  Captain  Youngs  left  some  beef 
there  (to  be  sold)  for  which  his  estate  was  held  responsible  by  the  widow 
of  Jonas  Wood,  upon  a  bill  of  lading,  that  is  preserved. 

On  November  9,  1657,  a  daughter  of  T.  M.  died  at  Southold,  as  noted 
on  the  town  records,  but  name  not  preserved.  It  may  have  been  "  Mercy  " 
before  mentioned,  or  another  b.  at  Southold. 

On  February  3,  1657/8,  T.  M.  was  on  Shelter  Island,  with  John 
Youngs  and  John  Budd,  and  signed  certificate  about  delivery  of  possession 
to  Nathaniel  Sylvester,  on  the  execution  of  a  deed  by  Booth  to  Sylvester. 
In  165S,  a  list  of  lots  which  had  been  allotted  to  him  or  purchased  by 
him  at  Southold,  was  made  out,  doubtless  for  taxation.  His  home  lot  of 
six  acres,  more  or  less,  was  bounded  by  the  widow  Payne's  habitation  S.  W., 
and  by  the  creek.  He  had  several  other  parcels  ;  one  noted  as  owned 
in  1652. 

John  Herbert  was  reported  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Davenport  as  sick  "  at 
M'anhadoes,"  now  New  York  City.  On  September  5th,  T.  M.  was  an 
appraiser  of  his  estate,  and  on  September  15th  he  appraised  the  estate  of 
Capt.  Joseph  Youngs.  Both  were  deceased.  They  were  prominent  and 
important  men,  deserving  of  a  better  memorial. 


6zL  The  Moore  Family  of  Southohi,  L.  1.  [April, 

On  May  26,  1658,  Tho.  More  appeared  at  New  Haven  as  one  of  the 
Deputies  from  Southold  to  that  organized  jurisdiction,  Barnabas  Horton 
being  the  other,  and  Francis  Newman,  Governor.  "  The  Deputies  01 
Southold  propounded  ye  desire  of  their  town  to  re-purchase  of  ye  jurisdic- 
tion a  p-cell  of  land  called  Mattatock  and  Akkabawke  ;  which,  ye  court 
considering,  by  vote  declared,  that  they  paying  7  li.  in  good  pay,  ye  said 
land  is  theires  ;  which  was  accepted  by  their  deputees  "  (and  the  payment 
afterward  made). 

"  The  proceedings  of  ye  court  against  Humphrey  Norton,  a  Quaker, 
being  read,  were  approved  by  ye  vote  of  this  court."  (N.  Haven  Col.  Rec, 
^653-65,  p.  233.)  It  is  not  stated  how  any  member  voted.  By  tradition 
T.  More  was  friendly  to  the  Quakers,  and  the  two  delegates  from  Southold 
disagreed.     This  is  probable  from  their  general  course. 

"  Tho.  More  and  Barnabas  Horton  were  chosen  and  sworn  constables 
for  Southold  for  ye  yeare  ensuiing,  who  have  the  same  power  comitted  to 
them  wch  was  given  to  ye  constables  there  ye  30th  May  of  1649."  (Id.,  p. 
236.)  Unfortunately  no  record  of  this  power  was  preserved  at  New  Haven. 
Some  other  proceedings  of  the  court  on  that  day  appear  in  the  second  edi- 
tion of  Thompson,  L.  I.,  vol.  i.,  p.  378.  The  constables  were  the  chief 
officers  and  magistrates  of  the  town.  It  was  an  important  office  in  Eng- 
land. Cromwell,  objecting  to  the  title  of  king,  said  he  was  only  a  con- 
stable. A  harsh  law  was  passed  against  Quakers,  to  which,  by  tradition, 
T.  M.  dissented  ;  but  by  the  custom  of  that  period,  no  dissent  was  permit- 
ted to  be  recorded  or  published.     His  son  and  friends  dissented. 

In  1659  he  was  not  re-elected.  Mr.  Wells  resumed  his  old  position 
with  Mr.  Horton.  T.  M.  acted  as  a  magistrate  on  the  trials  of  many  small 
controversies  at  Southold,  of  which  trials  there  was  an  attempt  to  keep 
minutes.  Some  men  who  had  been  soldiers  in  the  civil  war  in  Eng- 
land returned  to  Long  Island.  The  struggle  between  kingdom  and  com- 
monwealth intiamed  or  excited  contentions.  We  discover  no  harsh 
decisions.  The  trial  of  Arthur  Smyth  at  New  Haven  can  be  read  in  "  New 
Haven  Col.  Rec."  Smyth  sold  out  at  Southold  and  removed  to  Brook- 
Haven,  then  less  cultivated.  He  had  been  a  soldier  in  the  Pequot  war. 
T.  M.  and  Joseph  Youngs  witnessed  his  conveyance  to  Mrs.  Margaret 
Youngs,  widow  of  Ca])t.  Joseph,  of  his  house  and  lot  of  land  at  Southold, 
near  T.  M's,  on  the  opposite  corner. 

T.  More  received  a  deed  from  Capt.  John  Underbill  (who  went  also  to 
Brookhaven)  for  the  house  and  home  lot  of  the  latter  at  Southold,  adjoin- 
ing the  lot  of  Joseph  Youngs,  son  of  Capt.  Joseph.  The  warriors  removed 
to  a  more  exposed  place. 

It  appears  from  the  trials  and  town  papers,  that  the  inhabitants  united 
in  fencing  a  large  field  owned  by  them  in  separate  parcels,  called  the  Gen- 
eral field,  which  they  cultivated  peaceably,  thus  saving  fence.  They  also 
fenced  off  large  districts,  on  which  they  put  their  hogs,  as  well  as  other  cat- 
tle, and  thus  the  young  pigs  grew  up  wild.  These  became  difficult  for 
their  owners  either  to  catch  or  to  distinguish  ;  and  some  of  the  curious 
little  law  suits  were  for  shooting  hogs,  claimed  by  the  prosecutor  to  be  his. 
There  were  many  suits  in  every  new  settlement  before  the  law  was  settled 
about  cattle  marks  and  fences.  The  suit  about  Rev.  Mr.  Pierson's  dun- 
colt  may  be  a  sufficient  sample,  reported  in  "  New  Haven  Hist.  Coll.,"  pp. 

349>  465- 

In  1659/60,  Benjamin,  aged  twenty  years,  the  second  son  ofT.  More,  using 


1884.]  The  Moore  Family  of  Southold,  L.  I.  gr 

a  boat  of  his  with  Abraham  Whittier,  aged  twenty-two  years,  and  another 
young  man,  went  down  the  Bay  or  River  to  Ketcham's  farm,  near  modern 
Greenport,  to  kill  wild  turkies.  The  story  told  in  court  exhibits  a  very 
different  condition  of  things  from  the  modern. 

In  1660/61,  upon  the  Restoration  of  the  King  in  England,  few  were 
bold  enough  to  petition  the  new  government  to  stop  the  barbarous  cruel- 
ties and  illegalities  practised  against  the  Quakers,  One  Petition  bears  the 
names  of  Nathaniel  Sylvester,  of  Shelter  Island,  and  "  Tho.  Moore  "  (as 
copied  in  England).  But  whether  it  was  this  Thomas  or  another,  we  can- 
not (from  the  copy)  decide.  Nothing  was  needed  in  England  but  a  truth- 
ful certificate  that  such  things  had  occurred.  The  perpetrators,  conscious 
of  guilt,  sought  to  conceal  the  truth.  The  petty  tyrants,  Dutch  and  Eng- 
lish, urged  strongly  that  they  could  maintain  no  rule  if  any  appeal  was 
allowed  from  their  arbitrary  judgments.  We  have  learned  in  modern  times 
how  much  stronger  a  judge  is,  against  popular  resentment,  when  a  fair 
method  is  allowed  to  correct  errors  which  are  inevitable  results  of  human 
frailties  and  passions.  With  good  jails  or  good  security  to  stop  and  hold 
the  accused,  nothing  is  gained  by  hurried  executions  or  by  lynch  law.  A 
firm  and  steady  repression  of  disorder  is  effectual.  A  passionate  exhibition 
of  resentment  or  vengeance  brings  retaliation  and  unending  disorder. 

The  Quakers,  as  a  body,  probably  arose  from  the  farmers  of  the  monas- 
teries— the  best  farmers  of  England  and  generally  religious — who  adhered 
to  their  religion  after  their  priors  and  priests  were  forbidden  to  be  seen  in 
England,  during  the  war  which  Queen  Elizabeth  had  with  those  that  were 
hostile  to  her.  When  the  monastery  leases  for  three  lives  expired  the  farmers 
were  expelled  from  their  farms  by  the  warriors,  and  seeking  farming  land,  fled 
from  the  rough  ])ersecution  of  the  coarse,  ignorant,  and  brutal.  We  have 
little  concern  with  their  theological  opinions,  but  may  say  that  opinions 
of  the  many,  to  be  candid  and  intelligent,  require  slow  teaching  or  preach- 
ing. The  use  of  figures  instead  of  the  names  of  the  months  at  that  period 
was  not  peculiar  to  Quakers.  It  was  common  in  all  the  public  records. 
The  word  "  thee"  instead  of  "you"  was  long  adhered  to  by  them,  but  had 
been  dropped  by  other  educated  penmen  and  by  their  scholars. 

In  1661,  Capt.  Ralph  Goldsmith  brought  back  to  America  some  of  the 
banished  Quakers  (see  4th  ed.  Mass.  Hist.  Coll.,  vol.  ix.,  p.  161.  Journal 
of  George  Fox,  p.  325,  13  N.  Y.  G.  and  B.  Rec.  147).  He  is  described  of 
London,  mariner.  It  is  probable  he  was  related  to  the  Rev.  John  Gold- 
smith, who  succeeded  Rev.  Christopher  Youngs  at  Reydon  and  Southwold, 
in  England  (14  do.,  65),  and  to  the  Goldsmiths  who  came  to  Southampton 
and  Southold,  on  Long  Island. 

Such  relationship  would  be  a  fair  reason  for  T.  More  to  be  hospitable 
and  civil  to  him.  He  bought  land  at  Southold  and  put  it  in  charge  of  N. 
Sylvester.  The  deeds  are  not  recorded  with  the  others  of  the  town,  the 
records  being  in  the  hands  of  their  legal  antagonists,  and  we  have  not  their 
dates  in  order  ;  but  find  them  mentioned  afterward.  It  is  probable  he 
brought  supplies  of  needed  articles  from  England  and  took  deeds  in  pay- 
ment. The  place  was  in  great  need  of  supplies,  by  reason  of  the  disorders 
and  non-intercourse  of  the  civil  war  and  the  Dutch  war.  Shipwrights 
needed  many  things.  There  was  little  money.  Land  was  almost  a  cur- 
rency, as  well  as  tobacco  and  cheese. 

In  July,  1662,  a  strip  along  the  Sound,  opposite  the  modern  village  of 
Greenport,  before  left  in  common,  was  laid  off  and  allotted,  one-third,  the 


66  The  Moore  Family  of  SoutJioId,  L.  I.  [April, 

eastern  end,  for  Capt.  John  Youngs ;  one-third,  the  middle  part,  for  this 
Thomas  More,  and  one-third,  the  western  end,  for  the  Hashamomack  in- 
habitants. This  land  thus  allotted  to  him  became  known  as  the  eastern 
boundary  of  the  Hashamomack  inhabitants.  It  embraced  a  swamp  then 
and  ever  since  called  Pine  swamp,  and  the  land  north  of  it  to  the  Long 
Island  Sound.      The  swamp  had  a  few  pine  trees. 

In  May  of  that  year,  his  deposition  as  a  witness  was  taken  in  writing 
before  John  Ogden,  then  a  magistrate  of  the  Hartford  colony,  residing  at 
North  sea,  or  Northampton,  in  the  town  of  Southampton,  in  a  lawsuit  pros- 
ecuted by  Charles  Glover  against  James  Mills  ;  and  this  was  read  in  court  at 
New  Haven  on  May  29th,  and  was  published  at  length  in  Mr.  Hoadley's 
"New  Haven  Historical  Collections,  p.  393."  The  depositions  of  his  son 
Nathaniel,  and  of  Alice  Rawlings,  "being  at  A[r.  More's  at  Southold,"  can 
all  be  read,  and  we  must  omit  them,  although  inviting  a  long  review.  We 
cannot  be  sure  how  much  of  the  terse  language  of  the  deposition  was  Mr. 
Ogden' s,  or  was  that  of  the  witness.  No  doubt  Capt.  John  Youngs  was 
the  arbitrator  chosen  on  the  part  of  Charles  Glover,  the  shipwright,  an  old 
settler  sent  out  by  John  Mason  ;  and  the  other,  the  lawyer,  Mr.  Wells, 
must  have  been  the  one  chosen  by  James  Mills,  who,  without  legal  evi- 
dence, could  avoid  deciding  how  much  was  due  for  extra  size  or  extra 
work  ;  and  Mr.  Mills  escaped  payment.  Neither  the  New  Haven  mag- 
nates, nor  those  of  Massachusetts,  nor  this  learned  successor  as  deputy  and 
magistrate,  could  admit  that  anything  was  wrong  or  defective  on  their  i)art 
toward  exposed  Islanders,  Shipwrights,  Quakers,  or  any  one.  It  is  plain 
they  failed  to  secure  the  good  opinion  of  the  residents  of  Southold,  who 
were  left  alone  to  erect  forts  and  to  defend  themselves  against  Indians  and 
against  Dutch  hostilities,  and  only  attempted  to  be  punished  as  if  they  would 
fight  New  Haven,  or  because  they  tolerated  Quakers.  We  can  notice 
that  a  journey  across  the  smooth  Bay  of  Peconic,  to  testify  before  the 
Hartford  magistrate,  was  found  more  convenient  than  the  longer  journey 
west  and  across  Long  Island  Sound  to  New  Haven.  The  Senior  could  ap- 
preciate this,  and  Charles  Glover  was  not  well  pleased  with  results. 

The  next  occurrence  was  an  important  one  for  New  Haven.  A  new 
charter  for  the  Hartford  organization  was  obtained  in  England.  It  was 
intended  to  embrace  Southauipton,  L.  L,  which  had  before  joined  that 
colony,  and  John  Ogden,  the  magistrate  of  Southampton,  was  named  in  it 
as  a  corporator  and  officer.  Its  words  embracing  "  Islands "  were  sup- 
posed to  include  Southold,  lying  north  of  Southampton,  and  nearer  to 
Connecticut.  The  charter  was  brought  to  Southold  and  exhibited  there 
before  it  was  made  public  at  Hartford.  The  result  was  that  about  forty 
men,  nearly  all  the  prominent  men  of  the  town,  except  lawyer  Wells,  the 
Horton's  and  a  few  others  at  the  west,  signed  an  appointment  of  Captain 
John  Youngs  as  a  Delegate  from  Southold  to  the  newly  chartered  govern- 
ment at  Hartford ;  and  they  were  generally  admitted  freemen  of  that 
colony.  The  document  is  preserved  at  Hartford  with  original  signatures, 
many  of  them  well  written.  It  requires  a  skilful  reader  of  such  old  writ- 
ings to  get  all  the  letters  correct.  By  the  aid  of  Mr.  Hoadley,  and  by 
comparison  with  deeds,  all  the  names  can  be  clearly  read  except  the  full 
sur-names  of  one  or  two.  The  leader  at  the  head  of  the  right-hand  column 
was  Charles  Glover  (name  not  easily  read),  and  the  next  we  suppose  was 
Thomas  More  the  junior,  who  had  protested  against  New  Haven  (although 
without  the  addition  of  junior  to  his  signature)  ;  and  it  may  be  the  senior. 


18S4.]  The  Moore  Family  of  Soui/iold,  L.  I.  57 

Abraham  whom  we  have  called  "  Whittier,"  wrote  his  name  "  Whichcheer." 
There  were  three  named  "Youngs,"  and  only  one  "Smyth,"  In  the  left- 
hand  column,  were  only  three  names,  perhaps  added  after  the  others, 
Thomas  More,  probably  the  senior,  John  Herbert,  son  of  the  deceased 
John,  and  Barnabas  Winds.  These  forty  names  being  the  majority  of 
freemen  practically  carried  the  town  to  the  Hartford  organization,  and 
New  Haven  office  holders  refusing  to  concur  had  to  be  drilled  into  obe- 
dience. Probably  few  now  regret  that  Connecticut  became  a  single 
State,  instead  of  two,  although  there  was  then  and  for  many  years  not  a 
little  grumbling.  We  need  not  here  discuss  the  rule  followed  at  New 
Haven,  in  having  only  church-members  in  power.  But  it  gives  a  clue  to 
the  leading  grumblers.  Few  even  of  those  who  urge  the  rule  can  deny  that 
it  has  been  woefully  abused. 

Thomas,  the  son,  became  a  freeholder  by  the  conveyance  to  him,  about 
this  time,  of  the  house  and  lot  purchased  of  Captain  Underbill ;  or  perhaps 
he  was  so  before.  Among  the  deeds  to  Ralph  Goldsmith  was  one  apparently 
from  him  for  one  hundred  and  fifty  acres  ;  one  from  Charles  Glover  for 
one  hundred  acres,  and  one  from  Geoffrey  Jones,  son-in-law  of  Charles 
Glover,  for  fifty  acres.  There  was  a  deed  also  from  John  Conkling,  who 
soon  removed  to  Huntington.  In  1665,  the  first  lot  at  Agueboque,  a 
large  lot,  was  allotted  on  a  division  to  T.  More,  the  senior,  and  in  Febru- 
ary, 1665  6,  he  received  a  deed  for  connnon  lands  at  Agueboque  from  Rich- 
ard and  Abigail  Terry.  In  May,  1666,  he  united  with  others  in  executing 
a  deed  for  Plumb  Island  to  Captain  John  Youngs,  and  in  September  he 
received  a  deed  from  John  Ketcham,  for  one  hundred  and  fifty  acres  near 
Greenport,  before  mentioned,  which  had  been  granted  by  James  Farrett, 
as  agent  for  Lord  Sterling,  to  Richard  Jackson  on  August  15,  1640; 
by  Jackson  to  Thomas  Witherly  (with  a  dwelling  house)  on  October  23, 
1640  ;  by  Witherly,  a  mariner,  to  Stephen  Goodyear,  of  New  Haven  ;  and 
by  Goodyear  to  John  Ketcham.  The  title  of  Goodyear  was  recognized 
in  other  deeds  in  1649,  and  that  of  Ketcham  in  1658/9,  who  removed  west 
with  the  warriors  and  left  many  descendants. 

In  1667  a  deed  was  received  from  John  Svveazey,  formerly  of  Salem,  for 
a  house,  barn,  and  land  at  Southold.  This  was  recorded  at  Southampton. 
It  may  be  inferred  that  the  clerk's  office  at  Southold  was  not  in  friendly 
hands.     Some  erasures  and  changes  can  yet  be  detected. 

In  1667/8  the  senior  executed  a  deed  to  his  son  Benjamin,  also  re- 
corded in  Southampton  ;  it  may  be  because  his  son  married  a  daughter  of 
James  Hampton,  then  residing  there. 

On  February  14,  1668,  "Mr.  Thomas  More's  vessel"  reported  "cast 
away  at  Cape  Cod  in  a  storm  ;  four  persons  perished,  and  much  wealth 
lost."  (34  N.  Efig.  Gen.  -Reg-,  298).  We  judge  he  was  not  in  command, 
but  repaired  there.  Some  controversy  arose  about  salvage.  An  agree- 
ment, made  October  29th,  was  sanctioned  by  the  court.  (Freeman's  His- 
tory Cape  Cod,  vol.  i.,  p.  263.) 

In  1 67 1  he  and  his  wife  Martha  (then  living)  received  P^dward  Betty's 
son  James,  until  of  age. 

In  March,  1672,  he  and  John  Budd  executed  to  Isaac  Arnold  a  bill  of 
sale  for  one-eighth  of  the  Ketch  "Thomas  and  John,"  of  forty-four  tons, 
"gone  for  the  Island  of  Barbados  "  (see  i  Essex  Inst.,  275).  But  it  was  not 
a  successful  vessel  for  such  a  voyage. 

In  1673,  the  Dutch  having  re-captured  New  York,  sought  to  induce  or 


68  The  Moore  Family  of  Sotithold,  L.  I.  [April, 

compel  all  Long  Island  to  adhere  to  them.  He  was  named  by  the  cap- 
tors to  be  one  of  the  magistrates  for  the  town.  They  presently  sent  com- 
missioners to  examine  and  report.  They  came  to  his  house  and  held  a 
formal  audience.  He  declined  to  act  as  magistrate.  The  town  resolved 
to  adhere  to  Connecticut,  and  had  decisive  aid.  The  visit,  voyage,  parade, 
and  audience  are  all  graphically  set  forth  in  3  TV^  Y.  Doc.  Hist.,  207,  211. 
A  painter  might  embellish  the  scene. 

He  received  and  executed,  at  different  dates,  various  deeds  which 
need  not  be  described.  Various  other  particulars  would  consume  too  much 
space.  He  had  a  suit  with  Francis  Brinley  in  1679;  an  appeal  in  1680; 
and  in  1682  conveyed  land  in  settlement.  In  1683  he  was  overseer  (like 
supervisor)  of  the  town,  and  he  was  one  of  the  committee  to  nominate  a 
member  for  the  first  assembly  held  at  New  York.  In  1684,  called  senior, 
he  was  one  of  a  committee  to  seat  persons  in  the  "meeting-house."  In 
1685  he  was  again  a  magistrate  of  the  town,  authorized  to  try  small 
causes.  A  list  of  lots  preserved  in  the  town  book  describes  his  land.  On 
January  8,  1687/8,  he  executed  a  deed  to  his  grandson  Thomas  for 
one  hundred  acres  north  of  Pine  Swamp ;  the  modern  homestead.  In 
1688  his  wife  Katharine,  having  sent  her  son  Thomas  Dorsey  to  England, 
to  school,  for  herself  and  children  conveyed  to  William  Smith  (from  Tan- 
gier) land  at  Setauket  formerly  possessed  by  Daniel  Lane  ;  witnesses  Isaac 
Arnold,  the  Col.  and  Richard  Smyth  (the  chief  of  Smithtown). 

On  April  18,  1691,  he  and  his  wife  Katharine  executed  a  deed  to  R. 
Howell.  On  June  25th,  he  made  his  7c>ill.  naming  Katharine,  his  wife,  his 
two  surviving  sons,  Thomas  and  Nathaniel,  and  four  daughters,  calling  them 
Martha  Symons,  Hannah  Symons,  Elizabeth  Grover,  and  Sarah  Glover ; 
witnesses  Joseph  Young  and  Benjamin  Young. 

On  September  29,  1691,  the  will  was  proved  before  Col.  William  Smith, 
as  judge  of  the  Prerogative  Court  for  Suffolk  County,  L.  I. 

In  1698  there  were  twenty-four  of  his  surname  on  the  census  list. 
Five  were  married  women  from  other  families.  Two  of  his  married 
daughters  were  on  the  same  list,  one  with  children,  Martha,  at  Hempstead, 
with  nine  children  and  some  grand-children.  Some  descendants  are  not 
exactly  traced.  It  was  a  curious  discovery  to  find  in  each  of  three  places 
(Queens  County,  Orange  County,  and  Salisbury,  Connecticut),  more  des- 
cendants afterward  than  in  Southold. 

His  active  and  eventful,  but  hazardous  life,  must  be  left  very  much  to 
the  imagination  to  fill  out. 


Jessup. — Prof.  Henry  G.  Jessup,  of  Dartmouth  College,  Hanover,  N.  K.,  is  en- 
gaged upon  a  genealogy  of  the  Jessup  family,  descendants  of  Edward  Jessup,  one  of 
the  original  purchasers  in  1663,  from  the  Indian  proprietors,  of  tlie  lands  comprising  the 
present  town  of  West  Farms,  Westchester  County,  in  this  State,  and  one  of  the  paten- 
tees named  in  the  town  patent  granted  by  Governor  Nicolls  in  1666.  In  connection 
with  this  work  Prof.  Jessup  desires  information  respecting  the  present  Hunt  family,  de- 
scendants of  Thomas  Hunt  of  Hunt's  Point,  who  married  Elizabeth,  the  daughter  of 
Edward  Jessup. 


1884.]  Of  the  Ktiig/it/iood  atui  Nobility  in  Holland.  69 


OF  THE   KNIGHTHOOD  AND   NOBH.ITY  IN   HOLLAND. 


Translation  by  Mr.  James  Riker,  from  "D'oiide  Chronyke  ende  Histoiien  van  Hol- 
land," by  W.  Van  Gouthoeven  ;  a  rare  work  printed  at  Dordrecht,  in  1620. 


The  inhabitants  of  Christendom  in  all  lands  were  commonly  divided  or 
separated  into  three  conditions  or  sorts  of  persons,  as  the  Ecclesiastics, 
the  Nobility,  and  the  Burghery,  under  which  were  comprehended  the  hus- 
bandmen. The  first  were  for  teaching  the  others  that  which  concerns  the 
service  of  God,  or  Religion,  and  for  the  dispensing  of  the  Holy  Sacraments 
and  other  spiritual  offices ;  and  that  this  should  be  done  more  properly, 
were  for  that  purpose,  from  the  early  times  of  the  forefathers,  granted  and 
given  lands  or  tithes  for  the  necessities  and  maintenance  of  the  Ecclesias- 
tics, to  the  end  that  they,  being  freed  from  worldly  hindrances,  should  the 
better  discharge  their  bounden  duty.  The  second,  living  from  their  own 
income  from  lands,  tithes,  and  manors,  and  their  savings  from  merchandise, 
and  especially  from  store-keeping  ;  but  frequenting  the  wars  and  the  prince's 
banquets,  oi:  serving  in  some  honest  office,  were  bound  to  defend  the  land 
and  the  other  two-  classes,  with  their  arms,  from  the  violence  or  oppression 
of  enemies,  provided  they  had  command  or  commission  thereto  from  the 
high  magistrate.  The  third  and  last  (since  from  ancient  times  the  seizin 
of  the  lands  by  gift  belonged  to  the  Nobility  or  Ecclesiastics)  got  their  liv- 
ing by  all  kinds  of  handiwork,  knowledge,  skill,  new  inventions  and  mer- 
chandise, cultivating  land,  and  the  like;  and  though  their  state  was  the 
least  in  estimation,  yet  were  they  the  greatest  in  number,  and  quite  as 
necessitous  as  the  other  two,  so  that  the  one  could  not  long  subsist  without 
the  other  :  and  because  of  the  bad  rule  of  some  of  the  nobles,  so  were  many 
of  these  by  their  diligence  and  sobriety  come  into  the  property  and  manors 
of  the  nobility.  The  state  of  the  second  and  the  third  free  to  attain  to  the 
state  of  the  first;  the  third  by  natural  ability,  and  from  the  knowledge  and 
practice  of  arms  and  of  the  virtues,  having  acquired  greater  wealth,  might 
also  well  attain  to  the  state  of  the  second,  and  be  counted  among  the 
number  of  the  nobility,  as  they  there  came  to  be  acknowledged  by  the  high 
magistrate,  or  his  servants  and  officers,  and  the  other  nobles.  The  first 
and  the  second  might  not  come  with  honor  to  the  state  of  tue  last,  as  it  is 
a  shame  when  men  go  from  the  better  to  the  worse. 

The  nobility  of  Holland  have  their  surname  nearly  all  from  a  village, 
house,  or  tract  of  land  with  a  homestead,  owned  by  them  or  which  their 
forefathers  have  owned,  and  before  such  surname  place  the  little  word  Van  ; 
or  simply  use  a  surname  which  before  was  derived  from  the  first  of  the 
race,  such  as  Fosk'yn,  ./Vagel,  Baniaert,  Eggert,  Beukel,  in  Holland ;  the 
same  is  also  in  other  neighboring  lands  in  use,  as  Turck,  Cloet,  Millinck, 
Pot,  Rollyn,  Aficaut,  and  many  others. 

Formerly  the  nobility  here  (considering  it  is  a  small  country),  was  great 
in  number ;  but  by  time  is  much  lessened,  in  part  by  failure  of  heirs,  or 
that  the  posterity  have  come  to  a  common  condition  by  disrupture  of  the 
country,  or  no  good  government  to  sustain  it,  so  that  the  number  now  can- 


70 


Of  the  Knighthood  and  Nobility  in  Holland, 


[April, 


not  reach  to  thirty-five  known  noble  stocks,  bearing  different  surnames 
and  arms.  And  here  follows  for  remembrance  a  catalogue  or  list  of  all 
which,  in  the  old  or  new  printed  chronicles,  and  in  registers,  rolls,  accounts, 
and  other  written  unniments  were  placed  or  mentioned  among  the  knight- 
hood, and  the  nobles  whom  men  aforetime  called  Esquires  or  Shieldbearers 
\Knapen  oft  Schilt7iape}i\  all  bearing  or  having  borne  a  separate  arms; 
although  many  from  a  younger  brother  of  one  lord  or  another  have  sprung, 
who  altered  their  father's  arms  in  the  colors  or  with  another  device,  and 
taking  another  surname  from  a  tract  of  land  (being  a  fee  farm),  so  have 
raised  up  a  new  lineage. 

In  this  list  a  small  hand  thus  £^^  placed  before  [we  substitute  a  star], 
signifies  that  of  all  such  noble  families  heirs  are  yet  living,  the  others  being 
deceased,  or  at  least  in  Holland  no  longer  known :  or  if  heirs  yet  remain 
of  them  (proceeding  from  lawful  marriage),  as  I  suppose  is  the  case,  still 
all  such,  because  they  are  come  by  mischance  to  the  common  condition, 
are  no  longer  known  by  the  other  nobility. 


Al)benbroeck, 

Accoy, 

Ackersloot, 

Adrichum, 

Aelburgh, 

Aemstel, 

*Aemstel  van  Mynen, 

Alblas, 

Albout, 

*Albout, 

*Alkemade, 

Alnimonde, 

Alphen, 

Altenae, 

Ameronghen, 

Ameyde, 

*Arckel, 

*Asperen, 

*Assendelft, 

Backerwaerde, 

Backenesse, 

Baniaert, 

Beern, 

Beetz, 

*Bekesteyn, 

Benschop, 

Benthem, 

*Berckenroede, 

Bergh, 

Berghen, 

Besoyen, 

Beukelaer, 

Bevervvaerde, 

Binckhorst, 

Bleyswyck, 

Bloemensteyn, 


Blommendael, 

Bockhoven, 

Boeckel, 

Boel, 

*Boetselaer, 

*Boschuysen, 

Bottersloot, 

*Bouckhorst, 

Braeckel, 

*Breederoede, 

*Bronchhorst, 

*Burch, 

Castricum, 

*Clootwyck, 

*Coppier, 

Coulster, 

Craeyesteyn, 

Cralingen, 

Cranenburgh, 

Croesinck, 

Croonenburgh, 

Cuyl, 

Daellem, 

Dever, 

Diemen, 

Diepenburgh, 

*Does, 

Donghen, 

Doortoghe, 

*Dorp, 

Drimmelen, 

*Dronghelen, 

Dussen, 

*Duvenvoorde,  or  Du- 

voorde, 
*Duyck, 


*Duyn, 

Duyven, 

Eemskercke, 

Eethen, 

Eggert, 

*Egmont, 

Elshout, 

*Emmichoven, 

*Endegheest, 

Eversdyck, 

*Foreest, 

Gellechum, 

Gheervliet, 

Gheur, 

Ghyssen, 

Goude, 

Grebber, 

Groenevelt, 

*Haeghe, 

Haerlem, 

*Haestrecht, 

Harghen, 

*Hartaing, 

Hedichuysen, 

Heemskercke, 

Heemstede, 

Heenvliet, 

Heerman, 

Herlaer, 

Hesbeen, 

*Heukehnii, 

Heusden, 

Hillegum, 

Hodenpyl, 

Hoochtwoude, 

Hoorne, 


[884.] 


Of  the  Knighiliood  and  Nobility  in  Holland. 


71 


Hoinveninghen, 
*Jode, 
Kedichem, 
Kvfhouck, 
Kuser, 
*Laen, 
Langheraeck, 
Lecke, 
I>eede, 
Leerdam, 
*Leeuwen, 
Leyen  burgh, 
Liesvelt, 
*Linde, 
Loendersloot, 
*I^oo, 
Made, 
Marck, 
*Matenesse, 
Meresteyn, 
*Merwede, 
*Myle, 
*I\rvnden, 
Moerdrecht, 
Moerkerke, 
Molenaer, 
Monster, 
Muylwyck, 
Nachtegael, 
*Naeld\vyck, 
Nagel, 
Nederveen, 
Noorden, 
Noortwyck, 
*Nyenburgh, 
Nyenroede, 
Nyensteyn, 
*Oeni, 
Oesterwyck, 
Oestgheest, 
*Outheusden, 
Outshoorn, 


*Persvn, 

*Pynssen, 

Po'el, 

Poelenburgh, 

*Poe]gheest, 

Polanen, 

Poskyn, 

Potter, 

Putten,  ^ 

*Raephorst, 

Rensenbergh, 

*Rheynegimi, 

Riede, 

*Riet\vyck, 

*Roden,  now  Roon, 

Rodenrys, 

Rollant,' 

Rosenbergh, 

Rosendael, 

*Ruychrock, 

Ruyven, 

Rysoort, 

Ryswyck, 

Santhorst, 

Sasbout, 

Sassenhem, 

Sayt, 

*Schaghen, 

*Schoten, 

Schotlant, 

Schoonhoven, 

Sevenberghen, 

Slinghelandt, 

Sluyse, 

*Sonnevelt, 

Spaerwoude, 

*Spanghen, 

*Spierinck, 

Spierinckshouck, 

Spysdragher, 

Stapel, 

Steenhuysen, 


Stoop, 

Stryen, 

*Suys, 

Tetroede, 

*Tevlinghen, 

Tol,' 

ToUoyse, 

*Treslong, 

Uytwyck, 

Valckenburgh, 

Valckesteyn, 

Veen, 

Velsen, 

Vliet, 

Voorhout, 

Voorn, 

Vriese, 

*V"ueren, 

Vyanen, 

Waele, 

Warmont, 

Wassenaer, 

Wateringhen, 

Waterlant, 

*Wena, 

*Westerbeeck, 

Werve, 

Weyburgh, 

Wisse, 

Wieldrecht, 

Wiebiess, 

W^yck, 

Woerden, 

Woert, 

Woude,  . 

*\Vyngaerde, 

Ysselsteyn, 

Zaenen, 

*Zevender, 

ZyL 

Zuydwvck, 

*Z\vieten. 


[Note. — We  are  not  to  understand  the  autlior  as  saying  that  the  names  without  a 
star  were  all  extinct,  but  only  extinct  among  the  then  nobility.  And  this  list  is  confined 
to  the  province  of  Holland.  It  is  to  be  remembered  that  most  of  these  names  had  the 
van  prefixed  ;  some  had  vander  or  vanden  {of  the)^  as  Vandenbergli,  and  others  de  {the), 
as  de  Jode,  de  Potter^  d-e  Vriese.  Several  facts  give  interest  to  this  list.  It  dates  at  the 
beginning  of  the  emigration  to  New  Netherland,  and  contains  some  names  afterward 
found  in  this  country,  as  Vanderpoel^  JMolenaer,  Potter,  Van  Norden,  Spierinck,  now 
Speer,  Van  Vliet,  Van  Woert,  Van  Wyck,  Volkenburgh,  etc.  It  enables  us  in  some 
cases  to  distinguish  between  names  which  were  hereditary,  and  those  adopted  by  the  col- 
onist from  the  place  of  his  birth. — J.  R.] 


7 2  ^  List  of  Early  Immigrants  to  Neiv  Neiherland.  [April, 


A   LIST   OF    EARLY    IMMIGRANTS  TO   NEW  NETHERLAND. 

Alphabetically  Arranged,  with  Additions  and   Correc- 
tions,   FROM    Manuscripts    of    the    lape 
Teunis    G.    Bergen. 


Communicated  by_Van  Brunt  Bergex,  of  Bay  Ridge,  N.  Y. 

(Continued  from  Vol.  XV.,  p.  40,  of  The  Record.) 


Note. —  The  numbers  on  the  left  of  the  page  refer  to  the  list  of  ships  as  printed  in 
Vol.  XIV.,  p.  190. 


23  Vaex,  Jan,  from  Nieustadt,  soldier,  April  27,  1660. 

b  Van  Aerts  Daalen,  Simon  Janse,  1653. 

b  Van  Amach,  Theunis  Janse,  1673. 

a  Van  Amersfoort,  Jan  Dircksen,  1638. 

a  Van  Amersfoort,  Jan  Dircksen,  1642. 

b  Van  Amersfoort,  Jan  Harmenssen,  1658. 

a  Van  Amsterdam,  Albert  Jansen,  1642. 

a  Van  Amsterdam,  Gysbert  Claessen,  1636. 

a  Van  Amsterdam,  Jacob  Jansen,  1636. 

a  Van  Baasle,  Johan  Helms,  1642. 

a  Van  Baden,  Hans  Vos,  1642. 
26  Van  Beest,  Adriaentje  Cornelis,  widow  and  daughter.  May  9,  1661. 
26  Van  Beest,  Aert  Pietersen,  Buys,  wife  and  son,  May  9,  1661. 
31   Van  Beest,  Annetje  Gillis,  servant  girl,  May  24,  16   2, 
26  Van  Beest,  Frans  Jacobsen,  wife  and  2  children.  May  9,  166 1. 
26  Van  Beest,  Geertje  Cornelis,  widow  and  6  children.  May  9,  1661. 
26  Van  Beest,  Geertruy  Teunissen,  May  9,  1661. 
26  Van  Beest,  Goosen  Jansen  Van  Noort,  May  9,  1661. 
26  Van  Beest,  Hendrick  Bries,  May  9,  1661. 
34  Van  Beest,  Jan  Petersen  Buys,  ]\lar.,  1663. 
26   Van  Beest,  Peter  Marcelis,  wife,  4  children,   and  2   servants,   May  9, 

1661. 
36  Van  Beest,  Marretje  Theunis,  April  16,  1663. 
26  Van  Beest,  Neeltje  Jans,  May  9,  1661. 
34  Van  Bergen,  Andries  Pietersen,  Mar.,  1663. 

a  Van  Bergen,  Martin  Gerrittsen,  1630. 

b  Van  Boerum,  Willem  Jacobs,  1649. 
41   Van  Bommel,  Marselis  Jansen,  farmer,  Jan.  20,  1664. 

b  Van  Bosch,  Jan  Wouterse,  1659. 

a  Van  Breda,  Claes  Jansen,  1639. 

a  Van  Bremen,  Jan  Jansen,  1646. 

a  Van  Breukelen,  Cornelis  Teunissen,  163 1. 

a  Van  Broeckhuysen,  Mauritz  Jansen,  1636. 

a  Van  Broeckhuysen,  Michel  Jansen,  1636. 

b  Van  Brunt,  Ruth  Joosten,  1653. 

a  "N^an  Bersingeren,  Adriaen  Cornelissen,  1642. 


1 884.  J  A  List  of  Early  Immigrants  to  New  Netherlatid.  •I'l 

a  Van  Bunick,  Gysbert  Adriaensen,  1638. 

a  Van  Bunick,  Tomas  Jansen,  1636. 

a  Van  Buren,  Cornells,  Maessen,  1631. 
24  Van  Buren,  Gerrit  Aartsen,  farmer,  April  27,  1660. 
24  Van  Buren,  Gerrit  Cornelissen,  farmer,  April  27,  1660. 

b  Van  Buren,  Jacob  Willeni,  1649. 

a  Van  Campen,  Jacob  Jansen,  1640. 

b  Van  Cassant,  Isaack,  1652. 
_^Van  Cleef,  Jan,  1653. 
30  Van  Compen,  Claes,  from  Oldenburg,  farmer's  boy,  May  24,  1662. 

12  Van  Coppenol,  Jan.  from  Ronsen,  farmer,  wife  and  2  children,  Feb., 

1659. 

a  Van  Cremyn,  Joachim  Kuttelhuys,  1642. 

a  Van  Curler,  Arendt,  1630. 
27  Van  Denen,  Annetje,  from  Enden,  May  9,  1661. 
21   Van  der  Beecke,  William,  from  Oudenaerde,  soldier,  Mar.  9,  1660. 

a  Van  der  Belt,  Adriaen  Teunissen,   1640. 

a  Van  der  Belt,  Simon  Walings,  1636. 

a  Van  der  Bogaert,  Harman  Mynderts,  1646. 

3  Van  den  Bos,  Jan  Jansen,  mason,  and  his  brother,  Dec,  1657. 

43  Van  der  Briel,  Anietje  Hendricks,  Jan,  20,  1664. 
a  Van  der  Donk,  Adriaen,   1641. 

44  Van  der  Hagen,  Seravia,  and  child,  April  17,  1664. 

4  Van  der  Kuyl,  Cornelis  Barentsen,  Dec,  1657. 

36  Van  der  Peich,  Matthys  Bastiaensen,  and  daughter,  April  16,  1663. 
14  Van  der  Schelling,  Jacobus,  and  his  boy,  April,  1659. 
6  Van  der  Sluys,  Andries,  wife  of  and  child,  clerk  in  B'ort  Orange,  May 

1658. 
14  Van  der  Spiegel,  Laurens,  van  Flissingen,  April,  1659. 

13  Van  der  Veer,  Cornelis  Jansen,  farmer,  Feb.,  1659. 
12  Van  der  Wielen,  Laurens  Jacobs,  Feb.,  1659, 

b  Van  Deventer,  Jan,  1662. 

b  Van  de  Water,  Jacobus,  1658. 

14  Van  de  Wert,  Marten,  from  Utrecht,  hatter,  April,  1659. 
17  Vandieu,  Dirck  Gerritsen,  from  Tricht,  farmer,  Mar.,  1660. 

a  Van  Doom,  Cornelis  Lambertsen,  1642. 
a  Van  Dublin,  Jan  Andriessen,  1646. 
b  Van  Duyn,  Gerrit  Cornelis,  1649. 
24  Van  Duyvelant,  Jan,  the  wife  of,  April  27,  1660. 

5  Van  Duyvelant,  Jan  Adriaensen,  May,   1658. 
b  Vandyck,  Achias  Janse,  165 1. 

b  Vandyck,  Jan  Janse,  1652. 
b  Vandyck,  Karel  Janse,  1652. 
b  Van  Dyckhuys,  Jan  Theunis,  1653. 
14  Van  Ecke,  Peter,  from  Leyden,  planter,  April,  1659. 
a  Van  Edam,  Dirck  Jansen,  1636. 
a  Van  Edam,  Jan  Michaelsen,  1637. 
a  Van  Edam,  Rynier  Tymanssen,  1636. 
a  Van  Edam,  Tys  Barentsen  Schoonmaker,  1636. 
b  Van  Ens,  Cornelis  Hendricksen,  May,  1658. 
a  Van  Es,  Cornelis  Hendricksen,  1642. 
a  Van  Franiker,  Jan  Terssen,  1635. 


74  A  List  of  Early  Immigrants  to  Neio  Netherla7id.  [April, 

a  \^.\\  Frederickstad,  Arent  Andriessen,  1636. 
12   Van  Garder,  Gillis  Jansen,  wife  and  4  children,  Feb.,  1659. 

a  Van  Gertruydenburgh,  Paulus  Jansen,  1642. 

6  Van  Gilthuys,  Gerrit  Gerritsen,  tailor,  May,  165S.  ^ 

6  Van  Gloockens,  Jan  Evertsen,  May,  1658.  I 

12   Van  Gorehem,  Weyntje  Martens,  Feb.,  1659.  ■ 

44  Van  Haagen,  Maria,  and  child,  ag.  4,  April  17,  1664. 
22    V"an  Haen,  Gerrit  Mannaet,  soldier,  April  15,  1660. 

6  Van  Halen,  Peter,  from  Utrecht,  wife,  2  children,  and  a  boy,  May,  1658. 

a  Van  Hanielwaard,  Adam  Roelantsen,  1639. 

a  Van  Hamelwaard,  Martin  Hendricksen,  1638. 
2,Z  Van  Heyningen,  Claes  Jansen,  Oct.,  1662. 

8  Van  Hooghvelt,  Lysbet,  Dec.  20,  1656. 

a  Van  Hoosem,  Jan,  1646. 

a  Van  Houtten,  Cornelis  Kryne,  1640. 

a  Van  Houtten,  Jan  Cornelissen,  1640. 

a  Van  Houtten,  Jan  Creyne,  1642. 

a  Van  Houtten.  Roeloff  Cornelissen,  1638. 

11  Van  Kampen,  Jan  Brandsen,  farmer,  June,  1658. 
b  Van  Kerck,  Jan  Sen.,  1663. 

12  Van  Kootuyck,  Wouter  Gerritsen,  Feb.,  1659. 

6  Van  Laer,  Adriaen,  from  Amsterdam,  and  servant,  A[ay,  1658. 
20  Van  Leeuwen,  Cornelis  Jacobs  (in  the  service  of  Roeloff  Swartwout), 
April  15,  1660. 

a  Van  Leyden,  Wm.  Fredericksen,  1642. 
44  Van  Lier,  Jan  Evertsen,  the  wife  of,  and  child  ag.  8,  April  17,  1664. 
34  Van  Limmigen,  Jan  Cornelisz,  Mar.,  1663. 

15  Van  Loo,  Barent,  from  Elburg,  April,  1659. 
a  Van  Luyderdorp,  Juriaen  Bestval,  1642. 

a  Van  Luyten,  Arendt  Teunissen,  1642. 

-  a  Van  Maesterlandt,  Roeloff  Jansen,  1630. 

16  Van  Manen,  Gerrit,  from  Wagening,  Dec,  1659. 
b  Van  Meeteren,  Kreyn  Janse,  1663. 

a  Van  Merkerk,  Cornelis  Teunissen,  1637. 

14  Van  Meulen,  Geertry,  maiden,  April,  1659. 

a  Van  Munnichendam,  Pieter  Cornelissen,  1636. 

39  Van  Naerden,  Beletje  Jacobs,  Sejit.,  1663. 

39  Van  Naerden,  Dirck  Teunissen,  Sept.,  1663. 

12  Van  Naerden,  Jan  Roelofsen,  farmer,  Feb.,  1659. 

b  Van  Nesten,  Pieter,  1647. 

a  Van  Nieukerke,  Brandt  Peelen,  1630. 

15  Van  Niewkerk,   Gerrit  Cornelis,  wife,  boy,  and  sucking  child,   April, 

1659. 

b  Van  Noostrant,  Simon  Hanssen,  1639. 
42  Van  Norden,  Jan  Wouterse,  Jan.  20,  1664. 

a  Van  Nordinge,  Pieter  Nicolaussen,  1637. 

b  Van  Nuys,  Auke  Janse,  165 1. 

b  Van  Nuys,  Jan  Oake,  165 1. 
42  Van  Oy,  Govert,  wife  and  3  children,  Jan.  20,  1664. 

b  Van  Pelt,  Anthony,  1663. 

/;  Van  Pell,  Gysbert  Thysen  Laenen,  1663. 

b  Van  Pelt,  Hendrick  Thyssen,  1666. 


1 884.  J  A  List  0/  Early  Immigrants  to  New  Nether  land.  or 

b  Van  Pelt,  Theunis  Janse  Laenen,  1663. 
b  A"an  Pelt,  Wouter,  1663. 
a  Van  Rotterdam,  Hans  Jansen,  1639. 
a  Van  Rotterdam,  Jan  Jansen,  1640. 
a  Van  Ruth,  Claes  Jansen,  1641. 

11  Van  Sauten,  Adam,  wife  and  2  children,  June,  1658. 
a  Van  Schaick,  Goosen  Gerritsen,  1637. 

a  Van  Schoonderwoerdt,  Cornelis  Cornelissen,  1641. 

a  Van  Schoonderwoerdt,  Cornelis  Gerritsen,  1642. 

a  Van  Schoenderwoerdt,  Rutger  Jacobsen,  1636. 

a  Van  Schoenderwordt,  Tennis  Jacobsen,  1640. 

21  Van  Schure,  Willem,  from  Leuren,  soldier,  Afar.  9,  1660. 

b  Van  Sichgelen,  P'erdinandus,  1652. 

a  Van  Sleswyck,  Juriaen,  1642. 

a  Van  Sl}'ck,  Cornelis  Antonissen,  1641. 

a  Van  Soest,  Rutger  Hendricksen,  1630. 

a  Van  Soest,  Seger  Hendricksen,  1630. 

a  Van  Steltyn,  Evert  Pels,  1642. 

a  Van  Stoutenburgh,  Jacob  Jansen,  1646. 

b  Van  Sutphen,  Dirck  Janse,  1651. 

36  Van  Teyl,  Jan  Otto,  wife  and  child,  ag.  2,  April  16,  1663. 

12  Van  Twiller,  Goossen,  from  New-Kerk,  Feb.,  1659. 
a  Van  Utrecht,  Jacob  Adriaensen,  1639. 

a  Van  Valckenburg,  Lambert,  1645. 

a  Van  Vechten,  Tennis  Cornelissen,  1637. 

a  Van  Vechten,  Tennis  Dircksen,  1638. 

a  Van  Vee,  Pieter  Hertgers,  1645. 
24  Van  Veen,  Gerrit  Jansz,  from  Calemburg,  farmer's  boy,  April  27,  1660. 

a  Van  Veere,  Maryn  Andriaensen,  163 1. 
32  Van  Venloo,  Lendert  Dircksen,  of  Rumunt,  Sept.  2,  1662. 

a  Van  Vlecburg,  Cristen  Cristyssen  Noorman,  1636. 

b  Van  Vliet,  Dirck  Jansen,  1664. 

b  Van  Vliet,  Jan  Dircks,  1664. 

b  Van  Voorhees,  Jan  Stevense,  1660. 

b  Van  Voorhees,  Luycas  Stevense,  1660. 

a  Van  Voorhoudt,  Cornelis  Segers,  1642. 

b  Van  Voorhuys,  Court  Stevense,  1661. 

6  Van  Vrendenburch,  Willem,  May,  1658. 

a  Van  VVaalwyck,  Claes  Jansen,  1642. 

a  Van  Wesepe,  Gysbert  Cornelissen,  1645. 

a  Van  Westbroek,  Cornelis  Teunissen,  1631. 

b  Van  Wickelen,  Evert  Janssen,  1664. 
42  Van  Wie,  Lysbeth  Janssen,  near  Goch,  Jan.  20,  1664. 

b  Van  Wyck,  Cornelis  Barense,  1660. 
12  Van  Ysselstein,  Jannetje  Theunis,  Feb.,  1659. 

b  Van  Zutphen,  Jan  Barense,  1657. 

b  Vechten,  Claes  Arense,  1660. 

b  Vechten,  Hendrick,  1660. 
2,6  Verbeeck,  Gerrit,  April  16,  1663. 

a  Verbeeck,  Johannes,  1635. 
21   Verele,  Johannis,  from  Antwerp,  soldier.  Mar.  9,  1660. 
12   Verhagen,  Josyntje,  from  Middleburg,  and  daughter,  Feb.,  1659. 


76  -^  List  of  Early  Irmnigrants  to  New  Netherland.  [April, 

34  Verkerk,  Jan  Jansen,  from  Buren,  wife  and  5  children,   ag.  9,  8,  6,  5, 
I,  Mar.,  1663. 
b  Verkerk,  Roeloff,  1663. 
14  Vermeulen,  Albert  Theunissen,  from  Rotterdam,  wife  and  4  children, 

April,  1659. 
2^T^  Verniele,  Isaac,  wife  and  4  children,  ag.  all  over  20,  Oct.,  1662. 
44  Vernoey,  Corneliss  Cornelisse,  wife  and  sucking  child,  Jan.  20,  1664. 
44  Verplanck,  Abigel^  and  child,  April  17,  1664. 
39  Verplanck,  Susanna,  and  child,  Sept.,  1663,  ' 

b  Verschier,  Wouter  Gysbert,  1649. 
39  Ver  Schuren,  Lysbet,  Sept.,  1663. 

2  Vincent,  Adriaen,  April,  1657. 
31   Vincian,  Adriaen,  from  Tournay,  farmer,  wife  and  3  children,   ag.  18, 

12,  5,  May  24,  1662. 
II   Volckertse,  Jannetje,  wife  of  Evert  Luykese,  baker,  and  daughter,  June, 

1658. 
39  Voorst,  Willem,  from  Arnhem,  Sept.,  1663. 
23  Vorst,  Thomas,  from  Bremen,  soldier,  April  27,  1660. 
27  Vos,  Cornells  Dircksen,  wife,  mother,  and  2  children.  May  9,  1661. 
39  Vreesen,  Jan,  from.  Hamburg,  Sept.,  1663. 

23  Vreesen,  Jan,  from  Hamburg,  cadet,  wife  and  2  children,  April  27, 
1660. 

VV 

a  Wagenaar,  Jacob  Aertsen,  1642. 

b  Waldron,  Daniel,  1652. 

23  Warten,  Teunis,  from  Gorcum,  soldier,  April  27,  1660. 

a  Wemp,  Jan  Barentsen,  1645, 

34  Wessels,  Hendrick,  from  Wishem,  Mar.,  1663. 

42  Wessels,  S.  Vander  (wife  died  on  passage),  Jan.  20,  1664. 

16  Wesse]sen,Wessel,  from  Munster,  Dec,  1659, 

a  Westercamp,  Hendrick,  1646. 

44  Wienrick,  Hendrick,  from  Wesel,  April  17,  1664. 

23  WiUays,  Ferdinandus,  from  Cortryck,  soldier,  April  27,  1660. 

36  Willems,  Arnoldus,  brother-in-law  of  Gerrit  Jans,  April  16,  1663. 

26  Willems,  Geertje,  from  Amsterdam,  May  9,  1661. 
b  Willemse,  Hendrick,  1649. 

44  Willemse,  Arnoldus,  April  17,  1664. 

b  Willemse,  Johannis,  1662. 
44  Willemse,  Maes,  from  Hooghlant,  April  17,  1664. 

b  Willemse,  Willem,  1657. 

b  Willemsen,  Abram,  1662. 

a  Willemsen,  Adriaen,  1642. 

27  Willemsen,  Jan,  from  the  Loosdrecht,  wife  and  2  sons.  May  9,  1661. 
a  Willemsen,  Matheld,  1642. 

b  Willkens,  Claes,  1662. 
22  Wiskhousen,  Jan,  from  Bergen  in  Norway,  soldier,  April  15,  1660. 

a  Witsent,  Thomas,  1631. 

b  Woertman,  Dirck  Janse,  1647. 
II  Wolf,  Claes,  from  the  Elve,  sailor,  June,  1658. 

a  Wolfertsen,  Jacob,  1641, 


1 884. J         Records  of  St.  George's  Church,  Hempstead,  L.  I.  yy 

37  Worstei",  Peter,  June  27,  1663. 

34  Wouters,  Claes,  from  Amersfoort,  wife  and  child,  ag.  8,  Mar.,  1663. 
30  Wouterse,  Jacob,  Mar.  24,  1662. 

12   Woutersen,  Jan,  from  Ravesteyn,  shoemaker,  wife  and  daughter,  Feb., 
1659. 

b  Wyckoff,  Peter  Claesen,  1636. 

a  Wyncoop,  Peter,  1642. 

b  Wynhart,  Cornelis,  1657. 

Z 

a  Zevenhuyzen,  Hans,  1636. 


RECORDS  OF  ST.   GEORGE'S    CHURCH,    HEMPSTEAD,  L.  I., 
FROM  JUNE  5,   1725  TO .     Marriages. 


Communicated  by  Ben'jamin  D.  Hicks,  Esq. 

(Continued  from  Vol.  XIV.,  page  ii8,  of  The  Record.) 
1779. 

Willets  Powell  and  Catherine  Seaman,  both  of  Oisterbay.  L. 

Jacob  Coovert  and  Catherine  Powell,  both  of  Oisterbay.  B, 

At  Oisterbay,  Peter  Kissam,  of  Hempstead,  and  Deborah 

Townsend,  of  Oisterbay.  E. 

Philip  Thorne  and  Elizabeth  Cheeseman.  L. 

Israel  Hase  and  Mary  Rhinebart,  both  of  Oisterbay.  B. 

Isaiah  Powell  and  Jane  Ryder,  both  of  Oisterbay.  L. 

Lancton  Thorn  and  Hannah  Butler,  both  of  Oisterbay.  B. 

At  Oisterbay,  Jacob  Traver  and  Hittabel  VVanser,  both  of 

Oisterbay.  B. 

Jesse  Dickinson,  of  Oisterbay,  and  Sarah  Titus.  L. 

Nehimiah  Allen  and  Mary  Pearsall,  both  of  Oisterbay.  L. 

John  Townsend  and  Sarah  Birdsall,  both  of  Oisterbay.  L. 

Benjamin  Hilton,  late  of  Albany,  Att'y  at  Law,  and  Su- 
sannah Greswould,  of  Hempstead.  L. 
Nov.  30.  John  Whaley,  of  Hempstead,  and  Sarah  Tilley,  of  Oister-  B. 
bay.  B. 
Dec.  23.  Richard  Weeks  and  Mary  Alunsey,  both  of  Suffolk  Co.  B. 
Dec.  23.  William  Brown  and  Ruth  Munsey,  both  of  Suffolk  Co.  B. 
Dec.  27.  John  Allen  and  Ruth  Smith.  L. 
Dec.  30.  William  Williams  and  Yosada  Rowland.  L. 
Dec.  30.  William  Timpson  and  Rebecca  Mott,  both  of  Oisterbay.  L. 

1780. 

Feb.     7.  John  Thorn,  of  Hempstead,  and  Mary  Van  Wyck,  of  Ois- 
terbay. L. 


July 

12. 

July 

19. 

Aug. 

4- 

Aug. 

18. 

Aug. 

3°- 

Sep. 

4- 

Oct. 

13. 

Oct. 

17- 

Oct. 

24. 

Oct. 

27. 

Nov. 

4- 

Nov. 

II. 

y8  Records  of  St.  George's  Cliurch,  Hempstead.  L.  I.  [April, 

Feb.  II.   John  Boeram  and  Jemima  Titus,  widow,  both  of  Kings  Co.  I.. 

Feb.   i6.   Peter  Walters  and  Sophia  Place,  both  of  Oisterbay.  L. 

Feb.  27.   Thomas  Burlock,  of  Hempstead,  and  Lucretia   Laten,  of 

Oisterbay.  L. 

Mar.  16.  Isaac  Van  Nostrand  and  Patty  Symonson,  both  of  Oister- 
bay. L. 

Mar.  21.  Noah  Hallock,  of  Suffolk  Co.,  and  Sarah  Thorn,  of  Hemp- 
stead. I.. 

April  3.  Richard  Robbins  and  Martha  Hendrickson,  both  of  Ois- 
terbay. Iv. 

Apr-il   6.   Gino  Weeks  and  Joanna  Hubs,  both  of  Oisterbay,  B. 

April  23.  At  Oisterbay,  Joseph   Beesley  and  Mary  Dorbin,  both  of 

Oisterbay.  B. 

April  23.   At  Oisterbay,  Joseph  Horton  and  Jane  Probosue,  both  of 

Oisterbay.  B, 

April  24.  Silas  Powell  and  Ann  Allen,  both  of  Oisterbay.  L. 

May   14.  John  Balding  and  Sarah  Rayner.  B. 

June  16.   Thomas  Place  and  Zippora  Weeks,  both  of  Oisterbay.  L. 

June  25.   At  Oisterbay,  Arnold  Fleet  and  Judith  Woodwarde,  both 

of  Oisterbay.  L. 

July      9.    Lewis  Wilson  and  Lucretia  Smith.  B. 

July    17.  Samuel  Rodman  and  Anne  Thorne,  both  of  City  Island.  B. 

July    30.  John  Craft  and  Susannah  Wetmore.  B. 

July  30.  Daniel  Lamouree  and  Charity  Wetmore,  both  of  Oister- 
bay. B. 

Aug.     8.  Thomas  Smith  and  Sarah  Toffey.  L. 

Aug.  ID.  William  Curtis,  Volunteer  in  his  Majestys  New  Hempshire 

Reg't,  and  Sarah  Bedel,  of  Hempstead.  L. 

Aug.  13.   Enoc  Seaman  and  Mary  Smith.  L, 

Sep.   2d.  Isaac  Cromwell  and  Anne  Petit,  by  Necessity.  — 

Sep.   10.  John  Hicks  and  Ruth  Serin.  L. 

Sep.  17.  Joseph  Dunbar,  of  Jamaica,  and  Phebe  Mott,  of  Hemp- 
stead. L. 

Sep.    19.  James  Lefford  and  Mary  Walters,  both  of  Oisterbay.  L. 

Oct.      2.   Charles  Gaittar  and  Mary  Keirstead.  B. 

Oct.    15.  Stephen  Petit  and  Sarah  Bedel,  by  Necessity.  — 

Oct.  19,  John  Row  and  Elibert  Hegarman,  widow,  both  of  Oister- 
bay. L. 

Oct,   22.   Robert  Seaman  and  Mary  Stratton,  both  of  Oisterbay,  L, 

Oct.  25.  Morris  Carpenter  and  Abigail  Lawrence,  both  of  Oister- 
bay. L, 

Oct,   30.  Joseph  Smith  and  Mary  Smith.  L, 

Nov,  1 2. -'John  Wood  and  Mary  Patterson.  B, 

Nov.  12,  Joseph  Dorlon  and  Elizabeth  Smith.  L. 

Nov,  16.   Linnington  Dorlon  and  Martha  Losee,  by  Necessity.  — 

Nov.  19.   Benjamin  Lawrence  and  Anne  Seabury.  L, 

Nov,  26.   Jacob  Marvin  and  Mary  Peters.  L. 

Nov,  27,  James  Verity  and  Rebecca  Gritman.  B. 

Dec.     9.  William  Mott  and  Catherine  Clows.  L. 

Dec.  10.  John  Townsend  and  Martha  Humens.  B. 

Dec.  II.  Samuel  Griswoold  and  Aanne  Verity.  B. 

Dec.  17.  Anthony  Cheeseman  and  Hannah  Smith.  L. 


1884.]  Reco7-ds  of  St.  George's  Church,  Hempstead,  L.  I.  70 

Dec.  20,  Joshua  Cock  and  Elizabeth  Cock,  both  of  Oisterbay.  L. 

Dec.  24.   Benjamin  Cornwell  and  Mary  Gibson,  both  of  Jamaica.  L. 


1781. 

Jan.    17.  Michael  Burns  and  Ruth  Denton,  both  of  Suffolk  Co.  L. 

Jan.    22.  Samuel  Bedel  and  Hannah  Weeks,  of  Oisterbay.  B. 

Feb.  12.  Sylvester  Bedel  and  Catherine  Carmen.  B. 

Mar,     3.   At  Oisterbay,  John  Cobert  and  Catherine   Hogland,  both 

of  Oisterbay.  B. 

Mar.  lb.  John  Rushton,  late  of  Rye,  now  of  Hempstead,  and  Mary 

Scolefield,  of  Hempstead.  B. 

Mar.  29.   James   Powell,  Refugee,  now   of  Hempstead,  and    Eliza- 
beth Smith,  of  Hempstead,  by  Oath.  — 

April  II.   Charles  Jackson  and  Sarah  Whitson,  both  of  Oisterbay.  L. 

May     2.  John  Weeks  and    Freelove  Tilley,  both  of  Oisterbay,  by 

Oath.  — 

May     2.  Cornelius  Velsey  and  Amy  Williams,  both  of  Oisterbay.  — 

May     3.   At  Oisterbay,  Samuel  Talman  and  Phebe  Townsend,  both 

of  Oisterbay.  L. 

May   17.  Jacob  Remsen  and  Rebecca  Wortman,  both  of  Oisterbay.  L. 

May    17.   James   Hume,    Lieut,    in   his   Majestys  army,    and   Patty 

Remsen,  of  Oisterbay.  L. 

May  27.  James  Raynor  and  Hannah  Carman.  B. 

May  30.   Daniel  Bayless  and  Rosanna  Wright,  both  of  Oisterbay.  B. 

June  10.  John  Raynor  and  Rebecca  Mott.  B. 

June  17.  Richard  Townsend,    of  Oisterbay,    and    Mary   Hulet,  of 

Hempstead.  L. 

June  17.   John  Boerum,  of  Oisterbay,  and  Elizabeth  Ward,  of  Hun- 
tington. L. 

June  17.  Richard  Powell,  of  Oisterbay,  and  Jemima  Pratt,  of  Hemp- 
stead. L. 

June  25.   Thomas  Pearsall  and  Charity  Denton.  B. 

July    15.   Joseph  Clowes  and  Elizabetli  Carman.  L. 

Seth  Purdy  and  Phebe  Ketcham,  both  of  Huntington,  L, 

Niah  Pearsall  and  Catherine  Roebuck.  L, 

Anthony  Wright  and  Amy  Bedel,  both  of  Oisterbay.  B. 

John  Golding  and  Phebe  Valentine.  L. 

William  Johnson  and  Deborah  Peterson.  B. 

James  West  and  Phebe  Glazer.  B. 
Thomas  Carpenter,  Ensign  and  Adjutant  in  3d  Battalion 
of  Brig.-Gen.  De  Eanceys  Brigade,  and  Lucretia  Quin- 

tard,  late  of  Conn.,  now  of  Suffolk  Co.,  by  Authority,  — 

Aug,  30,  John  Ross,  of  New  York,  and  Hannah  Ellison,  of  Hemp- 
stead, L. 

Sep.     6.  Jeriah  Birdsall  and  Jane  Bedel.  B, 

Sep,    14,  Thomas  Cummings,  of  Gen.  Wentworths  Volunteers,  and 

Lucy  Porter,  widow,  of  Suffolk  Co.  L. 

Sep.    17.   Samuel  Dilkes  and  Mary  Wanzer,  both  of  Oisterbay.  B. 

Oct.     I.  John  Allen  and  Cloe  Yeomans,  both  of  Oisterbay.  L. 


Aug. 

9- 

Aug. 

9- 

Aug. 

12. 

Aug. 

14. 

Aug. 

20. 

Aug. 

20. 

Aug. 

20. 

So  Records  of  St.  George's  Church,  Hempstead,  L.  /.  jApril^ 

Oct.   21.   At  Oisterbay,   John   Weeks  and  Jane   Simmons,   both   of 

Oisterbay.  L. 
Oct.   21.  At   Oisterbay,  Job   Merrit   and   Zipporah   Baily,  both   of 

Oisterbay.  B. 

Nov.    4.  Joseph  Bryane  and  Ruth  Southward.  B. 

Nov.  4.  Epenetus  Busters  and  Martha  Seamans.  L. 
Nov.     5.  Jacob   Spragg,    of  Hempstead,   and   Anne   Brinkeruff,  of 

Oisterbay,  by  Necessity.  — 

Nov.  7.  John  Baker  and  EUzabeth  Rogers,  both  of  Oisterbay.  B. 
Nov.  II.  At  Oisterbay,   CorneUus   De  Nice   and   Hannah  DorUng, 

both  of  Oisterbay.  B. 

Nov.  14.  Solomon  Willson  and  Frances  Guttifat,  both  of  Oisterbay.  B. 
Nov.  17.   Samuel  Carpenter,  of  Hempstead,  and  Esther  Hopkins, 

of  Oisterbay.  L. 

Dec      2.  Thomas  Powell  and  Martha  Smith.  L. 

Dec.  10.   Ralph  London  and  Anne  Seamans.  B. 

Dec.  12.   John  Brewer  and  Jemima  Southward.  L. 

Dec.  17.   Willets  Powell  and  Ruth  Weston,  both  of  Oisterbay.  L. 

Dec.  25.   Peter  Whaley  and  Phebe  Varnitt.  L. 

Dec.  27.   John  Morrell  and  Susannah  Mitchell.  L. 

17S2. 

Jan.    10.  Jabez  Bacon  and  Sebra  Belts,  both   of  Loyds  Neck,  by 

Necessity.  — 
Jan.    19.  Joseph  Fox,  of  New  York,  and   Phebe   Burtis,  of  Hemp- 
stead. L. 
Ephraim  Golding  and  Hannah  Fly,  both  of  Oisterbay.  L. 
Baruih  Underbill  and  Elizabeth  Burt,  both  of  Oisterbay.  L. 
Nicholas  Betty  and  Ellenor  Higbey.  L. 
William  Wood  and  Hannah  Verity,  both  of  Oisterbay.  L. 
John  Hendrickson  and  Rhoda  Wood,  both  of  Suffolk  Co.  L. 
Thomas  Jackson  and  Elizabeth  Jackson.  L. 
John  Kissam  and  Phebe  Allen.  I^. 
Noah  Selleck,  Ensign  in  ye  3d  battalion  of  Brig.-Gen.  De 
Lancy's  Brigade,  and  Phebe  Denton,  of  Huntington.  L. 
Mar.  31.  John  Elderd  and  ATary  Birdsall.  I^. 
April    I,  Jacob  Bredow,  of  Hessian  Yagers,  and  Elizabeth  Dorwer- 

tin,  widow.  I.. 

April    7.   Samuel  Carpenter  and  Rebecca  Mott.  L, 

April  29.  Vriat  Hutf  and  Deborah  Townsend,  both  of  Oisterbay.  L. 

May  16.  John  London  and  Hannah  Ketcham.  B. 
May  28.  At  West  Hills,  Suftblk  Co.,  I"rederick  Dibble,  of  Queens 

Co.,  and  Nancy  Beach,  of  West  Hills.  — 


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Hoorn.      S.ime  line,  for  Collonel  read  Colowell. 

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Feb. 

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7- 

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Feb. 

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Feb. 

26. 

Mar. 

18. 

Mar. 

24. 

[884.]         Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  Nezv  York. 


RECORDS  OF    THE    REFORMED  DUTCH  CHURCH    IN   THE 
CITY  OF  NEW  YORK.— Baptisms. 

(Continued  from  Vol.  XV„  p.  30,  of  The  Record.) 

GETUYGEN. 

Jacob    Saebiionse,    Elsie 

Boekholt. 
Jesse    Kip,    Cathalj'ntie 

de  Lanoy. 
Abraham  Mol,  Catharina 

Hyer. 
Jacobus    Van     Kortlant, 

Catharina  Cortlant. 
Anderies  Grevenraedt, 

Antie  Ver  Brugge. 

Samson  Bensen,  Claesje 
Blank. 

Jan  Rome,  Tanneke  Van 
Gelder. 

Jan  Ricks,  Jannetie  Co- 
saer. 


Jan  Van  der  Beek,  Elisa- 
beth Woeder. 

Folckert  Heernians,  Ael- 
lette  Teroede. 

Johannes  Ten-iiur,  Mare- 
tie  Van  der  Heyde. 

Davidt  Provoost  ]\  Hes- 
ter Leyslaer. 

Jaques  Corteljou,  JVIar- 
retie  Smack. 

A  d  r  i  a  e  n  Qdackenbos, 
Hester  Cleef. 

Henderick  Van  Schaick, 
en  Neeltje  CorLelisse 
syn  vrouw,  en  Tryntie 
Ver  Brugge  tot  Peet. 

Johannes  Schenck,  Juf: 
Alette  Doiiwe. 

Jan  Ewoutse,  Cathalyntje 

Lanoy. 
Johannes  Van  der  Heul, 

Elisabeth  Van  der  H  eul, 

huysv.  van  M"^  Klok. 
Jesse   Kip,   Helena   Ver 

Brugge. 
Jacobus  Kip,  SaraByards. 


A"  1703. 

GUDERS.                            KINDERS. 

14  dito. 

Salomon   Goewey,  Jacob. 

Catharina  Doom. 

14  dito. 

Jan   Peek,   Elisabeth  L{icas. 

Van  Imbiirg. 

14  dito. 

Machiel  Stevens,  El-  Susanna. 

bertie  Moll. 

24  dito. 

Gerret  Bras,    Catha-  Adolphus. 

rina  Herdenbroek. 

24  dito. 

Bjarent   Henderikse  Antie. 

Spier,   Catharina 

Jacobs. 

24  dito. 

H  a  r  m  e  n    Bensen,  Catharina. 

Aeltie  Bickers. 

24  dito. 

Pieter  Rome,  Hester  Pieter. 

Van  Gelder. 

24  dito. 

Pieter  Van  derSchue-  Pieter. 

re,   Sara  Van   den 

Berg. 

28  dito. 

Henderick    Bosch,  Elsie. 

Marietie   Van   der 

Beek. 

28  dito. 

Cornells  Eckeson,  Jacob. 

Willempie    Vliere- 

boom. 

28  dito. 

Po{i\velus  Miller,  An-  Pouwliis. 

na  Van  der  He\'de. 

Maart  7. 

Nicolaes  Gerretz  Ra-  Jan. 

venste,  AEaritie  Van 

Rollegom. 

den  7  dito. 

Adriaen  Lanen,  Mar-  Henderick. 

tina  Smack. 

ID  dito. 

Gerret    Stymes,    Ca-  Helena. 

tharina  Gerrets. 

14  dito. 

Adriaen  Van  Schaik,  Neeltie. 

Jannetje   Thomas- 

se. 

17  dito.  Abraham    B ok e,  Elisabeth. 

Tanneke  Van  den 

Driesche. 
[273]  Jacob   Van    Giesse,  Dirckje. 

Maart  21.  Russje  Plevier. 

den  2 1  dito.     Henderick    Van   der  Elsebeth. 

Heul,    Marritje 

Myers, 
den  21  dito.     Joha'nnis  Kip,  Catha-  Benjamin. 

rina  Kierstede.  2  lingen. 

den  21  dito.     Johannis  Kip,  Catha-  Blandina. 

rina  Kierstede. 


Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  New  York.         [April, 


A"  1703. 
den  21  dito. 

den  24  dito. 

den  24  dito. 

den  24  dito, 

den  24  dito. 
den  24  dito. 
den  28  dito. 

den  28  dito. 
den  28  dito. 
den  28  dito. 
den  28  dito. 

den  28  dito. 

April  de  4d''. 


[274] 

April  4. 

den 

7  dito. 

den 

7  dito. 

den 

7  dito. 

den 

7  dito. 

den 

II  dito 

den 

1 1  dito 

den 

1 1  dito. 

OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Petrus  Kip,  Immetie  Henderikus. 

Van  Dyk. 
Cornelis  Clopper,  Heyltje. 

Aefje  Liiykas. 
Evert  Bres,  Mettie  Eva. 

Herdenbroek. 


Abraham  Van  Laer,  Abraham. 
Hester  Cristiaense. 


Samuel  Bosch,  Im- 
mety  Hy. 

Samuel  Bosch,  Im- 
mety  Hy. 

Bartholomeiis  Laroe, 
Geertrtiy  Van  Rol- 
legom. 

Henderi  Hues,  Elisa- 
beth Quick. 

Zacharias  Si  eke  Is, 
Maria  Jans. 

Jacob  ten  Yk,  Neel- 
tie  Herdenberg. 

Jacob  Yser  Steen, 
C  a  1 1  y  n  t  i  e  Van 
Duerse. 

Daniel  Koolman,  An- 
na Maria  Plevier. 


Cattryntie. 

Cornelia. 

Anna. 

Angenitie. 
Thomas. 
Aefje. 
Helena. 

Petronella. 


Joris  Hooglandt,  Ca-  Daniel, 
tharina  Richard. 


B  e  n  j  a  m  i  n  Narret, 

Cornelia  Van  Clyf. 
Daniel  de  Voor,  En- 

geltie  Cornelis. 
L  u  y  k  a  s  Schermer- 

h o o rn,   Elisabeth 

Dame. 
Poiiwelus   Van    der 

Beek,    J  a  n  n  e  t  i  e 

Springsteen. 
Samuel   Clowes,   Ca- 

tharina  Doiiwe. 
Merynes  Roelofse, 

Dina  Iddese. 
Jermias  Borres,  Cor- 
nelia Eckeson. 
Jan  Arijanse,  Vroutie 

J{irianse. 


Anderies. 
Jannetie. 
Sephya. 

Pouwlus. 

John. 
Jannetie. 
Apalonia. 
Marregritie. 


GETUYGEN. 

Isaacq  Kip,  Henderikus 
Kip,  Anna  de  Silla. 

Pieter  Myer,  Maragreta 
Kloppers. 

Jacobus  Van  Cortlant, 
C  a  t  h  a  r  i  n  a  Van  der 
poel,  h.  V.  van  Pieter 
Hardenbroek. 

Isaacq  Van  Laer,  Sara 
Hardenbroek  Van 
Laer. 

Henderik  Bosch,  Cornelia 
Bosch. 

Jacob  Van  Deiirse,  Antie 
Mangels. 

Pieter  Stoiitenburg,  Ju- 
dith Ravensteyn. 

Carste    Leiirse,   Johanna 

Klettera. 
Thomas    Sickels,  Grietie 

Thomasse. 
Dirck  ten  Yk,  Aefie  Boele. 

Sampson  Benson,  Aeltie 
Van  Duerse. 

Gerret  Onkelbag,  Johan- 
nis  Plevier,  Cornelia 
Van  Schaick. 

Johannes  Byvanck,  An- 
natie  Byvanck. 

Jan  C  r  i  g  o,  Maragreta 
Korse,  alias  Smith. 

Claes  Boogert,  Aeltie  Pro- 
voost. 

Samuel  Phillips,  Aeltie 
Dame. 

