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THE  NEW  YORK 
Genealogical\nd  Biographical 


Record. 


DEVOTED    TO    THE     INTERESTS    OF    AMERICAN 
GENEALOGY    AND    BIOGRAPHY. 


ISSUED     QUARTERLY. 


VOLUME     XXL,     1890. 


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PUBLISHED  BY  THE  SOCIETY, 

Berkeley    Lyceuim,   No.   23  West  44TH   Street, 

NEW  YORK  CITY. 


4125 

PUBLICATION    COMMITTEE: 

Rev.  BEVERLEY  R.  BETTS,  Chairman.     Dr.  SAMUEL  S.  PURPLE.. 

Gen.  JAS.  GRANT  WILSON.  Mr.  THOS.  G.  EVANS. 

Mr.  EDWARD  F.  DE  LANCEY.  Mr.  WILLL\M  P.  ROBINSON. 


Press  of  J.  J.  Little  &  Co.,  Astor  Place,  New  York. 


INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


Albany  and  New  York  Records,  170. 

Baird,  Charles  W.,  Sketch  of,  147. 
Bidwell,  Marshal]  S.,  Memoir  of,  i. 
Brookhaven  Epitaphs,  63. 

Cleveland,  Edmund  J.     Captain  Alexander  Forbes  and  his  Descendants,  159. 
Crispell  Family,  83. 

De  Lancey,  Edward  F.      Memoir  of  Marshall  S.  Bidwell,  i. 
De  Witt  Family,  185. 
Dyckman  Burial  Ground,  81. 

Edsall,  Thomas  H.      Inscriptions  from  the  Dyckman  Burial  Ground,  81. 
Evans,  Thomas  G.     The  Crispell  Family,  83. 
The  De  Witt  Family,  185. 

Fernow,  Berlhold.      Albany  and  New  York  Records,  170 
Fishkill  and  its  Ancient  Church,  52. 
Forbes,  Alexander,  159. 

Heermans  Family,  58. 

Herbert  and  Morgan  Records,  40. 

Hoes,  R.  R.     The  Negro  Plot  of  1712,  162. 

Hopkins,  Woolsey  R      Two  Old  New  York  Houses,  168. 

Inscriptions  from  Morgan  Manor,  N.  J. ,  112. 

John  Hart,  the  Signer,  36. 

John  Patterson,  by  William  Henry  Lee,  99. 

Jones,  William  Alfred.      The  East  in  New  York,  43. 

Kelby,  William.      Brookhaven  Epitaphs,  63. 

Kinnjston  Church  Records,  86. 

Kip,  Francis  M.     Fishkill  and  its  Ancient  Church,  49. 

Lee,  William  Henry.     John  Patterson,  99. 

Mather,  Mrs.  De  Witt  C.     Original  Records  of  the  Families  of  Herbert  and  Mather, 

41. 
^lenorial  of  New  York  Loyalists,  iSo. 
Morgan  Manor,  N.  J.     Inscriptions  from,  112. 

Ne  ;ro  Plot  of  1712,  162. 

N    ^es  and  Queries. — Ackerman,  93  ;  Allen,  143  ;  American   Philosophical   Society, 

142  ;  Arms  of  De  Sille,  46  ;  Bayard,  46  ;  Bishop  Moore,  92  ;  Certificates  of 
Membership,  144  ;  Church  Family,  93  ;  Dey  Family  Record,  92  ;  Drake,  45  ; 
Dutch    Records,    143  ;  Dutch   Rulers,    93  ;   Eliot,    142  ;    Elting,   46  ;  Feake, 

143  ;  Franklin  Anniversary,  192  ;  Gardiner's  Island,  45  ;  Gibson,  140  ;  Grace 
Church,  New  York,  45  ;  Graveyard  at  Ramapo,  143  ;  Hasbrouck,  45,  Jen- 
ings,   45  ;     Letter  from   Quebec,     190  ;     Livingston,     141  ;    Longevity,    93  ; 


iv  Ifidex    of  Subjecis. 

Men's  Wives,  191  ;  Morgan  Manor,,  192  ;  Narragansett  Register,  93  ;  New 
York  Directory,  18(^0,  143  ;  Officers  of  the  Revolution,  91,  140;  Pennsylvania 
Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  142  ;  Portrait  of  Bishop  Moore,  144  ; 
Portrait  of  Gen.  Paterson,  144  ;  Portraits  of  the  Presidents  of  the  Society,  143  ; 
Proceedings  of  the  Society,  45,  gi,  140;  Rogers,  142;  Southampton,  L.  I., 
143  ;  Southold  Celebration,  192  ;  Statue  of  Columbus,  93  ;  The  Bradford 
Family,  191  ;  Thomson,  143  ;  Vanderlyn,  192;  Winslow  Memorial,  93. 
Notes  on  Books. — Address  of  Charles  B.  Moore  at  Southold,  194  ;  Descendants  of 
Richard  Mann,  by  George  S.  Mann,  95  ;  Descendants  of  Thomas  OIney,  by 
James  H.  Olney,  96  ;  Diary  of  William  Pynchon,  144  ;  Early  American 
Methodism,  by  J.  B.  Wakeley,  95  ;  Easthampton  Records,  144  ;  Gray  Geneal- 
ogy, by  James  M.  D.  Raymond,  47  ;  Guilford  Celebration,  94  ;  History  of 
Deer  Park,  by  Peter  E.  Gumaer,  103  ;  History  of  Utah,  by  H.  H.  Bancroft, 
94  ;  Lyon  Gardiner,  by  Curtiss  C.  Gardiner,  95  ;  Matthew  Gerardus  Clarkson, 
193  ;  New  Brunswick  Weather  Reports,  194 ;  Op  Dyck  Genealogy,  by 
Charles  W.  Opdyke,  95  ;  Story  of  an  Old  Farm,  by  Andrew  D.  Mellick,  jr., 
94  ;  The  Boltons,  by  Charles  R.  Bolton,  145  ;  The  Driver  Family,  by  Har- 
riet Ruth  Cooke,  49  ;  The  Eliot  Family,  by  Walter  G.  Eliot.  145  ;  The  Fam- 
ily of  John  Stone,  by  William  L.  Stone,  47  ;  The  Family  of  Joris  Dircksen 
Brinckerhoff.  48  ;  The  Keyser  Family,  by  John  S.  Keyer,  48  ;  The  Political 
Beginnings  of  Kentucky,  by  John  Mason  Brown,  144  ;  The  Scotch-Irish  in 
America,  47  ;  The  Wights  of  Dedham,  194  ;  Whitney  Family,  193  ;  Winslow 
Memorial,  vol.  ii.,  by  David  Parsons  Holton  and  Frances  K.  Holton,  49. 

OVjituaries.  —  Dwight,  47  ;   Gibson,  94. 

Pruyn  Family,  8,  124,  178. 

Raymond,  James  L.     Tyson  and  Steele  Family  Records,  40. 

Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  the  City  of  New  York.      Baptisms,  28,  65, 
113,  151- 

Schureman  Family,  61. 

Stevenson,  John  R.     John  Hart,  the  Signer,  36. 

Strang  Family,  130. 

The  East  in  New  York,  43. 

Two  Old  New  York  Houses,  168. 

Two  Quebec  Graves,  177. 

Tyson  and  Steele  Family  Records,  40. 

Van  Wagenen,  Gerrit  H.      The  Heermans  Family,  58  ;  The  Van  Wagenen   Family, 
118.   The  Vredenburgh  Family,  164. 

Weddings  at  St.  Mary's,  Whitechapel,  London,  87. 

Wilson,  James  Grant.      Two  Quebec  Graves,  177. 

Wynkoop,  Richard  Strang,  130  ;  Tiie  Schuremans  of  New  Rochelle,  61. 


THE  NEW  YORK 

Oicttcalogkal  aiilr  biographical  |iccork 


Vol.  XXI,  NEW  YORK,  JANUARY,   1890.  No.   i. 


MARSHALL  S.  BIDWELL. 

A    MEMOIR 

HISTORICAL  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL. 


By  Edward  F.  de  Lancey. 


One  of  the  most  venerable  and  honored  members  of  the  Bar  of 
New  York,  courtly  in  manners,  profound  in  learning,  pure  in  life,  was 
Marshall  Spring  Bidwell. 

Born  in  the  year  1799  at  Stockbridge,  in  that  beautiful  county  of 
Berkshire,  which  has  given  to  Massachusetts  so  many  of  her  greatest 
men,  he  became  a  subject  of  George  the  Third,  and  took  successively 
the  oaths  of  allegiance  to  George  the  Fourth,  William  the  Fourth  and 
Victoria,  sovereigns  of  Great  Britain.  Driven  from  their  dominions 
in  the  prime  of  his  life,  by  the  iron  hand  of  arbitrary  power,  and 
subsequently  besought  in  vain  to  return  and  accept  high  judicial  station, 
he  lived  and  died  a  citizen  of  New  York  in  1872. 

A  memoir  of  Mr.  Bidwell  is  not  only  the  biography  of  an  indi- 
vidual, but  a  statement  of  the  early  history  of  a  new  country, — a  record 
of  the  sufferings  of  a  neighboring  people  under  arbitrary  authority, 
and  of  their  struggles  to  secure  a  government  of  law  and  justice. 

Mr.  Bidwell  was  the  son  of  Barnabas  Bidwell,  a  prominent  lawyer 
of  Massachusetts  and  at  one  time  its  Attorney-General,  who  in  181 1 
removed  to  the  province  of  Ontario,  then  called  Upper  Canada.  He 
was  educated  there  under  his  father's  eye.  His  legal  studies  began 
in  March,  181 6,  when  he  was  "  articled  as  a  clerk  "  under  the  English 
system,  to  Solomon  Johns,  an  attorney  of  Bath  in  Upper  Canada,  and 
the  next  month  entered  as  a  student  at  law  by  the  Law  Society  of 
that  Province.  In  April,  1821,  he  was  called  to  the  degree  of  Bar- 
rister at  Law  by  the  same  "  Law  Society  of  Upper  Canada,"  an  in- 
stitution somewhat  analogous  to  an  English  "  Inn  of  Court,"  and 
having  somewhat  similar  powers  ;  and  three  years  afterwards,  in  1824, 
he  was  elected  to  the  Eighth  Provincial  Parliament  as  one  of  the  rep- 
resentatives of  the  County  of  Lennox  and  Addington. 

In  order  to  arrive  at  a  correct  understanding  of  Mr.  Bidwell's 
peculiar  and  difficult  position  during  his  public  life,  it  will  be  nec- 
essary to  glance  at  the  history  of  the  Province. 

At  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  war,  the  British  Government, 
it  will  be  recollected,  made  a  scanty  provision  in  her  remaining  north- 
ern colonies  for  those  who  by  remaining  faithful    to  the  Crown  had 


2  Marshall   S.    Bidwell.  [Jan., 

lost  their  all.  Some  went  to  Nova  Scotia,  some  to  New  Brunswick, 
and  others  to  Canada,  where  they  were  given,  in  compensation  for 
their  losses,  grants  of  wild  land,  and  other  encouragement  in  the  way 
of  petty  public  offices.  These  Americans  were  subsequently  distin- 
guished by  the  name  of  ''  U.  E.  Loyalists  " — that  is,  "  United  Empire 
Loyalists." 

A  few  years  after,  —  in  1791, — an  act  was  passed  by  the  British 
Parliament  dividing  the  Canadas  into  two  provinces  and  conferring  on 
each  a  quasi-constitutional  government,  under  the  names  of  "  Lower" 
and  "  Upper  "  Canada. 

The  ministers  of  the  day  seem  to  have  run  in  the  old  groove, 
and  to  have  learned  nothing  from  American  history.  Blind  to  the 
palpable  fact,  which  a  seven  years'  war  and  an  inglorious  peace 
ought  to  have  impressed  on  their  minds,  that  the  Constitutions  of  the 
old  American  colonies  had  not  only  not  prevented,  but  to  som.e  extent 
actually  helped  to  produce,  a  rebellion,  they  copied  the  Canadian 
constitution  almost  literally  from  that  of  the  colony  of  New  York, 
and  gave  Upper  Canada  a  Governor,  a  Council  possessing  Executive 
and  Legislative  powers,  and  a  House  of  Assembly. 

The  British  Cabinet  through  the  Colonial  minister  appointed  the 
Governor,  and  the  members  of  the  Council.  The  Assembly  was  elected 
by  the  freeholders.  Thus  the  Canadian  legislature  consisted  osten- 
sibly of  three  branches,  but  in  fact  of  only  two  ;  for  the  members 
of  the  Executive  Council,  who  were  the  advisers  of  the  Governor, 
held  seats  also  in  the  Legislative  Council,  or  Upper  House,  where 
were  also  to  be  seen  the  Chief  Justice,  the  Superintendent  of  the 
Indian  Department,  the  Receiver  General,  Inspector  General  of  Ac- 
counts, and  the  Surveyor  General,  who  in  one  chamber  made  the 
laws,  and  only  such  as  pleased  them  ;  for  if  the  acts  interfered  with 
their  interests,  they  as  the  Executive  Council  advised  the  Governor 
to  veto  them,  and  he  almost  invariably  complied  with  their  advice. 

In  this  connection  it  is  to  be  borne  in  mind  that  the  whole  of  the 
public  lands  in  Canada,  the  Clergy  Reserves  excepted,  vv'ere  at  the 
disposal  of  the  Executive  Council,  and  thus  formed  an  inexhaustible 
fund  to  bribe  and  buy  up  at  any  time  a  majority  of  the  House  of  As- 
sembly, which  body  numbered  at  first  twenty-five,  and  subsequently 
about  fifty,  members.  Add  to  this  that  the  entire  patronage  of  the 
province  was  in  fact  in  the  hands  and  at  the  disposal  of  the  Council, 
who  appointed  every  officer  from  Chief  Justice  down  to  tide  waiters 
— Judges,  Crown  Lawyers,  Surrogates,  Sheriffs,  Magistrates,  Officers 
of  Militia,  Returning  Officers  of  Election,  Heads  and  Clerks  of  the 
several  departments, — all  were  named  by,  and  held  their  offices  during 
the  will  and  pleasure  of,  the  Executive.  Eventually,  this  class,  or  the 
more  influential  among  them,  constituted  a  ruling  oligarchy,  who  to 
concentrate  their  power  and  preserve  their  lucrative  places  and  pat- 
ronage formed  alliances  by  intermarriage  within  their  own  exclusive 
circle,  and  became  known  throughout  the  length  and  breadth  of  Can- 
ada as  "77/^  Family  Compact."  So  great  became  the  power  of  this 
combination,  that  it  absolutely  ruled  the  Lieutenant-Governor  for  the 
time  being,  controlled  every  department  of  the  government,  and 
obeyed  or  disobeyed  the  commands  of  the  Colonial  Office,  as  they  ac- 
corded with  the  views  or  conflicted  with  the  interests  of  the  "  Family." 


1890.]  Marshall   S.    BidweiL  ', 

Those  who  opposed  misrule,  attempted  to  introduce  economy  and 
reform  in  the  government,  or  exposed  jobbery  or  misappropriation 
of  the  public  money,  were  marked  and  hunted  down.  Alien  and 
sedition  laws  were  enacted.  Though  freedom  of  speech  was  the  parlia- 
mentary right  of  members  of  assembly,  it  was  imprudent  to  hint  at  cor- 
ruption, or  to  assert  the  truth  that  members  were  bribed  by  large  grants 
of  land.  He  who  was  so  bold  as  to  make  the  charge  or  to  demand  a 
committee  of  investigation  was  summarily  expelled.  In  1816,  a  sheriff 
dared  to  vote  "  the  opposition  ticket  "  at  an  election  ;  he  was  at  once 
dismissed.  He  subsequently  established  a  newspaper;  exposed  abuses, 
was  prosecuted,  acquitted,  became  popular,  and  Avas  elected  to  the 
assembly,  where  having  used  his  "  privilege "  rather  freely,  he  was 
thrust  into  prison,  his  paper  was  seized,  and  though  he  served  as  a 
volunteer  in  the  war  of  181 2,  was  ultimately  driven  from  the  province. 

The  case  of  Robert  Gourlay  illustrates  more  clearly  the  tyranny 
of  those  days.  He  emigrated  from  Scotland  in  181 7,  with  a  view  to 
settle  in  Canada  with  his  family  and  to  promote  emigration  to  that 
province.  He  addressed  the  landholders  for  information  ;  sent  circulars 
among  the  people  and  eventually  invited  a  convention  of  delegates  to 
promote  his  views.  The  Executive  needlessly  became  alarmed,  charged 
him  with  seditious  purposes,  and  ordered  his  arrest.  He  was  tried  and 
acquitted  ;  again  accused  of  treasonable  practices,  he  was  re-arrested, 
and  after  spending  some  time  in  jail  was  ordered  to  quit  the  province, 
and  on  refusing,  was  tried  for  disobeying  an  ex  post  facto  "Act  for  pre- 
venting seditious  meetings  in  the  Province,"  and  forcibly  thrust  out  of 
the  country  ;  all  because  he  desired  to  obtain  and  publish  information 
which  would  encourage  emigration  to  the  province. 

Such  was  the  government  of  Upper  Canada,  when  the  Honorable 
Barnabas  Bidwell,  father  of  the  subject  of  this  memoir,  was  returned  as 
a  reformer  to  the  Assembly  from  the  county  of  Lennox  and  Addington 
in  1 82 1.  He  was  a  Presbyterian,  a  man  of  considerable  ability,  eloquent, 
and  a  firm  advocate  of  civil  and  religious  liberty. 

Mr.  Barnabas  Bidwell,  though  a  native  of  Massachusetts,  was  a 
British  subject,  having  been  born  before  1776.  He  remained  however 
in  the  United  States  until  181 1,  as  already  stated.  His  independence 
of  action  and  outspoken  condemnation  of  the  abuses  that  prevailed  in 
the  government  evoked  a  spirit  of  hostility  against  him  among  the 
oligarchy,  who  resolved  to  get  rid  of  him  at  all  hazards.  Consequently 
he  was  expelled  by  a  majority  of  one  vote — seventeen  yeas  to  sixteen 
nays,  on  the  ground  that  he  was  an  alien.  This  arbitrary  proceeding 
only  aroused  a  determined  spirit  of  opposition,  which  thereafter  never 
succumbed,  and  which  though  repeatedly  circumvented  and  defeated, 
yet  finally  buried  the  oligarchy  and  the  "Family  Compact  "  in  a  com- 
mon ruin  : 

"  For  Freedom's  battle  once  begun, 
Bequeathed  from  bleeding  sire  to  son, 
Though  baffled  oft,  is  ever  won." 

In  this  instance  "Freedom's  battle"  was  transferred  literally  from 
father  to  son,  for  the  sturdy  yeomanry  of  Lennox  and  Addington  re- 
senting the  affront  to  the  father,  brought  forward  the  son,  Marshall  S. 
Bidwell,  as  a  candidate  for  the  vacant  seat.  But  the  victory  was  not 
to  be  easily  achieved.     The  returning  officer  or  inspector  of  elections 


A  Marsha//   S.    Bidivell.  [Jan., 

counted  in  the  opposing  candidate.  A  protest  was  entered,  and  after 
an  able  defence  of  his  rights  by  Mr.  Bidwell,  at  the  bar  of  the  House, 
the  return  was  set  aside,  and  a  new  election  ordered.  Thereupon  the 
returning  officer  refused  to  receive  any  votes  for  Mr.  Bidwell,  on  the 
ground  of  his  being  an  alien  as  the  son  of  his  father.  Another  protest 
followed  and  the  election  was  again  set  aside.  Finally  young  Mr. 
Bidwell  was  triumphantly  returned  to  Parliament  for  the  county  of 
Lennox  and  Addington  in  August,  1824,  and  took  his  seat  in  the 
Assembly  the  following  January  without  further  opposition. 

These  rejections  of  both  father  and  son  were  caused  by  mere 
partisan  feeling,  for  there  was  no  law  on  the  subject  ;  and  so  high  did 
this  feeling  run,  that  after  the  expulsion  of  Barnabas  Bidwell,  an  act 
was  passed  making  natives  of  the  United  States  ineligible  to  seats 
in  the  Upper  Canada  Legislature.  This  statute  however  proved  so 
injurious  to  Canadian  interests,  that  it  was  repealed  in  1824,  and  a  pre- 
vious residence  of  seven  years  was  substituted  as  a  qualification  for 
membership. 

In  1825,  for  the  first  time  since  the  organization  of  the  province,  the 
opponents  of  the  high  Tory  oligarchy  had  a  majority  in  the  House  of 
Assembly.  Mr.  Bidwell  at  once  became  their  leader.  The  new  party 
called  "  The  Reformers  "  aimed  at  making  the  government  responsible 
to  the  House  of  Assembly,  precisely  as  it  is  to  the  House  of  Commons 
in  England,  and  not  to  the  Governor  and  Council — the  Executive 
Authority— as  the  oligarchy  had  done. 

Mr.  Bidwell  was,  perhaps,  the  strongest  man  in  his  party,  during 
his  entire  career  in  Canada.  Calm,  cautious,  courteous,  high  principled, 
well  informed,  and  ever  ready,  he  had  no  rival  in  debate  and  no  supe- 
rior as  a  presiding  officer.  He  was  chosen  speaker  in  1829,  again  in 
1835,  ai^d  held  this  office  in  1836,  when  Sir  Francis  Bond  Head 
assumed  the  government  of  Upper  Canada. 

During  this  period  he  had  a  large  and  lucrative  practice  at  the  Bar, 
won  by  eminent  ability,  close  application  and  high  moral  principle. 

He  had  married  happily,  had  been  blessed  with  children,  was 
beloved  by  his  friends,  respected  by  all,  and  enjoyed  the  confidence  of 
the  public. 

Such  v/as  the  position  of  Mr.  Bidwell  when  Sir  Francis  Head  arrived 
at  Toronto  as  governor  in  1836.  The  new  governor,  though  appointed 
by  the  Whig  government  of  Lord  Melbourne,  proved  a  bitter  Tory.  He 
was  a  retired  half-pay  major  who  had  written  two  or  three  gossipy 
books  of  travel,  and  was  a  poor  law  commissioner  of  his  native  county 
of  Kent,  the  only  civil  office  he  had  ever  held  prior  to  his  appointment 
to  Upper  Canada.  Of  Canada,  its  history,  people,  politics,  and 
resources,  he  was,  to  use  his  own  language,  ''grossly  ignorant:'  * 

Among  the  first  who  called  upon  him  was  Mr.  Speaker  Bidwell,  the 
acknowledged  leader  of  the  reformers.  Sir  Francis  told  him  plainly 
that  he  was  an  inexperienced  man,  but  would  deal  honestly  towards  the 
country,  and  resolutely  correct  the  grievances  of  the  province,  and 
taking  up  the  report  of  those  grievances  by  William  Lyon  MacKenzie 

*  See  his  own  "  Narrative,"  published  after  his  return  to  England.  This  work, 
and  the^  "  Life  of  Lord  Sydenham"  who  was  subsequently  "Governor-General  of 
Canada,"  and  the  official  correspondence  with  the  Home  authorities  contained  in 
each,  give  a  vivid  idea  of  the  state  of  Canada  referred  to  in  this  sketch. 


1890.]  Marshall  S.    Bidwell.  c 

— a  volume  of  over  five  hundred  pages — invited  Mr.  Bidwell  to  con- 
verse freely  on  the  subject.  Mr.  Bidwell  did  so,  and  to  the  Governor's 
great  astonishment  told  him — to  use  his  own  words — "that  there  were 
grievances  not  detailed  in  that  report,  which  the  people  had  long  en- 
dured and  were  still  enduring  with  great  patience  ;  that  there  was  no 
desire  to  rebel,  but  that  a  morbid  feeling  of  dissatisfaction  was  daily  in- 
creasing ;  that  increase  it  would,  and  that  in  fact,  if  it  had  not  been  dis- 
tinctly stated  that  the  governor  was  the  bearer  of  new  instructions, 
those  with  whom  he  was  associated  had  come  to  the  determination 
never  to  meet  in  provincial  parliament  again."  This  interview  was  the 
foundation  of  a  political  dislike  to  Mr.  Bidwell  which  in  the  end 
changed  his  whole  life  and  career.  Sir  Francis,  after  a  little  dallying 
with  the  reformers,  threw  himself  finally  into  the  arms  of  the  old  party. 
An  exciting  political  contest  followed,  in  which  the  latter  with  the  aid 
of  the  government  triumphed  at  the  next  general  election,  and  Mr. 
Bidwell,  among  others,  lost  his  seat  in  parliament  and  retired  from  active 
political  life. 

The  Home  Government  determined  on  a  conciliatory  policy,  and,  in 
1837,  Lord  Glenelg,  the  British  Colonial  minister,  requested  Sir  Francis 
Head  to  offer  to  Mr.  Bidwell  the  appointment  of  Justice  of  the  Court 
of  King's  Bench,  in  which  two  vacancies  had  occurred. 

This  the  Governor  not  only  declined  to  do,  but  actually  gave  the 
appointment  to  another  gentleman.  In  reporting  his  action  to  Lord 
Glenelg,  Sir  Francis,  after  admitting  that  Mr.  Bidwell's  legal  acquire- 
ments were  superior  to  one  of  the  new  appointees,  and  that  his  moral 
character  was  above  reproach,  says  :  "  Anxious  as  I  am  to  give  talent  its 
due,  yet  I  cannot  but  feel  that  the  w-elfare  and  honor  of  this  province 
depend  on  his  Majesty  never  promoting  a  disloyal  many 

Lord  Glenelg  replied  that  Mr.  Bidwell's  former  political  action 
should  not  prevent  his  professional  advancement,  and  closed  by  saying  : 
"  If,  therefore,  as  you  appear  to  anticipate,  another  vacancy  should  occur 
among  the  judges  of  the  Court  of  King's  Bench,  it  is  the  wish  of  his 
Majesty's  government  that  the  situation  should  be  offered  to  Mr.  Bidivell, 
and  they  will  hear  7vith  much  pleasure  that  he  has  accepted  it.'' 

But  Sir  Francis  Head  took  the  responsibility  of  positively  refusing 
to  place  Mr.  Bidwell  on  the  Bench.  This  was  in  September,  1837.  Sir 
Francis  Head  believed  that  Mr.  Bidwell  was  a  republican  at  heart,  and 
leagued  with  Mr.  Papineau  and  his  friends  in  Lower  Canada  in  their 
political  action,  which  was  then  fast  verging  towards  armed  insurrection. 
This  was  an  entire  mistake,  the  objects  of  the  opposition  in  the  two 
provinces  were  entirely  dissimilar,  and  no  league  or  combination  existed 
between  them.  There  was  one  object  however  in  which  both  agreed, 
and  that  was,  the  desire  for  a  government  responsible  to  the  legislative, 
and  not  to  the  executive  power. 

Finding  that  the  Home  Government  meant  to  promote  Mr.  Bidwell, 
Sir  Francis  Head,  fearing  the  effect  upon  himself  in  the  province,  de- 
termined to  force  Mr.  Bidwell  to  leave  the  country. 

He  sent  for  him  and  told  him  that  his  party  was  beaten  at  all  points, 
which  was  then  the  fact;  that  the  armed  outbreaks  which  had  just  occurred 
in  both  provinces,  and  especially  MacKenzie's  attempt  on  Toronto,  had 
so  embittered  the  people  against  him,  as  he  was  believed  to  have  cov- 
ertly approved  them,  that  all  his  chances  of  further  political  or  profes- 


6  Marshall  S.    Bidwell.  [Jan., 

sional  success  were  ended  ;  that  the  provincial  government  was  opposed 
to  him  in  all  its  branches,  and  that  he  would  consult  his  own  happiness 
and  interest  by  departing  from  Upper  Canada. 

About  this  period  Mr.  Bidwell  received  a  gross  insult  and  suffered 
from  a  great  outrage.  His  wife  had  been  for  some  years  in  delicate 
health,  so  that  her  vv'inters  had  been  spent  either  at  the  South  or  in  the 
West  Indies.  During  his  absence  from  home  professionally.  Sir  Fran- 
cis Head's  government  seized  his  letters  in  the  post-office,  and  at  his 
house  all  his  private  papers,  his  wife's  letters  among  them,  and  read 
their  contents  to  try  and  get  evidence  of  his  complicity  with  the  rebel- 
lion. 

This  outrage,  as  the  complicity  never  existed,  of  course  failed  in  its 
object.  But  its  effect  on  Mr.  Bidvvell  was  so  great,  that  in  connection 
with  Sir  Francis  Head's  threats  before  referred  to,  he  ^/V/ leave  Upper 
Canada  with  all  his  family,  and  came  to  the  city  of  New  York  at  the 
end  of  the  year  1837. 

The  next  year  Sir  Francis  Head  was  recalled  in  disgrace,  and  a  new 
governor  sent  out,  Sir  George  Arthur.  On  the  return  of  the  Reform 
party  to  power,  which  however  did  not  occur  for  some  time,  Mr.  Bid- 
v/ell  was  not  only  requested  to  return  to  Canada,  but  was  again  tendered 
a  seat  in  the  Court  of  Queen's  Bench.  This  was  in  the  year  1842.  Mr. 
Bidwell,  however,  declined  to  go  back,  refused  the  Judgeship,  and 
remained  in  New  York. 

Sir  Francis  Head  felt  that  he  had  acted  intemperately  in  Mr.  Bid- 
well's  case  and  it  is  to  his  credit  that  he  admitted  it  to  Mr.  Bidwell. 
When  Sir  Francis  came  to  New  York  on  his  return  to  England  in  1838, 
he  wrote  to  Mr.  Bidwell  requesting  him  to  come  and  see  him.  The  in- 
terview took  place  at  the  old  City  Hotel  in  Broadway,  just  above  Trinity 
Church  (on  the  site  of  which  the  Boreel  Building  now  stands),  where 
Sir  Francis  was  staying.  Sir  Francis  told  him  he  regretted  the  sever- 
ity of  his  action,  that  he  had  been  led  too  far  by  political  excitement 
and  trouble,  and  urged  his  return  to  Canada.  Mr.  Bidwell  heard  him 
quietly  to  the  end,  and  then  calmly  but  strongly  giving  him  his  own  view 
most  fully  of  his  whole  conduct  and  action  from  the  beginning,  ended 
by  stating  that  never  under  any  circumstances  would  he  return  to  a  land 
where  he  had  been  so  badly  treated,  and  politely  bade  him  a  good  after- 
noon. 

On  arriving  at  New  York  Mr.  Bidwell  met  with  most  kind  treatment 
from  the  late  Chancellor  Walworth,  and  that  unrivalled  real  property 
lawyer,  the  late  eminent  Mr.  George  Wood.  Both  interested  them- 
selves strenuously  in  his  behalf.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  of  New 
York,  on  motion,  both  in  the  Supreme  Court  and  in  the  Court  of 
Chancery,  notwithstanding  his  being  a  British  subject,  the  courts 
taking  the  then  British  view,  that  no  man  can  expatriate  himself,  and 
as  Mr.  Bidwell  had  been  born  in  Massachusetts,  he  was  already  an 
American  citizen. 

By  Mr.  Wood  he  was  introduced  to  the  late  distinguished  Mr. 
George  Strong,  with  whom  in  September,  1838,  he  formed  a  professional 
partnership  which  was  only  terminated  by  the  death  of  Mr.  Strong  in 
1855,  and  which  was  continued  with  that  gentleman's  son  and  nephew, 
the  surviving  members  of  the  firm,  till  his  own  decease. 

The  first  important  case  in  which  Mr.  Bidwell  was  engaged  in  New 


1890.]  Marshall  S.    Bidwell.  j 

York,  was  the  great  libel  case  of  James  Fenimore  Cooper  against  Wil- 
liam L.  Stone,  in  which  he  defended  Mr.  Stone,  then  the  editor  of  the 
Commercial  A  dvertiser. 

Mr.  Cooper  argued  his  own  cause  with  the  greatest  ability  and  elo- 
quence, as  he  was  by  nature  gifted  with  wonderful  powers  of  oratory, 
and  was  as  logical  as  he  was  brilliant  ;  and  had  made  himself  a  most 
thorough  master  of  the  law  of  libel. 

Stone's  libel  was  so  gross  that  Mr.  Bidwell,  fearing  to  go  before  a 
jury,  raised  the  question  of  its  being  a  privileged  publication — the  only 
possible  defence — by  a  demurrer,  thus  bringing  the  question  directly 
before  the  court — the  first  time  such  a  course  had  ever  been  adopted  in 
the  annals  of  jurisprudence.  I  have  been  told  at  different  times  by 
two  of  the  most  eminent  jurists  that  this  state  has  known,*  both  of 
whom  heard  both  arguments,  that  never  in  their  whole  experience 
had  any  case  been  so  eloquently,  thoroughly,  and  exhaustively  laid 
before  a  court  as  that  was  by  these  two  distinguished  men.  Mr. 
Bidwell  however  failed  to  succeed,  the  court  deciding  in  Mr.  Coop- 
er's favor  that  the  articles  were  not  privileged,  the  decision  closing  with 
these  remarkable  words  :  "  It  is  difficult  to  read  the  articles  as  set 
forth  in  the  counts  without  seeing  at  once  that  they  are  direct  and 
undisguised  attacks  upon  the  moral  character  of  the  plaintiff  by 
name.  "  f 

This  case  drew  public  attention  to  Mr.  Bidwell  at  once,  and  from 
that  time  his  legal  career  was  one  continued  success.  He  was  en- 
gaged in  most  of  the  great  civil  cases  of  the  day  from  that  time 
onward. 

Mr.  Bidwell  was  deeply  read  in  every  department  of  law,  consti- 
tutional, commercial,  real  property,  and  equity.  Perhaps  he  had  be- 
stowed most  attention  upon  the  law  of  real  estate,  of  trusts,  and  upon 
the  construction  of  wills,  and  felt  himself  more  fully  at  home  in  their 
discussion. 

Mr.  Bidwell  took  a  warm  and  lively  interest  in  the  New  York 
Historical  Society,  and  for  many  years  served  as  a  member  of  its 
Executive  Committee.  He  was  instrumental  in  procuring  valuable 
additions  to  its  collections,  especially  of  portraits  for  its  Gallery  of 
Art. 

There  were  two  points  in  his  character  of  especial  prominence  ; 
the  first  was  his  extraordinary  amiability  and  equanimity  of  temper. 
One  of  the  members  of  his  firm  testifies  without  hesitation,  that  during 
a  daily  intercourse  of  a  little  more  than  thirty-four  years  spent  amid 
the  care,  worry,  and  annoyance  of  active  practice,  he  never  heard 
from  him  one  syllable  of  petulance,  impatience  or  irritability. 

The  other,  was  the  keen  enjoyment  he  took  in  following  a  legal 
princi];b  up  to  its  remotest  sources.  He  has  often  said  "  that  he  found 
far  more  entertainment  in  tracing  some  legal  point  through  the  reports 
of  the  seventeenth  century  and  still  earlier  than  in  reading  the  best 
novel  ever  written." 

*The  Hon.  Samuel  Stevens  of  Albany,  and  Judge  Samuel  A.  Foot  of  the  Court 
of  Appeals. 

f  Associated  as  junior  counsel  with  Bidwell  in  this  case  was  the  late  Charles  P. 
Kirkland  of  New  York  City,  then  cf  Utica,  who  also  personally  confirmed  to  me  the 
testimony  of  the  two  distinguished  jurists,  to  which  reference  has  been  made. 


8  Pruyji   Family — American   Branch.  [Jan., 

Mr.  Bidwell  was  a  truly  conscientious  and  deeply  religious  man, 
and  in  his  views  a  rigid  and  unswerving  Presbyterian,  but  so  kind  and 
tolerant  to  all  men,  that  when  he  died  in  the  seventy-third  year  of  his 
age,  he  left  behind  him  warm  and  deeply  attached  friends  among 
Roman  Catholics  as  well  as  all  denominations  of  Protestants.  He  was 
gentle,  kind,  and  true,  the  very  incarnation  of  honesty  and  honor. 

"  Firm  to  his  purpose,  vigilant  and  bold, 
Detesting  traitors,  and  despising  gold, 
He  scorn'd  all  bribes  from  Britain's  hostile  throne, 
For  all  his  country's  wrongs  were  thrice  his  own." 


PRUYN  FAMILY— AMERICAN  BRANCH. 


By  John  V.  L.  Pruyn. 


(Continued  from  Vol.  XVII.,  July,  1886,  page  214,  of  The  Record.) 
297. 

(297)  Charles  Lansing  Pruyn,  son  of  (199)  Robert  Hewson  Pruyn 
and  Jane  Ann  Lansing,  m.  secondly,  October  20,  1886,  Sarah  Gibson 
Talcott^  b.  Dec.  25,  1851,  dau.  of  Sebastian  Visscher  Talcott  (b.  Nov. 
24,  1812  ;  d.  Nov.  10,  1888,)  and  Olivia  Maria  Shearman  (b.  Oct.  14, 
1823  ;  d.  Jan.  29,  1888)  of  Albany.  (See  No.  1818,  in  the  Talcott  Pedi- 
gree, also  No.  352,  Bogart,  in  Talcott's  "Notes  on  New  York  and  New 
England  Families.") 

By  this  marriage  Mr.  Pruyn  has  issue — 

334  Casparus  Lansing, 
b.  Sept.  29,  1887. 

It  was  the  intention  of  the  Compiler  to  commence  and  continue  in 
regular  order  the  descendants,  in  the  male  line,  of  the  sons  of  (2)  Frans 
Jansen  Pruyn  (see  Vol.  XIII.,  p.  ii,  of  The  Record).  Of  his  sons,  (5) 
Hendrick,  of  Kingston,  Ulster  Co.,  N.  Y.,  left  no  issue  known,  none 
being  mentioned  in  the  latter's  will,  proven  May  6,  1752,  and  recorded 
in  the  Surrogate's  Office  at  New  York,  and  none  being  found  upon  the 
church  records.  The  descendants  of  (4)  Johannis,  Assistant  Alderman 
of  Albany  17 10- 11,  Alderman  i7i8-'2  6.  Justice  of  the  Peace  for 
Albany  Co.  1728,  and  of  (9)  Samuel,  Alderman  of  Albany,  i729-'32, 
have  already  been  given  in  The  Recokd.  The  descendants  of  (11) 
Frans  or  Francis  should  come  ne.\t, '  but  up  to  date  it  has  been 
impossible  to  gather  them  together.  They  settled  in  the  Mohawk 
Valley,  and  have  migrated  in  many  directions.  To  omit  them  will 
not  impair  the  present  article,  which  is  intended  to  include  the  descend- 
ants of  Frans  Jansen  Pruyn's  next  and  youngest  son,  (13)  Arent  or  Ar- 
nold, who  moved  from  Albany  to  Kinderhook.  As  this  is  the  first  attempt 
that  has  been  made  to  place  in  permanent  form  a  record  of  Arent's  branch 
of  the  family,  omissions  and  errors  doubtless  occur,  whicli  may  be  due  to 
the  fact  that  to  some  of  the  letters  sent  out  by  the  compiler,  in  quest  of 
information,  no  replies  have  been  received.     In  most  instances,  however. 


1890.]  Pruyn   Family — American   Branch.  q 

the  answers  have  been  prompt  and  satisfactory.  Corrections  and  other 
communications  relating  to  the  family  will  be  gladly  received  by  the  com- 
piler at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

Arent  Pruyn's  immediate  family  is  given  in  The  Record  for  January, 
1882,  Vol.  XIII. ,  at  page  15.  For  convenience  it  is  repeated  here.  In 
this  article  it  will  be  observed  that  the  method  of  notation  of  descent  used 
by  American  genealogists  has  been  adopted  with  little  modification. 

ARENT    PRUYN    AND    HIS    DESCENDANTS. 

The  female  line  is  followed  wherever  information  is  received. 

(13)  Arent-  or  Arnold  Pruyn  [Frans  Jansen^),  his  father's  youngest 
son,  was  baptized  at  the  Dutch  Church,  Albany,  May  24,  168S  ((3)  Anna 
Pruyn,  sister).*  He  m.  Nov.  21,  1714,  Catharijna  Gansevoort,  the  wed- 
ding occurring  at  the  home  of  the  bride,  according  to  the  church  record  : 
17 14,  Nov.  21,  Zijn  Arent  Pruin  en  Caiharijna  Gansevoort  met  een  Lijcen- 
tie  van  syn  Excellencij  R.  Hunter  int  bijzijn  van  J.  Roseboo?n  en  M.  Schuijier 
ouders,  ten  huijse  van  de  bruijd  in  den  Houwelilien  Staat  bevestight. 

Although  her  name  does  not  appear  among  the  baptisms  of  her 
father's  children  at  the  Dutch  Church,  Catharyna  Gansevoort,  according 
to  the  Gansevoort  records  in  possession  of  Mrs.  Catharine  Gansevoort 
Lansing,  wife  of  Hon.  Abraham  Lansing,  of  Albany,  was  a  daughter  of 
Harmen  Harmense  Gansevoort,  who  was  in  Beverwyck  as  early  as  1660. 
Gansevoort  was  a  man  of  good  position  and  family.  An  old  silver  tank- 
ard bearing  the  Gansevoort  arms  is  still  in  the  possession  of  a  member  of 
his  family,  and  it  is  stated  that  this  coat-of-arms  was  brought  to  America 
by  Gansevoort  himself.  His  wife  was  Maria  Leendertse  Conyn.  Ganse- 
voort was  a  brewer  and  trader,  and  his  name  appears  in  land  transactions 
and  other  public  records.  Several  of  his  descendants  have  been  persons 
of  distinction  and  have  held   responsible  positions. 

Arent  Pruyn  was  Fire-Master  in  lyiG-'iy  and  Constable  in  lyiS-'ig 
for  the  Second  Ward  of  Albany.  According  to  the  custom  of  the  Dutch 
he  was  taught  a  manual  trade.  In  his  case,  as  in  that  of  his  brother  (9) 
Samuel,  the  trade  of  smith  was  the  one  taught.  The  manual  trade  was 
the  basis  of  Dutch  education.  Sometimes  it  was  followed  for  life  and  often 
was  a  source  of  wealth,  the  work  in  many  cases  being  performed  by  slaves. 
Frequently  the  trade  was  cast  aside  for  a  mercantile  career.  The  fact  that 
a  man  followed  a  manual  trade  did  not  necessarily  stamp  him  as  an  igfio- 
bilis — a  person  without  claims  to  birth  and  position.  Especially  is  this 
true  where  he  bore  a  distinct  family  name  such  asSchermerhorn,  Bleecker, 
Groesbeck,  Kip,  etc.  Where  the  patronymic,  or  the  name  of  a  place 
with  the  prefix  Van  was  used,  in  the  absence  of  a  family  name,  to  designate 
persons  and  where  such  patronymic  or  place  name  had  not  become  the 
family  name  by  usage  previous  to  immigration  to  this  country  the  case 
may  be  different,  as  among  the  early  Dutch  settlers  in  America  the  absence 
of  a  distinct  family  name  generally,  but  not  always,  indicated  peasant 
origin. 

A  blacksmith  did  all  the  iron  work  for  his  locality,  making  gun  barrels, 
tools,  nails,  farm  implements  and  whatever  else  was  needed  that  came 
within  his  province.  In  the  early  Dutch  settlements  on  the  Hudson 
river  he  was  often  a  person  of  some  importance. 

*  The  names  of  sponsors  are  placed  in  parenthesis,  the  surnames  being  in  Italics. 


JO  Pruyn   Family — American   Brajich.  [Jan., 

In  1736,  Arent  Pruyn  appears  at  Kinderhook.  His  reasons  for  mov- 
ing are  not  known  but  his  wife  may  have  had  something  to  do  with  it,  as 
the  Conyns,  undoubtedly,  her  mother's  relatives,  were  living  there  also. 
On  May  6,  1736,  Arent  Pruyn  purchased  what  has  since  been  called  the 
Pruyn  farm,  from  Cornelis  Schermerhoorn,  the  consideration  being  one 
hundred  and  fifty  pounds  current  money  of  the  Colony  of  New  York. 
The  property  comprised  "all  that  a  certain  (Piece  of  Woodland  ?)  Orch- 
ard Carding  House  Barn  and  all  other  Buildings  Now  In  the  

Occupation  of  him,  the  said  Cornelis  Schermerhoorn,  scitu- 

ate  Lying  and  Being  at  Kinderhook  neer  groot  Stuck,  Beginning  at  the 
foot  of  the  hill  By  a  Smal  Brook  or  Cloof  to  the  Noreth  of  the  said  orchard 
Running  allong  the  said  Small  Brook  opposite  to  the  Skool  Hous  By  a 
Small  Bridge  lying  over  said  Brook,  from  thence  with  a  West  line  Taking 
in  about  the  half  of  the  said  Skool-hous  To  the  Comon  Road,  which  Leeds 

from  grootstucktoCoenraet  Borgh(art's  house  ?)  then  Southerly 

unti)Il  you  Come  to  the  Lo(t of?) us  van 

Alen  jun'.   then erly (along  ?)....  said  Lott  To 

thefootofthe  Hill,  then Northerly  allong Hill  to 

the  place  first  Begun  as  also  a  piece  of  Low  land  Scituate  Lying  and  being 
at  the  said  Kinderhook  on  the  west  side  of  the  Creek  Being  the  half  of  a 
certain  Piece  of  Land  Called  the  Strook  the  North  End  thereof  The 
other  half  belongs  now  unto  Stephanis  van  Alen,  the  South  End  is 
Bounded  on  the  East  by  the  Land  of  the  Heirs  of  Jan  Goes  Late  of  Kin- 
derhook, dec'd,  on  the  North  by  the  Land  of  Jacobus  Van  Alen,  as  the 
same  is  now  In  the  possession  of  said  Cornelis  Schermerhoorn,  Together 
with  all  the  whole  Right,  Title,  Interest,  Claim  and  Demand  the  said  Cor- 
nells Schermerhoorn  has,  or  ought  to  have,  In  the  towne  Pattent  off"  Kin- 
derhook Granted  under  the  freeholders  and  Inhabitants  of  the  same  By 
the  Late  Co"-  Thomas  Dongan,  the  then  Governour  of  the  province 
of  New  York,  dated  the  fourteenth  Day  of  March,  Annoq.  Domini,  1686, 
Together  with  all  and  singular  the  Liberties,  Benefitts  and  advantages  " 
that  belonged  to  the  said  property  and  interests.  From  lack  of  space 
we  omit  the  rest  of  the  Deed.  The  original  deed  is  not  recorded  but  now 
belongs  to  (374)  Mrs.  Jane  Pruyn  Sweet  of  Kinderhook.  Schermerhorn 
was  probably  not  then,  "  the  Indian  of  that  name  "  (see  The  Record,  Vol. 
XIII. ,  page  15).  He  was  a  freeholder  at  Kinderhook  and  undoubtedly  a 
member  of  the  well-known  family  of  the  name.  He,  too,  appears  in  the 
Deed  as  blacksmith  and  just  back  of  the  house  stood  his  smithy.  The 
farm  thus  sold  to  Arent  Pruyn  remained  in  the  family  down  to  his  great 
grandson  (349)  John  I.  Pruyn.  After  his  death  it  passed  into  other  hands 
and  the  greater  part  of  it,  together  with  the  house  belongs  to  Mr,  Wm. 
Van  Schaack  Beekman.  On  Oct.  7,  1889,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Beekman  kindly 
allowed  their  kinsman,  Dr.  P.  V.  S.  Pruyn  (son  of  (367)  John  Matthias 
Pruyn),  and  the  writer  to  look  into  the  garret  of  the  house  for  old  papers 
but  none  were  found. 

Of  Arent  Pruyn's  wealth  little  is  known.  If  he  had  slaves,  and  he 
probably  had  at  least  a  few,  no  record  appears  of  them.  His  grandson 
(333)  John  seems  to  have  been  the  richer  in  worldly  goods.  In  1736, 
Arent  en  Catharina  Pruyn  Echte  Lieden  (married  people)  were  admitted 
to  church  membership  at  Kinderhook.  He  is  said  to  have  been  subse- 
quently a  Deacon  and  afterwards  an  Elder  of  the  church. 

Plis  and  his  wife's  dates  of  death  and  their  places  of  burial  are  un- 


1890.]  Pniyn   Family — A?jien'can   Branch.  jj 

known.  He  was  alive  as  late  as  1759,  ^^  ^^  that  year  he  was  a  witness 
at  the  baptism  of  a  grandchild  (336)  Arent,  son  of  (36)  Harmen  Pruyn. 
He  had  issue,  all  bp.  at  the  Albany  Dutch  Church. 

31  Alida  m.  Cornelis  van  Alen. 

32  Maria  bp.  May  31,  1719    ((9)  Samuel /"r/zj^w,    uncle;    Anna  ^z?- 

tenaar).  She  was  buried  Nov.  i,  1726,  at  Albany.  "Arerjt 
Pruyn  zyn  kind  begraven  "  (Dood-Boek).* 
■^l  Christina  bp,  Jan.  24,  1722  (  (5)  Hendrick  Pruyn,  uncle,  Amelia 
Pruyn,  wife  of  (4)  Johannis,  aunt)  ;  said  to  have  never  mar- 
ried; lived  at  Kinderhook  where  she  and  her  twin  sister  Lydia 
were  admitted  church  members,  March  24,  1745. 

34  Lydia,  twin  to  Christina  m.  Pieter  van  Buren. 

35  Frans  m.  Christina  Goes  or  Hoes. 

36  Harmen  m.  Jannetje  Goes  or  Hoes. 

31- 

Cornelis  van  Alen  married  (31)  Alida^  Pruyn  (Aren/,^  Frans  Jansen^) 
bp.  at  the  Dutch  Church,  Albany,  March  11,  1716,  (  (4)  Johannis  Pruyn, 
uncle;  Elsie  Wmne);  church  member  Feb.  9,  1740  at  Kinderhook  ;  and 
had   issue  found  on  the  records. 

Maria  bp.  at  Kinderhook  March  23,  1745  (Jacob  Stephan  van  Alen; 

{^-^  Christina  Pruyn  or  wife  of  (35)  ). 
Christina  bp.  at  Kinderhook  Jan.  24,  1746-7,  (Frans /^rttjw  probably 

(35);   Hilletje  z'a« /?;'C/^). 
Stephanus  bp.  at  Ciaverack  Jan.  16,  1747-8,  (  (36)    Harmen  Pruyn, 

uncle  ;  Jannetje  van  Alen). 
Alida  bp.  at  Kinderhook  Feb.  10,  1749-50,  (William  van  Aalsteyn  ; 
(34)  Lydia  Pruyn,  aunt). 

34. 

Pieter  van  Buren  married  (34)  Lydia^  Pruyn  [Areni,'^  Frans  Jansen") 
bp.  at  the  Dutch  Church,  Albany,  January  24,  1722,  (Leendert  or  Leon- 
ard Gansevoort ;  Margarita  Gajisevoort)  and  had  issue  found  on  the  re- 
cords. 

Catryna  bp.  at  Kinderhook  Jan.  5,  1753,  (  (13)  Arent  Pruyn,  grand- 
father ;   {t^'^)  Christina  Pruyn  or  wife  of  (35)  ). 
Maria  bp.  at  Coxsackie  May  15,  1755,  (Ephraim  V^an  Buren;  Susanna 

Ten  Eyck). 
Cornelis  bp.  at  Kinderhook  Oct.   8,  1757,    (Cornelis  van  Buren,  and 

wife  Maria  IMse). 
Christina  bp.  atKinderhook  May  24,  1761  (  (35)  Frans  Pruyn  uncle; 
Christina  Goes  his  wife). 

35- 

(35)  Frans^  or  Francis^  Pruyn  {Areni,^  Frans  jfansen^),  bp.  at  the 
Dutch  Church,  Albany,  Feb.  2,  1724  (Elbert  Gerritse ;  Catryna  Ganse- 

*  The  Dood-Boek,  or  list  of  burials  from  1722  to  1757,  of  persons  belonging  to  the 
Dutch  Churcli  at  Albany,  was  kept  by  Barent  Bradt,  the  voor-lezer  of  the  church.  A 
translation  of  it  by  Gen.  S.  V.  Talcott  will  be  found  in  Munsell's  Annals  of  Albany, 
Vol.  I.  p.  131,  and  in  Talcott's  Notes  on  New  York  and  New  England  Families,  p. 
454. 


X2  Pruyn    Family — American   Branch.  [J^^n-, 

voori),  d.  Nov.  26,  1783  ;  m.  before  1748  Christina  Goes  or  Hoes.  She 
d.  Feb.  16,  1805.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pruyn  are  buried  in  the  old  family- 
burying-  ground  on  the  Pruyn  farm,  now  belonging  to  William  Van 
Schaack  Beekman,  at  Kinderhook.  Their  double  headstone  is  still  in 
position.  Their  graves  and  two  others  are  the  only  ones  remaining  in 
the  family  burying  ground,  several  bodies  having  been  removed  to  the 
Kinderhook  Cemetery,  where  interments  are  now  made. 

Frans  Pruyn,  like  his  father,  was  taught  the  trade  of  smith.  He 
succeeded  to  the  farm  and  the  smithy.  He  was  a  man  of  good  standing. 
In  i758-i76oand  in  1766  he  was  a  Deacon  of  the  Kinderhook  Dutch 
Church,  and  in  1 774-1 776  was  an  Elder. 

A  copy  of  his  will  is  on  file  in  the  Office  of  the  Surrogate  of  New 
York  County.  It  mentions  "  dearly  beloved  wife  Christina  ****** 
my  son  John  and  his  wife  and  children,"  *****  and  appoints  "my 
said  wife  Christina,  my  said  John  and  his  wife  Catharine  "  executors.  In 
substance,  it  leaves  all  his  property,  after  his  wife's  death,  to  his  son  John, 
and  is  witnessed  by  John  Quillot,  John  C.  Wynkoop,  and  Myndert  Vos- 
burgh.      It  is  dated  Nov,  22,  1783,  a  few  days  before  his  death. 

He  left  issue — 

335  John,  m.  Catharine  van  der  Poel. 

36. 

(36)  Harmen^  Pruyn  (Aren/,^  Frans  Jansen"^,  evidently  named  for 
his  maternal  grandfather,  Harme  Gansevoort,  vas  baptized  at  the  Dutch 
Church,  Albany,  Oct.  19,  1727  ((9)  Samuel  Pruyn,  uncle;  Anna  Du 
Arrant).     He  m.  Aug.  20,  1758,  at  Kinderhook,  Jannetje  Goes  or  Hoes. 

He  was  engaged  in  the  grain  and  freighting  business  at  Stuyvesant, 
and,  in  a  deed  dated  Aug.  30,  1770,  recorded  in  the  Albany  County 
Clerk's  Office,  Deeds  11  (old  Book  L),  p.  49,  he  is  described  as  sloop- 
master.  He  is  said  to  have  had  considerable  means  for  those  days.  In 
1776  we  find  him  on  the  list  of  Deacons  in  the  Dutch  Church  at  Kinder- 
hook. During  the  Revolution  he  took  the  side  of  the  British,  and  the 
only  entry  remaining  in  his  Dutch  Bible,  now  in  the  possession  of  his 
descendant,  Mrs.  William  Ovens,  of  Wilton,  Ontario,  reads  :  "  Harme 
Pruyn  was  banished  from  Kinderhook,  1777."  He  joined  the  British  on 
Long-  Island,  it  is  said,  and  became  one  of  the  band  of  United  Empire 
Loyalists.  His  property  suffered,  to  some  extent  at  least,  during  his  ab- 
sence, as  the  story  has  come  down  in  the  family  that  his  store  was  broken 
open  by  Colonel  Hoes,  who  seized  upon  the  grain  and  fed  it  to  his  (Col. 
Hoes')  horses.  Ten  years  later,  1787,  Harmen  Pruyn  appears  again  at 
Kinderhook  as  an  Elder  in  the  Dutch  Church,  but  disappears  from  the 
list  of  Elders  in  1792,  so  it  was  probably  at  this  time,  or  at  a  later  period, 
that  he  moved  to  Canada  and  joined  the  colony  of  United  Empire  Loy- 
alists who  settled  near  Bath,  on  the  shores  of  Lake  Ontario.  His  son 
(337)  Matthew  had  been  in  Canada  as  early  as  1790.  Harmon's  name 
has  not  been  found  in  the  Canadian  land  grants  before  1802.  In  the 
Register's  Office  at  Napanee  there  is  a  minute  of  a  grant  to  him  of  land  at 
Bath,  dated  May  17,  1802  ;  and  in  the  Department  of  Crown  Lands,  at 
Toronto,  there  is  a  grant  to  Harmon  Pruyn,  dated  Feb.  15,  1808,  of  lot 
13  and  west  half  af  lot  14,  in  9th  Con.  of  the  township  of  Huntington,  in 
the  county  of  Hastings.     The  records  at  Belleville,  the  county  town,  also 


1890.]  Pruyn    Fa?}iily — American   Branch.  j- 

contain  a  minute  of  the  patent,  and  it  appears  that  the  property  was 
deeded  June  6,  iSio,  to  Richard  Cartwriglit.  It  is  barely  possible  that 
Harmon  Pruyn,  the  above  grantee,  may  have  been  the  grandson  (354) 
Harmon,  who,  in  1808,  would  be  about  23  years  old,  and  of  whom  I 
have  been  unable  to  learn  anything,  (36)  Harmon  Pruyn  had  issue  : 
;^2,(>  Arent  m.  (342)  Christine  Pruyn. 

337  Matthew  m.,  ist,  Martha  Thatford  ; 

2nd,  Mary  de  Forest. 

338  Catharine  m.  Bartholomew  Van  Valkenburg 

339  Frans  or  Francis  m.  Catharina  Simmon. 

340  Maria  m.  1st,  Stephen  Fairfield  ; 

2nd,  Thomas  Borland. 

341  Helena,   bp.   at    Kinderhook,    Oct.   30,    1774    (Mattheus   Goes  ; 

Helena  Van  Deusen). 

335. 

(335)  John'*  Pruyn  [Francis,^  Arent,''  Frans  Jansen,')  born  Jane  10, 
174S  ;  under  a  license  from  Sir  Henry  Moore,  dated  Oct.  27,  1767,  he 
married  at  Linlithgo  Cluirch,  Livingston  Manor,  Nov.  28  or  Dec.  19,1767, 
Catharine  Van  der  Poel  b.  April  10,  1746;  d.  June  22,  1826,  dau.  of 
John  Van  der  Poel  and  Annatj^  Staats.  (See  (23)  Van  der  Poefin  Talcott's 
Notes  on  New  York  and  New  England  Families.) 

[Johannes  or  John  Van  der  Poel,  the  father  of  Mrs.  Pruyn,  married 
his  wife  Annatje  Staats  May  5,  1743,  at  the  house  of  her  kinswoman, 
Madam  Schuyler,*  "The  American  Lady,"  at  the  Flatts  above  Albany. 
According  to  tchuyler,  in  Colonial  New  York,  Vol.  H.,  note  2  foot  of  page 
160,  Anna  Staats,  who  was  probably  Johannes  Van  der  Poel's  second  wife, 
was  not  a  daughter  of  Dr.  Samuel  Staats,'  the  adherent  of  Leisler,  but 
doubtless  of  Abraham  Staats,  who  was  Dr.  Samuel's  nephew.  She  was, 
by  the  same  authority,  a  niece  by  marriage  of  Aunt  Schuyler,  "  The 
American  Lady  "  and  a  second  cousin  by  blood.] 

John  Piuyn  was  a  resident  of  Kinderhook,  greatly  respected.  He  was 
a  man  of  means  and  owned  several  slaves.  In  his  generation  the  slaves 
worked  the  smithy.     He  is  said  to  have  owned  as  many  as  thirty  slaves  f 

*  For  an  account  of  Aunt  Schuyler  and  for  a  charming  picture  of  the  Dutch  Col- 
onial life  at  Albany  read  memoirs  of  An  American  Lady  by  Mrs.  Anne  Grant  of  Lag- 
gan,  edited  in  J8'6,  by  James  Grant  Wilson  and  published  by  Munsell,  Albany,  1876. 
Earlier  editions  are  out  of  print. 

f  Pomp,  the  slave  of  Mr.  John  Pruyn,  appears  on  the  Dutch  Church  records  at 
Kinderhook,  where  he  had  the  following  children  baptized,  their  mother  being  given 
as  Naan,  a  free  black  : 

i.   Zoon  b.  April  24,  1792.") 
ii.  Jack  b.  Oct.  8,  1795.       l^bp.  Aug,  22,  1802. 
iii.  Tom  b.  Feb.  5,  1797.      J 
iv.  Elizabeth  b.  July  9,  1799,  bp.  Aug.  4,  1799.     The  mother's  name  does  not 

appear  on  the  register,  but  Elizabeth,  slave  of  J.  Van  Alen,  is  witness. 
V.  Jaap  b.  Jan.  25,  1802,  bp.  May  9. 
vi.  Jin  b.  Feb.  3,  1804,  bp.  Feb.  5. 
vii.  Jacob  b.  or  bp.  July  24,  1S06. 
viii.   Abraham  b.  June  23,  1810,  bp.  Sept,  2. 

The  family  slaves  often  took  the  name  of  Pruyn,  sometimes  corrupted  by  them  to 
Pryne  and  even  Prime.  In  the  county  records  at  the  Columbia  County  Clerk's  office 
at  Hudsoil,  N.  Y.,  I  find  Samuel  Pruyn,  alias  Ebo  and  Sarah  Ebo  alias  Pruyn  occur- 
ring in  Deeds  about  1835.     In  Book  V.,  p.  125  they  are  described  as  "free  black  per 


14 


Pruyn    Family — American   Branch.  [Jan., 


at  one  time.  Whether  this  is  a  fact  or  an  exaggerated  tradition  the  writer 
does  not  know.  In  John  Pruyn's  time  the  old  house  it  is  said  was 
enlarged  to  its  present  size.  Much  of  the  woodwork  is  excellent  and 
the  house  is  one  of  the  few  houses  remaining  that  contains  a  bed-zink. 
The  bed-zink,  however,  is  not  used  as  a  sleeping  apartment  but  as  a  cup- 
board, 

John  Pruyn  and  his  wife  were  church  members  in  1768.  His  name 
appears  among  the  Deacons  1 772-1 774,  1780,  1 787-1 790,  and  among 
the  Elders  1 793-1 795,  1798,  1 803-1 805.      He  also  pays  for  several  seats. 

He  died  March  26,  18 15. 

His  will  and  codicil  are  recorded  in  the  Office  of  the  Surrogate  at 
Hudson,  N.  Y.,  in  Book  D  of  Wills,  at  page  262.  In  his  will  he  leaves 
"to  my  beloved  wife  Catharine  the  whole  of  my  real  and  personal  estate 
as  long  as  she  shall  remain  my  widow."  He  mentions  Maria,  widow  of 
Francis  Pruyn  ;  three  grandsons,  Abraham,  John  Tise,  and  Peter,  "chil- 
dren of  my  son  Francis,  deceased,"  granddau'^  Catharine  and  Lucretia, 
children  of  said  son  Francis.  To  his  son  John  I.  Pruyn  he  leaves  the 
homestead,  with  all  land  thereto  belonging,  also  land  in  De  Bruyne* 
Patent,  also  "my  negro  called  Sam."  To  Lucas  I.  Van  Alen  and  Henry 
Van  Vleck  he  leaves  one-seventh  of  the  remainder  of  his  estate  during  a 
certain  period  for  the  support  of  "my  daughter  Margaret  and  her  chil- 
dren." The  rest  and  residue  he  leaves  to  daughters  Tiny  (Christine), 
wife  of  Arent  Pruyn  ;  Hannah  (Anna),  wife  of  Wm.  Barthrop  ;  Catherine, 
wife  of  Peter  Van  Vleck  ;  Maria,  wife  of  Lucas  I.  Van  Alen  ;  Sarah,  wife 
of  Arent  Van  Vleck,  and  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Henry  Van  Vleck.  He  men- 
tions "  Hannah  and  Tiny  having  each  had  a  slave."  To  grandson  John 
Tise  (Matthias)  Pruyn  he  gives  ;^50,  and  to  grandson  John  P.  Beekman 
one  horse.  "  12th,  I  do  hereby  order  that  my  Negroe  Mink  shall  be  at 
liberiy  to  choose  with  whom  of  my  children  he  will  live — and  that  the 
person  with  whom  he  shall  choose  to  live  shall  pay  to  my  daughters  a 
fair  price  for  him,  together  with  the  blacksmith's  tools."  The  will  is  dated 
Dec.  4,  1810,  and  he  names  as  the  executors  his  grandson  John  P.  Beek- 
man and  his  (wife's)  nephews  James  van  der  Poel  (afterwards  Judge  James 
van  der  Poel)  and  Isaac  Van  Dyck.  In  the  codicil,  dated  Jan.  22,  18 13, 
he  revokes  the  bequest  to  Lucretia,  dau.  of  deceased  son  Francis,  she 
having  died  meanwhile.       He  mentions  her  sister  Catharine.       To  Affy 

sons."  Instead  of  signing  their  names  they  invariably  make  their  marks.  So  do 
generally  Abraham  Prime  and  invariably  Sarah  Pryne  or  Prime,  his  wife,  but  whether 
these  are  white  or  black  persons  is  not  quite  clear.  Among  the  marriages  at  the 
Kinderhook  Dutch  Church  the  following  occur: 

1844  Oct.  26,  Ricliard  Pruyn  and  Mary  Ann  Ebo,  both  colored. 

1848  Sept.  2,  Henry  Thompson  and  Amanda  M.  Pruyn,  colored. 

Among  the  funerals  mentioned  in  the  same  records  is  that  of  Richard  Pruyn's 
child,  colored,"  Sept.  15,  184S.  In  the  Surrogate's  Office  at  Hudson,  Book  E  of 
Letters  of  Administration,  page  180,  letters  are  granted  Dec.  i860,  to  "  Richard 
Pruyme  "  of  Sluyvesant  on  the  estate  of  "  Lucretia  Pruyme"  and  in  Records  Book 
P.  p.  364,  365,  Dec.  13,  i860,  "Richard  Pruyne  "  applies  for  the  appointment  of 
appraisers  to  appraise  the  goods,  etc.,  of  Lucretia  Pruyne,"  deceased,  his  wife. 

*  Jan  Hendrickse  De  Bruyn  (Bruyn,  De  Bruyne,  etc.,)  received  patents  for  tracts 
of  land  near  the  present  village  of  Kinderhook  previous  to  1671.  He  lived  in  Albany 
and  New  York.  (335)  John  Pruyn's  land  in  the  De  Bruyne  patent  came  probably 
from  purchase  as  De  Bruyn  was  no  relation  to  the  family.  Bniyn  and  Pruyn,  as 
persons  familiar  with  Dutch  genealogy  know,  are  different  names,  and  the  two  fami- 
lies are  in  no  way  connected  with  each  other. 


1890.]  Pruvn    Family — American   Branch.  jr 

Claw*  he  directs  that  ^25  "be  paid  by  all  my  children — also  to  her  the 
choice  of  all  my  cows."  To  son  John  land  at  Eyke  Bush.  Mentions  dau. 
Margaret,  deceased  dau.  Maria,  dau.  Catharine.  The  shares  of  Peggy 
(Margaret)  and  Tiny  (Christine)  are  to  be  paid  to  their  respective  trustees. 
That  part  of  estate  willed  to  deceased  dau.  Maria,  wife  of  Lucas  I.  Van 
Alen  he  gives  to  her  children  Christina  and  John  ;  that  part  willed  to 
Tiny  gives  to  son  John  I.  Pruyn  and  grandson  John  P.  Beekman  in  trust 
for  support  of  Tiny  and  her  children.  Mentions  grandson  John  Tise 
(Matthias)  Pruyn  and  grandson  Lucas,  son  of  John  Pruyn.  Makes  Lucas 
van  Alen  executor,  in  place  of  Isaac  van  Dyck. 

John  Pruyn  and  Catharine  van  der  Poel  had  issue — 

342  Christine  m.  (336)  Arent  Pruyn. 

343  Anna  m.,  ist,  John  J.  Beekman  ; 

2nd,  William  Barthrop. 

344  Catharine  m.  Peter  Van  Vleck. 

345  Margaret  m.  Daniel  Staats. 

346  Maria  m.  Lucas  L  Van  Alen. 

347  Francis  m.  Maria  Van  Vleck. 

348  Sarah  m.  Arent  Van  Vleck. 

349  John  L  m,,  ist,  Jane  Van  Vleck  ; 

2nd,  Elizabeth  Van  Valkenburg. 

350  Elizabeth  m.  Henry  Van  Vleck. 

zz^.  342. 

(336)  Arenf  Pruyn  {Harvmi,^  Arent,-  Frans  Jansen^),  b.  July  17, 
1759,  bp.  at  Kinderhook  July  22,  1759  (Arent  Pruyn,  grandfather; 
Christyntje  Pruyn  {'i'^),  or  wife  of  (35)),  married  his  cousin  (342) 
Christines  Pruyn  {yohn,''  Francis,^  Are?it,-  Frans  Jansen"^),  b.  Dec.  12, 
bp.  Dec.  24,  1"]^^,  at  Kinderhook  (Frans  Pruyn  and  wife  Christina 
Goes,  grandparents). 

Arent  Pruyn  died  March  8,  1843,  ^^  Greenfield,  near  Saratoga,  N.  Y., 
and  is  buried  there.  His  wife  died  Feb.  2,  1857,  at  Amsterdam,  N.  Y., 
and  is  buried  there  (Manny's  Corners).    By  this  marriage  there  was  issue — 

351.  Harmon  or  Herman   m.  Gertrude  Marcellus. 

352.  Catharine,    b.   July  8,   1795,   bp.   Aug.  2,   1795,  at    Kinderhook 

Dutch  Church  ((335)  John  Pruyn  and  wife  Catharine  Van  der 
Poel,  maternal  grandparents). 

353.  Jane  m.  James  Wood. 

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(337)  Matthew*  Pruyn  {Harmen,^  Arent,'^  Frans  yansen^),  bp.  at 
Kinderhook  July  18,  1762  (Mattheus  Goes,  Marytje  Van  Schaak),  lived  at 
Kinderhook,  but  subsequently  removed  to  Canada,  joining  the  colony  of 
United  Empire  Loyalists,  probably  about  1790,  as  on  Feb.  4  of  that  year 
he  was  one  of  the  witnesses  to  the  marriage  of  Henry  MacGuein  and 
Christina  Simmon,  at  St.  John's,  Bath  (Bath  Registers,  Liber  A.  No.  42, 
in  vault  at  Kingston).    He  is  said  to  have  been  a  Captain  in  the  Canadian 

*  Claw  or  Clauw  was  an  old  Dutch  name  and  AffyClaw  was  a  relative  or  depend- 
ent of  the  family. 


1 6  Pruyn   Fa7nily — American   Branch.  [J3-"m 

militia  and  to  have  held  an  important  magisterial  position.  He  was  a 
farmer,  and  lived  in  the  Township  of  Marysburgh,  Prince  Edward  County, 
U.  C.  Every  U.  E.  Loyalist  was  entitled  to  receive  from  the  Canadian 
government  a  certain  number  of  acres  for  himself  and  his  children.  In 
this  way  Mr.  Pruyn  became  possessed  of  his  farm,  which  is  pleasantly 
situated  on  the  shores  of  the  lake,  and  of  which  portions  are  still  in  the 
possession  of  his  daughters'  descendants. 

Pie  married  twice,  his  first  wife  being  Martha  Thatford.  In  the 
New  York  Marriage  Licenses  their  license  is  given  March'  21,  1783,  his 
name,  through  a  typographical  error,  appearing  as  Pruyor,  By  this  mar- 
riage he  had  two  sons,  Harmen  and  William.  It  is  stated  that  his  daugh- 
ter Martha  was  named  for  his  first  wife  but  was  the  child  of  his  second 
wife  Mary  De  Forest,  whom  he  married  probably  in  Canada,  and  who 
is  the  mother  of  his  remaining  children.  Mary  De  Forest's  name  appears 
also  among  the  witnesses  at  the  above  mentioned  MacGuein-Simmon  wed- 
ding, Feb.  4,  1790. 

Matthew  Pruyn,  although  in  comfortable  circumstances,  wasnotaman 
of  wealth.  He  died  about  1813  and  his  will  dated  January  14th  of  that 
year  recorded  at  Kingston,  Ontario,  mentions  his  four  sons  and  five 
daughters,  who  in  order  of  birth  are  as  follows  : 

354  Harmen  bp.  at  Kinderhook,  N.  V..  June  18,  1785,  (  (36)  Har- 

men Pruyn  and  wife  Jannetje  Hoes,  grandparents)  ;  oddly 
enough  beyond  the  statement  that  he  lived  in  Canada  there  is 
as  yet  no  further  reliable  trace  of  him. 

355  William  m.  Mary  Church. 

356  Martha  m.    ist     Edward  Wright. 

2nd   John  Byrns. 

357  Sarah  m.     ist    John  Stevens. 

2nd  Thomas  Wattam. 

358  Jane  Griffiths  m.  Samuel  Byrns. 

359  Simon  Ebenezer  m.  Mary  Steel. 

360  Catharine  m.  Thomas  Ellison  Williamson. 

361  Rebecca  b.  or  bp.  July  18,  1810, 

m.  ist Hawley. 

2nd  Peter  Lewis.     Said  to  have  had  no  children   by 
either  marriage. 

362  Matthew  m.  Gurnilda  Angeline  Tracy. 

Mrs.  Mary  de  Forest  Pruyn  (337)  Matthew's  widow  m.    2nd  Thomas  or 
Henry  Moukler  and  is  said  to  have  had  at  least  a  dau.  Nora. 


338. 

Bartholomew  Van  Valkenburg  of  Kinderhook  m.  (338)  Catharine'' 
Pruyn  {Harmen.^  Arenl,^  Frans  Jansen^),  bp.  at  Kinderhook,  June 
2,  1765  (Cornells  van  Alen ;  Catharine  van  A!en)  and  had  issue  on 
record. 

Elizabeth  m.  (349)  John  I.  Pruyn. 

Jannetje  bp.  Dec.  19,  1790  (  (36)  Harmen  Prujn  and  wife  Jannetje 
Hoes,  grandparents.) 

Bata  b.  March  17,  1793. 
bp.     May     12,  1793. 


1890.]  Pruyn    Family — American   Branch.  i^ 

Jacob*  b.  May  28,  1795. 

bp.  June  21,   1795. 
Harmon  Pruyn  b.  Aug.  20,   1797. 

m.  (365)  Catharine  Pruyn. 
Bartley  b.  July  12,  1799. 
Maria  b.  April  17,  1801. 

bp.  May  17,  1801. 
Lydia  Christine  b.  November   15,  1807. 
William  b.  Jan.  6,  18 10. 

339- 

(339)  Francis''  or  Frans  Pruyn  [Harmen,^  Arent^'^  Frans  Janscn^)  bp. 
at  Kinderhook  Dutch  Church  May  8,  1768  (  (35)  Frans  Pruyn,  uncle 
and  wife  Jesyntje  (Christina)  Goes.)  lived  at  Fredericksburgh,  Lennox  Co., 
Ontario;  removed  to  Wilton,  Ernestown,  Addington  Co.,  Ontario. 
He  m.  Nov.  20,  1794.  at  St.  John's  Church  in  Ernest-Town,  (now  in 
Bath)  Catharina  Simmon  or  Simmons  as  the  name  appears  in  later  days. 
The  marriage  was  performed  by  John  Langhorn,  Episcopal  Missionary. 
Plis  sister,  (340)  Maria  Pruyn,  was  one  of  the  witnesses.  (See  Marriages 
No.  T^j,  Liber  B.  Bath  Parish  Registers  in  the  vault  of  the  Incorporated 
Synod  of  the  Diocese  of  Ontario  at  Kingston,  Canada. )  He  is  described  in 
the  register  as  being  a  bachelor  and  Catharina  Simmon  as  spinster.  She 
was  the  dau.  of  Henry  Simmon,  or  Simmons  and  Margaret  Bonesteel. 
Col.  Henry  Simmons,  as  he  was  called,  belonged  to  a  family  that  crossed 
from  the  United  States  into  Canada  at  the  time  of  the  American  Revolu- 
tion and  joined  the  United  Empire  Loyalists.  A  price  is  said  to  have 
been  set  on  Col.  Simmon's  head  by  the  American  authorities.  He 
settled  at  Wilton  where  he  erected  mills.  From  the  records  of  the  Regis- 
ter's office  at  Belleville,  Ont. ,  it  appears  that  on  ]\Iarchi,  1809,  a  patent 
was  issued  to  Catharine,  wife  of  Francis  Pruyn,  for  lots  i  and  2  Con.  8 
Township  of  Huntingdon,  which  land  was  disposed  of  March  21,  181 1, 
to  Richard  Cartwright. 

Francis  Pruyn,  who  was  engaged  in  farming,  died  at  Wilton,  June  24, 
1 84 1.  His  will  is  entered  in  the  Register's  office  at  Napanee  in  Book  G. 
of  Records  of  the  County  of  Addington.  His  wife  survived  him  many 
years  and  died  June  11,   1866.     They  had  issue  : 

363.  Jane  m.  Milton  Fisk. 

364.  Margaret  m.  Fiancis  Harvey  Lawrence,  at  one  time  of  Syracuse, 

N.  Y.     She  died  at  Wilton  leaving  no  issue. 

340. 

Stephen  Fairfield  of  Ernest  town,  Ontario,  son  of  William  Fairfield 
and  Abigail  Baker  m.  at  Bath,  at  St.  John's  Church,  (See  Marriage  "jd 
Liber  B.  of  Bath  Registers  in  vault  at  Kingston.  Ontario),  March  11, 
1799,  (340)  Maria*  Pruyn  [Harmen,^  Arent.-  Frans  fansen^),  bp.  at 
Kinderhook  Dutch  Church,  Nov.  11,  1770,  (Mattheus  Goes;  Flelena 
va?i  Deusen). 

Mr.  Fairfield  d.  Dec.  1820,  (bur.  Dec.  20),  having  had  issue  : 

*  Father  of  the  late  Robert  Bruce  Van  Valkenburg,  member  N.  Y.  State   Legis- 
lature ;  U.  S.  Minister  to  Japan  i866-'69  ;  Judge  Supreme  Court  of  Florida.     See 
Appleton's  Cyclopaedia  of  American  Biography. 
2 


1 8  Pruyn   Family — American    Branch,  [Jan., 

Jane  b.  Jan.  i,  1800;  d.  Aug.  8,  1832,  m.  1822  (?)  John  Dean.  He 
d.  May  25,  1847,  at  Montreal,  Aet.  57.  By  this  marriage  there 
was  issue  : 

i.    Maria,  living  at  Sydenham,  bp.  at  St.  John's  Bath,  June 
20,   1824,    {^sccva,  Fairfield.^ 
ii.  Stephen, 
iii.   James. 
Harmon  b.  Dec.  19,  1804,  m.  Dec.  2  or  20,  1826,  Alice  Badgely 
b.  Sept.  8,  1804,  d.  Aug.   19,  1861,  and  had 
i.   Andrew  Harmon  b.  Sept.  2,   1827. 

ii.    Rachel  b.  June  22,  182^;  d.  Oct.   24,  1877,  unmarried, 
iii.   Maria  b.  Oct.  2,   1830,  has  kindly  furnished  the  informa- 
tion relating  to  her  family, 
iv.   Stephen  b.  April  16,  1832.  m.  Sarah  Glassop  and  has 
(a.)   Henry  Montague  Feaiherstone  b.  Sept.  12,  1876. 
(b.)   Harmon  Pruyn,  d.  young, 
(c.)  Mary  Augusta  b.   March,  1881. 
(d.)  Beatrice  Alice  Magilvira,  b.  Feb.  28,  1885. 
V.   James  Badgely,  b.   March  28,  1834,  m.  Sept.  12,  1883, 
Mary  Elizabeth  Sills  and  has 
(a.)  Louise  Alice,  b.  Aug.  19,  1884. 
(b.)   Mabel  Amy,  b.  March  10,   1887. 
vi.   Jane  Alice,  b.  Oct.  20,  1836. 

vii.  Thomas   Dorland,  b.  April   18,  1838,  lives  at  Berthold, 
Colorado,  m.  June  10,  1866,  Victoria  Preston  and  has 
(a.)  Alice  Thatford,  b.  June  i,  1867. 
(b.)  Alexander    Preston,  b.    Oct.    7,    1870  ;  d.  June, 

1879. 
(c.)  Olive  James,  b.   Dec.  6,  1872. 
(d  )  William  Harmon,  b.  July  9,  1875. 
(e.)  Henry  Stephen,  b.  Sept.  1880. 
(f.)  Kieth  Johnson,  b.  Nov.  1S88. 
Mrs.  (340)  Maria  Pruyn  Fairfield  m.  secondly  (Liber  D.  Bath),  Dec. 
31,  1829,  Thomas  Dorland,  but  had  no  issue  by  this  marriage.      He  died 
at  Adolphustown,  Ontario,  March  5,  1832.   Shed.  Jan.  9,  1853. 

343- 

John  J.  Beekman,*  physician,  b.  at  Kingston,  N.  Y.,  July  4^  1761, 
son  of  Johannis  Beekman  and  Lydia  Van  Keuren  ;  d.  Feb.  ii  or  21, 
1794  or  5,  bur.  in  Kinderhook  Cemetery,  m.  at  Kinderhook,  January  14, 
1787  (343)  Annas  or  Annatje  Pruyn  {John,''  Francis,'^  Arenl,^  Frans  Jan- 
sen^),  b.  March  27,  1771,  bp.  at  Kinderhook  Dutch  Church,  April  7, 
177''  (Johannes  Van  der  Poel  and  wife  Anna  Siaa/s,  grandparents)  ; 
church  members  July  9,  1791,  and  had  issue  baptized  at  Kinderhook 
Dutch  Church. 

John  Pkuvn,  b.  March  13,  1788,  bp.  April  6,  1788,  (John  Pruvn  and 
wife  Catharine  Van  der  Poel  grandparents),  d.  Oct.  16,  1861.  and 
is  buried  in  Kinderhook  Cemetery.  He  was  a  distinguished  physi- 
cian and  one  of  the  prominent  men  of  his  day  and    locality.      He 

*  See  Soi7te  Records  of  the  Beekman  Family  {family  15)  in  The   Eecokd,  Vol. 
xix.  No.  2,  page  49  ;  also  Holgate's  American  Genealogy. 


1890.]  Priiyn   Family — American    Branch.  jq 

resided  at  Kinderhook  ;  was  State  Senator  (Third  District)  6Sth,  69th 
and   70th   sessions  1845,  1846,    1847  (N.  Y.  Civil  List).      He    m. 
firstly  Aug.  22,  1813,  Catharine  Van  Schaack,  dau.   of  Henry  Van 
Schaack  and  Lydia  Van  Vleck,  but  had  no  issue.     He  m.  secondly 
May  19,   1821,  Eliza  Griffith  Clark,  b.   Aug.  28,    1792,    at  Rahway, 
N.  J.,  d.  Nov.  17,  1875,  bur.  in  Kinderhook  Cemetery,  dau.  of  Dr. 
Abraham  Clark  and  Lydia  Griffith  of  Newark,  N.  J.,  and  had  issue: 
i.  Catharine   b.    Jan.  3,    1822,     bp.    May    26,    1822,  at  Kinder- 
hook. 
ii.  Anna  Rosalie  b.  Dec.  15,  1824,  bp.  April  10,  1825,  at  Kinder- 
hook. 
Thomas  bp.  at  Kinderhook,  July  4,  1790,  (John  Beekman,  Lydia  Van 
Keuren,  probably  the  grandparents),  d.  Feb.   2,  1870.     He  lived  at 
Peterboro,  N.  Y.,  for  some  time  and  was  a  member  of  the  21st  Con- 
gress i829-'30-'3i.    Hem.  May  12,  1818,  Lydia  Van  Schaack  (dau. 
of  Peter  Van  Schaack  and  Elizabeth  Van  Alen,  his  second  wife)  d. 
April  27,  1862.    Having  no  children  Mr.  Thomas  Beekman  adopted 
a  nephew  and  niece  of  his  wife.     The  7iiece  Adeline  Elizabeth  Van 
Schaack  b.  Feb.  28,  1830,  dau.  of  Henry  Cruger  Van  Schaack  and 
Adeline  Ives,  m.    Aug.  3,  1852,  Aaron  j.  Van    der   Poel    (See    87 
Van  der  Poel  in  Talcott's  Genealogical  Notes  on  New  York  and  New 
England  Families).     The  nepheiv,  William  Hawley  Van  Schaack  b. 
Jan.  I,  1840,  son  of  Lucas  Van  Schaack  and  Sarah  L.  Hawley,  took 
the  name  of  Beekman  and  is  known  as  William  Van  Schaack  Beek- 
man.     He    lives    on    the    old    Pruyn  farm   and  m.  May  24,  1870, 
Sarah  Magdalena  Ten  Eyck  dau.  of  Peter  Ten  Broeck  Ten  Eyck. 
Mrs.  Annatje  Pruyn  Beekman  m.  secondly,    Dr.  William    Barthrop  b. 
in  England.     He  d.  Oct.  21,  1S38,  aet.  73  and  is  buried   in   Kinderhook 
Cemetery.     She  d.  Nov.  19,  1848,  bur.  in  Kinderhook  Cemetery. 

344. 

Peter  Van  Vleck  bp.  March  17,  1771,  at  Kinderhook  Dutch  Church 
(Peter  Vosburgh  and  Marytje  Van  Dyck,  his  wife)  ;  m.  at  Kinderhook, 
Feb.  16,  1792,  (344);  Catharine^  Pruyn  {John,''  Francis,^  Arent,^  Frans 
fansen")  b.  April  2,  1773,  bp.  April,  11,  1773,  (Lucas  G^o^s ;  Margaret 
Van  der  Poel).  He  d.  Jan.  26,  1831.  She  d.  March  20,  1855. 
Issue  : 
Abi^ham  b.  Dec.  i,    bp.    Dec.    23,  1792,    at  Kinderhook,  (Abraham 

Van  Vleck,  Jannelje    Voshirgh,  grandparents). 
Catryna  b.  Feb.  3,  bp.  March  8,  1795,  (  (335  John  Pruyn,  Catharine 

Van  der  Poel,  grandparents).      She  d.  Jan.  22,  1829. 
John  b.  Oct.  3,  1797,  d.  Sept.  3,  1799. 
John  b.   March  3,   1800,  (Catherine  Van  der  Poel,  grandmother),  d. 

Nov.  8,  1836. 
Jane  d.  May  12,  1803,  aged  7  months  3  days. 
Jane  b.  Jan,  2,    1806  ;  d.  Nov.  12,  1824. 
Maria  b.  Nov.  11,  1808,  bp.  Jan.  5,  1809,  d.  April  18,  1865. 
Sarah  Ann  m.  James  E.   Johnson.     No  ch.     He  d.  June    14,  1858. 

She  d.  Oct.  1889. 
Peter  Henry  b.  Aug.  23,  1816,  d.    April   7,  1865,  m.    Magdelen  Van 
Heusen  and  left  issue. 


20  Pruyn   Family — American    Branch.  [Jan., 

Margaret  m.  Daniel  Herrick. 

Catharine  Maria. 

Annie  Cook  m.  Edward  Everett  Tupper. ' 

345- 

Daniel  Staats  m.  at  Kinderhook,  April  24,  1796,  (345)  Margaret^ 
(Eytje,  Peggy)  Yvwyn  {[ohn,^  Fraficis,^  Arenl,  Frans /ansen^)  h.  April  20, 
1775,  bp.  atKinderhook  Dutch  Church;  Dec.  23,  1775  (Jan  Thyse  Co^^; 
Margarita   Van  Schaack,  wife  of  Lou rens  van  Alen). 

By  this  marriage  there  was  issue  found  on  the  Kinderhook  records, 

Ann  b.  March  22,  1797  (Ann   Siaals). 

John  b.  Jan.  6,  1799,  bp.  Feb.  3,  1799,  (John  Prujn  ;  Catharine 
Van  der  /'o^/ grandparents). 

Catharine  b.  April  29,  bp.  May  3,  1801. 

Christina  b.  Oct.    6,  1803,  bp.  Dec.  4,  1803. 

Barent  b.  April   20,  1806. 

Francis  b,  July  25,  1808,  bp.  Sept.  4,  i8c8. 

Maria  b.  June   11,  1812. 

Peter  b.  Nov.  25,  18 14. 

346. 

Lucas  L  Van  Alen  of  Kinderhook  m.  March  i,  1804,  (346)  Maria^ 
Pruyn  (John,*^  Francis,^  Arent,-  Frans  Janseti'^)  born  Oct.  15,  1777,  bp. 
Nov.  23,  iTTJ,  at  Claverack  Dutch  Church  Laurents  Van  Dyck ;  Maria 
Van  der  Poet).  She  was  ad^nitted  church  member  at  Kinderhook,  May 
24,   1806. 

By  this  marriage  there  was  issue  : 

Christina  b.  or  bp.  July  6,  1805,  (Christina  Van  Dyck)  m.  Isaac  Oak- 
ley, of  Orange  Co.,  N.  Y. 

John  b.  April  16,  bp.  May  10,  1812. 


347- 

(347)  Francis^  Pruyn  {John,*  Francis  ^^  Arent,'^  Frans  Jansen^)  b.  Feb. 
I,  1780,  bp.  Feb.  13,  1780  (J(^hn  Van  Aa/s/eyn  a.nd  Sarah  Van  der  Poe/, 
liis  wife)  married  Maria  Van  Vleck  bp.  Feb.  7,  1779  (Lucas  van  Alen 
and  his  wife  Hilletje  Vosburgh)  dau.  of  Abraham  L  Van  Vleck  (d.  Feb. 
19,  i82i)and  Jannetje  Vosburgh  (b.  Dec.  i.  1747,  d.  Sept.  9,  1S25). 
Francis  Pruyn  was  a  man  of  high  intellectual  ability.  He  was  a  lawyer  of 
note  and  held  important  local  positions.  He  died  Sept.  18,  18 10,  in  his 
thirty-first  year,  being  thus  cut  off  from  a  useful  career  that  promised  dis- 
tinction. His  widow  survived  him  less  than  six  years.  She  d.  April  11, 
i3i6.      By  this  marriage  there  was  issue: 

365  Catharine  b.  May   22,  1803,  bp.    July  3,    1803,    (Catharine  l^an 

der  Pod,  grandmother).  She  m.  1829,  Herman  Pruyn  V.iu 
Valkenburg,  son  of  (338)  Catharine  Pruyn  and  Bartholomew 
L  Van  Valkenburg. 

366  Abraham   b.  Oct.  24,  1804.      He  lived   at  Oswego,  N.  Y.      He 

m.  Sarah  Jenks  but  d.  April  2,  1852,  leaving  no  issue. 

367  John  Matthias  m.  Margaret  Van  Schaack. 

368  Peter  b.  Sept.  30,  1808  ;  d.  Feb.   28,  1823. 

369  Lucretia  b.  June  17,   1810  ;  died  young. 


1890.]  Pruym    Family — American    Branch,  21 

348. 

Arent  Van  Vleck  of  Kinderhook,  bp.  Oct.  14,  1783,  (Arent  Vos- 
burgh  ;  Anna  Vosburgh,  wife  of  Jac.  Van  Alen)  son  of  Abraham  I.  Van 
Vleck  and  Jannetje  Vosburgh  ;  married  Feb.  21,  1809,  (348)  Sarah^ 
Pruyn  [John,^  Francis,^  Artnt,'^  Frans  Jansen,)  b.  May  11,  1782,  bp. 
June  2,   17S2,  (John   Van  Aalsteyn,  Sarah  van  der  Poel,  his  wife). 

Of  this  marriage  there  was  issue  found  on  the  Dutch  Church  Records 
of  Kinderhook: 

Abraham  b.  May  31,  1812,  bp.  June  28,  and  d.  July  2,  1812. 

Maria  b.  Dec.  29,   1814  ;  bp.   Feb.  12,  1815.     d.  Sept.   19,   1873. 

Abraham  Francis  b.  March    19,  18 17,  bp.  April  27,  1817. 

Catharine  b.  April  9,   1819. 

Jane  Elizabeth  b.  Feb.  22,   1822  ;  bp.  April  21,  1822. 

William  Henry  b.  July  7,  bp.  Nov.  7,  1825  ;   d.  Dec.  14,  1865. 

Margaret  Ann  b.  Dec.  25,  1828,  bp.  July  6,  1829. 

349- 

(349)"John5  I*  Pruyn  of  Kinderhook,  (  John,'^  Francis,'^  Areut,-  Frans 
Jansen^)  born  Feb.  11,  1784  bp.  at  the  Kinderhook  Dutch  Church  March 
7,  1784  (Isaac  van  der  Poei  3i\)d  his  wife  Moyca  Huyck)  m.  firstly  Sept.  8, 
1805,  Jane  Van  Vleck  ;  bp.  Oct.  22,  1786  (Meindert  Vosburgh,  Lydia 
Vosburgh,  young  woman)  ;  dau.  of  Abraham  I.  Van  Vleck  and  Jannetje 
Vosburgh  of  Kinderhook.  Mrs.  Pruyn  died  Oct.  5,  1823.  Mr.  Pruyn 
was  engaged  in  farming  and  lived  on  the  old  homestead.  After  his  death 
it  passed  into  other  hands,  its  latest  transfer  being  to  Mr.  William  Van 
Schaack  Beekman  mentioned  previously.  Mr.  Pruyn  was  a  man  of 
prominence  at  Kinderhook  and  was  a  gentleman  of  the  old  school.  An 
excellent  oil  portrait  of  him  exists  and  belongs  to  his  daughter-in-law  for- 
merly Mrs.  (371)  Abraham  Van  Vleck  Pruyn,  now  Mrs.  Walter  Ross  of 
Picton,  Prince  Edward  County,  Ontario,  Canada.  By  his  first  marriage 
Mr.  Pruyn  had  issue  : 

370  John  m.  Maria  Snyder. 

371  Abraham  Van  Vleck  m.  Clara  Louisa  Maria  Fairfield. 

372  Francis  b.  June  4,  1810;  d.  Feb.   14,  1844,  unmarried. 

373  Lucas  m.  Cynthia  Willsey. 

374  Jane  m.  John  Chester  Sweet. 

375  Isaac  m.  ist  Mary  Jane  Wilcoxson. 

2nd  Sarah  Elizabeth  Wilcoxson. 

376  Catharine   Maria  b.  Aug.  8,  1819  ;  d.  Nov.  23,   1877.      She   be- 

came the  second  wife  ot   Hugh  Van  Alstyne,  son  of  Adam,  a 
prominent  citizen  t)f  Kinderhook,  but  had  no  issue. 

377  Anna  m.  John  Wilcoxson.  Mr.  John  I.  Pruyn  m.  secondly 
June  7,  1825,  Elizabeth  Van  Valkenburgh,  b.  Nov.  16,  1788  ;  d.  Jan.  21, 
188 1,  dau.  of  Bartholomew  Van  Valkenburgh  and  (338)  Catharine  Pruyn  ; 
bp.  Jan.  4.  1789  ;  (  (336)  Arent  Pruyn  uncle  ;  (340)  Maria  Pruyn  aunt). 
Mr.  Pruyn  d.  Jan.  24,  1856,  having  had  issue  by  this  marriage  : 

*  The  letter  I  or  J  in  John  I.  merely  indicates  that  he  is  John  the  son  of  John. 
This  use  of  the  initial  letter  of  the  father's  first  name  was  quite  common  among  the 
Dutch.  In  full  Mr.  Pruyn's  name  would  be  in  Dutch  Jan  Jansen  Pruyn,  Pruen, 
Proen,  etc. 


22  Pruyn   Fa77iily — American   Branch.  [Jan., 

378  Bartholomew  m.  ist  Sarah  Caroline  Thomas. 

m,  2nd  Judith  A.  Groat. 

379  Sarah   Elizabeth  b,   April  6,  1828  ;  d.  unmarried  May  3   or  4, 

1867. 

380  Catalina  b.  April  23,   1S30  ;  d.  unmarried  May  15,  1856. 


350- 

Henry  Van  Vleck  of  Kinderhook,  bp.  Oct.  21,  1781,  (Jacobus  va7i 
der  foe/ and  wile  Lucretia  Van  Vleck)  ;  d.  Feb.  20,  1840  ;  son  of  Abra- 
ham I.  Van  Vleck  and  Janeltje  Vosburgh,  m.  Aug.  4,  1805,  (350)  Eliza- 
beths  Pruyn,  [John^''  Francis,'^  Artnt,  ""  Frans  Jansen,^)  b.  March  19,  1787, 
bp.  April  I-,  1787  ;  (Arent  van  Dyck  and  wife  Catharina  vati  Buren).  She 
d.  Feb.  20,  1858,  having  had  issue  by  this  marriage,  found  on  the  church 
records. 

Abraham  b.  INIay  15,   1806  ;   d.  Jan.  24,  18 13. 

John  Pruyn  b.  Jan.  14,   1808  ;  d.  Jan.  20,  1875. 

Henry. 

Isaac  b.  Jan.  4,  181 2. 

Francis  b.  Feb.  20,   1814  ;  d.  March  5,  18 16. 

Arent  b.  Feb.  15,  1816. 

William  Barthrop  b.  Nov.  13,  18 18. 

351- 

(351)  Hirmon- or  Herman^  Pruyn  [Aren//  Harmen,'^  Arent,'' Frans 
/arisen'')  b.  Feb.  8,  1792  at  Kinderhook,  bp.  there  March  4,  1792. 
((36)  Harmen  Pruyn  and  wife  Jannetje  Hoes  grandparents) ;  married  at 
Amsterdam,  N.  Y.,  July  8,  1833  Gertrude  Marcellus  b.  at  Amster- 
dam Oct.  24,  1 801  dau.  of  Nicholas  Marcellus  or  Marcelus  and  Sarah 
Vedder. 

Herman  Pruyn  attended  school  in  Vermont  and  at  Kinderhook.  He 
became  a  physician,  receiving  his  medical  diploma  Jan.  17,  1828  at  the 
Medical  College  of  the  County  of  Herkimer,  N.  Y.  His  son  states  that 
he  was  also  a  Minister  of  the  Gospel.  During  the  latter  years  of  his 
life,  his  eyesight  having  become  impaired,  he  managed  the  affairs  of  a 
farm.  He  at  one  time  lived  at  Manny's  Corners  near  Amsterdam,  N.  Y., 
where  he  was  an  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  Church.  He  held  the  same 
position  at  Clarinda.  Iowa.  Dr.  Heiman  Pruyn  died  March  25,  1877 
at  Page  Centre,  Page  Co.  Iowa  and  is  buried  at  Clarinda,  Iowa.  Mrs. 
Pruyn  died  Sept.  28,  1878  at  VVahoo,  Nebraska  and  is  buried  at  Clarinda, 
Iowa. 

They  had  issue  :  . 

381  James  Wood  m.  Rebecca  Bradshaw  Gray. 

382  Anna  b.  March  28,  1838  at  Amsterdam,  N.  Y ;  resides  at  Santa 

Ynez,  Santa  Barbara  Co.,  California  ;  m.  Oct.  18,  1867  J^mes 
Wilson  M.D. ,  b.  at  G]asgol\'^,  Scotland  Aug.  9,  1837,  grad. 
Hanover  College,  Indiana,  1861,  son  of  Andrew  and  Christina 
Wilson. 

383  Marcellus  b.   Feb.    i.    1841  at  Greenfield,   N.  Y.  ;   unmarried; 

lives  at  Santa  Ynez  where  he  is  engaged  in  farming. 


1890.]  Pruyn   Family — American   Branch.  2% 

353- 

James  Wood  b.  July  12,  1799  at  Greenfield,  Saratoga  Co.  N.  Y.  ;  son 
of  Jonathan  Wood  and  Susanna  Kellogg  married  Oct.  3,  1826  (353) 
Jane^  Pruyn  {Arent,^  Harmen,^  Arenl,-  Frans  Janseri^)  b.  Sept.  7,  1797 
at  Kinderhook,   N.  Y. 