Coenradis  Van  der  Beek, 
Elysabeth  VVoeder. 

Jacobus    Van     Cortlant, 

Johanna  Vickers. 
Theunis  Iddese,  Marritie 

Van  Breme. 
Jan    Eckeson,    Apalonia 

Eckeson. 
Cosyn  Jurianse,  Catelyn- 

tie  Jurianse. 


1884.]         Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  A^ew  York. 


83 


A°  1703. 
den  I  r  dito. 

den  15  dito. 

den  15  dito. 

den  18  dito. 

den  18  dito. 

May  2. 

6  dito. 

9  dito. 

16  dito. 

[275] 
May  23, 

May  23. 

Juny  2. 

dito  2. 
dito  6. 
9  dito. 
9  dito. 

9  dito. 
20  dito. 
23  dito. 
23  dito. 
July  4- 


OUDERS.  KINDERS 

Mathvs  de  Hart,  Jan-  Johanna. 

netie  Moiiweris. 
M  a  r  t  e  n    Beekman,  Helena. 

Neeltie  Slingerlant. 
Nicolaes  Pesset,  Ael-  Tr)'ntie. 

tie  Hyer. 
Richard    Pibbenzier,  Sophia,  niet    Annetie  Pibbenzier 

Elisabeth  Kasse.        gedooptin 
onse  kerk.* 


GETUYGEN. 

Baltus  de  Hart,  Margrie- 

tie  Mouwerus. 
Jacob    Bennet,  Neeltie 

Beekman. 
Willeni    Hyer,    Dorithea 

de  Graw. 


Jan    Ewoutze,   Elisa-  Petrus. 

beth  Plevier. 
Abraham   W  e  n  d  e  1,  Johannis. 

Catharina  de  Kay. 
Symon  SchoCite,  Ypje  Mary  tie. 

Jans. 
Lambert  Sickels,Ma-  Alida. 

ria  Jans. 
Nicolaes    Blanck,  Nicolaes. 

Geertruy  deLange. 

Richard   S{itten,   Ca-  Thomas 

tharin  Robbersen.       S  u  1 1  e  n, 

geboren 

A°    1682, 

Maert  i. 

Tobias    Stoutenburg,  Cornelis. 

Annetie  Van    Rol- 

legom. 
Pieter    L  ii  y  k  a  s  s  e,  Peterus. 

Marretie  Luykasse 

Jans. 
Minkes   Pouwelse,  Maritie. 

Dorathe  Willems. 
Harmanus  Van  Gel-  Cornelia. 

der,  Tetintie  Idese. 
Louvverens  Wesselse,  Louvverens. 

Aeltie  Splinter. 
Pieter  Van  Tilburg,  Petertis. 

Elisabeth   Van 

Hoogte. 
John     Cruke,    Geer-  Elisabeth. 

truy  de  Haes. 
Frans   Garbrantze,  Margrietje. 

Elisabeth  Wessels. 
Daniel     Henderikse,  Mayke. 

Tryntie  Van  Dyk. 
Jan    Cpeper,   j^ntie  Johannis. 

Van  Vorst. 
Wolphert  Webber,  Ariaentie. 

Grietie  Stille. 


Jan  Van  Sent,   Cornelia 

Plevier. 
Coll.  Abraham  de  Peys- 

ter,  Helena  Verbrugge. 
Willem   Appel,   Cathrina 

Appel. 
Anderies  Brestede,  Antie 

Van  Bossen. 
Jurian    Witvelt,   Antie 

Bosch. 

Gedoopt  op  de  belydenis 
des  waere  Gereformeer- 
de  geloof.f 


Isaacq  Stoutenburg,  Aefje 
Van  Exveen. 

Minkes    Pouwelse,    Mar- 
griet  Franse. 

Enoch  Hill,  Annatie  Sy- 

monse,  Marija  Hill, 
Pieter    Willemse    Rome, 

Cornelia  Van  Gelder. 
Anderies  ten  Broek,  Rey- 

merig  Jans. 
D"  Giialtherus  Du  Bois, 

Marica  Van  Hoogte. 


*  Not  baptized  in  our  church. 


Jacobus  Van  Cortlant, 
Anneke  Frensch. 

Bartholomeus  Vonck,  Ca- 
tharina Frelant. 

Anthony  Rutgers,  Antie 
Van  Ekele. 

Johannis  Vredenburg, 
Hester  Van  Vorst. 

Aernhout  Webber,  Claes- 
je  Webber. 

t  Baptized  upon  confession'of  the  True  Reformed  Faith. 


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v/ 


A°  1703. 

GUDERS.                            KINDERS. 

4  dito. 

Benjamin    W\>nkoop,  Abrahan). 

Femmetje  Van  der 

Held. 

4  dito. 

Hiiyge  Freer,   Mari-  Blandina. 

ana  Laroy. 

7  dito. 

Willem  Walton,  Ma-  Jacob. 

rica  Santvoort. 

7  dito. 

Dirck  Hooglant,  Ma-  Maria. 

ritie  Kip. 

7  dito. 

Symon  Pasko,  Mara-  Symon. 

greta  Stevens. 

18  dito. 

Steven  Richard,  Ma-  Hester. 

rica  Ver  Brugge. 

21  dito. 

Isaac  Selover,  Judith  Anna. 

Waldron. 

[276] 

July  25. 

Samuel  Philips,  Aeltie  Johannis. 

Dame. 

Augustis  I. 

Pieter  Henjon,  Mari-  Annetie. 

tie  Van  Oort. 

dito  I. 

Pieter  Wesselse,  An-  Anna. 

na  Van  Oosterha- 

dito. 

ve. 
Barent     Boss,     Die-  Maragreta. 

vertie    Van     Hey- 

ninge. 

dito  4. 

Coenraedis  Van  der  Burger. 

B  e  e  k,    Catharina 

Davids. 

den  4  dito. 

Willem  Echt,  Maritie  Maritie. 

Van  D)>k. 

den  4  dito. 

Jan  Casly,  Ellen  Cas-  Jan. 

ly- 

den  II  dito. 

Johannis  Dykman,  Elisabeth. 

Rachel  de  Vour. 

den  1 5  dito. 

Dirck  Abramse,  Ael-  Jan. 

tie    Van    Couwen- 

hoven. 

den  15  dito. 

Johannis  Van  Sante,  Cornelia. 

Margrietie      Wy- 

nants. 

den  15  dito. 

Rutgert  Waldron,  Daniel. 

Debora  Pell. 

22  dito. 

Moses   Gilbert,   Jan-  Dirck. 

netie  Dircks.          ^ 

2  3  dito. 

Loiiwerens   Van  Isaac. 

Hoek,  Johanna 

Smith. 

GETUYGEN. 

Johannis  Van  der  Heul, 
Elisabeth  Van  der 
Hefil. 

Jacob  Freer,  Blandina 
Kierstede. 

Thomas  Sanders,  Aeltie 
Santvoort. 

Abraham  Kip,  Catharina 
Kierstede. 

Elsje  Leyslaer,  Robberd 
Walters,  Abraham 
Gouverneiir. 

Anderies  Grevenraet,  Sa- 
ra Kuylers. 

Joseph  Waldron,  Anna 
Waldron. 

Evert  Pels,  Martha  Dame. 

Cornelis     Fiely,     Hester 

Henjon. 
Jacob    Maritis    G  r  o  e  n, 

Louwerens      Hedding, 

Anna  Wessels. 
Johannes  Hardenbroek  J', 

Jannetie  Barents. 

Jan  Van  der  Beek,  Antie 
Burgers. 

Peterus  K  i  p,  Marietie 
Cornelis. 

David  Jemeson,  Thomas 
Evons,  Cornelia  Law. 

Cornelis  Dykman,  Elisa- 
beth Slegtenhorst. 

Jan  Van  Couwenhoven, 
Gardina  de  Cilia. 

Johannis  Van  der  Spiegel, 
Cornelia  Disenton,  h. 
V.  van  Stuart. 

Joseph  Waldron,  Anna 
Waldron. 

Frans  Van  D\^ck,  Elisa- 
beth Burger,  h.  v.  van 
Joris  Burger. 

Bernardes  Smith,  Antie 
Van  Ekelen. 


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A°  1703. 
25  dito. 

25  dito. 
29  dito. 

29  dito. 
29  dito. 
29  dito. 

[277] 
August  29. 

29  dito. 
Septemb.  i. 

3  dito. 
5  dito. 
5  dito. 

5  dito. 
5  dito. 

5  dito. 
12  dito. 
12  dito. 

12  dito. 

12  dito. 

15  dito. 


Willem   Bennet,  Ari-  Johannis 
aentie  Van  de  Wa- 
ter. 

Jacobus  Cornelesse,  Jacobus. 
Aeltie  Bloin. 

Jesse    Kip,  Marey 
Stevenzen. 


Abraham, 
geboren 
July  22. 

Pieter. 


Cornelis  Jorisse,  An- 

tie  Staets. 
Johannis      Provoost,  Nathaniel. 

Sara  Bealy. 
G\-sbertVan  Imburg,  Gysbert. 

Jannetie  Mesier. 

Willem    Teller,    Ra-  Jacobus. 

chel  Kierstede. 
Anderies  Abrahamse,  Johannis. 

Jaceniyntie    Wans- 

haer. 
Willem    Henderikse,  Gysbert. 

Willempie  Lanen. 
Jacob    Balck,  Sara  Catharina. 

Van  Thienhoven. 
Isaac  Van  den  Boog,  Pieternella. 

Hester  Van  Vleck. 
Gerret     Van    Laer,  Catharina. 

Jannetie  Streddels. 
Isaacq    de     Peyster,  Jacobus. 

]\Iarya  Van  Balen. 

Abraham  Hegeman,  Jan. 

Geertruy^Jans. 
Johannis   A^  a  n    Til-  Catharina. 

burg,  Grietie  Con- 

selje. 
Joost  Palding,  Catha-  Margrieta. 

rina  Jans. 
Jan    Bennet,    Fem- Antje. 

metie  Rapalje. 
William  White,  Elsie  Catharina. 

Walgraef. 

Jan  Van  der  Voord,  Charel. 

Magdalena    Hfij'S- 

nian. 
Aert  Elbertse,  Catha-  Benjamin. 

rina  Frelant. 

Albert  Lo<iwe,  Susan-  Marytje. 
na  Lameter. 


GETUYGEN. 

Johannis  Pouwelse,  Jan- 
netie Van  de  Water. 

Wouter  Hyer,  Elvsabeth 

Blom. 
Abraham  Kip,  Mary  Lou- 

renz. 

Pieter  Garbrantze,  Styn- 
tie  Jurianse. 

Gerret  Provoost,  Margre- 
ta  Obe. 

Abraham  Mesier,  Elisa- 
beth Van  Imburg. 

Henderick  Van'Boel,  Ra- 
chel Kip. 
Jan    Wanshaer,    Susanna 

de  Nys. 

Cornelis  Lanen,  Tryntie 

Van  Ekelen. 
Nicolaes  Delli,   Susanna 

Van  Thienhove. 
Jacob  Saelmonse,  Catly- 

na  Lanoy. 
Johannis     Herdenbroek, 

Catharyna  Van  Laer. 
D°  Gualt^  du  Boys,  Johan- 
nis de  Peyster,  Rachel 

Van  Balen. 
Henderikus       Hegeman, 

Aeltie  Parael. 
Johannis    Van    Giessen, 

EUsabeth  Franse. 

Adriaen    Hooglant,    An- 

natie  Byvank. 
Jacob  Rapalje,  Catlyntie 

Rapalje. 
Jores  Walgraef,  Madalen a 

Rtitgers    V.    Langen- 

dyk. 
Charel  Hiiysman,  Styntie 

Schamp,    Henderickje 

Ares. 
Pieter  Myer,   I^oiiwerens 

Wesselse,   Elisabeth 

Wesselse. 
Louwerens  Janse,  Riitger 

Waldrom. 


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[April, 


A"   1703.  OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

19  dito.  Steven   Mefoor,   Afa-  Anna. 

rvtje  Potman. 
26  dito.  ]krnardus  Smith, Els-  Abraham. 

je  Myer. 
26  dito.  llenderick     J  an  se,  Jan. 

Marytje  Mynders. 
26  dito.  Isaac  Stoutenburg,  Maria. 

Neeltie  tJyten  Bo- 

gaert. 
29  dito.  Willeni  Appel,  Mag-  Catharina. 

dalena  Symons. 
[278] 
29  dito.  W  i  1 1  e  m    Sjeckerly,  Johannis. 

Debora  Van  Dyk. 
Ocktober  3.     Fincent   de    I.amon- Annatje. 

tagne,    Areaentie 

F'.kkeson. 
dito  3,  Isaac    Vredenburg,  Isaac. 

Jannetje  Jooste. 
dito  6.  (j  e  r  r  e  d  t  de  (iraw,  Gerrett. 

Dorathe   Ilyer. 
dito  6.  Isaac     Henderickse,  Jan. 

Judilhje  Jans. 
10  dito.  Corn  el  is    Turck,  Cornelis. 

P>  1  i  s  a  b  e  t  h    Van 

Schaick. 
10  dito.  Cornelis    Jooste,  Johannis. 

Tryntie  de  Hart. 
10  dito.  Wessel    Pieterse,  Ja-  Elisabeth. 

kaniyntie    Kowen- 

hoven. 
13  dito.  Philip    Minthorne,  Geertie. 

llillegont  Webber. 
13  dito.  Jan    l^ckeson,    Mari-  Thomas. 

tie  Van  Aren. 
13  dito.  Jan    Loyse,    Maritie  Grietie. 

Koek. 


19  dito. 

Thomas     Barbanks,  Annatie,  ge- 
Marritie  Maerling.      boren  Afi- 

20  dito. 

g  I'l  s  t    14 
1703.* 
P>arent    Hibon,  Sara  Rebeck-  \  | 
Enne.                           ka,  Sa-  \  | 

24  dito. 

ra.          )  3 
Elias  I'revoord,  Grie-  Anneke. 
tie  Thomasse. 

24  dito. 

Abraham     Provoost,  Elsebeth. 

Jannetie  Myer, 

♦  Horn  August  14,  1703. 

GETUYGEN. 

Abraham  Messelaer,  Cat- 
Ivntie  Potman. 

Abraham  Provoost,  Jan- 
netje Myer. 

Dirk  Janse,  Catharina 
Jans. 

Ri]:)  Van  Dam,  Jannetie 
Stoutenburg. 

Jan  Nerbery,  Angenietie 
Provoost. 

]'>ernardus   Herdenbroek, 

Maria  Pedloo. 
Cornelis  Eckkesen,   VVil- 

lemi)je  Eliereboom. 

Willem    Pell,    Elisabeth 

Van  Thuyl. 
Gerret  Wouterse,  Annatie 

P>lom. 
Yede    Tunisse,     Annatie 

ledese. 
Henderick  Van  Schaick, 

Marretie  Reyerse. 

Johannis   Jooste,     Dora- 

thea  de  Hart. 
Daniel  Berkelo, Elisabeth 

Gerretse. 

Abraham  Van  Deurse, 
Marregreta  Selyns. 

Thomas  Eckeson,  Hele- 
na Van  Aren. 

Cornelis  Eoyse,  Margrie- 
tie  Flasbeek. 

Johannis  Outman,  Eeni- 
metie  Kok. 


Coenradis  ten  Yk,  Rachel 
(ioederes,  Johannis  Hi- 
bon, Geertruy  Parents. 

Jan  Henderickse  Pre- 
voord,  Anneke  Basti- 
aense. 

IJarnerdis  Smith,  Elsje 
Rosevelt. 


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^1 


A"   1703.  OUDERS. 

27  dito.  Adolf  de  Groof,    Ra- 

chel Goederis. 

27  dito.  Thomas    Sanders, 

Aeltie  Santvooit. 

27  dito.  Jan    Pieterse,    Geer- 

truy  Hattem. 

Novenib.  3.      Davidt  Aertse,  Hele- 
na Harsing. 
[279]  Adriaen     Hooglant, 

3  dito.  Annatie  Byvank. 

7  dito.  J  o  h  a  n  n  i  s  Van  der 

Spiegel,     Marretie 
Lieursen. 

7  dito.  Jacob  Coning,  Grie- 

tie  Pieters. 
10  dito.  TheiinisThiboutjMa- 

ritje  Van  de  Water. 

14  dito.  Pauwelus  Tiirk,  Mar- 

retie Ryerse. 

28  dito.  Jan   Canon,  Marytje 

Legran. 
Decemb:3.      Pieter    Bos,  Susanna 

Barents. 
5  dito.  Johannis  Burger,  He- 

lena Turck. 
5  dito.  Cornells  Dirckse, 

Cornelia  Bogardis. 
5  dito.  Abram    Van   Aren, 

Sara  Eckeson. 
5  dito.  Liewe  de  Wint,  Ari- 

aentie  Moll. 
5  dito.  Gerret  Van    Hoorn, 

Elsje  Provoost. 

8  dito.  W  i  1 1  e  ni    Sjeckson, 

Antie  Wessels. 

8  dito.  Albert  Klok,  Tryntie  Pieternello" 

Van  der  Heul, 

8  dito.  Johannis  Byvank,  Johannis. 

Aaltie  Hooglant. 

15  dito.  Abraham  Mezier,  Eli-  Annetje. 

sabeth  Coiiwenho- 

ven. 
15  dito.  Jan  Joris  Van  Hoorn,  Catharina. 

Magdalena     Kars- 

tens. 
25  dito.  Joseph   Walderon,  Catharina. 

Hanna  Woedert. 
25  dito.  lede  Theunisse,  An-  Jannetje. 

na   Luykas. 


KINDERS 

GETUYGEN. 

Janneke. 

Gerret  Schuyler,   Janne- 

ken  Van  Bossen. 

Elsje. 

Willem    Walton,    Marica 

Santvoort. 

Maritie. 

Anthony  Rutgers,  Maritie 

Bankers. 

Aeltie. 

Jacob    Hersing,    Amnie- 

rens  Van  Gelder. 

Annatie. 

Gerret   Diiiking,    Maritie 

Duiking. 

Carste. 

Henderikus  Van  der  Spie- 

gel, Annatie  Sanders. 

Pieter. 

Jan    Lathen,   Maria  Co- 

ning. 

Marytje. 

Ryer  Machielse,  Jannetje 

Van  de  Water. 

Maritje. 

Cornells   Turk,   Aeltie 

Wessels,  alias  Ryerse. 

Jan. 

Jacob  Maris  Groen,  Elsje 

Myer. 

Parent. 

Jan  Herberding,  Albertje 

Barents. 

Helena. 

Pouweliis  Turk  de  Jonge, 

Ante  ]iurgers. 

Walburg. 

Everardus    B  0  g  a  r  d  u  s, 

lilandina  Bogardis. 

Isaac. 

Fincent  de  Lamontagne, 

Appalonia  Swits. 

Jusina. 

Abraham     IVLoll,    Willem 

Hyer,  Ryertje  Moll. 

Elsebeth. 

Jan    Van    Hoorn,    Aefje 

Van  Hoorn. 

Jan,  Ca-  / 

Si   Elisabeth  Conmg,  Anne- 

tharina.  ( 

1        tie  Oosteijiaren. 

Benjamin    W  y  n  k  o  o  p, 

F  e  m  m  e  t  i  e  Van  der 

Heul. 
Johannis  Hooglant,    An- 

netie  Byvank. 
Gysbert  Van    I  m  b  u  r  g, 

Jannetie  Mezier. 

Willem  Boogert,  Maria 
Rdtgers. 

Jores  Walgraef,  Cathari- 
na Van  Kortlant. 

Theunis  ledese,  Annatie 
Byvank. 


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Records  of  the  Reformed  Duidi  Church  in  New  York.        \K^^rA, 


A°  1703.  ouDERS.  kinder; 

25  dito.  Justus  Bosch,  Anne-  Elsebeth. 

tie  Smith. 

26  dito.  Johannis    Harden   Aafje. 

broek,    Sara    Van 
Laar. 
[280] 
A"  1 704.         G  e  r  r  e  t    Onkelkag,  Adriaen, 
January  I,  Elisabeth  Van      Eliza- 

Schaick.  beth. 


2  dito.  Jan  Van    der   Meer,  Louwerens. 

EUsabeth  Hoist. 
2  dito.  Abraham    Van    Gel-  Catlyntie. 

der,  Catlvntie  Post. 
2  dito.  Willem    Fisser,    Ari-  Johannis. 

aentie  ^Vynants. 

5  dito.    -  James  Sebren,  Antie  Jannetie. 

Myer. 

9  dito.  Jacobus     Carsousen,  Catharina. 

Anna  Maria  Johan- 
nis. 

9  dito.  Richard   Flimmingd,  Margreta. 

Maria  Brestede. 

9  dito.  Rip   Van  Dam,  Sara  Isaac. 

Van  der  Spiegel. 

12  dito.  Wessel  Evertze,    Su- Johannis. 

sanna  Thienhove. 
16  dito.  Evert  Van  de  Water,  Catharina. 

Catharina  Pro- 

voost. 
23  dito.  Johannis  P  o  u  e  1  s  e,  Albartiis. 

Elisabeth    Van    de 

Water. 
23  dito.  Pieter   Jacobze,   Re-  Annatie. 

becka  Jans. 
26  —  Jacob    Saalmonse,  Petrus. 

Elisabeth  Dee. 
30  dito.  Volkert  Heermans,  Egbert. 

Margrietie     Ekke- 

son. 
30  dito.  Anderies  ten   Broek,  Johannis. 

Lyntie  Splunters. 
February  2.     Alexander  Lam,  Eli-  Joris. 

sabeth  Koning. 
2  dito.  Willem  Pell,  Elisa- Jan. 

beth  Van  ThiiVl. 

6  dito.  Cornelis   Kwik,  ^[a-  Petrus. 

rika  Van  Hooarte. 


GETUYGEN. 


Pieter   Chaigneaii,  Aeltie 

Smith. 
Isaac  Van   Laar,  Hester 

Davids. 


Henderik  Van  Schaick, 
Cornelia  Plevier,  alias 
Van  Schaick,  Harma- 
niis  Van  Gelder,  Vrou- 
tie  Van  Hoorn. 

Albertiis  Hoist,  Titje 
Poel,  alias  Koning. 

Cornelis  Post,  Ehsabeth 
Van  Gelder. 

Willem  Bogart,  Hillegont 
Joriz. 

Anderies  Mver,  Jannetie 
Robberts. 

Pomvelus  Van  der  Beek, 
Jannetie  Johannis. 

A  b'r  a  h  a  m  Messelaar, 
Margiieta  Obe. 

Henricus  ^'an  der  Spie- 
gel, Elisabeth  Van  der 
Spiegel. 

Jacob  Bratt,  Aefje  Everts. 

Johannis  Hooglant,  Ca- 
tharina Louwerens, 
alias  Provoost. 

Willem  Bennet,  Pieter- 
nello  Kloppers. 

Cornelis   Van  Deventer, 

Reimerig  Jans. 
Willem    Dee,    Isabel 

France. 
Egbert    Heermans,    Ap- 

palonv  Swits. 

Henderik  Ten  Broek, 
Aeltie  Splinters. 

Joost  Elynse,  Catharina 
Hen  von. 

Abraham  Van  Thiiyl,  Eli- 
sabeth, Joris  Burgers 
huvs  vroii. 

Cornelia  Bosch. 


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RECORDS    OF    THE    FIRST    AND    SECOND    PRESBYTERIAN 
CHURCHES  OF   THE  CITY  OF    NEW   YORK.— Marriages. 

1756    TO  . 

(Continued  from  Vol.  XV.,  p.  33,  of  The  Record.) 
1800. 

May  2  2.   Thomas  Shapter  to  Margaret  Sterling.  (lo) 

June  10.   Andrew  Gilchrist  to  Rosina  Farch. 

July  2.   Captain  Maine  to  Miss  Ludlow. 

July  5.   Daniel  Enderton  to  Catharine  Parsel. 

July  12.  John  Walker  to  Mary  McDonald. 

July  14.   George  Ropes  to  Hannah  Tucker  Lawson. 

July  21.  John  Smith  to  Experience  Marshall. 

July  22.  William  Keach  to  Eleanor  Brooks. 

Aug'  10.   Charles  Greaves  to  Elizabeth  Griffin. 

Aug'  16.  Michael  Houseworth  to  Mary  Ross. 

Aug'  22.   Peter  Mitchell  to  Ann  Byrnes. 

Aug'  26.   Benjamin  Oakley  to  Deborah  Campbell. 

Aug'  31.  Joseph  Looker  to  Sarah  Carwin. 

Sept'         6.  Andrew  Brown  to  Mary  Ellis. 

Sept'  10.   Stephen  Anderson  to  Maria  Erwin.  (ii) 

Sept'  20.   William  Adams  to  Mary  Aldis. 

Sept'  25.   James  Edgar  to  Ann  Catharine  Stewart,     - 

Nov'         I.   Asa  C.  Whitaker  to  Hannah  Carter. 

Nov'         2.   Hugh  Boyd  McGuckin  to  Ann  Forsyth. 

Nov'         9.  John  Thompson  to  Mary  Henderson. 

Nov'  II.   William  Minturn  to  Sarah  Bowne. 

Nov'  19.   Christian  Barrett  to  Elizabeth  I  vers. 

Dec'        6.   Francis  Costigan  to  Maria  Scott. 

Dec'  19.  Benjamin  L.  Ross  to  Susannah  Islestine. 

Dec'  24.   William  Maxwell  to  Mary  Williams. 

1801.  (12) 

Jan''  2.   Zebulon  Smith  to  Amy  Mott. 

Jan''  10.   Peter  L.  Vandervoort  to  Mary  Ann  Bruce. 

Jan''  22.  Peter  Reed  to  Margaret  Williams  (Black  People). 

Feb''  7.   John  Edgerly  to  Elizabeth  Mc Arthur. 

Feb"  8.   William  McNeil  to  Mary  Baldwin  Parsons. 

March  4.  John  Lockwood  to  Elizabeth  Hare  Burrell. 

March  14.  James  Wright  to  Elizabeth  McKenzie. 

April  9.   John  Currie  to  Jane  Thompson. 

April  16.  David  S.  Lyon  to  Susan  Scudder. 

April  18.   x^ndrew  Brown  to  Jane  Sommerville. 

April  18.  Henry  Roome  to  Phebe  Provoost. 

April  19.   Daniel  Trembly  to  Sarah  Bowman. 

April  21.  Abiathar  Rogers  to  Magdalen  Hazard. 

April  25.   George  McCready  to  Rebecca  Dibbs. 

April  28.  David  Hervey  to  Experience  Overton.  (13) 

May  I.   Christian  Heinrich  Goedecken  to  Ida  Neseig. 

May         9.-  John  Armstrong  to  Frances  Dusenbury. 


90 


May 

13- 

June 

6. 

June 

6. 

June 

9- 

June 

14. 

lune 

21. 

July 

II. 

July 

13- 

Aug' 

27. 

Aug' 

29. 

Sept' 

0- 

Sept' 

16. 

Oct' 

5- 

Oct' 

II. 

Oct' 

1 1. 

Oct' 

12. 

Nov' 

9- 

Nov' 

14. 

Nov' 

-^5- 

Dec' 

3- 

Dec' 

3- 

Dec' 

19. 

Dec' 

19. 

Dec' 

28. 

fan" 

23- 

Feb" 

6. 

March 

14- 

April 

10. 

April 

May 

19. 

May 

24. 

May 

27. 

May 

27- 

May 

27. 

May 

27. 

June 

'^ 

June 

5. 

June 

10. 

Tune 

■»  -> 

Tulv 

14- 

july 

24- 

Julv 

24. 

lulv 

-  5* 

Tulv 

-S- 

Tulv 

26. 

july 

31- 

Aug' 

2  7- 

Sept' 

18. 

Sept' 

19. 

I 


Rt'cords  of  the  First  and.  Second  Presbyterian  [April, 


William  Whitehead  to  Abby  Coe. 

Jacob  Simmons  to  Hannah  Brush. 

James  Ackley  to  Catharine  I.ogan. 

^Villiam  Warner  to  Sally  Dusenbury. 

John  Vredenburgh  to  Elizabeth  Montanye. 

John  Daniels  to  Zernah  Tappan. 

Thomas  Swords  to  Mary  White. 

Joshua  Fornian  to  Margaret  P.  B.  Alexander. 

Melancton  Smith  to  Cornelia  Jones. 

Thomas  Darling  to  Elizabeth  Magee. 

Josiah  Sturgis  to  Rebeckah  Cooper. 

Hans  Paulsen  Hielm  to  Martha  T.e  Roy. 

John  Watson  to  Elizabeth  Charlton, 

Samuel  Patterson  to  Alary  Cromwell. 

Henry  Hoyt  to  Lucy  Munson. 

John  Ciuest  to  Elizabeth  Cook. 

John  Dunn  to  Mary  Thompson. 

William  Goold  to  Alargaret  Strain. 

James  Elkins  to  Hannah  Guest. 

David  Burnet  to  Ann  T.  Burling. 

Joseph  G.  Wells  to  Maria  Stute. 

Frederick  Godkins  to  Anna  Dunn. 

John  Milward  to  Eliza  Kempton. 

\Villiani  Cumming  to  Margaret  Johnson. 

1S02. 


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^15) 


Thomas  Harding  to  Susan  Eincoln. 

John  Crolius  to  Jane  Degrove. 

Robert  Whittet  to  Margaret  McDonald. 

John  Koster  to  Elizabeth  Davis. 

Silas  Tobias  to  Hannah  Bennett. 

Thomas  Russell  to  Mary  Sprigg. 

George  Bunker  to  Mary  Macy. 

Peter  Youle  to  Jane  Calder. 

John  McNeil  to  Dorothy  Alhart. 

Ralph  Morehouse  to  Lucretia  Stillwell. 

John  P.  Schermerhorn  to  Rebecca  H.  Stevens. 

Jesse  Hottman  to  Sarah  McGunnyon. 

Edward  Lee  to  Mary  McLean, 

Adam  Sheilds  to  Elizabeth  Hart, 

Robert  Steel  to  Hannah  Thompson, 

Jasper  Livingston  to  Livingston.  (16) 

Abraham  Redwood  EUery  to  Sarah  Charlotte  Weissenfells. 

Laurence  Power  to  Bridget  Walch. 

Meletiah  Nash  to  ALary  AL  Hedden, 

Edmund  B.  D.  A[urphy  to  Afary  Donaldson. 

John  Cochran  to  Ann  Leach. 

Johnson  Robins  to  ALaria  Whipps. 

Robert  Weir  to  A  [aria  Brinckly. 

Jabez  Harrison  to  Rebecca  W,  Toler, 

William  Hubbard  to  Hannah  Gifford, 


1S84. 


Churches  of  the  City  of  Xe-tO  York. 


91 


Sept' 

21. 

Oct' 

2. 

Oct' 

17- 

Oct' 

24. 

Oct' 

24. 

Nov' 

22. 

Nov' 

27. 

Jan" 

Feb'' 

5- 

March 

22. 

jVIarch 

27. 

April 

4- 

April 

9- 

April 

II. 

April 

16. 

April 

28. 

May 

4- 

May 

II. 

May 

13- 

June 

4- 

June 

5. 

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5- 

June 

15- 

Aug' 

14. 

Sept' 

4. 

Oct' 

8. 

Nov' 

5. 

Nov' 

20. 

Nov' 

26. 

Dec' 

3- 

Dec' 

10. 

Dec' 

16. 

Dec' 

16. 

Dec' 

17. 

Dec' 

22. 

Dec' 

22. 

Dec' 

24. 

Dec' 

3^- 

Jan" 

9- 

Feb'' 

9- 

Feb" 

9- 

Feb" 

19. 

March 

25. 

March 

26. 

March 

27. 

April 

8. 

April 

10. 

James  Rachstrow  to  Margaret  Forsyth. 
Israel  Brush  to  Sarah  Sharp. 
Jeremiah  Crray  to  Mary  Stott, 
John  H.  Penny  to  Elizabeth  Penny. 
John  McMillan  to  Ann  Garrick. 
^Jonathan  Dunham  to  Susan  Halsey, 
John  Bleecker  to  Phebe  Mott  Smith. 

1803. 

Thomas  Deshamp  Penny  to  Jane  Hewit. 

George  Nixon  to  Sarah  Archer. 

Samuel  Hoyt  to  Lydia  Handyside. 

Francis  McClure  to  Eliza  Handy. 

Leon  Faure  to  Mary  Garrick. 

Joseph  C.  Hornblower  to  Mary  Burnet. 

Thomas  Richards  to  Mary  Benicker. 

John  Ensley  to  Ruth  Root. 

Peter  Hattrick  to  Mary  Lee. 

Peter  Slesman  to  Abigail  Blank. 

Jacob  Frank  to  Mary  Barnett, 

Thomas  Duncan  to  Jane  Wilson. 

Jonathan  Ferris  to  Ursula  Catlin. 

AVhitefield  Cowles  to  Desire  Brown, 

Silas  Woodruff  to  Jane  Buskirk. 

Vincent  Faure  to  Abigail  Sherwood. 

John  Black  to  Catharine  Jennings. 

William  Betts  to  Marey  Eisenberg. 

Henr)  Wylie  to  Charlotte  Lucy  Merry. 

Elkanah  Doolittle  to  Hannah  Compton. 

John  Leacraft  to  Catharine  Stibbs. 

Richard  V.  W.  Thorne  to  Maria  J.  Sullivan. 

Thomas  Keene  to  Elizabeth  Smith. 

Nathaniel  L.  Griswold  to  Catharine  Lasher. 

Stacy  Hepburn  to  Mary  Leonard. 

James  Nelson  to  Esther  Ludlam. 

David  M.  Mills,  Jun'.  to  Juliana  Tucker. 

John  Wilbie  to  Rebecca  Gilliland. 

William  Waring  to  Ann  Cromwell. 

John  Oliver  to  Isabella  Smith. 

Samuel  Delamater  to  Rachel  Whiting.   . 

1804. 

Joseph  McCleland  to  Ruth  Gardner. 
Robert  Megget  Steel  to  Isabella  White. 
William  Stockly  to  Maria  Le  Ture. 
Stephen  Care  to  Deborah  Ayres. 
William  Green  to  Catharine  Crow. — 
David  Logan  to  Janet  Allen. 
John  Slussar  to  Sarah  Vanwinckle. 
Jackson  Harries  to  Hannah  Frazer. 
A\'aters  Raymond  to  Judy  Thomas. 


(17) 


(iS) 


(19) 


92 


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21. 

April 

22. 

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5- 

May 

i8. 

May 

24. 

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26. 

June 

3- 

June 

7- 

June 

9- 

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18. 

June 

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July 

3- 

July 

21. 

Aug' 

I. 

Notes  and  Queries. 

Robertson  Crocket  to  Mary  Ann  Millar. 

Alexander  Monroe  to  Nancy  Carle. 

Samuel  B.  White  to  Sarah  Underhill. 

Zebulon  Inslee  to  Amy  Dean. 

Piatt  Smith  to  Mary  Rutzer, 

John  Martin  to  Ann  Comming. 

Peter  P'air  to  Rachel  VVilsee. 

Walter  Glinn  to  Ann  McBride. 

Robert  Burton  Lloyd  to  Margaretta  Kip. 

John  Grant  to  Ann  Mills. 

David  Ross  to  Mary  Ross. 

James  Griffith  to  Ann  McKenzie. 

James  King  to  Eleanor  Anderson. 

James  Stirling  to  Jane  Griffiths. 

John  Graham  to  Ann  McQueen. 

William  Conroy  to  Mary  Ludlow, 

John  Camman  to  Catharine  r  nn  Osborne. 


[April, 
(20) 


i 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

British  Flag  :  was  it  left  flying  upon  Fort  George,  when  the  Enemy 
EVACUATED  New  York,  IN  1 783? — Some  persons  have  lately  denied  it,  citing  a  state- 
ment made  by  Capt.  John  Van  Uyck  in  1831,  and,  for  lack  of  other  proof,  supplementing 
it  by  an  appeal  to  the  known  custom  in  such  cases.  "  No  army,"  say  they,  "  would  leave 
its  ilag  flying  to  be  insulted  by  the  enemy."  As  if  this  rule  can  admit  of  no  exception  I 
But  others,  persons  of  credibility,  of  whom  three  at  least  were  eye-witnesses,  affirm  that 
the  flag  was  left  flying.  John  Nixon  saw  it  torn  down,  and  ten  years  after  ascertained 
that  Van  Arsdale  was  the  one  who  did  it  ;  as  Nixon  informed  the  writer  hereof  in  1S44. 
Mrs.  Anna  Van  Antwerp  saw  the  flag  torn  down,  and  related  the  particulars  to  Dr. 
Lossing  in  1S51.  Joseph  Meeks  also  saw  it,  as  he  many  times  declared  to  his  son,  Mr. 
William  H.  Meeks  ;  always  saying  that  as  the  flag  fell  it  was  riddled  by  the  swords  of 
our  officers,  aided  by  the  eagerness  of  the  boys,  among  whom  was  Meeks,  who  rushed  in 
to  secure  pieces  of  it.  And  surely  the  "  Wallabout  Committee,"  composed  of  seven 
prominent  citizens,  and  who  admit  the  fact  in  a  pamphlet  issued  by  them  in  1808,  must 
have  known  what  they  were  saying  !  And  we  may  conclude  that  Hardie,  who  states  the 
same  fact  in  his  "Description  of  New  York,"  was  well  informed,  as  he  wrote  at  a  date 
(in  or  prior  to  1825),  when  the  truth  in  the  case  was  yet  accessible.  JAMES  riker. 

The  Cogswells  in  America. — The  Rev.  E.  O.  Jameson,  of  East  Medway,  Mass., 
who  has  been  engaged  for  several  years  in  compiling  a  history  of  the  Cogswell  family  of 
the  United  States,  has  completed  his  task  and  placed  the  MSS.  in  the  hands  of  his  prin- 
ter. It  will  make  a  handsome  octavo  volume  with  numerous  steel  portraits,  including 
those  of  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson  and  the  Hon.  John  Wentworth,  of  Illinois,  both  of 
whom  are  connected  with  the  Cogswell  family.  j.  G.  w. 

Brockw.\y. — Materials  are  being  collected  to  publish  a  genealogy  of  the  Brockway 
family,  descendants  of  Wolston  Brockway,  who  settled  in  Lyme,  Conn.,  about  the  year 
1660.  Information  and  letters  of  inquiry  are  solicited,  addressed  to  Dr.  A.  N.  Brockway, 
44  East  126th  Street,  New  York  City.  A.  N.  B. 

H.A.YDEN. — Rev.  Horace  Edwin  Hayden,  of  Wilkesbarre,  Pa.,  author  of  the  IVeitzel, 
Pollok^  and  other  genealogies  recently  mentioned  in  The  Record,  has  nearly  ready  for 
the  printer  a  biographical  genealogy  of  the  Haydens  ;  also  genealogies  of  the  Wilcoxsens, 
Cony7jghatns,'2indL  Van  Dyke.,  of  Is^ew  York;  J\obiiison,  Nixon,  yohiis,  and  Steiuart, 
of  Delaware  ;    Giossell,  with  thirty  allied  families  of  Maryland  and  Delaware. 

H.  R.  S. 


1884.]  N'otes  and  Queries.  q-y 

QuiNCY. — The  late  Miss  Quincy  completed,  only  a  fortnight  before  her  death,  a 
memoir  of  her  ancestor,  Judge  Edmund  Quincy  (16S1-1738),  for  the  editors  of  the  New 
Ejigland  Genealogical  Register^  at  whose  request  it  was  prepared  by  the  venerable  lady 
of  eighty-six,  whose  mind  was  clear  and  unclouded  to  the  very  last.  j.  g.  \v. 

Lintol-Trotter.  —  Information  is  desired  through  The  Record  in  regard  to  the 
marriage  of  Bernard  Lintol  and  Catherine  Trotter.  I  will  give  the  statistics  in  my  pos- 
session. The  date  of  the  marriage  is  September  11,  1760.  I  wish  to  ascertain,  if  pos- 
sible, the  place  where  they  were  married,  and  to  obtain  a  copy  of  the  record,  if  there  be 
any.  In  the  Land  Records  of  Derby,  Conn.,  I  find,  imder  date  of  August  20,  1765,  that 
Timothy  Johnson  deeded  piece  of  land  at  the  Narrows  or  New  Boston,  in  Derby,  to  Ber- 
nard Lintol  and  Edward  Arnold,  "For  the  consideration  of  fifty-two  pounds  currant 
money  of  the  Province  of  New  York  rec'd  in  hand  to  my  full  satisfaction  of  Bernard  Lin- 
tol, marchant  of  the  city  and  Province  of  New  York,"  etc.  cruger. 

LuDLAM. — March  21,  1701-2,  John  Ludlam,  of  Jamaica,  L.  I.,  Yeoman,  appointed 
Thomas  Cardale,  of  same  place,  Gentleman,  his  attorney  to  recover  an  estate  in  Mat- 
lock, Derbyshire,  England,  which  had  descended  to  him — Ludlam.  The  instrument  was 
executed  in  presence  of  five  witnesses  :  Joseph  Smith,  Justice,  Robert  Reed,  Edward 
Hare,  Thomas  Jeffers,  and  Joseph  Smith,  Junior,  and  was  acknowledged  April  S,  1702, 
before  Daniel  Whitehead,  Justice.  April  10,  1702,  Ludlam  gave  Cardale  his  bond  in 
the  penalty  of  ;^500,  to  confirm  all  actions  Cardale  might  commence  on  account  of  any 
lands,  etc.,  in  Derbyshire,  and  to  allow  Cardale  one-eighth  part  of  the  ''  trew  vallou"  of 
any  recovery.  To  support  his  claims,  Ludlam  provided  Cardale  with  evidence  of  which 
the  following  is  an  abstract  : 

1.  Certificate  of  John  Coe  and  Nicholas  Everet,  Justices,  that  Samuel  Edsall,  one  of 
His  Majesties  Justices,  etc.,  had  deposed  before  them  on  oath,  December  20,  1701,  that 
he  came  out  of  England  witli  William,  the  son  of  William  and  Clemence  Ludlam  ;  that  he 
knew  that  John  Ludlam,  of  Jamaica,  was  ever  accounted  to  be  the  true  and  lawful  son 
and  heir  of  said  William  and  Elizabeth,  his  wife  ;  and  he  at  same  time  declared  before 
the  Justices  that  William  Ludlam  and  his  sister  Grace  came  out  in  May,  landed  at  Boston 
in  July,  1648,  with  John  Graves,  Master  of  the  "Triall,"  and  that  William  Ludlam  was 
aged  about  twenty  years.  Also,  that  Johannah  Coe  had  declared  before  them  on  her 
oath  that  she  was  with  Elizabeth,  mother  of  John  Ludlam,  at  or  near  the  time  of  his 
birth,  and  that  he  was  the  eldest  son  of  William  and  Elizabeth  Ludlam. 

2.  Certificate  of  Joseph  Smith  and  Daniel  Whitehead,  Justices,  that  Elizabeth,  relict 
of  William  Ludlam,  the  son  of  William  and  Clemence  his  wife,  late  of  Matlock,  in  the 
county  of  Derby,  in  old  England,  Yeoman,  had  deposed  March  10,  170^,  that  she, was 
married  to  William,  son  and  heir  of  William  and  Clemence  Ludlam,  late  of  Matlock,  by 
Captain  Tappin,  Magistrate  of  Southampton  ;  that  John  Ludlam  is  the  true  and  lawful 
son  and  heir  of  said  William,  that  her  father-in-law  did  oft  in  his  life-time  press  upon  his 
son  William  (the  deponent's  husband)  to  return  for  England  and  see  after  an  estate 
which,  he  said,  was  his  proper  right,  lying  in  Matlock,  and  that  her  husband  did  design  to 
have  gone  to  England  accordingly,  but  was  prevented  by  death — her  husband  dying  within 
two  years  after  the  death  of  his  father,  etc. 

3.  Isaac  Halsey  and  Elizabeth  Howell  certify  March  18,  1701-2,  that  they  were  at  the 
marriage  of  William  Ludlam,  late  of  Matlock,  and  Elizabeth,  his  wife  ;  they  were  law- 
fully married  according  to  the  Kumn  laws  and  custom  of  Southampton,  by  Captain  John 
Tappin,  magistrate  of  that  place,  "we  being  all  present  at  ye  publick  solemnity  of  ye 
marriage."  [They  do  not  make  oath  thereto  because  there  is  "  no  person  in  town  quali- 
fied to  give  us  our  oaths,"  but  solemnly  declare  that  John's  parents  were  married  near 
fifty  years  ago,  according  to  the  then  and  present  custom  of  this  place.] 

4.  Certificate  of  John  Wicks  and  John  Wood,  Justices,  that  Thomas  Wicks  and 
Robert  Craufield,  both  of  Huntington,  Long  Island,  yeomen,  had  deposed  before  them 
March  20,  170  1-2,  that  they  were  intimately  acquainted  with  William  Ludlam,  who  died 
and  was  buried  at  Huntington  "above  thirty  years  agoe  ;"  that  they  knew  his  father 
William  Ludlam,  who  died  at  Southampton  ;  that  they  were  both  old  England  men ; 
that  William  who  dyed  at  Huntington  was  ever  owned  to  be  the  eldest  son  and  lawful 
heir  of  William,  of  Southampton,  and  that  John  Ludlam,  of  Jamaica,  is  the  lawful  heir  of 
William  Ludlam,  Junior.  T.  H.  E. 

MoFFiT-MlLLER.— Information  is  desired  of  the  descendants  of  A.  Moefitt  and 
Mary  Mellor,  who  were  married  in  Dublin  in  the  year  1792,  and  had  several  children, 
all  of  whom,  with  their  parents,  emigrated  to  America.  wanser. 


QA  Notes  on  Books.  [April, 

Smith,  Sarah,  the  widow  of  John  Witherspooii  Smith  and  the  daughter  of  Col.  Wil- 
liam Uuer,  who  was  an  officer  of  the  Revolutionary  army  and  a  reprcbentative  of  New  York 
in  the  First  Congress,  and  also  granddaughter  of  William  Alexander,  who  made  a  claim 
for  recognition  as  the  Earl  of  Stirling,  and  on  whose  staff  James  Munroe  served  as  aide-de- 
camp, is  still  living  in  Louisiana,  in  her  one  hundred  and  first  year  !  Aaron  Burr  wrote  to 
his  daughter  Theodosia  referring  to  the  marriage  of  Miss  Duer  to  Mr.  Smith,  "  a  young 
lawyer  of  great  promise."  Two  persons  are  residing  in  New  York  who  were  present  at 
their  marriage.  J.  G.  w. 

Valuable  Book. — The  most  valuable  book  in  the  world  is  to  be  seen  at  Moscow.  It 
was  presented  to  the  Patriarch  of  the  Greek  Church,  and  is  preserved  in  the  Cathedral  in 
which  the  Emperors  of  Russia  have  been  crowned  for  many  centuries.  It  is  a  large  folio 
Bible  printed  in  the  Russian  language,  bound  in  solid  silver,  and  inlaid  with  diamonds, 
pearls,  and  other  precious  stones  !  It  weighs  some  seventy  pounds,  and  cost  the  mother 
of  Peter  the  Great,  who  gave  it  to  the  church,  more  than  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  \ 
As  a  special  favor  I  was,  by  request  of  a  high  official  of  the  Czar's  household,  permitted 
to  handle  it.      Some  of  the  diamonds  were  as  big  as  small  beans.  J.  G.  W. 

WoOLSEY. — What  authority  is  there  for  the  statement  made  by  Thompson  ("  History 
of  Long  Island,"  vol.  ii.,  p.  437),  and  repeated  by  Bolton,  Dwight,  and  others,  that 
George  Woolsey,  ancestor  of  the  Woolseys  of  Long  Island,  was  son  of  Benjamin^  and 
grandson  of  Thomas,  the  latter  a  near  relative  of  Cardinal  Thomas  Wolsey  ? 

George  Woolsey,  in  the  deposition  made  by  him  July  23,  1647,  respecting  a  bribe  al- 
leged to  have  been  received  by  Fiscal  Van  Dyke  from  Thomas  Willett,  for  allowing  the 
latter's  vessel  to  pass  without  inspection,  states  that  he,  Woolsey,  was  from  Yarmoziik,  in 
England.  And  in  the  record  of  his  marriage  with  Rebecca  Cornell  in  the  Dutch  Church, 
December  9th  of  the  same  year,  he  is  recited  as  of  Yarmouth. 

Cardinal  Wolsey's  birth-place  was  in  St.  Nicholas  Parish,  Ipswich,  Suffolk  County, 
147 1.      He  was  the  son  of  Robert  and  Johanna  Wolsey,  of  that  place — their  only  child. 

Where  can  any  pedigree  be  found  which  will  show  this  alleged  relationship  ?  L. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS. 


The  Papers  and  Biography  of  Lyon  Gardiner.  1599-1663.  With  an  Appendix. 
Edited  with  Notes  Critical  and  Illustrative.  By  Curtiss  C.  Gardiner.  St.  Louis : 
Printed  for  the  Editor.     MDCCCLXXXIII.     4to,  106  pages.     (Limited  edition.) 

This  is  a  compilation  of  certain  manuscripts  and  letters  left  by  Lyon  Gardiner, 
gleanings  from  public  and  private  records,  and  from  published  histories — together  with 
traditionary  reminiscences.  Among  them  are :  (i),  the  autobiographical  record  of  his 
coming  from  Holland,  and  from  thence  to  New  England,  found  on  the  fly-leaf  of  a  copy 
of  the  German  Bible  of  1599;  (2),  his  relation  of  the  Pequott  Wars,  in  which  he  bore 
so  conspicuous  a  part,  reprinted  from  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society's  Collections ; 
and  (3) — from  the  same  source — his  letters  to  Gov.  John  Winthrop,  Jr.  ;  (4)  a  chapter 
on  the  family  name  and  arms,  Lyon  Gardiner's  signature  and  seal ;  (5)  a  biography  of 
Lyon  Gardiner,  made  up  from  the  foregoing  material,  with  annotations  from  various 
published  sources  ;  (6)  "  Editorial  Ergotism,"  recounting  the  editor's  line  of  descent  from 
his  distinguished  ancestor,  and  how  he  came  to  look  up  this  ancestral  line ;  and  (7),  an 
Appendix  containing  a  brief  account  of  Gardiner's  Island,  L.  I.,  and  the  line  of  Gar- 
diner proprietors  from  Captain  Lyon  Gardiner  to  the  present  (and  twelfth)  owner  of  the 
name.  The  volume  is  well  printed  and  illustrated  with  coats  of  arms,  seals,  and  a  map 
of  Gardiner's  Island. 

It  is,  however,  a  disappointing  book  to  those  (and  they  are  many)  who  have  long 
known  (all  that  this  resume  tells  us)  about  Lyon  Gardiner,  his  prowess  in  the  days  of  early 
settlement  of  Connecticut,  and  of  Long  Island  ;  his  pleasant  relations  with  the  Indians 
of  Long  Island  ;  and  liis  connection  with  the  story  of  Captain  Kidd  and  his  ill-gotten 
gains,  familiar  to  every  school-boy.  When  we  saw  this  goodly  quarto,  with  its  title  of 
"Lyon  Gardiner,"  our  hearts  glowed  with  genuine  interest,  and  a  feeling  that  the  stout 


[884.] 


Notes  071  Books.  gq 


old  Puritan  soldier  was,  at  last,  to  be  placed  by  the  reverent  hands  of  one  of  his  own  kin, 
in  that  historic  niche  which  has  long  waited  for  his  completed  figure.  Our  hopes,  how- 
ever, were  dimmed  by  the  perusal  of  the  printed  pages.  As  a  collection  of  hitherto  dis- 
jecta vie7nb)-a,  and.  thus  far,  a  labor  of  filial  affection,  it  has  its  uses.  But  it  tells  us 
nothing  new,  except  the  line  of  the  author's  direct  lineage,  and  the  line  of  the  direct 
proprietorship  of  the  Island.  Nor  is  the  chapter  on  the  family  name  and  arms  as  well 
handled  as  it  might  have  been  ;  and  as  for  the  genealogy  which  we  had  a  most  natural 
right  to  expect  in  connection  with  the  history  of  so  notable  a  man,  we  look — alas  ! — in 
vain.  Our  old  manorial  families  are  all  too  few  in  this  country  to  permit  of  their  being 
neglected  in  this  manner.  They  who,  with  pardonable  pride,  bore  upon  their  tombstones 
the  title  of  "  Lord  of  ye  Isle  of  Wight,"  deserved  a  fuller  genealogical  and  biographical 
record  at  the  hand  of  their  descendant.  And  therefore  it  is  that  we  feel  aggrieved — to  a 
greater  degree,  perhaps,  than  might  seem  reasonable  to  Mr.  Curtiss  C.  Gardiner,  of  St. 
Louis ;  for  all  Long  Islanders  have  a  claim  to  the  fame  of  Lyon  Gardiner. 

It  seems  somewhat  strange  that,  although  the  author  has  given  (page  84)  Wyan- 
danch's  deed  to  Gardiner  of  land  now  forming  a  large  portion  of  Smithtown,  L.  I.,  in 
requital  for  his  valorous  rescue  of  his  daughter  from  the  Narragansetts  (copied  from  the 
Records  at  Albany),  yet  he  has  not  mentioned  the  fact  that  the  original  document,  with 
signatures  of  Wyandanch,  Wyankanbone  and  their  squaws,  is  now  preserved,  well  framed, 
as  one  of  the  treasures  of  the  Long  Island  Historical  Society's  Library,  at  Brooklyn. 

H.  R.  s. 

•  Historical  Account  of  the  CELEBRiVTiox  of  the  One  Hundred  and  Fiftieth 
Anniversary  of  the  Organization  of  the  Congregational  Church  of  New 
Canaan,  Co.nn.,  June  20,  18S3.  With  an  Appendix  containing  a  full  Alphabetical 
List  of  the  Pastorate,  Deaconate,  and  Membership  of  the  Church,  and  other  His- 
torical Items  of  Church,  Educational,  and  General  Town  Interest.  Edited  by  the 
Committee  :  Rev.  Joseph  Greenleaf,  Mr.  Amzi  B.  Davenport.  8vo.  pp.  141. 
(Views  of  old  Meeting  House,  1752,  and  of  Church  edifice,  erected  1843.) 

We  are  indebted  to  Mr.  A.  B.  Davenport,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  (one  of  the  chief 
originators  of  this  celebration,  and  its  Chairman),  for  a  copy  of  this  very  interesting 
pamphlet.  It  contains  an  Historical  Discourse,  by  Rev.  James  S.  Hoyt,  D.D.,  of  Cam- 
bridge, Mass.  ;  a  Poem,  by  Rev.  John  G.  Davenport ;  and  Addresses  and  Letters  from 
various  sons  of  the  town,  together  with  an  Appendix  as  described  in  the  title,     h.  R.  S. 

Daniel  Tyler  :  A  Memorial  Volume  containing  his  Autobiography  and  War 
Record,  some  Account  of  his  Later  Years.  With  Various  Reminiscences 
and  the  Tributes  of  Friends.  Privately  printed  at  New  Haven,  MDCCCLXXXIII. 
Quarto,  pp.  xvi. ,  186.  Two  portraits,  abstract  of  Tyler  Pedigree,  etc.  [on  reverse  of 
title].     Two  hundred  copies  privately  printed  by  Tuttle,  Morehouse  &  Taylor. 

This,  truly,  in  view  of  its  typographical  dress,  the  value  and  interest  of  its  contents, 
and  tlie  loving  care  and  admirable  taste  which  editor,  friends,  and  printers  have  bestowed 
upon  it,  is  a  precious  volume.  Donald  G.  Mitchell,  Esq.,  of  Edgewood,  and  the 
printing  firm  of  Tuttle,  Morehouse  «&  Taylor,  of  New  Haven,  have  fully  equalled  in  this 
volume  their  Woodbridge  Genealogy,  which  we  noticed  in  a  recent  number  of  The  Record. 
The  memoir  opens  with  a  fragment  of  autobiography,  originally  written  at  the  instance 
of  his  esteemed  friend,  Major-General  Geo.  W.  Cullum,  for  the  West  Point  Alumni 
Association.  Its  exceeding  interest  and  value,  not  only  to  the  purposes  of  this  memorial, 
but  to  yet  (properly)  unwritten  history  of  the  United  States  Army,  renders  it  a  source  of 
regret  that  General  Tyler  did  not  live  to  complete  it.  His  connection,  in  the  earlier 
portion  of  his  long  and  busy  life,  with  the  development  of  the  artillery  service  of  the 
United  States  Army;  and  more  recently,  his  active  and  valued  service  in  the  war  of  the 
Civil  Rebellion,  render  this  portion  of  his  biography  one  of  national  interest.  The  rec- 
ords of  "  Later  Years,"  together  with  sketches  of  his  "  Foreign  Travel,"  and  his  "Rail- 
way Enterprises  in  Alabama,"  the  extracts  from  his  "Correspondence,"  and  various 
"  Reminiscences"  of  old  friends,  on  both  sides  of  the  Atlantic,  possess  a  peculiar  value, 
and  present  to  us  a  modest,  yet  complete  sketch,  of  one  who  may  truly  be  said  to  have 
been  a  complete  man,  in  his  loyalty  to  country,  to  family,  and  to  duty. 

Those  of  us  whose  youthful  days  were  charmed  by  the  delightful  "Reveries"  and  fan- 
tasies of  "  Ik.  Marvel,"  are  glad  to  renew  our  acquaintance  with  his  facile  pen  in  this 
"Memorial,"  as  well  as  in  the  "  Woodbridge  Genealogy."     And,  in  these  severer  stud- 


q6  Obituary.  [April,  1884. 

ies  of  life  to  which  he  has  given  his  hours  of  leisure  at  Edgevvood,  we  can  discern  no  loss 
of  vigor,  or  of  tender  touch — only  tlie  mellowness  of  added  years  and  experience. 

H.  R.  s. 

Records  of  William  Spooner,  of  Plymouth,   Mass.,  and  his  Descendants. 
Vol.  i.     By  Thomas  Spooner.    8vo,  pp.  694.     Cincinnati,  O.,  1883. 

We  have  already  noticed  this  valuable  work  from  advanced  sheets  (see  The  Record 
for  October,  1883),  and  the  completed  first  volume,  as  it  now  comes  to  our  hands,  fully 
justifies  the  opinion  which  we  then  expressed  concerning  it.  We  trust  the  author  will  be 
justified,  by  the  liberality  of  his  kindred,  in  continuing  his  labors,  until  the  companion 
volume  completes  the  imperishable  monument  which  he  has  consecrated  to  his  family's 
name  and  fame.  H.  R.  s. 


OBITUARY. 


William  H.  Hunt,  United  States  Ministerto  Russia,  who  died  at  St.  Petersburg 
February  27,  1884,  was  born  in  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  in  the  month  of  March, 
1824.  His  father  was  a  distinguished  lawyer  and  a  member  of  the  State  Legislature, 
and  had  five  children,  of  whom  William  was  the  youngest.  In  the  stormy  days  of  the 
"  Nullification  War,"  his  family  strenuously  opposed  the  treasonable  doctrines  of  Cal- 
houn, and  consequently  fell  into  such  disfavor  in  their  native  State  that  they  were  led  to 
seek  more  congenial  political  surroundings  in  New  Orleans.  There  William  Hunt,  having 
been  educated  at  Yale  College,  began  his  career  as  a  lawyer,  and  soon  attained  eminence 
in  his  profession.  He  was  a  close  student  and  ardent  adherent  of  the  doctrines  of  Hamil- 
ton and  The  Fede7-alist,  and  displayed  unwavering  loyalty  to  the  Union,  and  hostility  to 
the  popular  Southern  doctrines  of  Secession  and  State  Rights.  For  thirty-five  years  he 
was  a  prominent  personage  in  the  legal  and  political  life  of  New  Orleans.  The  records 
of  the  Federal  and  State  Courts  show  that  his  engagements  included  all  kinds  of  legal 
business,  and  he  distinguished  himself  by  his  success  equally  in  the  admiralty  and  mari- 
time jurisdiction,  criminal  cases,  and  proceedings  in  the  Court  of  Chancery.  For  a  pe- 
riod he  discharged  the  duties  of  professor  of  commercial  law  and  the  law  of  evidence  in 
the  law  school  at  New  Orleans.  In  1S76  he  was  chosen  Attorney-General  of  the  State 
of  Louisiana,  which  office  he  resigned  the  following  year,  and  took  up  his  residence  in 
Washington.  In  the  spring  of  1878  he  was  nominated  and  unanimously  confirmed  as  Jus- 
tice of  the  Court  of  Claims  of  the  United  States.  When  Justice  Strong  retired  from  the 
Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States,  the  bar  of  Louisiana,  without  respect  to  party, 
unanimously  recommended  Justice  Hunt  as  the  jurist  eminently  qualified  by  character 
and  acquirements  to  fill  the  vacancy.  From  this  position  in  the  Court  of  Claims  he  was 
called  in  1880  to  assume  charge  of  the  Navy  portfolio  in  President  Garfield's  Cabinet, 
and  on  the  reorganization  of  that  body,  upon  the  accession  of  President  Arthur,  he  was 
appointed  to  succeed  Mr.  Foster  as  Minister  to  Russia.  The  writer,  during  a  recent  visit 
to  Russia,  received  much  courtesy  and  kindness  from  Judge  Hunt,  who  was  ever  atten- 
tive to  Americans  travelling  in  that  country.  He  leaves  a  family  consisting  of  his  wife, 
four  sons,  and  one  daughter  ;?also  two  sisters  and  two  brothers. 

J.  G.  w. 

Schuyler  Va.\  Rensselaer,  of  New  Brunswick,  N.  J.,  a  mining  engineer,  died  at 
his  residence  March  5,  1884,  after  a  long  illness.  He  was  born  in  this  city  in  1844, 
and  was  a  member  of  a  branch  of  the  old  Van  Rensselaer  family  at  Albany.  He  was 
graduated  successfully  from  Harvard  University,  the  Columbia  School  of  Mines,  and  the 
School  of  Mines  at  Freiburg,  Germany.  As  Inspector  of  Steel  Rails  he  was  connected 
with  the  Chicago,  Burlington,  &  Quincy  Railroad  for  several  j'cars.  In  1870  he  mar- 
ried Marianna,  daughter  of  George  Griswold,  formerly  of  this  city,  wlio  with  a  son  survives 
him.     The  burial  was  in  Greenwood  Cemetery. 

J.  G.  w. 


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THE   NEW   YORK 

(icneakgiciil  anb  ^iograpjjital  |iccflrt. 


Vol.  XV.  NEW  YORK,   JULY,   1884.  No.  3. 


PRUYN    FAMILY— AMERICAN    BRANCH. 


By  John  V.  L.  Pruy.n,  Jr. 


{Continued  from  page  22.) 
199. 

HON.   ROBERT   H.    PRUYN,  LL.D., 

Late  United  States  Minister  to  yapan. 

(With  a  portrait.) 

(199)  Robert  Hewson  Pruyn,  son  of  (io8)  Casparus  F.  Pruyn  and 
AnneHewson,  was  born  in  Albany,  February  14,  1815,  and  was  baptized  by 
the  Rev.  John  Melancthon  Bradford,  pastor  of  the  North  or  Two-Steepled 
Dutch  Church.  An  extended  sketch  of  Mr.  Pruyn,  which  served  as  his 
obituary  notice,  and  a  part  of  which  is  embodied  in  the  present  article, 
will  be  found  in  the  "  Encyclopaedia  of  Contemporary  Biography  of  New 
York,"  vol.  II.,  p.  295.  It  was  written  by  the  Hon.  St.  Clair  McKelway, 
the  able  editor  of  the  Albany  Argus,  and  a  Regent  of  the  University  of 
the  State  of  New  York. 

On  his  father's  side  Mr.  Pruyn  was  descended  from  the  Bogarts,  Ver- 
plancks,  Schuylers,  Groesbecks,  and  Van  der  Poels.  His  grandmother, 
Cornelia  Dunbar,  the  mother  of  (108)  Casparus  F.  Pruyn,  was  of  Scotch 
descent,  her  ancestor,  John  Dunbar,  having  settled  in  Albany,  where  in 
1 714  he  was  associated  with  the  Rev.  Thomas  Barclay  and  Colonel  Peter 
Matthews  in  building  the  Episcopal  Church,  Queen  Anne's  Chapel  in  the 
Wilderness,  now  the  Parish  of  St.  Peter.  Mr.  Dunbar  afterward  resided  in 
Schenectady.  Mr.  Pruyn's  mother  was  of  English  origin,  and  a  woman  of 
great  force  and  loveliness  of  character. 

"  In  boyhood,  under  the  influences  of  a  home  training  in  which 
revenence,  patriotism,  self-help,  and  industry  were  inculcated,  he  was  en- 
tered (in  1825)  as  a  student  in  the  then  and  since  famous  Albany  Academy, 
and,  aside  from  the  acquisition  of  a  thorough  practical  and  classical  educa- 
tion, he  was,  best  of  all,  placed  under  the  shaping  and  inspiring  influence 
of  such  influential  minds  as  those  of  Theodore  Romeyn  Beck,  M.D., 
LL.D.,  and  Joseph  Henry,  LL.D.,  the  eminent  scientist,  and  afterward 
the  distinguished  organizer  and  executive  of  the  Smithsonian  Institute.  To 
meet  these  men  was  almost  a  liberal  education.     To  be  trained  by  them 


q3  Pniyn  Family — American  Branch.  \]^^^V^ 

was  an  advantage  not  inferior  to  a  scholarship  in  Rugby  under  the  famous 
Arnold."  After  completing  a  full  course  of  study  Mr.  Pruyn  entered  Rut- 
gers College,  New  Jersey,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1833. 

Immediately  thereafter  he  became  a  student  in  the  law  office  of  the 
late  Hon.  Abraham  Van  Vechten,  of  Albany,  a  jurist  of  high  rank,  who 
had  been  Recorder  of  Albany,  State  Senator,  Member  of  Assembly,  At- 
torney-General of  the  State,  and  a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Conven- 
tion of  182 1. 

About  1836  Mr.  Pruyn  was  admitted  to  the  Bar,  and  was  soon  after 
appointed  Attorney  and  Counsellor  for  the  Corporation  of  Albany,  a  posi- 
tion which  he  held  with  acceptance  for  three  years.  "  He  was  subsequently 
chosen  a  member  of  the  municipal  council  for  a  like  period.  In  both 
trusts  he  acquired  that  knowledge  of  ihe  interests  and  methods  of  the  city 
of  his  birth  and  of  his  home,  which  has  stood  him  and  Albany  In  good  stead 
on  many  a  subsequent  occasion." 

He  was  Judge  Advocate-General  from  1841  to  1846,  on  the  staffs  of 
Governors  William  H.  Seward,  William  C.  Bouck,  and  Silas  Wright,  Jr.  In 
1848,  1849,  and  1850  he  was  Member  of  Assembly  from  the  third  district 
of  Albany  County.  He  was  a  Whig  in  politics,  and  served  his  constituency 
well.  "  In  1850  he  was  the  Whig  candidate  for  Speaker  of  the  Assembly. 
The  Democracy  had  a  tie  vote  with  the  Whigs,  but  it  having  become  ap- 
parent to  Mr.  Pruyn  that  one  of  the  Whig  members  could  not  properly 
hold  his  seat,  Mr.  Pruyn  himself  abstained  from  voting,  and  the  Demo- 
cratic candidate  was  chosen The  appreciation  of  this  high- 
minded  course  was  shown  shortly  afterward.  The  Speaker  was  called 
home  by  family  affliction,  and  the  Democrats  themselves  elected  Mr. 
Pruyn  Speaker /r^  tempore y 

In  1 85 1  Mr.  Pruyn  Avas  again  appointed  Judge  Advocate-General  by 
Governor  Washington  Hunt.  In  1854  we  find  him  again  in  the  Assem- 
bly, "and,  although  speaking  and  voting  against  the  prohibitory  liquor 
law,  which  was  passed  that  year  but  was  vetoed  by  Governor  Seymour, 
he  was  elected  Speaker  despite  the  fact  that  two-thirds  of  the  members 
were  in  favor  of  the  passage  of  that  measure.  As  a  Speaker  his  parliament- 
ary courage,  readiness,  and  justice  were  marked.  He  enjoyed  the  unique 
advantage  of  never  having  had  one  of  his  rulings  in  the  chair  appealed 
from." 

On  March  5,  1855,  ^^J"-  Pruyn  was  appointed  Adjutant-General  on  the 
staff  of  Governor  Myron  H.  Clark,  and  in  i860,  when  party  politics  were 
at  fever  heat,  he  was  again  a  candidate  for  the  Legislature  in  the  Third 
Assembly  District  of  Albany  County,  "  which,  by  a  re-apportionment,  had 
been  made  politically  adverse,  by  a  very  large  majority,  to  his  views.  He 
came  within  sixty-two  votes  of  an  election,  though  the  Lincoln  electoral 
ticket  had  tenfold  that  majority  against  it  in  that  district.  The  popu- 
larity thus  successfully  shown  at  home,  among  his  neighbors  of  opposing 
politics,  carries  its  own  commentary  of  tribute  and  excellence."        ^ 

"In  the  month  of  September  of  1S61,  President  Lincoln  appointed 
Mr.  Pruyn  United  States  Minister  to  Japan,  as  successor  to  Hon.  Town- 
send  Harris,  who  was  the  first  diplomatic  representative  of  our  Republic 
or  of  any  other  country  to  that  kingdom.  The  test  laid  upon  the  diplomat 
was  not  a  small  one.  It  was  necessary  that  the  United  States  should  have 
the  strongest  representation  abroad,  that  our  prestige  should  not  abate  in 
foreign  lands  while  we  were  struggling  to  preserve  our  autonomy,  and  to 


i884-]  Pruyn  Family — A?nericafi  Branch.  CO 

establish  full  manhood  freedom  at  home.  It  was  especially  necessary  that 
the  equality,  if  not  the  primacy  of  the  United  Slates,  in  that  ingenious  and 
most  peculiar  portion  of  the  eastern  world,  should  be  secured.  Founda- 
tion work  then  had  to  be  done  for  the  present  superstructure  of  American 
influence  there  now.  It  had  to  be  done  too,  largely,  by  the  Minister  him- 
self, whom  the  preoccupations  of  our  home  government,  and  the  distance 
of  months  in  time  from  .the  Secretary  of  State  (there  being  neither  cable 
nor  established  steam  lines  of  communication),  left  mostly  to  his  own  re- 
sponsibility. This  American  gentleman  had  to  contest  for  influence  with 
the  trained  diplomats  of  the  most  powerful  monarchies  in  the  world,  and 
against  the  usages  and  suspicions  of  one  of  the  most  set  and  insulated 
empires  on  the  earth.  The  general  task  assigned  to  him  was  formidable  in 
no  ordinary  sense.  The  particular  problems  presented  or  produced,  intensi- 
fied the  delicacy  and  the  difficulty  of  the  position.  AVeekly  or  bi-weekly 
steamers  and  telegraph  facilities,  available  on  the  instant  to  all  points  of 
the  planet,  now  render  the  work  of  articulation  with  his  home  government 
easy  and  constant  to  our  Minister  to  Japan  or  China,  The  absence  of 
those  means  from  1861  to  1865  often  caused  instructions,  when  received, 
to  be  inapplicable  to  the  situations,  as  they  had  changed  since  the  instruc- 
tions were  sent.  It  was  of  necessity  a  diplomacy  of  the  diplomat  almost 
exclusively.  In  recognition  of  this  fact,  our  vessels  of  war  in  Japan  waters 
were  placed  entirely  at  the  disposal  of  the  Minister,  within  the  instructions 
prescribed  by  the  Navy  Department.  Mr.  Pruyn  had  to  make  exemplary 
use  of  these  vast  powers,  when  indecision,  error,  or  precipitancy  would 
have  destroyed  the  germinating  influence  of  his  government.  There  was 
then,  as  there  had  been  for  a  long  time,  an  idea  prevalent  alike  in  Europe 
and  America,  that  a  dual  sovereignty  existed  in  Japan.  It  was  supposetl 
that  the  Mikado  was  the  spiritual  head,  and  that  the  Tycoon  was  the 
temporal  head  of  the  empire.  This  was  error.  It  arose  from  the  mingled 
ecclesiastical  and  regal  character  assigned  to  the  Mikado.  As  priest  he 
was  rated  a  descendant  of  the  gods,  and  he  was,  therefore,  sacred  in  his 
person,  both  as  a  priest  and  as  a  king.  "The  Yankees  of  the  East,"  as 
the  Japanese  have  been  not  inappropriately  called,  were  not  above  em- 
ploying this  theory  of  dual  or  distinctive  power,  in  one  ruler,  to  their  own 
advantages,  or  to  what  they  rated  their  own  interest.  Though  by  treaty  with 
the  United  States,  trade  and  travel,  intercourse  and  the  rights  of  the  most 
favored  nations  had  been  guaranteed  to  this  republic,  the  non -intercourse 
party  in  Japan  devised  the  fiction  that,  while,  to  be  sure,  the  sovereign,  as 
Mikado,  was  pre-eminent,  his  titular  position,  as  Tycoon,  was  but  that  of 
a  prince  of  the  sixth  rank,  and  his  treaty  power  was  thus  claimed  to  be 
qualified. 

"As  early  as  the  spring  of  1863  Mr.  Pruyn,  thus  acquainting  the  State 
Department  with  the  dilemma  of  duplicity,  took  the  ground  that  he  should 
regard  the  Tycoon  as  what  he  was,  as  the  real  ruler,  and  would  insist  upon 
and  maintain  his  real  sovereignty.  This  was  indispensable  to  give  the 
United  States  either  treaty  rights  or  the  right  of  intercourse.  Mr.  Pruyn 
informed  Secretary  Seward  that  foreign  intercourse  could  never  be  guar- 
anteed, until  and  unless  the  treaties  were  ratified  by  the  Mikado. 

'<  Consequently,  under  the  power  devolved  on  the  IVfinister,  two  naval 
expeditions  were  undertaken  against  the  transgressing  Daimio  of  Chosu, 
whose  vessels  had  fired  on  the  American  merchant  steamer  Pembroke. 
In  the  first  expedition  the  United  States  nipn-of-war  Wyoming,  Commo- 


joo  Fruyn  Family — American  Branch.  fj''ly> 

dore  McDougall,  sank  tlie  brig  Lanrick  and  blew  up  the  steamer  Lance- 
field,  at  the  same  time  running  the  gauntlets  of  shore  batteries  of  eighty 
guns  in  the  straits  of  Simonisaki.  The  second  expedition  was  undertaken 
with  the  forces  of  Great  Britain,  France,  and  Holland,  the  United  States 
steamer  Jamestown  being  left  at  Yokohama  for  the  defence  of  that  place, 
and  the  United  States  being  also  represented  by  the  chartered  steamer 
Takiang,  with  an  additional  crew  from  the  Jamestown,  and  its  large  rifled 
guns.  The  allied  expedition  demolished  the  fortifications  of  Chosu  and 
captured  the  guns,  the  Daimio  having  also  fired  theretofore  both  on  the 
French  and  English  vessels.  One  Russian  forty-two  pound  brass  gun 
thus  taken  is  now  in  Washington.  Though  questioned,  this  proceeding 
postponed  the  dethronement  of  the  Tycoon  for  several  years.  The  sum 
of  $3,000,000  as  indemnity,  or,  in  lieu  thereof,  the  opening  of  new  ports, 
was  demanded.  Of  this  indemnity  the  sum  of  $1,500,000  is  now  to  the 
credit  of  the  United  States  in  their  Department  of  State.  The  treaty 
averred  that  the  demonstration  of  force  was  necessary.  The  hostility  of 
the  Daimio  of  Chosu  took  on  dimensions  which  disenabled  the  Tycoon 
from  observing  his  treaty  stipulations.  The  expeditions  removed  that  ob- 
stacle, and  opened  the  treasures  of  the  Eastern  to  the  influences  of  the 
Western  world.  Had  the  Mikado  attained  power  before  he  was  educated 
to  the  necessity  of  foreign  intercourse,  a  war  would  have  ensued,  costing 
thousands  of  lives  and  millions  of  treasure.  In  point  of  fact,  the  ex- 
penses of  Great  Britain  and  France  far  exceeded  the  sums  paid  by  Japan. 
Several  regiments  of  British  troops  were  in  Japan,  and  nearly  thirty  men- 
of-war  of  the  three  Powers.  So  long  as  the  territories  of  the  Tycoon  were 
interposed  between  the  adherents  of,  or  those  who  supported  the  old  dy- 
nasty, he  could  maintain  his  position ;  but  when  foreign  steamers  were  ac- 
quired by  the  Daimios,  and  the  Tycoon's  territory  no  longer  presented  a 
barrier,  but  could  be  sailed  around  at  will,  his  tenure  of  office  was  preca- 
rious and  soon  became  untenable.  The  re-establishment  of  the  rightful 
sovereignty  was  prolonged,  until  the  education  to  the  necessity  of  foreign 
intercourse  was  completed.  The  sesame  Japan  gives  to  the  forces  of  the 
age,  her  school  and  civil  service  system  of  reform,  and  the  decreed  inten- 
tion of  constitutional  government,  with  the  great  gains  to  truth  and 
comity,  are  among  the  results  of  the  initial  pressure  of  civilization  applied 
in  this  decisive  manner. 

"Minister  Pruyn  thoroughly  acquainted  himself  with  the  institutions 
and  arts  of  the  East,  so  as  to  become  admittedly  an  unexcelled  authority 
upon  them  to  his  countrymen.  He  wrote  at  length  to  the  State  Depart- 
ment the  results  of  his  observations,  and  his  reasons  for  his  lines  of  policy. 
His  correspondence  was  hardly  equalled  in  volume  by  that  of  any  other 
representative.  In  the  opinion  of  Charles  Sumner,  so  long  and  honor- 
ably the  chairman  of  the  Senate  Committee  on  Foreign  Relations,  ex- 
pressed to  the  late  (127)  Hon.  John  V.  L.  Pruyn,  then  the  member  of 
Congress  from  the  Albany  District,  Mr.  Pruyn's  correspondence  was  not 
surpassed  in  ability  by  that  of  any  other  American  envoy,  with  possibly 
the  exception  of  Hon.  Charles  Francis  Adams.  Mr.  Pruyn  concededly 
secured  American  equality  of  rights  in  the  East,  and  did  it  in  a  way  which 
has  made  the  continuation  of  his  policy  the  combined  preference  and  ne- 
cessity of  his  successors. 

"  Returning  to  the  United  States,  with  evidences  of  the  honor  of  his  gov- 
ernment and  of  his  countrymen,  Mr.  Pruyn  was  supported  m  1867,  as  the 


1884.]  Priiyn  Family — American  Branch.  lOI 

candidate  for  Lieutenant-Governor  of  his  native  State,  as  the  repre- 
sentative of  the  union  of  the  conservative  Republicans  with  those  with 
whom  partisan  causes  had  ])laced  them  aforetime  at  variance,  but  with 
whom  agreement  on  constitutional  questions  and  on  reconstruction  by 
reconciliation  had  reunited  them.  He  was  not  elected,  however.  An 
attack  of  diphtheria,  with  its  consequences,  then  retired  him  from  civic  and 
business  activity  for  a  number  of  years.  He  was,  however,  induced  by 
Gov.  Hoffman,  in  1872,  to  serve  on  the  non-partisan  commission,  to  frame 
amendments  to  the  State  Constitution.  That  illustrious  gathering  of 
scholars  and  statesmen  made  him  their  presiding  officer.  He  as  directly, 
perhaps,  as  any  other  man,  tempered  and  determined  the  course  of  results 
which,  to-day,  take  form  in  the  better  business  government  of  our  State, 
and  in  the  enlargement  of  the  powers  of  the  executive  office.  Among  his 
associates  in  the  body  were  Francis  Kernan,  Lucius  Robinson,  Judge 
Rumsey,  Judge  Jackson,  ex-Attorney-General  Daniel  Pratt,  B,  D.  Silli- 
man,  Erastus  Brooks,  William  Cassidy,  and  others  of  equal  distinction. 

"  We  have  but  outlined  a  few  of  the  more  public  trusts  and  achieve- 
ments of  Mr.  Pruyn's  career  in  the  service  of  his  city,  his  State,  and  the 
nation.  Space  does  not  permit  more  than  a  bald  indication  of  other 
positions  which  dotted  a  life  in  the  public  interest.  This  last  State  service 
was,  as  has  been  seen,  the  formulation  of  the  forces  of  administrative  re- 
form, which  the  preceding  constitutional  convention  did  not  frame  in  a 
way  to  command  popular  approval.  The  commission  over  which  Mr. 
Pruyn  ])resided  succeeded,  however,  in  originating  measures  which  were 
as  feasible  as  they  have  been  beneficent.  The  substitution  of  a  superintend- 
ent of  public  works  for  three  canal  commissioners,  and  of  a  superintend- 
ent of  State  prisons  for  three  inspectors,  was  secured.  Sectarian  api)ro- 
priations,  which  had  become  a  gross  abuse,  were  estojjped.  The  prohibition 
of  the  constitution  was  laid  on  special  legislation.  The  Executive  was 
given  power  to  veto  items  in  money  bills,  without  prejudice  to  those  which 
he  might  approve.  A  two-thirds  vote  of  all  legislators  elected  was  made 
necessary  to  override  a  veto,  instead  of  merely  two-thirds  of  a  quorum. 
The  government  of  the  State  was  placed  on  a  basis  which  has  enabled  its 
debt  and  taxes  to  be  steadily  lessened,  while  its  rills  of  revenue  increased. 
It  should  be  noted  that  as  on  Mr.  Pruyn,  from  1847  to  1850,  devolved 
duties  connected  with  the  enforcements  of  the  1846  constitution,  by 
legislation,  so  was  it  the  privilege  of  the  State  to  secure  him  in  1872,  to 
moderate  the  work  of  adjusting  the  changes  and  reforriis  to  that  instru- 
ment required  by  the  newer  duties  of  the  newer  times.  This  separated 
State  service  was  bridged  by  the  wonderful  work  on  his  part,  to  emphasize 
and  perpetuate  the  primacy  of  his  country  in  the  antipodes." 

For  the  last  ten  years  of  his  life  Mr.  Pruyn  was  not  greatly  identified 
with  public  affairs.  He  was  largely  interested  in  railroads,  manufacturing, 
and  other  commercial  enterprises,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  a 
trustee  in  the  Metropolitan  Trust  Company  of  New  York,  just  then  incor- 
porated ;  vice-president  of  the  Albany  Savings  Bank,  incorporated  in  1820, 
and  president  of  the  National  Connnercial  Bank  of  Albany,  an  institution 
for  nearly  sixty  years  the  depository  of  the  general  funds  of  the  State.  He 
was  also  a  trustee  of  Rutgers  College  ;  a  governor  of  Union  University  ; 
president  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Dudley  Observatory  ;  vice- 
president  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Albany  Medical  College,  and  a 
member    of  the    Executive   Committee    of   the  State   Normal  School  at 


I02  Fn/yn  Family — Afnerican  Branch.  [Ji-'b'' 

Albany.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Albany  Institute,  and  of  the  Young 
Men's  Association,  having  been  president  of  the  latter  in  1838  ;  and  was  a 
governor  of  the  Fort  Orange  Club.  In  early  life  he  was  very  much  in- 
terested in  and  an  officer  of  the  St.  Nicholas  Society  of  Albany,  no  longer 
existing,  an  organization  similar  to  that  of  the  same  name  now  so  promi- 
nent i/i  New  York 

"  Mr.  Pruyn  was  made  a  mason  in  Master's  Lodge  No,  5,  prior  to  his 
departure  to  Japan  as  American  minister.  After  his  return  he  connected 
himself  with  the  Ancient  Accepted  Scottish  Rite,  and  finally  received  the 
thirty-second  degree  about  fifteen  years  ago.  His  most  prominent  act  in 
a  masonic  capacity  was  delivering  the  oration  at  the  dedication  of  the 
masonic  temj^le  in  September,  1875.  Though  never  actively  engaged  in 
the  work  of  the  fraternity,  he  was  an  admirer  of  masonry  and  its  principles, 
and  ever  ready  to  defend  it.  Before  the  classis  of  the  Dutch  church,  on 
several  occasions,  he  delivered  powerful  addresses  against  the  resolution 
denouncing  masons,  and  the  connection  of  members  of  the  church  with 
the  fraternity,  and  to  his  efforts  the  defeat  of  the  resolution  may  be 
credited." 

Mr.  Pruyn  was  a  man  of  much  culture,  and  had  travelled  extensively. 
He  brought  from  Japan  many  valuable  objects  of  art,  and  his  collection 
of  Jajxanese  ivories,  at  one  time  in  the  Metropolitan  Museum  in  New 
York,  is  considered  one  of  the  finest  in  the  world.  He  also  possessed 
some  very  rare  and  valuable  books. 

In  1836  Mr.  Pruyn  received  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  from  Rutgers 
College,  and  in  1865  that  of  Doctor  of  Laws  from  Williams  College. 

Of  Mr.  Pruyn's  personal  character,  all  bear  witness  to  his  honor,  his 
efficiency,  his  kindliness,  his  charity,  and  his  love  for  all  that  was  good. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  church  in  which  he  had  been  baptized,  and  was 
devoted  to  its  welfare. 

On  the  evening  before  his  death  he  was  at  the  Fort  Orange  Club, 
among  his  friends,  in  apparently  excellent  health.  The  next  morning, 
Sunday,  February  26,  1882,  he  was  taken  ill  at  breakfast,  and  about  noon 
died.  Embolism  of  the  brain  was  the  immediate  cause  of  his  death.  The 
shock  to  the  comnumity  in  which  he  lived  was  only  less  tlian  that  to  his 
family.  Resolutions  of  sympathy  were  passed  by  the  various  bodies  with 
which  he  had  been  connected,  and  by  others  upon  which  he  had  no 
claim. 

On  Tuesday  afternoon,  February  28,  1882,  after  a  short  service  at  his 
late  residence,  corner  of  State  and  Park  Streets,  the  funeral  occurred  at 
three  o'clock  from  the  First  Reformed  Church,  in  the  presence  of  a  large 
assemblage  of  friends.  The  services  were  conducted  by  the  Rev.  Rufus 
W.  Clark,  pastor  of  the  church,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Vermilye,  of  New  York,  and 
the  Rev.  John  N.  Campbell,  President  of  Rutgers  College  ;  after  which 
the  remains  were  conveyed  to  their  last  resting  place  in  the  Albany  Rural 
Cemetery. 

Mr.  Pruyn  married,  November  9,  1841,  Jane  Ann  Lansing,  born  June 
28,  181 1,  daughter  of  Gerrit  Yates  Lansing  and  Helen  Ten  Eyck,  of 
Albany. 

[Gerrit  Yates  Lansing,  the  father  of  Mrs.  Pruyn,  was  a  leading  citizen 
of  Albany,  and  held  many  honorable  positions,  including  those  of  repre- 
sentative from  the  Albany  district  in  the  Twenty-second,  Twenty-third, 
and  Twenty-fourth  Congresses  of  the  United  States,  and  of  Chancellor  of 


1 884. J  Biography  of  Colonel  Richard  Nicolls.  I03 

the  University  of  the  State  of  New  York,  being  succeeded  in  the  latter 
office  by  the  late  (127)  John  V.  L.  Pruyn.  He  was  descended  from  the 
Glens,  Visschers,  Yateses,  and  other  honorable  colonial  families.  His 
father,  Abraham  G.  Lansing,  was  surrogate  of  Albany  County  from  1787 
to  1 80S,  and  State  Treasurer,  by  legislative  appointment,  from  1803  to 
1808,  and  from  18 10  to  1812,  John  1-ansing,  Jr.,  a  brother  of  Abraham  G. 
Lansing,  was  a  lawyer,  several  times  represented  Albany  in  the  Legisla- 
ture ;  was  Mayor  of  Albany  ;  was  a  member  of  the  Convention  of  1787-88, 
which  formed  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States  ;  after  which  he  became 
a  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  State,  and  finally  Chancellor  from 
1801  to  18 14,  preceding  Chancellor  Kent. 

The  mother  of  Gerrit  Yates  Lansing,  and  grandmother  of  Mrs.  Pruyn, 
was  Susannah  Yates,  daughter  of  Abraham  Yates,  Jr.,  one  of  the  leading 
men  of  his  time.  He  was  sheriff  of  Albany  County  from  1755  to  1759, 
deputy  in  the  New  York  Provincial  Convention  of  1755,  deputy  to  the 
First,  Second,  Third,  and  Fourth  Provincial  Congresses  of  New  York. 
Of  the  latter  Congress  he  was  president.  He  was  a  member  of  the  two 
ad  interim  Councils  of  Safety  on  the  adoption  of  the  State  Constitution ; 
State  Senator  from  1777  to  1790;  Recorder  of  Albany  in  1778  ;  member 
of  the  Council  of  Appointment  and  of  the  Continental  Congress  in  1787 
and  1788.  He  was  also  Mayor  of  Albany  from  1790  to  1796.  "He  held 
very  positive  views  upon  the  question  of  State  rights,  and  his  papers 
signed  'Rough  Hewer'  were,  in  part,  expositions  of  his  ideas  on  that 
subject.  1  believe  he  looked  with  a  prophetic  vision  at  the  future  of  our 
system,  and  saw  in  the  preservation  of  the.  functions  of  the  States  the 
safety  of  the  Federal  Union.  He  was  not  a  secessionist,  but  for  States' 
rights,  and  a  strict  constructionist  on  that  subject,"  etc.  (Extract  from  let- 
ter to  compiler.)] 

By  his  marriage  with  Miss  Lansing,  Mr.  Pruyn  had  issue  : 

294.  Edward   Lansing,  b.  August  2,  1843;   d.  at  San  Francisco, 

February  8,  1862. 

295.  RoBEKT  Clarence,  m.  Anna  Martha  Williams. 

296.  Helen  Lansing,  b.  September  13,  1849  5  ^-  ^^1  5'  ^^54. 

297.  Charles  Lansing,  m.  Elizabeth  Atwood  McClintock. 


BIOGRAPHY    OF    COLONEL    RICHARD    NICOLLS. 

DEPUTY    GOVERNOR    OF    NEW    YORK,   ETC. 


By   Edward   Holland   Nicol. 


Colonel  Richard  Nicolls  played  a  prominent  part  in  American 
history  and  in  establishing  the  pre-eminence  of  the  Anglo-Saxon  race  on 
the  sea-board  of  the  new  world.  His  family  name  was  variously  spelled, 
but  Colonel  Nicolls  used  the  orthography  given  here.  Richard  Nicolls 
was  the  fourth  son  and  youngest  child  of  Francis  Nicolls  and  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Sir  George  Bruce,  the  lineal  ancestor  of  the  Earl  of  Elgin,  and 
a  younger  brother  of  Sir  Edward  Bruce,  a  favorite  of  James  I.  and  his 
Master  of  the  Rolls.  Francis  Nicolls  is  described  in  a  pedigree  of  the 
family  as  "  of  the  Middle  Temple,  one  of  the  Squires  of  the  Bath  to  Sir 
Edward  Bruse,   and  lyeth  buried  at  Ampthill,   Co.  Bedford."       Richard 


lOA  Biography  of  Colofiel  Richard  NicoUs.  [July, 

NicoUs  was  born  in  1624,  his  father  dying  in  the  same  year.  The  family 
had  for  a  long  time  occupied  Ampthill  Park,  as  lessees  under  the  Bruce 
family.  Ampthill  Great  Park  was  a  royal  chase,  and  its  custody  was 
granted  in  1613,  by  James  I.  to  Thomas,  Lord  Bruce,  whose  son,  Robert 
Bruce,  was  created,  in  1664,  Viscount  Bruce,  Baron  of  Ampthill  and  Earl 
of  Aylesbury.  The  NicoUs  family  resided  at  the  Great  Lodge  or  Capitol 
Mansion,  as  it  was  then  called.  Here  Richard  Nicolls  passed  his  boy- 
hood under  the  charge  of  his  mother,  who  never  married  again  and  died 
in  1652.  Two  other  sons,  Edward  and  Francis,  and  one  daughter,  Bruce, 
survived  their  father.  The  daughter  married  John  Frechaille  (son  and 
heir  of  Sir  John  Frechaille),  afterward  Baron  Frechaille  of  Stavely.  Rich- 
ard Nicolls  was  a  student  at  either  Oxford  or  Cambridge,  it  is  not  known 
which.  The  epitaph  on  his  monument  shows  that  he  was  distinguished  at 
the  University.  But  his  studies  were  interrupted  by  the  breaking  out  of 
the  civil  war.  When  only  eighteen  years  of  age,  he  put  himself  on  the 
side  of  the  King,  as  was  natural  from  his  connections.  His  mother  was 
of  a  family — itself  connected  with  the  royal  line— which  had  been  favored 
by  the  king  ;  his  uncle.  Doctor  William  Nicolls,  of  the  Church  of  England, 
was  indebted  to  Charles  L  for  his  preferments,  and  it  was  a  matter  of 
course  that  the  sympathies  of  the  young  man  should  be  with  the  Cavaliers. 
He  was  given  the  command  of  a  troop  of  horse,  and  each  of  his  brothers 
were  at  the  head  of  a  company  of  infantry.  All  three  shared  the  exile  of 
the  royal  family  and  followed  Charles  H.  in  his  wanderings.  Edward  died 
at  Paris  and  PVancis  at  the  Hague.  Richard  was  in  the  service  of  the 
Duke  of  York,  and  Clarendon  tells  us  that  the  attendants  of  this  prince 
suffered  more  than  any  others  amid  the  privations  and  disorders  of  the 
banished  court.  In  1652,  Richard  Nicolls  accompanied  the  Duke  of 
York  when  he  joined  Marshal  Turenne's  army  in  the  war  of  the  Fronde. 
The  duke  afterward  served  on  the  other  side,  under  Prince  John  of  Austria 
and  the  Prince  of  Conde,  and  it  is  probable  that  Richard  Nicolls  was  with 
him  in  these  campaigns  also.  At  the  restoration,  he  was  made  a  gentleman 
of  the  bed-chamber  to  the  duke.  The  Duke  of  York's  patent  was  issued 
in  1664  for  all  the  land  on  the  west  side  of  the  Connecticut  River  to  the 
Delaware  Bay,  including  Long  Island,  Martha's  Vineyard,  and  Nantucket. 
Colonel  Richard  Nicolls,  Sir  Robert  Carre,  George  Cartaret,  and  Samuel 
Maverick,  esquires,  were  appointed  commissioners,  with  power  for  them, 
or  any  three  or  two  of  them,  or  the  survivors  of  them,  of  whom  Colonel 
Nicolls  during  his  life  should  always  be  one  and  should  have  a  casting 
vote,  to  visit  the  colonies  and  plantations  known  as  New  P'ngland.  They 
were  to  hear  complaints  and  "  proceed  in  all  things  for  the  providing  for 
and  settling  the  peace  of  the  said  country."  Colonel  Nicolls  was  instructed 
to  require  the  Dutch  to  submit  to  the  king's  obedience,  "they  having  no 
kind  of  right  to  hold  what  they  are  in  possession  of  in  our  unquestionable 
territories,  than  they  are  possessed  of  by  an  invasion  of  us."  The  expedi- 
tion commanded  by  Colonel  Nicolls  set  sail  from  Portsmouth  in  June, 
1664,  and  resulted  in  the  wresting  of  the  New  Netherlands  from  the  Dutch. 
Colonel  Nicolls  assumed  the  government  of  the  province  of  New  York  as 
*'  Deputy  Governor  under  his  Royal  Highness,  the  Duke  of  York,  of  all 
his  territories  in  America."  English  forms  and  ways  of  government  were 
gradually  introduced,  and  in  June,  1665,  the  scout,  burgo-masters  and 
schepens  of  the  Dutch  municipality  gave  place  to  a  mayor,  aldermen,  and 
sheriff.     Colonel  Nicolls'  rule,  if  somewhat  arbitrary,  was  honest  and  wise, 


1S84.J  Notes  on  the  Livingston  Family.  1 0=5 

and  for  the  welfare  of  the  people.  Smith,  in  his  "  History  of  New  York," 
says,  "he  erected  no  courts  of  justice,  but  took  upon  himself  the  sole 
decision  of  all  controversies  whatever.  Complaints  came  before  him  by 
petition,  upon  which  he  gave  a  day  to  the  parties,  and  after  a  summary 
hearing,  pronounced  judgment.  His  determinations  were  called  "edicts," 
and  executed  by  the  sheriffs  he  had  appointed.  It  is  much  to  his  honor, 
that  notwithstanding  all  this  plenitude  of  power,  he  governed  the  province 
with  integrity  and  modeiation. 

Colonel  Nicolls  went  back  to  England  in  1667,  and  took  his  former 
])lace  in  the  Duke  of  York's  household.  War  was  declared  against  the 
Dutch  in  1672.  The  distinction  between  the  land  and  sea  services  was 
not  then  established,  and  of  the  landsmen  who  volunteered  to  serve  in  the 
fleet  commanded  by  the  Duke  of  York,  the  Earl  of  Sandwich,  and  Count 
d'Estree's,  were  several  of  the  Lord  High  Admiral's  household,  and 
among  them  Richard  Nicolls.  At  the  fight  at  Sobbay,  on  the  28th  of  May, 
1672,  Lord  Sandwich  lost  his  life  by  the  blowing  up  of  his  ship,  and 
Colonel  Nicolls,  who  was  on  the  Royal  Prince,  with  its  captain,  Sir  John 
Fox,  and  many  of  the  volunteers,  were  also  killed.  Colonel  Nicolls  was 
but  forty-seven  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  never  married.  His 
will,  dated  May  i,  1672,  "on  board  the  Royal  Prince,"  was  proved  in  the 
Prerogative  court  of  Canterbury  the  following  June.  He  desires  in  his  will 
to  be  buried  at  Ampthill,  and  that  alms  be  given  to  the  parishes  through 
which  his  funeral  would  pass,  and  a  marble  monument  to  be  erected  to 
his  memory,  with  an  inscription  mentioning  his  father,  mother,  and  his 
brothers,  William,  Edward,  and  Francis,  and  that  his  executors  might  add 
what  they  pleased  about  his  services  in  America  and  elsewhere.  He  prays 
his  executors  to  be  "  earnest  solicitors  with  his  Highness  for  the  money 
due  to  him."  A  white  marble  monument  to  his  memory  is  in  the  north- 
east corner  of  the  chancel  of  Ampthill  churcli.  In  its  upper  part  is  en- 
closed the  cannon  ball  which  killed  him,  with  the  words,  '■'■  histrumentum 
Mortis  et  Imtnortalitatis,"  while  below  is  a  long  inscription,  also  in  Latin, 
testifying  to  his  merits  as  a  soldier,  governor,  and  scholar,  and,  as  he 
wished,  mentioning  his  family. 


NOTES  ON  THE  LIVINGSTON  FAMILY— A  SHORT  ACCOUNT 
OF  ITS  EARLY  HISTORY. 

(Compiled  from  Original  Authorities.) 

By  E.  Brockholst  Livingston,  F.S.A.  Scot. 


(Continued  from  Vol.  XV.,  p.  17.) 

Two  sons  of  Thurstan,  the  son  of  Living,  Alexander*  and  William, f 
are  mentioned  as  witnesses  to  charters  between  the  years  1165  and  1214, 
and  as  Thurstan  himself  is  also  a  witness  to  one  of  these  charters,  he  must 
have  lived  to  a  good  old  age.  According  to  the  peerage  writers  Alexander 
is  put  down  as  being  the  eldest  of  these  two  sons,  but  there  is  really  no 

*  Liber  Sancte  Cnicis,  p.  29,  where  he  is  styled  "  Alexandre  filio  Turstani."  This  charter  is  undated,  but  it 
must  have  been  granted  between  1165  and  1214. 

t  Liber  Prioratus  de  S.  Andree,  p.  180,  where  both  father  and  son  are  witnesses,  "Turstino  filio  Levingi 
et  Willelmo  filio  suo."     This  charter  must  have  been  granted  between  1195  and  1207, 


y 


1 06  Notes  on  the  Livingston  Family.  [J^^^y* 

proof  of  such  being  the  case  ;  he  is  also  stated  to  have  been  the  father  of 
Sir  Wilham  Livingston,  "dominus  de  Gorgyn,"  who  was  not  in  existence 
until  a  hundred  years  later.* 

The  next  member  of  the  family  of  whom  we  have  any  authentic  proof 
is  one  Sir  Andrew  de  Livingston,  who  was  sheriff  of  Lanach  previous  to 
the  year  1295,  as  in  that  year  he  was  paid  the  sum  of  80/.  Scots,  by  the 
keeper  of  the  Royal  Wardrobe,  in  settlement  of  some  expenses  incurred 
by  him  while  employed  in  that  office,  f  Li  the  following  year,  he  and 
Sir  Archibald  de  Livingston,  who  was  probably  his  cousin,  swore  fealty  to 
Edward  I.,  of  England  ;  \  and  on  that  king  setting  out  for  Flanders  to 
carry  on  the  war  with  France,  he  had  a  writ  issued,  dated  May  24,  1297, 
calling  on  Patrick,  son  of  the  Earl  of  March,  Robert  Bruce,  Earl  of  Car- 
rick,  and  forty-six  others  of  the  leading  men  in  Scotland,  including  the  two 
Livingstons,  to  accompany  him  in  this  expedition. §  There  is,  however, 
no  mention  made  as  to  whether  the  Livingstons  complied  with  the  sum- 
mons. 

Though  we  find  no  special  mention  of  the  Livingstons  during  the 
Scottish  War  of  Independence,  they  appear  to  have  joined  the  party  of 
Bruce,  as  their  fortress  of  Livingston  was  garrisoned  by  English  soldiers. || 
This  fortress  suffered  from  many  attacks  by  the  English,  owing  to  its 
proximity  to  the  borders,  and  it  was  also  taken  and  burnt  during  the  civil 
wars  in  the  reign  of  Mary,  Queen  of  Scots.  The  remains  of  it  were  still  in 
existence  two  hundred  years  ago,  and  are  thus  described  by  Sir  Robert 
Sibbald  in  his  "History  of  Linlithgowshire  :"  "The  Peel  retains  still  the 
form  of  a  Roman  camp,  with  high  ramparts  about  it,  and  ditches  full  of 
water  without  them  ;  the  access  to  the  peel  is  by  a  timber  bridge,  and  seems 
to  have  been  a  Castrum  Exploratorum  wherein  the  advanced  guards  were 
lodged;"^  a  portion  of  these  ramparts  and  the  ditch  remained  until 
nearly  the  middle  of  last  century.** 

Sir  Archibald  was  probably  the  head  of  the  family,  through  whom  the 
senior  branch,  the  Livingstons  of  Livingston,  was  descended.  The  last 
male  descendant  of  this  line  was  Sir  Bartholomew  Livingston,  who,  accord- 
ing to  Sir  Bernard  Burke,ff  fell  at  Hodden  ;  but  from  evidence  derived  from 
the  public  records  preserved  in  H.  M.  Register  House,  Edinburgh,  he 
must  have  died  previous  to  that  date.J;J 

The  more  important  branch  of  Callendar  is  descended  from  Sir 
Andrew,  who  married  a  lady  whose  Christian  name  was  Elena,  but  whose 
surname  has  not  been  preserved.  ||||  These  two  were  the  progenitors  of  all 
the  titled  branches  of  the  famil)',  which  in  the  seventeenth  century  consisted 
of  no  less  than  five  distinct  peerages,  namely,  three  earldoms,  Linlithgow, 
Callendar,  and  Newburgh,  and  two  viscounties,  Kilsyth  and  Teviot,  be- 
sides numerous  minor  honors.  The  American  Livingstons  are  also  de- 
scended from  them. 

Their  son  William,  before  the  year  1328,  acquired  the  lands  of  Gorgyn, 
near  Edinburgh,  probably  on  the  forfeiture  of  the  former  owner,  who  was  a 
Comyn,  and  by  charter  dated  March  25th,  in  this  year,  he  confirms  to  the 

*  Douglas  Peerage,  vol.  ii.,  p.  I2^. 

t  Stevenson  Documents  Illustrating  History  of  Scotland,  vol.  ii.,  p.  17. 
X  Ragman  Rolls,  pp.  75,  125,  162. 

§  Documents  Illustrating  Scottish  History,  vol.  ii.,  p.  168.  Rymer  Fusdera,  Tome  ii.,  p.  768. 
'     |l  Rotuli  Scotiaj,  pp.  1 11,  113.  IT  .Sibbald  :  History  of  Linlithgowshire,  p.  21. 

**  New  Statistical  Account  of  Scotland,  vol.  ii.,  p.  116. 
tt  vicissitudes  of  Families,  vol.  ii.  (new  edition),  p.  218. 
XX  Registrum  Segreti  Sigilli,  fo.  205,  MS.  Ilil  Registrum  de  Neubotle,  p.  34. 


1 884- J  Notes  on  the  Livingston  Family.  IO7 

canons  of  Holyrood  the  right  of  building  a  mill  lade  across  the  water  of 
Leith,  on  his  property  of  Gorgyn,  which  had  been  allowed  them  by  his 
predecessor.*  He  also,  ten  years  later,  granted  to  the  monks  of  Neubotle  the 
liberty  of  grinding  any  grain  grown  on  their  lands  of  Easter  Craig,  at  his 
mill  at  Gorgyn,  without  payment  beyond  a  fee  to  the  miller  for  his  trouble  ; 
this  charter  he  states  he  has  granted  for  the  weal  of  his  soul,  as  well  as  for 
the  weal  of  the  souls  of  his  wife,  Margaret,  and  their  children's,  his  father 
Andrew's,  his  mother  Elena's,  and  those  of  all  his  predecessors  and  suc- 
cessors.f 

He  was  succeeded  by  his  son,  Sir  William  Livingston,  the  first  of  the 
house  of  Callendar,  who  was  a  firm  adherent  of  the  Patriotic  party  in 
Scotland  during  the  wars  which  again  desolated  that  unhappy  country 
after  the  death  of  King  Robert  Bruce,  owing  to  the  minority  of  his  son 
David.  On  August  i,  1340,  the  English  and  Scottish  commissioners 
agreed  that  the  Earl  of  March,  Sir  Alexander  Seton,  Sir  William  Living- 
ston, John  Stewart,  and  Patrick  Herring,  should  be  sent  to  reside  in 
England  as  hostages  for  Randolph,  Earl  of  Murray,  who  was  then  a 
prisoner  in  that  country,  so  that  the  latter  might  be  allowed  to  return 
home  to  raise  money  for  his  ransom  ;  but  Sir  William  was  fortunate  enough 
not  to  be  long  detained,  as  in  the  following  year  he  was  permitted  to 
return  to  Scotland.];  He  took  part  in  the  siege  of  Stirling,  which  was 
taken  by  Sir  William  Douglas  in  1339,  and  soon  after  was  sent  abroad  on  the 
king's  service,  most  likely  for  the  purpose  of  informing  King  David  II., 
then  in  France,  of  the  state  of  affairs  in  his  kingdom,  as  the  loyalists  had 
by  this  time  driven  the  English  out  of  the  greater  part  of  Scotland.§ 

On  King  David's  return.  Sir  William's  services  were  so  highly  esteemed 
by  that  monarch,  that  he  gave  him  a  charter  of  the  barony  of  Callendar, 
in  Stirlingshire,  which  at  this  time  was  held  by  the  crown  on  account  of 
the  forfeiture  of  Sir  Patrick  Callendar,  who  had  espoused  the  cause  of 
Baliol.|  Perhaps  the  better  to  strengthen  his  title  to  the  lands,  he  married 
Christian,  the  daughter  and  heiress  of  Sir  Patrick,  and  through  them  their 
descendants  held  the  lands  until  the  forfeiture  and  attainder  of  James,  the 
fifth  and  last  Earl  of  Linlithgow,  for  his  share  in  the  rebellion  of  1715. 

Sir  \\^illiam  accompanied  King  David  in  that  unfortunate  expedition 
into  England  which  resulted  in  the  battle  of  Neville's  Cross,  October  17, 
1346  ;  and  for  his  gallant  behaviour  during  this  invasion  he  was  made  a 
knight  banneret.  In  this  battle  the  Scottish  army  was  completely  defeated, 
and  David  taken  prisoner  after  a  brave  resistance.  Sir  William  was  also 
taken,  but  was  released  soon  after,  and  at  the  request  of  the  Scottish  king 
a  safe-conduct,  dated  December  7,  1347,  was  sent  to  him  by  order  of 
King  Edward  III.,  of  England,  granting  him  permission  to  come  to  Lon- 
don with  a  suitable  retinue  to  confer  with  David,  then  a  prisoner  in  the 
Tower.  ■[ 

[To  be  continued.] 

*  Liber  Cartanim  Sancte  Crucis,  p.  75. 
't  Registrum  de  Neubotle,  p.  34.     According  to  Douglas,  he  married  a  daughter  of  Sir  John  Erskine,  of 
that  Ilk.     Peerage,  vol.  ii.,  p.  123. 

X  Rymer :   Foedera,  Tome  i.,  pp.  200,  202,  268.  §  Exchequer  Rolls  of  Scotland,  toI.  i.,  pp.  506,  513. 

II  Robertson's  Index  of  Scottish  Charters,  p.  38.  From  this  alliance  their  descendants  quartered  the  arms 
of  Callendar,  a  bend,  between  six  billets,  or,  on  a  field  sable,  with  those  of  Livingston,  which  are  argent, 
three  cinquefoils.  gules,  within  a  double  tressure  flowered  and  counterflowered  with  fleur-de-lis,  vert.  The 
lands  of  Calentyr  or  Callendar  had  ,been  in  Sir  Patrick's  family  smce  the  reign  of  Alexander  II.  Nisbet : 
Heraldry,  vol.  ii.,  p.  ig. 

^  Rymer  Foedera,  v.,  pp.  547,  597.  He  is  styled  in  the  safe-conduct  "Willelmuo  de  Levingston 
banerethus." 


Io8  Genealogical  Sketch  of  the  Hart  and  Hooker  [J^V? 

GENEALOGICAL    SKETCH    OF   THE   HART   AND    HOOKER 
FAMILIES,    OF    NEW  ENGLAND. 


By   Mrs.    Almira   Hart  Lincoln   Phelps.* 


Stephe^n  Hart  emigrated  from  England  in  1632.  Massachusetts  Bay 
was,  at  this  period,  the  favorite  resort  of  English  emigrants  ;  colonies  had 
already  been  estabhshed  under  the  names  of  Massachusetts  and  Plymouth. 

An  Indian  sachem,  in  163 1,  had  visited  the  governors  of  these  colonies, 
and  urged  that  they  should  send  men  to  settle  upon  the  banks  of  a  great 
river,  which  watered  fertile  lands.  This  in  the  Indian  tongue  was  called, 
*'  Quonektacut."  Governor  Winslow,  of  Plymouth,  was  induced  to  go 
himself  to  see  this  "  Indian  Paradise,"  and  he  is  in  history  named  as  the 
discoverer  of  the  river  and  valley. 

About  this  time,  Thomas  Hooker,  a  minister  of  the  English  church  in 
Chelmsford,  England,  liad  been  silenced  for  non-conformity  to  the  estab- 
lished religion,  notwithstanding  great  opposition  to  this  act  from  many 
conforming  clergymen,  whose  petition  to  the  bishop  of  London  was  un- 
availing. They  had  vouched  for  the  soundness  of  his  religious  faith,  and 
purity  of  character. 

Hooker  left  England,  and,  with  many  of  his  congregation,  removed  to 
Holland,  where  the  Earl  of  Warwick,  and  other  distinguished  noblemen, 
went  long  distances  to  listen  to  his  eloquence.  But  he  was  urged  to  go 
to  America,  and  in  1633,  with  a  large  party  from  Holland,  he  arrived  at 
Newtown  (Cambridge),  Mass.,  whither  he  had  been  preceded  by  personal 
friends,  and  members  of  his  English  congregation. 

Thomas  Hooker  at  length  was  induced  to  go  to  the  Connecticut  settle- 
ment, and  in  1636,  with  his  assistant  minister,  Mr.  Stone,  and  a  party  of 
about  one  hundred,  set  out  upon  this  journey.  Mrs.  Hooker  being  feeble 
in  health,  was  carried  on  a  litter  gently  borne  on  men's  shoulders. 

Stephen  Hart,  who  was  deacon  of  Thomas  Hooker's  church  in  New-, 
town  (Cambridge),  Mass.,  accompanied  his  friend  and  pastor  to  Hartford. 
Attracted  by  the  fertile  valley  of  Farmington,  he  purchased  extensive  lands 
of  the  Indians.  ^His  eldest  son,  John  Hart,  built  a  house  here.  In  1666 
the  Indians  set  fire  to  this  in  the  night,  and  preventing  the  escape  of  any 
of  the  family,  all  perished  in  the  flames,  except  one  son  John,  who  was 
providentially  absent  on  some  business  in  a  neighboring  settlement. 
This  John  became  the  father  of  three  sons,  great-grandsons  of  Stephen 
Hart,  who  married  three  sisters,  the  great-granddaughters  of  Thomas 
Hooker.  Matthew  Hart  married  Sarah  Hooker  ;  Samuel  Hart  married 
Mary  Hooker  ;  Nathaniel  Hart  married  Abigail  Hooker. 

It  has  been  the  privilege  of  the  writer  to  become  intimately  acquainted 
with  many  of  the  descendants  of  these  relatives,  and  to  hold  correspond- 
ence with  others  whom  she  has  not  personally  known.     In  the  better  world 

*  [The  writer  of  this  article  is  the  youngest  of  the  seventeen  children  of  Captain  Samuel  Hart,  of  Ken- 
sington, Conn.,  being  the  tenth  by  his  second  wife,  Lydia  Hinsdale,  and  is  now  in  her  ninety-first  year, 
born  at  Berlin,  Conn.,  July  15,  1793.  Like  her  elder  sister,  the  late  Mrs.  Emma  Willard,  from  a  very  early 
age  her  life  has  been  devoted  to  the  education  and  the  elevation  of  the  religious  and  social  condition  of  her 
own  sex.  Numerous  brief  memoirs  of  her,  with  notices  of  her  literary  publications,  have  appeared.  See 
"  Genealogical  History  of  Deacon  Stephen  Hart  and  his  Descendants."  by  Alfred  Andrews,  p.  So-82  ; 
also  Mrs.  Hale's  "Biography  of  Distinguished  Women,"  p.  770.  .She  now  resides  in  l!altimore,  still  in 
the  enjoyment  of  perfect  health,  and  surrounded  with  the  elegances  and  comforts  of  a  happy  home,  and  by 
the  families  of  her  only  surviving  daughter,  and  son,  as  well  as  by  hosts  of  admiring  friends,  the  rewards 
and  recompense  of  a  truly  Christian  character  and  well-spent  life. — L.]. 


18S4.]  Families^  of  New  England.  lOd 

to  come,  we  trust  that  congenial  spirits  will  meet,  and  enjoy  that  com- 
munion which  our  Saviour  promises  to  His  children. 

The  second  daughter  of  Stephen  Hart,  Mary,  married  John  Lee  ;  they 
are  the  ancestors  of  the  Lees  of  New  England.  We  may  here  name  one 
of  their  descendants,  William  H.  Lee,  born  in  New  Britain,  Conn.,  mem- 
ber of  the  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Society.  Among  his 
contributions  to  the  Record  may  be  mentioned  his  memoir  of  Elihu 
Burritt,  himself  a  descendant  of  Stephen  Hart  and  Thomas  Hooker.  The 
father  of  William  H.  Lee,  Judge  Lee,  of  New  Britain,  married  a  daughter 
of  Huldah  Hart,  the  sister  of  Samuel  Hart,  father  of  the  writer.  He  was 
thus  descended  from  both  the  Hart  and  Hooker  lines. 

We  will  now  trace  the  generations  from  the  John  Hart,  of  Farmington, 
who  escaped  the  flames  which  destroyed  the  family  of  his  father,  John 
Hart,  and  who  was  the  father  of  the  three  brothers  who  married  the 
Hooker  sisters. 

Lieut.  Samuel  Hart,  grandson  of  John  Hart,  and  the  grandfather  of 
the  writer,  married  Mary  Hooker.  He  resided  in  what  was  once  called 
"  Lower  Lane,"  in  Worthington  Parish,  Berlin,  Conn.,  but  now  known  as 
Hart  Street.  He  had  an  only  son,  Samuel,  whom  he  had  destined  for  a 
collegiate  education,  but  his  death  occurred  when  this  son  was  about  four- 
teen years  old,  and  his  mother,  not  willing  to  part  with  him,  gave  him 
the  best  advantages  which  could  be  procured  at  their  home. 

Capt.  Samuel  Hart,  the  father  of  the  writer,  was  born  in  1738.  He 
married,  first,  Rebecca  Norton,  of  Guilford,  connected  with  one  of  Con- 
necticut's early  poets,  Joel  Barlow.  Second,  he  married  Lydia  Hinsdale. 
The  town  of  Hinsdale,  Mass.,  is  named  from  her  brother,  Rev.  Theodore 
Hinsdale,  who  was  the  first  (Congregational)  minister  of  that  place. 

The  military  title  of  Capt.  Samuel  Hart  was  of  revolutionary  origin.  A 
company  was  organized  in  his  town  of  Berlin,  of  which  he  was  captain,  to 
go  to  the  seacoast  of  Long  Island  Sound,  to  prevent  the  depredations  of 
the  British,  who  had  burnt  Danbury,  and  given  much  alarm  to  the  inhab- 
itants of  other  towns.  In  my  childhood  I  have  often  heard  my  father 
describe  the  incidents  of  this  campaign.  At  one  time,  when  the  enemy 
were  near  New  Haven,  some  of  our  troops  were  looking  through  a  tele- 
scope;  my  father  said  to  one  near  him,  "We  had  better  leave  this  place, 
we  may  be  exposed  to  their  guns,"  when  there  came  from  those  guns  a 
shot  which  killed  the  man  my  father  thus  addressed. 

On  one  of  these  excursions  to  the  seashore  there  was  an  excitement  ; 
a  herald  on  horseback  approached,  waving  his  white  flag,  and  cr)  ing, 
"  Burgoyne  and  all  his  men  are  ours."  This  surrender  of  Burgoyne  is 
recorded  in  history  as  having  taken  place  October  18,  i777- 

In  attempting  to  describe  the  character  of  my  father  I  am  met  by  a 
crowd  of  thoughts.  His  life  was  a  remarkable  one ;  his  intellect,  greatly 
in  advance  of  the  day,  led  him  to  toleration  in  religion  and  liberality  in 
politics.  Educated  in  the  strict  and  severe  principles  of  Puritans  and 
Calvinists,  his  mind  in  advancing  life  rose  to  a  higher  plane.  The  calm 
dignity  of  his  appearance,  the  thoughtful  expression  of  his  countenance, 
and  his  elevated  tone  of  conversation,  affected  all  who  came  within  his  in- 
fluence. This  is  alluded  to  in  a  short  poem  by  my  sister,  Emma  Willard, 
inserted  at  the  close  of  diis  communication. 

The  Hon.  Samuel  Hart,  the  eldest  son,  became  distinguished  as  a  pub- 
lic man,  a  member  of  the  Legislature  and  the  Senate  of  Connecticut.     It 


IIO        Genealogical  Sketch  of  the  Hart  and  Hooker  Families.       [July, 

was  about  the  year  1818,  when  the  spirit  of  toleration  had  pervaded  Con- 
necticut, that  a  meeting  was  held  in  Hartford  (where  the  writer  then 
resided)  to  form  a  Constitution  of  Connecticut,  it  having  been  discovered 
that  the  State  had  never  had  one,  as  the  old  charter  of  King  Charles  II. 
to  the  colonists  had  heretofore  served  as  a  substitute. 

At  this  Convention  there  were  present  my  brother,  Samuel  Hart,  and 
three  sons-in  law  of  my  father ;  William  Cook,  of  Danbury,  who  had  mar- 
ried his  eldest  daughter,  Rebecca  ;  Orin  I^ee,  of  Granby,  who  had  mar- 
ried Charlotte;  and  Elisha  Treat,  of  Middletown,  whose  wife  was  my 
sister  Lydia.  The  political  sentiments  of  these  four  differed.  My  brother, 
Samuel  Hart,  with  two  of  the  others,  were  toleralionists,  while  one,  Orin 
Lee,  was  on  the  other  side  in  politics. 

At  this  period  my  husband,  Simeon  Lincoln,  was  proprietor  and  editor 
of  the  Connecticut  Mirror,  a  paper  oi)posed  to  toleration.  My  own  senti- 
ments were,  of  course,  divided ;  naturally,  I  was  of  the  opinions  of  my 
father,  but  my  husband's  politics  influenced  me  in  a  degree. 

As  the  writer  passed  some  years  of  her  early  married  life  in  Hartford, 
she  will  introduce  some  lines  from  apoem  written  in  1871  for  the  "  golden 
wedding"  of  a  friend,  which  was  read  by  the  Hon.  Henry  Barnard  ;  his 
name  is  familiar  as  the  editor  of  the  Journal  of  Education,  and  as  hav- 
ing been  prominent  in  literature  and  education  in  our  own  country,  and  as 
representing  it  abroad. 

In  an  address  given  by  Dr.  Barnard,  previous  to  reading  the  poem, 
after  some  remarks  respecting  Simeon  Lincoln,  the  husband  of  the  writer, 
and  his  connection  with  the  Connecticut  Mirror,  he  says:  "Mrs.  Lincoln, 
during  the  four  years  of  her  residence  in  Hartford,  from  181 7  to  1822,  oc- 
cupied a  house  in  the  near  neighborhood  of  what,  in  Porter's  map  of 
Hartford  in  1640,  is  given  as  the  first  selected  house- lot  of  her  paternal 
ancestor,  Stephen  Hart;  while  at  the  south  end  of  the  same  street  is 
located  on  the  same  map  the  homestead  of  her  maternal  ancestor,  the 
Rev.  Thomas  Hooker,  a  name  second  to  no  other  in  the  annals  of  the 
New  England  Church,  or  of  the  founders  of  our  American  system  of  repub- 
lican government."  At  the  time  of  Mrs.  Lincoln's  residence  here,  no 
house  east  shut  out  the  view  of  the  great  river.  From  the  poem  we  quote 
the  following  lines  : 

"  A  modest  dwelling  was  the  chosen  home 

Where  Simeon  Lincoln  placed  his  youthful  bride. 

In  front,  upon  the  west,  a  meadow  green 

Gave  a  suburban  air,  and  then  the  rear 

Boasted  piazza  and  luxuriant  vines. 

A  little  spot  there  was  where  pansies  grew. 

And  damask  roses  with  sweet  Hlies  vied 

To  make  their  home  attractive  to  the  pair. 

Whose  married  life  thus  pleasantly  began. 

*  *  «  *  • 

Yes,  Hartford  has  a  charm — its  name  derived, 
As  legends  say,  from  Stephen  Hart,  who  lived 
■  Where  joins  the  "little  river"  to  the  "  great," 
And  Hart's-ford  may  be  seen  on  ancient  maps. 
Here  Thomas  Hooker  lived,  a  godly  man, 
'  Great  light  of  our  New  England's  famous  Church, 
And  founder  of  the  ancient  colony,' 
As  in  his  history  Cotton  Mather  saith. 


i8S4-]  Records  of  St.  George' s  Church,  Hempstead,  L.  I.  \\\ 

Descended  from  the  Hart  and  Hooker  line, 
Hartford  must  ever  be,  to  her  who  writes, 
A  ]\Iecca  for  the  soul,  for  here  repose 
The  ashes  of  the  fathers  of  her  race. 

In  closing  tliis  brief  and  imperfect  sketch,  I  will  introduce  some  lines 
written  by  my  sister,  Emma  Willard,  in  a  copy  of  "  Hollister's  History  of 
Connecticut,"  sent  to  me  June  2,  1855  : 

•''  Almira,  youngest  born,  and  sole  to  me 
Remaining  of  i7iy  father's  house  and  thine, 
This  history  I  give  thee  of  that  State 
Where  the  dear  mansion  of  our  infancy 
Reared  its  colonial  front  and  simple  form 
Near  meeting  roads,  and  in  a  pleasant  vale. 
Orchards  were  near,  nor  far  the  murmuring  brook. 
Fond  recollection  peoples  all  the  scene  ! 
Father!  I  see  thee!  calm — with  dignity 
That  speaks  of  high  communings,  and  of  deep 
Affections  overmastered — cheerful  made 
By  wit  and  warm  benevolence.     With  thee 
Is  she  thine  eye  sought  ever  as  thy  foot 
Crossed  the  domestic  threshold — -Mother,  dear  \\ 
How  many  virtues  light  that  blessed  face  ! 
Sister  !  we  boast  an  honored  ancestry 
Of  parents  nobly  virtuous,  reared  in  thee, 
Connecticut  !  whose  earliest  sires  were  ours. 
Her  annals  read  thou,  then,  with  this  poor  verse  ; 
For  who  but  thee  of  all  that  loved  abode 
Is  left,  to  feel  and  understand  with  me? 
Soon  will  there  be  a  sole  surviving  one  ! 
By  nature  'tis  thy  lot ;   nor  be  the  doom 
Reversed.     Christ  has  prepared  a  better  home." 

Emma  Willard  was  taken  to  the  better  home  April  15,  1870,  aged 
eighty-three  years,  and  soon  there  was  '■'■a  sole  surviving  one.'' 


RECORDS  OF  ST.   GEORGE'S    CHURCH,    HEMPSTEAD,  L.   I., 
FROM  JUNE  5,   1725  to .     Marriages. 


Communicated  by  Benjamin  D.  Hicks,  Esq. 

(Continued  from  Vol.  XV.,  page  80,  of  The  Record.) 
1782. 

June    I.  James  Tredwell  and  Rachel  Valentine,  both  of  Oisterbay.  T.. 

June  19.  David  Coseboom  and  Jane  Brass,  both  of  Oisterbay.  B. 
June  25.   By  Rev.  Mr.  Bloomer,  of  Jamaica,   Samuel    Durlon  and 

Mary  Durlon.  I^- 
June  24,    Henry  I.ounsbury,  of  New  York,  and  Jane   Coeburn,   of 

Oisterbay.  I-- 

June  24.  Sylvester  Bedel  and  Mary  Hall.  !'• 

June  30.  Peter  Wheeler  and  Martha  Weeks,  both  of  Oisterbay.  L. 

July    15.  Thomas  Smith  and  Anne  Southard.  E. 


112             Records  of  St.  George's  Church,  Hempstead,  L.  I.  [July, 

July    2  1.  At  Oisterbay,  Joseph  Tobias  and  Hannah  Whippow,  both 

of  Oisterbay.  L. 

July    29.   Samuel  Walters  and  Martha  Vancot,  both  of  Oisterbay.  L, 

Aug.  12.   Zebulon  Dickinson,  of  Oisterbay,  and  Elizabeth  Brush,  of 

Huntington.  L. 

Aug.  13.   I.enninton  Smith  and  Mary  Bedel.  L. 

Aug.  18.   Jacob  Smith  and  Hannah  Whaley.  L. 

Aug.  20.   Thomas  Larrabee  and  Amy  Gohvell,  both  of  Oisterbay.  L. 

1/   Aug.  2o.'Epinetus  Wood  and  Mary  Loise.  L. 

Sep.   12.  Simon  Weeks  and  Elizabeth  Hair.  I^. 

Sep.  12.  Samuel  Peters,  of  Hempstead,  and  Ruth  Titus,  of  Oister- 
bay. I>. 

Oct.   24.   Holley  Eoynes  and  Martha  Poss,  both  of  Oisterbay.  L. 

Nov.     7.    Isaac   Doty,    of   Oisterbay,    and    Elizabeth   Williams,    of 

Hempstead.  L. 

Nov.  7.  Daniel  Willis  and  Martha  Doty  (widow),  both  of  Oister- 
bay. L. 

Nov.     7.   Charles  Erost  and  Phebe  Harris,  both  of  Oisterbay.  L. 

Nov.  20.  Jacob   Robbins,   of  Oisterbay,   and  Abigail  Jackson,  of 

Hempstead.  L. 

Nov.  24.  Samuel  Page  and  Mary  Rogis,  both  of  Oisterbay.  B. 

Dec.     T.  Joseph  Wansgr  and  Linda  Wanser,  by  Necessity.  — 

Dec.     I.   Samuel  Whitney  and  Anne  Guire,  both  of  Huntington.  L. 

Dec.     5.   Daniel  Burt  and  Sarah  Underbill,  both  of  Oisterbay.  L. 

Dec.  29.  Ezekiel  Raynor  and  Elizabeth  Smith,  by  oath.  — 

Dec.  30.  John  States  and  Letitia  Golden  L. 

Dec.  30.  William  De  Mott  and  Elizabeth  Miller.  L. 

1783. 

Jan.      7.  William  Seymour  and  Hester  Sands,  both  of  Oisterbay, 

by  Necessity.  — 

Jan.      8.  At  Huntington,  Adam  Lefferts,  of  Oisterbay,  and  Rebecca 

Conkling,  of  Huntington.  E. 

Jan.    15.  At   Oisterbay,   Jeffry  Smith,   of  Suffolk  Co.,  and   Marth 

Townsend,  of  Oisterbay.  T/. 

Jan.    19.  John  Dodge  and  Mary  Smith,  both  of  Oisterbay.  L. 

Jan.    19.   Daniel  Smith  and  Elizabeth  Bedel,  by  Oath.  — 

Jan.    27.   Benjamin  Raynor  and  Hannah  Smith.  L. 

Eeb.      I.   Eulkert  Boyce,  of  Hempstead,  and  Elizabeth  Covert,  of 

Oisterbay.  B. 

Feb.      7.  At  Jamaica,  Jacob  Weeks  and  Violetta  Cocks,  both  of 

Oisterbay.  L. 

Feb.  16.  At  Oisterbay,  Stephen  Vooris,  of  Hempstead,  and  Sarah 

Waters,  of  Oisterbay.  L. 

Feb.   16.  At  Oisterbay,  James  Place  and  Sarah  Duria,  widow,  both 

of  Oisterbay.  L. 

Feb.  19.  Henry  Bird,  of  Hempstead,  and  Leah  Latten,  of  Oister- 
bay. L. 

Feb.  28.  Josiah   Burgess,   of  Loyds   Neck,  and  Margaret  Verity, 

widow,  of  Hempstead,  by  Oath.  — 

Mar.     5.   David  Whaley  and  Elizabeth  Colder.  L. 


1884.J          Records  of  St.  Georges  Church,  Hempstead,  L.  I.  n^ 

Mar.     9.  Benjamin  Waters  and  Elizabeth  Valentine,  both  of  Oister- 

bay.  Iv. 

Mar.  II.   George  Monfort  and  Phebe  Burtis,  both  of  Oisterbay.  L. 

Mar.  28.   Nathaniel  Pearsall  and  Phebe  Colville.  L. 

^far.  30.   Moses  Vansioyre  and  Susannah  Bedel.  L. 
April  27.   At  Oisterbay,   Noah    Seaman    and   Hannah   Norstrandt, 

both  of  Oisterbay.  L. 
April  30.   Thomas  Cotield,   Lieut,    in    North   Carolina   Volunteers, 

and  Martha  Carman,  of  Hempstead.  — 

May     4.  William  Smith  and  Phebe  Morrell.  L. 

May     4.  Jacob  Buis  and  Mary  Frost,  by  Necessity.  — 

May    15.    Braddock  Seaman  and  Amy  Seaman.  I>. 

May   26.  James  Wood  and  Alice  Pettit.  T.. 
May   27.   Uriah    Hendrickson    and    Elizabeth    Valentine,   both    of 

Oisterbay.  E. 
June  16.   Henry    Hollander,    Lieut.    Queens    Rangers,     and    Jane 

Baley,  of  Jamaica.  ]j. 

June  19.   Henry  Craft  and  Charity  Baker,  both  of  Oisterbay.  — 

July    21.   Philip  Powley,  Gentleman,  and  l>ynah  Johnson.  L. 
July    22.  Nicholas  Van  Hoesen,  of  Queens  Co.,  and  Jane  Everitts, 

of  Albany  Co.  B. 

July    24.  William  Chisholm,  of  ye   23d    Reg't,  and   Anne  Verity,  — 

Order. 
Aug.    3.  At  Oisterbay,  Titus  Lifford  and  Sarah  Doughty,  both  of 

Oisterbay.  — 
Aug,  16.  John  Henry  Augustus  Fricke,  of  ye  60  Reg't,  and  Alithea 

Gilderslieve,  of  Hempstead.  — 

Aug.  23.  James  Seaman  and  Rebecca  Southard.  — 

Aug.  25.  Nathaniel  Dougharty  and  Catherine  Chaise.  J.. 

Aug.  28.  James  Mays  and  Hannah  Jackson.  — 
Sep.      5.  By  Rev.  Mr.  Bloomer,  Jamaica,  Richard  Harrison,  of  New 

York,  and  Frances  Ludlow,  of  Hempstead.  — 
Sep.     8.   Enock   Plummer,   Lieut,   in   ye   3d   battalion   of  ye   60th 

Regt.  British  Troops,  and  Abigail  Batty,  of  Hempstead.  — 

Sep.   29.   Samuel  Weeks  and  Ourviah  Bragre,  both  of  Oisterbay.  ]x 
Oct.  28,  Thomas  Mitchel  and  Loretta  Hegeman,  both  of  Oister- 

'   bay.                                    ^  L. 
Nov.  18.  Jacob  S.  Jackson,   of  Hempstead,  and  Phebe   Coles,   of 

Oisterbay.  L. 

Nov.  29.  John  De  Mott  and  Marth  Pearsall.  — 

Nov.  30.   Samuel  Smith  and  Amy  Smith.  B. 

Dec.  14.  James  Prior  and  Theodosia  Drby,  both  of  Oisterbay.  — 

Dec.  21.  Jacob  Doxie  and  Sarah  Forman.  B. 
Dec,  22.  James  Burtis,  of  Hempstead,  and  Judith  Weeks,  of  0\z- 

terbay.  — 

Dec.  28.  Isaac  Jackson  and  Jerusha  Doiland.  — 

Dec.  28.  James  Peters  and  Mary  Powell.  — 

1784. 

Jan.      8.   Oliver  Birdsall  and  Sarah  Sands.  — 

Jan.      8.  James  Lewis  and  Phebe  Golden  — 


1 14         Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  New  York.  [July, 


RECORDS  OF    THE    REFORMED  DUTCH  CHURCH    IN 
CITY  OF  NEW  YORK.— Baptisms. 

(Continued  from  Vol.  XV.,  p.  88,  of  The  Record.) 


THE 


A°  1704. 
6  dito. 


6  dito. 
9  dito. 

13  dito. 

[281] 
Pebiuaiy  13. 
20  dito. 

23  dito. 


23 

dito. 

23 

dito. 

23 

dito. 

27 

dito. 

Maart  i. 

8  c 

lito. 

8  dito. 

12 

dito. 

12 

dito. 

12 

dito. 

15 

dito. 

15 

dito. 

22 

dito. 

26  dito. 

OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Christoffel  Pels,  Cha-  Evert, 
talina  Bensen. 

Adriaan    Man,    Hes-  Nicolaas. 

ter  Bording. 
Balthazar    de    Hart,  Cornelia, 

Margrieta  Mouwe- 

rits. 
Cornelis  Martense,  Marte. 

Sara  Jorisse. 
Nicolaas   Dally,    Eli-  Johannes. 

sabeth  Kriegier. 
Robberd  Borsey,  Ca-  Sara. 

tharina  Van  Aren. 
Gerret  Wotiterse,  Elsje. 

Magdalen  a   Pro- 

voost. 
Thomas  Sickels,  Jan-  Sacharias. 

netie  Brevoort. 
Stefanis  Boekenhove,  Gerrardus. 

Johanna  Hoist. 
Jan  Van  Hoorn,  Ca-  Anna. 

tharina  Myer. 
Johannes  de  Peyster,  Abraham. 

Anna  Bankers. 

Albertus     Coenradus  Elisabeth. 
Bosch,  Maria  Yeets. 


GETUYGEN. 

Dirk  Bensen,  de  jonge, 
en  Samsons  Soon,  Ael- 
tie  Bickers. 

Elisabeth  Kriegier. 

Jacob  Mouris,  Elisabeth 
de  Hart. 

Jeronimus  Remse,  Tryn- 

tie  Berrie. 
Johannes  Van   Gelder, 

Susanna  Krigier. 
Abraham  Van  Aren,  Ma- 

ritie  Van  Aren. 
Willem  Provoost,  Barber 

Provoost. 

Jan     Brevoort,     Annetie 

Ellison. 
Evert  Van   Hoeck,   Jan- 

netje  Cosaar. 
Lida  Myer,  Maritie  Van 

Hoorn. 
Isaac  de  Riemer  zenior, 

Helena  Van   Balen,  h. 

v.  van  D°  Du  Bois. 
Johannis  Van  Zante,   El- 

sebeth  Blank. 


Jacob    Brouwer,   An- Magdalena.    Dirk   Adolf,   Ariaantie 


netie  Bogardus. 
Harmanus  Myer,  He-  Martinus. 

lena  Post. 
Pieter    Chaignea{i,  Jacob. 

Aaltie  Smith. 
Denys   Doolhage,  Frederick. 

Rachel  Vrederiks. 

Jan  Wanshaar,  Siisan-  Pieter. 

na  Nys. 
Abraham  Braedjor,  Johannes 

Elisabeth  Schoute.     Schoiite. 
Samuel  Ritsema,  Jan-  Jannetie. 

netie  Jans. 

Johannis  Bensen,  Eli-  Benjamin. 

sabeth  Van  Deurse. 
Mathys  Smack,  Elisa-  Elisabeth. 

beth  Janse. 

*  His  daughter. 


Kierstede,  syn  h.  v. 
A braham    Van   Gelder, 

Cathalina  Post,  syn  h.  v 
Louwerens    Van     Hoek, 

Annetie  Smith,  syn  h.  v. 
Johannes   De    Pe}>ster, 

Sofia  Haagenaer,  h.  v. 

Sym.  Janse  Romyn. 
Anderies  Abramse,  Gees- 

je  de  Nys. 
Willem   Plav,   Sara  Blik- 

kers,  alias  Schoute. 
Sampson   Bensen,   Cata- 

lyntie    Bensen,    syn 

dochter.* 
Jacob  Martense,  Catalyn- 

tie  Van  Deurse. 
Jacobus  Berrie,  Elysabf  "1 

Luykas. 


1884. 

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of  the 

Reformed  Dutch  Church 

in 

Nc 

iv  York. 

A'  1 

1704. 

OUDERS. 

KINDERS. 

GETUYGEN, 

29  dito. 

April  2. 

2  dito. 

[282] 

April  5. 

9  dito. 

9  dito. 

9  dito. 

12  dito. 

12  dito. 

16  dito. 

23  dito. 

23  dito. 

23  dito. 

23  dito. 

2x  dito. 

26  dito. 

May  3. 
10  dito. 

14  dito. 
17  dito. 


Frans    Wesselse,  Maritie. 
Tryntie  Jans. 

Davidt   Janse,    Antie  Johannis. 

Kroesvelt. 
John    Crfiger,   Maria  Anna. 

Kuyler. 
Isaacq    de    Riemer,  Margrita. 

Aeltie  VVesselse. 

Jacobus  Kierstede,  Marretie, 

Elisabeth     I.ouvve-     Geb:  den 

rens.  2  Ap: 

Joris   Reyerse,  Antie  Luykas. 

Schoute. 
Huybert    Van    den  Gerardus. 

Berg,  Maritie  Lan- 
,  sing. 
Cornelis   de    Peyster,  Marya. 

Maritie  Banker. 
Joris    Remse,     Fern-  Cathalyntie, 

nietie  Woertman. 
Alexander  Bairt,  He-  Wilhelmus. 

lena  Van  Vlek. 
Pieter    Laroe,    Alida  Geerlhruy. 

T  h  o  ni  a  s  s  e  Vry- 

nians. 
Jan    VVykof,    Neeltie  Pieter.  c^ 

Couwenhove. 
Davidt  Cosaar,  Styn-  Davidt. 

tie  Joris. 
Jacob    Van    Deurse,  Gysbert. 

Aeltie  Uytenboo- 

gert. 
Dirk    Uytenboogert,  Jan. 

Elisabeth  Ekkeson. 
Huvbert   Janse    Van  Marya. 

Blerkom,    Engeltie 

Henderiks. 
Anderies  de   Wande-  Johannis. 

laar,  Agie  Van  Bos- 
sen. 
Johannis    Slegt,    Ca-  Elsie. 

tharina  Bergen. 
Anderies    Marschalk,  Fransois. 

Elisabeth  Van  Gel- 

der. 
Pieter  de  Mill,  Maria  Johannis. 

Van  der  Hefil. 
Abraham  Slegt,  Jan-  Henderick. 

netie    Van    der 

Hoeve. 


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Wessel  Franse,  Dievertie 

\Vessel,  h.  v.  van  Isaac 

Bratt. 
Cornells  Low,    Margritie 

Low,  syn  h.  V. 
Joiiannis    Cuyler,    Eva 

Cuyler. 
Abraham  Gouverneur, 

Margritie  Selynis. 

Jacobus  Kip,  Cornelia 
Myer. 

Gerret  Burger,    Dina 

Klopper. 
Daniel    Bratt,     Elisabeth 

Slechtenhorst. 

Johannis  De  Peyster, 
Marya  De  PeVster. 

Abraham  Messelaar, 
Harmjije  VVoertman. 

Willem  Beekman  Senior, 
Cathalina  Van  Vlek. 

Jeramia  Tothill,  Geer- 
lhruy Van  Rollegom. 

Claas  Wykof,  Antie  Kou 

wenhove. 
Willem  Bogert,  Hillegont 

Joris. 
Claas    Boogert,     Claasje 

Van  Schaick,  s.  h.  v, 

Cornelis    Ekkeson,     Ari- 

aentie  Ekkeson. 
Jan  Janse  Van  Blerkom, 

Chatarina  Henderiks, 

Johannis  de  VVandelaar, 
Janneke  Van  Bossen. 

Jacob   Hanse    Bergen, 

Elsie  Vredericks. 
Jacob    Hassing,    Teuntie 

ledese. 

Henderik  Van  der  Heul, 

Sara  Jooste. 
Barent  Slegt,  Anna  Catri- 

na  Slegt. 


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A*  1704. 
T7  dito. 

17  dito. 


[283] 
May  21. 

dito. 

dito. 

\'^  24  dito. 

24  dito. 
24  dito. 

24  dito. 
28  dito. 
dito. 
dito. 
dito. 

Juny  I. 

II  dito. 
18  dito. 
21  dito. 

25  dito. 
July  2. 
dito. 


Dirk  Tysen,  Antie  Johannis. 

Tyniese. 
Genet  de  Boog,  Eli-  Gerret. 

sabeth  Lettgeer. 


Jacob  Bennet,  Neel-  Suzanna. 

tie  Beekman. 
Wouter  Hyer,  Anna-  Vrederik. 

tie  Blom. 
Anthony    Ruthgers,  Anneke. 

Henderikje  Van  de 

Water. 
Henderik  Mandeviel,  Henderik. 

Elisabeth  Herris. 

Johannis  Van  de  Wa-  Johanna. 

ter,  Baafje  Sipkens. 
AVillein  Hyer,  Catha-  VVillem. 

rina  Mol. 
Olphert  Sioerts,  Hil-  Luykas. 

legont  Ldykas. 
Johannis  ter  Bos,  Eli-  Henderik. 

sabeth  Henderiks. 
Harme  Gerritze,  Eli-  Gerret. 

sabeth  Brouwer. 
Jan    Van    der    Beek,  Jannetie. 

Elisabeth  Woeder. 
Martinus    Krigier,  Johannis. 

Margrietie  Dalsen. 


Leonard  Leuwis,  Eli- 
sabeth H  e  r  d  e  n- 
berg. 

Otto  Van  Thuyl, 
Grietie  Dirks. 

Joseph  Smit,  Margrie- 
tie Corsen. 

Jacob  Koddebek, 
M  a  r  g  r  i  t  i  e  Pro- 
voost. 

Mangel  Janse,  Antie 
Henderix. 

Evert  Pels,  Grietie 
Melcherts. 

Robberd  Walters, 
Chatharina  lieis- 
laar. 


Elizabeth. 

Jan. 

Margrietie. 

Willem. 

Annatie. 

Evert. 

Sara,  J  u- 
ny  39  ten 
9  u  r  e  ^ 
a  V  o  n  d  s 
gebore.* 


GETUYGEN. 

Pieter  Heuion,  Antie  Van 
Ekele. 

Erederik  Eyn.  Catharina 
Provoost,  Wed:  van 
Jonathan  Provoost. 

Isaac  Kip,  Johannis  Van 
Laar,  Annatie  de  Mill, 

Gerret  Hver,  Elisabeth 
Blom. 

Harnianus  Rtilgers,  Antie 
Duyking. 

Davidt  Mardeviel,  I\Tar- 
retie  Van  Hoese,  s. 
h.  V. 

Harme  Luvkasse,  Anna 
Maritie  Sipkens. 

Gerrit  Hyer,  Ariaantie 
Mol. 

Elisabeth  Luvkas,  Cor- 
nelis  Klopper. 

Rodsjer  Brith,  Catharina 
Ronibouts,  s.  h.  v. 

Abraham  Brouwer,  Jan- 
netie Brouwer. 

Pouwelus  Van  der  Beek, 
Jannetie  Oosterom. 

Evert  Banker,  Antie  Ban- 
ker, h.  v.  van  J  oh. 
Pevster. 

Jacob  ten  Yk,  Neeltie 
Hardenberg,  s.  h.  v. 

Jan  Piero,  Mettie   Piero, 

s.  h.  V. 
Johannis    Janson,    Anna 

Leuerse,  s.  h.  v. 
Elias     Provoost,     Barber 

Provoost. 

Edward   Blagg,    Jannetie 

I'iccus,  s.  ii.  V. 
Christofifel   Pels,  Antie 

Pels. 
Leonard  Hiivgede  Kley-n, 

Margrietie  Pasco. 


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dito. 

9  dito. 

[2S4J 
9  dito. 


dito. 

dito. 
12  dito. 
16  dito. 

dito. 
19  dito. 

dito. 

23  dito. 
30  dito. 

V  30  dito. 

30  dito. 
30  dito. 

2  Augustus. 

6  dito. 
12  dito. 


OUDERS. 

Jan     Cuer,    Gerretie 

Cosyns. 
Hendericils  Myer, 

Wyntie  Rhee. 

Samuel   Borsies,   Ma- 
ritie  Braker. 

Abraham     Gofiver- 

ncur,  Maritie  Leis- 

laars. 
Frans  Van   Dyk,  Sy- 

tie  Dirks. 
Johanniz     Hennijon, 

Margrieta  Dallie. 
Cornelis    Low,    Mar- 

grietie  Van  Bossen. 


KINDERS. 

Jan. 
Johannis. 

Samuel. 

Elzebeth. 

Elizabeth. 
Margrieta. 
^^a^g^ietie. 


Will  em  Pley,  Sara  Sara. 

Jooste. 
Henrikus  ten  Broek,  Maritie. 

T  r  y  n  t  i  e    Lange- 

straat. 
Aernhout    Viely    J',  Sara. 

Elizabeth     Hende- 

riks. 
Karel    Bevoys,    Mar-  Jan. 

grietie  Meserol. 
Abraham  Van  Hoorn,  Catharina, 

Maritie  Provoost. 

Davidt    Mandeviel,  Jurian, 
Maritie  Van  Hoe- 
sen. 

Willem  Echt,    Marri-  Marinus. 
tie  Van  Dvk. 

Lo<ivverens  Cornelis-  Cornelis. 
se,  Lena  Bensen. 

Cornelis  Van  de  Wa-  Jacobfis. 
ter,  Dorathe  Loyse. 


Servaas   Vliereboom,  Pieter 

Geertriiy  I^azzing. 
Pieter  Van  Devenler, 

MavkeVan  Doom. 


A  b  r  a- 
h  a  m, 
Isaack. 


13  dito. 


Adriaan   Van  Schaik,  Aegje. 
Jannetie  Johannis. 


GETUYGEN. 

Thevmis  Quick,  Margrie- 
ta Kool. 

Johannis  Myer,  Adolf 
Soon,  Tryntie  Myer. 

Steven  Braker,  Robberdt 

Darkens,     Cornelia 

Law. 
Leonard  Huvge  de  Kleyn, 

Sara  (jouverneur,  h,  v. 

van  Isaac  Gouv. 
Willem    Echt,    Elizabeth 

Burger. 
Pieter   Hennijon,    Mar- 

griete  Kool. 
Willem  Provoost,  Davidts 

Soon,  Aefje   Van    der 

Veen,  syn  h.  v. 
Pieter    Pra,    Maria    Pra, 

syn  h.  v. 
Jan  Langestraat,  Jan- 
netie ten  Broek. 

Aernhout  Viely  Sen', 
Gerretie  V^iely,  syn  h.  v. 

Charel  de  Nison,  Jannetie 
M6serol,  syn  h.  v. 

Jan  Van  Hoorn,  Catha- 
rina Provoost  Davidts 
h.  v. 

H  u  y  b  e  r  t — Maritie  de 
Camp. 

PVans  Van  Dvk,  Orseltie 
Van  Dyk. 

Johannis  Bensen,  Maria 
EUeson,  h.  v.  van  Jan 
W"  Rome. 

Benjamin  Van  de  Water, 
Engeltje  Van  de  Wa- 
ter, Jacobds,  h.  v. 

Pieter  I>azzing,Willempie 
Vliereboom. 

Cornelis  Van  Deventer, 
Antie  Van  Thuyl,  Tjerk 
Van  Dyk,  Tryntie  Van 
Dyk. 

Johannis  T  h  o  m  a  s  s  e, 
Aegje  Jacobs,  sy  h.  v. 


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A*  1704. 

OUDERS. 

KINDERS. 

GETUYGEN. 

[285] 

Augustus  13. 

Thomas  Jacobs e, 

Ehzabeth. 

Cornells  Van  der  Hoeve, 

Neeltie   Van    der 

Elizabeth   Van   der 

Hoeve. 

Hoeve. 

dito  13. 

Hans   Kierstede,  Di- 

Hans. 

Jacobus  Kierstede,   Mar- 

na  Van  Schaik. 

relie  Bayards. 

dito  16. 

Johannis    Bant,    Wil- 

Marte. 

Henderik   Kermer,  Grie- 

leinyntje  Filips. 

tie  Kermer. 

dito  16. 

Kelni    Makor\>,    Jan- 
netie  de  Pii. 

Elsie. 

Jacob  Van  Dfierse. 

dito. 

Johannes  Verbrdgge, 

Catharina. 

Pieter  Ver  Brftgge,  Eelsie 

M  a  r  g  r  i  e  t  i  e  Pro- 

Van  Hoorn. 

voost. 

dito  20. 

Abraham   Wendel, 

Elizabeth. 

Samuel  Staats,    Johannis 

Catharina  de  Kay. 

Schuyler,   Eliszabet 
Schuyler. 

dito. 

Benjamin     QQakken- 

Jannetie. 

Jacob    Cornelisse    Stille, 

bos,    Clasie   Web- 

Marretie Elzewaart. 

bers. 

dito  23. 

Harme  de  Gravv,  EH- 

Arent. 

Pieter  Bogert,  Fytie  Ser- 

zabeth  Ver  VVy. 

faas. 

Septemb.  i. 

Johannis    Van    der 

Catharina. 

Henderik  Van  der  Heul, 

dito. 


dito  3. 

dito. 

dito. 

dito  6. 

dito. 

dito  10. 

dito  17. 

dito. 

dito. 

dito. 

dito  27. 

Heul,  Jannetie  Ro- 

zevelt. 
Abraham    Van   der  Elsie. 

Beek,  Mettie  Woe- 

der. 
Willem  Bogert,  Hille-  Joris. 

gont  Joris. 
Jan    Laethen,   Maria  Johanna. 

Coning. 
Philip  Basing,  Sara  Philip. 

Barking. 

Thomas    Pel,    Aeltie  IVTaria. 

Cornelis. 
Coenraat  ten  Yk  J<i-  Samuel. 

nior,  Antie  Van  Eps. 
Thomas   Bay eux,  Siisanna. 

Magdalena   Boudi- 

nott. 
Samuel   Chahaan,  Susanna. 

Neeltie  Cosyns. 
Gerrit   Burger,  Sara  Marte. 

Martense. 
Arnhoiit     Henderiks,  Neeltie. 

Geertie  Claase. 
B  a  r  e  n  t    Reinderse,  Elzebeth. 

Hester  I>eislaar. 
Jacobus  Bevois,  iV[ar-  Johanna. 

retie  Jooste. 


Tryntie  Klok,  h.  v. 
Albert  Klok. 
Coenradis  Van  der  Beek, 
Sara  Perry. 

Jan  Van  Hoorn,  Joris 
Soon ;  Stynte  Cosaar. 

Jan  Willemse  Romen, 
Marretie  Coning. 

LuV'kas  Van  Thienhoven, 
Tryntie  Van  Thien- 
hoven. 

Willem  Pel,  Debora  Pel. 

Coenraat  ten  Yk  Senior, 
Belitie  ten  Yk,  s:  h:  v: 

Benjamin  Dorjett,  Susan- 
na Boiidinolt. 

A  r  n  h  o  u  t  Henderiks, 

Vroutie  Cosyns. 
Pouvvelds  Turk  Jun',  Ma- 

retie  Martens,  s:  h:  v: 
Gerret  Hollart,  Susanna 

Hollart,  s.  h.  v. 
I^eonard  HiivgedeKleyn, 

Elsie  Leislaar. 
Joris    Remse,    Femmelie 

Woertman. 


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A"  1704. 
[286] 
Octob:  I. 

dito. 

dito. 

dito. 

dito, 
dito  4. 

dito  8. 
dito. 

dito. 

dito  15. 

dito. 

dito  18. 
dito  22. 

dito. 

dito  25. 
dito  29. 

Novemb.  i. 

dito. 
dito. 


Jacob  Vliereboom, 
Maritie  Herring. 

Joris  Hoorn,  Annetie 
Kolver. 

Abraham  Van  I.aar, 
Hester  Christi- 
aense. 

Louwerens  Van 
Hoek,  Johanna 
Smith. 

Adriaen  Bennet,  Bar- 
ber Vonck. 

Mathys  Van  Velse, 
Catharina  Hou- 
werd. 