Jonathan  Wood  the  father  of  James  came  from  Westchester  Co.,  N.  Y. 
and  Susanna  Kellogg  from  New  Canaan,  Conn.  Their  ancestors  were 
Puritans.  Soon  after  the  Revolution  Jonathan  purchased  a  farm  at 
Greenfield  near  Saratoga.  His  brother  Joseph  owned  the  adjoining 
farm  and  the  two  brothers  with  other  settlers  organized  a  Congregational 
Church  still  existing.  Jonathan  was  one  of  its  deacons.  He  was  also 
a  major  of  militia, 

James  Wood  studied  first  at  the  Milton  Academy,  then  for  one  sum- 
mer at  the  Ballston,  N.  Y.  Academy  and  for  another  summer  at  the 
Lenox,  Mass.  Academy.  In  order  to  obtain  money  for  his  education 
he  taught  during  the  winters  at  Gloversville,  Greenfield,  Galway  and 
Milton.  In  1819  he  entered  Sophomore  at  Union  College  and  gradu- 
ated in  1822  taking  the  gold  medal  and  being  elected  on  merit  a  ^,  ji,  n, 
He  then  studied  at  the  Princeton  Theological  Seminary  at  the  same  time 
teaching  in  the  Lawrenceville  Classical  and  Commercial  High  School 
(now  the  Lawrenceville  School  on  the  John  C.  Green  foundation). 
He  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  Presbytery  of  Albany  in  Aug.  1824, 
several  months  before  he  left  the  seminary  in  order  to  itinerate  for  two 
months  in  Luzerne  Co.  Pa.  for  the  Assembly's  Board  of  Missions  and 
in  1825-6  preached  at  Wilkesbarre  and  Kingston,  Pa.  In  Sept.  1826  he 
became  pastor  of  Amsterdam  and  Veddersburg,  N.  Y.  holdifig  the  posi- 
tion until  1833.  In  the  autumn  of  this  year  he  was  appointed  agent  in 
the  South  and  West  for  the  Board  of  Education  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church.  In  1839  he  was  appointed  Professor  of  Biblical  Criticism  and 
Oriental  Literature  in  the  Indiana  Theological  Seminary,  then  at  Hano- 
ver, moved  in  1S40  to  New  Albany  and  again  in  1857  to  Chicago  chang- 
ing its  name  to  the  Presbyterian  Seminary  of  the  North  West.  In  1841 
he  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  from  Marion  College,  Mis- 
souri. In  1847  he  was  Moderator  of  the  Synod  of  Indiana.  In  1851 
he  again  became  an  agent  of  the  Board  of  Education  and  from  i854-'9 
was  one  of  its  associate  secretaries,  the  Rev.  Cortland  Van  Rensselaer 
D.D.,  and  the  Rev.  William  Chester  D.D.  being  the  other  two.  From 
1859  to  1866  he  was  President  of  Hanover  College,  Indiana.  He  was 
also  President  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  .above-mentioned  Presby- 
terian Seminary  of  the  N.  W.  at  Chicago.  In  1864  he  was  Moderator 
of  the  General  Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  the  United  States 
at  Newark,  N.  J.  In  1866  he  became  principal  of  the  Van  Rensselaer 
Institr.te  at  Hightstown,  N.  J.  a  school  started  for  the  education  of  the 
children  of  missionaries.  After  Dr.  Wood's  death  the  school  did  not 
go  on.  Dr.  Wood  took  a  high  rank- among  the  clergymen  of  his  denom- 
ination. He  was  a  man  of  s  )und  judgment,  amiable  temper,  extensive 
learning  and  great  energy.  He  Hvas  a  writer  of  note.  In  addition  to 
sermons  and  magazine  articles  his  works  comprise  "A  Treatise  on  Bap- 
tism "  (1850);  "'The  Old  and  New  Theology"  (1855)  in  which  he  gave 
the  fullest  exhibition  of  the  reasons  that  led  to  the  disruption  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  and  its  division  into  the  Old  and  New  School,  that 


2 A  Pruyn    Famih — Ajnericaii   Branch.  [J^^n., 

has  ever  been  published  ;  "  Memoir  of  Sylvester  Scovel,  D.D. "  ;  "A  Call 
to  the  Sacred  Office";  "The  Best  Lesson  and  the  Best  Time  to  learn 
It";  "The  Gospel  Fountain  "  ;  "Grace  and  Glory,"  etc.  Dr.  Wood  d. 
Sunday  April  7,  1867  at  Hightstown,  N.  J.  and  is  buried  at  Princeton. 
(Authorities  consulted;  his  son  and  Appleton's  Cyclopaedia  of  American 
Biography.) 

His  widow,  Jane  Pruyn,  survived  him  ten  years.  She  was  a  woman 
of  rarely  lovely  Christian  character  and  took  a  deep  interest  in  church  and 
public  matters.  She  died  May  27,  1877,  at  Princeton,  N.  J.,  and  is 
buried  there.      By  this  marriage  there  was  issue  : 

Edward    James    b.  July  28,  1827,  at  Amsterdam,    N.    Y.,    d.   there 

Sept.  18,    1828. 
Henry  b.  and  d.  June  19,   1831,  at  Amsterdam,  N,  Y. 
Edward  Payson  b.  Aug.  9,   1832,  at  Amsterdam,  N.  Y. ;   graduate  of 
College  of  New  Jersey  at  Princeton  and  of  the  Princeton   Theologi- 
cal Seminary  ;  clergyman  of  the  Presbyterian    Church,  now  settled 
at  Mt.  Ayr,  Iowa  :     Contributor  to   the  "  Princeton   Review  ;  "  m. 
Oct.   14,  1863,  ]\Iary  Henderson  Green  Hamill,  dau.  of  Rev.  Sam- 
uel McClinlock  Hamill,   U.D.*  and   Matilda  Marguretta  Green   of 
Lawrenceville,  N.  J.,  and  has  issue  : 

i.   James  Edward  b.  at  Hightstown,  N.  J.,  Aug.  30,   1867. 
ii.    Matilda  Green  b.  at  Princeton,  N.  J.,  April  10,  1872. 
iii.  Samuel  Hamill  b.  at  Princeton,  N.  J.,  June  24,   1876. 
James  Henry  b.  May  i,  1833  at  Amsterdam,  N.  Y.,  d.  there    May  20, 

1833- 
John  Rice  b.  June  18,  1835,  at  Lexington,  Va.;  grad.  College  of  New 
Jersey  at  Princeton  and  of  Princeton  Theological  Seminary  ;  cler- 
gyman of  the  Presbyterian  Church  ;  d.  Sept.  7,  i860,  at  Hanover, 
Indiana. 

355- 

(355)  Williams  or  William  Thatford  Pruyn  {Maithew\  Harmen,^ 
Arent;-'  Frans  Jansen"-)  b.  Api'il  11,  1787,  bp.  May  6,  1787  at  Kinder- 
hook  Dutch  Church  (John  Thatford ;  Mary  Thatford,  widow)  lived  in 
Fredericksburg,  Ontario,  was  merchant,  farmer  and  lumber  dealer  and 
erected  the  first  lumber  mill  on  the  Salmon  River,  Ontario.  He  d.  Aug. 
3,  bur.  Aug.  4,  1827,  at  St.  Paul's,  Fredericksburg. 

He  m.  May  3,  1807  (family  Bible)  Mary  Church,  b.  Sept.  24,  1786  ; 
d.  Oct.  I,  1853  ;  tl^"-  <-^'"  Oliver  Church  and  Jemima  Richie,  and  had 
issue. 

384  Martha  m.  John  Finkle. 

385  Jemima    b.    April    20,     1809;    d.    Oct.    15,   1846;    m.    Oct.  16, 

1835,  Henry  Finkle, 

386  Jane  Maria  b.  Dec.  20,   181 1  -  d.  Jan.  24,   1829. 

387  "Oliver  Thatford, m.  Eliz.ibcth  Rickerson  Dorland. 

388  Matthew  William  m.  Mary  Margaret  Kerby. 

*  For  fifty  years  Dr.  Hamill  was  principal  of  tlie  Lawrence  N.  J.  High  School. 
He  was  also  President  of  the  New  Jersey  Historical  Society  ;  Vice-President  of  the 
Princeton  Theolo^'ical  Seminary  ;  President  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  State 
Asylum  for  the  Insane  at  Trenton.  He  d.  Sept.  20,  1S89.  A  sketch  of  him  was 
printed  in  the  New  York  "  Observer,"  Oct.  3,  1889. 


1890,]  Priiyn    Fam  ly — Ainerican   Braftch.  2K 

389  Elizabeth  Margaret  b.  Oct.  3,  1821,  d.  April,  1835. 

390  Eleanor  m.  George  Ham. 

356. 

Edward  Wright  b.  1786,  at  Marysburgh,  Ontario,  m.  March  15,  1809, 
(356)  Martha^  Pruyn  {Mailhew^'' Harrnen,'^  Arent,'^  Frans  Jansen,^)  b.  Julv 
23,  1791.  Edward  Wright  died  May  7,  181 1,  leaving  issue  by  this  mar- 
riage 

Matthf.w  b.  Dec.  27,   1809,  in  Marysburgh. 

Edward  b.  Dec.  8,   181 1,  at  Marysburgh. 

Mrs.  Martha  Pruyn  Wright  was  m.  secondly  to  John  Byrns  b.  Sept. 
23,  in  the  town  of  Peterboro,  Hillsborough  Co.,  New  Hampshire,  d.  at 
Mentor,  Ohio,  March  19,  1870.  She  d.  July  10,  1870,  having  had  issue 
by  this  marriage. 

Susan  C.  b.  March  10,  1816,  in  Oswego  Co.,   N.  Y. ;  d.  Sept.  3,  1864. 

Caroline,  E.  b.  Feb.  12,  18 18,  at  Naples,  N.  Y. ;  d.  Jan.  28,  1887,  at 
Mentor,  Ohio. 

Thatford  William,  b.  Sept.  29,  1820,  at  Painesville,  Ohio,  resides 
near  Fairport  Harbor,  Ohio,  has  kindly  furnished  the  information 
relating  to  this  family. 

Ann  M.,  b.  Jan.  9,  1823,  at  Painesville,  Ohio;  d.  April  3,  1851. 

Catherine  G.,  b.  Jan.  19,  1826,  at   Painesville;  d.  March    15,   1863. 

Helen  Augusta,  b.  April  7,  1828,  at  Painesville  ;  m.  Samuel  Owens, 
resides  at  Mentor. 

Mary  A.,  b.  Nov.  18,  1S30,  at  Mentor  ;  m.  Samuel  Pullman,  resides 
at  Painesville. 

Martha  A.,  b.  May  19,  1833,  at  Mentor;  m.  Charles  Willcox  ;  re- 
sides at  Painesville. 

357- 

John  Stevens  of  Marysburg,  Ontario,  m.  (357)  Sarah^  Pruyn  (J/a/- 
thew'',  Hartnen^,  Arent-,  Frans  Jansen^)  bp,  Feb.  12,  1794,  at  St.  John's 
Church,  Bath,  Ont.,' by  Rev.  John  Langhorn,  Episcopal  Missionary.  By 
this  marriage  there  was  issue 

Jane  m.  William  Loney. 

Mary  died  young. 

Abigail  m.  Richard,  son  of  Thomas  Wattam, 

Rebecca  m.  Henry  Dingman  and  had 

i.    Henry,  I  t  •   •         ^  i\t  j 
..     rw         \  Living  at  Madoc. 
u.   Oliver.   \  ° 

Mary  Ann  deceased. 

Mrs.  Sarah  Pruyn  Stevens  survived  her  husband  and  married  secondly 

Thomas  Wattam,  but  had  no  issue  by  her  second  marriage. 

Mr.  Simon  Pruyn  B^-rns  kindly  furnished  the  above  information, 

358. 

Samuel  Byrns  of  North  Marysburg,  Prince  Edward  Co.,  Ontario, 
son  of  John  Byrns  and  Elizabeth  White,  m.  Nov.,  1816,  (358)  Jane 
Griffiths^  Pruyn  {Matthew,'-  Harmen,^  Arentj'  Frajis  Jansen^). 

By  this  marriage  there  was  issue 

Mary,  b.  Nov.  13,  18 17,  still  living  on  the  Pruyn  farm,  Marysburg; 
unmarried. 


26  Bayard  Epitaphs  from   All   Saints     Church.  [Jan., 

John,    b.  Aug.  15,  18 19. 

Michael   Herson,    b.  Dec.  7,  1820,  lives  at  Adams,   N.  Y.  m,  about 
Jan.   1848  Nancy  Abigail  Bradford  and  has  had 
i.    Elizabeth  b.  about  1850  ;  died  young, 
ii.    Mary  Elizabeth  b.  May  9,  1852. 
Simon  Pruyn  b.  April  22,  1823,  still  living  on  the  Pruyn  farm,  Marys- 
burg  ;   unmarried  ;   has  given  information,  relating  to  this  family. 
Elizabeth  b.  Aug.  24,   1825. 
Elizabeth  Ann  b.  Oct,  20,  1828. 

Sarah  b.  June  22,  1831,  m.  James  Hart  of  Wawpoos  and  has  had 
i.    Miranda  b.  Dec.  20,   1853. 
ii.   William  b.   Feb.  27,   1855. 
iii.    Douglas  b.  Oct.  7,  1857. 
iv.    Ellen  b.  Sept.  13,   1863. 
V.   James  b.  June  22,   1867, 
vi.   Samuel  b.  IMay  24,  1871. 
Subrina  b.  Jan.  22,  1834,  married  Benjamin  Lear.     No  ch. 
Josephus  Andrew  b.    June  4,  1835,  or  '7,  lives  in  San  Francisco,  and 

has  a  family  of  several  (9)  children. 
Jane  b.  July  22,  1840,  m.  William  Wright  and  has  had 
i.   Charles. 

ii.    Hiram,  died  young. 
iii.   William  Daniel. 

{To  be  continued.^ 


BAYARD  EPITAPHS  FROM  ALL  SAINTS'  CHURCH, 

SOUTHAMPTON,  ENGLAND. 

Contributed  by  General  Wilson. 

Sacred  to  the  Memory  of 

Eliza  Bayard. 

also  of 

Willia?n  Bayard,   Esq. 

Who  died  24th  December,  1804. 

Aged  74. 

Also  of  Calharifte  Bayard. 

Wife  of  the  said  William  Bayard, 

Who  died  26th  June,  1814. 

Aged  82. 

Also  o(  Jlfary  daughter  of  the 

above  William  &  Catharine  Bayard 

and  Wife  of  Charles  Arnold 

late  of  Rushington  Hants. 

Who  died  at  Westend  Hill 

July  28th,  1840. 

Aged  70  years. 


1890.]  Bayard  Epitaphs  from   All   Saw/s'    Church.  2  7 

(2.) 

Also  to  the  memory  of 

Robert  Bayard 

Son  of  the  above  Robert  &  Elizabeth  Bayard, 

Who  died  on  the  25th  May,  i860, 

and  was  buried  in  Kensal  Green  Cemetery,  London. 

(3-) 

Sacred  to  the  memory  of 

Robert  Bayard,  Esq., 

Late  of  Stubbington  House. 

In  the  County  of  Southampton, 

Who  departed  this  life 

14th  April,  1 819. 

Aged  82  years. 

Also  oi  Elizabeth  his  Wife 

Who  departed  this  life 

26th  of  May,   1800. 

Aged  60  years. 

The  remains  of  each  are  deposited  in  the  game  vault  underneath  the 
Church. 

The  bright  example  of  their  many  virtues,  their  humble  resignation 
to  the  Will  of  God,  Christian  Liberality  and  Universal  Charity  are  deeply 
impressed  on  the  minds  of  their  sorrowing  children,  who  erect  this  earthly 
tribute  of  their  love  and  admiration,  looking  forward  with  hope  to  a  last- 
ing reunion  in  a  blissful  eternity  through  the  merits  of  a  Blessecf  Re- 
deemer. 

Children  of  the  above  : 

William  Sherriff  Bayard,  died  i6th  March,  1794. 
Rebecca  Bayard,  died  at  Bath  Nov.  25th  1822. 
Tryon  Bayard,  died  13th  March,  1805. 
Harriet  Bayard,  died  an  Infant. 
Anne  Bayard,  died  Dec.  i8th,  1838. 

(4.) 

In  memory  of 
John  Campbell  Bayard 
Late  Lieut.   96th  Regiment 

of  Gwernydd  Thanapo 

Who  died  3d  August,  1883. 

Aged  61  years. 

Buried  in  Danlleyan 

Churchyard, 

Montgomeryshire. 


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


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


(Continued  from  Vol.  XX.,  p.  i68,  of  The  Record.) 


A'  1728. 


dito 


OUDERS. 

P  i  e  t  e  r      Brouwer, 
Elizabeth  Kwaken- 
bos. 

Isaac  Sharduvyn,  An- 
netje  Kaar. 


II.   Johannes    Francis 
Kus  Walter. 


dito     14.   Andries  Mansfild, 

Elizabeth  Tamson. 

dito.  Mattheus  Borel,  Sara 

Smith, 
dito.  Johannes     Van 

Gelder,      N  eel  tj  e 

Oukelbag. 

dito.  Petriis  M  o  n  tan  j  e, 

Jannetje  Dyer. 

dito.  Jan    Cannon,    Jerusc 

Sands. 

dito  18.  Richard  Van  Dam, 
Cornelia  Beekman. 

dito     25.   Samson    Pels,    Maria 
Bensink. 
Assuerus  Turk,  Hille- 

gout  Kiiyper. 
John    Ciire,    Gerretje 
Cozyn. 
Maart    i.   Teophilis     Elsworth, 

Hester  Roome. 
dito       3.   Corn  e  1  is  Tolman, 

Maria  Wessels. 
dito       6.   William     Glover, 
Margrietje  IBlom. 
Will  em     Sekkerly, 
Antje  Bradt. 

Jan    Smith,    Dina 
Daly. 

dito     13.   Dirk    Hoppe,    Maria 

Francis, 
dito.  J  cost    Vredenburg, 

Helena  Brouwer. 


KINDERS.  GETUYGEN. 

Benjamin.       Jacob  Kwackenbos, Eliza- 
beth, s.  h.  Vroiiw. 

Elias.  Anthony  Caar,    Anna 

Vallo,    h.    v.,    Van   Elias 
Chard  livyn. 
Anna  Maria.  Johannes  Wilhelmus, 

Anna    Maria    Igenber- 

gen. 
Elizabeth.       Charles    Philips,      Maria 

Tenbroek,  s.  h.  v^ 
Jvo.  Barnardiis    Smith,    Anna 

Colevelt,  s.  h.  v. 
Gerret.  GerreT  Oukelbag,     Aefje 

R  o  o  s  ,   h.  V. ,  Van  Jo- 
hannes Van  Gelder, 

Sen'. 
Ariaentje.        Thomas      M  o  n  t  a  n  j  e  , 

Arriaent  Montanje. 
James.  Jan    Gaelet,   Jannetje 

Cannon,  s.  h.  v^ 
Gerardiis.        Gerardus  Beekman,  Maria 

Beekman,    h.    v..    Van 

Jacobus  Waiting. 
Maria.  Samson    Bensink,    INIaria 

Myer,  s.  h.  Vroii. 
Catrina.  Willem  Beek,  Sara  Turk, 

h.  v..  Van  Jacob  Low. 
Maria.  Martinus  Cregier,  Rachel 

de  Graaiiw. 
Annaatje.        Johannes    Roome,    Antje 

Van  Slyk. 
Cornelus.        John    Thorman,     Diever 

Bratt  Wed^ 
Martha.  D  a  n  i  e  1  B 1  o  m  ,  Hester 

Blom,  jong  dogter. 
Cornelia.         Harmanus  Rutgers,  Jiln., 

Elsje  Rutgers,  jong 

dogt. 
Isaac.  Pieter  Van  Ranst,  Catha- 

rina  dogter  Van  Johan- 
nes Kip. 
Annaatje.        Daniel  Hennion  jong  m. 

Margrietje  s.  suster. 
Jannetje.         Johannes  Vredenburg, 

Jannetje  s.  h.  vroiiw. 


1 8  90.]     Records   of  the   Reformed  Dutch    Church    in   New    York.  2  0 


A°    1728.  OUDERS. 

dito  20.  Adolp  Banker, 
IVIarytje  Bancker. 

dito.  Evert  Pels,  Catrina 

de  Graaiiw. 

dito  24.  Cornelis  Turk,  Cat- 
rina V  :  Tilburg. 

[482.] 

dito  31.  Willem  Fisjer,  Eliza- 
beth Smith. 

dito.  J^o  h  a  n  n  e  s  Burger, 

Aefje  Goelet. 

April  3.  Gerardiis  Beekman, 
Catharina  Provoost. 

dito.  Egbert    v  :     Borsom, 

Elizabeth  Bensink. 

dito.  Francois    Marschalk, 

Anneke  Lvnse. 

dito.  Abraham  Marschalk, 

Maria  Sebring. 

dito  10.  Theiinis  de  Foer, 
Geertje  Barhyt. 

dito.  Abraham    Boelen, 

Elizabeth  de  Pyster. 

dito.  William  Ren  dell, 

Neeltje  Van  Dyk. 

dito.  Johannes    Van    Nor- 

den,  Ariaentje  Web- 
bers. 

dito  17.  Henriciis  Beekman, 
Geertruyd  v.  Corl- 
lant. 

dito  28.  John  Terp,  Apolony 
Hermans. 

May  I.  Jan  Blom,  Rebecca 
Korsen. 


dito 
dito 
dito. 
dito 


15- 


Nathaniel  Silk,  Maria 

de  Mill. 
Abraham      Blank, 

Maria  Laurence. 
RoelofVan  Mepelen, 

Jannetje  Lamb. 
Cornelis      Kwacken- 

bos,  Cornelia  Lema- 

ter. 


KINDERS.  GETUYGEN. 

Nathaniel.  Nathaniel  Broilw,  Jozua 
Brook,  Sytje  Brook. 

Dorathea.  Gerret  de  Graaiiw,  Cor- 
nelia de  Graauw,  h.  v. 
Van  Hendrik  Bogert. 

Johannes.  Johannes  de  Graaf,  Mar- 
grietje  Bogert,  h.  v. 
Van  Claas  Bogert. 

Catharina.       John  Welsch,   Tryntje 

Alting. 
Jacobus.  Jacobus  Goelet,   Jannetje 

s  ;  h  :  vroiiw. 
William.  William  Provoost,  Wyntje 

Stoiitenbiirg. 
Cornelis.  Cornelis  Low,  Margrietje 

Van  Borsom,  syn   hilys 

vrouw. 
Andries.  Andries  Marschalk,  Eliza- 

beth Lynsen. 
Andries.  Fredrik     Sebring,     INIaria 

Marschalk  j.  d. 
Theiinis.  Andries  Barheit,  Arriaent 

d  e  F  oe  r  h.   V.    Van 

Jacobils  Montanje. 
Elizabeth.       Abraham  Keteltas,  Aeltje 

Keteltas,  s :  dogter. 
Hester.  Petriis  Eiiwoiitse,   Pieter- 

nel     Eiiwoutse,     h.   v., 

Van  Gerret  Marten se. 
Wessel.  Aarnoiit    Webbers,     Sara 

Van  Norden  jong  d'. 

Geertruyd.      Philip  Van  Cortlant:  Mar- 

greta  v.   Cortlant,  h.  v. 

Van  Samuel  Bayard. 
Margrietje.      Harmanils  Stymets,  Elsje 

H  e  e  r  m  a  n  s  ,     s.     h. 

Vroiiw. 
Marytje.  Jacob    Blom,    Elizabeth 

Vile,    h.    V.    v.,    Jacob 

Korsen. 
Maria.  Isaac    Kip,    Anthony   de 

Mill,  Maria  de  Mill. 
Jurian.  Jurian     Witvelt.     Cristina 

Lie. 
Elizabeth.       George  Lamb,    Elizabeth 

Lamb  Wed^ 
Adriaen.  Adriaen    Kwackenbos, 

Metje    Kwackenbos, 
jong  dogter. 


■yQ        Records   of  the   Re/orftied  Dutch    Church    in    Ntw    York.      [Jar., 


A°    1728.  OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

[483.] 

/       duo      19.   Jacob   Van   Deiirsen,      Zacharias, 
Helena  Van    Deiir- 
sen. 
dito.  Walter  Hyer,  Jenneke     Coineli?. 

V  :    Vorst. 

dito     24.    David     Provoost,      Helena. 

Johanna  Rynders. 
dito.  Charles  Laroux,  Cath-     Anna. 

arina  Beekman. 
dito     26.    Hendrik  Dyer,  Anna     Ariaentje. 

Montanje. 
dito     30.  Jacob  Waltong,  Maria     Magdalena. 

Beekman. 


y/ 


Juny  I.  Gysbert  Uyt  den 
B  o  g  e  r  t ,  Catrina 
Honter. 

dito  9.  A  b  ra  h  a  m  Van  der 
Heiil,  Maria  Botind, 

d°.  Gysbert  Van  Deiirse, 

Annetje  ten  Broek. 

dito,  Hendrik    Poulse, 

Neeltje  v.  Deiirsen. 

dito.  C  o  r  n  e  1  i  s  Turk, 

Senior,  obyt  Eliza- 
beth V.  Schaik. 

dito  10.  John  Lemon  tes, 
Aaltje  V.  Norden. 


d°. 
d°. 

dito. 
d°. 


[484.] 
dito     23. 


16.   Cornells    Bogaart, 
Cornelia  ver  Duyn. 


dito 

d°. 

Yuly 


23- 

30- 

3- 


Pieter   Van    Norden, 

Antje  Willemse. 
David   Schuyler, 

Elizabeth   Mar- 

schalk. 
Joseph  Royall,  Cath- 

arina  Jansen. 
Johannes     Peers, 

Helena  Brestede. 

Jan  Van  Pelt,  Hille- 

gont  Bokkenhoven. 
Petrus    Kip,    Marga- 

reta  Blom. 
Johannes      Peek, 

Tryntje  H  el  lake. 
Johannes   B  y  r  a  n  k  , 

Sara  Haveland. 


Nicolaas. 

Hendricus. 
Andries. 
Elizabeth. 
Klaasje. 

Rachel. 

Sara. 

VVessel. 
Maria. 

Joseph. 
Helena. 

Stephanus. 
Jacob. 
Isaac. 
An  ton  v. 


GETUYGEN. 

Abraham  Van  Deursen, 
Tryntje  Poulse. 

Cornelis  Van  Vorst, 
Claasje  de  Mot.,  s.  h. 
Vroiiw. 

Henriciis  Coens,  Geer- 
truyd  Rynders. 

Richard  Van  Dam,  Geer- 
truyd  Laroux  jong  d'. 

Vincent  Montanje,  jiinf, 
Arriaemje  Montanje. 

William  Beekman,  Catha- 
rina  de  L  a  n  o  y  ,  syn 
buys  vrouw. 

Johannes  de  Graaf,  Eliza- 
beth Honter. 

Johannes  Van  der  Heul, 

Elizabeth  Klock. 
Hendrik  ten  Broek,  Lena 

Van  Deursen. 
Mattheiis   Van     Deursen, 

Margrietje  Poulse. 
Jeronimus  Remse,  Claasje 

Van  Schaik,  h.  v..  Van 

Johannis  de  Graaf. 
Wynant  Van  Zandt,  Hen- 

drikje  v  :  ten  Kyk  h.  v. 

V.  Johannes  v.  Norden. 
Johannes    de    Graaf, 

Klaasje     Van     Schaik, 

z.  h.  V. 
Johannes    Hoppe,    Maria 

V.  Norden,  z.  h.  v. 
Harmaniis    Schuyler, 

Elsje   Rutgers  Jong 

dogter. 
Simon    Jansen,    Maria 

Jansen  J",  dcgt. 
Elias  Ellis,   Anna    Maria 

Brestede. 

Johannes    Poel,     Anna 

Boekenhoven  Wed^ 
Jacob   Blom,    Cathalyntje 

Kip. 
Simon  Cregier,  Catharina 

Boelen  Wed^ 
Antony  Byrank,   Teuntje 

Laan,  z.  h.  v 


1890.]    Records   of  {he   Reformed  Dutch    Church    tfi   A\iv    Fork.         ji 


A"    1728.  OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

dito.  Willem   Miller,  Anna     Jan. 

Nieuwkerk. 

d°.  Henriciis       Bensing, 

CatharinaVan  Laar. 
dito       7.   Samuel     Lawrens, 

Anna  Van  Thuyl. 
dito     24.   Harmanus     Simonis, 

Anna  Geert. 
d°.  Abraham    Boke,    Re- 

bekka  Peers. 
'  d°.        17.   H  e  n  d  r  i  k    Brasjer, 

Abigaal  Parsel. 
d".  Christoffel       Banker, 

Elizabeth  Hooglant. 
d".        20.   Pieter    Masier,     Jan- 

netje  Wessels. 
dito      28.   Johannes     Blank, 

Rachel  Andriese. 
d°.  Pieter  Ament,    Elisa- 

beth Tienhove. 
d°.  Sam  lie  IPel,     Mar- 

rieta  Wessels. 
Aug  :     7.   Johannes  Groesbeek, 

Anna  Bajeiix. 


d°.  II.  Cornelis  Romme, 
Maria  Kierstede. 

[485.] 

Augl'  13.  Fredrik  V.  Cortlandt, 
Francyntje  Yay. 

d°.        14.   Abraham  V.   Wyk, 

Catharina  Provoost. 
d°.  Reynier  Burger,  Dina 

V.  Gelder. 
d".  Joseph    Roydon 

Jam  in,  Sara  Burger. 
d°.        18.   Daniel  Gaiilier,  Maria 

Bogart. 
d°.  Jan    Bogert,    A  n  t  j  e 

Peek. 
d°.  PauMs  Hoppe,   Mar- 

ritje  Quackenbos. 

d°,  23.  Johannes  Biirger,  Jan- 
netje  Brouwer. 

d°.  Jan    Smith,    Barentje 

Hellino:. 


Gerrit. 

Samuel. 

Christiaan. 

Tanneke. 

Isaac. 

Dirk. 

Jacob. 

Rachel. 

Liicas. 

Johannes. 

Stephaniis. 

Tr}>ntje. 

Aiigijstus. 

Catharina. 

Harmanus. 

Gerrit. 

Hillegont. 

Annaatje. 

Paul  lis. 

Cornelia. 
Thoma?. 


GETUYGEN. 

Hendrik  Kip,  Jenneke 
Brestede,  h.  v..  Van 
Jan  Nieuwkerk. 

Herman    Bensing,   Eliza- 
■  beth  Bensing. 

Gerrit  Harsing,  Rachel 
Lawrens  Jo.  d'. 

Christiaan  Stouber,  Ver- 
onica Crollius. 

Isaac  Boke,  Tanneke 
Peers  Wed*". 

Abraham  Parsel,  Anna 
Smith. 

Hannanus  Schuyler,  Sara 
Hooglant. 

Samuel  Pel,  Maria' 
Masier,  z.  h.  v. 

Hendrik  ten  Broek, 
Marytje  Blank,  z.  h.  v. 

John  Jones,  Sara.  Hibon, 
z.  h.  V. 

John  Thormen,  Elisabeth 
Meyers. 

Stephani'is  Groesbeek, 
Magdalena  Bajeu,  h.  v.. 
Van  Thomas  Bajeiix. 

Liicas  Kierstede,  Maria 
Van  Vlek,  h.  v.,  Van 
Johannes  Kierstede. 


Augustus  Yay,  Margareta 
V.  Cortlandt,  h.  v..  Van 
Abraham  de  Peyster. 

Abraham  Lefferts,  Sara 
Hooglandt,  z.  h.  v. 

Hicktoor  Hyer,  Jannetje 
V.  Gelder,  z.  h.  v. 

Gerrit  Biirger,  Sara  Mar- 
tens, z.  h.  V. 

Willem  Bogart,  Hillegont 
V.  Hoorn,  z.  h.  v. 

Hendrik  Ryken,  Cornelia 
Bogert  jon  dr. 

Benjamin  Quackenbos, 
Anna  Elisabeth 
Broiiwer. 

Abraham  Brouwer,  Cor- 
nelia Kaljer,  z.  h.  v. 

Francis  Childs,  Gerritje 
Hiele,  z.  h.  v. 


■2  2        Records   of  the   Reformed  Dutch    Church    in   New    York.       [Jan., 


A°    1728.  OUDERS. 

d°.  25.  Thomas  Montanje, 
Rebekka  Biyen. 

d°.  28.  Jacobus  Renaudet, 
JBeletje  Hooglandt. 


d°.  Isaac    Kip,    Cornelia 

Lieiawes. 

Sept:      I.    Pair  us      Rutgers, 
Helena  Hooglant. 

d°.  Isaac  Brasjer,  Jannetje 

de  Voe. 
d°.  4.   J  a  ni  e  s    Sys,     Maria 

Thomsen. 
d°.  Abraham  De  Lanoy, 

Jannetje  Roome.  ■ 

[486.] 

Sept™.  II.   Thomas      Windover, 
Elisabeth  Elswort. 

d°.  Caspanis  S  t  y  m  e  t  s , 

Maria  Hendriks. 

d°.  John    Mek    Evers, 

CatharinaV.  Hoorn. 


d°.        17.   Marten   Brandt,   Jen- 

neke  Buys. 
d°.  Simon    Van     Ceis, 

Geertriiyd  Pel. 
d°.  Jacob  Lamb,    Rachel 

Lent. 
d°.        22.   Caspanis  Blank,  Mar- 

retje  Andries. 
d°.       25.  Michael  Vadgton, 

Catharina  Danelson. 

d°.  David    Clarkson, 

Anna  M  a  r g  r  e  t  a 
Freeman. 

d°.  John   Lawrier,  Catha- 

rina Banke. 

d°.  Hermaniis    Schuyler, 

Jannetje  Banker. 


d°.        29.   Abraham  Jeats,  Hes- 
ter Drinkwater. 


KINDERS.  GETUYGEN. 

Petronella.  Hendrik  Dyer,  Apoloni 
Uytenbogert. 

Johannes.        Evert    Byvank,   Johannes 

Jacobus.  Byvank,    Catharina 

2  lingen.  Hooglandt,      Elizabeth 

Brinkerhof. 

Elisabeth.  Leonard  Lieuwes,  Elisa- 
beth Robbersen  j  o  n 
dr. 

Hendrikje.  Christoffel  Bancker,  An- 
neke  Rutgers,  h.  v.,  v. 
Charles  Crook. 

Jannetje.  GysbertUytenbogart,  Jan- 
netje Swerver,  z.  h.  v. 

Nicolaas.  Nicolaas  Thomsen^  Jan- 
netje, z.  h.  V. 

Pieter.  Lawrens  Van  der  Spiegel, 

Cornelia  Beekman. 


Thomas.  Johannes  Han  Vorst, 
Elisabeth  E  1  s  w  or  t  h  , 
s.  h.  V. 

Catharina.  Jan  Hyer,  Lena  Hen- 
driks. 

Jacobus.  Jan  Van  Hoorn,  Jdnior, 
Catharina  Myer,  h.  v.. 
Van  Jan  Van  Hoorn, 
Senior. 

Johannes.  Johannes  Bandt,  Willem- 
yntje,  z.  h.  v. 

Catharina.  Samuel  Pel,  Maria  Bly- 
denburg. 

Alexander.  Johannes  Lamb,  Jannetje 
Lamb,  z.  suster. 

Caspanis.  Caspanis  Blank,  Senior, 
Auguietje  Post,  z.  h.  y. 

Maria.  Nicolaas   Gouverneur, 

Hester  Lyselaar,  h.  v., 
Van  Barent  Rynderts. 

Matthew.  D°  Bernard lis  Freeman, 
Jift"  Margareta,  z.  h.  v. 

Christiaan.     Johannes    Banke,    Niesje 

Banke,  z.  moeder. 
Hermanus.     Hermaniis  Rutgers,  Anna 
Elisabeth.  Bankers,  Anthony  Rut- 

2  lingen.  gers,   Elisabeth    Hoog- 

landt. 
Antje.  Hercules  Windover,  Maria 

Pieterse,  z.  h.  v. 


1890.]    Records   of  the   Reformed  Dutch    Church    in    New    York.  -3^ 


A°    1728.  OUDERS. 

°.  P  i  e  t  e  r  Van   Ranst, 

Sara  Kierstede. 

°.  Johannes  Abrams, 

Elisabeth  Bosch. 


[487.] 
Octob    2. 


Mattheus  du  B  o  i  s  , 
Debora  Sinkain. 

Thimothiis  Filly. 
Lysbeth  Bdrger. 


d°.         6.   Hendrik  Von  Kobut, 

Catharina  Hes^eman. 
d°.  9.   Abra  ha  m    F"a  t  r'o, 

Maria  Frelant. 
Samuel  Coiiwenhove, 

Sara  Drinkwater. 
Johannes  Vredenbilrg, 

Jannetje  Woederd. 
d°.        13.   Johannes    Montanje, 

Susanna  Bussing. 

d°,        16.  Wessel    Wessels,   Ra- 
chel V.  Imburg. 


d°.  Johannes  Myer,  Elisa- 

beth, Pel. 
Johannes       Coiiwen- 
hove, Rachel  Bens- 
ing. 

d".        23.   Francis   Childs,  Cor- 
nelia Vile. 
Johannes  V  :    Zandt, 

Tryntje  Bensing. 
John  Davids,  Kaatje 
Denong. 

d°.        27.   B  a  r  e  n  t  Bos,   Aafje 
Bruyn. 

Nov  :     6.  Willem  Hope,  Elisa- 
beth V:  Norden. 


[488.] 
Nov  :  10. 


Pieter      Lammersen, 

Maria  Bennet. 
Jacobus    R  y  k  m  a  n  , 

Gerritje  Arianse. 
J  a  c  o  b  ti  s     Wessels, 

Catharina  Pieters. 


KINDERS.  GETUYGEN. 

Sara.  Lucas    Kierstede,   Jacoba 

Maria.  Lieuwes,     Jesse     Kier- 

2  lingen.  stede,  Maria  Van  Vlek. 

Annatje.  Bernardiis  Smith,  Annatje 

Smith,  h.  V. ,  Van 
Justus  Bosch. 

Mattheus.  Richard  Fiilpot,  Tryntje 
Thormen. 

Timotheus.    James    Davie,    Marytje 

Willem.  Filly,     Marinus    Egt, 

2  lingen.  Aaltje     Massing, 

z.  h.  V. 

Dallius.  Coenraat   Ten   Eyk,  Sara 

Van  Vorst,  z.  h.  v. 

Maria.  Johannes  Frelant,  Catha- 

rina Frelant. 

Edward.  Benjamin    Herrin,     Mar- 

grietje  Drinkwater. 

Johannes.  Lucas  Van  Vegten,  Tan- 
neke,  z.  h.  v. 

Issac.  Isaac    Montanje,     Sara 

Montanje,  h.  v.,  Van 
James  Makkentas. 

Marytje.  Gysbert    Van     Jmbiirg, 

Senior,  Marytje  Van 
Imburg,  Wed.  Van 
John  Ellesson. 


Pieter. 

Pieter   Myer,     Margrietje 

Wessels. 

Benjamin. 

Willem. 

Pieter  Van  Deiirsen,  Sara 

Vile. 

Wynant. 

Fredrik    Sebring,     Maria 

Provoost,  z.  h.  V. 

Willem. 

Isaac  Kaljo,   Isabel  Pren- 

ten. 

Pieter. 

Francois   Silvester,    Eytje 

Bos,  z.  h.  v. 

Wessel. 

Johannes    Van    Norden, 

Ariaantje  Webbers, 

z.  h.  v. 

Antje.  Jan  Bennet,  Antje  Bennet, 

z.  h.  v. 
Maria.  Jacobiis  Kip,  Maria  Ryk- 

man  jong  dr. 
Johannes.  •      Adriaan      B  o  u  w  a  a  r  t , 

Teiintje,  z.  h.  v. 


T^A        Records   of  the   Reformed  Dutch    Church    in   New  York.       [Jan. 


A"    1728.  OUDERS. 

d°.  13.  Pieter  Yay,  Maria  V: 
Cortlandt. 

d°.  Fredrik      B  e  k  k  e  r  , 

Catharina  Senger. 
d°.  Samuel   Ten    Eyk, 

Maria  Gornne. 
d°.  Samuel  Romyn,  Sara 

Minthoorn. 
d°.        17.  G  err  it    Henjon, 

Marytje  V:  Vorst. 

d°.  G  e  r  r  i  t  V  :  Gelder, 

Antje  Qiiik. 

d°.  Johannes  Cregier, 

Anna  Naxson. 

d°.  22.  Hendrik  v:  d:  Water, 
Anna  Skilman. 

d°.  Johannes  de  Voor, 

Aafje  Cortregt. 

d".  Lucas  Cjoerts,  Catha- 

rina Bensing. 

d°.  24.  Johannes  Daly,  Mar- 
greta  V:  Crys. 


27 
[489.] 


Johannes  Miller, 
Marytje  Romme, 

.  Hcnricus  Cavelier, 
Helena  Burger. 


Dec. 


Pieter  Van  Benthuy- 
s  e  n  ,  Margarietje 
Olfert. 

Jan  Hibon,  Catharina 
Sebring. 

Abraham  de  Peyster, 
Margareta  V:  Cort- 
landt. 

Cornells  Cortregt, 
Hester  Cannon. 
4.   Andries  Teller,  Cath- 
arina V.  d.  Water. 

Gerrit  Wendel,  Cor- 
nelia Blank. 

Corhelis  Van  Vorst, 
Klaasje  du  Mot. 


KINDERS. 

Eva. 


Johanna. 
Anna. 
Nicolaas. 
Antje. 

Gerrit, 

Martinus. 

Albertus. 


Johannes, 
geborenden. 
I  Octob. 
Lucas. 

Philippus. 


Paiilus. 
Engeltje. 

John. 

Catharina. 
Margareta. 

Lawrens. 

Catharina. 

Cornelia. 

Cornelis. 


GETUYGEN. 

Jacobiis  V:  Cortlandt, 
Maria  Bayard,  h.  v.. 
Van  Augustus  Yay. 

Pieter  Senger,  Johanna 
Senger  wed. 

Thomas  Hamming,  Anna 
Ten  Eyk  \ved^ 

Philip  Minthoorn,  Catha- 
rina Romyn  Wed^ 

Isaac  Henjon,  Jenneke 
Van  Vorst,  h.  v..  Van 
Walter  Hyer. 

Johannes  Van  Gelder, 
Belitje  Quik, 

Martinus  Cregier,  Geer- 
truyd  Naxson. 

W  i  1 1  e  m  Vande  Water, 
Pieternella  Vande 
Water. 

David  De  Voor,  Elisabeth 
Hunter. 

Jan  Roosevelt,  Hyla 
Sjoerts,  z.  h.  v. 

Johannes  Van  Cys,  Cor- 
nelia Van  Gelder, 
h.  v.,  Va  n  Philip 
Daly. 

Aarnaut  Romme,  Susanna 
Bradt,  z.  h.  v. 

Johannes  Burger,  Senior, 
Helena  Turk,  z.  h.  v. 


Willem    Beek, 
Tiddel. 


Elisabeth 


Jacob  Sebring,  Maria 
Hibon  Wed^ 

Philip  Van  Cortlandt,  An- 
na de  Peyster  jong  dr. 

Jan  Cannon,  senior, 
Martyje  Legran,  z.  h.  v. 

OLiver  Teller,  Anneke 
van  d.  Water  jong  d. 

Jan  Cannon,  junior, 
Marytje  Cannon,  h.  v.. 
Van  Evert  Byvank. 

Matthys  dii  Mot,  Marga- 
rietje, z.  h.  V. 


1890.]     Records    of  the   Reformed  Dutch    Church    in    NtW    Vork.         ■jc 


A''    1728.  OUDERS. 

d°.  8.   Cornells      Gerbrants, 

Jannetje  Pier. 
Zacharias  Sikkels,  Ar- 

riaantje  Vrelant. 
d°.        II.   Thomas  Thong, 

Calharina  Rutgers, 
d".         15.   Johannes      Lesscher, 

Eva  Binder. 
Isaac  Calio,  Augnietje 

Boelje. 
d°.        18.   Edward  Man,  Mary tje 

V.  Deiirsen. 

Joseph  dii  Voe,  Sara 
Biom. 

Richard  Norwood, 
Maria  Kool. 

B  a  r  e  n  t  de  Foreest, 
Elisabeth  ver 
Diiyn. 
d°.  22.  Johan  Wilhelm  Alt- 
gelt,  Anna  INIaria 
Emslyn. 

[490.] 
Dec.    25.  Johannes     Hoppe, 
Maria  van  Norden. 
d°.        26.   John     Jones,     Sara 
Hibon. 

d°,  Johannes   Vos,    Lena 

Catharien. 

d".  Philip  Schuyler,  Sara 

Folman. 
d°.        29.  Jan  Goelet,   Jannetje 

Cannon. 

Cornells  C  1  o  p  p  e  r , 
Catharina  G  r  e  v  - 
eraat. 

A°    1729. 

Jan.  5.  Jacobus  Roosevelt, 
Catharina  Harden- 
broek. 

d°.  8.  Thomas  Wood,  Elisa- 

bet  Borris. 

d°.  15.  Gerardiis  Diiyklng, 
Johanna  Van 
Briigh. 

d°.  Glllls  Lynsen,   Jan- 

netje Herris. 


KINDERS.  GETUYGEN. 

Cornells.  David  Abeel,  Maria  Duy- 
king,  z.  h.  V. 

Hartman.  Johannes  Sikkels,  Klaasje, 
z.  h.  V. 

Hendrikje.  Anthony  Rutgers,  Maria 
Thong  jong  dr. 

Fredrik.  Johan     Fredrik    Jenter, 

Catharina  Lesscher. 

Augnietje.  Daniel  Lynsen,  Eva  Egt 
jong  dogr. 

Jenneke.  Gerardiis  Comfort,  Catha- 
rina Waldrom,  h.  v., 
Van  Isaac  Boelen. 

Annetje.  Johannes  Montanje,  An- 
netje  Blom  jong  dr. 

Johannes.  Johannes  Brutell,  Cor- 
nelia Norwood. 

Cornelia.  Fredrik  Willemse,  Cor- 
nelia Ver  Diiyn,  h,  v., 
Van  Cornells  Bogert. 

.  Ad_am .  Fred  r  1  k    A  d  a  m  A 1  tge  1 1, 

Veronica  Corceliciis. 


Mattheiis.  Willem  Hoppe,  Elisabeth 
van  Norden,  z.  h.  v. 

Johannes.  Cornells  van  Tienhove, 
Geertriiyd  Hibon, 
z.  h.  v. 

Catharina.  Johannes  Adolphus  Otter- 
berg,  Anna  Maria  Les- 
walter. 

Cathalyntje.  Cornells  Folman,  Maria 
Wessels,  z.  h.  v. 

Raphael.  Philippus  Goelet,  Bregje 
Pels,  h.  v..  Van 
Raphel  Goelet. 

Catharina.  Paul  us  Richard,  Elisabeth 
Garlin,  z.  h.  v. 


Abraham.       Petrus  Low,  Hyltje  Coely, 
h.  v.,  Van  G  e  r  a  r  d  li  s 
Hardenbroek. 
Annaatje.        Narris  Hoek,   Anna 

Borris. 
Maria.  David  Abeel,  Maria  Diiy- 

king,  z.  h.  V. 

Catharina.       Francois  Marschalk,  An- 
neke  Lynse,  z.  h.  v. 


•5  6  Joh7i   Hart    "  77ie    Signer."  [J'ln., 

JOHN  HART  "THE  SIGNER." 
By  Dr.  John  R.  .Stevenson. 


John  Hart  lived  in  Hopewell,  a  township  originally  in  Burlington 
County,  New  Jersey,  which  in  1714  was  set  off  to  Hunterdon  County  and 
is  now  in  Mercer  County.  He  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Colonial 
Legislature  in  1761  and  continued  a  member  of  it  until  1772.  He  was 
elected  in  1774  as  a  delegate  to  the  convention,  called  the  Provincial 
Congress,  that  was  held  at  New  Brunswick,  which  in  1776  deposed 
Governor  Franklin  and  organized  a  State  government.  He  was  placed  on 
the  Committee  of  Safety  organized  by  that  body.  In  the  same  year  he 
was  chosen  one  of  the  five  delegates  to  represent  New  Jersey  in  the  Con- 
tinental Congress,  and  signed  the  Declaration  of  Independence  in  July, 
1776.  In  the  same  month  he  was  elected  to  the  New  Jersey  Legislature, 
and  was  made  its  speaker,  a  position  he  held  until  his  death  in  1779. 

The  territory  of  old  Hunterdon  was  settled  prior  to  1700  ;  most  of  its 
land  having  been  acquired  by  the  West  New  Jersey  Society,  a  land  company 
organized  in  London  in  1692,  by  Dr.  Daniel  Coxe.  The  first  of  their 
deeds  in  this  section  bear  date  in  1695,  continuing  to  the  period  of  the 
Revolution.  The  names  of  purchasers  represent  emigrants  from  England, 
New  England,  New  York,  and  Long  Island.  Among  the  latter  Newtown 
was  largely  represented  by  such  names  as  Field,  Lawrence,  Hollitt,  Hunt, 
Lorrison,  Phillips,  Reeder,  Scudder,  Smith,  and  Stevenson. 

The  family  Bible  of  John  Hart,  now  in  the  possession  of  his  descendant, 
Mrs.  Kate  C.  Russell  of  Haddonfield,  N.  J.,  is  a  much-worn  book,  the 
date  of  its  print  being  lost.  In  recent  times  it  has  been  carefully  repaired 
and  substantially  rebound.  The  first  page  of  the  record,  evidently  in- 
serted after  the  death  of  the  owner,  states  that  "Edward  Hart  and  Martha 
his  wife,  and  John,  Daniel,  Edward,  and  Martha,  their  children,  came  to 
New  Jersey,  Hopewell,  from  Stoningtown,  Connecticut."  The  entrv  of 
the  births  of  John  Hart's  children  on  another  page  are  in  his  own  hand- 
writing, a  few  of  the  figures  of  the  dates  being  obliterated.  A  separate 
page  gives  the  family  of  Isaac  Wikoff  and  Sarah  his  wife,  John  Hart's 
oldest  child. 

The  time  of  the  arrival  of  the  Hart  family  in  New  Jersey  is  not 
definitely  known.  John  Hall,  in  his  History  of  the  Presbyterian  Church, 
says  that  John  Hart  was  baptized  by  the  Rev.  Frederick  Andrews,  at  Maid- 
enhead (now  Hopewell),  December  21,  1713.  In  1698,  the  West  New 
Jersey  Society  had  donated  one  hundred  acres  of  land  there  for  a  meeting- 
house, a  burying-ground,  and  a  school-house.  The  tradition  is  that  John 
Hart  was  born  in  171 1,  which,  if  correct,  w^ould  fix  the  date  of  the 
arrival  of  his  family  in  Hopewell  in  1712.  The  real  estate  records,  which 
often  fix  the  time  of  settlement,  are  here  unavailable.  The  Society  some- 
times did  not  execute  a  deed  for  many  years  after  a  settler  had  located  or 
squatted  on  their  property.  We  find  in  this  instance  that  Johi.  Coyo, 
executor  of  Dr.  Daniel  Coxe,  made  an  agreement  January  10,  1742,  to 
sell  to  "  Edward  Hart,  and  John  Hart,  son  of  the  said  Edward  Hart, 
both  of  Hopewell  in  the  county  of  Hunterdon,  Yeomen,"  the  planta- 
tion whereon  "the  said  Edward  Hart  now  dwells  and  resides,  situate, 
lying,  and  being  in  Hopewell,  New  Jersey,"  at  $23  per  acre,  the  quantity 


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to  be  determined  by  a  survey.  The  receipts  on  the  agreement  show  that 
the  tract  contained  about  one  hundred  and  twenty  acres,  and  that  Edward 
and  John  Hart  paid  separately  each  about  one-half  the  purchase-money 
in  installments,  the  final  payment  being  made  in  1755. 

-2  John  Hart  married,  in  1740,  Deborah,  daughter  of  Richard  Scudder 
of  Ewing,  Hunterdon  Co.,  N.  J.  John  Hart  died  May  11,  1779;  his 
wife  Deborah  died  October,  1776,  leaving  twenty-two  grandchildren. 
Their  children  were  :  , ,-   /'■i  u  j> 

3  i.   Sarah,  born  the  16  of  Oct. '-^^^ — /married  Jacob  WikofF. 

4  ii.   Jesse,  born  19  of  September,  1742,  married  Martha  Mattison  ; 

removed  in  1788  to  Washington  Co.,  Penn. 
Martha,  born  10  of  April,  1744. 

Nathaniel,  born  29  of  October,  1747  ;  married  Betsy  Stout   of 
Hunterdon  Co.  ;  removed  in  1795  ^'^  Kentucky  and  died  in 
1830. 
John,  born  29  of  October,   1748. 
Susannah,  born  2  of  August,   1750  ;  married  Major  John    Pol- 

hemus.     She  died  Feb.  2,  1832. 
Mary,  born  7  of  April,  1752. 

Abigail,  born  10  of  February,  1754;    married  Moses  Stout   of 
Hopewell. 

11  ix.   Edward,  born  20  of  December,  1755  ;  married  Nancy  Stout  of 
Hopewell,  in    1777,    and  removed    to  Beverley,  Randolph 

,Co.,  Va.,  prior  to  1794. 

12  X.   Scudder,  born  30  of  December,  1759. 

13  xi.    Daniel,  born   13   of  August,   1762  ;  married   INTargaret  Burd, 
and  removed  to  Beverley,  Va.,  in  1794  ;  died  in  1846. 

14  xii.    Deborah,  born  21  of  August,  1765  ;  married  Joseph  Ott : 

Sarah  '  Hart"*  married  Jacob  Wikoff,  and  their  children  were  : 
16      i.   Mary,  born  7  of  May,   1762. 

Isaac,  born  18  of  October,  1766. 
Sarah,  born  3  of  September,  1771. 

Isaac  Wikoff'^  wife  Elinor,  had  children: 
i.  John  Hart  Wikoff,  born  23  of  June,   1800. 
Benjamin  Wikoff,  born  11  of  October,  1801. 
Sarah  Wikoff,  born  26  of  March,  1803. 
Deborah  Wikoff,  1804. 

Jacob  Wikoff,  born  11  of  July,  1806. 
Isaac  Wikoff,  born  5  of  April,   1808. 
Mahanay  Wikoff,  born   11  ot  December,  1809. 

Jesse  Harf*,  who  married  Martha  Mattison,  removed  to  Washington 
Co.,  Bonn.,  and  had  the  following  children: 

27  i.   Deborah,   married  John  Armstrong  of  Beaver  Co.,    Penn. 

28  ii.   Martha,  married  John  Cowan. 

29  iii.    Mattison,    married   Mrs.   Thompson. 

30  iv.  Scudder,  born  1795  :  married  first,  Ann  Anderson,  of  Beaver 
Co.,  Penn. ;  second,  Willa  Maria  Eichbaum  of  Pittsburg, 

Penn.      He  died  in  1867. 

Nathaniel  Hart^  married  Betsy  Stout,  and  removed  in  1796  to  Ken- 
tucky; their  children  were: 


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31     i.   Zephaniah   married   Mary  Ames,  of  Ky.,  and  died  in  Warner 

Co.,  Ohio. 
Mary  married  Stephen  Bayles,  of  Mason  Co.,  Ky. 
Cnarles  married  Elizabeth  Houghton,  of  Mason  Co.,  Ky. 
John  married,    first,    Mary  Corwin  ;  second,  Hannah    Pinneo. 

He   resided    in    Lebanon,    Ohio,    and    was   Judge    of  the 

Court. 
Zebulon  married  Mary  Thomas  of  Ky. 
Nathaniel  married  L.  Marshall,  and  removed  to   Boone  Co  , 

Mo. 

John  Hart^  had  a  checkered  career.  About  1770,  before  the  war,  he 
went  to  Ft.  Coupee,  Louisiana,  then  under  the  dominion  of  Spain. 
From  there  he  went  to  Cuba,  where  he  was  successful  in  business. 
Returning  to  his  native  place,  Hopewell,  after  the  Revolutionary  War,  he 
purchased  the  old  homestead.  It  is  stated  that  the  Tories  in  that  vicinity 
were  possessed  of  so  much  animosity  against  his  family  because  of  the 
active  part  his  father  had  taken  in  the  struggle,  that  they  harassed  him 
by  burning  his  buildings  and  killing  his  cattle,  so  that  he  was  compelled 
to  sell  out  and  move  away.  On  January  20,  17S6,  he  bought  of  Mary 
Howell  eleven  hundred  acres  in  the  pine  barrens  of  Gloucester  Co.,  N.  J., 
and  seems  to  have  lived  there,  possibly  to  get  away  from  the  danger  of  per- 
secution. There  was  quite  a  romance  connected  with  this  spot  in  the 
midst  of  a  wilderness,  surrounded  by  wild  beasts  and  savages,  and  called 
by  the  latter  Squankum.  It  was  located  in  1727  by  Charles  Brockden,  an 
Englishman  of  considerable  wealth,  who  fled  his  country  for  fear  of  con- 
spirators against  the  life  of  the  king,  who  threatened  to  murder  him  for 
overhearing  and  reporting  their  plans.  In  this  lonely  spot  he  built  a 
palatial  residence  and  changed  its  name  to  "  Hospitality  Ponds,"  where 
he  lived  in  fine  style.  He  bequeathed  it  to  his  children,  his  grand- 
daughter selling  it  to  John  Hart.  John  Hart  was  deceased  in  1791,  but 
the  exact  date  is  not  known.    His  children,  as  far  as  known,  were  : 

^J      i.    John died  March  i,  1S29. 

38  ii.   Elizabeth,  born  1782,  married  James  Boyer  of  Holmesburg, 

Penn.,  May  26,  1802,  and  died  March  30,  1844. 
The  children  of  James  and  Elizabeth  Boyer  were  : 

39  i.   Elizabeth  Knowles,  born  Sept.  27,  1804,  married,  first,  William 

Shepherd,  who  died  Oct.  4, 1828  ;  second,  James  Allen,  June 
16,  1834. 

40  ii.  William,  born  March   i,  1803  ;  married  Frances  Ashburner, 

July  31,   1832  ;  died  Jan.  8,   1877. 

41  iii.   Mary,  born  Dec.  7,   1806  ;  died  Oct.  27,   1825. 

42  iv.   James,  born  Feb.  6,   1809;  died  August  18.   1816. 

43  v.   Sarah,  born  Jan.  19,  18 10  ;  died  Jan.  28.  181 1. 

44  vi.   Ann,  born  Dec.  24,  181 1  ;  died  April  16,   1848. 

45  vii.   Catherine,  born  March  22,  181 5  ;  died  Aug.    2t„  1849. 
Susannah    Hart^  married    Major  John    Polhemus,  of  Hopewell,   who 

was  a  descendant  of  Theodorus  Polhemus,  whose  grandson  Hen- 
drick  settled  in  Somerset  Co.,  N,  J.  Major  John  Polhemus  was 
born  at  Hopewell,  May  25,  1738.  He  was  a  distinguished  officer  in 
the  Continental  army,  and  was  voted  a  sword  by  Congress,  for  gallant 
services,  which  is  still   preserved    by  his  great-granddaughter,  Mrs.  Rus- 


1890.]  John   Hart    "The    Signer."  ->q 

sell,  to  whom  I  am  indebted  for  the  use  of  the  MSS.  of  her  father,  the  late 
Charles  La  Croix  Pascal,  from  which  much  of  this  genealogy  is  gleaned. 
The  children  of  Major  John  Polhemus  and  Susannah  Hart  were  : 

46  i,   Ellen,  who  married  Capt.  John  Axford. 

47  ii.  Sallie,   who   married   Capt.    Peter  Kurtz,  of  the  Continental 

army. 

48  iii.    Hannah,  who  married  Rev.  Nor.  Miller. 

49  iv.   Polly,  who  married  West. 

50  V.  Ann,  who  married,  first,  John  Finneton  ;  second,  Capt.  John 

Pascal,  a  native  of  Bordeaux,  France,  on  August  2,  181  r. 

51  vi.    Margaret,  who  married  John  Kneass. 

52  vii.    John,   a  lieutenant  in  Gen.  St.  Clair's  army,  died  1796. 

53  viii,   Montgomery,  who  married  Ann  Van  Zandt. 

Abigail  Hart"  married  Moses  Stout  and  had  children  : 

54  i.   Deborah,  married  her  cousin,  John  Hart,  of  Randolph  Co., 

Va. 

55  ii.    Rachael,  married  Abraham  Quick. 

56  iii.    Theodella,  married  John  Schenck. 

57  iv.  Asha,  died  young. 

58  V.   Edward,  married Brice. 

59  vi.   Scudder. 

60  vii.   Simpson,  married  Abigail  Briant. 

Edward  Hart",  married  Nancy  Stout  and  had  children  : 

61  i.  John,  married  his  cousin,  Deborah  Stout. 

62  ii.   Edward,  married  Catharine  Phillips,  of  Randolph  Co.,   Va. 

63  iii.   Elijah,  married  Margaret  Hart,  of  Beverley,  Va.,  his  cousin. 

64  iv.   Joseph,  mafried,  first,  Miss  Kittle  ;  second,  Miss  Pickens. 

Daniel  Hart  ^^,  married  Margaret  Bura,  and  removed  in  1794  to  Bever- 
ley, Va.  He  represented  his  county  in  the  Virginia  Assembly.  He  died 
in  1846  and  his  wife  in  1848.     Their  children  were  : 

Sarah,  married  John  Arthur  Tappan,  of  N.  J. 

Margaret,  married,  first,  her  cousin,  Elijah  Hart  ;  second,  Eli 

Butcher. 
James,  married  Nellie  Cheadwith,  of  Va. 
John,  married  Jemima  Slagle,  of  Va. 
Elmer,  born  1695  ;  married  Parmilia  Casprin. 
Parmilia,  married  Thomas  Powers. 
Hugh,  married  Elizabeth  Lee. 
Jerusha,  married  Daniel  Capita. 
Elizabeth,  married  George  Buckley. 
No  picture  of  John  Hart,  "the  Signer,"  has  been  found.    A  frame  for 
his  portraTt,  unfilled,  still  occupies  its  niche  in  Independence   Hall,  Phila- 
delphia, in  the  gallery  appropriated  to   the  immortal  Signers  of  the  great 
Magna  Charta  of  American  liberties.     A  handsome  monument  has  been 
erected  to  his  memory  at  Hopewell,  New  Jersey. 
Haddonfield.  N.  J.,  Oc/.  5,  1S89. 


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Tyson   and  Steele   Family  Records. 


[Jan., 


TYSON   AND   STEELE   FAMILY   RECORDS. 


Contributed  by  James  Loder  Raymond. 


The  following  Records  are  taken  from  the  Family  Bible  of  Ann 
Tyson,  of  Second  River  (Belleville),  New  Jersey.  The  Bible  is  of  an 
edition  printed  in  Philadelphia,  October  20,  iSoi/br  INIathew  Carey,  No. 
118  Market  Street.  The  records  are  principally  those  of  the  Steele  (also 
spelt  Steell)  family.  Abigail  Donington,  who  married  Doc'  Thomas 
Steele,  1786,  was  a  niece  of  Ann  Tyson,  the  owner  of  the  Bible  from 
which  the  records  are  copied.  The  Bible  came  into  the  possession  of  Mr, 
Raymond  through  his  mother,  who  was  a  descendant  of  Ann  Donning- 
ton  who  married  William  Stuart,  Nov',  1770. 


This  Bible  is  the  Property  of 

ANN  TYSON. 

Bellville, 

1802. 


FAMILY   RECORD. 

Marriages. 

Thomas  Tyson  was  married  to  Anne  Jones  at  Elizabeth  Town    by 

the  Rev**  M''  Chandler,  Monday  night,  Jan'y  17*   a.d.  1763. 
Ann    Donington,   on   25*  of  Nov',   177c,    to  William  Stuart,   by  the 

Rev*^  M'  Brown,  at  Sec*^  River. 
Abigail  Donington,  Ap'  29"",  1786,    to  D'    Thomas  Steele,    by   Rev*^ 

Uz  Ogdon,  at  Sec  River. 
Mary  Ann  Stuart,  on  26""  of  June,  1793,  to  Samuel  W.  Bonsall,  by  the 

Rev**  Uz  Ogden,  at  Second  River. 
Hannah  Stuart,   on   16  March,   a.d.    1797,    to  William  Du   Vail,  by 

Rev*^  Andrew  Nicholls,  at  New  York. 


Deaths. 

Mother  Mary  Jones,  on  Feb.  24"",  1769,  at  Elizabeth  Town,  in  the  72 

year  of  her  age. 
My  husband  Thomas  Tyson,  on  Nov'  19,  a.d.  1795,  aged  68  years. 
Sister  Sarah  Price,  at  Belleville,  on  the  29"' of  Jan'y,  1808,  in  the  90* 

year  of  her  age. 
Ann  Stuart,  on  the  9*''  of  June,  1813,  in  the  59"'  year  of  her  age. 
Mrs.  Ann  Tyson,  on  the  27*^   of  December,  1814,  in  the  80"' year  of 

her  ajje. 


1890.]     Origi7ial  Records  of  the  Families  of  Herbert  and  Morgan.    a\ 

Richard  Steele  died  at  Patterson,  May  I2•^  1814;    14'"  May,  18 14,  he 

would  have  been  2 1  years. 
Tho^    Edw'^  Steele,   died    14*  Feb'y,  1818,  at  Belleville,  aged  29  f\ 

iim^  y^^d. 
Henry  N,  Steele  died  in  December,  1820,  at  Port  of  Prince. 
William  Steele  perished  at  sea  on  the  13  March,  1823. 
Ogden  Steell,  on  Aug'  f,  1808. 
Mary  Steell,  on  Aug'  19,  1804. 
John  Steell,  on  the  20  of  Feb^  1805,  at  Martinique. 
Infant,  on  the  15"*  of  July,  1805. 
Robert  Rutgers  Steell,  on  the  6  of  Aug'  1805. 
'George  Steell,  on  the  13  of  Aug',  1805. 
Mrs.    Abigail  Steell,  wife  of  Doct^  Tho=   Steell,  on    the    9"'   of  Dec^ 

1806,  in  the  39  year  of  her  age. 
Doct'  Thomas  Steel,  on  the  14""  of  June,    1813,   in  the  59  year   of 

his  age.     No  man  ever  met  the  last  scene  of  human  greatness  with 

more    firmness    &    composure.       Envy  never   scowled     upon    his 

life  ;  may  malice  never  smile  upon  his  grave. 
Ann  Elizabeth  Smith,  formerly  Ann  Elizabeth  Steell,  died  September 

2Z^,  1832,  in  the  34'^  year  of  her  age. 

Miscellaneous  Memoranda. 

Thomas  Edward  Steell,  born  March  7'^  1788. 

John  Steell,  born  November  22**,   1789. 

William  Steell,  born  August  23^,  1791. 

Richard  Steell,  born  May  I4'^   1793. 

George  Steell,  born  January  3**,  1795. 

Ann  Elizabeth  Steell,  born  November  13"',   1797. 

Robert  Rutgers  Steell,  born  June  30"*,  1799. 

Ogden  Steell,  born  April  28'^  1801. 

Henry  Newman  Steell,  born  Decembers"",  1802. 

Mary  Steell,  born  April  1I'^  1804. 

Infant,  born  the  29""  of  June,  1805. 

Sarah  Ann  Steell,  was  born  September  27'^  1814. 

William  Steell,  born  September   h"",  1816. 

William  Stuart,  departed  this  life  December  the  24"",  1784. 


ORIGINAL   RECORDS   OF   THE   FAMILIES  OF   HERBERT 
AND   MORGAN. 


Contributed  by  Mrs.  De  Witt  C.  Mather. 


Francis  Harbor  took  the  oath  oN^llegiance  to  the  king  of  England  in 
Elizabethtcwn  and  jurisdiction,  Feb.  19'^  1665. 

Will,  made  in  1719,  recorded  in  Liber  A  of  Wills,  reserves  for  burying 
ground  one  acre  of  land.     Leaves  wife  Hannah  (?). 

Deed  from  Sir  George  Carteret  to  Frances  Harbor,  1677,  for  182  acres 
of  land.    Liber  i  of  Deeds,  p.  171. 


42      Original  Records  of  the  Families  of  Herbert  and  Morgan.      [Jan., 

Warrant  to  the  Surveyor  General  to  lay  out  for  Francis  Harbert,  within 
the  bounds  of  Middletown,  120  acres  in  the  year  ij?76  ;  ditto,  152  acres, 
1679.  ^ 

Francis  Harbor  pays  quitrent  upon  142  acres,  1677  ;  120  acres,  1676  ; 
142  acres,  1678;   142  acres,  1696.      From  Quitrent  book  of  E.,  N.  J. 

Mentions  in  his  will  ;  sons,  Thomas,  Francis,  Samuel,  Obediah  ; 
dau.  Elizabeth,  Bridget,  and  Mary. 

Obediah  Herbert,  youngest  son  of  Francis  Herbert,  m.  Hannah 
Lawrence,  dau.  of  William  Lawrence,  Jr.,  of  Middletown.  Will  made 
June  19"",  1759,  recorded  in  book  of  Wills  of  the  city  of  Perth  Amboy, 
G.,  p.  69. 

Following  list  of  children  copied  from  Bible  in  possession  of  Mary 
Whitlock    Spader,  of  Mattawan,  N.  J.     Bible  printed  in  London,  1678. 

My  son  Obediah  Herbert  was  born  Sept.  9*  day,  about  twelve  of  the 
clock  at  night,  1731. 

My  son  John  Herbert  was  born  17*  of  Jan,  on  Wed.,  about  one 
o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  i73f. 

My  son  William  Herbert  was  born  Sept.  27"',  on  Thursda)',  about  ten 
o'clock  at  night,  1734. 

My  son  Francis  Herbert  was  born  the  21"  of  May,  on  Friday,  about 
three  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  and  died  in  the  year  1736. 

Mv  son  Richard  Herbert  was  born  on  Friday,  Nov.  2"*^  day,  at  ten 
o'clpck  in  the  evening,  1738. 

My  son  Felix  Herbert  was  born  on  Sat.  the  18*  of  October,  about  six 
o'clock  in  the  evening,  174c. 

My  son  Esek  Herbert  was  born  the  18*  of  October,  about  nine  o'clock 
in  the  evening,  1740. 

My  daughter  Hannah  Herbert  was  born  Tuesday,  the  12""  of  October, 
about  twelve  of  the  clock  at  night.  1742. 

Esek  Herbert,  deceased  on  Tuesday,  Mar.  22"'',  about  twelve  of  the 
clock  at  noon,  i74~|. 

My  daughter  Ruth  Herbert  was  born  on  Tuesday  the  13**'  of  Mar., 
about  eleven  o'clock  at  night,  1746. 

Be  it  remembered  that  Eleanor  Howard,  daughter  of  Thomas  &=  Mar- 
garet Howard,  was  born  on  Sunday  Aug.  3''*,  1755,  about  six  o'clock  in 
the  afternoon. 

Ruth  Herbert,  daughter  of  Obediah  and  Hannah  Herbert,  died  April 
17''',  1795,  aged  forty-eight  years  and  eleven  months. 

Rulh  Whitlock,  daughter  of  Thomas  K.  and  Eleanor  Whitlock,  was 
born  April  18'^,  1796. 

William  Lawrence,  his  book,  1701,  bought  of  John  Bowne,  June  10''', 
1 70 1 — price  £2  35  od. 

Be  it  remembered  that  William  Lawrence,  son  of  John  and  Anna 
Lawrence,  was  born  the  12""  of  May,  1721. 

Ruth  Lawrence,  daughter  of  John  and  Anna  Lawrence,  was  24""  of 
May,  1722. 

Jane  Lawrence,  daughter  of  John  and  Anna  Lawrence,  was  born  2 
ofjune,  1729. 

Ruth  Herbert,  her  Bible,  given  by  her  mother,  Hannah  Herbert,  Oct.  , 
24"*,  1789.       God  give  her  grace  to  make  a  wise  improvement  of  it. 


1 


1890.]  The   East   in   New    Fork   City.  a-i 

Obediah  Herbert,  his  Bible,  bought  of  Hugh  Games,  in  New  York, 
Mar.  2"^^,  1 771. 

Be  it  remembered  that  Obediah  Herbert  was  born  Thursday,  Sept.  9"", 
about  12  o'clock  at  night,  1731,  and  Elizabeth  Warne,  his  wife,  was  born 
on  Thursday  morning  Dec.  14*  1739 — ^"^^  \^qxq.  married  together  Anno 
Domini  April   16"',   1765. 

Obediah  Herbert  died  Oct.  12"",  1777,  aged  forty-six  years,  one  month 
and  some  days. 

Elizabeth  Warne  Herbert,  departed  this  life  .Feb.  2""*,  1822,  aged  83 
years,  i  month  and  18  days. 

Children  of  Obediah  Herbert  and  Elizabeth  Warne  Herbert. 

John  Herbert  was  born  Tuesday  Nov.  26"",  176.  Hannah  was  br,  on 
Tuesday  June  14*,  1767.  Sarah  was  br.  Sat.,  Oct.  8*  1768.  William 
was  br.  Tuesday,  July  a 3'''*,  1770. 

Elizabeth  was  br.  Sat.,  April  12"",  1773.  Obediah  was  br.  Tuesday, 
June  I3'^  1775. 

Joshua  was  br.  Oct.  30"*,   1797. 

Elizabeth  W.  Herbert,  wife  of  Obediah  Herbert,  died  Feb. 2""^,  1822, 
aged  83  yr.  i  month,   19  days. 

3"*  Obediah  Herbert  was  br.  Tuesday,  June  13"',  1775.  May  27'^  1811, 
married  Margaret  Sophia  Van  Wickle,  dau.  Jacob  Van  Wickle  and  Sarah 
Morgan  his  wife. 

MORGAN   OF   SOUTH   AMBOY,    N.   J. 

'Chas.  Morgan  =  Elizabeth  (.?)  ;  Will  made  1719;  children  of  Chas. 
and  Elizabeth  Morgan  were,  viz.  : 

"Charles,  Thomas,  ^ James,  Mary,  Sarah. 

'  James  -—  ]M.  Everson  ;  ch.  James,  Charles,  Stephen,  Sarah,  Mary, 
Susan,  Abbey,  Margaret. 

^Charles  Morgan  =  (?).  Will  made  1749,  recorded  1750  ;  ch.  Thomas, 
Charles,  William,  Daniel,  James,  Mary,  Abigail,  Sarah. 

Nicolas  Morgan,  son  of  James  and  M.  Everson  Morgan,  was  acting 
as  a  sentry  on  the  shore  at  Amboy,  N.  J.,  in  the  Revolution.  One 
evening,  after  having  spent  an  hour  with  his  family  at  home,  as  he 
was  returning  to  his  post  he  was  shot  by  the  Tories. 

Sarah  Morgan,  dau.  of  James  Morgan  and  M.   Everson  his  wife, 
Jacob   Van    Wickle  ;    ch.   Margaret,   Sophia,    Stephen,   Nicholas,    Jac^b 
Charles,  Catherine,  Amandah,   Melvina,  Hyacinthe. 


THE  EAST  IN  NEW  YORK  CITY. 

Without  visiting  Asia  or  Africa  or  Turkey  in  Europe,  one  may 
obtain  glimpses  of  Oriental  life  and  manners,  art  and  architecture  in 
New  York  City.  Our  first  knowledge  of  the  Orientals  [was  derived 
from  the  visit  of  the  Imaum  of  Muscat's  vessel,  which  lay  at  the  foot  of 
Rector  Street,  manned  by  Arabs  as  we  were  informed  at  the  time  and 
which  brought  some  fine  thoroughbred  Arabians,  as  a  princely  gift  to 


A  A  The   East  in   New    York    City.  [Jan., 

the  President  (Jackson  or  Van  Buren).  Later  we  recollect  the  Chinese 
junk,  which  we  boarded  at  the  Battery,  tasted  some  poor  tea  and  rice,  saw 
the  Joss  room  and  inspected  the  vessel,  in  company  with  the  mate,  an 
Englishman.  This  was  the  first  Celestial  vessel  that  ever  visited  our 
shores  before  going  to  London  (as  we  recollect),  and  on  her  way  to 
San  Francisco. 

The  Chinese  Museum  was  first  exhibited  in  Broadway,  just  above 
Spring  Street,  giving  another  series  of  views  of  Chinese  life.  It  was 
afterwards  removed  to  Barnum's,  opposite  St.  Paul's  Chapel.  Then 
followed  Dr.  Abbott's  Egyptian  Museum,  now  in  the  N.  Y.  Historical 
Society's  collections,  where  also  are  the  Nineveh  antiquities. 

We  assisted,  at  about  this  date,  at  the  representation  of  a  Chinese 
drama  at  Niblo's,  performed  by  a  company  of  native  actors,  on  their 
arrival  from,  or  en  route  to,  San  Francisco.  The  performance  was  a 
practical  burlesque,  though  doubtless  intended  as  a  regular  specimen 
of  the  histrionic  art,  and  the  accompanying  music  was  correspondingly 
absurd,  judged  by  the  ordinary  standard. 

In  Broadway,  near  Bleecker  Street,  about  the  same  period  Mr. 
Oscanyan  opened  a  Turkish  divan,  a  cafe  and  bazaar  (if  we  are  not 
mistaken),  where  coffee,  pipes,  sherbet  and  confectionery,  in  the  most 
improved  Oriental  style  might  be  procured  and  enjoyed — all  of  these 
novelties  to  the  western  eye  and  imagination  were  introduced  within  a 
few  years,  most  of  them  nearly  or  quite  fifty  years  since. 

In  later  years  came  the  Japanese  ambassadors,  who  created  a  great 
sensation  with  the  picturesque  street  procession  and  ball  at  Niblo's. 
Since  that  period,  we  had  a  Greek  (Russian)  chapel,  we  believe  aban- 
doned ;  a  distinct  Chinese  quarter,  with  a  resident  Chinese  population 
of  several  thousands,  equal  to  that  of  a  good-sized  country  town,  with  a 
journal  of  their  own  and  restaurants  and  "opium  joints"  and  scores,  if 
not  hundreds  of  laundries,  run  by  male  Celestials,  with  monosyllabic 
surnames,  especially  frequent  in  the  upper  business  avenues. 

Shops,  auction  rooms,  warehouses,  devoted  to  Chinese  and  Japanese 
curiosities,  bric-^  brae  and  wares  of  all  kinds,  ingenious,  elegant  and 
elaborate,  fascinating  to  the  collector  and  tourist,  meet  the  eye  fre- 
quently on  Broadway. 

In  ecclesiastical  architecture,  several  of  the  newer  Jewish  synagogues 
are  costly  and  magnificent  specimens  of  eastern  art,  while  "the  Tombs," 
the  city  prison,  "is  probably,"  as  the  author  of  that  excellent  handbook, 
"  Appleton's  Dictionary  of  New  York,"  describes  it,  "the  purest  speci- 
men of  Egyptian  architecture  to  be  found  outside  of  Egypt  itself."  From 
this  most  ancient  of  land.s,  too,  we  have  a  genuine  antique,  transporting 
the  beholder  to  the  early  ages  of  the  world,  in  the  Obelisk  in  Central 
Park. 

Truly,  the  city  of  New  York  is  a  cosmopolitan  metropolis. 

w.  A.  J. 


1890.]  Noies   and   Queries. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


45 


The  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Society  resumed  its  usual 
semi-monthly  meetings  in  October.  An  address  was  made  by  the  President,  Gen. 
Wilson,  upon  his  recent  genealogical  and  historical  investigations  in  England  and 
Holland,  in  the  course  of  which  he  said  that  the  old  deed  mentioned  in  the  last 
Record,  which  he  had  at  first  believed  to  be  the  original  Indian  deed  of  Manhattan 
Island,  turned  out,  upon  further  investigation,  to  be  a  deed  to  Kiliaen  Van  Rens- 
selaer, dated  1630,  conveying  land  near  Albany,  N.  Y.  We  feel  that  we  owe  an 
apology  to  Mr.  George  H.  Moore,  for  having  so  completely  misunderstood  him.  We 
cannot  see  by  what  perversity  in  the  editorial  mind,  we  could  have  contrived  to  mis- 
take his  meaning,  which  appears  to  have  been  precisely  the  reverse  of  what  we 
imagined  it  to  be. 

On  Friday  evening,  November  8,  Prof.  Hjalmar  H.  Boyesen  read  a  paper  on 
"  Our  Norse  Ancestors  "  ;  and  on  Friday,  November  22.  Mr.  Edward  H.  de  Lancey 
spoke  on  "The  Political  Methods  and  Characteristics  of  Washington's  Administra- 
tion." Arrangements  are  in  progress  to  secure  addresses  during  the  coming  winter 
from  several  gentlemen  prominent  in  genealogical  and  historical  research. 

Since  printing  my  article  on  the  Hasbrouck  family,  vol.  17,  p.  261,  of  the 
Record,  the  Rev.  Evelyn  P.  Bartow  informs  me  that  Jean  Hasbrouck  and  Anna 
Deyo  had  a  son  Isaac  bp.  in  the  Dutch  Ch.  Brooklyn,  April  17,  16S0,  and  Mr.  Louis 
Hasbrouck  Sahler  gives  me  from  the  family  Bible  of  Daniel  Hasbrouck,  (No.  6,  p. 
262)  the  record  of  the  birth  of  his  son  Josaphat,  at  New  Paltz,  March  ig,  1739. 

G.  H.  VAN  WAGENEN. 

The  statement  was  recently  made  in  many  American  journals  and  copied  in  several 
English  papers,  that  Mrs.  Lydia  Drake  who  died  in  Rockford,  111.,  October  iS,  1889, 
at  the  great  age  of  ninety-seven  was  a  descendant  of  Sir  Francis  Drake,  and  1  re- 
member to  have  seen  a  similar  statement  made  within  a  few  years  in  behalf  of  another 
person  of  the  same  name.  As  Sir  Francis  Drake  had  no  children,  they  were  certainly 
not  his  descendants,  but  may  possibly  have  been  those  of  his  younger  brother,  who 
succeeded  to  the  great  navigator's  title  and  property  after  his  death  in  the  year  1595. 

J.  G.  w. 

The  year  1889  completed  the  two  hundred  and  fiftieth  year  of  the  settlement  of 
Gardiner's  Island,  Lion  Gardiner  the  commander  of  Saye-Brooke  Fort  having  pur- 
chased it  from  the  Indians  and  moved  there  with  his  wife,  son  and  servants  in  1639. 
This  was  the  first  English  settlement  in  New  York.  His  eldest  son  David  Gardiner, 
born  at  Saye-Brooke  Fort  1636,  was  the  first  white  child  born  in  Connecticut,  while 
his  daughter,  Elizabeth,  born  1641  on  Gardiner's  Island  (then  called  the  Isle  of  Wight), 
was  the  first  English  child  born  in  New  York.  This  Island  has  descended  according 
to  the  law  of  Primogeniture,  the  present  proprietor  or  "  Lord  of  the  Manor,"  being 
the  1 2th.  F.  d.  t. 

Mr.  William  John  Potts,  Camden,  N.  J.,  sends  the  following  extract  from  the 
"Scientific  American,"  June  26,  1847.     Can  any  one  identify  the  family? 

''  One  day  last  week  the  workmen  in  digging  among  the  foundations  of  Grace 
Church,  at  the  corner  of  Broadway  and  Rector  street,  which  has  recently  been  pulled 
down,  a  coffin,  apparently  of  silver,  was  discovered  about  two  feet  and  a-half  in  length, 
containing  the  body  of  a  female  child,  with  an  inscription  bearing  date  1767.  The 
cofHn  had  a  glass  over  the  face,  and  a  little  further  down  a  looking  glass  set  in  the 
metal.  Near  the  foot  of  the  coffin  was  an  aperture  closed  by  a  glass  stopper,  which 
being  opened  it  appeared  that  the  coffin  was  filled  with  spirits  of  turpentine,  in  which 
the  body  was  preserved,  so  that  the  features  were  seen  through  the  glass." 

The  following  genealogical  records  of  Samuel  Jenings'  family  (the  first  governor 
of  West  Jersey)  are  taken  from  the  Friends  records  of  Bucks,  England,  in  London. 

Samuel  Jenings,  of  Aylesbury,  Bucks,  married  Ann  Olive  7d.  iim.  1672. 

Elizabeth  Jenings  (sister  of  Samuel)  of  Aylesbury,  Bucks  married  Joseph  Hack- 
ney, of  Hempstead,  I7d.  12m.  1675. 

Sarah  Jenings,  of  Aylesbury,  died  isd.  2m.  1674. 

William  Jennings,  son  of  Samuel  and  Ann,  of  Aylesbury,  born  8d.  9m.  1675. 

Sarah  Jenings,   daughter  of  Samuel  and  Ann,  of  Ajlesbury,  born    lod.  2m.  1679. 


A^  Notes   and   Queries.  fJ^"*- 

The  births  of  the  other  two  daughters  of  Samuel  Jenings,  with  their  genealogies, 
were  given  in  an  article  '■  Thomas  Stevenson  and  some  of  his  descendants,"  published 
in  Vol.  13,  page  117,  1882.  of  the  Record.  JNO.  r.  stkvenson. 

Mr.  J.  Rutgers  Le  Roy,  14  Rue  Clement  Marot,  Paris,  sends  the  blazon  of 
the  arms  of  NiCASius  de  Sille.     (Record,  vol.  xx.  p.  igo),  as  follows  : 

SILLE,  (de)— HOLLANDE.     BOIS-le-DUC.     De  sable  au    sautoir  d'argent 

accompagne  d'une  molette   d'or  en  chef,  et  de    trois  etrilles  du 

second,  2  flancs  et  i  en  pointe. 

Casque  couronnee. 

Cimier. — Deux  bras  armesd'azur,  les  mains  de   carnation   tenant 

chacune  une  epee,  la  pointe. en  haut,  les  dites  epees  en  chevron 

renverse. 

Devise.— SILENTIO   ET   SPE. 

REFERENCE.— "Armorial  General,"'  by  J.  B.   RIETSTAP. 

Vol.  II.  p.  778.  Ed.  1887. 
The  blazon  in  English  is  :  Sable  a  saltire  argent  between  a  mullet  or  and  three 
curry  combs  of  the  second.  Crest.  On  a  full  faced  helmet  with  bars,  out  of  a  coro- 
net, two  armed  arms  in  pale  flexed  and  reflexed  azure,  the  hands  proper,  each  holding 
a  sword,  point  upwards,  bendways  and  bendways  sinister.  This  is  not  a  translation 
but  an  independent  blazon. 

It  will  be  of  interest  to  many  beyond  the  members  of  the  Bayard  family  to  learn 
that  in  his  Holland  researches  during  the  past  Summer,  General  WUson  was  success- 
ful in  tracing  for  the  first  lime  the  ancestry  of  Samuel  Bayard,  who  in  1636  married 
Anna  Stuyvesant,  sister  of  the  last  of  the  Dutch  runners  of  T^ew  York,  to  Nicholas 
Bayard,  an  eminent  Huguenot  clergyman  who  was  in  charge  of  the  French  church  in 
Antweip  in  1592,  and  for  several  years  previous  to  that  date.  The  ancient  Dutch  deed 
which  the  President  saw  in  Amsterdam,  and  which  was  represented  as  being  the  deed 
for  Manhattan  Island,  proved  to  be,  when  translated,  the  patent  or  deed  of  the  Van 
Rensselaer  property  at  Albany  of  the  year  1630,  a  most  interesting  and  well-preserved 
document  on  parchment  which  had  been  in  the  possession  of  the  Dutch  branch  of  the 
family  for  more  than  two  and  a  half  centuries.  This  discovery  was  a  great  disap- 
pointment to  the  General,  who  supposed  he  had  found,  as  represented,  a  document 
which  would  have  been  of  the  deepest  interest  not  only  to  the  people  of  this  cii\ ,  but 
to  the  whole  country. 

In  speaking  of  Cornelis  Elting,  (Record,  vol.  16,  p.  29)  bp.  at  Kingston, 
Dec.  29,  16S1,  I  state  that  I  could  not  find  his  will  on  record,  or  the  marriages  of 
any  of  his  children.  The  Rev.  Roswell-Randall  Hoes  writes  me  that  he  has  lately 
discovered  in  the  office  of  Probate  in  Frederick,  Frederick  Co.  Maryland,  the  fol- 
lowing records,  relating  to  Cornelis  Elting  and  his  family: 

First  Book  of  Wills,  page  65.  Will  of  Cornelius  Eltinge  of  Frederick  Co 
Farmer.  Wife  Rebecca  gets  his  dwelling  house  and  tracts  of  land,  called  Mill 
Burn.      Long  Acre,  Addition,  Eltinge's  Rest  and   Derby  Island,  all  in  Frederick  Co. 

Mentions  son  Isaac  A,  married  daughter,  name  not  given.  Son  in  law  John 
Hite,  son  in  law  Isaac  Kite.      Will  dated  April  26,  1751,  proved  Jan.  i,  1754. 

In  Vol.  I,  page  72,  of  another  series  of  volumes,  relating  to  the  Settlement  of 
Estates,  the  name  of  Abraham  Faree  is  mentioned,  also  on  p.  74,  "  Rewlifi' Eltinge 
in  full  of  his  proportionable  part  of  his  Father  Abraham  Elting's  Estate."  First 
book  of  Wills  p.  87,  Will  of  Rebecca  Ellinge  of  Frederick  Co.  Widow,  speaks  of 
.Susannah,  Widow  of  Edward  Beatty,  Daughter,  Sarah  Hite,  Elizabeth  Ferree  gets 
one  shilling.  Son,  Isaac.  The  Will  is  dated  March  22,  1755,  and  proved  Jan.  12, 
1756. 

First  book  of  Wills  page  96,  Will  of  Isaac  Eltinge  of  Frederick  Co.,  Wife  Mary, 
son  Cornelius.  Testator  had  land  called  Darby  Island,  Mill  Burn,  Fair  Island, 
Invention,  all  in  Frederick  Co.  Other  tracts  are  also  mentioned  by  name.  Speaks 
of  his  sister  Elizabeth  Ferrie,  and  of  William,  Cornelius,  John  and  Anna,  children 
of  his  sister  Yaccomintie  Thomson,  late  deceased,  his  Wife  Mary,  and  Rodolphus 
Elting  were  the  Executors.     Will  dated  March  18,  1756,  proved  Oct.  20,  1756. 

G.   H.   VAN  WAGENEN. 


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OBITUARY. 

Rev.  Benjamin  Woodbridge  Dwight,  Ph.D.,  LL.D.,  was  born  at  New  Haven 
Conn.,  April  5th,  1816,  and  died  at  Clinton,  New  York,  Sept.  iSlh,  iSSg.  He  was 
the  eldest  son  of  Benjamin  Woolsey  Dwight,  M.D.,  the  second  son  of  Rev.  Timothy 
Dwiglit,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  long  the  distinguished  President  of  Yale  College.  The  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  was  also  descended  from  Rev.  John  Pierpont  of  New  Haven,  and 
from  the  famous  metaphysician,  Jonathan  Edwards.  On  the  maternal  side  he  had 
among  his  ancestors  John  Eliot,  the  "apostle  to  the  Indians,"  Governor  Dudley  of 
Massachusetts,  and  the  Rev.  John  Woodbridge,  agraduate  of  0.xford  University,  Eng- 
land, who  came  to  this  country  in  1634.  There  were  rine  of  this  family  in  successive 
generations  who  were  educated  men  and  Puritan   Ministers. 

Dr.  Dwight  inherited  strong  literary  tastes,  and  was  in  various  directions  a  most 
earnest  and  successful  student.  He  entered  with  his  whole  heart  into  all  his  under- 
takings. He  was  an  able  writer  upon  theological  topics,  a  successful  sermonizer,  a 
distinguished  author  upon  Philology,  and  one  of  the  most  accomplished  genealogical 
writers  of  our  day.  His  works  upon  the  "Dwight  Family"  and  the  "Strong 
Family  "  are  marvels  of  assiduity  and  thorough  research.  The  "  Dwight  Family"  is 
prepared  with  great  literaiy  skill  and  in  such  a  manner  as  to  make  it  highly  readable 
and  interesting.  They  are  both  permanent  monuments  to  his  memory.  The  Record 
contains  many  valuable  articles  from  his  busy  and  facile  pen.  His  crowning  excel- 
lence was  exhibited  as  an  educator.  He  was  not  only  a  thorough  student,  but  possessed 
rare  gifts  of  communication  and  stimulation.  Thousands  of  young  men  owe  their  ed- 
ucational development  and  success  in  life  to  his  advice,  training  and  encouragement. 
He  pursued  his  calling  as  a  Christian  duty  and  as  a  labor  of  love. 

In  personal  qualities,  he  was  attractive  and  engaging.  Lie  was  vi^arm  in  friend- 
ship, spotless  in  character,  and  open  and  truthful  in  his  communications  with  others. 
He  abhorred  deceit  in  all  of  its  forms,  living  in  every  direction  a  most  honorable  and 
useful  life. 


BOOK   NOTICES. 


Gray  Genealogy.  Being  a  Genealogical  Record  and  History  of  the  Descend- 
ants of  John  Gray  of  Beverly,  Mass.  ;  and  also  including  sketches  of  other  Gray 
Families.      By  M.  D.  Raymond.  Tarrytown.  N.  Y.      1887.      8vo,  pp.  316, 

The  indefatigable  editor  of  the  Tarrytown  Argus  has  in  this  work  collected  with 
much  industry  material  of  interest  to  the  Gray  tamily.  There  are  numerous  por- 
traits, and  the  biographical  sketches  are  full  and  well  written.  There  is  a  full  index 
of  allied  families — but  w°  miss  one  of  the  Grays.  The  record  of  the  family  during 
the  Revolutionaiy  war  seems  to  have  been  a  most  honorable  one.  j.  R.  g.  jr. 

The  Scotch-Irish  in  America,  Proceedings  of  the  Scotch-Irish  Con- 
gress AT  Columbia,  Tennessee,  May  ii,  iSSg.  Published  by  order  of  the 
Scotch-Irish  Society  of  America.     Cincinnati  :  Robert  Clarke  &  Co.,  1889. 

This  well-printed  octavo  volume  is  the  first  distinctive  work  on  a  race  which  has 
given  five  Presidents  to  the  United  States.  »In  view  of  the  fact  that  the  Scotch-Irish 
have  been  leaders  in  almost  every  sphere  of  American  life,  it  is  certainly  surjirising 
that  no  history  of  the  race  in  the  New  World  has  hitherto  been  written  or  published. 
This  carefull}'  prepared  volume  is  the  auspicious  beginning  of  an  organized  effort  to 
give  the  great  race"  its  well-merited  prominence  in  American  history.  j.  g.  w. 

The  Family  of  John  Si  one.  One  of  the  First  Settlers  of  Guilford,  Conn.  By 
William  L.  Stone,  2d.     Albany  :  Joel  Munsell's  Sons,  188S. 

To  others  than  members  of  the  Stone  family,  perhaps  the  most  interesting  pages  in 
this  carefully-prepared  volume  are  those  devoted  to  the  diary  of  Stephen  Stone.  It 
is  said  to  be  the  first  Journal  of  a  Minute-Man  of  the  Revolution  which  has  appeared 
in  print,  illustrating  in  a  graphic  manner  the  great  difficulty  which  constantly  con- 


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Book   Notices.  [Jan., 


fronted  Washington  in  keeping  his  most  uncertain  troops  together,  A  very  full 
biography  of  Colonel  William  L.  Stone,  the  well-known  author  and  editor,  is  accom- 
panied by  a  fine  steel  portrait.  The  founder  of  the  American  family,  it  may  be  men- 
tioned, came  to  New  England  in  1639,  i"  the  company  of  the  Rev.  Henry  Whitefield, 
settling  in  what  is  now  known  as  Guilford,  Conn.  J.  G.  W. 

The  Keyser  Family  ;  compiled  by  Charles  S.  Keyser.  Sq.  8vo.  Philadelphia, 
i88g. 

This  is  mainly  a  history  of  the  bi-centennial  reunion  held  at  Germantown,  Pa., 
Oct.  lOth,  1S88,  of  the  descendants  of  Dick  Keyser,  who  emigrated  from  Holland 
with  his  two  sons  in  i683  and  settled  at  Germantown.  Keyser  was  a  silk  merchant 
of  Amsterdam,  of  the  Mennouite  faith,  who,  in  his  religious  zeal,  followed  Pastorius 
to  the  New  World,  and  the  reunion  was  held  in  the  old  Mennonite  Church  of  which 
he  was  one  of  the  founders,  and  in  which  he  officiated  for  a  time  as  pastor.  The 
book,  which  is  a  handsome  and  beautifully  printed  volume,  illustrated  with  a  number 
of  portraits  and  fac-similes,  contains  the  addresses  delivered  on  the  occasion  of  the 
reunion,  all  of  which  are  interesting  and  well  written,  one  of  them  especially,  on 
'•The  Family  History,"  by  Charles  S.  Keyser,  showing  a  marvellous  amount  of 
.industrious  research.  The  genealogical  portion  of  the  book  is  fragmentary  and  very 
confusing  in  arrangement,  but  will  serve  as  a  valuable  nucleus  for  the  future  geneal- 
ogist of  the  family.  T.  G.  E. 

The  Family  of  Joris  Dircksen  Brinckerhoff,  163S.  8vo.  pp.  188.  New 
York.     Richard  Brinkerhoff. 

The  origin  and  purpose  of  this  entertaining  book  commands  at  once  our  interest. 
In  1884  upon  invitation  of  Gen.  Roeliff  Brinkerhoff,  of  Mansfield,  Ohio,  some  mem- 
bers of  the  Brinckerhoff  family  met  in  New  York  and  formed  an  organization  for  the 
purpose  of  collecting  and  preserving  the  history  of  this  old  and  honorable  Huguenot- 
Dutch  family.  This  book  is  now  sent  out  as  an  avant-coureur  to  show  what  has  been 
done,  to  create  interest,  and  induce  contributions  of  data  for  the  future  publication  of 
a  complete  history.  It  contains  much  valuable  information  in  regard  to  the  American 
ancestor  ;  its  genealogies  are  quite  full,  and  the  numerous  biographical  sketches  are 
well-written  and  interesting.  The  illustrations  of  old  homesteads,  relics  and  the 
Brinckerhoff  coat  of  arms  are  excellent.  A  wholesome  spirit  and  tone  pervades  this 
book.  The  modern  biographies  are  concise  and  in  good  taste,  but  it  is  in  the  records 
of  past  generations  that  one  feels  with  what  sincere  and  loving  interest  the  descend- 
ants have  lingered  over  the  stories  of  their  fathers,  and  how  reverently  and  wisely  they 
cherish  the  good  names  and  deeds  of  their  ancestors.  j,  R.  G,,  jr. 

A  History  of  the  Clan  MacLean, — From  its  earliest  settlement  at  Duard 
Castle  on  the  Isle  of  Mull,  to  the  present  period,  inchiding  a  genealogical  account  of 
some  of  the  principal  families  together  with  their  Heraldry,  Legends,  Superstitions, 
etc.,  by  J.  P.  Macl^ean.  Illustrated  with  maps,  portraits,  views  of  battle-fields, 
castles,  tombs,  ruins  and  armorial  bearings,  8vo,  pp,  480.  Robert  Clarke  &  Co., 
Cincinnati,  1889. 

This  valuable  work,  which  has  evidently  been  a  labor  of  love  with  its  industrious 
and  enthusiastic  author,  is  almost  wholly  confined  to  the  MacLeans  of  Scotland.  It 
has  been  carefully  and  conscientiously  prepared  and  cannot  fail  to  be  of  interest  to 
others  than  those  of  the  celebrated  clan,  which  for  centuries  held  a  conspicuous  place 
for  independence  of  bearing  and  disinterested  loyalty  to  their  Scottish  sovereigns.  Sir 
Walter  Scott  said  of  the  clan, 

"  May  the  race  of  Clan-Gillian,  the  fearless  and  free, 
Remember  Glenlivat,  Harlow  and  Dundee." 