Petrils  Beiard,  Rachel 
Van  Balen. 

Cosj>n  Gerritse,  Ca- 
tharina Van  Giist. 

Willem  Provoost,  Ag- 
je  Exveen. 

Tobias  Stotitenburg, 
Antie  Van  Rolle- 
gom. 

Joost  L\>nsen,  Eh'za- 
beth  Daniels. 


Mathys. 

Jan. 

Jacobus. 

Gerrittie. 

Angenietie. 
Hester. 

Johannis. 
Gerret. 

Catharina. 

Eva. 

Angenietie. 


Isaac    Selove,   Judith  Daniel. 

Walderon. 
E  d  m  o  n  d    Thomas,  Johanna. 

Maria   Sefia  de 

Witt. 
Jacobus  Van  der  Spie-  Elizabeth. 

gel,    Annatie    San- 
ders. 
Gerrit  Van  Laar,  Jan-  Christoffel. 

netie  Streddels. 
Christoffel  Elzewaart,  Clement. 

Blandina  Bogardis. 

Henderik  Van  der  Hendericiis. 
Hetil,  Marretie  My- 
er. 

John    Anderson,    Ju-  Wyntie. 

dith  VVoiitersen. 
Jacob  Marius  Groen,  Elizabeth. 

Maria  Salisbury. 


GETUYGEN. 

T.  Servaas  Vliereboom, 
Marretie  Vliereboom. 

Jurian  Kolyer,  Dorathea 
Ver  Schfiere. 

Dirk  Valck,  Barentie  Van 
Brakle. 

Johannis      Hardenbroek, 

Abels  Soon  ;  Harmpje 

Woertman. 
Henderik   Vonk,  Neeltie 

Bennet. 
Joseph  Walderon,  Marica 

Smith. 

Isaac  de  Peister,  Maria 
de  Peister,  s.  h.  v. 

T  h  e  u  n  i  s  Quick,  Sara 
Quick,  dogter  van  Cor- 
nells Quick. 

Cornelis  Exveen,  Elsie 
Van  Hoorn,  h.  v.  van 
Gerrit  Van  Hoorn. 

Nicolaas  Van  der  S|)iegel, 
Tryntie  Van  der  Spie- 
gel, s.  h.  v. 

Leonard  Huyge  de  Klein, 
Susanna  Leislaar, 
s.  h.  v. 

Jan  de  Laniontagne,  Sara 
Walderon. 

David  Finisson,  Johanna 
de  Briiyn. 

Jacobus  Schuyler,  Tryntie 
Van  der  Spiegel. 

Isaack  Van  Laar,  Sara 
Hardenbroek. 

Clement  Elzewaart,  An- 
na Maria  Elzewaart,  s. 
h.  v. 

Henderik  Jillisse  Myer, 
Jannetie  Myer,  h.  v. 
van  Abraham  Pro- 
voost. 


Francis  Salesbury,  Eliza- 
beth Van  Dvk". 


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A°   1704.  OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

den  2  Octo-     Jan    Ogelsby,  Anne-  Jannelje. 

ber,     by         ke  Claasze. 

extra    or- 

d  i  n  aa  r 

V  o  o  r  V  a  1, 

g  e  d  o  o  p  t 

in  buys. 

[287] 
Novemb.  i.      Christoffel  Beekman,  Coineba. 
Afaritie  Lanoy. 

dito  5.  Louwerens     Mathys,  Rombout. 

Niesje  de  Groot, 

dito  19.  JohannisFrelant,  Catharina. 

Maria  Criegiers. 

dito.  Gerret  Schuyler,  Alida. 

Eagje  de  Groof. 
dito.  John  Ellesson,  Chris-  EHzabeth. 

tina  Davids. 

dito  22.  Augiistfis  Sjee,  Anna  Petrus. 

Maria  Beiard. 
dito.  Thomas    Eckeson,  Appalonia. 

PLlisabeth    Slinger- 

lant. 
dito.  Johannis  Deenmarke,  Johannis. 

Maritie  Ten  Yck. 

Decemb.  i.      Johannis  Vreden- Willeni. 

burg,  Janna  Mon- 

tagne. 
dito  3.  Genet  Fiel)>,  Janne-  Maria, 

tie  Van  Vetnde. 
dito  3.  Michiel  Stevens,  Rei-  Cathalina. 

ertie  Mol. 
dito  3.  Jan    WilUcke,    Mar-  Sara. 

grietie  Dowe. 

dito  3.  Jacob  Wilse,  Abigael  Maria. 

Eorquisson. 
dito  10.  Merynus    Roelofse,  Abraham. 

Dina  Theunisse. 


dito  10.  Isaac  Brath,  Diever-  Divertie. 

tie  Wessels. 

dito  13.  Michiel  Janse,  Maria  Margrietie. 

Janse. 


GETUYGEN. 


Hendricus  Betjwon  Jti- 
dik  Pamerton,  Marga- 
rita Lankhaar. 


Gerrerdus    Beekman, 

Magdalena    Beekman, 

s.  h.  V. 
Philippus  Van    Cortlant, 

Catharina  Philips,  We- 

diiw. 
Martinus     Criegier,    Ca- 
tharina  Freland,   h.  v. 

van  Aart  Elbertse. 
Adolf  de  Groof,  Janneke 

Van  Bosse,  Wed. 
Mathys    Drajer,     Willem 

Nazaret,    Helena    Na- 

zaret. 
Jacobus  Beiard,  Ariaantie 

Ver  Plank,  Wed. 
Jan    Eckeson,    Apalonia 

Eckeson,  syn  moeder. 

Coenraat  ten  Yck  Senior, 
Pietronella  ten  Yck,  h. 
v.  Henderik  ten  Yck. 

Abraham  Vredenburg, 
Elizabeth  Blom,  h.  v. 
van  Jan  Montagne. 

Davidt  Provoost  J",  Su- 
sanna Fieley. 

Levynis  de  Wint,  Ari- 
aantie Mol,  s.  h.  v. 

Willem  Ajjpel,  Catharina 
Dowe,  Wedew:  van  Jan 
Dowe. 

Jan  Janse  Rj'kskocht, 
Maria  Eorquisson. 

Abraham  Van  Breme, 
Maritie  Van  den  Berg, 
h.  V.  Huybert  Van  den 
Berg. 

Wessel  Wesselse,  Aefje 
Brath,  h.  v.  van  Jac. 
Brath. 

Luykas  Stevense,  Mar- 
retie  Janse,  j.  dochter. 


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dito  13. 


dito  13. 

dito  17. 

[288] 
Decemb.  20. 

dito  20. 
dito  27. 
dito. 
dito  27. 

dito  31. 


A°  1705. 
January  7. 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Hendericus     Koerte,  Margareta. 
Elizabeth   de    Rie- 


Theilnis    Van     Pelt,  Samuel. 

Elsje  Henderix. 
Julian  Bosch,  Annet-  Elizabeth. 

je  Br6yns. 

Tynien    Franse    Van  Immetje. 

Dyk,    Hester    Ple- 

vier. 
Petrus  Kip,  Immetje  Dirk. 

Van  Dyk. 
Harine     Luykasse,  Harme. 

Anna  Maria  Sippe. 
Joris  Walgraaf,  Susan-  Magdalena. 

na  Woederd. 
Jacobus  Goeler,  Jan-  Aefje. 

netie  Cosaar. 

Ryer  ATartense,  Re-  Sara, 
bekka    Van    der 
Schuere. 

Willem    Roseboom,  Annatje. 
Piaterus  Colevelt. 


dito. 

Everardus  Bogardiis,  Willem. 

Hanna  Daley. 

dito. 

Jan    Jorisse    Van  Joris. 

Hoorn,   Magdale- 

entie  Karstens. 

dito  10. 

Samuel  Benson,   Ma-  Catharina, 

ritje  Myer. 

dito. 

Frederik  Blom,  Ante  Sara. 

Montague. 

dito. 

Johannis  Teniiur,  An-  Saniiiel. 

natje  Meynders. 

dito  18. 

Carel  Adriaanse,  Ma-  Aetje. 

ria  Van  der  Beek. 

dito. 

Jacob  Brat,  Aefje  Grietje. 

Everts. 

dito. 

Samuel  Moor,  Marri-  Marretje. 

etje  Poulusse. 

dito. 

Samliel  Philips,  Aelt-  Richard. 

je  Dame. 


GETUYGEN. 

Isaac  de  Riemer  Junior, 
Margareta  de  Riemer, 
Wed:  van  Dom.  Zelvns 
Zal: 

Samuel  Van  Pelt,  Title 
Anderies. 

Albertus  Coenradis  Bosch, 
Elsje  Blank. 

Frans  Van  Dyk,  Marretie 
Van  Dyk.  ' 

Petrus  van  Dyk,  Orse- 
nella  Van  Dyk. 

Johannis  Van  de  Water, 
Elsie  Sippe. 

Joseph  Waldron,  Magda- 
lena Boekholt. 

Evert  Van  Hoeck,  Anna 
Hoist,  h.  V.  van  Steve 
Boekenhove. 

Joris  Martense,  Jenneke 
Brestede,  j.  d'- 


Johannis  Van  Vorst,  An- 

natie    Colevelt,    h.    v. 

van  Lofnverens    Hed- ^A 

ding. 
Philip     Daley,     Cornelia 

Bogardus. 
Willem  Bogert.  Hillegont 

Joris,  s.  h.  V. 

Abraham  Ryke,  Cathari- 
na, Syn  hiiys  vrouw. 

Johannis  Vredenburg, 
Aeltie  Blom. 

Johannis  de  Pe5>ster,  An- 
na Banker,  s.  h.  v. 

Abraham  Wendal,  Sara 
Schoute,  h.  v.  van  Jan 
Ryke. 

Isaac  Brat,  G  e  e  r  t  j  e 
Everts,  h.  v.  van  Ab- 
ram  Splinter. 

Johannis  Poulusse,  Elisa- 
beth Van  de  Water,  s. 
h.  V. 

Evert  Pels,  Pieternella 
Van  de  Water,   wed. 


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dito. 

dito  21. 


dito  28. 


[289] 

Pebruary  4, 

dito. 

dito  14. 

dito. 

dito. 

/    dito. 

dito  18. 

dito. 

dito  21. 

dito  25. 
dito  28. 
Maart  4. 

dito. 

dito. 
dito. 

7  dito. 
dito. 


Isaac   Boog,    Hester  Elizabeth, 

Van  Vleck. 
Michiel  Besset,   He-  Michiel. 

lena  Van  Alst. 

Jacobus  Beyard,  Hil-  Maria. 
legondt  de  Key. 

Gerret    Provoost,  Margreta. 
Aelette  Roos. 

Frans  Langet,  Marit-  Arie'. 

je  Van  Schaak. 
B  a  r  th  o  1  o  m  e  vi  s  Le  Geertruy. 

Roux,  Geertruy 

Van  Rollegom. 
Pieter  Bant,  Maersje  Pieter. 

Wyt. 
Johannis    Pieterse,  Pieter. 

Annetje  Jans. 
Thomas    Narihen,  Thomas. 

Sara  Hanse. 
Henderik  de  Camp,  Louwrens. 

Mary  de  T.amar. 
Frederik    Fyn,    Jan-  Johannis. 

netje  Van  Zante. 


Abraham    Van   Gel-  Harnianus. 

der,    C  a  t  h  a li  n a 

Post. 
R  e  y  n  Quakkenbos,  Abraham. 

Claesje  Stille. 
George  Herres,  Wil-  Annatje. 

lempje  Jans. 
Johannis  Kerfbyl,  Catharina. 

Margreta  Provoost. 

Daniel  Berkelo,  over-  Maritje. 

leden,*     Elizabeth 

Blauvelt. 
Jan  Melderom,  Fem-  Anna  Catha- 

metje  Van  Borstim.     rina. 
Joris  Hooms,  Janne-  Willem. 

ke  Bogert. 
Jacob   Blom,   Mayke  Janneke. 

Bos. 
Jeremias  Borres,  Cor-  Elizabeth.' 

nelia  Eckeson. 


GETUYGEN. 

Jacob  Fenix,  Maritje  Van 

Vlek. 
Walter  Thang,  Rip  Van 

Dam,  en  Sara  v.  d.  m. 

s.  h.  V. 
Jacobus   de   Key,  Maria 

Bogards,  Wed. 

Pieter  Roos,  ATaritje  Hi- 
bon,  h.  V.  van  Jilles 
Provoost. 

Jacob  Van  Deurse,  Aelt- 
je  s.  huysvrouvv. 

Hendericus  Van  der  Spie- 
gel, Tryntie  Stouten- 
burg  s.  h,  V. 

Parent  Bant,  Marretje 
Bant. 

Tys  Buys,  Vrouwtje  Co- 
sy ns. 

Louvverens  Wessels,  Re- 
becka  Stuard. 

Davidt  Mandeviel,   Mar- ' 
retje  s.  h.  vrou. 

Wynant  Van  Zante,  Mar- 
grietje  Van  Zante,  h. 
V.  van  Johannis  Van 
Zante. 

Philip  Daily,  Helena 
Post. 

Abraham  Kip,  en  Catha- 
lina  Lenoy  s.  h.  v. 

Samfiel  Philips,  Antje 
Pels. 

Jan  Franse  Van  der  Mu- 
len,  Catharina  Pro- 
voost, Wed. 

Johannis  Van  Norden, 
Catlyntie  Serly. 

Frans  Van  Dyk,  Wyb6rg 

Van  Borsum. 
Claas   Bogert,    Elizabeth 

Hooms. 
Wouter    Hyer,    Mayke 

Herberding. 
Egbert  Heermans,  EHza- 

beth  Eckeson. 


•  Died. 


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A°  1705. 
dito. 


[290] 
Maart  11. 


dito. 

dito  18. 
dito. 
dito. 
dito. 

dito  21. 
dito. 
dito  25. 
dito. 

dito. 

dito  28. 

dito. 
April  8. 

dito. 
IS- 
If- 


OUDERS.  KINDERs.  GETUYGEN. 

Willem  Post  Ju',  Ma-  Willeui.  Arent  Bloni,  Aeltje  Post, 

ritje  Van  Kleef.  h.  v.  van  Willem  Post 

Senior. 


Steven  Richard,  Ma-  Joliannis. 
ria  Van  Briigh, 

Rodger  Brith,  Catha-  Thomas, 
rina  Rombouts. 


Pieter  Bogert,   Fytje  Pieter. 

Vliereboom. 
Theophilus  Pels,  Ca-  Theophilus. 

thalina  Bensen. 
Slephanus      Boeken-  Gerardus. 

hove,  Anna  Hoist. 
Jaques  Fonteyn,  An-  Catharina. 

neke  Webbers. 

Jan  Wanshaar,  Susan-  Pieter. 

na  Nys. 
Abraham     Provoost,  Johannis. 

Jannetje  Myer. 
Henderik  Bosch,  Ma-  Eghbertje. 

ria  Van  der  Beek. 
Daniel  de  Voor,  En-  Daniel. 

geltje  Cornelis. 

Claas  Boogert,  Belit-  Hendrik. 
je  Van  Schaick. 

Enoch  M  i  c  h  i  e  1  s  e,  Jacob. 
Aefje  Van  Hoorn. 

Coenraat  Hiiybeling,  Jonas. 

Debra  Peek. 
Isaac  Stoutenbfirg,  Isaac. 

Neeltje     tJytenbo- 

gert. 
Willem  Sjekkerlej>,  Elizabeth. 

Debora  Van  Dyk. 

Marte  Beek  man,  Rachel. 
Neeltje  Slingerlant. 

Isaac    Gouverneur,  Johanna. 

Sara  Staats, 
Huybert  Sylant,  Sara  Rachel. 

Krapell. 


Charelton  Van  Br  ugh, 
A  n  d  e  r  i  e  s  Greveraat, 
Anna  Bridges. 

Thoma  Byerly,  Henderik 
Van  Baal,  Helena  Tel- 
ler, Wed.  van  Fran- 
coys  Rombout. 

Johannis  Bogert,  Claasje 
Bogert. 

Matheus  Bensen,  Saratje 
Van  Dam. 

Evert  Van  Hoek,  Jannet- 
je Goelet. 

Johannis  Van  der  Spiegel, 
Lea  Fonteyn,  h.  v.  van 
Vrederik  Symonse. 

Pieter  de  Nys,  Geesje  de 
Nys. 

Henderik  Van  der  Heul, 
Angenietje  Naiberu. 

Harmanus  Burger,  Eg- 
bertje  Bosch,  Wed. 

Abraham  Metselaar,  Sa- 
ratje Cornelisse  jong 
doog, 

Cornelis  Turk,  Aeltje 
Uytenbogert,  h.  v.  van 
Jacob  Van  Duerse. 

Jan  Jorrise  Van  Hoorn, 
Maria  Van  Hoorn,  s. 
moeder. 

Jacob  Fenix,  en  Antje 
s\>n  huysvrouw. 

Jacob  Van  Deurse,  Sarat- 
je Van  Dam. 

Matheus  Aertsen,  Barnar- 
dus  Hardenbroek,  Ca- 
tharina Harding. 

Anthony  Rutgers,  Antje 
Van  Ekele,  h  v.  van 
Hans  Kros. 

Samliel  Staats,  Machtrld 
Nessepat,  Wed. 

Luykas  Van  Thienhove, 
en  Tryntje  s.  h.  vrouw. 


124 


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A°  1705. 

OUDERS. 

HINDERS. 

[291] 
April  18. 

John   Pamerton,    Su- 
sanna de  Peuw. 

Elizabeth. 

dito. 

Alexander  Fenix, 

Marytie. 

Hester  Van  Vorst. 

dito. 

Nicolaas  B  r  0  u  w  e  r, 

Cornelis. 

dito. 

Jannetje  Caljer. 

Cosyn   Anderiesse, 

Grietie  Theiinis. 

Geertje. 

dito. 

"VV  i  1 1  e  m  Elzevvaart, 

Lysbet. 

Pieternella  Rome. 

dito. 

Frans     W  e  s  s  e  1  s  e, 
Tryntje  Jans. 

Sara. 

dito. 

Jan  Bras,  Sara  Loyse. 

Pieter. 

dito. 

Johannis  Ryknian, 
Catharina  Kip. 

Johannis. 

25  dito. 

Jacobus  Kip,  Catha- 
lina  de  Hart. 

Joliannis. 

dito. 

Hendrikus    Van    der 
Spiegel,  Tryntie 
Stoutenburg. 

Louwerens, 

dito. 

Jacob   Wykof,   Laai- 

Cornelis. 

29  dito. 

metje  Strykers. 
T  h  e  u  n  i  s   Quick, 
Vrouwtje  Herring. 

Cornelis. 

dito. 

Johannis   Narburi, 
Angenietje  Pro- 
voost. 

Pieter. 

dito. 

Jan  Danielse,  Jannet- 
je Pouwels. 

Pouvvelus. 

May  2. 

Elias  de  Hart,  Cally-  Jannetje. 

na  I-aning. 

dito  6. 

Jan    Herris,  Jannetje 

Catharina. 

dito. 

Nessepatt. 
Johannis   Myer,  Sara 
de  Foreest. 

Elizabeth. 

9  dito. 

Gysbert  J  a  n  s  e  Bo- 
gert,  Antje  Loiiwe. 

Jan. 

dito. 


[292] 
May  13. 


Davidt    Sprong,    Ra-  Gerret. 

chel  Lieqiiye. 
Gerrerd  Diiykingk,  N  e  e  1  t j  e, 

Maria  Obeel.  April  13 

gedoopt. 

Pieter  Ronien,    Hes-  Anna, 
ter  Van  Gelder. 


GETUYGEN. 

Pieter  Myer,  Helena  Ka- 
velier. 

Adriaan  Man,  Cornelia 
Sprat. 

Jan  Hendriks,  Marytje 
Coljer. 

Andries  Jurianse,  Geert- 
je Cosyn. 

Joris  Elzewaart,  Tryntje 
Rome. 

Johannis  Stymes,  Saartje 
Stymes. 

Pieter  Loyse,  en  Sara 
Loyse  s.  h.  vrou. 

Pieter  Rykinan,  Rachel 
Kierstede. 

Balthazar  de  Hart,  Ca- 
thalina  Kij),  Wed:  van 
Johannis  Kip. 

Johannis  Van  der  Spiegel, 
Antje  Van  RoUegom, 
h.  V.  van  Tobias  Stou- 
ten b: 

Cornelis  VVykof,  Geertje 
Van  Aartsdalen. 

Carste  Lierse,  Grietje 
Cozyns. 

Abraham  Provoost,  Jan- 
netje Myers  s.  h.  v. 

Isaack  Stoutenburg,  en 
Aeltje  s.  h.  vrouvv. 

Gysbert  Laning,  en  Jan- 
netje s.  h.  vroiiw. 

Leonard  Leuwis,  Eliza- 
beth Clase. 

Catharina  Van  Hoorn, 
Anderies  Myer. 

Lourens  Janse  en  Joris 
Hooms,  Cornelia  Bo- 
gert,  K  1  a  s  j  e  Van 
Schaik. 

Gerret  Sprong,  Antje 
Sprong. 

Johannis  Obeel,  Chris- 
toffel  Beekman,  Eliza- 
beth Banker. 

Willem  Appel,  Teuntje 
Van  Gelder. 


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12 


A°  1705. 
dito. 

17  dito, 
23  dito. 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Pieter  Burger,  Catha-  Tohannis. 

rina  Daniels. 
Johannis  Dykman,  Janneke. 

Rachel  de  Vouw. 


Juny  I. 
dito  2, 
dito  3. 

dito  10. 


dito  20. 


24  dito. 


[293] 
Juny  27. 


GETUYGEN. 

Jan  Harris  Bikker,  Eliza- 
beth Clase. 

Dirk  Dykman,  en  syn 
moeder  Jannetje  Dyk- 
man. 

Jacob  Swaan,  Christina 
Elson. 

Albert  Klok,  Tryntje  syn 
huvsvroiiw. 

Rip  Van  Dam,  en  Saratje 
syn  hiiysvrouw. 

Elizabeth  Dayly-. 

Loiiwerens  Wesselse,  Sa- 
ra Lovereds. 

Anderies  Marsclialk,  Cor- 
nelia Van  Gelder,  h,v. 
Filip  Dayly. 

Louwerens  Wesselse, 
Geertje  Splinters. 

Jan  Van  der  iMeer,  Anna 
Hoist,  h.  V.  van  Stev. 
Boekenhoven. 

John  Gordeyn,  Johanna 
Inimeson. 

Barent  Cool,  Margreta 
s.  h.  vroCi. 

Pouwelus  Van  der  Beek, 
Anna  Maria  Johannis. 

Leendert  Le6wis,  Eliza- 
beth s.  h.  vrou. 

Johannis  Bant,  Marretje 
Bant,  Wed. 

Joost  LVnse,  Elizabeth 
Henjon  s.  h.  v. 

Abraham  Messelaar,  Eli- 
zabeth Crigier,  h.  v.  van 
Nicolaas  Daly 

Frans  Van  Dyk,  Marretje 
Van     Dvk,    h.    v.    van 
Will.  Egt. 
Theophiliis  Pels,  Catali- 
na  Bensen  s.  h.  v. 
Benjamin  Bil,  Geesje  Benjamin,  Johannis  de  Peyster,  Be- 
Van  Alst.  geboren       litje  Pieters. 

1698    okt. 
14. 


Thomas  Nyts,  Sara 
Broii'A'ers. 

Benjnmin  Wy-nkoop, 
P'emmetje  Van  der 
Heul. 

John  Broadeds,  Ma- 
ria Van  der  Spie- 
gel. 

Adriaan  Aran,  Hester 
Bording. 

Aart  Elbertse,  Catha- 
rina  Vrelant. 

Harmanus  Van  Gel- 
der, Teuntje  ledes- 
se. 

Anderies  ten  Brock, 
Lynlje  Splinters. 

S  V  m  o  n"  Clase  n, 
Tryntje  Gerrets. 

John    Lasly,    Helena 

Bisset. 
Jacob  Kool,   Barber 

Jans. 
Johannis    Van    Vler- 

kom,  M  e  1 1  je  Jo- 
hannis. 
Jacob  Ten  Yk,  Neelt- 

je  Hardenberg, 
Sacharias  Schotshuys, 

Grietje  Bant. 
Pieter    Hennejon, 

AFarretje  Van  Oort, 
Dirk   Koek,  Susanna 

Crigier, 


Elizabeth. 
Benjamin. 

Margreta. 

Nicolaas. 

Benjamin. 

Abraham, 

.\nnetje. 
Hiliegond. 

Cornelia. 

Barent. 

Petrus. 

Gerrardiis. 
Marretje. 
Rachel. 
Thomas. 


Albert  de  Vries,  Im-  Anna, 
metje  Van  Dyk. 

Harmanus  Bensen,  Claasje. 
iVeltje  Bikkes. 


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[J"iy> 


A°  1705. 
July  I. 


dito  8. 


dito  1 1, 
den  25  d° 

dito  15. 


OUDERS. 

H  e  n  d  r  i  k  Swervers, 

P^lizabeth  Van  der 

Meer. 
Thomas     Chearnian, 

Aefje  Stille. 
JohannisVanNorden, 

Henderikje  ten  Yk. 
Benjamin  Dorjet,  An- 

natje  Oiitmans. 
Henderikus     M  y  e  r, 

Wyntje  Rhee. 
Johannis  Jansen,  Jo- 
hanna Lierse. 
Jacobus   Van    Cort- 

lant,  Eva  Filips. 
Dirk   Valk,   Barentje 

Van  Brackle. 
Gualtherus   dii    Bois, 

en  Helena  Van 

Bael. 


KIXDERS, 

Tiyntje. 

Frederik. 

Aalije. 

Johannis. 

Abraliam. 

Johannis. 

Maria. 

Rachel, 

Gualtherus. 


Abraham  Van  Aren,  Isaac. 

Sara  Eckeson. 
Pieter  Gerretse,  Jan-  Gerretje. 

netje  Slyk. 

Poiil   Miller,  Antje  Johannis. 

Van  der  Heide. 
Anthony    Caar,    An-  Annetje. 

netje  Huyke. 


18. 

Abraham    Mol,    Zara  Abraham, 

Qiiik. 

22. 

Willem  Pel,  Elizabeth  Anna. 

Van  Thuyl. 

[294] 

Johannis    B  y  v  a  n  k.  Evert. 

July  22. 

Aeltje  Hooglant. 

25  dito.  PVansois    De   Fenne,  Fransois. 

Anna  M  ar  g  r  e  la 
Blank. 
Pieter   Stoel,   Rachel  Pieter. 
Van  Bommel. 

Pieter   Bortel,    Mar-  Jan. 
grietje  Van  Klyf. 
Augustus  5.     Ide    Myer,   Annaije  Vroutje. 
Gerretz. 
Frans  Milder,  Geert-  Celia. 
je  Wessels. 


GETUYGEN. 

Jan  Sippetow,   Catharina 
Appels,  Wed. 

Frederik    Stille,    Claasje 

Stille. 
Auke  Lefiferts,  Elizabeth 

Gerretse  Blauvelt. 
Johannis  Oiitman,  Judith 

Outmans  s.  d. 
Pieter  Crasert,  Catharina 

s.  h.  vrou. 
Carste  Lierse,  Geertje  s. 

h.  vrou. 
Adolphes    Philips,   Anna 

French. 
Steve    Van    Braakle, 

Stvntje  Darkens. 
Hendrik    Van     Bael,    en 

Margrita  Van  Bael,  h. 

V.  van  Nicolaas  Evert- 

zon. 
Folkert  Heermans,  Mar- 

grietje  Eckeson. 
Gerret   de    Graw,    Antje 

Gerrets,  h.  v.  van  Dirk 

Slyk. 
Johannis  Van  der  Spiegel, 

Sara  Hardenbroek. 
Cornells  Ver   Duyn,  An- 
netje   Anderies,    h.    v. 

van  Symon  Aartse. 
Cozyn  Cierretse,  M  aria 

Quik. 
Isaac  Van  Thtiyl,   Aefje 

Provoost. 
Adriaan  Hooglant,  Anije 

Duyking,  h.  v.  van  Jo- 
hannis Hooglant,  Evert 

Byvank. 
Casparus    Blank,     Maria 

Far  man. 

Henderikus  Van  Bom- 
mel, Abraham  Mol  Se- 
nior, Ariaantje  de  Wiut. 

Geesje  Van  Clyf. 

Anderies  Myer,    Mar\'tje 

Gerretz,  Wed. 
Loiiwerens   W  e  s  s  e  1  s  e, 

Francyntje  Tays. 


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127 


A"  1705. 
dito  8. 


dito  15. 


dito  10, 


22. 

22  dito. 

30  dito. 


[295] 
August:  .^o. 


Septenib.  2. 


5  dito. 
9  dito. 

12  dito. 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Dirk  de  Gioot,  Ari-  Pieter. 
aantje  Kierstede. 

Hendrik    Van    Pelt,  Jan. 

Fitje  Anderies. 
Abraham  Wybrantse,  Jacob. 

Grietje  de  (jroot. 
Pieter  Van  der  Schue-  Andries. 

re,  Sara  Boog. 

Benjamin    O  1  d  e  r  s,  Benjamin. 

Aeltje  Schars. 
Isaac  Kip,  Sara  de  Abraham. 

Mill. 


Jan  Eckeson,"Maritje  Apalonia. 

Van  Aren. 
Andries  Abramse,  Ja   Abraham, 

qiiemyntie     Wans-      Jacob. 

haar. 

Pieter  Wesselse,  Ant-  Pieter. 
je  Oosterhave. 

Abraham  Van  Duer-  Anna. 

se,  l.iicretia  Bogar- 

dus. 
Mosis    Gilbert,    Jan-  Sara. 

netje  Dirks. 
Rutgert  V^'al(lron,  De-  Samuel. 

bora  Pel. 
Christoffel   C  h  ri  sti  -  Maria. 

aanse,     Geertiily 

Korse. 
Coi  nelis   Post,  Cat-  Cornelia. 

lyntje  Pottman. 
Jan  Franse,Catlyntje  Cathaiina. 

Bensen. 
Philip   Daily,   Corne-  Philip. 

lia  Van  Gelder. 

Cornells  Joosten,  Ca-  Catharina. 

tharina  de  Hart, 
Pieter   Roos,  Wil-  Johannis. 

lempie  Lyster. 
Johannis  Van  der  Johannis. 

Spiegel,     Marretje 

Leurse. 
T  jerk    Roseboom,  Elizabeth. 

Maritje  Wynants. 


GETUYGEN. 

Adoljih  de  Groot  Jun', 
Angenietje  de  Groot, 
j.  d. 

Pouwlus,  \Vilkes,  Marret- 
je Koning,  Wed. 

Cornelis  Janse  Lankhaar, 
.Tryntje  Wybrantse. 

Andries  Greveraat,  en 
Antje  Van  Brt!igh  s.  h. 
vrou. 

Anthony  Byvank,  Antje 
Hooglant. 

Abraham  Kip,  Albany  ; 
Abraham  Kip  xan 
Niewjork,  Geesje  Kip, 
en  Catlynije  Kip. 

Willem    Peers,   Apalonia 

Eckeson. 
g  Jacobus    Qiiik,    Jaque- 
=     quemyntie  Viele,  Wed. 
I     Jan  \Vanshaar,  Susan- 
na Nys  s.  h.  vrou. 

Hendrikus  Coerte,  Gys- 
bert  Van  Imburg,  Eliz- 
abetn  Hartman. 

Johannis  Van  Deurse,  en 
Hester  Van  Deurse  s. 
moeder. 

Otto  Van  Thuyl,  Eliza- 
beth Burger. 

Daniil  Waderon,  en  Sara 

AValderon. 
J    1  annis      Hardenbroek, 
Margreta  Smith. 

Ficktoor  Potman,  Marret- 
je Post,  Wed. 

Dirk  Bensen,  Calharir.a 
Provoost. 

Harmanis  Van  Gelder, 
Nicolaas  Davly,  en 
Margreta  Kool. 

Anthony  Kaar,  Antje 
Huyke  s.  h.  vroii. 

Gerret  Provoost,  Corne- 
lia syn  moeder. 

Johannis  Jansen,  Maritje 
Van  der  Spiegel,  h.  v. 
van  John  Broadeds. 

Jan  Will.  Bennet,  Ari- 
aantje  Fisser. 


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Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  New  York.        [July, 


A'  1705. 

OUDERS. 

KINDERS. 

16  dito. 

Pieter    Jacobze,  Re- 
bekka  Jans. 

Geertriiy. 

Johannis  I.angstraat, 

Marytje. 

Antje  Pels. 

Jacob  Hassing,  Eme- 

Aaltje, 

rentia  Van  Gelder. 

23  dito. 

Wolfert    Webber, 
Grietje  Stille. 

Fredrik. 

Hendrik    Giilik,    Ca- 

Samuel. 

• 

tharina  Amerman. 

Theunis  Tibout,  Ma- 

Theunis. 

ritje  Van  de  ^Vater, 

Johannis  Van  de  Wa- 

Engeltje. 

ter,  Baafje  Sipke. 
Johannis  Provoost, 

Cornelia. 

30  dito. 

Sara  Baley. 
Davidt  Aartze,  Hele- 
na Harssing. 

Ariaantje. 

Johannis   Jooste,  Jii- 
dilli  Ver  Wy. 

Margrietje. 

Octob:3. 

Gerret  Van  Laar,  Jan- 
netje  Streddels. 

Gabriel. 

[296] 

Thomas  Sikkels,  Jan- 

Hendrikje. 

Octob:  7. 

netje  Brevoort. 

Johannis      Pouwelse, 
Elizabeth    Van   de 

Wyntje. 

Water. 

14  dito. 

Jacob  Swaan,  Dirkje 
Schepmoes. 

Helena. 

2  I  dito. 

Dirk    Slyk,    Annetje 
Van  Norden. 

Pieter. 

24  dito. 

Cornelis  Van   Du\>n, 
Magteld  Huyke!^ 

Aallje. 

28  dito. 

Cornelus    Turk,    Eli- 

Aaltje. 

zabeth  Van  Schaik. 

31  dito.  Benjamin  Bill,  Geesje  Susanna. 

Van  Alst. 

dito.  Richard  Rhee,   Elsje  Johannis. 

Sanders. 
jVovemb:  4.      Cornelis  Van  Deven-  Annalje. 

ter    A  n  t  j  e  V  a  n 

Thuyl. 
II.  Jan   C  r  ugo,  Maria  Tieleman. 

Kuyler. 


GETUYGEN. 

Davidt  Provoost  Jn',  Su- 
sanna Levslaar,  h.  v. 
van  Leeixler  de  Klein. 

Theophilus  Pels,  Ariaant- 
je Elsewaart. 

Johannis  Hassing,  Hester 
Van  Gelder. 

Fredrik  Stille,  Saratje 
Webbers. 

Jochem  Gulik,  Coenradis 
Van  der  Beek,  Jaque- 
myntje  Giilik. 

Willeni  Bennet,  Petro- 
nella  Kloppers,  AVed. 

Willem  Van  de  Water, 
Aegje  Ringo  s.  h.  vroii. 

Johannis  Bennejon,  Aalt- 
je Provoost  j.  dochter. 

Aart  Aarse,  en  Elizabeth 
s.  h.  vroii. 

Isaac  de  Mill,  Elizabeth 
Retlof. 

Flip  Van  Vegten,  Johan- 
na Lfierse,  h.  v.  van 
Job:  Janse. 

Henderik  Brevoort,  Ja- 
quemyntje  Boke  s.  h. 
vrou. 

Willem  Bennet,  Petro- 
nella  Kloppers,  Wed. 

Abraham  Keteltas,  Neelt- 

je  Schepmoes,  en   He- 
lena Donskoni. 
Johannis    Van     Norden, 

Cathalyntje  Serley. 
Anthony   Kaar,   Annetje 

Huyke. 
Poulus  Tfirk,  en  Neeltje 

Cornelis,  h.  v.  v.  Hend: 

Van  Schaik. 
Filip  Wilkenson,  Michiel 

Basset,   Geesje    Van 

Alst,  Wed°: 
Jan   Hardenberg,   Catha- 

rina  Craford. 
Cornelis    Low,    en    IMar- 

greta  s.  h.  vrou. 

Pieter  Van  Brug,  en  Sara 
Kuyler  s.  h.  vrou. 


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A"   1705.  OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

18.  Jacob   Dekker,    Sara  Grietje, 

Menthorne. 

C  a  s  p  a  r  i  s   Maebie,  Abrahaii). 

Elizabeth    Schuer- 

mans. 
21  dito.  Davidt  Henjon,  Ant-  Jacobfis. 

je  Jans  Straatn)aker. 
John  C  h  a  r  1  e  t  fi  n,  Jannetje. 

Hester  Eer. 
Anthony      R6thgers,  Catharina. 

Hendrikje  Van  de 

Water. 
Hiiybert   Janse,    En-  Johannis. 

gehje  Davidts. 
Ehas  Brevoort,  Griet-  Hendrikje. 

je  Thomas, 
dito  30.  Anthony   Byvank,  Johannis. 

Teuntje  Lane. 

Decemb:  2.      Willem  Bogert,  Hille-  Joiis. 
gont   J  o  r  i  s   Van 
Hoorn. 
[297]  Edward    Blagge,    Jo-  Allette. 

Decemb:  2,         hanna  Vickers. 

Fincent   de    Lamon-  Fincent. 
tagne,  Ariaantj e 
Eckeson. 
dito  5.  Samuel    Chahaan,  Jannetje. 

Neeltje  Gerrits. 
Gerret  de  Graw,  Do-  Cornelia, 
rathea  Hyer. 
dito  9.  Coenradis    Van    der  Jacobus. 

B  e  e  k,    Catharina 
Davids. 
Robberd  Borsie,  Ca-  Sara, 
tharina  Van  Aren. 
dito  12.  J  oris  Remse,  Fern-  Hilletje. 

metje  Woertman. 
Isaac  de  Peyster,  Ma-  Hendricfis. 
rica  Van  Baal. 


dito  16.  Cornelis  Klopper,  Cornelis. 

Aefje  Luykas. 
Lammert   Van   Dyk,  Janneke. 
Marretje  Hooglant. 

Gerret  Onkelbagh,  Gerret. 
Elizabeth  Van 
Schaick. 


GETUYGEN, 

Filip  Menthorne,  en  Ben- 
j  a  m  i  n  Wynkoop,  en 
Letticher  Magriger. 

Kristofifel  Kristiaanse, 
Meindert  Steen,  en 
Maritje  Mol. 

Joost  Lynse,  en  Elizabeth 
syn  huysvrow. 

Thomas  Robbertson  Jfi- 
nior,  Lidia  Darkens. 

Johannis  Hooglant,  Ca- 
tharina Provoost. 

Burger    Davids,     Maritje 

Jans  Romen. 
Jacob  Thomasse,  Maretje 

Romen,  h.  v.  v:  J.  Will. 
Johannis  Byvank  Senior, 

Adriaan  Hooglant,   en 

Annatje  s.  h.  vrou. 
Enogh   Vrelant,  en  Aefje 

s.  h.  vrou. 

Samuel  Staats,  Allette 

Douwe,  Wed. 
Jan    Eckeson,    Maritje 

Aron. 

Theunis    Quick,    Wyntje 

Hendriks. 
Nicolaas  Pearson,  Maria 

Hyer,  jon.  doghter. 
Dirk  Amerman,  en  Aaltje 

s.  h.  vrou. 

Willem  Waldron  J',  Mar- 
retje Roseboom. 

Isaac  de  Riemer,  Mar- 
retje Woertman. 

Hendrik  Van  Baal,  en 
Petrus  Byard,  Cathari- 
na Rombout,  h.  v.  van 
Rodger  Brith. 

Olphert  Sjoerts,  Pietre- 
nella  Kloppers. 

Johannis  Hooglant,  An- 
natje Byvank,  h.  v.  van 
Adriaan  Hooglant. 

John  Tibbies,  Aegje  Van 
Hoorn  s.  h.  vrou. 


I  ^o  Copy  of  Letters  to  and  from  James  Alexander,  Esq.         [July, 


COPY  OF  LETTERS  TO  AND  FROM  JAMES  ALEXANDER, 
ESQ.,  SURVEYOR  GENERAL  OF  EAST  AND  WEST  JER- 
SEY, ETC. 


Communicated  by  Miss  Elizabeth  Clarkson  Jay. 

London,  Aug^'  20'^^,  1716. 
M^.  James  Alexander, 

Sir  : — It  gave  us  no  Small  perplexity  to  see  by  your  Letter  to  M'. 
Ormston  that  your  post  of  Surveyor  General  was  like  to  turn  to  so  very 
small  account  &  attendtd  with  neither  a  Suitable  Salary  nor  Competent 
Fees  for  the  support  of  any  Gentleman  in  the  faithful!  discharge  of  his 
Office. 

We  were  both  of  us  very  much  ignorant  of  the  Profitts  that  were  an- 
nexed thereto  &  did  wholly  depend  upon  Coll.  Morris's  Letters  to  the 
West  Jersey  Society  which  were  shewed  you  &  Duplicates  thereof  were 
given  you.  So  that  you  would  have  done  well  to  have  conferred  with  the 
Coll,  &  civilly  asked  him  from  whence  you  could  raise  that  money  which 
he  mentions  in  his  Letters  that  you  were  ready  to  go  into  any  Prudent 
measures  consistant  with  the  faithfuU  discharge  of  your  Office  (&  to  be  sure 
he  would  not  advise  any  other)  whereby  you  might  raise  to  Y'Self  if  not 
the  whole,  yet  a  large  Part  of  what  he  mentions — but  if  Morris's  Letters 
are  all  Chimjera  &  no  Sufficient  foundation  for  your  Support  already  fixed, 
it  will  behoove  you  to  think  of  moving  either  the  Assembly,  or  Councill  of 
Prop''^.  to  appoint  such  a  Salary  as  you  &  they  shall  think  sufficient  in 
which  the  Gov""  &  M^  Morris  may  do  you  much  friendship  ;  mean  tiuie 
we  are  very  glad  that  the  Gov''  has  shewed  you  so  much  countenance,  &  is 
so  civil  as  to  entertain  you  at  his  Table,  &  we  Shall  add  our  Endeavors 
with  the  Gentlemen  that  are  Prop""'  &  others  to  have  the  Settlement  fixed 
for  You  if  possible 

On  our  parts  as  You  are  well  known  to  us,  nothing  shall  be  wanting  to 
promote  y'  interest  &  for  that  end  have  procured  for  You  the  Conmiission 
inclosed  for  Receiver  Gen'^  of  the  Quitrents  both  of  the  Arrears  &  the 
growing  Rents  together  with  his  Majesties,  Order,  Signed  by  the  Secre- 
tary of  State  for  the  Gov"",  to  admitt  &  countenance  you  in  the  Execution 
of  y""  Office,  we  believe  that  John  P)arclay  was  the  last  who  officiated  since 
Peter  Soumans,  &  from  him  you  will  receive  the  books  by  which  you  will 
see  the  Arrearages  &  the  Distinct  persons  from  whom  they  are  due  also 
the  Rolls  of  what  is  due  annually  from  Every  one.  We  would  have  you 
press  as  much  as  possible  to  get  in  money,  for  by  the  Last  Distract"^  in 
the  Country  &  the  Divisions  amongst  the  Prop^s  by  means  of  Dockman  & 
Soumans  there  hath  been  but  very  little  recovered.  But  pray  Transmitt  to 
us  a  particular  Ace*,  what  hath  been  rec*^  by  each  receiver  how  it  appears 
to  have  been  applied,  what  is  yearly  due,  what  appears  to  be  due,  &  from 
whom. 

We  do  not  foresee  that  any  great  profitt  will  attend  this  Office,  but 
every  Little  will  help  &  (as  the  common  phrase  runs)  you  must  accept  the 


1884.]        Copy  of  Letters  to  and  from  James  Alexander,  Esq.  I'^i 

will  for  the  Deed,  for  wherein  we  can  contribute  to  Promote  y'  interest  you 

may  be  assured  of  the  goodwill  &  intire  Affections  of 

Y'  friends  &  servants, 

Joseph  Ormston, 
Char  Dunster. 


James  Alexander  Esq"  to  his  brother  William  dated  October  21^1  £721. 

Dear  Brother, 

Yours  by  AP.  Watson  &  M^  Stevenson  I  received  in  August,  Since 
which  1  have  been  most  part  abroad  till  now.  &  your  Letters  I  gave  my 
wife  to  read  &  She  has  been  so  unlucky  as  to  mislay  them,  So  that  I  can- 
not answer  them  precisely,  but  as  to  M^,  Steve«son  he  came  up  to  Phila- 
delphia about  the  beginning  of  August  &  Staid  with  Sir  William  Keith,  till 
J^ast  week  when  (having  no  hopes  of  business  in  Pennsylvania,)  he  came 
to  this  place,  not  knowing  any  Soul  here,  or  being  recommen(led  to  any 
but  myself,  and  what  Success  he  will  have  here  is  more  than  I  can  tell. 
But  1  am  afraid  Little  for  there  is  not  one  merchant  in  this  place  Ever 
Employs  a  bookkeeper  (that  I  have  heard  of)  they  commonly  are  kept  by 
themselves  or  their  aprentices  with  whom  they  have  Sums  of  money  in  the 
Same  way  as  in  London  or  Edinburgh  &  the  Lawyers  here  have  prentices 
the  Same  way  &  I  some  time  ago  have  agreed  to  take  as  apprentice  the 
Son  of  David  Lyall,  one  of  the  Jersey  proprietors,  and  one  of  his  Majesty's 
Councill  of  that  province.  &  a  Considerable  merchant  there  beside,  the 
Youth  is  about  18.  writts  all  the  hands  fine,  understands  Latin  &  french 
very  well  who  notwithstanding  these  qualifications  is  to  be  bound  five 
years  certain,  furnish  himself  with  Cloaths  &  washing  &  pay  a  handsome 
Sum  besides.  Had  it  not  been  for  that  I  believe  I  should  have  taken  AP. 
Stevenson  upon  your  &  AP,  Inglis's  Recommendation,  &  furnisht  him  with 
necessarys  &  got  him  taught  to  writt  the  hands.  &  have  Sett  him  as  to  the 
business  of  the  Law  here. 

However  being  for  that  reason  I  cannot  take  him  myself,  what's  in  my 
power  to  help  him  on  your  account  I  will  heartyly  Do 

I  am  heartyly  grieved  for  your  bad  state  of  health  &  do  wish  your 
Recovery  with  all  the  fervency  I  am  Capable  of.  Two  Nights  agoe,  at 
1 1  o'clock  my  wife  was  Brought  to  bed  of  a  Daughter,  and  is  in  as  good 
health  as  can  be  Expected,  and  does  more  than  can  well  be  Expected  of 
a  woman,  for  till  within  a  few  hours  of  her  being  brought  to  bed,  She  was 
in  her  Shop,  and  ever  Since  has  given  the  price  of  Goods  to  her  prentice 
who  comes  to  her  and  asks  it  when  Customers  come  in.  the  very  next  day 
after  She  was  brought  to  bed,  she  Sold  goods  to  above  thirty  pounds  value, 
and  here  the  business  matters  of  her  Shop  which  is  Generally  Esteemed 
the  best  in  New  York,  she  with  a  prentice,  of  about  16  yeais  of  age  per- 
fectly well  manages  without  the  Least  help  from  me.  you  may  guess  a 
little  of  her  success,  &  As  to  my  own  business  1  hope  it's  on  the  mending 
hand,  for  otfices  &  titles  I  have  pretty  many  for  besides  those  of  Surveyor 
General  of  East  &  West  Jersey  &  Receiver  General  of  the  [quit-rents]  of 
East  Jersey  which  you  have  heard  I  have  had,  His  Excellency  the  Gover- 
nourwas  pleased  a  Little  after  he  came  to  his  Government,  to  appoint  me 
Advocate  General,  of  New  Jersey,  and  in  the  beginning  of  this  year  was 
pleased  to  recommend  me   to   his  ATajesty  for  one  of  the  Councill  of  the. 


1^2  Records  of  the  First  and  Second  Presbyterian  [July> 

province  of  New  York,  and  his  Majesty  was  thereupon  pleased  to  appoint 
nie  one  of  them  which  appointment  came  over  in  July  Last.  &  I  accord- 
ingly took  place  at  the  Councill  board  here.  This  Councill  consists  of  12 
&  is  a  faint  representation  of  the  house  of  Lords  in  England  as  Our  As- 
sembly is  that  of  the  house  of  Commons  in  England.  All  Laws  being 
passed  by  the  Governor,  Councill,  and  Assembly  here,  as  in  England  by 
Kings  Lords,  &  Commons.  The  Councill  is  also  a  Court  of  Appeals  as 
the  house  of  Lords  is.  &  together  with  the  Governour  have  the  granting 
all  the  Lands  in  the  province,  in  the  End  of  June  Last,  the  office  of  At- 
torney General  and  Advocate  General  of  New  York  became  vacant,  to 
which  offices  his  Excellency  was  also  pleased  to  nominate  &  commission 
me.  I  wish  I  may  Deserve  &  hold  all  these  offices  which  while  his  Ex- 
cellency stays  here  in  all  probability  I  may  hold. 

I  must  say  my  fortune  in  America  is  above  my  expectations  &  I  think 
even  my  Deserts.  &  the  greatest  of  my  good  fortunes  is  in  getting  So  good 
a  wife  as  I  have  who  alone  would  make  ae  man  Easy  &  happy  had  he 
nothing  Else  to  Depend  on. 

M'.  Watson  tells  me  he  told  you  I  had  saved  Several  thousand  pounds 
Since  I  came  to  this  Country  in  which  he  told  you  more  than  truth,  for  on 
the  day  I  was  married  the  whole  of  my  clear  Estate  was  only  betwixt 
thirteen  or  fourteen  hundred  pounds  at  which  time  my  wife's  was  about 
the  Same.  Besides  the  use  of  about  ;^i3oo.  her  two  Son's  fortunes  till 
they  come  of  age.  one  of  whom  is  6  &  the  other  8  years  o(  age. 

The  ship  that  carries  this  is  to  sail  tomorrow,  &  thinkmg  of  Christen- 
ing our  Daughter  today  will  oblidge  m^  to  conclude  with  my  wife's  and  my 
own  Service  to  you  &  your  bedfellow,  &  all  friends  as  if  they  were  named 

I  remain 
D.  B. 
your  most  affectionate  brother  &  most 
Oblidged  humble  Servant 


RECORDS    OF   THE    FIRST    AND    SECOND    PRESBYTERIAN 
CHURCHES  OF   THE  CITY  OF    NEW    YORK.— Marriages. 

1756    TO  . 

(Continued  from  Vol.  XV.,  p.  92,  of  The  Record.) 

[1804.] 

Paris  Robins  to  Mary  Jessup.  (21) 

Gilbert  Yeoman  to  Jane  McLean. 

Samuel  Taylor  to  Mary  Lott. 

Richard  Greenwood  to  Mary  Murphy. 

Henry  Turnier  to  Maria  Lorillard. 

Robert  Wood  to  Elizabeth  Ann  Thompson. 

Freeman  Hopkins  to  Phebe  Davis. 

Smith  Bloomfield  to  Cathlene  Van  den  Burgh. 

Frazer  Ayres  to  Catharine  Pitney. 

William  Buchannan  to  Catharine  Storey. 

Arthur  Burtis  to  Elizabeth  Palmer. 

Simon  Graham  to  Jane  Rose. 

Ebenezer  Stevenson  to  Eliza  Ludlow.' 


Sept' 

5- 

Sept' 

21. 

Oct' 

6. 

Oct' 

7. 

Oct' 

20. 

^'Oct' 

20. 

Oct' 

■:?2. 

Oct 

-";. 

Oct' 

'>■!' 

Nov' 

I. 

Nov' 

3- 

Nov' 

4- 

Nov' 

10. 

1884.]  Churches  of  the  City  of  New  York.                          I  52 

Nov'  14.  John  May  to  Margaret  D wight. 

Nov'  15.  James  Grant  Forbes  to  Frances  E.  Blackwell. 

Nov'  27.  James  VV.  Shaw  to  Maria  Bowne. 

Dec'  I.   Andrew  Martin  to  Sarah  Merrill.                                              (22) 

Dec'  6.  Thomas  Mason  to  Janet  Macpherson. 

Dec'  6.   Egbert  Somerindyck  to  Catharine  Spicer. 

Dec'  8.   Edward  Reynolds  to  Eleanor  B.  Hagerman. 

Dec'  8.   Henry  Havens  to  Eliza  Webster. 

'  Dec'  ID.   George  Stewart  to  Mary  Morison. 

Dec'  18.  James  Durham  to  Margaret  King. 

Dec'  28.   William  Hoalcalm  to  Juliane  Steinson. 

Dec'  28.   James  Crechton  to  Ann  McCleve. 

1805.  (23) 

Jan''  3.  William  Patterson  to  Mary  Taylor. 

Jan''  10.   Richard  Townshend  to  Eliza  Mercereau. 

Jan''  13.   George  Munns  to  Catharine  Roach. 

Jan''  21.   David  Glasson  to  Mary  HoUister. 

Jan^  26.  Peter  Targe  to  Eliza  Bushfield. 

Jan''  31.  Alexander  Lee  to  Mary  Samuel. 

Feb''  2.  Jesse  Conkling  to                Wood. 

Feb''  3.   Isaac  Conkling  to  Hannah  Ketchum. 

Feb''  II.   John  Ward  to  Elizabeth  Campbell. 

Feb''  23.   Walter  Colton  to  Rachfjl  Ross. 

Feb''  23.   \Villiam  King  to  Ann  Shaw. 

Feb''  28.  William  Benson  to  Margaret  Brock. 

March  10.  Stephen  S.  Vorhis  to  Jane  Jinnings. 

March  14.   William  Fay  to  Ann  Brock. 

March  2r.   John  Britton  to  Susannah  Bruce. 

March  25.   James  Parks  to  Catherine  Caldwell. 

March  28.   Stephen  Connover  to  Mary  Jones.    ' — - 

April  ^.   Joseph  Wright  to  Thankful  Whittemore.                                 (24) 

April  12.   Montgomery  Hunt  to  Eliza  Stringham. 

April  16.   Matthew  Berryman  to  Catharine  West. 

April  29.  William  Daily  to  Cutharine  Bonds. 

May  5.  Joseph  Peloubet  to  P'liza  Allcot. 

May  5.   John  Hardcastle  to  Frances  Kortright. 

May  6.  John  Thompson  to  Margaret  H.  Brown. 

May  9.  Ai:chibald  Galbraith  to  Mary  White. 

May  II.  Heny  Jackson  to  Laetitia  Jones. 

May  12.   James  Fielding  to  Eleanor  Cottle.    . 

May  23.  James  Olmstead  to  Margaret  Sutherland. 

May  25.   Philo  S.  Sage  to  Ann  Cree. 

May  26.   Charles  Higbee  to  Charlotte  Townsend. 

May  28.   Robert  Nevin  to  Agnes  Britten. 

June  29.    Henry  Gillet  to  Paulina  Parsons. 

July  2.   Thomas  Christian  to  Dorinda  Miller. 

July  4.  Samuel  Brewer  to  Mary  Ann  Coppinger.                                (25) 

July  5.   Edward  Jessup  to  Esther  Judah. 

July  17.   Nicholas  Bogert  to  Eliza  Weir. 

July  20.   James  Stewart  to  Esther  Barnett  (widow). 


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[July, 


July 

July 
July 
Aug' 
Aug' 

21. 
21. 
21. 
6. 
II. 

Aug' 

20. 

Aug' 
Sept' 
Nov' 

so- 
il. 

1. 

Nov' 

lO. 

Nl)v' 

12. 

Nov' 

14. 

Nov' 

19. 

Nov' 

22. 

Nov' 

23- 

Nov' 

25. 

Nov' 

Z^- 

Nov' 

so- 

Dec' 

lo. 

Dec' 

II. 

Dec' 

14. 

Dec' 

25- 

Charles  G.  Jenkins  to  Mary  Rhinehart. 

Woodruff  to  Elizabeth  Lee. 
Henry  Cunningham  to  Louisa  Peterschen. 
Matthew  Johnson  to  Mary  Thompson, 
Samuel  Stanchfield  to  Mary  King. 
Charles  Green  to  Elizabeth  Sherwood. 
William  Spencer  to  Mary  Mandeville. 
James  Crechton  to  Isabella  McCleve. 
Robert  Oliver  to  Rebecca  Scull. 
Ephraim  BoUes  to  Abigail  Little. 
Israel  Decker  to  Mary  Harriet  Pike. 
Alexander  McDonald  to  Mary  McPhie. 
Peter  Bishop  to  Eliza  Durham. 
Charles  Spencer  to  Mary  Greig. 
VV^arren  Rogers  to  Sarah  Ogden  Piatt. 
Frederick  Cooper  to  Mary  Clinebark. 
Justus  Price  to  Abby  Snow. 
Jonathan  Green  to  Maiy  Ann  Hart. 
William  Hobin  to  Rebecca  Galer. 
John  Gould  to  Margaret  Cameron. 
James  Stewart  to  Isabella  Todd. 
John  Bardot  to  Mary  Johnson  (people  of  colour). 


(26) 


1806. 


Jan^ 

I. 

Jan" 

II. 

Tan" 

14. 

Jan" 

23- 

Jan" 

25- 

Feb" 

8. 

Feb" 

1 1. 

Feb" 

22. 

Feb" 

22. 

Feb" 

27. 

March 

I. 

March 

I. 

March 

3- 

March 

19. 

April 

2. 

April 

8. 

April 

26. 

May 

I. 

May 

2. 

May 

4- 

May 

4- 

May 

31- 

June 

2. 

June 

12. 

June 

21. 

June 

28. 

Isaac  Myers  to  Pamela  Kerney. 

William  Tough  to  Jane  Sloan. 

William  Christopher  Green  to  Frances  Birbeck. 

Jonathan  Tappen  to  Sarah  Hart. 

ApoUos  Potter  to  Mary  Smith. 

Stephenson  Taylor  to  Mary  Stibbs. 

Matthias  Smith  to  Sarah  Ewing, 

William  Armstiong  to  Phebe  Mead. 

Abijah  Weston  to  Juliet  Seymour. 

William  Valentine  to  Phebe  Myers. 

Joseph  Cadis  to  Esther  Davis. 

Benjamin  Tucker  to  Elizabeth  Cutter. 

Benjamin  Decker  to  Mary  Ltske. 

John  Whillock  to  Letitia  Rowlan. 

John  Telfair  to  Catherine  Wool. 

Nathaniel  L'Hommedieu  to  Ann  Buchan. 

William  Wood  to  Polly  Brown. 

Abraham  Halsey  to  Lucretia  Green. 

James  Stedman  to  Kirk. 

Noah  Jones  to  Eleanor  Davies. 

James  Brown  to  Catharine  Jones, 

John  Van  Benthuysen  to  Sarah  Evertt. 

Robert  Boldridge  to  Phebe  Davis. 

Henry  Post  to  Mary  Minturn. 

John  G.  Smith  to  Mary  Smith. 

Elias  M.  Stillwell  to  Abagail  Shaylor. 


(27; 


(28) 


1884.]  Churches  of  the  City  of  N'ew  York.  I  ■3C 

June  29.  Thomas  James  Flemming  to  Sarah  Losie. 

July  I.   John  Adams  to  Ann  Glover. 

July  5.    William  Phillips  to  Mary  McGee. 

July  6.  William  Breeze  to  I.ockey  Howell. 

July  10.   Louis  De  Saulles  to  Sarah  I.escure. 

July  14.  Samuel  Clarke  to  Jane  McDonald. 

July  19.   Benjamin  Weekes  to  Mary  Frost, 

July  20.   Abraham  Fairchild  to  Abigail  Curtis.  (29) 

July  24.   William  Davis  to  Mary  Piercy. 

July  30.   William  W.  Jones  to  Elizabeth  Watson. 

July  30.  Joseph  W^atson  to  Hannah  Kidney. 

Aug'  10.  William  Kidney  to  Ann  Hutchings. 

Aug'  13.  Archibald  Campbell  to  Catharine  McDermot. 

.Aug'  17.   Charles  Genet  to  Sarah  Beach,    v 

Aug'  18.   Thomas  Blair  to  Deborah  Johnson  (people  of  colour). 

Aug'  23.  Roger  Storrs  to  Elizabeth  Allen. 

Aug'  24.    Henry  Brown  to  Elizabeth  Johnson. 

Aug'  24.  Joshua  Dean  to  Sarah  Smith. 

Aug'  28.  Thomas  Cahoon  to  Jane  McKee. 

Sepf  3.   Daniel  Brown  to  Mary  Peters  (people  of  colour). 

Ocf  16.  James  Kennedy  to  Ann  Burkett. 

Oct'  25.  John  Robertson  to  Catharine  Mumford  Prentis. 

Oct'  25.  Richard  H.  Arden  to  Mary  Turnier. 

Nov'  9.  Josiah  Ward  Perry  to  Hannah  Hubbard.  (30) 

Nov'  9.  William  Francis  Has  well  to  Margaret  Jacockes. 

Nov'  16.   Roswell  Paine  to  Ann  Gray. 

Nov'  20.  Jacob  Bice  to  Rachel  Lopus. 

Nov'  22.   Benjamin  A.  Muzzy  to  Cynthia  Sherman. 

Nov'  29.  Francis  Fairbairn  to  Margaret  Campbell. 

Dec'  15.  William  Osman  to  Elizabeth  Wade. 

Dec'  1 7.  Thomas  Hobin  to  Mary  Ross. 

Dec'  20.   James  Smylie  to  Mary  Tucker. 

Dec'  25.  David  G.  Patterson  to  Jane  Callanan. 

Dec'  27.   Lewis  Prall  to  Hetty  Marsh. 

Dec'  28.  Christopher  Block  Burger  to  Hannah  Helme. 

Dec'  28.  Richard  Murray  to  Mary  Thurber. 

1807.  (31) 

Joseph  Miller  to  Mary  Butler. 

George  Lewis  Gray  to  Juliana  Mirick. 

James  Felthousen  to  Rebecca  Hamilton. 

James  Hanna  to  Sarah  Deas. 

William  Cade  to  Dengey  Goolder. 

Thomas  Chapman  to  Jane  Brard. 

Charles  Williams  to  Emma  Smith. 

William  Simmons  to  Catherine  De  Frieze. 

John  Graves  to  Elizabeth  Martin. 

Isaac  Tryon  to  Letitia  Pitt. 

Samuel  E.  Buckley  to  Louisa  Morse. 

Louis  Fremont  to  Marguerite  Dassilva  (widow  Whitehouse). 


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2. 

Feb^ 

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March 

2. 

March 

19. 

April 

12. 

April 

25. 

April 

25- 

May 

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May 

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May 

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May  16.  Jacob  Rabineau  to  Catharine  Ann  Langhorne  Stonehouse. 

June  4.  Lewis  Reed  to  Catherine  McLeod. 

June  8.  Henry  Thomas  to  Maria  Francis  (people  of  colour). 

June  13.  John  D.  Bird  to  Catharine  Bryce  (widow  Parks). 

June  13.  James  Lovell  Chapman  to  Susan  Maria  Emmons.                (32) 

June  20.  Joseph  Russell  to  Catharine  Thomas. 

July  I.  Robert  Kennon  to  Susannah  Van  Voorhis. 

July  4.  Robert  Hicks  to  Mary  Westman. 

July  6.  Philip  Forgey  to  Mary  Ann  Brewer. 

July  II.  Edward  Hare  to  Charity  VVorden. 

Aug*  I  7.   Job  Plimpton  to  Hannah  Burnham. 

Aug'  23.  Thomas  Arden  to  Elizabeth  Ryan. 

Aug'  30.  Charles  Hanson  to  Mary  Murphy. 

Sepf  20.   David  Woolley  to  Sarah  Wade. 

Sept'  20.  John  Hunter  to  Hannah  Smith. 

Nov'  I.  William  Chrystie  to  Elizabeth  Campbell. 

Nov'  I.  William  R.  Nelson  to  Amelia  Hutchings. 

Nov'  4.  James  Hoy  to  Grace  Phillips. 

Nov'  II.  Henry  Howland  to  Rebecca  AVilt. 

Nov'  II.  Samuel  Ross  to  Sarah  Youngs. 

Nov'  15.   Linens  Baker  to  Sarah  Conkling.                                              [:^t,) 

Nov'  21.  William  Gill  to  Sarah  Swainell. 

Nov'  24.  Martin  McDermot  to  Catherine  CuUin. 

Nov'  28.  Henry  Cheavens  to  Susan  Coddington. 

Dec'  3.  William  Orr  to  Jane  Bissett. 

Dec'  5.  Joseph  Walker  to  Hetty  Stibbs. 

Dec'  8.   Charles  Miller  to  Sybil  Price  (widow  Hohenses). 

Dec'  12.  John  Brown  to  Anna  Law  (widow  Hubbel). 

Dec'  22.  John  L.  Everett  to  Mary  King. 

Dec'  23.  John  B.  Flemming  to  Cornelia  Talman. 

Dec'  27.   Robert  Wood  to  Amy  Willis. 

1808. 

Jan^  2.  Aaron  Ely  to  Susan  Smith.                                                        (34) 

Jan*'  2.  Jacob  Ely  to  Jane  Hardie. 

Jan^  9.  Jerome  Berault  to  Elizabeth  Gerrard. 

Jan^  10.   Frederick  Brewster  to  Milescent  Wright. 

Jan^  14.  Benjamin  S.  Sisson  to  Louisa  Barry. 

Jan^  30.  Abraham  W.  Long  to  Charity  Smith  (widow  Shaw). 

Feb^  2.  Abraham  Willson  to  Nancy  Mallory. 

Feb^  4.   Pearson  Morris  to  Ann  Wilkie. 

Feb^  6.  Phillipe  Millandon  to  Marie  Durbat. 

Feb^  7.    Henry  L  Guest  to  Eliza  Klausbeck. 

F'eb^  18.  Richard  Nixon  to  Elizabeth  Herbert. 

Feb^  22.  Levi  Jackson  to  Jane  Blair  (people  of  colour). 

P'eb^  24.   David  Bowers  to  Abbe  Ellison. 

Feb''  25.   Robert  Aikman  to  Sarah  Smith. 

March  24.   Webley  Slocum  to  Jemima  Turnier. 

March  27.    Henry  Carpenter  to  Zipporah  Townsend  (people  of  colour). 

April  2.   Richard  Smith  to  Nancy  Benson  (people  of  colour)              (35) 

April  24.   Hugh  Norris  to  Sarah  Bell. 

April  30.   Cornelius  S.  Van  Winkle  to  Lucinda  E.  Sherman. 


Churches  of  the  City  of  New  York. 


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19. 

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June 

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June 

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June 

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J»ly 

23- 

August 

2. 

Oct' 

20. 

October  30. 

Nov' 

5- 

Nov' 

5- 

Nov' 

22. 

Dec' 

25- 

Dec' 

28. 

January 

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Feb^ 

4- 

Feb^ 

10. 

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II. 

Feb" 

19. 

March 

4- 

March 

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March 

25- 

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March 

28. 

March 

29. 

April 

12. 

April 

12. 

April 

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April 

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May 

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June 

II. 

June 

II. 

June 

19. 

June 

24. 

James  Ross  to  Mary  Ross  (widow  Ross). 

James  Greer  to  Nancy  McBride. 

John  Van  Voorhis  to  Jane  Denniston. 

James  M.  W.  Palmer  to  Margaret  Van  Houten. 

Archibald  McKeller  to  Harriet  Emmes. 

George  Woodruff  to  Sarah  Mack. 

William  Hall  to  Rachel  Doughty. 

Joseph  Martin  to  Mary  Ann  Sykes. 

John  Barry  to  Anna  Lockwood. 

Sexton  Mount  to  Margaret  Mount. 

James  Arrott  to  Ann  Stewart. 

Theophilus  W.  Smith  to  Clarissa  Rathbone. 

Peter  Hawes  to  Margaretta  Ray.  (36) 

Hans  Paulsen  Hielm  to  Rachel  Bloomfield. 

John  Phelan  to  Priscilla  Ford  (widow  Morris). 

Jacob  Prink  to  Catharine  Callow. 

Henry  Longley  to  Elizabeth  Tofts. 

Dominique  Crassons  to  Elizabeth  Wilkie. 

Thomas  Wetherspoon  to  Ann  Maria  Martin. 

Caleb  Beach  to  Isabella  Leslie. 

Henry  Titus  to  Ann  Jemima  Seaman. 

John  M.  Ogden  to  Nancy  Ross  (widow  Hopper). 

Walter  Morton  to  Jane  Stayley. 

Peter  Wynckoop  to  Hannah  Gorham. 

Archibald  C.  Mills  to  Hannah  White. 

1809. 

Thomas  Cock  to  Elizabeth  Ferris.  (37) 

Joseph  Karus  to  Sarah  Force  (widow  Gardner). 

William  Middleton  to  Martha  Mullinieux, 

Thomas  Martin  to  Mary  Roach. 

Robert  Dawson  to  Isabella  Morton. 

Asa  Scudder  to  Catharine  Slater. 

Richard  Allen  to  Thamar  Smith. 

Robert  M.  Welman  to Drake. 

Thomas  Gilbert  to  Sarah  Rowlan. 

Thomas  Dixon  to  Celia  Moore  (people  of  colour). 

Silvanus  Rider  to  Elizabeth  Woolley. 

John  Conrey  to  Prudence  Griffin. 

David  M.  Ross  to  Jane  Weaver  Greenwood. 

James  Park  to  Alithea  Marseillis. 

William  Beach  to  Hester  Conkling. 

John  James  Stewart  to  Sarah  Hopkins. 

Samuel  Stillwell  to  Elizabeth  Freeman.  (38) 

Abner  Cunningham  to  Mary  Owens. 

Samuel  G.  Milligan  to  Elizabeth  McKie. 

William  Hill  to  Ann  Walton.  ^ 

Jacob  Sutphen  to  Mary  Inglis. 

Leonard  Hoffman  to  Fanny  DriscoU. 

Eliphalet  Williams  to  Rebecca  Phoenix. 

William  Miller  to  Harriet  Hadley. 

(To  be  continued.) 


138  Notes  and  Queries.  [July? 


NOTES   AND    QUERIES. 

Anniversary  Meeting  of  the  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical 
Society. — The  annual  meeting  of  the  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Society 
was  held  on  Friday  evening,  May  2d,  in  the  hall  of  the  New  York  Academy  of  Medicine, 
President  Drowne  in  the  chair.  Portraits  of  Philip  Livingston,  one  of  the  signers  of  the 
Declaration  of  Independence,  and  of  his  kinsman,  Edward  Livingston,  author  of  the 
Civil  and  Criminal  Code  of  Louisiana,  and  American  Minister  to  France,  were  presented 
to  the  Society  by  General  Wilson  on  belialf  of  William  Alfred  Jones,  of  Norwich,  Conn., 
a  great-grandson  of  Philip  Livingston.  For  these  valuable  portraits,  one  a  copy  of  the 
original  by  John  Vanderlyn,  the  Society,  on  motion  of  General  Wilson,  passed  a  vote  of 
thanks  to  Mr.  Jones. 

The  annual  address  was  then  delivered  by  Professor  William  Mathews,  LL.D. ,  of 
Boston,  the  well-known  author,  his  subject  being  William  Wirt.  His  audience  was  de- 
lighted, and  it  is  not  too  much  to  say  that  none  of  the  previous  fourteen  annual  addresses 
surpassed  that  of  Dr.  Mathews,  either  in  interest,  or  in  the  literary  skill  displayed  in  its 
pre])aration  and  delivery.  At  its  conclusion  remarks  were  made  by  Judge  Peabody  and 
General  Wilson,  and  a  unanimous  vote  of  thanks  was  tendered  by  the  Society  to  Dr. 
Mathews.     The  Society  then  adjourned. 

At  a  regular  meeting  of  the  Society  held  in  its  rooms,  at  No.  64  Madison  Avenue,  May 
23d,  on  motion  of  General  Wilson,  Dr.  William  Mathews  was  elected  an  honorary 
member,  William  Alfred  Jones  a  corresponding  member,  and  Hon.  Charles  A.  Peabody 
a  resident  member  of  the  Society. 

Another  Costly  Book. — More  interesting  but  less  valuable  than  the  Russian 
Bible  described  in  the  last  number  of  the  Record  is  a  missal  elegantly  printed  by  hand 
on  vellum,  richly  gilt  and  decorated,  also  blazing  with  gold  and  precious  jewels,  to  be 
seen  in  the  Royal  Library  of  the  King  of  Spain.  On  what  was  once  a  blank  fly-leaf  of 
this  beautifully  illuminated  prayer-book  is  the  following  inscription  written  in  letters  of 
gold  :  "  Ferdinandus  et  Elizabet,  piissimi  Reges  Sacrum  hunc  librum  Indie  gazae  pri- 
mitiis  ornarunt  " — Ferdmand  and  Isabella,  those  most  devout  sovereigns,  adorned  this 
sacred  book  with  the  first-fruits  of  the  Indies.  The  missal  was  made  for  their  grandson, 
the  Emperor  Charles  the  Fifth,  and  the  gold  with  which  it  is  partly  bound  and  ornamented, 
was  the  first  that  was  brought  by  Columbus  from  the  new  world  !  It  is  also  stated  that 
he  was  among  the  first  persons  to  whom  his  good  friend  the  Queen  showed  the  precious 
volume.  J.  g.  w. 

Beach. — Can  any  one  inform  me  of  the  connection,  if  any,  of  the  Beach  family  of 
Connecticut  with  that  of  Kingston-upon-Hull,  England?  rev.  evelyn  bartow. 

Railway,  N.  J. 

Hawley. — In  "  Burke's  Peerage,"  James  Hawley,  Esq.,  of  Brentford,  born  1558, 
is  said  to  have  had  several  children  who  settled  in  America.     Are  these  the  Hawleys 
that  appear  at  Stratford,  Conn.,  and  elsewhere  in   New   England?    If  so,  will  some  one 
please  show  the  connection  of  the  New  England  Hawleys  with  the  English  family  ? 
Rahway^  N.  J.  REV.  EVELYN  BARTOW. 

Coggeshall— Family  Reunion. — There  will  be  a  reunion  of  the  descendants  of 
John  Coggeshall,  first  President  of  the  Rhode  Island  colony,  at  Newport,  September  9th 
and  loth,  when  the  family  history  will  be  investigated. 

Cogswells. — "  The  Cogswells  in  America "  is  a  handsomely  printed  octavo  of 
seven  hundred  pages,  with  an  admirable  three-fold  index,  embracing  names  of  Cogswells, 
names  of  those  who  married  Cogswells,  and  the  residences  of  those  who  are  mentioned 
in  the  work.  There  are  twenty-nine  fine  steel  engravings,  and  on  the  cover  of  the  cloth 
binding  is  an  impress  in  gold  of  the  Cogswell  arms  cut  in  brass.  The  edition  is  limited 
to  five  hundred  copies,  nearly  all  of  which  are  subscribed  for.  The  price  of  this  model 
genealogy,  which  will  be  ready  July  15th,  is  five  dollars,  and  any  readers  of  the  Record 
who  may  wish  to  possess  the  work  will  do  well  to  communicate  at  once  with  its  author 
and  publisher,  the  Rev.  E.  O.  Jameson,  East  Medway,  Mass.  "  The  Cogswells  of 
America  "  will  be  reviewed  at  length  in  our  next  number.  j.  g.  w. 


1884.]  Notes  and  Queries.  1  -jg 

Frelinghuysen. — The  Frelingliuysen  family  have  erected  a  monument  over  the 
grave  of  the  Rev.  Theodorus  Jacobus  Frelinghuysen.  Beginning  in  17 19,  for  twenty- 
eight  years  he  had  charge  of  the  first  six  churches  in  this  region — at  New  Brunswick, 
Three  Mile  Run,  Six  Mile  Run.  Raritan,  North  Branch,  and  Harlingen.  The  tradition 
is  that  his  sermons  and  exhortations  possessed  rare  power  and  were  oftentimes  wonder- 
fully effective.  He  lived  at  Three  Mile  Run,  and  at  his  death  in  1747  was  buried  in  the 
old  burying  ground  of  the  Six  Mile  Run  Church,  now  the  Elm  Ridge  Cemetery.  The 
monument  bears  the  inscription  : 

"  Rev.  Theodorus  Jacobus  Frelinghuysen, 

born  at 

Lingen,  East  Freesland,  in  1691. 

"  In  1719  he  was  sent  to  take  charge  of  the  Reformed  Churches  here  by  the  Classis  of 
Amsterdam.  He  was  a  learned  man  and  successful  preacher.  The  field  of  his  labors 
still  bears  fruit.  In  contending  for  a  spiritual  religion  his  motto  was  :  Laitdein  non 
quaro^  adpatn  noil  tivieo.  He  died  in  1747,  and  his  descendants,  humbly  sharing  in  his 
faith,  have  erected  to  his  memory  this  monument." 

The  Frelinghuysen  family  still  make  Somerset  County  their  home.  The  Secretary  of 
State  has  a  summer  house  at  Raritan. — N.  V.  Daily  Tribune,  May  11,  1884. 

GiLLEY.  —  Among  other  interesting  relics  deposited  in  the  corner-stone  of  the  new  St. 
James'  Chucrh,  now  building  on  Lenox  Hill,  New  York,  was  the  prayer-book  of  the 
poet  Fitz-Greene  Halleck,  who  attended  the  original  church  built  in  1810.  The  prayer- 
book  was  an  octavo  published  in  1819,  by  W.  B.  Gilley,  92  Broadway,  New  York.  Can 
any  reader  of  the  Record  tell  if  he  was  the  publisher  of  other  works,  or  give  any  infor- 
mation concerning  him?  INQUIRER. 
New  York,  May  16,  1884. 

Johnston  Family,  of  Jamaica,  W.  I. — Wanted  particulars  of  Sarah  Johnston,  who 
married  Philip  P.  Livingston,  the  eldest  son  of  Philip  Livingston,  one  of  the  signers  of 
the  Declaration  of  Independence.  This  Philip  P.  Livingston  had  removed  from  New 
York  to  Jamaica,  where  all  or  most  of  their  children  were  born.  Three  of  their  sons 
left  issue,  namely,  Philip  Hall,  who  married  Maria,  daughter  of  Walter  Livingston,  of 
New  York;  Edward  P.,  of  Clermont,  N.  Y.,  who  married  as  his  first  wife  Elizabeth  S., 
daughter  of  Chancellor  Livingston,  and  as  his  second  Mary  C.  Broome ;  and  Jasper  Hall, 
who  married  Eliza,  daughter  of  Brockholst  Livingston,  Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court 
of  the  United  States.  E.  B.  Livingston,  22  Great  St.  Helenas,  London. 

Knowlton. — Dr.  Charles  B.  Knowlton,  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y. ,  has  in  active  preparation 
a  history  of  families  bearing  the  name  of  Knowlton.  He  desires  information  as  to  the 
relationsliip  of  Joseph  Knowlton,  of  East  Hampton,  Conn.,  who  married  Reliance  Cole 
in  1779,  with  Stephen  Knowlton,  Sr.,  of  East  Hampton,  Conn. 

New  Barbadoes  Neck  (xv.  49). — Saturday,  the  28th  ult. ,  died  at  his  house  at  New 
Barbados  Neck,  in  Bergen  County,  aged  eighty-nine,  Warner  Richards,  Esq.  He 
was  born  in  the  Island  of  Barbados,  and  was  the  last  survivor  of  a  number  of  gentlemen 
who  came  from  ihat  island  and  purchased  that  neck  upwards  of  sixty  years  ago.  He 
was  remarkable  for  a  very  vigorous  and  strong  constitution.  N.  V.  Gazette;  or.,  the 
Weekly  Post  Boy .,  February  6,  1769.  w.  K. 

Registers  of  the  French  Protestant  Church  of  New  York. — The  Hugue- 
not Society  of  America,  recently  instituted  in  this  city,  propose  to  publish  the  "  Baptis- 
mal, Marriage,  and  Death  Registers  of  the  French  Church  du  Saint  Esprit"  from  1686 
to  1804,  in  one  octavo  volume  of  about  five  hundred  and  fifty  pages.  These  registers 
embrace  the  existing  family  names  of  Alla_i^ie,  A^mar,  Bayard,  Boutillier,  Badeau,  Barjow, 
Bowdoin,  Boudinot,  Coutant,  Chardavoyne,  Crommeline,  De  Peyster,  De  Vaux,  De 
Lancey,  De  MTIT,  Durand,  Depew,  Dominick,  Fortin,  Fournier,  Gallaudet,  Gautier, 
Girard,  Goelet,  Gaillard,  Huet,  Humbert,  Iselin,  Jay,  Jacot,  Keteltas,  L'Amoureux,  La 
Coste.  La  Vinge,  Le  Conte,  Le  Roy,  Lorillard,  Luqueer,  Mercier,  Morel,  Nicolet,  Ne- 
ville, Prevost,  Quartier,  Quintard,  Ravaud,  Renaud,  Richard,  Romaine,  Soulice,  Sicard, 
Targe,  Tillou,  Turnure,  Valleau,  Vallete,  Vermilye,  Verplank,  etc.,  etc.;  and  those  no 
longer  heard,  save  as  baptismal  names  as  now  represented  by  lineal  blood  in  the  female 
lines  of  descent  of  Arden,  Barbarie,  Belair,  Bontecou,  Bonrepos,  Bertrand,  Carre,  Collin, 
D^sbrosses,  Faneuil,  Fresneau,  Gamier,  Lespinard,  Le  Breton,  Morin,  Moulinars,  Neau, 
Pintard,  Roax,  Rossell,  Tiers,  Tetard,  Vezein,  Vinet,  Vincent,  etc.,  etc.     The  Society 


140  Notes  on  Books.  [July, 

ask  for  subscriptions  to  amount  to  the  sum  of  $1,000,  when  the  printing  will  commence. 
The  editorial  charge  of  the  volume  will  be  in  the  hands  of  Rev.  A.  V.  Wittmeyer,  the 
Secretary  of  the  Society.  Subscriptions  may  be  sent  to  the  Treasurer,  Mr.  Morey  II. 
Bartow. 

Seaman  Family. — Wanted  particulars  of  the  parentage  and  ancestry  of  Catharine 
Seaman,  who  married  as  her  second  husband  Henry  Brockholst  Livingston,  Judge  of  the 
Supreme  Court.  She  was  his  third  wife  and  died  about  1856.  Her  first  husband  was 
Captain  John  Kortwright.  I  understand  that  her  father,  Edmund  Seaman,  died  in  1828, 
at  the  age  of  eighty-four  years,  and  that  he  was  buried  in  the  Old  Dutch  Church,  Nas- 
sau Street,  New  York  City.  E.  B.  Livingston. 

22  Great  St.  Helen'' s.^  London,  Eng. 

Schuyler. — In  the  Record  for  October,  1882,  vol.  xiii.,  p.  157,  twenty-first  line 
from  the  bottom  of  the  page,  insert  the  y^'oxA probably,  so  that  the  line  shall  read,  "  Their 
father  was,  probably.^  Pieter  Schuyler,"  etc.  To  my  mind  there  is  no  doubt  of  the  pa- 
rentage, but  the  researches  referred  to  would  not  perhaps  be  accepted,  as  they  are  merely 
indicative  in  character.  j.  v.^L.  P.,  JR. 

Sloo. — On  the  7th  of  September,  died  in  this  city,  Mrs.  Ann  Sloo,  aged  one  hundred 
and  eight  years  and  six  months.  She  retained  her  understanding  to  her  last — enjoyed 
for  a  series  of  years  a  good  state  of  health  ;  she  was  born  in  New  Castle,  Delaware  State. 
— New  York  Packet,  September  22,  1785.  w.  K. 

Smith. — There  is  a  mistake  in  the  April  Record  about  the  age  of  Mrs.  Sarah  Smith, 
the  widow  of  John  Witherspoon  Smith,  Mrs.  Smith  was  born  in  December,  1786.  I 
have  recently  met  with  two  cases  of  centenarianism  which  I  am  informed  can  be  proved ; 
and  as  soon  as  the  evidence  is  in  my  possession  I  hope  to  have  the  pleasure  of  laying  it 
before  the  Society.  B.  r.  betts. 

VoORHEES — Van  Voorhees. — Mr.  E.  W.  Van  Voorhis,  of  129  East  Thirty-sixth 
Street,  New  York  City,  has  been  for  some  years  collecting  information  and  material  for 
a  genealogy  of  the  Voorhees  or  Van  Voorhees  family,  and  would  be  very  grateful  for  any 
information  from  any  of  the  members  of  the  family  with  whom  he  has  not  yet  corre- 
sponded, especially  the  branches  of  the  family  settled  in  the  Western  States. 


NOTES   ON  BOOKS. 

Windsor  Farmes.  A  Glimpse  of  an  Old  Parish,  together  with  the  Deciphered  In- 
scriptions from  a  Few  Foundation  Stones  of  a  Much  Abused  Theology.  By  John 
A.  Stoughton.     Hartford:  Clark  &  Smith.      1S83.     Large  8vo,  pp.  150. 

The  primary  object  of  this  very  interesting  volume  seems  to  be  to  "  aid  somewhat  in 
filling  what  may  be  called  a  gap  in  the  history  of  the  Edwards  family,"  i.e.,  the  family 
of  the  eminent  divine  Jonathan  Edwards,  whose  brilliant  qualities — the  author  thinks — 
have  somewhat  unduly  overshadowed  those  of  his  father,  Rev.  Timothy,  the  first  pastor 
of  Windsor  Farmes.  This  parish  (now  East  Windsor)  was  set  off  from  Old  Windsor,  as 
a  distinct  ecclesiastical  society,  in  1699,  although  Mr.  Edwards  had  commenced  his  labors 
there  as  early  as  November,  1694.  And  Mr.  Stoughton's  labors,  based  on  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Edwards'  original  "  Rate  Books,"  and  from  the  account  books  and  private  papers  of  John 
Stoughton — a  selectman  and  a  most  prominent  member  of  the  new  church — enable  us  to 
fill  out,  much  more  satisfactorily  than  ever  before  has  been  possible,  the  slender  outlines 
which  we  have  heretofore  possessed  of  this  godly  family  of  Edwards — and  of  the  early 
days  of  this  ancient  Connecticut  parish.  The  author  has  enjoyed  many  peculiar  oppor- 
tunities for  his  work,  and  has  shown  great  judiciousness  in  his  use  of  them.  Confining 
himself  strictly  to  details,  yet  he,  at  times,  betrays  graphic  power  of  stating  them,  which 
is  almost  eloquence,  and  which  shows  him  to  be  thoroughly  permeated  with  the  spirit  of 
the  times  which  he  portrays.  No  more  valuable  contribution  to  the  liistory  of  Old 
Windsor  has  been  produced  since  the  issue  of  Stiles'  Hii>tory  of  that  town,  in  1859  ;  and 
it  worthily  fills,  indeed,  a  gap  whiclr  was  necessarily  left  by  that  historian. 

The  volume  is  handsomely  printed  and  illustrated  hy  facsimiles  of  several  sermons  of 
the  Rev.  Timothy  Edwards,  of  a  page  of  his  Rate  Book,  of  accounts  with  Mr.  (af- 
terwards Governor)  Roger  Wolcott  ;  of  the  Commission  of  Captain  Thomas  Stough- 


1884.] 


Notes  on  Books.  \a\ 


TON,  from  Governor  Winthrop,  1698  ;  of  a  sermon  of  Rev.  Mr.  Warham,  1662,  with 
much  interesting  matter  concerning  that  divine  ;  a  sermon  of  Rev.  Samuel  Wood- 
bridge,  of  East  Hartford,  1709;  a  map  of  the  siege  of  Fort  William  Henry,  at  Lake 
George,  drawn  by  Lieutenant  John  Stoughton,  October  22,  1757,  while  on  duty  there  in 
the  service  of  the  British  army  ;  and  a  view  of  the  Grant  Mansion,  East  Windsor  Hill. 
It  also  contains  a  genealogical  sketch  of  the  Edwards  family,  and  some  specimens  of  Kev. 
Timothy  Edwards'  sermons.  We  trust  that  Mr.  Stoughton  will  continue  his  labors  in 
behalf  of  the  old  parish  of  "  Windsor  Farmes,"  from  the  early  settlers  of  which  both  he 
and  the  writer  of  this  notice  are  descendants.  Only  a  small  edition  has  been  published, 
at  the  private  expense  of  the  author,  of  whom  copies  may  be  procured  at  $2.50  each. 

H.  R.  s. 

The  Halls  of  New  England.  Genealogical  and  Biographical.  By  Rev.  David 
B.  Hall,  A.M.,  of  Duanesburgh,  N.  Y.  Albany,  N.  Y.  :  Printed  for  the  Author, 
by  Joel  Munsell's  Sons,  82  State  Street.     1883.     8vo,  pp.  xiv,  735  ;  Lidices,  55. 

This  closely  printed  volume,  containing  the  results  of  investigations  begun  in  1846, 
contains  the  genealogy  of  the  following  American  families  of  the  name  of  Hall  :  (i)  The 
Halls  of  Middletown,  Conn.  ;  (2)  of  Guilford,  Conn.  ;  (3)  of  Fairfield,  Conn.  ;  (4)  of 
Wallingford,  Conn.  ;  (5)  of  Portsmouth,  R.  \.  ;  (6)  of  Dover,  N.  H.  ;  (7)  of  Exeter,  N. 
H.  ;  (8)  of  Bradford,  Mass.  ;  (9)  of  Yarmouth,  Mass. ;  (10)  of  Cambridge  and  Concord, 
Mass.  ;  (li)  of  Medford,  Mass.  ;  {12)  of  Concord  and  Stow,  Mass.  ;  (13)  of  Rehoboth, 
Mass.  ;  (14)  of  Taunton,  Mass.  ;  (15)  and  85  pages  of  scattered  and  unconnected  families. 

The  work  is  very  thoroughly  and  satisfactorily,  yet  unpretentiously  done  ;  and  is  a 
valuable  contribution  to  our  genealogical  literature.  It  is  well  illustrated  with  the 
family  arms,  with  12  portraits,  and  an  interesting  group-plate  showing  representatives 
of  five  generations  of  one  of  the  Hall  families.  H.  r.  s. 

Proceedings  of  the  New  England  Historic-Genealogical  Society,  at  the  An- 
nual Meeting,  January  2,  1884.     Boston,  1884.     8vo,  pp.  42. 

•  Always  interesting  as  these  reports  are,  this  issue  is  rendered  still  more  so*  by  the  ad- 
dress of  Hon.  Marshall  P.  Wilder,  Ph.D.,  on  the  occasion  of  his  seventeenth  re-election 
as  President  of  the  Society — a  notable  resume,  not  alone  of  the  Society's  doings,  but  of 
all  the  important  events  which  have  signalized  the  past  year  in  the  Western  Hemisphere. 

H.  R.  s. 

Some  Records  of  the  Dyer  Family.  Compiled  by  Cornelia  C.  Joy-Dyer.  Printed 
for  Private  Circulation.  New  York  :  Thomas  Whittaker,  2  and  3  Bible  House. 
1884.      i2mo,  pp.  130. 

This  is  a  modest  volume,  but  evidently  written  with  that  reverential  and  pains-taking 
spirit  which  betokens  the  true  genealogist.  Its  object,  as  the  author  tells  us  in  her  Preface, 
was  to  trace  the  link  between  her  own  branch  of  the  Dyer  family,  and  the  noble-hearted 
martyr,  Mary  Dyre,  and  her  husband,  William  Dyre.  He  was  one  of  the  eighteen  asso- 
ciates who  purchased  and  settled  Rhode  Island,  and  was  an  honored  citizen  and  agent  of 
that  colony  in  its  early  struggles  with  the  mother  country  for  the  preservation  of  its 
rights.  She,  in  1652,  while  in  England  on  a  visit  to  her  girlhood's  home,  espoused  the 
faith  of  the  Friends,  and  the  persecutions  to  which  she  was  subjected  after  her  return  to 
New  England,  as  well  a?  her  two  sentences  of  death,  and  final  execution  in  1660,  at  Bos- 
ton, constituted  one  of  those  dishonoring  spots  upon  the  escutcheon  of  Massachusetts' 
fame,  which  can  never  be  erased.  Her  piety,  fortitude,  and  unbending  courage  are 
among  the  brightest  examples  of  womanly  faith  and  fervor.  Her  oldest  son,  Samuel, 
married  Ann,  granddaughter  of  the  famous  Ann  Hutchinson,  who  was  also  a  grand-niece 
of  the  poet  John  Dryden.  In  the  pages  of  this  little  work  we  notice  most  interesting 
biographical  mention  of  Dr.  Lewis  Dyer  ;  Rev.  Heman  Dyer,  D.D.;  Charles  Volney  Dyer, 
one  of  the  pioneers  of  Chicago,  and  his  sons  Charles  Gilford  Dyer,  the  artist,  and  Louis, 
Professor  of  Latin  and  Greek  at  Harvard  College;  Olm  Gideon  Dyer,  M.D.;  Rev. 
Palmer  Dyer ;  Hon.  Elisha  Dyer,  ex-Governor  of  Rhode  Island ;  and  several  others  of 
equal  interest  ;  Thomas  Dyer,  a  settler  of  Weymouth,  Mass.,  in  1632,  whose  descend- 
ant. Col.  Eliphalet,  of  Windham,  Conn.,  was  connected  with  Rev.  Hugh  Peters'  amusing 
story  of  the  "Frogs  of  Windham."  The  volume  also  contains  much  pleasant  English 
material  of  interest  to  those  of  the  Dyer  name  ;  and  from  preface  to  finis,  there  is  not  a 


142  Notes  on  Books.  [J"b'' 

page  which  does  not  contain  something  to  catch  the  eye  and  the  attention  of  even  the 
most  casual  reader.  H.  R.  s. 

History  of  the  First  Church  in  Hartford  [Conn.].  1633-1S83.  By  George 
Leon  Walker.  Illustrated.  Hartford :  Brown  &  Gross.  1884.  Svo,  pp.  xii, 
503- 

The  pastor  of  this  venerable  church,  on  the  two  hundred  and  fiftieth  anniversary  of 
its  organization,  presents  it  with  a  complete  and  elegant  history  of  its  career.  Tiie  en- 
tire documentary  records  of  both  church  and  society  for  the  first  fifty-two  years  of  the 
church's  existence  are  lost.  The  meagre  MSS.  entries,  commenced  by  its  sixth  pastor, 
the  Rev.  Timothy  Woodbridge,  in  16S5,  and  extended  till  his  death  in  1732,  and  the 
slender  memoranda  of  Revs.  Wadsworth  and  Dorr,  bring  down  the  written  history  of  the 
old  church  to  1772.  Then  follows  a  hiatus,  until  the  time  of  Rev.  Joel  Hawes,  in  181S  ; 
and  since  then  the  records  have  been  better  preserved.  The  Society's  records,  however, 
have  been  preserved  since  16S5,  and  the  Treasurer's  accounts  are  in  fragmentary  condi- 
tion. These,  with  Dr.  Hawes' memorable  "  Centennial  Discourse,"  in  1836,  are  the 
materials  which  Mr.  Walker  found  to  his  hand  when  he  undertook  this  work.  Out  of 
them,  however,  he  has  produced  a  workmanlike  and  satisfactory  volume,  which  must 
ever  possess  great  value  to  those  who  claim  spiritual  descent  from  the  "  Old  First." 

The  task  has  not  been  without  its  difficulties,  both  historical  and  polemical,  but  Mr. 
Walker  has  guided  his  pen  with  rare  judiciousness  and  accuracy ;  and  rival  contestants 
for  historical  precedence,  or  theological  critics  watching  for  ecclesiastical  "trips,"  will 
not  find  much  at  which  they  may  reasonably  cavil,  or  carp.  "How  the  Church  came  to 
be"— the  chapters  on  the  Rev.  Hooker— that  on  "  Stone  and  the  Gathering  of  the 
Church  " — on  "Isaac  Foster  and  Early  Church  Usages,"  etc.,  etc.,  are  of  great  interest. 
Indeed,  few  church  histories  would  prove  so  interesting  to  the  general  reader  as  this ; 
and  when  we  come  to  the  chapters  on  the  pastorates  of  Rev.  Nathan  Strong  and  Dr.  Joel 
Hawes,  we  are  captivated  by  the  vein  of  quaint  humor  and  intellectual  vigor  which  dis- 
tinguished these  eminent  "  shepherds  of  the  flock."  Mr.  Walker  has  done  his  work  lov- 
ingly and  well  for  the  memory  of  those  who  have  preceded  him  in  the  ministry  and  the 
communion  of  the  Old  First  Church  of  Hartford.  .  We  consider  it  a  model  of  its  kind  ; 
modest  in  tone,  clear  and  straightforward  in  narrative,  elegant  in  its  diction.  Its  iUus- 
trations  are  :  view  of  the  Church;  view  of  St.  Peter's  Church,  Tilton,  £ng. ,  where  the 
Rev.  Thomas  Hooker  was  born  ;  the  Pastors'  monuments  in  the  old  burying  ground  of 
the  First  Church;  map  of  Hartford,  1640;  ground  plan  of  Meeting  House  in  1809; 
and  portraits  of  Rev.  Drs.  Strong  and  Hawes.  H.  R.  s. 

Our  French  Allies.  Rochambeau  and  his  Army.  Lafayette  and  his  Devotion. 
D'Estaing,  De  Ternay,  Barras,  De  Grasse,  and  their  Fleets  in  the  Great  War  of  the 
American  Revolution,  from  1778  to  17S2.  Including  Military  Operations  in  Rhode 
Island,  the  Surrender  of  Yorktown,  sketches  of  French  and  American  Officers,  and 
Incidents  of  Social  Life  in  Newport,  Providence,  and  elsewhere.  With  Numerous 
Illustrations.  By  Edwin  Martin  Stone.  Providence  :  Printed  by  the  Providence 
Press  Co.      1884.     Svo,  pp.  xxxi,  632. 

This  very  attractive  volume  is  one  of  the  many  evoked  by  the  recent  Centennial 
epoch  in  the  history  of  the  United  States,  and  is  a  permanent  and  graceful  acknowledg- 
ment of  a  nation's  gratitude  to  the  memory  of  those  who,  although  of  foreign  birth, 
cam2  to  its  aid  in  the  hour  of  need.  Mr.  Stone  has  done  his  work  thoroughly  and  well, 
and  has  given  us  in  these  pages  a  good  resume  of  all  that  was  previously  known,  and 
much  that  has  been  heretofore  unknown,  concerning  "  Our  French  Allies." 

Rliode  Island,  as  is  natural,  comes  well  to  the  front  in  this  volume,  and  especial  in- 
terest attaches  to  those  portions  included  under  the  head  of  "  Incidents  of  Social  Life  in 
Newport,  Providence,  and  elsewhere." 

The  visit  of  the  representatives  of  our  French  and  other  foreign  allies  to  this  country 
in  1S82,  and  the  celebration  at  Yorktown,  are  duly  chronicled,  and  the  dedication  of  the 
volume  to  the  Marquis  de  Rochambeau,  the  present  representative  of  that  honored  name, 
is  accepted  (in  autograph)  by  that  gentleman. 

The  volume  is  elegantly  and  profusely  illustrated  with  63  portraits,  25  of  which  are 
steel  plates,  and  114  wood-cut  views,  autographs,  etc.,  etc.  "  Little  Rhody  "  has  every 
reason  to  feel  proud  of  this  book,  a  copy  of  which  should  be  found  upon  the  book- 
shelves of  every  family  within  its  borders  ;  but  its  value  is  wider  than  this— it  is  national. 

H.  R.  s. 


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Notes  on  Books. 


h: 


Acadia.     A  Lost  Chapter  in  American  History.     By  Philip  H.  Smith.     Illustrated. 

Pawling,  N.  Y. :  Published  by  the  Author.    '18S4.      [E.  W.  Nash,  80  Nassau  Street, 

New  York.]  Svo,  pp.  381. 
When  we  learn  of  the  mechanical  difficulties  under  which  this  work  was  produced,  that 
it  was  set  up  "in  a  country  office,  with  a  fifty-pound  font  of  type,  and  an  old  Liberty 
job  press,"  and  stereotyped  with  "  a  home-made  apparatus,  after  a  process  developed 
from  personal  experience  ;  "  and  when,  moreover,  we  turn  its  pages  and  see  with  what 
loving  care  and  antiquarian  patience  every  point  and  item  has  been  gathered  which 
can  throw  light  upon  this  neglected  corner  of  American  history,  we  confess  to  a  profound 
respect  for  its  author.  Studious  research  and  personal  inspection  of  Nova  Scotia  ar- 
chives have  resulted  in  a  most  interesting  volume,  which  supplies  much,  if  not  all,  that 
we  wish  to  know  concerning  a  country  and  an  epoch  which  history  has  hitherto  touched 
upon  but  lightly,  though  poetry  has  claimed  it  as  her  own.  The  (wood-cut)  illustrations, 
rough  though  effective,  are  also  the  production  of  the  author's  ovi'n  hand.  If  his  tools 
were  imperfect,  yet  the  work  betrays  the  spirit  of  the  true  workman.  H.  r.  s. 

Memorial  Biographies  of  the  New  England  Historic-Genealogical  Society. 
Towne  Memorial  Fund.  Volume  III.  1856-59.  Boston  :  Published  by  the  So- 
ciety, 18  Somerset  Street.      1883.     Svo,  pp.  534. 

Most  delightful  of  all  reading  are  these  memorial  volumes,  of  which  the  third  volume 
is  now  before  us,  from  the  hand  of  the  Publication  Committee,  Messrs.  John  Ward  Dean, 
Henry  A.  Hazen,  J.  Gardner  White,  William  B.  Trask,  Daniel  T.  V.  Homtoon,  Arthur 
M.  Alger,  and  Albert  H.  Hoyt.  Like  its  predecessors,  this  volume,  embracing  bio- 
graphies of  the  Society's  deceased  members  who  passed  over  to  the  majority  during  the 
years  1S56-59,  evinces  excellent  judgment,  taste,  and  loving  care  in  the  preparation  of  its 
contents.  It  contains  thirty-nine  biographies,  among  which  are  those  of  Rev.  Stephen 
Dodd,  John  C.  Warren,  M.D.,  Rev.  Thomas  Rolibins,  D.D.,  Hon.  Samuel  Hoar, 
LL.  D.,  Hermann  Ernst  Ludewig,  Rev.  Jonathan  French,  D.  D.,  Charles  Frederick 
Adams,  Jr.,  Rev.  John  F.  Schroeder,  D.D.,  William  Fiske  Stone,  Rev.  John  L.  Blake, 
D. D.,  Freeman  Hunt,  George  Minot,  Rev.  Eleazer  Williams,  Lemuel  Sliattuck,Winiam 
H.  Prescott,  Henry  Bond,  M.D.,  Payne  Kenyon  Kilbourne, William  W.  Mather,  LL.D., 
etc. 

The  Society,  in  issuing  these  memorial  volumes,  is  erecting  to  its  own  honor,  as  well 
as  to  that  of  its  deceased  members,  a  monument  "  more  lasting  than  brass."      H.  R.  s. 

Ralph  Waldo  Emerson.     A  Paper  read  before  the  New  York  Genealogical  and  Bio- 
graphical Society,  December  14,  1S83.  With  After-thoughts.    By  William  Hague, 
D.D.      New  York  :    G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.     1884.      i2mo,  pp.  iv,  31. 
This  delightful  contribution  to  Emersonian  memorial  literature,  by  our  venerable  and 
esteemed  fellow-member,  bears  well  the  crucial  test  under  which  some  ephemeral  produc- 
tions fail ;  it  reads  as  well  as  it  sounded  when  delivered.     All  those  who  listened  delight- 
edly to  it  on  the  occasion  of  its  presentation  to  the  Society,  will  be  glad  to  have  it  in  this 
handsome  form  ;  in  which,  also,  it  cannot  fail  to  reach  a  still  larger  and  an   appreciative 
audience.      In  the  final  summing  up  of  all  that  has  been  said  of  Emerson,  by  way  of  criti- 
cism and  of  panegyric,  this  little  brochure  will  make  itself  felt.  H.  R.  s. 

Heraldry  in  England  and  America.     By  George  R.  Howell.     Read  before  the 
Albany  Institute,  January  21,  1884.     Albany,  N.  Y.:  The  Press  Company,  Printers. 
Svo,  pp.  6.      [Reprinted  from  The  Press.] 
This  is  a  timely  reprint  of  a  lecture  upon  a  subject  which  is  now  attracting  very  gen- 
eral public  attention.      It  gives  a  sensible,  easily  understood  definition  of  heraldry,  its  ob- 
ject and  uses  ;  especially  as  to  its  genealogical  value  in  connection   with   family   history  ; 
and  its  civic  and  official  importance  as  connected  with  municipal  and  other  corporations  ; 
deals  with  the  arms  and  seal  of  the  city  of  Albany,  and  explains  the  heraldic  decorations 
commemorative  of  the  historic  families  of  the  colony  and  State  of  New  York,  which  have 
been  introduced  into  the  ornamentation  of  the  new  Capitol  at  Albany.      Wfe  are  glad  to 
see  this  lecture  in  permanent  form.  H.  r.  s. 

Sketch  of  the  Life  of  Samuel  F.  Pratt,  with  some  Account  of  the  Early  History 
of  the  Pratt  Family.     A  paper  read  before  the  Buffalo  Historical  Society,  March  10, 
1873.    By  William  P.  Letchworth.    Buffalo  :  Press  of  Warren,  Johnson  &  Co., 
Office  of  the  Daily  Courier,  197  Main  Street.      1874.     Svo,  pp.  211. 
Samuel  Fletcher  Pratt,  born  in  Townshend,  Vt.,  in  1807,  was  the  grandson  of  one  of 
the  very  earliest  settlers  of  Buffalo.     He  was  brought  to  that  city  when  but'  a  few  months 


1^4  Notes  on  Books.  [July>  1884. 

old  ;  and  after  a  long  and  useful  life,  which  was  identified  with  "  every  good  word  and 
work  "  in  the  place  of  his  adoption,  died  full  of  honors,  in  1873.  The  details  of  his  life, 
and  especially  the  history  of  his  grandparents'  early  pioneer  experiences,  are  graphically 
portrayed  by  Mr.  Letchworth,  and  are  "as  interesting  as  a  novel.''  As  a  contribution 
to  local  history  and  biography  it  is  unequalled  in  value.  The  volume  is  illustrated  by 
portraits  of  Mr.  Piatt  and  wife,  and  a  view  of  their  residence  at  Buifalo.  H.  R.  s. 

The  Dearborns.  A  Commemorative  Discourse  of  the  Eightieth  Anniversary  of  the 
Occupation  of  Fort  Dearborn,  and  the  First  Settlement  of  Chicago.  Read  before 
the  Chicago  Historical  Society,  December  iS,  1883.  By  Daniel  Goodwin,  Jr. 
Chicago  :  Fergus  Printing  Company.     8vo,  pp.  56. 

An  eloquent  tribute  to  General  Henry  Dearborn,  who  was  at  Bunker  Hill,  Saratoga, 
and  Yorktown,  and  also  took  part  in  the  second  war  with  Great  Britain  ;  and  to  i.  son, 
Henry  Alexander  Scammell  Dearborn,  who  filled  many  positions  of  honor  in  his  native 
State  of  Massachusetts.  It  has  been  well  said  of  this  discourse  that  it  was  "  a  prose 
poem,  with  the  accuracy  of  history."  This  praise  is  merited.  The  value  of  this  admirably 
printed  brochure  is  enhanced  by  steel  portraits  of  father  and  son — the  former  copied  (,om 
a  painting  by  Stuart — and  by  an  excellent  index.  This  is  Mr.  Goodwin's  first  histowcal 
address;  we  trust  that  it  may  not  be  his  last,  but  that  he  may  take  time  from  his  1^*  al 
pursuits  to  prepare  others  equally  valuable,  and  equally  interesting.  J.  G.  >v. 

History  of  Chicago,  from  the  Earliest  Period  to  the  Present  Time,  in  3 
vols.     Vol.  I.,  ending  with  the  year  1857.     By  A.  T.  Andreas.     Chicago:  A.  1 
Andreas,  Publisher.      1884. 

This  sumptuous  quarto  volume  of  648  pages  and  numerous  maps,  views,  and  steel 
portraits  of  prominent  citizens,  is  entirely  the  product  of  the  city  whose  brief  history  is 
related  on  its  well-written  pages,  and  presents  altogether  a  striking  and  surprising  evi- 
dence of  the  advancement  of  the  mechanic  arts  in  the  West.  The  volume  before  us  is  the 
product  of  a  number  of  specialists,  who  in  separate  chapters  have  treated  particular  top- 
ics, such  as  Chicago's  early  history  under  the  Indians  and  French,  its  political  history, 
the  bench  and  bar,  the  press  and  literature,  banks  and  banking,  and  its  primitive  manu- 
factories. There  arc,  of  course,  some  disadvantages  to  this  method,  giving  the  work  a 
somewhat  scrappy  character.  On  the  other  hand,  it  must  be  said  that  great  accuracy  is 
a  characteristic  of  the  volume,  which  will  find,  doubtless,  many  purchasers  outside  of 
*'  The  Garden  City,"  which  now  numbers  six  Imndred  thousand  inhabitants.  It  is  the 
only  work  we  have  met  with,  excepting  Blanchard's  "  History  of  the  Northwest,"  which 
sets  forth  in  anything  like  a  satisfactory  manner  the  chronicles  of  the  great  metropolis  of 
the  West.  j.  g.  w. 

The  Humphreys  Family  in  America.  By  Frederick  Humphreys,  M.D.,  assisted 
by  Otis  M.  Humphreys,  M.D.,  Henry  R.  Stiles,  M.D.,  Mrs.  Sarah  M. 
Churchill.     New  York  :  Humphreys'  Print.     1884.     Part  IV.,  pp.  299-398. 

We  take  pleasure  in  calling  attention  from  time  to  time  to  the  progress  of  this  publi- 
cation. In  this  number  we  have  the  continuation  of  the  genealogy  and  biographies  of 
the  Humphreys  family  in  the  line  o{  Samuel,  son  of  the  immigrant  Michael  Bumphrey,  to 
and  inclusive  of  the  fifth  generation.  It  is  illustrated  with — i,  a  beautifully  embellished 
and  appropriately  colored  plate  representing  the  marshalling  of  six  coats  of  the  Hum- 
phrey arms,  designed  to  form  the  frontispiece  to  the  complete  work,  a  full  account  and 
description  of  which  will  be  found  on  pp.  93,  94,  in  Part  II.;  2,  2^  facsimile  certificate 
of  these  arms,  presumably  from  the  Herald's  office,  London,  to  face  the  frontispiece  ; 
3,  portrait  of  Dudley  Humphrey,  from  a  painting  in  the  possession  of  his  grandson,  James 
Dudley  Dewell,  of  New  Haven,  Conn.  ;  4,  portrait  of  Captain  John  Brown,  of  Ossawa- 
tomee,  great-grandson  of  Hon.  Oliver  Humphrey ;  5,  facsimile  letter  of  Captain  John 
Brown  to  his  cousin.  Rev.  Luther  Humphrey,  written  from  Charlestown  jail,  Va  ,  on 
the  eve  of  his  execution  ;  6,  silhouette  of  Col.  George  Humphreys,  of  West  Simsbury 
(Canton),  Conn.  ;  7,  portrait  of  Hon.  Elijah  Oscar  Humphrey,  of  Kalamazoo,  Mich., 
President  of  the  First  National  Bank  oft  hat  city ;  8,  two  old  copper-plate  engravings — 
one  a  Masonic  piece,  the  other  a  picture  of  Major  Reuben  Humphreys  and  a  coat-of- 
arms — both  engraved  by  a  convict  in  the  old  Newgate  Prison,  Simsbury,  Conn.,  about 
1799  or  i8oo;  on  plates  made  from  copper  mined  in  the  prison  by  convict  labor. 

L. 


THE   NEW   YORK 

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Vol.   XV.  NEW  YORK,   OCTOBER,    1884.  No.  4. 


SKETCH  OF  HON.  JOHN  STEVENS,  OF  PERTH  AMBOY,  OF 
NEW  YORK  CITY,  AND  OF  HUNTERDON  COUNTY,  N.  J. 
[ANCESTOR  OF  THE  HOBOKEN  FAMILY  OF  STEVENS]. 

By  Richard  F.  Stevens. 


John  Stevens,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  born  at  Perth  Amboy, 
about  the  3'ear  171 5.  His  father,  John  Stevens,  the  elder,  when  a  mere 
lad,  came,  in  1699,  from  Middlesex  County,  England,  to  New  York,  where 
he  entered  as  a  law  student  with  one  Barna  Cosans.*  He  remained  there 
in  the  practice  of  his  profession  and  in  mercantile  pursuits  till  September, 
1 714,  when  he  removed  to  Perth  Amboy,  marrying  the  eldest  daughter  of 
John  Campbell,  a  prominent  citizen  of  that  town,  and-the  partner  and  pro.xy 
of  Lord  Drummond,  Earl  of  Melfort,  and  one  of  the  original  twenty-four 
East  Jersey  Proprietors.  After  the  death  of  his  father,  in  1737,  John 
Stevens,  in  conjunction  with  his  elder  brother  Campbell,  continued  in  the 
mercantile  business,  trading  principally  with  the  islands  of  the  West 
Indies  and  Madeira.  In  those  days  it  was  the  common  practice  of  large 
merchants  to  take  command  of  their  own  vessels,  and  in  pursuance  of  this 
custom  Mr.  Stevens  made  frequent  voyages.  He  sailed  as  master  of  the 
sloop  Martha  in  1739;  ^^  ^'^^  brigantine  Catharine  he  took  in  1741  a 
cargo  of  flour  to  Madeira,  returning  with  one  of  wine.  In  a  letter  dated 
December  10,  1743,  he  says:  "I  am  now  on  settling  myself  at  Perth 
Amboy  and  believe  I  shall  not  go  to  sea  again."  He  appears  to  have 
retired  from  active  mercantile  life  in  1761,  continuing  the  management  of 
his  large  landed  estates  and  his  various  mining  properties,  owning,  among 
other  lands,  in  connection  with  Andrew  and  John  Johnston,  a  tract  of 
sixty-one  thousand  acres  in  Hunterdon  County.  He  was  also  a  large 
proprietor  m  the  tract  of  land  now  the  site  of  Elizabethport,  as  a  petition 
of  his  addressed  to  the  Legislature  with  regard  to  changing  the  course  of 
the  road  from  the  town  of  Elizabeth  shows,  and  possessed  a  controlling 
interest  in  the  Rocky  Hill  and  Well  Copper  Mines  at  Rocky  Hill. 

His  first  appearance  in  political  life  was  as  a  member  of  the  General 
Assembly,  which  met  at  Perth  Amboy,  May  20,  1751,  and  from  his  very 

^  Barne  Cozens,  or  Cosens,  was  appointed  Register  and  Examiner  in  Cliancery  in  1701  ;  was  Gov- 
ernor's Secretary  1698  to  1705,  and  Clerk  of  the  Council.  "  Barne  Cosins  "  licensed  to  mar.  Grace  San- 
ford,  April  28,  1697  (see  N.  V.  G.  &  B.  Rec,  vol.  iii.,  p.  93).  ''B.  Cosens"  witness  to  will  in  1704,  which 
mentions  land  purchased  of  David  Joshack,  Laird  of  Minevarre,  in  East  Jersey  (ibid.,  vol.  i.,  p.  102). — Eds. 


146  Sketch  of  Hon.  John  Stevens.  [Oct., 

first  entrance  into  that  body  assumed  a  prominent  position,  being  a  mem- 
ber of  all  the  most  important  committees.  In  1755  he  took  a  very  active 
part  in  raising  troops  and  money  to  send  to  Crown  Point,  voting  in  every 
case  for  the  largest  approi)riation  and  the  most  troops.  In  the  same  year, 
in  conjunction  with  the  Messrs.  Johnston,  he  was  engaged  in  building 
block-houses  at  Drake's  Fort,  Normenach,  and  Phitlipsburg,  and  in 
December,  with  Mr.  Johnston,  was  appointed  a  committee  to  wait  on 
Governor  Hardy  and  General  Shirley,  of  New  York,  and  Governor  Mor- 
ris, of  Pennsylvania,  to  ascertain  what  steps  they  had  taken  for  the 
defence  of  the  frontiers  of  those  States  against  Indian  devastations  and 
cruellies.  He  formed  one  of  the  commission  in  1758  to  settle  the  troubles 
with  our  Indian  neighbors.  The  Commissioners,  Andrew  Johnston, 
Richard  Salter,  Charles  Read,  John  Stevens,  William  Foster,  and  Jacob 
Spicer,  in  February  of  that  same  year  met,  at  Crosswicks,  Teedyescunk, 
king  ot  the  Delawares,  George  Hopayock,  of  Susquehanah,  and  other 
noted  chiefs.  After  many  meetings  a  treaty  was  concluded  at  Faston, 
I'a.,  in  October.  A  full  account  of  the  deliberations  at  this  conference 
can  be  found  in  Smith's  "  History  of  New  Jersey." 

From  1756  to  1760  he  acted  as  paymaster  of  the  "Old  Blues,"  and  his 
account  book  sets  forth  the  hardships  endured  by  the  different  privates  in 
Colonel  Schuj'ler's  regiment,  in  which  his  brother  Camjibell  Stevens  was  a 
captain,  who  were  made  piisoners  at  Oswego  and  Fort  William  Henry. 
He  continued  a  member  of  the  Lower  House  till  January  8,  1762,  when  he 
was  commissioned  as  a  member  of  the  Council,  remaining  in  that  body  till 
its  final  dissolution. 

In  April,  i  752,  he  moved  his  winter  quarters  to  New  York,  and  in  i  761 
purchased  and  occupied  No.  7  Broadway.  This  was  in  those  days  the 
most  fashionable  quarter  of  the  city  ;  No.  i,  standing  next  to  Fort  George, 
and  owned  by  Mr.  Archibald  Kennedy,  was  General  Putnam's  Head- 
quarters during  the  occupation  of  New  York  by  the  Continental  troops, 
and  was  also  used  for  the  same  purpose  by  General  Howe  and  the  other 
British  commanders  while  the  city  remained  in  their  possession.  It  was 
selected  as  the  presidential  mansion  Avhen  New  York  was  regarded  as  the 
site  of  the  capital  of  the  federal  government.  No.  3  (next  door)  was  the 
Watts  mansion ;  No.  5,  that  of  Chief  Justice  Robert  R.  Livingston,  and 
Nos.  9  and  11  the  residences  of  the  Van  Cortlandts  and  Mrs.  Eve  Van 
Cortlandt  White.  While  residing  here  in  1765,  John  Stevens  was  one  of 
the  most  vigorous  opponents  of  the  obnoxious  "Stamp  Act,"  whereby 
"all,  legal  and  mercantile  documents  and  contracts,  newspapers,  pam- 
phlets, almanacs,  etc.,  were  required  to  be  written  or  printed  on  stamped 
paper,  upon  which  a  duty  was  to  be  imposed,  payable  to  officers  ap- 
pointed by  the  Crown." 

The  act  was  to  have  gone  into  effect  on  November  i,  1765.  On 
that  day  the  flags  in  New  York  were  at  half-mast,  stores  were  closed,  bells 
tolled,  and  the  streets  thronged  with  an  excited  ..people.  The  "  Sons  of 
Liberty,"  an  extensive  political  organization,  broke  open  the  Governor's 
coach-house,  took  out  his  chariot  and  placed  in  it  two  images,  one  rejire- 
senting  the  Governor,  and  the  other  the  devil  whispering  in  his  ear ; 
lliese  they  carried  around  the  streets  with  lighted  torches;  passing  Fort 
George  they  stoned  it,  finally  burning  the  chariot  and  effigies  in  a  bonfire. 
Civil  war  was  imminent.  Governor  Golden,  in  order  to  allay  the  appre- 
hensions of  the  populace,  on  November  4th  addressed  a  letter  to  Mayor 


f884.]  Sketch  of  Hon.  John  Stevens. 


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Cruger,  R.  R.  Livingston,  John  Stevens,  and  B.  Robinson,  ''that  he  would 
not  issue,  or  suffer  to  be  issued,  any  of  the  stamps  now  in  Fort  George." 
These  gentlemen,  upon  receipt  of  this,  published  the  following  manifesto  : 

"The  Freemen,  Freeholders,  and  Inhabitants  of  this  City,  being  satis- 
fied that  the  stamps  are  not  to  be  issued,  are  determined  to  keep  the  peace 
of  the  City  at  all  events,  except  they  shall  have  other  cause  of  complaint. 

"R.  R.  Livingston, 
"John  Cruger, 
"  Beverly  Robinson, 
"John  Stevens." 

The  obnoxious  stamped  paper  was  in  accordance  with  this  delivered 
to  the  mayor  and  corporation,  and  a  vessel  shortly  afterward  arriving  with 
a  new  supply,  it  was  forcibly  taken  out  of  her  and  destroyed.  This 
ended,  as  far  as  New  York  was  concerned,  the  excitement  as  to  the  en- 
forcement of  this  act,  and  postponed  the  time  and  changed  the  place  of 
the  outbreak  of  the  revolution. 

In  1 77 1  John  Stevens  removed  his  home  in  New  Jersey  to  Lebanon 
Valle}^,  in  Hunterdon  County,  building  a  large  residence  known  as  the 
Stevens  mansion.  It  was  a  few  miles  south  of  the  present  Lebanon  sta- 
tion on  the  New  Jersey  Central  Railroad,  and  was  torn  down  in  1S73.  I" 
1774  he  and  Walter  Rutherfurd  were  appointed  Commissioners  to  estab- 
lish a  boundary  or  partition  line  between  the  provinces  of  New  Jersey  and 
New  York;  they  made  their  report  in  November,  1774.  (See  State  docu- 
ments.) 

In  1770,  in  reply  to  a  letter  from  Governor  Franklin,  requesting  his 
opinion  with  regard  to  certain  questions  that  had  arisen  as  to  the  Court  of 
Chancery,  he  wrote  : 

"  I  am  of  opinion  that  a  Court  of  Chancery  in  this  Province  is  requisite, 
and  that  it  ought  to  be  kept  open,  but  that  at  this  Time  and  ever  since  the 
year  17 13,  the  Court  has  not  been  held  on  a  proper  Establishment,  as  no 
Ordinance  for  erecting  said  Court,  or  qualification  of  several  of  the  Chancel- 
lors appears.  I  therefore  with  submission,  advise  that  the  Governor  and 
Council  do  form  an  Ordinance  for  the  Establishment  of  the  Court  of 
Chancery,  to  consist  of  his  Excellency,  the  Governor,  with  such  of  the 
Council  or  others  as  shall  be  thought  proper  or  fitting  for  the  Trust,  and 
that  they  all  take  the  necessary  qualification  for  the  due  discharge  of  their 
duty;  and  that  every  step  may  be  taken  to  give  authority  and  permanence 
to  the  Court  I  would  propose  that  a  full  State  of  the  Court  of  Chancery, 
as  to  the  manner  in  which  it  has  been  from  time  to  time  held,  be  made 
and  transmitted  to  our  Most  Gracious  Sovereign  for  his  further  instructions 
to  the  Governor  with  regard  to  his  will  and  pleasure  therein. 

"  John  Stevens. 

"Burlington,  March  26,  1770." 

When  the  war  for  independence  broke  out  he  was  presiding  over  the 
Colonial  Council,  and  feeling  that,  from  the  prominent  position  he  held,  it 
was  his  duty  to  take  some  active  steps  against  the  encroachments  of  the 
Crown,  he,  in  June,  1776,  addressed  the  following  letter  to  Governor 
Franklin  : 

"  Sir  :  It  is  with  the  greatest  concern  I  see  the  dispute  between  Great 
Brittain  and  these  Colonies  arisen  to  the  present  alarming  situation  of  both 
Countries.  While  I  had  hopes  of  an  accommodation  of  our  unhappy  con- 
troversy [  was  unwilling  to  quit  a  station  which  enabled  me  to  be  service- 


I^S  Sketch  of  Hon.  John  Stevens,  [Oct. 

able  to  my  Country,  but  the  Continuation  of  Hostilities  by  the  British 
Ministry,  and  the  large  Armament  of  Foreign  Troops  daily  expected  to 
invest  our  Country,  leaves  me  no  longer  room  to  doubt  that  an  entire  sub- 
mission of  these  Colonies  with  a  view  of  Internal  Taxation  is  their  ulli- 
mate  object. 

"  Your  Excellency  will  not  wonder  that  I  should  prefer  the  duty  I  owe 
my  Native  Country  to  any  other  consideration.  1  therefore  beg  leave  to 
resign  my  seat  at  the  Council  Board.     I  am, 

"  Your  Excellency's  Most  Obedient  Humble  Serv't, 

"  John  Stevens, 
"  June,  1776." 

As  one  of  the  members  of  the  Council  chosen  pursuant  to  the  new 
Constitution  of  the  State,  he  represented  Hunterdon  County,  and  took  his 
seat  at  their  first  meeting  on  August  27,  1776,  He  was  on  September  3d 
unanimousl)'^  elected  Vice-President,  which  position  he  continuously  held 
till  October  5,  1782.  The  record  shows  that  he  was  almost  always  to  be 
found  in  his  seat  during  that  trying  period  with  voice,  influence,  and  purse 
aiding  to  his  utmost  the  cause  of  liberty. 

He  frequently  advanced  from  his  own  means  liberal  sums  of  money  to 
the  State  ;  having  charge  of  the  money-chest  as  one  of  the  sureties  of 
John  Smyth,  Treasurer,*  until  that  office  was  filled  by  his  son.  Colonel 
John  Stevens,  Jr.,  and  some  of  his  letters  allude  to  his  fears  of  its  capture 
by  the  enemy  and  speak  of  its  removal  to  various  places  for  greater 
security. 

On  November  6,  1782,  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Continental 
Congress  to  represent  his  State,  and  took  his  seat  on  May  20th,  in  the 
following  year,  remaining  till  the  adjournment,  which  took  place  June  3, 
1783,  During  the  session  he  was  a  member  of  Congress  there  were  no 
subjects  of  very  great  importance  agitated,  it  was  simply  a  business  Con- 
gress. Though  filling  these  positions  in  such  busy  times,  he  nevertheless 
was  able,  in  1781,  to  act  as  Vice-President  of  the  Proprietors  of  New 
Jersey,  and  as  President  of  the  Council  of  Proprietors  in  1783. 

In  1787,  when  the  State  Convention  assembled  to  ratify  the  Constitution 
recommended  on  the  seventeenth  day  of  September  of  that  year  by  the 
Federal  Convention  for  the  Government  of  the  United  States,  he  was 
elected  President,  and  after  the  Constitution  was  ratified,  instead  of  sending 
the  ratification  to  Congress  by  mail  or  by  special  messenger,  thought  it  more 
seemly  to  the  dignity  of  the  body  he  represented,  and  the  one  he  was 
accredited  to,  to  deliver  it  in  person.  The  following  letter  from  him  to 
Chief  Justice  Brearley  on  the  event  is  of  historic  interest: 

"  HOBOKEN,  February  11,  1788. 

"Dear  Sir  :  As  soon  as  I  had  heard  there  was  a  sufficient  number  of 
members  met  to  make  a  Congress,  I  proceeded  to  New  York  and  on 
Friday  the  first  instant  I  delivered  to  the  President  in  Congress  assembled 
the  New  Jersey  Ratification  of  the  proposed  Constitution  for  the  United 
States ;  and  I  have  the  pleasure  to  inform  you  that  in  conversation  with 
the  President  at  the  Chancellor' s,f  he  sayd  he  had  no  instructions  to  make 

*  John  Smyth,  of  Amboy,  who  married  Susannah,  daughter  of  John  Moore,  of  New  York,  father  of 
Andrew,  had  been  clerk  to  the  Board  of  East  Jersey  Proprietors  and  Treasurer  of  the  Province  of  New 
Jersey.     He  left  New  Jersey  and  came  to  New  York  City  in  1777. — Eds. 

t  Chancellor  Livingston,  his  son-in-law. — Eds. 


1884.]  Sketch  of  Hon.  John  Stevens.  140 

me  any  answer  to  what  I  said  to  him  on  Delivering  the  Ratification,  but 
that  he  thought  it  the  most  ample  of  any  that  had  been  delivered  to  Con- 
gress, and  in  particular  the  Convention's  reciting  the  powers  by  which 
they  were  conveyed.  I  was  exactly  in  time,  as  the  ist  of  February,  was  set 
down  for  taking  up  and  entering  the  several  Certificates,  and  I  delivered 
ours  before  they  began  that  business.  Pray  present  my  best  respects  to 
Mrs.  Brearley.  Your  obedient  serv't, 

"John  Stevens." 

This  public  act  seems  to  have  closed  his  political  career,  a  peculiarly 
appropriate  ending  to  a  life  spent  as  his  had  been  in  the  service  of  his 
State  and  country.  He  had  reached  his  three  score  years  and  ten,  and 
desired  to  close  his  life  in  a  tranquillity  that  the  exciting  times  before^  had 
forbidden. 

Though  no  orator  he  was  a  fair  debater,^  owing  to  his  legal  training, 
studying  for  the  bar  in  his  youth.  His  writings  and  speeches  show  him  to 
have  been  a  fluent  speaker,  expressing  himself  with  great  clearness  and 
conciseness,  never  using  any  more  words  than  were  necessary  to  make 
clear  his  meaning.  Rather  quiet  than  otherwise,  he  rarely  spoke,  and  con- 
sequently when  he  did  was  always  listened  to  with  attention,  and  his 
remarks  had  great  weight  in  deciding  any  knotty  point  in  legislation. 

He  was  a  zealous  supporter  of  the  Established  Church  of  England, 
afterward  known  as  the  Episcopal  Church,  and  during  his  residence  at 
Perth  Amboy  was  for  many  years  a  vestryman  and  warden  of  St.  Peter's 
Church,  of  which  his  father  was  one  of  the  original  four  vestrymen. 

After  his  removal  to  Lebanon  Valley,  he  contributed  largely  to  the 
building  of  the  frame  meeting  house  at  that  place,  and  was  also  one  of  the 
principal  supporters  of  St.  Thomas'  Church,  situated  at  Palmyra,  Hunter- 
don County,  near  the  Cornwall  Mansion,  the  residence  of  his  brothers 
Lewis  and  Richard.  He  was  also  connected  with  Trinity  Church,  New 
York,  during  his  residence  in  that  city. 

He,  with  his  younger  brother  Richard,  Richard  Dennis,  and  Mr.  Hiet, 
represented  the  laity  at  the  convention  held  at  New  Brunswick,  May  13 
and  14,  1774,  assembled  for  the  purpose  of  agreeing  on  some  general 
principle  of  a  union  of  the  Episcopal  Church  throughout  the  colonies  or 
States.  At  this  convention,  New  York,  New  Jersey,  and  Pennsylvania 
were  represented,  and  it  was  the  first  step  toward  forming  a  collective 
body  of  the  Episcopal  Church  in  the  United  States. 

He  spent  the  latter  days  of  his  life  with  his  son  Colonel  John  Stevens, 
at  Hoboken,  his  death  occurring  early  in  May,  1792.  He  was  buried  at 
the  Frame  Meeting  House,  in  Bethlehem  township,  Hunterdon  County,  a 
church  he  contributed  largely  to  build. 

He  was  married  in  1748  to  Elizabeth,  the  second  daughter  of  James 
Alexander,  and  sister  to  I,ord  Sterling  of  revolutionary  fame.  Her  mother 
was  the  granddaughter  of  Johannes  De  Peyster,  the  first  of  that  name  in 
this  country,  and  who  was  of  a  noble  French  family  driven  from  France 
by  the  religious  persecutions  of  Charles  IX.,  1572  ;  they  settled  in  Holland, 
where  he  was  born,  emigrating  to  New  York  about  1649.  Mrs.  Stevens 
survived  her  husband  some  eight  years. 

That  she  was  a  friend  of  emancipation,  even  in  those  early  days,  the 
following  clause  in  her  will  clearly  shows  :  "  Item,  I  leave  all  my  slaves 
their  freedom."  To  the  black  women,  Nancy  and  Sylvia,  were  given  cloth- 
ing.    To  Nancy,  fifteen  acres  of  land  at  Mardun  and  ^5.     To  the  black 


150  Rogers  Lineage.  [Oct., 

woman  Daphne,  the  yearly  interest  on  ;^4o,  also  two  hundred  dollars  for 
the  purchase  of  the  freedom  of  Peter,  the  husband  of  Nancy. 

This  showed  that  her  philanthropy  extended  not  only  to  their  freedom 
but  provided  for  their  future  comfort. 

John  Stevens  left  two  children,  Colonel  John  Stevens,  eminent  in  the 
field  of  mechanical  invention,  and  Mary,  who  married  Chancellor  Living- 
ston of  New  York,  who  also  distinguished  himself  in  the  same  line,  they 
being  partners  and  owners  in  a  steamboat  anterior  to  Fulton's. 


ROGERS   LINEAGE, 


By  Rev.  Benjamin  W.  Dwight,  Clinton,  N.  Y. 


Some  classes  of  men,  as  such,  who  deserve  lasting  remembrance  upon 
earth  are  not  yet  so  sure  of  obtaining  it  as  are  others,  who  are  no  more 
worthy  of  an  earthly  immortality.  The  lives  and  very  names  of  men 
remarkable  in  their  day  for  their  inventive  talent  and  mechanical  skill,  or 
their  large  industry  and  success  as  business-men,  or  their  superior  pro- 
fessional ability  as  surgeons,  or  physicians,  or  advocates,  or  jurists,  are 
forgotten  often  and  all  too  soon,  and  almost  as  quickly,  as  if  they  belonged 
only  to  the  common  herd  of  mortals.  So  that  the  lifetime  of  a  single 
generation  suffices  not  seldom  to  bury  their  names  in  the  general  oblivion, 
into  which  all  things  human  so  soon  inevitably  drop,  when  out  of  sight,  and 
therefore  out  of  mind.  Authors,  scholars,  and  clergymen  belong,  as  such, 
to  the  literary  class,  which  holds  in  its  hands  the  keys  of  life  and  of  death 
in  the  kingdom  of  letters.  Their  own  names  are  more  likely  than  those  of 
equal  merit  to  be  immortalized  in  earthly  records;  and  whom  they  will 
they  themselves  crown  with  fame,  and  whom  they  list  they  consign  to 
dumb  forgetfulness.  Many  distinguished  "old  New  York  merchants"  have 
there  been  during  the  century  now  nearly  gone  that  have  deserved  strongly 
for  our  own  highest  good,  as  a  young  and  growing  people,  to  be  held  in 
ever  high  and  cherished  honor  for  their  value  as  true  expressions  of  the 
social  ideas  and  forces  that  rule  our  higher  destinies  as  a  people,  and  whose 
power  as  examples  needs  to  be  kept  active  in  every  way  possible  for  good, 
in  days  to  come,  upon  all  minds  within  any  special  reach  of  their  influence. 
Names  so  loaded,  in  times  gone  by,  with  the  traditions  and  records  of  the 
better  days  of  our  national  character  and  history  as  to  be  conspicuous  for 
their  memorial  and  monumental  influence  and  value,  are  among  the  highest 
results  of  the  best  Christian  civilization  of  this  age,  or  of  any  other.  And 
it  is  pleasant  to  do  anything,  even  in  quite  limited  relations,  to  freshen  anew 
in  other  minds  the  real  permanent  charm  of  names  that  were  not  in  them- 
selves born  to  die,  and  that,  wherever*  they  are  truly  known,  are  full  of 
beauty,  to  all  eyes,  of  their  own  deserving,  the  lasting  beauty  of  the  nobler 
life  to  come. 

The  noted  family  to  whicli  the  four  Rogers  brothers  (Fitch,  Henry, 
Moses,  and  Nehemiah),  all  distinguished  New  York  merchants  and  all  con- 
spicuous for  their  high  personal  excellence  of  character,  belonged,  and 
which  they  all  greatly  honored  in  the  belonging,  is  one  of  but  recent  origin 
in  this  country.  Investigators  into  its  supposed  early  continental  history 
have  quite  uniformly  gone  astray  in  conceiving  at   the  outset,   that   this 


1884.]  Rogers  Lineage.  .  I  c  i 

family  of  Rogers  was  of  Long  Island  origin  (as  of  Huntington,  Soathanip- 
ton,  or  Hempstead).  Many  have  persistently  followed  up  what  stray  hints 
they  could  find  as  guesses,  which  are  often  the  first  immature  form  of  what 
prove  in  the  end  to  be  real  discoveries,  or  at  least  very  valuable  theories; 
but  never  has  one  of  them  found  any  real  satisfaction  in  his  researches  in 
any  such  direction,  or  any  increase  of  light  at  all  as  he  has  moved  onward 
in  any  particular  line  of  exploration.  Said  one  who  had  been  specially 
diligent  in  such  a  way  to  the  writer,  after  a  long  experience  of  continued 
disappointment :  "I  have  always  expected  that  Providence  would  help  me 
some  day  to  get  that  Huntington-Rogers  famil)  record,  and  I  have  not 
yet  lost  hope  that  I  shall  get  it,  someivhere,  sojiiehow  f'^  Behold,  my  good 
friend,  the  desired  day  has  at  last  come  to  you  !  Take  freely  the  light  here 
offered :  it  has  cost  much  painstaking  patience  to  procure  it.  Seek  reso- 
lutely what  further  light  you  crave,  from  the  same  quarters  whence  this  has 
reached  you.  No  one  can  find  gold  by  digging,  however  long  or  hopefully, 
in  earth  that  does  not  contain  it,  or  arrive  at  any  desired  destination  by 
travelHng,  with  whatever  eagerness,  in  "paths  that  lead  only  to  bewilder, 
and  dazzle  only  to  blind." 

Two  brothers  Rogers,  Uriah  and  Samuel,  appear  historically  in  view 
together,  at  about  the  same  time,  in  Norwalk,  Conn.,  at  first  about  the  years 
1730-4,  with  perhaps  an  interval  in  real  fact  of  a  year  or  two  apart  in  the 
precise  time  of  their  arrival  on  the  ground.  Dr.  Uriah  Rogers  was  prob- 
ably born  in  1710,  and  Samuel  Rogers,  his  brother,  the  Secretary  of  Gover- 
nor Thomas  Fitch,  of  Norwalk,  was  born,  it  is  believed,  about  1 712-14. 
Th^re  is  a  tradition  in  the  family  that  their  father  was  an  Episcopal  clergy- 
man in  Nova  Scotia.  While  they  are  believed  to  have  been  born  in  Eng- 
land themselves,  they  are  also  supposed  to  have  come  directly  from  Nova 
Scotia  to  Norwalk  to  settle  there,  perhaps  together,  and  perhaps  at  a  little 
interval  apart,  one  after  the  other.  James  Rogers  also,  who  married  Mary 
Harris  and  lived  in  New  London,  Conn.,  and  had  nine  children,  all  born 
there,  seems  to  have  been  a  near  relative  of  Dr.  Uriah  Rogers  and  Samuel, 
his  brother,  of  Norwalk,  Conn.,  from  traditions  among  older  members  of 
the  Rogers  family,  descendants  of  Capt.  Jeremiah  Rogers  (son  of  James 
Rogers  and  Mary  Harris).  Capt.  Jeremiah  Rogers,  b.  April  27,  1743,  and 
d.  August  II,  i8io,  was  captain  of  a  vessel  that  sailed  between  New  York 
and  Liverpool.  He  owned  a  farm  at  Hyde  Park,  Duchess  County,  N.  Y., 
on  the  road  from  that  place  to  Poughkeepsie,  which  was  afterward  bought 
by  Moses  Y.  Beach,  of  New  York.  He  had  a  family  of  nine  children.  War- 
ren R.  Dix.,  Esq.,  a  lawyer  in  New  York,  great  grandson  of  Capt.  Jere- 
miah Rogers,  claims  that  the  older  members  of  his  lineage,  some  of  whom 
still  survive,  declare  that  Moses  and  Nehemiah  and  Henry  Rogers  were 
always  spoken  of  to  them  as  their  first  cousins  when  in  their  youth,  which 
makes  it  appear  that  James  Rogers,*  of  New  London,  may  have  been  an 
older  brother  of  both  Uriah  and  Samuel  Rogers,  of  Norwalk,  Conn. 

*  The  children  of  James  Rogers  and  Mary  Harris,  nine  in  all,  and  all  bom  in  New  London,  were  as 
follows  : 

1.  Lemuel,  b.  December  lo,  1723,  had  four  cl'.ildren 

2.  Peter,  b.  October  3,  1725,  had  six  children. 

3  Ichabod,  b.  February  14,  1727.  had  seven  children. 

4.  Marj',  b.  October  i,  1728  ;  m.  John  Griffin,  had  four  children. 

5.  James,  b.  June  5,  1733.  had  seven  children. 

6.  Edmund,  b.  July  20,  1735,  had  nine  children. 

7.  Uriah,  b.  September  9,  1737,  had  eight  children. 

S.   Elizabeth,  b.  January  27,  1741  ;  m.  Robert  Manwaring,  had  two  children. 
9.  Jeremiah,  b.  April  27,  1743  ;  d.  August  11,  1810. 


1^2  Rogers  Lineage.  .[Oct., 

Dr.  Uriah  Rogers  b.  about  1710,  m.  about  1734  Hannah  Lockwood, 
b.  Oct.  23,  1 713,  dau.  of  James  Lockwood,*  of  Norwalk,  and  Lydia,  dau. 
of  Samuel  Smith,  of  Norwalk.  He  was  a  man  of  character  and  of  impor- 
tance, both  as  a  man  and  a  physician  in  Norwalk.  He  d.  May,  1773, 
aged  sixty-three.  She  d.  at  Redding,  Fairfield  County,  Conn  ,  Oct.  8, 
1794,  aged  eighty-one,  having  lived,  as  a  widow,  for  twenty-one  years  and 
more.     They  had  nine  children. 

SECOND    GENERATION,    CHILDREN. 

2.  i.  Hannah  Rogers,  b.  June  7,  1735  ;  m.  Moss  Kent,  Esq. 

3.  ii,  Lydia  Rogers,  b.  Dec.  15,  1737. 

4.  iii.  Uriah  Rogers,  b.  Dec.  17,  17.39.     ^^  '^^^Y  ^^  perhaps  the 

Major  Uriah  Rogers  who  removed  to  Norwich,  Conn.,  from 
Southampton,  L.  L,  in  1798  (when,  in  such  a  case,  he  was 
aged  fifty-nine),  and  engaged  there  in  trade  under  the  firm 
name  of  "  Uriah  Rogers  &  Son."  He  d.  there  in  18 14.  See 
Miss  Caulkins'  "  History  of  Norwich,  Conn." 

5.  iv.  James  Rogers,   b.  Sept.   5,    1742.     He   lived   and  died  in 

Redding,  Conn. 

6.  V.  John  Rogers,  b.  Nov.  3,  1744. 

7.  vi.  Esther  Rogers,  b.  Oct,  i,  1746  ;  d.  unmarried  in  Redding, 

Oct.  12,  1798,  aged  fifty-two. 

8.  vii.  David  Rogers,  )  b.  Aug.  21,  1748. 

9.  viii.  Elizabeth   Rogers,  f"  b.  Aug.  21,  1748  ;  d.  unmarried. 
10,  ix.  Abigail  Rogers,  b.  Oct.  14,  1749. 

3.  i.  Hannah  Rogers  (second  generation),  dau.  of  Dr.  Uriah  Rogers, 
of  Norwalk,  and  Hannah  Lockwood,  dau.  of  James  Lockwood,  of  Norwalk, 
and  Lydia  Smith,  b.  June  7  (O.  S.),  1735,  m.  Nov.  27  (N.  S.),  1760,  as  his 
first  wife.  Moss  Kent,  b.  Jan.  14  (O.  S.),  1733,  son  of  Rev.  Elisha  Kent, 
b.  July  9,  1704,  graduated  at  Yale  in  1729.  He  was  a  Presbyterian 
minister  at  Newtown,  Conn.,  and  from  about  1740  onward  at  Kent's 
Parish,  Putnam  County,  N.  Y.,  where  he  d.  July  17,  1776;  and  his  wife 
was  Hannah,  dau.  of  Rev.  Joseph  Moss,  of  Derby,  Conn.  Moss  Kent,  Esq., 
was  graduated  at  Yale  in  1752  and  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Duchess  County, 
N.  Y.,  in  June,  1755.  He  resided  at  Fredericstown,  on  the  Croton  River, 
where  he  practised  law  and  managed  his  farm  at  the  same  time.  He 
removed  to  Green's  Farms  about  1776,  and  afterward  to  Lansingburg, 
N.  Y.,  and  became  Justice  of  the  Peace  and  Surrogate.  She  d.  Dec.  30, 
1770,  and  he  m.  a  second  time  and  had  other  children.  He  d.  in  N.  Y., 
aged  sixty-one,  Feb.  14,  1794. 

THIRD  generation,  CHILDREN  (by  first  wife). 

II.  i.  James  Kent,  the  Chancellor,  was  b.  July  31,  1763.  He 
spent  several  years  of  his  childhood  with  his  grandfather,  Dr. 
Uriah  Rogers,  at  Norwalk  (1768-72),  as  his  mother  d.  Dec. 
30,  1770,  when  he  was  between  six  and   seven  years  of  age. 

*  The  names  of  the  children  of  James  Lockwood,  of  Norwalk,  and  Lydia'  Smith,  who  were  married 
Oct.  23,  1697,  were  : 

1.  Lydia,  b.  Dec.  17,  1710;  d.  June  18,  1712. 

2.  Hannah,  b.  October  23,  1713  ;  m.  Dr.  Uriah  Rogers.] 

3.  James,  b.  Dec.  20,  1714- 

4.  Lydia,  2d,  b.  June  10,  1716-17. 

5.  Job,  b.  July  13,  171S. 

6.  John,  b.  Feb.  8,   1719-20. 

7.  Samuel,  b.  Nov.  30,  1721. 


1SS4.]  Rogers  Lineage.  iq^ 

The  fame  of  James  Kent,  Esq.,  the  grandson  of  Dr.  Uriah 
Rogers,  of  Norwalk,  Conn.,  as  a  jurist,  has  filled  the  whole 
civilized  world.  He  ra.  in  17S7  Elizabeth  Bailey,  b,  in  1769, 
dau.  of  Capt.  John  Bailey,  of  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.,  and  sister 
of  General  Theodorus  Bailey,  U.  S.  Senator  and  Postmaster 
of  the  city  of  New  York  from  1804  onward.  (See  for  account 
of  Theodore  A.  Bailey,  son  of  Hon.  Theodorus  Bailey,  "  Strong 
Family  History,"  p.  627,  and  Dwight  ditto,  p.  255,  under 
name  of  Wm.  C.  VVoolsey.)  Chancellor  Kent  d.  Dec.  12, 
1847,  aged  eighty-four.  There  is  a  good  likeness  of  him  in  the 
"Memorial  Hall"  of  Hamilton  College,  at  Clinton,  Oneida 
County,  N.  Y.,  painted  in  1834  by  Frederic  Randolph  Spen- 
cer, Esq.,  of  New  York,  from  whose  hand  there  are  also 
superior  portraits  there  of  Washington  Irving  and  of  Joshua  R. 
Spencer,  of  Utica.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Kent  d.  June  ig,  185 1, 
aged  eighty-two.     They  had  no  children. 

12.  ii.  Moss  Kent,  b.  April  3,  1766. 

13.  iii.   Hannah  Kent,  b.  Oct.  10,  1768. 

[See  "Dwight  History  "  for  Kent  kinship  of  Chancellor  Kent's 
family,  in  the  Dwight-Dudley  branches  of  the  lineage,  pp. 
404-428  ;  Goodwin's  "  Genealogical  Notes,"  pp.  145-150  ; 
and  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Record, 
vol.  iv.  (year  1873),  PP-  ^-8,  and  pp.  83-92.  For  an  interest- 
ing sketch  of  the  personal  characteristics  and  history  of  Chan- 
cellor James  Kent,  see  "Short  Studies  of  Great  Lawyers,"  by 
Irving  Browne,  Albany,  1878,  pp.  218-237.] 

second  generation. 
6.  iv.  James  Rogers,  son  of  Dr.  Uriah  Rogers  and  Hannah  Lockwood, 
b.  Sept.  5,  1742,  was  a  merchant  at  Redding,  Conn.  He  was  a  leading 
man  there  in  many  ways,  and  filled  various  important  offices  as  early  as 
1762.  In  1793  his  name  is  prominent  in  the  tax  list.  He  m.  about  1761 
Eleanor  Wakeman,  b.  in  1742,  dau.  of  Thaddeus  Wakeman,  of  Fairfield, 
Conn.     She  d.  Dec.  21,  1820.      He  died  April  9,  1823,  aged  eighty-one. 

third  generation,  children. 

14.  i.  Joseph  Rogers,  b.   Oct.   31,    1762.     A  merchant  in  New- 

burg,  N.  Y. 

15.  ii.  Chloe  Rogers,  b.  Oct.  24,  1766;  d.  Aug.  14,  1844.  She 
m.  Joseph  Hawley,  a  farmer  in  Redding,  Conn.,  b.  May  25, 
1762,  son  of  William  Hawley,  of  Redding,  and  Lydia  Nash. 
He  d.  July  i,  1846,  aged  eighty-four. 

16.  iii.  James,  d.  March  6,  1794,  aged  eleven. 

-  twins,  b.  April  28,  1768. 

17.  iv.  Jedediah  Rogers.  He  was  a  merchant  at  Redding.  He 
m.  Milly  Read,  dau.  of  Hezekiah  and  Anna  Read,  who  d.  Feb. 
3,  I  789.  He  afterward  m.  a  wife  Abigail,  but  of  what  family 
name  not  discovered,  who  d.  Sept.  24,  1848. 

18.  V.  Aaron  Rogers,  b.  Aug.  22,  1770.  A  teacher  in  New 
Jersey.  He  had  a  son,  John  Rogers,  who  m.  a  Miss  Ives,  of 
Dan  bury,  Conn. 


154  Rogers  Li?ieage.  [Oct., 

19.  vi.  Uriah    Rogers,    b.    Dec.   13,    \112  ;   d.   April   13,   1788; 

aged  fifteen. 

20.  vii.  Abigail  Rogers,  b.  about  1776  ;  m.  Daniel  Betts,  a  fanner 

in  Redding,  son  of  Stephen  Betts,  of  same  place. 

21.  viii.  Betsey  Rogers,  b.  in   1779;  ni.  David  I.yon,  a  farmer  in 

Redding.     She  died  in  1846. 

22.  ix.  Sally  Rogers,  b.  Dec.  2,  1782  ;  d.  March  6,  1794. 

15.  ii.  Chloe  Rogers,  daughter  of  James  Rogers  and  Eleanor  Wake- 
man,  b.  Oct.  24,  1766  ;  m.  Joseph  Havvley,  of  Redding ;  b.  May  25,  1762. 
Their  children  all  settled  in  Redding  and  were  farmers,  or  farmers'  wives. 

FOURTH    generation,    CHILDREN. 

23.  i.  Lemuel  Hawley,  a  farmer  in  Redding.     He  was  b.  about 

1790.  He  m.  Polly  Betts,  dau.  of  Dea.  Stephen  and  Sarah 
Betts,  of  Redding.     He  d.  aged  eighty-seven. 

24.  ii.  Maria  Hawley,  b.  about   1792  ;  m.  Dea.  Aaron  Read,  son 

of  Salmon  A.  Read,  of  Redding,  and  had  three  children:  Har- 
riet, Mary,  and  Rev.  Charles  H.  Read.  Harriet  m.  Richard 
Smith,  nearly  related  to  Gen.  John  Cotton  Smitli,  of  Connecticut. 
Mary  m.  Nathan  Church,  nephew  of  Judge  Church,  of  Litchfield, 
Conn.  Rev.  Charles  H.  Read,  D.D.,  of  Richmond  Va.,  pastor 
of  the  Hanover  Street  Church,  m.  Tryphenia  King,  of  Sharon, 
Conn. 

25.  iii.  Uriah  Rogers  Hawley,  b.  about  1794,  went  away  from 

Redding,  when  about  thirty  years  of  age,  and  was  never  traced 
afterward  by  his  relatives, 

26.  iv.  Joseph  Hawley,  b.  about  1796;  m.  Harriet  Botsford,  dau. 
of  Moss  Kent  Botsford,  of  Newtown,  Conn. 

27.  V.  Aaron  Hawley,  b.  about  1798;  d.  aged  about  fifty.     He 

m.  Mary  Ann  Rockwell,  dau.  of  Samuel  Rockwell,  of  Sharon, 
Conn,  (father  also  of  Judge  William  A.  Rockwell,  of  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y.). 

28.  vi.  James  Hawley,  b.  about   1800;  m.   Lydia  Beach,  dau.  of 

Isaac  Beach,  of  Redding. 

29.  vii.  Eliza  Hawley,  b.  about  1802  ;  m.  Abial  R.  Botsford,  son 
of  Moss  Kent  Botsford,  of  Newtown,  Conn. 

30.  viii.  Dea.  Jedediah  Rogers  Hawley,  b.  Feb.  23,  1804  ;  m. 

Deborah  Ann  Rogers,  dau.  of  David  Rogers,  of  New  Yoik, 
and  Esther  Horton,  and  for  second  wife  Lydia  Ann  Hill,  of 
Redding,  dau.  of  Moses  Hill,  of  same  place,  and  Julia  Fanton. 
He  still  resides  (1884)  at  Redding. 

Since  giving  to  the  printer  what  is  presented  above  to  the  reader,  Mr. 
Jedediah  R.  Hawley,  of  Redding,  has  written  to  the  author  what  is  here 
added,  and  which  he  regards  as  too  valuable  to  be  allowed  to  be  lost,  and 
therefore  inserts  here  in  this  record. 

He  says,  being  now  past  eighty,  and  feeble  in  bodily  strength :  "  I  have 
an  old  picture  of  Dr.  Uriah  Rogers.  It  used  to  stand  on  my  mother's 
parlor-shelf,  by  the  side  of  a  picture  of  Hamilton,  killed  by  Aaron  Burr  in 
a  duel." 

Furthermore  he  says  of  David  Rogers,  his  father-in-law,-  that  he  was 
a  physician  in    East  Broadway,    New  York.      He  had  three  brothers  :    i. 


1SS4.]  Rogers  Lineage. 