One  of  this  bold  and  hardy  race,  as  the  writer's  father  used  to  relate,  in  a  dispute 
with  a  Campbell  as  to  which  was  the  most  ancient  clan,  said  in  answer  to  the  latter's 
statement  that  they  dated  back  to  the  time  of  the  flood,  "  The  Macl-eans  are  far 
older  than  the  flood."     "  Well,"  replied  the  Campbell,  "  I  never  heard  of  any  ofyour 

clan  being  on  board  the  Ark,"  to  which  came  the  energetic  answer,  "  D your  ark, 

the  MacLeans  always  had  a  boat  of  their  own," 

It  is  certainly  a  surprising  circumstance  that  this  entertaining  and  valuable  vol- 
ume should  have  been  written  in  Ohio,  nearly  four  thousand  miles  from  the  headquar- 
ters of  the  clan,  and  by  an  American  whose  Scottish  ancestor  came  to  Virginia  as 
long  ago  as  the  year  1760.  To  that  ancestor,  John  MacLean  and  his  descendants, 
the  author  devotes  the  concluding  chapter  of  his  comprehensive  work, 

J.  G.  w. 


1890.]  Book  Notices. 


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WiNSLOW  Memorial.  Family  Records  of  Winslows  and  their  Descendants  in 
America,  with  the  English  Ancestry  as  far  as  known.  Kenelni  Winslow.  Vol.  II. 
By  David  Parsons  Holton,  A.M.,  M.D.,  and  his  wife,  Mrs.  Frances  K.  (Norward) 
Holton.  New  "S'ork,  1888.  8vo,  pp.  529-1057.  Appendix,  pp.  179:  Indexes,  72. 
Sixteen  portraits,  besides  other  illustrations. 

This  noble  volume  completes  the  work  upon  which  our  late  esteemed  (r(?;//;-£vv  Dr. 
D.  P.  Holton  was  engaged  during  the  later  years  of  his  life  ;  and  is  a  monument  not 
only  to  his  research  and  industry,  but,  also,  to  the  wifely  loyalty  and  courage  of 
Mrs.  Holton.  Despite  ill-health,  discouragements  and  accidents  almost  overwhelm- 
ing, she  has  persevered  with  unconquerable  courage  ;  and  now  has  the  happiness  of 
seeing  her  good  husband's  life-work  fitly  completed  and  rendered  useful  to  hundreds 
of  the  Winslow  connection,  who  ought — if  they  do  not — to  "rise  up  and  call  her 
Blessed  !"  The  two  volumes,  as  they  now-  stand,  possess  an  interest  far  wider  than 
the  mere  Winslow  name.  Looking  over  these  pages  we  seem  to  be  reading  an  epitome 
of  New  England — yes — even  of  Ainencan  history;  and  we  glean  from  ihem  some 
idea  of  what  is  meant  by  the  "  diffusion  of  blood  "  in  ancestral  lines  ;  of  its  varie- 
ties, its  subtile  combinations,  its  preservative  and  conservative  qualities,  its  value 
in  the  making  of  character — and  hence,  of  the  importance  of  guarding  the  transmis- 
sion of  the  "best  blood"  in  the  community,  by  the  formation  of  a  high  public  moral 
sense  in  regard  to  the  sanctity  and  purpose  of  marriage. 

The  \Vinslow  Memorial  is  especially  rich  in  biographical  detail,  that  element 
which  gives  to  genealogical  work  its  truest  value  ;  and  lifts  it  out  of  its  mere  "  dry- 
as-dust "  sphere,  with  that  of  scientific  value  and  instruction.  Genealogies  without 
biographies,  have  their  mere  legal  value,  as  do  parchment  records  and  mouldering 
gravestones  ;  but,  with  biographies^  they  become  living  fountains  of  wholesome  truth, 
surrounded  by  ever-blooming  flowers  of  poesy  and  romance,  which  serve  to  keep  the 
memory  of  departed  generations  ever  green.  H.  R.  s. 

The  Driver  Family  :  A  Genealogical  Memoir  of  the  Descendants  of  Robert  and 
Phebe  Driver,  of  Lynn,  Mass.  With  an  Appendix  containing  Twenty-three  Allied 
Families.  1592-1887.  Compiled  by  a  Descendant,  Harriet  Ruth  (Waters)  Cooke,  of 
New  York  City.  8vo,  pp.  531.  Cambridge,  Mass.,  John  Wilson  &  Son,  University 
Press,  18S9. 

This  elaborate  and  beautifully  printed  volume  is,  as  the  author  tells  us,  the  results 
of  three  years  careful  inquiry  into  all  known  sources  of  information  relating  to  the 
Driver  family.  In  this  undertaking,  as  well  as  in  tracing  the  history  of  the  allied 
families,  Mrs.  Cooke  had  the  valuable  aid  of  Mr.  Perley  Derby,  the  well-known  gene- 
alogist of  Salem,  Mass.  One  needs  only  to  glance  through  the  book  to  see  that  it  is 
considerably  more  than  a  mere  collection  of  names  and  dates,  and  that  it  is  full  of 
matter  of  interest  to  the  general  reader.  Wills,  deeds,  letters,  newspaper  extracts  and 
other  valuable  data,  are  profusely  distributed  through  the  volume,  and  greatly  enliven 
the  dryer  details  of  family  history.  The  Appendix  occupies  considerably  more  than 
half  the  book,  and  is  devoted  to  an  account  of  twenty-three  allied  families  ;  of  these, 
the  histories  of  fifteen  are  now  published  for  the  first  time.  They  include  the  names 
of  Archer,  Babbidge,  Beckford,  Cash,  Crowninshield,  Daland,  Flint,  Ives,  Luscom'b, 
Metcalf,  Moses,  Palmer,  Patterson,  Saunders,  and  Wellman.  While  the  author  has 
evidently  taken  great  care  to  secure  general  accuracy,  she  will  doubtless  receive  many 
valuable  additions  and  corrections  from  interested  readers.  An  account,  for  instance, 
of  the  descendants  of  Mr.  Daniel  King  (1601-1672)  and  wife  Elizabeth,  of  Lynn, 
Mass.,  would  include  about  all  of  the  name  of  King  to  be  found  in  the  book.  This 
statement  must  except  the  Hon.  Samuel  Ward  King,  Governor  of  Rhode  Island,  who, 
by  the  way,  was  not  descended  from  W^illiam  and  Dorothy  King,  of  Salem,  Mass.,  as 
stated  on  page  157.  Governor  King's  ancestor  was  probably  Clement  King,  of  whom 
an  account  may  be  found  in  "Austin's  Biographical  Dictionary  of  the  Early  Settlers 
of  Rhode  Island." 


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R.  H.  TiLLEY.     American  Genealogical  Queries,  i8&g.     8vo.     Newport,  1889. 

The  Oneida  Historical  Society.     Proceedings,  1887-1889.     8vo.     Utica,  1889. 

RuFUS  King.  King  family  Papers.  8vo — Life  of  George  Stephenson,  by  Samuel 
Smiles.  8vo.  Boston,  1858 — St.  Nicholas  Society,  1889.  i2mo.  New  York,  1889 — 
Life  of  Hon.  John  R.  Bartlett,  by  Wm.  Gammell.  8vo.  Providence,  1886 — Historical 
Fallacies  regarding  Colonial  New  York,  by  Douglas  Campbell.  8vo.  New  York,  1879 
— Genealogy  of  the  Marsh  Family.  8vo,  Amherst,  1886 — Life  of  Mrs.  S.  B.  Dean,  by 
Rev.  Enoch  Sanford,  D.D.  Svo.  Raynham,  18S5 — Cornwall,  by  Lewis  Beach.  8vo. 
Newburgh,  1873 — Bibliography  of  Sir  Walter  Raleigh.  Svo.  New  Yoik,  1886 — Adriaen 
Van  Der  Donck,  by  T.  Astley  Atkins.  Svo.  Ycnkers,  1888 — Clarke,  Son  and  Piatt, 
Advertising  Agents.      Svo.      London,  1S81 — Harris  Arms,  a  Photograph. 

Yale  University.  Catalogue— Obituary  Recor?l  of  Graduates.  2  vols.  Svo.  New 
Haven,  1889. 

William  Nelson.  Sermon  on  Mrs.  R.  Vandervoort,  by  Arthur  Burtis.  Svo.  Buffalo, 
184S — Memoir  of  Rev.  Joseph  Sanford,  by  Robert  Baird.  Svo.  Philadelphia,  1836- 
Sermon  on  Rev.  William  Andrews,  by  Rev.  Grant  Powers.  Svo.  Hartford,  1S3S — 
Sermon  on  Miss  Charlotte  Seely,  by  James  B.  Shaw.  Svo.  Rochester,  1852 — First 
Annual  Report  of  the  Newport  Historical  Society.  Svo.  Newport,  1S86 — Two  dis- 
courses on  Mrs.  Ann  Sands,  by  Rev.  Benj.  C.  Cutler,  D.D.  Svo.  New  York,  1S52 — 
Sermon  at  the  Consecration  of  Horatio  Potter,  D.D.,  by  Rt.  Rev.  Francis  Fulford.  Svo. 
New  York,  1854 — Memorial  Addresses  on  C.  C.  Washburn.  Svo.  Madison,  Wis.,  1883 
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James  Pine.     Svo.     Philadelphia. 

The  Co.\necticut  Historical  Society.  Two  Hundred  and  Fiftieth  Anniversary  of 
the  Adoption  of  the  Federal  Constitution  in  Connecticut.     Svo.     Hartford,  1S89. 

The  Diocese  of  Long  Island.  Bishop's  Annual  Address — Report  of  the  Committee 
on  Proportionate  Representation.     Svo.     Brooklyn,  1889. 

The  Alumni  Association  of  Union  College.     Report.     Svo.     1889. 

The  Attorney-General  of  the  U.  S.     Report.     Svo.     Washington,  1889. 

The  Historical  Society  of  Southern  California.  Annual  Publication.  8vo. 
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THE  NEW  YORK 

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Vol.  XXI.  NEW  YORK,  APRIL,  1890.  No.   11. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH    OF   FISHKILL   AND    ITS   ANCIENT 

CHURCH. 


By  the  late  Rev.  Francis  M.  Kip.  D.D. 


About  the  middle  of  the  seventeenth  century  the  Dutch  East  India 
Company  sent  out  an  apprentice  to  the  province  of  New  Amsterdam— a 
native  of  Holland,  named  Francis  Rombout. 

He  appears  to  have  been  a  youth  of  considerable  ability,  and  tradi- 
tion reports  that  he  gave  the  highest  satisfaction  in  the  conditions  of  life 
in  which  he  was  placed. 

On  the  expiration  of  his  apprenticeship  he  at  once  engaged  in  busi- 
ness on  his  own  account,  becoming  associated  with  Gelyn,  or  Gulian 
Verplank,  the  ancestor  of  the  well-known  family  of  that  name,  and  of 
our  late  distinguished  citizen,  Hon.  Gulian  C.  Verplank.  This  copart- 
nership continued  for  many  years. 

Francis  Rornbout  was  an  Alderman  of  New  York  in  the  years  1^)73, 
1676,  1677,  ^678;  then  again  in  1686,  1687.  He  was  also  twice  Mayor 
of  the  city  of  New  York.  In  September,  1683,  he  married  Mrs.  Helena 
Van  Ball — her  maiden  name  was  Seller.  Her  first  husband  was  a  Mr. 
Bogardus,  her  second  Mr.  Van  Ball,  her  third  Francis  Rombout  ;  and 
as  early  in  the  year  1693  she  took  an  inventory  of  his  effects,  it  would 
appear  that  she  survived  her  husband. 

In  February,  1682,  the  Governor  of  the  Province  of  New  York  granted 
a  license  to  Francis  Rombout  and  Gulian  Verplank  for  the  purchase  of  a 
tract  of  land  from,  the  Wappinger  Indians  ;  this  tract  consisted  of  eighty- 
five  thousand  acres  of  land.  Tradition  reports  that  a  committee  was  sent 
from  Ulster  to  examine  this  land,  with  a  view  to  settlement  ;  and  this 
committee  returned  declaring  that  the  land  was  not  worth  crossing  the 
river  for.     Probably  they  would  hold  a  different  opinion  now. 

In  1685  King  James  II.  gave  a  royal  patent  tor  this  land  to  Francis 
Rombout  and  Stephen  Van  Cortlandt,  and  (Mr.  Verplank  having  died  in 
the  interim)  to  Jacobus  Kip,  a  wealthy  and  influential  citizen  of  New 
York,  who  soon  after  married  Mrs.  Verplank.  About  fifty  years  later  the 
county  of  Dutchess  was  divided  into  seven  precincts  ;  one  of  these,  includ- 
ing all  Fishkill  and  this  property  we  have  described,  was  called  the  Rom- 
bout Precinct.  Francis  Rombout  died  in  the  year  169 1.  His  only 
child  was  a  daughter,  seven  years  of  age.  By  his  will  he  bequeathed  to 
her  the  entire  Rombout  Precinct.  At  a  very  early  age,  less  than  sixteen, 
she  married  Roger  Brett,  an  Englishman,  and  they  immediately  removed 
to  Fishkill,  or  the  Rombout  Precinct,  as  it  was  then  called.  Soon  after  her 
5 


C2  Historical   Sketch    of  Fishkill  and  its   Ancient   Church.    [April, 

husband,  on  his  return  from  New  York,  was  knocked  overboard  by  the 
boom  of  a  sloop  on  which  he  had  taken  passage,  and  drowned,  just  as  the 
vessel  was  entering  the  mouth  of  the  Fishkill  Creek.  Madam  Brett,  as 
she  was  thereafter  called,  resided  on  the  Rombout  Precinct  for  sixty  years, 
until  her  death  at  the  age  of  eighty. 

In  17 14  the  whole  county  of  Dutchess  only  contained  four  hundred 
and  forty-six  inhabitants,  and  sixty-seven  heads  of  families.  The  church 
nearest  to  Fishkill  was  New  Paltz.  In  1716,  tradition  again  informs  us,  that 
the  Rev.  Petrus  Vas,  a  learned  and  eloquent  minister  who  had  been  sent 
out  from  Holland  to  preach  the  gospel  in  Kingston,  was  requested  to  visit 
Poughkeepsie  for  the  purpose  of  organizing  a  Reformed  Dutch  church. 
He  reported,  as  the  result  of  his  investigations,  that  it  was  not  worth 
while  to  make  the  attempt.  Poughkeepsie  would  never  amount  to  any- 
thing as  a  place,  or  in  fact  be  able  to  support  a  church.  But  the  rever- 
end gentleman  strongly  advised  the  organization  of  a  church  at  Fishkill, 
some  fourteen  miles  below.  The  country  was  beautiful,  the  inhabitants 
uncommonly  intelligent  and  appreciative. 

Fdcts  prove  that  both  the  churches  of  Poughkeepsie  and  Fishkill  were 
organized  that  year,  united  under  the  same  pastor  until  1772. 

The  church  building  was  not  erected  at  Fishkill  until  some  years 
later,  although  religious  services  were  held  as  opportunity  offered. 

Madam  Brett  most  generously  gave  the  land  for  the  old  Reformed 
Dutch  church  of  Fishkill,  and  also  for  the  very  large  graveyard,  one  of 
the  oldest  in  the  state  (some  of  the  stones  dating  back  to  1727).  The 
first  name  of  a  church  member  bears  date  of  that  year — Sept.  30,  1727. 
The  first  date  of  a  Consistory  meeting  is  April  17,  1730 — elders  Abraham 
BrinckerhofF,  Hendrick  Phillips  ;  deacons  Peter  Duboys,  Abraham  Buys. 

The  first  recorded  marriage  is  Oct.  7,  1731. 

June  28,  1 73 1,  the  following  petition  is  sent  to  His  Excellency, 
John  Montgomerie,  Governor  of  the  Province  of  New  York  :  "That  the 
inhabitants  of  Fish  Creek,  being  in  daily  expectation  of  a  minister  from 
Holland,  have  agreed  among  themselves  to  erect  a  church  for  the  public 
worship  of  God,  nigh  the  said  Fish  Creek." 

The  church  was  built  of  stone  ;  the  roof  came  up  from  each  side  to 
the  centre  of  the  building,  the  window-sashes  being  made  of  iron,  the 
panes  very  small.      The  church  also  contained  a  bell. 

The  first  pastor  of  the  united  churches  of  Poughkeepsie  and  Fishkill 
was  the  Rev.  Cornelius  Van  Schie.  He  was  educated  and  ordained  in 
Holland,  and  installed  over  the  church  of  Fishkill  Oct.  4,  1731,  by 
the  Rev.  Gualterus  Dubois,  of  New  York.  In  1738  Mr.  Van  Schie  re- 
moved to  Albany,  where  he  died  in  1744. 

The  second  pastor  was  the  Rev.  Benjamin  Meynema,  who  was  also 
educated  in  Holland.  His  professorial  certificate,  still  extant,  speaks  in 
the  most  flattering  manner  of  his  attainments  and  industry.  The  date  of 
Mr.  Meynema's  resignation  was  1755.  He  is  buried  in  the  yard  of  this 
church,  where  the  stones  of  himself  and  wife  (Katrina  Rapelye)  are  still 
to  be  seen. 

The  third  pastor  was  the  Rev.  Jacobus  Van  Nist.  Tradition,  again, 
reports  him  as  a  young  man  of  brilliant  talents  and  great  learning. 
Bright  hopes  were  entertained  respecting  him,  but  they  were  of  very  short 
duration.     God  took  him  in  the  very  springtime  of  life. 

He  was  buried  under  the  pulpit  of  the  church.     The  stone  erected  to 


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his  memory  stands   against  the  rear  wall  of  the  church,  bearing  this  in- 
scription in  the  Dutch  language  : 

"Jacobus  Van  Nist. 
Preacher  of  the  Holy  Gospel  in  Poughkeepsie  and  Fishkill. 
Died  April  10,  1761,  in  his  27th  Year." 

And  before  we  go  on  with  the  pastorate  of  this  ancient  church,  we 
stop  a  moment  to  remark  upon  two  distinguished  personages,  both  members 
of  this  church,  who,  like  their  young  pastor,  were  laid  in  this  consecrated 
spot  within  the  next  four  years. 

One  was  Madam  Brett,  who  died  in  1764,  aged  eighty  ;  whose  gener- 
ous donation  of  seven  or  eight  acres  and  other  gifts  to  this  church  have 
ever  kept  her  name  fresh. 

The  second  was  a  most  remarkable  character — Englebert  Huff.  As 
his  extreme  age  has  excited  much  attention,  I  will  remark  that  at,  the 
beginning  of  my  pastorate,  1836,  some  few  were  living  who  had  gome 
slight  recollection  of  his  death,  and  his  longevity,  and  very  many  whose 
parents  were  well  acquainted  with  the  patriarch. 

My  first  funeral  at  Fishkill  was  of  a  very  aged  lady,  daughter  of  an 
officer  in  the  colonial  army.  She  was  born  during  the  siege  of  Louis- 
burg,  and  during  her  life  was  a  living  history  of  wonderful  events.  Mr. 
Huff  was  a  frequent  visitor  at  her  house,  and  her  daughter  furnished  me 
with  many  anecdotes  respecting  him. 

One  was  that  during  his  third  widowhood  he  became  enamored  of  a 
young  lady,  and  one  day  called  upon  her  to  pay  his  addresses.  He  found 
another  young  man  there  on  the  same  errand.  And  the  fair  one  was 
thus  favored  with  the  simultaneous  attentions  of  two  suitors,  but  in 
whose  ages  there  was  a  marked  difference,  the  one  having  attained 
twenty-one  years,  the  other  one  hundred  and  twenty-one. 

This  aged  man  was  a  tenant  of  Mr.  Verplank,  who,  to  perpetuate  his 
memor}',  gave  to  both  Trinity  church  and  the  Reformed  Dutch  church 
solid  silver  tankards  with  the  following  inscription  : 

"  Presented  by  Samuel  Verplanck,  Esq.,  to  the  first  Reformed  Dutch 
church  in  the  town  of  Fishkill,  to  commemorate  Mr.  Englebert  Huff,  a 
Norwegian  by  birth,  and  attached  to  the  Life  Guards  of  William,  Prince 
of  Orange,  afterwards  William  IH.  of  England.  He  resided  for  a  num- 
ber of  years  in  this  country,  and  died  with  unblemished  reputation  at 
Fishkill,  March  21st,  1765,  aged  128  years." 

A  short  time  since  Mr.  James  E.  Dean  received  from  Robert  N. 
Verplanck,  Esq.,  a  copy  of  the  Gentleman's  Magazine,  dated  July,  1765 
(London). 

This  is  the  extract  : 

"Died  recently,  at  Fishkill,  near  New  York,  Mr.  Englebert  Huff,  aged 
128  years.  Formerly  attached  to  the  Life  Guard  of  William  HL  He 
distinctly  remembered  ploughing  in  a  field  when  the  news  of  the  exe- 
cution of  Charles  L  of  England  was  brought  to  him." 

Thus  in  my  twenty-seventh  year  I  conversed  with  one  who  was  inti- 
mate with  a  person  who  remembered  the  execution  of  King  Charles  L 

About  the  time  of  Mr.  Van  Nist's  death  began  the  troubles  of  Coetus 
and  Conferentia.  These  troubles  lasted  for  many  years.  I  have  not  time 
to  touch  upon  them;    it  is  a  long  subject,  and  would  require  a  paper 


tA  Historical   Sketch    of  Fishkill  and  its    Ancient   Church.    [April, 

itself.  1  will  therefore  pass  on.  After  the  death  of  Mr.  Van  Nist  a  call 
was  sent  to  the  Chassis  of  Amsterdam,  Holland,  from  these  united 
churches,  to  be  disposed  of  according  to  their  wisdom.  This  call  they 
placed  in  the  hands  of  the  Rev.  Isaac  Rysdyck,  who,  after  signifying  his 
acceptance,  was  ordained  in  Holland,  and  installed  over  these  united 
churches  September,  1765. 

In  a  letter  written  to  the  Classis  of  Amsterdam  Oct.  22,  1765  :  "The 
Rev.  Mr.  Rysdyck  has  been  received  with  extreme  love  and  joy.  He 
gives  promise  of  being  a  man  of  great  influence  in  our  church,  especially 
to  the  congregations,  where  he  labors  with  so  great  discretion." 

Mr.  Rysdyck  began  and  prosecuted  his  labors  in  troublous  times, 
not  only  from  the  Coetus  and  Conferentia  difficulties  to  which  we  have 
alluded,  but  the  colonies  were  now  restive  under  the  denial  of  their 
rights  and  the  weight  of  the  burdens  imposed  upon  them  by  the  English 
Government.  The  dark  clouds  portending  became  thicker  and  heavier, 
until  they  burst  upon  our  land.  From  1 776-1 783  the  colonists  were  bat- 
tling with  a  mighty  foe  for  the  acquisition  of  that  national  independence 
they  believed  God  willed  them  to  enjoy. 

During  the  seven  years  of  the  war,  although  no  battle  was  fought  in 
Fishkill,  yet  the  town  is  memorable  in  the  history  of  the  times.  In  this 
village  was  the  chief  repository  for  the  military  and  hospital  stores  of  the 
northern  army.  The  Convention  appointed  to  prepare  a  Constitution  for 
the  state,  having  been  driven  from  New  York  to  Harlem,  and  thence  to 
this  place,  sat  in  session  in  1776  in  the  Episcopal  church  in  this  village  ; 
and  though  they  subsequently  transferred  their  sessions  to  and  completed 
their  work  in  Kingston,  it  was  printed  in  this  place.  Says  the  Hon. 
Gulian  C.  Verplank  :  "  This  Constitution  was  the  first  as  well  as  the  most 
important  book  printed  in  this  state."  The  people  could  find  but  one 
press  in  their  domain  with  which  to  print  the  work  of  their  representa- 
tives. It  was  done  at  Fishkill  by  Samuel  Loudon,  who  had  been  a  whig 
editor  and  printer  in  the  city  of  New  York,  and  who  had  retired  with  his 
press  to  Fishkill. 

During  the  war  a  newspaper  was  published  in  this  village,  and  accord- 
ing to  a  statement  in  \ht  Historical  Documents,  Vol.  III.,  page  1195. 
while  the  revolutionary  army  was  at  Newburgh  the  printing  was  done  by 
a  press  at  Fishkill,  as  appears  by  the  printed  orders  of  the  army  of  that 
day. 

And  here  it  was  that  the  sword  of  Washington,  now  in  the  Patent 
Office  at  the  seat  of  government,  was  made,  still  having  on  it  the  m.aker's 
name:  J.  Baily,  Fishkill.  Mr.  Baily  was  a  member  of  this  church,  and 
active  in  the  erection  of  the  edifice  we  now  occupy. 

During  the  war  a  portion  of  the  army  was  quartered  in  this  place, 
their  barracks  extending  from  the  Van  Wyck  place  to  the  foot  of  the 
mountain. 

I'he  officers'  headquarters  were  in  the  Isaac  Van  Wyck  place,  well 
known  to  the  readers  of  Cooper's  Spy  as  the  Wharton  House.  Near  that 
residence,  by  the  large  black-walnut  trees  south  of  the  road  at  the  foot 
of  the  mountain,  was  the  burial-place  of  the  soldiers.  The  Episcopal 
church  was  used  as  a  hospital.  In  the  Reformed  Dutch  church  the  tory 
and  other  prisoners  were  confined,  and  from  a  window  in  this  building 
Enoch  Crosby,  arrested  and  imprisoned  as  a  spy,  effected  his  escape. 

General  Lafayette  had  his  quarters  in  what  is  now  the  residence  of 


1890.]    Historical   Sketch    of  Fishkill  and  its   Ancient   Church.  cr 

Matthew  V.  B.  Brinkerhoff,  Esq.,  and  while  there  had  an  illness  of  six 
weeks'  duration.      General  Washington  was  frequently  by  his  side. 

During  the  progress  of  the  war  the  ladies  of  the  town  were  so  very 
diligent  in  making  and  preparing  linen  and  clothing  for  the  army,  that 
whenever  there  was  a  pressure  for  more  the  State  Committee  would  say 
that  it  was  only  necessary  for  them  to  make  their  wants  known  to  the 
ladies  of  Fishkill. 

To  return  to  the  ministry  of  this  church.  Mr.  Rysdyck  is  described 
as  of  most  commanding  personal'  appearance,  in  his  manners  an  old- 
timed  gentleman. 

According  to  the  custom  of  those  days  he  usually  rode  on  horseback, 
wearing  a  cocked  hat  and  white,  flowing  wig,  with  the  customary  clerical 
dress.  On  Sabbaths  he  rode  up  to  the  church  door,  where  the  sexton 
stood  waiting  to  take  his  horse  ;  dismounting,  he  would  pass  into  the 
church,  and,  standing  on  the  lowest  step  of  the  staircase,  would  bury  his 
face  in  his  hat  and  engage  in  silent  prayer,  as  was  the  custom  of  Dutch 
dominies  in  those  days. 

Mr.  Rysdyck  was  a  man  of  great  and  diversified  attainments.  He 
was  considered  the  most  learned  theologian  of  the  Reformed  Dutch 
Church.  He  wrote  both  in  Greek  and  Latin  with  as  much  facility  as  in 
his  native  Dutch.  In  the  University  of  Groningen  he  was  made  as  famil- 
iar with  the  Hebrew  as  with  his  mother-tongue,  and,  great  as  were  his  at- 
tainments in  the  sacred  and  profane  classics,  his  theological  reading  and 
attainments  were  no  less  extensive  and  accurate.  His  sermons  were 
specimens  of  the  analytical  form  of  discussion.  The  body  of  these  ser- 
mons were  judicious  and  masterly  dissertations,  and  the  applications  were 
practical  and  full  of  aff"ectionate  consolations,  warnings  and  reprovings. 

At  an  early  period  of  his  ministry  Mr.  Rysdyck  opened  an  academy 
which  soon  became  important,  and  even  famous.  In  1772  the  Synod  of 
the  Reformed  Dutch  Church,  after  expressing  regret  that  it  was  necessary 
to  postpone  action  with  regard  to  the  professorate,  passed  this  resolution  : 
"If  in  the  interim  any  students  should  be  desirous  of  being  prepared  for 
the  holy  ministry,  they  shall  resort  to  one  of  the  following  places,  as  best 
calculated  to  secure  a  learned  education,  viz.  :  New  York,  Albany,  Fish- 
kill, Raritan,  Hackensack." 

Among  many  men  of  note  who  received  their  education  under  Mr. 
Rysdyck,  I  mention  Rev.  John  H.  Livingston,  D.  D.,  and  Rev.  Elias  Van 
Benschoten. 

At  the  session  of  the  General  Synod  in  1772,  Poughkeepsie  withdrew 
from  the  associated  churches  and  became  independent,  and  Mr.  Rys- 
dyck presented  to  the  Synod  for  their  approval  a  call  made  unto  him  by 
the  church  of  Fishkill,  in  addition  to  his  former  call,  to  preach  to  them 
alternately  in  the  Dutch  and  English  languages,  for  hitherto  he  had  only 
preached  in  Dutch. 

Mr.  Rysdyck  died  Nov.  20,  1790,  and  was  buried  under  the  pulpit 
of  the  church  at  New  Hackensack. 

At  the  date  of  my  settlement  here,  in  1836,  very  many  remained  (and 
in  fact  for  several  years  later)  who  well  remembered  this  learned  and  elo- 
quent man. 

The  Rev.  Isaac  Blauvelt  filled  an  interim  of  a  few  years. 

On  the  23d  of  November,  1791,  the  Rev.  Nicholas  Van  Vranken  was 
ordained  pastor  of  the  united  churches  of  Fishkill,  Hopewell  and  New 


c6  Historical   Sketch    of  Fishkill  and  its    Ancient   Church.    [Aprii, 

Hackensack.  Mr.  Van  Vranken  was  born  in  Schenectady,  May  24,  1762. 
After  he  had  finished  his  own  studies  he  established  and  taught  an 
academy  in  his  native  city.  This  academy  was  the  germ  of  Union  Col- 
lege. Mr,  Van  Vranken  was  a  man  of  fine  attainments,  both  literary  and 
theological  ;  a  fervent  and  eloquent  speaker,  a  devoted  servant  of  God. 
During  his  pastorate  preaching  in  the  Dutch  language  was  entirely 
relinquished  by  the  associated  churches  ;  but  so  great  were  Mr.  Van 
Vranken's  linguistic  abilities  and  tact,  that  when,  according  to  the  old 
Dutch  custom,  the  communicants  stood  around  the  pulpit  to  receive  the 
sacred  elements  from  the  hands  of  their  pastor — who,  as  he  administered, 
would  address  words  to  each  communicant  as  their  circumstances  seemed 
to  require — Mr.  Van  Vranken's  quick  eye  in  a  moment  took  in  indi- 
vidual peculiarities,  addressing  himself  with  great  rapidity  in  Dutch  or 
English,  as  it  was  the  language  best  understood  of  the  one  he  addressed. 
We  have  not  time  here  to  repeat  the  many  interesting  reminiscences  of 
this  beloved  and  admired  clergyman.  One  person  remarked  to  him  : 
"Dominie,  I  hear  that  a  great  woe  has  been  pronounced  against  you  ; 
a  woe  upon  the  very  highest  authority.  It  is  from  the  Bible  :  '  Woe  unto 
the  man  of  whom  all  speak  well.'" 

This  anecdote  may  serve  to  show  the  estimation  in  which  he  was  held. 
Mr.  Van  Vranken  died,  after  a  brief  but  violent  illness,  May   20,  1804, 
in  the  forty-second  year  of  his   age.     He  was  buried   in  the  graveyard 
of  the  church,  and  this  is  the  inscription  on  his  stone  : 

"  Glory  to  God  alone.  Sacred  to  the  memory  of  the  Reverend  Nicho- 
las Van  Vranken,  Minister  of  Jehovah  Jesus,  and  Pastor  of  the  Dutch 
Reformed  Congregations  of  Fishkill,  Hopewell,  and  New-Hackensack. 
This  excellent  man  lived  tenderly  beloved,  and  died  deeply-lamented  by 
the  people  of  his  charge. 

"He  was  born  May  24,  1762,  and  departed  in  peace  May  20th,  1804, 
aged  41  years,  11  mos.  and  27  days. 

"The  Lord  gave — And  the  Lord  hath  taken  away.  Blessed  be  the 
name  of  the  Lord." 

In  October,  1 805,  the  Classis  of  Poughkeepsie  dissolved  the  connection 
between  Fishkill,  Hopewell  and  New  Hackensack,  making  Fishkill  a 
separate  charge. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Cornelius  D.  Westbrook  was  the  next  pastor,  ordained 
in  1805.  He  was  the  son  of  General  Westbrook,  an  officer  in  the  revolu- 
tion ;  a  tutor  in  Union  College.  He  was  ordained  in  Fishkill  March 
9,  1806. 

Dr.  Westbrook  was  a  man  of  learning  and  abilitv,  most  genial  man- 
ners, and  a  disposition  of  such  uncommon  benevolence  as  to  cause  him 
to  be  beloved  by  all. 

In  July,  1830,  he  resigned  his  pastoral  charge  to  edit  the  Christian  In- 
telligencer, the  first  number  of  which  was  issued  at  the  commencement  of 
the  next  month.  At  the  same  time  he  was  principal  of  a  large  school 
in  Harlem.  In  1833  he  was  appointed  rector  of  the  grammar  school  in 
New  Brunswick,  N.  J.,  transferred  his  residence  to  that  city,  remain- 
ing there  until  1837,  when  he  resumed  the  active  duties  of  the  min- 
istry, taking  the  pastoral  care  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  church  at  Peek- 
skill.  In  1850  he  resigned  his  pastoral  charge  and  removed  to  Kingston, 
at  which  place  he  died  in  1858. 


1890.]    Historical   Sketch    of  Fishkill  and  its    Ancient   Church. 


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Rev.  George  H.  Fisher,  D.  D. ,  so  long  settled  in  the  Reformed  Dutch 
church  of  Broome  Street,  New  York,  succeeded  Dr.  Westbrook  and  was 
the  incumbent  from  1830-1835. 

In  August,  1836,  the  writer  of  this  article  became  pastor  of  this  church; 
was  installed  November  8th  of  that  same  year,  remaining  pastor  until 
May,  1870,  a  period  of  nearly  34  years. 

As  we  have  before  noticed,  the  churches  of  Poughkeepsie  and  Fishkill 
were  organized  in  1716  ;  and  they  were  the  only  churches  of  any  re- 
ligious denomination  whatever  in  Dutchess  County  until  1747. 

Now,  to  look  at  the  immense  numbers  of  flourishing  churches  of 
various  denominations  in  our  county  and  in  this  town  :  there  are  seven 
large,  wealthy  and  self-sustaining  Reformed  Dutch  churches,  formed  from 
these  two  old  mother  churches  ;  and  they  are  strong,  healthy  and 
vigorous  in  this  their  great  age. 

I  will  close  this  paper  by  some  extracts  from  the  records  of  the 
church. 

In  the  year  1784  the  church  was  much  altered  ;  in  fact  nearly  re- 
built, although  a  portion  of  the  old  church  yet  remains. 

October  27,  1790.     The  pews  of  the  church  were  offered  for  sale. 

June  25,  1793.  The  tall  spire  of  the  church  was  erected,  one  hun- 
dred and  twenty-five  feet  high.  In  1854  this  spire  was  examined  with 
regard  to  its  safety.  It  was  upheld  by  solid  beams  from  the  ground 
upward,  untouched  by  time,  sufficient  in  quantity  to  build  a  modern 
church. 

December  25,  1795.  The  gilded  spindle-ball  and  Dutch  rooster 
were  placed  on  the  top  of  the  steeple. 

December,  1790.  Mr.  Powers,  of  Poughkeepsie,  wrote  to  the  church 
of  Fishkill  that  books  were  rare  and  difficult  to  obtain,  and  requesting 
from  the  church  of  Fishkill  the  loan  of  a  number  of  catechisms,  Heidel- 
burg,  in  Dutch.  The  Consistory  ordered  the  loan  of  thirteen  catechisms  to 
be  made  to  the  church  at  Poughkeepsie.  At  this  same  meeting  of  Con- 
sistory two  resolutions  were  passed  which  might  excite  some  surprise  at 
the  present  day  : 

Resolution  Fi?-st. — That  a  petition  be  drawn  and  signed  by  this  Consistory,  pray- 
ing leave  from  that  iionorable  body,  the  Legislature  of  this  state,  to  make  a  lottery 
for  the  purpose  of  raising  the  sum  of  ^1,000  for  the  use  of  this  corporation. 

Kesohttion  Second.- — That  the  treasurer  of  this  Corporation  shall,  out  of  moneys  in 
his  hand  belonging  to  this  Corporation,  purchase  a  ticket  in  the  New  York  lottery. 

The  price  of  the  ticket,  ^2,  and  the  number,  2,671,  were  duly  re- 
corded. 

The  church  owns  a  copy  of  the  bond  given  in  the  year  1736  by 
Abraham  Brinkerhoff  to  the  representatives  of  the  church,  which  proves 
that  he  had,  with  money  advanced  by  the  congregation,  made  heavy  pur- 
chases of  property  for  the  church  and  parsonage.  The  deed  (in  the  name 
of  said  Abraham  Brinkerhoff")  he  bound  himself,  under  penalty  of  ;^8oo, 
current  money  of  the  Province  of  New  York,  to  convey  to  the  church  as 
soon  as  its  incorporation  should  be  obtained. 

While  this  ancient  church  has  been  made  comfortable  bv  the  appliance 
of  modern  improvements,  its  antique  character  has  been  carefully  preserved  ; 
it  remains  as  our  fathers  left  it. 

Abraham  Brinkerhoff  and  Pieter  Du  Boys  (or  Peter  Dubois)  were  both 
among  the  founders  of  this  church,  and  their  descendant,  Abram  Dubois, 


58  The   Heermans   Family   of  Ulster    Co.,  N.   Y.  rApril, 

M.D..  of  New  York,  with  pious  reverence  has  had  their  tombstones  (in 
the  Dutch  language)  removed  from  the  church-yard,  properly  cleaned, 
and,  with  great  taste,  set  in  handsome  tablets  on  the  walls  of  this  ancient 
church,  which  their  piety  founded  and  their  liberality  endowed.     This  is 

their  true  and  best  monument — from   generation  to  generation of  the 

church  on  earth,  and  through  an  eternity  of  bliss  in  heaven,  as  they  meet 
the  large  numbers  who,  gathered  from  the  fold  of  this  church  on  earth, 
have  joined  the  Great  Assembly  and  Church  of  God  in  Heaven. 

Note. — Since  the  removal  of  Dr.  Kip  the  changes  in  the  pastorate  of  this 
church  have  been  frequent.  The  account  of  his  subsequent  career,  together  with  a 
full  sketch  of  his  life,  will  be  found  in  the  Record  for  January,  1889. 


EARLY  SETTLERS  OF  ULSTER  CO.,  N.  Y.     THE  HEERMANS 

FAMILY. 


By  Gerrit  H.  Van  Wagenen. 


Jan  Focken,  called  in  the  tax-lists  of  Kingston,  171 1,  Jan  Focken 
Heermans,  and  in  the  lists  of  the  following  year,  Jan  Heermans,  came 
from  Riiynen,  in  the  province  of  Dreuthe,  in  Holland.  He  married,  in 
the  Dutch  church,  New  York,  Aug.  23,  1676,  Engeltje  Breestede  (New 
York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Record,  Vol.  VH.,  p.  28),  bp.  in 
New  York,  Nov.  29,  1654,  daughter  of  Jan  Jansen  Breestede  and  Marritje 
Andries.     (Record,  Vol.  VH.,  p.  117.) 

At  the  baptisms  of  all  his  children,  except  the  last  one  in  1696,  his 
name  appears  as  Jan  Focken.  After  1696  he  calls  himself  Jan  Heer- 
mans, and  his  children  all  took  the  name  of  Heermans.  He  married,  2"^ 
about  1692,  Elizabeth  Blanshan,  daughter  of  Matthew  Blanshan  and 
widow  of  Pieier  Cornells  Low.      (Riker's  ZTar/^z?/,  p.  203.) 

The  will  of  "Jan  Heermans,  Van  Kingston,"  dated  Oct.  20,  1724, 
and  recorded  in  New  York  March  i,  1725,  in  liber  10,  p.  39  of  Wills, 
mentions  his  only  daughter  Margarieta,  his  sons,  Andries  and  Hendricus, 
and  the  three  children  of  his  deceased  son,  Jan,  viz.:  Jacob,  Jan  and  En- 
geltje, wife  of  Cornelius  Elmendorf.     His  children  were  : 

2.  Jan,  bp.  in  N.  Y.,  Nov.  3,  1677  ;  sponsors,  Egbert  Focken   and 

Marritje  Jans ;  married,  about  1697,  Annatje,  daughter  of  Jacob 
Aartsen  (Van  Wagenen)  and  Sara  Pels,  born  at  Kingston,  Sept. 
10,  1678.     Jan  Heermans  was  deceased  in  1724. 

3.  FocKE,  bp.  at  Kingston,  July  20,  1679  ;  sponsors,  Joachim  Hen- 

dricks and  Barbara  Andries. 

4.  Hendrick,    bp.   in    N.    Y.,    Sept.   3,    1681  ;    sponsors,    Wouter 

Breestede  and  Grietje  Van  Bossem  ;  he  married,  about  1708, 
Annatie,  daughter  of  Gerrit  Aartsen  (Van  Wagenen)  and  Clara 
Pels,  bp.  at  Kingston,  Sept.  7,  1684.  His  will  is  dated  March 
23,  1750.      (E.  M.  ^m\\ki%  History  of  Rhinebeck.) 

5.  Grietje.    bp.  at  Kingston,  April  6,  1683  ;  sponsors,  Lucas  An- 

dries Hendricks  and  Jannetje  Breestede. 

6.  .Andries,  bp.  at  Kingston,  April  12,  1685  ;  sponsors,  Wessel  Ten 


1890.]  The   Heermans   Family   of  Ulster    Co.,  N.    F. 


59 


Broeck  and  Elsje  Breestede  ;  married  Neeltje,  daughter  of  Gerrit 
Aartsen  (Van  VVagenen)  and  Clara  Pels,  bp.  at  Kingston,  April 
17,  1692.  The  will  of  "Andreas  Heermans, "  of  Rhinebeck, 
dated  March  4,  1766,  was  recorded  in  N.  Y,  April  19,  1769,  in 
liber  27,  p.  15  of  Wills  ;  he  gives  to  Jan  Heermans,  junior, 
eldest  son  of  his  deceased  eldest  son,  Jan,  twenty  shillings  for 
his  birthright.  To  the  five  children  of  his  deceased  son,  Jan, 
viz.:  Jan,  Abraham,  Goze,  Jacob  and  Jacomynte,  he  gives  land 
on  "Wappaensche 'Creek,"  in  Dutchess  Co.  He  mentions  his 
sons,  Jacob,  Gerrit,  Petrus,  Hendricus,  Wilhelmus,  Nicolas 
and  Philip,  and  his  daughters,  Clara  and  Catharina,  and  his 
grandson,  Philip,  son  of  his  daughter,  Jannetje,  deceased. 
The  witnesses  were  Cornelius  and  Aarent  Feynhout,  and  Chris- 
tian Schultz. 

7.  Phillipus,    bp.    at    Kingston,   Jan.     i,     1687;    sponsors,    Philip 

Schuyler  and  Gertrude  Breestede. 

8.  PiETER,  bp.   at   Kingston,    Dec.  30,    1688  ;    sponsors,  Jacob  and 

Marritje  Rutse. 

Children  o/"Jan  Heermans  a?id  his  second  wife,  Elizabeth  Blanshan. 

9.  Wilhelmus,  bp.  in  N,  Y.,  May  7,  1693  ;  sponsors,  Andries  Bree- 

stede and  Annatje  Breestede. 

10.  Grietje,  bp.  at  Kingston,  Aug.  30,  1696  ;  sponsors,  Tymen  and 

Grietje  Van  Bossem  ;  married  at  Kingston,  April  21,  1727, 
Jan  Maklien,  bp.  at  Kingston,  March  7,  1703,  son  of  Jan 
Maklien  and  Marritje  De  Wit. 

Children  o/"  Jan  Heermans  (2)  arid  A?inatje  Van  JVagenen. 

11.  Engeltje,  bp.  at  Kingston,  Sept.    11,  1698;    sponsors,  Jan   and 

Elizabeth  Heermans;  died  Sept.  22,  1788  {Ch.  Burial  Record)  / 
married,  at  Kingston,  Dec.  16,  1720,  Cornells,  son  of  Conrad 
Elmendorf  and  Arriantje  Gerritse  (Vanden  Berg).  (New  York 
Genealogical  and  Biographical  Record,  Vol.  XX.,  p,  104.) 

12.  Jacob,   bp.  at  Kingston,   Feb.   2,    1701;  sponsors,   Jacob  Aartse 

and  Sara  Pels;  married,  at  Kingston,  April  28,  1725,  Mariije, 
daughter  of  Jan  Crispell  and  Geertje  Roosa,  bp.  at  Kingston, 
March  15,  1702  ;  she  married,  2°'',  Jan.  24,  1730,  Dirck,  son  of 
Dirck  Van  Vliet  and  Annalja  Andriesse. 

13.  Jan,  bp.  at  Kingston,  Aug.  8,  1703;  sponsors,  Hendrick  Heer- 

mans and  Rebecca  Van  Wagenen  ;  married,  at  Kingston,  April 
24,  1 73 1,  Jacomyntje,  daughter  of  Adam  Swart  and  Metje  Van 
Slyck,  bp.  at  Kingston,  March  23,  1701. 

Children  of  Hendricus  Heermans  (4)  and  Annatje  Van  Wagenen. 

14.  Engeltje,    bp.    at    Kingston,    Oct.    10,    1710;    sponsors,     Jan 

Heermans  and  Elizabeth  Blanshan.  Not  mentioned  in  her 
father's  will. 

15.  Hendricus,  bp.  at  Kingston,  June  7,    1713  ;  sponsors,  Andries 

Heermans  and  Neeltje  Van  Wagenen,  his  wife  ;  married,  at 
Rhinebeck,  Oct.  16,   1736,  Sara,  daughter  of  Evert  Van  Wag- 


5o  The   Heerrnans   Family   of  Ulster   Co.,   N.   Y.  [April, 

enen  and  Marytje  Van  Heyningen,  bp.  at  Kingston,  Jan.  8, 
17 1 6. 

16.  Margriet,   bp.   at   Kingston,   Dec.   25,    1715  ;    sponsors,   Barent 

Von  Wagenen  and  Lea  Schepmoes  ;  married,  at  Rliinebeck, 
Sept.  29,  1739,  jacobus,  son  of  Arent  Ostrander  and  Gertrude 
Van  Bloemendaal,  bp.  at  Kingston,  Nov.  18,  1716. 

17.  Phillipus,  bp.  at  Kingston,  March   16,    1718  ;  sponsors,  Evert 

Van  Wngenen  and  Marytje  Van  Heyningen  ;  married,  at  Riiine- 
beck,  Nov.  29,  1740,  Clara,  daughter  of  Andries  Heermans 
and  Neeltje  Van  Wagenen. 

18.  WiLHELMUs,   bp.  at  Kingston,    May    i,    1720;  sponsors,   Simon 

Van  Wagenen  and  Margriet  Heermans  ;  married,  at  Rhine- 
beck,  Oct.  5.  1746,  Janneke,  daughter  of  Andries  Heermans 
and  Neeltje  Van  Wagenen. 

19.  Jannetje,    bp.    at   Kingston,    Jan.    24,    1725  ;    sponsors,    Gosen 

Van  Wagenen  and  Gertrude  Swart,  his  wife  ;  married,  at  Rhine- 
beck,  Nov.  29,  1744,  Cornelius,  son  of  Arent  Ostrander  and 
Gertrude  Maasen  (Van  Bloemendaal),  bp.  at  Kingston,  April 
16,  1721. 

20.  Andries,  bp.  at  Kingston,  Dec.  i,  1728  ;  sponsor,  Gerrit  Barents 

Van  Wagenen  ;  married,  at  Rhinebeck,  Nov.  23,  1750,  Rachel, 
daughter  of  Johannes  Van  Etten  and  Rebecca  Ostrander,  bp. 
at  Kingston,  Sept.  30,  1728. 

Children  0/  Andries  Heermans  (6)  ayid  Neeltje  Van  Wagenen. 

21.  Jan,   bp.   at  Kingston,  Aug.  19,    171 1;  sponsors,  Jan  Heermans 

and  Grietje  Van  Bossen  ;  probably  married  Jannetje  Newkirk, 
bp.  at  Kingston,  Oct.  12,  171 2,  daughter  of  Gerret  Newkirk 
and  Grietje  Ten  Eyck. 

22.  Engei.tje,   bp.  at  Kingston,   May  9,  1714;  sponsors,    Hendrick 

Heermans  and  Annatje  Van  Wagenen.  Not  mentioned  in  her 
father's  will. 

23.  Jacob,  bp.  at  Kingston,   Sept.  23.    1716  ;  sponsors,  Barent  Van 

Benthuysen  and  Jannetje  Van  Wagenen,  his  wife  ;  married,  at 
Rhinebeck,  Dec.  30,  1747,  Cattarina  Vosburg.  The  will  of 
"Jacob  Heremanse,  of  Red  Hook,  Dutchess  Co.,  N.  Y.,"  is  dated 
March  9,  1784,  and  recorded  in  N.  Y.,  Sept.  26,  1785.  He  men- 
tions his  eldest  son,  Andrew,  and  his  other  sons,  John,  Jacob 
and  Martin  ;  his  daughters,  Cornelia,  wife  of  David  Van  Ness, 
Neeltje,  wife  of  Peter  Cantine,  Annetje,  wife  of  Isaac  Stouten- 
burgh,  Jr.,  and  Dorothea. 

24.  Annetje,   bp.  at  Kingston,   Jan.  i,  1718;  sponsors,  Barent  Van 

Benthuysen  and  Jannetje  Van  Wagenen,  his  wife.  She  is  not 
mentioned  in  her  father's  will,  but  appears  to  have  married  at 
Rhinebeck,  July  26,   1741,  Barent  Holls,  of  Kinderhook. 

25.  Clara,  bp.  at  Kingston,  March  22,   1719  ;  sponsors,  Barent  Van 

Wagenen  and  Lea  Schepmoes  ;  married,  at  Kingston,  Nov.  29, 
1740,  Philippus,  son  of  Hendricus  Heermans  and  Annatje  Van 
Wagenen. 

26.  Gerr't,   bp.   at  Kingston,   Nov.    18,  1722  ;  sponsors.  Evert  Van 

Wagenen  and  Marytje  Van  Heyningen,  his  wife  ;  married,   at 


1890.]  The   Schuremans,  of  New  Rochelle.  61 

Rhinebeck,  Nov.  4,  1748,  Gerritje  Schermerhorn,  daughter  of 
Ryer  Schermerhorn  and  Geertje  Ten  Eyck,  bp.  at  Albany, 
April  2,  1727. 

27.  Jannekk,   bp.  at  Kingston,  Jan.  8,  1721  ;  sponsors,  Simon  Van 

Wagenen  and  Marytje  Schepmoes.  his  wife  ;  married,  at  Rhine- 
beck,  Oct.  5,  1746,  Wilhelmus  Heermans,  son  of  Hendricus 
Heermans  and  Annatje  Van  Wagenen. 

28.  Petrus,   bp.   at  Kingston,    Sept.   6,    1724;   sponsors,  Gerrit  Van 

Wagenen  and  Theuntje  Vandenberg,  his  wife  ;  married,  at 
Rhinebeck,  May.  i,  1747,  Elizabeth  Knickerbocker;  probably 
married.  2°'*,  at  Rhinebeck,  Nov.  11,  1752,  Maria,  daughter  of 
Simon  Van  Wagenen  and  Maria  Schepmoes,  bp.  at  Kingston, 
Feb.  20,  1732. 

29.  Hendricus,  bp.  at  Kingston,  May  19,  1726;  sponsors,  GosenVan 

Wagenen  and  Gertrude  Swart,  his  wife  ;  married,  May  26, 
1 72 1,  by  license,  Annetje  Stoutenburgh. 

30.  Catrina,  bp.  at  Kingston,  April  14,  1728;  sponsors,  Gerrit  and 

Clara  Van  Benthuysen  ;  married,  at  Rhinebeck,  June  25,  1757, 
John  Baptist  Kip,  son  of  Roelof  Kip  and  Sara  Drummond,  bp. 
at  Kingston,  Feb.  28,  1725.     (Rfxord,  Vol.  XII.,  p.  30.) 

31.  Wilhelmus,   bp.  at  Kingston,  Feb.  i,  1730  ;  sponsors,  Cornelius 

Elmendorf  and  Engeltje  Heermans,  his  wife  ;  married,  at 
Rhinebeck,  Nov.  10,  1756,  Neeltje  Hoogland,  of  Oyster  Bay, 
Long  Island. 
3-2.  Nicholas,  bp.  at  Kingston,  March  5,  1732  ;  sponsors,  Aart 
Everts  and  Claartje  Everts  Van  Wagenen  ;  married,  at  Rhine- 
beck, April  18,  1 76 1,  Jenneke,  daughter  of  Jacob  Kip  and 
Clara  Van  Wagenen,  bp.  at  Rhinebeck,  Jan.  13,  174 1. 

33.  Philippus,   bp.  at  Rhinebeck,  March    17,  1734  ;  sponsors,  Hen- 

drick  and  Margaret  Heermans  ;  married,  at  Rhinebeck,  Oct. 
13,  1759,  Jannetje  Schermerhorn. 

34.  Abraham,  bp.  at  Rhinebeck,  Aug.  7,   1737;  sponsors,  Abraham 

Van  Benthuysen  and  Anna  Heermans.  Not  mentioned  in  his 
father's  will. 


THE  SCHUREMANS,  OF  NEW  ROCHELLE. 


By  Richard  Wynkoop,   of  Brooklyn,   N.  Y. 


.  These  Schuremans  are  descendants  of  Frederick  Schureman  and  his 
wife,  Mary ,  who  settled  at  New  Rochelle  near  the  end  of  the  seven- 
teenth century,  or  the  beginning  of  the  eighteenth.  They  are,  so  far  as 
this  country  is  concerned,  a  line  independent  of  that  of  New  Brunswick, 
New  Jersey,  who  are  descended  from  Jacobus  Schuurman  and  Antje  Ter- 
hune.  The  name  was,  no  doubt,  spelled  the  same  way  originally,  although 
in  the  N.  R.  line  it  appears  in  print  as  Scurman.  Perhaps  they  had  lost 
the  correct  spelling  through  their  affiliation,  by  marriage  and  domestica- 
tion, with  the  French  Huguenots.  But  the  descendants  of  each  line  now 
spell  the  name  Schureman. 


62  The   Schuremans,  of  New  Rochelle.  -  [April, 

There  is  a  long  break  in  the  chain  of  the  N.  R.  Schuremans,  and  the 
old  records  of  the  French  church  at  New  Rochelle,  which  ought  to  give 
light,  are  lost  ;  so  that  the  only  source  of  information  remaining  would 
be  old  family  records,  in  Bibles,  or  elsewhere.  To  evoke  information 
from  such  sources  in  aid  of  this  family,  and  of  Huguenot  families  also, 
is  the  main  purpose  of  this  sketch. 

Frederick  Scurman,  aged  80,  and  Mary  Scurman,  aged  70,  assumed  to 
be  his  wife,  appear  as  settled  at  New  Rochelle,  in  a  list  of  inhabitants, 
December  9,  1710.  Also  Frederick  Scurman,  aged  43,  and  Judy  Scur- 
man, aged  '},'],  probably  his  wife  ;  and  Jacob  Scurman,  aged  40,  and  Altia 
Scurman,  aged  38,  probably  his  wife.  [Doc.  Hist.  N.  Y.,  Vol.  III.,  pp. 
946,  947-) 

But  Frederick  Schorman,  no  doubt  the  son,  and  Jacob  Scurman,_  the 
other  son.  appear  as  freeholders  at  New  Rochelle  in  1708,  two  years 
earlier.  [Hist,  of  the  Towns  of  Westchester  Co.,  Boston,  1881,  Vol.  I.,  p. 
599.)  Frederick  Scurman  was  one  of  the  freeholders  who  made  a  grant 
of  land,  April  17,  1724,  for  the  erection  of  a  mill.      (Same.) 

To  a  petition,  dated  June  i,  1743,  addressed  to  the  Episcopal  Propaga- 

his 

tion  Society,  for  a  return  of  their  minister,  is  affixed  Frederick  X  Schur- 
man.      (Same,  p.  643.)  ^^^^k. 

In  the  list  of  1710,  following  the  names  of  Frederick  Scurman  and 
Mary  Scurman,  is  that  of  Marget  Scurman,  aged  50  ;  she  was  probably 
their  daughter.  They  may  also  have  been  parents  of  the  young  Schiiurman 
women,  named  below,  whose  records  are  in  New  York  City  ;  but  it  is  pos- 
sible that  those  women  were  of  an  independent  New  York  City  line. 

In  the  same  New  Rochelle  list,  following  the  names  of  "  ffrederick  " 
Scurman  and  Judy  Scurman,  are  the  names  of  children  :  Marget  Scurman, 
aged  18  ;  Susanna  Scurman,  aged  15  ;  Elizabeth  Scurman,  aged  13  ; 
Isabell  Scurman,  aged  4. 

And  in  the  same  list,  following  the  names  of  Jacob  Scurman  and  Altia 
Scurman,  are  children  :  Jacob  Scurman,  Junr.,  aged  11  ;  Miles  Scurman. 
aged  6  ;  Alexander  Scurman,  aged  3  ;  Anne  Scurman,  aged  10  ;  Sarah 
Scurman,  aged  5.  It  is  possible  that  this  Jacob  had  a  second  wife, 
Annetje  Jeffers. 

In  the  records  of  the  Collegiate  Dutch  church,  New  York,  appears  the 
following  :  "  Baptized  June  5,  1713,  Sophia,  child  of  Jacob  Schiiurmans 
and  Annetje  Jeffers;  witnesses,  Denys  Doohage  and  Rachel  his  wife." 
It  appears  elsewhere  that  Schuurmanwas  the  family  name  of  Rachel. 

In  the  same  church  records  appears  the  marriage  of  Jacob  Schurman 
and  Jane  Parker,  March  4,  1736.  It  is  probable  that  he  was  the  ''Jacob, 
Junr.,"  of  the  list  of  1710,  and  the  person,  with  Jane  Pareseite  for  wife, 
whose  child,  Jane,  was  born  Jan.  13,  1737,  at  New  Rochelle,  d.  Dec.  4, 
18 13,  at  Scarsdale,  wife  of  John  Bonnet,  b.  April  9,  1738,  at  New  Rochelle, 
d.  Aug.  21,  1795,  at  the  same  place,  (Record  kept  in  a  Schureman- 
Huguenot  family.) 

There  is  a  tradition  that  one  (or  more)  of  the  New  Rochelle  Schure- 
mans adhered  to  the  Crown,  and  w^as  obliged  to  leave  the  country.  The 
descendants  are  living  at  St.  John,  N.  B.  At  a  meeting  held  at  White 
Plains,  April  13,  1775,  Jacob  Schurman  joined  with  others  in  a  declara- 
tion of  loyalty  to  the  Crown.  {Hist,  of  Towns  of  West.,  Vol.  II.,  pp.  558, 
559.)     It  may  have  been  this  Jacob. 


1890.]  The   Schuremans,   of  New   Rochelle.  5^ 

There  is  a  tradition  that,  about  the  time  of  the  revolutionary  war, 
there  were  three  brothers  and  three  sisters  living  at  New  Rochelle,  the 
brothers  separately,  and  the  sisters  together,  until  they,  the  sisters,  died, 
unmarried,  aged  about  80  years  each.  One  was  Frederick,  whose  son 
Frederick  was  known  as  "  Old  Master" — perhaps  a  schoolmaster  ;  another 
was  Jacob,  perhaps  the  one  who  was  a  royalist.  The  descendants  of  Fred- 
erick and  of  Jacob  are  not  traceable.  The  third  was  Jeremiah,  born 
about  1725,  shot  in  his  own  doorway  by  the  royalists  in  1777.  He  mar- 
ried Magdalene  de  Veaux,  January,  1761,  b.  Sept.  17,  1728,  d.  June  19, 
1817. 

The  children  of  Jeremiah,  and  Magdalene  were  :  Esther,  b.  Feb.  23, 
1762,  m.  to  Ezekiel  Halsted  ;  children,  Samuel  and  Schureman.  (2) 
Jeremiah,  b.  Sept.  11  or  14,  1763,  d.  Aug.  7,  1823  ;  m.,  1795,  Susannah 
Bailey,  b.  March  4,  1775,  cousin  of  Bishop  Bayley.  He  removed  to 
Pelham,  thence  to  New  York  City,  where  he  kept  the  Westchester  House, 
on  the  Bowery,  and  a  wholesale  and  retail  grocery  store  further  down  town. 
His  widow  m.  Judge  Goetchius,  a  farmer  of  Haverstraw,  N.  Y. ,  by  whom 
she  had  no  children.  (3)  Ann,  b.  Feb.  25,  1765;  m.  Peter  Underbill. 
(4)  John,  b.  March  13,  1766,  d.  April  18,  1853  ;  m.  (i)  Deborah  Cornell, 
no  issue  ;  (2)  Martha  Carpenter,  Nov.  21,  1806.  (5)  Frederick,  b.  April 
17,  1768,  d.  Oct.  23,  1836;  m.  Cornelia  Ann  Bogert,  b.  May  11,  1770,  d. 
Feb.  21,  1819. 

From  this  point  onward  there  is  no  break.  Descendants  of  Jeremiah 
(2)  are  :  Albert  Jeremiah,  Samuel  Oscar,  and  Charles  Augustus,  at  Newark, 
N.  J.,  and  Erastus  Ross,  at  Ballston  Spa,  N.  Y.  John  (4)  has  a  descend- 
ant, John  David,  at  New  Rochelle.  Descendants  of  Frederick  (5)  are  : 
Magdalene,  widow  of  William  Soulice  Hunt,  and  Alphonso  Bogert  Schure- 
man, of  Concord,  Mass. 

But  there  are  other  Schuremans,  certainly  or  possibly  of  the  family, 
who  have  eluded  classification — namely  : 

Jacob  Sheerman  or  Scheerman  (?),  and  Neeltje  Metker  or  Messeker, 
had  children  baptized  at  New  York  City:  Thomas,  Sept.  26,  1733; 
Uzziet,  Sept.  14,  i739- 

Jacob  Schurman  and  Magdalen  Parent.  Marriage  Bond  May  i, 
1760. 

Sarah  Schurman  and  Dennis  Dunscomb,  M.  B.  Jan.  18, '1762. 

Jacob  Shareman  (?)  and  Jeanne  Calls,  child,  Jacob,  bap.  Oct.  7,  1764. 
(Records  Church  Du  Saint  Esprit,  N.  Y. ) 

William  Schuieman  and  Jane  Bonnet,  M.  B.  Nov.  17,  1768. 

John  Shurmur  (?)  and  Catharine  Makdonald,  m.  Sept.  38,  1763. 
(Records  Collegiate  church.) 

Daniel  Schureman  was  admitted  freeman  of  N.  Y.  City  in  1745- 
{Hist.  N.  r.,  Valentine,  p.  389.) 

The  names  of  Conrad  Schawerman,  or  Schuyrman,  and  of  Peter  A. 
and  Johannis  Showerman,  appear  in  Livingston  Manor,  171 1,  1715,  i793- 
{Doc.  Hist.  N.  v.,  Vol.  HI.,  pp.  674,  704,  840.) 

And  there  were  Schuremans  in  New  York  City  earlier  than  at  New 
Rochelle  or  New  Brunswick.  There  seems  to  be  no  chance  of  tracing 
them  into  the  New  Jersey  line,  but  they  may  be  of  that  of  New  Rochelle, 
as  suggested  above. 

Geesje  (Cornelia  ?)  Schuurman  m.  Bruyn  Hage  (elsewhere  called 
Hager),  young  man  from  the  Esopus,  Dec.  10,  1681.      (Records  Coll. 


54  The   Schuremans,   of  New  Rochelle.  [April, 

Dutch  church.)  In  1686  she  was  a  widow,  living  on  King  St.,  N.  Y. 
{Hist.  N.  v.,  Valentine,  p.  340.)  Nov.  7,  1688,  she  m.  Herman  Jans- 
zen,  "widower  of  Brechtie  Elsewaert."  (Coll.  records.)  Children  bap- 
tized: Dirckje,  July  28,  1689;  Jeremias,  Jan.  4,  1691.      (Same.) 

Elizabeth  Schuurmans,  admitted  to  church  membership  Dec.  3,  1681, 
m.,  Dec.  14,  1687,  to  Caspar  Pieterszen  Neby  (Meby),  young  man  of  N.  Y., 
and  living  there  ;  she  is  described  as  from  Santfort ;  children  baptized  : 
Pieter,  Dec.  26,  1689  ;  Frederick,  Sept.  i,  1695  ;  Jeremias,  June  25, 
1699;  Abraham,  Nov.  18,  1705;  father's  name  Mevi,  Mebie,  Maebie. 
(Same.) 

Rachel  Schuurmans,  young  maiden  from  Standfort,  and  Denys  Janszen, 
young  man  from  Vlissingen,  both  living  in  N.  Y.,  had  banns  published 
Oct.  13,  1696,  but  they  were  withdrawn  under  protest  from  Harlem. 
However,  they  were  married  subsequently,  for  "Rachel  Scheurmans,  wife 
of  Denys  Janse,"  was  a  witness,  Jan.  19,  1701,  and  Denys  Doohage  and 
Rachel,  his  wife,  were  witnesses,  June  5,  17 13.  Baptism,  July  21,  1706, 
Christina,  child  of  Denys  Doolhage  and  Rachel  Schuurmans.  (Records 
Coll.  church.) 

There  appears  another  Schureman,  who  has  descendants  in  Pennsyl- 
vania and  Missouri,  whose  parentage  has  eluded  search.  Gerrit  Schuer- 
man  and  Wyntje  (Lavinia  ?)  Van  der  Hoef,  m.,  March  4,  1754,  with 
certificate  from  the  Presbyterian  church,  Feb.  17,  1754.  They  had  chil- 
dren :  Daniel,  bap.  March  12,  1755,  witnesses,  Antony  Ecclay  and  Annatje 
Schuurman,  his  wife;  Lea,  Jan.  26,  1757;  Johannis,  C)ct.  10,  1759. 
(Records  Coll.  church.)  Daniel  seems  to  have  died  young.  Lea  and 
Johannis  "were  left  orphans,  and  were  brought  up  by  their  aunt,  Mrs. 
Steele."  I\Iarriage  Bond,  Catharine  Schureman  and  Stephen  Steel,  was 
given  April  12,   1759. 

Johannis,  above  named,  was  married  three  times  :  (i)  a  Miss  Valentine 
or  Miss  Day;  (2)  Miss  Leonard;  (3)  Catharine  Scott,  d.  about  1824. 
By  his  second  wife  he  had  many  descendants,  who  are  in  Pennsylvania, 
New  Jersey  and  Missouri.  His  third  marriage  was  late  in  life,  and  he  had 
but  one  child,  Rachel  Rebecca,  now  Mrs.  Cyrus  La  Wall,  of  Easton,  Pa. 

The  names  of  Garret  Schureman  and  Willemtje,  his  wife,  occur  in 
the  New  Jersey  records  ;  but  the  reference  baffles  present  recall. 

In  the  list  of  members  of  the  Collegiate  Church,  July  15,  1668,  ap- 
pears the  name  of  Willem  Van  der  Schiiuren.  But  this  may  be  of  a 
different  family. 

A  Schurman  or  Shuerman,  about  the  close  of  the  last  ceutur\',  m. 
Elizabeth,  3*^  child  of  John  Purcell  or  Pearsall.  (Gen.  Record,  Vol. 
XX.,  pp.  78,  79.) 

A  Miss  Rhinelander  was  m.  to Schureman.     [Hisl.   of  Towns 

of  Westchester,  Vol.  II.,  p.  757.) 

Note. — S,  at  the  end  of  the  name,  properly  sz,  of  which  z  is  tlie  initial  of  ze  or 
zoon,  indicates  a  patronymic.  The  Netherlander?  used  a  possessive  case,  writing  it 
without  an  apostrophe,  although  it  seems  to  be  outside  of  the  frame  of  their  grammar; 
and  Sewel,  in  1726,  sanctions  such  usage.  Ze  means  she  or  her  ;  zoon  signifies  son  ; 
Schuurmansz  would  signify  Schuurman's  son,  or  Schuurman's  daughter. 


1890.]     Records   of  the   Re/onned  Dutch    Church    in   Ntw    York.        6  c 


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


(Continued  from  Vol.  XXL,  p.  35,  of  The  Record.) 


19 


22 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Evert  Byvank,  Maria     Johannes. 

Cannon. 
Hendrik  Ryke,  Elisa-     Elisabeth. 

beth  Peek. 
Theunis    V.    Woert,     Theiinis. 
A  g  n  i  e  t  j  e   v.    Dr 
Spiegel. 
Abraham  V.  Deiirsen,     Susanna. 

Annetje  Coek. 
Jacob    K  o  n  i  n  g  h  ,     Maria. 

Maayke  V.  Roen. 
Charles  Crook,     Anthony. 
Anneke  Rutgers. 
26.   Johannes      Hofinan,      Catharina. 
Margariet  Anhiiys. 
5.   Jan    Brestede,    Anna     Helena. 
Maria  Br.  Elsworth, 


[491.] 

Febr  :    5.   Willem      R  o  o  m  e  ,      Frans. 

Anna  Wessels. 
d°.  9.  David    Abeel,    Maria     Gerard  us. 

Duyking. 


Gysbert  Gerrits,  Mar-     Jacob, 
gariet  Lesser. 
12,  Jacobus     Jacobs,     Thomas. 
Maria  Zwaan. 
Gerrit     Martens,     Johannes. 
Pieternel  Ewoiits. 

Hendrik       Anthony,      Fredrik. 
EvaJFisjer. 
16,    Hendricus  Smith,     AaQe. 
Rachel  Sammons. 

21.   Joris     Elsworth,     Jiidith. 
Jannitje  Miserol. 
Jacob     S  a  m  m  o  n  ,     Benjamin. 
Catlyntje  Bensen.        Liena. 

2  lingen. 

23.   John  King,  Maria     Benjamin. 
Pascaiin. 


GETUYGEN. 

Jan  Cannon,  junior,  Maria 
Cannon,  z.  moeder. 

Arie  Koningh,  Rachel 
Peek,  z.  h.  v. 

Pieter  Hansen,  Catha- 
rina Rutgers,  h.  v.  v., 
Thomas  Thong. 

Dirk  Coek,  Susanna 
Bording,  z.  h.  v. 

Jacob  Ten  Eyk,  Neeltje 
Hardenberg,  z.  h.  v. 

Anthony  Rutgers. 

Christiaan  Hessel,  Catha- 
rina Snyder. 

Gerardiis  Hardenbroek, 
Anna  Maria  Breeste, 
j.  d. 


Lawrens  Gerbrants,  Elisa- 
beth Gerbrants. 

Wilhelmiis  Bee  k  man, 
Johanna  Van  Brugh, 
h.  V.  v.,  Gerardus  Diiy- 
king. 

Jacob  Bos,  Tiyntje  Bos. 

Richard  Zwaan,    Hen- 

drikje  Sikkels. 
Petrus    E  w  o  u  t  s  ,    Sara 

Smith,  h.  V.  v.,    Henry 

Filkens. 
Liicas   Braesjer,    Susanna 

Anthony. 
Jacob    Sammons,    Grietje 

Sammons,   h.  v.  v. , 

Elias  Brevoort. 
Gerardus    Stiiyvesant, 

Judith  Bayard,  z.  h.  v. 
Isaac  Van  Hoek,   Neeltje 

Van  Schaik,  Hendricus 

Smith,  Aafje  Sammons, 

jong  d"". 
Daniel     Revo,     Jannetje 

Martyn. 


56        Records   of  the   Reformed  Dutch    Church    in    New  York.      [April, 


A°    1729.  OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

d°.        26.  Willem    Gilbert,     Johanna. 
Maria  V.  Zandt. 

d°.  JanSchouten,     Johannes. 

Agnietje  Bennet. 
Maart    5.  Jan  Langedyk  (obit),     Jan. 

Antje  d.  Graaf. 

d°.  Jan    Man,    Elisabeth     William. 

V.  Deuisen. 
d°.         9.    Fredrik    Sebring,     Elisabeih. 

Maria  Provoost. 


d°.        12.  D'aniel  Lynsen, 
Catlyntje  Egt. 

[492.] 

d°.  Pieter    Bant,   ]n\, 

Cathalyntje  Myer, 


d°.  Jurian   Blaw,    Hester 

Emmet. 
d°.        16.  Johannis      Hendrix, 

Sara  Masier. 
d°.        23.    H  e  n  d  r  i  k  Bogaart, 

Cornelia      D . 

Graaw. 
d°.  Dirk   Dykman,   Wil- 

mina  Bas. 
d°.        26.    Philip   Jong,   Eva 

Thysen. 
d°.        30.   Cornelius  V.  Hoorn, 

Johanna  Liven- 

ston. 
April     3.   Jan     VVillemse,    Jan- 

netje  V.  D.  Water. 
d°.  7.   Johannes  V.  Solinge, 

Antje  Marselis. 
d°.        13.   Johannes      Roorbag, 

Sophia  Graaw. 
d°.  Joseph    Makepees, 

Gerrilje  Viely. 

d°.        16.   William     Hamersly, 

Liicretia     Greven- 

raat. 
d°.  Lawrens      Lammers, 

J  a  n  n  e  t  j  e   Mag- 

daniel. 


Willem. 


Ann. 


Coenradiis. 


GETUYGEN. 

Johannes   Van    Zandt, 

Catharina    Bensen, 

z.  h.  V. 
Jacob    Pardon,    Maria 

Vlieceboom,  z.  h.  v. 
Jeronimus  Remse,   Anna 

Peek,    h.   V.  V. ,    Jan 

Bogaart. 
Jan    Herris,   junior, 

Catharina  Smith,  wed*. 
Abraham  Marschalk, 

Elisabeth  Provoost, 

h.  V.  v.,     Johannes 

Beekman,  ju^ 
Marinus     Egt,      Marritje 

Egt,  ^ved^ 


Petrus. 

Pieter  Bant,   Senior, 

Martinus. 

Marcy   White,   z.  h.  v.. 

2  lingen. 
Leena. 

Martinus    Myer,    Em- 
metje  V.  Dyk,  z.  h.  v. 
Fredrik    Blaw,    Lena, 

z.  h.  V. 

Sara. 

Coenraat  Ten  Eyk,  Elisa- 

beth Masier. 

Gerrit. 

Walter  De  Graaw,  Catha- 

rina De  Graaw. 

Joris. 

Joris     Dykman,     Catlina 

Ydese,  z.  h.  v. 

Petrus. 

Petrus    Snyer,     Christina 

Robert. 

Thysen. 
Robert  Livingston,   Mar- 

gareta  Vetch. 

Fredrik. 

Fredrik   Willemse,   Maria 

W^aldron,  z.  h.  v. 

Petrus. 

Joost  Lynsen. 

Catharina. 

Johannes  Kip,   Catharina 

Catharina. 

Ogelbe. 
Gerrit  Viely,   Liicretia 

B  oga  rd  u  s,  h.  v.   v., 
Abraham  Van  Deursen. 
Abraham  Gouverneur, 
Helena  De  Kay. 


Lawrens      Law, 
Lammers. 


Neeltje 


1S90.]    Records   of  the   Reformed  Dutch    Church    in   New    Fork.         57 


1729. 

20. 


23- 


?o. 


[493-] 
10. 

15- 


25- 


26. 


4. 


d°. 


OUDERS. 

Jacob  Kwackenbos, 
Anna  Elisabeth 
Brouwer. 

Johannes  Symonse, 
Ziister  Corsen. 

Pieter  de  Groof,  Re- 
becca Goederus. 

Liicas  Braasjer,  Ju- 
dith Gaasjeri. 


H  e  n  d  r  i  k     Ciiyler, 

Maria  Jacobs. 
Samuel    Beekman, 

Catharina  Rol. 
Samuel     Shiefield, 

Helena  De  Kay*. 
Petrus    Low,    Rachel 

Rosevelt. 

Fredrik  Blom, 
Apolony  Vreden- 
biirg. 

Coinelis  Van  Hoek, 
Janneke  Bos. 

Joris  Walgraaf,  Mag- 
dalena  Lesjer. 

Jacob  Sherman, 
Neeltje  Masker. 

Abel  Hardenbroek, 
Annetje  Elswort. 

Jacob  Walton,  Maria 
Beekman. 

Elbert  Haring,  Catha- 
rina Lent. 

Abraham  Filkens, 
Pryntje  Tieboiit. 


D°  Henriciis  B  o  e  1 , 
Elisabeth  V. 
Home. 


Johannes  V.  Deurse, 
Geertje  Minthorn. 

Samuel  Harve,  An- 
naatje  Elswort. 

Pieter    6nyer,    Anna 
Catrina  Corsile. 
6 


KINDERS. 

GETUYGEN. 

Klaasje. 

Pieter  Brouwer,  Elisabeth 

Quackenbos,  z.  h.  v. 

Mar^nje. 

Jan    Blom,     Rebecca 

Korsen. 

Marica. 

Egbert    Van    B  u  r  s  ti  m  , 

Marica  de  Groof. 

Elisabeth. 

Jan  Schoute  Braasjer,  Eva 

Fisjer,    h.  v.  v.,    Hen- 

drik  Anthony. 

Helena.  Joseph    Royal,     Anna 

Cruger. 
Annaatje.         Philip    Minthorn,    J'., 

Annaatje  Rol,  z.  h.  v. 
Samuel.  Paiilus    Richard,    Helena 

De  Kay. 
Jannetje.         Johannes   Vander    Heiil, 

Hyla    Sjoert,    h.   v.    v., 

Jan  Rosevelt. 
Mayke.  Jan  Blom,  Maria  Vreden- 

burg. 

Margarietje.  Johannes  Symonse, 
Geesje  Vander  Schuur. 

Susanna.  Gysbert      Gerretse,      Sii- 

sanna  Moor. 

Jacob.  Jacob  Prys,  Eva  Prys. 

Willem.  Willem   Elsworth,  Pieter- 

nel  Romme,  z.  h.  v. 

Catharina.  Richard  Van  Dam,  Cor- 
nelia Beekman,  z.  h.  v. 

Catharina.  Elbert  Livensen,  Catha- 
rina Bogert,  z.  h.  v. 

Elisabeth.        Hendrik     Filkens,    Aafje 

Magdalena.         Tiebout,     Cornells 
Tieboiit,  Catharina 
Filkens. 
Wynant  Van  Zandt,  Cath- 
31     arina  Ten  Eyk. 


Henricus 
geboren 
May 
gestorven  May 

1730- 
Catharina 

Joseph. 


Willem. 


Johannes  V.  Gelder, 
Elisabeth  Man. 

Asuerus  Elsworth,  Sara 
Ver  Dtiyn,  h.  v.  v., 
Teophiliis  Elsworth. 

Willem  Corsilius,  Veron- 
ica Corsilius. 


58        Records   of  the   Reformed  Dutch    Church    in   New    York.      [April, 


A"    1729.  OUDERS. 

d°.  M  i  c  h  i  e  1  Cornelisse, 

Elisabeth  dil  Voor. 

[494.] 

d°.  15.  John  Thomson, 
Anna  Cannon. 

d°.  Pieter  V.  Dyk,   Cor- 

nelia Vark. 

d°.  Stephen     Bayard, 

Alida  Vetch. 

d°.  18.  Asuerus  Elsvvorth, 
Maria  V"  Gelder. 

d°.  22.  Hendriciis  Bresteed, 
Geertje  Wessels. 

d°.  29.  Abraham  Kip,  Maria 
V.d"  Berg. 

d°.  Isaac    Bokee,    Bregje 

Romme. 
d".  Anthony    Leuwis, 

Miljora  Norwood. 
Jdly       2.  Jan    Pieter     Senger, 

Catharina  Maiilin. 
d°.  David    Van    Gelder, 

Elisabeth  v.  Beek. 
d°.  Isaac      H  e  n  j  o  n  , 

Helena  Stymets. 
d°.  9.   AUart  Anthony,   Su- 

sanna La  wrier. 
d°.  Hendricus      Bensin, 

Catharina  V."  Laar. 


d°.  20.  Mattheiis  Clarkson, 
Cornelia  de  Pey- 
ster. 

d".  23.  Andris  Myer,  Geertje 
Wessels. 

d°.  Cornells    F  1  a  m  e  n  , 

Aaltje  Gerbrants. 

d°.  Gerardus  Harden- 

broek,  Hyla 
Koelv. 


[495-] 
July    27. 


d°. 


30. 


Cornells  V  :  Thien- 
hove,  Geertruyd 
Hibon. 

James  Stevens, 
Claasje  Bensing. 


KINDERS.  GETUYGEN. 

Michiel.  Thomas*Cox,  Geertje  Bar- 

heit. 


Maria.  Abraham  Cannon,   Maria 

Cannon,  z,  h.  v. 

Petrus.  Jacobus  Van  Dyk,  Rachel 

Van  Dyk. 

William.  Nicolaas     Bayard,      Mar- 

gareta  Vetch. 

Sara.  Sam  del    Harvy,   Annaatje 

Van  Gelder. 

Geertje.  John  Thorman,  Dievertje 

Bratt. 

jsaac.  Isaac    Kip,  senior,   Maria 

Lansing,  h.  v.  v.,  Hiiy- 
bert  Van  den  Berg. 

Annetje.  Abraham     Bokee,    Geer- 

truyd Romme. 

Thomas.         John  Holt,  Cornelia  Nor- 
wood. 

Elisabeth.       Johannes   Senger,   Catha- 
rina Ruypel. 

Catlyntje.        Jo^iannes  Van  Gelder, 
Catlyntje  Vander  Beek. 

David.  Gerrit     Hennion,     Maria 

Van  Vorst. 

Susanna.  Nicolaas  Anthony,  Anna 

De  Peyster. 

Simson.  Herman    Bensen,    Aaltje 

Gerrit.  Bikkers,    z.    h.    v., 

2  lingen.  Egbert    Van    Borsum, 

Elisabeth  Radly. 

Mattheus.       William    De    Peyster, 
Maria  De  Peyster. 

Jacobus.  Andries  Myer,  junior, 

Jannetje  Wessels,  jong 

dog. 
Elisabeth.        L  a  w  r  e  n  s       Gerbrants, 

NeeltjeTen  Eyk,Wed^ 
Gerardus.        Jan    Bresteed,    Catharina 

Roosevelt. 


Catharina.       Andries  Barheyt,   Re- 
becca Makginne. 

Herman.         Jan   Lake,   Catharina 
Bensing,  z.  h.  v. 


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A'  1729. 
Aiig.      3- 

dito. 


dito 


OUDERS. 

A  n  d  r  i  e  s  Barhyt, 
Rachel  Hoist. 

Jan  Van  B  u  r  e  n  , 
Maria  Myer. 


dito. 


d° 


,   Samuel  Jan  sen, 
Marytje  v.  Pelt. 
Albertus  T  i  e  b  o  u  t , 
Cornelia  Bogert. 
dito     13.    Wilhelmus     Beek- 
m  a  n  ,     Catharina 
Lanoy. 
17.   P  i  e  t  e  r  Marschalk, 
Catlyntje  Kip. 
Johannes   V.  Gelder, 
Sara  Van  Deurse. 
d°.        20.   Will  em    Krollii'is, 
Veronica  Korsilius. 
d°.  Nicolaas       Anthony, 

Rebecca  Pieters. 
d°.  Wynant     V.     Zandt, 

Catharina   Ten 
Eyk. 
d°.  Olivier    Teller,    Cor- 

nelia De  Peyster. 


7- 


[496.] 


10. 


14. 


17. 


21. 


Isaac     Chardevyn, 

Annetje  Caar. 
Nicolaas  Gouverneur, 

Geertruyd    R  y  n  - 

ders. 

Johannes    Montanje, 

Susanna  Bussing. 
Sjoert   Olferts,    Mar- 

grietje  v.  Diiyn. 
Hendrik    ten  Broek, 

Marytje  Blank. 
James    Fokker, 
"Mar  y  t  j  e  Woer- 

tendyk, 
Martinus  Eygenberg, 

Anna     Maria 

Doom. 
Joris  B  r  i  n  k  e  r  h  o  f, 

Elisabeth  Byvank. 
Gysbert    v,   Deursen, 

Annetje    Ten 

Broek. 


KINDERS.   .  GETUYGEN. 

Cornells.  Theunis  Du  Forr,  Geertje 

Barhyt,  z.  h.  v. 
Jacobus.  Jacobus  Livingston, 

Christina.  Maria  K  i  e  rs  te  e  d  e  , 

2  lingen.  z.    h.    v.,     [an     Van 

Buren,   jiin'.,  Theuntje 

Van  Buren. 
Elisabeth.       Henry  Frencis,  Catharina 

Beekman. 
Margrietje.      Theunis    Tieboiit,     Mar- 

grietje  Bogert. 
Abraham.        Gerardiis  Beekman. 


Sara,  Jacob  Kip,   Elisabeth 

Marschalk. 
Johannes.        Ficktoor  Hyer,  Dina  Van 

Gelder. 
Anna  Catha-  Pieter     Corsilius,     Anna 

rina.  Corsilius. 

Engeltje.         Jan    Pieters,    Harmpje 

Coek,  z.  h.  V. 
Johanna.         Pieter  Pra  Van  Zandt, 

Margarietje  Van  Zandt. 

Sophia.  Isaac  De  Peyster,  Andries 

Teller,  Maria  De  Pey- 
ster. 

Anthony.  J  e  r  e  m  i  a  s  Chardevyn, 
Annetje  Caar. 

Hester.  Abraham  Gouverneur, 

Hester  Lyslaer,  h.  v.  v.. 
Parent  Rynderts. 

Isaac.  Isaac     Bussing,     Annetje 

Biissing,  jong  dog'. 

Margarietje.  Cornells  Clopper,  Catha- 
rina Grevenraat. 

Caspariis.  Jiirian  Blank,  Angenietje 
Blank,  Wed^ 

JacobiJS.  Cornells  Woertendyk, 

Jenneke  Peers,  z.  h.  v. 

Christiaan.  Christiaan  Stoilber,  Geer- 
trey  Simonis. 

Dirk.  Dirk     Brinkerhof,    Aaltje 

Coilwenhove,  z.  h.  v. 

Lyntje.  Johannes     Ten      Broek, 

Neeltje  Van  Deiirsen. 


70 

A° 
d". 

d°. 


Records   of  the   Reformed  Dutch    Church    in    Nlw_    York.     [April, 


1729. 
23- 


d°. 


Octob.  I. 


d". 


d°. 
d°. 


d°. 


d". 


dito. 


[497-] 


d". 


d°. 


19. 


22. 


d°.        29. 


Nov. 

d°. 

d°. 

d". 

d°. 

d°. 


16, 


OUDERS. 

Philip  Minthorn,  An- 

naatje  Roll. 
Mattheus       Aalstyn, 

Catharina  Kerfbyl. 

Burger  Sipkens,   Re- 
becca Onkelbag. 


Walter  De  Graaw, 
Maria  La  Maar. 

David  Kermer,  De- 
bora  Berry. 

Adrian  Hooglant, 
Engeltje  v.  d. 
Water, 

Joseph  Houward. 

Henry  Filkens,  Elis- 
abet  Smith. 

Dirk  V.  der  Haan, 
Geertje  Dykman. 

Abraham    v.    Gelder, 

Catalina  v.  d.  Beek. 

Abraham    v.  Arnem, 

Maria  v.  Hyn- 

ingen, 
Philip       Melsbag, 

Catharina   C  1  o  u  - 

wryn. 
Adrian  Banker,  Elis- 
abeth V.  Taarl. 
Adolph  Myer,  Catha- 
rina Haring. 
William  Bradford, 

Sytje  Santfort. 
Willem  Laton,   Mar- 

grietje  Ketelhiiyn. 
Frans   Walter,    Maiia 

Liefhaan. 
,  Dirk    Hoppe,    Maria 

Francis. 
Caspariis  Pryer,  Sara 

Andriesse. 
Hendrik    V.    der 

Hoef,  Eva  Slot. 
.   James    Livingston, 

Maria  Kierstede. 
Symon  Cregier,  Anna 

Van  Oort. 
Johannes     Blank, 

Rachel  Andriesse 


KINDERS. 

GETUYGEN. 

Hillegout. 

Johannes  Minthoorn, 

Catharina  Roll. 

Johannes 

Jan    Van  Aalstyn,    Maria 

Kerfbyl. 

Staats,  z.  h,  v. 

Burger. 

Johannes     Van     Gelder, 

2  lingen. 

Elsje    Sipkens,     Gerrit 

Onkelbag. 

Onkelbag,       Elisabeth 

Brestede. 

Susanna. 

Evert    Pels    &   Catharina 

De  Graaw,  z.  h.  v. 

Abraham. 

Gilbert  Michelveen,  Hyla 

Clopper,  jong  dogt. 

Engeltje. 

Benjamin  Van  d.  Water, 

en  zyn  hiiys  vrouw. 

Maria. 

Catharina. 

Dirk.  R  i  ch  ard  Rhee,  E  Isj  e 

Sanders,  z.  h.  v. 

Abraham.        David    Van  Gelder,   Sara 

Vander  Beek. 
jsaac.  Jan  Van  Aarnem,   Maria 

Ellis,  jong  dogter. 

Maria.  Johannes        Roorbag, 

Maria  Clowryn. 

Elisabeth.        Floris    Van    Taarl,    Jan- 

netje  Schuyler. 
Petrus.  Pieter    Haringh,     Grietje 

Bogert,  z.  h.  v. 
Cornells.         Gerrit  van  Hoorn,   Elsa- 

beth  Provoost,  z.  h.  v. 
Johanna.         Jan    Laton,    Johanna 

Turk. 
Eva.  Willem    Crollius,    Eva 

Tysen. 
Mattheiis.       Mattheus,  H  oppe.    Lea 

Steger. 
Jenneke.         Machiel    Vrelandt,     Jen- 

neke  Van  Hoiiten. 
Petrus.  Zacharias     Sikkels,      Lea 

Slot. 
Jacobus.  Hendricus  Beekman, 

Margareta  Vetch. 
Catharina.       Jan  B  o  g  a  a  r  t ,  Elisabeth 

Ryke. 
Johannes.       Adriaan  Hooglant,  Caatje 

Blank. 


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71 


A°    1729.  OUDERS. 

d°.        19.   Samuel     Pell,    Su- 
sanna Riifje. 

d°.        23.   Johannes     Man,    Jo- 
hanna Burger. 
Nicolaas  V.  Taarling, 
Elisabeth  Richard. 


[498.] 


d°. 


dito. 


d°. 


28. 


30. 


Dec. 


d°. 

d°. 
d°. 
d°. 

d". 

d°. 

d°. 
d°. 


10. 


14. 


17- 


[499-] 


Joris     Lamb,     Hen- 

drikje  Myer, 
Johannes  Marschalk, 

Johanna  Turk. 
Pieter    Masier,    Jan- 

netje  Wessels. 
Jacob    Pitt,    Aaltje 

Abrams. 
Isaac  V.  Hoek,  Naatje 

V.  Schaik. 
Richard  V.  Dam, 

Cornelia  Beekman. 


Pieter  Post,  Catha- 
rina  Beekman. 

Hendricus  Beekman, 
Geertruyd  V.  Cort- 
lant. 

Cornells  F  o  1  m  a  n  , 
Maria  Wessels. 

W  i  1 1  e  m  Fischjer, 
Elisabeth  Smith, 

Hendrik  Dyer,  Jo- 
hanna Montanje, 

Isaac  Callio,  Agnietje 
Bolje. 

Cornells  Wvnkoop, 
Elisabeth  'V.  d^ 
Spiegel. 


Johannes  Schuyler, 
Cornelia  V.  Cort- 
landt. 

Fredrik  Willemse, 
Maria  Waldron. 

W  i  1 1  e  m  du  Voir, 
Cherritie  Kanklin. 

Abraham  Marschalk, 
Maria  Sebring. 


KINDERS.  GETUYGEN. 

Susanna.         Willem     Beek,     Hester 

RiiQe. 
Sara.  Joseph    Ryden,     Jamine, 

Sara  Burger,  z.  h.  v. 
Maria.  F  1  o  r  i  s    Van    Taarling, 

Catharina    Richard, 

h.  V.  v.,  Robert  Crook. 

Elisabeth.        Pieter      Bandt,      junior, 

Catlyntje  Myer,  z.  h.  v. 
Johanna.         Francois     Marschalk, 

Teuntje  Marschalk. 
Elisabeth.        Hendricus      Breeste, 

Geertje  Wessels. 
Nicolaas.         Pieter  Snyder,  Catharina, 

z.  h.  V. 
Jannetje.         Cornells    Van    Hoek, 

Neeltje  Van  Schaik. 
Richard.  Isaac  Van  Dam,   Jsabella 

Jacobus.  Pintard,    Hendriciis 

2  lingen.  Beekman,  Elisabeth  De 

Peyster. 
Annaatje.         Steven     Bayard,    Alida 

Vetch,  z.  h.  v.- — 

Henriciis.        Philip   Van  Cortlant, 

Albert    Pawling,   Anna 

Van  Cortlant. 
Maria.  Hendricus  Breested,  Sara 

Folman. 
Catharina.       John    Welsch,    Catharina 

Alting. 
Jonathan.        Petrus  Montanje,    Pieter- 

nella  Montanje. 
Agnietje.        Gideon  Lynsen,   Agnietje 

Lynsen. 
Benjamin.       Benjamin    Wynkoop, 
Cornells.  Catharina       Wynkoop, 

jong    d.,    Lawrens    V. 

der    Spiegel,    Elsje 

Vauder  Spiegel,  we  d. 
Stephaniis.       Philip      Schuyler,      Mar- 

gareta     Schuyler,      zyn 

hiiys  vroiiw. 

Annaatje.  Jan  Willemse,  Sara 
Willemse,  jong  dog'. 

Jan.  Jan     Canklin,    Liiyda 

Canklin. 

Elisabeth.  David  Schuyler,  Elisabeth 
Marschalk. 


7  2        Records   of  the   Reformed  Dutch   Church    in  New    York.      [April, 


A' 
Jan. 


Feb. 


d". 


dilo 


d°. 


d°. 


14. 


d°. 


1730,  OUDERS. 

7.  Abraham    Andriesse, 

Elisabeth  Buys. 
Johannes  R  o  o  m  e  , 

Susanna  Le  Savalje. 
Joseph  Royal],  Catha- 

rina  Jansen. 
Jacob  Van   Deiirsen, 

Helena  Van  Deiir- 
sen. 
Lucas    Van    Vegten, 

Tanneke  Woeders. 
Cornel  is   Filkens, 

Margrietje     P  r  o  - 

voost. 
Simson    Pels,    Maria 

Bensin. 
Johannes  Van  Wyk, 

Johanna  Bedaii. 
Hendrik   Bras,    Mar- 

grietje  Helling. 
Albartel     Miller, 

Catharina  Linchs. 
Abraham    Ten    Eyk, 

Jezy^ntje  Barkelo. 
Hendrik   Brasjer, 

Abigael  Persel. 
Abraham    B  o  e  1  e  n  , 

Elisabeth  De  Pey- 

ster. 
Mattheus  Borell,  Sara 

Smith. 
William    R  e  n  d  e  1 , 

Neeltje  V.  Dyk. 

T  h  e  u  n  i  s  Tiebout, 
Margrietje  Drink- 
water. 

Hendrik  La  b  a  g  h  , 
Elisabeth  Lesser. 

James  Seys,  Marytje 
Thomas. 

John  Hiitton,  Elisa- 
beth V.  Dyk. 

Johannes  Myer, 
Elisabeth  Pell. 

Hendrik  Tiebout, 
Elisabeth  Burger. 


II. 


29. 


25- 
[500.] 


KINDERS. 

Elias. 
Susanna. 
Catharina. 
Annaatje. 

Cornells. 
Alette. 

Catlyntje. 

Theodorus. 

Maria. 

Hendiik. 

Dirk. 

Maria. 

Henricus. 

Maria. 
Elisabeth, 

Antje. 

Jacob. 

Robert. 

George. 

Cornelia. 

Elisabeth. 


Maart    i.  Johannes  Poulse,     Jacob. 
Tryntje   V.    Deiir- 
sen. 


GETUYGEN. 

Pieter      Andriessen, 

Francyntje  Andriessen. 
Pieter    De    Lays,    Maria 

Le  Savalje. 
Johannes    Jansen,     Lena 

Jansen,  z.  dogter. 
Isaac  Van  Deiirsen,  Maria 

Man. 

J  o  h  a  n  n  i  s  Vredenburg, 
Jannetje  Vredenburg. 

Gerrit  Roos,  Alette  Roos, 
wedu^ 

Samuel     Bensen,      Maria 

Bensen. 
Thomas     de      Whith, 

Catlyntje  Bediiw. 
Gerrit    Roos,    Orseltje 

Arents,  z.  h.  v. 
Johannes  Senger,   Sophia 

Roorbag. 
Andries  ten  Eyk,  Neeltje 

ten  Eyk^  wed^ 
Bernardus    Smith,     Mar- 

grieta  Vredenburg. 
Matthew  Clarkson,  Anna 

Keteltas. 

W  i  1 1  e  m    Barens,    Mar- 

gareta  Barens. 
Benjamin    Jarvis,     Maria 

Coningh,  z.  h.  v. 

Theiinis  Tiebout,  Senior, 
Sara  Drinkwater. 

Jacob  Bos,  Magdalena 
Bos,  z.  h.  V. 

Abraham  Aalsteyn,  Jan- 
netje Thomas. 

Ickabod  Loiittit,  Elisa- 
beth V.  Dyk,  z.  h.  V. 

Anthony  Ham,  Cornelia 
Lensleth. 

J  o  h  a  n  n  e.s  Man,  Sara 
Tiebout,  weduw®  Van 
Eiiwout  Eiiwouts. 

Johannes  Poulse,  sene'., 
Aaltje  Van  Deiirsen, 
wed. 


1890.]  Brookhaven    (Z.   /. )    Epitaphs.  7^ 

BROOKHAVEN    (L.    I.)    EPITAPHS. 

Contributed  by  William  Kelby,  New  York. 


Inscriptions   in  the  Burying-Ground  of  the  Congregational  Church 

AT  New  Village. 


I  know  that  my  Redeemer  liveth 
John  Gamage 
born  at  Weedonbeck  Northamptonshire 
England 
Sept.  22d  1787  and  died 
at  Selden,  L.   I.  July  8,  1855. 
A  lineal  descendant  of  |  Sir  Thomas  Gamage,  Kt.  |  Lord  of  the  City 
of  Glanmorgan  |  Wales   and   allied    to   the    Howards  |  Pembrokes   and 
the  Sidneys,  |  some  of  the    most   ancient   and  |  noble   families   of  Eng- 
land.  I  He  was  a  man  of  plain  republican  |  habits  and  one  of  natures  | 
truest  noblemen.   |  The  Glory  of  Children  are  their  \  fathers. — Prov.  xvii.  6. 
[John  Gamage  lived   for   some  years  at  Waverly,   L.   I.,  before  his 
removal  to  Selden.      He  followed  the  humble  occupation  of  stone  mason. 
His  death  was  the  result  of  an  accident.     He  left  three  children,  James 
who    followed    his    father's    trade,   a   daughter    Emily  and    a    son    who 
entered  the  ministry  and  was  known  to  the  residents  of  New  Village  as 
"Priest    Gamage."     The    latter   no    doubt   wrote   the   epitaph   printed 
above.  ] 

In  Memory  of  |  Robert  Hubbard  who  died  |  Feb.  ii,  1848  N. 
28  years  |  Native  of  Holden,  Suffolk,  England. 

Thomas  Kendall,  late  of  |  Nettleton  Lincolnshire  England  |  Died 
Aug.  7,  1849  ^o^^  I  69  years. 

Charles  G.  Purck  born  July  29  |  1802.      Died  April  29,  1869. 

Sarah  wife  of  Rev.  Otis  |  Holmes  died  Aug.  9,  1878  |  yE  73  years 
8  mos. 