155 


Charles,  a  slave-holder  in  Georgia.  2.  Morris,  a  physician  on  Long  Island. 
3.  Samuel,  also  of  Long  Island,  but  he  does  not  know  his  occupation,  or, 
seemingly,  his  residence,  or  that  of  Samuel.  This  family,  if  related  to  him, 
must  have  been  so,  as  nephews  to  Dr.  Uriah  Rogers.  David  Rogers  had 
three  sons  and  two  daughters,  viz.  :  (i)  Dr.  David  L.  Rogers,  a  student  of 
medicine  with  Dr.  Mott,  of  New  York,  and  a  noted  physician  and  surgeon 
himself  in  the  city.  (2)  Dr.  James  H.  Rogers,  who  died  in  California. 
(3)  A  son,  name  not  given,  who  d.  young.  (4)  Caroline  Rogers,  who 
m.  Thomas  W.  Garniss,  of  New  York.  (5)  Deborah  Rogers,  who  was 
b.  in  March,  1S02,  and  m.  May  10,  1832,  Dea.  Jedediah  Rogers  Hawley, 
of  Redding,  Conn.,  my  informant.  She  d.  in  1858.  She  had  one  daughter, 
Esther  R.  Hawley,  now  living  (1884),  unmarried,  in  Lakeville,  Conn. 
Lydia  Ann  Hill,  his  second  wife,  was  dau.  of  Moses  Hill,  of  Redding,  and 
Julia  Fanton,  of  same  place.  She  was  b.  Oct.  12,  1833,  and  m.  him  May 
22,  i860,  and  d.  May  11,  1880.  She  had  three  children  :  (i)  William  Jed- 
ediah Hawley,  b.  Oct.  29,  1862.  (2)  Joseph  Rogers  Hawley,  b.  March  7, 
1864.  (3)  Mary  Hill,  b.  Feb.  11,  1867.  William  J.  Hawley  (No.  i  above) 
was  killed  by  being  thrown  out  of  a  wagon  with  his  mother,  brother,  and 
sister,  while  they  all  escaped  death  but  were  seriously  injured.  Mary  Hill 
Hawley  resides  now  (1884),  unmarried,  at  Redding. 

The  foregoing  addition  to  the  details  of  the  Rogers  family  history,  the 
writer  has  gained  at  the  end  of  repeated  solicitations  for  more  facts. 

[Those  claiming  descent  from  the  two  Rogers  families  of  Norwalk, 
Conn.,  descendants  of  Uriah  and  Samuel  Rogers,  are  unfortunate  in  hav- 
ing but  very  slight  and  poor  records  of  their  family  connections  generally; 
and  they  lost  a  century  ago  and  more  what  early  records  they  then  had  of 
their  family  history,  both  on  the  other  side  of  the  ocean  and  on  this  side, 
by  the  burning  of  Norwalk,  on  July  11,  1779,  by  the  British.] 

Samuel  Rogers,  brother  of  Dr.  Uriah  Rogers,  of  Norwalk,  Conn.,  was 
born,  it  is  believed,  in  1712-14,  or  thereabouts,  and  in  Nova  Scotia 
possibly,  if  not  in  England,  and  came  it  is  supposed,  in  his  early  youth,  to 
Norwalk  to  resitle,  attracted  thither  probably,  by  the  previous  successful 
establishment  of  his  brother  Uriah  there,  as  a  physician.  Samuel  Rogers 
was  secretary  of  Governor  Thomas  Fitch,  Colonial  Governor  of  Con- 
necticut, who  resided  at  Norwalk.  His  residence  was  on  Chestnut  Hill, 
in  a  part  of  that  place  which  is  now  included  in  Wilton,  Conn. 

Samuel  Rogers  m.,  about  1748,  Elizabeth  Fitch,  b.  about  1724,  dau. 
of  Governor  Thomas  Fitch.  Her  father  Governor  Fitch  was  b.  in  1700, 
graduated  at  Yale  in  1721,  and  d.  July  18,  1774,  aged  seventy-four.  Gov- 
ernor Fitch  was  successively  judge,  chief  justice,  lieutenant-governor  or 
governor  for  forty-six  years  continuously  of  the  colony  of  Connecticut. 
He  is  described  enthusiastically  by  the  men  of  his  day,  as  "an  eloquent 
speaker,  an  accomplished  scholar,  an  able  jurist,  and  a  true  and  noble 
patriot."  Samuel  Rogers  probably  lived  several  years,  and  perhaps  many, 
at  the  Fitch  homestead  in  Norwalk,  All  efforts  made  by  the  writer  to 
trace  the- contemporaneous  Fitch  history  of  the  Rogers  family  in  Nor- 
walk have  proved  in  every  case,  however  earnest  or  persistent,  to  be 
unavailing.  Who  Mrs.  Thomas  Fitch,  the  wife  of  t^ie  Governor,  was  he 
has  found  no  one  of  her  descendants,  nor  any  descendant  of  the  Fitch 
family  at  large,  able  to  state  or  surmise.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Fitch  Rogers 
went  with  her  family,   at  the  close  of  the  revolutionary  war,  to  St.  John, 


156  Rogers  Lineage.  [Oct., 

N.  B.,  to  reside.  They  were  earnest  and  pronounced  loyalists,  but  they 
all  returned  again  to  this  country  after  residing  some  nine  years  in  St. 
John.  She  spent  her  last  days  with  her  daughter,  Mrs.  Esther  (Rogers) 
Gracie,  in  New  York,  but  resided  most  of  her  life  in  Norwalk.  All  their 
property  in  the  States  was  confiscated  and  their  grand  old  hereditary 
home  (the  Fitch  estate)  was  burned.  Samuel  Rogers  himself  was  un- 
fortunately drowned  at  Norwalk,  and  his  remains  were  carried  for  burial 
to  St.  John,  N.  B.,  Canada,  and  were  interred  in  the  old  burying-ground 
there,  where  the  stone  that  marked  the  spot  was  still  to  be  seen  until 
within  a  few  years.  The  date  of  his  death  or  interment  the  writer  has 
sought  diligently  in  vain  to  discover,  and  he  is  unable  to  say  whether  it  was 
before  or  after  the  revolutionary  war. 

[He  has  gathered  but  little  of  the  Fitch-Rogers  lineage,  but  enough  to 
show  clearly  in  what  lines  of  investigation  more  may  yet  be  found.  It  is 
this  in  brief:  Sir  Thomas  Fitch,  a  judge  of  nuich  distinction  and  made  a 
Baronet  by  Charles  I.  of  England,  resided  in  Eltham,  Kent  County,  Eng. 

Thomas  Fitch,  descended  from  Baron  Fitch,  d.  in  Braintree,  Eng., 
leaving  a  widow  and  several  sons,  who  afterward  came  to  this  country, 
to  reside  here,  between  the  years  1634  and  1639.  Thomas  Fitch  and  his 
brother  Joseph  Fitch  settled  in  Norwalk  in  1639.  Governor  Thomas  Fitch, 
of  Conn.,  was  descended  from  this  Thomas  the  settler,  in  the  third  genera- 
tion. The  tract  of  land  known  as  "  the  Fitch  Estate,"  which  formed  the 
family  homestead  for  more  than  a  hundred  years  afterward,  was  purchased 
of  the  Indians  by  a  deed  dated  Feb.  15,  1651.  The  tomb  of  Governor 
Fitch  is  still  to  be  found  in  Norwalk. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Rogers  had  a  brother,  General  Thomas  Fitch,  b.  about 
^725,  graduated  at  Yale  in  1746,  and  d.  in  1795,  who  is  said  to  have  been  in 
command  of  the  four  New  England  regiments  assembled  at  Albany  in  1755, 
in  derision  of  whose  uncouth  appearance  a  surgeon  in  the  British  army 
stationed  there  composed  the  song,  first  called  by  hiin  "  Yankee  Doodle," 
to.the  air  of  the  same  name  (previously  called  "  Nanky  Doodle  ").  (See  for 
history  of  "Yankee  Doodle,"  Lossing's  "Field  Book,"  etc.,  vol.  ii.,  p. 
683.)  Gen.  Tiiomas  Fitch,  Jr.,  m.  Sept.  4,  1774,  Hannah,  dan.  of  Richard 
Hall,  of  New  Haven,  Conn. 

The  Fitch-Rogers  family  of  recent  generations  hold  in  high  account 
their  Fitch  lineage.  The  Rogers  coat  of  arms  is  a  stag,  one,  or  more,  in 
full  erect  figure,  with  head  aloft  ;  or  a  stag's  head  with  branching  horns 
and  the  motto  "  Nos  nostraque  Deo"  ("We,  and  ours,  are  God's,"  or, 
"  His  we  are,  and  Him  we  serve  "). 

There  was  no  British  occupation  of  the  River  St.  John,  N.  B.,  until 
after  1761,  and  this  was  by  a  Jew,  from  east  of  Boston.  The  first  settle- 
ment worthy  of  any  such  name,  made  there  by  persons  from  New  York, 
was  in  1783,  at  the  time  of  peace.  Up  to  that  time  all  was  a  vast  wilder- 
ness where  now  is  the  flourishing  city  of  St.  John.] 

The  children  of  Samuel  Rogers  and  Elizabeth  Fitch  were  these  seven  : 

2.  i.  Fitch  Rogers,  b.  about  1748. 

3.  ii.  Moses  Rogers,  b.  in  1750  ;  d.  Nov.  30,  1825,  aged  seventy- 

five. 

4.  iii.  Susannah  (or  Susan)   Rogers,  b.   about   1752;  m.    David 

Lambert,  of  Norwalk,  Conn. 

5.  iv.  Henry  Rogers,   b.   April   12,  1753;  d.  ,aged   eight}-three, 

Jan.  10,  1837. 


Roq-ers  Lineas^e. 


157 


6.  V.  Nehemiah  Rogers,   b.   in    1755;  d.   Sept.    20,    1849,   ^.ged 

ninety-four. 

7.  vi.   Esther  Rogers,  b.    about  1756;  m.   Archibald  Grade,    a 

merchant  of  New  York, 

8.  vii.   Elizabeth  Rogers,  b.  about  1760  ;  d.  unmarried. 

second  generation, 

2.  i.  Fitch  Rogers,  son  of  Samuel  Rogers,  of  Norwalk,  Conn.,  and 
Elizabeth  Fitch,  b.  about  1748  ;  m,  about  1769,  Hannah  Bell,  dau.  of  Isaac 
Bell,  of  Stamford,  Conn.,  and  previously  of  Fredericton,  N.  B.,  by  his  first 
wife,  who  was  a  Holly,  Isaac  Bell's  second  wife  was  Susannah  Smith,  who 
was  the  mother  of  Capt,  Isaac  Bell,  Jr.,  of  New  York,  "one  of  its  oldjner- 
chants  of  renown,"  He  was  thus  half-brother  of  Hannah  Bell,  and  his  sis- 
ter, Katharine  Bell,  wife  of  Nehemiah  Rogers  (brother  of  Fitch  Rogers,  see 
infra),  was  her  half-sister. 

Fitch  and  Nehemiah  Rogers  were  two  of  the  original  grantees  and  early 
settlers  of  Parr  Town  (now  St.  John,  N.  B.)  in  1783,  They  were  both 
members  of  "  Old  Trinity  Corporation  "  in  1791,  when  the  organization 
was  first  completed,  and  the  church  was  made  ready  for  public  use,  Nehe- 
miah was  also  at  the  same  time  one  of  the  representatives  from  St.  John  to 
the  Legislature.  They  both  left  St.  John  to  reside  afterward  in  New  York, 
in  1792.  But  Fitch  Rogers  resided  for  some  time  before  removing  to  New 
York  at  Stamford,  Conn,  How  long  the  time  of  his  temporary  residence 
there  was,  cannot  now  be  stated.     He  had  seven  children. 

third    generation  children. 

9.  i.  Fitch  Rogers,  Jr.,  b,  about  1771;  m,  Mary,  dau.  of  Rev. 
Daniel  Smith,  of  Stamford,  Conn.,  a  Congregational  clergy- 
man.     No  children.     He  d.  at  Stamford,  Conn. 

10.  ii.  Catharine  Rogers,  m.  Rev.  Reuben  Sherwood,  b.  in 
Fairfield,  Conn,  He  was  graduated  at  Yale  in  18 13,  took 
orders  from  Bishop  Hobart,  and  was  rector  of  St.  Paul's  Church 
at  Norwalk,  Conn.,  for  fourteen  years  (1816-30).  He  went  to 
Hartford,  Conn.,  in  1830,  for  educational  service  in  connection 
with  Trinity  College  (then  called  Washington  College).  He 
did  also  missionary  service  in  Ulster  County  for  four  years 
(1831-5),  and  became  Rector  of  St,  James'  Church,  at  Hyde 
Park,  for  twenty-one  years  (1835-56),  where  he  d,  on  Whit- 
sunday, 1856.  His  daughter.  Miss  Catharine  Sherwood,  now 
resides  (1884)  at  Hyde  Park. 

11.  iii,   Henry  Rogers,  who  d.  unmarried  at  home. 

12.  iv.   Harriet    Rogers,    who   m.   John  Winthrop,      Their  son 

Henry  Winthrop  resides   now  in  New  York,    and  has  had  a 
family  of  ten  children. 

13.  V.  Charles  Rogers,  who  d.  unmarried  at  home, 

14.  vi.   AViLLiAM  Rogers,  who  d,  unmarried  at  sea, 

15.  vii.   Emily  Sophia  Rogers,  who  married  her  cousin,   Henry 

Rogers,  Jr.     See  account  of  her  family,  infra. 

second  generation. 

3.  ii.  Moses  Rogers,  son  of  Samuel  Rogers  and  Elizabeth  Fitch,  b. 
about    1750-1  ;  m.  in  1773  Sarah  Woolsey,   b.  in  1750,   dau.  of  Benjamin 


ic8  Rogers  Lineage.  [Oct., 

Woolsey,  Jr.,  of  Dosoris,  L,  I.,  and  Esther  Isaacs,  of  Norwalk,  a  converted 
Jewess.  He  was  a  large  hardware  merchant  hi  New  York  (Moses  Rogers 
&  Co.,  1785-93,  and  Rogers  &  Woolsey,  1793-8).  He  was  a  governor  of 
the  New  York  Hospital,  1792-9  ;  dhector  of  the  United  States  Bank  ;  treas- 
urer of  the  City  Dispensary ;  an  active  member  of  the  Society  for  Manu- 
mission of  Slaves ;  Director  of  the  Mutual  Insurance  Co.  ;  a  vestryman 
of  Trinity  Church,  and  one  of  the  founders  of  Grace  Church.  The  mer- 
cantile house  that  he  founded  in  New  York  lasted  there  in  high  repute  for 
forty  years  and  more.  He  d.  Nov.  30,  1825,  aged  seventy-five.  She  d. 
July  24,  1816,  aged  sixty-six.  The}'^  had  five  children,  one  of  whom,  Hes- 
ter, b.  in  1778,  d.  in  1793,  aged  fifteen. 

THIRD    GENERATION    CHILDREN. 

16.  i.  Sarah    Elizabeth    Rogers,    b.  Feb.    i,   1774;     m.    Hon. 

Samuel  Miles  Hopkins.  He  d.  Oct,  8,  1837,  aged  sixty-five. 
She  d.  Dec.  17,  1866,  aged  ninety-two. 

17.  ii.  Benjamin   Woolsey    Rogers,  b.  May    13,    1775  ;  ^"^  ^• 

Dec.  12,  1859,  aged  eighty-four. 

18.  iii.  Archibald  Rogers,  b.  about  1782;  d.,  when  not  ascer- 
tained. 

19.  iv.  Julia  Ann  Rogers,  b.  in  1788;  m.  Francis  Bayard  Win- 
throp,  Jr.  She  d.  April  14,  18 14,  aged  twenty-six  ;  and  he 
m.  again. 

16.  i.  Sarah  Elizabeth  Rogers,  b.  Feb.  i,  1774;  m.  Oct.  5,  1800, 
Hon.  Samuel  Miles  Hopkins,  a  lawyer  in  New  York  City,  and  afterward 
at  Albany,  N.  Y.,  and  M.  C.  (1812-14).  He  was  b.  at  (Salem)  Water- 
bury,  Conn.,  May  9,  1772,  son  of  Samuel  Hopkins,  of  Goshen,  Conn.,  and 
Mary  Miles,  of  Salem,  Conn.,  and  graduated  at  Yale  in  1791.  He  d. 
Oct.  8,  1837,  aged  sixty-five.  She  d.  Dec.  17,  1866,  aged  ninety-two. 
They  had  seven  children. 

fourth  generation  children. 

20.  i.  Mary  Elizabeth  Hopkins,  b.  April  13,  1802  ;  m.  Feb.  22, 

1S26,  William  Gordon  Verplanck,  Superintendent  of  Blooming- 
dale  Insane  Asylum.     She  d,  at  Dubuque,  la.,  Feb.  28,  1S59. 

21.  ii.  Professor  William  Rogers  Hopkins,  b.  Jan.  2,  1S05  ; 
m.  April  17,  1839,  Mary  Murray  Gallagher,  of  Geneva,  N.  Y., 
dau.  of  George  and  Ann  Jane  Gallagher.  Professor  of  Chemis- 
try, United  States  Naval  School  at  Annapolis,  Md.  Has  had 
•six  children. 

22.  iii.  Julia  Ann  Hopkins,  b.  Feb.  22,  1807;  m.  Sept.  13, 
1831,  William  Eaton  Sill,  b.  Oct.  14,  1806,  son  of  Elisha  Eaton 
Sill  and  Susan  M.,  dau.  of  Samuel  Hopkins,  of  Goshen,  Conn., 
her  cousin.  He  was  graduated  at  Hamilton  College,  New 
York,  in  1825,  and  is  a  lawyer  in  Geneva,  N.  Y.  She  d. 
March  5,  1849.     Had  six  children. 

23.  iv.  Hester    Rogers    Hopkins,   b.   Nov.  5,    1808  ;  m.   April 

10,  1839,  Charles  Alexander  Rose,  b.  at  Geneva,  N.  Y.,  Jan. 
5,  1807,  son  of  Robert  Selden  Rose  and  Jane  Lawson.  Gradu- 
ated at  Hamilton  College,  New  York,  in  1826,  a  farmer  at 
Savannah,  N.  Y.  She  d.  at  Geneva,  N.  Y.,  Oct.  8,  1S45. 
Three  children. 


1 884. J  Notes  on  the  Livingston  Family.  irn 

24.  V.  Professor    Samuel    Miles    Hopkins,    D.D.,    b.   Aug.  8, 

1813,  graduated  at  Amherst  in  1S32,  and  at  Auburn  Theo- 
logical Seminary  in  1836  ;  m.  May  15,  1839,  Mary  Jane 
Heacock,  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  b.  Feb.  9,  1816,  dau.  of  Reuben 
B.  Heacock  and  Abby  Peabody  Grosvenor.  He  was  settled 
as  a  Presbyterian  clergyman  at  Corning,  N.  Y.,  in  1840,  and 
in  Fredonia,  N.  Y.,  in  1844,  "and  since  1847  has  been  Hyde 
Professor  of  Ecclesiastical  History  in  Auburn  Theological 
Seminary,  N.  Y.  Has  had  seven  children,  one  of  whom  is 
Professor  Abel  Grosvenor  Hopkins,  of  Hamilton  College. 

25.  vi.   WooLSEY  Rogers  Hopkins,  b.  July  14,  i8t6;  graduated  at 

Hobart  College,  New  York;  m.  Jan.  28,  1862,  Mrs.  Fanny 
Woolsey,  nee  Sheldon,  b.  at  Newport,  N.  C,  April  9,  1832,  dau. 
of  Israel  Sheldon,  of  Orange,  N.  J.,  and  widow  of  Wm.  Walton 
Woolsey,  son  of  \Vm.  Cecil  Woolsey  and  Catharine  Bailey. 

26.  vii.  Sarah  Elizabeth  Hopkins,  b.   Aug.   20,  1818;  n).   May 

15,  1839,  John  Melancthon  Bradford,  b.  in  1813,  son  of  Rev. 
John  M.  Bradford,  of  Albany,  and  Mary  Tush,  Graduated 
at  Union  College,  New  York,  in  1838.  He  d.  at  Chicago,  111., 
Feb.  18,  i860.  She  had  for  several  years  a  family  school  for 
young  ladies  at  Geneva,  N.  Y.     Has  had  six  children. 

(To  be  continued. ) 


NOTES  ON  THE  LIVINGSTON  FAMILY— A  SHOPvT  ACCOUNT 
OF  ITS  EARLY  HISTORY. 


(Compiled  from  Original  Authorities. ) 

By  E.  Brockholst  Livingston,  F.S.A.  Scot. 


(Continued  from  Vol.  XV.,  p.  107.) 

During  the  protracted  negotiations  for  the  settlement  of  the  king's 
ransom,  and  for  the  effecting  of  a  treaty  of  peace  between  the  two  coun- 
tries, which  extended  over  a  period  of  ten  years.  Sir  William  Livingston 
of  Callendar  was  constandy  employed,  as  one  of  the  Scottish  Commis- 
sioners, in  travelling  to  and  fro  between  the  two  kingdoms,  sometimes  in 
the  company  of  Sir^Robert  Erskine,  or  in  that  of  the  other  commissioners, 
the  Bishop  of  St.  Andrews,  the  Earl  of  March,  and  the  Earl  of  Douglas.* 
In  the  preliminary  articles  of  the  treaty,  which  were  drawn  up  at  Newcastle- 
on-Tyne,  in  July,  1354,  the  names  of  twenty  hostages,  all  the  sons  of  noble 
Scottish  families,  were  inserted,  who  were  to  remain  in  England  until  the 
ransom  was  paid  ;  eighth  on  this  list  was  the  name  of  William,  the  son  of 
Sir  William  Livingston. f  But  it  was  not  until  after  repeated  delays  and 
constant  interviews  between  the  English  and  Scottish  commissioners  that 
the  treaty  was  finally  signed  on  October  5.  1357,  at  Berwick-on  Tweed. 
The  following  are  the  names  of  the  six  Scottish  commissioners  who  afhxed 
their  seals  to  the  treaty,  which  is  still  to  be  seen  in  H.  M.  Record  Office, 
London  :   Patrick  Earl  of  xMarch,  Thomas  Earl  of  Angus,  William   Earl  of 

*  Rymer  Fffidera,  vols,  v.,  vi.     Rotuli  Scotise,  vol.  i.  ,        •       i>r       •         itth-         j 

t  Foedera,  vol.  v.,  p.  792.     He  is  designated  in  the  original  a?;  "  Willi.^m   le  Fitz    Monsieur  W  lUiam   de 

Levyngiston."     This  was  not  his.eldest  son,  whose  name   was   Patrick,  after  his   maternal  grandfather,  ol 

whom  more  hereafter. 


l6o  Notes  on  the  Livingston  Family.  [Oct., 

Sutherland,  Thomas  Murray,  Sir  William  Livingston,  and  Sir  Robert  Er- 
skine.*  The  twenty  hostages  named  in  this  list  were  not  all  the  same 
as  named  in  the  preliminary  articles  drawn  up  three  years  earlier,  and 
instead  of  William  Livingston,  the  younger,  his  elder  brother  Patrick's  name 
was  inserted  tenth  on  the  list,  probably  on  account  of  his  higher  value  as  a 
hostage,  being  the  son  and  heir. 

This  exchange  was  an  unfortunate  one  for  the  elder  brother,  for  as 
nothing  further  is  heard  of  him  he  most  likely  was  one  of  the  number  of 
these  hostages,  who,  according  to  Buchanan,  died  shortly  afterward  from 
the  plague  which  then  ravaged  England, f 

Sir  William,  like  his  grandfather  Sir  Andrew,  held  the  post  of  Sheriff  of 
Lanark,  as  on  April  5,  1359,  he  rendered  to  the  ofificers  of  the  exchequer, 
then  sitting  at  Dundee,  an  account  of  his  expenses  while  filling  that  office 
from  the  previous  August  ist.J  Through  his  wife,  Christian  de  Callendar, 
he  not  only  got  the  lands  of  Callendar,  but  by  charter  dated  October  13, 
1362,  the  king  granted  to  him  and  his  wife  the  lands  of  Kilsyth,  which  had 
recently  fallen  into  his  hands  through  the  decease  of  Margaret,  daughter 
and  heiress  of  Robert  de  le  Val  (Vaux),  unmarried  ;  this,  the  charter  states, 
was  done  through  the  instrumentality  of  Sir  William's  old  companion-in- 
arms. Sir  Robert  Erskine,  who  pointed  out  to  the  king  that  as  the  lands  of 
Kilsyth  had  been  previously  in  the  possession  of  the  Callendar  family, 
Christian,  therefore,  as  the  daughter  and  heiress  of  the  deceased  Sir  Patrick 
Callendar,  had  the  best  right'to  them.§ 

Sir  William  must  have  died  between  August  7,  1362,  and  November  30, 
1364,  as  in  the  account  of  the  custumars  of  Edinburgh,  rendered  at  Stirling 
in  the  winter  of  the  latter  year,  there  occurs  an  item  of  ^3  6s.  8d.  paid  to 
his  son  William  Livingston,  of  Callendar,  by  order  of  the  king,  to  defray  the 
expense  of  his  father's  funeral.  ||  This  son,  according  to  Dou2;las,  the 
peerage  writer,  succeeded  his  father  in  possession  of  the  family  estates  and 
was  within  a  very  brief  period  succeeded  himself  by  his  son.  Sir  John  Liv- 
ingston of  Callendar,  I  am,  however,  of  opinion  that  the  latter  could  not 
have  been  the  son  of  William,  the  younger,  of  Callendar,  on  the  score  of 
age,  as  he  could  only  have  been  quite  a  youth  in  1354,  while  Sir  John  was 
old  enough  in  1381  to  marry  a  second  wife,  having  been  married  long 
enough  to  his  first  to  have  had  three  sons  by  her.  It  is,  therefore,  more 
probable  that  Sir  John  instead  of  being  his  son,  was  his  elder  brother,  and 
that  he  and  not  William,  the  younger,  succeeded  to  the  estates  on  the  de- 
cease of  the  senior  Sir  William  Livingston.^ 

*  Fosdera,  vol.  vi.,  p.  58.  Rotuli  Scotias,  vol.  i.,  p.  814.  Sir  William  Livingston's  seal,  which  I  h.ive 
seen,  is  somewhat  defaced.  Itjis  described  by  Laing  in  his  Supplementary  Catalogue  of  Ancient  Scottish 
Seals,  p.  locj,  as  "three  cinquefoils  within  a  double  tressure,  flowered  and  counterflowered."  The  inscrip- 
t  ion  round  it  is  "  S.  W.  D.  Levingston."  There  is  an  engraving  of  it  in  Vetusta  Monumenta,  vol.  iii., 
plate  29. 

t  "  Patrik  fitz  and  heir  a  Mons.  William  de  Levingston."  Acta  Pari.  Scot.,  vol.  i.,  p.  159.  Buchanan 
Book  ix.,  ch.  xxxvii.  Perhaps  he  was  the  son  of  Sir  William  Livingston,  who  died  in  Englani,'  .previous  to 
1364,  as  in  the  Inventory  of  Writs  of  1792,  at  Colzium  House.  Stirlingshire,  formerly  a.  seat  o  „he  Living- 
stons Viscounts  of  Kilsyth,  occurs  the  following  entry:  "  Discharge  by  Henry  Boye  )  5'^' V^i'li^ni  Liv- 
ingston of  Callendar  of  5  marks  owing  by  his  son  to  whom  he  was  executor.  Da.;d  at  York,  31  Jan. 
1363-U]."  For  this  extract  from  this  old  MS.  inventoi-y,  I  am  indebted  to  the  kinaness  ol  Mr.  Joseph 
Bam,  F.S..\.  Scot.,  who,  through  the  courtesy  of  Mr.  Duncan,  advocate,  and  son-in-law- of  Admiral  Sir 
William  Edmonstone,  ofDuntreath,  the  owner  of  Colzium  House,  has  been  enabled  to  furnish  me  with  in-  ch 
valuable  original  information  from  the  ancient  charters  and  other  papers  of  the  former  owners,  the  Living- 
stons of  Kilsyth. 

X  Exchequer  Rolls  of  Scotland,  vol.  i,,  p.  581. 

§  Registrum  Magni^Sigilli  (Record  Edition),  No.  12.  The  lands  of  Kilsyth  had  been  granted  to  an 
ancestor  of  Sir.Patrick  Callendar  by  Malduin  Earl  of  Lennox  in  1217.     Nisbet  Heraldry,  vol.  li.,  p.  19. 

li  Exchequer  Rolls,  vol.  ii.,  p.  128.  From  the  document  quoted  in  a  previous  note  it  is  proved  he  was 
alive  in  January,  1363-4  ;  so  he  must  have  died  in  the  latter  year. 

S  Douglas'  Peerage,  vol.  ii.,  p.  124. 


1884.]  Notes  on  the  Livingston  Family.  161 

Sir  John,  as  already  mentioned,  married  twice.  His  first  wife  being 
a  daughter  of  Menteith  of  Carse,  by  whom  he  had  three  sons,  Sir  Alex- 
ander, Robert,  and  John  ;  *  and  his  second,  Agnes,  daughter  of  Sir  James 
Douglas,  of  Dalkeith,  whom  he  married  in  1381  ;  she  was  the  mother  of 
Sir  William  Livingston,  first  of  the  House  of  Kilsyth,  f  The  original  in- 
denture or  contract  of  marriage  between  Sir  John  Livingston,  Lord  of  the 
Callendar,  and  Sir  James  Douglas,  Lord  of  Dalkeith,  on  behalf  of  his 
daughter  Agnes,  signed  at  Dalkeith  on  the  Feast  of  the  Assumption  of  the 
Virgin  Mary,  anno  Domini,  1381,  is  still  in  existence  in  the  charter  chest 
of  the  Earls  of  Morton  ;  as  is  also  a  supplementary  agreement  in  which 
Sir  James  Douglas  grants  to  his  daughter  and  her  heirs,  male,  the  annual 
sum  of  twenty  pounds  sterling,  which  is  also  dated  at  Dalkeith,  January  20, 
1381-2.^ 

Sir  John's  name  appears  as  that  of  a  witness  to  several  charters  in  con- 
nection with  the  Abbey  of  Cambuskenneth  and  other  places,  and  in  two 
of  the  charters  relating  to  donations  by  Sir  David  Fleming,  Lord  of  Eiggar, 
his  son  Alexander  also  appears  as  a  witness.§  He  was  also  appointed 
arbitrator  in  certain  disputes  between  the  Abbot  of  Cambuskenneth  and 
Sir  Thomas  Erskine  and  others.  || 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Estates,  held  at  Perth,  on  January  27,  1398-9, 
Robert  ILL  created  his  eldest  son  David  Duke  of  Rothsay,  and,  on  ac- 
count of  his  own  weak  state  of  health,  made  him  his  lieutenant  to  govern 
the  kingdom  for  three  years,  at  the  same  time  appointing  a  council  to  as- 
sist him  in  his  duties.  One  of  the  members  of  this  council  was  Sir  John 
Livingston. •[  This  unfortunate  prince  was  shortly  afterward  starved  to 
death,  as  is  supposed,  by  the  orders  of  his  uncle,  Robert  Duke  of  Albany. 

Three  years  later  Sir  John  appears  as  auditor  to  the  accounts  of  this 
same  Duke  of  Albany,  then  Chamberlain,  which  were  rendered  at  Aber- 
deen on  July  13,  1402;**  and  on  September  14th,  in  the  same  year  he 
fell  in  battle  at  Homildon  Hill  in  Northumberland,  where  the  Scots,  under 
the  Earl  of  Douglas,  were  defeated  byjthe  English  under  the  famous  Hots- 
pur and  the  Earl  of  March,  ff 

His  second  wife,  Agnes,  survived  him  and  married  again  ;  her  second 
husband  being  Sir  John  Gordon  of  Gordon,  whom  she  also  outlived,  and 
she  was  still  living  as  late  as  the  year  142S.JJ 

[To  be  continued.] 


Printer's  Errors  in  Last  Article. — Vol.  XV.,  No.  3,  p.  106,  line 
5  from  top,  for  Lanarh  read  Lanark  ;  line  32  from  top,  for  ZTodden  read 
Flodden  ;  p.  107,  note  ^,  for  "  Willelmu^  de  Levingston  baneret/ms " 
read  "  VVillelmus  de  Levingston  bannerettus." 

*  Sir  Alexander  became  afterward  the  celebrated  guardian  of  James  II. 

t  From  a  letter  of  curatory-  produced  in  January,  1506-7,  in  an  action  between  Gawin  Livingston  of  that 
ilk  and  Lc  d  Ross,  of  Halkhead,  and  copied  in  the  register  books  of  the  Acts  of  Council  in  Civil  Cases,  it 
appears  tl  'he  eldest  son  by  this  marriage,  whose  name  was  Archibald,  was  an  idiot,  and  therefore  had 
to  be  placed  un  'ci  e  guardianship  of  three  of  his  uncles.  Acta  Dominorum  Concilii,  MS.,  vol.  xxiii., 
fol.  90. 

X  These  documents  are  both  in  a  dilapidated  condition.  Registrum  Honoris  de  Morton,  vol.  ii.,  pp. 
145-7.  In  *e  last  will  and  testament  of  Sir  James  Douglas,  dated  December  19,  1392,  his  son-in-law,  Sir 
Jd'^in  Livingston,  is  appointed  to  be  one  of  his  executors.     Ibid.,  vol.  ii.,  p.  185. 

§  Regist.  :  de  Cambuskenneth,  p.  275.     Regist.  :  Episcopatus  de  Glasguensis,  vol   i.,  p.  298. 

y  Regist.  :  de  Cambuskenneth,  pp   32,  34,  259.  t  Acta  Pari.  Scot.,  vol.  i.,  p.  210. 

**  Exchequer  Rolls,  vol.  iii.,  p.  558. 

•ft  Balfour  :  Annales  of  Scotland,  vol.  i.,  p.  141. 

XX  Crawford  in  his  Peerage,  p.  275,  makes  out  that  the  Agnes  who  married  Gordon  was  Sir  John's 
daughter  ;  but  in  two  deeds  preserved  at  Colzium  House,  she  is  designated  as  his  widow,  and  their  son 
Sir  William  Livingston  of  Kilsyth,  is  also  mentioned  in  one  of  them.  , 


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RECORDS  OF    THE    REFORMED  DUTCH  CHURCH    IN   THE 
CITY  OF  NEW  YORK.— Baptisms. 

(Continued  from  Vol.  XV.,  p.  129,  of  The  Record.) 
A°   1705.  OUDERS.  HINDERS. 

dito  19.  GerretWouterse,  He- Helena, 

lena  Provoost. 
Frans  Gar  brants  e,  Frans. 
Elizabeth  Wes- 
selse. 


dito  23. 

25  dito. 

26  dito. 


GETUYGEN. 

Elias    Provoost,    Maritje 

Provoost,  j.  doght. 
Pieter   Jacobze,   Aaltje 

Wessels. 


30  dito. 
dito. 


A°  1706. 
January  6. 

dito  13. 


[298J 
January  16. 


dito  20. 

dito  27. 
dito  30. 


Olphert  Sjoerts,  Hil-  Cornelis. 
legondt  Lily k as. 


Ltiykas  Stevense,  Tryntje 
Lilykas,  h.  V.  van  Jas- 
per Hood. 

Johannis  Myer,  Elizabeth 
de  Freest,  Wed. 


Johannis  de  Foreest,  Isaac. 
Catharina    Raven- 
stein. 

Jacob  Yselstein,  Cat-  isBatadoch-  Evert  Pels  &  Jacob  A''an 


Una  Van  Deursen.        ter. 

Aerhofit  Filey,  Over-  Sara. 

leden,    Elizabeth 

Van  Veurde. 
Abrani     Brajor,     Eli-  Abraham. 

zabeth  Schoi'ite, 


Parent  Hybon,  Sara  Parent. 

Ennes. 
Willem  White,   Elsje  Thomas. 

Walgraaf. 
Jan  Koning,  Rusje  Dorathea. 

Plevier. 
Edward  Merrit,  Vrofit-  Belitje. 

je  Cosyn. 
Richard    Fleming,  Wyntje. 

Maritje  Brestede. 

Jesse    Kip,  Maria  Thomas. 

Stevens. 
Johannis  de  Peyster,  Maria. 

Anna  Banker. 
Gerret   Van    Hoorn,  Anneke. 

Elsje  Provoost. 

Christoffel   Elsewarth  Clemence. 

Ju',    Blandina    Bo- 

gardiis. 
Wessel   Pieterse,   Ja-  Jacobus. 

q  u  e  m  y  n  t  j  e   Van 

Kotiwenhove. 

Thomas   Sanders,  Anneke. 
Aeltje  Santvoort. 


Diierse,  Elizabeth  Ben- 
sen. 
Gerret  Fieley,  Sara  Van 
Veurde,  W'Cd. 

Hendrik  Pieterse,  Ma- 
rica  Schoute,  Wed.  van 
Barris  Thomasse. 

Adolph  de  Groof,  Geesje 

Leuvvis,  Wed. 
Mathys  Boekholt,  Siisan- 

na  Walgraaf. 
Jacob  Hassing,  Rebekka 

Van  Schaick. 
Thelinis  Qiiick,  en  Vroii- 

tje,  Syn  huysvrou. 
Hendrey  Braton    en   Jo- 
hannis  Hybon,   Maria 

Aartse. 
Samuel  Kip  en  Margreta 

Rykman,  s.  h.  v. 
Johannis   Banker,  Sara 

Klaver. 
John   Tibles   &    Maritje 

Provoost:    h.   v.   van 

Abrah.  Van  Hoorn. 
Clemence       Elsewarth 

Sen'',  Cornelia  Heyer. 

Johannis  Van  Kofiwen- 
hove,  Henrikje  ten 
Yk,  h.  V.  van  Johannis 
Pieterse  Van  Norde. 

Nicolaas  Rosevelt,  Elsje 
Sanders. 


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A°   170.6.  OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Febrtiary  3.     Jan    Van  der   Meer,  Hilletje. 
Elizabeth  Hoist. 
Nicolaas  Dailly,  Eli-  Johannis. 

zabeth  Krigier. 
Rip  Van   Dam,  Sara  Elizabeth. 
Van  der  Spiegel, 
dito  6.  Poulus  Van  der  Beek,  Catharina. 

Jannetje  Spring- 
steen. 
Michiel  Valey,  Eliza-  Helena, 
beth  Van  Trigt. 
dito  10.  John    Vinsang  Ju',  Anna. 

Lea  de  Vow. 


dito  13.  Johannis  Burgers,  Burger. 

Helena  Turk, 
dito  17.  Isaac  de  Ri em er,  Pieter. 

Antje  Woertman. 
Leonard  Leuwis,  Eli-  Rachel, 
zabeth   Harten- 
bergh. 
Adolf  de  Groof,  Ra-  Rebecka. 
chel  Goederus. 
dito  20.  Pieter   Chargneaij,  Gerre t  j  e, 

Aeltje  Smith.  den24''ge- 

doopt. 
Jan   A  u  k  e,   Helena  Johanna. 
Martens. 


dito  24. 

G  e  r  r  e  t  H}>er,  Sara 
Bos. 

Baltus. 

Maart  3. 

Cornelis   Eckesson, 
Willempje    VHere- 

Thomas. 

[299] 
Maart  3. 

.  boom. 

Abraham  de  Peister, 
Catharina  de  Peis- 
ter. 

Johannis. 

dito  6. 


dito  10. 


Abraham    Wendel,  Abraham. 
Catharina  de  Key, 

Philip  Menthorne,  Johannis. 
Hillegond  Web- 
bers. 

Willem  Appel,  Mag-  Johannis. 
dalena  Symons. 


Isaac   Vredenburg,  Kristina. 
Jannetje  Joosten. 


GETUYGEN. 

Stephanis  Boekenhood  & 

Anna  Hoist,  s.  h.  vrou. 
Philippus  Dailly,   Hanna 

Bogardis. 
Walter  Tangh,  Sara  Van 

Dam. 
Coenradus  Van  der  Beek, 

Catharina,  s.  h.  vrou. 

Cornelis  Lodgs,  Marretje 
Van  Tright. 

Levi  Finsang,  Johannis 
Dykman,  Anna  Fin- 
sang,  h.  V.  van  James 
Manny. 

Albert  Klok,  Elsje  Sib- 
ken. 

Pieter  Sonnemans,  Mar- 
greta  Selyns,  Wed. 

Johannis  Van  Giessen, 
Cornelia  Waldron. 

Parent  Hybon,  Rebecka 

Goederus. 
Barnardus  Smith,  Annatje 

Colevelt,  s.  h.  v. 

Rei  er  M  a  r  t  e  n  s  e,  Sara 
Marten se,  h.  v.  van 
Ge'  Burger. 

AVouter  Hyer,  Albertje 
Barentse. 

Thomas  Eckeson,  Aii- 
aantje  Eckeson,  h.  v. 
van  Fincent  Montague. 

d.  H'  Johannis  de  Peis- 
ter, a:  Rotterdam,  Jo- 
hannis de  Peister,  a:  N, 
Jork,  Catharina  Rom- 
bout,  h.  V.  van  M"  Brith. 

Jan  Narbliry,  Hillegondt 
Be}>ard. 

Aarnout  Webbers,  Lu- 
cresia  Van  Duerse. 

Johannis  Appel,  Annetje 
Slingerlant,  s.  h.  v.,  Jo- 
hannis Willex  en  Mar- 
greta,  s,  h.  vroii. 

Abraham  Vredenburg, 
Saara  Jooste,  h.  v.  van 
Isaac  de  Mill. 


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dito 

1706 
17- 

dito 

3^- 

Apri 

l3- 

dito 

7- 

dito 

14. 

dito 

17. 

dito  21. 


dito  24. 


dito  28. 
May  2. 


Onsetrout. 


[300] 
May  5. 

dito  8. 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Johannis    Hibon,  Francina. 

Geertruyt    Breste- 

de. 
PieterHaering,  Griet-  Elbert. 

je  Bogert. 
Davidt    Mandeviel,  Johannis. 

Marretje  Van  Hoe- 
sen. 
Johannis    Harden-  Anna  Maria. 

broek,    Annetje 

Bos. 
An  dries  Marschalk,  Maria. 

Elizabeth  Van  Gel- 

der. 
Willem     Echt,    Mar-  Eva, 

retje  Van  Dyk.         Sara. 


Jacob    Salomonse,  Jacob. 

Elizabeth  Dee. 
Jan  Kan  on,  Maria  Hester. 

Legran. 

Wiljam  Jakson,  Anna  Wiljani. 

Wesselz. 
James    Waters,   Ma-  Annetje. 

ritje  Bratt. 

M  a  r  t  e  M  y  e  r,  Im-  Catlyntje. 

metje  Van  Dyk.  L*; 
Alexander  Lam,  Eli-  Johannis. 

zabeth  Koning. 
Jaques  Fontein,  An-  Annatje. 

neke  Webbers, 
Pieter  Luykasse,  Ma-  Margrietje. 

ria  Wilems. 
Volkert  Heermans,  Jan, 

Margrietje   Ecke-Apalo-   \  s 

son.  nia. 


Petriis  Stiiyvesant. 
Rachel  Eckeson. 


Benoni. 


James  Sebren,  Antje  Jacobus. 

Myer. 
Jhon    Krook,    Geer-  Maria. 

truy  de  Haas. 
J  oris  Reierse,  Antje  Blandina. 

Schoute. 


GETUYGEN. 

Jan  Narbury,  Anna  I^its- 
co,  h.  V.  van  Will:  Pear- 
tree. 

Elbert  Harmse,  Catha- 
rina  Bogert. 

Theunis  Van  Vegte,  Ant- 
je Heermans, 

Nathaniel  Maasten,  Jo- 
hanna Jemmeson. 

Philippiis  Daley,  Catha- 
lina  Post,  h.  v.  van 
Abr.  Van  Gelder. 

Frans  Van  Dyk,  Isaac 
Kip,  Marretje  Van 
Dyk,  Wed",  Saratje 
Kip,  h.  v.  van  Isaac 
Kip. 

Isaac  Salomonse,  Susan- 
na Salomonse. 

Dirk  Koek,  Maria  Sals- 
berry,  h.  V.  van  Jacob 
Marius  Groen. 

Elizabeth  Wesselz. 

Anthony  Kaar,  en  Hans 
Kros,  Antje  Van  Hee- 
kele. 

Frans  Van  Dyk,  Magda- 
lena  Cornelis. 

Willem  Appel,  Aefje  Van 
Gelder. 

Carel  Fontein,  Catharina 
Jacobz. 

Willem  De,  Jezabel  Pie- 
terse. 

Jan  Eckeson  Se"',  Antje 
Heermans,  Theunis 
Van  Vechte,  Appalony 
Eckeson. 

Jan  Eckeson,  Jeremias 
Borres,  Ariaantje  Mon- 
tagne. 

Thomas  Robberts,  Ca- 
tharina Van  Hoorn. 

Adolph  Philips,  Cornelia 
Schtiyler. 

Petrds  Bej'ard  en  Rachel 
Van  Baal,  z.  h.  v. 


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:) 


A"   1706.  OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

dito  12.  Willeni  Van   de   Wa-  Margrietje. 

ter,  Aefje  Ringo. 

Evert  Diiykink,  Elsje  Evert. 

Myer. 
Samuel  Dee.  Zelia  Salomon. 
Salomons, 
dito  22.  Jacob  {is  Mol,  Lidia  Meindert. 

Wen  n  em. 
Juny  2.  Justis  Bosch,  Annet-  Henrikus. 

je  Smith. 

dito  9.  Jacob  Van  Duerse,  Tryntje. 

Aeltje  IJyt  den  Bo- 

dito  12.  Barnardus  Smith,  An- Sara. 

natje  Colevelt. 
dito  16.  Evert  Van  de  Water,  Annatje. 

C  a  t  h  a  r  i  n  a   Pro- 

voost. 

23.  Hendrik    Brevoort,  Abraham. 

Jaquemyntje  Boke. 
26.  Samuel  Kitsem,  Jan-  Samiiel. 

netje  Jans. 
JCily  3.  AdriaanGovertz,  Adriaan, 

Barber  Provoost. 

Davidt  Cosaar,  Stynt-  Maria. 
je  Joris. 
dito  7.  Jan  Olphert,  Tryntje  Margrietje. 

Bosboom. 
Jacob  Goddebek,  Jacobus. 
Margrietje   Pro- 
yoost. 
dito  10.  Albert  Klok,  Tryntje  Femmetje. 

Van  der  Heul. 

dito  14,  Petrtis  Beiard,  Rachel  Samuel. 

Van  Baal. 

Abel   Smith,   Tryntje  Annetje. 

Wybrantz. 
Otto   Van    Thuyl,  Margrietje. 

Grietje  Dirks. 

dito  21.  Baren  t  Rein  ders,  Johanna. 

Hester  Leislaar. 
Denys  Doolhage,  Ra-  Cristina. 
chel  Schuurmans. 


GETUYGEN. 

Albartus  Ringo,  Mar- 
grietje Van  de  Water, 
Wed. 

Jacobus  de  Lanoy,  Ca- 
tharina  Van  Hoorn. 

Barnardds  Janse,  Eliza- 
beth Dee. 

Meinder  Steen,  Engeltje, 
s.  h.  vrou. 

Albartus  Koenradus 
Bosch,  Annatje  Kole- 
velt. 

Matheiis  Bensen,  Eliza- 
beth Uyt  den  Bogert. 

Pieter  Chaigneaii,  Aeltje 
Smith,  s.  h.  vrou. 

Davidt  Provoost,  Zenior, 
Hendrikje  Van  de  Wa- 
ter, h.  V.  van  Anth. 
Rutgers. 

Jan  Hendriks  Brevoort, 
Tanneke  Van  Driese. 

Harmen  Bensen  en  Aelt- 
je, Syn  h:  vrou. 

Anthony  de  Mill  &  Will: 
Provoost,  Maritje  Pro- 
voost. 

Enoch  Mighielze,  Mag- 
dalena  Van  Hoorn. 

Jan  Pero  en  Metje,  z:  h. 
V.  &  Tunis  Qfiick. 

Gerret  Woiiterse  &  An- 
thony de  Mill,  Magda- 
lena  Provoost. 

Johannis  Van  der  Heul, 
Maritje  Myer,  h.  v.  van 
Hendrik  Van  der  Heul. 

Nicolaas  Evertsen  en 
Margrieta  Van  Baal,  s. 
h.  V. 

Alexander  Fenix,  Antje 
Wybrantz. 

Cornelis  Low,  Anna  Lits- 
ko,  h.  V.  van  Will. 
Peartree. 

Robberd  Walter,  Margre- 
ta  Stevens. 

Samuel  Staats  en  Anna 
Van  Biixgh,  h.  v.  van 
Andries  Grevenraat. 


1 66  Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  New  York.         [Oct., 


A"  1706. 

OUDERS. 

KINDERS. 

GETUYGEN, 

[301] 

dito  21, 

Cornells    Low,    Mar- 
grieta  Van  Bossen. 

Elizabe 

;th. 

Abraham  Low,  Dievertje 
Van  Heiningen,  h.  v. 
van  Bart.  CI. 

Willem   Provoost, 

Maria. 

Tobias  Stout enburg, 

Afje  Exveen, 

Margrietje  Provoost, 
h.  V.  V.  JohrVan  Brug. 

Pieter  Rykman,  Cor- 

Petrus. 

Johannis     Van    Giessen, 

nelia  Keteltas. 

Margreta  Rykman,  h. 
V.  V.  Jam*  Arp. 

dito  28. 

Stephanis  Boeken- 

Catharina. 

Jacobus  Goelet,  Maria 

hoven,  Anna  Hols 

t. 

Van  Brugh,  h.  v.  v.  Ste. 
Richard. 

3^- 

Albartus     Coenradus 

Albar 

t  us 

Ruthgert  Waldron,  Anna 

Bosch,    Maria 

C  0  e  n  r  a- 

Maria  Boscll^*^ 

Jeedts.  dus. 

Augustus  II.   Wynant   Van   Zante,  Johannis. 
Marie tje  Pra. 
Wouter  Hyer,  An-  Johannis. 
natje  Blom. 

18.  Michiel  Kannel,  Wil-  Aaltje. 

lempje  Sluys. 


Lea  Sickles. 


Martha. 


30. 


Septemb. 


Elias    EUessen,   Sara  Marretje. 
Peers. 

Jochem   Kolyer,  Ma-  Elizabeth. 

ria  Van  Gunst. 
Samuel    Kip,  Mar- Jacobus. 

grietje  Rykmans. 
Evert  Pels,  Grietje  Annetje. 

Melcherts. 
Isaac  Gouverneur,  Magdalena. 

Sara  Staats. 

Jacobus  Beyardt,  Hil-  Balthazar, 
legont  de  Key. 

Ruth  France,  Annet-  Johannis. 

je  Gerrets. 
Frans  Van  D\'k,  Tyt-  Nicolaas. 

je  Dirks. 
Jan  Danielse,  Jannet-  Jannetje. 

je  Pouwels. 
Joseph    Smith,    Mar-  Jacobus. 

greta  Korse. 


Johannis  Van  Zante,  Mar- 
greta, syn  h:  vrouw. 

Jacob  Blom,  Dorathe 
Hyer,  h.  v.  v.  Gerret 
de  Graw. 

Nicolaas  Uytenbogert  en 
A  el  tje  Uyten  Bogert, 
h.  V.  v.  Jacob  Van 
Deursen. 

Abram  Van  Dtierse  & 
Thomas  Sickels,  Geer- 
truy  Sickels. 

Willem  Peers  &  Jacob 
Cornelisse  Stille,  en 
Marretje, Syn  htiysvrou. 

Willem  Waldrom,  Eliza- 
beth Woodert. 

Albert  Rykman,  Maria 
Kip,  Weduw. 

Joris  Elzewarth,  Maritje 
Melcherts. 

Abraham  Gouverneur, 
Geertruyt  Staats,  j. 
dochter. 

Col.  Nicolaas  Be\>ardt, 
A^gustes  Jay,  Ariaant- 
je  Wiirmstaal. 

Willem  Bogert,  Elizabeth 
Gerrets. 

Petrus  Kip,  Marretje  Van 
Dyk,  Wed. 

Hfiybert  Gerretse,  Ma- 
ritje Lanse. 

Jan  Narbury,  Sara  Har- 
denbroek. 


1884.]        Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  New  York. 


167 


A"   1706.  OUDERS.  KINUERS. 

dito  8.  Jan   Laslee,   Ellena  Cornelia. 

Bisset. 

Symon    Pasco,    Mar-  Elzebeth. 
greta  Stevens. 

dito  II.  Coenraat  ten  Yk  J"',  Belitje. 

Antje  Van  Eps. 

dito  15.  Johannis  Sleght,  Ca-  Hendrik. 

tharina  Bergen. 

Hendrikus    Ten  Hendrik. 

Broek,   T  r  y  n  t  j  e 

Rom  men. 
Jacob  Marius  Groen,  Jacob. 

Maria  Salusbury. 
Abraham  Van  Gelder,  Cornelus. 

Catlyntje  Post. 
Carel  Beekman,  Ytje  Johannes. 

Van  't  Zant. 


[302] 
Septemb.  15. 


dito  22. 


dito  29. 


Johannes    Kerfbyl,  Anna  Valen- 

Margrietje  Pro-      tina. 

voost. 
Pieter  Savouret,  Hes-  Pieter. 

ter  David  Ju". 
Jan  Willex,  Margreta  Catharina. 

Dovve. 


Oktob.  2.  Isaac    Stoutenbilrg,  Jacobus. 

Neeltje    Uytenbo- 

gert. 
Frans  Langet,  Marit-  Nicolaas. 

je  Van  Schaak. 
lede  Thelinisse,  An-  Elizabeth. 

na  Luykasse. 
Nicolaas  Paersen,  Christina. 

Aeltje  Hyer. 
Abraham    V  r  e  d  e  n-  Apalonia. 

burg,    I  z  a  b  e  11  a 

Paersen. 
dito  6.  Petrus  Kip,  Immetje  Sara. 

Van  Dyk. 
Johannis  Jansen,  An-  Johannis. 

na  Lieurse. 
dito  9.  Willem  Waldron  Ju',  Resolved. 

Johanna  Nagel. 
Frans  Abramse,   Iza-  Frans. 

bel  Franse. 


GETUYGEN. 

James    Setem,     Cornelia 

Dissenton,  jonge   dog- 

ter. 
L  e  e  n  d  e  r  t    Huvge    de 

Kleyn,   Margreta  Van 

der  Veen. 
Coenraat  ten  Yk  Zen'', 

Marritje  ten   Yk,  h.  v. 

V.  VVessel  VVesselse. 
Cornells    Sleght,   Anna 

Catharina  Slegt. 

Willem  Elzewarth,  Ari- 
aantje  Rommen. 

Pieter  Wesselse,  Eliza- 
beth Van  Dyk. 

Casparus  Blank,  Cornelia 
Van  Gelder. 

Johannes  Van  't  Zant, 
Gerret  Wynants  Van 
der  Poel,  Margrietje 
Van  't  Zant. 
•  Symon  Kerfbyl  in  Am- 
sterdam, Catharina 
Kerfbyl,  Wed. 

Afigustiis  Grasett,  Hester 
David,  Zen''. 

Leendert  Huyge  de 
Klein,  Susanna  Ixis- 
laar,  h.  v. 

Samuel  Staats,  Jannelje 
Van  Thienhoven. 

Jacob  Yzelstein,  Maretje 

Langet. 
Harnianis    Van    Gelder, 

Teuntje,  s.  h.  vroii. 
Wouter    Heyer,     Styntje 

Paersen. 
Johannis  Vredenbiirg, 

Maria  Paersen. 

Jacobus  Van  Dyk,  jong"', 

Sara  Van  Dyk,  jong.  d. 
Carste    Lieurse,  Marretje 

Van  der  Spiegel. 
Willem  Waldron,  Zen"', 

Rebecka  Dykman. 
Abram   Franse,    Susanna 

Franse. 


1 58  Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  New  York.        [Oct., 


A"  1706. 

OUDERS. 

KINDERS. 

dito  13. 

Jan  Van  Hoorn,  Ca- 
tharina  Myer. 

Andreas. 

dito  16. 

Abraham  Van  Hoorn, 
Maritje  Provoost. 

Cornelus. 

dito  20. 

Gerret  Burger,  Saart- 
je  Martense. 

Sara. 

dito  27. 


Octob.  27. 


dito 


Willem  Walton,  Ma-  William. 

ria  Zantvoort. 
Ryer   Martense,   Re-  Jacobus. 

becka    Van    der 

Sciiure. 
Theanis  Van   Vegte,  Annatje. 

Antje  Heermans. 
Johannis     Hennijon,  Nathaniel. 

Margrietje  Baily. 

Robbert   Warren,  Robberd. 

Saara  Ashviel. 
Johannes    Tenuer,  Johanna. 

Anna  Meinders. 


Novemb.  3.      Louwerens  Cornelis-  Elizabeth. 
se,  Helena  Ben  sen, 

Salomon  Jacobse  Salomon. 
Goewy,    Catharina 
Doom. 


dito  6. 
dito  10. 

dito  13. 
dito  17. 


Abraham  Van  Deiir-  Pieter. 

se,  Lucretie  Bogar- 

dus. 
Johannis  Van  der  Nicolaas. 

Heul,  Jannetje  Ro- 

zevelt. 
Johannis  Van  Gelder,  Petrus. 

Aefje  Roos. 
Johannis     Pouwelse,  Margrietje. 

Elizabeth    Van   de 

Water. 
Huybert  Van  den  Hendrikus. 

Berg,    Marretje 

Lansing. 
Aelexander     Baird,  Robberd. 

Helena  Van  Vlek. 

Steven    Ver    Brakel,  Margrietje. 

Dina  Kloppers. 
Pieter   Jacobse,    Re-  Jan. 

becka  Jans. 


GETUYGEN. 

Gerret  Van  Hoorn,  Aegje 
Tibbets. 

Gerret  Van  Hoorn  en 
Elsje,  s.  h.  vrou. 

Jan  Berris,  Elizabeth 
K 1  a  s  e,  h.  v.  v.  Jan 
Kaar. 

Jacob  Fenix,  Maria  Wal- 

"""  ton. 

Jacobus  Goelet  &  Jan- 
netje, s.  huysvrou. 

Volkert  Heermans,  Mar- 
grietje Ekkeson,  s.  h.v. 

Johannes  Provoost,  An- 
neke,  Weduwe  van 
Daniel  Hennijon. 

Jacob  Sammen  en  Cat- 
lyntje  Bensen,  s.  h.  v. 

D°  Vincentius  Anthoni- 
dus  en  Titje,  s.  huys- 
vrouw. 

Dirk  Bensen  &  Callyntje 
Bensen,  h.  v.  van  Ja- 
cob Sammes. 

Cornelis  Doom  &  Jacob 
Salomonse,  Grietje 
Kermer,  Wed.  van  Ja. 
V.  Tilburg. 

Johannis  Van  Deurse, 
Cornelia  Hoyer. 

Nicolaas  Rozevelt  en 
Hilletje,  zyn  huysvrou. 

Phillip  Daley,  Catharina 
Van  Gelder,  jo.  doch. 

Theunis  Tiebout,  Jannetje 
Poiiwelse. 

Isaac  de  Riemer  en  Aeltje 
Wessels,  s,  h.  vr. 

Hendrikus  Beekman, 
d'Esopes,  Maritje  Van 
Vlek. 

Olphert  Sjoerts,  Pieter- 
nella  Kloppers,  AVed. 

Dirk  Van  den  Burg,  So- 
phia Coesje,  h.  v.  van 
Hans  Janse. 


1884.]        Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  New  York. 


169 


A°  1706. 

OUDERS. 

KINDERS. 

dito  20. 

Mangel   Janse   Rol, 

Margrietje, 

Antje  Henderiks. 

Tetinis   Van  Pelt, 

Jacob. 

Elsje  Hendriks. 
Dirk   Koek,  Susanna 

Antje. 

Kriegier. 
Johannes    Hooglant, 
Janneke  Andries. 

Elizabeth. 

dito  24. 

Cornelis     Kierstede, 
Sarah  Elzewarth. 

Hans. 

Johannes  de  Lamon- 
tange,  Sara  Pursell. 

Annetje. 

Decemb.  i. 

M  a  r  t  i  n  u  s  Krigier, 

Janneke. 

dito  4. 

Margrietje  Dalsen. 
Samuel  Beiard,   Mar- 
greta    Van    Kort- 
lant. 

Margreta. 

dito  8. 

Joseph  Waldron,  An- 
netje  Woedert. 

Daniel. 

dito  II. 

[304] 
Decemb.  15. 

Jacob  Koning,  Griet- 
je  Pieters. 

Adam. 

Isaac  de  Peister,  IVIa- 

Hendrikus. 

dito  22. 


dito  25. 
dito  29. 


A°  1707. 
Jan.  I. 


dito  5. 


rica  Van  Baal. 


Willem  Bogert,  Hille-  Wilhelmus, 

gont  Joris. 
Johannes  Van  der  Karste 

Spiegel,     Marretje 

Lieiirse. 
Michiel  Basset,  Hele-  Steven. 

na  Van  Alst. 
Thomas    Rentsfort,  Thomas. 

Elsje  ten  Broek. 
Abraham     Messelaar,  Annetje. 

Angenietje  Staats. 
Cornelis  Dirkse  Hoy-  Marytje. 

er,  Cornelia  Bogar- 

dus 

H  e  n  d  r  i  k  Van  der  Tryntje. 
Heul,  Marretje 
Myer. 

Merynus  Roelofse,  Telinis. 

Dina  Yedesse. 
Jacob   B  r  a  1 1,  Aefje  Evert. 

Wesselz. 
Benjamin  D.  Garreit-  Anna. 

te,  Anna  Outman. 


GETUYGEN. 

Abraham  Mesier  &  Eliza- 
beth, s.  h,  vrou. 

Jan  VVilkesse  en  Mar- 
grietje Douwe,  s.  h.  V. 

Adriaan  Man,  Femnietje 
Remse. 

Adriaan  Hooglant,  Eliza- 
beth Hooglant,  Wed. 

Dirk  Adolf,  Johanna 
Kierstede,  Wed. 

Jan  de  Lamontangne,  Eli- 
zabeth Blom,  s.  h.  V. 

Cornelus  Peister,  Marifje 
Krigier. 

Philippus  Van  Kortlant, 
Geertruy  Van  Kort- 
lant, Wed. 

Willem  'White,  Annetje 
Waldron,  jon.  dr. 

Alexander  Lam,  Eliza- 
beth Koning,  s.  h.  v. 

Cornelis  de  Peister  & 
Hendrik  Van  Baal, 
Maria  Banker,  h.  v.  v. 
Cornelis  d  Peister. 

John  Tibbies  &  Aefje 
Van  Hoorn,  s.  h.  v. 

Karste  Lieiirse,  Anna 
Lieurse,  h.  v.  v.  Joh. 
Janse. 

Rip  Van  Darn,  Elizabeth 
Kierstede. 

Willem  Howerd,  Lyntje 
ten  Broek,  Wed. 

Pieter  Janse  Staats,  & 
Annetje,  s.  h.  vrou. 

Olphert  Sjoerts,  Margriet- 
je Kloppers,  Wed. 


Johannes  Van  der  Heul, 
Elizabeth  Van  der 
Heiil,  h.  V.  van  Marte 
Klok. 

T  e  u  n  i  s  Yedesse,  Mar- 
grietje Lankhaar, 

Dirk  Egbertse,  Dievertje 
Bratt. 

Chareles  Davall,  Magda- 
lena  Bodinott. 


lyo  Willis  Family  of  Long  Island.  [Oct., 


WILLIS    FAMILY  OF   LONG  ISLAND. 


Communicated  by  Ben'jamiin  D.  Hicks,  Old  Westbury,  L.  I. 


In  1760  Samuel  Willis,  a  grandson  of  Henry  Willis,  the  emigrant  an- 
cestor of  the  American  family,  wrote  "An  account  of  kindred,"  in  which 
he  traced,  with  some  care,  many  of  the  branches  of  his  paternal  and  ma- 
ternal ancestry  from  his  own  time  back  to  that  of  his  English  great-grand- 
father. In  1801  Thomas  Willis,  a  grandson  of  the  above  Samuel,  perfected 
some  parts  of  the  record  left  by  his  grandfatlier,  and  made  a  few  additions 
of  later  generations.  Since  1852  Samuel  Hicks,  who  married  a  great-great- 
granddaughter  of  Samuel  Willis,  has  been  interested  in  completing  the 
record,  and  in  bringing  down  the  main  line  and  its  collateral  branches  to 
the  present  time. 

The  five  generations  as  given  below  are  taken  mainly  from  the  record 
as  left  by  Samuel  Willis  in  1 760. 

I.  Henry  Willis,  died  in  October,  1675.  He  was  a  native  of  Eng- 
land and  lived  in  Wiltshire  County,  where  his  six  children  were  born,  viz.: 

2.  Sarah,  b.  Sept.  10,  1626. 

3.  Henry,  b.  Sept.  14,  1628. 

4.  Alice,  b.  Oct.  13,  1630. 

5.  Catherine,  b.  Jan.  — ,  1632. 

6.  Elizabeth,  b.  Oct.  30,  1636. 

7.  Margary,  b.  Oct.  — ,  1638. 

3.  Henry  Willis,  born  as  above,  on  Sept.  14,  1628  ;  111.  Mary  Peace, 
b.  June  12,  1632.  They  resided  in  the  town  of  Devizes  until  1667,  where 
their  three  elder  children  were  born. 

The  year  after  the  great  fire  they  removed  to  London,  where  they  lived 
for  seven  or  eight  years  and  had  several  children  born  to  them.  It  being 
soon  after  the  rise  of  the  religious  sect  called  Quakers,  of  which  they  were 
members,  they  suffered,  in  common  with  their  friends,  imprisonment  and 
persecution  at  the  hands  of  the  officials,  and  much  abuse  and  annoyance 
from  the  rabble  because  of  their  peculiar  views. 

About  the  year  1675  Henry  and  his  family  (except  the  eldest  daughter 
Mary)  emigrated  to  America  and  found  a  temporary  home  in  the  town  of 
Oysterbay,  on  Long  Island.  A  year  or  two  thereafter  he  purchased  of 
Captain  John  Seaman  a  piece  of  land  in  the  adjoining  township  of  Hemp- 
stead (now  North  Hempstead),  where  he  permanently  settled,  giving  the 
place  the  name  of  Westbury,  after  a  town  in  his  native  county  in  Eng- 
land, which  it  continues  to  bear  to  the  present  day.*  He  died  there  July 
II,  1 7 14,  and  his  wife  Mary  on  April  23,  1714.     His  children  were: 

8.  Mary. 

9.  Elizabeth. 

10.  William. 

11.  Henry. 

*  It  is  claimed  (and  I  believe  with  a  good  degree  of  probability)  by  the  Titus  family,  that  the  name  of 
Westbury  was  given  by  Edmund  Titus,  their  emigrant  ancestor,  who  was  among  the  earlies*  settlers  on 
Long  Island,  and  who  is  supposed  to  have  been  a  native  of  the  town  of  Westbury,  in  the  County  of  Wilt- 
shire, England.  He  purchased  the  proprietary  right  of  Timothy  Wood,  one  of  the  original  patentees  of  the 
town  of  Hempstead,  and  received  as  his  portion,  upon  a  division  of  the  town  lands,  a  lot  at  Westbury,  where 
he  soon  after  established  his  residence,  and  which  is  still  (18S4)  owned  and  occupied  by  his  descendants  of 
the  same  name. 


1SS4.]  Willis  Family  of  Long  Island.  171 

12.  John. 

13.  Sarah. 

14.  Rachel. 

15.  Esther. 

8.  Mary  Willis,  eldest  daughter  of  Henry  Willis,  as  before  stated,  did 
not  accompany  her  father's  family  to  America,  but  joined  them  some  years 
later.  She  subsequently,  Sept.  27,  1678,  in.  George  Masters  and  set- 
tled in  the  city  of  New  York.  Her  husband  died  Sept.  9,  1696.  She 
died  July  15,  1702.     Her  children  were: 

16.  Mary,  b.  July  15,  1679. 

17.  Philadelphia,  b.  May  14,  1684. 

16.  Mary  Masters,  m.  William  Haig,  July  i,  1702,  and  went  to  the 
island  of  Antigua,  but  trnally  settled  in  Pasquotank  County,  North  Caro- 
lina.    She  and  her  husband  both  died  there  in  ^718.     They  had  : 

18.  Mary,  b.  June  11,  1704. 

19.  Sarah. 

17.  Philadelphia  Masters,  m.  Jeremiah  Williams  and  had  : 

20.  Joseph,  b.  Mar.  15,  17 10;  died  an  infant. 

21.  Hannah,  b.  Sept.  8,  1711. 

9.  Elizabeth  Willis,  second  daughter  of  Henry  Willis,  m.  Robert 
Zane,*  of  Newtown,  N.  J.,  and  had  : 

22.  Esther. 

23.  Rachel. 

24.  Robert. 

Her  husband  died  in  1694,  and  she  m.,  second,  William  Rakestraw  and 
had  : 

25.  Sarah. 

22.  Esther  Zane,  m.  Joshua  Delaplane,  Oct.  4,  1716,  and  lived  in 
the  city  of  New  York.     She  had  : 

26.  Joshua,  b.  Aug.  27,  1721;  d.  Oct.  4,  1771. 

27.  Joseph,  b.  \  m.  Farrington, 

23.  Rachel  Zane,  m.  Samuel  Pine,  April  i,  1720.  They  had  no^chil- 
dren.  He  died  and  she  m.,  second,  Jonathan  Peasly,  of  England,  and 
had: 

28.  Elizabeth. 

24.  Robert  Zane,  m.  Jane ,  and  had  : 

29.  Robert. 

30.  Joseph. 

31.  William. 

32.  Simeon. 

33.  Isaac. 

34.  Rebecca. 

35.  Rachel. 
■7^6.  Elizabeth. 
37.  Esther. 
3^.  Sarah. 

25.  Sarah  Rakestraw,  m.  James  Whitall,  and  had  : 
>    39.  James. 

Her  husband  died  and  she  m.,  second,  Joseph  Hermitage. 

*  Robert  Zane  came  from  Dublin,  probably  in  1675,  and  was  a  pioneer  in  the  settlement  of  Newto^yn. 
His  first  wife  was  Alice  Alday,  reported  to  have  been  an  Indian  maiden.  He  had  by  her  Nathaniel, 
Elnathan,  Simeon,  Mary,  and  Sarah. 


1^2  Willis  Family  of  Long  Island.  [Oct. 

lo.  William  Willis,  eldest  son  of  Henry  ^Villis,  b.  Oct.  i6,  1663,  in 
Wiltshire,  Eng.;  m.  Mary  Titus,  June  10,  1687,  and  liad  : 

40.  William,  b.  April  4,  1688. 

41.  Henry,  b.  June  19,  1690. 

42.  John,  b.  Feb.  15,  1693. 

43.  Jacob,  b.  Sept.  6,  1695. 

44.  Silas,  b.  June  27,  1700. 

45.  Samuel,  b.  June  30,  1704. 

46.  Mary,  b.  May  23,  1707. 

William  Willis  d.  March  7,  1736.      His  wife,  Mary  Titus,  b.  May  — , 
1665;  d.  Oct.  31,  1747. 

40.  William  Willis,  m.  in  1712  Hannah  Powell,  b.  May  28,  1691  ;  d. 
March  6,  1750,  and  had  : 

47.  Mary,  b.  April  i^i,  1713. 

48.  Hannah,  b.  Dec.  27,  17 14. 

49.  Elizabeth,  b.  Aug.  8,  17 16. 

50.  Rachel,  b.  July  5,  1718. 

51.  Jacob,  b.  May  5,  1720. 

52.  Samuel,  b.  Dec.  27,  1722. 

53.  Amey,  b.  Jan.   5,  1724. 

54.  MoRDiCA,  b.  Jan.  14,  1725. 

55.  Silas,  b.  Jan.  5,  1727. 

56.  Mar'J'ha,  b.  July  29,  1729. 

57.  William,  b.  Dec   5,  173?- 

58.  Joseph,  b.  May  15,  1734. 
William  Willis,  the  father,  d.  May  6,  \  750. 

41.  Henry  Willis,  m.  in  17 12  Phebe  Powell,  dau,  of  Thomas  Powell, 
and  sister  of  his  brother  William's  wife,  and  had  : 

59.  Mary,  b.  Feb.  22,  17 13. 

60.  Silas,  b.  Jan.  4,  1716. 

61.  Phebe,  b.  Jan.  i,  1719. 
Henry  Willis  d.  Oct.  12,  1744.    - 

42.  John  Willis,  m.  Abigail  Willets,  dau.  of  Richard  Willets,  of  Jeri- 
cho (b.  Dec.  27,  1690),  and  had  : 

62.  Phebe,  b.  Jan.  24,  17 15. 
(>l.  Richard,  b.  Oct.  30,  17 16. 

64.  Elizabeth,  b.  Jan.  4,  171 9. 

65.  William,  b.  Mar.  23,  1720. 

66.  John,  b.  April  5,  1726. 

67.  Stephen,  b.  Jan.  13,  1736. 

John  Willis  d.  May  9,  1777,  and  his  wife  Abigail  d.  April  29,  1777. 

43.  Jacob  Willis,  d.  unmarried. 

44.  Silas  Willis,  d.  in  youth. 

45.  Samuel  Willis,  m.  Aug.   2,  1728,  Mary  Fr}-,  b.   Dec.   16,  1712, 
dau.  of  John  and  Mary  Fry,  and  had  : 

68.  Mary,  b.  Mar.  7,  1731. 

69.  John,  b.  Feb.  8,  \  734. 

70.  Sarah,  b.  July  14,  1736. 

71.  Amy,  b.  Mar.  27,  1738. 

72.  Jane,  b.  Nov.  7,  1740. 

73.  Fry,  b.  April  9,  1 744. 

74.  Kesia,  b.  April  7,  1747. 


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75.  Henry,  b.  Sept.  15,  1749. 

76.  Edmund,  b.  Sept.  29,  1752. 

77.  Phebe,  b.  May  28,  1756. 
Samuel  Willis  d.  Dec.  24,  1782. 

IT.   Henry  Willis,  second  son  of  Henry  Willis,  b.  1666;  d.  in  Oct., 

1675- 

12.  John  Willis,  third  son  of  Henry  Willis,  b.  in  London,  Jan.  6, 
1668,  went  to  Pennsylvania,  where  he  m.  Esther  Brenton,  and  settled  at 
Thornbury,  in  Chester  County.     His  children  were  : 

78.  WlLL[AM. 

79.  Edward. 

80.  Benjamin. 

81.  Mary. 

82.  Ann. 

83.  Sarah, 

84.  Esther. 

13.  Sarah  Willis,  third  dau.  of  Henry  Willis,  b.  in  London,  Afay  5, 
1671  ;  m.  Aug.  9,  1695,  John  Titus,  b.  Feb.  29,  1672,  son  of  Edmund 
Titus  and  brother  of  her  brother  William's  wife,  and  had  : 

85.  Mary,  b.  April  13,  1696. 

86.  John,  b.  May  28,  1698. 

87.  Philadelphia,  b.  Sept.  29,  1700. 

88.  Jacob,  b.  May  i,  1703. 

89.  William,  b.  July  23,  1705. 

90.  Sarah,  b.  Jan.  7,  1708. 

91.  Phebe,  b.  May  6,  17 10. 
Sarah  (Willis)  Titus  d.  Jan.  i,  1730. 

85.  Mary  Titus,  dau.  of  John  and  Sarah  (Willis)  Titus,  m.  Nov.  15, 
1 71 7,  Henry  Pearsall,  of  Hempstead,  and  had: 

92.  Phebe. 

93.  Ann. 

94.  Thomas. 

95.  Rowland. 

96.  John. 

Henry  Pearsall  d.  Dec.  10,  1749. 

86.  John  Titus,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Willis)  Titus,  m.  Sarah  Pear- 
sall, and  had  : 

97.  Henry,  b.  Dec.  1,  1722. 

98.  Mary,  b.  Nov.  23,  1724. 

99.  James,  b.  July  16,  1730. 
100.  Elizabeth,  b.  Feb.   16,  1733. 
loi.  Sarah,  b.  Oct.  23,  1737. 

102.  Jonathan,  b.  Nov.  8,  1743. 

His  wife  d.  Jan.  28,  1753,  and  he  m.,  second,  Phebe  Thomas,  a  widow 
from  Pennsylvania.     No  issue.     He  d.  May  28,  i757- 

87.  Philadelphia  Titus,  dau.  of  John  and  Sarah  (Willis)  Titus,  m. 
Thomas  Seaman,  and  had  : 

103.  Sarah,  b.  Mar.  29,  1724. 

104.  Obediah,  b.  Feb.  17,  1729. 

105.  Phebe,  b.  Jan.  7,  1733. 

106.  Mary,  b.  July  28,  1737. 


174  Willis  Family  of  Long  Island.  [Oct., 

8>.  Jacob  Titus,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  (VVilUs)  Titus,  m.  Margaret 
German,  and  had  : 

107.  Timothy. 

108.  Phila. 

109.  Phebe. 
no.  Samuel. 

111.  Jacob. 

112.  Margaret. 

113.  Sarah. 

114.  Elizabeth. 

89.  William  Titus,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  (WiUis)  Titus,  m.  EUza- 
beth  Seaman,  and  had  : 

115.  Hannah. 

116.  Thomas. 

117.  Phebe. 

118.  John. 

William  Titus  d.  April  18,  1750. 