Albert  Holmes  Libbey  died  |    Aug.  25  1869  aged  9  mos. 

Eliza  widow  of  Ariel  Thomas  |  died  Jan.  25,  1886.  |  M.  89  years 
I  mo. 

Dr.  Abijah  Ingraham  |  died  Aug.  9,  1862.  N..  \  55  years  4  mos, 
13  days. 

Maranda  |  wife  of  Dr.  Abijah    Ingraham  |  died  Dec.  12,    1873.   N.. 
I  73  years  7  mos.  &  28  days     [Their  daughter  Maranda  married  Charles 
Reeves  and  secondly  Henry  Murray.] 

Warren  Murray  died  |  Jan.  16,  i860  in  his  |  60th  year  |  Betsey 
wife  of  Warren  Murray  |  died  Nov  30,  1857  aged  55  |  years  &  10 
days. 

Merandy  wife  of  Henry  Murray  |  born  Oct  15,  1834  died  Sept.  24, 
1880. 

Ida  F.  Wicks  |  In  care  of  Rev.  M.  La  Cost  |  Died  March  10  1856 
aged  2  years  |  i  mo  8  days     [An  adopted  child] 


>nA  Brookhaven    (Z.   /.)    Epitaphs.  [April, 

Elizabeth  wife  of  |  Harrison  Davis,  born  Aug.  12,  1823  |  Died 
March  26  1877.      [Maiden  name  Tooker] 

Sarah  wife  of  Joseph  Black  |  died  Nov.  21,  1872.  ^  33  yrs.  3 
mos.  I  Edwin  Allen  |  son  of  Joseph  &  Sarah  Black  |  died  Feb.  11, 
1873  /E  6  mos.  I  Emma  Jane  |  died  Sept.  5,  1864  aged  5  years  7 
days     [Joseph  Black  married  Sarah  Dufifield] 

Susie  died  Feb.  16,  1862  aged  3  years  9  mos  |  Sadie  M.  died  May 
23,  1863  aged  I  year  3  mos.  |  9  days.  |  Children  of  Charles  &  Mary 
Overton. 

Jane  wife  of  George  Davies  |       Died  Dec.  16,  1878,   aged  42  years 

5  mos.  I  Walter  W.  |  son   of  the  above.     Died  Dec.  2,  1881   aged  |    4 
years  &  28  days. 

Mary   &    George  |  infant   children   of  |  George  &  Mary  Campbell  | 
.,    i860. 

^       John  A.   Hawkins  [  died  March   22  1855  |  aged  31  years   6  mos.    9 
.^    days. 

-^       Phebe   wife    of  Richard   Hawkins  [  Died    Aug.    26,    1826  |  aged   26 
years  7  mos  22  days 

Phebe  &  Sarah  |  twin  daughters  of  Richard  &  Phebe  Hawkins  died, 
the  former  Sept.  20,  1826  |  the  latter  Sept.  22,  aged  2  mos.  8  days. 

Daniel  Terry  |  died  Sept.  20,  1846  in  his  8ist  year.  |  Lydia  ( 
widow  of  Daniel  Terry  died  |  Jan  15,  1851  aged  75  years  5  mos.  10  days. 

Elijah  Terry  |  died  Sept.  26,  1850  aged  63  years  |  7  mos.  12  days.  | 
Caroline,  widow  of  Elijah  Terry  died  Jan  4,  1881  |  aged  78  yrs.   7  mos. 

6  days. 

Sarah  E.  |  daughter  of  Elijah  &  Caroline  Terry  |  died  March  3,  1846 
aged  3  years  j    2  mos.  &  3  days. 

Caroline  |  daughter  of  Moubray  W,  &  Ann  Terry  |  died  May  28 
1859  &  6  mos.  15  days.      [Mother's  maiden  name  Jackson] 

Lydia  |  daughter  of  Joseph  D  &  Rachel  Terry  |  died  April  28  1840 
aged  I  year  |  i  mo.  4  days. 

Richard  |  son  of  Thomas  &  Phebe  R.  Terry  |  died  June  18  1869' 
aged  4  years  |  i  mo.  3  days. 

Miami  |  wife  of  John  Mott,  born  May  13,  1820  |  died  Sept.  10, 
1858,  I  Samuel  |  their  son  died  July  30  1845  aged  |  i  year  i  mo.  9 
days. 

Ruth  Amanda  |  daughter  of  Christopher  &  Julianer  Tooker  |  died 
March  15  1841  aged  22  years  |  3  mos.  &  11  days. 

Julianer  |  wife  of  Christopher  Tooker  died  July  31,  1854  j  aged  68 
years. 

Henry  J  and  Elmira  L.  |  Children  of  Harrison  &  Margaret  E.  Davis  | 
died  March  3  1851  aged  i  mo.  10  days. 

James  Howell  |  died  June  30  1853  aged  50  years  |  11  mos  &  21 
days. 


1890.]  Brookhaven    (Z.    /.)    Epitaphs.  ~r 

Hannah  |  Daughter  of  Youngs  &  Mary  Howell  |  died  Feb  12,  1848 
aged  1 2  years  3  mos. 

Sarah  L.  |  daughter  of  Youngs  &  Mary  Howell  |  died  Aug  14,  1831, 
aged  I  year  2  mos 

Alden  |  son  of  Youngs  &  Mary  Howell  |  died  Oct.   28  182 1,  /E  8 
mos. 

Mary   Ann  |  daughter  of  Youngs  &  Mary    Howell  |  died    Oct.    26, 
1821  N.  2  years. 

Thomas  D.  Tooker  [  died  May  14  1868  M.  86  years 

Phebe  |  wife    of  Thomas   D.    Tooker  [  died    June   8,  1868,     N.   'id 
years 

William  H.  Olmsted,  |  born  April  7,  1834  died  Nov.  8,  1871. 

William  Olmsted  |  passed  away   Jan   26,    1885   N.   72.      [Father   of 
William  H  Olmsted] 

Margaretta  |  wife  of  Thomas  D.  Tooker  |  died  March    17   1833   /E 
65  years. 

In  Memory  of  Henry  M.  Tooker  |  died   Oct.  15,  1846  aged  25  years 
4    mos  II    days,  j  Also  Phebe  Ann  his  daughter  died  Dec    15   1840  | 
aged  10  mos  7  days 

Welcome  V.   R.   Arnold,  |  born  Aug.   2    1807  died  Jan,    2,    1871  | 
Lavinia   wife    of  |  Welcome  V.    R.   Arnold  |  born  Oct.    11,    1818,   died 
[blank    for   date]      [Daughter  of  Thomas   Tooker   she   married  Henry 
Tooker  and  secondly  Welcome  V.  R.  Arnold  and  was  living  1889.] 

Welcome   Washington    Acker  |  born    Feb.    22    1865   di^^^    Nov.     10 
1876. 

Welcome  V.  R.  |  son  of  Daniel  Webster  &  S.  J.  Arnold  |  died  Feb. 
II,  1874  N.  4  mos.  22  days     [Mother  was  a  Foster]  * 

Richard  Hawkins  |  died  Jan  29,  1867  I^  71  years  8  mos. 

Charlotte  |  wife  of  Richard  Hawkins  died  |  Feb  22,  1877  N.  66  years 
3  mos  8  days     [Maiden  name  Terry] 

Eliza  I  daughter   of  James  &  Caty  Howell  |  died  Feb.    14   1826  N. 
16  years. 

D.   Brown  Howell  |  died  April  14,  1852  aged  45  years  |  3  mos.    15 
days. 

Caroline  |  wife  of  Daniel  Brown  Howell  |  born   Nov.   11,  1803  died 
Nov  4,  1876.      [Maiden  name  Macy]| 

Charles  |  son   of  D.  B  &  Caroline   Howell — died  Oct.   3,    1840  N.  8 
years  4  mos 

Frances  E.  |  daughter  of  D.  B.  &  Caroline  Howell  |  died  June  8,  1857 
N.  \\  years  3  mos.  4  days 

Shepherd  Reeves  Howell  |  died  July  8,  1824  &  26  years  10  mos.  | 
13  days. 

Ca'ty  I  wife  of  James  Howell  died  March  24  1820  |  aged  42 


76  Brookhaven    (Z.   /.)    Epilaphs.  [April, 

James  Howell  [  died  Sept.  23  1848  aged  77  years 

Elizabeth  |  wife  of  James  Howell  died  Oct  13    1875  I  ^o^d  92  years 
10  mos. 

Josiah  I  Son  of  Reeves  &  Phebe  Howell  |  died  Nov.  25  1836  aged  7 
mos  7  days. 

Deacon  Isaac  N.  Gould  |  died  March  25  1858  in  his  70th  year. 

Nancy  |  wife  of  Isaac  N.  Gould   died   March  26  1874  ]  in  the  87th 
year  of  her  age.      [Maiden  name  Barnaby] 

Isaac  Sidney  Gould  |  died  at  Sacramento  City  |  Feb  12,  1850  N.  25 
years. 

Sarah  Ann  |  daughter  of  Isaac  &  Nancy  Gould  |  died  April  4,  181 9 
aged  10  mos. 

Charlotte  |  wife  of  Piatt  Gould  |  died  March  4  1822  aged  19  years 

Sarah  T.  |  daughter  of  William   Ira  &  Sarah  Gould  |  died   May  20 
1837  aged  8  mos.  20  days 

William  Ira  Gould  |  died  April  20  1875  aged  77  years  6  mos.      [Son 
of  Titus  Gould  he  married  Sarah  Hawkins] 

Titus  Gould  I  died  March  18,  1853  yE  92  years  2  mos  2  days 

Martha  |  widow  of  Titus  Gould  died  July  18,  1859  |  aged  92  years  3 
mos  6  days     [Daughter  of  Isaac  Newton] 

Albert  M.  |  son  of  Daniel  &  Nancy  Terry  |  died  June  25   1839  aged 
8  mos  19  days 

Margrette  |  daughter  of  Daniel  &  Nancy  Terry  |  died,  June  17  1839 
aged  3  years  2  mos. 

Elezer  Tillottson  |  died  Aug.  10,  1848,  aged  53  years  ]  2  mos.  17  days. 

Brewster  Terry  |  died  Sept.  13,  1826  in  his  31st  year. 

Nancy  D.  wife  of  |  William  Edward  Gould  |  born  Sept.  i,  181 1  |  died 
June  19,  1887.      [Maiden  name  Davis] 

Alida  I  wife  of  Gilbert  P.  Williamson  |  died  Sept.    21,  1882  aged  27 
years  9  mos     [Maiden  name  Loder] 

William  E.  C.  Howell  |  born  June  23,  1853  |  died  April  28  1883. 

Cora  I  daughter  of  William  E.  C    Howell  |    born  Nov  7,  1877  |  died 
May  21,  1879. 

Addie  M.  ]  Wife  of  Judson  L'Hommedieu  |  died  July  9,  1883  M.  24 
years.      [Maiden  name  Ruland] 

Isabel  I  wife  of  Charles  M.  Marshall  |  died  June  9   1881,  N.  28  years 
[Maiden  name  Ruland] 

Mary  E.  |  daughter  of  H.  W.  &  E.  H.  Ruland  |  died  Dec  13,  1879 
M,  23.     [Horace  W  Ruland  married  Elizabeth  A  Hammond] 
George  C.  Marshall  |  born  July  16,  18 13  died  Sept  4,  1887 

Ellen  I  Wife  of  George  C.  Marshall  |  died  Oct.  28,  1873  M  59.    [Pa- 
rents of  Charles  M.  Marshall.] 


1890.]  Brookhaven    (Z,   /.)    Epitaphs, 


77 


Children  of  Manly  &  Mary  Ruland  |  Jennet  died  Sept.  9,  1822  ^  3 
years  |  Gilson  S.  died  Sept.  11,  1822  M  i  year  |  Amanda  died  March  31, 
1826,  aged  I  2  years  10  mos  19  days  |  Mary  E.  died  Jan  12,  1838,  aged  | 

I  year  11  mos  25  days.       [Manly  Ruland  married  Mary  sister  to  Israel 
Smith] 

Edith  &  Clarence  Hawkins  |  died  Oct.  1859.  i  Children  of  Edward 
&  Susan  Hawkins.  [Susan  daughter  of  Israel  Smith  married  Capt. 
Edward  Hawkins] 

Children  of  Israel  &  Mary  Smith,  |  Washington  H.  died  May  16, 
1850  I  aged  5  years  5  mos.  |  Henry  K.  died  Oct.  28  1833  |  in  his  2d 
year.      [Israel  Smith  married  Mary  daughter  of  Smith  Ketcham] 

Catharine  |  daughter  of  Isaac  &  Susan  Ketcham  |  died  Aug.  28,  1834 
in  her  |  29th  year.      [Sister  to  Israel  Smith] 

Edward  K.  Gould  |  died  at  Charleston  June  3,  1851  |  aged  22  years 

II  mos.  19  days     [Son  of  William  Ira  Gould] 

Mary  E.  |  daughter  of  Ambrose  L  &  Elizabeth  Mills  |  died  Feb.  25, 
1851,  aged   12  years  |  3  mos.  20  days.      [Mother's  name  Smith] 

Phebe  Ann  |  Wife  of  Echabod  Blydenburgh  |  died  Oct.  22,  1856  M 
42  years  |  3  mos  2  days.      [He  married  secohdly  Esther  Overton] 

Harriett  P.  |  daughter  of  Nathan  &  Pruella  Yarrington  |  died  May  23 
1836  JE  21  years  2  mos  |  &  21  days. 

Nathan  Yarrington  |  died  Aug.  23.  1845  in  his  |  73d  year. 

Pruella  |  Wife  of  Nathan  Yarrington  died  |  Feb  21.  1868  aged  95  years 
9  mos.      [Maiden  name  Woolsey] 

Rachel  |  daughter  of  Jonathan  &  Sarah  Yarrington  |  died  June  10  1856 
aged  86  years 

Sarah  Sophronia  |  daughter  of  Samuel  L.  &  Laura  L  Hawkins  |  died 
Nov  20.  1849  aged  6  years  |  2  mos.  20  days.    [Mother's  name  Yarrington] 

Martha  Ann  |  daughter  of  Charles  A  &  Celia  A  Hawkins  I  died  Nov. 
12.  1868.  aged  2  years  2  mos  |  &  29  days.      [Mother's  name  Miles] 

Emma  Florence  |  daughter  of  Charles  A  &  Celia  A  Hawkins  |  died  Jan. 
8.  1868.  JE  9  years  2  mos.  12  days 

Eliza  I  wife  of  Samuel  A.  Hawkins  |  died  Aug.  14.  1847  aged  45  years, 
8  mos.      [Maiden  name  Hammond] 

Deacon  Samuel  A.  Hawkins  |  died  March  10  1865  M  65  years  |  5  mos. 
&  20  days. 

Mary  |  wife  of  Azariah  Hawkins  |  died  Nov  7,  1842  JE  78  years  ] 
mos.  16  days. 

Azariah  Hawkins  |  died  June  9.  1845  aged  84  years  |  6  mos  &  7  days. 

Almira  R.  i  daughter  of  S.  D  &  S.  A.  Hawkins  |  died  July  5.  1865.  M 
6  years. 

Florence  C.  died  Aug.  20.  1855  |  ^  i  year  i  mo.  11  days  |  Simeon 
Decatur,  died  Oct.  21.  1858  ]  M  i  year  10  mos.  |  Children  of  S.  D.  & 
S.  A.  Hawkins 


yg  Brookhaven    (Z.   /.)    Epitaphs.  [April, 

John  L.  Bennett  |  died  Feb.  3.  1853  ^  34  years  |  10  mos.  &  2  days. 

Maria  A.  |  widow  of  John  Bennett,  afterward  |  wife  of  John  L.  Bennett, 
died  Feb  27  |  1848  aged  30  years  3  mos.  &  27  days. 

John  Bennett  |  was  born  Feb.  10.  18 17,  died  June  4.  184 1  |  in  the  25th 
year  of  his  age. 

Clarissas.  |  daughter  of  John  &  Mary  [Maria  A.]  Bennett  |  died  April 
18.  1 84 1,  aged  5  mos  &  5  days. 

John  W.  I  infantson  of  Maria  &  John  L.  Bennett  |  died  March  i.  1848 
aged  6  days. 

Lewis  G.  I  son  of  John  L  &  Maria  Bennett  |  died  Nov.  11.  1851.  aged 
6  years  3  mos.  4  days 

J.  Wickham  Ruland  |  died  Dec.  15  1856  M  26  years  6  mos  &  2  days. 

Charity  |  wife  of  Wickham  Ruland  |  died  March  8.  1864  ^  70  years  & 
15  days. 

Wickham  Ruland  |  died  June  10  1856  M,  63  years  |  2  mos  &  20  days. 

Charles  R.  |  son  of  Mills  &  Jane  Hawkins  |  died  April  15.  1831.  M  3 
mos  &  18  days     [Mother's  name  Rose] 

John  Merwin  |  son  of  Mills  &  Jane  Hawkins  died  March  |  10  1852  aged 

2  years  11  mos.  14  days. 

Mary  E.  |  daughter  of  George  W&  Sarah  Thorn  |  died  Jan  3  1851  M 

3  years  &  24  days.      [Mother's  name  Hawkins] 

Elizabeth  |  wife  of  Zopher  Hawkins  died  Oct.  11  1873  |  M  80  years  & 

4  mos.      [Maiden  name  Blydenburgh] 

Zopher  Hawkins  |  died  Feb  26.  1874  ^92  years  &  2  mos. 

Elenor  |  wife  of  Zophar  Hawkins  died  Nov  27.  1828  |  M  37  years  9 
mos.  7  days 

Ida  F.  born  April  3.  1885  |  died  March  12  1888  |  Mabel  F.  born 
March  3.  1884  I  died  Aug.  29.  1884  |  Children  of  J.  F.  &  M.  A.Til- 
lottson  [Mary  A.  Wilson  married  Samuel  Foster  Newton  and  secondly 
J.  Foster  TiHottson] 

Hannah  M  j  daughter  of  Moubray  S.  &  Laura  Hammond  |  died  Nov  23 
1826.  M,  2  years  i  mo  [Laura  daughter  of  Zophar  Hallock  married 
Moubry  S.  Hammond.     They  had  nine  children] 

Charlotte  Almira  |  daughter  of  Moubray  S  &  Laura  Hammond  |  died 
Sept.  19.  1836  J^  I  year  4  mos. 

John  Merwin  |  son  of  Moubray  S  &  Laura  Hammond  |  died  June  28. 
1840  aged  10  mos. 

Grace  Moubray  |  infant  daughter  of  Rev.  Samuel  M.  &  |  Fannie  A. 
Hammond  died  April  |  9.  1862  M,  18  days.  [Son  of  Moubray  S  and 
Fannie  A.  Howell] 

Frank  Wesley  |  infant  son  of  Charles  W.  &  Eliza  A.  Carpenter  |  died 
Aug.  20.  1863  yE  7  mos.  24  days  [Mother  Eliza  Ann  daughter  of 
Moubray  S.  Hammond] 


1890.]  Brookhaven    (Z.    /. )    Epitaphs.  yq 

Nancy  Hammond  |  wife  of  Jason  Hammond  died  March  14  |  1848 
aged  47  years  [Daughter  of  Zophar  Hallock.  The  brothers  Jason  and 
Moubray  S.  Hammond  married  sisters] 

Sheldon  |  son  of  Jason  &  Nancy  Hammond  |  died  April  ist  1822  aged 
2  years.  4  mos. 

Our  Father  |  Samuel  Hammond  [  died  Nov.  7.   1841.  aged  68  years  | 
Deacon  of  the  Baptist  Church  in  Coram. 

Our  Mother  j  Sally  Hammond  |  died  June  i.  1841.  aged  69. 

Harriet  Elmira  |  daughter  of  Isaac  A,  &  Mary  E.  L'Hommedieu  |  died 
Sept.  20  1843  AL  II  mos.  [Mary  Eliza  daughter  of  Zophar  Hallock 
married  Isaac  Albert  L'Hommedieu] 

Deborah  V.  |  wife  of  Samuel  Hammond  |  born  Feb.  22  1817  died  May 
17.  1S81      [Maiden  name  WheelefJ 

Hannah  Maria  |  daughter  of  Samuel  &  Deborah  V.  Hammond  |  died 
Sept.  15.  1852   AL  5  years  8  mos  25  days 

Lillie  Grace  died  Feb  18.  1865  JE  3  years  4  mos.  |  Leonard  Grant 
died  Nov.  27.  1865  AL  2  mos  22  days.  |  Children  of  P.  A.  &  S.  E.  Marsh 

Rev.  Leonard  Grant  Marsh  |  died  Dec  16.  1856  ^^  64  years 

Anna  Maria  Marsh  |  died  Jan  3.  1879  ^  74  years  |  Farewell  dear 
Parents [Maiden  name  Hammond] 

Elliott  died  Jan.  24  1882  aged  7  years  8  mos  |  &  9  days  |  Vernon  died 
Jan  26.  1882  aged  12  years  |  &  i  day  |  Children  of  Paul  A.  &  S.  Nellie 
Marsh.      [Maiden  name  of  Mother,  Hammond] 

S.  Nellie  |  wife  of  Paul  A.  Marsh  died  May  29.  1865  |  AL  43  years, 
26  days 

Sarah  Ann  Hammond  |  wife  of  James  Davis  Hammond  |  died  July 
9.   1862  ^35  years  2  mos  6  days     [Maiden  name  Hawkins] 

Elizabeth  |  relict  of  William  Hawkins  Sen-  |  died  June  28.  1837  7E 
79  years  3  mos.  3  days 

William  Hawkins  SenJ  |  died  Sept.  29  1804  JE  44-  years  7  mos  14 
days 

In  Memory  of  |  Sarah  |  wife  of  George  Hawkins  |  who  died  Dec  30. 
1859  ^  69.  years  2  mos  |  6  days. 

George  Hawkins  |  died  Jan.  21.  1855  ^  70  years  6  mos  |  10  days. 

Olivia  I  wife  of  Ansil  A.  Reeve  died  Aug.  14.  |  1870  A^  69  years  5  mos 
10  days     [Maiden  name  Lane] 

Ansil  A.  Reeve  |  died  Aug.   11.  1864  JE  64  years  2  mos  27  days 

Charles  A.  Reeve  |  died  April  25,  i860  ^31.  years  5  mos  |  27  days. 

Josephine  ]  daughter  of  Charles  A  &  Maranda  Reeve  ]  died  Sept.  18. 
1856  JE  4  mos  II  days 

Charles  A.  |  son  of  Charles  A.  &  Maranlher  Reeve  |  died  May  22, 
1855  JE.  I  year  5  mos  |  11  days  [Maranda  Ingraham  married  Charles  A. 
Reeve  and  secondly  Henry  Murray] 


8o  Brookhaven    [L.   I.)    Epitaphs.  [April, 

Sacred  to  the  Memory  of  |  Lydia  L.  Davis  |  who  died  Nov.  8.  1846  in 
the  I  83d  year  of  her  age. 

Lydia  A.  [  daughter  of  Ansil  A  &  Olivia  Reeve  |  died  June   18.  1854 
^23  years  25  days. 

Mary  Lane  |  Born  Dec  29.   1790  |  Died  May  23  1875. 

William  J.  Hawkins  |  Born  Nov  25.  1817  |  Died  April  27.  1884. 

In   Memory  of  |  Clara  Estella  |  daughter  of  James  Nelson  &  Clara  A 
Gould  I  who  died  Sept.  4  1841.   JE  7  mos  27  days 

Mary  Elizabeth  |  daughter  of  George  &  Sarah  Hawkins  |  died  Feb.  17, 
1 82 1.     JE  9  mos  20  days 

John  Franklin  j  son  of  John  &  Angeline  Hawkins  |  died  Feb.  10.  1855 
JE  I  year  21  days     [Maiden  name  Newton] 

Mary  Augustine  |  daughter  of  John  &  Angeline  Hawkins  |  departed 
this  life  Sept.  16.  1857  ^  4  years  |  9  mos,  21  days 

Lizzie  May  |  daughter  of  John  &  Angeline  Hawkins  |  died  Feb.  12. 
t868.   JE  I  year.  3  mos  16  days 

Edith  M.  I  died  Dec  24  1879  JE  3  years  3  mos  [Daug;hter  of  Chris- 
topher &  Mary  Hammond.      Name  of  mother,  Rolston] 

In  Memory  of  I  Jemima  |  wife  of  Deacon  Jeremiah  Wheeler  |  who  died 
April  18.  1850  I  ^  90  years  25  days 

In  memory  of  I  Deacon  Jeremiah  Wheeler  |  who  died  July  17,  1854  | 
JE  93.  years.  9  mos,  27  days 

Egbert  E.  |  son  of  Evander  &  Nancy  Wheeler  |  died  Oct  24.  1867.  JE 
23  years  8  mos 

Nancy  |  wife  of  Evander  Wheeler  |  died  Feb  29.  1872.  yE  69  years  4 
mos.      [Daughter  of  Jonas  Newton,  her  mother  was  a  Hawkins] 

In  Memory  of  |  Evander  Wheelei  |  Born  Aug.  29,  1797  |  Died  Nov. 
6.  1877 

Jennie  |  daughter  of  Edward  W.  &  H.  Emeline  Ruland  |  died  Feb  8. 
1870  JE.  2  years  5  mos  24  days 

Georgie  |  daughter  of  E.  W.  &  H.  E.  Ruland  |  died  Jan  17.  1863.  JE 
7  mos  6  days     [Name  of  mother,  Lee] 

Oscar  W,  |  son  of  Jeremiah  P&  Nancy  W.  Lee  |  died  Sept.  22.  1855. 
JE  I  year  9  mos  5  days     [Name  of  mother,  Ruland] 

Mary  |  wife  of  Deacon  David  Overton  |  died  May  17.  1883  JE  70  years 
4  mos  19  days 

Deacon  David  Overton  |  died  May  11.  1857.  JE  57  years  7  mos  20 
days 

Rev.  Floyd  Overton  |  died  at  111.  Aug.  22.  1855  |  JE  32  years  9  mos. 
16  days 

Emma  J.  |  daughter  of  Deacon  David  &  Mary  A.  Overton  |  died  at 
Hudson  River  Institute,  Claverack,  N.  Y.  |  Dec  17.  1859  JE  16  years  10 
months 


1890.]  Inscripiiotis from   the   Dyckman    Burial   Ground.  gj 

Daniel  T.  Overton  [  Died  April  7.  1865  ^  39  years  11  mos  20  days 

Eliza  Jane  |  wife  of  Ezra  K.  Williamson  |  died  April  8.  1866  M  39 
years  11  mos  17  days     [Maiden  name  Hawkins] 

Freddie  |  son  of  S.    M.  &  C.  A.  Darling  |  died  Aug.  28.  1865  ^  24 
days     [Samuel  M.  Darling  married  Cordelia  A.  Overton] 

George  F.  Jodry  |  Died  July  30.  1883.   M  93  years 

Susan  I  wife  of  George  F.  Jodry  j  died  Dec  12.  1865  ^  88  years. 

Died  Sept  4  1856  |  Henry  Wellington  Alexander  |  a  native  of  England 
yE  42  years 

Joshua  O.  Hawkins  |  died  Feb.  14.  1881.  M  32  years  3  mos  24  days 


INSCRIPTIONS   FROM   THE  DYCKMAN    BURIAL   GROUND. 


Contributed  by  Thomas  H.   Edsai.l. 


An  old  burial  ground  on  the  Dyckman  property  near  the  north  end 
of  Manhattan  Island  which  I  examined  in  March,  1881,  afforded  the 
following  mortuary  data,  which  seem  worthy  of  preservation  in  the 
Record,  The  plot  contained  about  one  acre,  on  the  crown  of  a  gently 
sloping  knoll  east  of  the  Kings  Bridge  road  arid  about  two  hundred 
yards  west  of  the  "Century  House"  on  the  bank  of  the  Harlem  River. 
The  inscriptions  on  the  more  ancient  head  stones  were  not  decipher- 
able, and  it  required  the  scraping  away  of  moss  to  read  several  which 
are  given, 

Peter  Come  Dyckman,  only  son  of  States  Morris  and  Eliza  Dyckman, 
d.  April  20,  1824,  aet  27  years. 

Staats  Morris  Dyckman,  d.  Aug.  14,  1806,  aet  51  years,  "  His  man- 
ners were  polite,  his  taste  refined,  his  conjugal  love  was  pure,  his  par- 
ental strong.  His  hospitality  sprang  from  benevolence,  his  charity  from 
feeling  and  a  sense  of  duty.  Highly  esteemed  in  life  he  was  sincerely 
lamented  in  death." 

Also,  Letitia  Catalina — daughter — died  July  29,  1800,  aet  13  months. 

Eliza  Come  Dyckman,  relict  of  Staats  Moriis  Dyckman,  d.  June  20, 
1823,  aet  47  years. 

Mar}',  wife  of  Thomas  Armstrong,  d.  Jan,  4,  1852,  aet  27  y.  ii  m. 

JohnSowerby,  S',,  b.  May  20,  1792,  d,  April  26,  1869. 

Jane  Vermilya,  d.  May  5,  1855,  aet  61  y.  5  m,  23  d. 

Jane  Rebecca  Vermilye,  wife  of  William  D.  Smith  d.  Aug.  9,  1855, 
aet  45  y.  10  m,  8  d. 

George  William  Smith,  b.  in  N.  Y.  April  17,  1817,  d.  Oct.  27,  1876. 

Henry  Townsend,  son  of  George  W.  and  Elizabeth  L.  Smith,  d.  Dec. 
9,  1867,  aet.  4  y.  16  d. 

Rosalie  and  Florence,  twin  daughters  of  Charles  L.  and  Emily  Beau- 
mont, b.  Nov.  21,  1871,  d.  June  19,  and  July  5,  1872, 

Joanna  \'ermilye,  wife  of  George  B.  Smith,  d.  July  30,  1873,  ^^^ 
84  y.  3  m. 


§2  Inscriptions  from   the   Dychnan    Burial   Ground.  [April, 

George  B.  Smith,  d.  May  ii,  1857,  aet  76  y,  i  m. 

Mary  Montgomery,  wife  of  William  W.  Vermilye,  b.  June  16,  1782, 
d.  Aug.  7,  1847. 

William  W.  Vermilye,  b.  Dec.  24,  1780,  d.  Nov.  14,  1849. 

Mary  Ann,  dau.  W".  W.  and  Mary  M.  Vermilye,  b.  April  19,  181 5, 
d.  Oct.  I,  1838. 

William  Erskine,  son  of  Charles  G.  and  Sarah  Rockwood,  d.  July  25, 
1842,  aet  I  y.  2  m.  4  d. 

Joanna,  wife  of  Gardner  A.  Sage  and  dau.  of  Geo.    B.  and   Joanna 
Smith,  d.  Mar.  26,  1843,  aet.  22  y.  11  m, 

Emily,  wife  of  William    H.    Sage,  and  dau.   of  Geo.   B.  and  Joanna 
Smith,  d.  Mar.  29,  1844,  aet  29  y.  7  m. 

Rebecca,   wife  of  John  Vermilya,   d.   Feb.   27,    1850,  aet  77  y.  9  m. 
18  d. 

John  Vermilye,  d.  Oct.  15,  1825,  aet  53  y.  9  m.  3  d. 

Elida  Austin,  d.  Jan.  25,  1835,  aet  79  y.  2  m.  i  d. 

Grandus  Vermilye,  d.  Aug.  3,  1823,  aet  52  y.  2  m. 

Joseph  Clement,  d.  Mar.  2,  1814,  aet  30  y.  2  m.  26  d. 

Jemima,  wife  Joseph  Clement,  d.  June  10,  1831,  aet  43  y.  7  ni. 

Eve  Riker,  d.  Feb.  18,  1845,  ^^^  62  y.  3  m.  18  d. 

Frederick,  son  of  Jacobus  and   Hannah  Dyckman,  d.  Oct.  20,  1809, 
aet  32  y.  10  m. 

Maria,  dau.  of  same,  d.  Jan.  10,  18 16,  aet  24  y.  15  d. 

Jacobus  Dyckman,  d.  Aug.  20,  1832,  aet  83  y.  11  m.  13  d. 

Hannah,  wife  of  same,  d.  Aug.  20,  18 14,  aet  50  y. 

Jacob,  son  of  same,  d.  Dec.  8,  1822,  aet  23  y.  8  m.  29  d. 

Michael  Djckman,  d.  Nov.  24,  1854. 

Isaac  Dyckman,  d.  Jan.  6,  1868. 

Maria  Dyckman,  d.  Feby  28,  1863. 

Mary  Vermilye,  d.  April  14,  1835,  ^^^  81  y. 

Jacob  Vermilye,  d.  Jan  31,  1814,  aet  74  y. 

William  Vermilye,  d.  Mar.  8,  1822,  aet  73  y.  11  m. 

Mary  Vermilya.  d.  Jan.  23,  1826,  aet  78  y. 

Rebecca  Vermilya,  d.  Oct.  6,  1828,  aet  34  }'. 

William  Vermily<7,  d.  Jan.  7,  1822,  aet  46  y. 

William  Dyckman,  son  of  Jacob  and   Hannah,  d.  Aug  31,  1803,  aet 
28  y. 

,  Elizabeth  Hadley,  d.  Sept.  25,  1825,  aet  88  y.  3  m.  5  d. 

William  Hadley,  Esq'^,  d.  Nov.  22,  1801,  aet  69  y.  9  m.  22  d. 

Mary  Vermilyea,  d.  Feby  18,  1802,  aet.  50  y.  5  m. 

William  Hadley,  d.  Aug.  29,  1825,  aet  63  y.  i  m. 

Evander  Childs,  b.  May  16.  1761,  d.  Jan.  i,  1851. 

Garrett  Dyckman,  d.  May  7,   18 16,  aet  60  y.  2  m.  21  d. 

Hannah  Dyckman,  wid.   Garrett,  d»  April   12,  1832,  aet  77  y.  3  m. 
16  d. 

Catalina  Hale,  wid.  Daniel  Hale  and  dau.  Jacob  and  Catalina  Dyck- 
man, b.  Jan.  13,  1769,  d.  Mar.  24,  1829. 

Isaac  W.  Hadley,  d.  Feby  19,   1841,  aet  69  y. 

Charles  Hadley,  d.  July  21,  1840,  aet  ']']  y. 

Mary  Ann,  w.  of  same,  d.  Sept.  3,  1827,  aet  56  y. 

Rosanna  Davis,    b.    Feb.   4,  1801,  d.  Occ.    29,  1874,  aet  ']i  y.  8  m. 
22  d- 


1890.]  The    Crispell  Fatiiily   of  Ulster    Couttly,   N.   F.  g-i 

Henry  Ryer,  d.  Oct.  9,  1846,  aet  72  y. 

Catherine  M.  Williams,  d.  Feb.  26,  1856,  aet  67  y. 

Samuel  Ryer,  d.  Aug..  21,  1852,  aet  78  y.  11  m.  21  d. 

Christianna,  w.  of  same,  d.  July  28,   1850,  aet.  66  y.   i  m.  16  d. 

Tunis  Ryer,  d.  Apr.  13,  1858,  aet  53  y. 

William  C.  Ryer,  d.  Feby  19,  1858,  aet  43  y. 

INIargaret  Odell,   wid.    of  late  Benjamin  Odell,  d.  Jan.   6,    1852,  aet 

51  }'• 

Susan  M.  Holstead,  d.  Nov.  21,  1864,  aet  64  y.  11  d. 

Euphemia,  wife  of  Aaron  Warner,  d.  Apr.  12,   1841,  in  69"' year. 

E.  Jones     *     *     * 

These  are  nearly  all  names  of  old  families  resident  from  earliest  times 
in  Harlem  (of  which  the  old  burial  plot  was  once  a  part),  "the  Yonkers, " 
across  the  "Wading  Place"  to  the  north,  or  Fordham  Manor,  across 
Harlem  river  to  the  east.  It  is  noticeable  that  half  a  dozen  were  born 
n  the  first  half  of  the  eighteenth  century,  and  nearly  twenty  survived 
hree  score  and  ten. 


THE  CRISPELL  FAMILY  OF  ULSTER  COUNTY,   N.  Y. 


By  Thomas  G.  Evans. 


Artois,  an  ancient  province  of  France,  now  comprising  a  portion  of 
the  Department  of  Pas  de  Calais,  lies  in  the  extreme  northern  part  of  the 
country,  near  the  borders  of  Belgium.  It  is  a  fertile  and  well-watered 
tract,  producing  grain  and  hops  and  has  much  rich  pasture  land.  In  the 
middle  of  the  17*  century  it  was  greatly  harassed  by  the  long  and 
devastating  wars  of  the  Fronde,  and  many  of  its  inhabitants,  chiefly  small 
farmers,  were  forced  to  emigrate.  The  majority  of  these  went  to  Mannheim, 
in  the  Lower  Palatinate,  among  them  being  a  stalwart  young  farmer, 
Antoine  Crepel,  or,  as  the  name  is  now  spelled,  Anthony  Crispell.  In 
Mannheim  Crispell  married  Marie,  daughter  of  Mathew  Blanshan,  another 
refugee  from  France,  and  soon  afterward — April  2  7lh,  i66c — set  sail  with 
his  young  wife  and  his  father-in-law,  for  the  New  World,  in  the  ship 
'•Gilded  Otter."  On  arriving  at  New  Amsterdam  they  proceeded 
immediately  to  the  little  village  of  Esopus,  then  just  struggling  into 
renewed  existence  after  the  Indian  war  and  massacre  of  1659.  Here  they 
settled  and  took  up  land.  On  the  2d  of  May  1661,  after  the  village  had 
been  enlarged  by  Stuyvesant,  Crispell  was  allotted  No.  12  of  the  new  lots 
into  which  the  added  part  was  laid  out,  though  he  did  not  build  there, 
but  removed  to  the  New  Village — afterward  called  Hurley — a  short  distance 
south-west  of  Esopus.  On  the  7th  of  June,  1663,  when  the  Indians 
destroyed  the  New  Village  and  nearly  succeeded  in  surprising  and  mas- 
sacring the  inhabitants  of  Esopus,  the  wife  and  infant  daughter  of  Cris- 
pell were  carried  into  captivity,  but  were  soon  after  rescued. 

June  17th,  1666,  Crispell  was  granted  a  parcel  of  land  "near  unto 
the  Ngw  Village."  In  1670  he  was  granted  16  acres  in  Hurley. 
April  5th,  1670,  he  was  one  of  the  Hurley  soldiers  appointed  to  be  pres- 
ent at  the  rendezvous  at  Marbletown,  a  village  then  recently  laid  out  some 

7 


g^  The    Crispell  Family   of  Ulster    Cotmiy,   N.   Y.  [April, 

distance  beyond  Hurley.  In  1677  Crispell,  Abram  Hasbrouck,  Hugo 
Freer,  and  other  French  Huguenots  to  the  number  of  twelve,  wei:;e 
granted  a  large  and  fertile  tract  of  land  lying  some  miles  south  of  Esopus 
to  which  they  gave  the  name  of  New  Paltz,  in  honor  of  the  Pfalz  or  Pala- 
tinate, the  hospitable  region  which  had  given  them  shelter  in  time  of  need. 
Crispell,  however,  seems  never  to  have  lived  in  the  new  settlement,  but 
remained  at  Hurley,  on  his  farm.  His  wife,  Maria  Deyo,  having  died, 
he  married,  about  1680,  Petronella  La  Man  or  De  Mon  (the  name  is 
spelled  both  ways  in  the  records). 

Her,  too,  he  survived,  and  after  her  death,  having  divided  most  of  his 
property  among  his  children,  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  days  with  his 
daughter  Maria  Magdalene,  the  wife  of  Mattys  Slecht. 

His  will,  dated  Nov.  6th,  1707,  and  probated  June  loth,  1708  (thus 
showing  that  he  died  between  those  two  dates),  was  written  in  Dutch  and 
is  recorded  in  the  Ulster  County  Clerk's  Office  in  Book  AA,  page  425. 

Children  0/  Ajithony  Crispell  and  Maria  Blanshan. 

2  i.   Mary  Magdalena,^  bapt.  Feb.  12,  1662  ;  m.   Mattys  Slecht 

(Sleight),   son  of  Cornelius  Barentsen  Slecht  and  Tryntje 
Tyssen  Bos.      [Family  2.] 

3  ii.   PiETER,^  bapt.  Dec.  21,  1664  ;  m.  Neeltje  Gerritse  Newkirk, 

dau.  of  Gerrit  Cornelissen  Newkirk  and  Hendrickje  Paulus. 
He  died  in  1695   or  '96,  and  his  widow  m.  Feb.  18,   1697, 
Johannes  Schepmoes,   bapt,   April  7,    1672,   son  of  Dirck 
Janse  Schepmoes  and  Maria  Willems.      [Family  3.] 
Lysbet,''  bapt,  Oct.  3,  1666  ;  d.  young. 
Lysbet,'' bapt.  Oct.  15,  1668;  m.  Elias  Fan.     [Family  4.] 
Sara,^  bapt.  June  18,  1671  ;  m.  Huybert  Suvlandt.     [Fam- 

iiy  5-] 

7  vi.  John,-  bapt,  July  21,  1674  ;  m.  May  25,  1701,  Geertje  Janse 
Roosa,  probably  dau.  of  Jan  Roosa  and  Hillegond  Van 
Buren,      [Family  6.] 

Children  by  his  second  wife,  Petronella. 

8  vii,   Jannetje,''  bapt.  June  4,  1682  ;  d.  young. 

9  viii.  Jean,''  bapt.  Oct.  12,  1684  ;  d.  young. 
10     ix.   Jannetje,^  bapt.  Feb.  7,    1686;  m.   Dec.    30,  1704,  Nicholas 

Hoffman,  son  of  Martinus  Hoffman  and .  Emmerentje  De 
Witt.      [Family  7.] 

Family  2. 
Children  of  Mary  Magdalcna-  Crispell  (2)  and  Malays  Sleight. 

Maria  Magdalena, 3  bapt.  Aug.  28,  1681. 

Tryntje,'  bapt.  Jan.  27,  1684  ;  m.  March  5,  1704,  Mattys 
Mattyssen  Van  Keuren,  bapt.  April  24,  1681,  son  of  Mattys 
Mattyssen  Van  Keuren  and  Taatje  De  Witt. 

Mattys,^  bapt.  June  13,  1686  ;  m.  Catalyntje  Kip,  dau.  of 
Hendrick  Kip  and  Anna  Janse  Van  Patten. 

CoRNELis,^  bapt.  Sept.  7,  1688  ;  d.  young. 


4 

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5 

iv. 

6 

V. 

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13 

iii 

H 

iv. 

1890.]  The    Crispell  Family   of   Ulster    County,   N.    Y.  gc 

15  V,   Antony,3  bapt.   May  25,    1690;    m.   Nov.    i,    1715,   Neellje 

Bogaard,  bapt.  Jan.  9,  1695,  dau.  of  Hendrick  Bogaard  and 
jannetje  Martens, 

16  vi.    Jan,3  bapt.  Nov.  II,  1694  ;   m.  Aug. 6,  1 716,  Elizabeth  Smedes, 

bapt,  Nov.  I,   1696,  dau.  of  Benjamin  Smedes  and  Magda- 
lena  Louw. 

17  vii.   CoRNELis,3  bapt.  Oct.  10,  1697. 

18  viii.   Petrus,3  bapt.  Sept.  21,  1701. 

19  ix.  Hendricus,^  bapt.   Dec.    22,    1706  ;    m.   Jan.  3,    1736,   Sara 

Kierstede,   bapt.  Sept.   8,    1704,    dau.    of   Hans  Kierstede 
and  Ariaantje  Tappan. 

Family  3. 
Children  of  Pieter-  Crispell  (j)  and  Neeltje  Gerritse  A\'wkirk. 

20  i.  Anthony,^  bapt.  April   17,    1692;    m.   Sept.   11,    1719,    Lea 

Roosa,    bapt.    Sept.    11,    1698,    dau.    of   Hyman    Aldertse 
Roosa  and  Anna  Margaret  Rosevelt. 
2  1     ii.   Ariantje,^  bipt.  June  3,  1694. 

22  iii.  Johannes,^  bapt.  Oct.  27,    1695  ;    m.   Dec.  15,    1725,    Anna 

Margaret  Roosa,  bapt.  Dec.  22,  1706,  dau.  of  Aldert  Roosa 
and  Aagje  Krom.     One  of  his  descendants  was  the  late  Dr. 
Peter  Crispell,  for  many  years  a  well-known   physician  of 
Ulster  County. 

Family  4. 
Childreft  of  Lyshet-  Crispell  (5)  and  Elias  Ean. 

23  i.  Mary,3  bapt.  Aug.  8,  1697. 

24  ii.  Jan, 3  bapt.  Feb.  18,  1700;  m.  Feb.  9,  1735,   Geertje  Roosa, 

of  Marbletown. 

25  iii.   Mary  Magdalena,^  bapt.  April  5,  1702. 

26  iv.    Elizabeth,^    bapt.   April    15,     1705  ;     m.    Sept.     19,     1731, 

Marinus  Van  Aken. 

27  V.   Sara, 3  bapt.  Feb.  11,  1709. 

Family  5. 
Children  of  Sara"  Crispell  and  Huyhert  Suylajidt. 

28  i.  Marie,3  bapt.  Sept.  18,  1692. 

29  ii.   Cathryntje,3  bapt.  April  5,   1696. 

30  iii.   Lena,3  bapt.  Aug.  14,   1698. 

31  iv.  Johannes,  bapt.  July  20,  1701  ;    m.  Eva  Van  Vegten. 

32  v,   Elizabeth,  bapt.  May  7,  1710. 

Family  6. 

Children  of  fohn^  Crispell  (7)  and  Geertje  fanse  Roosa. 

2,1  i.  Marytje,3  bapt.  March  15,  1702  ;  m.  (i)  April  28,  1725, 
Jacob  Heermans,  bapt.  Feb.  2,  1701,  son  of  Jan  Heermans 
and  Annatje  Van  Wagenen  ;  m.  (2)  Dirck  Van  Vliet,  ba-pt. 
Jan.  I,  1 70 1,  son  of  Dirck  Van  Vliet  and  Annatje  An- 
driesse. 


g5  Kingston    Church   Records.  [April, 

34  ii.   HiLLEGOND,^  born  April    17,    1704,    d.  Feb.   22,   1774  ;    m. 

Feb.  26,  1726,  Abraham  Van  Wagenen,  born  Feb.  5, 
1699,  d.  June  7,  1787,  son  of  Jacob  Aertsen  Van  Wagenen 
and  Sara  Pels. 

35  iii.   Rebecca/ bapt.  March  17,  1706  ;  d.  young. 

36  iv.   Antonie/  bapt.  Oct.  12,  1707  ;  m.  CatrinaVan  Benthuysen. 

37  V.   Helena,^  bapt.  May  7,  1710  ;  m.  April  4,  1731,  Tewnis  Van 

Steenberg,  bapt.  April  17,  1702,  son  of  Mattys  Jansen  Van 
Steenberg  and  Marritje  Tewnisse  Ellison. 

38  vi.   Jan, 3  bapt.  Sept.  21,  1712  ;  m.  (i)  Dec.  10,  1736,  Sara  Jan- 

sen, of  Marbletown,  dau.  of  Thomas  Jansen  and  Maylce 
Bogaard  ;  m.  (2)  Dec.  29,  1753,  Dorothea  Maria  Kraft,  born 
in  Germany,  living  in  Shandaken.  Jan  Crispell  settled  in 
Shokan  about  1747- 

39  vii.   Rebecca,^  bapt.  April  7,  171 7. 

40  viii.   Petrus,^  bapt.  Jan.  24,  1720. 

41  ix.   Sara, 3  bapt.  Nov.  26,  1721.' 

Family  7. 
Children  of  Jannetje'  Crispell  {10)  and  Nicholas  Hoffman. 

42  i.    Martinus,3  bapt.   March    17,    1706;    m.  1733,  Tryntje 

Benson,  dau,  of  Robert  Benson  and  Cornelia  Roos. 
Antje,5  bapt.  Feb.  11.  1709. 
Anthony, 3  bapt.  March  18,  171 1  ;    m.  Jan.  6.   1738,  Catrina 

Van  Gaasbeck. 
Zacharias,^  bapt.  Dec.  6,   1713. 
Petrus,3  bapt.  Dec.  22,  1716. 
Hendricus,3  bapt.  June  7,  1719. 
Annatjen,3  bapt.  Dec.  3,  1721. 


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44 

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45 

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4n 

V. 

47 

VI. 

48 

vn. 

KINGSTON  CHURCH  RECORDS. 

It  is  an  encouraging  sign  to  those  of  genealogical  and  antiquarian 
tastes  that  so  general  an  interest  has  lately  arisen  in  the  accumulation  and 
preservation  of  material  relating  to  early  local  and  family  history.  The 
recent  publication  of  the  town  records  of  some  of  the  old  settlements  in 
New  England  and  on  Long  Island,  and  the  constantly  increasing  num- 
ber of  family  genealogies  that  are  being  compiled  and  printed,  show  that 
th'e  people  of  our  country  are  coming  to  realization  of  the  truth  of 
Edmund  Burke's  saying,  that  "Those  who  do  not  treasure  up  the  mem- 
ory of  their  ancestors  do  not  deserve  to  be  remembered  by  posterity."  Of 
all  the  aids  to  genealogical  research,  none  are  so  valuable  as  church 
records  of  baptisms  and  marriages,  and  the  preservation  of  these  are  of 
great  importance.  For  some  years  the  records  of  the  Collegiate  Dutch 
Church  of  New  York  City,  commencing  in  1639,  ^^^^^  been  in  course  o 
publication  in  the  pages  of  this  magazine,  and  now,  thiough  the  faithful, 
conscientious,  and  laborious  efforts  of  Chaplain  Roswell  Randall  Hoes, 


1890.]  Weddings   at   St.   Mary,    Whitechapel,   Lojjdon.  gy 

U.  S.  N.,  there  will  soon  appear  in  print  the  records  of  the  First  Reformed 
Church  of  Kingston,  Ulster  County,  N.  Y.  This  church,  one  of  the 
earliest  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  denomination  in  this  country,  was 
founded  in  1660,  under  the  ministration  of  Dominie  Blom,  and  its  rec- 
ords of  baptisms  and  marriages  begin  at  that  date.  The  original  vol- 
umes— small  octavo  blank-books  bound  in  old  calf — are  still  in  existence 
(unlike  the  records  of  the  New  York  church,  which,  previous  to  1685, 
are  copies  made  in  that  year  by  Dominie  Selyns)  ;  and  the  entries  therein, 
made  in  the  Dutch  language  in  a  small  crabbed  hand-writing,  are  very 
difficult  to  decipher. 

Chaplain  Hoes  has  spent  several  years  in  making  a  complete  and  accu- 
rate copy  of  these  records,  having  gone  over  the  entries,  for  the  purpose 
of  comparing  his  copy,  four  separate  times,  not  only  word  by  word,  but 
letter  by  letter.  The  volume,  which  will  be  issued  from  the  De  Vinne 
press  in  the  course  of  a  few  months,  will  be  a  large  royal  octavo,  printed 
on  heavy  water-lined  paper,  uncut,  and  containing,  with  the  indices, 
about  one  thousand  pages.  It  will  give  the  marriages  and  baptisms  from 
1660  to  1810 — 2,267^  of  the  former  and  over  10,000  of  the  latter.  The 
price  will  be  $10.00  per  copy,  and  subscriptions  may  now  be  sent  to 
Chaplain  Hoes,  11 15  Seventeenth  Street,  Washington,  D,  C. 

It  is  needless  to  speak  of  the  value  of  this  book  to  those  interested  in 
tracing  their  descent  from  those  exponents  of  liberty  and  freedom  of  con- 
science, the  Dutch  pioneers  of  the  New  Netherlands.  t.   g.  e. 


WEDDINGS   AT   ST.   MARY,    WHITECHAPEL,    LONDON, 
FROM   A.D.   1606   TO    1625. 


Communicated  by  John  V.  L.  Pruyn. 


(Continued  from  Vol.  XX.,  p.  189,  of  The  Record.) 

November  1614. 

3,    Henry  Cadwallader  c^  Margret  Mullford. 

6,    John  Gaunt  &  Margret  Bread. 

8,   Paul  De  Cooke  &  Alice  Coe. 
10,   Tho  :  Stanton  &  Jane  Crookes. 
13,   Tho  :  Mathews  &  Eliz  :  Stokes. 
20,    Henry  Ginne  &  IMargery  Gardner. 
22,   John  Addison  &  Alice  Diues. 
24,   John  Cowley  &  Sarah  Roue. 

December  1614. 

I,   John  Warvvicke  &  Mary  Taylor. 

I,    Henry  Pokinhorne  &  Mary  Post. 
12,   Walter  Barton  &  Jone  Willson. 
12,    William  Hudson  &  Margery  Bromfeild. 
15,    James  Higgins  &  Thomazen  Dransfeild. 
27,   ffrancis  Teyton  &  Jone  Wagget. 
2o[5?cJ,   Daniel  May  &  Jone  fflacknell. 


!8  Weddings   at   St.   Mary,    Whitechapel,  London.  [April, 

January  1614. 

1,  ffrancis  Simons  &  Betterise  Cross. 

2,  Tho  :  ifayrcliffe  &  Eliz  :  Goodwin. 

3,  Roger  Selby  &  Katherin  Jones. 

8,  John  Atkinson  &  Eliza  :  Guessy. 

9,  William  Barker  &  Jone  Allen. 
12,  Gilbert  Burton  &  Mary  Adcock. 
17,  Tho  :  Cowen  &  Judith  Smith. 

21,  Gyles  Knowels  &  Eliz:  ffuller. 

22,  Edmund  Bukby  &  Alice  Richardson. 

23,  Bartholomew  Dale  &  Mary  Chandler. 

30,  Tho  :  Cocke  &  Margery  Stephens. 

31,  Tho  :   Brevvry  &  Eliz  :  Carpenter. 
31,   ffrancis  Mors  &  Margery  Lyllam. 

February  16 14. 
2,   William  Clifford  et  Eliz  :  Crookson. 

4,  John  Hallywell  et  Marv  Jones.' 

6,  Stephen  Willcocks  &  Mary  Russell. 

7,  Henry  Elsmore  &  Jone  Champion.  ^ 

8,  John  Simon  &  Mary  Wallworth. 

12,  Rob  :  Bayley  &  Eliz  :  Payne. 

17,    Henry  Cannon  &  Kathe:  Hammerton. 
19,    Henry  Figgis  &  Sarah  Clay. 
19,   Emanuell  Grove  A  Margaret  Crosman. 
19,    Henry  Purman/^  Rebecca  Crask. 

19,  Tho:  Stinton'S:  Eliz  :  Ashley. 

20,  William  Baxter  &  Agnes  Turner. 

21,  Will  :  Cobb  &  Ann  ffainford.  . 
21,   Roger  Apletarttt  Alice  Brooke. 

March  [16 15]. 

25,  John  White  &  Eliza  :  Pri 

27,   John  Knowels  &  Dorithy  Hide. 

April  1615. 
10,   Tho  :  Gale  &  Hester  How. 
10,   Will  :  Champion.  &  Katherin  Atkinson. 

13,  James  Turner  &  Sarah  Brewry. 

16,  James  Creez  &  Sarah  Newman. 

17,  Tho:  Bennet  &  Judith  Racy. 
17,  John  Tyllsey  &  Agnes  Elam. 
21,  R.ich  :  Owen  &  Mary  Stanhopee. 
25,  Henry  Ward  &  Eliz  :    Harris. 
25,  John  Turner  &  Eliz:  Abell. 

30,   Tho  :  Orley  &  Ann  Wing. 

May  161 5. 
I,   Will:  Homes  &  Alice  Willson. 

1,  John  Stokes  &  Issabell  Wood. 

2,  John  Hartford  &  Ann  Staples. 

2,  Mathew  Stephenson  &  Eliz:  Broune. 

3,  John  Allen  &  Margaret  Bunn. 

8,   John  Morry  [?  Morris]  &  Barbery  Sturt. 

14,  Tho:  Stockley  &  Jone  Jones. 
19,   Tho:  Allsopp  &  Agnes  King. 


1890.]  Weddings   at   St.   Mary,    Whifechapel,    Lofidon.  89 

22,  John  Osburne  &  Jone  Bateman. 

22,  Roger  Smith  &  Mary  Walker. 

29,  John  Griffen  &  Eliz:  Rock. 

29,  Raph  Gunnell  &  Grace  Johnson. 

30,  John  More  &  Margery  Rewborow. 
30,  William  Postle  &  Margery  Parry. 

June  1615 

1,  James  How  &  Katherin  Smith. 

1 1,   John  Bawnier  &.  Christian  Gilbert. 
29,   Tho:  Beeton  &  Susanna  Beely. 

July  1 61 5. 

2,  Rob:  Low  &  Margaret  Cabbet. 

2,  Rob:  Nichollson  &  Jone  Thornton. 

2,  Tho:  White  &  Dorithy  Sanders. 

6,  Tho:  Roby  &  Jone  Woodshaw. 

9,  Tho:  Hullingden  &  Alice  Mathewes. 
II,  Rob:  Allaway  &  Jone  Hickok, 

13,  Tho:  Linford  &  Margaret  Good. 

14,  Rob:  Marrit  &  ftaith  Wright. 

16,  Christopher  Cotty&  Alice  Saunders. 

17,  John  Morrys  &  Eliz:  Smith. 

25,    Henry  Allcocok  [5/c]  &  Margery  More. 
25,  John  Bell  &  Prissilla  Cotwyn. 

29,  Rob:  Davis  &  Rachell   Lee. 

^-^o,  Tho:  Woodcock  &  Christian  Oadby. 

30,  James  Beale  &  Agnes  Man. 

August   1615. 

5,  Will:  Bunduke  &  Eliz:  Smith. 

6,  Will:  Marshall  &  Margery  Harvy. 

6,  James  Goodson  &  C^race  Hayet. 

7,  Anthony  Cor  &  Margaret  Pallmer. 
7,   Paule  Woodward  &  Jone  Davis. 

20,  Zacheus  Mast  &  Silvestra  Page. 

22,  Tho.  Rivers  &  Ann  Clare. 

27,  Rob:  Day  &  Alice  Gray. 

31,  John  ftVizell  &  Eliz:  Batle. 

September  161 5. 

7,  John  fFreeman  &  Margery  Roberts, 

17,  Edward  Mathewes  &  Julian  Barker. 
iS,  John  Gierke  &  Sarah  Crutchington. 

18,  Hammond  Johnson  &  Jane  Cuthbert. 

October  161 5. 
I,   Anthony  Bazy  &  Eliz:  Batrum. 

8,  Peter  Davis  &  Em  \sic\  Avery. 

9,  John  Holbuck  &  Eliza:  Jordan. 
9,   Edward  Simmes  [&]  Ellen  Euster. 

10,  John  Sarris  &  Ann  Megges.  Lie  [ence]. 

1 1,  Rich:  Woodley  &  Mary  Hooper. 

12,  Edward  Cherry  &  Katherin  Robinson. 
15,    Will:  Porcher  &  Jone  Champion, 

17,    Nicholas  Eve  &  Judith  Adrin. 

19,  John  Reynolds  &  Katherine  Law. 

22,   Rich:  Baskerfeild  &  Grase  Rose,  Lie  [ence]. 


go  Weddings   at   St.    Mary,    Whitechapel,    Lo?idon.  [April, 


November  1615. 
Bartholomew  Peirce  &  Eliz:  Ashford. 
Rob:  Hanch  &  Susanna  Hayes. 
Rich:  Sanders  &  Eliza:  Greene. 
Edward  fface  &  Katharine  Clerk. 
Beniamin  fFeildar  &  Rebecca  Alloms. 
Evan  Williams  &  Katherin  Parry. 
Jacob  Arnold  &  Alice  Hammond. 
[2]6,   Peerce  Nante  &  Margaret  Gibbes,  Lic[ence].. 
Henry  Salter  &  Eliz:  Davis. 

December  16 15. 
John  Castell  &  Agnes  Banes. 
Edward  Ould  &  ifaith  Warcupp. 
Will:  Reeue  &  Susanna  Hall. 
Daniell  Cotes  &  Prissilla  Johnson. 
Rob:  Hardun  &  Eliz:  Hollax. 
Rob:  Hoy  &  'Em[sic^  Whaly. 
George  Costerne  &  Katherin  Sterley. 
John  Mason  &  Agnes  Abell. 
Michael  1  Richards  &  EUinor  Hellen.    Lic[ence]. 
John  Eldred  &  Ann  Chapman.     Lic[ence]. 

Januarie  1615. 
Richard  Charsley  &  Mariana  Cherry. 
John  Clerk  &  Eliz:  Pitcher. 
John  Peggler  &  Alice  Day. 
Will:  Wellman  &  Alice  Shilson. 

John   North,    curate  then  of  this  place,  &  Mary  Williams  were 
married  vppon  the  xviijth  day  of  this  month:  a°:  161 5. 
George  Skingley  &  Ann  Hudson.      Lic[ence]. 
Tho:  Silvester  &  Judith  Robson. 
John  Smart  &  Sarah  Vercolge.     Lic[ence]. 
John  Birdall  &  Jone  Bettany. 
Tho:  Smith  &  Jane  Bedford. 

Februarie,  1615. 
Tho:  Wilkinson  &  Agnes  Wright. 
Rich:  Ward  &  Jone  Clerk. 
Triamor  Enion  &  Mary  Pilkington. 
Tobias  Mario  &  Martha  Kirb_y. 
Roger  Pratt  «&  Barbery  Roberts. 
Will:  ffeild  &  Ann  Linford. 
Edward  Anderson  &  Julian  Bushell. 

Christopher  Torren  &  Mary  Paces.  * 

Manages,  1616. 

March. 
Manages  none. 

Aprill  1616. 
I,   Mathew  Anderson  et  Alice  Randall. 

1,  William  Smith  &  Margaret  Stephenson. 

2,  Samuell  Ayton  et  Jone  Nash. 
2,   John  Vinson  et  Mary  Harison. 

10,    Mathew  Hammond  et  Rachell  Pullman. 

( To  be  continued^ 


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4 
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7 
10 

15 
18 
18 
28 

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7 
14 

15 

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21 
22 

23 

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28 

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12 
12 
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1890.]  Noks   and   Queftes.  q^ 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

Proceedings  ok  the  Society. — At  the  meeting  held  on  Jan.  8th,  1890,  after 
the  usual  routine  business  and  the  election  of  several  new  members,  the  society  pro- 
ceeded to  vote  for  trustees,  this  being  the  annual  meeting  for  that  purpose.  Mr. 
Charles  B.  Moore/  Mr.  Samuel  Burlians,  Jr.,  and  Mr.  Edmund  Abdy  Hurry  were 
unanimously  re-elected,  their  terms  having  expired.  Chaplain  Hoes,  U.  S.  N.;  then 
made  some  remarks  upon  the  old  Kingston  Church  and  its  records,  stating  the  very 
interesting  fact  that  they  were  the  oldest  original  church  records"  in  this  country,  run- 
ning back  to  i56o,  the  records  of  the  Collegiate  Church  of  New  York  from  1639 
(when  they  begin)  to  16S5,  being  copies  made  by  Dominie  Selyns  in  the  latter  year 
from  originals  which  are  now  lost.  At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  held  Jan. 
14th,  officers  were  elected  for  the  ensuing  year.  Their  names  are  given  elsewhere. 
On  Jan.  17th  a  special  meeting  was  held  for  the  purpose  of  listening  to  an  address 
by  Henry  F.  Waters,  Esq.,  of  Salem,  Mass.,  on  "American  Genealogical  Researches 
in  England."  Mr.  Waters  has  spent  a  number  of  years  in  genealogical  study  in  Eng- 
land, and  has  made  many  discoveries  of  great  interest  and  importance.  The  meet- 
ings of  Jan.  24th  and  Feb.  28th  were  addressed  respectively  by  Prof.  Henry  Copp^e, 
LL.D.,  of  I^ehigh  University,  on  "Doubtful  Questions  Connected  with  the  Dis- 
covery of  America,"  and  by  Col.  William  C.  Church  on  "John  Ericsson  and  Engi- 
neering Progress  during  the  Nineteenth  Century."  At  the  March  meeting,  held  on 
the  evening  of  the  14th,  Major-Gen.  O.  O.  Howard,  U.  S.  A.,  gave  a  very  interest- 
ing address  on  "  Gen.  Grant  and  the  Battle  of  Chattanooga."  The  second  regular 
meeting  of  the  month,  on  the  28th,  was  devoted  to  miscellaneous  business  and  conver- 
sation.    A  large  number  of  new  members  have  recently  been  added  to  the  society. 

The  names  and  addresses  of  the  eldest  male  posterity,  if  any,  of  the  following 
Officers  of  the  Revoh^tign  would  be  gladly  received  by  John  Schuyler,  Sec- 
retary of  the  New  York  State  Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  63  William  Street,  New 
York  City  : 

Peter  Annspach,  I^ieutenant  2d  Artillerj'. 

Aaron  Aarson,  Captain  1st  N.  Y. 

Josiah  Bagley,  Lieutenant  1st  N.  Y. 

Jacob  Bradford,  a  brother  of  James   Bradford,  Lieutenant   and  Adjutant  of  the 
2d  Artillery. 
/  Caleb  Brewster,  Lieutenant  2d  Artillery. 
;  James  Brewster,  Lieutenant  2d  Artillery. 

Dr.  Joseph  Brown,  Surgeon  7th  Pennsylvania  Regiment. 

John  Cape,  Lieutenant  ist  N.  J. 

Nehemiah  Carpenter,  Ensign  2d  N.  Y. 

Robert  Cochran,  Lieutenant-Colonel  2d  N.  Y. 

William  Colbrath,  I^ieutenant  2d  N.  Y. 

Michael  Connolly,  Lieutenant  2d  N.  Y. 

Samuel  Cooper,  Lieutenant  3d  Regiment  of  Artillery,  from  Mass. 

Dr.  Andrew  Craigie,  Apothecary-General  ;  died  in  18 19  at  Cambridge,  Mass. 

John  Dutton  Crimsheir,  Lieutenant  and  Paymaster  2d  Artillery. 

Henry  Cunningham,  Lieutenant  2d  Artillery. 

Dr.  James  Davidson,  Commissary-General,  Hospital. 

Henry  Demler,  Lieutenant  2d  Artillery. 

Daniel  Deniston,  Lieutenant  2d  N.  Y. ;  died  in  1824. 

George  J.  Den'niston,  Lieutenant  3d  N.  Y.;  died  1812. 

Pierre  Regnier  De  Roussy,  Lieutenant-Colonel  2d  N.  Y.,  on  Steuben's  staff. 

Samuel  Dodge,  Ensign  2d  N.  Y. 

Henry  Du  Bois,  Captain  2d  N.  Y. ;  died  1794. 

Dr.  John  Elliott,  Surgeon's  Mate,  ist  N.  Y. 

Andrew  Englis,  Lieutenant  ist  Mass. 

George  Fleming,  Captain  2d  Artillery  ;  died  1822. 

Joseph  Foot,  Lieutenant  1st  Mass.;  died  1807. 

Joseph  Frilick,  Lieutenant  2d  N.  Y. 

John  Furman,  Lieutenant  ist  N.  Y. 

Daniel  Gano,  Lieutenant  2d  Artillery. 

Rev.  John  Gano,  Chaplain  N.  Y.  Brigade  ;  died  1804. 


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Notes   and   Qjien'es.  [April, 


Benjamin  Gilbert,  Lieutenant  1st  N.  Y. 

James  Giles,  Lieutenant  2d  Artillery  ;  died  1825. 

John  Gorham,  Major  1st  N.  Y. 

Dr.  Stephen  Gorham,  Surgeon's  Male,  Hospital. 

John  Green,  Captain  U.  S.  Navy. 

James  Gregg,  Captain  1st  N.  Y. 

Isaac  Guion,  Lieutenant  2d  Artillery. 

Hoysted  Hacker,  Captain  U.  S.  Navy  ;  died  1814. 

Dr.  Mordecai  Hale.  Surgeon's  Mate  ;  died  1832. 

Jonathan  Hallett,  Captain   2d  N.  Y. 

Luther  Halsey,  Lieutenant  2d  N.  J.;  died  1830. 

John  Francis  Hamtramck,  Captain  2d  N.  Y. ;  died  1803. 

Francis  Hanmor,  Lieutenant  5th  N.  Y. 

Joseph  Hardy,  Captain  of  Marines,  U.  S.  Navy. 

Nathaniel  Henry,  Lieutenant  2d  N.  Y. 

Benjamin  Herring,  Ensign  1st  N.  Y. ;  died  1809. 

Abel  Holden,  Captain  6th  Mass.;  died  i8i3. 

Baxter  Howe,  Lieutenant  2d  Artillery. 

Isaac  Hubbell,  Paymaster  2d  Artillery. 

Ephraim  Hunt,  Lieutenant  4th  Mass.;  died  1805. 

Thomas  Hunt,  Lieutenant  4th  N.  Y. ;  died  1796. 

Abraham  Hyatt,  Lieutenant  4th  N.  Y. 

Cornelius  T.  Jansen,  Captain  i  st  N.  Y.,  Ulster  Co.,  N.  Y. 

We  have  the  pleasure  of  presenting  the  readers  of  the  Record  with  a  portrait  of 
Dr.  Benjamin  Moore,  second  bishop  of  New  York  and  third  president  of  Columbia 
College,  from  a  picture  in  the  possession  of  his  grandson,  Clement  C.  Moore.  This 
portrait  bears  a  striking  likeness  to  the  one  in  the  library  of  Columbia  College.  There 
is  in  the  General  Theological  Seminary,  Chelsea  Square,  a  portrait  of  the  bishop, 
attributed  to  Jarvis.  This  represents  him  as  a  much  older  man.  There  is,  or  was, 
also  a  painting  of  the  bishop,  sitting  in  his  robes.  This  has  been  engraved  several 
times.  The  large  engraving,  made  in  the  early  part  of  the  present  century,  has  be- 
come very  rare,  but  the  smaller  one,  made  about  the  same  time,  is  not  infrequently 
met  with.  We  have  been  informed  that  Huntington  made  himself  familiar  with  these 
engravings  before  he  painted  the  excellent  portrait  of  the  bishop  in  the  vestry-room  of 
Trinity  chapel.  A  modern  engraving,  copied  apparently  from  these  older  ones,  is 
in  Mr.  Onderdonk's  "  History  of  Grace  Church,  Jamaica."  The  life  of  Bishop  Moore 
has  been  written  so  often  and  so  well  that  it  is  not  worth  while  to  repeat  it  in  the 
Record.  It  will  be  sufficient  to  give  a  brief  bibliography.  Accounts  of  the  bishop's 
career  and  character  will  be  found  in  Anderson's  "  History  of  the  Colonial  Church," 
Berrian's  "  History  of  Trinity  Church,"  Riker's  "  History  of  Newtown,"  Onder- 
donk's "  History  of  Grace  Church,  Jamaica,"  McVickar's  "  Life  of  Hobart,"  Wilber- 
force's  "  American  Church,"  and  Bishop  Hobart's  celebrated  "  Funeral  Sermon  and 
Appendix,"  a  copy  of  the  first  edition  of  which  is  in  the  library  of  Columbia  College, 
and  which  was  reprinted  by  Stanford  and  Swords  in  1847,  under  the  title  of  "  Hobart 
on  the  State  of  the  Departed."  Appleton's  "  Gyclopredia  of  Biography"  contains  a 
-short  sketch  of  the  bishop,  and  a  fuller  one,  by  the  Rev.  Cornelius  B.  Smith,  is  in  the 
"Centennial  History  of  the  Diocese  of  New  York."  There  is  a  copy  of  "  Bishop 
Moore's  Sermons"  at  Columbia  College.  Sabin,  in  his  ''Loyalists,"  gives  an 
account  of  the  bishop  which  is  a  model  of  brevity,  but  which  is  at  the  same  time 
even  ludicrously  inaccurate. 

Record  taken  from  a  Dutch  Bible,  in  possession  of  Warren  S.  Dey,  of  N.  Y. 
City  : 

In  the  year  of  our  Lord  (date  erased),  August  ist,  was  Adrian  Man,  born,  in  New 
York. 

1730,  March  17th,  Adrian  Man  died. 

Adrian  Man  was  married  to  Anthe  Oothout,  Jan.  2S,  1691,  in  New  York. 

My  wife  Anthe  Oothout  was  born  March  29,  i66g,  in  Albany. 

1691,  Nov.  g,  is  born  my  first  daughter  Geerthe  in  New  York. 

1693,  Dec.  16,  my  first  son  Johannes  is  born. 

1701,  Aug.  10,  I  married  Hester  Bordyn  in  New  York. 

1667,  Dec  5,  is  born  my  wife  Hester.     (Record,  Vol.  VII.,  p.  125.) 


1890.]  Notes   and   Queries. 


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1690,  July  II,  is  born  my  wife's  son,  named  Samuel.    (Record,  Vol.  XL,  p.  141.) 
lyoiz,  Nov.  II,  is  our  first  daughter  Geerthe,  born. 
1704,  Feb  5,  is  our  son  Nicolas  born. 
1705  May  2g,  is  our  son  Nicolas  born. 
1707,  Sept  10,  is  our  son  Nicolas  born. 
1710  July  15,  is  our  daughter  liester,  born. 
1731,  Sept  I,  Geerthe  died. 
1749  Sept  II,  Johannes,  died. 

Note. — Adrian  Man  had  a  son,  Adriaan,  bp.  in  N.  Y.,  Sept.  11,  1698,  not  men- 
tioned in  the  Bible  record.  (Record,  Vol.  XIV.,  p.  86.)  g.  h.  v.  w. 

Among  others  who  have  subscribed  to  the  Columbus  statue  to  be  erected  ii^  the 
Central  Park,  in  October,  1892,  under  the  auspices  of  our  Society  are  Henry  G.  Mar- 
quand,  W.  W.  Corcoran,  Russell  Sage,  Jay  Gould,  Clarence  W.  Bowen,  Benjamin  H. 
Field,  George  W.  Childs,  Joseph  W.  Drexel,  D.  Willis  James,  Jas.  Grant  Wilson, 
J.  Meredith  Read,  S.  P.  Dewey,  Jose  F.  Navarro,  Mrs.  Jose  F.  de  Navarro,  Alfonso 
de  Navarro,  Antonio  F.  de  Navarro,  John  Jacob  Astor,  Cornelius  Vanderbilt,  Egbert 
L.  Velie,  Mrs.  Robert  L.  Stuart,  Mrs.  Russell  Sage,  William  Waldorf  Astor,  Ros- 
well  P.  Flower,  William  H.  Appleton,  George  W.  Quintard,  and  John  D.  Crimmins. 
It  is  proposed  that  150  ladies  and  gentlemen  shall  subscribe  $100  to  meet  the  cost  of 
the  bronze  statue  and  marble  pedestal.  Subscriptions  may  be  sent  to  the  treas- 
urer, Dr.  George  H.  Butler,  Berkeley  Lyceum,  23  West  Forty-fourth  Street,  New 
York.     A  representation  of  the  beautiful  statue  appeared  in  the  Record  for  July,  18S8. 

Old  Gabriel,  the  Mission  Indian,  who  was  reputed  to  have  reached  the  great  age 
of  151  years,  died  in  Salinas,  Monterey  County,  California,  i6th  March,  1890.  He 
had  no  malady  except  the  gradual  breaking  up  of  his  system.  Old  Gabriel  had  rec- 
ords to  prove  his  years.  He  could  remember  Fath'er  Junipero  Sarra,  who  founded 
Carmel  Mission,  near  Monterey,  and  until  within  two  or  three  j'ears  his  mind  was  still 
active.  His  skin  looked  like  parchment,  but  he  could  walk  about,  and  seemed  as 
young  as  most  men  of  four  score  at  the  anniversary  of  his  supposed  150th  birthday 
during  the  summer  of  last  year.  Another  remarkable  case  of  longevity  that  seems  to 
be  authentic  is  that  of  Aunt  Matilda  Ruley,  who  has  recently  died  at  the  age  of  123 
years,  in  Raywick,  Kentucky,  her  mother  having,  it  is  said,  reached  an  even  greater 
age.     A  Bible  is  quoted  as  the  unquestioned  authority  for  their  extraordinary  ages. 

J.  G.  w. 

James  N.  Ai'sNold,  editor  of  the  N'arraganseit  Historical  Regiskr,  of  Providence, 
R.  I.,  has  nearly  completed  the  largest  genealogical  work  yet  undertaken  in  America. 
His  work  will  show  every  birth,  marriage,  death,  will  or  inventory  recorded  on  the 
public  records  of  the  various  towns  and  cities  of  the  state  of  Rhode  Island,  from  the 
settlement,  in  1636,  to  the  year  1850,  when  the  present  registration  law  was  passed. 
A  work  of  this  character  is  indeed  a  work  of  great  labor,  and,  when  published  in  its 
entirety,  as  a  work  of  reference  for  genealogical  students  must  be  of  great  value. 

In  our  notice  of  the  Winslow  Memorial,  in  January  number  of  the  Record, 
several  typographical  errors  crept  in — such  as  Kenclmi  for  "  Kenelm";  Norwardiox 
' '  Forward  " ;  bleszed  for  ' '  blessed  " ;  and  the  number  of  Index  pages  should  have  been 
128,  instead  of  72.  In  addition  we  desire  to  say  that  the  work  is  published  by  Mrs. 
Frances  K.  Holton,  23  Day  Ave,   IVestfield,  A/ass.  H,  R.  s. 

R.  T.  Church,  of  Turin,  Lewis  Co.,  N.  Y.,  is  compiling  a  history  of  the  Church 
family,  the  manuscript  of  which,  when  completed,  he  intends  depositing  in  the  archives 
of  this  Society.  It  is  requested  that  any  one  having  material  bearing  upon  the  sub- 
ject will  communicate  with  Mr.  Church,  at  the  above  address. 

A  VERY  annoying  typographical  error  occurred  in  a  paragraph  on  page  46  of  our 
January  number.  The  writer  alluded  to  the  last  of  the  Dutch  governors  of  New 
York,  which  by  an  extraordinary  oversight  of  editor  and  proof-reader  appeared  as  the 
last  of  the  Dutch  runners  of  New  York. 

AcKERMAN.  [Record,  Vol.  XX.,  p.  68.]  After  "  In  memory  of  William  Acker- 
man,"  in  place  of  stars,  should  read  :  "  wlio  departed  this  life  Oct.  4,  1808,  in  the  82d 
year  of  his  age."  T.  H.  E, 


QA  Book   Notices.  [April, 


BOOK  NOTICES. 

PROCEEniNGS  OF  THE  CELEBRATION  OF  THE  TwO  HUNDRED  AND  FIFTIETH  ANNI- 
VERSARY OF  THE  Settlement  of  Guilford,  Conn.,  September  8,  g  and  lo,  1889. 
New  Haven,  i88g.  pp.  289. 

The  Guilford  committee  acted  wisely  in  preserving  the  record  of  their  pleasant 
celebi-ation  in  this  well-printed  hrochure,  which  is,  however,  disfigured  with  numerous 
errata,  the  result  either  of  very  great  haste  or  carelessness.  To  one  of  these  causes 
must  also  be  attributed  the  many  errors  to  be  met  with  in  Professor  Johnson's  address 
on  Fitz  Greene  Halleck,  in  many  respects  an  admirable  performance.  Witii  General 
Wilson's  biography  before  him,  and  from  which  he  has  drawn  freely  without  acknowl- 
edgment, the  ProfessSr  frequently  blunders.  A  few  of  these  are  as  follows  :  He 
says  the  modest  annuity  left  to  the  poet  was  commuted  by  Mr.  Aslor's  heirs,  which 
is  not  true  ;  nor  is  it  true,  as  stated,  that  Halleck's  closing  years  were  chilled  by  pov- 
erty and  neglect.  He  misspells  Ballantyne  and  Bozzaris,  and  says  that  "Fanny" 
appeared  in  1820.  It  was  published  the  year  previous.  He  speaks  of  a  monument 
in  the  Central  Park.  There  is  a  monument  over  the  poet's  grave  at  Guilford,  and  a 
statue  in  the  park.  The  professor  makes  the  surprising  statement  that  "  Marco  Boz- 
zaris "  was  not  written  in  184S,  when  Lowell's  "Table  for  the  Critics"  appeared, 
whereas  it  was  published  in  the  N'e-wYo}k  Review  in  June,  1825  !  The  spirited  poem 
was  composed  soon  after  the  death  of  its  subject,  in  1823.  It  is  a  curious  circum- 
stance that  in  this  volume  the  name  of  Halleck's  biographer,  to  whom  Guilford  is 
indebted  for  the  noble  granite  obelisk  that  marks  the  grave  of  her  most  distinguished 
son,  is  not  once  mentioned. 

The  Story  of  an  Old  Farm;  or,  Life  in  New  Jersey  in  the  Eighteenth 
Century.  By  Andrew  D.  Mel'lick,  Jr.  With  a  Genealogical  Appendix.  8vo, 
cioth,  pp.  743,     Somerville,  New  Jersey.     Price,  $5. 

The  text  of  this  handsome  and  portly  volume,  written  and  published  by  Mr.  Mel- 
lick,  of  Plain  field,  is  based  to  a  large  extent  on  manuscripts  and  records  not  before 
printed.  Much  that  is  new  is  told  of  early  German  emigration  to  the  American  col- 
onies, and  of  the  founding  of  the  Lutheran  Church  in  this  country.  The  author  has 
successfully  defended  the  character  and  conduct  of  the  so-called  "  Hessian"  regi- 
ments, and  he  has  rendered  justice  to  the  New  Jersey  loyalists,  many  of  whom  were 
among  her  best  citizens.  Many  charming  pictures  are  given  of  New  Jersey  colonial 
life,  and  of  the  revolutionary  period.  The  genealogy  contains  a  very  full  record  of 
the  Moelich — Malick — Melick — Mellick — family,  following  five  ancestral  streams, 
flowing  from  five  different  German  emigrants,  Moelich.  While  the  posterity  of  these 
five  different  emigrants  are  lo  be  found  mainly  in  New  Jersey  and  Pennsylvania,  rep- 
resentatives of  the  different  lines  are  distributed  in  almost  all  the  United  States  and 
Territories.  Care  has  been  taken  to  obtain  and  give  in  this  genealogical  record  the 
Post-Office  address  of  each  living  descendant  bearing  the  family  name  ;  also  those 
emanating  from  daughters  who  lost  their  names  by  marriage.  Thus  have  been  intro- 
duced and  traced,  in  each  instance  for  at  least  three  generations,  numerous  other  and 
important  family  lines.  The  value  of  this  volume,  which  should  be  in  the  library  of 
every  Jerseyman,  is  enhanced  by  a  carefully  prepared  and  complete  index  of  nearly 
three  thousand  titles.  j.  g.  w. 

Hlstory  of  Utah.  By  Herbert  Howe  Bancroft.  1540-1887.  San  Francisco  : 
The  History  Company.      8vo,  pp.  xlvii  -1-  808. 

The  history  of  Utah  is  mainly  a  history  of  Mormonism.  It  is  this  fact  that  gives 
point  to  the  surprising  declaration  of  the  author  of  this  portly  volume,  in  the  preface, 
that  "  the  story  of  Mormonism,  therefore,  beginning  with  chapter  iii.,  as  told  in  the 
text,  is  from  the  Mormon  standpoint,  and  based  entirely  on  Mormon  authorities  ; 
while  in  the  notes,  and  running  side  by  side  with  the  subject  matter  in  the  text,  I  give 
in  full  all  anti-Mormon  arguments  and  counter-statements."  In  defence  of  this 
method  Mr.  Bancroft  adds  :  "In  following  this  plan  I  only  apply  to  the  history  of 
Utah  the  same  principles  employed  in  all  my  historical  efforts,  namely,  to  give  all  the 
facts  on  every  side  pertinent  to  the  subject."  Notwithstanding  this  plan  the  author 
appears  to  have  adopted  the  position  of  a  Mormon  who  makes  the  best  defence  possi- 
ble for  his  associates,  and  praises  their  leaders  as  saints  and  martyrs.  The  work  may 
be  commended  for  its  maps,  its  admirable  bibliography,  and  its  exhaustive  index,  but 
certainly  not  as  a  fair  and  impartial  history  of  Mormonism.  j.  G.  w. 


1890.]  Book   Notices.  gi^ 

Lion  Gardiner  and  His  Descendants  ;  with  illustrations.  Edited  with  notes 
critical  and  illustrative  by  Curtiss  C.  Gardiner.  St.  Louis  :  A.  Whipple,  8vo,  pp. 
XXV  +  170. 

This  exceedingly  handsome  volume  covers  a  period  of  three  hundred  years — 1599- 
1900 — and  consibts  of  two  parts,  biographical  and  genealogical.  Its  compilation  has 
evidently  been  a  labor  of  love,  as  was  the  author's  previous  work  concerning  his 
famous  ancestor,  which  appeared  some  years  ago,  entitled  "  The  Papers  and  Biog- 
raphy of  Lion  Gardiner,"  and  which  was  limited  to  one  hundred  copies.  The  value 
of  this  beautifully  illustrated  volume  is  greatly  enhanced  by  a  full  and  exhaustive 
index,  and  should  commend  itself  to  a  wide  circle  of  readers  beyond  those  related  to 
"  The  brave  and  gallant  Gardiner."  There  are  in  addition  to  numerous  illustrations 
of  his  arms,  signature,  seal,  monument,  etc.,  interesting  fac-similes  of  letters  to  Gov. 
John  Winihrop,  Jr.,  and  of  the  original  draft  of  the  Indian  deed  of  Gardiner's  Island. 

J.  G.  w. 

Genealogy  of  the  Descendants  of  Richard  Mann,  of  Scituate,  Mass. 
Preceded  by  English  Family  Records  and  an  account  of  the  Wrentham,  Roheboth, 
Boston,  Lexington,  Virginia,  and  other  branches  of  the  Manns  who  settled  in  this 
country.     By  George  S.  Mann.     8vo,  pp.  251.     Boston  :  David  Clapp  &  Son,  1884. 

This  is  a  very  satisfactory  and  well-executed  genealogy  of  a  family  of  whom  per- 
haps the  most  important  member  was  Horace  Mann,  with  whose  life,  published  in 
1865,  from  the  pen  of  his  widow,  many  readers  of  the  Record  are  doubtle.ss  familiar. 
The  value  of  the  volume  is  enhanced  by  a  number  of  excellent  steel  portraits,  includ- 
ing one  of  the  author,  and  a  good  index.  When  last  in  England  the  writer  of  this 
notice  saw  a  quaint  and  interesting  memorial  on  brass  of  Edward  Man,  erected  in 
1622  by  his  widow,  Eleanor  : 

'■  This  marchant  Man  purchast  a  Jewell  rare 
When  to  gain  Christ  (God  and  Man)  he  took  care." 

J.   G,    W. 

The  Op  Dyck  Genealogy.  — Containing  the  Opdyck,  Opdycke,  Opdyke,  Up- 
dike, American  Descendants  of  the  Wesel  and  Holland  Families.  By  Charles 
Wilson  Opdyke.  With  an  investigation  into  their  Op  Dyck  Ancestors  in  Europe, 
by  Leonard  Eckstein  Opdycke,  pp.  xl,  499.     Albany :  Weed,  Parsons  &  Co.,  1889. 

This  handsome  and  sumptuously  illustrated  octavo  volume,  printed  at  the  ex- 
pense of  three  members  of  the  family,  comes  to  us  beautifully  bound  in  half  morocco. 
It  contains  numerous  family  charts,  maps,  fac-similes  of  signatures,  seals,  and  wills, 
views  of  towns,  churches,  and  tombstones,  and  more  than  one  hundred  and  sixty-four 
well-executed  portraits,  including  one  of  General  Emerson  Opdyke,  a  gallant  soldier 
of  the  late  war.  The  volume  also  includes  a  very  full  and  exhaustive  index.  From 
the  brief  examination  that  we  have  had  leisure  to  give  the  Op  Dyck  Genealogy,  it 
appears  to  be  most  carefully  cftmpiled,  and  the  mechanical  part  of  the  volume  to 
be  a  model  for  similar  family  histories.  J-   '^-   ^^  • 

James  G.  Birney  and  His  Times.— The  Genesis  of  the  Republican  Party,  with 
some  account  of  Abolition  movements  in  the  South  before  1828,  by  William  Birney, 
ex-brevet  Major-General  United  States  Volunteers.  i2mo,  pages  xii,  443-  New 
York,  Appleton  &  Co.,  1890.  .        •     1  •    r 

This  is  a  well-written  work  containing  much  exceedingly  valuable  historical  infor- 
mation which  cannot  fail  to  be  of  service  to  the  student  who  is  studying  the  anti- 
slavery  period  of  American  history,  which  it  covers  from  about  1825  to  i857-^  The 
biographical  portion  of  the  volume,  although  from  the  pen  of  the  patriot  Birney  s  sec- 
ond son,  seems  to  be  fairly  and  impartially  set  forth,  and  contains  much  nevy  matter 
now  appearing  for  the  first  time.  Like  all  of  the  Appletons'  publications,  "James 
G.  Birney  and  his  Times'"  can  be  commended  for  its  clear  type,  good  paper,  and 
attractive  binding.  J-  ^*  ^^ • 

Lost  Chapters  Recovered  from  the  Early  History  of  American  Meth- 
odism. By  J.  B.  Wakeley,  D.D.  New  York:  Wilbur  B.  Ketcham.  8vo,  pp. 
viii  +  635. 

This  is  a  republication  of  a  work  which  first  appeared  in  1858,  and  any  extended 
notice  is  consequently  unnecessary.  It  is  somewhat  enlarged,  and  contains  a  very  in- 
teresting memoir  of 'the  author  by  Rev.  William  E.  Ketcham.  It  is  based  upon  an 
old  and'long-lost  record  of  the  earlv  history  of  the  John  Street  Methodist  church,  in  this 
city,  and  is  written  in  the  naive  and  earnest  style  of  Dr.  Wakeley,  who  was  one  ot  the 


q5  Donations   to    the   Library.  [April, 

lights  of  Methodism  in  this  country.     It  should  be  in  the  library  of  every  follower  of 
that  sect  of  the  Christian  religion. 

Genealogy  of  the  Descendants  of  Thomas  Olney.  By  James  H.  Olney. 
8vo,  pp.  293.     Providence,  1889. 

This  is  another  valuable  contribution  to  the  genealogical  record  of  New  England 
families.  It  is  a  handsome  octavo  volume  of  293  pages,  illustrated  with  portraits  and 
fac-simile  signatures,  giving,  apparently  very  fully  and  completely,  the  descendants  of 
Thomas  Olney,  one  of  the  original  proprietors  of  Providence,  R.  I.,  who  came  from 
England  in  1635. 


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1885-87 — Addresses  Delivered  on  the  Death  of  Philip  l,indsley.  Nashville,  Tenn., 
1855 — To  the  Memory  of  Hon.  William  Willis,  LL.D.,  by  Charles  Henry  Hart. 
Philadelphia,  1870 — 'Ihe  Causes  of  the  American  Revolution,  by  Hampton  L. 
Carson.  Philadelphia,  18S6 — Memoir  of  Ralph  Haskins,  by  David  G.  Haskins, 
Jr.  Cambridge,  Mass.,  1S81 — Biographical  Sketch  of  Rev.  S.  H.  McCoUester — 
Memoir  of  Hon.  Charles  A.  Mann,  of  Utica.  Boston,  1884 — Memofr  of  Hon. 
Amasa  Walker,  LL.D.,  by  Francis  A.  Walker.  Boston,  1888 — Sketch  of  Hamil- 
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Sylvester  Cowles.  Boston,  1888 — Life  and  Services  of  Rev.  Henry  P.  Tappan, 
D.D.,  LL.D.,  by  Prof.  Henry  S.  Frieze,  LL.D.  1882 — Inaugural  ion  of  Rev. 
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1886 — Memorial  of  the  late  Wm.  A.  Stearns,  by  Prof  Wm.  S.  Tyler.  Spring- 
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Carroll  D.  Wright.  Report  on  the  Public  Records  of  Parishes,  Towns,  and 
Counties,  by  the  donor.  Boston,  Mass.,  1889 — Second  Report  on  the  Public  Rec- 
ord of  Parishes,  Towns,  and  Counties,  by  Robert  T.  Swan.      Boston,  Mass.,  1890. 

The  Bureau  of  Education.  Report  of  the  Commissioner  of  Education,  1887- 
1888.  Washington,  D.  C,  1S89 — Proceedings  of  the  National  Educ;  tio.ial  Associa- 
tion, Washington,  D.  C,  1889 — Indian  Education,  by  Gen.  T.  J.  Morgan.  Wash- 
ington, D.  C. ,  T890.  • 

Ellsworth  Eliot,  M.  D.  Proceedings  of  the  250th  Anniversary  of  Guilford,  Conn. 
New  Haven,  1889 — History  of  Wallingford  and  Meriden,  Conn.,  by  Charles  H. 
S.  Davis,  M.D.     Meriden,  Conn.,  1S70. 

RUFUS  King.  Memoir  of  Brig. -Gen.  Anthony  W.  White,  by  Anna  M.  W.  W^ood- 
huU,  1882 — Lady  Huntingdon  and  Her  Friends,  by  Mrs.  Helen  C.  Knight.  New 
York,  1853. 

Rev.  Talbot  W.  Chambers,  LL.D.  Commemoration  of  Fifty  Years'  Service,  by 
Rev.  Thomas  Vermilye,  LL.D.     New  York,  1889. 

Rev.  Beverley  R.  Betts.  In  Memoriam,  Rev.  Caleb  Clapp,  M.  A.,  by  Rev. 
Samuel  M.  Haskins,  D.D.     New  York,  1878. 

Frederick  H.  Betts.  Thomas  Betts  and  His  Descendants,  by  C.  Wyllys  Betts. 
New  York,  1888. 

George  R.  Howell.  Descendants  of  Thomas  Hale,  by  the  late  Robert  S.  Hale, 
LL.D.     Albany,  N.  Y.,  1889. 

Henry  G.  de  Forest.  Histoire  de  Cambray  et  du  Cambresis,  II  Vol.,  by  Jean 
le  Carpeniier.     Aleide,  1664. 

Stuart  T.  Terry.  Address  Delivered  before  the  Suffolk  County  Historical  Society, 
by  the  Hon.  H.  P.  Hedges.     Sag  Harbor,  1889. 

Charles  W.  Darling.     Biographical  Sketch  of  the  Donor.     New  York,  1890. 

The  New  York  Historical  Society.  The  Uses  of  History,  by  Rev.  John  Hall, 
D.D.     New  York,  1889. 

F.  C.  Johnson.      Record  Almanac  of  Wilkesbarre,  Penn.    Wilkesbarre,  I'enn.,  189O. 


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Edward  Hooker.     Photograph  of  Andrew  Willet,  father  of  the  first  mayor  of  New 

York  City. 
Edmund  D.  Halsey.     Sketch  of  Colonel  Joseph  Jackson,  of  Rockaway,  N.  J.,  by 

a  Grandson.    Trenton,  N.  J. 
Annie  F.  Richards.     The  Descendants  of  William  White,  of  Haverhill,  by  Annie 

F.  Richards.     Boston,  iSSg. 
Wisconsin  Historical  Society.     Proceedings  of  the  Society.     Madison,  Wis.,  1890. 
Frederick  Tuckerman.     Thomas  Cooper,  of  Boston,  and  His  Descendants,    by 

Frederick  Tuckerman.      Boston,  i8go. 
Maurice  Tripet.     LTllustration  National  Suisse.     Neuchatel,  Suisse,  iSgo. 
Mrs.  Catherine  R.  Baetjer.     Dutch  picture  of  Peter  Stuyvesant  and  others. 
Dr.  Balch.     The  Balch  Family  Chart. 

Mrs.  Morris  P.  Ferris.     Two  blank  Ferris  Genealogical  Charts. 
(jERRIT  H.   Van  Wagenen.      History  of  Dutchess  County,   N.  Y.,  1683-1882.  by 

James  H.  Smith.     Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  1882. 
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OBITUARY. 


James  Renwick  Gibson,  Jr.,  one  of  the  most  active  members  of  the  New  York 
Genealogical  and  Biographical  .Society,  died  at  his  residence  in  this  city  on  Tuesday 
evening,  March  4th,  i8go,  and  was  buried  the  following  Thursday  in  the  Sleepy  Hol- 
low Cemetery,  at  Tarrytown.  He  was  born  at  No.  4  Albion  Place,  New  York,  on  the 
22d  of  October,  1833,  and  was,  therefore,  at  the  time  of  his  death  in  the  fifty-seventh 
year  of  his  age.  His  grandfather,  James  Gibson,  was  a  native  of  .Scotland,  and  mar- 
ried Jean  Morrison,  of  Orange  County,  N.  Y.,  who  was  connected  with  the  Dennis- 
tons,  and  through  them  related  to  Gov.  George  Clinton,  with  whom  he  was  also 
connected  through  his  mother's  family.  He  was  the  son  of  James  Renwick  Gibson,  a 
volunteer  of  the  war  of  1812,  a  native  of  this  city,  who  died  March  26th,  i8go.  at  the 
age  of  g8  years.  His  mother  was  Catharine  Van  Keuren,  also  born  in  this  city,  and 
a  direct  descendant  of  the  Van  Bommels,  Delamaters,  Ten  Eycks,  and  DeWitts. 
Matthys  Jansen  Van  Keulen  (now  Van  Keuren),  her  proto-ancestor  in  this  country, 
held  a  patent  for  about  lOO  acres  near  Kingsbridge,  on  the  upper  end  of  Manhattan 
Island,  in  1646.  He  subsequently  resided  at  Albany,  and  forfeited  the  land  through 
non-residency.  It  was  confirmed  to  his  heirs,  however,  in  1700,  and  was  afterwards 
revoked  and  became  the  property  of  the  Dyckmans. 

Mr.  Gibson,  after  finishing  his  education  in  this  city,  engaged  in  business  with 
his  father,  the  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Gibson  &  Case,  on  Front  street.  After 
remaining  here  for  a  time,  he  travelled  abroad  in  company  with  Mr.  Hastings  Grant, 
then  librarian  of  the  Mercantile  Library,  of  New  York,  and,  for  a  short  period. 
Comptroller  under  Mayor  Edson.  "  He  visited  most  of  the  great  libraries  of  the  Old 
World,  and  cultivated  a  naturally  keen  literary  taste,  the  exercise  of  which  was  a 
source  of  great  pleasure  to  him  in  after  years."  In  the  early  period  of  his  life  Mr. 
Gibson  became  interested  in  early  English  literature,  especially  the  productions  of 
the  poets,  dramatists,  essayists,  and  some  of  the  quaint  religious  writers,  among  whom 
he  was  especially  fond  of  Jeremy  Taylor,  who  with  Herbert  and  old  Isaac  Walton 
were  favorites  who  could  not  be  displaced  even  by  the  exacting  requirements  of  gene- 
alogical research,  which  became  the  object  of  such  an  absorbing  enthusiasm  in  his 
later  life.  He  first  became  interested  in  genealogical  studies  about  1881,  in  connec- 
tion with  the  completion  and  publication  of  the  genealogy  of  the  Lathrop  family,  of 
which  Mrs.  Gibson  was  a  member.  In  his  search  for  facts  for  this  work  he  visited  old 
Barnstable,  Mass.,  and  there  became  a  member  of  the  Cape  Cod  Historical  Society, 
which  at  that  time  {1882)  was  in  its  infancy.      After  the  publication  of  the  Lathrop 


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[April,  1890. 


genealogy  Mr.  Gibson  commenced  to  collect  material  for  a  complete  genealogy  of  his 
mother's Vamily,  the  Jansen-Van  Keuren.  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  this  work  was 
nearly  completed.  He  also  had  in  preparation  a  valuable  genealogical  paper  on  that 
branch  of  the  Tappen  family  from  which  the  wife  of  Gov.  George  Clinton  was  de- 
scended. Among  his  manuscripts  are  also  full  memoranda  of  the  various  branches  of 
the  Van  Steenburg  family,  all  of  which  are  descended  from  a  daughter  of  his  first 
maternal  ancestor  in  this  country,  Matthys  Jansen  Van  Keulen  (Van  Keuren).  For 
many  years  Mr.  Gibson  has  contributed  valuable  genealogical  and  historical  matter  to 
the  public  press,  much  of  which,  owing  to  its  anonymous  character,  it  is  now  impossi- 
ble to  identify.  After  the  "Journals  of  Officers  in  Sullivan's  Expedition  against  the 
Indians"  had  been  published  by  the  State,  several  years  ago.  Mr.  Gibson  discovered 
another  relating  to  that  movement — that  of  Capt.  Tjerck  Beekman,  a  cousin  of  his 
mother.  It  was  in  poor  condition,  and  required  much  labor  to  decipher  and  copy  ac- 
curately. He  accomplished  this  work,  however,  and  it  was  published  in  the  Maga- 
zine OF  American  History.  He  also  annotated  and  published  in  the  Record  the 
old  "  Mess  Account "  of  the  same  officer,  as  well  as  a  valuable  paper  on  "  Some  Rec- 
ords of  the  Beekman  Family."  He  spent  much  time  in  studying  the  original  records 
of  some  of  our  older  churches,  and  transcribed  several  of  them  with  his  own  hand — 
namely,  those  of  Ueerpark,  Cortlandtown,  Goodwill  (Orange  Co.),  New  Hamburgh, 
and  Fishkill. 

Mr.  Gibson  became  a  member  of  the  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical 
Society  in  1886,  and  from  that  time  until  his  death,  in  both  an  official  and  private 
capacity,  labored  for  the  promotion  of  its  interests.  He  was  also  a  Corresponding 
Member  of  the  "  Minisink  Valley  Historical  Society,"  and  a  member  of  the  "  Sons  of 
ihe  Revolution."  In  1868  he  began  ihe  real-estate  business  at  77  Cedar  street,  and 
remained  a  tenant  of  that  building  until  the  time  of  his  death,  one  of  his  early  office 
associates  there  being  Robert  Maclay,  now  President  of  the  Knickerbocker  Ice  Com- 
pany. On  the  26th  of  September,  i860,  he  married  Mary  C.  daughter  of  the  late 
Dwight  Lathrop,  junior  member  of  the  dry-goods  house  of  F.  S.  &  D.  Lathrop,  a 
well-lvnown  firm  of  this  city  forty  years  ago.  Mr.  Gibson  left  one  son,  Robert  Ren- 
wick  Gibson,  of  this  city. 


OFFICERS    AND   COMMITTEES    FOR    1890. 


President,   .         .         .         . 
First  Vice-President,    . 
Second  Vice-President, 
Recording  Secretary, 
Corresponding  Secretary, 
Treasurer, 

Librarian,   .        .         .        . 
Registrar  of  Pedigrees, 


Gen.  JAS.  GRANT  WILSON. 

Dr.  ELLSWORTH  ELIOT. 

Dr.  SAMUELS.  PURPLE. 

Mr.   THOMAS  G.   EVANS. 

Rev.  ROSWELL   RANDALL  HOES 

Dr.  GEORGE  H.  BUTLER. 

Mr.  GERRITT  H.  VAN  WAGENEN 

Rev.  ARTHUR  W.  H.  EATON. 


Executive  Cotnmittce. 
Dr.  Ellsworth  Eliot.  Mr.  Edward  Trenchard. 

Mr.  Gerritt  H.  Van  Wagenen.  Mr.  William  P.  Ketcham. 

Public  a  tion  Com  m  it  tee. 
Rev.  Beverley  R.  Betts.  Mr.  Edv^'ard  F.  De  Lancey. 

Dr.  Samuel  S.  Purple.  Mr.  William  P.  Robinson. 

Mr.  Thomas  G.  Evans. 


Covimittce  on  Biographical  Bibliography. 
Mr.  Charles  B.  Moore.  Mr.  Theophylact  B.  Bleecker,  Jr. 

Mr.  Henry  T.  Drowne. 


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THE  NEW  YORK 


Vol.  XXI.  NEW  YORK,  JULY,  1890.  No.  3. 


AN  ADDRESS  ON  THE  LIFE  AND  CHARACTER  OF  MAJOR- 
GENERAL  JOHN  PATERSON,  OF  THE  REVOLUTIONARY 
ARMY,  AND  THE  PATERSON  FAMILY  TO  WHICH  HE 
BELONGED,  DELIVERED  BEFORE  THE  NEW  YORK 
GENEALOGICAL  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  SOCIETY,  APRIL 
II,    1890.* 


By  William  Henry  Lee. 


To  do  full  justice  to  the  memory  of  men,  of  even  the  past  century, 
although  distinguished  and  honored  in  their  day,  is  often  a  work  of 
much  difficulty  and  sometimes  an  impossibility.  The  student  of 
American  history,  in  Revolutionary  times,  is  often  disappointed  at  the  few 
and  imperfect  materials  he  is  able  to  find^  when  searching  for  details  in 
the  life  of  some  of  the  foremost  patriots  and  bravest  soldiers  of  those 
days.  To  search  official  army  records  is  ordinarily  in  vain,  for  these 
consist,  almost  exclusively,  of  what  the  necessities  of  the  service  require, 
and  rarely  concern  themselves  in  the  events  of  individual  history.  The 
few  public  journals  then  published,  with  their  comparatively  insignificant 
means  of  securing  intelligence  of  passing  events,  seem  to  have  regarded 
brevity,  in  giving  even  the  meagre  news  they  were  able  to  collect,  as  a 
capital  virtue,  and  they  chronicled,  in  the  fewest  words  possible,  their 
accounts,  both  of  men  and  events — so'  that,  with  the  exception  of  private 
letters,  which  by  chance  may  have  been  preserved — a  few  diaries  of 
officers,  who  were  considerate  enough  to  keep  them  and  which  are  acces- 
sible, and  here  and  there  a  few  vague,  floating  traditions,  scarcely  any 
sources  of  information  exist  which  afford  materials  for  reliable  biogra- 
phies of  some  of  the  worthiest  and  most  heroic  actors  in  the  scenes  of 
our  Revolutionary  War.  The  author  has  never  so  fully  realized  these  diffi- 
culties as  he  has  in  attempting  to  present,  in  chronological  order,  a 
biography  of  Major-General  John  Paterson,  of  the  Revolutionary  Army. 
Some  time  since  there  fell  into  the  hands  of  the  writer  a  package  of  old 
manuscripts  and  family  letters,  chiefly  of  the  last  century  ;  and  on  ex- 
amination, they  were  found  to  contain  just  enough  relating  to  the  life 
and  character  of  this  eminent  citizen  and  soldier  to  create  an  earnest 
desire,  and  inspire  a  strong  purpose  to  know  more,  if  possible,  of  one 
who,  from  the  opening  to  the  close  of  the  war,  seemed  to  have  acted  a 

*  The  author  takes  pleasure  in  making  acknowledgments  to  Messrs.  E.  B.  Andrews, 
David  N.  Camp,  D.  W.  Patterson,  and  to  General  J.  G.  Wilson  for  valuable  sug- 
gestions contributed  to  this  address. 


lOO     Address   on   the   Life   of  Major-General  John   Paierson.    [Jul}', 

patriotic,  brave,  and  noble  part,  and  who,  in  time  of  peace,  had  also 
filled  with  honor  positions  of  high  responsibility  in  the  State.  Very 
little  appeared  to  be  known  of  him  by  the  living,  and  records  of  his  life, 
both  written  and  printed,  were  meagre  and  unsatisfactory  ;  and  it  is  only 
after  long,  laborious,  and  often  discouraging  inquiries  and  researches, 
that  he  is  able  to  present  this  imperfect  sketch  which  he  now  has  the 
honor  to  offer  to  this  Society. 

General  John  Paterson  was  born,  a.d.  1743,  in  the  town  of  Farming- 
ton,  Connecticut.  The  particular  locality  of  his  birth  was  in  that  part 
of  the  original  Farmington  which  is  now  the  city  of  New  Britain.  His 
parents  were  John  and  Ruth  (Bird)  Paterson,  and  his  grandparents 
were  James  and  Mary  (Talcott)  Paterson,  of  Wethersfield.  Mrs,  Mary 
Talcott  was  the  widow  of  a  cousin  of  Joseph  Talcott,  governor  of  the 
colony.  James  is  the  first  of  the  name  of  Paterson  found  in  the  annals 
of  the  town.  He  was  of  Scotch  parentage,  and  emigrated  to  America 
during  the  latter  part  of  the  seventeenth  century.  The  place  and  precise 
date  of  his  birth,  the  reasons  that  impelled  him  to  emigrate,  and  who  were 
his  associate  emigrants,  if  he  had  any,  are  to  us  unknown  ;  but,  in  the 
absence  of  anything  authentic  as  to  his  reasons  for  leaving  his  native  land, 
it  may,  perhaps,  be  fairly  inferred,  as  his  emigration  was  during  or 
in  close  connection  with  that  eventful  period  of  history,  the  Rebellion  of 
1685-88,  when  so  many  of  that  people  found  refuge  in  the  Con- 
necticut and  other  American  colonies  from  the  cruel  wars  and  des- 
potism ot  James  H.',  that  it  was  to  escape  the  oppressions  of  that  time, 
James  Paterson  left  his  native  land  to  find  a  home  in  New  England, 
rhe  Patersons,  both  of  Ireland  and  of  England,  were  of  Scotch  de- 
scent, and  were  noted  for  their  thrift  and  enterprise,  their  probity  and 
honor  in  all  the  relations  of  life,  and  were  a  family  of  much  consider- 
ation in  the  seventeenth  century. 

One  of  the  name,  William  Paterson,  born  in  1658  in  Dumfries- 
shire, Scotland,  a  contemporary  of  James,  the  first  settler  of  the  name, 
who,  like  James,  was  bred  in  the  faith  of  the  Covenanters,  fled  to  America 
to  escape  the  persecutions  of  Charles  H.  in  the  religious  wars  of  that 
period,  and  their  emigration  must  have  been  about  the  same  time  ;  to 
wit,  the  latter  part  of  the  seventeenth  century.  This  William  was  the 
prime  mover  in  what  was  then  known  as  "The  Darien  Scheme,"  and,  re- 
turning to  England,  settled  in  London  and  became  a  prosperous  mer- 
chant and  one  of  the  active  founders  and  first  directors  of  the  Bank  of 
England.  We  note  the  particulars  of  this  emigrant  in  the  body  of  our 
narrative,  without  claiming  him  as  one  of  the  family  of  James,  for  there 
can  be  nothing  accepted  in  genealogy  as  final  not  susceptible  of  proof. 
Future  developments  may  solve  the  query  as  to  whether  they  have  the 
same  family  origin. 

In  religious  faith  the  family  were  Calvinists,  and  were  well  established 
in  the  tenets  of  the  Scotch  Presbyterian  Church.  About  the  year  1740 
two  brothers,  William  and  Edward  Paterson,  with  a  sister  Anna,  came 
from  the  Province  of  Ulster  and  joined  James  in  this  colony.  They  may 
have  been,  and  probably  were,  collateral  relatives  of  the  first  settler  ;  they, 
at  all  events,  were  all  known  in  the  settlement  as  of  one  family  :  William 
had  his  home,  and  owned  a  farm  on  the  same  street,  in  what  is  now  New 
Britain,  with  Major  John  Paterson,  the  father  of  General  John  Paterson 
— the  special  subject  of  this  sketch — who  was  a  grandson  of  James,  the 


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first  of  the  Paterson  colonists.  These  brothers  brought  with  them  the 
knowledge  of  a  trade  which  proved  a  practical  industry  of  great  impor- 
tance to  the  material  interests  of  the  State  and  of  the  country.  After 
the  death  of  King  George  I.,  in  1727,  the  wise  counsels  of  William  Pitt 
the  elder,  and  prime  minister,  prevailed,  and  great  encouragement  was 
given  to  new  inventions  in  machinery  and  to  labor-saving  methods  of 
production  ;  and,  as  a  result,  the  resources  and  commercial  prosperity 
of  the  kingdom  were  rapidly  developed  and  advanced.  Among  the 
inventions  and  imiprovements  in  machinery  at  that  time,  none  proved 
more  useful  in  giving  prosperity,  both  domestic  and  commercial,  to  the 
United  Kingdom,  than  the  process  of  rolling  metal,  especially  iron,  into 
sheets  or  plates  of  any  thickness  desired,  thereby  superseding  the  com- 
paratively slow,  tedious,  and  costly  process  of  flattening  metal  into  plates 
by  the  tilt-hammer.  The  product  of  this  new  rolling  process  soon 
became  an  important  article  of  export  and  a  large  source  of  revenue  to 
the  British  Government.  These  plates  of  iron,  both  in  their  natural 
state  and  when  coated  with  tin  from  the  mines  of  Cornwall,  were  manu- 
factured into  useful  wares  of  various  forms  and  for  various  purposes,  and 
had  come  to  be  regarded  as  essential  requisites  of  household  economy 
throughout  the  kingdom.  This  manufacture  had  never  been  introduced 
into  the  American  colonies.  The  established  policy  of  England  toward 
these  colonies  forbade  it.  That  policy  was,  to  discourage  all  manu- 
factures that  could  by  any  probability  come  into  competition  with  their 
manufacturing  interests  at  home,  and  to  encourage  those  industries  only 
which  should  contribute  to  her  carrying  trade  and  her  shipping  interests, 
and  increase  the  market  for  those  products  of  her  home  manufactures. 

Among  the  Acts  of  Parliament  passed  for  this  purpose,  some  of 
which  were  of  a  very  stringent  and  oppressive  character,  was  one  enacted 
in  1750  forbidding  the  erection,  in  any  of  the  British-American  colonies, 
of  mills  or  engines  for  the  slitting  or  rolling  of  iron  and  other  metals 
into  sheets  or  plates  ;  also  forbidding  the  erection  of  forges  to  work  the 
"tilt-hammer,"  for  the  flattening  of  metals  into  sheets.  Prior  to  the 
enactment  of  this  law,  the  Patersons  had  commenced  in  Berlin,  now 
New  Britain,  the  importation  of  these  tin  plates,  on  a  small  scale,  and 
the  manufacture  of  them  into  tin-wares  of  various  kinds.  This  was 
an  entirely  7iew  industry  in  America,  first  introduced  by  members  of  the 
Paterson  family — small  in  its  beginning,  but  destined  to  grow  into  an 
importance  and  usefulness  that  can  scarcely  be  estimated.  The  impor- 
tation of  tin  sheets  by  the  Patersons  was  at  first  through  the  port  of 
Boston,  as  were  nearly  all  imports  for  the  Eastern  colonies.  From  Boston 
the  sheets  were  brought  in  saddle-bags,  on  horses,  to  this  colony,  and 
manufactured  by  the  Patersons,  at  first  into  small  articles,  as  pepper- 
boxes, cups  of  various  sizes,  dippers,  small  plates,  etc.,  and  after- 
ward into  larger  articles  valuable  for  dairy  and  other  uses,  as  tin 
pans,  pails,  wash-pans,  tin  ovens,  and  a  hundred  other  articles  which 
soon  came  to  be  regarded  as  necessities  in  every  household  that  could 
afford  to  substitute  the  bright,  shining  utensils  for  the  coarse  iron 
and  pewter  articles  and  wooden-wares  that  had  been  in  general  use 
among  the  people  from  the  earliest  settlement  of  these  colonies.  This 
manufacture  of  tin,  for  a  time  carried  on  exclusively  by  the  Patersons, 
was  afterward  extended  to  other  towns  in  the  vicinity  of  New  Britain 
and  throughout  the  State,  and  to   other  States,  until  it  has  become  one 


I02      Address   on   the   Life   of  Major-General  fohn   Paterson.    [July, 

of  the  most  widely  extended  and  useful  branches  of  American  indsutry 
and  trade, 

Mrs.  Emma  Willard,  the  well-known  author  and  teacher,  was  a 
native  of  Berlin,  and  in  a  poetic  tale  of  New  England's  middle  age  thus 
refers  to  the  first  introduction  of  tin  : 

"  When  cake  went  round,  and  other  matters, 
Handed  on  well  scoured  pewter  platters. 
Well  shone  his  laughing  teeth  on  black 
The  Ensign's  Negro,  good  old  Jack, 
Borrowed  at  need — the  only  waiter, 
Save  Norton's  Tom — who  brought  forth — platter  ! 
Oh,  what's  that  lordly  dish  so  rare, 
That  glitters  forth  in  splendor's  glare? 
Tell  us,  Miss  Norton,  is  it  silver? 
Is  it  from  China,  or  Brazil,  or — 
Thus  all  together  on  they  ran  ; 
Quoth  the  good  dame —  '  Tis  a  Tin  Pan, 
The  first  made  in  the  Colony, 
The  maker  Paterson's  just  by. 
From  Ireland  in  the  last  ship  o'er. 
You  all  can  buy,  for  he'll  make  more."' 

The  establishment  of  this  new  manufacture  by  the  Patersons,  it  is 
believed,  was  the  first  effort  at  the  systematic  fabrication  of  metals  in  this 
colony,  and  gave  the  first  impulse  in  a  line  of  enterprise  which  has 
resulted  in  the  successful  prosecution  of  those  wonderful  industries  that 
have  made  New  Britain,  Meriden,  and  Waterbury,  and  a  score  of  other 
towns  so  prosperous,  in  the  production  of  almost  everything  which 
human  ingenuity  and  skill  can  furnish  for  the  comfort  and  convenience 
of  man.  With  the  new  inventions  of  machinery  and  the  successive  im- 
provements in  methods  of  production,  Connecticut  has  become  one  of 
the  great  manufacturing  centres  of  the  world — and  the  co7nmencement  of 
its  remarkable  career  in  this  line  may  be  found,  we  think,  in  the  intro- 
duction by  the  Patersons,  in  New  Britain,  of  the  manufacture  of  tin-ware. 
Whether  they  were  at  all  interfered  with  in  this  interest,  by  the  enforce- 
ment of  the  English  law  against  manufacturing  in  the  American  colonies, 
we  have  no  knowledge  ;  but  when  the  war  for  our  national  independende 
was  inaugurated,  and  embargoes  were  laid  on  our  foreign  commerce,  we 
know  that  their  business  was  for  a  time  in  a  good  measure  paralyzed  ; 
but  with  the  restoration  of  peace  it  was  resumed,  with  increased  capital 
and  enlarged  facilities,  and  the  family  became  highly  prosperous  and  of 
honorable  consideration  in  the  State,  The  name  is  entitled  to  honorable 
remembrance  by  every  son  of  Connecticut,  as  identified  with  the  com- 
mencement of  a  class  of  industries,  within  the  limits  of  the  State,  which 
has  given  it  a  material  prosperity  almost  unprecedented. 

We  will  now  resume  the  history  of  that  branch  of  the  Paterson  family 
to  which  General  John  Paterson,  the  special  subject  of  this  sketch, 
immediately  belonged.  The  father  of  General  Paterson  was  Major 
John  Paterson,  the  son  of  James  Paterson,  of  Wethersfield,  and  he 
was  born  a.d.  1708.  He  was  liberally  educated  for  the  time,  and 
was  regarded  as  a  young  man  of  fine  powers  and  excellent  character. 
Having  evinced  a  disposition  for  military  life,  he  was  permitted  to  follow 
his  inclinations,  and  early  received  a  subaltern's  commission  in  the 
5th  company  of  the  trained  band  of  Farmington,  and  subsequently  a 
lieutenant's  commission  with  the  2d  company  of  Kensington.      His  fine. 


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soldierly  qualities  were  so  apparent  that,  when  the  French  and  Indian 
War  was  imminent,  he  was  given  a  captain's  commission,  and  commanded 
in  the  British  Army  of  the  Colonies,  under  General  Wolfe,  and  rendered 
brave  and  valuable  service  in  resisting  the  encroachments  of  the  enemy 
on  our  northern  boundary.  From  1746  to  1762  he  was  active  in  the 
military  service  of  the  crown,  in  full  sympathy  with  the  loyalty  of  his 
colony,  in  maintaining  its  supremacy  in  the  American  provinces,  and 
distinguished,  personally,  for  his  bravery,  his  high  sense  of  honor,  his 
superior  knowledge  of  military  tactics,  and  his  skill  in  commanding  men. 
The  conquest  of  Canada,  and  its  submission  to  the  British  Government 
in  1760,  did  not  restore  peace  between  the  English  and  French  nations  ; 
war  still  raged  between  them  with  unabated  rigor,  and  in  1761  an  army, 
consisting  of  most  of  the  British  regulars  that  were  on  this  continent, 
with  a  body  of  provincial  troops,  embarked  for  the  conquest  of  Mar- 
tinique and  all  the  French  islands  in  the  Caribbean  Sea.  The  rela- 
tions of  Spain  and  England  being  at  that  time  hostile,  the  English, 
having  taken  the  French  Wiest  Indian  islands,  resolved  to  strike  a  blow 
at  the  Spanish  West  Indian  possessions,  and  the  British  army,  under 
Lord  Albemarle,  was  joined  by  a  body  of  armed  provincial  troops, 
consisting  of  500  men  from  New  Jersey,  300  from  New  York,  and  1,000 
from  Connecticut — all  under  command  of  Major-General  Lyman. 
Captain  John  Paterson,  soon  after  major,  was  ordered  on  this  expedition, 
and  commanded  100  picked  men,  mostly  from  Farmington  and  Wethers- 
field.  The  first  and  principal  place  of  attack  was  Havana,  on  the 
Island  of  Cuba.  The  expedition  was  successful,  and  Havana,  with  all 
its  shipping  and  military  stores,  was  reduced  to  the  dominion  of  the 
British  Crown  ;  but  to  a  large  proportion  of  the  provincial  troops  the 
climate  proved  sadly  fatal.  Of  the  1,000  brave  men  who  sailed  from 
Connecticut,  and  aided  in  this  conquest,  not  one-half  ever  returned  to 
lay  their  bones  in  their  native  soil.  Major  Paterson,  with  half  of  his 
command,  fell  victims  to  the  yellow  fever.  On  the  5th  of  September, 
1762,  he  died,  honorably  serving  the  government  to  which  he  owed 
allegiance.  Thus  ended  the  memorable  French  War,  extending  over  a 
period  of  eight  years  of  suffering  for  the  people  of  Connecticut,  and 
some  of  the  other  colonies,  which  will  never  be  fully  recorded.  No 
colony,  in  proportion  to  its  numbers,  had  furnished  so  many  men  for  the 
king's  service  as  Connecticut ;  and  out  of  her  own  treasury  she  had  paid 
a  sum  far  surpassing,  according  to  her  wealth,  that  of  any  other 
American  colony. 

At  the  time  of  the  sad  death  of  Major  Paterson  in  the  West  Indies, 
his  only  son  and  namesake,  John,  was  just  completing  his  studies  at  Yale 
College,  at  the  age  of  nineteen.  Being  the  only  son  of  the  family,  grave 
responsibilities  were  now  to  devolve  upon  him,  which  contributed  no 
doubt  to  the  earlier  and  fuller  development  of  those  traits  of  character 
which  distinguished  him  in  subsequent  life,  and  made  him  the  thought- 
ful man,  the  wise  counsellor,  the  faithful  father  and  the  true  and  honored 
soldier.  He  commenced  his  active  and  responsible  life  by  teaching 
school  and  at  the  same  time  pursuing  the  study  of  law  to  prepare  himself 
for  the  profession  of  his  choice.  In  due  time  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
of  Connecticut,  and  entered  on  the  practice  of  his  profession,  with  bright 
hopes  and  an  honorable  ambition,  his  friends  predicting  for  him  a  success- 
ful career.     On  the  2d  of  June,  1766,  he  was  married  to  Elizabeth,  the 


I04     Address   on   the   Life   of  Major-General  Johfi   Paferson.    [July, 

only  child  of  Deacon  Josiah  Lee,  of  one  of  the  oldest  and  most  prominent 
families  of  the  town,  and  an  intimate  friend  of  the  Paterson  family. 
According  to  distinct  and  unquestioned  traditions,  the  bride  was  a  lady 
of  superior  mental  endowments,  and  adorned  with  attractive  personal 
charms,  and  in  all  respects  was  admirably  fitted  to  stimulate  and  give 
success  to  the  noble  ambition  of  the  young  barrister.  This  intermarriage 
between  these  two  families,  was  a  social  event  of  much  interest.  It  was 
solemnized  by  the  Reverend  John  Smalley,  D.D.,  in  the  presence  of  a 
large  and  distinguished  company  of  guests  assembled  at  the  residence  of 
the  bride's  father,  one  of  the  substantial  and  spacious  mansions  of  the 
time,  still  standing  in  the  eastern  part  of  New  Britain.  Mr.  Paterson 
continued  his  residence  and  his  legal  practice  in  that  town,  until  1774, 
when  he  removed  with  his  family  and  father-in-law,  to  Lenox,  Berkshire 
County,  Massachusetts,  believing  that  a  wider  and  more  promising  field 
was  there  open  for  his  professional  efforts  and  advancement.  Very  soon 
after  his  settlement  in  Lenox,  he  was  appointed  an  Assessor  of  the  town, 
and  one  of  its  Selectmen,  and  through  the  entire  period  of  his  residence 
in  Massachusetts,  commanded  the  highest  confidence  of  his  fellow  citizens, 
and  was  kept  by  them  continually  in  positions  of  important  trust  and 
responsibility.  But  new  scenes  were  now  opening  before  him,  and  graver 
responsibilities  were  soon  to  rest  upon  him.  Already,  when  he  removed 
to  Massachusetts,  the  hour  of  the  American  Revolution  was  rapidly, 
though  to  many,  unconsciously  approaching.  The  Act  of  Parliament, 
imposing  a  tax  on  all  teas  imported  into  the  American  Colonies — the 
throwing  overboard  of  the  three  cargoes  of  tea  in  Boston  harbor — the 
passage  of  the  "Boston  Port  Bill,"  and  the  Act  "  Regulating  the  Province 
of  the  Bay  of  Massachusetts, "  which  had  abrogated  the  laws  and  changed 
th^ charter  of  the  Province  without  its  consent — these  Acts  and  events 
had  all  transpired,  and  had  brought  the  people  of  the  Province  and  the 
provi-ncial  authorities  into  bitter  hostility  towards  the  English  throne. 
This  feeling  was  becoming  general  and  was  rapidly  deepening.  The  other 
colonies  had  declared  their  sympathy  with  Massachusetts  and  their  purpose 
to  sustain  her,  in  resisting  the  usurpations  of  the  throne  and  the  injustice 
of  Parliament.  Nowhere  was  this  feeling  and  purpose  more  generally  or 
emphatically  declared,  than  in  Berkshire  County  and  throughout  western 
Massachusetts.  As  early  as  July,  of  the  first  year  of  Mr.  Paterson's 
residence  in  Lenox,  he  was  sent  as  one  of  the  delegates  from  that  town  to 
a  convention  of  deputies  from  the  several  towns  of  the  county,  held  in 
Stockbridge  in  the  same  county,  for  the  purpose  of  consultation  regarding 
public  affairs,  and  to  take  such  action  concerning  them  as  wisdom  and 
patriotism  should  dictate.  " The  Solemn  League  and  Covenant"  which 
had  been  already  adopted  in  Boston  and  in  other  towns  of  the  colony  and 
in  other  colonies,  and  which  was  designed  to  prevent  the  consumption 
by  the  colonists  of  articles  imported  from  Great  Britain,  was  here 
presented,  discussed,  and  adopted,  and  measures  taken  to  secure  to  it  the 
signatures  of  citizens  throughout  the  county.  All  the  proceedings  of  this 
convention  were  of  a  most  decided  and  patriotic  character,  and  showed 
even  at  that  early  day,  a  determined  purpose  to  resist,  at  all  hazards  and 
by  every  means  in  their  power,  all  illegal,  unjust  acts  of  the  British  Crown 
and  Parliament  towards  the  American  Colonies.  *    On  the  ist  of  September 

*  The  solemn  league  and  covenant  adopted  (by  the  Berkshire  Convention,  July  6, 
1774)  was   signed  by  one  hundred  and  ten  citizens  of  Lenox,  July   14,  1774.     The 


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of  the  same  year,  1774,  the  royal  Governor  Gage,  of  the  "Massachusetts 
Bay  Colony,"  issued  his  precept  to  the  several  towns  of  the  colony,  to  send 
their  representatives  to  "The  General  Court,"  to  be  convened  at  Salem, 
on  the  5th  of  October,  but  before  October  came  in,  the  Governor,  incensed 
at  the  instructions  given  by  the  people  of  Boston  and  of  many  other  towns 
in  the  colony,  to  representatives  they  had  chosen  to  the  "  General  Court, " 
issued  a  revocation  of  his  precept  calling  together  that  body.  This  act  of 
the  Governor,  was  in  direct  violation  of  the  rights  and  established  custom 
of  the  colony  under  its  charter,  and  was  interpreted  as  a  menace  to  the 
people,  and  greatly  intensified  the  bitter  feeling  already  existing  against 
the  Governor  and  the  throne  he  represented;  it  also  brought  large 
accessions  to  the  ranks  of  those  who  were  in  favor  of  firm  resistance  to  the 
further  exercise  of  the  royal  power  in  derogation  of  the  privileges  and 
prerogatives  of  the  colony.  Already  the  towns  had  elected  their  representa- 
tives to  the  "  General  Court,"  and,  in  accordance  with  the  recommendation 
of  the  Governor  in  his  precept,  had  elected  some  of  "the  best  and  ablest 
of  the  colony."  The  towns  decided  that  their  chosen  representatives 
should  repair  to  Salem  notwithstanding  the  Governor's  revocation.  John 
Paterson  had  been  elected  as  the  representative  of  Lenox,  to  the  "General 
Court,"  a  remarkable  proof  of  the  high  estimation  in  which  he  was  held, 
after  a  residence  in  the  town  of  only  a  few  months.  Instructions  were 
given  him  by  the  town,  "that  if  the  Governor,  whose  presence  in  the 
'General  Court ^  was  necessary  to  its  legal  organization,  should  refuse  to 
appear,  then  the  representatives  should  proceed  in  their  deliberations,  and 
find  if  possible,  remedies  for  the  disordered  and  unhappy  state  of  the 
Province.'"  Similar  instructions  were  by  other  towns  of  the  colony  given 
to  their  representatives.  The  representatives  assembled,  the  Governor 
refused  to  meet  them  and  organize  the  Court.  After  waiting  two  days  for 
his  appearance,  they  organized  sufficiently  to  adopt  certain  resolutions 
which  they  sent  to  the  Governor.  These  resolutions  were  strongly  con- 
demnatory of  his  course,  and  a  declaration  of  their  right  to  organize  them- 
selves into  an  assembly,  and  to  adopt  immediate  and  rigorous  measures 
for  preserving  the  freedom  and  constitution  of  the  colony.  They  then 
organized  themselves  into  a  "Provincial  Congress."  After  a  little  time, 
they  sent  to  the  Governor  by  a  delegation  of  twenty-one  of  their  number, 
a  detailed  account  of  what  they  had  done.  The  Governor  replied  by 
advising  them  "not  to  forget,  that  by  their  assembling,  they  were  subvert- 
ing their  charter,  and  were  acting  in  direct  violation  of  their  own 
constitution  " — telling  them  indirectly,  that  their  acts  were  of  a  treasonable 
character,  and  in  direct  defiance  of  their  royally  appointed  Governor. 
The  people  of  the  colony  were  now  practically  a  democracy,  and  through 
their  chosen  representatives,  exercised  all  the  powers  of  an  independent 
State.  That  the  young  representative  from  Lenox,  as  a  member  of  this 
Congress  met  this  grave  emergency  with  wisdom  and  patriotic  firmness, 
and  commanded  the  respect  and  confidence  of  his  fellow  members  in  a 
very  high  degree,  is  evident  from  the  fact  that  he  was  appointed  on  ten 
of  its  committees,  and  some  of  them,  of  the  very  highest  importance  ;  and 
from  the  position  he  had  taken  and  the  zeal  he   had   displayed   from  the 

resolutions  of  this  Convention  and  the  league  and  covenant  comprised  the  great  prin- 
ciples of  the  Revolution,  made  them  familiar  to  the  people,  and  they  were  familiar  as 
household  words  to  the  men  and  women  of  that  generation.  Rockwell's  Bistoiical 
Address,  Lenox,  1876,  page  22. 


Io6     Address   on   the   Life   of  Alajor-Ge^ieral  foh7i   Paterson.    [July, 

first,    against  the  royal   usurpations   and    parliamentary  injustice  under 
which  the  colony  was  suffering,  we  know  that  he  was  among  the  foremost 
and  most  influential  for  the  adoption  of  measures  of  stern  resistance  to 
further  encroachments  by  the  British  Government.      This  first  Provincial 
Congress  was  dissolved  on  the  loth  of  December,  1774,  and  one  of  its 
last  acts  was  to  recommend  to  the  towns  of  the  colony,  forthwith  to  elect 
members  to  a  new  Congress,   assigning  as  a  reason  for  a  new  election, 
that  the  members  of  a  body  called  upon  to  exercise  so  great  powers  and  under 
circumstances  so  extraordinary,  should  come  fresh  from  the  people  and  be 
prepared    to    express    indisputably  their   views   and    purposes — a   most 
remarkable  recognition  to  be  made  by  men   educated  in  the  shadows  of 
a  throne,  of  the  great  truth,  that,  under  God,  in  the  people  is  vested  the 
supreme  power  of  the  State,  and  that  the  people  are  capable  of  governing 
themselves.     On  the  30th  of  January,  1775,  John  Paterson  was  elected 
delegate  to  the  2d  Provincial  Congress,  to  assemble  at  Cambridge,  on  the 
I  St  of  February  following.     The  royal  Governor  refused  all  recognition 
of  this  body,  which  exercised  supreme  governmental  powers,  as  had  the 
first  Congress.      It  continued  its  sessions,  with   brief  intervals,  until  the 
29th  of  May  following.      During  the  interval  between  the   two  sessions  of 
the  Provincial  Congress,  Mr.  Paterson  visited  various  parts  of  the  District 
he  represented,  addressing  the  people,  explaining  the  critical  relations  of 
the  colony  to  the  Home  Government  and  Parliament,    making  known 
the  unpublished  views  of  the   members  of  the  ist  Congress,   as  to  the 
probability  of  open  hostility  with  the  Home  Government,  portraying  the 
wrongs   already  inflicted   upon  the  colony,  and    the    necessit}',    if  they 
would  maintain  their  charter  rights,  and  honor  their  manhood,  of  prepar- 
ing themselves  for  the  struggle  which  he  believed  was  near  at  hand.      His 
efforts  had  influence  with  the  people,  and  a  determination  to  resist  at  all 
hazards,  further  assaults  on   their  rights  and  privileges  as  colonists,  was 
more  openly,  boldly  and  universally    declared.      Mr.    Paterson,    proving 
his  own  belief  in  the  representations  he  had  made,  during  this  time  began 
efforts  to  raise  a    regiment  of  "Minute  Men,"  for  the  defence   of  the 
colony.     Lenox  and  other  towns,  following  his  advice,   made  provision 
for  the  purchase  of  arms  and  ammunition  for  the   companies  that  were 
raised  in  those  towns  respectively.     While  Mr.  Paterson  was  attending  the 
sessions  of  the  second  Provincial  Congress,  under  the  arrangements  he 
had  made,   the  recruiting  for  his   regiment  went  on,   and    in  the  May 
following,  its  numbers  were  sufficient  to  entitle  it  to  complete  organiza- 
tion.    The  regiment  chose  unanimously  John  Paterson  as  its  colonel, 
who  was  commissioned  by  the   "Colonial  Committee   of  Safety,"  May 
27th   1775.     The  regiment  was   composed  of  5  companies  from    Berk- 
shire, 4  from  other  parts  of  Massachusetts  and  one  from  the  State  of  New 
York.      It  was  fully  equipped,   well  drilled  and  brought  into  a  fine  state 
of  discipline  for  active  service,  so  that  when  the  news  of  the  assault  at 
Lexington  by  the  British  troops,  and  the  brief,  but  bloody  encounter  at 
the  bridge  of  Concord  reached  the  hills  of  Berkshire,   this  regiment  of 
minute  men,  in  eighteen  hours,  had  assembled  and  were  on  the  march 
for  Cambridge    and     with    almost    incredible    promptness    reached    that 
appointed    rendezvous    for    colonial    troops.       Here    the    regiment    was 
transferred  into  the  continental  service ;  the  Second  Continental  Congress 
having  just  adopted  all   the  troops,  besieging  the  British  in  Boston,  who 
were  willing,  into  its  army.     Col.  Paterson^s  Regiment  enlisted   into  the 


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continental  service  for  a  period  of  eight  months  and  before  the  expiration 
of  that  time,  most  of  the  men  had  enlisted  for  a  longer  term.  This 
regiment,  the  15th  in  the  continental  infantry  service  was  stationed  near 
Boston,  and  erected  the  first  fort  for  the  siege  of  that  city,  and  by  the 
express  orders  of  General  Ward,  then  the  commanding  general,  thev 
manned  and  defended  it  against  an  attack  in  the  rear  by  British  troops 
during  the  progress  of  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill. 

Ward's,  Putnam's  and  Paterson's  regiments  were  declared  to  be  the 
flower  of  the  continental  army,  then  at  Boston.  The  conduct  of  the 
15th  Infantry,  Col.  John  Paterson,  on  the  9th  of  November,  1775,  in  a 
successful  encounter  with  a  British  force  at  "  Lechmere's  Point,"  (the 
regiment  wading  through  the  water  neck  deep  in  order  to  make  the 
attack)  was  mentioned  by  General  Washington  in  terms  of  very  high  com- 
mendation, in  the  General's  orders  of  the  next  day. 

After  the  evacuation  of  Boston  by  the  British  troops,  March  17th 
1776,  Colonel  Paterson  was  ordered  with  his  command  to  New  York  and 
was  stationed  on  Staten  Island  for  the  defence  of  that  city.  Soon  after- 
wards the  regiment  was  ordered  to  Canada  to  reinforce  Generals  Mont- 
gomery and  Arnold,  in  their  campaign  for  the  capture  of  Quebec. 
Colonel  Paterson's  Regiment  then  numbered  over  600  men  and  was  in 
splendid  condition  for  this  laborious  and  hazardous  campaign  ;  but  be- 
fore it  reached  the  scene  of  conflict,  General  Montgomery  had  fallen  at 
Quebec,  and  Arnold  under  repeated  disasters,  had  been  forced  to  fall 
back  to  Montreal  and  soon  to  abandon  Canada  entirely.  In  the  battle 
of  ''The  Cedars,"  fought  after  Col.  Paterson  arrived  in  Canada,  his  regi- 
ment, although  it  showed  great  valor  and  soldiership,  lost  heavily  in  killed 
and  wounded,  with  seventy-nine  taken  prisoners.*  The  retreat  was  by 
way  of  Crown  Point  and  Fort  Ticonderoga.  Mt.  Independence,  an  ele- 
vation opposite  Ft.  Ticonderoga,  was  then  occupied  by  Col.  Paterson 
and  his  command,  and  strongly  fortified.  They  remained  here  till  the 
following  November,  when  they  joined  the  army  of  General  Washington 
in  Pennsylvania.  Although  this  Canada  campaign  by  Col.  Paterson  and 
his  command  has  been  described  by  us  in  a  few  sentences,  and  did  not 
result  as  was  hoped,  yet  the  regiment  in  its  long  and  difficult  marches 
through  forests  and  in  fording  rivers  and  contending  with  northern  winter 
storms,  often  with  an  empty  commissariat  and,  after  a  time,  but  poorly 
clad,  displayed  unsurpassed  powers  of  endurance,  and  an  unquenchable 
zeal  in  the  cause  in  which  it  had  enlisted,  and  demonstrated  its  fitness  for 
the  mighty  contest  that  was  yet  before  it.  After  joining  General  Wash- 
ington, it  was  with  him  in  his  perilous  crossing  of  the  Delaware,  and  in 
the  important  battles  of  Trenton  and  Princeton.  The  magnificent  gen- 
eralship of  Washington,  and  the  splendid  valor  of  his  troops  in  these 
engagements  so  surprised  Lord  Cornwallis,  that  he  abandoned  the  purpose 
he  had  just  before  announced,  to  go  in  person  to  England  and  assure  the 
Government  that  the  colonies  were  substantially  subdued  and  the  rebellion 
suppressed.  It  was  shortly  after  these  battles  also,  that  Frederick  the 
Great  sent  an  elegant  sword  to  General  Washington,  with  this  address — 
"From  the  oldest  soldier  in  Europe  to  the  first  General  of  the  world." 
We  have  no  details  of  the  service  rendered  by  Col.  Paterson  and  his  com- 
mand   through   these  eventful  scenes,   but  we  have  assurance  that  his 

*  Hollister''s  History  of  Ct.,  Vol.  2cl.  page  225. 
f  Frothingham  on  the  Siege  of  Boston,  page  268. 


Io8     Address   on   the   Life   of  Major-General  John   Pater  son.    [July, 

bravery  and  soldiership  were  distinguished  ;  for  almost  immediately  after 
these  victories,  he  was  honored  with  the  rank  of  brigadier-general,  and 
assigned  to  the  northern  Department  of  the  Army.  Genl.  Paterson  was 
stationed  for  a  time  at  Morristown,  N.  J.,  and  from  there  was  ordered 
to  West  Point  on  the  Hudson,  then  deemed  the  most  important  military 
post  of  the  American  army.  Later  in  the  month  of  September,  he  was 
engaged  with  his  command  in  the  battle  of  Saratoga,  under  General 
Gates,  which  resulted  in  the  defeat  and  surrender  of  General  Burgoyne. 
The  brigade  of  General  Paterson,  in  the  history  of  this  battle,  is 
spoken  of  as  acting  with  distinguished  bravery,  and  doing  terri- 
ble execution  against  the  enemy,  when  with  another  brigade.  General 
Grover's,  it  was  commanded  by  Major  General  Arnold  in  his  irregular  but 
heroic  conduct  in  this  battle.  In  1778,  General  Paterson  took  part  in 
the  battle  of  Monmouth,  N.  J.,  with  his  usual  bravery  and  success — 
indeed  without  further  detail,  from  the  beginning  to  the  end  of  that 
immortal  conflict  of  eight  years,  General  Paterson  was  engaged  in  all  its 
most  important  battles — and  while  written  history  mentions  but  few  of 
the  details  of  his  military  career,  it  is  evident  from  the  records  we  have 
and  from  undisputed  tradition,  that  his  soldierly  qualities  were  of  a  very 
high  order,  and  united  with  his  glowing  patriotism,  superior  intelligence, 
and  great  practical  wisdom,  he  commanded  to  a  very  high  degree,  the 
admiration  of  the  army.  In  1780,  the  army  and  the  country  were 
astounded  by  the  revelation  of  the  treason  of  Benedict  Arnold,  a  major- 
General  of  the  American  Army,  commanding  at  West  Point,  and  regarded 
as  one  of  the  bravest  and  most  successful  otficeri?  in  the  service.  At  his 
own  request,  he  had  been  appointed  to  this  important  command  by 
Washington,  who  reposed  in  him  unbounded  confidence.  During  the 
absence  of  the  Commanding  General  to  meet  at  Wethersfield,  Connecticut, 
Count  Rochambeau,  the  Commanding  General  of  the  French  troops 
then  at  Newport,  R.  I.,  and  Chevalier  Duportail  the  admiral  of  the 
French  fleet,  for  consultation  concerning  their  future  joint  movements  in 
the  war,  the  treasonable  designs  of  Arnold  were  discovered  by  the  arrest 
of  Major  Andre  within  our  lines,  and  by  the  papers  that  were  found  on 
his  person  by  his  captors.  Arnold  escaped.  Andre  was  held  as  a  spy, 
and  a  General  Court  Martial  was  summoned  by  Washington  for  his  trial. 
The  most  powerful  influences  were  brought  to  bear  upon  Washington, 
both  from  American  and  English  sources,  to  induce  him  to  hold  Andre 
as  a  prisoner  of  war  and  not  to  subject  him  to  military  trial  as  a  spy. 
But  although  deeply  moved  in  behalf  of  the  young,  brave  and  accom- 
plished British  officer,  Washington  remained  inflexible  in  his  purpose,  to 
honor  the  clear  and  positive  demands  of  military  law,  and  have  the 
distinguished  prisoner  tried  on  the  charge  of  being  a  spy.  The  Court  was 
constituted  with  the  highest  regard  to  the  fitness  of  its  members  for  so 
grave  a  judicial  responsibility.  The  Court  was  composed  of  six  generals 
and  eight  colonels,  embracing,  as  the  historian  Lossing  says,  "the  very 
flower  of  the  American  Army. "  I  need  not  give  the  names  of  all  the 
members  of  this  Court.  Among  them  we  find  Generals  Green,  Lafayette, 
Baron  Steuben,  and  General  Paterson,  the  last ;  the  youngest  member  of 
the  Court  except  the  Marquis  de  Lafayette.  General  Paterson  was  selected 
undoubtedly,  not  only  on  account  of  his  rank  and  character  as  a  soldier, 
but  because  of  his  superior  knowledge  of  law,  and  his  ability  to  apply 
correctly  its  principles  in  questions  of  evidence  and  other  legal  questions 


1890.]  Address   on   the   Life   of  Major-General  John   Paterson.      joq 

that  should  arise  on  the  trial.  His  selection  as  a  member  of  this  tribunal, 
where  proceedings  would  not  only  be  watched  with  great  interest  in  our 
own  land,  but  severely  scrutinized  and  strongly  judged  by  all  civilized 
governments,  was  another  signal  proof  of  the  high  estimation  in  which  he 
was  held  by  the  commander-in-chief  of  the  American  army.  General 
Paterson,  from  his  genial  disposition  and  agreeable  manners,  had  inti- 
macies and  friendships  with  some  of  the  most  renowned  generals  of  the 
army,  which  were  lasting  as  life.  One  of  these  was  Kosciusko,  the 
Polish  patriot  and  accomplished  soldier.  These  two  officers  made  the 
Canada  campaign  together  and  their  headquarters  were  in  close  proximity 
to  each  other  at  West  Point,  and  there  grew  up  between  them  a  strong 
and  enduring  friendship.  General  Paterson  had  a  negro  servant,  called 
"Grippy,"  who  was  a  great  favorite  not  only  with  his  master  whom  he 
had  faithfully  served  through  the  war,  but  with  Kosciusko,  who  had  long 
observed  his  great  fidelity  and  usefulness.  "  Grip"  claimed  descent 
from  an  African  prince,  and  held  himself  superior  to  others  of  his  race, 
always  bearing  himself  with  a  calm  and  dignified  air,  befitting  his  alleged 
royal  lineage.  When  Kosciusko  was  about  to  return  to  Europe,  General 
Paterson  offered  him  "Grip"  as  a  body  servant,  and  "Grip"  had  con- 
sented, but  when  the  day  arrived  for  the  General  to  leave,  "  Grip"  could 
nowhere  be  found,  and  Kosciusko  was  forced,  with  deep  regret,  to  sail 
without  him,  when  "Grip"  returned  to  the  service  and  the  master  he 
loved.  At  or  near  the  close  of  the  war,  Brigadier-General  Paterson,  was 
made  major-general,  an  honor  justly  deserved,  although  he  was  one  of 
the  youngest  raised  to  that  rank,  another  evidence  of  the  exalted  position 
he  held  in  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  his  commander-in  chief,  at  whose 
recommendation.  Congress  conferred  this  highest  rank  in  the  army.  In 
May  1783,  before  the  disbandment  of  the  army,  and  after  the  prelimi- 
naries of  peace  had  been  duly  signed  and  officially  announced,  and  while 
the  officers  were  still  at  their  cantonments  on  the  Hudson,  they  assembled 
at  the  headquarters  of  Baron  Steuben,  on  the  east  bank  of  that  river  (a 
place  still  pointed  out  as  one  of  great  historic  interest),  and  organized 
"The  Society  of  the  Cincinnati."  The  Revolution  having  been  accom- 
plished, this  society  was  instituted  as  a  monument  of  the  memorable 
occasion, — and  also  to  cherish  and  perpetuate  the  mutual  feelings  of 
patriotism,  benevolence,  and  brotherly  friendship  created  by  a  common 
experience  of  the  hardships  and  perils  encountered  in  achieving  the 
freedom  of  their  country,  and  establishing  its  rank  among  the  nations  of 
the  earth.  In  the  original  organization  of  this  society,  and  as  long  as  he 
lived,  Major-General  Paterson  took  an  active  and  influential  part  in  its 
affairs.  Among  the  original  signatures  to  the  declaration  of  the  prin- 
ciples and  purposes  of  "The  Society  of  the  Cincinnati,"  the  name  of  John 
Paterson  stands  second  on  the  list  to  that  of  George  Washington. 

At  the  close  of  the  war.  General  Paterson  returned  to  his  home  at 
Lenox,  Massachusetts.  He  was  greatly  honored  by  the  people  of  that 
State  as  one  of  the  foremost  patriots  of  the  Revolution,  was  invested  with 
high  civil  office  by  his  fellow  citizens,  distinguished  for  his  public  spirit 
and  hospitality  and  admired  by  all,  for  his  urbanity  of  manners  and  his 
noble  qualities  as  a  Christian  gentleman.  His  home  was  a  centre  of  pure 
and  elevating  social  influences,  where  intelligence  and  refinement  found 
strong  and  charming  attractions  in  intercourse  with  the  noble  patriot  and 
his  accomplished  wife,  who  presided  over  its  elegant  hospitalities  with  a 


I  JO     Address   on   the   Life   of  Major-General  Jolui   Peterson.    [July, 

grace  and  charm  which  tradition  has  transmitted  to  the  present  day.  In 
1786,  General  Paterson,  at  the  request  and  by  the  authority  of  the  Governor 
of  Massachusetts,  took  command  of  the  Berkshire  Co.  militia,  in  a  brief 
campaign  to  suppress  Shay's  Rebellion,  a  popular  outbreak  against  cer- 
tain taxation  laws,  which  for  a  time  seriously  threatened  the  peace  of  the 
State. 

About  the  year  1790,  General  Paterson,  with  a  number  of  other 
citizens  of  Massachusetts,  purchased  a  tract  of  230,000  acres  of  land,  in 
the  new  counties  of  Broome  and  Tioga,  in  the  State  of  New  York,  which 
was  known  as  "The  Free  Township."  In  the  same  year,  the  General 
removed  with  his  family  to  "Lisle,"  in  Broome  County,  now  known  as 
"Whitney's  Point,"  and  continued  his  residence  there  till  his  death,  July 
19th,  1808.  Scarcely  was  he  settled  in  his  new  home  before  he  was  called 
into  public  life.  In  addition  to  several  local  offices  which  he  filled,  he 
was  for  four  years  elected  a  member  of  the  New  York  General  Assembly, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  New  York  Constitutional  Convention  in  the 
year  1801,  and  was  prominent  and  influential  in  its  deliberations.  He 
was  also  elected  for  two  terms,  a  member  of  the  8th  U.  S.  Congress,  from 
the  Southern  District  of  New  York. 

When  the  new  judicial  system  of  the  State,  established  by  the  revised 
constitution  in  1801,  was  fully  organized  in  Broome  County,  General 
Paterson  was  appointed  Chief-Justice  of  the  County,  and  held  the  position 
until  his  death.  He  was  buried  in  the  cemetery  at  Lisle,  where  his  re- 
mains still  lie.  Not  a  monument  of  any  kind,  save  a  small  headstone 
marks  the  place  of  his  burial.  Such  is  an  outline  of  the  life  of  Major- 
General  Paterson.  Very  shortly  after  his  death,  his  dwelling-house  and 
office  with  all  their  contents  were  burned.  He  was  a  man  of  superior 
education  and  of  thoughtful,  systematic  habits,  and  without  doubt,  had 
among  his  voluminous  papers,  records  and  memoranda  of  his  eventful 
life,  ample  for  a  biography  full  of  intense  interest.  But  all  were  destroyed 
and  could  not  be  replaced  by  any  of  the  living,  and  as  his  residence  in 
each  of  the  three  States,  among  which  the  time  of  his  life  was  divided, 
was  comparatively  brief,  in  neither  of  them,  could  memory  and  tradition 
be  expected  to  supply,  in  any  considerable  degree,  the  place  of  lost  recoids. 
The  first  thirty-one  years  of  his  life,  were  spent  in  his  native  State  of  Con- 
necticut ;  the  following  fifteen  years,  including  the  period  of  the  revolu- 
tion in  Massachusetts,  and  the  last  eighteen  years  of  his  life,  in  the  State 
of  New  York.  Ex-Lt.-Gov.  Julius  Rockwell,  of  Massachusetts,  in  a  his- 
torical address,  delivered  at  Lenox  in  that  State,  at  the  Centennial  Cele- 
bration, July  4th  1876,  in  speaking  of  General  Paterson  and  his  residence 
at  Lenox  during  the  Revolutionary  war,  says,  "it  was  unfortunate  that 
he  ever  changed  his  residence  as  he  did,  afterwards  residing  in  the  west- 
ern part  of  the  State  of  New  York.  If  he  had  died  here,  it  would  have 
been  resolved  that  he  was  deserving  of  a  public  monument.  And  that 
subject  is  worthy  of  consideration  now.  He  was  among  the  very  fore- 
most of  the  Revolutionary  patriots  and  soldiers  of  Massachusetts."  *  The 
same  distinguished  statesman,  in  a  letter  to  a  gentleman  to  whom  he 
sent  a  copy  of  his  centennial  oration,  says,  "in  preparing  my  oration 
and  examining  as  far  as  possible  into  the  life  of  General  Paterson,  I  be- 
came impressed,  that  he  had  been  a  most  important  aid  and  adviser  to 
Washington,  and  was  every  way  qualified  to   take  the   place  of  his  chief 

*(See  Minot's  History — Shay's  Rebellion,  page  141.) 


i8go.'\  Address   on    the   Life   of  Major-General  John   Paierson.       jjj 

in  case  of  emergency."  This  is  very  strong  language,  but  coming  delib- 
erately from  so  thoughtful  a  man,  so  sound  and  learned  a  jurist,  and  so 
able  a  statesman  as  Judge  Rockwell,  himself  a  son  of  Connecticut  and  of 
Yale,  it  is  entitled  to  the  highest  consideration.  In  this  connection,  it  is 
proper  to  state  that  Prof.  Thomas  Egleston  of  Columbia  College,  a  grand- 
son of  Gen.  Paterson,  has  recently  erected  to  his  memory  an  appropriate 
and  beautiful  Mural  Tablet  in  Trinity  Church,  Lenox.  Mr.  Alfred  Andrews, 
in  his  "^  Genealogy  and  Ecclesiastical  History  of  New  Britain,"  says,  "We 
should  judge  from  the  number  and  variety  of  the  offices  and  trusts  bestowed 
on  General  John  Paterson  through  his  life,  that  he  was  in  these  respects, 
the  most  distinguished  man  ever  raised  in  New  Britain.  His  removing 
from  the  place  so  early  in  life  is  the  reason  probably  why  our  oldest  people 
know  so  little  of  his  history.  Thomas  J.  Paterson,  a  grandson  of  General 
Paterson,  died  in  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  12th  February,  1886,  at  nearly  80 
years  of  age.  The  Rochester  Democrat  and  Chronicle  speaking  editorially 
of  the  high  character  of  the  deceased,  and  of  his  ancestry  said,  "  His  ances- 
tors, on  both  the  paternal  and  maternal  lines,  were  distinguished  and 
among  the  most  patriotic  and  best  people  of  their  generation.  His  grand- 
father, Major-General  John  Paterson,  was  one  of  the  most  distinguished 
and  effective  officers  of  the  Revolutionary  army  and  one  of  the  most  inti- 
mate and  most  trusted  friends  of  Washington  to  the  end  of  the  war,  and 
till  death  severed  their  friendship." 

It  is  a  cause  of  deep  regret  that,  so  far  as  known,  no  portrait,  or  like- 
ness of  General  Paterson  in  any  form  exists.  It  is,  however,  known  that 
a  portrait  was  painted  when  he  was  tilling  the  office  of  Chief-Justice  of 
Broome  County,  N.  Y. ,  but  it  is  supposed  that  this  was  destroyed  when 
the  dwelling  and  office  with  their  contents  were  burned. 

The  State  ot  New  Jersey  aided  by  the  U.  S.  Government  has  erected 
at  Freehold  a  stately  granite  monument  in  commemoration  of  the 
battle  of  Monmouth,  in  that  State.  'J  his  battle  opened  in  the  park  of 
Freehold,  and  the  monument  is  appropriately  lucated  there.  Surrounding 
the  base  are  five  bronze  tablets  representing  in  bas-relief  the  prominent 
events  or  scenes  in  the  progress  of  the  battle.  Among  these  is  one 
representing  the  Council  of  War  held  by  Washington  with  his  general 
officers  at  Hopewell  just  before  the  battle  commenced.  Thirteen  general 
officers,  with  the  adjutant  of  the  chief,  constitute  the  group  ;  General 
Paterson  is  represented  by  the  artist  seated  by  the  table  with  his  hand 
resting  upon  a  scroll  having  the  position  of  the  contending  forces  mapped 
out  before  him,  earnestly  listening  to  Lafayette  standing  and  addressing 
the  Council.*     Tjiis  monument  was  unveiled  Nov.  15,   1884. 

In  conclusion  I  beg  leave  to  add  that  I  have  long  hoped  that  one 
more  accustomed  to  literary  work  than  myself  would  accept  of  the  frag- 
mentary materials  which  after  years  of  research  I  have  gathered  relating  to 
the  life  and  character  of  General  Paterson,  and  write  out  as  worthy  a 
biography  of  the  distinguished  soldier  and  statesman  as  these  materials 
would  enable  him  to  do,  but  failing  to  realize  this  hope  and  believing 
that  I  had  in  my  possession  more  ot  the  facts  which  reveal  and  illustrate 
his  life  and  character  than  any  one  else,  I  have  accepted  your  invitation 
and  prepared  the  compilation  which  I  now  submit.  Our  society  can  fulfil 
one  of  the  great  ends  of  its  organization  only  by  preserving  with  ceaseless 

*  No  portrait  of  General  Paterson  is  known  to  be  in  existence.  Tfiis  is  therefore 
merely  an  ideal  picture  being  a  likeness  of  the  general's  grandson. 


112 


Inscriptmis    in    fhe    Graveyard  at  Morgan   Manor.         [Jul}', 


care  and  vigilance  the  memory  of  the  useful  and  distinguished  sons  of  our 
own  and  other  States.  In  permanent  records  and  by  appropriate  and 
enduring  monuments  their  names  and  their  virtues  should  be  kept  fresh 
in  the  minds  of  successive  generations,  and  thus  the  richest  treasures 
of  the  State  continually  accumulate. 


COPY  OF  INSCRIPTIONS  IN  THE  GRAVEYARD  AT  MORGAN 
MANOR,  SOUTH  AMBOY,  NEW  JERSEY. 


Contributed  by  Mrs.  DeWitt  Clinton  Mather. 


Lieu.  Nicholas  Morgan  died  Dec  9th  1782  in  the  27th  year  of  his  age. 
By  refugees  he  lost  his  life. 

Nicholas  Everson,  Died  March  17th  1783  Aged  85  years. 

In  memory  of  Capt.  James  Morgan  who  died  Feb.  26th  1784  in  the 
50th  year  of  his  age. 

In  memory  of  Margaret  Morgan  Wife  of  Capt  James  Morgan  who 
departed  this  life  June  8th  1827  aged  96  years  9  months  and  21  days. 

Maj.  Gen.  James  Morgan  Who  departed  this  life  Nov  14th  1822  Aged 
65  years,  10  months  &  15  days.  An  old  and  respected  officer  of  the 
Revolution  and  late  Member  of  Congress. 

Catherine*  wife  of  Colonel  James  Morgan  died  Jan  27th  1802  in  the 
37th  year  of  her  age. 

Stephen  son  of  General  James  &  Catherine  Morgan  who  departed  this 
life  Dec.  12th  181 2,  aged  26  years,  i  month  &  12  days. 

Five  children  of  Colonel  James  &  Catherine  Morgan  John,  James, 
Nicholas,  Catherine,  Abel. 

Alice  Daughter  of  General  James  &  Catherine  Morgan  Died  Juae 
28th  1853  Aged  67  years  10  months  and  21  days. 

(2nd  wife)  Ann  S.  Van  Wickle  Wife  of  Gen.  James  Morgan  Died 
Aug.  13th  1869  Aged  85  years  2  months  28  days. 

Charles  Morgan  Born  Jan  13th  1808  Died  Sept.  ist  1852. 

Mary  D.  Morgan  Beloved  wife  of  Edwin  R.  Hanks  Born  Jan  i8th 
18 14  Died  May  r5th  1855. 

Emeline  Wife  of  F.  F.  Hardenburgh  Daughter  of  Gen.  James  and 
Ann  Morgan  Died  Oct.  12th  1845  Aged  34  years,  9  months  &  14  days. 

Elizabeth  Blackwell  Rockwell,  Widow  of  Charles  Morgan  Born  May 
31st  1813  Died  Feb  24th  1885. 

(Sons  of  Chas.  &  Elizabeth  Morgan.)  Charles  Morgan  Born  Nov 
loth  1837  Died,  Sep  21,  1888.  Theodore  Blackwell  Morgan  Born  March 
28th  1843  Died  May  i8th  1888. 

Medora  Daughter  of  Theodore  &  Sophronia  Morgan  Born  March 
30th  1875  Died  April  30th  1875. 

Fredeiic  C.  Tanner  Born  Sept.  29th  18 10  Died  Jan  31st  1850. 

Charles  Tanner  Born  Feb  13th  1847  Died  April  14th  1880. 

Ann  Elizabeth  daughter  of  Edwin  R.  &  Mary  D.  Hanks  Born  Oct. 
2ist  1834  Died  June  25th  1838. 

Olivia. 

Helen  Rebecca  daughter  of  Edwin  &  Mary  D.  Hanks  Born  Nov.  23rd 
1844.      Died  Feb.  loth  1845. 

*This  woman  was  Catherine  Van  Cortlandt,  of  New  York.     Her  portrait  is  in 
possession  of  one  of  her  descendants. 


1890.]     Records   of  the   R( formed  Dutch    Church    hi   Ktw    York.      i  j -1 

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


A'  1730. 
Maart    i. 

d°,  4. 


d°. 


II. 


d°.       15. 
d°.        18. 

[501.J 


d°. 

d°. 

22, 

d°. 

29, 

d°. 

30. 

April 

5. 

d°.         8. 


(Continued  from  Vol.  XXI.,  p.  72,  of  The  Record.) 


OUDERS. 

Abraham  Raiding, 

Marytje  Cozyns. 
David   W.   Provoost, 

A  n  n  e  k  e    V,    D. 

Water. 
Alixander  Fi  sh  si  t, 

Marytje  Selover. 
Casparus    Blank, 

Marritje  Andrisse. 
Willem  Vredenburg, 

Willemyntje  Nak. 
Lowrens    Low,    Jan- 

netje  V.  Vlekker. 
Jan    Karstang,    P^lsje 

Grietman. 
Jesse    De  Foreest, 

Teuntje  Tietsoort. 
Gabriel     Moor, 

Annetje  Andries. 
Jan  Hver,  Margrietje 

Bolje. 

Jan  Sjoet,   Margareta 

D.  Riemer. 
P  e  t  r  u  s    De    Mill, 

Femmetje     Valen- 

tyn. 
John  Galoway,  Anna 

Lan^b. 
Ryer    Hansen,   IMar- 

griet  D'Voor. 
Fredrik  V.  Cortlant, 

Francyntje  Jay. 
Harmen     Rutgers, 

Elisabeth  Bensen. 

Pieter  B  r  o  li  w  e  r  , 
Elisabeth  Quack- 
enbos. 

Willem  R  o  o  m  e  , 
Annetje  Wessels. 

Abraham  D.  Peyster, 
Margareta  V:  Cort- 
lant. 

Joris  Elsworth,  Jan- 
netje  Miserol. 


KINDERS.  GETUYGEN. 

Catharina.       Joost   Raiding,   Elisabeth 

Welsch. 
Wilhelmijs.     Willem  Provoost,  Wyntje 

Byvank. 


Jacob. 


Jacob  Selover,  Sara  Bus- 


Lambert.  Lambert  Andriessen,  Lea 
Andriesse,  z.  h.  v. 

Johannes.  Matthys  Nack,  Janna 
Vredenburgh. 

Dina.  Marynus    Roelfse,     Dina 

Idesen,  z.  h.  v. 

Catharina.  Gideon  Karstang,  Catha- 
rina Karstang. 

David.  Johannes    Dow,   Rebecca 

Anthony. 

Annetje.  Jan    Ariansen,   G  r  i  e  t  j  e 

Andriessen. 

Catharina.  Johannes  Hardenbroek, 
Annetje  Bos^  z.  h.  v. 

Isaac.  Steenw\>k      De     Riemer, 

Margrietje  Egberts. 

Obadia.  Joost     De    Mill,     Judith 

Van  Seys,  VVedu. 

John.  R  o  e  1  o  f  Van    Mepelen, 

Elisabeth  Lam. 
Elisabeth.        Isaac    Braasjer,     Lysbeth 

de  Voor. 
Fredrik.  Pieter    Jay,     Judith    Jay 

Jong  dog^ 
Harmanus.     Harmanus     Rutgers, 

Catharina    Myers, 

z.  h.  V. 
Annaatje.        Johannes  V.  Norden,  Lea 

Qiickenbos,  jong  dog"". 

Jan.  Frans    Gerbrants,    Maria 

Roome,  Wedu^. 

Pierre.  Pierre  De  Peyster, 

Francynt  Jay. 

Charles.  Johannes  Elsworth,  Maria 

Van  Gelder. 


11^     Records   of  the   Reformed  Dutch    Church    in   New  York,       [July, 


A" 

1730 

OUDERS. 

KINDERS. 

Alixander  P  h  en  i  x, 

Anna. 

Elisabeth  Burger. 

Hendricus    Cavelier, 

Lena. 

Lena  Burger. 

d°. 

15- 

Abraham   Skinna, 
Martha  Ladony. 

Abraham. 

Jacob  Loring,  Maria 

Fredrik. 

V.  D.  Grist. 

Evert  Pels,  Catharina 

Cathalyntje. 

d  Graail. 

Rynier  Burger,  Dina 

Harmanus. 

Van  Gelder. 

d°. 

19. 

Philip  Bemper,  Cilia 
Jansen. 

Jac9biis. 

[5 

02.] 

Gerrit    Coz}>n,    Mar- 

Gerrit. 

grietje  Jansen. 

d°. 

29. 

Lewis  Thebou,  Maria 
Vile. 

Gerrit. 

Johannes  Denemark, 

Aaltje. 

Rachel  Beekman. 

Jacob  lis  INIontanje, 

Abraham. 

Maria  Pell. 

Evert  Byvank,  Maria 

Maria. 

Cannon. 

John  Tarp,  Apolony 

Dirk. 

uit  bogert. 

May 

3. 

Wilhelmvis  Beekman, 
Martha  Moth. 

Jacobus. 

Pieter      Vliereboom, 

Geertruyd. 

Jannetje  de  Voort. 

Ahasuerus  Turk, 

Aaltje. 

Hillegont  Kiiyper. 

Johannes    Hyer, 

Walter. 

Antje  De  Hart. 

Thomas    Montanje, 

Benjamin. 

Rebekka  Briiyn. 

d°. 

7- 

Jan     Ten     B  r  0  e  k  , 
Maria  Koning. 

Andries. 

d°. 

17- 

Isaac  Van  Dam. 

Rip, 

Jacobus  Kip,  Catha- 

Catharina. 

rina  Kip. 

B  a  r  e  n  t  Bos,  Aafje 

Maria. 

Bruyn. 

Willem    Waldron, 

Tanneke. 

Aagje  Sammons. 

GETUYGEN. 

Pieter  Burger,  .  Catharina 

Van  Vlek. 
Johannes    Burger,     Lena 

Tiirk,  z.  h.  v. 
Benjamin     de     Harjette, 

Anna       Outman, 

z.  h.  V. 
John    Bertell,     Elisabeth 

Filkins. 
Simson     Pels,     Elisabeth 

Van  Bursum. 
Vicktoor   Hyer,    Jannetje 

Van  Gelder,  z.  h.  v. 
Johan   Jacob    Bemper, 

Sabina    Bemper,   z.    h. 

V. 


Philip     Boils,     Catharina 

Boils,   z.  h.  V. 
Gerrit  Vile,  Jannetje  Van 

Veiirde,  z.  h.  v. 
Johannes     Beekman, 

Maria  Schermerhoorn. 
Abraham      Montanje, 

Maria  Van  der  Poel. 
Jan   Van    Pelt,    Aaltje 

Hooglant,  z.  h.  v. 
Gysbert  u  i  1 1  e  n  Bogert, 

Lysbeth  Ekkeson. 
Doctor  Wilhelmiis  Beek- 

m  a  n  ,     Catharina    De 

Lanoy,  z.  h.  v. 
S  e  r  V  a  a  s       Vliereboom 

Marritje  Ferdon. 
Johannes     Turk,     Aaltje 

Turk  j.  dogter. 
Walter   Hyer,    Elsje  Van 

de  Water,  z.  h.  v. 
Johannes  Montanje,  Antje 

Blom  j.  dogter. 
Elk  Hoop,   Annetje  Van 

Deursen. 
Rip  Van  Dam,   Cornelia 

Beekman. 
Samuel    Kip,    Margareta 

Rykman. 
Gerrit  Briiyn,   Maria    De 

Voe. 
Johannes    Bensen,    Tan- 
neke Waldron. 


1890.]    Records   of  the   Reformed  Dutch    Church    in   New    York.       jjr 


A'    1730.  OUDERS.  HINDERS. 

H  e  n  d  r  i  k    Poiilse,     Jacob. 
Neeltje       Van 
Deurse. 
[503-] 
May    17.  Jan    Van    Deventer,     Catharina. 
Elisabeth      Laker- 
man. 
d°.        18.    Pieter  V.  Norden,     Magdalena. 
Antje  Remmersen. 

d°.        29.   Jacob    Ryke,    Catha-     Samiiel. 

rina  Pomeryn. 
Yuny    7.  Johannes    De    Voor,      Aafje. 

Aafje  Cortregt. 
d°.  Johannes    Burger,      Helena. 

Jannetje  Brouwer. 
d°.  David    S  c  h  li  y  1  e  r ,     Catlyntje. 

Elizabeth  Mar- 

schalk. 
John  Jacobs,  Harmpje     Pieter. 

Coek. 
10.   Johannes     Abramse,     Elisabeth. 

Elisabeth  Bosch. 

14.    Petrus      Rutgers,      Petriis. 

Helena  Hooglant. 
21.  Johannes  Biirger,     Jannetje. 

Aafje  Goelet. 

28.  Alixander  Allair,  Hester. 
Hester  Clatwordy. 

5.   Barent    Barheit,    Re-  Johannes. 

becca  Oothout. 

8.  John  Thurman,  Elis-  John. 

abeth  Wessels.  2  lingen. 

Frans. 


d°. 
d°. 

d°. 
d°. 

d°. 
July 


d°.  Abraham    V.    Wyck,     Susanna. 

Catharina  Pro- 

voost. 
d°.        19.   Harmaniis    Simonis,     Willem. 

Angeert  Sheldrin. 
d°.  Hendricus      Boelen,     Catryntje. 

Jannetje  Waldron. 

[504.] 

d°.        22.   Albartus  Tie  boiit,     Grietje. 

Cornelia  Bogert. 
d°.       26.   Jan    !piom,    Rebecca     Elisabeth, 

Korsen. 


GETUYGEN. 

Johannes    Poiilse,    Aaltje 
Van  Deurse. 


Johannes  Tiebout, 

Marytje    Deventer,     z. 

h.  V. 
Johannes    Van    Norden, 

Arriaantje  Webbers,   z. 

h.  V. 
Thomas    Lince,    Mar- 

grietje  Ryke,  z.  h.  v. 
Johannes     Montanje, 

Rachel  Montanje. 
Jan    Reyn,    Helena 

Brouwer,  z.  h.  v. 
Andries     Marschalk, 

Teuntje  Romme, 

z.  h.  V. 


Henry  Bosch,   Gerritje 

Bosch,    h.    V.    V.    Wil- 
liam Smith. 
Harmaniis      Riitgers, 

Beletje  Renaiidet. 
Jacob     Goelet,     Johanna 

Burger,     h.     v,     v., 

Johannes  Man. 
Tawet    Bayly,    Hester 
""'Baly,  z.  h.  V. 
Johannes  Man,   Annaatje 

Burger,  z.  h.  v. 
Jan  Ten  B  r  o  e  k  ,  Maria 

Ten  B  r  o  e  k   jong  d^, 

Isaac  Bratt,  Susanna 

Bratt. 
Cornells     Zantvoort, 

Geertje    de    Haart,    z. 

h.  V. 
Willem   Corsilius,     Anna 

Maria  Thys. 
Hendrik    V.     Winkelen, 

Catharina  Waldron,  Z. 

Teiinis    Tiebout,    Grietje 

Bogert  Wediiw^ 
Jacob  C  o  r  s  e  n  &  Mar- 

grietje   Blom,  z.    h.   v. 

Petrus  Kip, 


Il5     Records   of  the   Reformed  Dutch    Church    in   New    York.       [July, 


A° 

1730- 

OUDERS. 

KINDERS. 

d''. 

29. 

N  i  c  0 1  a  a  s   Bayard, 
Elisabeth  Rynders. 

Hester. 

Aug. 

2. 

Marten    Bandt,    Jen- 
neke  Buys. 

Petriis. 

d°. 

12. 

George  Fielding, 
Catharina   R  0  s  e  - 
boom. 

Hendrik. 

d°. 

Jacobiis      Montanje, 

Elisabeth. 

Arriaantje  du  Foir. 

2  lingen 
Arriaantje. 

d°. 

16. 

Jacob     S  a  m  m  0  n  , 
Catlyntje  Bensing. 

Rachel. 

d°. 

Johannes  Van  Zandt, 
Tryntje  Bensing. 

Pieter  Pra. 

d°. 

CornelisTiirk,  Catha- 

Elisabet. 

- 

rina  Van  Tilburg. 

d°. 

23- 

P  i  e  t  e  r    Marschalk, 
Catalyntje  Kip. 

Elisabet. 

Sept. 

2. 

Jan  Voeshee,   Catha- 
rina Waldron. 

Parent. 

d°. 

16. 

Tan  de  Wit  Pieterson, 

Pieter. 

20. 

23- 

30. 


d°. 

d°. 

d°. 
d°. 
d°. 

d°. 

d° 


[505.] 
Octob.  7. 

do. 


d°. 


Anna  Van  Home. 

John    Mak   E  v  e  r  s  , 

Ca  t  h  ar  i  n  a   Van 

Home. 
Jan  Vos,  Willemyntje 

Broiiwer. 
Pieter  Snyder,   Anna 

Catrien  Corselius. 
Jan   Cannon,    Jerusa 

Sands. 
David    Abeel,    Maria 

Diiyking. 

Cornel  is  Bogaard, 
Cornelia  Verdiiyn. 

John    Coo,    Jannetje 
Van  Zandt. 


Theophilus  Elsworth, 
Hester  Roome. 

Francis  Childe,  Cor- 
nelia Fiele. 

Willem  Vredenburg, 
Catharina  Scott. 


William. 

Anna. 

Anna  Maria 
Andro. 
David. 

Nicolaas. 

Richard. 

Adriaantje. 

Cornelia. 

Christina. 


GETUYGEN. 

Samuel    Bayard,     Hester 

Reyndertz. 
Willem     Bandt,     Mar- 

g  r  i  e  t  j  e  V.  d.   Water, 

z.  h.  V. 
Hendrik    Roseboom, 

Debora    Staats,    h.     v. 

van    Hendrik    Rose- 

boom. 
Jesse    Montanje,    Rachel 

Montanje,    Teunis    dii 

Foir,  Geertje  du  Foir. 
Abraham  Lameter,  Catha- 

rientje  Bensing, 
Pieter   Pra,    Maiia   Pra, 

syn  h.  V, 
Johannes     Turk,     Belitje 

Turk  jonge  d''. 
Jacob  Kip,  Elisabet  Mar- 

schalk,   h.  v.  v.,   David 

Schiiyler, 
Jan     Ariaanse,     Tanneke 

Waldron  syn  h.  v. 
Willem     De    Witt,    Elsje 

Provoost,    H.    V.  Van 

Gerrit  Van  Home. 
Abraham     Van     Home, 

Catharina    Rutgers,    s. 

h.  V. 
Albert  Van  Lint,  Marritje 

Van  'I'issel. 
Philip  Jong,  Anna  Maria 

Hofman. 
Cornells  Cortregt,  Hester 

Cannon  syn  h.  v. 
Jan    Stoiitenburg,     Hen- 

drica    Duyking,    s.    h. 

V. 

Jan     Bogaart,     Elisabeth 
Verduyn,      h.     v.     van 


Barent  de 
Pieter     Pra 
Jannetje 
dos:ter. 


Foreest. 
Van    Zandt, 
Fyn     jonge 


Thomas  W  i  n  d  o  v  e  r  , 
Jelyntje  Caar,  Wed^ 

Aarnout  Fiele,  Catha- 
rina Fiele. 

Johannes  Vredenburg, 
Judith  Van  Seys  Wed^ 


1890.]    Records   of  /he   Reformed  Dutch    Church    in    Nav    York.       \\>-j 


A°    I/30.  OUDERS. 

d°.  Johannes  Daly,  Mar- 

grietje  Van  Seys. 

d°.  II.  Edward  Man,  Maria 
Van  Deursen. 


d°.  14.  Christoffel  Bancker, 
Elisabeth  H  oog  - 
lant. 

d°.  Hermanns  Schuyler, 

Jannetje  Bancker. 

d°.  Hendrik  Kermer, 

Jacomyntje  G  e  r  - 

rits. 
d°.  Pieter    Lammerse, 

Maria  Bennet. 
d°.  Theophilus    W.    Els- 

worth,   Annaatje 

Hardenbroek. 
d°.        21,   Ahasueriis  Elsworth, 

Maria  Van  Gelder. 
d°.        28.   John  Le  Montes, 

Aaltje  Van  Norden. 
d°.  Abraham    Blank, 

Maria  Laurens. 
d°.  Christofifel  VVambsly, 

Jannetje   Hen- 

drikse. 
Nov,      8,   James    Livingston, 

Maria  Kierstede. 
d°.  Johannes  Montagne, 

Susanna  Bussing. 
d°.        II.   Frans    Gerbrants 

Ju',,   Neeltje   Kor- 

sen. 
d°.  Evert  Diiyking,  Aafje 

Hardenbroek. 
d°.  Gabriel     Crooke, 

Marica  H  ard  e  n  - 

broek. 
d°.  Dirk    Hoppe,    Maria 

Frencis. 
d°.        22.  T  h  e  u  n  i  s  de  Noir, 

Geertje  Barhett. 
d°.  Nicolaas    Gouver- 

n  e  u  r  ,   Geertruyd 

Reynders. 
d°.  Richard    Van    Dam, 

Cornelia  Beekman. 


KINDERS.  GETUYGEN. 

Cornelia.         Joris  Daly,  Anneke  Daly. 

Edward.  Benjamin    Moor,    Lena 

Van  Deursen,  h.  v. 
van  Jacob  Van  Deur- 
sen. 

Elisabet.  Gerardus  Bancker, 

Helena  Hooglant,  h. 
v.  van  Petrus  Rutgers. 

Christoffel.  Christoffel  Bancker, 
Elisabet  van  Taarling, 
h.  V.  van  Ad"'  Bancker. 

Catharina.  J  a  cob  lis  Turk,  Maria 
Meyer  syn  h.  v. 

Hilletje.  Laurens     Lammerse, 

Hilletje  Lammerse. 
Jenneke.  Gabriel  Crook. 


Sara.  Joris    Elsworth,    Annatje 

Van  Gelder. 
Johannes.        Archibald    Campble, 

Mary  Cooper. 
Paulus.  Isaak    Blank,    Lidia    syn, 

h.  V. 
Daniel.  Daniel   Hendrikse,   Antje 

Hendriksen. 

Jennet.  John  Sc  h  d  y  1  e  r,  Jiin'., 

Margareta  Livingston. 

Johannes.  Isaak  Biissing,  Annaatje 
Bussing,  jong  d. 

Antje.  Wessel  Wessels,   Susanna 

Bradt. 

Evert.  Ide  Meyer,  Sara  Harden- 

broek, Wed*. 

Annetje.  Johannes     Hardenbroek, 

Annetje  Bos  syn,  h.  v. 

Maria.  Jill  is   Mandeviel,    Rachel 

Hoppe. 
Jannetje.  MichielCornelisz, 

Rachel  Hoist. 
Abraham.        Barent   Reynders,    Maria 

Leysleer,     h.     v.     van 

Abr.  Gouverneiir. 
Richard.         Jacob  Walton,   Catharina 

Provoost. 


Il8  The    Van    Wagenen   Family   of  Ulster    Co.,   N.   Y.         [July, 


A° 

1730. 

OUDERS. 

KINDERS. 

[506.] 

d°. 

Harmen  Van  de 
Water,    Marytje 
Caljer. 

Benjamin. 

d°. 

Robert  Provoost, 
Ariaantje  Ponlse. 

Johannes. 

d°. 

Johannes  V  r  e  d  e  n  - 
burg,  J  a  n  n  e  t  j  e 
Woedard. 

Christina. 

d". 

27. 

Nicolaas  Sopman, 
Willemtje  Buys. 

Stephanus. 

Dec. 

2. 

Th  omas   Wood, 
Elisabet  Borris. 

Susanna. 

d°. 

6. 

Thomas   Chilton, 
obeit,    Christina 
Van  Dalen. 

Thomas. 

d°. 

9- 

John  Anthony,  Maria 
Bordsjer. 

Anna. 

d°. 

16. 

Jacobus   Wessels, 
Catharina      Pieter- 
sen. 

Catharina. 

d°. 

Daniel    G  a  u  t  i  e  li  , 

Elisabet. 

Marytje  Bogert. 

den  7  d°  ge 
boren. 

d°. 

25. 

Jacobus     Roosevelt, 
Catharina  Harden- 
broek. 

Sara. 

d°. 

Abraham  De  Lanoy, 
Jannetje  Roome. 

Jannetje. 

d°. 

27. 

Wessel    Wessels, 
Rachel  Van  Im- 
biirg. 

Elisabet. 

GETUYGEN. 

Benjamin  Van  de  Water, 

Engeltje    Lievens    syn 

V.  h. 
Johannes    Poiilse,    Antje 

Van  Seys  Wed^ 
Joost    de    Milt,    Jannetje 

Van  der  Beek. 

Abraham     Anderson, 

Hilletje  Buys. 
William  Brown,   Anna 

Borris. 
Arent   Van   Hoek,   Isaak 

Hoek,  Anna  Lisman. 

Cornelis  Van  O  r  1  a  n  d  , 
Anna  Kuyler. 

Hendrik  Wessels,  Elisa- 
bet Brestee  Jonge  doch- 
ter. 

Willem  Boge  r  t,  Jiin'., 
-     Teuntje  Bogert. 

Evert  Duyking,  Sara  Kip, 
U.  V.  Van  Joh  :  Van 
der  Heul. 

Elias  Ellis,  Cornelia  De 
Lanoy. 

Laurens  Wessels,  Jan- 
netje Wessels,  jonge 
doch't. 


EARLY    SETTLERS   OF    ULSTER    CO.,    N.  Y.— THE  VAN 
WAGENEN  FAMILY. 


By  Gerrit  H.  Van  Wagenen. 


c 


(Continued  from  Vol.  lo,  p.  87,  of  the  Record.)  ' 

Children  o/"  Jacob  Aartsen  Van  Wagenen  (4)  and  Sara  Pels. 
(All  bp.  at  Kingston  except  Jacob.) 

17.  Annatje,  born  Sept.  10,  1678,  bp.  Sept.  15  ;  married  Jan  Heer- 

mans.     (Record,  Vol.  XXL,  p.  58.) 

18.  Aart,  born  Oct.  15,  bp.   Oct.   26,    1679;  died  June    10,  1740; 

married  at  Kingston  Oct.  14,  1705,  Marytje,  daughter  of  Pieter 
Low  and  Lysbet  Blanshan,  born  Dec.  18,  1685,  bp.  Jan.  i, 
1686;  died  June  20,  1733. 


1890.]        The    Van    Wagenen   Family   of  Ulster   Co.,  N.   V.  i  jg 

19.  Evert,  born  April  12,  bp.  April  24,  1681;  married,  about  1709, 

Hillegond,  daughter  of  Claes  Jansen  Van  Heyningen  and  Jan- 
neken  Kiersen,  bp.  in  N.  Y.  Nov.  14,  1686.  (Record,  Vol. 
X.,  p.  117.)  Evert  removed  to  Dutchess  Co.,  N.  Y.,  at  an 
early  date  and  settled  near  Poughkeepsie,  where  many  of  his 
descendants  are  to  be  found. 

20.  Gerrit,  born  Nov.  2,  bp.  Nov.  12,  1682  ;  died  young. 

21.  Rebecka,  born  April  11,  bp.  April  12,  1685  ;  married  Jan  Freer 

about  1706. 

22.  Geertje,  born  Sept.  i,  1686,  bp.  Sept.  5  ;  married  at  Kingston 

Sept,  17,  1709,  Jacob  Gerritse  Decker,  bp.  at  Kingston  Feb. 
24,  1684,  son  of  Gerrit  Janse  Decker  and  Magdalena  Schut. 

23.  Jannetje,  born  April  4,  bp.  April  8,  1688  ;  died  young. 

24.  Jannetje,  born  April  10,  bp.  April  14,  1689  ;  married  at  Kings- 

ton Oct.  7,  171 1,  Johannis  Turk,  son  of  Jacobus  Turk  and 
Catryntje  Van  Benthuysen,  bp.  at  Kingston,  May  16,  1687. 

25.  Gerrit,  born  Feb.  5.  bp.  May  26,  1691  ;  died    Nov.  17,    1709. 

26.  SvMON,   born   Nov.    19,  1692,    bp.    April   23,  1693  ;  married  at 

Kingston  Nov.  17,  1720,  Sara,  daughter  of  Solomon  Dubois 
and  Tryntje  Gerrits,  born   Dec.  23,  1699,   died  Jan.  27,  1759. 

27.  Jacob  Aartse,    born  Jan.    5,  bp.   at  Albany,    Feb.    20,    1695. 

("Pearson's  Albany  Settlers,"  p.  13.) 

28.  Benjamin,  born   Dec.    28,  1696,  bp.   Jan.  i,  1697  ;  married  at 

Kingston,  May  28,  1726,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Gysbert  Van- 
den  Berg  and  Diewertje  Masten. 

29.  Abraham,  born  Feb.  5,  bp.  Feb.  12,  1699  ;  married  at  Kingston 

Feb.  26,  1726,  Hillegond  Crispell,  born  April  17.  1704,  died 
Feb.  22,  1774;  Abraham  died  June  7,  1787.  (Record,  Vol. 
XXL,  p.  86.) 

30.  Sara,    born  Dec.  i,  bp.   Dec.  21,  1701  ;  married  at  Kingston 

April  7,  1721,  Solomon,  son  of  Abraham  Hasbrouck  and 
Maria  Deyo,  born  at  New  Paltz  Oct.  17,  1686.  (Record, 
Vol.  XVII.,  p.  262.) 

31.  Isaac,   born  Aug.  14,  bp.  Aug.  22,  1703  ;  married  at  Kingston 

March  10,  1723,  Catrina  Freer. 

Children  of  Annatje  Van  Wagenen  (17)  and  fan  Heermans  funior. 
(N.  Y.  Gen.  and  Biog.  Record,  Vol.  XXL,  p.  59.) 

Children  of  Aart  Van  Wagenen  (18)  and  Mary tje  Louw. 

(All  bp.  at  Kingston.) 

474.  Jacob,  bp.  Aug.  18,  1706  ;  sponsors,  Jacob  Aartse  and  Sara  Pels. 

475.  Jacob  Aartse,    born   Oct.   29,  1707,   bp.  Nov.  2  ;  died  Dec.  6, 

1775;  married  at  Kingston,  April  10,  1730,  Sara  Freer,  of 
Wagendal,  daughter  of  Jan  Freer  and  Rebecca  Van  Wagenen, 
born    Sept.  20,  1708,  died  Nov.  10,  1778.     (Bible    record.) 

476.  Petrus,  bp.   May  7,  1710  ;   sponsors,  Jan  Heermans  and  Eliza- 

beth Blanshan. 

477.  Gerrit,  bp.  April  6,  1712  ;   sponsors,  Evert  Van  Wagenen  and 

Annetje  Louw;  married  at  Kingston  Jan.  31,  1736,  Marytje, 
daughter  of  Jan  Freer  and  Rebecca  Van  Wagenen,  bp.  at 
Kingston   Sept.  2^,  i^iG. 


I20  "^^^    ^^^   Wagenen   Family  of  Ulster   Co.,  N.   V.         [July, 

478.  Johannes,    bp.    Nov.  21,  1714  ;    sponsors,  Johannes  Louw  and 

Christina  Vas  ;  died  Jan.  10,  1790  ;  married  at  Kingston  Dec. 
16,  1737,  Elizabeth,  bp.  April  12,  1718,  daughter  of  Hugo 
Freer  and  Maria  Le  Roy. 

479.  Benjamin,   bp.  May  26,    1717;    sponsors,    Johannes  Turk  and 

Jannetje  Van  Wagenen. 

480.  Aart,    born  Aug.    20,    1719,   bp .  Aug.  23;     sponsors,    Simon 

and  Sara  Van  Wagenen  ;  died  June  11,  1803;  married  at 
Kingston  Feb.  13,  1748,  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Jan  Freer  and 
Rebecca  Van  Wagenen,  born  Dec.  13,  1725,  died  Jan.  19,  1809. 

481.  Petrus,   bp.  Dec.  31,  1721  ;  sponsors,  Jan  Freer  and  Rebecca 

Van  Wagenen. 

482.  Petrus,  bp.  Jan.  23,  1726  ;  sponsors,  Philippus  Viele  and  Antje 

Louw;  married  at  Kingston  June  15,  1760,  Sara  Low,  of 
New  Paltz,  probably  the  daughter  of  Petrus  Low  and  Catrina 
Dubois,  bp.  at  Kingston  Aug.  4,  1734. 

Children  of  Evert  Van  Wagenen  (19)   and  Hillegond  Van  Heyningen. 

483.  Jacob,  bp.  at  Kingston,  Oct.  10,  1710  ;    sponsors,  Jacob  Aartse 

and  Sara  Pels;  probably  married,  about  1739,  Helena,  daughter 
of  Franz  Van  de  Bogaard  and  Annatje  Parmentier,  bp.  at  Pough- 
keepsie  April  17,  1723. 

484.  Nicholas,  bp.   in  N.   Y.  April  5,    1713  ;    married    at    Pough- 

keepsie  Sept.  6,  1735,  Hester,  daughter  of  Jan  De  Graff 
and  Maria  Peacock,  bp.  at  Kingston  Oct.  12,  1710.  The 
will  of  Nicholas  Van  Wagenen  of  Charlotte  Precinct,  Dutchess 
Co.,  N.  Y.,  dated  Nov.  6,  1769,  passed  Dec.  11,  1772,  at 
Fort  George,  N.  Y. ,  is  recorded  in  N.  Y.,  Liber  28  of  wills, 
p.  337.  Mentions  wife  Hester;  sons  Evert,  John  and 
Nicholas  ;  daughters  Hellegontie,  wife  of  Johannis  Bush  ; 
Elizabeth,  wife  of  Joseph  Hagaman  ;  Sarah,  wife  of  Johannis 
Van  Enden,  and  Janneke ;  also  his  grandchildren  John 
Hester  and  Elizabeth  Allen,  children  of  his  daughter  Maria, 
deceased. 

485.  Sara,  bp.  at  Kingston  April   18,  1715  ;  married  Teunis,  son  of 

Gerret  Van  Vliet  and  Petronella  Swart,  bp.  at  Kingston  June 
14,  1702. 

486.  Gerrit,  bp.  at  Poughkeepsie  April  3, 171 7;  married  Sara,  daughter 

of  Jan  De  Graff  and  Maria  Peacock,  bp.  at  Kingston 
May  6,  171 6. 

487.  Janneken,   bp.  at  Poughkeepsie  Feb.  12,  1719. 

488.  Marretjen,    bp.     at    Poughkeepsie    Nov.    24,    1723  ;    married 

Abraham  De  Graff,  son  of  Jan  De  Graff  and  Maria  Peacock, 
bp.  in  N.  Y.  May  15,  171 8. 

Children  0/*  Rebeck  a  Van  Wagenen  (21)  a7id  Ja?i  Freer. 
(All  baptized  at  Kingston.) 

489.  Sara,  born  Sept.  20,  1708,  at  Wagendal,  bp.  Oct.  24;  died  Nov. 

10,  1778;  married  at  Kingston  April  10,  1730,  Jacob  Aartse 
(No.  475),  son  of  Aart  Van  Wagenen  (18)  and  Marytje  Louw, 
born  Oct,  29,  1707,  died  Dec.  6,  1775. 


1890.]        The    Van    Wagenen   Family   of  Ulster   Co.,   N.   F.  121 

490.  Jannetje,  bp.  May  7,  1710;    died  young. 

491.  Gerrit,  bp.  Sept.  23,  171 1;  married  at  Kingston  Nov.  i,  1735, 

Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Ariaan  Van  Vliet  and  Grietjen  Hasten, 
bp.  at  Kingston  Aug.  9,  1713.     (Record,  Vol.  XX.,  p.  174.) 

492.  Jannetje,  bp.  Aug.  i,  17 14;  married  at  Kingston  Oct.  20,  1737, 

Heyman,  son  of  Aldert  Roosa  and  Agatha  Krom,  bp.  at 
Kingston  Feb.  11,  1709. 

493.  Marytjen,   bp.  Sept.  23,  1716;    married  at  Kingston  Jan.   31, 

1736,  Gerrit  Aartse  Van  Wagenen  (477). 

494.  Jacob,  born  atWagendal,  bp.  May  17,  1719  ;  married  at  Kings- 

ton Sept.  20,  1754,  Anna,  daughter  of  Jan  Van  Aken  and 
Margaret  De  Gratf,  bp.  at  Kii-gston  Aug.  31,  1735. 

495.  Rebecca,   born  at  Wagendal   Dec.  13,  1725,  bp.  Jan.  2,  1726; 

died  Jan.  29,  1809;  married  at  Kingston  Feb.  13,  1748, 
Aart  Van  Wagenen  (480),  born  at  Kingston,  living  at  Wagen- 
dal. 

Children  ^Geertje  Van  Wagenen  (22)  and  Jacob  Gerrilse  Decker. 
(All  baptized  at  Kingston.) 

496.  Sara,  bp.  May  7,  17 10. 

497.  Gerrit,  bp.  Dec.  23,  171 1. 

498.  William,  bp.  Aug.  30,  1713. 

499.  Jacob,  bp.  Dec.  18,  171 5. 

500.  Abraham,  bp.  Jan.  i,  1718. 

501.  Isaac,  bp.  Feb.  14,  1720. 

502.  Benjamin,  bp.  Dec.  24,  1721.  > 

503.  Ephraim,  bp.  Feb.   9,  1724. 

504.  Jonathan,  bp.  Dec.  15,  1728. 

Children  of  Jannetje  Van  Wagenen  (24)  and  Johannes  Turk. 
(All  baptized  at  Kingston.) 

505.  Catryntje,  bp.  July  27,  1712;  sponsors,  Jacob  Aartse,  Sara  Pels  ; 

married  at  Kingston  Aug.  31,  1734,  Cornelius  Persen. 

506.  Sara,  bp.    Feb.  14,  1714  ;   married  at  Kingston  Oct.  8,    1737, 

Paulus  Peeling. 

507.  Anna,  bp.  June  24,  1716  ;  married  at  Kingston   Sept.  18,  1736, 

Gerret  Van  Slyck. 

508.  Jacob,   bp.    Aug.    30,    171 9;    married  at   Kingston    Aug.    15, 

1744,  Sara  Ploeg. 

509.  Johannes,   bp.    Oct.    29,  1721  ;    married  at  Kingston  Nov.    i, 

1746,  Geertjen  Swart. 

510.  Benjamin,  bp.  Dec.  i,  1723  ;  married  Ida  Van  Wie. 

511.  Abraham,   bp.    Oct.    3,    1725;    married  at  Kingston   Oct.   13, 

1750,  Catherine  Slecht. 

512.  Augustinus,  bp.  Nov.  17^  1728. 

Children  of  Symon  Van  Wagenen  (26)  and  Sara  Dubois. 
(All  baptized  at  Kingston.) 

513.  Solomon,  born  April   12,  1722,  bp.  May  6  ;  married  at  Kings- 

ton   Nov.   2,    1749,  Annatje   (Hanna),   daughter  of  Jacobus 


122  The    Van    Wagenen   Family   of  Ulster    Co.,  N.   Y.         [July, 

Bruyn  and  Tryntje  Schoonmaker,  bp.  at  Kingston  Dec.  27, 
1724.     (Record,  Vol.  XIX.,  p.  24.) 

514.  Sara,  born   Nov.  10,  1723,    bp.  Dec.  15;  married  at  Kingston 

April  22,  1752,  Jacobus  Depuy,  bp.  at  Kingston  Nov.  6, 
1726,  son  of  Jacobus  Depuy  and  Sara  Schoonmaker,  who 
were  married  at  Kingston  Aug.  26,  1725. 

515.  Tryntje,  born  May  29,  1725,  bp.  June  27;  died  Julv  15,  1746. 

516.  Jacobus,  born   Feb.  16,  1729,  bp.  April   6;  died  May  3,  1790; 

married  at  Kingston  May  9,  1758,  Rathel,  daughter  of 
Wessel  Brodhead  and  Catharine  Dubois,  born  July  13,  1734, 
died  Jan.  13,  1804. 

517.  Helena,  born  Aug.  29,  1733,  bp.  Sept.  9  ;  married  at  Roches- 

ter, Ulster  Co.,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  28,  1760,  Thomas  D.,  son  of 
Daniel  Schoonmaker  and  Helena  Jansen,  bp.  at  Kingston 
Nov.  17,  1734. 

518.  Annatje,  born  Nov.  12,  1736  (Bible  record)  ;  married  at  Kings- 

ton Nov.  14,  1765,  John  Depuy. 

519.  Elizabeth,  born  Nov.  i,  1739,  bp.  Dec.  3. 

520.  Jacomynte,  born  July  23,  1745  ;  married  at  New  Paltz  Jan.  19, 

1766,  Jacob  DeWitt  Schoonmaker,  son  of  Jochem  Hendrickse 
Schoonmaker  and  Sara  Depuy. 

The  dates  of  birth  of  the  children  of  Symon  Van  Wagenen  and  Sara 
Dubois  are  taken  from  Bible  record.  I  do  not  find  any  baptismal  record 
of  Annatje  or  Jacomynte. 

Children  0/ Benjamin  Van  Wagenen  (28)  and  Elizabeth  Van  den  Berg, 

(All  baptized  at  Kingston  except  Catharina.) 

521.  Sara,  bp.  Jan.  4,  1730;    sponsors,  Gysbert  Van   den  Berg  and 

Diewertje  Masten  ;  married  at  Rochester,  Ulster  Co.,  N.  Y., 
Oct.  10,  1758,  Deyrk  Hoornbeek,  of  Rochester. 

522.  Diewertje,   bp.  Feb.   6,  1732;  married  at  Rochester  Feb.  23, 

1755.  Jacobus,  son  of  Solomon  Hasbrouck  and  Sara  Van 
Wagenen  (30),  bp.   at  Kingston  Jan.  i,  1727. 

523.  Benjamin,  bp.  Jan.  26,  1735  ;  sponsors,  Cornelia  Catharine  Van- 

denberg,  Jacob  Van  Wagening;  married  at  Rochester  Jan. 
2,  ^111,  Lydia  Depuy,  probably  daughter  of  Ephraim  Depuy 
and  Annetje  Schoonmaker,  bp.  at  Rochester  May  20,  1753. 