90.  Sarah  Titus,  dau.  of  John  and  Sarah  (Willis)  Titus,  m.  Edmund 
Titus,  and  had  : 

119.  Phebe,  b.  April  29,  1733. 

120.  Sarah,  b.  Aug.  27,  1735. 

121.  Martha,  b.  Jan.  24,  1738. 

122.  Mary,  b.  July  17,  1740. 

123.  Hannah,  b.  July  12,  1743. 

Edmund  Titus  d.  May  23,  1754  ;  and  his  widow  m.,  second,  Isaac  Doty, 
but  had  no  issue  by  him.     She  d.  Aug.  30,  1772. 

91.  Phebe  Titus,  dau.  of  John  and  Sarah  (Willis)  Titus  ;  m.,  in  172S, 
John  Ridgway  (b.  in  1705),  and  settled  at  Little  Egg  Harbor,  N.  J.  No 
issue. 

Phebe  (Titus)  Ridgway  died,  and  her  husband,  John  Ridgway,  m.,  second, 
Phebe  Belangee,  by  whom  he  had  five  children.     He  d.  May  21,  1774. 

14.  Rachel  Willis,  fourth  dau.  of  Henry  Willis,  m.  Aug.  9,  1695, 
Nathaniel  Seaman,  seventh  son  of  Capt.  John  Seaman,  and  had  : 

124.  Rachel,  b.  May  26,  1696;  d.  Nov.  25,  1702. 

125.  Nathaniel,  b.  Nov.  18,  1699. 

126.  Esther,  b.  Sept.  8,  1701. 

127.  Jacob,  b.  Aug.  10,  1703. 

128.  Abraham,  b.  Nov.  10,  1706. 

129.  Rachel,  b.  Jan.  9,  1708. 

130.  Hesekiah,  b.  Mar.  11^  1711. 

131.  Thomas,  b.  Nov.  2,  1713. 

132.  Samuel,  b.  April  13,  1715. 

Rachel  Seaman  d.  Aug.  29,  1739,  andher"husband,  Nathaniel  Seaman, 
d.  Oct.  9,  1759. 

125.  Nathaniel  Seaman,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Rachel  (Willis)  Sea- 
man, m.  Sarah  Powell,  and  had  : 

133.  Nathaniel,  m.  Sarah,  dau.  of  Richard  Smith,  d.  Nov.  21,  1S16. 

134.  Kesia,  m.  Jacob  Mott. 

135.  Ambrose,  m.  Margaret  Seaman. 

136.  Stephen. 

137.  Thomas. 

138.  Rachel. 

139.  William. 


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Nathaniel  Seaman  d,  June  14,  1774. 

126.  Esther  Seaman,  dau.  of  Nathaniel  and  Rachel  Seaman,  m,  John 
Whitson,  and  had  : 

140.  Nathaniel,  m.  Mary  Powell. 

141.  John,  m.  Whitman. 

Esther  Whitson  d.  July  6,  1759. 

127.  Jacob  Seaman,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Rachel  Seaman,  m.  Mary 
Powell,  b.  March  18,  1697,  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Mary  Powell,  and  had  : 

142.  Jemima,  d.  young. 

143.  Jacob,  b.  Feb.  20,  1732. 

144.  Gilbert. 

145.  Amy. 

Jacob  Seaman  d.  April  4,  1759,  ^"<^  Mary,  his  wife,  d.  March  13,  1759. 

128.  Abraham  Seaman,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Rachel  Seaman,  m. 
Deborah  Townsend,  dau.  of  James  Townsend,  and  had : 

146.  James. 

147.  Peleg. 

148.  Stephen. 

149.  Almy. 

150.  Abraham. 

129.  Rachel  Seaman,  dau.  of  Nathaniel  and  Rachel  Seaman,  m.  Jan. 
30,  I  738,  Jeremiah  Elfreith,  of  Philadelphia.  Had  one  child,  which  died 
in  infancy. 

130.  Hesekiah  Seaman,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Rachel  Seaman,  m.  Mary 
Doty,  and  had  : 

151.  Thomas. 

152.  Jacob. 

153.  Stephen. 

154.  Almy. 

131.  Thomas  Seaman,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Rachel  Seaman,  m.  Hannah 
Willets,  b.  Oct.  6,  171 1,  dau,  of  Thomas  Willets,  of  Pennsylvania,  and  had  : 

155.  Simeon,  b.  Aug.  31,  i743>  d.  1751. 

156.  Gideon,  b.  Dec.  5,  1744. 

157.  Anna,  who  m.  Fry  Willis. 

158.  Hannah,  b.  Aug.  3,  1749. 

159.  Rachel,  b.  Mar.  30,  1752. 

160.  Phebe,  b.  May  3,  1755. 
Hannah  (Willets)  Seaman  d.  July  23,  1755. 

132.  Samuel  Seaman,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Rachel  Seaman,  m. 
Martha  Valentine,  b.  Nov.  18,  1717,  dau.  of  Obadiah  Valentine,  and  had  : 

161.  Willet,  m.  Mary,  dau.  of  D.  Searing. 

162.  Valentine. 

163.  Obadiah,  m.  Deborah,  dau.  of  Obadiah  Valentine. 

164.  Rachel,  ni.  Silas,  son  of  Benjamin  Hicks. 

165.  Martha,  m.  Henry  Titus. 

166.  Phebe,  b.  June  4,  1747,  m.  Samuel  Hicks. 

167.  Miriam,  m.  Stephen  Robbins. 

168.  Samuel,  m.  Kezia,  dau.  of  Thomas  Titus. 

169.  Esther,  ni,  Samuel  Sands. 

170.  Abigail,  m,  Richard  Willets. 

171.  Marmaduke,  d.  young. 

15.  Esther  Willis,  fifth  dau.  of  Henry  WiUis,  m.  Aug.  9,  1695,  Wil- 


1^6  Records  of  St.  George's  Church,  Hempstead,  L.  I.  [Oct., 

liam  Albertson,*  of  Gloucester,  Camden  County,  N.  J.,  son  of  William  Al- 
bertson,  one  of  the  original  settlers  in  West  Jersey.     She  had  : 

172.  John. 

173.  Abraham. 

174.  William. 

175.  Jane. 

176.  Mary. 

177.  Esther. 

173.  Abraham  Albertson,  m.  Sarah  Dennis. 

174.  William  Albertson,  m.  Jane  Turner,  and  had  several  children. 

175.  Jane  Albertson,  m.  Gilbert  Albertson,  and  had  three  children. 
Her  husband  died  and  she  m.,  second,  William  Edgarton.     No  issue. 

176.  Mary  Albertson,  married ,  and  had  children. 

177.  Esther  Albertson,  m.  William  Bates,  and  had  several  chil- 
dren. Her  husband  died,  and  she  m.,  second,  Thomas  Edgarton,  and  had 
several  children  by  him. 

The  above  is  all  the  information  that  I  have  been  able  to  obtain  of 
Esther  Willis'  descendants.  Perhaps  some  one,  better  informed,  will 
kindly  fill  out  the  record. 


RECORDS  OE  ST.   GEORGE'S    CHURCH,    HEMPSTEAD,  L.   I., 
EROM  JUNE  5,   1725,  TO .     Marriages. 


Communicated  by  Benjamin  D.  Hicks,  Esq. 

(Continued  from  Vol.  XV.,  page  113,  of  The  Record.) 
1784. 

Jan.  26.  Jesse  Brundige,  of  Queens  Co.,  and  Martha  Powell,  of  » 
Suftblk  Co.  B. 
Jan.  30.  David  Doty  and  Amy  Cathow,  both  of  Oisterbay.  — 
Eeb.  I.  John  Pearsall  and  Anne  Dorlon.  — 
Feb.  19.  Joseph  Craft,  of  Oisterbay,  and  Sarah  Crooker,  of  Hemp- 
stead. — 
Feb.  21.  Dreck  McCoon  and  Anne  Albertson,  both  of  Suffolk  Co.  — 
.Feb.  22.  Richard  Bedel  and  Mary  Pearsall.  — 
Mar.  4.  Benjamin  Akerly  and  Catherine  Bedel.  — 
Mar.  14.  Benjamin  Roads  and  Hannah  Hall.  — 
Mar.  17.  James  Losee  and  Rachel  Bedel.  — 
Mar.  20.   Benjamin  Wanzer,  of  Oisterbay,  and  Rebecca  Southward, 

of  Hempstead.  — 
Mar.  20.  John  Miller,  of  Oisterbay,  and  Phebe  Brass,  of  Hemp- 
stead. — 
April  I.  Isaac  Tappon  and  Anne  Starkin,  both  of  Oisterbay.  B. 
April  19.  Abraham  Powell  and  Mary  Dickinson,  both  of  Oisterbay.  B. 
May  4.  Minny  Van  Siklen  and  Letitia  Seaman,  both  of  Oisterbay.  — 
May  9.  Samuel  Rhoades  and  Sarah  Raynor.  — 
May  10.  Benjamin  Bulson  and  Abigail  Waldram.  — 
June  14.  William  Langden  and  Letitia  Southward.  — 
July    14.   William  Tucker  and  Lynah  Poole,  widow.  — 

*  William  the  father^died  in  1720. 


1884.]                                        Notes  and  Queries.  \*i>-7 

July    29.   Solomon  Latham  and  Esther  Miller,  B. 

Aug.     8.   Samuel  Verity  and  Zipporah  Wilson,  both  of  Oisterbay.  — 

Aug.  22.  John  Valentine  and  Elizabeth  Nostrandt.  — 

Sep.     9.   George  Frails  and  Sarah  Cunningham,  B. 
Sep,    12.   At    Oisterbay,    John    Collin,    of   Hempstead,    and    Jane 

Smaller,  of  Oisterbay.  — 

Sep.   21.  Henry  Baldwin  and  Anne  Barton.  — 
Oct.     3.  At  Oisterbay,  Jocobus  Suydam  and  Rebecca  Wright,  both 

of  Oisterba)'.  — 
Oct.  3.  At  Oisterbay,  John  Kew  and  Phebe  Jillet,  both  of  Oister- 
bay. — 
Micheal  De  Mott  and  Parmela  Carman.  — 
William  Stokam  and  Sarah  Abrahams.  — 
Samuel  Doxee  and  Margaret  Mott.  B. 
Stephen  Haff  and  Rebecca  Stratton,  both  of  Oisterbay,  — 

Thomas  Lambert  Moore,  Rector. 

Dec.  26.  Samuel  Peltro  and  "             "  Cadles.  — 


Oct. 

17- 

Oct. 

17. 

Oct. 

18. 

Dec. 

12. 

NOTES   AND   QUERIES. 

COGGESHALL  FAMILY  REUNION. — The  reunion  of  this  family  at  Newport,  R.  I., 
September  9th  and  loth  last,  was  largely  attended  at  Odd  Fellows  Hall.  Postmaster 
Thomas  Coggeshall,  of  Newport,  presided.  Henry  J.  Coggesliall,  of  Waterville,  N.  Y. 
i^ead  a  paper  giving  the  history  of  the  family  from  the  twelfth  century  to  the  present  time. 
A  plan  of  association  was  formed  and  an  executive  committee  was  elected,  consisting  of 
E.  VV.  Coggeshall,  New  York,  Dr.  Bila  Coggeshall,  Flint,  Mich.,  Henry  J.  Coggeshall, 
Waterville,  N.  Y.,  George  B.  Coggeshall,  New  York  City,  R.  H.  Tilly,  Newport,  R.  I.,' 
C.  P.  Coggeshall,  Boston,  and  General  George  G.  Greene.  A  collation  was  served  and  a 
sort  of  love  feast  enjoyed.  On  the  second  day  a  visit  was  paid  to  the  grave  of  the 
emigrant  ancestor  John  Coggeshall,  situate  on  Coggeshall  Avenue,  abqut  a  mile  to  the 
south  of  Newport  city,  and  to  the  Coggeshall  homestead,  a  farm  which  has  never  passed 
out  of  the  possession  of  the  family.  p. 

Hart. — In  the  July  number  of  the  Record,  p.  108,  occurs  the  statement  that 
Stephen  Hart  "  was  a  deacon  of  Thomas  Hooker's  church  in  Newtown."  This  state- 
ment was  made  in  the  historical  discourse  delivered  in  Farmington  in  1840  by  President 
Noah  Porter,  p.  63,  and  has  been  frequently  published  since.  Two  independent  inves- 
tigations of  contemporary  records  have  been  recently  made  without  finding  any  founda- 
tion for  the  statement.  If  such  a  record  could  be  found  it  would  probably  be  of  great 
value  in  other  points  relating  to  Thomas  Hooker's  church.  JULIUS  GAY. 

Farmington^  Ct. 

Index  to  Names. — The  index  to  names  in  the  present  volume  has  been  kindly  pre- 
pared by  Dr.  Henry  R.  Stiles. 

Merritt. — Thomas  Merritt  settled  at  Rye,  N.  Y.,  before  1673.  He  had  proprietary 
rigiits  with  Robert  Bloomer,  and  lived  nearly  opposite  the  site  ot  present  Park  Institute. 
Constable,  1684.  Owned  Pine  Island  and  other  lands,  i6go.  Vestryman,  1694-7.  On 
committee  to  select  rector,  collect  salary,  and  build  meeting-house,  1697.  On  committee 
to  obtain  a  charter  for  Rye,  January  19,  1697.  Townsman  or  trustee,  1697  and  1699. 
Deputy  from  Rye  to  General  Court  of  Connecticut,  October,  1699.  Supervisor,  1705, 
On  committee  to  settle  line  between  Greenwich  and  Rye,  November  i,  1707.  Was 
living  in  1 713.  Married  a  second  wife  Abigail,  daughter  of  Robert  Francis,  of  Wethers- 
field,  Conn.  She  was  born  February  14,  i66o.  Children  by  first  wife:  i,  Thomas'-', 
died  1719;   2,  Joseph  ^  died  1753;  3,  Ephraim  ^  and  4,  Samuel  ^ 

Wanted  dates  of  birth  and  death  and  will  of  Thomas,  name  of  first  wife,  and  dates 
of  birth  of  children.  DOUGLAS  merritt. 

Leacote^  Rhinebeck^  N.  Y.\ 


irS  -  Notes  on  Books.     ,.  ,  ,    ,  ,    [Oct.,    . 

Isaac  vjas  stn  oi  Ti^lrmn  VVspPJa^daiserii*  Mfej-y/j/vs 

Stouten'burgh— Van  Tienhoven — Van  Vleck — De  La  Noy. — Can  any  one  of 

your  readers   tell  where   born   and  who  were   the   ancestors  of  Pfh->-  Stoutenburgh  and 

Aefje  Viin    Tienhoven^  married   at    New  Amsterdam,  July  25,  1649  ;  Isaac  Van  Vleck, 

fio       whose  first  wife  was  Cornelia  Beeckman;  and  Abraham  de  la  Nov  and  JManitie  Liibherts, 

\XiO      his  wife,  who  were  among  the  earliest  members  of  the  Dutch  Church  in  this  city  ? 

(St     was     Pi6r&>r-nellc    Vaa  Couwe.nhdrcn        ,  m.  s.,  jr. 

Corrections. — Tlie  readers  of  the  Record  are  requested  to  note  the  following  cor- 
rections :  p.  26,  line  15  from  top,  for  Van  Schaik,  read  Van  Thuyl ;  line  5  from  bottom,        M 
for  Van  Boekhoven,  read  Van  Boekenhoven ;    p.  27,  line  3  from  bottom,  for  Bayer,  read        "j 
Bayert  ;  line  12,  for  Eertmans,  read  Ermans  ;  p.  103,  relating  to  Colonel  Richard  NicoU, 
the  author's  name  should  read  NicoU,  New  Netherlands  should  read  New  Netherland, 
and  Sobbay  should  read  Solebay, 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS. 

1670 — 1783.     The  Centennial  of  Incorporation.     1883.     8vo,  pp.  259. 

Under  this  simple  title,  and  in  this  elegantly  printed  volume,  from  the  press  of  the 
Charleston  {S.  C.)  Aden's  and  Courier,  we  have  one  of  the  choicest  contributions  to 
American  history  which  our  centennial  period  has  yet  produced.  Its  preparation  is  due 
to  the  taste  and  loving  care  of  Charleston's  present  Mayor,  William  A.  Courtenay,  who 
dj^vered,  by  invitation,  the  historical  address  on  the  occasion  of  the  Palmetto  City's  One 
Hundredth  Anniversary  of  its  Incorporation,  August  13,  18S3  ;  and  both  book  and 
subject-matter  leave  nothing  to  be  desired.  It  is  a  concise,  yet  eloquent  and  deeply  in- 
teresting collection  of  Charleston's  history  for  two  centuries  past.  The  scope  of  the 
volume  can  be  best  understood  from  a  brief  summary  of  its  contents,  viz.  :  The 
Centennial  Proceedings ;  Population  and  Sources ;  Early  Crops  and  Commerce  : 
Ante-Revolutionary  Period  ;  Post-Revolutionary  Period  ;  Commercial  History  and 
Changes  ;  Progress  of  Railroads ;  Health  ;  Topography  of  the  City  ;  History  of  the 
Harbor,  Forts,  Lights,  Jetties;  Noted  Events  in  the  Century;  Slavery  in  the  Colony 
and  State  ;  Charleston's  Share  in  the  recent  War,  etc.  The  volume  is  handsomely 
illustrated  by  six  large  folding  maps  and  plans,  by  facsimilies  of  the  Great  Seal  of  the 
Second  Lords  Proprietors  of  Carolina  and  their  autographs,  and  of  the  autographs  of  the 
seventy  early  members  of  the  Charleston  Chamber  of  Commerce  ;  and  of  other  interesting 
documents.  The  character  of  Charleston's  history  during  the  past  century  gives  to  this 
volume  a  national  value  ;  and  if  we  mistake  not,  it  will  be  as  eagerly  sought  for  in  the 
Northern  States  as  in  the  South.  And  now  that  we  have  this  beginning  of  Southern 
local  history — concisely,  yet  well  told — may  we  not  hope  for  other  instalments  of  similar 
kind,  both  historical  and  genealogical,  from  many  a  famous  neighborhood  below  Mason 
and  Dixon's  line  ?  H.  R.  s. 

Genealogical  and  Historical  Record  of  the  Carpenter  Family.  With  a 
Brief  Genealogy  ....  Including  a  History  of  the  Carpenter  Estate  of  Eng- 
land. By  James  Ushur,  9  Murray  Street,  New  York  City.  [1SS3.]  8vo,  p.  70. 
The  genealogical  matter  which  fills  thirty-five  of  the  closely  printed  pages  of  this 
work  will  probably  be  of  more  use  to  the  future  genealogist  of  the  name  than  it  was  to  the 
purposes  of  the  members  of  the  Carpenter  Fund  Association,  which  employed  Mr.  Ushur 
to  look  up  the  sum  of  $250,000,000  said  to  be  waiting  in  England  for  its  lawful  claimants 
— descended  from  one  William  Carpenter,  who  died  in  London  in  1700.  Mr.  Ushur 
evidently  made  a  most  exhaustive  search  and  endeavor  to  enable  his  clients  to  accomplish 
their  desire;  but  he  succeeded  only  in  establishing,  beyond  all  reasonable  doubt,  that  the 
(Carpenter  claim,  like  all  others  of  the  kind  which  have  thus  far  titillated  the  fancies  of 
would-be  American  heirs,  «as  a  gigantic  myth.  But,  if  he  has  disappointed  their  hopes, 
he  has  rendered  a  signal  service  to  others  who  may  in  future  (as  no  doubt  some  will)  feel 
inclined  to  waste  time,  cash,  and  hope  in  similar  fruitless  endeavors.  The  balance  of  his 
Ni  very  interesting  pamphlet  is  devoted  to  an  expose  of  the  fallacy  of  such  claims  to  trans- 
Atlantic  fortunes;  minutely  detailing  the  intrinsic  difficulties  which  hedge  about  and  im- 
pede the  search  for  such  in  the  public  offices,  etc.,  of  Great  Britain;  the  wiles  and 
machinations  of  the  fraudulent  claim-agents  who  (especially  in  London)  prey  upon  the 
gullibility  of  these  seekers  after  fabulous  wealth ;  and  (what  is  of  most  real  value  and  in- 
terest to  the  antiquarian  and  true  genealogist)  affording  us  a  concise  but  very  satisfactory 
view  and  explanation  of  the  location,  functions,  requirements,  etc.,  of  these  public  treasur- 
ies of  lego-genealogical  information  to  which  access  is  so  often  desired.  h.  R.  S. 


1884.]  Obituary.  X  7  Q 


OBITUARY. 

A  BRIEF  BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCH  OF  JONATHAN  S.  LAWRENCE,  M.D. 
By  Dr.  George  H.  Butler. 

Dr.  Jonathan  S.  Lawrence,  who  died  at  liislate  residence,  56  W.  Tiiiity-fifth  St., 
July  10,  1884,  although  born  and  educated  in  New  York  City,  was  much  better  known 
in  that  portion  of  the  State  which  comprises  the  counties  of  Chemung,  Schuyler,  Tomp- 
kins, Yates,  etc.,  where  he  spent  the  more  active  of  his  years,  and  wliere  the  results  of 
his  labors  are  still  remembered  and  appreciated.  Of  a  genial  disposition,  and  naturally 
sensitive,  he  knew  how  to  regard  the  feelings  of  others,  and  while  he  was  always  willing 
to  excuse  the  faults  of  others,  he  held  his  own  conduct,  both  in  business  matters  and  in 
social  intercourse,  to  a  strict  account.  This,  added  to  his  well-known  polish  of  manner 
and  his  excessive  generosity,  won  him  hosts  of  friends,  while  he  seldom  offended  any  even 
for  a  moment.     He  was  a  liberal  supporter  and  constant  reader  of  the  Record. 

His  father,  Samuel  Lawrence,  was  the  first  son  of  Major  Jonathan  Lawrence,  by  his 
second  wife,  Ruth  Riker  (he  having  had  by  his  first  wife,  Judith  Fish,  one  son).  He 
was  born  at  Hell  Gate  on  the  23d  of  May,  1773  ;  died  at  his  late  residence  at  Cayuta 
Lake,  in  Schuyler  County,  October  20,  1S37.  He  was  educated  a  lawyer  in  the  office  of 
his  cousin,  Nathaniel  Lawrence,  then  Attorney-General  of  the  State,  and  with  him 
visited  various  remote  parts  of  the  State,  at  that  time  scantily  settled.  He  had  been  in 
practice  but  a  few  years  when  he  was  appointed  a  Judge  of  the  Marine  Court;  he  was 
afterward  elected  a  Member  of  the  Assembly  from  the  city  of  New  York,  and  during  the 
latter  part  of  his  residence  was  appointed  to  the  combined  office  of  Clerk  of  the  City  and 
Register. 

In  1814  he,  in  comp.any  with  his  brother  Joseph,  removed  with  their  families  to  new 
residences  which  they  had  contracted  to  be  erected  on  a  large  tract  of  land  which  they 
had  inherited  from  their  father,  who  was  one  of  the  original  partners  in  the  Watkins  and 
Flint  purchase,  and  which  comprised  about  one-half  of  the  township  of  Catherine,  and 
contained  the  Cayuta  Lake.  When  a  young  man  he  was  engaged  in  surveying  this  tract 
for  his  fatlier,  then  a  dense  wilderness.  He  was  so  charmed  by  the  beauties  of  tliis  lake  and 
its  surroundings  that  he  resolved  some  day  to  have  a  home  by  its  side.  It  was  here  on 
its  shores  that' he  built  his  house  and  passed  the  remainder  of  his  life.  In  1816  he  was 
chosen  one  of  the  electors  of  President  and  Vice-President,  and  in  1S21  a  member  of  the 
Assembly  ;  and  a  representative  in  the  Congre.-.s  of  the  United  States  from  1S23  to  1S25. 
He  married  Elizabeth  Ireland,  daughter  of  John  Ireland,  and  had  eleven  children,  of 
which  Jonathan,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  the  oldest  son,  having  one  sister,  Eliza- 
beth, older.*: 

Jonathan  S.  was  born  in  the  city  of  New  York  on  the  first  day  of  January,  1S08. 
and  was  six  years  old  when  his  father  removed  to  Cayuta  Lake  where  his  early  days  were 
spent  and  his  education  begun  under  the  instruction  and  guidance  of  his  fatlier,  during 
such  hours  as  could  be  spared  from  the  duties  of  a  busy  public  life,  and  it  is  probably  to 
this  early  training  and  parental  care  that  the  foundation  was  laid  for  the  love  of  books 
and  fondness  for  the  information  they  impart,  is  due,  and  which  grew  to  be  the  absorbing 
passion  of  Jiis  later  years. 

At  ten  years  of  age  he  was  sent  to  New  York,  and  lived  with  his  grandfather,  John 
Ireland,  while  he  went  to  the  schools  under  the  care  and  tuition  of  Nelson  &  Walsh, 
then  celebrated  private  schools.  On  leaving  school  he  entered  the  dry  goods  store  of 
Purdy  &  Rappeljer  as  clerk  ;  during  this  time  he  pursued  a  course  of  studies  in  the  Span- 
ish language  under  private  instructions.  After  leaving  this  employment  he  engaged  in 
the  manufacture  of  flour  in  Elmira,  in  company  with  his  brother-in-law,  Samuel  Richard- 
son. In  connection  with  tJiese  pursuits  he  read  geology,  and  collected  a  large  and  varied 
cabinet  of  minerals. 

Not  finding  mercantde  pursuits  in  accord  with  his  tastes,  after  a  few  years  he  retired 
from  business,  and  entered  upon  the  study  of  medicine  in  the  office  of  Dr.  Nelson  Win- 
ton,  of  Havana,  and  at  Geneva  Medical  College,  where  he  graduated  in  the  class  of 
1S46-7,  and  began  immediately  to  practise  in  Catherine  with  the  same  degree  of  perse- 
verance that  has  characterized  his  whole  life.  After  seven  years  spent  in  this  field  he 
determined  to  remove  to  New  York  City  ;  here  he  continued  in  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession until  1S57,  when,  in  company  with  his  only  son,  he  visited  Europe  and  the;_East, 


jHf)  (U  if  in  fry.  fOrl.,   iM^, 

irittMnj/  finll**  ••xlmislv^  lotirn  In  OrRPr*-,  Ahid  Miiiot,  itnd  f./j<|/r-r  l'4;yi'l.  Aflrr  liU  rfifiirw 
lioiim  li«  ym'liuilly  frl|(e/|  (rorri  f»»;u  lltn  to  (lir:  iiiorr  i{\\\fX  compjiiiy  of  liih  look*,  Mh  love 
for  will' li  (/rrw  willi  liln  yriir*  wtilH  (iriHlly  nettfly  nil  <»(  liifi  (inic  wiift  fvj/«^til  wit  It  ihriti. 
llr  wnt  «  nr»'«t  ii'lfiiliot  rif  HlpMl',«'e;firMU,  iiiKJ  ul  due  tinir  fi« (»(►,»■  suf* I  nciirly  rvrry  rdilion 
o(  lli«T  w<»iUti  i»f  (IihI  KM'iil  rmifi  woilli  liHvkiii/,  l/«:t.i(U<-.  rii(i»iy  otlirr  Sliiikr>.|)rjiiiiuiii, 

\\v  rridiilrd,  M«y  ii,  iK  }H,  Mmy  kr(  Imnlsoii,  <liiiif;li(rr  o(  Sinniirl  Kii  lianJwiii,  of 
Miiiliitj|»riil,  (!tty(i|'ii  Coimty,  Hli*-  dlrfl  Scplpwilirr  9,  iH/jo,  1  licy  Im*!  two  r  liildrni  ; 
Uf^\,  l',ll/,»li»7lli,  d»rd  ill  Inltinry  I  second,  Smi(iii«I,  lioin  Amj/h»1  ^25,  lH4(»;  died  July 
■/'/,  iH'/';, 

Ai'Koi.if,  (lin)rpf.  (,',  Ami«.I-I,  111. (1  of  jiuntiR  Utter  (rnd  Mcliilul/lr  ((,'itrpciiler)  Ain'.ld, 
W(i^  U"iii  li>  I'lovldr-iiif ,  K,  I,,  July  44,  »Ho3  ;  d^d  nt,  Ivl(;f  wo<id,  l< .  I.,Aii(;ii:.l  'i, 
iKK-l,  mid  WH^tiit.nird  it(  Hwiiii  I'oiiil  ( !p|iir|pffy,  mI  llia(  f)i;i(  ».  tic  iii;ii  1  ifd,  M;iy  ly, 
iXji,  rin'l/r  KliKdi'n,  rlitiiylilrf  ol  <  !iiloMfd  WilUinri  mid  ,S(»rali  (Arnold;  Uliodf:i,  ol  I'aw- 
IiikpI,  U.  f,      'I'lii^y  liiid    livfi  (liildrni,  of  wlif>iri  htil    llirrn   tturvivr,  vi/.  :  Suiiili  Arnold, 


llifi  wlt«  of  llriiiy  '[',   Oiowrif,  t'lrt-Jdriil  of  flir  Nrw  Vorl<    Oniirulofiiciil  iiikI  r/i<;(Mii|)lii- 

'iilliiiii  l<lii/di«n  Arnold,  of  I'fovidnii  «*,  itiid   (/Corj^R   f«y  Arnold,  id    I'.dj;r- 

Wiiod,   l<     I,      J'din  l<)(  r  Arnold  died /'/(//'<////(/,  July  _^o,  iKOi.      Mi.  Arnold  drm  ended 


Cttl  Hoejely  (    VVif 


from  Wllllitni  Arnold,  Ihtoii^li  llie  ^.on  Sle|>lifii,  wlio  1  iitnr  Iriiiii  f  liirl  nioiilli,  l''.n(d;iiid, 
|o  Nf'W  lsii|d(iiid  in  I'l  I'i,  "i"i  li^ll  I  liin^liiiiii,  M:\-.-.,,  A|/iil  zo,  l(>i,(>,  with  lii';  l:iiiiiiy,  to 
Bi'lllfl  ill  I'lovidiMK  e,  U,  I.  fjis)  wife  itlf.d  wii».  deiiiendrd  from  tlie  :.;iwie  Williiini, 
lliroii|/li  liiti  diiM(ditri    |o;iiiiii«,  wlio  iiiattied  /iiiliiiiy  Kliodrn,  ol  t'awluxcl,   i< .    I. 

Allei  Mr,  Ai  Hold  Imd  oldiiiiied  Ills  ediiiulloii  lie  Ueciiinr  i|t-.>(o(  iiiled  w'H  li  lii .  iirotlier, 
jiiiinisO,  Arnold,  in  tin- .Ii  yj/oodi  liir-.iiirtr.M,  on  We^.lmlnMlcr  .Street,  r'r«»vlilni(  c  ;  wiilihe- 
i|ili'iilly  lir  foinie'l  ilic  I  MiiiinU=-.loii  lioiif.e  ol  Arnold  Hi  Cliiidney,  wliicli  hIc.o  rxi>itrd  for 
>)omr  time  in  llml  iily,  Alleiwiird  lir  "tilei  eerjcd  liii;  lnnlli'i  in  lnw,  Kohert  klioilfii,  irt 
Aj^eiil  ol  I  lie  Allpioii  <'om|iiiny,  in  wlioMfi  eKleir-.ive  colli. n  ijhII'.  a\  AIMoii,  K.  I.,  MeHnri. 
(  !,  \  W  Kliodc!),  1,1  I'lovidencr,  were  litl^jely  iiilrrei.leij.  Al  ti  lillei  pel  iod  lie  i.ervrd, 
I'lir  neveiid  yeiii'i,  (n  .Seciel HI y  (d  the  Kojiei  Williiimt  In-iimm  r  ( 'oni|iiiiiy  ol  j'rovidcnie  ; 
lllld  itllerwuid  i/eritine  I  enpei  I  Ively  Se(  leluiy  lllld  l'le<-.id<'iit  ol  llie  ( 'ummei  1  iiil  Mulii:il 
Inilii'iuii'tt  ( 'ompHiiy  ol  t  lull  rily,  l''oi  fifty  t  wo  yruin  lie  wii:,  ;i  fiinili.i  in  llir  M;iiiid;ii 
liirei!*'  (Nnlioinil)  llitnh  ol  I'rovidence,  iind  wiii  nlwiiy.  Idrnlilird  willi  vniuii',  l.ir.inc  > 
inleietilft  ill  the  city  and  .Sliile,  llewitn  it  niiin  (d  i.terlini;  inle|.;i  it  y  iiiid  ^1  eal  peii.omd 
woillij  donieulli'  III  IiIh  limle^.,  lie  wait  it  loiid  Inr.lntnd  and  indiil|iciit  paieiil,  and  liiii  lioiiie 
llff  wii'i  a  liappy  one. 

lit   iKyy  lie  ipliMed  Ihe  |;eii<   di.ioi   d  'I  ii-r  1.1   llii'   Arnold    I'.unily,    wlm  li  wa,  |.lii.l  o 

111  llo^lMplied  liy  llie  (ini/'/iii  ("omp.iny  in  Nrw  Null.,  and  Im  wliii  li  lie  liad  pei  .t.nally, 
In  Ilir)  couine  of  yearti,  ueruied  iiiiilei  iiil'--..  lie  waw,  liowcver,  (^leally  iinleliled  lu  ilm 
eoiiilenyiir  Inn  Uiimmaii,  lleiiiainin  (lieeno  Arnold,  l''.'ii|.,  of  New  York,  for  llml  poi - 
tioii  of  il.  (jallieied  in  l''.nf::liinil  liy  llie  lain  Mr.  Horatio  <  i,  Snwciliy,  lui  iiIm>  Im  nun  It 
lliat  Wiitt  eolli'iled  in  Alneiira  liy  (  leil,  (ipoi(.^e  Seart*  (  ileene  (late  I'rcMidcnt  ■.!  iIh-  Nrw 
VoiK  <  lenralo(i|cal  and  lliii(,;inpliic.il  .Soiiely),  wlio  iiiulill  al  woik  upon  iiii  extensive 
(leiiealo^y  o|  llie  rinnilyol  Arnold  in  I'.iirope  and  Ainciiia.  'I'liiM  ( !enealo(;i(  til  Tree  u{  i/ 
the  Arnold'M  wan  tlir  ontinine  of  I  wo  oilier,  i  mi-l  1  nrlcd  liy  Mr,  ( !eorj;e  < '.  Arnold  diir- 
in|;  llie  liril  lliiily  yeiiiH,  'I'liinie  inlere'-,leil  m  lln  ,  lainily  will  lind  mill  li  ol  inlerei,!  in  the 
Arnold  ( !ene(iln|iy,  reprinled  in  iS'/o,  liom  Mm  A'.  /■  .  ///i/,  iiih/  firncitl.  /u'/;i\/r>  I'ui 
Ol  lulii-i,   1 871;. 

llrNKV.  Rev,  ( 'iileli  Splii[;ni-  llrniy,  |).|),,  a  well  liiiuwii  aiillini  and  'iilnihii,  «a'. 
Iiiiin  al  Knilaiid,  Mir.".,  Aii('.n-.l  ,-,  iSn.|,  and  died  al  Nrwl)iii|;,  N.  V.,  Maiili  i),  i.SK,). 
lie  Wii'i  |;iiidiliilei|  lnmi  jlailinonlli  ('(ille(^ie,  r.llldied  t  lienlupy  al  Andover  and  New 
I  laveii,  and  in  iHiS  ji,  wa^*  nettled  an  it  ( !<)iif.;rr(;iitioiial  mini'. lei  at  (iieenlirld,  Mums., 
at  lliiiircird,  Conn.,  In  \^\.\,  and  the  innie  year  lie  e-.t  alili'.hed  the  Ainrtiitin  Aiiromlf 
i>/'  /'fili'f,  wlili'h  alli'i  ihr  III. I  v<  11  lii'ianii-  lhciii|',in  id  lln-  Aimiiian  I'ciii'e  .Sociel  y.  In 
liSji)  lie  elileied  lln-  Ivpi  .1  np.il  ( 'Inii  1  li.  .ind  in  l.Si'/,  willi  I  >i .  I  I  a  wU't  and  Jn'cpli  {',. 
( !ii|/>twell,  lie  eul  idilidicd  llie  A'.vc  1  iv /•  Nrrino.  Two  year,  hilii  he  wan  appoinleil  I'lo- 
I'e-iHoi  id  riiilii'iupliv  and  lll'iliny  In  llic  New  V'oiK  I  Inivci  r.il  y,  and  in  I.S.|7  hciiime  lec- 
lor  of  .Si,  ( 'lemenl'tt  ( 'Iniiih,  New  V'oiK,  In  i.SiJo  he  ii-'.i|;nei|  Inn  1  li.ii|;e  Init  leliiined 
hii  iPiid'enttiiinliip,  and  for  it  period  will*  inliiir  (  lian.  illm  I'lnle- '.iir  llcniy  was  Ihc 
lulhoi  ol  nimiei'oni  viillimen  id'  e'liiMy'i,  eti.,  iiinl  a  ihaiiiim|;  wmK  eiilillcd,  "  I  )r.  ()ld- 
ham  at  I  d  iiynt  olieM,"  w  hn  h  .ippi- 11  r.j  am  ni y  nn  iir.l y  in  |S(i(>.  I  )|  .  I  I  riii  y  \va',  ,1  lile-loll(4 
III.  Ill  and  eorrenpiilliliiil  ..I  lln-  I'm-I  I  l.nia,  ami  ihr  hint  xni'vivoi  nl  lln'  mliin.ilr  ii'.wifi- 
alC'i  id  ihi'  anlliiii  and  aile.l  \V.r.hiii{;lim  All'.lim,  nl  wlmin  he  ha-.  I<  ll  Miinr  nili-ie.!  iii|; 
I'OCoIli-i  I  i.iiri,  |.    1;.    W. 


INDKX  TO  NAMES  1\  VuLCMl-  XV. 


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ArTU->i,  50,  67,  >3,  lis 

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B<^fi/i»*:,  »j4 

B^'rr,  If  J 

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Index  to  N'aines  in    Volume  XV. 


Hraeckel,  70 

Caar,  126 

Braesir,  28 

Cade,  134,  13s 

Bragre,  113 

Cadles,  177 

Krakel,  168 

Cahoon,  33,  135' 

Hraker,  117 

Calder.  90 

Braiitingham,  31 

Caldwell,  133  j 

Brazel,  31 

Caljer,  124 

Bras.     Brass,     8 

I," 

III, 

Callanan,  135 

124,  176 

Callow,  137 

Brat.    Bratt,    24, 

27 

.30, 

Camman,  92 

88,  IIS,  121. 

162, 

164, 

Cameron,  13 

169 

Campbell,    31,    89,     102, 

Hredow,  80 

133,  13s,  136,  14s 

Breedenroede,  70 

Candle,  30 

Breeze,  135 

Canon,  87 

Brenton,  173 

Cardale,  93 

Bres,  82 

Care,  91 

Brestede,  25,  27 

30 

88, 

Careny,  29 

121,  123,  162 

164 

Carle,  92 

Brevoort,  27,  86, 

114, 

128, 

Carman,  79,  113,  177 

129.  165 

Carpenter,      78,     79,     80, 

Brewer,  80,  133, 

136 

136,  178,  180 

Bridges,  123 

Carre,  139 

Bries,  28 

Carson,  33 

Bright,  57 

Carson  sen,  88 

Brinckley,  33,  90 

Carter,  10,  89 

Brinkeruff.  80 

Carteret.  49,  50,  51            ^ 

Brinley,  68 

Carwin,  89 

Brith,  116,  123,  1 

63 

Casly.  84 

Brith,  129 

Cassidy,  101 

Britten,  133 

Castricum,  70 

Broadeds,  125,  127 

Cathow,  176 

Brock,  133 

Catlin,  91 

Brockway.  92 

Caulkins,  61,  152 

Bronchhorst,  70 

Cavelier,  24 

Brooks,  89,  101 

Cawken,  61 

Broun,     Broune, 

22, 

33i 

Ceteltas,  29 

59.    63,     77, 

89, 

91. 

Chahaan,  118,  129 

125.     134.     1 

35, 

136, 

Chaigneau,     Chargneati, 

M4.  153 

Chaiqneau,    30,     88, 

Brouwer,    l^rouwers, 

27, 

114,  131,  163,  165 

114,  116,  124, 

125 

Chaise,  113 

•^riice,  37.  So   To_ 

,  'j 

3 

Chamberlain,  31 

Bruiidage,  176 

Chapman,  31,  135,  136 

Brush,  90,  112 

Chappel,  27 

Bruyns,  24,  121 

Charlton,    Charleton,   90, 

Bryce,  136 

^,  '^9                    ; 

Bryane,  80 

Chearman,  126 

Buchan,  134 

Cheavens,  136 

V.uchannan,  132 

Cheesman,  77,  78 

Buckley,  135 

Chester,  46 

Buckmaster,  32, 

3.3 

Chisholm,  113 

Budd,  60,  63,  67 

Cholwell.  27 

Buis,  113 

Christian,  133 

Bunk,  9t 

Christiaense,  119,  127  (see 

Bunker,  go 

Kristianst] 

Burch,  70 

Chrystie,  32,  136 

Burchan.  33 

Chrecton,  134 

Burger,  Burgers, 

23 

26, 

Churchill,  144 

27,  28,  84,  87, 

88, 

115, 

Clark,  22,  32,  98,  102,  13s 

117,    118,     I  i 

5. 

127, 

Clarkson.  130 

163,  168 

Claaz,     Claaze,      Claase, 

Burgess,  112 

Clase,             Claeson, 

Bnrjeau,  32 

Claes,    27,    28,    118, 

Burling,  90 

120,  124,  125 

Burlock,  78 

Cleef,  81 

Burnet,  90,  91 

Clinch,  43 

Burnham,  136 

Clinebark,  134 

•Burns.  79 

Cloet,  69 

Burnell,  89 

Clootwyck,  70 

Burr,  :;3,  154 

Clopper.  82 

Burritt,  109 

Clow.e,  Clowes,  78,  79 

Burtis,  80,  113,  1 

32 

Col  ert,  79 

Butler,  77,  135,  I 

79 

Cochran,  90 

Buskirk,  91 

Cock,  Cocks,  37,  79,  112 

Busters,  80 

Coddington,  136 

Butry,  61 

Coe,  31,  62,  90,  93 

^^uwelse,  12S 

"'S 

Coeburn,  iii 

Kuytenhuyscn,  26 

"TCoeper,  25,  83 

ByarJ,  Byards,  8 

I,  I 

29 

Coerman,  25 

Byerby,  123 

Coesje,  168 

Byrnes,  89 

Cofield,  113 

Byvank,   28,    82, 

85, 

87, 

Cnggeshall,  138,  177           i 

126,  127,  129 

Cogswills,  92,  138,  180        i 

Colden,  J46 

Coles,  113 

Colevelt,  121,  163,  165 

Coljer,  23 

Collin,  139,  177 

Collonel,  25  ^ 

Colton,  133 

Colville,  113^ 

Colwell,  112 

Comming,  92 

Compton,  33,  91 

Concelje,  24 

Cone,  33 

Coning,  87,  118 

Conink,  25 

Conkling,  31,  33,  67,  112. 

133.  136,  137 
Connover,  133    t^ 
Conoen,  59 
Conroy,  92,  137 
Conselje,  85 
Contant,  139 
Conynham,  92 
Cook,  20,  23 
Cook,  90,  no 
Coolevelt,  28 
^  Cooper,  9,  10,  II,   12,  13, 

14.  33,  90.  134 

Coovert,  77 

Coppier,  70 

Coppinger,  133 

Cornell,  42 

Cornclis,  Cornelisse,  Cor- 
nelisen,  23,  24,  26, 
29,81,82,84,  85,  117, 
118,  123,  128,  164, 
168 

Cornwell,  79 

Corrington,  33 

Corsen,  Corse,  23,  46 

Cortelyou,  81 

Cortlandt,  81 

Cregier,  28 

Cosaar,   Cosaer,    23,    29, 

81,    114,   115,    118,  121, 

165 
Coseboom,  in 
.Costigan,  89 
Cotte,  133  , 

.Coulster,  70  ^ 

Couwenhoven,  87,  115 
Courtenay,  178 
Covert,  112 
Cowles,  91 
Cozens,  Cozyns,  Cosyns, 

Cozans,  26,   117,  118, 

124,  145,  162 
Craeyesteyn,  70 
Craford,  27,  63 
Craft,  78,  113,  176 
Cralingen,  70 
Crane,  31 
Cranenburgh,  70 
Cranfield,  93 
Crasert,  126 
Crkssons,  137 
Crechten,  133 
Cree,  133 
Cregiers,  Crigier,  29,  120, 

125 
Crigo,  Crugo,  82,  128 
Crocket,  92 
Croesnick,  70 
Crolius,  go 
Cromwell,  78,  90,  91 
Crook,  176 
Crooker,  31 
Croonenbugh,  70 
Crow,  91 
Cruger,  115,  147 
Cruke,  83 
Cuer,  26,  117 
Cullin,  136 
CuUum,  95 


Cumming,       Cummings, 

3J.  32.  90 
Cunningham,  32,  134,137, 

177 
Currie,  32,  89^ 
Curtis,  78,  135 
Cutter,  134 
Cuyl,  70 
Cuyler.  115 

Daam,  27 

Daellam,  70 

Daily.      Dailly,     Dallie, 

26,  114,  117,  121,  122, 

125,     127,    133,    163, 

164 
Dalsen,  116,  169 
Davis,    33,    41,    90,    132, 

'34,  135 
Dame,  82,  84,  121,  169J 
Dana,  80 
Daniels,     Danielse,     23, 

24,  29,  90,   119,    124, 

125,  166 
Darkens,  117,  126,  129 
Darling,  90 
Darvell,  55 
Dasselva,  135 
Davall,  i6g 
Davenport,  31,  63,  95 
Davids,  84,  117,  120,. 129, 

167 
Davidts,  117,  129 
Davies,  134 
Davis,  134  -7-^ 
Davits,  27   . 
Dawson,  31,  137 
Bayly,  125  (see  Daily') 
Dean,  92,  135,  143 
Dearborns,  144 
Deas,  135 

De,  Dee,  88,  164,  165 
De  Boag,  116 
De  Bruyn,  119 
De  Camp,  117,  122 
Decatur,  31 
De  Cilia,  84 

Decker,|i34  (see  Dekker) 
Deenmarke,  120 
De  Fenne,  126 
De  Foreest,  124,  162 
De  Freest,  26 
De  Frieze,  135 
De  Grau,  De  Graw,  De 

Grauw,  28,  30,  83,  86, 

118,  126,  129,  166 
De  Greve,  90 
De   Groof,    29,    87,    120, 

162,  163 

De  Groot,  54,  120,  127 

De  Haas,  83,  164 

De  Hart,  30,  83,  86,   114, 

124,  127 
De  Jode,  71 
De  Kay,  De  Key,  23,  24, 

30,   43,  83,   118,  122, 

163,  166 
Dekker,  129 

De  Klem,  De  Kleyn,  27, 

29,  116,  117,  119,  128, 

167 
De  La  Grange,  22 
Delamater,  91 
De  La  Montagnie,  25,  29, 

87,  119,  129,  169 
De  La  Noy,  Delanoy,  25, 

53,  81,  165 
De  Laney,  139 
De  Langc,  83 
Delaplaine,  171 
I  Delli,  85 
I  De    Mill,    De    Mil,    De 

Milt,  27,  29,  115,  116, 
I  128.  139,  163,  168 


Index  to  Names  in    Volume  XV. 


Pe  Mott,  112,  113,  177 

Iiempfort,  29 

Pempster,  31 

Pe  Nice  (see  De  Nys). 

Peiinis,  149,   176 

Penniston,  137 

Peiiton,  79.  80 

Pe  Nys,  80,  85,  114,  123 

Pe    Pu,     Pe    Pen,    Pe 

Peuw,      Pepew,    24, 

118,  124 
Pe  Peyster,   Pe  Peister, 

25,    27.    29.    S3.  '85, 

114,  115,  121,  125, 
129,  139,  149,  162, 
163.  169 

Perer,  70 

Pe  Riemer,  23,  27,   114, 

115,  121,  129 
Pe  Saulles,  135 
Pesbrosses,  139 
Pe  Sille,  82 

Pe  Vaux,  139 

Pe  Vebber,  31 

Pevries,  26 

Pe  Vries,  125 

Pe  Voor,    Pe   Vour,    82, 

84,  123,   163 
Pe  Vouw,  125 
Pe  Wint,  87,  120,  126 
Pe  Witt,  119 
Pibble,  80 
Pibbs,  89 

Pickinson,  77,  112,  176 
Piedericks,  30 
Piemen,  70 
Piepenburgh,  70 
Pilkes,  79 
Pircks,   Pirckse,    Pirksv 

23,    84,   87,  117,    12^ 

165,  166 
Disenton,  Pisscnton,  84, 

167 
Dixon,  43,  137 
Dodd,  Podds,  31,  143       i 
Podge,  112  j 

Does,  70  i 

Polbear,  32  | 

Pominick,   139  j 

Donaldson,  90 
Donghan,  70  j 

Donhen,  54 
Donskan,    Ponskom,  27,  j 

I -^8  I 

Doolhage,  114,  165 
Ponlittle,  91 
Doom,  81,  168 
Doortoghe,   70 
Dorbin,  78 
Dorjett,  1 18 
Porks,  116 
Dorland,  113 
Dorling,  80 
Porlon,  78,  176 
Dorp,  70 
Dorr,  142 
Dorsej',  68 
Dorwertin,  80 
Dougharly,     Dougherty, 

33.  "3 
Poughty,  113,  137 
Ponglas,  161 
Douwe,  Dowe,  30,  81,  82, 

120,  129,  167,  169 
Doty,  112,  174,  175,  176 
Doxie,  Doxee,  Doxy,  59, 

113.  177 
Drajer,  120 
Prake,  42,  137 
Drby,  113 
Drimmelcn,  70 
Driscoll,  137 
Prongbelen,  70 
Prowne,  13S,  180 


Drummond,  55,  56 

Du  Bois,  Dubois,  26,  27, 

29.    31.  83,   85,    114, 

126 
Duer,  94 
Duffie,  33 
Duikniq,  28,  87 
Pumaresq,  56 
Punbar,  78,  97 
Puncan,  91 
Punham,  33,  91 
Punn,  32,  90 
Punster,  131 
Durbat,  136 
Durham,  90,  134 
Durand,  139 
Puria,  112 
Purlon,  tii 
Pusenbury,  89,  90 
Pussen,  70 
Puvenvoorde,  70 
Puyck,  70 
Puyking,    Puykingk, 

Puykink,     28,     116, 

124,  126,  165 
Duyn,  70 
Duyven,  70 

Dwight,  94,  133,  15T,  153 
Dyer,  141 
Dyk,  121 
Pykman,  23,84,  125,  163, 

167 

Eastburn,  33 

Eckes,  24 

Eckeson,  Ekkeson.  Ecc- 
kese,  26.  29,  81,  82, 
86,  87,  88,  115,  120, 
122,  126,  127,  129, 
163,  164,  168 

Echt,  26,  84,  117,  164 

Edgar,  89 

Edgarton,  176  ^. 

Edgeiiy,  6g 

Edsall,  49,  50,  S3,  54,  55, 

93 
Edwards,  140 

Eemskercke,  70 

Eer,  129 

Eastmans,  27 

Eethen,  70 

E^gbertse,  169 

Eggert,  69,  70 

Egmont,  70 

Eibon,  28 

Ei  sen  berg,  gi 

Ekele,  116 

Elbertse,  85,  120,  125 

Elderd,  80 

IJlfreith,   175 

EUis,  89 

Ellery,  90 

Elleson,  Ellison,  79,  114, 

117,  120,  136,  166 
Eliot,  42 
Elkins,  90 
Ellstone,'32 
Elsen,  125 
ttlshout,  70 
Elsewaert,  Elswart,  Else- 

warth,  Elzewaart,  El- 
'      sewaerdt,  Elzewarth, 

25,  27,  28,  29,  30,  118, 

119,     124,     128,     162, 

166,  167,  169 
EIy,'i36 
Elynse,  88 
Emmerson,  92,  143 
Pmmichoven,  7c 
Emmons,  32,  136 
Endegheest,  70 
Ennes,  Enne,  25,  86,  137, 

162 
Ensley,  91 


Erwin,  18,  89 

Evans,  33 

Evens,  30 

Eversdyck,  70 

Evert,  Everts,  Evertsen, 

Evertze,   Evertt,    27, 

55.  88,  121,  126,  134, 

165 
Everett,  Everet,  Everitts, 

93.  "3.  136 
Evons,  84 
Ewing,  134 
Ewoutse,  81,  83 
Exveen,  166 

Faik,  92 

Fairbairn,  135 

Fairchild,  32,  13s 

Faneuil,  139 

Fan  ton,  154 

Farch,  89 

Farman,  126 

Farrett,  61 

Farrington,  71 

Faiton,  27 

Faure,  91 

Fay,  133 

Fel,  25 
;  Felthousen,  13s 

P'enix,  122,  123,  124,   165, 
168 
j  Fenne,  27,  28 
I  Fenimore,  10 

Ferris,  15,  91,  137  - 
I  Fiatt,  33 

P'iccus,  T16 

Fielding.  133 

Fielie,  Fieley.    Filey,    29, 
30,  84.  162 

Filips,  118,  ia6 

Fin,  27 

"■'■nesscn,  119 

Finsa.i^,  :S3 

Fish,  179 

Fiske,  60 
I  F"isser,  88,  127 
;  Fitch,  151,  155,  156 
i  Flasbeek,  86 

Fleet,  78 

Fleming,  43,  135,  136,  162 

Fliereboom,  86 

Flimm'nge,  27 

Flimmingd,  88 

Floyd,  41,  42 
I  Fluyt,  26 

Fly,  80 

Fontyn,  Fontein,  123,  164 
!  Forbes,  133 
j  Force,   137 
1  Ford,  32,  33,  137     X. 

F'oreest,  70 
I  Forgey,  136 
'  Forkert,  29 
I  Forman,  90,  113 
I  Forquisson,  120 
•  Forsyth,  31,  89,  91 
i  Fortin,  139 
j  Foster,  146 
i  Fournier,  139 

Fowler,  33 
J  Fox,  65,  80 
i  Frails,  177 
i  France,  88,  166 
i  Francis,  177 
j  Franklin,  147 

Franse,  83,   85,    115,  127, 
I  167 

I  Frazer,  32,  91 
J  Frederiks,  26 
I  Freeman,  137 

Freer,  84 

Frelant,  83,  85,  120 

Frely,  i2o| 

Frehnghuysen,  139 


Fremont,  135 
French,  126,  143 
Frensch,  83 
Fresneau,  139 
Fricke,  113 
Frost,  112,  113,  135 
Fyn,  116,  122 

Gaii.lard,  139 

Gailtar,  78 

Galbraith,  133 

Galer,  134 

Gallagher,  158 

Gallaudet,  139     , 

Ganse,  86 

Garbrantze,  82,  162 

Gardiner,  59,  94,  95 

Gardner,  61,  91,  137 

Garmer,   139 

Garniss,  155 

Garrelse  (see  Gerritsc ) 

Garreitte,  169 

Garrick,  32,  91 

Gary,  177 

Gaston,  33 

Gautier,  139 

Geliechum,  70 

Gelyn,  30 

Genet,  135 

George,  31 

German,  174 

Gerr.ird,  136 

Gerrets,  30,  81,  125,  126 

Gerrits,  23,  26,  28,  29,  30, 

129,  166 
Gerritse,  86,  116,  119,  126 
Gheervliet,  70 
Gheur,  70 
Ghyssen,  70 
Gibbons,  52 
Gibson,  31,  79 
Gifford,  90 

Gilbert,  17,  84,  127,  137 
"ilchriit,  89 
Gildersleeve,  113 
Gill,  136 
Gilley,  139 
Gillet,  133- 
Gilliland,  91 
Girard,  139 
Glasson,  133 
Glazer,  79 
Glen,  103 
Glinn,  T2 
Glossell,  92 
Glover,  60,  66,  f  8,  135 
Goderis.  23 
Goddebak,  165 
Godkins,  90 
Goedecken,  89 
Goederis,    Goederus,  87, 

163 
Goelet,    23,  29,  121,   123, 

139,  166,  168 
Goeredes,  86 
Goewy,  81,  168 
Golder,  112,  113 
Golding,  79,  80 
Goldsmith,  65,  67 
Goodale,  57 
Goodwin,  144,  153 
Goodyear,  67 
Goold,  90 
Goolder,  135 
Gordeyn,  125 
Gordon,  33 
(Jorham,  137 
Goude,  70 
Gould,  134 
Gouverneur,  84,  115,  117, 

123,  166 
Govertz,  165 
Goynard,  32 
Gracie,  156,  157 


1 84 


Index  to  Names  in    Volume  XV. 


Graen,  25 
Grafton,  57,  58,  61 
Graham,  92,  132 
Grant,  92,  141 
Grassett,  167 
Graves,  61,  93,  135 
Gray,  91,  135 
Greaves,  32,  89 
Grebber,  70 
Green,     Greene,   44,    91, 

134.  177.  iSo 
Greenleaf,  95 
Greenwall,  31 
Greenwood,  132,   137 
Greer,  137 
Greig,  134 
Grenard,  32 
Grevenraedt,  Grevenraet, 

26,  81,   84,    123,    127, 

Griffin,  8g,  137 

Griffiths,  92 

Griswold,  77,  78,  91,  96 

Gritman,  78 

Green,  29,  84,  87,  119,  164, 

167 
Groenendal,  27 
Groenvelt,  70 
Groesbecks,  97 
Grosvenor,  159 
Grover,  60,  68 
Guest,  90,  136 
Guiljamse,  27 
Gulik,  128 

Guire,  112  ,^~"     ~ 

Guttifat,  80 

Hadley,  137 

Hackett,  33 

Haegbe,  70 

Haerlem,  70 

Haering,  164 

Haestrecht,  70 

Haff,  177 

ITiEjnp    143 

Haugcnaar,  114 

Hagerman,  133 

Haig,  171 

Hair,  112 

Hall,    ss,    56,    III,    137, 

141,  156,  176 
Halleck,  42,  43,  78,  139 
Halsey,  91,  93,  134 
Haltern,  87 
Hamilton,  135,  154 
Hampton,  67 
Hanna,  135 
Handesyde,   Handyside, 

-  31,  91 
Handy,  91 
Hansen,  136 
Hanyon,  88 
Hardenbroek,  84,  86,  88, 

119,     126,    127,    164, 

166 
Hardenbergr,  28,  125,  128 
Hardenhook,  32 
Harding,  90,  146 
Hardon,  24 

Hardy,  Hardie,  92,  136 
Hardcastle,  133 
Hare,  93,  136 
Harghen.  70 
Harpendinck,  29 
Harries,  63,  91 
Harris,  33,  98,  112,  151 
Harrison,  33,  90,  113 
Hart,   34,    90,    108,    109, 

no,   177 
Hartaing,  70 
Hartenbergh,  163 
Hartman,  127 
Harton,  26 
Hase,  77 


Hassing,  23,  87,  115,  128, 

162 
Haswell,  135 
Hathick,  91 
Hatch,  33 
Hathorne,  59 
Havens,  133 
Hawes,  32,  137 
Hawks,  180 
Hawley,  138,  153,  155 
Hay,  Hays,  31,  32 
Hayden,  45,  92 
Hayward,  57 
Hazzard,  33,  89 
Hazen,  143 
Hardenbroek,  123 
Harding,  123 
Hawes,  142 
Hawley,  154 
Heacock,  159 
Heberding,  87 
Heddens,  29,  90 
Hedding,  84,  121 
Hedichuysen,  70 
Heemskercke,  70 
Heemstede,  70 
Heenvliet,  70 
Heermans,  70,  81,  88,  122, 

126,  164,  168 
Hegeman,  78,  85,  113 
Helhakers,  24 
Helme,  135 
Hemmer,  32 
Hendericks,      Henderix, 

25,  26,  83,   lis,   116, 
■,        117,    118,     121,     124, 
i       129,  169 
Henderickse,  85 
Henderickson,  78,80,  113 
Henderson,  89 
Hennejon    (Henjon),    84, 

117,  125, 129,  168 
Henry,  07-  •'''^ 
TIcnsuen,  70 
Hepburn,  91 
Herberding,  122 
Herbert,   60,  62,  63,  '67, 

136 
Herdenbrock,  23,  30,  82, 

85 
Herdenberg,  81,  82,  116 
Herlaer,  70 
Hermitage,  171 
Herres,  Herris,   30,   116, 

122,   124 
Herring,  124 
Hersing,  87 
Hesbeen,  70 
Hester,  129 
Hervey,  89 
Heuion,   116 
Heukelmn,  70 
Hewitt,  91 
Hewson,  97 
Heyer,  162 
Hibbs,  10 

Hibon,  30,  86,  125,  164 
L Hicks,    77,  78,   III,   136, 

170,   175 
Hielm,  90,  137 
Hiet,  149 

Higbee  (Higbey),  80,  133 
Hill,  32,  83,  137,  154,  155 
Hillegum,  70 
Hillegond,  163 
Hilton,  77 
Hinsdale,  108,  109 
Hoalcolm,  133 
Hoar,  143 
Hobart,  59 
Hobin,  134,  135 
Hodenpyl,  70 
Hoffman,  90,  loi,  137 
Hohenses,  136 


Holden,  44 

Hollander,  113 

Hollart,  Hollardt,  23,  iiS 

Hollingsworth,  6i 

Hollister,  133 

Hoist,    26,   88,    114,    121, 

123,  125,  163,  166 
Hontoon,  143 
Hoochtvvoude,  70 
Hood,  162 
Hooglant,    Hoaglant,  23. 

24,  28,  79,  82,  84,  87, 

88,  126,  127,  129,  169 
Hooker,  108,  109,  no,  142, 

17; 
Hoorn,  Hoorns,  70,   119, 

122,  124 
Hopayock,  146 
Hopkins,    80,    132,     137, 

158,  159 
Hopper,  32,  37 
Hornblower,  91 
Hosack,  33 
Horton,  64,  78,  154 
Houwerd,  119.  169 
Houseworth,  89 
Houweninghen,  71 
Howardon,  24 
Howell,  68,  93,  13s,  143 
Howland,  136 
Hoy,  136 
Hoyer,  168,  169 
Hoyt,  90,  91,  95,  96,  143 
Hubbard,  90,  135 
Hubbel,  136 
Hubs,  78 
Hues,  82 
Huet,  139 
Huff,  80 
Hulet,  79 
Humbert,  139 
Hume,  79 
iim..;"S.  78 
Humphi^jj,  45,  ^-^4 
Hunt,  32,   42,  43,   68,  96, 

98,  133.  143 
Hunter,  136 
Huntington,  151 
Hutchings,  33,  131,  136 
Hutchinson,  32,  43,  136 
Huybeling,  123 
Huyke,  Huyck,  126,  127, 

128 
Huysman,  85 
Hy,  82 

Hybon,  162,  163 
Hyer,   24,   25,  81,  83,  85, 

86,  116,  122,  129,  163, 

166,  167 

Idese,   ledesse,    Iddese, 

82,  83,    86,   87,    115, 

I2S 

Inghs,  137 
Inslee,  92 
Ireland,  179 
Irving,  153 
Isaacs,  158 
Isan,  31 
Iselin,   139 
Islestine,  89 
Ives,  153 
Ivers,  89 

Jackson,  Jakson,  79,  80, 

83,  loi,  112,  113,  133, 
164,  167 

Jacobs,  Jacobze,  29,  81, 
88,  117,  118,  127,  128, 
162,  164 

Jacockes,  135,  168 

Jacot,  139 

Jameson,  Jemmeson,  84, 
92,  125,  138,  164 


Jans,  27,  28,  29,  82,  83, 
85,  86,  88,  114,  122, 
124,  125.  128,  129,  165, 
168 

Janse,  24,  25,  30,  85,  114, 
115,  116,  120,  124, 
127,  165,  168,  169 

Jansen,  26,  34,  35,  62,  63, 

126,  167   . 
Janson,  26 
Janssen,  35 
Jarvis,  33 
Jalpers,  35 
Jay,  134,  166 
Jeats,  24 
Jeedts,  166 
Jeffcrs,  93 
Jennings,  91 
Jenkins,  134 
Jeppes,  35 

Jesbup,  42,  68,  132,  133 

Jillet,  177 

Jinnings,  133 

Jochems,  35 

Jode,  171 

Johannis,  35,  88,  117,  125 

Johns,  92 

Johnson,    33,    79,    90,  93, 

"3,  134,  13s 
Johnston,  22,  32,  139,  145, 

146 
Jones,  31,  32,  48,  90,  133, 

>34>  135,  138 
Jonkers,  27 
Joost,   .  Jooste,    Joosten, 

25,  29,  86,    IIS,  117. 

118,  127,  128,  163 
Joris,   Joriz,    Jorisse,   23, 

29.    35,    85,    88,    114, 

115,    118,     121,     160, 

165 
Joshack,  145 
Journal,  35 
Judah,  133 
Jurianse,  35,  82,  85,  124 

Kaar,  127,  128,  164,  168 
Kaerter,  28 
Kamminga,  35 
Kannel,  166 
Kanon,  164 
Karstens,  87,  I2i 
Karus,  137 
Kasse,  83 
Kat,  35 
Kateley,  33 
Keach,  89 
Kedicham,  71 
Keene,  91 
Keirstead,  78 
Kenimes,  35 
Kempton,  90 
Kennedy,  32,  135.  146 
Kent,  103,  152,  153 
Kenwingh,  35 
Kerfbyl,  122,  167 
Kermer,  Kermers,  28,118, 

16B 
Kermon,  136 
Kernan,  101 
Kernev,  134 
Kening,  88 
Kerve,  35 
Ketallas,  26,  33,  128,  139, 

166 
Ketcham,  33,  67,  79,  133 
Kevis,  35 
Kew,  177 
Kidney,   135 
Kierson.  35 

Kierstede,  24,  29,  81,  84, 
85,  114,  115,  118,  124, 

127,  169 
Kilbourne,  143 


Index  to  N'ames  in    Volume  XV. 


185 


Kilman,  30 

King,   24,    25,   31,  61,  63, 
92'  133.  1347  136.  154 
Kingsland.  32 
Kip,   25,   26,   27,   28,  19, 
32,  63,  81,  82,  84,  85, 
92,  115,  116,  121,  122, 
124,    127,     162,    164, 
166,  167 
Kirk,  134 
Kissam,  77,  80 
Kitson,  165 
Klase,  168 
Klausbeek,  136 
Klaver,  162 
Klesevelt,  29 
Kletters,  82 
Klok,   Klock,   35,  81,  87, 

118,  125,  165,  169 
Kloppers,    Klopper,    27, 
88,  115,  116,  128,  129, 
168,  169 
Knowlton,  139 
Kock,  Koek,  35,  125,  169 
Kockuyt,  35 
Koddebek,  116 
Kock,    Kok,   35,   86,  125, 

164 
Koerte.  Koerten,  35,  121 
Kolevelt,  165 
Koljer,  30 
Kolyer,  iig,  166 
Koning,  28,  88,  127,  162, 

164,   169 
Kookers,  29 
Kool,  23,  117,  125,  127 
Kooman,  82,  117 
Koorts,  35 
Korse,  S2,  127 
Kortwright,  133,  140 
Koster,  90 
Kowenhovcn,  86 
Koyemans,  35 
Kraey,  35 
Kraffort,  35 
Krapell,  123 
Kriegier,    114,    116,    163, 

169 
Kristiaanse,  129 

Kr>pe',  35 

Kroesvelt,  115 

Krol,  35 

Kros,    Kroos,    123,    164, 

2^164 
Kuik,  28,  88 
Kunie,  35 
Ku=er,  71 
Kuylers,  84,  12S 
Kyfhouck,  71 

Laa,  29 
Labbadie,  35 
Labrey,  32 
Lackey,  33 
La  Coste,  139 
Laen,  71 
Laethen,  118 
La  Febre,  35 
La  Forge,  36 
Lakemaii,  27,  30 
Lam,  88,  164 
Lamar,  122 
I.amberse,  36 
Lambert,  156 
Lammerts,  36 
Lammertscn,  36 
Lameter,  85 
Lamontagne,  24,  30,  86 
L'Amoureaux,  139 
I,ane,  27,  32,  59,  68,  129 
Langelens,  36 
Langendyk,  85 
Langet,  122,  167 
Lnngestraat,  30.  117,  128 


Langheraeck,  71 
Laning,  30,  124 
Lankhaar,  120,  127,  169 
Lannen,  81,  85 
Lanoy,  81,  85,  120 
Lanse,  166 

Lansen  (see  Lansing) 
Lansing,  30,  102,  103,  115, 

168 
lyarrabee,  112 
Laroe,  54,  82,  115 
Laroy,  84 
Larzelere,  32 
Laslee,  Lasly,  125,'' r67 
Lasher,  22,  91 
Laten,  78  ; 

Latham,  177 

Lathen,  87  | 

Lathrop,  59 
Latten,  112 
Lau,  27 
Lauweries,  23 
Laurence  (see  Lmvi  cnce) 
Laurens,  36 
Laurense,  36 
Laurenssen,  36 
La  Vinge,  139 
Law,  62,  84,  117,  136 
Lawrence,  52,  54,   55,  62, 

7?i  179 
I.awson,  89,  158 
Lazzing,   117 
Leach,  90 
Leacroft,  91 
Le  Breton,  139 
Le  Chaire,  36 
Le  Conte,  139 
Le  Roy,  go,  139 
Le   Roux,  122 
Lecke,  71 
Lee,  90,  91,  109,  no,  133, 

134 
Leede,  71 
Leenders,  36 
Leendertsen.  36 
Leerdam,  71 
I.eeuwen,  71 
Lefferts,  112,  126 
Lefiertse,   26 
Lefterd,  78 
Legrom,  87,  164 
Leggett,  42 
Leishman,  32 
Leislaar,     Leysseler,    27, 
36,   84,   83,    118,    165, 
167 
Leland,  31 
Lemmen,  32 
Lengelgraaff,''36 

Lenoy,  122 

Leonard,  91 
Lescure,   135 

Leske,  134 

Leslie,  137 

Lespinard,  139 

Letchworth,  143 

Lettgear,  116 

I,e  T\irc,  91 

Leurse,  26,  116,  127,  128 

Leuwis,   25,  82,  116,  124, 
125,  162,  163 

Levelin,  36 

Levereds,  125 

Leverse,  128 

Leving,  15 

Lewis,  28,  113 

Leyenb  agh,  71 

Leisbar,  27,  n6,  117,  118, 
119,  165 

■Leyslaer,f28,  Si,  84,  128 

Liequye,  Lequie,  36,  124 

L'Hommedieu,  134 

Lieurse,  167,  169 

Lieursen,  87 


Lierse,  124,  126,  169  | 

Liesveh,  71 

Lifford,  113 

Lincoln,  90,  93 

Linde,  71 

Litsco,  Litsko,  164,  165 

Little,  134 

Living,  15,  16 

Livingston,    15,    16,    90, 

105,107,  138, 139,  140, 

146,     147,     148,    150, 

159,  161 
Locker,  36 
Lockwood,    17,   89,    152, 

153,  157 
Loendersloot,  71 
Logan.  90,  91 
Lloyd,  92 
London,  80 
Long,  33,  136 
Loo,  71 
Looker,  89 
Lopus,  13s 
Lorillard,  132,  139 
Losee,  78,  176 
Losie,  135 

Lossing,  92  j 

Lott,  36,  132 
Low,   115,   117,   128,  165, 

166 
Louhman,  36 
Lounsbury,  12,  13,  in 
Lourens,  36 
Lourensen,  36 
Lourenz,  85 
Loutit,  32 
Louwe,  85,  124 
Louwerens,  88,  115 
Loyse,   36,   86,    112,  117, 

124,  137 
"I^ubberse.  36 
Lucas,  36 
Ludewig,  143 
Ludlam,  gi,  93 
Ludlow,  33,  92,  113.  132 
Luqueer,  139 
Luten,  36 
Luykas,   30,   36,    82,    87, 

114,  116,  129,  162 
I^uykasse.  83,  121 
Lynsen,    Lynse,    Lynze, 

23,  29,  119.  129 
Lyon,  89,  154 
,  Lyslaar,  28 
'  Lyster,  127 

Maasten,  164 

Mace,  33 

Machielse,  25,  87 

Mack,  137 

Macpherson,  133 

Macy,  90 

Made,  71 

Maebie,  i29»<'' 

Maerling,  86 

Magee,  90 

Magrigor,  129 

Main  waring,  Manvvaring, 

33.  151 
Makory,  ii8 
Mallory.  136 
Mame,  89 
Man,   114,  124,  123,  129, 

169 
Mandeveel,   Mandeville, 

Mandeviel,    25,    28, 

36,    116,    117,     122, 

134,  164 
Mangels,  82 
Mank,  9 1 
Mannaert,  36 
Mannix,  36 
Manny,  163 
March,  135 


115, 


Marck,  71 
Marius,  25 
Maroni,  78 
Marritjie,  36 
Marselllis,  137 
Marschal,  36 
Marshall,  44,  "89 
Marschalk,    24,    29, 

125,  164 
Martens,  23 
Martense,    25,    26,     114, 

118,  121,  163,  i68 
Martensen,  36,  37 
Martin,   37,    55,   92,   133,  - 

135,  137 
Mason,  57,  133 
Masters,  171 
Matenesse,  71 
Mather,  143 
Mathews,  44,  138 
Mattens,  37 
Matthews,  97 
Mattys,  120 
Maurice,  31 
Maverick,  59 
Maxwell,  89 
May,  133 
Mayer,  23 
Mays,  H3 
McAitkin,  89 
Mcl'ride,  92,  137 
McCarter,  32 
McChesney,  32 
McCleland,  91 
McCleve,  133,  134 
McClintock,   103 
McClure,  91 
McCoon,  176 
McCready,  89 
McDermot,  135,  136 
McDonald,    31,    8g,    go, 
134-  135 

McDougall,  100 

McFaddin,  31 

McGee,  31,  135 

McGowan,  31 

McGiickin,  89 

McGunnyon,  90 

Mcintosh,  33 

McKee,  Kie,  135,  137 

McKeiler.  137 

McKelway,  97 

McKenzie,  32,  8g,  92 

McKii.ney,  33 

McKniglit,  31 

McLean,  132 

McLeod,  31,  136 

McMillan,  91 

McNeil,  89,  90 

McPhie,  134 

McQueen,  92 

McVicker,  32 

Mead,  32,  134 

Meeks,  92 

Meet,  28 

Mefoor,  86 

Megapolensis,  37 

Megelio,  37 

Meier,  28 

Meinders,  26,  168 

Melcherts,  Melchects.  116, 
166 

Melchior,  24 

Melderom,  122 

Mellis,  37 

Mellor,  93 

Melyn,  37 

Menthorne,  129 

Mercier,  139 

Meresteyn,  71 

Merlitt.  37 

Merrill,  So,  133 

Mcrritt,   162,  177 

Merry,  91 


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Index  to  Names  in    Volume  XV. 