524.  Cornelius,  bp.  April  i,  1739  ;  married  at  Rochester  June  2,  1776, 

Sara  Depuy,  probably  daughter  of  Ephraim  Depuy  and 
Annetje  Schoonmaker,  bp.  May   18,  1760. 

525.  Elizabeth,  bp.  Jan  23,  1743  ;  probably  married  Adam  Hofman, 

bp.  at  Kingston  April  15,  1739,  son  of  Adam  Hofman  and 
Dina  Delange. 

526.  Catharina,  bp.  at  Marbletown  Nov.  4,  1746. 

Children  of  Abraham  Van  Wagenen  (29)  and  Hillegond  Crispell. 
(All  baptized  at  Kingston.) 

527.  Sara,  bp.  March  12,  1727;  probably  married  at  Kingston  Nov.  . 

20,  1756,  Johannes,  son  of  Hendrick  Deyo  and  Margaret 
Wamboom,  bp.  at  Kingston  Nov.  6,  1726. 


1890.]        The    Van    Wagenen   Family   of  Ulster    Co.,   N.    Y.  \2'X 

528.  Jacob,  bom  March  26,  1729,  bp.  March   30;  died  July  7,  1791. 

529.  Jan,  born  March  13,  1731;  died  Feb.  25,  1732. 

530.  Geertjen,  born  Dec.  27,  1732,  bp.  Dec.  31 ;  died  Nov.  9,  1740  ; 

sponsors.  Dirk  Van  Vliet,  Marytje  Crispel. 

531.  Jan,   born    May  15,  1735,   bp.  May  18;   died   Oct.   31,    1740; 

sponsors,  Jan  Freer,  Rebecca  Van  Wagening. 

532.  Abraham,  born  Nov.  23,  1737,  bp.  Dec.   4  ;  died  Oct.  8,  1743  ; 

sponsors,  Isaac  Van  Wagening,  Catrina  Freer. 

533.  Simon,   born  July  23,  1740,  bp.  July  27;  died  Oct.  16,  1743. 

534.  Geertjen,  born  at  Wagendal  June  20,  1743,  bp.  June  26  ;   pro- 

.    bably  married  at  Kingston   May   20,    1769,    Jonathan  Low, 
widower  of  Lena  Agtmoodie,  living  at  New  Paltz. 

535.  Maria,   born  April  15,  1747,  bp.  April  17. 

536.  Abraham,  born  May  23,  1749,  bp.  May  28  ;  died  Feb.  22,  1827  ; 

married  at  Marbletown,N.  Y.,  June  16,  1799,  Mary,  daughter 
of  Robert  Masters  and  Mary  Parker,  born  April  17,  1773,  bp. 
at  New  Paltz,  May  9,  died  Nov.  26,  1822. 

These  records  of  births  and  deaths  are  taken  from  the  family  Bible  of 
Abraham  Van  Wagenen  at  Creek  Locks  (formerly  Wagendal),  Ulster 
Co.,  N.  Y. 

Children   of   Sara    Van    Wagenen    (30)    and    Solomon   Hashrouck. 
(Record,  Vol.  XVIL,  p.  263.) 

537.  Abraham,  bp.  at  Kingston  March  11,  1722  ;  married  at  Kings- 

ton Jan.  28,  1749,  Rachel,  daughter  of  Jan  Slecht  and 
Elizabeth  Smedes,  bp.  at  Kingston  Nov.  17,  1728. 

538.  Jacobus,  bp.  Jan.  3,  1725,  at  Kingston. 

539.  Jacobus,  bp.  at  Kingston    Jan.  i,  1727  ;  married  at  Rochester, 

Ulster  Co.,  N.  Y.,  March  19.  175;,  Diewertje  (living  at 
Kyserike),  daughter  of  Benjamin  Van  Wagenen  (28)  and  Eliza- 
beth Van  den  Berg. 

540.  Jan,  bp.  at  Kingston,  Feb.  i,  1730;  married  at  Kingston  Dec. 

24,  1763,  Rachel  (of  Wagendal),  daughter  of  Johannes  Van 
Wagenen  and  Elizabeth  Freer,  bp.  May  13,  1741.  Rachel 
married,  2"'',  Petrus  Schoonmaker. 

541.  Daniel,  bp.  at  New  Paltz  Oct.  18,  1732. 

542.  Simon,  bp.  at  Kingston  Dec.  25,  1735. 

543.  Petrus,  bp.  at  Kingston   Aug.  20,  1738  ;  married  at  New  Paltz 

Oct.  26,  1765,  Sara,  daughter  of  Abram  Bevier  and  Margaret 
Elting,  bp.  at  Kingston  June  24,  1744. 

544.  Elias,  bp.  June  21,  1741  ;  married  Elizabeth  Slecht. 

Children  0/"  Isaac  Van  Wagenen  (31)  and  Catrina  Freer. 

(All  baptized  at  Kingston.) 

545.  Maria,  bp.   Dec.  25.    1723;  died   1783;  married  at  Kingston 

Sept.  16,  1752,  Petrus  Dumond. 

546.  Sara,   bp.  Feb.  6,  1726;  married  at  Kingston  Feb.   10,    1759, 

Hendrick  Schmit,  of  Marbletown,  son  of  Willem  Schmit  and 
Eva  Miller,  bp.  at  New  Paltz  Feb.  n,  1733. 


J  24  Pruyn    Family — American   Branch.  l^^^Y' 

547.  Isaac,   bp.  May  4,   1729;  married   Sara,  daughter  of  Hendricus 

and  Margaret  Deyo,  bp.  at  New  Paltz  Sept.  16,  1733. 

548.  Catrina,  bp.  Oct.  14,  1733  ;  married  at  Kingston  April  6,  1754, 

Isaiah    Robertson,    son    of  James    Robertson    and    Weyntje 
Klaarwater,   bp.  at  Kingston  March  23,  1729. 


PRUYN   FAMILY— AMERICAN    BRANCH. 


By  John  V.  L.  Pruyn. 


(Continued  from  Vol.  XXI.,  January,  1890,  page  26.) 

359- 

(359)  Simon  Ebenezer^  Pruyn  [Mafihew,^  Harmen^  Arent,"^  Frans 
yansen^),  b.  Feb.  9,  1802,  in  Marysburgh  Township,  Prince  Edward 
Co.,  Ontario,  Canada,  bp.  at  Fredericksburg  by  the  Rev.  Robert  Mc- 
Dowall ;  *  studied  in  the  common  schools  ;  learned  the  trade  of  ship  car- 
penter ;  moved  from  Canada  about  1837  ;  lived  for  some  time  near  Gi- 
braltar, Wayne  Co.,  Michigan,  his  and  his  wife's  names  appearing  in  land 
transfers  ;  now  lives  at  Erie^  Pennsylvania.  He  married  at  Marysburgh, 
Sept.  18,  1824,  Mary  Steel,  b.  June  17,  1805  ;  d.  Aug.  11,  1887,  at 
Erie,  dau.  of  Abraham  Steel  and  Elizabeth  Wright,  of  Marysburgh, 
Prince  Edward  County,  Ontario,  and  had  issue  eight  children  in  the 
following  order  : 

391.  Mary  Margaret,    b.   in   Marysburgh,    Aug.   22,    1825  ;  married 

three  times  : 

I  St,  Orrin  C.  Bradford. 

2d,  Edward  Durand. 

3d,  Peter  C.  Taggart,  of  Manistee,  Michigan. 

392.  Abraham  Steel,  m.  Harriet  M.  Nowland. 

393.  Jane  Ann,  b.  April   19,  1830  in  Marysburgh;  d.  there  Aug.  2, 

1831. 

394.  Matthew,  m.  Angeline  Bondy. 

395.  Lucy  Ann,  b.  Feb.  11,  1835,  in  Marysburgh;  m.  Eli  Whitney 

Parsons.      She  was  living  in  1889  at  Port  Huron,  Michigan. 

396.  Sarah  Jane,   b.   June   27,  1838,    at   Marysburgh  ;   married  De- 

Witt  Clinton  Smith,  of  Savanna,  Illinois. 

397.  DeForest,  m.  Mary  M.  Yeakel. 

*  Rev.  Robert  McDowall,  a  prominent  Presbyterian  minister,  was  born  at  Balls- 
ton,  Saratoga  Co.,  N.Y. ,  and  studied  at  Williams  College,  Mass.  Licensed  to  preach, 
at  Albany,  he  moved  to  Canada,  where  he  ministered  to  the  United  Empire  Loyal- 
ists. The  list  of  marriages,  baptisms,  etc.,  that  he  performed  exists  in  manuscript 
in  book  form,  and  is  entitled  :  "  A  Register  of  the  Marriages  in  the  Province  of 
Upper  Canada,  celebrated  by  the  Rev.  Robert  McDowall,  minister  of  the  united  con- 
gregations of  Ernestown,  Fredericksburgh  and  Adolphustown."  This  valuable  record 
belongs  to  his  grandson,  Mr.  R.  J.  McDowall,  of  Princess  Street,  Kingston,  Ontario, 
who  very  kindly  allowed  me  to  examine  it  during  a  visit  to  Kingston  in  August,  1889. 

J.  V.  L.  P. 


1890.]  Prtiyn   Family — American   Branch.  j2[r 

39S.   Catharine   Granger,   b.  July    15,    1843,    at  Fairport,    Ohio  ;  d. 
there  Nov.  10,  1845. 

360. 

Thomas  Ellison  Williamson,  b.  probably  about  June  22,  1797,  went 
from  Albany  to  Canada.  His  children  apparently  know  nothing  of  his 
antecedents.  He  was  evidently  named  for  the  Rev.  Thomas  Ellison,* 
Rector  of  St.  Peter's  Church,  Albany.  He  married,  July  8,  1824,  in 
Marysburgh,  Prince  Edward  County,  Upper  Canada  (360),  Catharine^ 
Pruyn  [Matthew j^  Harmen,^Arent,'^  Fra?ts  Jansen^),  b.  Sept.  2,  1808,  bp. 
by  the  Rev.  Robert  McDowall.  She  d.  May  23,  1879,  ^^  Pierrepont 
Manor,  Jefferson  Co.,  N.  Y.  He  was  first  postmaster  of  Pierrepont 
Manor  and  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church.  He  died  there,  June  26, 
1855,  aet.  58  years,  4  days,  having  by  this  marriage  had  issue  : 

John,  b.  June  8,  1825,  in  1889  living  in  California;  m.,  firstly,  1846, 
Fanny  Kirkland,  and  had  issue  : 

i.  died  young. f 

ii.  Albert  J.,  b.    Oct.   19,    1847  ;  m.   Emma   Perkins   and    lives 
(1889)  at  Ottawa,  Illinois. 
He  married,  secondly,  and  had  a  son  : 

iii.    Frank. 
Mary,  b.  June  24,  1827,  bp.  June  29,  1828,  by  Rev.  Job  Deacon  at 

Marysburgh,  Ontario.     She  d.  Dec.  13,  1834. 
Charles  Hill,  b.  Oct.  3,  1829  ;  m.  July  3,  1850,  Elizabeth  Kirkland 
b.  April  25,  1828,  d.  April   16,    1889,   dau.   of  Thomas   Kirkland 
and  Mary  Deacon.      He  resides  at  Whitesboro,  N.  Y.,  and  has  had 
issue  : 

i.  Alonzo  b.  at  Cohoes,  Jan.  3,  1852  ;  d.  at  Whitesboro,  Jan. 

5,  1876  ;  m.  Mary  Lynch, 
ii.   Arthur,   b.   at  Oriskany,   N.  Y.,   May    18,  1854  ;    m.  Anna 

Kirk, 
iii.   George,  b.  at  Whitesboro,  March  22,  1857;    m.  Lucy  Smith, 
iv.   Edward,  b.  April  3,  1 861,  at  Whitesboro. 
V.   Thomas,  b.  June  15,  1862  ;  d.  May  26,  1868. 
vi.   Frank,  b.  Oct.  3,  1863,  at  Whitesboro. 
vii.  Charles,  b.  April  i,  1867,  ^t  Whitesboro. 
Stephen  Decatur,  b.  Oct.  6,  1831  ;  d.  Oct.  18,  1853. 
Josephine,  b.  May  23,  1834,  at  Woodville,  N.  Y,  ;  in  1889  living  at 
Adams,  N.  Y.  ;  m.  at  Pierrepont  Manor  July  3,  1S51,  Thomas  Gil- 
bert Pease,  b.  at  Rome,  N.  Y.,   July  23,    1825,   d.   in    the   U.   S. 
Army  Sept.  29,  1864,  son  of  Willis  Francis  Pease  and  Mary  Gil- 
bert (daughter  of  Thomas)  of  Rome  ;  and  has  had  issue  : 

i.   Willis  Francis  Pease,  b.  March,  1853;  in   1889  living  at  St. 
Paul,  Minnesota  ;  m.  Alice  Haight,  and  has  had 

*  The  Rev.  Thomas  Ellison,  D.D.,  an  Oxford  or  Cambridge  University  man, 
ordained  Deacon  July  7,  1782,  by  William,  Lord  Bishop  of  York,  ordained  Priest, 
Sept.  19,  1784,  by  John,  Lord  Bishop  of  Durham  (St.  Peter's  Church  records,  Albany), 
was  Rector  of  St.  Peter's  from  1787  to  1802.  "  Dominie  Ellison,"  as  he  was  usually 
called,  was  greatly  beloved  by  all  who  knew  him. 

■j-  The  compiler  is  not  responsible  for  errors  and  omissions.  The  records  of  the 
various  families  are  sent  to  him.  and  he  has  to  take  them  as  they  come.  Sometimes 
no  replies  are  received  to  letters  sent  out  by  him  in  search  of  information. 


I  26  Pruyn   Family — American   Branch.  [J^ily. 

(a)  Frank  Pease. 

(b)  Melvin  Pease  ;  died  young. 

(c)  Mary  Josephine  Pease. 

ii.   Charles  Pease,  b.  Dec.  16,  1854;  d.  Sept.  11,  1855. 
iii.   James  Pease,  b.   Oct.    16,    1857,   living   in   1889  at   Toledo, 
Ohio  ;  m.,  ist,  Hattie  Bailey,  and  has 

(a)  Murray  Pease. 

He  m.,  2d,  Emma  Sibley,  and  has  had 

(b)  Leon  Mark  Pease  ;  died  young. 

(c)  Sibley  Gilbert  Pease. 

iv.   Minnie  Pease,  b.  Oct.  15,  1859  ;  d.  Aug.  4,  1862. 
V.  Emily  Andrus  Pease,  called  Lillie,  b.  May  i,  1861  ;  m.  May 
I,  1878,  Wilford  Albert  Washburne,  of  Adams,  N.  Y.,  and 
has  had  issue : 

(a)  Carrie  Agnes  Washburne,  b.  Feb.  18,  1879. 

(b)  Catharine  Washburne,  b.  Dec.  4,  1883. 

(c)  Wilford  Albert  Washburne,  b.  Feb.  3,  1885. 
vi.   Katherine  Pease,  b.  Sept.  20,  1864. 

Eleonora,  b.  Sept.  29,  1836  ;  d.  May  6,  1852. 

Henrietta,  b.  July  6,  1839;  m.,  March  i  or  3,  1857,  at  Pierrepont 
Manor,  Isaiah  Melvin  Baieman,  b.  there  Dec.  10,  1829,  son  of 
Isaiah  Bateman  and  Lucy  Carpenter,  who  moved  from  Herkimer 
to  Adams,  N.  Y.  Mr.  Bateman  has  been  a  trustee  of  a  School  Dis- 
trict and  a  vestryman  of  Zion  Church,  Pierrepont  Manor.  In  1878 
he  moved  to  Adams,  N.  Y.,  where  he  has  been  Street  Commissioner, 
•  and  Vestryman  of  Emanuel  Church.  By  this  marriage  he  has  had 
issue,  two  daughters  : 

i.   Eugenia  Bateman,  b.  April  16,  1863. 

ii.   Grant  Bateman,  b.  July  27,  1865  ;  m.  Oct.  7,  1885,  Horace 
Hiram  Norton,  of  Adams,  N.  Y.,  and  has  had 
(a)  a  son,  b.  and  d.  April  25,  1887. 
Theodore,  b.  March   26,  1842  ;  d.   in  the  U.  S.   Army  about  June, 

1862. 
Emily,  b.  Feb.  27,  1845  ;  m,  Nov.  7,  1872,  Warren  Buckley  Stedman, 
and  has  had 

i.   Melvin  Grant  Stedman,  b.  Aug.  23,  1873. 
ii.   Mary  Catherine  Stedman,  b.  and  d.  Aug.  24,  1874. 
Cornelia,  b.  Nov.  16,  1847,  i^i  1889  living  at  Pierrepont  Manor  ;  m. 
Morris  Russell,  and  has  had 

i.   Catherine  Angeline  Russell,  b.  June,  1875. 
ii.  Francis  Theodore  Russell,  b.  April  12,  1877. 

362. 

(362)  Matthew^  Pruyn  {Alatthew,'^  Harmen,'^  Arenl,''  Frans  Jansen''), 
b.  Jan.  13,  18 1 3,  at  Marysburgh,  Prince  Edward  Co.,  Ontario  ;  m.  in 
EUisburgh,  Jefferson  Co.,  N.  Y.,  Feb.  20,  1834,  Gurnilda  Angeline  Tracy, 
b.  in  EUisburgh,  Jan.  15,  18 15,  dau.  of  Caleb  Tracy  and  Susan  Colvin. 
She  died,  May  9,  1888,  at  Winneconne,  Wisconsin,  and  is  buried  there. 
Mr.  Pruyn  has  lived  in  Canada,  in  New  York  State,  in  Wisconsin,  etc., 
and  now  resides  at  Davis  City,  Iowa. 

On  June  30,  1869,   he  was  baptized  by  William  Savage  in  the  Re- 


1 890. J  Pruyn   Family — American   Branch.  J27 

orgajiized  Church  of  Latter- Day  Saints.  This  religious  body  is  not  polyg- 
amous, regarding  polygamy  as  a  heresy  and  sin.  By  his  marriage  with 
Miss  Tracy  Mr,  Pruyn  has  had  issue  : 

399  Anna  Alzina,  b.  March  13,  1835,  in  Marysburgh,  Ontario  ; 

m.  I  St.   Ira  Ault. 

"     2d.   DeForest  (?)  Cutler. 

"     3d.   Hiram  Pemis. 

"  4th.   Thomas  Merrifield. 

400  Caleb  Ensign,  b.  March  18,  1836  ;  unable  to  obtain  accurate  in- 

formation in  regard  to  him.  He  has  been  married  twice,  his 
first  wife,  it  is  said,  being  Mary  Sturtevant,  by  whom,  it  is  said, 
he  had  no  issue.  By  his  second  wife,  Pearlette  (?)  Pickle,  he 
is  said  to  have  had  a  daughter,  Isabella  Eliza,  and  a  son, 
Sherman. 

401  William  Francis,  m.  Amelia  Bushey. 

402  Susan  Rebecca,  b.  Oct.  7,  1838  ;  m.  Jan.  17,  1855,  Melvin  James 

Melkft,  farmer,   of   Pierrepont  Manor,  Jefferson   Co.,   N.  Y. , 
b.  June  13,  1836  ;  son  of  Emory  Mellen  and  Abigail  Tower, 
who  are    said   to  have  come  from  New  Hampshire  to  Ellis- 
burgh,  Jefferson  Co.,  N.  Y.,  about  1822  ;  and  has  had  issue  : 
i.   Melvin  Willis  Mellen,  b.  June  26,  1858;  d.  Nov.  18,  1861. 
ii.  Theodore  Henry  Mellen,  b.  June  9,  i860, 
iii.   Frederick  Wilbur  Mellen,  b.  Nov.  9,  1866. 
iv.   Ella  Nora  Mellen,  b.  Nov.  29,  1872, 

403  Abram   Matthew,  b.  Feb.  26,  1840,  in  Clayton,  N.  Y. ;   m.  Mal- 

vina  Fillmore.  She  d.  He  d.  March,  1887,  at  Salem,  N.  Y.; 
no  issue. 

404  Theodore  Franklin,  m.  Mariette  Pickle. 

405  Isabella  Almira,  b.  May  11,  1844,  in  town  of  Clayton,  Jefferson 

Co.,  N.  Y. ;  d.,  unmarried,  in  Wisconsin. 

363- 

Milton  Fisk,  b.  April  14,  1791,  at  Cumberland,  Rhode  Island,  U.  S. 
A.,  son  of  Darius  Fisk  and  Martha  Darling;  d.  May  2,  1856,  at  Wilton, 
Addington  Co.,  Ontario. 

He  m.  Dec.  31,  181 5  (363)  Jane^  Pruyn  [I'rancis,  *  Harmen,^  Areni,"^ 
Frans  Jansen,^)  b.  Aug.  23,  1796;   d.  Aug.  24,  1867,  at  Wilton. 
By  this  marriage  there  was  issue  : 

Catherine  or  Katharine,  b.  April  4,  1817,  at  Wilton  ;  d.  Sept.  11, 
1848,  at  her  residence,  five  miles  west  of  Wilton  ;  m.  Aug.  18, 
1843,  Crawford  Rainey,  but  had  no  issue. 
Martha,  b.  Oct.  18,  1819  ;  d.  May  24,  1878,  at  Centreville ;  m.  Nov. 
17,  1844,  James  No X on  Lapum,  member  of  the  Dominion  Parlia- 
ment at  the  time  of  the  Confederation,  merchant,  of  Centreville,  Co. 
Addington,  Ontario,  where  he  d.  July  26,  1879.  By  this  marriage 
there  was  issue  : 

i.  Martha  Eliza  Lapum,  b.  Aug.  15,  1847,  at  Centreville;  m. 
June  9,  1880,  Thomas  Johnston,  merchant,  of  Centreville, 
son  of  John  Johnston  "(son  of  Peter  Johnston,  of  Falkirk, 
Scotland)  and  Christina  Learmonth,  and  has  issue,  Florence 
Christina  Johnston,  b.  at  Centreville,  March  23,  1881;  bp. 
Jan.  30,   1882,  at  Newburgh,  by  the  Rev.  J.  J.  Leishman. 


128  Pruyn   Family — American   Branch.  [Jiily> 

ii.   Mary  Jane  Lapum,  b.  Dec.  13,  1849,  at  Centreville  ;  d.  there 

May  9,  1866. 
iii.  James  Robert   Lapum,  b.  Sept.  13,  1852,  at  Centreville  ;    d. 

there  June  23,  1870. 
iv.  Albert  Milton  Lapum,  b.  April  13,  1855,  at  Centreville  ;   d. 

there  June  21,  1855. 
V,   Alfred  Nelson  Lapum,  b.  April  3,  1856. 
vi.   Florence  Christina  Lapum,  b.  Oct.  18,  1859. 
Margaret,  b.  Feb.  24,  1822,  at  Wilton  ;  d.  Sept.  23,  1828. 
Eliza  Jane,   b.   June  26,  1824  ;  m.    Dec.  24,  1850,    William  Ovens, 
now  living  at  Wilton,  b.  Dec.  4,  1813,  at  Greenlaw,  Roxburghshire, 
Scotland  ;  and  has  had  issue  : 

i.   Agnes  Jane  Ovens,  b.  March  14,  1852  ;  d.  at  Wilton,  July  20, 

1867. 
ii.  John  Milton  Ovens,  b.  Feb.  23,  1854,  at. Wilton  ;  m.  Oct. 
19,  188 1,  at  Murvale,  Ontario,  Emma  Ann  Van  Luven, 
dau.  of  Miles  Van  Luven  and  Eleanor  Cloakey,  and  has 
issue  (a)  William  Miles  Ovens,  b.  Jan.  i,  1884;  (b)  John 
Milton  Fisk  Ovens,  b.  Dec.  28,  1884;  (c)  George  Rufus 
Ovens,  b.  Jan.  12,  1886. 
iii.   Frances  Pruyn  Ovens,  b.  July  16,  1856,  at  Wilton  ;  d.  March 

30,  1859  or  i860. 
iv.  Rufus  Kemp  Ovens,  b.  April  24,  1859,  at  Wilton,  where  he 

resides. 
v.   Catherine  Eliza  Ovens,  b.  April  17,  1861,  at  Wilton ;  d.  Sept. 

17,  1882. 
vi.    William  Gilchrist  Ovens,   b.   Dec.  11,  1863,   at  Wilton;    d. 
Oct.  19,  1867. 
Rufus,  b.  May  9,  1826  ;  d.  Nov.  8,  1850,  at  Wilton. 
Margaret  Eleanor,  b.  March  29,  1830,  at  Wilton  ;  d.  there  June  16. 

1887. 
George  Francis,  b.  May  3,  1832  ;  d.   Sept.    23,  1873,  at  San  Jose, 
California  ;  m.  Lavina  Lapum,  and  had 
i.   Rufus  Fisk,  m.  Emma  Barnes. 
Milton  Darius,   b.  Oct.    26,  1834  ;  d.   July  29,  1867,  at  Iroquois, 
Ontario,  where   he  resided  ;  m.  Feb.  6,  1854,  at   her  father's  resi- 
dence, Camden,  Ontario,  Lydia  Ann  Williams,  and  had  issue  : 
i.  Katharine  Isabella  Fisk,  b.  Oct.  20,  1854,  at  Wilton  ;  d.  Aug. 
1 1,   1867,  ^t  Iroquois. 
tn  r    ii.   John  Milton  Williams  Fisk,  b.  Feb.  6,  1857,  at  Wilton. 
•g  \   iii.   Anna  Lily  Bailey  Fisk,  b.  Feb.  6,  1857,  at  Wilton  ;  d.  Aug. 
H   (  19,  1867,  at  Iroquois. 

iv.  Thomas  Grange  Williams  Fisk,  b.  Sept.  2,  1859,  at  Iroquois. 
Maria  Christina  or  Christianna,  b.  Dec.  18,  1837  ;  d.  Sept.  29,  1882, 
at  Wilton  ;  m.  April  25,  1864,    Wesley  Farrott,  and  had  issue 

i.  Mary  Ethel   Parrott,  b.  at  Wilton,  June  27,  1865  ;  m.  March 
7,    1886,  Orange   Coleman  Storms,  and  has  issue  Harold 
Storms,  b.  July  29,  1887. 
ii.  Milton  Fisk  Parrott,  b.  Sept.  2,  1867,  at  Wilton, 
iii.  Francis  Pruyn  Parrott,  b.  May   13,  1869,  at  Wilton;  d.  there 
Feb.  2  1,  1879. 


1890.]  Pruyn   Family — American   Branch.  j2q 

iv.    Laura  Jane  Parrott,  )  ^    •       •>     r\  .   o      o         .  Mtr-, 
V.   Lillian  Parrott,  \  ^'"'''''  ^-  ^^^^  ^'   '^^2,  at  Wilton, 

vi.   Olive  Fairfield  Parrott,  b.  at  Wilton,  May  18,  1875. 

367. 

(367)  John  Matthias®  Pruyn  {Francis^  John^  Francis",  Arent,'' Frans 
Jansen^),  mentioned  in  his  grandfather  (335)  John's  will  as  John  Tise, 
Tise  being  an  abbreviation  of  Matthias,  was  born  at  Kinderhook,  Oct, 
25,  1806.  He  studied  at  the  Kinderhook  Academy  and  the  Lenox 
(Mass.)  Academy,  and  entered  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons, 
New  York,  from  which  he  graduated,  receiving  the  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Medicine.  He  resided  at  Kinderhook,  and  was  one  of  the  leading  phy- 
sicians of  his  locality.  He  was  a  trustee  of  the  Kinderhook  Academy 
and  of  the  village  of  Kinderhook,  and  was  a  director  in  the  National 
Union  Bank  at  Kinderhook.  He  was  a  member  of  the  State  Medical 
Society,  and  took  a  deep  interest  in  its  proceedings.  He  d.  Feb.  12, 
1866,  and  is  bur.  in  Kinderhook  Cemetery.  He  married  at  Oswego, 
May  24,  1837,  Margaret  Van  Schaack,  b.  at  Kinderhook,  June  9,  1807; 
d.  there,  Nov.  9,  1845  (bur.  in  Kinderhook  Cemetery),  dau.  of  Peter  Van 
Schaack  and  Elizabeth  Van  Alen  (m.  April  27,  1789),  his  second  wife. 

[Peter  Van  Schaack,  the  father  of  Mrs.  Pruyn,  b.  March,  1747,  at 
Kinderhook;  d.  there  Sept.  17,  1832,  son  of  Cornelius  Van  Schaack,  was 
an  eminent  lawyer  and  one  of  the  most  distinguished  men  of  his 
time.  He  grad.  at  King's,  now  Columbia,  College,  N.  Y.,  in  1768, 
studied  law  under  William  Smith  the  elder,  and  at  twenty-six  years  of 
age  was  appointed  sole  reviser  of  the  colonial  statutes.  He  was  conscien- 
tiously opposed  to  the  American  Revolution,  and,  notwithstanding  his 
personal  popularity  and  his  intimacy  with  the  most  eminent  men  of  the 
country,  was  summoned  before  the  Committee  on  Conspiracies  at  Albany 
in  June,  1777,  and  required  to  take  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  Conti- 
nental Congress.  He  refused,  was  ordered  to  Boston  within  ten  days 
and  constantly  restrained,  the  authorities  refusing  even  to  allow  him  to 
take  his  dying  wife  to  New  York,  In  October,  1778,  he  was  banished, 
and  went  to  England,  where  he  remained  until  1785.  During  his  stay 
there  he  met  many  of  the  most  distinguished  scholars  and  statesmen  of 
England.  Upon  his  return  to  the  United  States  he  was  warmly  welcomed 
by  his  old  associates  and  by  people  of  all  parties.  He  resumed  his  pro- 
fession and  was  very  successful.  From  constant  study  his  eyesight  became 
impaired,  and  he  was  totally  blind  during  his  later  years.  One  of  the 
features  of  his  career  was  the  number  of  students  that  were  educated 
under  his  teaching  for  the  bar.  They  numbered  more  than  one  hundred, 
and  at  the  age  of  eighty-two  he  had  two  students  under  him.  He  was  a 
man  of  general  information,  well  versed  in  polite  literature  as  well  as 
legal  lore,  a  fine  classical  scholar,  and  a  brilliant  conversationalist.  His 
residence  at  Kinderhook  was  the  resort  of  many  eminent  persons  both  of 
England  and  of  this  country.  The  record  of  its  gracious  hospitality  has 
been  well  preserved  in  the  Magazine  of  Americatt  History  for  September, 
1878  (Vol.  H.,  p.  513),  by  an  article  entitled,  "An  Old  Kinderhook 
Mansion,"  written  by  Mr.  Van  Schaack's  son,  Henry  Cruger  Van 
Schaack. 

i^To  be  continued.) 


f 


1 30  sprang.  [July, 

STRANG. 
By  Richard  Wynkoop,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 


The  descendants  of  Daniel  "Streing,"  are  numerous  and  interesting, 
and  he  and  they  are  worthy  to  have  their  history  written.  The  purpose  of 
this  article  is  to  clear  away  the  rubbish,  and  lay  a  foundation  upon  which 
some  one  of  the  Strang  blood  may  build.  The  late  Rev.  Dr.  Charles  W. 
Baird,  of  Rye,  whose  wife  was  of  the  Strang  family,  led  the  present  writer 
to  authentic  sources  of  information. 

The  name  was  originally  spelled  Streing.  It  so  appears,  on  the  Con- 
tinent, in  England,  and  in  these  United  States ;  and  the  progenitor  of  the 
family,  in  this  country,  so  wrote  it.  But,  in  English,  the  spelling  Strang, 
represented  very  nearly  the  French  sound,  and  supplanted  the  French 
form. 

An  old  manuscript,  imputed  to  John  Strang,  of  Peekskil,  a  lawyer, 
was  communicated  to  the  Record,  in  1871,  by  Dr.  Baird,  and  was 
published  in  Vol.  II,  pp.  179-186.  It  gives  with  fulness  the  history  of 
the  immigrant,  and  of  his  immediate  descendants  ;  but  it  is  inaccurate 
at  some  points,  and  it  seems  to  blend  conjecture  with  tradition,  as  if  all 
were  tradition.  It  assumes  that  "  I'estrange"  was  the  proper  spelling, 
although  the  immigrant  did  not  use  that  form  :  and  it  states  that  he,  and 
his  wife,  ''had  been  educated  in  their  religious  tenets  in  the  Episcopal 
faith,"  although  the  French  Huguenots  were  Presbyterians  and  Calvinists, 
and  hated  prelacy,  under  any  name.^  The  family  name  of  his  wife  is  there 
given  as  Hubert,  and  she  is  said  to  have  been  daughter  of  Francis  Hubert 
and  Levina  his  wife,  citizens  of  Paris.  This  could  not  have  been  so, 
unless  she  was  a  widow  when  Streing  married  her ;  for,  in  the  records 
of  the  church  "  Du  Saint  Esprit,"  New  York,  her  name  appears  as  Le 
Mestre. 

An  other  old  manuscript,  with  the  initials  "  F.  N.,"  found  at  Peeks- 
kil, has  the  name  spelled  "  d'Estrange, "  throughout,  and  its  second 
paragraph  is  as  follows  :  "It  has  by  some  been  understood  that  the  name 
is  de  la  Strange,  but  no  name  of  that  kind  by  the  letters  or  spelling  is  to 
be  ascertained  ;  but  there  are  recent  instances  of  the  name  of  d'Estrange 
in  France;  the  French  pronunciation  of  both  in  the  English  are  so 
very  similar  that  it  is  rather  uncertain  which  it  be  ;  the  English  is  Strang, 
by  the  French  pronunciation."  This  manuscript  is  shorter  than  the  other, 
but,  so  far  as  it  goes — and  it  omits  only  the  statement  as  to  the  source  of 
information — it  is  very  nearly  identical  with  the  other,  even  in  language  ; 
it  is  evident  that  the  two  had  a  common  origin.  The  "  F.  N."  us.  is 
probably  the  junior  one.  Perhaps  the  writer  had  in  view  the  D'Estaing 
family,  which  furnished  a  Count,  who  commanded  a  French  fleet,  auxilliary 
to  our  Patriot  forces. 

It  is  probable  that  the  Immigrant  Daniel  Streing,  was  of  Orleans, 
France.  In  the  catalogue  of  the  students  in  the  Academic  of  Geneva,  in 
1672,  appears  the  name  of  Daniel  String,  Genabensis  :^  i.  e.,  of  Genabum, 
the  Latm  name  ofOrleans.  The  Le  Mestre  family  were  from  that  place.'' 
The  Thibou  family,  with  which  that  of  Streing  was  intimately  connected, 

*  Hist.  Tozvns  of  WestcJiestci',  Bolton,  1S81,  Vol.  I,  at  p.  636,  and  elsewhere. 
^  Rev.  Dr.  Charles  W.  Baird. 


1890.]  Slrang. 


I  ".I 


is  known  to  have  been  from  Orleans.^     The  Le  Maistre  family  were  very 
decidedly  Huguenots.     They  were  probably  of  Orleans. ■= 

Daniel  invariably  signed  his  name  Streing.  He  must  have  been  born 
about  1661  ;  for  his  name  appears  as  Daniel  Streing,  aged  37,  in  a  "List 
of  Inhabitants  of  New  Rochelle,  Sept.  5,  1698.'*  His  wife  must  have 
been  born  about  1668  ;  for  she  is  mentioned,  in  the  same  List,  as  Charlotte, 
aged  30,  wife  of  Daniel  Streing. *"  He  died  about  1707,  His  Will  was 
dated  Dec.  16,  1706,  proven  Feb.  11,  1707;''  recorded  Vol.  7,  p.  288."^ 
His  wife  died  at  Rye, Westchester  Co.,  N.  Y.,  about  the  year  1722.^  Her 
Will  is  of  record  in  New  York  City.'' 

Tradition  says  that  he  was  brought  up  in  mercantile  bj.isiness,  which 
he  began  at  the  age  of  twenty-two  years  ;  and  that  he  married  at  about 
that  time  ;  and  that  his  wife's  parents  were  then  citizens  of  Paris.  It  is 
further  said  that,  soon  after  that  time,  he  engaged  in  mercantile  business 
in  company  with  Gabriel  Hubert.  Then,  in  1685,  the  protective  Edict 
of  Nantes  was  repealed,  and  Streing  and  Hubert  escaped  to  London,  where 
the  former  procured  a  Lieutenancy  in  the  Guards  of  James  H,  and  the  latter 
engaged  in  mercantile  business.  (King  James  was  no  friend  to  the  exiles, 
nor  to  the  Reformation  ;  but  he  dissembled  his  purpose  of  compelling  his 
kingdom  to  conform  to  Papal  prelacy.)  They  left  property  in  France,  and 
it  was  confiscated,  and  Mrs.  Streing  was  reduced  to  distress.  Failing  to 
get  relief,  or  to  escape  in  any  other  way,  she  made  a  pretext  to  go  beyond 
the  gate,  for  wood,  or  some  other  necessary  thing,  and  deposited  her  son, 
aged  about  two  years,  as  a  pledge  for  her  return.  So  she  escaped,  and 
rejoined  her  husband  in  England.  (About  the  year  1740,  a  person,  who 
represented  himself  to  be  this  unfortunate  son,  made  his  appearance  in 
this  country,  and  claimed  relationship  ;  but  his  identity  was  questioned, 
and  he  declared  his  purpose  to  return  to  France,  and  obtain  evidences  ; 
but  he  is  not  known  to  have  come  again  to  this  country.)  About  the 
year  1688,  Streing  sold  his  commission  in  the  Guards,  and  with  his 
family,  and  other  Protestant  refugees,  embarked  for  America,  and  arrived 
at  New  York  City,  and  proceeded  thence  to  New  Rochelle,  where  they 
settled  themselves.  Streing  obtained  a  lot  in  the  village,  and  lived  upon 
the  same  ;  he  also  had  a  farm,  and  became  a  farmer  and  grazier.  This 
business,  which  was  new  to  him,  was  not  successful  ;  so,  without  aban- 
doning it,  he  engaged  in  mercantile  business  also,  for  a  few  years.  Then 
he  removed  to  Rye,  where  he  became  innkeeper  as  well  as  storekeeper, 
and  farmer;  and  there  he  died.  He  had  land  also  at  The  White  Plains. '^ 
[Quaere — named  from  some  plant.?] 

In  a  letter  of  March  21,  16S8,  of  James  II,  addressed  to  the  Attorney- 
General  or  Solicitor-General,  authorizing  the  issuing  of  warrants  of 
denization,  to  French  exiles,  appear  the  names  of  "Daniel  Streing,  Char- 
lotte, wife,  Peter,  Matthew,  Mary,  and  Anne,  children."^  None  of  these 
children  have  been  identified  in  this  country  ;  and  there  was  a  Mary 
Prudence,  born  subsequently.  Perhaps  the  Mary  was  an  adopted  daughter, 
who  became  Mrs.  "Gilliot. '"*   The  other  children  may  have  been  left  be- 

i^Rev.  Dr.  Charles  W.  Baird. 

"^French  Prot.  Exiles,  Agnew,   Vol.  II,  p.  180. 

^  Hist.   Toivns  of  Westchester  Co.    Vol.  II,  page  6^3 — Slrang  chart. 

^  N.   V.  Gen.  and  Biog.  Record,  Vol.  II,  p.  183. 

N.    Y.  Gen.  and  Biog.  Record,  Vol.  II,  pp.  179,  iSo,  181,  184,  1S5. 
^French  Protestant  Exiles,  Agnew,  Vol.  VI,  p.  60. 
^  N.   Y.  Gen.  and  Biog.  Record,  Vol.  11,  p.  1S3. 
10 


132 


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hind  with  relations  ;  although  that  is  not  probable,  for  tradition  would 
have  preserved  the  fact.  Or  there  may  have  been  a  confusion  of  parentage. 
There  was  another  line  of  Streings  in  London,  of  which  was  David,  who 
was  an  Elder  of  one  of  the  French  churches  in  London,  in  1699, 
and  later.'' 

Daniel  Streing  was  a  member  of  the  Reformed  French  Church  [at 
New  Rochelle],  and  in  his  later  years  a  Ruling  Elder.  He  was  a  Justice 
of  the  Peace,  and  a  lieutenant  of  infantry,  while  in  New  Rochelle.  The 
writing  and  style  of  two  or  three  documents,  from  his  pen,  indicate 
superior  intelligence  and  culture.''  When  "  the  principals  of  this  new 
colony  "of  New  Rochelle,  in  1690,  were  required  to  nominate  two  can- 
didates for  tiie  vacant  office  of  Justice  of  the  Peace,  they  named  *'  Mr. 
Straing, "  as  the  only  one,  who  met  the  required  qualificaiionof  a  knowl- 
edge of  the  English  Tongue.' 

In  1693,  as  hlder  of  the  Church  at  New  Rochelle,  he  signed  his  name 
Daniel  Streing.-*  But  on  the  13'^  of  April  1705,  as  a  witness  to  an  in- 
strument, his  name  appears,  at  Rye,  as  Daniel  Strang.''  Either  he  had 
then  accepted  the  Anglicising  of  his  name,  or  the  print  does  not  produce 
his  name  with  literal  accuracy.  He  removed  to  Rye  in  1697  ;  accordmg 
to  Bolton. 

He  had  great  antipathy  to  the  Catholics,  so  that,  upon  recounting,  or 
calling  to  mind,  the  cruelties,  hardships  and  sufferings,  which  he  had  him- 
self experienced  from  them,  or  had  seen  inflicted  upon  other  Protestants, 
in  France,  he  would  be  aroused  almost  to  phrensy,  and  would  be  scarcely 
able  to  restrain  his  passion,  and  refrain  from  violence  when  any  of  them 
was  in  company  with  him.' 

Children  of  Daniel  Streing,  and  of  Charlotte  Le  Mestre. 

[Note. — The  children  mentioned  as  denizened  abroad,  are  omitted 
at  this  point,  because  no  trace  of  them  has  been  discovered  in  this 
country.  ] 

2.  Louison,  (Louisa) — called  Lucy,  in  the  tradition.  She  is  called 
'^  eldest  daughter,"  in  the  Will  of  her  mother.  She  must  have  been  older 
than  Daniel,  for  she  had  a  child  baptized  in  1702,  when  Daniel  was  only 
ten  years  old.'' 

Her  husband  was  Jean  David,  The  record  of  baptism  of  two  of  their 
children,  is  in  the  church  "  Du  Saint  Esprit,"  New  York  City  :  Jer.n,  b. 
Dec.  23,  1702,  and  Daniel,  b.  Dec.  10,  1704.  These  grandchildren  are 
not  mentioned  in  the  Will  of  Charlotte  Streing ;  but  that  Will  does 
mention  Louison  and  Charlotte,  David,  "the  children  of  my  eldest 
daughter  Louison  Fargee."  The  name,  Fargee,  suggests  a  second  mar- 
riage.'' 

The  name  of  Jean  David  is  given  in  a  list  of  the  inhabitants  of  the 
Island  of  Saint  Christopher,  probably  in  1671.  He  represented  one  of  the 
best  families  of  La  Rochelle  ;  a  family  not  less  distinguished  by  reason  of 

b  Rev.  Dr.  Charles  W.  Baird. 

'^  Hist,  of  Toivns  of  Westchester  Co.,  Vol.  II,  p.  304. 

^  Hist,  of  the  7^07uns  of  Westchester  Co.,  Vol.  I,  pp.  606,  607. 

^  Hist,  of  the  Towns  of  Westchester  Co.,  Vol.  II,  p.  143. 

^  N.   V.  Gen.  and  Biog.  Record,  Vol.  II,  p.  182. 


1890.]  Straftg. 


133 


the  positions  which  its  members  have  filled,  than  eminent  for  the  services 
it  had  rendered.  He  came  to  New  York  after  the  revocation  of  the  Edict 
of  Nantes."" 

Louison  went  with  her  husband  to  one  of  the  West  India  islands,  and 
they  settled  there.  Some  of  her  descendants  subsequently  resided  in 
the  City  of  Philadelphia,  and  were  very  opulent."  Louison  is  not  men- 
tioned in  the  "  List  of  Inhabitants  of  New  Rochelle,  Sept.  5,  1698  ;  but 
she  may  then  have  been  already  married,  and  have  ceased  to  be  a  mem- 
ber of  Daniel  Streing's  household.^ 

3.  Penelope,  b.  about  1687  ;  for  in  the  List  of  1698,  above  men- 
tioned, her  age  is  given  as  eleven  years,  and  she  is  there  called  Clorean, 
i.  e.,  Clorinda.'' 

She  was  married  to  Samuel  Purdy,  of  White  Plains,  third  son  of 
Francis  Purdy,  who  died,  at  Fairfield,  Conn.,  in  1658.° 

4.  Daniel,  b.  about  1692  ;  for  he  is  mentioned  as  aged  six  in  the 

List    of    1698,    above   cited."     He  married  Phebe    Purdy,  dau.  of 

Purdy,  of  Rye  Neck  [perhaps,  her  father  was  Joseph,  s.  of  Samuel, 
above  named].     The  wife  died  in  1761. 

Daniel  removed  to  White  Plains,  upon  a  farm  acquired  by  his  father, 
as  one  of  the  patentees.  About  the  year  1744,  he  settled  in  the  Manor  of 
Courtlandt.  He  procured  three  farms — indeed  it  is  said  that  he  had  one 
for  each  of  his  children,  but  this  may  mean  sons — from  Col.  Philip  Ver- 
planck.  The  "Half  farm"  he  occupied  him.self.  He  settled  his  son 
Daniel  upon  the  "Saw  Mill  farm,"  who  occupied  it  for  a  time,  and  then 
sold  it.  The  third  farm  was  upon  a  ridge,  north  of  his  own,  and  was 
once  possessed  by  Benjamin  Field.  Upon  this  he  settled  his  son  Fran- 
cis.' He  also  procured  a  farm  upon  Stony  Street,  where  Caleb  Morgan 
subsequently  lived.  This  he  intended  for  his  son  Gabriel ;  but  he  died 
before  settling  him  upon  it.^  [Perhaps  it  was  the  death  of  Gabriel  which 
prevented  the  settlement.] 

5.  Charlotte,  b.  about  1693  ;  mentioned   as  aged  five  in  the   List  of 

1698.     She   was   second  wife  of  Roger  Park,   whose  first  wife  was 

Vowles.      He  was  living  at  Harrison's  Purchase  in  1729.'' 

6.  Gabriel,  b.  May  7,  bap.  May  17,  1696,  Church  Du  Saint  Esprit  ; 
mentioned  as  aged  two  in  the  List  of  1698  ; '^  m.  in  England  and  had  a 
son,  William  ;  married  again  after  the  death  of  his  first  wife. 

About  the  year  1720  the  Regent  of  France  made  proclamation  that, 
upon  the  personal  application  of  the  refugees,  or  of  their  personal  repre-  , 

sentatives,    their  confiscated    estates  would  be  restored  to    them.      Mrs.  y' 

Streing,  then  a  widow,  aided  by  Mr.  Simpson,  a  Hebrew  merchant  of  New 
York,  sent  her  son  Gabriel  to  make  the  application.  He  was  reported  to 
have  secured  a  considerable  part  of  the  estate  ;  but  his  remittances  were 
small.  He  settled  himself  with  Gabriel  Hubert,  said  to  be  his  uncle,  in 
London. 

About  the  year  1754  his  son  William,  a  lieutenant  in  the  British 
navy,  came  to  America,  and  spent  much  time  with  his  relatives  here. 
He  was  stationed   at   New  York.      Pie   had   had  a  liberal  education,  and 

b  Rev.  Dr.  Charles  W.  Baird. 

""  The  Huguenot  Emigration  to  America,  Baird,  Vol.  I,  pp.  211,  note;   283,  288. 
"yV.   V.  Gen.  and  Bio g.  Record,  Vol.  II,  p.  183. 
°  Hist,  of  Towns  of  VVestchestrr  Co.,  Vol.  II,  pp.  754,  755- 

P  A^.  Y.  Gen.  aud  Biog.  Record,  Vol.  II,  pp.  183,  185  :  Bolton's  Hist.  pp.  155, 
754:   "  F.  A^."ms. 


134  Strang.  [Jul}', 

was  esteemed  a  man  of  good  abilities  ;  but  he  had  a  great  propensity  for 
liquor,  which  had  occasioned  the  abandonment  of  the  purpose  of  prepar- 
ing him  for  the  Christian  ministry.  After  his  return  to  England  he  cor- 
responded with  his  relatives  here.  Subsequently  he  was  stationed  in  the 
East  India  Seas.'' 

7.  Mary  Prudence,  b.  at  New  Rochelle.  Her  mother's  Will  men- 
tions her  as  "Mary  Prudence,  youngest  daughter."''  She  was  wife  of 
John  Budd,  of  Rye  Neck,  and  before  that,  of  Southold,  Long  Island  ;  s. 

of  Joseph  Budd  and  of  Sarah .     They  lived  first  at  Rye  ;  afterward, 

at  Roxboro,  Morris  Co.,  N.  J.' 

8.  Henry,  mentioned  in  the  Will  of  his  mother,  as  youngest  son. "^  The 
homestead,  at  Rye,  was  left  to  him,  by  his  mother.  His  wife  was  Elizabeth 
Kissam  of  Nassau  [meaning  Long]  Island. 

His  wife's  Will,  dated  May  6,  1744,  proven  May  3,  1764,  Albany, 
mentions  their  children  as  follows  :  Daniel  ;  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Richard 
Van  Dyck,  of  New  York  ;  Hannah  ;  and  Levina.'' 

Third  Generation. 
Children  0/ Jean  David,  and  of  Louison  (2). 

9.  Jean,  born  Dec.  23,  1702  ;  bp.  Church  Du  Saint  Esprit,  New 
York  City.  He  is  not  mentioned  in  the  Will  of  his  grandmother 
Streing.'' 

10.  Daniel,  born  Dec.  10,  1704  ;  baptism  recorded  in  the  same 
church.      His  grandmother's  Will  does  not  mention  him."" 

lo''.  Petrus,  bp.  Apl.  23,  1707,  Dutch  Ch.  N;  Y.,  parents,  Jan 
David,  Lowise  Streng.  (N.  Y.  Gen.  Rec.  XVI,  34.)  His  grand- 
mother's Will  does  not  name  him. 

11.  Louison  (Louisa).  Her  grandmother's  Will  mentions  her  as 
"Louison  David,  child  of  my  eldest  daughter,  Louison  Fargee.'"' 

12.  Charlotte.  She  is  mentioned  in  her  grandmother's  Will,  as 
"Charlotte  David,  child  of  my  eldest  daughter  Louison  Fargee."'' 

Children  of  Samuel  Pur dy,  and  of  Penelope  (3). 

13.  Samuel,  m.  Wineford  Griffin. 
14-    Henry,  m.  Mary  Foster. 

15.  Gabriel,  m,  Eliza  Miller. 

16.  Josiah,  m.  Charity  Wetmore,  dau.  of  Rev.  James  Wetmore  ;  d. 
about  1755. 

17.  Caleb,  m.  Hannah  Brown,  dau.  of  Samuel  Brown. 

18.  Cnarlotte,  m.  to  Samuel  Fowler. 

19.  Clara,  m.  to  George  Merritt. 

20.  Elizabeth,  m.  to  Josiah  Fowler. 

(All  of  the  above  are  from  the  History  of  Rye,  p.  439.) 

Children  of  Daniel  (4),  and  of  Phebe  Purdy.  , 

21.  Daniel,  m.  Elizabeth  Galpin,  dau.  of  Joseph  Galpin,  of  King 
Street,  upon  the  line  of  Connecticut.^ 

^  Rev.  Dr.  Charles  W.  Baird. 

'^  N.   V.  Gen.  and  Biog.  Record,  Vol.  II,  pp.  182-184. 

^Bolton's  Hist.,  Vol.  II,  pp.  150,  155,  715  :  Uist.  of  Rye,  pp.  405,  etc. 

s ''  F.  iV.''  MS. 


1890.]  .  Slratig.  j->r 

22.  Francis,  m.  Elizabeth  Hyatt,  dau.  of  John  Hyatt,  of  the  Manor 
of  Courtlandt,  d.  at  Yorktown,  1816,  upward  of  90  years  of  age. ^ 

23.  Joseph,  b.  Feb.  27,  1725;  d.  Aug.  2,  1794;  m.  (i),  April  16, 
1750,  Jemima  Budd,  daughter  of  Joseph  Budd,  of  the  Manor  of  Court- 
landt. b.  Jan.  26,  1732,  d.  March  6,  1760;  (2),  May  18,  1763,  Anna 
Haight,  dau.  of  Jonathan  Haight,  of  the  same  Manor,  b.  Dec.  12, 
1734,  d,  June  30,  1796. 

He  was  in  the  Provincial  Service  of  the  King  of  Great  Britain,  in  the 
Old  French  War,  of  1757,  as  lieutenant,  under  Capt.  John  Ver  Plank, 
and  went  to  the  northern  frontiers.  He  returned  home,  dangerously  ill, 
so  that  he  could  not  make  a  second  campaign.^ 

24.  John.  He  died  about  the  year  1749,  while  prosecuting  studies  at 
Newark,  N.  J.,  with  a  view  to  the  ministry.^ 

25.  Gabriel,   m.  Hannah    Clements,  dau.   of  Johannes  Clements,   of 
the    Manor   of  Courtlandt,    afterward    of  the  Clove,    in   the  County  of""^ 
Dutchess. 

He  also  went  into  the  Provincial  Service,  in  the  war  of  1757,  as  lieu- 
tenant it  seems,  under  the  same  Captain,  and,  at  the  close  of  the  cam- 
paign returned  home,  dangerously  ill,  and  did  not  recover.  He  died  at  the 
homestead,  the  home  of  his  mother.^ 

26.  Phebe,  m.  to  Abraham  Purdy,  of  the  same  Manor.^  Their  grand- 
son James  H.  m.  Martha  Strang. 

27.  Elizabeth,  m.  to  Joseph  Sackett,  s.  of  Rev.  Samuel  Sackett,  Pres- 
bvterian  minister  of  Krompond  (Crooked  pond),  now  called  Yorktown, 
Westchester  Co.^  Her  husband's  tombstone,  in  the  Yorktown  graveyard, 
has  the  inscription  :   "Born  April  18,  1733,  and  departed  this  life  Dec. 

I757-" 

28.  Henry,  m,  Margaret  Hazard,  dau.  of  Thomas  Hazard,  of  the 
Island  of  Nassau,*  May  11,  1761.  Henry  was  born  in  1739;  d.  July 
22,  1802,  aged  63,  or  1832,  aged  93. 

He  settled  at  Yorktown,  where  he  engaged  in  farming,  grazing,  butcher- 
ing, tanning,  and  shoemaking.      He  was  a  Captain  of  the  militia. 

During  the  Revolutionary  War,  Captain  Henry  suffered  much.  He  was 
obliged  to  plow  with  his  gun  on  his  shoulder,  while  Joseph  Sackett,  his 
nephew  [brother-in-law.?],  assisted  him,  being  armed  also.  One  day  a 
spy,  named  Palmer,  took  him  into  the  woods,  pricked  him  with  a  bayonet, 
and  threatened  him  with  death,  if  caught  again  ;  but  the  captor  was 
frightened  otf.  Strang  gathered  his  men,  surrounded  the  wood,  cap- 
tured Palmer,  and  turned  him  over  to  the  law,  and  he  was  hung  on  Gal- 
lows Hill,  as  a  spy. 

Children  of  Roger  Park,   and  0/  Charlotte  (5). 

29.  Roger,  m.   Sarah  Disbrow,   d.  Jan.  6,  181 1,  aged  80. 

30.  Mary,    m.  to  Joshua  Purdy. 

31.  Sophia,  m.  to  Nehemiah  Brown. 

32.  Thomas,  b.  March  8,  1720;  m.  Jan.   i,  1747,    Martha  Carpenter, 

b.  May  21,  1729,  daughter  of  Thomas  Carpenter. 

33.  Lucy,   m.  to  Moses  Husted. 

34.  Charlotte,  m.  to  Benjamin  Haviland. 

(All  from  the  History  of  Rye,  pp.  431,  432.) 

s"7^.  n:'  MS. 

tiV.    Y.  Gen.  and  Biog.  Record,  Vol.  II,  p.  186. 


I 


136  Strang.  [July. 

Children  of  John  Budd,  and  of  Mary  Prudence  (7). 

35.  Daniel,  m.  Purdy. 

36.  Elijah,  m.  Ursula  Sine, 

'i,'].  Hannah,  m.  to  Hachaliah  Puidy. 

38.  Mary,  m.  to  Caleb  Horton. 

39.  Joseph,  m. Budd. 

40.  John. 

41.  Underhill,  d.  unmarried. 

42.  Sally,  m.  to  Thomas  Sawyer. 

43.  Gilbert,  d.  Oct.  14,  1805,  aged  85,  Surgeon  in  the  British  Navy, 

44.  Abigail. 

{All  from  the  History  of  Rye,  p.  405.) 

Children  of  Henry  (8),  and  of  Elizabeth  Kissam. 

45.  Daniel,  d.  aged  q6,  m.  Mary  Hubbs,  d.  aged  88. 

46.  Eliza,  m.  to  Richard  Van  Dyck. 

47.  Hannah,  d.  Sept.  19,  1784,  m.  to  Gabriel  Carman. 

48.  Levina,  m.  to  John  Woods. 

Fourth    Generation. 
Childreyi  of  fosiah  Purdy  (16),  and  of  Charity  Wetmore. 

49.  Seth,  m.  Phebe  Ketchum,  of  Long  Island. 

50.  Alethea,  m.  (i)  to  Joseph  Purdy  ;  (2)  to  William  Purdy. 

51.  Esther,  m.  to  Henry  Purdy,  of  King  Street. 

52.  Hannah,  m.  to  Josiah  Merrit. 

{^History  of  Rye  p.  439-) 

Children  of  Caleb  Purdy  (17),  and  of  Ha?t7iah  Brown 

53.  Caleb,   m.  Ruth  Peck. 

54.  Samuel,  m.  Glorianna  Fowler. 

55.  Josiah,  m.  U.  Knapp. 

56.  Andrew,  m.  Phebe  Merrit. 

57.  Nehemiah,  m.  Elizabeth  Burchum. 

58.  Sylvanus. 

59.  Elias,  m.  Rachel  Merrit. 

60.  Caroline. 

61.  Hannah. 

62.  Lavinia. 

63.  Anne. 

{History  of  Rye,  p.  439.) 

Children  of  Daniel  {2  \),  and  of  Ebzabcth  Galpm. 

64.  Daniel. 

65.  Joseph. 

66.  Gabriel. 

67.  Solomon,  m.  Elizabeth  Cove,  of  Long  Island. 

68.  Gerard,  m.  Lena  Briggs. 

69.  Mary,  m.  to  Jacob  Silleck. 


1890.]  Siratig.  j->y 

70.  Eliza,  m.  to  John  Ward. 

71.  Hester. 

(All  from  Strang  chart,  Bolton  s  Hist.  Vol.  II,  p.  673.) 

Children  of  Francis  (22),  and  of  Elizabeth  Hyatt ^ 

72.  John,  m.  Drusilla  Oakley. 
73     Sylvanus. 

74.  Joshua,   m.  Rebecca  Sherwood,  March  22,  1792." 

75.  Daniel,  m.  Keziah  Chapman,  Oct.  27,  1789." 

76.  Gabriel. 

77.  Phebe,  m.  to  Caleb  Barton.      (Bartow?) 

78.  Sally,  m.  to  Jeremiah  Mabee. 

79.  Hannah,  m.  to  Gilbert  Post. 

80.  Betsey,  m.  to  Daniel  Lane, 

81.  Jerusha,  m.  to  Henry  Dillingham. 

82.  Frances. 

83.  Mary. 

Children  of  foseph  (23),  andoffemima  Budd. 

84.  John,  b.  June  25,  1751,  d.  Oct.  15,  1829.  He  was  a  lawyer,  at 
Peekskil.  It  seems  that  he  was,  at  one  time,  a  clerk  in  the  office  of  John 
Jay.  The  authorship  of  the  "  L'Estrange"  manuscript  is  imputed  to  him, 
by  William  Nathan  I3elcher,  M.  D.,  Brooklyn,  1879,  by  Dr.  Baird,  and  by 
others.      (The  author  of  the  "F.  N."  ms.  is  unknown.) 

85.  Gilbert,  b.  July  5,  1753,  d-  J^"-  3>  ^^25,  m.  Feb.  5,  1779,''  Esther 
Haviland,  daughter  of  Gilbert. 

86.  Underbill,  b.  April  24,  1756,  d,  April  19,  181 5,  m.  March  27, 
1783,  Sarah  Fowler,  daughter  of  Reuben. 

87.  Jemima. 

Children  of  foseph  (23),  and  of  Amia  Haight. 

88.  Sarah,  b.  Feb.  17,  1764,  m.  Samuel  (or  Scudder)  Waring,  son  of 
Jonathan  Waring,  of  Stannage,  Conn. 

89.  Deborah,  b.  Aug.  20,  1765  ;  d.  Aug.  10,  1787. 

90.  Jemima,  b.  May  3,  1767  ;  d.  Oct.  13,  1848  ;  m.  July  27,  1800,  to 
Stephen  Brown,  b.  Feb.  23,  1767,  d.  May  2,  1831,  at  the  house  of  James 
Burling,  at  Harrison's  Purchase,  while  attending  a  quarterly  meeting  of 
the  Friends.     He  was  son  of  Nathaniel,  by  a  second  wife. 

Mrs.  Brown  was  a  firm  Presbyterian,  and  a  woman  of  rare  spiritual 
and  intellectual  gifts.  For  many  years  she  was  physically  unable  to  move 
about  the  house,  and  it  was  a  pleasure  to  the  present  writer,  and  to 
others,  to  sit  beside  the  quiet  easy  chair,  and  listen  to  her  conversation. 

91.  Samuel,  physician  at  Peekskil,  b.  Nov.  18,  1768  ;  d.  Jan.  i,  1832  ; 
m.  Dec.  31,  1795  (or  1796),  Catharine  White,  b.  May  30,  1778,  d.  Dec. 
30,  1832,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  White,  physician,  and  of  Helena  Bartow. 
The  tombstones  of  Samuel  and  his  wife  are  in  the  graveyard  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church,  Peekskil. 

"  Constant's  diary,  per  Dr.  Baird. 


138  Strang.  [July, 

Their  oldest  child,  Joseph  White  Strang  (commonly  known  as 
"  White  Strang,"  to  distinguish  him  from  another  Joseph,  who  had  a  dark 
complexion),  m.  Elizabeth  Alorgan  Belcher ;  and  their  fourth  child, 
Lydia>  Belcher,  is  the  wife  of  the  present  writer. 

Margaret  Eliza,  eldest  child  of  Theodosius,  ninth  child  of  Samuel,  is 
the  widow  of  Rev.  Dr.  Charles  W.  Baird. 

Children  0/  Gabriel  (25)  and  0/ Hannah  Clements. 

92.  Gabriel. 

93.  William. 

Children  of  Henry  (28)  ajid  of  Margaret  Hazard. 

94.  Thomas,  b.  April  2,  1763  ;  d.  July  29,  1851  ;  m.  (i)  Elizabeth 
Sammis  ;  (2)  Abby  Brown.  He  was  commonly  known  as  "Squire 
Strang, "  and  nearly  as  often  as  "Uncle  Tommy."  The  whole  popu- 
lation of  Yorktown  was  so  intermixed  by  marriages  that  the  old  men  were 
called  "Uncle,"  even  by  persons  not  related  to  them,  who  adopted 
almost  unconsciously  the  appellative  which  was  in  their  ears  constantly. 

The  "  Squire  "  was  a  good  man,  full  of  dogmatism,  which  was  offset 
with  piety,  good  nature,  and  strong  common  sense.  He  was  respected 
and  influential,  and  he  only  could  influence  his  brothers,  who  were  not 
easily  impressible. 

95.  Ann  ("Nancy"),  b.  Sept.  30,  1764;  d.  Aug.  30,  1834;  m. 
Aug.  16,  1785,  to  Daniel  Horton,  of  Rye,  b.  Feb.   22,  1766. 

96.  Elizabeth  ("Betsey"),  b.  Sept.  3  or  13,  1766  ;  d.  Dec.  6,  1857, 
or  Nov.  6,  1858;  m.  Nov.  17,  1792,  to  Seth  Whitney. 

97.  Sarah  ("Sally"),  b.  Aug.  7,  1768  ;  d.  March  11,  i860  or  1866. 
Unmarried. 

98.  Ebenezer,  b.  March  11,  1770;  d.  Nov.  5  or  9,  1865  ;  m.  (i) 
Nov.  10,  1795,  Jemima  Conklin  ;  (2)  Hannah,  her  sister. 

99.  Daniel,  b.  May  18,  1772  ;  d.  May  2,  1869  ;  m.  (i)  March  13, 
1796,  Sarah  Rider  ;  (2)  Sarah  Hutchins. 

100.  Nathaniel,  b.  July  18,  1774  ;  d.  Nov.  6,  1864  ;  m.  Sarah  Lent, 
b,  Dec.  25,  1780,   d.  July  29,  1855. 

loi.  Phebe,  b.  Dec.  28,  1776  ;  d.  Jan.  9,  1856  ;  m.  Dec.  13,  1802, 
to  Ammi  Keeler. 

102.  Hannah,  b.  March  13,  1778  ;  d.  March  13,  1865  ;  m.  Jan.  8, 
1801,  to  Daniel  Baldwin,  d.  Jan.  24,  1842. 

103.  Henry,  b.  Sept.  3,  1781  ;  d.  Nov.  26,  i860;  m.,  181 8,  Catharine 
Adriance,  d.  1854,  daughter  of  Rem  Adriance,  of  Fishkil,  and  of  Cath- 
arine   . 

104.  Margaret,  b.  Dec,  6,  1783  ;  d.  July  22,  1822  ;  m.  May  10,  1808, 
to  Ebenezer  Wood. 

105.  John  Hazard,  b.  June  7,  1785  ;  died  Sept.  20,  1878  ;  m.  Sept. 
20,  1812,  Elizabeth  Ann  Purdy,  b.  June  23,  1792,  d.  July  4,  1843, 
daughter  of  Alvan  Purdy,  and  of  Lydia  Hunt. 

He  was  commonly  known  as  "Uncle  Hazard."  He  was  a  man  of 
strong  feelings,  and  of  indissoluble  friendships,  a  firm  friend  of  the  present 
writer,  and  of  his  father,  who  was  "  Uncle  Hazard's  "  pastor. 

106.  Martha,  b.  March  26,  1787  ;  d.  Aug.  15,  1879  ;  m.  May  8, 
1 8 10,    to  James   H.  Purdy,  d.  July,   1874,  son  of  Lydia   Hunt,    and   of 


1890.]  Strang,  j  ^n 


Alvan  Purdy,  who  was  son  of  Abraham  Purdy,  and  of  Phebe  (26).  See 
an  article  in  the  N'ew  York  Observer,  Sept.  11,  1879,  entitled  "  A  Re- 
markable Family,"  signed  "  H.,"  commendatory  of  this  Purdy,  and  of 
his  brother,  and  of  his  wife  and  her  family. 

Children  of  Roger  Park  (29)  and  of  Sarah  Disbrow. 

107.  Jesse  or  Justus,  m.  Phebe  Sawyer. 

108.  Disbrow.     No  issue. 

109.  Anna,  m.  to  Lemuel  Jagger. 
-no.   John.     No.  issue. 

111.  Sarah,  m.  to  Thomas  McCollum. 

112.  Lavinia,  m.  to  Bilha  Theall. 

{History  of  Rye,  p.  432.) 

Children  of  Thomas  Park  (30)  and  of  Martha  Carpenter. 

113.  Thomas,  b.  Dec.  11,  1747;  died  young. 

114.  Joseph,  b.  Oct.  10,  1750  ;  m. . 

115.  Mary,  m.  Nehemiah  Purdy;  b.  Aug.  24,  1752. 

116.  Roger,   b.   July  11,  1754;  m.  (1)  Elizabeth  Lyon;   (2)    Sarah 

Lyon. 

117.  Hannah,  b.  March  18,  1756.     Unmarried. 

118.  Daniel,  b.  Nov.  27,  1758  ;  m.  Emma  Knapp. 

119.  Stephen,  b.  Aug.  17,  1761.     Unmarried. 

120.  Thomas,  b.  Aug.  17,  1761,  twin  ;   m.  Nancy  Lyon. 

121.  Timothy,  b.  April  27,    1766;  m.  (i)  Anna    Sniflfin  ;  (2)    Arna 

Hubby. 

[History  of  Rye,  p.  432.) 

Children  of  Joseph  Budd  (39)  arid  of Budd. 

122.  Shubael.     No  issue. 

123.  John,  m. ;  d.  1869,  aged  77. 

124.  Mary,  m.  Joseph  Budd. 

{History  of  Rye,  p.  405.) 

Children  of  Daniel  (45)  and  of  Mary  Hubbs, 

125.  Daniel,  of  New  York,  m.  Eliza  Taylor. 

126.  Joseph,  m.  Anne  Theall. 

127.  John,  of  New  York,  m.  Sarah  Gedfield. 

128.  Henry,  of  Rye,  m.  Eliza  Reynolds. 

129.  William,  of  Rye,  m.  Mary  Barton.     [Bartow?] 

130.  Elizabeth  ("Betsey"),  m.  to  Gilbert  Brown. 

131.  Levina,  m.  to  Benjamin    Crocker. 

(Strang  chart,  in  Bolton's  History.) 
Here  the  work  is  left   for  amendment,  amplification  and  extension 
by  some  other  hand. 


I AQ  A^o/es  and  Queries.  [July, 

NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

Proceedings  of  the  Society. — At  the  meeting  held  April  nth  an  address,  on 
"Gen.  John  Paterson,"  written  by  Mr.  William  H.  Lee,  was  read  by  Prof.  Thomas 
Egleston,  of  Columbia  College.  Gen.  Paterson,  who  was  an  ancestor  of  Prof.  Egles- 
ton,  was  an  important  figure  in  the  Revolution,  a  close  personal  friend  of  Washing- 
ton and  a  member  of  his  staff.  Although  comparatively  little  known  to  us  now,  he 
deserves  to  be  well  remembered  of  posterity,  and  this  paper,  which  is  published  in 
the  Record,  will  serve  to  establish  his  fame.  After  Prof.  Egleston  had  concluded, 
the  Society  had  the  pleasure  of  listening  to  some  very  interesting  remarks  from 
Rev.  Dr.  Newland  Maynard. 

May  gth.  Col.  Woolsey  Rogers  Hopkins,  in  an  address  entitled  "  Two  Old  New 
York  Houses,"  wove  a  chapter  of  history  and  romance  about  two  old  colonial  resi- 
dences in  State  Street,  Nos.  6  and  7.     This  will  also  appear  in  the  Record. 

On  June  13th,  the  last  meeting  of  the  Society  for  the  season,  Mr.  Thomas  C. 
Cornell,  of  Yonkers,  read  a  paper  on  "  Capt.  Thomas  Willett,  First  Mayor  of  New 
York  City."  This  paper  showed  a  vast  deal  of  historical  and  genealogical  research, 
and  is  a  valuable  contribution  to  the  story  of  the  beginnings  of  our  municipality. 

At  these  several  meetings,  the  following  were  elected  members  of  the  Society: 
Gerald  N.  Stanton,  James  H.  Smith,  William  B.  Ogden,  AUston  Gerry,  Maj.-Gen. 
O.  O.  Howard,  Prof.  Henry  Coppee,  John  Schuyler,  Killaen  Van  Rensselaer,  Miss 
Ann  E.  Hasbrook,  J.  Levitt  Pike,  J.  D.  Flower,  Hamilton  R.  Fairfax,  George  A. 
Hearn,  and  Josiah  C.  Pumpelly. 

The  first  meeting  in  the  autumn  will  be  held  on  the  evening  of  Friday,  October 
loth,  at  which  an  address  will  be  delivered  by  Mr.  I.  C.  Pumpelly. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Executive  Committee,  held  on  Friday,  March  2S,  1890,  the 
chairman  announced  the  death  of  James  R.  Gibson,  Jr.,  sometime  a  member  of  the 
Executive  Committee,  and  its  secretary;  and  he  offered  the  following  resolutions, 
which  were  unanimously  adopted  : 

Resolved,  That  this  Committee  have  heard  with  sorrow  of  the  death  of  their  late 
associate,  Mr.  James  R.  Gibson,  Jr. 

Resolved,  That  they  desire  to  place  on  their  records  their  testimony  of  the  great 
value  of  his  services  in  their  Committee  and  in  the  Society. 

Resolved,  That  they  will  hold  in  high  estimation,  his  ability  and  enthusiasm  as  a 
genealogist,  and  the  honesty  and  thoroughness  with  whicli  he  pursued  his  investiga- 
tions. 

Resolved,  That  a  copy  of  this  minute  be  sent  to  Mrs.  Gibson,  and  to  the  Record 
for  publication. 

The  names  and  addresses  of  the  eldest  male  posterity,  if  any,  of  the  following 
Officers  of  the  Revolution  would  be  gladly  received  by  John  Schuyler,  Sec- 
retary of  the  New  York  State  Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  63  William  Street,  New 
York  City  : 

Thomas  F.  Jackson,  Lieutenant  2d  Light  Dragoons,  Aide  to  Lord  Stirling. 

James  Johnston,  Lieutenant  2d  N.  Y.  Regiment. 

Nathaniel  Lawrence,  Lieutenant  2d  North  Carolina  Regiment. 

George  Leaycraft,  Lieutenant  N.  Y.  Artillery  ;  died  1811, 

Henry  Emanuel  Lutterloh,  Colonel,  Deputy  Quartermaster-General. 

Daniel  McLane,  Lieutenant  Massachusetts  Artillery. 

Peter  Magee,  Lieutenant  1st  N.  Y. 

Samuel  Mansfield,  Captain  N.  Y.  Artillery  ;  died  1810. 

John  Marsh,  Ensign  ist  N.  Y. ;  died  1798. 

Elihu  Marshall,  Captain  2d  N.  Y.;  died  1806. 

Daniel  Menema,  Surgeon  2d  N.  Y. 

Andrew  Moodie,  Captain  2d  N.  Y.;  died  17S7. 

Joseph  Morrell,  Ensign  ist  N.  Y. 

Peter  Nesteli,  Captain  N.  Y.  Artillery;  died  1817. 

Nathaniel  Norton,  Captain  4lh  N.  Y. ;  died  1837. 

Henry  Pawling,  Captain  2d  N.  Y.;  died  1825. 

Robert  Pemberton,  Captain  Spencer's  Regiment  ;  died  1821. 

William  Peters,  Ensign  2d  N.  Y. 

Richard  Piatt,  Major,  Aide  to  McDougall  ;  died  1830.  _ 


1890.]  Notes   and   Queries.  1^1 

William  Price,  Lieutenant  3d  Massachusetts  Artillery ;  died  1790. 

Abner  Prior,  Surgeon's  Mate  2d  N.  Y. 

Thomas  Randall,  Captain  3d  Massachusetts  Artillery  ;  died  1811. 

Wilhelmus  Ryckman,  Lieutenant  ist  N.  Y. 

Israel  Smith,  Captain  2d  N.  Y. ;  died  at  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y. 

Isaac  Smith,  Lieutenant  N.  Y.  Artillery. 

John  Stake,  Lieutenant  (Van  Heer's)  Light  Dragoons. 

James  Stewart,  Captain  5th  N.  Y. 

Wm,  Strachan,  Lieutenant  N.  Y.  Artillery. 

Bernadus  Swartwout,  Ensign  2d  N.  Y. ;  died  1824. 

Cornelius  Swartwout,  Captain-lieutenant  N.  Y.  Artillery. 

George  Sytez,  Captain  1st  N.  Y.;  died  1819. 

Samuel  Tallmadge,  Lieutenant  2d  N.  Y. 

Adam  Ten  Broeck,  Ensign  1st  N.  Y. 

Henry  Tiebout,  Captain  ist  N.  Y. ;  died  1826. 

John  Trumbull,  Colonel,  Adjutant-General  N.  D. ;  died   1843. 

Cornelius  Van  Dyck,  Lieutenant-Colonel  1st  N.  Y.,  of  Albany,  N.  Y. 

Bartholomew  Vanderburgh,  Ensign  2d  N.  Y. 

Rudolphs  Van  Hoevenbargh,  Lieutenant  2d  N.Y. ;  died  1826  at  Kinderhook,  N.Y. 

Tunis  Van  Wagenen,  Lieutenant  2d  N.  Y. 

Peter  Vosburough,  Captain  4th  N.  Y.;  resided  in  Ulster  Co.,  N.  Y. 

Benjamin  Walker,  Captain  2d  N.  Y. ;  died  1818  at  Utica,  N.  Y. 

James  Watson,  Captain  3d  Connecticut. 

Charles  Frederick  Weissenfels,  Lieutenant  2d  N.  Y. 

Michael  Wetzell,  Lieutenant  2d  N.Y. 

Andrew  White,  Lieutenant  2d  N.  Y.;  died  1805. 

Jacob  Wright,  Captain  2d  N.  Y.,  of  Jamaica,  L.  I. 

Ephraim  Woodruff,  Lieutenant  2d  N.  Y.,  of  New  Jersey;  died  1820. 

In  the  May  No.  of  the  Magazine  of  Ametica7i  Histoy  there  was  an  engi-aved 
portrait  of  Philip  Livingston,  the  Signer,  which  is  stated  by  the  writer  of  the 
accompanying  descriptive  sketch  as  "from  a  valuable  painting  in  the  possession  of 
Col.  S.  Van  Rensselaer  Cruger,  and  is  said  to  be  the  only  correct  likeness  of  the 
sagacious  patriot  after  he  had  passed  middle  life."  This  Mr.  Wm.  Alfred  Jones, 
now  residing  at  Norwich,  Connecticut,  a  great-grandson  of  the  Signer  through  the 
maternal  line,  conceived  to  be  an  error,  and  wrote  to  Mrs.  Lamb  a  detailed  account 
of  the  reasons  for  his  correction  of  the  mistake.  Colonel  Cruger  is  doubtless 
fully  impressed  with  the  authenticity  of  his  portrait  of  the  Signer  as  an  original,  but 
whether  the  original  seems  open  to  a  question. 

In  justice  to  his  brother's  memory,  Mr.  Jones  submitted  a  statement  of  which  we 
give  the  essential  points,  and  which  appeared  called  for  to  correct  the  mistake  occur- 
ring in  a  periodical  of  the  authoritative  character  of  the  Magazine  of  American  His- 
tory. 

Dr.  Philip  Livingston  Jones,  of  Brooklyn,  L.  I.,  presented  to  the  Long  Island 
Historical  Society,  a  year  or  two  before  his  death  (1SS3),  a  portrait  of  Philip 
Livingston,  his  maternal  great-grandfather,  which  came  to  him  by  inheritance  from 
his  uncle,  J.  T.  Jones.  From  this  portrait  an  engraving  was  made  to  illustrate  the 
biographical  sketch  in  "  Sanderson's  Lives  of  the  Signers,"  1820.  It  is  there  stated  as 
"from  an  original  painting  in  the  possession  of  J.  T.  Jones,  Esq.,  of  New  York." 

Seventy  years  have  passed,  and  this  original  has  been  considered  the  counterfeit 
presentment  of  this  distinguished  patriot.  It  has  little  value  as  a  work  of  art  com- 
pared with  the  masterly  portraits  of  Copley  and  Stuart,  but  presumably  a  good  like- 
ness. A  copy  of  this  (a  crayon  drawing)  was  given  by  Mr.  W.  A.  Jones  to  the  library 
of  our  society,  as  well  as  a  miniature  of  Edward  Livingston,  supposed  to  be  from 
the  pencil  of  Vanderlyn. 

In  1876  Mr.  Jones  was  present  as  an  invited  guest  in  Philadelphia  to  the  Centen- 
nial, and  for  the  first  time  saw  a  portrait  of  the  Signer  which  was  claimed  to  be  the 
original.     Could  this  have  been  sent  by  Colonel  Cruger,  or  was  it  a  third  portrait  ? 

As  a  probable  explanation  of  this  confusion  of  claims  to  authenticity,  we  learn 
from  Mr.  Jones  that  the  late  Mrs.  Gould,  of  Albany,  suggested  to  him  that  pcssibly 
three  portraits  of  Philip  Livingston  had  been  painted  for  his  three  daughters,  but  that 
this  formerly  owned  by  J.  T.  Jones  was  the  original,  from  which  copies  were  made 
or  three  distinct  portraits  were  painted. 

No  one  who  knew  the  late  Dr.  Philip  Livingston  Jones  would  imagine  for  a  mo- 


1^2  Notes   and   Queries.  [J^lyj 

ment  that  he  could  knowingly  palm  off  a  copy  for  an  original.  Neither  is  it  to  be 
imagined  that  Colonel  Cruger  would  assert  this  to  be  the  authentic  original  portrait, 
if  he  knew  of  the  existence  of  the  picture  now  owned  by  the  Long  Island  Historical 
Society,  and  from  which  the  engraving  was  made  seventy  years  ago. 

Mrs.  Lamb  has  condensed  with  judgment  and  impartiality  the  statement  of  Mr. 
Jones,  which  we  believe  to  be  accurate  and  fully  supported  by  facts. 

John  Rogers,  of  this  city,  the  sculptor  of  the  well-known  statuette  groups,  has 
recently  completed  a  full-length  plaster  cast  of  John  Eliot.  It  represents  the 
apostle  preaching  to  the  Massachusetts  Indians,  and  is  alike  admirable  in  sentiment, 
expression,  and  execution.  Figures  of  an  Indian  warrior  and  a  young  woman  are  also 
introduced,  which  tend  to  indicate  and  emphasize  the  significance  of  Eliot's  noble 
work  among  the  red  men.  His  figure  is  nine  feet  in  height,  arrayed  in  the  Baxter 
gown  of  1690  over  the  tunic,  with  one  hand  pointing  to  heaven,  while  in  the  other  he 
holds  the  Indian  Bible,  which  is  erroneously  represented  with  clasps.  Among  the 
hundred  or  more  known  copies  of  the  Eliot  Bible  are  many  in  the  original  binding, 
but  none  of  these,  so  far  as  I  am  aware,  has  rnetal  clasps,  as  represented  by  Mr. 
Rogers.  These  can  of  course  be  easily  removed  before  the  statue  is  copied  in  marble 
or  cast  in  bronze.  The  petition  of  John  Radcliff  to  the  commissioners  met  at 
Hartford  in  1664,  that  the  price  paid  for  binding  the  Indian  Bible  be  increased  from 
2s.  6d. :  "  as  under  to  3s.  4d.  or  6d,  p.  booke  I  can  not  binde  them  to  live  comfortably 
upon  it,  one  Bible  being  as  much  as  I  can  compleat  in  one  day  and  out  of  it  find  Thred, 
Glew,  Pasteboard  and  Leather  Claps,  and  all  which  I  cannot  suply  my  selfe  for  one 
shilling  in  this  Country."  These  claps  were  probably  narrow  strips  or  thongs  of 
leather  which  were  tied,  preventing  the  book  opening.  It  is,  I  think,  obvious  that 
one  shilling  would  not  pay  for  metal  clasps  in  addition  to  the  leather  and  other 
material  used  in  binding  the  Bible.  j.  G.  w, 

April  20th,  the  Sunday  following  the  anniversary  of  the  Battle  of  Lexington,  the 
Pennsylvania  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution  had  their  first  annual  sermon 
in  old  Christ  Church,  Philadelphia,  perhaps  one  of  the  most  historic  churches  in  the 
country.  The  Rev.  Geo.  Woolsey  Hodge,  a  member  of  the  Society,  preached  an  elo- 
quent sermon  from  the  text,  ist  Kings,  8th  chapter,  57th  verse  :  "  The  Lord  our  God 
be  with  us  as  he  was  with  our  fathers."  Five  clergymen  took  part  in  the  services — 
the  Rector,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Foggo,  Rev.  Dr.  Buchannan,  Rev.  Alfred  Langdon  Elwyn, 
and  the  Rev.  Dr.  Joseph  F.  Garrison,  The  members  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincin- 
nati, the  Loyal  Legion,  and  the  City  Troop,  in  their  brilliant  uniform,  attended.  The 
procession  was  led  by  the  president.  Major  William  Wayne,  who  is  also  president 
of  the  Cincinnati,  and  Mr.  Frederick  S.  Tallmadge,  president  of  the  New  York 
Society  of  Sons  of  the  Revolution.  These  gentlemen  sat  in  Washington's  pew. 
All  the  members  of  the  societies,  including  two  of  the  clergymen,  Mr.  Hodge  and 
Mr.  Elwyn,  wore  their  decorations.  The  church  was  beautifully  draped  with  flags 
and  the  tricolor.  It  was  a  memorable  and  historic  occasion.  The  choir  began  the 
services  with  the  hymn,  '•Onward!  Christian  soldiers!"  and  closed  with  "My 
country,  'tis  of  thee,"  during  which  the  military  and  the  various  societies  left  the 
building. 

The  American  Philosophical  Society,  the  most  ancient  society  of  men  of 
science,  letters,  and  useful  knowledge  in  the  United  States,  founded  by  Benjamin 
Franklin  in  1743,  commemorated  the  one-hundredth  anniversary  of  the  death  of  its 
"  Illustrious  Founder  and  First  President"  on  April  17th  at  Philadelphia.  The  fol- 
lowing committee  of  arrangements  was  appointed  for  this  commemoration:  Dr. 
Charles  A.  Oliver,  chairman;  Henry  Phillips,  Jr.,  Arthur  Biddle,  William  John 
Potts,  Dr.  William  H.  Greene.  The  five  addresses  delivered  on  the  occasion  by 
eminent  speakers  from  different  parts  of  the  country  are  an  interesting  contribution 
to  Franklin  literature,  showing  the  estimation  of  the  character  of  the  most  typical 
American  of  the  eighteenth  century  in  the  light  of  the  nineteenth.  A  sketch  of 
Franklin's  biography  was  given  by  Prof.  John  Bach  McMaster,  of  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania  ;  his  association  with  the  Society,  by  the  venerable  President  Frederick 
Fraley,  now  in  his  eighty-seventh  year  ;  his  literary  labors,  by  Prof.  G.  Brown  tioode, 
of  the  Smithsonian  Institution  ;  as  a  scientific  man,  by  Prof.  John  W.  Holland,  of 
the  Jefferson  University,  Philadelphia  ;  as  a  diplomat,  by  Prof.  Henry  M,  Baird,  of 
the  University  of  the  City  of  New  York.  These  interesting  additions  to  the  most 
popular  American  biography  it  is  proposed  to  publish  in  a  memorial  volume. 


1890.]  Noles   and   Queries. 


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Between  the  Battery  and  the  Harlem  River,  according  to  the  newly-published 
New  York  City  Directory  for  1S90,  there  are  now  living  such  a  large  collection  of 
literary  lights  as  even  Boston  has  never  dared  hope  to  possess.  Here  are  some  of  the 
members  of  this  colony  :  John  Milton,  Joseph  Addison,  Francis  Bacon,  Robert  Burns, 
William  Cowper,  Charles  Lamb,  Thomas  Moore,  Alexander  Pope,  Matthew  Arnold, 
Jane  Austen,  Edmund  Burke,  Benjamin  Franklin,  Alexander  Hamilton,  Lindley 
Murray,  Walter  Scott,  John  W^esley,  James  F.  Cooper,  Charles  Dickens,  George 
Eliot,  J.  T.  Headley,  Margaret  Fuller,  William  E.  Gladstone,  Edwin  Arnold,  George 
Bancroft,  William  C.  Bryant,  and  J.  G.  Holland.  New  York  seems  to  be  even  more 
conspicuous  as  a  place  of  abode  for  ex-Presidents.  Among  the  residents  of  the 
city  are  to  be  found  George  Washington,  John  Adams,  Thomas  Jefferson,  James 
Madison,  James  Monroe,  John  Quincy  Adams,  Andrew  Jackson,  Martin  Van  Buren, 
William  H.  Harrison,  John  Tyler,  Zachary  Taylor,  Franklin  Pierce,  James  Buchanan, 
A.  Lincoln,  U.  S.  Grant,  Grover  Cleveland,  and  Benjamin  Harrison. 

On  June  12,  1640,  eight  hardy  young  Englishmen  landed  upon  the  shores  of  Long 
Island  where  now  the  village  of  Southampton  stands.  They  had  emigrated  from 
England  a  year  or  two  before  to  Lynn,  Mass.,  and,  being  desirous  of  escaping  the 
too  strict  government  of  the  Massachusetts  Puritans,  set  sail  in  a  sloop  in  search  of 
new  fields.  ■  The  names  of  these  earliest  white  sealers  of  Eastern  Long  Island  were 
Howell,  Farrington,  Halsey,  Howe,  Sayre,  Cooper,  Needham,  and  Walton.  Shortly 
afterward  the  land  comprising  the  present  town  of  Southampton  was  deeded  to  the 
eight  sectlers  by  the  Shinnecock  Indians  for  sixty  bushels  of  corn  and  forty  coats.  On 
Thursday,  June  12,  the  two  hundred  and  fiftieth  anniversary  of  this  event  was  appro- 
priately celebrated  at  Southampton.  Among  the  many  visitors  were  a  {^w  remaining 
Indians  of  the  Shinnecock  tribe  that  originally  owned  the  land  upon  which  the  town 
stands.  j.  G.  W. 

Notes  from  a  graveyard,  five  minutes'  walk  from  the  Erie  railway  station  at  Ramapo, 
N.  Y.,  Rockland  Co. — Zebedee  Wood,  b.  June  23,  1775  d.  Jan.  17,  1857  "  He 
rests  from  his  labors."  Solomon  S.  Humphrey  d.  Mar.  24,  1837,  se  44.  his  wife 
Martha  Hill  Humphrey  d.  Jan.  19,  1829  in  her  29  year.  Pierson  and  Colt  are 
common  names  in  this  burial  place.  The  village  is  owned  principally  by  a  Mr. 
Pierson, 

T.  M.  Bancroft, 

P.  O.  Box  382,  N.  Y. 

The  following-named  persons  have  already  subscribed  for  the  first  volume  of  the 
Records  of  the  Dutch  Church  of  New  York,  announced  elsewhere  for  early  publica- 
tion, price  ten  dollars  :  Jas.  Grant  Wilson,  Samuel  Burhans  Jr.,  Gerritt  H.  Van 
Wagenen,  Thomas  C.  Cornell,  Samuel  S.  Purple,  William  P.  Robinson,  Edward  F. 
de  Lancey,  Edmund  A.  Hu^ry,  and  Thomas  G.  Evans.  Subscribers'  names  will  be 
entered  on  the  list  in  the  order  in  which  they  are  received  by  the  Secretary  of  the 
society. 

A  COMPLETE  set  of  portraits  of  the  Presidents  of  the  Society,  viz.,  Dr.  Stiles 
Gen.  Greene,  Mr.  Drowne,  Mr.  De  Lancey,  and  Gen.  Wilson,  handsomely  framed, 
has  been  given  to  the  society  by  the  last-named  gentleman.  Arrangements  have 
been  made  to  open  the  library  for  consultation  daily  from  ten  o'clock  to  five,  except 
during  the  month  of  August,  when  it  will  be  closed. 

Of  the  original  fourteen  incorporators  of  the  Buffalo  Historical  Society,  founded 
in  1862  by  Millard  Fillmore  (its  first  president),  the  last  survivor,  Lewis  F.  Allen, 
died  recently  in  that  city,  where  he  had  lived  for  more  than  half  a  century,  aged 
ninety  years.  He  was  the  first  vice-president  of  the  society,  in  which  he  always  dis- 
played a  deep  interest.  J.  G.  w. 

Thomson  or  Thompson,  Archibald,  m,  Jacoba  Schuurman.  Can  any  one  state  his 
parentage?  He  was  of  Scotch  descent,  and  probably  of  the  Perth  Amboy  line.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  church  at  New  Brunswick,  N.  J.,  on  confession,  Aug.  10,  1741, 
and  his  wife,  Nov.  g,  1750. 

61  Quincy  St.,  Brooklyn.  Richard  Wynkoop. 

Robert  Feake,  the  artist,  of  Newport,  R.  I.,  married  Eleanor  Cozzens,  daughter 
of  Leonard  and  Margaret  (Taylor)  Cozzens,  of  Newport,  R.  I.,  September  23,  1743. 
It  is  said  that  he  went  to  Bermuda  for  his  health,  and  died  there,  at  the  age  of  forty- 
five  years.     In  what  year  did  he  die  ?  J-  J-  L. 


j^j^  Book  Notices.  [Julyj 

For  permission  to  copy  the  portrait  of  Gen.  John  Paterson  which  accompanies  the 
address  of  William  H.  I>ee,  delivered  before  the  society  April  ii,  1890,  the  Publica- 
tion Committee  are  indebted  to  the  publishers  of  ^///d'/tJw'j-  CyclopiTdia  of  American 
Biography. 

We  have  been  informed  that  the  portrait  of  Bishop  Moore,  now  in  the  posses- 
sion of  his  great-grandson,  Clement  C.  Moore,  is  a  drawing  in  water-colors  and  is 
doubtless  a  copy  of  the  fine  painting  in  the  library  of  Columbia  College. 

New  Certificates  of  Membership  have  been  prepared  and  will  be  sent  to  hon- 
orary and  corresponding  members  of  the  society.  Other  members  can  procure  them 
by  applying  to  the  secretary. 


I 


BOOK  NOTICES. 


The  Political  Beginnings  of  Kentucky.  By  John  Mason  Brown.  With 
a  portrait  of  the  author.  Filson  Club  Publication,  No,  6.  John  P.  Morton  &  Com- 
pany, Louisville,  iSgo. 

But  a  short  time  before  his  recent  and  deeply-regretted  death,  the  author  of  this 
noble  quarto  volume  placed  the  manuscript  in  the  hands  of  the  printers  to  the  Filson 
Club.  It  therefore  appears  just  as  he  left  it,  and  in  accordance  with  his  own  tasteful 
directions.  Colonel  Brown's  work  will  greatly  change  the  commonly  received  polit- 
ical history  of  Kentucky  in  more  than  one  important  direction,  for  he  thoroughly 
investiigated  the  British,  French,  and  Spanish  intrigues  in  the  West.  To  accomplish 
this  end,  he  not  only  examined  original  printed  and  manuscript  authorities  m  this 
country,  but  also  secured  from  foreign  archives  copies  of  numerous  documents  and 
official  despatches  sent  by  agents  to  their  governments  relating  to  the  formative 
period  of  Kentucky  history.  The  author  left  no  field  unexplored  where  the  glean- 
ings of  truth  could  be  obtained,  and  he  has  given  us  a  book  which  will  hereafter  be 
an  authority  on  the  subject  so  judiciously  treated.  It  may  be  mentioned  that  the 
derivation  and  signification  of  the  word  "  Kentucky,'  so  long  supposed  to  mean  the 
dark  and  bloody  ground,  is  really  derived  from  an  Iroquois  word  which  means  the 
meadow  land.  Several  of  the  Filson  Club  publications  have  been  reviewed  in  these 
columns,  and  this,  the  latest  of  the  series,  is  commended  to  our  readers  as  the  most 
valuable  of  them  all.      Its  only  blemish  is  the  lack  of  an  index.  J.    G.   w. 

Records  of  the  Town  of  Easthampton,  Long  Island,  Suffolk  Co.,  N.  Y., 
WITH  other  Ancient  Documents  of  Historic  Value.  4  vols.  8vo.  Sag  Harbor: 
John  H.  Hunt,  printer.      1887-1889. 

These  volumes  contain  the  records  of  this  energetic  community  from  1635  to  1849,  to- 
gether with  historical  and  statistical  introductions  by  the  Hon.  Henry  P.  Hedges,  for 
many  years  county  judge  and  surrogate,  now  a  venerable  and  respected  citizen  of 
Sufiblk  County.  This  ancient  town  retained  its  isolation  and  its  primitive  appearance 
and  manners  for  full  two  centuries,  though  of  late  years,  in  common  with  its  neighbor- 
ing towns  in  the  soutliern  and  eastern  parts  of  the  island,  it  has  attracted  much 
attention  from  nomadic  New  Yorkers.  It  was  originally  a  Puritan  settlement  of  the 
strictest  sort,  and  indeed  lias  ciianged  but  little  in  that  respect.  The  records,  which 
appear  to  be  singularly  full  and  complete,  contain  much  curious  and  interesting  read- 
ing. It  may  be  worth  mentioning  that  Easthampton  lays  claim  to  the  honor  of  having 
asserted  the  principle,  in  1685,  whicii  afterward  became  the  watchword  of  the  Revo- 
lution, of  no  taxation  without  representation. 

The  Diary  of  William  Pvnchon,  of  Salem.  Edited  by  Fitch  Edward 
Oliver.    8vo.     Boston :     Houghton,  Mifilin  &  Co.     1890. 

William  Pynchon,  b.  1723.  d.  1789,  was  a  native  of  Springfield,  Mass.  In  1751, 
two  years  after  graduating  at  Harvard  College,  he  settled  at  Salem,  where  he  became 
a  lawyer  of  standing  and  repute.  His  diary  begins  Jan.  i,  1776,  and  ends  March  2,  1789, 
twelve  days  before  his  death,  covers  the  whole  period  (with  the  exception  of  the  year 
1779  and  four  months  of  1780)  of  the  Revolutionary  \\'ar,  and  gives  the  impressions 
of  an  intelligent  man,  who,  though  his  sympathies  were,  upon  the  whole,  with  the 
Loyalists,  yet  can  by  no  means  be  regarded  as  a  violent  partisan.  The  diary  contains 
many  matters  of  interest    not  to  be  found  elsewhere,  and  its  value  is  increased  by 


1890.]  Donations   to   the   Library.  ^A' 

the  editor's  notes.  A  characteristic  and  courteous  letter  from  Nathaniel  Hawthorne, 
written  in  1851,  explains  the  accident  of  his  having  borrowed  an  honored  name  for  his 
"  fictitious  purposes  in  the  '  House  of  the  Seven  Gables.'  "  Of  course  he  was  wholly 
unaware  that  the  Pynchons  had  been  residents  of  Salem. 

The  Boltons  in  Old  and  Nfav  England,  with  a  Genealogy  of  the 
Descendants  of  William  Bolton,  of  Reading,  Mass.,  1720.  By  Charles 
Knowles  Bolton.     Small  4to,  pp.  85.     Albany  :  Joel  Munsell's  Sons.     1889. 

The  author  of  this  handsome  book  deserves  credit  for  his  diligence  and  modesty  ; 
for  the  one,  by  reason  of  the  great  care  with  which  he  has  wori<ed  out  the  details,  leav- 
ing no  unseemly  blanks  in  names  or  dates,  and  indulging  in  no  conjecture  ;  for  the 
other,  because  he  begins  his  book  honestly  at  the  beginning,  with  his  known  ances- 
tor. A  very  well  written  introduction  gives  an  account  of  the  several  families  of  Bol- 
ton in  America,  as  well  as  of  many  persons  of  the  name  in  England.  It  is  easy  to  see 
that  his  brief  introduction  is  the  result  of  much  careful  reading.  The  arms,  as  they 
are  borne  by  the  New  York  family,  will  be  found  engraved  and  blasoned  in  the 
Record,  Vol.  IX.,  page  i. 

A  Skf.tch  of  the  Eliot  Family.  By  Walter  Graeme  Eliot.  New  York:  Press 
of  Livingston  Middleditch,  26  Cortlandt  Street.  18S7.  Crown  octavo,  flexible  covers, 
pp.  157.  Press  supplement.  No.  3,  pp.  20.  Press  supplement,  No.  i,  pp.  (2).  Illus- 
trated with  two  pages  of  portraits  in  groups,  and  other  illustrations.     Two  charts. 

Andrew  Eliott  (so  he  wrote  his  surname)  left  England  probably  soon  after  166S,  as 
his  name  last  appears  in  his  native  parish  of  East  Coker,  Somersetshire,  in  that  year, 
and  he  was  in  Beverly,  Mass.,  in  1670.  Here  he  founded  a  family  which  has  furnished 
many  noted  men  and  women.  Charles  William  Eliot,  LL.D.,  President  of  Harvard 
University,  is  the  most  distinguished  descendant  in  our  day.  The  author  has  pro- 
duced such  an  excellent  work  that  we  read  with  regret  of  his  determination  to  retire 
from  the  field  of  genealogical  research.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that  he  will  soon  resume 
his  studies,  which  must  hsve  been  to  him  a  labor  of  love. 

History  and  Proceedings  of  the  Pocumtuck  Valley  Memorial  Association, 
1870-1879.     Vol.  I.     Deerfield,  Mass.  1890. 

The  original  purpose  of  this  society  was  to  collect  relics  and  memorials  of  the 
early  settlers  of  Deerfield,  especially  of  those  who  perished  in  the  Indian  wars,  and  to 
build  a  Memorial  Hall.  From  the  list  of  members  and  the  contents  of  the  book  itself, 
one  may  infer  not  only  that  this  purpose  has  been  carried  out,  but  that  it  has 
interested  many  citizens  of  Massachusetts  besides  those  who  lived  in  the  immediate 
neighborhood.  The  book  is  made  up  of  orations,  addresses,  historical  papers,  and 
poems  by  many  writers,  together  with  ancient  documents  ;  by  this  arrangement  a  vast 
deal  of  curious  and  interesting  information  is  broua;ht  together. 


DONATIONS  TO  THE  LIBRARY. 

From  Rufus  King.  Watertown  Epitaphs,  by  W.  T.  Harris,  LL.B.  Boston,  1869 — 
Descendants  of  Capt.  Thomas  Brattle,  by  E.  D.  Harris.  Boston,  1867 — Miscel- 
lanea Genealogicaet  Heraldica.  Vol.  III.  J.  J.  Howard,  LL.D.,  Editor.  London, 
1878 — American  Genealogical  Queries.  Newport,  1887 — Report  of  the  Fail  fax 
County  Historical  Society,  1889.  Bridgeport — Tanner's  Travelling  Map  of  Penn- 
sylvania and  New  Jersey — Visitors'  Guide  to  Mount  Vernon.  Washington,  1876 — 
Catalogue  of  the  Psi  Upsilon  Society.  New  York,  1864 — Long  Island  of  To-day. 
1884 — Boyd's  Westchester  County  Directory,  1884-85.  Passaic,  N.  J.,  1885 — 
Thompson  and  Fowler's  Yonkers  City  Directory  for  1S85-86,  1886-S7.  Newburgh — 
Boyd's  Yonkers  City  Directory  for  1887-88.  Newburgh — Historical  Biography  of 
the  United  States.  New  York,  18S5 — N.  Y.  Central  and  Hudson  River  Railroad 
Business  Directory,  1S84-85.      Newburgh,  1885. 

From  Gerritt  H.  Van  Wagenen,  History  of  Ulster  County,  N.  Y.,  by  Nathaniel 
B.  Sylvester.  Philadelphia,  1880 — History  of  Orange  County,  N.  Y.,  by  P2.  M. 
Ruttenber  and  L.  H.  Clark.  Philadelphia,  1881 — Installation  of  Seth  Low,  LL.D., 
as  President  of  Columbia  College.  New  York,  i8go — Columbia  College  Bac- 
calaureate Sermon  for  1889,  by  Rt.  Rev.  H.  C.  Potter,  D.D.,  LL.D.  New 
York,    1889 — Annual   Dinner   of  the  Alumni  Association   of  Columbia  College. 


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Do7tatw?ts   to   the   Library.  [July,  1890. 


New  York,  1S90 — Centennial  Discourse  before  the  Alumni  Association  of  Colum- 
bia College,  by  Hon.  John  Jay.  New  York,  1876 — Inauguration  of  F.  A.  P. 
Barnard,  LL. D.,  as  President  of  Columbia  College.  New  York,  1S65 — Sketch 
of  the  Life  and  Writings  of  Sidney  Lanier,  by  Charles  N.  West,  M.A.  Savannah, 
Ga.,  1888 — Sermon  at  the  Burial  of  Mrs.  Sarah  Davis,  by  Rev.  Samuel  Buel. 
New  York,  1858. 

Gen.  Jas.  Grant  Wilson.  Reunion  of  the  Sons  and  Daughters  of  Newport,  R.  I,, 
August  23,  1859,  by  George  C.  Mason,  Newport,  1S59.     Life  of  Sir  Isaac  Newton, 

V  by  David  Brewster,  LL.D.,  New  York,  1840.  A  memorial  of  the  life  and  character 
of  John  W.  Francis,  Jr.,  by  Henry  T.  Tuckerman,  New  York,  1855.  Biography 
J.  S.  T.  Stranahan,  New  York,  1887.       Trow's  New  York  City  Directory  for  18S9. 

From  Edmund  J.  Cleveland.  Cleveland  Genealogy,  3  copies,  by  H.  G.  Cleveland. 
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THE  NEW  YORK 


Vol.  XXI.  NEW  YORK,  OCTOBER,   1890.  No.  4. 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCH    OF    REV.     DR.    CHARLES   WASH- 
INGTON   BAIRD. 

( IViih  a  Sted  Portrait.) 


By  R.   W. 


The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  a  friend  to  the  New  York  Genealogical 
and  Biographical  Society,  and  a  historian  of  original  research,  and  it  is 
fitting  that  some  account  of  him  should  be  given  in  the  Record,  to  which 
he  made  valuable  contributions. 

Dr.  Baird,  born  August  28,  1828,  d.  February  10,  1887,  was  the 
second  son  of  Rev.  Dr.  Robert  Baird  and  Firmine  D.  Boisson,  the  latter 
of  French  Huguenot  blood.  He  married,  July  2,  1861,  Miss  Margaret 
Eliza  Strang,  eldest  child  of  a  New  York  merchant,  Theodosius  Strang, 
and  of  Eliza  Jane  Mitchill.  His  wife,  a  daughter,  Eliza  Strang,  and 
a  son,  Robert,  survived  him.  He  was  graduated  at  the  University 
of  the  City  of  New  York  in  1848,  and  at  Union  Theological  Seminary 
in  1852  ;  was  licensed  by  the  Presbytery  of  New  Brunswick  in  the  same 
year,  and  was  by  them  ordained  an  Evangelist  during  his  summer  vaca- 
tion in  the  year  following.  He  was  chaplain  of  the  American  Chapel  in 
the  City  of  Rome  from  September,  1852,  until  1854,  when  he  returned  to 
these  United  States,  intending  to  enter  upon  the  pastoral  office,  but  a 
painful  affliction  of  the  nerves  of  the  eye  kept  him  from  his  purpose  for 
five  years.  From  1859  to  1861  he  was  pastor  of  a  Reformed  Dutch 
church,  of  Bergen  Hill,  in  South  Brooklyn,  a  new  organization,  where  he 
won  the  affections  of  the  people,  as  he  was  accustomed  to  do  wherever  he 
lived.  In  May,  1861,  he  was  installed  pastor  .of  the  Presbyterian  church 
at  Rye,  Westchester  County,  N.  Y.,  and  here  he  labored  until  his  death. 
His  Alma  Mater  conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  in 
1876.  His  .names,  Charles  and  Washington,  were  derived  from  two 
maternal  uncles. 

Dr.  Baird  was  born  at  Princeton,  N.  J.,  and  his  home  was  there,  or  at 
Philadelphia,  for  seven  years.  His  father  was  a  clergyman  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church,  who  became  widely  known  through  his  labors  to  convert 
Roman  Catholic  countries,  and  received  evidences  of  affection  and  honor 
from  men  in  positions  of  power  and  influence  in  Europe  as  well  as 
America.  Six  years'  residence  in  Paris  and  two  in  Geneva,  with  the 
attendant  acquisition  of  foreign  languages,  gave  the  young  Charles  a  prep- 
aration for  the  literary  research  in  which  he  was  to  engage  at  a  later 
period,  and  probably  enlisted  his  interest  in  the  subject.  He  had  never 
been  indifferent  to  the  Holy  Scriptures,  nor  insensible  to    his  obligations 


1^8  Biographical   Sketch    of  Rev.   Dr.    C.    W.   Baird.  [Oct., 

as  a  moral  being,  but  in  1841  inflammatory  rheumatism  of  a  severe  type, 
occasioned  by  his  lying  upon  the  grass  at  St.  Denis,  followed  by  an  affec- 
tion of  the  heart,  which  threatened  life  itself  and  continued  its  influence 
while  he  lived,  brought  about  a  distinctive  spiritual-mindedness  which 
manifested  itself  throughout  his  subsequent  years.  He  became  an  evan- 
gelist among  his  acquaintances,  and  made  a  public  confession  of  his 
faith  in  the  Sixth  Street  Presbyterian  Church,  Rev.  Dr.  Horace  Eaton,  in 

1844. 

He  had  dedicated  himself  to  the  Christian  ministry,  but  feeble  health 
forbade  close  study,  and  he  employed  his  time  in  reading  general  liter- 
ature, and  in  assisting  his  father  by  translating  French  treatises.  He 
found  some  relaxation  in  the  use  of  a  poetic  pen  which  descended  to  him 
from  his  mother,  and  his  contribution  to  the  Commencement  exercises 
was  a  poem  on  "  Labor." 

While  he  was  in  charge  of  the  chapel  at  Rome,  his  gentle  manners, 
courteous  bearing,  and  freedom  from  sectarianism  enabled  him  to  hold 
the  American  and  English  residents  and  visitors  in  entire  contentment 
with  the  exercises  of  his  chapel. 

During  the  period  when  the  condition  of  his  eyes  precluded  him 
from  pastoral  work,  he  published,  in  1S55,  his  "  Eutaxia  ;  or,  The 
Presbyterian  Liturgies  :  Historical  Sketches  by  a  Minister  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church  "  ;  and  in  the  year  following,  '*  A  Book  of  Public  Prayer, 
Compiled  from  the  Authorized  Formularies  of  Worship  of  the  Pres- 
byterian Church,  as  Prepared  by  the  Reformers  Calvin,  Knox,  and 
Others."  The  author  withheld  his  name  from  the  title-pages,  no  doubt 
because  of  his  innate  modesty.  He  was  an  advocate  for  the  voluntary 
use  of  liturgies,  and  especially  for  the  approval  of  some  one  or  more, 
which  could  be  accessible,  conveniently.  The  present  writer  has  heard 
Dr.  Baird  talk  earnestly  on  this  subject. 

In  his  youth  Dr.  Baird  had  been  familiar  with  the  places  conspicu- 
ously identified  with  the  slaughter  of  the  Huguenots  by  Charles  IX.  and 
his  mother,  and  when  fourteen  years  old  he  wrote  a  historical  poem 
called  "The  Massacre  of  St.  Bartholomew's  Eve."  While  he  was  settled 
at  Rye,  amid  much  which  recalled  the  gallantry',  fidelity,  and  sufferings 
of  the  Huguenots,  he  preached  a  Thanksgiving  sermon,  in  1865,  set- 
ting forth  the  grounds  upon  which  the  people  should  be  grateful.  A 
call  was  made  upon  him  for  the  publication  of  his  discourse,  and  the 
result  was  that,  after  six  years'  of  preparation,  his  sermon  was  expanded 
into  "The  Chronicle  of  a  Border  Town  :  A  History  of  Rye,  1660-1876." 
New  York,  1871.  After  about  twelve  more  years  of  preparation  he  gave 
to  the  public  the  "History  of  the  Huguenot  Emigration  to  America." 
New  York,  1885,  This  work  was  to  have  been  followed  by  an  account 
of  the  distribution  of  the  French  Huguenot  immigrants  in  the  INIiddle 
and  Southern  States,  and  their  formative  influence  upon  our  people  and 
our  institutions.  No  doubt  a  work  of  equal  interest  and  value  would 
have  been  produced,  but  his  death  intervened.  In  the  preparation  for 
his  History,  correspondents  explored  for  him  various  archives,  and  he 
himself  made  researches  in  London  in  1877  on  a  special  visit  for  that 
purpose. 

He  was  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Church  Extension,  and  the 
historian  of  the  Presbytery  of  Westchester,  by  appointment  ;  also  the  au- 
thor of  the  "  History  of  Bedford  Church  "  (New  York,  1882),  into  which  a 


1890.]  Biographical   Sketch    of  Rev.   Dr.    C.    W.   Baird.  j^g 

discourse  grew  which  had  been  delivered  at  the  two-hundredth  anniver- 
sary of  the  founding  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  town  of  Bedford, 
Westchester  County.  He  wrote  also  a  monograph  on  Pierre  Daille  ; 
also  the  "Civil  Status  of  the  Presbyterians  in  the  Province  of  New  York  ;  " 
and  prepared  other  important  papers.  The  present  writer  found  him 
efficient  and  obliging  in  directing  to  authentic  sources  of  information, 
and  in  contributing  information  direct.  On  the  14th  of  June,  1886,  he 
delivered  an  oration  on  "The  Scholar's  Duty  and  Opportunity,"  before 
the  New  York  Beta,  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society,  in  the  University  of 
the  City  of  New  York.  His  last  public  service,  outside  of  his  own  pulpit, 
was  on  the  27th  of  January,  1887,  when  he  preached  the  customary  ser- 
mon of  the  Da}^  of  Prayer  for  Colleges  before  the  students  of  the  University 
of  the  City  of  New  York,  by  appointment  of  the  Faculty  of  Arts  and 
Science,  upon  the  text:  "Blessed  are  they  which  do  hunger  and  thirst 
after  righteousness  ;  for  they  shall  be  filled."  He  was  the  author  of 
"  Lays  of  the  Cross,"  which  appeared  in  magazines,  and  from  1848  to 
1 85 1  an  editor  of  the  Christian  Union  and  Religious  Memorial,  a 
monthly  publication.  In  connection  with  Rev.  Dr.  Benjamin  N.  Martin 
he  wrote  the  greater  part  of  "  The  Christian  Retrospect  and  Register," 
1851. 

Dr.  Baird  was  a  member  of  many  historical  societies,  including  those 
of  New  York,  Long  Island,  and  Virginia  ;  and  he  was  one  of  ihe  two 
American  authors  chosen  to  honorary  fellowships  by  the  Huguenot 
Society  of  London,  founded  in  1S85  ;  his  brother,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Henry 
M.  Baird,  was  the  other  American. 

On  Saturday,  the  5th  of  February,  1887,  he  was  stricken  with  cerebral 
apoplexy  while  employed  in  the  preparation  of  a  sermon  for  the  morrow, 
and  afier  a  few  hours  became  unconscious  and  so  continued  for  five  days, 
and  at  length  he  fell  into  a  peaceful  sleep — and  so  he  passed  over  the  river. 
The  burial  was  in  Greenwood  Cemetery,  February  15th.  In  the  begin- 
ning of  his  sickness,  in  view  of  his  possible  decease,  he  said  to  his  wife  : 
"  You  know  that  I  am  ready." 

[The  material  of  the  foregoing  is  derived  from  a  biographical  sketch 
by  his  brother,  prefixed  to  "Memorials  of  the  Rev.  Charles  W.  Baird, 
D.D.,"  etc.,  1888.] 

The  memorial  utterances  at  his  funeral  were  such  as  are  rarely 
heard.  Said  the  Rev.  Dr.  Roswell  D.  Hitchcock:  "We  commemorate 
to-day  a  rounded  life,  as  well  as  a  finished  life.  We  commemorate  a 
man,  husband,  father,  citizen.  We  commemorate  to-day  a  Christian 
scholar,  whose  written  and  printed  records  survive  him,  and  will  long 
survive  to  link  his  name  and  his  memory  with  the  heroic  age  in  our 
Protestant  histor}',  irradiated  by  that  Huguenot  heroism  which  has  never 
been  surpassed.  We  commemorate  to-day  a  Christian  man,  of  gentle 
blood,  of  happy  birth,  of  rare  opportunities,  of  careful  culture.  Even  the 
most  casual  acquaintances,  having  the  slightest  intercourse  with  him,  would 
say,  '  How  gracious.'  We  commemorate  to-day  a  Christian  minister,  who 
was  a  bishop  of  the  Apostolic  type  ;  a  bishop  to  all — not  to  his  own 
parish  only.  Our  friend  realized,  as  few  clergymen  have  done,  in  his  own 
experience,  and  to  the  satisfaction  of  all  his  neighbors,  that  however  many 
parishes  there  might  be  within  this  municipality,  he  was  a  bishop  of  them 
— of  you  all." 

Rev.  Horace   G.  Hinsdale  said  of  him  :  "He  might  not,  as  some, 


I  CQ  Biographical   Sketch    of  Rev,   Dr.   C.    W.   Baird.  [Oct., 

dazzle  a  casual  acquaintance,  but  no  one  could  be  long-  with  him  without 
recognizing  a  singularly  harmonious  and  beautiful  combination  of  many 
excellent  qualities — mental,  moral,  and  spiritual.  Our  dear  brother  pos- 
sessed a  clear,  well-balanced,  and  highly  cultivated  intellect.  His  educa- 
tional advantages  were  thoroughly  improved.  He  wielded  a  ready  pen, 
and  his  written  style,  in  its  precision,  elegance,  and  transparency,  indicated 
both  the  breadth  and  the  depth  of  his  culture.  His  histories  show  his 
remarkable  aptness  for  historical  composition,  his  painstaking  conscien- 
tiousness of  research,  his  resolute  determination  to  secure  minute  accuracy, 
and  the  ease  and  grace  of  style  which  characterize  all  his  literary  work. 
Personally  and  socially.  Dr.  Baird  was  remarkably  attractive.  Some  men 
are  good  without  being  winning.  Some  are  frank  and  honest,  and 
yet  are  rude  and  repellent  ;  but  he  was  winning,  and  at  the  same 
lime  transparently  honest.  His  courtesy  was  knightly  ;  nay,  better,  it 
was  Christian.  He  was  a  gentleman,  not  merely  by  virtue  of  familiar 
acquaintance  with  the  usages  of  the  best  society,  but  likewise  by  virtue  of 
his  genuine  benevolence  in  little  things  as  well  as  great.  Young  and  old 
alike  were  drawn  to  him  by  his  magnetic  kindliness  ;  the  ignorant  no  less 
than  the  cultivated  could  be  at  ease  in  his  society." 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Wilson  Phraner  bore  testimony  to  the  beauty  of  Dr. 
Baird's  character,  and  to  his  usefulness  in  the  work  of  the  Presbytery  of 
Westchester.  Rev.  John  Reid  spoke  chiefly  of  the  loss  sustained  by  the 
church,  community,  and  ministerial  brethren,  in  his  withdrawal  from 
earth,  and  of  his  helpfulness,  consistency,  and  child-like  simplicity  and 
purity.  Rev.  George  E.  Stillman,  of  the  Methodist  Church,  pronounced 
the  benediction. 

Memorial  exercises  were  held  by  the  Presbytery  at  Peekskill  on 
April  20th,  and  addresses  were  made  by  Rev.  Dr.  J.  Aspinwall  Hodge, 
Rev.  John  Reid,  and  Rev.  Dr.  R.  P.  H.  Vail.  Dr.  Hodge  called  him 
"our  best-beloved  brother,"  and  spoke  of  the  roundness  of  his  character, 
his  fraternal  helpfulness,  and  the  success  of  his  ministry  in  the  ingather- 
ing of  souls.  He  also  spoke  of  the  sturdiness  derived  from  the  Scotch 
blood  of  his  father,  and  the  gentleness  and  courtesy  inherited  with  the 
French  blood  of  his  mother.  Mr.  Reid  reviewed  his  literary  life  and 
work.      Dr.  Vail  spoke  briefly  of  Dr.  Baird's  gracious  spirit  and  manners. 

Rev.  Dr.  Dwight  M.  Seward  preached  the  memorial  sermon  in  the 
church  at  Rye,  March  27,  1887,  and  gave  a  handsome  tribute  not  onlyto 
the  deceased  but  also  to  his  father  and  mother. 

Tributes  were  paid  in  the  periodical  press  also  :  in  the  New  York 
Evingelist  of  April  14th,  b^'  Rev.  Dr.  Rollin  A.  Sawyer;  in  the  Charles- 
ton News  and  Courier,  by  Rev.  Dr.  C.  S.  Vedder  ;  in  the  Yonkers  States- 
man  of  February  nth,  by  Rev.  Charles.  E.  Allison;  in  the  Portchester 
Journal,  by  J.  M.  Ives  ;  and  by  various  ecclesiastical  bodies  and  educa- 
tional and  historical  institutions.  The  Vestry  of  Christ  Church,  Rye, 
passed  resolutions,  expressive  of  their  sense  of  loss  to  the  Christian  com- 
munity. 


1890.]     Records   of  the   Reformed  Dutch    Church    in   New    York.      \c\ 


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


(Continued  from  Vol.  XXL,  p.  118,  of  The  Record.) 


A"    I73I.  OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Jan.       I.    Gerrit  Hollaar  Maas,  Aainoiit. 

Elisabct  Domskin. 

d°.  3.  Cornells       Kortregt,  John. 

Hester  Cannon, 

d".        10.    Matthew      Clarkson,  David. 

Cornelia    De    Pey-  den    5  dito 

ster.  gebooren. 

d°.  Johannes  Lesjer,  Eva  Jacob. 

Binder. 

d°.  Johannes    Van    Nor-     Margrietje. 

den,  A  r  ri  aan  tj  e 
Webbers. 


d°. 

Abraham  Van  Deur- 
sen,  Antje  Coek. 

Susanna. 

d°. 

Frederik   B  e  k  k  e  r , 
Catharina  Zenger. 

Elisabet. 

d°. 

17.    Samuel    Ten    Eyck, 
Marytje  Gorne. 

Marytje. 

d°. 

20.   Julius  Eno,  Jannetje 
Lendrids. 

Isaak. 

d°. 

Cornells    Arland, 
Francyntje 
Bordsges. 

Samuel. 

d°. 

M  a  1 1  h  e  u  s  Nobel, 
Susanna. 

Margareta. 

[507-] 

d°.       24.   Nicolaas    Van    Taar-     Elisabet. 

ling,     Elisabet 

Richard, 
d".        31.    Pleter     Van     Ranst,      Jacobus. 

Sara  Kierstede. 
d°.  Willem     Gilbert,     Cornelia. 

Maria  Van  Zandt. 
d°.  Abraham  Boke,    Re-     Margrietje. 

becca  Peers. 

d°.  Philippus  Goelet,      Jannetje. 

Catharina  Boelen. 


GETUYGEN. 

Aarnout  Maas,  Helena 
Donskom  Wed^ 

Jan  Cannon,  Ju^,  Jerusa 
Sands,  syn   h.  v. 

David  Clarkson,  Anna 
Margreta  Freeman,  s. 
h.  v. 

Joris  Walgraaf,  Marga- 
reta Lesjer,  h.  v.  Van 
G}'sbert  Gerritse. 

Willem  Hoppen,  Elisa- 
bet Van  Norden,    s.    b. 

V. 

Dirk    Koek,    S  li  s  a  n  n  a 

Cregier,  s.  h.  v. 
Joh^  Jacob  Signer  jong  m, 

Elisabet  Bekker,  jonge 

dochter. 
Edward     Tittel,     Marytje 

Hook,   Wed<". 
Isaak     Stoutenburg, 

A  p  o  1  o  n  i  e      Uytten- 

bogard, 
John  Anthony,  Maria. 


Johannes    Nobel,   An- 
naatje  Hyert. 


Paillus  Richard,  Chris- 
tina Van  Taarling. 

Cornells  Romme,  Blan- 
dina  Kip,  jonge  docht^ 

Adam  V  a  n  d  e  n  Berg, 
Maria  Spoor,  syn  h.    v. 

Cornells  Woertendyk, 
Janneke  Peers,    syn   h. 

V. 

Jacobus  Goelet  de  oiide 
Jannetje  Coesaart,  syn 
h.  V. 


i 


I  c  2     Records   of  the   Reformed  Dulch    Church    in   New  York.       [Oct. , 


A°    I73I.  OUDERS. 

d".  Liicas    Braisjer,    Jii- 

dith  Gaserie. 

d°.  P  i  e  t  e  r    Van    Dyk, 

Cornelia  Varik. 

d°.  Johannes      Roorbag, 

Sophia  Graii. 

Febr  :  7.  Barent  de  Foreest, 
Elisabet  Verduyn. 

Johannes  Ten  Eyck, 
Antje  Drinkwater. 

T  i  m  o  t  h  e  li  s  Lero, 
Maria  Moor. 

Johannes     Peek, 
Tryntje  H  el  lake. 
d°.        14.   Pet r lis  Montagne, 
Jannetje  Dyer. 

Johannes  R  o  m  m  e , 

Elisabet  Ten  Eyck. 
Michiel   Cornelis,    z. 

Elisabet  Dii  Foir. 
Abraham  Kip,  Maria 

Van  den  Berg. 
David    Van    Gelder, 

Elisabet  Va  n  d  e  r 

Beek. 

Philip  Jong,  Evan 

Thysen. 
F  r  e  d  e  r  i  k  Sebring, 

Marytje  Provoost. 
Jan      S  c  h  o  li  t  e  n 

T  h  o  m  a  s  ,  z.  Ag- 

nietje  Ben  net. 
Isaak    Braisjer,     Jan- 

netje  Dii  Foiir. 
d°.        17.   Jan  Persell,  Lea  Van 

Alst. 
d°.        26.    Daniel     Bonnet, 

Pieternel  Van    De 

Water. 

[508.] 

d°.        26.   JanBogert,  Antje 
Peek. 

Nicokias  Antony, 
Rebecca  Jacobse. 


KINDERS. 

Susanna. 


Maria. 

Abraham. 

Cornelis. 

Herciilius. 

Maria. 

Abraham, 

Vincent. 

Cornelis. 
Theiinis. 
Isaak. 
Aafje. 

Catharina. 

Frederik. 

Femmetje. 

Isaak. 

Annaatje. 

Jannetje. 

Rachel. 
Johannes. 


GETUYGEN. 

Allert  Anthony,  Su- 
sanna     Laiirier,       syn 

h.  V. 
Richard  Kip,  Rachel  Van 

Dyk. 
Johannes  Sebring,  Rachel 

Hibon,  syn  h.  v. 
Hendrik  Bogard,  Teuntje 

Tietsoort,     h.     v.    Van 

Jesse  de  Foreest. 
Hendrik  Ten  Evck,   jong 

m",  Wyntje  Ten  Eyck, 

VVed^ 
Arie   Coning,    Rachel 

Peek,  syn  h.  v. 
Jacob    Goelet,    Catharina 

Boelen,  syn  h.  v. 
Geurt  Benneway,    Pieter- 

nella    Montagne,   s.  h. 

V. 

Cornelis  Romme,  Maria 
Kierstede,  syn  h.  v. 

John  Wels,  Dina  Wels, 
syn  h.  V. 

Isaak  Kip,  Senior,  Maria 
Vanden  Berg,  Wed^ 

Johannes  Van  Gelder, 
Catharina  Van  Gelder, 
h.  V. ,  Van  James 
Boesy. 

Christiaan  Stauber,  Catha- 
rina Lesler. 

Jacob  Sobering,  Rachel 
Sobering. 

Wilhelmns  Ben  net,  Fem- 
metje Ben  net. 

Gysbert  Bogert,    Elisabet 

De  Voor. 
John    de   Vine,   Annaatje 

Persell,  syn  h.  v. 
James  Quik,  Jeane  Terjay. 


Arie  Coning,  Cornelia 
Verduyn,  h.  v.  Van 
Corii  Bogert. 

Jan  Jacobse,  Harmpje 
Coek,  syn  h.  v. 


1890.]     Records    of  the    Reformed   Dutch    Church    in    A'lw    Fork.       j  c 


A"    I73I.  OUDERS. 

d°.        28.    Abraham    P  i  e  t  r  o  , 
Marytje  Vreelant. 

Maart    5.   Stephen     Ba5'ard, 
Alida  Vetch. 


KINDERS. 

Martha. 


Stephen. 


d°. 


d°. 

d°. 
d". 

d°. 


14. 


17- 


20. 


D°    Henricus 
E  Iseb  e  t 
Home. 


Boel, 
Van 


Jacob  Goelet,  Catha- 
rina  Boelen. 

Cornells  C  1  o  p  p  e  r  , 
Catharina  Greven- 
raat. 

Elbert  H  a  e  r  i  ng  , 
Catharina  Lent. 


Elisabeth. 
1 73  I  geboren 
den  16  Febr  : 
gestorven  den 
3  Octob  :  N. 
St.     int     Jaar 

1752. 
Abraham. 


GETUYGEN. 

Martinus     Cregier,      An- 

naatje     Cregier,     h     v. 

Van  Victor  Bikker. 
Philip  Livingston,  Robert 

Livingston,  Judith  Van 

Dam. 
Cornells  Van    Home 

Gerrits,     z. ,    Catharina 

Van     Home,     h .   v. 

Van   D^  Archibald 

Fisher. 


Cornelia. 


Margrietje. 


Johannes      Hofman,      Johannes. 

Margrietje  Anhuyse. 
Henry    Foeler,    Sara     Debora. 

Bosch. 
Johan      W  i  1  h  e  1  m     Jacobus. 

Altgeldt,      Anna     - 

Maria  Ernstyn. 
Charl  e  s  Le  Roux,     Charles. 

Catharina   B  e  e  k  - 

man. 
Jan    Pieter     Zenger,     Evert. 

Catharina  Moulin. 
Petrus    Low,    Rachel     Cornells. 

Roosevelt. 


Jan  Van  Pelt,  Hille-     Johanna. 

gond     Bo  ek  e  n  - 

hoven. 
Nicolaas    Burger, 

Debora  Vlyden- 

burg. 
David  de  Voor,  Jan- 

netje  Montagne. 
Pieter  Pra  Van  Zandt, 

Sara  Willemse. 


Jannetje. 
Wynand. 


28.    Henricus    Bresteede, 
Geertje  Wessels. 


Henricus. 


Jan  Goelet,  Catharina 
Boelen,  h.  v.  Van 
Philip  Goelet. 

William  Hamersly,  Elisa- 
bet  Schuyler,  Wed^. 

Johannes  Qiiakkenbosch, 
Margrietje  Bogert,  syn 
h.  v. 

Johannes  Snoek,  Catha- 
rina Manderbag. 

Nicolaas  Roosevelt,  Elsje 
Bosch,  jonge  dochter. 

Jacobus  Pieter  Snyder, 
Maria  Elisabet  Haning. 

John  Spratt,  Geertruyd 
Le  Roux,  jonge  docht. 

Johannes  Roorbag,  Sophia 
Graii,  syn  h.  v. 

Cornells  Low,  senior, 
Margrietje  Van  Bus- 
sen,  s.  h.  V. 

Johannes  P  o  e  1  ,  Tietje 
Van  Pelt,    syn  moeder. 


Nicolaas.         James  Mundiin. 


Jacobus  Montange,  Maria 

Pell,  syn  h.  v. 
Wynand    Van     Zandt, 

Catharina  Ten   Eyck, 

syn   h.  V. 
Pieter  Masier,  Debora 

Bresteede,    h.    v.     Van 

And'  Bresteede. 


I  tr^     Records   of  the   Reforined  Dutch    Church    in   New    York.       [Oct., 


d°. 


A°    I73I.  OUDERS. 

April     4.   Johannes  C  r  egi  e  r, 
Anna  Naxsen. 
Laurens      Lammers, 
J  an  n  e  t  j  e  Mak- 
danel. 

[509-] 
d*.  7.   Roelof  "Van  Mepelen, 

Jannetje  Lamb. 
1 1.   Jan  Goelet,   Jannetje 

Cannon, 
Andries    Ba  r  h  e  i  t , 

Rachel  Hoist. 
Johannes  Van   Deur- 

sen,  Geeitje  Mint- 
horn. 
14.    Gerrit    Hennion, 

Marytje  Van  Vorst. 
Jacob    Brouwer,   Lea 

Slott. 
Jacobus   Rykman, 

Geertje  Ariaanse. 

Burgon  C  o  e  v  e  r  s  , 
Anna  Selover. 

I  sa  a  k  Chardovin, 
Anna  Caar. 

*  Aldert  Antony. 

18.   Johannes     Hendriks, 
z.,  Sara  Masier. 

*  Cornelius  G.  Van 
Home,  Joanna 
Livincfston. 


d°. 


d°. 

d°. 


19. 


Abraham  De  Peyster, 

Margareta  Van 

Cortland. 
Gerrit     Hassin,     En- 

geltje  Bulger. 
Gerrit    Van    Gelder, 

Anna  Quik. 


KINDERS. 

Thomas. 
Johannes. 


Alexander. 
Jannetje. 
Geertje. 
Hillegond. 

Cornells. 

Johannes. 

Jacobus. 

Daniel. 
Anna. 
Johannes. 
Abraham. 

Corneliis. 

Frederik. 

Johannes. 
Jacobus. 


Mav 


Gerrit  de  Fo  r  ee  St ,     Gerrit. 
Cornelia  V\'aldron. 

Paul  us   Hoppe,     Jacob. 
Marritje  Quakken- 
bosch. 

William   De  Peyster,      Johannes. 
Margareta    Roose- 
velt. 


GETUYGEN. 

Pieter  Naxsen,  Jenneke 
Cregier,  jonge  docht. 

Johannes  Symonse,  Jan- 
netje Makdanel. 


John  Galloway,  Annaatje 
Lamb,  syn  h.  v. 

Johannes  Burger,  Catha- 
rina  Cannon. 

Simon  Cregier,  Antje 
Van  Oort,  syn  h.  v. 

Philip  Min'thorn,  An- 
naatje Roll,  syn-  h.  v. 

Cornells   Van    Vorst, 

J^in^,  Claasje  de  Mott. 
Johannes  Pietersen,  Antje 

Tad  is. 
Samuel    Kip,     Senior, 

Margarietje      Rykman, 

s.  h.  V. 
Isaak  Van  Deiirsen,  Anna 

Van  Deursen,  s.  h.  v. 
Willem  Caar,  E  1  i  s ab  e  t 

Caar,  jonge  dochter. 
Nicolaas   Antony,   Re- 
becca, syn  h.  V. 
Pieter    Masier,     Maria 

Masier,      h.      v.      Van 

Sam  :   Pell. 
D^    Archibald   Fisher, 

Philip  Livingston, 

Catharina  Van   Home, 

h.  V.  Van   D^  Fisher. 
Pieter    Jay,  Francina  Jay, 

h.     V.     Van    Fr  :    Van 

Cortland. 
Mariniis    Echt,    Aaltje 

Hassin,  syn  h.  v. 
David  Van    Gelder, 

Neelije    Onkelbag,     h. 

v.     Van     Joh^     Van 

Gelder. 
Jan    Waldron,    Rachel 

Lefferts,  syn  h.  v. 
Jacob    Coning,   Klaasje 

Coning,  syn  h.  v. 

Jan  Roosevelt,  Anna  de 
Peyster,  \^'ed^ 


1S90. ]    Records    of  the    Reformed  Dutch    Church    in    New    York.        \cr 


A      I73I.  OUDERS, 

d°.  5.   T  i  m  o  th  eii  s  Tilly, 

Elisabet  Burger, 
Q°.         12.    Pieter  Van  Benthuy- 

sen,  M  a  r  g  r  i  e  t  j  e 

Olferts. 
Cornells  Van  Hoek, 

Jenneke  Bos. 

[510.] 
d°.        16.  Thomas       Dwait, 
Cathalyntje  Beddii. 
Johannes      Tevo, 
Bregje  Pels. 


d°. 


d°. 


d°. 


^Z- 


27. 


Samuel  Johnson  , 
Marytje  Van  Pelt. 

Laurens  Elbertse, 
Christina  Persel. 

Vincent  Bodyn, 
Hyla  Smith. 


juny 


d°. 


d°. 


30.    Wynand  Van   Zandt, 

Ca  t  h  a  r  i  n  a  Ten 

Eyck. 
4.    Thomas    T  o  n  g  , 

Catharina  Rutgers. 
Pieter  Bondt,  Junior, 

CatalyniJL'  Meyer. 
13.    Gysbert    Van     Deiir- 

stn,    Annetje  Ten 

Broek. 
23.   Hendrik    B  o  g  e  r  t , 

Cornelia     De 

Graauw. 
d°.         27.    H  e  n  d  r  ik  Antony, 

Eva  Fishjer. 

Alexander  B  li  Is  i  n  , 
Aafje  Wood. 

Jan  _Man,  Elisabet 
V^an  Deurssen. 

Marten   Bogert, 
Aaltje  Persel. 
4.  Jacobus  Davie,  Maria 

Filly. 

Harmanus  Rutgers, 
Jn^,  Elisabet  Ben- 
sen. 


July 


KINDERS.  GETUYGEN. 

Timotheiis.  Jacobiis  Davie,  Maria 
Tilly,  syn  !■.  v. 

Petriis.  Jacobus     I'lirk,     Maria 

Meyer,  syn  h,  v. 

Hendrikje.  Isaak  Van  Hoek,  Liister 
G  o  r  s  e  n  ,  h.  v.  Van 
Joh^  Symonsen. 

Dina.  Jan     Ellen,    Cornelia 

Beddii,  syn  h.  v. 
Johannes.        Abraham    Ten    Eyck, 

Marytje    Deblett,    h.    v. 

Van  J  oh*  Tevo,  senior. 
Antje.  David     Provoost,     Chris- 

tina Pra,  syn  h.  v. 
Aaltje.  Gerrit    Hyer,    Sara     Bos, 

syn  h.  v. 
Cornells.         Jacobus   Quik,    junior, 

Catalyntje    Stevens,     h. 

v.  Van  Jonas  Right. 
Wynand.         John    Lemontes,    Sara 

Willemse,     h.  v.     Van 

Pieter  Pra  Van  Zandt. 
Antony.  Pieter     Rutgers,     Helena 

Hoogeland,  s.  h.  v. 
Marcy,  Pieter    Bond,    Marcy 

Bond,  syn  h.  v. 
Aaltje.  Mattheus  Van   Deurssen, 

Aaltje    Van    Deurssen, 

Wed^ 
Gerrit.  Waller    de    Graauw, 

Marytje     Hyer,     h.     v. 

Van  Arent  Van  Hoek. 
Hendrica.       Abraham    Aalstyn, 

Marritjc      Aalstvn,      s. 

h.    V. 
Helena.  Hendrik  B  li  1  s  i  n  ,  Hyla 

Clopper,       jonge 

dochter. 
Sara.  Jan    Van     Deurssen, 

Lybetje    Burger,    h.    v. 

Van  Alexander  Phenix. 
Belitje.  Henry  Braisser,    Abigael 

Persel. 
Maria.  Josiia     Davie,       Maria 

Davie,    h.     v.     Van 

Pieter  Hibon. 
Robert.  Antony  Rutgers,  Cornelia 

Roos,  syn  h.  v. 


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J  ::5     Records   of  the   Reformed  Dtilch   Church    in  New    York.       [Oct,, 


A°    I'/ 31-  OUDERS. 

H  e  n  d  r  i  k   Van  de 
Water,     Anna 
Schilman. 
d°.  7.    Matthevis    Du    Bois, 

Debora  Sinkam. 

d°.        1 1 .  Jan      Roosevelt, 

Heyllje  Sjoerts. 


G  e  r  a  i"d  u  s  Harden- 

broek,    H  e  y  1 1  j  e 

Coely. 
F  r  e  d  e  r  i  k     Blom, 

Apolonia    Vieden- 

burg. 
14.   John    Elner,    Apolo- 

nie  Van  Aarnhem. 
18.    Nicolaas  Matthyssen, 

Maria  Lakerman. 


d°. 
d°. 

d°." 
d°. 
d°. 


[5II-] 


Jacob     Lory,     Maiia 
Van   der  Grist. 
25.   Benjamin    Jarvis, 

Maria  Coning. 
28.   Abraham       Van 
Gel  der,      Catalyna 
Vander  Beek. 
Willem    Smith, 
Gerritje  Bosch. 


Aiig  :     I.   Abraham  Van  Vlek, 
Maria  Kip. 

d°.  8.    H  e  n  d  r  i  k        Van 

Winkel,   Catharina 

Waldron. 
Willem  Roome,  Sara 

Tiirk. 
Johannes  B  o  e  k  e  n  - 

hoven  E  1  i  s  a  b  e  t 

Van  Gelder. 
Johannes     Webbers, 

Anna     Van    Nor- 

den. 
d°.        II.   Johannes        Laiirier, 

Catharina  Bancker. 
d°.        1 5.  S  a  m  li  e  1  Lawrence, 

A  n  n  a  a  t  j  e    Van 

Ti'iyl. 
d°.        22.   Abel    Hardenbroek, 

Annetje  Elsworth. 


KINDERS.  GETUYGEN. 

Thomas.  Daniel   Bonnet,   Petro- 

nella  Van  de  Water. 

David.  Johannes   Ten    Broek, 

Maria  Ten  B  r  o  e  k  , 
jonge  dochter. 

Cornells.  Nicolaas      Roosevelt, 

H  i  1  le t j  e  Roosevelt, 
jonge  docht. 

Gerardiis.  Theodoriis  Hardenbroek, 
Maria  Hardenbroek. 

Frederik.  Jan  Blom,  Marytje  Vre- 
denburg. 

Abraham.  Jan  Van  Aarnem,  Sara 
Van  Aarnem. 

Benjamin.  Nicolaas  M  a  tt  h  ysse  n, 
Barbara  Bogardiis. 

Jacob.  Jan  Abramse. 

Arie.  Arie   Coning,    Rachel 

Peek,  syn  h.  v. 

Catalyna.  Gerret  Van  Gelder,  Elisa- 
bet  Van  Gelder. 

Anneke.  Johannes  Abrahamse, 

Elisabeth    Bosch,     syn 

h.  V. 
Cornelia.         Johannes    Vander    Heiil, 

Catlyntje  de    Hart,     h. 

V.  Van  Jacobus    Qiiik. 
Joseph.  Joseph  Waldron,  Jannetje 

Waldron,    h.     v.      Van 

Hendr  :  Boelen. 
Jacob.  Johannes    INIarschalk, 

Maria  Meyer. 
Stephanus.      Cornells  Van  Gelder, 

Anna  Boekenhoven. 

Olferl.  Wolfert  Webbers,  Grietje, 

syn  h.  v. 

Jannetje.  Johannes  Bandt,  Geertje 
Vander  Haan. 

Catharina.  John  Crieger,  Rachel 
Lawrens,  jonge  docht. 

Nelletje.  Theophilus  Elsworth, 

Johanna  Hardenbroek, 
s.  h.  v. 


1890.]     Records   of  the   Reformed  Dutch    Chtirch    in    New    .Vor/^.       j  cy 


A°    I73I.  OUDERS. 

d°.        27.    Francis    Warne,    Eva 
Egt. 
Willem     Takker, 
Maria  Brouwer. 
d°.        29.   Willem    Persman, 
Justina  Lie. 

Sept:     3.   John     Lake,     Calha- 
rina  Bensen. 
Johannes  Groesbeek, 
Anna  Bajeux. 

d°.  5.    Philip    Melsbag:, 

Catharina  Clouryn. 

d°.        12.    Gerardiis     Duyking, 

Johanna     Van 

Brugh. 

Antony  Waldorf, 

Maria  Kil. 
Lsaak    Boke,    Bregje 
Romme. 
d°,        15.   Jan  Jacobs,  Harmpje 
Koek, 
Richard       Norwood, 
]\Iaria  Cool. 

1512.] 

d".        19.    Henriciis      Cavelier, 
Helena  Burger. 

Johannes     Dii    Bois, 
Helena  Bayard. 


KINDERS. 

Willem. 
Willem. 
Wil  helm  lis. 

Johannes. 
Elisabet. 

Philippiis. 
Vanbrugh. 

Johannes. 
Johannes. 
Dirk. 
Andrew. 

Jannetje. 
Petrus. 


An  dries       Breestede, 

Pieter. 

Debora  Wessels. 

26. 

Willem      Crolliiis, 
Veronica  Corse- 
lius. 

Willem. 

Adam  Vanden  Berg, 

Cornells. 

Maria  Spoor. 

Thomas     Windover, 

Johannes. 

Elisabet    Elze- 

worth. 

29. 

Abraham  F  i  1  k  e  n  s  , 
Pryntje  Tiebout. 

IMagdalena 

3- 

Isaac        Hennion, 
Lena  Stymets. 

Catharina. 

Pieter  Ament,  Elisa- 

Johannes. 

Oct 

Pi 

bet  Tienhoven. 


GETUYGEN. 

Abraham     Egt,     Marriije 

Egt,  Wed^ 
Mansfield  Takker,   Maria 

Fokke,  syn  h.  v. 
Victor  Bikker,  Justina 

Witvelt,      h.     V.      Van 

James  Lie. 
Henricus  Bensen,  Claasje 

Bensen. 
Benjamin  D'Harriette, 

Maria     Bajeu.x,     jonge 

docht'. 
Philip  Jong,  Anna  Maria 

Stoiiert. 
David  Van  Brugh,  Catha- 
rina Van  Brugh,   h.  v. 

Van  John  Noble. 
Johannes  Hofman,  Geer- 

truyd  Sols. 
A  a  r  n  o  li  t  Romme,   Ja- 

comyntje  Harsink. 
Dirk  Koek,  Susanna,   syn 

h.  V. 
Miljora  Norwood,    h.    v. 

Van  Antony  Luiirs. 


Johannnes  Burger,  Jan- 
netje Brcuwer,   syn 

h.     V. 

D°  GQaltheriis  Du    Bois, 

Rachel  Van  Balen,    h. 

V.   Van    Henry    Wille- 

man. 
Pieter  Wessels,  Anna 

Wessels,  jong  docht. 
Willem    Corselius,    Anna 

Maria  Altgelt. 

Willem  Gilbert,  Fem- 
metje  Remsen. 

Hercules  Windover, 
Maria  Pietersen,  svn 
h.  V. 

Cornelis  Qiiakkenbosch, 
Cornelia  Lametre,  syn 
h.  V. 

Gerardus  Comfort,  Catha- 
rina Hennion,    s.   h.  v. 

Andries    Barheit,    Rachel 

Hoist,  syn  h.  v. 


1 58     Records   of  the   Reformed  Dutch    Church   in    Ntw    Vorft.      [Oct., 


A'    I73I.  OUDERS. 

6.  John  INIaishal],  Elsje 

Rutgers. 
Johannes  Van  Wyk, 

Johanna  Bed  u  e  , 

obeit. 
G  e  u  r  t     Bennewee, 

Pieternel     M  o  n  - 

tagne. 
17.    Laurens     Lammerse, 

Lea  Bras. 
Evert  Bvvank,  Maria 

Cannon. 

24.   Gideon  Lynsen,  Jan- 
netje  Hern's. 
Willem  Leaton,  ^lar- 
grietje  Ketelhu\^n. 
27.   William   Broune, 
Hanna  Bours. 
Nov  :    3.   Xicolaas       Dykman, 
Anneke   Seven- 
hove. 

7.  Jan    Willemse,    Jan- 

netje  Vandewater. 

J  oris     Brinckerhof, 
Elisabet  Bvvank. 
10.   David     W'"".     Pro- 
voost,     Anneke 
Vandewater. 

Johannes  Van  So- 
1  i  n  g  e  n  Annaatje 
Marcelisse. 


KINDERS.  GETUVGEN. 

Anna  Maria.    Harmaniis     Rutgers, 

Anna  Maria  Burck. 
Johanna.         Jan  Ellin,  Cornelia  Bedue. 


[513-] 


17- 


Josiia   Sledel,    Elisa- 
bet Jansen. 

David  Schuyler, 
Elisabet  Mar- 
schalk. 

Jacobus  Kip,  Catha- 
rina  Kip. 

Andrew  Mansfiel, 
Elisabet  Thomsen. 

Isaak  Van  H  o  e  k  , 
Aafje  Van  Schaik. 


26.  J  il  1  e  s  Mandeviel, 
Rachel  Hoppe. 

28.  Jan  de  Wit  Pietersen, 
Anna  Van  Horn. 


Petriis. 

Simeon. 
Johannes 

]\Iaria. 

David. 

Maria. 

nietge  doopt. 
Anneke. 

Frederik. 

Eiisabet. 
Willem. 

Marcelis. 

Jan. 
Catalyntje. 

Samuel. 

Johannes. 

Johanna. 

Maria. 
Pieter. 


Petriis  INIontagne,  Anna 
Moor. 

Pieter  Lammerse,  Marytje, 
s\'n  h.  V. 

Joris  Brinckerhof,  Jan- 
netje  Cannon,  h.  v. 
Van  Jan  Goelet. 

Jan  Herris,  junior,  Elisa- 
bet Herris,  Jong  d"". 

Jan  Leaton,  Elisabet  Lea- 
ton. 

Edward  Anderson,  Elisa- 
bet Wood. 

Dirk  Vander  Haan, 
Geerlje  Dykman,  syn 
h.  V. 

Frederik  Willemse, 
Maria  Waldron,  syn 
h.  V. 

Abraham  Lefferts,  Sara 
Hoogland,  syn  h.  v. 

Willem  Provoost,  Cor- 
nelia Provoost,  jong  d'. 

Elisabet  Wanshaar,  Jo- 
hannes Wanshaar. 


Jan  Jansen,  ]Marytje  Jan- 
sen. 

Igenas  DuMont,  Teuntje 
Marschalk. 

Abraham    Van    Vlek, 

j\Iaria  Kip,  s.  h.  v. 
Pieter    H  i  b  o  n  ,     Maria 

Davie,  syn  h.  v. 
Benjamin     Herrin,     Jen- 

neke  Bosch,  h.  v.  Van 

Cornells  Van  Hoek. 
David  Mandeviel,  Marritje 

Van  Hoesen,  s.  h.  v. 
Cornelis  G.  Van    Home, 

Johanna       Livingston, 

s.  h.  v. 


1890.]  Capt.  Alexander  Forbes   and  his   Descendants.  j -q 

CAPT.   ALEXANDER  FORBES  AND  HIS  DESCENDANTS. 


Bv  Edmund  Janes  Cleveland,  of  Hae.tford.  Conn. 


Sir  Alexander  Forbes,  of  Pitslign,  Co.  Aberdeen,  Scoi.-^r.r.  fourth 
Lord  Forbes,  b.  1668,  d.  1742  (the  original  of  "'Baron  Bradwardine, "  a 
brave  and  gallant,  but  pedantic  character  in  Scof/'s  Waver/ey).  ancestor  of 
George-Arthur-Hastings-Foibes,  Earl  of  Granard  and  a  Baronet  of  Neva 
Scotia. 

Arms  :  Azure,  three  bears'  heads  couped  argent,  muzzled  gules. 
Crest :  A  stag's  head  attired  proper.  Supporters  :  Two  greyhounds 
argent,  collared  gules.     Motto  :  Grace  me  guide. 

Sir  Alexander  Forbes  was  ancestor  also  of  Capt.  Alexander  Forbes  and 
of  John  Forbes,  of  Deskrie,  Scotland,  whose  son  John,  of  St.  Augustine, 
Fia.,  was  father  of  Ralph  B.  Forbes,  b.  in  Milton,  Mass.,  June  11,  1773, 
of  New  York  City.  The  family  originated  from  the  family  of  Dauch,  and 
was  of  the  familv  of  Newe  and  Eding  lassie. 


Capt.  Alexander  Forbes,  b.  about  1720,  of  Scotland,  an  officer  of 
the  British  Army,  came  to  Long  Island,  where  he  m.  Abigail  Lawrence,* 
daughter  of  William  Lawrence,  of  Newtown,  L.  I.,  N.  Y.,  and  had  issue  : 

2  Alexander. 


Capt.  Alexander  Forbes,  son  of  i  Capt.  Alexander  Forbes  and  Abi- 
gail Lawrence,  of  England,  also  an  officer  of  the  British  Army.  He  was 
aided  in  promotion  by  his  friend  General  Cleveland,  t  of  the  British  Army. 

*  Her  brother  Joseph  Lawrence  m.  Mar\-  Townley,  of  Elizabethtown,  Essex  Co. 
(now  Elizabeth,  tnion  Co.),  X.  J.,  one  of  the  heirs  to  the  celebrated  Townley 
estate  in  England.  Sir  Robert  Laurens,  or  Lawrence,  of  Ashton  Hall,  Co.  Lan- 
caster, Eng. ,  accompanied  Richard  CcEur  de  Lion  to  Palestine,  II91,  his  son  m. 
Mar)%  daughter  of  Ranulphus  Trafford,  of  Lancashire. 

Arms:  Ar.  a  cross  raguly  gu.  Crest:  A  denii-turbot  ar.  tail  upwards,  blotto: — 
Quxro  invenio. 

The  arms  appear  on  plate,  and  on  the  seals  of  wills  now  on  file  in  New  York 
City,  and  it  is  therefore  evident  that  he  is  ancestor  of  John,  William,  and  Thomas 
Lawrence,  brothers,  settlers  of  Newtown,  L.  I.,  1644-56.    Sz:s  Rikc-r's  \c'ctozcn,  2S1. 

+  Was  this  Lieut. -Col.  Samuel  Cleveland,  Fourth  Batt.  Royal  Artil.?  He  was 
entitled  to  5.000  acres  in  X.  Y.  by  virtue  of  His  Majesty's  proclamaiion  of  Oct.  7. 
1763 — OJiie  of  Sccrctan'  of  Stale  of  X.  Y.,  Vol.  XX JI.,  259:  and  was  he  the  Cien. 
Cleveland  who  figured  in  the  historj*  of  the  Battle  of  Bunker  Hill.  June  7.  1775?  Ac- 
cording to  the  following  account  in  Everett's  Li  fe  of  Joseph  Warren  in  Sparks^  Ameriean 
Biog.  X.  153  :  Immediately  after  they  [the  British]  had  landed  [at  Morton's  Point]  it 
was  discovered  that  most  of  the  cannon  balls  which  had  been  brought  over  were  too 
lafge  for  the  pieces,  and  that  it  was  necessary  to  obtain  a  fresh  supply.  "This 
wretched  blunder  of  oversized  balls,"  says  a  British  writer  of  the  day,  "arose  from 
the  dotage  of  an  officer  of  high  rank,  who  spends  all  his  time  with  the  schoolmaster's 
daughters."  It  seems  that  Gen.  Cleveland,  "  who,"'  as  the  same  author  says, 
"  though  no  Sampson,  must  have  his  Delilah."  was  enamored  of  the  beautiful  daugh- 
ter of  Master  Lovell,  and.  in  order  to  win  favor  with  the  damsel,  had  given  her  young 
brother  an  appointment  in  the  ordnance  department,  for  which  he  was  not  qualified. 
The  accident,  to  whatever  cause  it  may  have  been  owing,  created  delay,  and  some- 
what diminished  the  British  fire  during  the  first  two  attacks. 


l6o  Capt.   Alexa?ider   Forbes   and  his   Descendajits.  [Oct., 

and  in  courtesy  named  his  first  son  in  honor  of  the  general  ;  rn.  Miss 
Susannah  Gifford,  of  Newark,  N.  J.      By  this  marriage  there  was  issue  : 

3  Cleaveland  Alexander. 

4  Thomas,  settled  in  Perth  Amboy,  Middlesex  Co.,  N.  J. 

5  Joseph,  settled  at  Perth  Amboy,  N.  J. 

6  Maria  Susannah. 

7  Sarah,  d.  ;   m.  Daniel  Okie,   of  Leeds,  Yorkshire,  Eng.,  and  had 

issue:  (i. )  William,  of  New  York  City;  (ii. )  Daniel;  (iii.) 
Alexander;  (iv. )  Augustus;  (v.)  John;  (vi.)  Maria;  (vii.) 
Sarah;    (viii. )  Elizabeth. 


Capt.    Cleaveland  Alexander   Forbes,  son  of  (2)  Capt.  Alexander 
Forbes  and  Susannah  Gifford,  became  a  captain  in  the  American  mercan- 
tile marine,   and  settled  in  Perth  Amboy,   N.  J.  ;    m.    Susan  Foster,   of 
Piscataway,  N.  J.,  and  had  issue  : 
Mary,  d.  in  infancy. 

8  Susan,  d.  intestate. 

9  Maria,  unm. 

10  Sarah,  d.  intestate. 

11  Alexander,  d.  intestate;  settled  in  Perth  Amboy. 

12  Kate,  ni.  John  Morris,  and  has  had  issue  :    (i.)  John  ;    (ii. )   Su- 

sannah ;     (iii.)    Thomas;    (iv.)   Catherine;    (v.)   Mary. 

13  Anna,  m.  James  Parker,  Jr.,  now  Judge  Parker,  residing  in  Cin- 

cinnati, O.,  son  of  James  Parker,  Sr. ,  of  Perth  Amboy,  and 
brother  of  Hon.  Cortlandt  Parker,  of  Newark.  By  this  mar- 
riage there  was  issue  :  (i.)  James  ;  (ii.)  Cleveland  Alexander  ; 
(iii.)  Cortlandt  Forbes;  (iv. )  Penelope;  (v.)  Gifford;  (vi.) 
Anna  P'orbes  ;  m.  in  Bay  Ridge,  L.  I.,  N.  Y.,  April  8,  1868, 
(see  49)  Cleveland  Forbes  Dunderdale  ;  (vii.)  Louise  ;  (viii.) 
Susan  ;   (ix.)   Sarah  ;   (x.)   Margaret. 

14  Louise,  d.  ;  m.,  and  was  the  first  wife  of  W.  H.  Benton,  and  had 

issue:    (i.)   Louise;    (ii.)  William. 

15  Elizabeth,   m.,   and  was  the  second  wife  of  W.  H.  Benton,  and 

had  issue:   (i.)  Cleaveland  Forbes  ;    (ii.)  Susannah. 

16  Cleaveland. 

17  John,  d.  intestate. 

18  Thomas,  m.,  and  resided  in  Perth  Amboy,  N.  J. 

19  Joseph  Dunderdale. 

20  Gifford. 

2 1  Andrew  Bell. 

Joseph  Dunderdale,  b.  in  Leeds,  Yorkshire,  Eng.,  resided  and  d. 
there  ;  m.  in  Yorkshire,  Eng.,  (6)  Maria  Susannah  Forbes,  daughter  of 
(2)  Capt.  Alexander  Forbes  and  Susannah  Gifford,  and  had  issue,  all  b. 
in  Leeds,  Yorkshire  : 

22  John,  b.  1805. 

23  Sarah,  d.  intestate. 

24  Mary,  m.  John  Robinson,  of  England,  and  is  now  a  widow. 

25  Joseph,  d.  intestate. 

26  Forbes,  m.  Elizabeth  Booth,  of  Connecticut,  and  has  had  issue  : 

(i.)   Mary;    (ii.)  Forbes;    (iii.)  Maria. 


1890.]  Capt.   Alexander   Forbes   and  his   Descendants.  l5l 

27  Cleavelaxd  Alexander,  d.  intestate. 

28  Susannah   Bell,  m.  Benjamin  C.  Townsend,  and   has   had  issue  : 

(i. )   Forbes;    (ii.)  Charlotte;    (iii.)   William;    (iv. )   Lawrence. 

16. 

Cleaveland  Forbes,  son  of  {3)  Capt.  Cleaveland  Alexander  Forbes 
and  Susan  Foster  ;    m.  Mary  MacKinney  of  England,  and  has  had  issue  : 

29  Cleaveland  Alexander. 

30  Charles  Seymour. 

31  Louise  Benton. 

32  William  Aspinwall. 

19. 

Joseph  Dunderdale  Forbes,  son  of  (3)  Capt.  Cleaveland  Alexander 
Forbes  and  Susan  Foster;  resided  at  Perth  Amboy,  N.  J.;  in.  and  has 
had  issue  : 

33  Reginald. 

34  William. 

35  Jl^'LIA. 

36  Florence. 

37  Henry. 

20. 

GiFFORD  Forbes,  son  of  (3)  Capt.  Cleaveland  Alexander  Forbes  and 
Susan  Foster  ;  m.  and  had  issue  : 

38  Edward,  d.  prior  to  1881. 

39  GiFFORD,  d.  prior  to  1881. 

21. 

Andrew  Bell  Forbes,  son  of  (3)  Capt.  Cleaveland  Alexander  Forbes 
and  Susan  Foster;  m.  Catharine  Thompson,  of  Bordentown,  Burlington 
County,  N.  J.,  and  has  had  issue  : 

40  Stanley. 

41  Cleaveland  Alexander. 

42  Florence. 

43  Catherine. 

44  Angeline. 

22. 

John  Dunderdale,  b.  in  Leeds,  Yorkshire,  Eng.,  1805  ;  d.  in  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y.,  1872,  son  of  Joseph  Dunderdale  and  (4)  Maria  Susannah 
Forbes  ;  came  to  America  at  the  age  of  21  years  ;  m.  in  New  York  city, 
1833,  Emily  Hewitt,  b.  at  Thorpe  Hall,  Chester  (near  Liverpool),  Eng., 
1807  ;  daughter  of  Thomas  Hewitt,  of  Thorpe  Hall  and  New  York  city, 
and  who  is  buried  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.  By  this  marriage  there  was 
issue  : 

John,  b.  in  New  York  city,  d.  in  infancy. 

45  Emily,  b.  in  New  York  city  ;  unm. 

46  Rosalie,  b.    in   New  York  city  ;  m.  Owen  A.  Gill  and  has  issue  : 

(i.)  Rosalie. 

47  Frederick,  b.  in   New  York   city,  1837  ;  ir-   Emma  Gill  and  has 

issue  :   (i. )  Frederick. 


1 62  The   Negro   Phi  of  171 2.  [Oct., 

48  TosEPKiNE,  b.  in  New  York  cil}' ;  d.  there  ;  m.  Duncan  McGregor 

and  had  issue  :  (i.)   Duncan  ;   (ii.)  Robert  Roy. 

49  Cleaveland  Forbes,  b.  in  Richmond,  Va.,  Sept.  14,  1842,     Mr. 

Cleaveland  F.  Dunderdale,  civil  and  mechanical  engineer,  is 
general  manager  and  secretary  of  the  Dunderdale  Portland 
Cement  Company  of  New  York  city  resides  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  ; 
m.  in  Bay  Ridge,  Kings  Co.,  N.  Y.,  April  8,  1868,  .■\nna  Forbes 
Parker,  daughter  of  Judge  James  Parker,  Jr.,  and  (13)  Anna 
Forbes.  By  this  marriage  there  has  been  issue  :  (i. )  Cleaveland 
Forbes,  b.  in  Brooklyn,  Dec.  24,  1869  ;  (ii.)  Anna,  b.  in  Brook- 
lyn, 1871  ;  (iii.)  Philip,  b.  in  Brooklyn,  1873  5  (^^O  Grace,  b. 
in  Brooklyn,  1875  !   (^0  Beatrice,  b.  in  Kingston,  N.  Y,,   1879. 

50  Robinson,  b.  in  Richmond,  Va.,  1844  ;   was  lost  at  sea  in  a  storm 
many  years  ago. 


THE   NEGRO   PLOT   OF    171 2. 


Communicated  by  Chaplain  Roswell  Randall  Hoes,  U.S.N. 


It  has  always  been  a  source  of  regret  to  the  local  historians  and  anti- 
quaries of  New  York  that  so  little  original  material  exists  relating  to  the 
"Negro  Plot  of  1712."  The  details  of  the  Negro  Plot  of  1741  have 
come  down  to  us  in  the  publication  of  the  original  trial  of  the  conspira- 
tors, prepared  by  Daniel  Horsmanden,  one  of  the  presiding  judges,  and 
printed  in  1744  and  again  in  18 10,  but  the  history  of  the  bloody  plot  of 
1 71 2  and  its  incidents  has  never  been  fully  written.  Tlie  following 
extract  from  a  contemporary  letter  furnishes  many  curious  and  interesting 
facts  never  before  published.  The  letter  is  dated  the  23d  of  June,  171 2, 
and  was  written  by  the  Rev.  John  Sharpe,  chaplain  of  the  English  garri- 
son in  New  York,  to  the  secretary  of  the  venerable  "Society  for  the 
Propagation  of  the  Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts,"  from  whose  archives  in 
London  it  was  copied  by  the  subscriber  in  January,   1887. 

Mr.  Neau,  to  whom  repeated  reference  is  made,  will  be  recognized  as 
the  persecuted  Huguenot  galley-slave  of  the  days  of  Louis  XIV.,  and 
subsequently  the  devoted  catechist  of  Trinity  Church,  whose  well-known 
school  for  negroes  and  Indians  forms  one  of  the  most  prominent  features 
of  the  ecclesiastical  history  of  New  York  in  those  early  days. 

R.    R.    H. 

"  By  the  Clergys  Address  you  will  see  what  new  Obstacles  are  in  y^  way 
of  converting  the  Heathen,  and  tho'  it  has  given  y^  greatest  offence,  I 
hope  it  may  be  at  least  for  y^  advancement  of  v"  good  work.  Some 
Negro  Slaves  here  of  y®  Nations  of  Carmantee  &  Pappa  plotted  to  destroy 
all  the  White [s]  in  order  to  obtain  their  freedom  and  kept  their  Conspir- 
acy [so]  Secret  that  there  was  not  the  least  Suspicion  of  it,  (as  formerly 
there  had  often  been)  till  it  come  to  the  Execution.  It  was  agreed  to  on 
New  Years  Day  the  Conspirators  tying  themselves  to  Secrecy  by  Sucking 
y*  blood  of  each  Others  hands,  and  to  make  them  invulnerable  as  they 
believed  a  free  negroe  who  pretends  Sorcery  gave  them  a  powder  to  rub  on 
their  Cloths  which  made  them  so  confident  that  on  Sunday  night  Apr.  i 


1890.]  The   Negro    Plot  of  \']\2.  j5 


J 


ab'  3  a  Clock  about  the  going  down  of  the  Moon  they  Set  fire  to  a  house 
which  allarming  the  town  they  stood  in  the  Streets  and  Shot  down  & 
Stabbed  as  many  as  they  could,  till  a  great  Gun  from  the  Fort  called  up 
the  Inhabitants  in  arms  who  soon  Scatter'd  them  they  murdered  about  8 
and  wounded  about  12  more  who  are  since  recovered  some  of  them  in 
their  flight  shot  themselves,  one  shot  first  his  wife  and  then  himself  and 
some  who  had  hid  themselves  in  Town  when  they  went  to  Apprehend 
them  Cut  their  own  throats  many  were  Convicted  and  ab'  18  have  Suff'er'd 
death,  this  barbarous  Conspiracy  of  the  Negros  w'^^  was  first  thought  to 
be  general  open'^  the  mouths  of  many  ag'  Negroes  being  made  Christians 
M'  Neau  durst  hardly  appear  his  School  was  blaimed  as  y"  main  Occation 
of  it,  and  a  Petition  had  like  to  have  been  presented  if  y^  Govern"'  had  not 
Stood  to  his  Cause.  Amongst  all  those  that  Sufterd  there  were  but  two, 
that  had  been  of  his  School  one  of  w*"''  only  was  baptized  and  he  was 
Condemned  on  Slender  Evidence  in  )^  heat  of  y*  Peoples  resentment  I 
saw  him  Suffer  and  heard  him  declare  his  Innocency  w*  his  dying  breath, 
and  then  but  too  late  for  him  he  was  pitied  and  proclaimed  Innocent  by 
y^  Generality  of  y^  People.  I'he  other  of  the  Catachumens  was  Slave  to 
an  Eminent  Merch'  one  Hendrich  Hooghlandt  who  was  murdered,  he 
had  for  two  Years  Solicited  his  master  for  leave  to  be  baptized  but  could 
not  obtain  it,  he  was  certainly  in  y*  Conspiracy  but  was  hanged  in  Chains 
for  the  murder  of  his  Master,  after  his  hanging  three  days  I  went  to  him 
and  exhorted  him  to  Confession,  he  said  he  knew  of  y*'  Conspiracy  but  was 
not  guilty  of  any  bloodshed  in  the  tumult.  The  cry  ag'  Catechising  ye 
negros  continued  till  upon  Conviction  they  were  found  to  be  such  as 
never  frequented  M''  Neau's  School,  and  what  is  very  observable  the 
Persons  whose  Negroes  have  been  found  guilty  are  such  as  are  declared 
opposers  of  Christianizing  Negroes.  The  Spanish  Indians  were  at  first 
most  Suspected  as  having  most  understanding  to  carry  on  a  plot  and 
being  Christians  There  was  no  evidence  against  any  but  two  and  that 
was  presumptive,  however  they  were  Condemned  I  visited  them  in  Prison 
and  went  with  them  to  the  Gallows  where  after  they  were  tyed  up  they 
declared  their  Innocency  of  what  was  laid  to  their  Charge  and  behaved 
themselves  as  became  Christians,  while  I  was  at  prayers  with  them  Inter- 
est was  made  with  the  Governour  for  their  Reprieve.  Upon  the  Whole 
as  )^  Christian  Religion  has  been  much  Blasphemed,  and  the  Society's 
pious  design  has  been  much  obstructed,  by  this  bloody  Attempt  of  y^ 
Negroes.  I  am  hopefull  that  both  shall  be  promoted  since  it  appears  on 
iryall  that  those  are  Innocent,  who  have  been  Seasoned  with  Principles  of 
Religion  and  there  are  but  a  Small  Number  that  come  to  School  in  Com- 
parison of  the  many  hundreds  that  are  in  this  place.  I  believe  not  above 
v^  tentii. 


164  The    Vredenhurgh   Family  of  Ulster   Co.,  N.   Y.  [Oct., 

EARLY   SETTLERS    OF   ULSTER   CO.,  N.  Y.— THE    VREDEN- 
BURGIi  FAMILY— TWO  GENERATIONS. 


By  Gerrit  H.  Van  Wagenen. 


(Compiled  from  the  Church  Records  of  New  York,  Kingston,  and  Rhinebeck.) 

WillemIsaacszen  Vredenburg  or  Van  Vredenburgh,  from  the  Hague, 
arrived  in  New  Amsterdam,  May,  1658,  in  ship  Gilded  Beaver  (Recorp, 
Vol.  XV,,  p.  75).  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  service  of  the  Dutch  West  India 
Co.,  as  shown  by  a  petition,  June  16,  1661,  of  William  Van  Vredenburg 
and  Cornelis  Andriessen  Hoogland,  discharged  soldiers,  for  a  remission  of 
the  prices  of  their  passage  money  to  this  country  (Col.  Dutch  MSS.  p. 
225).  Oct.  19,  1664,  "  Willem  Isaacszen  Vredenburg,"  Uytten  Hage 
(From  the  Hague),  and  Apollonia  Barents,  Uyt.  N.  Nederlandt,  were 
married  in  the  Dutch  Ch.,  New  Amsterdam.  She  was  bp.  in  New  Am- 
sterdam Jan.  29,  1645,  ^'^d  was  the  daughter  of  Barent  Jacobszen  (Cool) 
and  Marritie  Leenderts. 

We  learn  from  the  Colonial  Documents  that  in  1673  William  Van 
Vredenburg  was  living  under  the  walls  of  Fort  William  Hendrick  and  the 
new  fortifications  of  New  Orange.  It  having  become  necessary  to  remove 
the  houses  so  situated,  the  owners  were  ordered  to  remove  and  promised 
satisfaction  for  their  loss.  The  surveyor  was  ordered  to  set  oflf  lot  No.  i 
on  the  west  side  of  Broadway,  in  what  was  formerly  the  garden  of  the 
West  India  Co.,  to  William  Van  Vredenburg  (Doc.  Col.  Hist.,  Vol.  II., 
pp.  629,  630,  635,  716). 

This  lot  he  sold  in  1678  to  David  Ackerman  (N.  Y.  Deeds).  About  the 
year  1677  he  moved  to  the  Esopus,  where  three  of  his  children  were  bp. 
I  find  no  record  of  bp.  of  any  of  his  children  between  the  years  1677 
and  1682.  His  will,  if  it  could  be  found,  would  show  whether  there  . 
were  any  between  those  dates.  His  descendants  as  recorded  in  thechurch 
books  of  New  York,  Kingston,  and  Rhinebeck  were  as  follows  : 

2.  Isaacg,  bp.  in  N.  Y.  Oct.  4,  1665  ;  married  there  March  7,  1694, 

Janneken  Joosten,  widow  of  John  Pell,  bp.  N.  Y.  Nov.  16, 
1664,  daughter  of  Joost  Carelszen  and  Styntie  Jans  (Record 
Vol.  VII.,  p.  21).  Janneken  Joosten,  widow  of  Isaacg  Vreden- 
burg, m.  Aug.  19,  1 7 10,  in  N.  Y.  Pieter  Van  Velsen,  widower. 

3.  Cornelia,   bp.  in   N.  Y.    Dec.    14,  1-667  ;  m.  at   Kingston   Feb. 

23,  1685,  Cornelis  Martense  Esselsteyn  (Van  Esselsteyn — 
Ysselsteyn)  of  Claverack,  son  of  Marten  Cornelise,  born  in  the 
city  of  Ysselstein,  and  Mayke  Cornelise,  born  in  Barrevelt,  both 
living  in  Claverack  (Pearson's  Albany  Settlers,  p.  46). 

4.  Maria,  bp.  in  N.  Y.  Nov.  3,  1669  ;  m.  at  Kingston  Nov.  3,  1700, 

Jan  Hendricksen  of  Harlem,  born  1674,  son  of  Hendrick  Jan- 
sen  Van  Beest  (Van  Kortright)  and  Catharine  Hansen 
(Riker's  Harlem,  p.  289). 

5.  Johannes,   bp.  in  N.    Y.    Oct.  21,   1671  ;  died  May  8,    1721  ;   m. 

at  N.  Y.  Sept.  12,  1696,  Johanna  de  La  Montagne,  bp.  in  N. 
Y.  April  16,  1673,  daughter  of  Jean  de  La  IVIontagne  and 
Maria  Vernelje  (Record,  Vol.  VIII.,  p.  29).  She  died,  July 
3,  1734. 


1890.]  The    Vredenhurgh   Family   of  Ulster    Co.,  N.    Y.  \(^c 

6.  Annatie,   bp.    in  N.  Y.  Dec.  8,  1673  ;  m.  at   Kingston   Jan.    3, 

1697,    Hendrick    Rosenkrans,  bp.  in    N.  Y.   April    28,  1674, 
r  son  of  Harman   Hendricks  and  Magdalena  Dircks,  Hendrick 

Rosenkrans,  widower  of  Annatie  Vredenburgli,  m.at  Kingston, 
Oct.  26,  1721,  Antje  DelaVal,  widow  of  Garret  Van  Ben- 
schoten. 

7.  Ariaentie,  bp.  in  N.  Y.  Dec.  8,  1675. 

8.  WiLLEM,  bp.  in    N.  Y.  Dec.  22,  1677;  m.  at  Kingston  Nov.  12, 

1699,  Heyltje  Van  Etten,  bp.  at  Kingston  April  21,  1679, 
daughter  of  Jacob  Jansen  Van  Etten  and  Annelje  Adriantie 
(Krom). 

9.  Abraham,  bp.    at  Kingston   Jan.  27,  1682  ;  m.  at  N.  Y.  Jan.  17, 

1706,  Isabella  Paersil  ;  she  was  deceased  at  the  time  of  the  bp. 
of  her  son  Abraham,  Sept.  2,  171 1.  Abraham  married  2nd 
Dorethea  Coljer,  bp.  at  Albany  May  19,  1689,  daughter  of  Juri- 

aan    Collier  of  Kinderhook,    and  Lysbeth (Pearson's 

Albany  Settlers,  p.  33). 

10.  Jannetje,   bp.  at   Kingston    April    16,    1684  ;    m.    at   Kingston 

June  II,  1704,  Albert  Van  Garden,  son  of  Gysbert  Albertse 
and  Rachel  Rosekrans. 

11.  Rachel,  bp.  at  Kingston  Nov.  6,  1687. 

Children  of  Isaacj  Vredenburgh  (2)  and  Janneken  Joosten. 

12.  Willem,  bp.  in  N.  Y.  Dec.  23,  1694. 

13.  Willem,  bp.    in  N.   Y.    Oct.  4,    1696  ;    m.  at  N.   Y.  April  22, 

1717,  Catharina  Schott,  bp.  at  Kingston  Sept.  i,  1695,  daugh- 
ter of  Patrick  Schott  (Scott)  and  Margery  Wilding. 

14.  JoosT,  bp.  in  N.  Y.   Jan.  i,  1699  ;  m.  in  N.  Y.  June  26,    1725, 

Magdalena  Brouwer,  bp.  in  N.  Y.  March  8,  1704,  daughter 
of  Jacob  Brouwer  and  Annetie  Bogardus  (Record,  Vol.  XV., 
p.  114). 

15.  Johannes,  bp.  in  N.  Y.   July  23,    1701  ;  m.   in  N.  \.   June  22, 

1723,  Jannetje  Woodaard,  bp.  in  N.  Y.  July  7,  1700,  daughter 
of  Jan  Woodaard  and  Eva  Winne. 

16.  Isaac,  bp.  in  N.  Y,  Oct.  3,  1703. 

17.  Kristina,  bp.  in  N.  Y.  Mar.  10,  1706. 

Children  o/* Cornelia  Vredenburgh  (3)  and  Cornells  Marlense  Esselsteyn. 

iS.'Bartaak,  bp.  at  Kingston,  Aug.  7,  1687  ;  m.  at  Albany  Oct.  9, 
1706,  Isaac  Vandeusen  (Pearson's  Albany,  p.  124). 

19.  Tobias,  bp.  at  Albany  Aug.  3,  1690. 

20.  Willem,  bp.  i693(?) 

21.  Isaac,  bp.  at  Kingston  Jan.    i,    1696;  m.  there  Nov.  26,  1725, 

Rachel  Bogaard. 

22.  Jacobus,  bp.  at  Kingston  Nov.  6,  1698  ;  m.  there  May  18,  1724, 

Magdalena  Brodhead. 

23.  Johannes,  bp.   at  Kingston  May  26,    1701  ;    m.  Maria  Vreden- 

burgh (32). 

24.  Abraham,  bp.  at  Albany  Jan.  8,  1704. 

25.  David,  bp.  at  Albany  Oct.  i'^    1705, 


1 56  The    Vredenhurgh   Family   of  Ulster   Co.,  N.   K  [Oct., 

Children  o/*  Maria  Vredenburgh  (4)  and  Jan  Hendricksen. 
(All  baptized  at  Kingston.) 

26.  WiLLEM,  bp.  Aug.  4,  1 701. 

27.  Hendrik,  bp.   July    i,    1704;    m.    at  Kingston   Oct,    11,    1730, 

GarretiVan   Benschoten. 
V  28.   Appolon*ia,  bp.  Aug.  11,  1706  ;  m.  Johannes  Westfall. 

29.  Arjen,  bp.  Feb.   11,   1709  ;  m.  Elizabeth  Cool. 

Children  0/"  Johannes  Vredenburgh  (5)  and  Johanna  de  La  Montague. 
(All  baptized  in  New  York.) 

30.  Johannes,  bp.   July  4,   1697  ;  m.  in  N.  Y.  July  9,  1722,   Sarah 

Waldron,  bp,  in  N.  Y.  Mar.  9,  1701,  daughter  of  Joseph 
Waldron  and  Annatie  Woodard. 

31.  Appolonia,  bp,  Dec.  24,  1699  ;  m.  in  N.  Y.  Mar.  26,  1722,  Fred- 

rik  Blom,  bp.  in  N.  Y.  Mar.  27,  169S,  son  of  Jacob  Blom 
and  Mayke  Bosch. 

32.  Maria,  bp.  April  5,  1702  ;  m.  Johannes  Esselsteyn  (23). 

33.  WiLLEM,  bp.    Dec.  I,    1704  ;  died  May   18,    1783  ;  m.  in  N.  Y. 

May  25,  1729,  Willemyntie  Nack,  born  Mar.  5,  1710  ;  died 
April  18,  1776,  daughter  of  Matthias  Nack  and  Anyenietje 
Schaats. 

34.  Annatje,    bp.    Aug.   31,    1707  ;  m.    in  N.   Y.    March   9,    1742, 

William  Caar,  son  of  Antony  Caar  and  Annetje  Huyke. 

35.  Elizabeth,  bp.  June  18,  17 10. 

36.  Elizabeth,  bp.  Aug.  26,  1711  ;  m.  in  N.  Y.  May  4,  1735,  Will- 

iam Corselius. 
IJ.  Cornelia,  bp.  Dec.  8,  1714. 

Children  0/"  Annatie  Vredenburgh  (6)  and  Hendrick  Rosenkrans. 
(All  baptized  at  Kingston.) 

38.  Appolonia,   bp.  Oct.   31,   1697  ;  m.  at  Kingston  Nov.  8,    1725, 

Arian  Oosterhout. 

39.  Herman,  bp.  Oct.  29,  1699. 

40.  WiLLEM,  bp.  Dec.  22,  1700;  m.Jannetje  Hofman  Sept.  i,  1731. 

41.  Herman,  bp.  Apr.  19,  1702. 

42.  Herman,  bp.  Sept.  3,  1704  ;   m.  Antje  Schoonmaker. 

43.  Hendricus,  bp.  Oct.  20,  1706  ;  m.  Maria  Depuy  Dec.  16,  1728, 

at  Kingston. 
\  44.   Johannes,  bp.  Feb.  18,  1709. 

45.  Ysaak,  bp.  Aug.  10,  171 2. 

46.  Alexander,  bp.  Aug.  10,   171 2. 

Children  o/"Willem  Vredenburgh  and  Heyltje  Van  Etten. 
(All  baptized  at  Kingston.) 

47.  WiLLEM,  bp.   June   30,    1700;  m.    Catalyntje   Kip,  daughter  of 

Jacob  Kip  and  Rachel  Swartwout,  bp.  at  Kingston  Feb.  18, 

1705. 


1890.]  The    Vredenburgh   Family  of  Ulster   Co.,  N.   F.  167 

48.  Annatje,  bp.  Dec.  21,  1701. 

49.  Jacobus,   bp.    Oct.    31,    1703;  m.  at   Kingston   June   18,    1726, 

Clara,  daughter  of  Barent  Van  Wagenen  and  Lea  Schepmoes, 
bp.  at  Kingston,  Mar.  17,  1706, 

50.  Appolonia,  bp.   Jan.    13,    1706;   m.  Hendrick  Kip,   son   of  Jan 
-      Kip  and  Elizabeth  Van  Kleeck,    bp.   at  Kingston,    Sept.    3, 

1704. 

51.  Ariaantje,  bp.  Jan.  12,  1707  ;  m.  at  Rhinebeck  Sept.  26,  1731, 

Abraham  Oosterhout. 

52.  Ary,  bp. 1709  (?)  ;  m.  Sara  Rosekrans,  bp.  at  Kingston  Feb. 

4'   171 1,  daughter  of  Dirk  Rosekrans  and  Wynlje  Kierstede. 

53.  Petronella,  bp.  June  11,  1711  ;  m.  at  Rhinebeck  June  2,  1735, 

David  De  Duytscher. 
54     Isaac,    bp.    Jan.    11,    1713  ;    n^-   at   Rhinebeck  Feb.   23,    1734, 

Geesjen    Pier,   bp.    at   Kingston    Feb.    7,    1714,   daughter  of 

Teunis  Pier  and  Grietje  Defoe. 
55.   Johannes,  bp.   Oct.    10,    1714;  m.  at   Rhinebeck  July   8,  1736,, 

Marytjen  Oosterhout. 
k6.  Abraham,  bp.  Sept.  23,    1716  ;    m.  at  Rhinebeck  Apr.    16,  1736, 

Catrina,   daughter  of  Theunis  Pier  and  Grietje  Defoe,   bp.  at 

Kingston  Sept.  30,  1 716. 
157    Petrus,    bp.   May    11,    1718  ;    m.    at  Rhinebeck   May   h,   1755, 

Lydia,    daughter  of  Johannes    De    Duitscher   and    Catharina 

Bogardus,  bp.  at  Kingston  Dec.  i,  1728. 

58.  Benjamin,  bp.  March   13,  1720  ;  m.  at  Rhinebeck  May  3,  1740, 

Catharina  Kraft  (De  Graaff). 

59.  Matthew,  bp.  Apr.  22,  1722;  m.  at  Rhinebeck  June  17,  1749, 

Margriet  Westfael. 


Children  0/ Abraham  Vredenburgh  (9)  and  Isabella  Paersil. 
(All  baptized  in  New  York.) 

60.  Aplonia,  bp.   Oct.   2,    1706;  m.    James  Boys   (Byers)   June  30, 

1736  (N.  Y.  Marriage  Licences). 

61.  Abraham,  bp.  June  20,   1708. 

62.  Margrietje,  bp.  Sept.  18,  1709  ;  m.  Richard  Caker. 

63.  Abraham,  bp.  Sept.  2,  171 1. 

Children  0/ Abraham  Vredenburgh  (9)  and  Dorelhea  Coljer  his  2nd  wife. 
(All  baptized  in  New  York.) 

64.  Elizabeth,  bp.  April  3,  171 5. 

65.  Abraham,  bp.  Sept.  23,  1716. 

66.  Elizabeth,  bp.  Jan.    i,   1719  ;  m.   Benjamm  Dealing  Aug.   11, 

1738  (N.  Y.  Marriage  Lxences). 

67.  WiLLEM,  bp.  Jan.  II,   1721. 

68.  Cornelia,  bp.  Apr.  28,  1723. 

69.  Annatje,  bp.  July  29,  1725. 

70.  Jannetje,  bp.  Nov.  18,  1727, 


1 58  Two    Old  New   York   Houses.  [Oct., 

Children  <?/"Jannetje  Vredenburgh  (io)  and  Albert  Van  Garden. 
(All  baptized  at  Kingston.) 

71.  Rachel,  bp.   Mar.    17,    1706;  m.   at  Kingston   Feb.    12,    1727, 

Lambert  Brink. 

72.  WiLLEM,  bp.  Sept.  28,  1707;  m.  Annetje  Vredenburgh. 
qi.   Gysbert,  bp.  Feb.  18,  1709  ;  m.  Maria  Cool. 

74.  Appolonia,  bp.  Jan.  6,  1712  ;  m.  Derrick  Quick. 

75.  Johannes,  bp.  Dec.  19,  1714  ;  m.  Margaret  Quick. 


TWO   OLD   NEW  YORK    HOUSES. 


By   Woolsey  Rogers   Hopkins. 


I  HAVE  chosen  for  a  lecture  this  evening  !  How  old  }  About  a  century 
old.  To  a  citizen  of  London  this  would  seem  ludicrous,  but  to  this 
recent  city  it  is  a  long  period.  One  hundred  years  ago  with  us  is  equiv- 
alent to  a  thousand  years  in  London.  We  go  back  to  Washington,  the 
English  to  William  the  Conqueror  !  These  houses  are  No.  6  and  No. 
7  State  Street.  Many  ladies  present  will  ask  where  is  State  Street.'' 
State  Street  is  that  pretty  crescent  bordering  the  Battery  which  seventy 
years  ago  was  the  court  end  of  New  York  ;  the  fine  houses  with  their 
stables,  their  equipages,  their  service,  belonging  to  the  aristocracy  of  our 
Metropolis.  In  No.  6  lived  James  Watson,  a  gentleman  as  well  known 
in  the  city  as  is  Chauncey  M.  Depew  at  this  time.  And  yet  who  knows 
of  James  Watson  now.?  He  was  a  genial  gentleman,  in  easy  circum- 
stances, and  a  liberal  man  ;  who  kept  open  house  for  all  whose  company 
was  worth  .having,  being  our  first  representative  in  Congress  after  the 
formation  of  the  Federal  Constitution  ;  and  his  name  appears  in  the 
records  of  the  City  charities.  I  passed  this  house  but  five  years  since, 
and  saw  the  doors  and  windows  open,  and  dust  flying  from  them. 
Rushing  in  to  see  what  desecration  was  enacting  there,  I  found  the 
interior  was  being  torn  out ;  the  wainscoting,  the  ceiling,  the  exquisite 
staircase,  the  curious  mantels  were  all  being  forced  from  their  places  ;  but 
what  interested  me  most  of  all  was  the  fireplace.  On  the  bricks  of  this 
was  the  accumulated  soot  deposited  by  wood  cut  on  the  lands  of  James 
Bayard,  or  perhaps  on  Kip's  Bay.  This  wood  had  been  cut  to  open  a 
road  on  the  west  side  to  the  Bloomingdale  Road,  and  on  the  East  side 
to  form  a  connection  with  the  Boston  Road.  We  still  have  No.  7  State 
Street  as  it  was  when  it  was  built,  in  the  first  part  of  this  century.  It 
has  about  double  the  frontage  of  an  ordinary  house,  and  being  in  a  cres- 
cent, the  piazza  and  balconies  are  spherical  triangular  in  shape  ;  three 
stately  wooden  pillars  are  intended  to  give  it  the  look  of  an  Italian  pal- 
ace. Double  steps  lead  up  to  the  landing,  and  there  you  observe  the 
window  sash  starting  from  the  floor  of  the  rooms,  giving  to  the  whole  a 
rural  appearance.  And  this  was  the  character  of  the  house  ;  the  guests 
from  the  dining-room  threw  up  this  sash  and  moved  their  chairs  to  this 
quiet  front,  where  before  them  lay  the  beautiful  grounds  of  the  little  park, 


1890.]  Two    Old  New    York   Houses.  i^q 

the  waters  of  the  bay,  the  distant  Staten  Island,  the  near  Governor's 
Island,  the  wooded  shores  of  New  Jerse\-,  and  the  steep  heights  of  Long 
Island,  soon  to  be  the  City  of  Brooklyn.  A  few  white  houses  timidly 
glanced  through  their  surrounding  foliage.  All  was  rural  at  the  front, 
while  from  the  rear  of  this  No.  7  was  seen  the  closely  built  little  City  of 
New  York.  James  Watson  had  interested  me  from  my  earliest  childhood, 
for  he  was  the  friend  of  my  father,  Samuel  Miles  Hopkins.  Mr. 
Watson  took  a  fancy  to  this  tall,  broad-shouldered  young  countryman, 
and,  as  John  Bunyan  would  say,  had  him  to  his  mansion.  Young  Hop- 
kins soon  made  his  way,  and  asked  his  kind  host  to  sit  to  their  mutual 
friend,  Col.  Trumbull,  for  his  portrait.  This  was  in  1798,  and  the 
painting  is  one  of  Trumbull's  best.  Before  me  now  is  the  handsome 
face  of  my  father's  early  friend  ;  there  is  the  bright  eye,  the  ruddy  cheek  ; 
there  the  speaking  lips,  as  when  painted  a  hundred  years  ago.  This, 
sir,  is  as  near  as  we  shall  ever  come  to  quaffing  from  the  spring  of  per- 
petual youth.  Wishing  to  know  more  of  this  James  Watson,  I  sent  a 
note  of  inquiry  to  Gen.  James  Walson  Webb,  and  received  a  cordial 
reply  with  an  invitation  to  call  on  him,  which  I  accepted.  Ushered  into 
his  library,  I  saw  before  me  a  handsome  old  gentleman  with  a  complex- 
ion so  fair  that  a  girl  of  sweet  sixteen  might  have  envied  it.  In  contrast 
was  his  hair,  as  white  as  snow,  a  tinge  of  red,  with  a  blue  vein  through  it, 
marked  his  cheeks.  He  was  suffering  from  gout,  but  this  did  not  pre- 
vent his  entering  at  once  on  a  history  that  interested  me  deeply. 

He  began  in  this  way:  "You  were  right  in  supposing  that  my 
father  Col,  Samuel  Webb,  of  Gen.  Washington's  staff",  was  the  friend 
of  James  Watson.  They  had  been  neighbors  when  boys,  and  their 
friendship  was  kept  up  during  life.  I  will  give  you  an  incident  in  the 
life  of  Mr.  Watson,  as  my  father  gave  it  to  me  :  On  a  cold  winter's  day 
Mr.  Watson  stepped  down  from  his  hospitable  mansion  and  walked  to 
the  post-office,  then  located  at  the  corner  of  Wall  Street  and  Broadway. 
On  his  return  he  entered  No.  69  Broadway,  then  Bunker's  Tavern.  The 
host  said  to  him  :  '  I  have  a  guest  here  whom  you  will  be  glad  to  know, 
Mr.  Genet,  the  first  accredited  minister  from  France  to  our  country.' 
Mr.  Watson  sent  his  card,  and  the  Frenchman  appeared.  After  some 
conversation  Mr.  Watson  said  :  '  I  shall  be  happy  to  see  you  at  my  house, 
to  meet  some  of  our  citizens.'  The  day  and  hour  were  given,  and  the 
company  assembled,  one  other  guest  being  mentioned,  Noah  Webster, 
of  New  Haven.  He  had  come  to  New  York  in  a  sloop,  for  journeying  by 
land  in  the  winter  season  was  considered  dangerous.  He  was  then  estab- 
lishing the  Book  Concern  which,  it  is  asserted  by  his  historian,  came  to 
be,  under  his  energetic  management,  the  largest  in  the  world  ;  and  was 
busy  buying  materials  for  this  same  'book  factory.'  From  that  hand-press 
came  forth  thousands  of  that  invaluable  little  book  called  '  Webster's 
Spelling  Book,'  the  smallest  of  its  kind  ;  and  years  after  came  from  the 
same  press  the  largest  book  that  had  ever  been  bound,  '  Webster's  Dic- 
tionary.' A/acy  might  have  patterned  after  him,  for  he  was  editor, 
publisher,  printer,  and  book-binder  ;  he  was  captain,  mate,  and  all  hands, 
in  a  literary  way.  You  may  suppose  that  one  so  employed  would  have 
printer's-ink  under  his  nails,  and  a  soiled  ruffle  at  the  front,  and  his 
cue  unbraided.  Not  at  all  !  There  were  dandies  in  those  days,  and 
he  was  one  of  them.  But  the  dinner  was  a  failure  ;  Mr.  Genet  proved 
a  marplot,  who  had  been  pampered  and  feasted  as  the  representative  of 


I  yO         From    Albany   County   and  Neiv    York    City  Records.       [Oct., 

our  friends  the  French,  and  he  was  a  spoiled  frog  !  His  remarks  on 
our  government  and  our  President  were  not  just,  and  all  were  relieved 
when  the  dinner  was  over  and  the  guests  had  departed.  Then  Mr. 
Watson  and  his  friend  Mr.  Webster  drew  their  chairs  to  the  open  fire, 
'  warming  their  feet  while  their  backs  were  freezing.'  This  was  the 
only  way  in  which  our  ancestors  of  that  period  essayed  to  be  comfortable 
in  the  long  cold  winters  we  seem  to  have  grown  out  of.  Then  Mr. 
Watson,  smarting  under  the  mortification  of  his  dinner-paity,  said  to  Mr. 
Webster  :  '  If  you  will  come  to  New  York  and  edit  a  paper  in  support  of 
Gen.  Washington's  administration,  I  will  furnish  the  means  :  the  ene- 
mies of  Gen.  Washington  are  increasing  and  this  Frenchman  will  give 
them  his  support.'  Mr.  Webster  accepted  the  offer,  and  it  was  soon 
announced  that  a  journal  would  appear  every  day  of  the  week  (except 
Sunday)  at  4  p.m.,  if  the  mails  served.  This  paper  was  named  The  New 
York  Minerva.  A  very  notable  article  appeared  in  the  first  number, 
headed,  'Can  Slave  Labor  under  any  Circumstances  Compete  with  Free 
Labor }  '  At  the  same  time  a  Philadelphian  was  writing  to  his  corre- 
spondent in  South  Carolina  to  this  effect  :  'Friend,  thou  hast  no  right  to 
keep  thy  fellow-man  in  bondage.'  Thus  a  century  ago  commenced 
that  discussion,  at  first  friendly,  then  violent,  then  with  the  pistol  and  gun, 
which  ended  at  last  in,  'Cry  havoc,  and  let  slip  the  dogs  of  war.'  The 
Minerva  had  its  day  of  usefulness,  and  then  was  sold  to  a  company  who 
changed  its  name  to  The  New  York  Com7?iercial  Advertiser ." 

[Colonel  Hopkins  continued  his  address  by  further  anecdotes  of 
Col.  Samuel  Webb  and  his  friend  Major  Livingston,  and  their  life  in  New 
York  after  the  Revolution,  but  as  this  is  only  incidental  to  the  subject  of 
the  Two  Houses,  he  sends  us  nothing  further.] 


GENEALOGICAL  DATA  GATHERED  FROM  ALBANY  COUNTY 
AND  NEW  YORK  CITY  RECORDS. 


By  B.  Fernow. 


ALBANY. — Thomas  Powell,  signature,  is  called  in  the  instrument 
Poulus,  Septbr.    1664. 

Jan  Vinhagen  calls  himself  a  native  of  the  Diocese  of  Muenster,  Ger- 
many, July,    1668. 

Cornells  Teunisse  Van  Slyck,  native  of  Breuckelen,  Diocese  of 
Utrecht. 

Gerrit  Lansing,  native  of  Hasselt,  Holland. 

Pieter  Pietersen  Lassingh,  in  the  deed,  signs  Lassen. 

Wm.  van  Dyck,  resident  of  Utrecht,  Holland. 

Daniel  Rinckhout,  native  of  Pommerania. 

Thos.  Powell  of  Hartford  has  been  a  sergeant  in  Capt.  Claudio 
Messee's  Company  in  Brazil. 

Cornells  Hendrick  van  Nes,  living  at  Havendyck,  near  Yianen,  Hol- 
land, in  1625. 


1890.]      From   Albany   County   and  Neio    Fork   City  Records.  jyj 

Marten  Cornelissen,  born  at  Ysselstein  near  Utrecht,  ancestor  of  the 
van  Ysselstein  famil)'. 

Peter  Winne,  native  of  Ghent,  Flanders. 

Bastian  de  Winter,  native  of  Middelborgh. 

Gerrlt  Hardenbergh,  native  of  Maerssen  near  Utrecht. 

Reynier  Cuyler,  brother  of  Hendr.  Cuyler  of  Albany,  lives  at  Amster- 
dam, 1675. 

Adam  Dingemans,  native  of  Haerlem,  Holland. 

Jacob  Gerritsen  van  Laer,  born  in  the  Manor  of  Ruynen,  near  Ghent. 

Hans  Vosch,  native  of  Luinenburgh,  Hanover. 

Nicolas  Gregary  Hillebrant,  born  at  Prague. 

Mary  Ryverdingh,  from  Dantzig. 

Jan  Cloet  (Clute)  has  brothers  and  sisters  living  at  Nieuen  Roy  int 
Land  van  der  Marken. 

Honnoire,  de  Honneur,  an  old  Albany  name,  has  it  become  Honor6  (?) 

Jan  de  Vries,  from  Hamburg. 

David  Maries  (Marius?)  in  Albany,   1664. 

Martin  Mouris,  Mouwerensen,  one  of  the  witnesses  to  the  purchase 
of  Schenectady,  July  27,  1661. 

Jan  Pieterse  van  Woggelom,  born  at  Amsterdam. 

Pieter  Jacobse  Marius  at  New  York,   1685. 

Frederick  Claese,  born  at  Wester  (?)  in  Drent,  has  mother  and  sister 
living  at  Staphorst. 

Rutger  Arentsen,  born  in  the  Twert  te  Denekamp,  Overyssel. 

Aert  Jacobse  van  Achtienhoven,  village  in  Holland. 

Wm.  Jansen  Schut  has  relatives  at  Amsterdam,  Holland,  in  1668 
(Eytie  Meyndersen). 

"  Mother  of  Claes  van  Elslant  2d,  whose  father  was  Claes  van  Elslant  in 
New  York,  was  Willemtie  Harpers  van  der  Linde,  niece  of  Domine  Har- 
manns  Antonides  van  der  Linde  at  Naerden. 

Paulus  Jansen,  born  at  Gurkum. 

Jan  Eeraerts  van  Wesel. 

Pieter  Janse  of  Stockholm. 

Lourens  Janse,  born  at  Hoesem. 

Herman  Koster,  born  at  Burckelve. 

Jean  de  la  Rose,  Frenchman,  lives  at  Albany,  1671. 

Nicolas  Maison  (Mason  ?)  do.,  1672. 

Robert  Story  at  Albany,   1680. 

Capt.  Anthony  Brockholst  marries  Susanna  Schrick,   1680. 

Anthd.  Barwa,  a  Frenchman,  with  wife  Anna  Lielte  and  six  children, 
come  from  Canada,   1683. 

Wm.  Rees  in  Albany  since  1672. 