Mersereau,  133 

Merwede,  71 

Mesier,  Mezier,  24,  25,  85, 

87,  169 
Meserole,  Meserol,  Mise- 

roUe,  37,  117 
Messchc-r,  37 
Messelaar,    30,    88,     115, 

125 
Metselaar,  123,  169 
Metlesmaiis,  37 
Meyer,  29,  30 
Meynderts,  37,  121 
Meynton,  37 
Micaut,  69 
Michielse,  123 
Michielsen,  37 
Mighielze,  165 
Middagh,  37 
Middleton,  137 
Millan,  33 
Milder,  126 
Millandon,  136 
Miller,   20,  23,  31,  32,   81, 
92,  93,  112,  126,  133, 
135.  136,  137.  176,  177 
Milligan,  137 
Millinek,  69 
Mills,  31,   33,  66,  91,  92, 

i-'7,  137 
Milward,  90 
Miner,  33 
Minthonie,  86 
Minot,  143 
Mintuni,  89,  134 
Mirick,  135 

Mitchell,  So,  89,  95,  113 
Mix,  18,  19 
Moerdrecht,  71 
Moerkerke,  71 
Moennan,  63 
Moffit,  93 
Mol,  Moll,  25,  37,87,  116, 

i2p,  -2C,  129,  165 
>>fl^€.iaer,  71 
i.-^infort,  113 
Monier,  37 
Monroe,  92 

Montagne,         Montanje, 

Montanye,  2S,  30,  86, 

90,  120,  121,  163,   164 

Monster,  71 

More,  58,   62,  63,  64,  65, 

66,  67 
Moore,  floors,  37,  49,  S4. 
57>   £9>  6^1    -211  148, 
177 
Morehouse,  90 
IVlorel,  33,  113,  139 
Aiorin,  139 
Morison,  133 
Morris,  32,  33,  49,  50,  130, 

136,  137 
Morse,  135 
Morton,  137 
Mosis,  23 
Moss,  152 
Mott,   31,  48,  77,   78,  79, 

80,  89,  174,  177 
Moulinars,  139 
Mount,  137 
Mouwerts,  83,  114 
Mulibrd,  9 
Miilhneux,  137 
Mulwyck,  71 
Munns,  133 
Munsey,  77 

Munson,  31,  32,  90,  133 
Murphy,  32,  90,  132,  136 
Murray,  20,  135 
Muzzy,  135 

Myer,  23,  26,  33,  81,  82, 
85,  86,  87,  88,  107, 
114, 115,  119,  121, 123, 


j  124,  126,  134,  162,164, 

165,  168,  169 
I  Myle,  71 
i  Mynden,  71 
Mynders,  86 

Nachtegael,  71 

Naedwyck,  71 

Magel,  7i,'i67,  169 

Narbern,  123 

Narburi,  124 

Narbury,  28,  163,  164,  166 

Narred,  23 

Narret,  82 

Nash,  153 

Nazareth,  27,  120 

Neau,  139 

Nederveen,  71 

Nelson,  91,  136,  179 

Nerbery,  86 

Neseig,  89 

Nessepat,  30,  123,  124 

Neville,  139 

Nevin,  133 

Newman,  33,  64 

Nicolet,  139 

NicoU,  41,  103,   104,   105, 
177,  178 

Niesen,  37 

Nison,  117 

Niu,  37 

Nixon,  91,  92,  136 

Noble,  49 

Noel,  55,  56 

Noorden,  71 

Noortwyck,   71 

Norman,  37 

Norris,  136 

Norstrandt,  113 

Nostrandt,  37,  177 
]  North,  31 
I  Norton,  64 
j  Norwood,  31 
I  Nuttman,  32 

Nyenburgh,  71 

Nyenroede,  71 

Nyensteyn,   71 
Nys,  26,  114,  127 
Nyts,  125 

Oakley,  89 
Obe,  23,  85,  88 
Obeel,  124 
Oblinus,  23 
Oem,  71 
Oesterwyck,  71 
Oestgheest,  71 
Ogden,  32,  66,  137 
Ogelsby,  120 
Olders,  127 

Olferts,  Olphert,  37,  165 
Oliver,   91,  134 
Olmstead,  133 
Onkelbag,  82,  88,  129 
Oencamp,  37 
Oosterhave,  127 
Oosterhaven,  87 
Oosteram,  116 
Oosterum,  37 
Ooststram,  28 
Ormiston,  131 
Orr,  136 
Osborne,  92  -•' 
Osman,  135 
Outhensden,  71 
Outman,  86,  126,  169 
Outshoorn,  71 
Overton,  89 
Owens,  137 

Paersen,    Paerson,    28, 

167 
Page,  1 12 
Paine,  13s 


Palding,  85      — 

Palmentur,  37 

Palmer,  47,  132,  137 

Pamerton,  120,  124 

Para,  37 

Parael,  85 

Parks,  Park,  133,  136, 
137 

Parmentie,  37 

Parmyter,  30 

Parsel,  89   5^ 

Parsons,  31,  89,  133 

Pasco,  Pasko,  84,  116, 
167 

Patterson,  55,  78,  90, 
133.  135 

Paulus,  Paulesen,  37 

Payne,  63 

Peabody,  138 

Peace,  170 

Pearsall,  77,  79,  113,  173, 
176 

Peartree,  164,  165 

Pearson,  129 

Peasely,  171 

Peek,  81,  123 

Peers,  127,  166 

Peet,  81 

Peister,  169 

Pel,  Pels,  Pell,  Pells,  24, 
25,  26,  30,  84,  86,  88, 
114,  116,  118,  121, 
122,  123,  126,  127, 
128,  162,  166 

Peltro,  177 

Peloubet,  133 

Pendegrast,  32 

Penny,   gi 

Pero,  165 

Perry,  118,  135 

Persell,  24    .  .» 

Persyn,  71 

Pesset,  83 

Peters,    27,   38,    78,    112, 

"3 
Petersen,  38,  134 
Peterson,  79 
Pieters,   38,  87,   122,  125, 

169 
Pieterse,  162,  164 
Pietersen,  38 
Petit,  78,  113 
Petty,  67 
Peuro,  80 
Peuw,  30,  80 
Peyster,  116 
Phelan,  137 
Phenix,  (see  Fenix) 
Phillips,    23,  27,    82,   84, 

120,  121,     122,    135, 
136,  137,  164 

Pibbenzier,  83 

Piercy,  135 

Piero,  30,  116 

Pierson,  64 

Pike,  134 

Pilson,  33 

Pine,  171 

Pintard,  139 

Pitney,  132 

Pitt,  135 

Place,  33,  78,  112 

Planck.  38 

Piatt,  134 

Play,  114,  117 

Pies,  38 

Plevier,  25,  81,^82,  83,  i 

121,  162 
Plimpton,  136 
Plummer,  113 
Podinton,  29 
Poel,   Poall,   28,    71,  ■  f 

135 
Poelgheest,  71 


81, 


123, 
1 28, 


Poelenbugh,  71 

Polanen,  71 

Pollock,  45 

Pont.  38 

Poog,  38 

Popega,  27 

Porter,  19,  79,  177 

Pos,  38 

Poskyn,  69,  71 

Post,   25,   26,  28,  30,  32, 
88,  114,  122,  123,  127, 
134,  164,  167 
'  Pot,  69 
I  Potman,  86,  127 

Potter,  30,  43,  44,  71,  134 
j  Pouwel.  124,  166 
I  Pouwelse,  83,  85,  88,  121, 
[  128,   168 

Pouuelsen,  38 

Powell,    77,    78,    79,    80, 

113,  172,  174,  175,  176 
Power,  25,  go 

Powley,  113 
Praa,  117,  166' 
Pratt,  79,  10 1,  143 
Prentis,  135 
Prescott,  143 
Price,  32,  134,  136 
Prink,  137 
Prince,  61 
Princen,  38 
Prior,  113 
Probasco,  38 
Probosue,  78 
Pronck,  38 
Provoost,  25,  28,    39 
82,  8s,  86,  87,  88 

114,  116,  117, 
119,  120,  122, 
124,  126,  127, 
129,  162,  165, 
167,  168 

Pruyn,  17-22,  97-103 
Purdy,  70 
Pursell,  169.^ 
Putnam,  20,  22 
Putter,  71 
Pynssen,  71 
Pynacker,  38 

Quackenbos,  25,  81,  118, 

122 
Quariier,  139  , 

Quick,  24,  26,  30,  82,  117, 

119,     124,     126,    127, 

129,  162 
Quincy,  48,  93 
Quintard,  79,  139 

Rabineau,  136 
Rae,  32 
Raephorst,  71 
Rakestraw,  91,  171 
Randall,  32 
Rapalye,  85 
Rathbone,   137 
Ravaud,  139 
Ravenstein,  82,  162 
Raventse,  81 
Rawlings,  66 

Ray.  137 

Raymond,  91 

Rayner,  Raynor,  78,    79, 

112 
Read,  32,  146,  153,  154 
Reed,  93,  136 
Reierse,  164 
Re'mers,  26,  168 
Reinders,  Reindcrse,  27, 

38,  iiS,  16; 
Renau,  38 
Renaud,  139 
Renare,  38 


Index  to  Names  in    Volume  XV. 


187 


Remse,  Remscn,  79,  114, 

lis,  118,  129,  169 
Rensenbergh,  71 
Rentsfort,  169 
Rerton,  54 
Retlof,  128 
Reynolds,  20,  133 
Reyerse,  86,  115 
Rhee,  30,  117,  126,  128 
Rheynegum,  71 
Rhinehart,   77,  134 
Rhoades,  176 
Rhodes,  180 
Richards,  32,  82,  84,  123, 

139,  166 
Richardson,  180 
Richaivie,  38 
Ricks,  81 
Rider,  137 
Ridder,  38 
Ridgway,  174 
Riede,  71 
Riet,  88 
Rietwyck,  71 
Riker,  44,  45,  56,  92,  179 
Ringo,  165 
Ritsema,  114 
Roach,  133,  137 
Roads,  176 
Robbersen,  S3 
Robberts,  27,  88,  164 
Robbeitson,  129,  135 
Robert,   18 
Robins,  78,  90,  112,  132, 

J43.  175 
Robinson,     61,     92,    loi, 

147 
Rockwell,  154 
Roden,  71 
Rodenrys,  71 
Rodman,  78 
Roebuck,  79 
Roelofs,  38 

Roelofse,  38,  82,  120,  169 
Roelofsen,  38 
Rogers,  80,  89,  112,  134, 

151,     152,    153,    154, 

155,  156,  157,  158 
Rol,  24,  169 
Rollant,  71 
Rollegom,  Si 
Rollyn,  69 
Romaine,  139 
Rombout,    29,    116,    123, 

129,  163 
Rome,   25,    26,    83,    117, 

124 
Romen,  29,  124 
Rummen,  167 
Romj'n,   114 
Room,  Roome,  28,  89 
Roon,  71 

Roos,  29,  122,  127 
Root,  31,  91 
Ropes,  89 
Rose,  132,  158 
Roseboom,  29,  121,  127 
Rosenbergh,  71 
Rosendael,  71 
Rosens,  38 
Rosevelt,    Rozevelt,     17, 

18.   30,  86,   118,  162, 

168 
Ross,  79,  89,  92,  112,  133, 

13s.  136.  i37i  189 
Rossell,  139 
Roux,  139 
Row,  78 
Rovvian,  137 
Rowland.  77,  134 
Roymayn,  38 
Rudyard,  51 
Riimsey,  loi 
Rushton,  79 


Russell,  90,  136 
Rutgers,    Ruthgers,    23. 

29,  83,   85,   87,    116, 

123,  129,  165 
Rutgertsen,  38 
Rutzer,  92 
Ruychrock,  71 
Ruytenbeeck,  38 

Ruyter,  39      

Ruyven,  71 

Ryan,  136 

Ryder,  77 

Ryerse,  Ryersen,  30,  39, 

87 
Ryken,  Ryke,  26,  121 
Rykman,  26,  28, 124,  162, 

166 
Rykskocht,  120 
Rynders,  28 
Rysoort,  71 
Hyswyck,  71 

SaboRISkie,  39 
Sage,  133 
Salisberry,  164 
Salisbury,  25,  119 
Salusbury,  167 
Saelmonse,  81,  85,  88 
Salmonse,  164,  165-168 
Salter,  146 
Saltus,  119 
Samuel,  133 
Sammen.  168 
Sammis,  33 
Sampson,  10,  39 
Sanders,  26,  59,  87,  119, 

128,  162 
Sandford,  49,  50,  52,  53 
Sands,  33,  112,  113,  175 
Sandthorst,  71 
Santvoort,  26,  39,  84,  87, 

162 
Sardingh,  39 
Sasbout,  71 
Sassenham,  71 
Savariau,  39 
Savouret,  167 
Sayt,  71 
Schaets,  39 
Schagen,  71 
Schamps,  39,  85 
Schars,  127 
Scarlet,  59 
Schenck,  39,  81 
Schepmoes,  128 
Schermerhorn,  39,  82,  90 
Schiltman,  39 
Scholefield,  79 
SchoUant,  71 
Scholts,  39 
Seabury,  78 
Schoonhoven,  71 
Schot,  24,  27 
Schoten,  71 
Schotshuys,  123 
Schoute,  30,  39,  83,   114, 

115,  121,  162,  164 
Schriek,  30 
Schroeder,  143 
Schuere,  127 
Schuyler,  87,  97,  118,  119, 

120,  140,  146,  164 
Schunrman,  129,  165 
Scott,  31,  S9 
Scudder,  89,  137 
Scull,  134 
Scuth,  39 
Seabury,  12 
Seaman,  33,    60,    77,    78, 

80,  113,  137,  140,  170, 

173.  174-  175.  176 
Searing,  175 
Sebren,  26,  164 
Sebring,  88 


Seen,  39 

Seiert,  27 

Selleck,  80 

Selover,  Selove,  84,  119 

Selyns,   23,   30,    86,  115, 
'63 

Serfaas,  118 

Serin,  78 

Serly,  Serley,  122,  128 

Setem,  167 

Setshoorn,  39 

Sevenberghen,  71 

Seward,  98,  99 

Seymour,  33,  112,  134 

Shapter,  89 

Sharp,  91 

Shattuck,  143 
I  Shaw,  31,  133,  136 
]  Shay  lor,  134 

Sheldon,  159 
j  Sherman,  31,  135,  136 
i  Sherwood,  33,  91,  157  - 

Shirley,  146 

Sicard,  139 
I  Sickels,  27,  83,   114,  128. 
139,  166 

Sieman,  33 
I  Sill,  158 

Sillman,  101 
I  Simmons,  80,  90,  135 
j  Sinclair,  33 

Sipke,  Sipkens,  116,  128 

Sippe,  121 
j  Sippetow,  126 
I  Sisson,  136 

Sjahaan,  23 
j  Sjeckerly,  Sjekkerley,  86, 
123 

Sjeckson,  87 

Sjee,  120 

Sjoerts,    n6,    129,     162, 
168,  169 

Slater,  137 

Slecht,    Sleght,   39,    115, 
167 

Slechtenhorst,      Slegten- 
horst,  30,  84,  115 

Sleght,  (see  Slecht) 

Slesman,  gi 

Slingerland,   29,    71,    83, 
120,  123,  163 

Sloan,  134 

Slocum,  136 

Sloo,  140 

Slot,  27,  28 

Sluys,  z6,  71,  166 

Slussar,  91 

Slyk,  126,  128 

Smack,  39,  114 

Smaller,  177 

Smet,  39 

Smetdes,  39 

Smith,   Smit,  20,  23,  24 

30,  31.  32,  33.  39,  52. 

S3,  54,  68.  77,  78,  79 

80,  81,  82,  84,  86,  88 

89,  90,  91,  92,  93,  94 

III,     112,     113,    114 

116,     119,     127,    134 

135,     '36,     137,    140, 

143.     152.     154.     157. 

I  163,  165,  166 

I  Smylie,  131 

j  Smyth,  64,  148 

Snedick,  39 

Snow,  31,  134 

Somerindyck,  133 

I  Somervelt,  71 

Sommerville,  89 

Sonnenians,  163 

Soon,  I  r4,  117,  119 

Soulice,  139 

j  Southard,  iii,  113 

I  Southward,  80,  -76 


I  Souvanich,  39 

Sowerby,  180 
i  Spaerwoude,  71 

Spanghen,  71 

Spencer,  134,  153 

Spenwood,  134 

Spicer,  133,  146 

Spier,  33,  39,  71,  81 

Spiegel,  87 
1  Spiegelaar,  39 

Spierinck,  39,  71 

Splinters,  23,  83,  88,  121, 

I2S 

Spooner,  q6 

Spragg,  80 

Spratt,  124 
;  Sprigg,  90 

Springer,  32,  33 

Springham,  52 
I  Springsteen,  82,  163 
j  Sprong,  124 
'  Spysdragher,  71 
I  Staes,  39 

Staats,    Staets,    27,    85, 

I  112,     118,    123,    129, 

165,  166,  167,  i6y 

Stanchfield,  134 

Stansbury,  31 

Stapel,  71 

Starkin,  176 

Starry,  33 

Stedman,  134 

Steel,  90,  91 

Steen,  165 

Steenhuysen,  39,  71 

Steffen,  39 

Steinson,  133 

Stepfer,  39 

Sterling,  89 

Sterrevelt,  39 

Steveniersen,  39 

Stevens,  25,  48,  8t,  84, 
90,  120,  14s,  146,  147, 
148,  149,  150,  165, 
167 

Stever^'"   '62 

Stevensen,  39,  85 

Stevenson,  131,  132 

Stewart,   32,  89,  92,  133, 
.    134.  '37 

Stibbs,  91,  134,  136 

Stille,  83,  it8,  122,  126, 
128,  166 

Stiilwell,  31,  90,  134,  137 

Stintham,  39 

Stirling,  92,  149 

Stiles,  140,  144,  177 

Stockly,  91 

Stoeff,  39 

Stoel,  126 

Stoffelse,  39 

Stoffelsen,  39 

Stokani,  177 

Stol,  39 

Stolten,  40 

Stone,  142,  143 

Stonehouse,  136 

Stoop,  71 

Stoothoof,  100 

Storey,  32,  132 

Storm,  40 

Storrs,  135 

Stott,  91 

Stoughton,  141 

Stoutenbirrgh,  26,  82,  83, 
86,  no,  122,  123,  124, 
140,  141,  166,  167, 
178 

Straatnaker,  129 

Strain,  20,  90 

Stratton,  7):,  177 

Streddels,  85,  119,  128 

Stringham,  133 

Strong,  142,  153 


Index  to  Names  in    Volume  XV. 


Strycker,  40,  124 
Stryeii,  71 
Stuard,  122 
Stuart,  84 
Sturgis,  90 
Stute,  90  ' 
Stj-mes,  81,  124 
Stuyvesant,  164 
Sudeich,  40 
Sullivan,  91 
Sumner,  loo 
Sunkani,  27 
Supplee,  10 
Surts,  24 
Sutherland,  133 
Sutphen,   137 
Sutten,  83 
Suydam,  40,   177 
Suys,  71 
Swaan,  125,  128 
Swainell,  136 
Swartout,  31,  40 
Sweazey,  67 
Swervers,  126 
Swetermik,  40 
Switz,  87,  88 
Swords,  90 
Sykes,  137 
Sylant,  123 
Sylvester,  63 
Symonds,  57,  59 
Symons,  68,  86,  163 
Symonsen,  40,  78 


Tack,  40 

Taelman.  40 

Talman,  'rallman,  43,  79, 

136 
Tangh,  163 
I'appan,  go,  iToSv 
Tappen,  93,  134 
Targe,  133,  139 
Taylor.  132,  133,  134 
Tays,  126 
Tclfiir,  134 
Teller,  8i,  123 
Ten  Kroek.  23,  28,  S3,  88, 

117,  125,  167,  169 
Ten  Kyck,  102,  120 
Ten  Houte,  40 
Tenuur,  81,  121,  168 
Tennis,  40 
Teunnissen,  40 
Ten  Yk,  24,  116,  118,  125. 

162,  167 
Teroede,  81 
Tetard,  139 
Tetroede,  71 
Ttyllnghfn,  71 
Thang,  122 
Theunis,  124 
Theunisse,  87,  120,  167 
Theunissen,  40 
Thibout,  87 
Thienhove,  88,  123 
Thomas,  19,  gi,  129,  136, 

173 
Thomasse,  81,  82,  86,  117, 

173 
Thompson,  32,  89,  90.  94, 

132,  i33>  134 
Thome,  77,  78 
Thysen,  40 

Tibbies,  129,  162,  168,  169 
Tiebout,  31,  128,  168 
7'ienhooven,  29 
Tierckse,  40 
'I'iers,  40,  139 
Tilburg,  24,  168 
7'illey,  77,  79 
Tillou,  43,  139 
Timpson,  77 
Tinmer,  40 


Titus,  32,  71,  78,  ii2,'i37, 
170,  172,  173 

Tobias,  90,  112 

Toild,  31,  134 

Toffey,  78 

Tofts,  137 

Tol,  71 

Toler,  go 

ToUanaer,  40 

ToUoyse,  71 

Tomassen,  40 

Toonsen,  40 

Topping,  63 

Tothill,  TI5 

Tough,  134 

Tourneur,  23 

Townsend,  46,  77,  78,  7g, 
80,  112,  133,  136,  175 

Trask,  143 

Traver,  77 

Treat,  no 

Tredwell,  in 

Trembly,  89 

Treslong,  71 

Trisbie.  32 

Trotter,  93 

Trj'on,  135 

Tucker,  29,   33,  91,    134, 
13s 

Tull,  40 

Tunisse,  86 

Turck,  Turk,  69,  86,  87, 
118,  12S 

Turner,  58  ^ 

Turnier,  132,  133-  136 
:  Tumure,  139  ^■ 

]  Tuthill,  42 

Tyler,  95 

Tymese,  116 

Tymonsen,  40 

Tysen,  40,  ii6 

!  Undekhill,   64,   67,    80, 

Upright,  31 

Upton,  33 

Usher,  178 

Uslie,  40 

Uyten    Bogaert,    24,   25, 

26,  86,   115,  123,    161 

166 
Uytwyck,  71 

Vaex,  72 
\'alckenburgh,  71 
Valckesteyn,  71 
Valey,  163 
Valentine,    79,    in,    113, 

134,  17s,  177 
Valk,  126 
Valleau,  139 
Vallete,  139 
Van      Aartsdalen,      Van 

Aerts  Daalen,  72,  124 
Van  Alst,  122.   125,   128, 

i6g 
Van  AlstjTie,  32,  33 
Van  Amach,  72 
Van  Ammersfoort,  72 
Van  Amsterdam,  72 
Van  Antwerp.  32 
Van   Aren,    86,    87,    114, 

126,  127,  129 
Van  Arsdale,  45,  92 
Vane,  60 
Vandenburgh,  71 
Vandervoort,  17 
Van  Haal,    123,    129,  164, 

165,   169 
Van  Kaasle,  72 
Van  Baden,  72  j 

Van  Bael,  27,  29,  126 
Van  Balen,    26,   85,    114, 

119 


Van  I!eest,  72 
Van  Benthuysen,  134 
Van  Hergen.  72 
Van  Bersingeren,  72 
Van  Blerkom,  115 
Van  Boekhoven,  26,  178 
Van  Boekenhoven,  178 
Van  Boel,  85 
Van  Boerum,  72 
Van  Bommel,  126 
Van  Borsum,  122 
Van  Bosch,  72 
Van  Bosse,  27,  120 
Van  Bossen,  83,  87,  115, 

117,  166 
Van  Brackle,  126 
Van  Breda,  72 
Van  Breme,  82,  120 
Van  Bremen,  72 
Van  Brenkelen,  72 
Van  Eroeehuysen,  72     ' 
Van  Kriig,  23,  24,  166 
Van   Brugge,  128 
Van  Brugh,  23,  123,   127, 

165 
Van  Bnmt,  72 
Van  I'unick,  73 
Van  Buren,  73 
Van  Bursing,  23 
Van    Campen,   Compen, 

73 
Van  Cassant,  73 
Van  Cleef,  73 
Van  Clyf,  23,  82,  126 
Van  Coppenol,  73 
i  Van  Cortlandt,  27,  56,  73, 
82,  83,  120,  126 
Vancot,  112 
Van    Couwenhoven,    25, 

73,  84 
Van  Dalse,  23 
I  Van  Dalsen,  28 
'  Van  Dam,  23,  25.  26,  86, 
j  122,  123,  125,  163,  169 

Vandelaar.  115 
I  Van    den    Berg,   Burgh, 
30,  81.  IIS,  120,  127, 
132.   168 
Van  den  Boog,  85 
Van  den  Bos,  73 
Van  Denen,  73 
Van    der   Beek,   Beecke, 
24,  27,  73,  81.  82,  84, 
88,  116,  118,  121,  125, 
12S,  129,  163 
Van  der  Belt,  73 
Van  der  Bogaert,  73  j 

Van  der  Briel,  73 
Van  der  Donk,  73  | 

Van  der  Driesche,  81 
Van  der  Hagen,  73  1 

Van  der  Heide,  Heyde,  | 
23,  27,  81,  126  j 

Van  der  Heul,  29,  81,  84, 
87,  IIS,  "8,  119,  123, 
125,  168  j 

Van  der  Hoef,  31  ' 

Van  der  Kuyl,  73  I 

Vanderlyn,  138 
Van   der  Meer,    24,   88,  I 

125,  126,  163  j 
Van  der  Mulen,  122 

Van  der  Peich,  73  - 

Van    der    Poel,  Vander-  j 

poel,  71,  82,  97,  167 
Van  der  Schelling,  73        | 
Van  der  Scheure,  Schure,  I 

23,  81,  168  ! 

Van  der  Spiegel,  23,  26, 

73,  84,    8f,   88,    119, 

122,       123,      124,       125, 

126,  127,   163,   167,  169   j 

Van  der  Sluys,  73  ' 

Van  der  Veen,  117,  167 


Van  der  Veer,  73 

Van  der  Voord,  Vander- 
voort, 18,  ig.  33,  8s, 
89 

Van  der  Water,  Van  de 
Water,  23,  25,  27,  28, 
29.  31,  73-  85,  87,  88, 
ii6,  117,  121,  128, 
129.  165,  168 

Van  der  Wielen,  73 

Van  der  West,  73 

Van  Deurse,  23,  25,  28, 

82,  86,    114,   115,     122, 

123,  127,  168 
Van  Duerse,  82,  127,  162, 

163,   i6s,  166 
Van  Deursen,  162 
Van  Deventer,  117,  128 
Van  Deventer,  73,  88 
Vandieu,  73 
Van  Doom,  73,  88,  117 
Van  Driese,  165 
Van  Dublin,  73 
Van  Duyckhuys,  73 
Van  Duyn,  73,  126,  128, 

163 
Van  Du^velant,  73 
Van   Dyck,  Dyk,  26,  73, 

82,  83,  84,  86.  92,  94, 

117,    119,    122,    123, 

I2S,       129,       164,      166, 
167 

Van  Ecks,  73 

Van  Edam,  73 

Van  Ekele.  123 

Van  Ekeleu,   Ekele,    83, 

84,  85 
Van  Ens,  73 
Van  Enveen,  28 
Van  Eps,  118,  167 
Van  Es,  73 
Van     Exveen,     83     (see 

\  'anoiveen) 
Van  Framker,  73 
Van  Frederickstad,  74 
Van  Garder,  74 
Van   Gelder.  23,  24,  26, 
28,  29,  83,  87,88,  114, 
115,    122,     124,    125, 
127,    128,    164,    167, 
168 
Van  Gelthuys,  74 
Van  Gertruydenburgh,  74 
Van  Giessen,  25,  81,  85, 

163,  166 
Van  Gloockens,  74 
Van  Gorham,  74 
Van  Gouthoeven,  69 
Van  Gunst,  23,  30,  166 
Van  Gust,  iig 
Van  Haagen,  74 
Van  Haen,  74 
Van  Halen,  74 
Van  Hamelwaard,  74 
Van  Heckele,  164 
Van  Heyningen,  Heinin- 

gen,  74.  84.  166 
Van    Hoeck,    Hoek,   26, 
28,   29,  84.    114,  119, 
121,  123 
Van  Hoesen,  74,  113.  116, 

117,  164 
Van  Hooghvelt,  74 
Van  Hoogte,  83.  88 
Van  Hoorn,  23.  25,  29,  80, 
87,  88,  114,  117.  iiS, 
121,    123,     124,    129, 
162,  165,  168,  169 
Van  Houten,  74,  137 
Van  Husen.  23 
Van  Imburg,   24,  81,  85, 

87,  127 
Van  Kampen,  74 
Van  Kerck,  74 


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189 


Van  Kleef,  123 

Van     Kortlant,     81,    87, 

169 
Van  Kootwyck,  74 
Van  Kouwenhore,  162 
Van  Laar,    Laer,  23,  74, 

82,  85,  88,    116,   119, 

128 
Van  Leuwen,  74 
Van  I.eyilen.  74 
Van  Lier,  74 
Van  Linningen,  74 
Van  Loewenstein,  32 
Van  Loo,  74 
Van  Luyderdorp,  74 
\'an  Luyten,  74 
Van  Maesterlanilt,  74 
Van  Manen,  74 
Van  Meeteren,  74 
Van  Merkerk,  74 
Van  Meulen,  74 
Van  Munnichendam,  74 
Van  Mynen.  70 
Van  Naerden,  74 
Van  Nesten,  71 
Van  Nieukeike,  74 
Van  Neevvkerk,  74 
Van  Norden,  >i,  74,  78, 

122,  126,  128,  162 
Van  Nordruge,  74 
Van  Noostrant,  74    — 
Van  Niiys.  74 

Van  Oosterhave,  84 
Van  Ort,  Oort,  84,  125 
\'an  Oy,  74 
Van  Pelt,  31,  74,  121,  127, 

169 
Van  Raust,  43 
Van  Rensselaer,  96 
Van  Rollegom,  27,  82,  83, 

115,   119,    122,   124 

Van   Romine,    Rommen, 

26,  27,  28 
Van  Rotterdam,  75 
Van  Ruth,  75 
Van  Sante,  84 
Van  Sauten,  75 
Van  Schaick,  26,  27,  75, 

80,    81,    82,    86,    88, 

115,  117,     118,     122, 

123,  124,     128,     129, 
162,  167,  178 

Van  Schoonderwoerdt,  75 
Van  Schure,  Schuren,  75, 

76,  121 
Van  Sent,  83 
Van  Sichgelen,  75 
Van  Sicklen,  176 
Vansioyre,  113 
Van  Soest,  75 
Van  Sleswyck,  75 
Van  Slyck,  75 
Van  Steltyn,  75 
Van  Stoutenburgh,  75 
\^an  Sutphen,  75 
Van  Tassel,  32 
Van  Teyl,  75 
Van  Thienhoven,  85,  118, 

167,  178 
Van  Tnuyl,  23,  80,  86,  88, 

116,  117,     126,    127, 
12S,  165,  178 

Van  Tilburg,  83.  85 
Van  Trigt,  163 
Van  Twiller,  75 
Van  Utrecht,  75 
Van  Valckenburg,  75 
Van    Vechten,   Veghten, 
75,  98,  128,  164,  168 
Van  Vee,  75 
Van  Veen,  75 
Van  Veere,  75 
Van  Velse,  119 
Van  Venloo,  75 


Van  Vlecburg,  75 

Van  Vleek,   85,    115,   122, 

168,  178 
Van  Vlerkom,  125 
Van  Vliet,  71,  75 
Van  Venrde,  28,  120,   162 
Van  Volkenburgh,  44 
Van  Voorhees,  75.  140 
\'an    Voorhis.     136,      137, 

140  (see  Voorhees) 
Van  Voorhoudt,   75 

Van  Voorhuys,  75  - 

Van  Vorst,  24.  28,  29.  83, 

121,  124 
Van  Vredenburch,  75 
Van  Waalwyck,  75 
Van  Wedtbroek,  75 
Van  Wesepe,  73 
Van  Wickelen,  75 
Van  Wie,  75 
Van  Winkle,  91,  136 
Van  Woart,  71 
Van  \Vy,  118 
Van  Wyck,  71,  75,  77 
Van  Vsselstein,  75 
Van  Zante,  Van  't  Zant, 

114,  i?2,  166, 167 
Van  Zutphen,  75 
Varnitt,  80 
Vechten,  75 
Veen,  71 
Veets,  24 
Velsen,  71 
Velsey,  79 
Verbeeck,  75 
Ver  Brugge,   81,   83,    84, 

118 
Ver  Plank,  120 
Ver  Schuere,  119 
VerWy,   128 
Verele,  75 
Verhagen,  75 
Verity,  78,   80,    iii,    113, 

177 
Verkerk,  76 
Verlett,  49 
Vermilye,  139 
Vermeulen,  76 
V^erniele,  76 
Vernoey,  76 
Verplanck,    76,    97,     13Q, 

158 
Verschier,  76 
Verwey,  25 
Vezeni,  139 
Vickers,  82,  129 
Viele,  Vieley,  23,  28,   117, 

127 
Vinet,  139 
Vincent,  25,   27,   76,    103, 

139 
Vincian,  76 
Vliereboom,  81,   117,   119, 

123,  163 
Vliet,  71 

Volck,  Volckertse,  24,  76 
Volkenburgh,  71 
Vonck,  Vonk,  26,   27,   83, 

Voorhees,  Verbis,  133,  140 

Voorhout,  71 

Voorn,  71 
,  Voorst,   76 

Vos,  76 
\  Vredenberg,    24,   29,    83, 
86,  90,  120,   121,   163, 

I        ^^^. 

\  Vredericks,  114,  115 
[  Vreesen,  76 

I  Vrelant,  Vrelandt,  28,  29, 
j        .   53.  125.  J29 

Vriese,  71 

Vrymans,  115 

Vyanen,  71 


Wade,  32,  135,  136  ' 

Wadsworth,  142 
Waele,  71 
Wagenaar,  76 
Wager,  10 
Wakenian,  153,  154 
Waldron,   24,   27,   29.   76, 

84,   85,   87,    119,   127, 

129,    163,     )66,     167, 

169 
Walgraef,  29,  85,  121,  162 
Walker,    18,  32,  89,    136, 

142 
Walsh,  179 
Walters,    24,  78,  84,   112, 

116,  165 
Walton,  84,  137,  168 
Wanshaar,  26,  27,  85,  114, 

123,  127 
Wanser,  Wanzer,  77,  79, 

112,  176 
Ward,   32,   33,  43-  44,  79. 

133 
Warham,  141 
Warner,  90 
Wamiont,  71 
Warren,  143,  168 
Warten,  76 
Wassenaer,  71 
Wateringhen,  71 
Waterlant,  71 
Waters,  112,  113,  164 
Watson,  32,  90,   131,  132, 

135 
Webb,  31,  33 
Webber,  Webbers,  25,  83, 

86,  118,  128,  163,  164 
Webster.  133 
Weeks,  77,  78,  79,  80,  in, 

112,  113,  135 
Weir,  90,  133 
Weissenfells,  90 
Wells,  64,  66,  90 
Welman,  137 
Welmot,  33 
Wemmen.  165 
Wemp,  76 
Wena,  71 

Wendel,  83,  118,  163 
Wentworth,  92 
Werts,  31 
Werve,  71 
Wessels,    22,    24,  25,  30, 

53,    76,   84,    87,    IIS, 

120,     122,    126,    162, 

164,  168,  169 
Wesselse,  24,  30,  84,   85, 

93.  115,  120.  124,  125, 

126,  127,  162,  167 
Wesselsen,  76 
W'esses,  29 
West,  24,  79,  133 
Westcott,  39 
Westerbeeck,  71 
Westercamp,  76 
Westman,  136 
Weston.  80,  92,  134 
Wetherspoon,  137 
V'etmore,  78 
Whaley,  77,  80,  112 
Whartman,  33 
Whitall,  171 
Wheaton,  31 
Wheeler,  32,  33,  in 
Whitaker,  89 
Whitlock,  134 
Whitefield,  32,  33 
Whitehead,  43,  49,  93 
Whiielock,  33 
White,  12,  20,  23,  85,   90, 

91,  92,  133,   137,   143, 

146,  162,  169 
Whiting,  91 
Whitman,  175 


Whittemore,  133 
Whittet,  90 
Whittier,  65,  67 
Whitney,  32,  112 
Whipper,  112 
Whipps,  90 
Whitson,  79,  175 
Wicks,  93 
Wieldrecht,  71 
W'ielness,  71 
Wienrick,  76 
Wiggins,  57 
WiUays,  76 
Wilcoxsen,  92 
Wilems,  164 
Wilders,  46,  141 
Wilkie,  136 
Willard,  108,  in 
WiUems,  Willemse,  WiU- 

emsen,  76 
Willex,  163,  167 
Willicke,  120 
Willkens,  76 
Wilkenson,  128 
Wilkes,  127 
Wilkesse,  i6g 
Wilkie.  137 
Williams,  77,  79,  83,  89, 

103,     135,     137.    143. 
171 

Willetts,   Willet,    23,    42, 
,.  43.  94,  172.  175 

Willis,  136,  170-176 

Wilse,  Wilsie,  91,  92.  120 

Wilson,  Willsen,  31,  42, 
78,  80,  91,  136,  138, 
177 

Wilt,  136 

Winans,  32 

Winds,  67 

Winne,  124 

Winship,  43 

Winter,  24 

Winthrop,  94,  157,  158 

Winton,  179 

Wiskhousen,  76 

Wisse,  71 

Witherly,  67 

Witsent,  76 

Wittemayer,  140 

Witvelt,  Wittveldt,  24,  83 

Woeder,  29,  81,  n6,  118 

Woeders.  27 

Woederd,  Woedert,  81, 
121,  169 

Woerden,  71 

Woert,  71 

Woertman,  30,  76,  118, 
119,  129,  163 

Wolcott,  140 

Wolf,  76 
'  Wolfertsen,  76 

Wollen.  58 

WoUey,  53,  56,  61 

Wood,  19.  33,   63,  78,  80, 
93.  112,  113,  132,  133, 
I  134,  136,  170 

'  Woodbridge,  141,  142 

Woodert,  166 

Woodruff,  91,  134,  137 

Woodward, Woodard,  24, 
27 

Wool,  134 

Wooley,   136 

Woolsey,  94,  137,  157, 
158,   159 

Worden,  136 
;  Wordrop,  21 

Woriman,  79 
j  Worster,  77 
1  Woude,  71 

Wouters,  77 

Wouterse,  77,  £6,  114, 
162,  165 


190 


Index  to  Names  in  Volume  XV. 


Woutersen,  119 

Wright,    32,    79,    89,    98, 

133.  136 
Wryburgh,  71 
Wuimstaal,  166 
Wybrantz,  165 
Wybrantse,  127 
Wyche,  31 
Wyck,  71 
Wyckoff,  Wykof,  77,  115, 

124 


Wylie,  9 1 
Wyngaerde,  ^\ 
Wynhart,  77 
Wynkoop,  19,  77,  84,   87, 

125,  129,  137 
Wynants.  28,  84,  88,  127 
Wynne,  57 
Wyt,  30,  122 


Yates,  103 


Yedesse,  169 

Yeets,  114 

Yeomans,  79,  132 

Yk,  82,  86 

Youle,  90 

Youngs,    20,    59,    60,   61, 

62,  63,  64,  65,  66,  67, 

68,  136 
Yselsteyn,   Yselstein,    71, 

162,    167 
Yser  Steen,  82 


Zaenhn,  71 
Zane,  171 
Zantvoort,  168 
Zelyns,  121 
Zevender,  71 
Zevenhuyzen,  77 
Zirieten,  71 
Zuydwyck,  71 
Zyl.  71 


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The  stated  meetings  of  the  Society  are  held  on  the  second  and  fourth  Friday  of 
each  month  (^excepting  July,  August  and  September),  at  half-past  seven  o'clock  p.  m., 
at  the  MoTT  Memorial  Hall,  64  Madison  Avenue,  New  York.  At  the  meeting  on  the 
second  Friday,  papers  will  be  read  or  addresses  delivered.  The  meeting  on  the 
fourth  Friday  will  be  of  a  business  and  conversational  character.  These  meetines 
are  open  to  the  public. 

MEMBERSHIP. 

Membership. — For  admission  to  the  Society,  the  candidate  must  be  nominated  by  a 
meml>«r,  in  writing  ;  be  approved  and  voted  in  at  a  regular  meeting.  The  initiation  fee 
is  Five  dollars,  and  Resident  Membership  requires  the  payment,  annually,  of  Five  dol- 
lars. The  Life  membership  fee  (in  lieu  of  all  annual  assessments)  is  Fifty  dollars.  Pay- 
ment to  be  made  to  Alexander  I.  Cotheal,  Treasurer,  64  Madison  Avenue,  N.  Y. 
Tlie  Clerks  of  the  several  Counties  and  Towns  of  the  State  are  members  of  this  Society 
ex -officio. 


OFFICERS  OF  THE    SOCIETY  FOR  THE   YEAR    1884. 

President, 
HENRY   T.    DROWNE. 

First  Vice-President^  Second  Vice-President, 

ELLSWORTH    ELIOT.                              Gen.  JAMES  GRANT  WILSON. 

Corresponding  Secretary,  Recording  Secretary, 

HENRY    R.   STILES.  ALRICK   H.  MAN. 

Treasurer,  Librarian, 

ALEXANDER  I.  COTHEAL,  SAMUEL   BURHANS,  Jr. 

Registrar  of  Pedigrees, 

Executive  Committee, 
ELLSWORTH    ELIOT,  GERRIT   H.  VAN  WAGENEN, 

ALRICK   H.    MAN,  A.   S.  CARHART. 

Committee  on  Biographical  Bibliography, 

CHAS.   B.    MOORE,                           ALRICK  H.   MAN. 
Trustees : 

Term  Expires,  1885.                                    Term  Exi'ires  1886  Term  Expires,  1887.  ^ 

SAMUEL  S,  PURPLE,                          (Jen.  GEOR(JE  S.  (JREENE,  JOHN  J.  LATTrN(J, 

EDWARD  F.  De  LANCET,                   HENRY  T.  DROWNE,  CHARLES  B,  MOORE, 

Gen.  JAMES  GRANT  WILSON,            HENRY  R.  STILES,  THOMAS  H.  EDSALL. 


S2       PER      ANISrUM 


Vol.  XV. 


THE  NEW  YORK 


No.  2. 


Genealogical  and  Biographical 


Record 


Devoted    to   the    Interests   of   American 
Genealogy  and  Biography, 


.S^ 


ISSUED       QUARTERLY, 


April,     1884.. 


PUBLISHED    BY    THE    SOCIETY, 

MoTT    Memorial    Hall,    No.    64    Madison    Avenue, 

Np:w   York;    City. 


The   New  York   Genealogical  and    Biographical   Record. 

Piihlicatioii    Conimittet  : 

SAMUEL   S.  PURPLE.  CHARLES    B.   MOORE.  JOHN    J.   LATTING. 

Gen'l  JAMES  GRANT  WILSON.  HENRY    R.    STILES. 


APRIL,   1884.— CONTENTS. 

PAGE 

1.  Deputy  Gov.  John  Berry  of  Ne\v  Jersey  and  his  Family. 

By  Thomas  H.  Edsall.      .        . 49 

2.  The   Moore   Family  of  Southold,   L.  I.     By  Charles  B. 

Moore 57 

3.  Of  the  Knighthood  and  Nobility  in  Holland.    Translated 

from  the  Dutch.     By  James  Riker 69 

4.  List  of  Early  Immigrants  to  New  Netherland.     Alpha- 

betically Arranged  with  Additions.     By  the  late  Teunis 

G.  Bergen. 72 

5.  Records  of  St.  George's  Church,  Hempstead,  L.  I. — Mar- 

riages.    By  Benjamin  D.  Hicks,  Esq.  (Continued).        .        .        ']'] 

6.  Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  the  City  of 

New.  York — Baptisms  (Continued). 81 

7.  Records  of  the  First  and  Second  Presbyterian  Churches 

in  the  City  of  New  York— Marriages  (Continued).    .        .        89 

8.  Notes    and    Queries — British    Flag— Cogswell    in   America — 

Brockway,  92— Errata,  80 — Hayden,  92 — Jessup,  68 — Ouincy — 
Lintal — Trotter— Ludlam — Moffit — Miller,  93 — Smith — Valuable 
Book — Woolsey,  94.         .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .     92  to  94 

9.  Notes  on  Books— The  Papers  and  Biography  of  Lyon  Gardmer, 

1 599-1663,  with  an  Appendix  by  Curtiss  C.  Gardiner,  St.  Louis, 
1883,  94 — Historical  Account  of  150th  Anniversary  of  the  Church 
of  New  Canaan,  Ct.,  1883,  95 — Daniel  Tyler,  A  Memorial 
Volume,  Containing  his  Autobiography  and  War  Record,  New 
Haven,  1883,  95 — Records  of  William  Spooner,  of  Plymouth, 
Mass.,  and  His  Descendants.  Vol.  I.,  Cincinnati,  O.,  1883. 
10.     Obituary — William  H.  Hunt — Schuyler  Van  Rensselaer.    .         .         96 

NOTICE. 

While  the  Publication  Committee  aim  to  admit  into  the 
Record  such  Genealogical,  Biographical,  and  Historical 
matter,  only,  as  may  be  relied  on  for  accuracy  and  authen- 
ticity, it  is  to  be  understood  that  neither  the  Society  or 
Committee  are  responsible  for  misstatements  of  facts  (if 
any),  or  for  the  opinions  or  observations  contained  or 
expressed  in  articles  under  the  names,  or  initials,  of 
contributors. 

All  communications  intended  for  the  Record  should  be 
addressed  to  "The  Publication  Committee  of  the  Record," 
at  the  rooms  of  the  N.  Y.  Genealogical  and  Biographical 
Society,  No.  64  Madison  Avenue,  New  York. 

I^^The  Record  will  be  found  011  sale  at  the  rooms  of  the 
Society,  No.  64  Madison  Avenue,  and  at  the  Book  Store  of 
E.  W.  Nash,  No.  80  Nassau  Street,  New  York.  Vol.  I.,  with 
Tndex,  price,  One  Dollar;  subsequent  Vols.,  with  Index,  Two 
iJollars  each.  Subscription,  Two  Dollars  per  Year  ;  Single 
Numbers  Sixty  Cents. 

Payments  for  subscriptions,  and  annual  dues  of  Members  of  the 
Society,  should  be  sent  to  ALEXANDER  I.  COTHEAL,  Treasurer, 
No.  64  Madison  Avenue,  New  York  City. 


DONATIONS  TO  THE  LIBRARY. 


From  Mrs.  E.  D.  Moi^GAN.      Memorial  of  Gov.  Edwin  D.  Morgan.      New  York,  1S83. 

Frotn  Mrs.  N.  B.  Wilder.     Book  of  the  Wilders.      New  York,  1878. 

From  A.  B.  Davenport.     Anniversary  Congregational  Church.     New  Canaan. 

From  The  Author.  Notes  on  the  surname  of  Marshall,  by  George  William  Marshall, 
LL. D.     London.     2  vols.,  Svo.,  18S3. 

From  The  Society.  Memorial  Biographies  of  the  New  England  Genealogical  Society. 
Vol.  3,  1856-1859.      I  vol.,  Svo.      ]3oston,  1883. 

From  MoREY  H.  Bartow.  The  Consecration  of  Henry  C.  Potter,  D.D.  A  Sermon  by 
Howard  Crosby,  D.D.,  on  the  City's  Disease  and  Remedy.      New  York.  1S83. 

From  The  Author.     The  Moslems  of  Spain,  by  A.  S    Carhart.      New  York,  1883. 

Frotn  Joh.x  Ward  Dean.  Memoir  Col.  Joseph  L  Chester.  Svo.  paper.  Boston,  1884. 
Descendants  of  Thomas  Deane.      Boston,  1S83. 

From  John   J.    Latting.      Evacuation  Day,  1783,  by  James  Riker.      New  York,  1883. 

Frotn  Gen.  Jas.  Grant  Wilson.  Biographical  Sketches  of  Robert  L.  and  Alexander 
Stuart.  Svo.  New  York,  1884.  The  Life  of  General  U.  S.  Grant.  Svo.  New 
York.  Tenth  Annual  Report  Association  for  Reform  Law  of  Nations.  Svo. 
London,  1SS3. 

From  Donald  G.   Mitchell.     The  Life  of  General  Daniel  Tyler.      New  Haven,  1S83. 

From  Hon.  E.  M.  Barton.  A  Monograph  on  the  Portraits  of  Cohmrbus,  by  James 
D.  Butler.      Bates'  Discourse  on  Deacon  Washington  White,  1S77. 

From  The  Author.  The  Humphreys  Genealogy,  by  Frederick  Humphreys,  M.D. 
Parts  2  and  3  quarto.      New  York,  1S83. 

From  Dr.  Henry  R.  Stiles.  Portrait  of  Dr.  David  P.  Holton.  CuUom's  Sketch 
Gen.  John  G.  Swift,  U.  S.  A.      Dr.  Broglie's  Visit  to  American  in  17S2. 

Frotn  Rev.  E.  D.  G.  Prime,  D.D.  Annals  of  the  Society  of  Mechanics  and  Trades- 
men.    New  York,  18S2. 

Frotn  Rhode  Island  Historical  Society.  Memorial  of  Zachariah  Allen,  1795.  By 
Amos  Peri-y,  A.M.,  1882.      Cambridge,  1883. 

From  The  Author.  A  Sketch  of  Oliver  Pollock,  by  Rev.  H.  E.  Hayden.  Harris- 
burgh,  Pa.,  1883.     The  Wistzel  Memorial,  1S83. 

Frotn  The  Regents.  Documents  Relating  to  Colonial  History  of  New  York.  Vol. 
XIV.     Albany,  1S83. 

Frotn  The  Author.  Town  Papers  New  Hampshire.  Vol.  XII.,  by  Isaac  W.  Ham- 
mond.     Concord,   1883. 

Frotn  Bureau  Educ.a.tio.\.  Report  of  the  Commissioners  of  Education.  Washington, 
1881. 

From  The  Author.  The  Chittenden  Family,  by  Dr.  Alvin  Talcott,  New  Haven, 
Ct.,  1882. 

Frotn  Rev.  Henry  T.  Scudder.  Genealogy  Early  Settlers  Trenton  and  Ewing. 
By  Hannah  L.  Cooley,  1883. 

From  The  Author.  Necrology  of  the  Numismatic  and  Antiquarian  Society  of  Phila- 
delphia for  18S1-2-3,  by  Charles  Henry  Hart.  Memoir  of  Samuel  S.  Haldeman, 
by  Charles  Henry  Hart.  Philadelphia,  1881.  Bibliographia  Websteriana.  New 
York,  1883. 

From  The  Author.  Genealogical  Memoranda  of  the  Family  of  Gresham,  by  Grandville 
Leveson  Gower,  F.S.A.     Lon  Ion,  1883. 

Frotn  The  Author.  The  Papers  and  Biography  of  Lion  Gardiner,  1599-1663,  by  Curtiss 
C.  Gardiner.      St.  Louis,  18S3. 

Frotn  The  Author.     The  Palmer  Records,  by  Noyes  T.  Palmer.     Brooklyn,  iSSi. 

Frotn  The  Author.  Josiah  Hornblower  and  the  First  Steam  Engine  in  America,  by 
William  Nelson.      Newark,  N.  J.,  1883. 

From  Dr.  Ellsworth  Eliot.  Tribute  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  to  Peter  Cooper. 
New  York,  iSSo. 

Frotti  The  Society.      The  Wisconsin  Historical  Collection. 

From  Henry  T.  Drowne.  Memorial  Sketches  of  Stephen  Whitney  Phceni.x.  Boston, 
1883. 

Frotn  The  Author.  Rev.  William  Schenck,  His  Ancestry  and  his  Descendants,  by 
A.  D.  Schenck,  U.S.A.      Washington,  1883. 

Frotn  Prof.  Franklin  B.  Dexter.  Yale  College  in  1SS3;  Obituary  Record  of  Yale 
College  Graduates,  1883  ;  Catalogue  of  Yale  College,  18S3. 

Frotn  Henry  I.  Scudder.     Piatt's  "  Old  Times  in  Huntington."  an  address.     1S76. 

Frotn  Produce  Exchange.  Annual  Reports  New  York  Produce  Exchange  for  1882-3, 
by  Elmore  H.  Walker. 

Frotn  L.  Sage.     Genealogical  Notes  of  the  Sage  Family,  1S7S. 

From  The  Author.     Historical  Sicetch  of  Baptist  Church,  Haddenfield. 

Frotn  The  Society.  Semi-Centennial  Celebration  of  the  City  of  Buffalo,  1S32-1S82. 
Buffalo,  1SS2. 


New  York  Genealogical  &  Biographical  Society. 


OBJECT. 


The  object  of  this  Society  is  to  couect  and  preserve  (also  to  publish,  as  far  as  prac- 
ticable), Genealogical,  Biographical  and  Historical  matter  relating,  for  the  most  part, 
though  not  exclusively,  to  the  State  of  New  York. 

LIBRARY. 

A  library  has  been  commenced,  and  now  contains  many  volumes  of  great  value  to  the 
genealogical  student ;  which,  by  donation,  exchange  and  otherwise,  is  steadily  increasing. 

MEETINGS. 

The  stated  meetings  of  the  Society  are  held  on  the  second  and  fourth  Friday  of 
each  month  f excepting  July,  August  and  September),  at  half-past  seven  o'clock  p.  m., 
at  the  MoTT  Memorial  Hall,  64  Madison  Avenue,  New  York.  At  the  meeting  on  the 
second  Friday,  papers  will  be  read  or  addresses  delivered.  The  meeting  on  the 
fourth  Friday  will  be  of  a  business  and  conversational  character.  These  meetings 
are  open  to  the  public. 

MEMBERSHIP. 

Membership. — For  admission  to  the  Society,  the  candidate  must  be  nominated  by  a 
member,  in  writing ;  be  approved  and  voted  in  at  a  regular  meeting.  The  initiation  fee 
is  Five  dollars,  and  Resident  Membership  requires  the  payment,  annually,  of  Five  dol- 
lars. The  Life  membership  fee  (in  lieu  of  all  annual  assessments)  is  Fifty  dollars.  Pay- 
ment to  be  made  to  ALEXANDER  I.  Cotheal,  Treasurer,  64  Madison  Avenue,  N.  Y. 
The  Clerks  of  the  several  Counties  and  Towns  of  the  State  are  members  of  this  Society 
tx-officio. 


OFFICERS  OF  THE    SOCIETY  FOR   THE   YEAR    1884. 

President, 
HENRY    T.    DROWNE. 
First  Vice-President^  Second  Vice-President, 

ELLSWORTH   ELIOT.  Gen.  JAMES  GRANT  WILSON. 

Corresponding  Secretary,  Recorditig  Secretary, 

HENRY   R.   STILES.  ALRICK   H.   MAN. 

Treasurer,  Librarian, 

ALEXANDER  I.  COTHEAL,  SAMUEL   BURHANS,  Jr. 

Registrar  of  Pedigrees, 
BAYARU   CLARKE,    Jr. 

Executive   Committee, 
ELLSWORTH    ELIOT,  GERRIT   H.  VAN  WAGENEN, 

ALRICK   H.    MAN,  A.  S.  CARHART. 

FREDERICK  D.  THOMPSON. 

Committee  on  Biographical  Bibliography, 

CHARLES  B.   MOORE,                  THOMAS  H.   EDSALL. 
Trustees : 

Term  Expires,  1885.                                    Term  Exiires  1886.  Term  Expires,  1887. 

SAMUEL  S,  PURPLE,                          Gen.  GEORGE  S.  GREENE,  JOHN  J.  LATTPNG, 

EDWARD  P.  De  LANCEY,                   HENRY  T,  DROWNE,  CHARLES  B.  MOORE, 

Gen.  JAMES  GRANT  WILSON.            HENRY  R.  STILES,.  THOMAS  H.  EDSALL. 


2     PER     ANNUM 


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THE  NEW  YORK 


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ENEALOGICAL  and   J3IOGRAPHICAL 


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Record 


Devoted    to    the    Interests   of   American 
Genealogy  and  Biography. 


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ISSUED       QUARTERLY, 


July,     1884, 


PUBLISHED    BY    THE    SOCIETY, 

MoTT    Memorial    Hall,    No.    64    Madison    Avenue, 

New   York    City. 


The   New  York   Genealogical  and    Biographical   Record. 

Publication    Cotninittee : 

SAMUEL   S.  PURPLE.  CHARLES    B.   MOORE.  JOHN    J.   LATTING 

Gen'l  JAMES  GRANT  WILSON.  HENRY    R.    STILES. 


JULY,   1884.— CONTENTS. 

PAGE 

Pruyn  Family.    Biographical  Sketch   of   Hon.  Robert   H.  Pruyn, 
LL.D.      With  a  Portrait.  97 

Biography  of  Col.  Richard  Nicolls.     By  Edward  Holland  Nicol.      103 

Notes  on  the   Livingston  Family.     By  E.  Brockholst  Livingston, 
F.S.A.  Scot.         .       .  105 

Genealogical  Sketch  of  the  Hart  and  Hooker  Families.     By  Mrs. 
Almira  Hart  Lincoln  Phelps 108 

Records   of  St.  George's    Church,  Hempstead,   L.   I. — Marriages. 
Communicated  by  Benjamin  D.  Hicks,  Esq.   (Continued".  .        .111 

Records  of  the   Reformed   Dutch   Church   in   the   City    of    New 
York — Baptisms  (.Continued).  114 

Copies   of   Letters  to  and   fro.m    J.\mes  Alexander,   Esq.     Contrib- 
uted by  Miss  Elizabeth  C.  Jay.        .........       130 

Records  of  the  First  and  Second  Presbyterian  Churches  of  the 
City  of  New  York — Marriages  ^Continued) 132 

Notes  and  Queries. — Anniversary  Meeting — Another  Costly  Book — Beach 
—  Hawley — Coggeshall  Family  Reunion — Cogswells,  138 — Frelinghuysen — 
Gilley  -  Johnston  Family — Knowlton — New  Barbadoes  Neck — Register  of  the 
French  Church,  139 — Seaman  Family — Schuyler — Sloo — Smith — Voorhees.  140 
10.  Notes  on  Books — Windsow  Farms,  by  J.  A.  Stoughton,  140 — The  Halls  of 
New  England,  by  Rev.  D.  B.  Hall,  i4i^Proceedings  of  the  N.  E.  H.  and  G. 
Society,  141 — Some  Records  of  the  Dyer  Family,  by  C.  C.  J.  Dyer,  141 — • 
History  of  the  First  Church  in  Hartford,  Ct.,  by  Rev.  G.  L.  Walker,  142 — Our 
French  Allies,  by  E.  M.  Stone,  142 — Acadia,  a  lost  Chapter  in  American  His- 
tory, by  P.  H.  Smith,  143 — Memorial  Biographies,  \'ol.  3,  143 — Ralph  Wal- 
do Emerson,  by  Wm.  Hague.  D.D.,  143 — Heraldry  in  England  and  America, 
by  Geo.  H.  Howell,  143 — Sketch  of  the  Pratt  Family,  143 — The  Dearborns, 
144 — History  of  Chicago,  Vol.  i,  144— The  Humphrey  Family,  Part  4  .         144 

NOTICE. 

While  the  Publication  Committee  aim  to  admit  into  the 
Record  such  Genealogical,  Biographical,  and  Historical 
matter,  only,  as  may  be  relied  on  for  accuracy  and  authen- 
ticity, it  is  to  be  understood  that  neither  the  Society  or 
Committee  are  responsible  for  misstatements  of  facts  (if 
any),  or  for  the  opinions  or  observations  contained  or 
expressed  in  articles  under  the  names,  or  initials,  of 
contributors. 

All  communications  intended  for  the  Record  should  be 
addressed  to  "The  Publication  Committee  of  the  Record," 
at  the  rooms  of  the  N.  Y.  Genealogical  and  Biographical 
Society,  No.  64  Madison  Avenue,  New  York. 

I^^The  Record  will  be  found  on  sale  at  the  rooms  of  the 
Society,  No.  64  Madison  Avenue,  and  at  the  Book  Store  of 
E.  W.  Nash,  No.  80  Nassau  Street,  New  York.  Vol.  I.,  with 
Index,  price.  One  Dollar;  subsequent  Vols.,  with  Index,  Two 
jJollars  each.  Subscription,  Two  Dollars  per  Year  ;  Single 
Numbers  Sixty  Cents. 

Payments  for  subscriptions,  and  annual  dues  of  Members  of  the 
Society,  should  be  sent  to  ALEXANDER  I.  COTHEAL,  Treasurer, 
No.  64  Madison  Avenue,  New  York  City. 


DONATIONS  TO  THE  LIBRARY. 


From  April  to  June,  1884. 

From  William  Alfred  Jones.  Portraits  of  Philip  Livingstone,  one  of  the 
"  Signers,"  and  of  Edward  Livingston,  author  of  the  Civil  and  Criminal 
Code  of  Louisiana. 

"  Gen.  Jas.  Grant  Wilson.  A  Comprehensive  History  of  Eastham, 
Wellfleet  and  Orleans,  County  of  Barnstable,  Mass.  From  1644  to 
1844.  by  Rev.  Enoch  Pratt  of  Brewster.  Yarmouth,  1844,  i  vol.  Svo. 
and  18  Pamphlets. 

"      Mrs.  C.  Joy-Dver.     Records  of  the  Dyer  Family.     i2mo.     New  York. 
The  Author.     Biographical    Sketch   of  John  A.  Weisse,  M.D.,   New 
York,  1883. 

The  Society.     Proceedings   of  the   Bostonian  Society.     Svo.     Boston, 
1884. 

Rev.  B.  S.  Skenck,  D.D.     The  Burning  of  Chambersburg.     Svo,  cloth. 

Phil.,  1865. 
Rev.  Edmund  Guilbert.     Year  Book  of  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Spirit. 

New  York,  1883. 

A.  A.  Vorsterman  Van  Dyen.     Dictionnaire  Nobitaire— Catalogue  of 

Genealogies,  etc.     Hague,  Holland,  1883. 
The  Author  and  Publisher.     History  of  Chicago.     From  the  Earliest 

Period  to  the  Present  Time,  in  3  vols.     Vol.  I,   ending  with  the  year 

1857.      By  A.  T.  Andreas.      Quarto,  maps  and  illustration,   pp.  648. 

Chicago,  1884. 
The  Author.     History  of  Steam  Navigation.     By  Admiral  George  H. 

Preble,  U.  S.  N.     i  vol.     Svo.     Philadelphia,  1884. 
James  N.  Arnold.     Narragansett  Historical  Magazine.     Vol.  2.     No.  4. 

Hamilton,  R.  I. 
The  Author.     Humphrey's  Family  in  America.     Part  4.     By  Frederick 

Humphreys,  M.  D.,  New  York,  1SS4. 
John  A.  Stoughton.     Windsor  Farms.      A  Glimpse  of  an  Old  Parish. 

Svo.     1883.     Hartford,  Conn. 
Harrison  A.    Gleine.      History  of  Dauphin  County,  Pa.,   1785-1876. 

By  George  H.  Morgan.     Svo,  cloth.     Harrisburgh,  1877. 
M.  H.  Stafford.     Muster  Rolls  N.  Y.  S.  Vol.     Vols,  i,  2,  3.     Quarto. 

Albany,  1864-5.     Sketch  James  Osborne  Safford. 
Historical  Notes  of  the  Kip  Family.     Anniversary  of  Weymouth. 

By  Chas.  F.  Adams. 
Daniel  Goodwin,  Jr.     Discourse  on  the  Dearborns,  Chicago,  18S4. 
Lieut.  A.  D.  Schenck,  Army  Register,  Washington,  1S83. 
Levi    Parsons.     The  Visitation  of  Cheshire.     By  John  Paul  Rylands. 

London,  1882. 
Thomas  Spooner.     Spooner  Genealogy.     Vol.  I.     Cincinnati,  1883. 
The    Author.      Pedigree  of  the  Conant  Family.      By  Francis   Odell 

Conant.     Portland,  Maine,  1884. 
The  Author.     The  Halls  of  New  England.     By  Rev.  David  B.   Hall, 

A.  M.     Albany,  1883. 
Joseph    G.    Buttre.      The  American  Pojcrait  Gallery.     By  Lillian^C. 

Buttre.     Nos.  41  to  60,  inclusive.     New  Vork,  1884. 
The  Author.     Ralph  Waldo  Emerson.     By  Rev.  William  Hague,  D.D. 

New  York,  1SS4.    . 


New  York  Genealogical  &  Biographical  Society. 


OBJECT. 


The  object  of  this  Society  is  to  conect  and  preserve  (also  to  publish,  as  far  as  prac- 
ticable), Genealogical,  Biographical  and  Historical  matter  relating,  for  the  most  part, 
though  not  exclusively,  to  the  State  of  New  York. 

LIBRARY. 

A  library  has  been  commenced,  and  now.  contains  many  volumes  of  great  value  to  the 
genealogical  student ;  which,  by  donation,  exchange  and  otherwise,  is  steadily  increasing. 

MEETINGS. 

The  stated  meetings  of  the  Society  are  held  on  the  second  and  fourth  Friday  of 
each  month  f excepting  July,  August  and  September),  at  half-past  seven  o'clock  p.  M., 
at  the  MoTT  Memorial  Hall,  64  Madison  Avenue,  Is^ew  York.  At  the  meeting  on  the 
second  Friday,  papers  will  be  read  or  addresses  delivered.  The  meeting  on  the 
fourth  Friday  will  be  of  a  business  and  conversational  character.  These  meetings 
are  open  to  the  public. 

MEMBERSHIP. 

Membership. — For  admission  to  the  Society,  the  candidate  must  be  nominated  by  a 
member,  in  writing  ;  be  approved  and  voted  in  at  a  regular  meeting.  The  initiation  fee 
is  Five  dollars,  and  Resideiit  Membership  requires  the  payment,  annually,  of  Five  dol- 
lars. The  Life  membership  fee  (in  lieu  of  all  annual  assessments)  is  Fifty  dollars.  Pay- 
ment to  be  made  to  Alexander  I.  Cotheal,  Treasurer,  64  Madison  Avenue,  N.  Y. 
The  Clerks  of  the  several  Counties  and  Towns  of  the  State  are  members  of  this  Society 
ex -officio. 


OFFICERS  OF  THE   SOCIETY  FOR   THE    YEAR    1884. 

President., 

HENRY  T.    DROWNE. 

First  Vice-President^  Second  Vice-President, 

ELLSWORTH    ELIOT  Gen.   JAMES  GRANT  WILSON. 

Corresponding  Secretary,  Recording  Secretary, 

HENRY    R.    STILES.  ALRICK   H.   MAN. 

Treasurer,  Librarian, 

ALEXANDER  I.   COTHEAL,  SAMUEL   BURHANS,  Jr. 

Registrar  of  Pedigrees, 
BAYARD   CLARKE,    Jr. 

Executive   Committee, 
ELLSWORTH    ELIOT,  GERRIT   H.  VAN  WAGENEN, 

ALRICK    H.    MAN,  A.   S.  CARHART.  ' 

FREDERICK  D.   THOMPSON. 

Cornmittee  on  Biographical  Bibliography, 
CHARLES  B.    MOORE,  THOMAS    H.   EDSALL. 

Trustees : 
Term  Expires,  1885.  Term  Expires  1886.  Term  Expires,  1887. 

SAMUEL  S.  PUEPLE,  Gen.  GEOHaE  S,  GKEENE,         JOHN  J.  LATTINa, 

EDWARD  F.  De  LANCET,  HENRY  'T.  DROWNE,  CHARLES  B.  MOORE, 

(Jen.  JAMES  GRANT  WILSON.  HENRT  R.  STILES.i  THOMAS  H.  EDSALL. 


2     PER     ANNUM, 


Vol.  XV.  / 

THE   NEW  YORK 


No.  4. 


Genealogical  and  Biographical 

Record. 


Devoted    to   the   Interests   of   American 
Genealogy  and  Biography. 


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ISSUED       QUARTERLY, 


October,     1884.. 


PUBLISHED   BY   THE   SOCIETY, 

MOTT    Memorial    Hall,    No.    64    Madison    Avenue, 

New  York   City. 


The  New  York   Genealogical  and    Biographical   Record. 

Publication    Committee  : 

SAMUEL   S.  PURPLE.  CHARLES    B.   MOORE.  JOHN   J.   LATTING 

Gen'l  JAMES  GRANT  WILSON.  HENRY    R.    STILES. 


OCTOBER,   1884.— CONTENTS. 


PACK 


Sketch  of  Hon.  John  Stevens,  of  Perth  Amboy,  New  York  City 
AND  Hunterdon  Co.,  N.  J.     Bv  Richard  F.  Stevens.  .        .       145 

Rogers'  Lineage.     By  Rev.  Benjamin  W.  Dwight,  Clinton,  N.  Y.       150 

Notes    on    the   Livingston    Family.     A    Short   Account    of  Its 
Early  History.     By  E.  Brockholst  Livingston,  F.S.A.Scot.     .       159 

Records  of  the  Reformed    Dutch   Church  in  the  City  of  New 
York.     Baptisms  {Cofi/una-J) 162 

Willis   Family    on   Long   Island,  N.  Y.     By  Benjamin  D.  Hicks.       170 

Records   of   St.   George's   Church,  Hempstead,   L.   I.      Communi- 
cated by  Benjamin  D.  Hicks,  Esq.     Marriages  (Continued).  .       176 

Notes  .a.nd  Queries. — Coggeshall  Family  Re-union,   i77~Hart,   177-- 
Index  to  Names,  177 — Menitt,  177 — Corrections,  177 — Stoutenburgh.  178 

Notes   on    Books. — The   Centennial  of  Incorporation   (of   Charleston, 
S.  C),  1883,    178 — Genealogical  and  Historical  Record  of  the  Carpen- 
ter Family,  by  James  Usher.  .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .178 

9.     Obituary. — Biography  of  Jonathan  S.  Lawrence,  M.D.,   by  Dr.  George 
H.    Butler,    179 — George  C.   Arnold,    Esq.,    180— Rev.    Caleb  Sprague 

Henry,  D.D 180 

10.     Index  to  Vol.  xv 181 

NOTICE. 

While  the  Publication  Committee  aim  to  admit  into  the 
Record  such  Genealogical,  Biographical,  and  Historical 
matter,  only,  as  may  be  relied  on  for  accuracy  and  authen- 
ticity, it  is  to  be  understood  that  neither  the  Society  or 
Committee  are  responsible  for  misstatements  of  facts  (if 
any),  or  for  the  opinions  or  observations  contained  or 
expressed  in  articles  under  the  names,  or  initials,  of 
contributors. 

All  communications  intended  for  the  Record  should  be 
addressed  to  "The  Publication  Committee  of  the  Record," 
at  the  rooms  of  the  N.  Y.  Genealogical  and  Biographical 
Society,  No.  64  Madison  Avenue,  New  York. 

l^^  The  Record  will  be  found  on  sale  at  the  rooms  of  the 
Society,  No.  64  Madison  Avenue,  and  at  the  Book  Store  of 
E.  W.  Nash,  No.  80  Nassau  Street,  New  York.  Vol.  I.,  with 
Index,  price,  One  Dollar;  subsequent  Vols.,  with  Index,  Two 
iJoUars  each.  Subscription,  Two  Dollars  per  Year  ;  Single 
Numbers  Sixty  Cents. 

Payments  for  subscriptions,  and  annual  dues  of  Members  of  the 
Society,  should  be  sent  to  ALEXANDER  I.  COTHEAl^  Treasurer, 
No.  64  Madison  Avenue,  New  York  City. 


DONATIONS  TO  THE  LIBRARY. 


Received  from  July  to  October,  1884. 

From  Hon.  Thomas  C.  Amory.  Daniel  Sullivan's  visits,  May  and  June,  1781, 
to  General  John  Sullivan  in  Philadelphia.  By  the  Donor,  Boston,  1884. 
"  Gen.  Jas.  Grant  Wilson.  History  of  the  Bradlee  Family,  with  par- 
ticular reference  to  the  Descendants  of  Nathan  Bradlee  of  Dorchester, 
Mass.  Collected  and  arranged  by  Samuel  Bradlee  Doggett.  Boston, 
1878.      Genealogical  and  other  Pamphlets. 

Thomas  Addis  Emmet,  M.D.  Memoir  James  Marion  Sims,  M.D. 
By  the  Donor.     New  York,  1884. 

Charles  B.  Norton.     The  American  Exhibition.     London,  1884. 
Dr   H.  E.  Henderson,  A.m.     The  School  of  Salernum.     An  Historical 
Sketch.     By  the  Donor.     New  York,  1883. 

Robert  H.  Eddy.  John  Pickering  of  Boston.  By  the  Donor.  Bos- 
ton, 1884. 

Frederick  Humphreys,  M.D.  The  Humphreys  Family  in  America. 
Part  V.     By  the  Donor.     New  York,  1884. 

Robert  Clarke  &  Co.  The  Life  and  Writings  of  John  Filson,  the 
First  Historian  of  Kentucky.  By  Reuben  T.  Durrett.  Filson  Club 
Series  No.  i.     Quarto.     Cincinnati,  1884. 

Mrs.  Mary  Lathrop  Gibson.  Lathrop  Family  Memoir.  By  Rev. 
E.  B.  Huntington.     Quarto,  cloth.     Ridgefield,  Conn.,  1884. 

William  Alfred  Jones.  Memorial  of  Hon.  David  S.  Jones.  By  the 
Donor.     New  York,  1849. 

James  LfSHER.  History  of  the  Carpenter  Family  and  Estate.  By  the 
Donor.     New  York,  1884. 

Gen.  C.  W.  Darling.  Historical  Fallacies  regarding  Colonial  New 
York.  By  Douglass  Campbell.  Utica,  1884.  Transactions  of  the 
Oneida  Historical  Society  of  LTtica  for  1881. 

William  Henry  Rawle.  Unveiling  the  Statue  of  Chief-Justice  Mar- 
shall.    An  Oration.     By  the  Donor.     Philadelphia,  1884. 

Prof.  F.  B.  Dexter.  Yale  College  in  1884.  Obituary  record  of  Grad- 
uates of  Yale  College  for  year  ending  June,  1884. 

Albany  Institute.     Memorial  Tributes  to  Orlando  Mead,  LL.D. 

The  Huguenot  Society.  The  Huguenot  Society  of  America,  No.  i 
New  York,  1884. 

Harrison  Wright.  Manuscripts  of  the  Earl  of  Ashburnham.  By 
Leopold  Delisle.     Philadelphia,  1884. 

Bureau  of  Education.  Circulars  of  Information.  Nos.  2  and  3. 
Washington,  1884. 

John  J.  Latting.  Catalogue  of  the  University  of  the  City  of  New 
York,   Arts    and  Science.     New  York,  1884. 

Rev.  T.  Stafford  Drowne,  D.D.  Journal  17th.  Annual  Convention 
P.  E.  Church  Diocese  of  Rhode  Island.      Brooklyn,  1884. 

Rev.  George  Leon  Walker.  History  of  the  First  Church  in  Hart- 
ford, 1 633-1 883.     By  the  Donor.     Hartford,  Conn.,  1884. 

RuFUS  King.  An  account  of  the  Ancient  and  Noble  Family  of  Keith. 
By  P.  Buchan.  London,  1820.  Constitution  and  By-Laws,  St.  Nich- 
olas Club,  New  York  City.     New  York,  1884. 

Gen.  William  Birney.  Sketch  of  the  Life  of  James  G.  Birney.  By 
the  Donor.     Chicago,  1884. 

I.  N.  Bagg.  History  First  Congregational  Church 'in  West  Springfield, 
Mass.     Springfield,  1884. 


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New  York  Genealogical  &  Biographical  Society, 


OBJECT 

t;JM^^  °<^^^^'  f  -^'^  ^^"^'^  ''.*°  ^""''^^^  ^"^  preserve  (also  to  publish,  as  far  as  nrac- 

cable),  Genealogical,  Biographical  and    HistoHcal  mat  er  relating    for  the  r^ost  mr5 

though  not  exclusively,  to  the  State  of  New  York.  ^      ' 

LIBRARY. 

A  library  has  been  commenced,  and  now  contains  many  volumes  of  rreat  value  to  the 
genealogical  student ;  which,  by  donation,  exchange  and  otherwise,  is  steidny  incttsing. 

MEETINGS, 

The  stated  meetings  of  the  Society  are  held  on  the  second  and  fourth  Friday  of 
each  month  (excepting  July,  August  and  September),  at  half-past  seven  o'clock  pV 
at  the  MoTT  Memorial  Hall,  64  Madison  Avenue,  New  York^  At  the  meeting  o^  ui; 
second  Friday,  papers  wi  1  be  read  or  addresses  delivered.  The  meeting  on  the 
'T:,It\:tJl   °^  ^   '"^^"^^^  -''   conversational    character.       Thesf  meeti^ 

MEMBERSHIP. 

MKMBERSHIP.-For  admission  to  the  Society,  the  candidate  must  be  nominated  by  a 

IT  ^'^v^'hIii'"'^  ^"^,'  l^  ^^^T^^  ^l^  \°^'^  '"  ^'  ^  ''"8"'^^  "^^^''"g-     The  initiation  fee 
s  1<IVE  dollais    and  Restdent  Membership  requires  the  payment,  annually,  of  Five  dol- 
lars.    1  he  Life  membership  fee  (in  lieu  of  all  annual  assessments)  is  Fifty  dollars      Pav- 
ment  to  be  made  to  Alexander  I.   Cotheal,  Treasurer,  64  Madison  Avenue;  N   Y 
Tlie  Clerks  of  the  several  Counties  and  Towns  of  the  State  are  members  of  this  Society 


OFFICERS  OF  THE    SOCIETY  FOR   THE    YEAR    1; 

President, 
HENRY   T.    DROWNE. 


First  Vice-President^ 

ELLSWORTH    ELIOT 

Corresponditig  Secreiarv, 

HENRY    R.   STILES. 

Treasurer^ 

ALEXANDER  I.   COTHEAL, 


Second  Vice-President, 
Gen.   JAMES  GRANT   WILSON. 
Recording  Secretary, 
ALRICK    H.   MAN. 

Librariafi, 
SAMUEL    BURHANS,  Jr. 


Registrar  of  Pedigrees, 
BAYARD    CLARKE,    Jr. 

Executive  Co??imittee, 
ELLSWORTH    ELIOT,  GERRIT    H.  VAN  WAGENEN. 

ALRICK    H.    MAN,  A.   S.  CARHART. 

FREDERICK  D.   THOMPSON. 

Committee  on  Biographical  Bibliography, 
CHARLES   B.    MOORE,  THOMAS    H.    EDSALL. 

Trustees : 
Term  Expires,  1885.  Tb-»m  Vvi.ii>.r<:  ,rb^  -i-         i- 

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SAMUEL  S,  PUKPLE, 
EDWARD  P.  De  LANCEY, 
Gen.  JAMES  GKANT  WILSON 


Gen.  GEORGE  S.  GREENE, 
HENRY  T.  DROWNE, 
HENRY  R.  STILES, 


JOHN  J.  LATTING, . 
CHARLES  B.  MOORE, 
THOMAS. H.  EDSALL. 


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