Arent  van  Corlear  of  Schankhyck,  Albany  Co.,  in  1765. 

NEW  YORK.— Cornelius  Comegys  lives  on  land  of  Pieter  van  der 
Linde,  Septbr.  1658. 

Resolved  and  Joseph  Waldron  are  brothers. 

English  names  among  the  residents  of  New  York  before  1675. 

Joan  Woudberry,  Atkan  Atkins,  John  Kulpeper,  Maria  Jongbloet,  Jan 
Bally,  Raimond  Staplefort,  Robert  Watson,  Jan  Deudly,  Wm.  Carver,  De- 
liverance Lamberton,  Benedict  Aarnel  (Arnold  ?),  Thos.  Macky  ;  Jan 
Jampingh,  Priscilla,  children  of  George  Homes  ;  Nathl.  Zeeman,  Nichs. 
Prett,  James  Caps  ;  Phil.  Asban,  Asborne  (Osborne?)  ;  David  Anderson, 


J  72  Pruyn    Family — Ajney-ican   Branch.  [Oct., 

Joost  Goderis  (Godridge?),  Phil.  Galpyn  ;  Jacob  Haey,  Hay,  Hays;  Jan 
Mahu,  Maihew,  Samuel  Mehu  ;  George  Woolsey,  Charles  Morgan  ; 
Thomas,  Nathl. ,  Hassarot  and  their  father;  Thos.  Appelgate,  Anthy. 
Tooker,  Rendel  Huwit,  Wm.  Hallet,  Saml.  Scarlet,  Jan  Hutsen  (Hudson), 
Joshua  Atwater,  Henry  Jackson,  Jan  Hackins  ;  Jacob  Huges,  surgeon  ; 
T.  P.  Tempel,  Thos.  Marshal,  Wm.  Pamer,  Herry  Hoskes,  Wm.  Heycks  ; 

Roger,  Andru,  Kilfort,  Kilvert  ;   Witlock,  Thos.    Verdon  ;    John 

Crabtree,  born  in  Yorkshire^  Jonas  Ranson  (either  Ransom  or  Rantzau)  ; 
Wm.  Doeckles  (Douglas.?)  and  wife  Anneke  Ryzen,  w.  of.Sol.  La  Chair, 
Sept.  1664  ;  Walter  Salter;  Eving  Soelsberry,  Englishman,  35  yrs.  old, 
Decbr.  1664;  Jan  Craffoort,  Anty.  Warton,  Die  Charleton  ;  Wm.  New- 
man of  County  Foy,  Cornwall,  38  yrs.  old,  Mar.  1665  ;  Moses  Dorham 
James  Webb,  Andr.  'Rees,  John  Hinsman,  Knollum  Winslow,  Caleb 
Burton,  James  Bullaine  ;  John  Gurland,  Garlant  ;  and  Gerrit  Trevor. 

Wm.  Thorne,  born  in  Dorsetshire,  England,  42  yrs.  old,  April  7, 
1674,  has  wife  and  child  in  Boston. 

Elizabeth  Kay,  his  sister-in-law,  37  yrs.  old,  has  husband,  a  barber, 
in  Boston. 

Pieter  Jansen  van  Langestraat  is  Pieter  Jansen  Romeyn  in  June,  1657, 
widower  of  Dirckje  Jansen,  da.  of  Jan  Rutgersen  Moreau,  by  whom  he 
had  son  Jan  Pietersen,  6  yrs.  old,  who  died  in  1658  (dead  Dec.  11). 
Marries  again  Maritie  Juryaens  van  Copehague  (?). 

Thos.  Verdon  has  son  Jacobus,  3  yrs.  old,  June  19,  1659,  wife  Bar- 
bara Imbroeck  dead. 


PRUYN   FAMILY— AMERICAN   BRANCH. 


By  John  V.  L.  Pruyn. 


(Continued  from  Vol.  XXI.,  July,  1890,  page  129.) 

Mr.  Van  Schaack  published  "Laws  of  the  Colony  of  New  York" 
(2  vols..  New  York,  1773),  ^^^  "Conductor  Generalis,  or  The  Duty 
and  Authority  of  Justices,  Sheriffs,  Constables,  etc..  Revised  and  Adapted 
to  the  United  States"  (1788).  See  his  "Life,  Journal,  Diary  and  Let- 
ters,"  edited  by  his  son,  Henry  C.  Van  Schaack;  also,  "Appleton's  Cy- 
clopaedia of  American  Biography.'' 

[Peter  Van  Schaack  was  twice  married,  his  first  wife  being  Elizabeth, 
dau.  of  Henry  Cruger,  of  New  York;  his  second,  Elizabeth  Van  Alen, 
of  Kinderhook.] 

By  his  marriage  with  Miss  Van  Schaack,  Dr.  John  Matthias  Pruyn 
had  issue  : 

406  Catharine,  b.  June  12,  1838. 

407  Francis,  b,  March  26,  1840;  d.  Sept.  25,  1842. 

408  Peter  Van  Schaack,  m.  Mary  Barnard  Tobey. 

409  Maria,  b.  Oct.  29,  1842;  bp.  Oct.  12,  1844. 

410  Margaret,  b.  May  i,  1845;  bp.  Nov.  11,  1845;  m.,  Oct.  8,  1872. 

as  his  second  wife,   Peter  Edward  Van  Alstyne,  son  of  Adam 


W 


1890.]  Pruyn   Family — American   Branch.  l'7'K 

Van  Alstyne  and  Maria  Bain,  b.  Oct.  i,  183c,  at  Stuyvesant, 
d.  there  May  5,  1876,  Supervisor,  Member  of  Assembly,  Col- 
lector of  Internal  Revenue.  By  this  marriage  there  was  issue, 
Harriet  Van  Alstyne,  b.  Dec.  19,  1875. 


370. 

(370)  John*  Pruyn  {"John  /.s,  y 0)171'',  Francis^,  Arenf,  Frans  Jansen^), 
b.  at  Kinderhook,  May  22,  1806  ;  bp.  there,  June  20,  1806;  m.  there, 
Feb.  7,  1828,  Maria  Snyder,  b.  March  30,  1805,  at  Shawangunk,  Ulster 
Co.,  N.  v.,  dau.  of  Henry  Snyder  and  Maria  Decker.  John  Pruyn  died 
Oct.  29,  1843,  at  Kinderhook,  and  is  buried  in  the  Kinderhook  Ceme- 
tery.    He  had  issue  : 

411  Henry,  m.  Margaret  Anna  Harder. 

412  John  Francis,  b.  Feb.  20,  1832,  at  Kinderhook,  vvhere  he  resides; 

grad.  at  Kinderhook  Academy;  is  engaged  in  farming. 

413  Mary  Jane,  b.  Nov.  23,  1840,  at  Kinderhook  ;  d.  there  May  22, 

1878 

(371)  Abraham  Van  Vleck*  Pruyn  {John  I.^,  John'^,  Francis,^  Areni,'^ 
Frans  Jansen^),  was  born  at  Kinderhook,  Jan.  22,  1807,  bp.  by  Rev. 
Jacob  Sickles  ;  studied  at  the  Kinderhook  Academy  ;  studied  medicine 
at  Kinderhook  with  Dr.  William  Barthrop,  and  in  New  York  at  the  Col- 
lege of  Physicians  and  Surgeons.  He  settled  at  Oswego,  N.  Y.,  but 
moved  to  Picton,  Prince  Edward  Co.,  Canada.  Under  the  Canadian 
laws  it  was  necessary  for  him  to  pass  an  examination  by  the  Board  of 
Medical  Examiners  at  Toronto  before  he  could  be  allowed  to  practise  his 
profession.  The  roads  leading  to  Toronto  were  in  very  bad  condition. 
He  had  gone  not  half-way  when  his  horse  became  exhausted,  and  he  was 
unable  to  procure  another.  To  him  this  mishap  was  not  an  obstacle. 
He  proceeded  on  foot  and  reached  Toronto  during  the  session  of  the 
board,  passed  the  examination,  and  received  his  license.  Dr.  Pruyn 
was  an  able  physician  and  was  greatly  beloved.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Church  of  England,  and  resided  at  Picton,  where  he  died,  July  li,  1856, 
and  is  buried  there  in  Glenwood  Cemetery.  He  married  at  Picton,  June 
24,  1845,  Clara  Louisa  Maria  Fairfield,  b.  at  Bath,  Ont.,  Feb.  23,  1818; 
bp.  at  St.  John's,  Bath,  March  23,  1818  (Marshall  '^^x\x\%  Bidwcll ;  *  Clara 
Wilcox  Bidwell,  his  wife),  dau.  of  Benjamin  Fairfield  and  Abigail  Lock- 
wood  (d.  April  22,  1853,  ^t.  79),  of  Bath. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pruyn  f  had  issue  : 

*  An  interesting  sketch  of  Mr.  Bidwell,  from  the  able  pen  of  Mr.  Edward  F.  De 
Lancey,  is  found  in  the  Record  of  January,  1890. 

f  Mrs.  Pruyn  was  married,  Sept.  14,  1861,  at  St.  Mary  Magdalene,  Picton  (376), 
Catharine  Maria  Pruyn  witness,  by  Rev.  Wm.  Macaulay,  to  Walter  Ross.  This  was 
the  second  marriage  of  each.  He  was  b.  Dec.  25,  1S17,  in  the  Parish  of  Fearn,  Ross- 
shire,  Scotland,  and  was  the  son  of  WaUer  Ross  and  Christina  McCulloch  of  the 
Parish  of  Tain,  Ross-shire.  He  was  educated  in  Scotland,  and  came  to  Canada, 
where  he  was  extensively  engaged  in  business  for  forty  years  as  a  merchant.  He 
resided  at  Picton,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church.  At  the  general 
election  in  1863  he  was  elected  to  Parliament  in  the  Reform  movement.  At  the  first 
general  election  after  the  Confederation  in  1867  he  was  elected  to  the  Dominion  Par- 
liament, was  reelected  in  1872,  and  in   1874,  a  change  of  government  necessitating 


174  Pruyn   Fajnily — American    Branch.  [Oct., 

414  David  John,  m.  Georgina  Ellen  Ann  Pope. 

415  Emily   Jane,    b.    Sept.    12,    1849,    at    Picton,    bp.    Nov.    25   at 

the  church  of  St.  Mary  Magdalene  (David  Lockwood  Fairfield; 
Emily  Spencer  Fairfield ;  Helen  Mary  Fairfield)  ;  d.  there 
Sept.   16,   1866,  unmarried. 

416  Anna  Mary   Louisa,    b.    Aug.    31,   1853,  at  Picton,   bp.    Feb.  5, 

1854,  at  St.  Mary  Magdalene  (Gideon  Bowerman ;  Helen 
Mary  Fairfield ;  Louisa  Ann  Atkinson  Hope) ;  d.  there  Oct. 
31.  1854. 

Ill- 

(373)  Lucas  ^  Pruyn,  physician  {John  /.  ■>,  Johii^,  Francis^,  Arenf't 
Frans  Jansen^),  b.  June  14,  1812,  at  Kinderhook,  N.  Y,,  bp.  July  19. 
18 1 2,  at  Kinderhook  Dutch  Church  ;  was  married  at  Schodack  Landing, 
Oct.  25,  1836,  by  Rev.  John  Gray  to  Cynthia  Willsey,  b.  Jan.  15  or  16, 
181 6,  bp.  by  Rev.  P.  van  Buren,  dau.  of  Cornelius  Willsey  and  Geretta 
Schermerhorn  at  that  time  of  Schodack  Landing,  afterward,  1843,  of 
Kinderhook.  Dr.  Lucas  Pruyn  was  a  student  at  the  Kinderhook  Acad- 
emy ;  studied  medicine  with  Dr.  John  Pruyn  Beekman  at  Kinderhook, 
also  at  New  York,  where  he  attended  lectures  given  by  the  famous  medi- 
cal men  of  the  day.  About  1835  he  was  authorized  to  practise,  and  in 
the  spring  of  that  year  settled  at  Schodack  Landing.  In  1836  he  moved 
to  Kinderhook  but  returned  to  Schodack  in  1837.  He  finally  settled 
at  Kinderhook  in  1843,  where  he  followed  his  profession  the  rest  of  his  life. 
He  was  interested  in  banking  and  joined  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church  at 
Kinderhook,  Jan.  31,  1874.  He  died  April  18,  1882,  and  is  buried  in 
Kinderhook  Cemetery.  He  had  no  issue.  His  widow  resides  at  Kin- 
derhook. 

374. 

John  Chester  Sweet,  merchant,  of  Kinderhook,  b.  Aug.  9,  1822,  at 
Coeymans,  Albany  Co.,  N.  Y.,  son  of  Joshua  Sweet  and  Eleanor  Will- 
sey, formerly  of  Westerlo,  Albany  Co.,  N.  Y. ;  m.  Oct.  21,  1846  (374) 
Jane*  Pruyn  {John I.^,John^,  Francis^,  Arent^,  Frans Jansen  '),  b.  Oct.  16, 
18 14.  Mrs.  Sweet  is  the  owner  of  an  old  Dutch  Pruyn  family  Bible  and 
of  the  original  deed  of  the  farm  conveyed  by  Cornells  Schermerhoorn  to 
(13)  Arent  Pruyn.     (See  The  Record,  Vol.  XXL,  No.  i,   page  10.) 

another  election,  he  was  again  reelected.  In  1878  he  declined  to  be  a  candidate 
again,  having  represented  the  county  for  over  fifteen  years.  He  was  for  six  years 
Mayor  of  Picton  ;  was  colonel  of  the  l6lh  Battalion  from  1863  to  1883,  in  which 
latter  year  he  sent  in  his  resignation  to  the  government.  Upon  his  retirement 
his  officers  presented  him  a  very  handsome  piece  of  plate. 

His  first  wife,  whom  he  married  December  i,  1845,  was  Miss  Elizabeth  Thorp, 
by  whom  he  had  five  children,  as  follows  : 

i.   Walter  Thorp  Ross,  b.  at  Picton.  Jan.  22,  1S47,  m.  Calista  Olivia 
Bockus,  and  is  Collector  of  Customs  at  Picton. 

ii.    Henry  Thomas   Ross,  b.  at  Picton,  Oct.  12,  1849. 
iii.   Mary  Emma,  b.  at  Picton,  Oct.  31,  1851,  m.  George  Simpson,  Govern- 
ment Land  Commissioner  at  Brandon,  Manitoba. 

iv.   Flora  Elizabeth  Ross,    b.  Nov.  8,  1853,  at  Picton;    m.  Wm.  Aiken 
Gilmore,  Chicago,  111. 

v.    Frederick  Henry  Ross,  b.  at  Picton,  Jan.  27,  1857,  lives  in  Chicago. 
Colonel  Ross  had  by  his  second  wife  (Mrs.  Pruyn)  an  only  child,  Clara  Kate 
Mackenzie  Ross,  b.  at  Picton,  Dec.  17,  1862,  d.  there.  May  4,  18S5,  unmarried. 

Colonel  Ross  died  at  Picton,  Nov.  12,  1888,  and  is  buried  in  Glenwood  Cemetery. 
Mrs.  Ross  resides  at  Picton. 


1890.]  Pruyn   Family — American   Branch.  j^r 

By  this  marriage  there  has  been  issue  : 

John  Pruyn  Sweet,  b.  Nov,  17,  184S,  bp.  March  7,  1849;  d.  un- 
married. 

Ella  Garetta  Sweet,  b.  Oct.  31,  185 1,  bp.  Aug.  5,  1853  ;  is  the  second 
wife  of  Gerrit  Sager  Collier,  lawyer  at  Kinderhook. 

Lucas  Pruyn  Sweet,  b.  Dec.  17,    1855,    bp.  Jan.  3,1863;  died  young. 

375- 

(375)  Isaac*  Pruyn  {John  I },  John^,  Francis^  ,Arent-,  Fransjansen^), 
lawyer  and  banker,  b.  at  Kinderhook,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  25,  1816  ;  bp.  there 
by  Rev.  Jacob  Sickles,  Jan.  3,  181  7;  m.  firstly  at  Kinderhook,  Oct.  2, 
1844,  Mary  Jane  Wilcoxson,  b.  at  Kinderhook,  Mav  16,  1820,  d,  Nov. 
5,  1853,  bur.  at  Kinderhook,  dau.  of  Judge  Julius  Wilcoxson  and  Maria 
Hoes  (m.  July  17,  1819),  who  was  a  niece  of  President  Martin  Van 
Buren. 

Mr.  Pruyn  studied  at  the  Kinderhook  Academy  ;  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1838,  and  at  one  time  practised  law  in  New  York.  He  has  resided 
for  many  years  in  Catskill,  where  he  has  held  various  positions  of  trust  and 
has  been  interested  in  railroad  and  other  enterprises.  In  1872  he 
became  president  of  the  Catskill  National  Bank  and  still  holds  the  posi- 
tion. He  is  also  a  prominent  member  of  the  Dutch  Church.  By  his 
first  marriage  he  has  had  issue  : 

417  Julius,  b.  at  Kinderhook,  Julv  14,  1845  ;  d.  at  Catskill,  July  28, 

1867. 

418  Mary  Angelica,  b.  at  Catskill,    Dec.  3,  1846;  d.  there  Aug.  30, 

1873. 

419  Elizabeth,    b.  Sept.   25,   1848,    at    Catskill;  d.    there  ]\Iarch    26, 

1851. 

420  Anna,  b.  May  7,   1850,  at   Catskill  ;  d.  there  March  23,   1S51. 

421  Sarah  Louisa,  b.  at  Catskill  Nov.   i,   1853. 

Mr.  Pruyn  m.,  secondly,  at  Catskill,  July  17,  1872,  his  deceased  wife's 
sister,  Sarah  Ann  Wilcoxson,  b.  at  Kinderhook,  Aug.  16,  1827.  There 
is  no  issue  by  this  marriage. 

377- 

John  Wilcoxson,  of  Kinderhook,  b.  March  13,  1825,  bp.  May  29,  1825 
at  Kinderhook  Dutch  Church  ;  son  of  Julius  Wilcoxson  and  Maria  Hoes  ; 
married,  July  27,  1853,  (377)  Anna*  Pruyn  {John  /.\  John*,  Francis^, 
Areni',  Frans  Jafisen^),  b.  Oct.  ii,  1821  ;  grad.  Albany  Female  Acad- 
emy; d.  July  26,  1887;  bur.  in  Kinderhook  Cemetery.  There  was  issue 
by  this  marriage  : 

Anna  Harder    Wilcoxson,    b.   June    13,    1854,  bp.   Feb.  7,  1855,  at 

Kinderhook  Dutch  Church. 
Charles  Wilcoxson,  b.  Feb.  16,  1857,  bp.  Oct.  31,  1857,  d.  March  i, 

1859. 
Pruyn  Wilcoxson,  b.  July  i,  1858,  bp.  Feb.  5,  1859,  d.  May  25,  1879, 
at  Stuyvesant. 

(378)  Bartholomew  Van  Valkenburgh*  Pruyn  {John  /.^  John*, 
Francis^,  Arent^,  Frans  Jansen^),   b.    at    Kinderhook,   June   30,  1826; 


J  ^5  Pruytt    Faviily — American   Branch.  [Oct., 

entered  Kinderhook  Academy  in  1838,  completing  his  course  in  1842  ; 
fought  in  the  Civil  War,  enlisting  April  10,  1861  ;  was  commissioned 
July  4,  1 86 1,  ranking  from  May  14,  captain  of  K  Company,  30th  Regi- 
ment New  York  State  Infantry  ;  discharged  Oct.  3,  1862  ;  was  com- 
missioned April  7,  1865,  ranking  from  March  6,  captain  of  D  Company, 
I92d  Regiment,  New  York  State  Infantry  ;  mustered  out  August  28, 
1865;  has  been  town  assessor  at  Kinderhook,  where  he  resides;  is  a 
member  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church  ;  married,  firstly,  May  27,  1851, 
at  Kinderhook,  Sarah  Caroline  Thomas,  b.  at  Hudson,  N.  Y.,  May  10, 
1833,  d.  at  Claverack,  Jan.  14,  1864,  dau.  of  Robert  Thomas  and  Sarah 
Parks,  of  Kinderhook  ;  and  has  had  issue  : 

422  Robert  Thomas,  m.  Helen  Joseph. 

423  John  Isaac,  m.  Mary  Scott. 

424  Sarah  Elizabeth,  b.  at  Kinderhook,  March  30,  1856  ;  m.  at  Chat- 

ham, N.  Y.,  March  19,  1879,  Edward  Van  Alsiyne,  b.  March 
16,  1858,  at  Sunnyside  Farm,  Stuyvesant,  Columbia  Co.,  N. 
Y.,  son  of  Peter  Edward  Van  Alstyne  and  Harriet  Van  Vran- 
ken  Mynderse  his  first  wife,  grad.  Union  Classical  Institute, 
Schenectady,  1875,  is  a  farmer,  owns  and  resides  at  Sunnyside 
Farm,  which  has  been  in  his  family  for  several  generations, 
possesses  family  records  back  to  1734,  is  a  deacon  in  the 
Kinderhook  Dutch  Church,  president  of  the  Columbia  County 
Creamery  Association,  director  of  the  Kinderhook  and  Stuy- 
vesant Mutual  Insurance  Co.,  and  trustee  of  School  District 
No.  6,  of  Stuyvesant ;  and  has  issue  by  this  marriage  : 

i,   James  Edward  Van  Altsyne,  b.   at  Sunnvside,  Jan.    31, 

1880. 
ii.   Elizabeth  Pruyn  Van  Alstyne,  b.  at  Sunnyside,  Nov.  2, 

i88r. 
iii.   Annie  Mynderse  Van  Alstyne,  b.  at  Sunnyside,  June  6, 

18S4. 
iv.   Jean  Pruyn  Van  Alstyne,  b.  at  Sunnyside,  Oct.  18,  1888. 

425  Mary   Kate,   b.   at  Kinderhook,  March    15,    1858;  m.   at  Stuy- 

vesant,   N.  Y.,   Nov.    5,    1879,   Henry  Allen  Best,  Jr.,    b.  at 
Stuyvesant,    April    20,   1848,   son  of  Henry   Allen    Best   and 
Elizabeth  Philips  Cutter  of  Stuyvesant ;  and  has  had  issue  : 
i.  Pruyn  Best,  b.  July   27,    1880,   at  Stuyvesant;  d.  there 

Oct.  14,    1881. 
ii.    Henry   Allen    Best,    b.    May    27,    1884,  at   Stuyvesant; 

d.  there  Jan  15,  1886. 
iii.   Abigail  Lee  Best,  b.  April  4,  1887,  at  Stuyvesant. 

426  Edward  Staats,  b.  Oct.  24,  1859,  at  Chatham  ;  d.  there  May  26, 

1861. 

427  Lucas  W.,  b.  at  Claverack,  Jan.  7,  1864  ;  d.  at  Kinderhook,  Aug. 

10,  1864. 
Bartholomew  Van  Valkenburgh   Pruyn,  married,  secondly,  Jan.  27, 
1869,  Judith  Ann  Groat,  b.  July  28,  1828,   dau.   of  Martin   Groat  and 
Sarah  Crocker,  of  Kinderhook  ;  no  issue. 

381. 
(381)  James  Wood  ®  Pruyn  (Zrerz«fl«^  Arenf^,  Harmen^,  Arenf,  Frans 


1 890. J  Two    Quebec   Graves.  I  77 

Jansen^),  b.  Oct,  18,  1834,  in  New  York  State  ;  m.  Sept.,  1866,  at  Page 
Centre,  Iowa,  Rebecca  Bradshaw  Gray,  b.  April  17,  1846,  dau.  of 
Richard  Gray,  M.D.,  and  Sarah  Watt,  of  Wahoo,  Nebraska.  Mr.  Pruyn 
was  educated  at  the  public  schools,  and  at  the  Academies  of  Princeton 
and  Amsterdam,  N.  Y.  He  served  three  years  in  the  23d  Iowa  Infantry 
as  private,  corporal  and  sergeant,  and  has  been  an  elder  in  the  Presby- 
terian Church  since  1866.  He  resides  at  Otis,  Colorado,  where  he  is  a 
real-estate  dealer  and  banker,  being  President  of  the  First  Bank  of  Otis. 
He  has  issue  : 

428  Albert  Vedder,  b.  Aug.  6,  1867,  at  Page  Centre,  Iowa;  is  cashier 

of  the  First  Bank  of  Otis. 

429  Mabel,  b.  Dec.  29,  1868,  at  Page  Centre,  Iowa. 

430  Leonard  L.,b.  Aug.  9,  1870,  at  Page  Centre,  Iowa. 

384. 

John   Finkle,  of  Fredericksburgh,   Ontario,  married   (Liber  D.   Bath 

Registers  in    vault   at    Kingston)   Sept.   9,    1828  ;  (384)  Martha^  Pruyn 

[William^,  Matthew^,  Harmeti^,  Arent',  Fraris  Jansen"-),  b.  Jan.   14,  1808, 

bp.  March  21  at  Fredericksburgh  ;  d.  July  4,  1846  ;  and  had  issue  : 

Mary  Jane  Finkle,  bp.  at   Bath,  Jan.   31,   1830;    m.  E.  R.  O'Brien; 

now  a  widow. 
Jacob   Henry  Finkle.  bp.    March  4,  1832,  by  Rev.  John   Stoughton, 
at  St.  Paul's,  Fredericksburgh  (Duncan  McKenzie ;  INIary  Pruyn).* 
Jemima  Finkle,  m.  W.  I.  Willson. 
Alexander  Finkle,  b.  at  Woodstock,  Ontario,  where  he  now  resides  ; 

is  a  barrister  and  Judge  of  the  County  of  Oxford,  Ontario. 
Martha  Finkle,  b.  at  Woodstock  ;   unmarried. 

{To  be  continued.) 


TWO   QUEBEC   GRAVES. 


By  Gen.  Jas.  Grant  Wilson. 


At  the  south  end  of  St.  Matthew's  Episcopal  Church,  as  you  enter  the 
gate  leading  to  the  burial  ground,  situated  on  the  principal  street  of  the 
ancient  capital  of  Canada,  may  be  seen  the  grave  of  Sir  Walter  Scott's 
favorite  brother,  a  man  of  infinite  humor  and  excellent  parts,  to  whom 
was  attributed  for  a  time  the  authorship  of  the  Waverley  novels.  This, 
of  course,  was  before  they  were  acknowledged  by  Sir  Walter.  He 
was  several  years  younger  than  his  highly  gifted  brother,  and  pursued  for  a 
few  years  his  father's  profession,  but  he  was  unfortunate  from  engaging  in 
speculations  respecting  farms,  and  other  matters  out  of  the  line  of  his 
legal    business.     Through    the  aid  of  influential  friends,    he  afterwards 

*  The  parish  registers  of  the  Church  of  England  in  the  Diocese  of  Ontario  are 
kept  in  the  vault  of  the  Synod  of  the  Diocese  at  Kingston.  For  access  to  them  I 
am  indebted  to  James  Shannon,  Esq.,  Postmaster  at  Kingston,  and  Registrar  of 
the  Diocese  of  Ontario.  J-  *•  •'—  "• 


1*^8  '^'^0    Quebec    Graves.  [Oct., 

became  paymaster  of  the  70th  regiment,  serving  for  many  years  in 
Kingston  and  Quebec,  where  he  died  early  in  1823,  and  was  buried  by 
the  side  of  his  youngest  daughter.  Several  venerable  Canadians,  who 
still  survive  at  nearly  four-score  and  ten,  remember  Major  Scott  as  a  tall, 
handsome  man  of  martial  figure,  fond  of  society,  and,  like  Sir  Walter,  an 
excellent  story-teller  ;  but,  unlike  his  gifted  brother,  able  to  sing  a  good 
Scotch  song,  which  he  frequently  did  at  the  regimental  dinners,  as  well  as 
at  his  own  fireside.  He  married  Elizabeth,  a  daughter  of  the  family  of 
MacCulloch,  of  Ardwell,  an  ancient  Galwegian  stock,  by  whom  he  left 
three  daughters  and  a  son,  Walter  Scott,  who,  at  the  time  of  his  father's 
death,  was  a  lieutenant  of  engineers  in  the  East  India  Company's  service. 
In  Lockhart's  Memoir  of  Scott,  there  are  several  letters  addressed  to  the 
Major  by  Sir  Walter,  from  one  of  which,  written  in  1817,  "^^^  following 
extract  is  taken:  "Should  you  remain  in  Canada,  you  must  consider 
your  family  as  settling  in  that  State  ;  and  as  I  cannot  believe  it  will  remain 
very  long  separated  from  America,  [the  United  States,  Sir  Walter  should 
have  said]  I  should  always  think  this  equal  to  depriving  them  of  the 
advantage  of  British  subjects — at  least  of  those  which  they  might  derive 
from  their  respectable  connections  in  this  country."  The  poet  said  of 
the  paymaster  that  he  "  knew  of  no  person  who  possessed  more  power  of 
humor  or  perception  of  the  ridiculous."  After  the  Major's  death,  his 
family  returned  to  Scotland,  and  were  for  a  time  Sir  Walter's  guests  at 
Abbotsford. 

The  granite  stone  which  marks  the  Major's  grave  is  in  excellent  con- 
dition, and  bears  the  following  inscription  : — 

Sacred 
To  the  memory  of 
Thomas  Scott,  Esquire, 

Late  Paymaster 

Of  the  70th  Regiment, 

Who  departed  this  life 

4th  February,   1823. 


And  his  daughter, 

Barbara  Scott, 

Who  died 

On  the  5th  October,  1821, 

In  the  eighth  year  of  her  age. 

John  Wilson,  perhaps  the  best  singer  of  Scottish  songs  of  his  own 
age,  or  of  any  age,  and  in  the  judgment  of  Dr.  Robert  Chambers,  of 
Edinburgh,  unsurpassed  in  the  beauty  and  taste  with  which  he  rendered 
the  music  of  his  native  Caledonia,  visited  the  United  States  and  Canada 
in  1849,  accompanied  by  his  daughter,  who  assisted  him  in  the  very 
successful  series  of  entertainments  which  he  gave,  consisting  of  Scottish 
songs  and  recitations.  He  had  given  several  concerts  in  St.  George's 
Hall,  Quebec,  and  was  announced  for  "  A  nicht  wi'  Burns,"  before  his 
departure.  On  Saturday,  July  7,  while  fishing  in  Lake  St.  Joseph,  he 
was  taken  ill,  it  was  supposed  from  exposure  to  the  excessive  heat,  and 
died  at  an  early  hour  on  the  following  Monday  morning,  one  of  the  first 
victims  to  the  cholera,  which  was  so  fatal  in  Canada  during  that  summer. 


1890.]  Two    Quebec    Graves. 


179 


He  was  burled  in  Mount  Hermon  cemetery,  on  the  banks  of  the  beauti- 
ful St.  Lawrence,  some  three  miles  south  of  the  Plains  of  Abraham,  where 
Wolfe  won  the  immortal  victory  which  changed  the  destiny  of  Canada. 
A  few  years  ago  David  Kennedy,  another  Scottish  singer,  intrusted  to 
Dr.  George  Stewart,  of  Quebec,  the  sum  of;^io  to  be  devoted  to  forever 
caring  for  the  grave  of  the  gifted  and  amiable  John  Wilson,  His  last 
letter,  addressed  to  his  poet  friend,  William  Wilson,  of  Poughkeepsie, 
whose  rendering  of  Jacobite  songs  and  ballads  almost  equalled  the  pro- 
fessional singer's,  is  now  in  the  writer's  possession.  It  is  dated  July  7, 
and  announces  his  anticipated  meeting  with  his  correspondent  within  a 
few  weeks.  Three  years  after  Wilson's  greatly  regretted  death,  a  number 
of  his  countrymen  of  Quebec  erected  over  his  grave  a  noble  column, 
surmounted  by  an  urn,  with  appropriate  drapery.  The  monument  bears 
the  following  inscription  : 

Sacred  to  the  memory  of 

John  Wilson, 

The  Scottish  Vocalist, 

Celebrated  for  the  excellent  taste, 

Feeling,  and  execution, 

With  which  he  sang  the  airs     • 

Of  his  native  Caledonia. 

He  was  an  amiable  and  unassuming  man. 

Died  at  Quebec,  July,  1849. 


Erected  by  some  of  his  friends  and 
Admirers  in  Canada,  1852. 

Shelley,  whose  ashes  lie  under  Italian  skies,  near  those  of  Keats, 
said  :  "That  it  would  almost  make  one  in  love  with  death  to  be  buried 
in  so  sweet  a  spot."  The  same  could  be  said  of  Wilson's  Canadian 
resting-place  ;  and  as  we  gathered  from  his  grave  a  few  scarlet  autumn 
leaves,  a  feathered  songster  was  singing  from  the  topmost  branch  of  a 
brilliant  maple,  with  a  music  sweeter  than  his  own  silvery  tenor.  Although 
far  away  from  his  dearly-loved  "North  Countrie, "  he  is  surrounded  by 
men  of  his  own  race,  on  whose  tomb-stones  may  be  seen  Mackenzie  and 
Macdougall,  Campbell  and  Grant,  Fraser  and  Forsyth,  Ross,  Turnbull, 
and  other  ancient  Scottish  names,  many,  if  not  most  of  them,  the  sons  and 
grandsons  of  the  six  hundred  and  sixty-two  gallant  fellows  of  Fraser's 
Seventy-eighth  Highlanders,  who  followed  Wolfe  up  the  steep  and  narrow 
escalade  to  the  field  where  his  untimely  fate  and  that  of  his  chivalric  foe 
Montcalm,  one  hundred  and  thirty-one  years  ago  this  very  day,  so  well 
illustrated  Gray's  familiar  line  that, 

"  The  paths  of  glory  lead  but  to  the  grave." 

Quebec,  September  13,   1S90. 


i 


l8o  Memorial  of  New    York  Loyalists.  [Oct., 


MEMORIAL    OF    NEW    YORK    LOYALISTS. 

The  following  Loyalist  memorial  I  have  lately  found  in  the  Nova 
Scotia  archives.  So  far  as  I  know,  it  has  never  hitherto  been  printed. 
I  am  sorry  to  say  that  I  can  find  no  date  for  it,  but  I  presume  it  was 
offered  some  time  in  1782. 

Benjamin  Rand. 
Sept.  26,  1890,  Cambridge,  Massachusetts. 

To  his  Excellency  Sir  Guy  Carleton,  Knight  of  the  most  honorable  Order 
of  the  Bath,  General  and  Commander  in  Chief,  &c,,  &c.,  &c. 

The  Memorial  of  the  Subscribers 
Humbly  Sheweth 

That  your  memorialists  having  been  deprived  of  very  valuable  Landed 
Estates  and  considerable  Personal  Propertys  without  the  Lines  and  being 
also  obliged  to  abandon  their  possessions  in  this  City  on  Account  of  their 
Loyalty  to  their  Sovereign  and  Attachment  to  the  British  Constitution 
and  seeing  no  prospect  of  their  being  reinstated  had  determined  to 
remove  with  their  Families  and  settle  in  His  Majesty's  Province  of  Nova 
Scotia  on  the  Terms  which  they  understood  were  held  out  equally  to  all 
his  Majesty's  persecuted  Subjects. 

That  your  Memorialists  are  much  alarmed  at  an  application  which 
they  are  informed  Fifty  Five  Persons  have  joined  in  to  your  Excellency 
solliciting  a  recommendation  for  Tracts  of  Land  in  that  Province  amount- 
ing together  to  Two  Hundred  and  Seventy  Five  Thousand  Acres  and 
that  they  have  dispatched  forward  Agents  to  survey  the  unlocated  lands 
and  select  the  most  fertile  Spots  and  desirable  situations. 

That  chagrined  as  your  Memorialists  are  at  the  manner  in  which  the 
late  Contest  has  been  terminated  and  disappointed  as  they  find  themselves 
in  being  left  to  the  lenity  of  their  Enemys  on  the  dubious  recommenda- 
tion of  their  Leaders  they  yet  hoped  to  find  an  Asylum  under  British 
Protection  little  suspecting  there  could  be  found  among  their  Fellow 
sufferers  Persons  ungenerous  enough  to  attempt  ingrossing  to  themselves 
so  disproportionate  a  Share  of  what  Government  has  allotted  for  their 
common  benefit  and  so  different  from  the  original  proposals. 

That  your  memorialists  apprehend  sorne  misrepresentations  have  been 
used  to  procure  such  extraordinary  recommendations  the  applications 
for  which  have  been  most  studiously  concealed  until  now  that  they  boast 
its  being  too  late  to  prevent  the  effect. — Nor  does  it  lessen  your  Memori- 
alists surprise  to  observe  that  the  persons  concerned  (several  of  whom  are 
said  to  be  going  to  Britain)  are  most  of  them  in  easy  Circumstances  and 
with  some  exceptions  more  distinguished  by  the  repealed  favors  of 
Goverument  than  by  either  the  greatness  of  their  sufferings  or  the  impor- 
tance gI  their  services. 

Tha'  your  memorialists  cannot  but  regard  the  Grants  in  Question  if 
carried  into  eflfect  as  amounting  nearly  to  a  fotal  excluoion  of  themselves 
and  I^imilys  '."ho  i*^  they  become  Settlers  must  cither  content  themselves 
with  barren  or  remote  Lands  Or.submit  to  be  Tenants  to  -those  most  of 
whom  they  coni<ider  as  their  superiors  ia  nothing  but  deeper  Art  and 
keener  Policy — thus  circuuisiauced 


1890. 


Meynorial  of  New    York   Loyalists. 


181 


Your  Memorialists  humbly  implore  redress  from  your  Excellency  and 
that  enquiry  may  he  made  into  their  respective  Losses  Services  Situations 
and  Sufferino;s  and  If  your  Memorialists  shall  be  found  equally  intitled 
to  the  favor  and  protection  of  Government  with  the  former  applicants — 
that  they  may  all  be  put  on  equal  footing — But  should  those  who  first 
applyed  be  found  on  a  fair  and  candid  inquiry  more  deserving  than  your 
Memorialists — then  your  Memorialists  humbly  request  that  the  locating 
these  extensive  Grants  may  at  least  be  postponed  untill  your  Memorialists 
have  taken  up  such  small  Portions  as  may  be  allotted  to  them. 

And  your  Memorialists  as  in  Dutybound  shall  ever  pray  &c. 


Christopher  Bemon 
Thos  Farrer 
Lancelot  Farrer 
George  Davies 
Rich^  Horton 
Charles  McDonald 
Robert  Cleghorn 
John  Watson 
Peter  SuUock 
Quinton  Robinson 
Isaac  Bonnet 
John  Johnston 
Lewis  Grant 
John  Hutchings 
Williams  Devenport 
Thos  Curren 
Ja^  Bruningham 
Dennis  Murphy 
Israel  Goull 
Humphrey  Wady 
Christopher  Putts 
William  Lewis 
*Bilwry  Ward 
Jn°  McQueen 
Robert  McGargor 
Joseph  Hains 
Peter  Nauthorn 
W™  Block 
Joseph  Wist 
Thompson  J  Reid 
Abraham  Vantassell, 
David  Wilson 
Jos  Vaughan 
James  Stewart 
John  Hilsop 
James  Scott 
Ralph  Brankoton 
Andre  Eastman 
John  Curril 
And'^  Watson 


John  Kerr 
Scott  L  Clark 
Stephen  Hayden 
J  A  Coope 
Danl  Ketcham 
*Jas  Ketcham 
Peter  Gyre 
Andrew  Bennett 
John  Harrison 
James  Rogers 
Daniel  James  Brooke 
Hugh  Kelly  B.  Master, 

Brooklyn 
John  Dayz 
John  Haggoford 
Jacob  Crorffn 
Robert  Bell 
Henry  Graham 
George  Wilson 
*James  Wean  1 

Alexander  Boyer 
James  Wilmot 
Michael  Schooley 
Christopher  Hennegar 
Adam  Hannegar 
Michael  Henegar 
Edward  Mooney 
William  Mooney 
John  Mooney 
Jacob  Hoffman 
Saml  Pell 
Samuel  Still  well 
David  Braymer 
Charles  Kingsland 
John  Jordan 
John  Van  Embnrgh 
John  Davis 
Philip  Elev 
Caleb  White 
John  Barron 


Benjamin  Graves   ^^ 
James  Pillot 
William  Peters 
John  Yeamons 
*Malark  Thorn 
Samuel  Peters 
Moses  Veal 
*Daniel  Rue 
Gilbert  Forbes 
Quintin  Miller 
Hugh  Miller 
Lockart  Backster 
Solomon  Baxter 
P^noch  Mulnix 
Gideon  Baxter 
John  Baker 
Jarvis  Coles 
Charles  Vickerman 
William  Swisebaugh 
James  Clabb 
John  Booth 
Andrew  Duran 
Isaac  Redman 
Timoth}'  Cain 
Lawrence  Fegan 
Richard  Chambers 
Benj''  He^d 
Josiah  Davis 
Joseph  Pax  ton 
Hugh  Dreake 
Fred''*  Wisem 
*Andrew  Lintnow 
John  Bond 
'I'homas  Potts 
John  Anderson 
William  Hodges 
Benjamin  Brown 
John  Wiggins 
Alexander  Simpson 
Amos  Dillon 


Sign,  ture  ?,omewhat  illegible  — B.  R. 


182 


Memorial  of  New    York   Loyalists. 


[Oct. 


Edw''  Johnston 
Thomas  Flewelling 
Thomas  Ireland 
Hugh  Ellis 
*\Villiam  Brinter 
Abraham  Lockwood 
Joseph  Fluell 
Alex  Cowon 
Arthur  B  Nugent 
W"  Hyle 
Thos  Chadwick 
Thomas  Bird 
John  Warnock 
Mich'  Hutchinson 
John  Fitzpatrick 
Lukes  Bird 
Hugh  IMcDonald 
Joseph  Thomas 
Joseph  Botner 
Sam'  Strut 
John  Gomez 
John  Marsh 
Samuel  Aiken 
Owen  Hughes 
*Cornelius  Hittny 
Amos  Rooke 
Rouillin  McQuillin 
John  Jones 
Frederick  Bender 
Eenj°  Harrison 
William  Bethell 
John  Burns 
Abraham  Bassey 
W""  Williams 
George  Ensor 
John  Groff 
*Daniel  Hugumen 
James  Nicholls 
James  GofF 
James  Cuthbert 
W">  Molleneaux 
David  Haltridge 
Lovl"  McLean 
Mikel  McDonald 
James  Maine 
John  Bain 
Thos  Cotton 
Thos  Treadwell  Smith 
Albert  Norstrand 
Stephen  Baxter 
Samuel  Baker 

*S 


Philip  Lenze 
John  Clark 
W""  Muckelvain 
George  Conoly 
Elijah  Sandford 
John  Terrel 
John  Lawson 
Nathaniel  Loofbourron 
Arch<*  Kerby 
W"  Far  re  r 
Thomas  Clapp 
Diony=  O'Reily 
Joshua  Pell 
Jonathan  Pell 
James  Mitchell 
*Jas  Stivens 
W"  Bathgall 
Patrakin  L  Way 
Geo  bhaw 
Rob'  M^Ginnis 
Geo  Dinkleter 
John  Humey 
David  Mallows,  jr 
David  H  Mallows 
Samuel  Magkee 
Christopher  Hanigar 
John  Maghu 
Adam  Hangegar 
Jacob  Mallows 
W™  Russeli  - 
John  Huggeford 
Jacob  Jirokman 
John  Bicker 
W"'  Caldwell 
Adam  Graves   , 
Nich*  Andrewes 
Jn°  Geo  Graves 
Amory  OlThover 
Christian  Weynan 
Conrad  Andrews 
Geo  Ryme 
Jacob  Shaw 
Rob"  Robertson 
John  Collin 
Robert  Teuton 
Rich  M^Ginnis 
Jacob  Likeson 
Charles  Anno 
John  Slone 
Ab""  Rhyharr. 
John  Forrister 
ignature  somewhat  illcgiblt. — 


John  IM^Ginnis 
Alex"  Hakkett 
John  Patterson 
James  Smith 
John  Holmes 
Henry  Humphrey 
Alex  McGrangham 
Henry  Dawson 
Elijah   Fowler 
John   Dougherty 
James  McNeil 
Thomas  Henning 
Jas  Dickinson 
*James  Trindek 
*J  Laagedney 
Ezekiel  Braman 
Willamgkeen 
John  Robinson 
Thomas  Housten 
Samuel  Barns 
Benjamin  Birdsill 
*Isaac  Davenport 
*Thomas  Davenport 
Andres  Bohaker 
Andres  Bohaker  jr. 
W"  Caldwell 
W"  Mussuls  Pillots 
John  Henderson 
Robert  Beenatt 
Thos  Edwards 
S  Waterbury 
*John  Oman  Sctoh 
I'hos  De  Sokow 
Anthony  Classon 
Christian  Brenan 
Samuel  Strut 
Jasper  Drake 
John  Kennedy 
John  Cottrell 
William  Johnson 
John  Monall 
Thomas  Bowden 
Mic'''  Nugent 
John  Mortal 
Jacob  Brower 
Thomas  Semple 
Sam'  Washburn 
Thomas  Spragg 
Reuben  Finch 
Daniel  Odell 
Andrew  Camdilje 
B.  R. 


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183 


John  Baxter 
Joseph  Dowers 
*Ichuncler  Hill 
*Daniel  Dresser 
*Seeton  Dencosel 
Johannes  Mejer 
Gilbert  Purdy 
Thomas  Purdy 
Lancelot  Smith 
Richard  Debney 
John  Bates 
Jeremiah  Gaus 
John  Faulkner 
George  Woolf 
William  Woderspoon 
James  M'^Lean 
Robart  Hill 
Jeremiah  Rushton 
William  Totten 
Thos  Barker 
Thomas  Wntton 
John  Pilmith 
Samuel  Totten 
Aaron  Fowler 
Joseph  Prichard 
John  Howell 
*Peter  Trarah 
Jonah  Worden 
Cornelius  Steger 
John  Burns 
Abr"  Cunard 
Amos  Lockwood 
Edward  Pryor 
John  Houseman 
Thomas  Bowker 
Eben'  Street 
Thomas  Goudge 
Dennis  Crowin 
Henry  Gower 
Abraham  Golding 
Josiah  Fowler 
Abraham  Tilley 
James  Barron 
Peter  Wood 
Edward  Dowkins 
*William  Murs 
John  Clark 
Peter  Totten 
Matthew  Mangan 
Saml  Marshall 
Andrew  Brown 


Thos  Cunningham 
Thos  Lowrie 
Patrick  M<^Cov 
John  M""Coy' 
John  Mackay 
Joseph  M4vell 
Thomas  Merrill 
Abraham  Iredell 
J"°  Hackett 
Isaac  Atken 
Andrew  Snodgrass 
Ezekiel  Youmans 
James  Ramsey 
James  Hamilton 
John  Ritchie 
Joseph  Galbneath 
John  Hardwick 
David  Peterkin 
David  Smith 
Alex  Munro 
James  Rose 
John  McQueen 
John  Url 
John  Allen 
John  Parker 
*John  Ryan  Yunior 
*John  Ryan  Seynor. 
Thomas  Homnune 
Abraham  Florantine 
Nathl  Dowdney 
James  Gergus 
Gilbert  Bush 
*Zephniah  Tubbs 
Joseph  Tubbs 
John   Martin 
*John  Himes 
Thos  Robblee 
Jeremiah  Mabee 
Andrew  Fowler 
*Benjn  Hunt, Col.  ofthe 

Mil. 
*Will  Branthwaite 
Jn°  Cameron 
*George  Jackoon 
David  Hammili 
Titus  Babb 
John  A  Hardenbrook 
Alexander  Carskadon 
Thomas  Carskadon 
John  Driver 
Michl  McDonnell 


*  Signature  somewhat  illegible. — B 


Abel  Hardenbrook 
Rob'  Cannell 
Eduard  Lockwood 
*Thomas  H  Wagstoffe 
James  V  Bureu 
George  Davis 
Robert  Fenton  Jr 
John  Smith 
Jacob  Brill 
Robert  Thorn 
Thomas  Pearsall    — 
Abel  Southard 
Eben"^  Spiser 
Charles  Cann 
Henry  Pearsall    _- 
Jonathan  Mott 
Elias  Glover 
Daniel  Baldwin 
Wm  King 
Richard  Bonsall 
Nehemiah  Clarke 
Nicholas     A     Harden- 
brook 
Peter  Roome 
Rob'  Wood 
Gideon  Palmer 
James  Mullennex 
Jeremiah  Fowler 
Jeremiah  Fowler,  Jr 
Amory  Fowler 
Abijah  Miller 
Isaac  Baxter 
]\Iillington  Lockwood 
Ambrose  Haight 
VVilet  Carpenter 
Gales  Carpenter 
Daniel  Lyon 
Henry  Watkeys 
Joseph  Robinson 
Jonathan  Fowler 
*Junis  D'Fergen 
Weder  Fowler 
Matthew  Buckley 
Stephen  Embree 
James  Irwin 
Thomas  Seaman 
*Joseph  Vradd 
|on"  Haines 
Jotham  VVillson 
Nathaniel  Taylor 
Jeremiah  Andeson 
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[Oct., 


Daniel  Suttle 
.James  Seacord 
Joseph  Prescott 
John  Miller 
James  Chadwick 
Eph™  San  ford 
Joseph  Smith 
Fossam  Rab 
Joseph  Smith 
W"  Burnese 
Abraham  Bageley 
Isaac  Hammon 
John  Shoemaker 
"W"  Williams 
Edmund  Ward 
Joshua  T  De  St  Croix 
John  Blair 
Henry  Ackerman 
James  Toiten 
W™  Maxey 
John  Wil Irons 
Benjn  Daggett 
Percy  Gilbert 
Ambrose  Cleavland 
Robt  Colefax 
Isaac  Livesay 
Hezekiah  Smith 
Robt  Henley 
Solomon  Hains 
Barney  Waldrom 
Cornelius  Ackerman 
James  Rankin 
W"  White 
John  Stevenson 
Duncan  Ferguson 
Christ'  Carter 
Frederick  Davoue 
*Jacob  Muff 
Simon  Bantal 
Jere''  Hickey 
John  Deforest 
*Thomas  Cunter 
James  Morehouse 
Noah  Morehouse 
Hezekiah  Smith 
Henry  Dusinberry 
Fitch  Rogers 
Jared  Bell 
Henry  Wool  ley 
Stephen  Thome 
John  P^gan 

*Si 


Alex  Murray,  Pilot 

Hugh  Hamilton 

John  Cameron 

James  Blaike 

*Philip  Phmde 

Benj  Lewis 

John  Evins 

Joseph  Burchell 

Jarvis  Roebuck 

Uriah  Pearsall    • 

*James  Brebuch 

W""  Gordon 

W-  Cook 

Robert  Moore 

Jacob  Stamon 

Jacob  Senbeck 

Jesse  Evans 

Robert  Samson 

Thomas  Gillespie 

Danl  Eraser 

Samuel  Kake 

Daniel  Wright 

*John  HenshuU 

Samuel  Jarvis 

Abel  Hardenbrook  jr 

Rob'  Leonard 

J  Leonard 

Danl  Leonard 

Lawrence  Hardwick 

John  Casey 

Daniel  Duncomb 
Abram  Watson 
*Fe'  Conihane 
Samuel  Deveport 
James  Robertson 
Mamon  Jarvis 
Isaac  Bell 
David  Roberts 
Thomas  Hanford 
Joseph  Thome 
John  MT<ill 
Samuel  Dickinson 
John  Miller 
John  Hahan 
Samuel  Clark 
John  M'^Mahon 
John  Perrot 
John  Welsh 
Thos  Berry 
Wn,  Holmes 
David  Wright 
gnature  somewhat  ilJegible.- 


*Mons  Smith 
W    Thorn 
Rogers  Shannon 
Thomas  Nickeson 
Archelaus  Carpenter 
Wj^  Cunningham 
Thomas  North 
Richard  Mathews 
Daniel  Campbell 
W""  Snyder 

Lawrence  Van  Buskirk 
John  Crabb 
Richard  Collier 
John  Reeves 
James  Wall 
Thompson  Harwood 
Matthew  Bartelour 
Thos  WooUey 
Jas  Leonard 
Benj  Archard 
Caleb  Morgan 
James  Inglis 
Stephen  Marchant 
James  Hearn 
*Geo  Bennison 
John  G  Van  Norden 
*Thue  ]31auvelt 
James  Beasley 
James  Jordan 
*Nicholas  Conehein 
W"!  Dumayne 
John  Hockenhull 
Jos  R'*  DePeyster 
W"'  Doty 
*Jes  LeBunnels 
Israel  Rogers 
Ellas  Botner 
W"  Biisard 
John  M^Gil 
Isaac  Keed 
Edward  Arvin 
Jacob  Philips 
James  Carskadon 
W'"  Carskadon 
Benjn  Brooks 
Robert  Barber 
Robert  Mills 
Edwd  Agar 
Joseph  Corvan 
John  Wallace 
John  Smith 
-B.  R. 


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Vie   De    Wilt  Family   of  Ulster   Co.,  N.   V. 


185 


J^^  Jeremiah  Rice 

John  Samcary 

H>'  Nahan 

John  Eagles 

James  Van  Emburgh 

George  Fisher 

Joijn  Tolley 

Richard  Ackerman 

Adonak   Van  Emburgh 

Jer  Connor 

George  Fardo 

W™  Gil  las 

Danl  ElHot 

John  Bridgron 

Isaac  Swayze 

Alex  McDonald 

Joseph  Fox 


John  Burkes 
Nath'  Taylor 
*Leonar(l  Tarrant 
Edward  Taylor 
Joseph  Devoe 
Benjn  Farrar 
Thos  Mounsey 
John  Brecken 
Jas  SprouU 
W"  Sproull 
John  Sproull 
Jehiel  Bartelow 
Francis  King 
Thos  Austin 
Will  Plant 
*James  Wariif 


Leggett  Lawrence 
David  Harper 
Luke  Owens 
James  Banner 
Andrew  Murray 
Alex"^  Watson 
Thomas  Lawrence 
*Jereume  Re 
Daniel  Southick 
Jameson  Cox 
♦W-"  McKechnie 
John  Van  law 
John  Hornor 
Andrew  Lane 
Thomas  King 
*Edward  Jones 


THE   DE  WITT   FAMILY   OF   ULSTER   COUNTY,    NEW 

YORK. 


By  Thomas  G.  Evans. 


(Continued  from  Vol.  XVIII  ,   p.  21,  of  The  Record). 


Family  35. 
Children  0/  Henry*  DeWitt  (90)  and  Maria  Ten  Broek. 

235  i.  Elizabeth*  b.  Dec.  2,  1739;  m.  May,  1769,  Edward 
Whittaker  (bp.  Sept.  27,  1741),  son  of  Edward  Whittaker 
and  Hilletje  Whittaker.  They  had  one  son  Edward 
(b.  May  12,  1770;  d.  Nov.  22,  1848),  who  married 
Catharine  Conklin. 

336.  ii.  TjERCK  Claes*  b.  Sept.  9,  1741  ;  d.  Oct.  7,  181 2  ;  m.  Sept. 
28,  1773,  Jannetje  Eltinge  (bp.  April  10,  1743),  daughter 
of  Jacobus  Eltinge  and  Elizabeth  Hall.  They  had  one 
daughter,  Elizabeth  (bp.  Aug.  13,  1780),  who  died  un- 
married at  Kingston,  N.  Y.,  April  25,  1847, 

2'^'].  iii.  Jacob'  b.  Nov.  21,  1743  ;  d.  at  Norwich,  Conn.,  Sept.  16, 
1814  ;  m.Nov.,  1768,  Martha  Dean  (b.  at  Norwich,  Conn., 
Jan.  27,  1748,  d.  Feb.  1838),  daughter  of  Jabez  Dean. 
He  settled  at  Norwich  in  1765,  where  he  became  promi- 
nent in  mercantile  and  political  life.  Was  first  post- 
master of  Norwich  (1803-1809),  in  which  office  he  was 
succeeded  by  his  son  John  (i 809-1 823),  who  married  a 
daughter  of  Gen.  Jedediah  Huntington. 

238.   iv.   John*  b.  Oct.  11,  1745. 

*  Signature  somewhat  illegible. — B.  R. 


-1 86  The   De   Witt  Family  of  Ulster   Co.,  N.   Y.  [Oct., 

239.  V.  Ann*   bp.    March    13,   1748;    m,    Sept.     24,    1775,    Peter 

Bogardus,  son  of  Petrus  Bogardus  and  Rebecca  Dubois. 

240.  vi.   Henry*  b.  Sept.  8,  1750,  d.  1827,  at  Montreal,  Canada  ;  m. 

May  10,  1772,  at  Norwich,  Conn.,  Hannah,  daughter  of 
Jabez  Dean.  One  of  his  sons,  Jacob*  (b.  at  Wyndham, 
Conn.,  Sept.  17,  1785,  d.  March  23,  1859),  settled  in 
Montreal,  Canada. 

Family  36. 
Children  of  Petrus^  De  Witt  (92)  and  Rachel  Raddiff. 

241.  i.   John*  b.  Feb.  24,  1752  ;  d.  April  28,  1808  ;  m.  April,  1773, 

Catharine   Van  Vliet    (b.   Sept.    15,    1755  ;  d.    Sept.    29, 

1804),  daughter   of  Dirck  Van  Vliet  and  Helen  Weaver. 

Resided    at    Rhinebeck   and  Po'keepsie.     Served  in  the 

Revolution,    and    was    afterwards     Sheriff  of    Dutchess 

County. 
^42.  ii.  HiLLiTjE*  b.  Dec.  31,  1753;  ^-  ^^  Rochester,  Ulster  County, 

N.  Y.,  Sept.  6,  1807,  unmarried. 
243.  iii.   Ann' b.    Oct.    26,  1762  ;  m.  Dec.    22,  1782,   Philip  Dubois 

Bevier  (bp.  Jan.  i,    1752),  son  of  Louis  Bevier  and  Ester 

Dubois. 

Family  37. 
Children  of  Andries*  DeWitt  (109)  and  fannetje  Vernooy. 

zi,i\.  i.  Anna^  bp.  May  23,  1749;  d.  Jan.  20,  1819  ;  m.  April  5, 
1778,  Hugo  Freer  of  New  Paltz  (b.  July  26,  1749  ;  d. 
Oct.  13  1808),  son  of  Gerret  Freer  and  Maria  Freer. 

245.  ii.   Egbert' b.   Oct.    2,    1750;    d.   March  25,   1816;  m.   Eliza- 

beth Smith  (bp.  Dec.  18,  1755),  daughter  of  Hendrich 
Smith  and  Sarah  Keator. 

246.  iii.  Maria' b.  April  28,  1750. 

246^^.  iv.  John  A.®  bp.  Nov.  15,  1753  ;  d.  Oct.  4,  1818  ;  m.  (i)  April 
19,  1776,  Rachel  Bevier  (b.  Aug,  31,  1750;  d.  Oct.  11, 
1 781),  daughter  of  Samuel  Bevier  and  Sara  Lefever  ; 
m.  (2)  1783,  Magdalena  Bevier  (d.  Aug.  8,  1797,  at  Ithaca, 
N.  Y.)  daughter  of  Philip  Bevier;  m.  (3)  Jan.  11,  1801, 
•  Maria  Vernooy  (b.  Jan  2,  1776;  d.  March  7,  1859), 
daughter  of  Nathan  Vernooy  and  Jenneke  Hoornbeck. 

247.  V.  CoRNELis' bp.  July  21,  1775. 

248.  vi.  Simeon*  bp..  Dec.  26,  1756  ;    d.  Dec.  3,  1834  ;    m.  (i)  Oct. 

12,  1786,  Elizabeth  Lynott  (b.  Jan.  3,  1767  ;  d.  Dec.  13, 
1793)  ;  m  (2)Janneke  Varick  (b.  May  18,  1780;  d.  April 
10,  1808),  daughter  of  John  Varick  and  Jane  Dey,  and 
widow  of  Abraham  Hardenberg;  m  (3)  Oct.  29,  1810, 
Susan  Linn  (b.  Oct.  30,  1778  ;  d.  May  5,  1824),  daugh- 
ter of  Rev.  William  Linn  and  Rebecca  Blair.  Served, 
during  the  Revolutionary  War  as  geographer  to  the  Con- 
.  tinental  Army  and  as  Chief  of  Topographical  Engineers. 
Surveyor-General  of  New  York  1 784-1 834.  In  this  capac- 
ity he  surveyed  the  public  lands  of  the  State  and  superin- 


251. 

X, 

252. 

xi. 

253- 

xii. 

254. 

xiii 

255- 

xiv. 

1890.]  The   De    Witt  Family   of  Ulster    Co.,  N.    F.  187 

tended  the  laying  out  of  the  Erie  Canal.  Was  Regent  of 
the  University  from  1798  until  his  death,  serving  from 
1829  as  Chancellor.  Was  also  one  of  the  Commissioners 
to  locate  the  boundary  line  between  New  York  and 
Pennsylvania.      Member  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati. 

249.  vii.  William^  b.  Dec.  17,  1758. 

249I.  viii.  Janneke*  b.  1760;  m.  John  C.  Hardenberg,  of  Hurley  (bp. 
Feb.  22,  1756  :  d.  1833),  son  of  Charles  Hardenberg  and 
Catharine  Smedes. 

250.  ix.   Catharine^  bp.    Sept.    20,  1762  ;   died  Aug.  24,  1850  ;    m. 

Nathaniel    Bevier  (bp.    April  17,   1756),   son  of  Johannes 

Bevier  and  Magdalena  Lefever, 
Andries  a.®  bp.  Jan.  20,  1766  ;  d.  March  10,  1851. 
Sarah'  bp.  Feb.  2,  1767. 
Elizabeth'^  b,   June    24,  1769  ;  m.  Dec.22,    1801,  Henry 

Guest. 

LEVi*b.  Oct.  7,  1 77 1. 
Benjamin*  b.  Dec.  26,    1775  ;  d.   Sept.   10,    18 19,  at  New 

York  City  ;    m.  Sept.   27,  1800,    Eve  Bloodgood    (b.  at 

Albany,  N.  Y.,    March  27,    1777  ;   d.    May    21,    1832), 

daughter  of  James  Bloodgood  and  Lydia  Van  Valkenburg. 

Was  a  physician.     Served  for  some  time  as  Health  Officer 

at  the  Port  of  New  York. 

Family  38, 
Children  0/ Jacob  Rutsen^  De  Witt  (no)  and  Jenneke  Depuy. 

256.  i.   Mary*  b.  1756  ;  m.  William  Rose  of  Little  Britain. 

257.  ii.  Margaret^  b.  1757  ;  m.  Petrus  Cuddeback  (bp.  Nov.  25, 
1763),  son  of  Abraham  Cuddeback  and  Ester  Swartwout, 
Removed  to  Western  New  York,  near  Skeneateles. 

258.  iii.    Elizabeth^ 

259.  iv.  Hannah*  m.  Jacobus  Ennes,  son  of  Daniel  Ennes  of  New 
Jersey. 

260.  v.  Janneke*  m.  Abram  Cuddeback  (bp.  April  22,  1760),  son 
of  Abram  Cuddeback  and  Ester  Swartwont.  Removed 
to  Western  New  York. 

261.  vi.  Rachel*  b.  1762;  d.  June  \,  1830;  m.  June  9,  1784, 
Robert  Burnet  (b.  Feb.  22,  1762,  in  Orange  Co.,  N.  Y. ; 
d.  Nov.  24,  1854),  son  of  James  Burnet.  Robert  Burnet 
served  with  distinction  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  He 
was  the  last  survivor  of  the  original  members  of  the 
Society  of  the  Cincinnati. 

262.  vii.  Esther*' m.  James  Depuy,  son  of  Benjamin  Depuy,  of 
Peenpack.     Removed  to  Onondaga,  N.  Y. 

263.  viii.  MosEs'  b.  Oct.  15,  1766;  d.  Aug.  15,  1794,  unmarried. 
He  was  by  profession  a  surveyor,  and  assisted  in  running 
the  line  between  New  York  and  Pennsylvania,  and  in 
laying  out  the  militar}'  lands  of  New  York  State.  He 
was  also  County  Judge  and  Surrogate  of  Herkimer  and 
Onondaga  Counties. 

264.  ix.   Egbert*  b.  April  26,  1768  ;  d.  May  30,  1793,  unmarried. 


l88  The   De   Wiit  Family   of  Lister   Co.,  N.   V.  [Oct., 

265.  X.  Jacob  Rutsen*  b.  April   12,    1776;  d,  Dec.  18,    1821  ;  m. 

Sept.  I,  1799,  Rachel  Hardenberg  (b.  May  11,  1775  !  d- 
Oct.  2,  1861),  daughter  of  Philip  Hardenburg  and  Maria 
Elmendorf. 

Family  39. 
Children  0/  William^  De  Witt  ( 1 1 1 )  and  Susannah  Chambers. 

266.  i.    Reuben^  bp.  April  25,  1763. 

267.  ii.   Egbert' bp.  Feb    11,  1766. 

268.  iii.    Ben'jamin*  bp.  Nov.  29,   1767. 

269.  iv.   William**  b.  April  3,  1769. 

270.  V.   Jacobus'  b.  Nov.  6,  1770. 

271.  vi.    Maria'  b.  July  9,  1774. 

272.  vii.   Stephen'  bp.  June  30,  1776  ;  m.  Anne  Newkerk  (bp.  Feb. 

2,  1780),  daughter  of  Benjamin  Newkerk  and  Margaret 
Brodhead. 

273.  viii.   Dinah'  b.  March  19,  1778. 

274.  ix.    David'  b.  Feb.  23,  1782.  ^ 

275.  X.   Jesse' b.  Sept.  13,  1784. 

276.  xi.   Elizabeth'  b.  Aug.  7,  1786. 

277.  xii.   Adam' b.  Oct.  17,  1789. 

Family  40. 
Children  of  John  E.*  De  Witt  (112)  -tind  Catharine  Newkerk. 

278.  i.  Neeltje'  bp.  Oct.  16,  1766. 

279.  ii.    Margaret^  b.  May  6,   1768. 

280.  iii.    Mary'  b.  Aug  8,  1769. 

281.  iv.   Leah'  b. 

282.  V.  Jannetje'  b.  1 77 1  ;  d.  young. 

Family  41. 
Children  of  Stephen^  De  Witt  (113)  and  Wyntje  Brodhead. 

283.  i.   John' b.   Aug.   21,    1771  ;  d.    May   11,    1845;  m.  June   6, 

18 13,  Sarah  Hoornbeck  (bp.  Aug.  25,  1776  ;  d.  April  14, 
1850),  daughter  of  Johannes  Hoornbeck  and  Maria  Ver- 
nooy.  Resided  at  Warwarsing,  Ulster  Co.,  N.  Y.  Had 
one  son,  Stephen  Egbert*,  b.  June  6,  181 5  ;  d.  Sept.  28, 
1834. 

284.  ii.   Mary'  b.  Sept.  18,  1774  ;  d.  Feb.  7,   1S41,  unmarried. 

285.  iii.   Anna'  b.  May  16,  1777  ;  d.  Aug.  27,  1826,  unmarried. 

286.  iv.   Egbert'  b.  April  15,  1780  ;  d.  Jan.  13,  1813,  unmarried. 

287.  V.   Rachel'  b.  Sept.  26,  1785  ;  d.  Sept.  24,  1871,  unmarried. 

Family  42. 
Children  of  Mary*  DeWitt  (i  14)  and  James  Clinton. 

288.  i.  Alexander' b.  1765  ;  d.  March  15,  17S7,  unmarried.     Ap- 

pointed Ensign  ist  Regiment  Continental  Line,  Sept.  29, 
1780;  Lieut.  2d  Artillery — Col.  Lamb's — June  29,  1781. 


291. 

IV 

292. 

V. 

293- 

vi 

294. 

vii 

1890.]  The  De   Witt  Family  of  Ulster   Co.,  N.   F.  189 

Private  Secretary  of  his  uncle,  Gov.  George  Clinton, 
Member  of  the  Cincinnati  Society.  Was  drowned  while 
crossing  the  Hudson  River  at  Bulls  Ferry 
2S9  ii,  Charles^  b.  Feb.  18,  1767  ;  m.  Elizabeth  Mulliner. 
290.  iii.  DeWitt'  b.  March  2,  1769  ;  d.  while  Governor  of  the  State 
of  New  York,  Feb.  11,  1828  ;  m.  (i)  Maria  Franklin  ; 
m.  (2)  Catharine  Jones,  Was  Mayor  of  New  York  City, 
United  States  Senator,  and  twice  Governor  of  the  State, 

George^  b.  June  6,  1771  ;  m.  Hannah  Franklin. 

Mary^  J).  June   20,    1773  ;   m.    (i)   R.  B.  Norton,  (2)  

Spencer. 

Elizabeth^  b.  Jan.  15,  1776;   m.  William  Stuart. 

Catharine^  b.   Sept.   24,    1778;  m.    (i)  S.  Norton,  (2)  A. 
Spencer. 

Family  43. 

Children  of  Thof?ias^  De  Witt  (116)  and  Elsie  Hashrcuck. 

295.  i.  Mary^  b.  May  3,  1783  ;  d.  April  12,  1833  ;  m.  June  28, 
1814,  David  W,  Thorp  (b.  Mav2i,  1784;  d.  Feb.  14, 
1816).  ■**''"^ 

296.  ii.  Jacob  Hasbrouck*  b.  Oct.  2,  1784  :  d.  Jan,  30,  1857  ;  m.  (i) 
Feb,  20,  1816,  Mary  Ann  Myer  (b,  July  11,  1797  ;  d.  July 
13,  18 16)  daughter  of  Hendricus  Myer  and  Maria  Per- 
sen  ;  m,  (2)  May  i,  1822,  Sarah  Ann  Sleight  (b.  March 
17,  1801  ;  d.  May  22,  1872),  daughter  of  John  A,  Sleight 
and  Alletta  Swartwout.  Resided  at  Kingston,  N.  Y. 
Served  as  Adjutant  in  the  War  of  181 2,  and  afterward  re- 
ceived a  commission  as  Colonel  of  the  State  Militia. 
Member  of  Congress  1819-21,  Member  of  Assembly,  N. 
Y,,  1839  and  1847. 

297.  iii.  Reuben^  b.  July  29,  1787  ;  d.  Aug.  7,  1859,  unmarried. 

298.  iv.  Joseph*  b.  Dec.  31,  1788  ;   d.  April  29,  1814,   unmarried. 

299.  V.  Thomas*  b.  Sept.  13,  1791  ;  d.  May  18,  1874  ;  m.  Oct.  16, 
1826,  Eliza  Ann  W^aterman  (b.  d,  Oct.  5,  1873), 
daughter  of  jedediah  Waterman  and  Julia  Piummer ; 
graduated  from  Union  College  in  1808,  and  from  the  New 
Brunswick  Theological  Seminary  in  1812.  Dr.  De  Witt 
was  one  of  the  most  learned  and  able  theologians  of  his 
time,  and  was  for  many  years  senior  pastor  of  the  Collegiate 
Church  (Dutch  Reformed)  of  New  York  City.  Was  Presi- 
dent of  the  New  York  Historical  Society.  A  sketch  of 
him  will  be  found  in  vol.  v.,  p.  161  of  the  Record. 

Family  44. 
Children  of  Reiihen^  De  Witt  (118)  and  Elizabeth  Deptiy. 

300.  i.  Maria"  b.  Jan.  25,  1773  ;  m.  Abram  Vernooy  (bp.  April 
26,  1763),  son  of  Cornelius  Vernooy  and  Maria  Bevier  ; 
m.  (2)  Roeloff  Hasbrouck  (b.  Sept.  26,  1766),  son  of 
Petrus  Hasbrouck  and  Sarah  Bevier, 

301.  ii.  Margaret^  bp.  Oct,  27,  1775;  m,  Jan.  10,  1799,  Garrett 
Mandeville. 


I  go  Notes   and   Queries.  [Oct., 

^2.     iii.   IMosEs  Depuv'   b.  July  io,    1778;    d.    March  9,    1830;  m. 
Jane  Hosack. 

303.  iv.  Elizabeth^  bp.  Nov,  17,  1781  ;  m.   Benjamin  I.  Leggat. 

304.  V.   CATRYNTjE'bJan.  16,  1784;  d.  Nov.  18,  1847;  m.  Cornelius 

I.  Hornbeck  (b.  Sept.  15,  1780  ;  d.  Aug.  21,  1820),  son 
of  Johannes  Hornbeck  and  Maria  Vernooy. 

305.  vi.  James  Clinton^  b.  July    18,  1786  ;  d.  i83i;'m.  Elizabeth 

Depuy  (b.  March  2,  1789  ;  d.  Sept.  17,  1850),  daughter 
of  Cornelius  Depuy  and  Sarah  Vernooy. 

306.  vii.   Sarah*  b.  Dec.  19,  1789  ;  d.  March  25,  1848  ;    m.   Tjerck 

Bevier,  son  of  Benjamin  Bevier  and  Leah  Roosa. 

307.  viii.  Egbert''   b.    Sept    22,    1792  ;  m.    Aug.   20,    18 14,   Maria 

Bruyn  (bp.  Jan.  13,  1782),  daughter  of  Benjamin  Bruyn 
and  Sarah  Depuy. 

308.  ix.  John*  b.  Nov.  2,  1795. 

(  To  be  continued.^ 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

General  Wilson,  who  has  been  spending  the  summer  with  his  family  among  the 
Thousand  Islands  and  in  Canada,  writes  from  Quebec,  under  dale  12th  Sept., 
1890:  "There  is  much  interest  displayed  in  genealogy  in  the  Province  of  Quebec, 
and  more  particularly  among  the  old  French  families.  At  the  present  time  a  large 
and  expensive  work  on  this  subject  is  in  course  of  publication,  of  which  four  volumes 
have  already  appeared.  The  ancient  capital  of  Canada  possesses  two  excellent 
libraries,  each  containing  above  one  hundred  thousand  volumes — the  collection  in 
l.aval  University  and  the  Parliament  Library.  In  the  latter  noble  building,  recently 
completed  at  a  cost  of  about  one  and  a  half  million  of  dollars,  may  be  seen  in  ex- 
cellent condition,  all,  or  nearly  all,  the  original  archives  of  New  France  before  the 
Conquest  by  Great  Britain  in  1760.  Many  of  the  most  important  of  these,  which  I 
had  the  privilege  of  examining  yesterday,  are  to  be  printed  by  the  Province  of  Quebec. 
Five  quarto  volumes  of  these  most  valuable  records,  covering  the  period  from  1663  to 
I70g,  each  containing  about  fifteen  hundred  pages,  I  have  obtained,  with  some  other 
works  concerning  Canadian  biography  and  history,  for  addition  to  our  Society's  col- 
lections. Tiie  archives  relating  to  this  country  since  its  acquisition  by  England  are 
complete,  and  very  carefully  preserved  in  the  large  and  excellent  library  at  Ottawa. 
A  portion  of  these  have  also  been  printed  by  the  Dominion  Government. 

"  I  have  been  so  fortunate  as  to  find  a  valuable  unpublished  contemporary  account 
of  the  Canadian  campaign  of  1759,  ^^'^^  authorship  of  which  is  uncertain,  but  it  is 
believed  to  be  from  the  pen  of  James  Thompson,  so  far  as  known  the  last  survivor  of 
Wolfe's  army,  which  achieved  the  conquest  of  Canada.  He  died  in  1830,  in  his 
ninety-ninth  year.  The  document,  of  sixty  quarto  pages,  is  in  the  form  of  a  diary, 
beginning  April  8th  and  concluding  September  i8th,  the  day  of  the  signing  of  the  capit- 
ulation of  the  city  of  Quebec,  and  is  entitled,  '  A  Short  Account  of  the  Expedition 
against  Quebec,  Commanded  by  Major-General  James  Wolfe  in  1759,  ^X  ^  Volunteer 
upon  that  Expedition.' 

"  There  are  in  Quebec  two  excellent  societies  which  are  doing  a  great  deal  to  pre- 
serve the  biography,  genealogy,  and  history  of  the  Province — the  Canadian  His- 
torical Association,  and  the  Literary  and  Historical  Society.  Of  the  latter,  J.  M. 
Lemoine,  the  well-known  author  of  many  valuable  contributions  to  the  history  of 
Lower  Canada,  was  lately  the  President,  and  was  succeeded  in  1884  by  George 
Stewart,  Jr.,  D.C.L.,  the  accomplished  editor  of  the  Quebec  Chronicle,  and  contributor 
to  the  current  literature  of  Canada. 


1890.]  Noies   and  Queries. 


191 


"The  proceedings  of  the  Ninth  Annual  Meeting  of  the  American  Forestry  As- 
sociation, which  was  held  in  the  historic  city  of  Quebec  during  the  first  week  of  Sep- 
tember, were  of  the  greatest  interest  to  the  people  of  the  Dominion  of  Canada  and 
the  United  States.  The  wholesale  destruction  of  tiie  forests  in  our  country  and 
Canada,  is  one  of  the  most  deplorable  facts  connected  with  the  settlement  of  the 
American  Continent.  '  To  get  rid  of  the  timber,'  was  the  answer  sent  from  the 
State  of  Arkansas  ten  years  ago  to  the  Michigan  State  Forestry  Commission  when 
inquiring  about  that  State's  policy  respecting  its  timber.  The  criminal  wastefulness 
with  which  the  magnificent  forest  lands  have  been  devastated  would  be  incredible, 
if  we  had  not  before  us  the  statistics  presented  in  the  many  valuable  papers  prepared 
for,  and  read  to,  the  members  of  the  Association  at  the  Quebec  meeting,  and  which 
will  speedily  be  published  in  pamphlet  form. 

"  Two  interesting  incidents  of  the  most  successful  meeting  of  the  Association  ever 
held,  was  a  visit  of  the  venerable  chief  of  the  once  powerful  Hurons,  and  the 
planting  in  the  new  Parliament  grounds  of  two  hickory  trees  sent  from  The  Hermit- 
age, Gen.  Andrew  Jackson's  old  home  in  Tennessee,  The  chief  Sioni,  who  was 
accompanied  by  his  son,  both  in  full  Indian  dress,  addressed  in  French  the  members 
of  the  Association,  as  follows  : 

"  'We  are  the  children  of  the  forest,  come  to  welcome  the  friends  of  the  forest. 
I  wish  you  for  my  people  joy  and  success  in  your  good  work.  When  I  was  a  child 
I  lived  in  the  forest  ;  1  wish  to  die  there.  We  are  few  in  number  ;  we  are  passing 
away  with  our  forest  homes.  Protect  us,  and  you  will  have  the  prayers  of  the  Hurons, 
and  the  gratitude  of  their  hearts.      Farewell  !'  " 

"  The  small  steep-roofed  house  in  the  ancient  fortressed  city  of  Canada  where  the 
body  of  the  gallant  General  Richard  Montgomery  was  carried  the  morning  after  his 
death,  on  the  last  day  of  the  year  1775,  has  just  been  taken  down  to  make  way  for  a 
modern  building.  It  was  for  more  than  a  century  an  object  of  the  deepest  interest  to 
all  American  tourists.  W'hen  the  writer  first  saw  it,  a  dozen  years  ago,  he  inquired 
of  the  custodian  if  many  persons  visited  the  old  French  house,  to  which,  not  recog- 
nizing the  nationality  of  the  speaker  and  his  companion,  he  made  answer  :  "  There's 
lots  of  ihem  Yankees  come  to  see  it."  The  building  almost  directly  opposite,  known 
as  No.  81  St.  Louis  Street,  where  the  historian  William  Smith  died,  and  where  Gen- 
eral Winfield  Scott  resided  when  .  prisoner  of  war  for  several  months  in  1812-13,  is 
now  being  converted  into  a  club-house." 

One  of  the  few  manorial  families  of  New  England  is  the  Bradford  family  ; 
although  it  is  not  generally  known,  Governor  Bradford  of  the  Plymouth  Colony 
was,  about  1630,  offered  manorial  privileges  by  the  Council  for  New  England,  whose 
President  was  the  Earl  of  Warwick  ;  the  patent  ran  to  William  Bradford  and  his 
heirs  forever,  who  were  given  the  right  to  hold  the  present  counties  of  Barnstable 
and  Plymouth  as  a  Manor,  and  the  other  colonists  as  their  tenants  and  subordinates. 
This  patent  is  still  preserved  among  the  Plymouth  registry  of  deeds.  Governor 
Bradford  would  have  been  well  fitted  to  have  become  Lord  of  the  Manor,  had  he  so 
chosen,  for,  although  poor,  he  came  of  an  ancient  and  good  family.  The  Bradfords 
of  England  were  settled  there  before  William  the  Conqueror  was  heard  of,  and  the 
Yorkshire  branch  from  which  the  Governor  sprang  bore  many  titled  and  valiant 
sons  ;  the  Governor's  direct  ancestor,  his  grandfather,  was  a  county  squire  of  promi- 
nence, and  his  father  a  man  of  cultivation,  if  not  distinction  ;  dying  young,  he  left 
his  son  to  the  care  of  relatives,  but  young  William  fled  to  Holland  to  escape  the  per- 
secution which  threatened  all  Puritans,  and,  a'fter  he  became  of  age,  sold  his  paternal 
estate  and  entered  into  trade,  the  first  of  his  race  who  had  done  so.  In  1620  Brad- 
ford came  to  America  on  the  "  Mayflower,"  and  made  a  name  for  himself  and  his  pos- 
terity by  becoming  the  Governor  of  the  famous  Plymouth  Colony.  Many  of  his 
descendants  now  reside  in  New  England  and  a  few  in  New  York  City,  among  whom 
may  be  mentioned  Mrs.  Schuyler  Crowninshield,  Mrs.  Lindsay  Fairfax,  William  PI. 
Bradford,  and  others. 

Who  were  the  wives  of  the  following  men  ? 

Rev.  Stephen  Batchelder,  of  Lynn,  1637. 

Lieut. -Gov.  James  Bishop,  of  New  Haven,  1670. 

Humphry  Brown,  whose  daughter  Content  married  John  Rathbone,  1751. 

Tristram  Dodge,  of  Kingston,  R.  I.,  1663. 

Thomas  Ford,  of  Dorchester,  1643. 


IQ2  Notes  and  Queries.  [Oct., 

Thomas  Hopkins,  of  Providence,  1640. 
Richard  Smith,  of  Narragansett  Co.,  R.  I,  1637. 
Richard  Strong,  fatiier  of  John  Strong,  of  Dorchester,  1635. 
David  Sutherland,  of  Bangali,  N.  Y.,  1760. 
Anthony  Tlionipson,  of  New  Haven,  1632. 

William  Wood,  of  Dartmouth,  whose  daughter,  Anstis,  was  born  7th  September, 
1823. 

Who  were  the  parents  of  Ichabod  Hopkins,  of  Oyster  Bay,  born  1669,  died  1730? 

Who  were  the  parents  of  Thomas  Merritt,  of  Rye,  N,  Y.,  1680-1717  ? 

Who  were  the  parents  of  George  Wightman,  of  Kingston,  R.I.,  died  January,  1722? 

Douglas  Merritt, 
Leacote,  Rhinebeck,  N.  Y. 

John  Vanderlyn,  the  distinguished  American  painter,  was  born  in  Kingston, 
N.  Y.,  in  1776,  and  died  there  in  1852.  The  leading  events  of  his  life,  as  given 
by  Dunlap  and  Tuckerman,  are  loo  well  known  to  require  repetition  'here.  His 
fame  as  an  artist  is  chiefly  based  upon  his  portraits  of  many  men  prominent  in  politi- 
cal and  literary  life,  and  upon  his  "  Marius  Seated  upon  the  Ruins  of  Carthage," 
for  which  Napoleon  awarded  the  artist  a  gold  medal  in  180S,  his  "  Ariadne,"  and 
his  "  Landing  of  Columbus,"  which  for  neaily  forty-five  years  has  graced  the  rotunda 
of  the  Capitol  at  Washington.  For  several  years,  in  odd  moments  of  leisure,  I  ha-.j 
been  collecting  material  for  Vanderlyn's  life  and  a  catalogue  of  his  portraits  and  otb.er 
paintings,  and  in  the  further  prosecution  of  this  work  I  desire  to  crave  the  coopera- 
tion of  the  readers  of  the  Record.  I  shall  be  grateful  for  copies  of  any  original 
letters  of  Vanderlyn,  for  facts  and  incidents  relating  to  his  life  and  character,  for 
personal  recollections  concerning  him,  for  references  to  him  in  out-of-the-way  books, 
pamphlets,  and  newspapers,  and  for  any  information  that  will  lead  to  the  discovery  or 
identification  of  his  paintings,  portraits  or  others,  whether  in  public  collections  or 
private  hands.  Information  bearing  on  any  of  these  points,  however  apparently 
unimportant,  will  be  cordially  appreciated. 

RoswELL  Randall  Hoes.   Chaplain  U.  S.N., 

Care  of  Navy  Dep't,  Washington,  D.  C. 

I  DESIRE  to  correct  two  errors  in  the  "  Inscriptions  in  the  Graveyard  at 
Morgan  Manor,  South  Amboy,  N.  J."  The  first  correction  should  be  the  inser- 
tion of  the  letter  /  in  Everson  ;  the  name  is  Evertson,  although  in  many  instances 
the  t  has  been  left  out,  but  should  like  to  have  it  corrected,  Nicholas  Evertson.  The 
second  correction  :  Catherine,  wife  of  Col.  James  Morgan,  was  Catherine  Van 
Broekel,  not  Catherine  Van  Cortlandt  ;  the  second  wife  (Ann)  of  Colonel  Morgan 
was  Ann  Van  Wickle,  daughter  of  Simon  Van  Wickle  and  Ann  Van  Cortlandt. 
In  the  January  number  of  the  Record,  in  "  Records  of  Morgan  of  South  Amboy, 
N.  J.,"  "  James  Morgan  married  Margaret  Evertson"  not  M.  Everson.  In  the 
eighth  line  of  the  article  make  it  read  "  son  of  James  and  Margaret  Evertson 
Morgan." 

Margaret  Herbert  Mather. 

The  celebration  of  the  semi-bi-centennial  of  the  ancient  town  of  Southold,  Long 
Island,  was  very  well  attended  on  the  27th  August.  An  eloquent  address  was  de- 
livered in  the  morning  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Richard  H.  Storrs,  of  Brooklyn,  which  was 
published  in  the  Brooklyn  Eagle  and  also  in  a  religious  review.  Open-air  exercises 
were  held  later  in  the  day,  each  of  the  old  towns  having  its  representative,  and  being 
offered  an  opportunity  of  speaking  its  view.  In  the  afternoon  our  associate,  Mr. 
Charles  B.  ^ioore,  delivered  an  historical  address,  of  which  brief  mention  is  made  in 
another  column. 

An  account  of  the  Centennial  Anniversary  (a  somewhat  peculiar  way  of  describ- 
ing a  commemoration — anniversaries  come  oftener  than  once  in  a  hundred  years)  of 
the  decease  of  Benjamin  Franklin  is  given  in  the  proceedingsof  the  American  Philo- 
sophical Society,  Vol.  XXVIIL,  No.  133,  dated  April  17,  1890. 


1890.]  Book  Notices. 


193 


The  first  address  of  the  season  of  1890-91,  it  is  expected,  will  be  delivered  at  the 
Society's  hall,  23  West  44th  Street,  on  Friday  evening,  October  loth,  by  Mr.  Josiah 
C.  Pumpelly,  of  Morristown,  New  Jersey.  Addresses  will  be  delivered  by  prominent 
speakers  on  the  second  Friday  evening  of  each  month  during  the  winter  and  spring. 


BOOK  NOTICES. 


Memoirs  of  Matthew  Clarkson,  of  Philadelphia,  1735-1800,  by  his  great- 
grandson,  John  Hall  ;  and  of  his  brother,  Gerardus  Clarkson,  j 737-1790,  by  his 
great-grandson,  Samuel  Clarkson.  Svo,  pp.  260.  Philadelphia.  Thomson  Print- 
ing Co.      1890. 

This  elegant  book  contains  the  lives  of  two  distinguished  citizens  of  Philadelphia, 
members  of  a  branch  of  a  family  which  has  been  long  honored  and  respected  in  New 
York.  The  common  ancestor,  Matthew  Clarkson,  was  Secretary  of  tne  Province  of 
New  York  in  the  time  of  William  and  Mary.  The  following  particulars  may  be 
added  to  the  account  which  is  given  of  him  by  Mr.  Hall  :  During  one  of  the  periods 
of  yellow  fever  which,  in  those  days,  frequently  ravaged  New  York,  Secretary  Clarkson 
retired  to  the  village  of  Jamaica,  I..  I.,  which  was  at  that  time  a  favorite  resort  of  the 
better  class  of  New  Yorkers.  He  died  there  in  1702  of  the  very  disease  from  whicli 
he  had  hoped  to  escape.  He  is  believed  to  have  been  burjed  in  the  old  stone  church, 
a  historical  building,  for  the  possession  of  which  a  long  and  bitter  controversy  raged 
between  Lord  Cornbury  and  the  Churchinen  on  one  side  and  the  Puritan  population 
Oil  the  other.  There  is  no  record  of  his  burial  and  no  trace  of  his  grave.  The 
bodies  in  the  old  church  were  removed  when  it  was  pulled  down  about  1821,  but 
little  or  no  pains  seem  to  have  been  taken  to  preserve  their  identity.  Careful 
searches  in  the  parish  church-yard  and  the  older  burial  ground  of  the  Dutch  and 
Presbyterian  congregations  have  given  no  information.  Mr.  Hall  is  to  be  congratu- 
lated upon  the  mental  vigor  which  he  displays  at  the  age  of  eighty-five. 

Some  of  the  Descendants  of  John  and  Elinor  W^hitney,  who  Settled  in 
Watertown,  Massachusetts,  in  1635.  Compiled  by  William  L.  Whitney, 
loi  pp.,  Svo,  cloth.     Potlsville,  Pa.      1890. 

The  name  Whitney  is  of  Saxon  origin,  and  there  is  a  Parish  of  Whitney  in  Oxford- 
shire. In  early  days  of  English  history  the  family  seat  was  in  Herefordshire,  and 
they  were  Lords  of  the  Manor  of  Whitney.  In  the  Church  of  St.  Giles,  Cripplegate, 
the  writer  saw  last  year,  when  visiting  the  graves  of  Milton  and  John  Fox,  a  massive 
monument,  with  her  effigy,  to  Constance  Whitney,  a  granddaughter  of  Sir  Thomas 
Lucy,  of  Charlcote,  who  prosecuted  his  townsman,  Shakespeare,  for  shooting  deer. 
The  Whitney  family  of  the  United  States  is  very  numerous,  and  many  of  them  are 
the  descendants  of  John  and  Elinor  Whitney,  of  Watertown.  As  yet  no  relationship 
has  been  traced  between  the  Massachusetts  family  and  Henry  Whitney  of  Norwalk, 
Conn.,  a  genealogy  of  whose  descendants,  in  three  quarto  volumes,  was  compiled  by 
Stephen  Whitney,  Phoenix,  in  1878.  Both  of  these  valuable  works  were  privately 
printed,  and  they  each  contain  carefully  prepared  indexes.  As  the  title  of  the 
volume  under  notice  indicates,  it  does  not  purport  to  be  a  complete  genealogy  of  the 
descendants  of  John  and  Elinor  Whitney.  J.  G.  W. 

A  History  of  Deerpark  in  Orange  County,  N.  Y.,  by  Peter  E.  Gumaer. 
i2mo,  pp.  204.     Port  Jervis,  1890. 

The  Minnisink  region,  lying  chiefly  in  the  south-western  part  of  Orange  County, 
N.  Y.,  is  full  of  interest  to  students  of  the  early  history  of  this  Stale.  It  was 
settled  about  1690  by  pioneers  from  Kingston,  among  whom  were  Pierre  Guimard, 
Jacques  Candebec,  and  the  three  sons  of  Roeloff  Swartwout,  the  first  sheriff  of 
Ulster  County.  During  the  Revolution  it  was  the  theatre  of  numerous  Indian 
depredations  under  Brandt  and  other  savage  leaders,  and  it  was  there  that  the  battle 
of  Minnisink  was    fought  in  1779.      The  Minnisink  Valley  Historical  Society  has  re- 


IQ/j.  Book  Notices.  [Oct.,  1890. 

cently  puhlished,  under  the  above  title,  an  account  of  this  region  and  its  people,  by 
the  late  Peter  E.  Gumaer,  a  descendant  of  one  of  the  original  settlers.  Mr.  Gumaer 
who  died  in  1869,  at  the  great  age  of  gS  years,  had,  in  his  early  days,  gathered  a  great 
store  of  historical  anecdote  and  personal  reminiscence  from  the  lips  of  the  then 
"oldest  inhabitants  ;"  and  this  volume,  the  manuscript  of  which  was  found  among  his 
papers  after  his  death,  contains  much  valuable  and  curious  information  about  the 
habits  and  customs  in  that  region  a  century  and  a  half  ago.  The  Minnisink  Valley 
Historical  Society  is  to  be  congratulated  upon  the  publication  of  this  important 
contribution  to  our  knowledge  of  those  early  days. 


The  Wights  :  A  Record  of  Thomas  Wight,  of  Dedham  and  Medfield, 
AND  of  His  Descendants,  1635-1890.  By  William  Ward  White,  one  of  the  descend- 
ants, 357pp.  .quarto.     Milwaukee,  \\"is.,  iSgo. 

This  is  a  carefully  prepared  genealogy  of  ten  generations  of  the  American  Wights, 
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information  is  obtainable.  Four  indexes  greatly  enhance  the  value  of  the  volume. 
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marrying Families,  and  of  Places,  It  also  includes  an  exceedingly  valuable  list  of 
authoriiics,  extending  to  upward  of  three  hundred  titles,  and  wmva^xova  facsimiles 
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consin publishers.  j.  o.  w. 

The  Hawley  Record.  By  Eiias  S.  Hawley.  Folio,  pp.  592.  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
E.  H.  Hutchinson  &  Co.     1890. 

The  author  of  this  sumptuous  volume  h^s  given  the  genealogy  of  the  Massachu- 
setts and  Connecticut  line  of  Hawleys,  together  with  unconnected  families  and  names, 
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Weather  Record  for  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey,  1847-1S90.  By  P.  Van- 
derbilt  Spader.     8vo,  pp.  413.    Somerville,  New  Jersey,  1890. 

For  nearly  half  a  century  Mr.  P.  V.  Spader,  a  gentleman  of  leisure,  preserved  a 
careful  reconl  of  the  weather  of  his  native  town,  and  only  ceased  recording  his  obser- 
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der's portrait  and  a  view  of  the  house  where  the  record  was  kept,  and  in  which  he 
was  born  in  1829.  j.   G.  w. 

Historical  Address  of  Charles  B.  Moore,  of  New  York,  before  a  Meeting 
of  the  Town  and  Church   of  Southold,  L.  I.,  in  Augu.st,  1890.     8vo,  pp.  81. 

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bration at  Southold,  Long  Island,  was  the  historical  address  prepared  by  our  hon- 
ored fellow-member,  Mr.  Charles  B.  Moore,  a  copy  of  which,  printed  in  large  and 
clear  type,  has  been  received  by  the  Record,  but  at  too  late  a  date  to  permit  of  more 
than  the  briefest  mention.  The  address  is  enriched  by  an  appendix  and  numerous 
biographical  notes.  J.  c.  w. 


NDEX   OF   NAMES   IN    VOLUME   XXi. 


Aalsteyn,  72 
Aalstyn,  70,  155 
Aarnel,  171 
Aarson,  91 
Aartse,  119,  120,  121 
Aartsen,  58,  59 
Abbott,  44 
Abeel,  35,  65,  116 
Abell,  88,  90 
Abrahamse,  156 
Abrams,  33,  71 
Abramse,  115,  156 
Acker,  75 
Ackerman,  93,  164,  184, 

185 
Adams, 143 
Adcock,  88 
Addison,  87,  143 
Adriance,  138 
Adrin,  89 
Agar,  184 
Agtmoodie,  123 
Aiken,  182 
Alexander,  81 
Allair,  J15 
AUaway,  89 
Allcocok,  89 
.Allen.  38,  88,  143,  183 
Allison,  150 
vT.iloms,  90 
Allsop,  88 
Altgeldt,  153 
Altgelt,  35,  157 
Alting,  29,  71 
Ament,  31,  157 
Ames,  38 
Anderson,    37,    90,    92, 

118,    158,    171,    181, 

'83 
Andre,  io8 
Andrewes,  182 
Andrews,    36,    99,    in, 

182 
Andries,  32,  58,  113 
^Andriese,  31 
.^ndriesse,  59,  70,  72,  85, 

"3 
Andriessen,  113 
Anhuys,  65 
Anhuyse,  153 
Anno,  182 
Annspach,  91 
Anthony,  65,  67,  68,  6(  , 

113,  118,  iji 
Antony,  132,   154,   155 
Apletart,  88 
Appelgate,  172 
Appleton,  92,  93,  95 
Archard,  184 
Archer,  49 
Arents,  72 
Arentsen,  171 
Ariaanse,  n6 
Arianse,  33,  154 
Ariansen,  113 
Arland.  151 
Armstrong,  37,  81 
Arnold,  26,  75,   90,  93, 

107,  108,  143,  171 
Arvin,  1S4  ( 
Asban,  171 


Asborne,  171 

Ashburner,  38 

Ashford,  90 

Ashley,  88 

Astor,  93 

Atken,  183 

Atkins,  171 

Atkinson,  ?8 

Atwater,  172 

Auet,  127 

Austen,  143 

Austin,  49,  82,  146,  185 

Avery,  89 

Axford,  39 

Ay  ton,  90 

Babb,  183 
Babbidge,  49 
Backster,  181 
Bacon.  143 
Badgly,  18 
Baetjer,  97,  146 
Bageley,  184 
Bagley,  gi 
Bailey,  63,  126 
Baily,  54 
Bain,  173,  182 
Baird,  130,  131,  132, 133, 

134.    137,    138,    142, 

147—150 
Baieux,  31,  157 
Baker,  17,  181,  182 
BalclL,  97 

Baldwin,  138,  146,  183 
Bally,  171 
Baly.  115 

Bancker,  29,  32, 117,  156 
Bancroft,  94,  143 
Bandt,  71,  116,  156 
Banes,  go 
Banke,  32 

Banker.  29,  31,  32,  70 
Banner,  1S5 
Bant,  66 
Bantal,  184 
Barber,  184 
Barens,  72 
Barents,  164 
Barht.*,  29,  68,  115,  154, 

Barhett,  117 
Barheyt,  68 
Barhyt,  29,  69 
BarkeJo,  72 
Barker,  88,  89,  183 
Barnaby,  76 
Barnarr  ,146 
Barnes,  128 
Barns,  182 
Barnum,  44 
Barron.  181,  183 
Bartelour,  184 
BarteK)w,  185 
Barthrop  15,  173 
Barton,  87,  137,  J39 
Bartow,  45 
Barwa,  171 
Bas.  66 

Labkerfr.ild.  «'> 
Bassey,  li.  . 
Batchelder,  191 


Bateman,  89,  126 

Bates,  183 

Bath  gall,  182 

Batle,  89 

Batrum,  89 

Bawmer,  8g 

Baxter,  88,  181,  182,  183 

Bayard,  26,  27,  2g,  34, 
46,  65,  68,  71,  116, 
153-  157 

Bayles,  38 

Bayley.  63,  88 

Bayly,  115 

Bazy,  8g 

Beale,  89 

Beasley,  184 

Beatty,  46 

Beaumont,  8t 

Beckford,  49 

Bedair,  72 

Beddu,  155 

Bed  for'',  ic 

Bedue,  158 

Beduw,  72 

Beek.  28,  34,  71 

Beekman,  10,  14,  15,  18, 
21,  28,  29,  30,  32,  65, 
66,  67,  69,  70,  71,  98, 
114.  117,  153,  174 

Beely,  89 

Beenatt,  182 

Beeton,  89 

Bekker,  34,  151 

Belcher,  137,  138 

Bell,  89,  181,  184 

Bemis,  127 

Bemon,  181 

Bemper,  114 

Bender,  182 

Bennet,  33,  66,  88,  117^ 

Bennett,  78,  131 
'Bensen,  65,  66,  68,  72, 

113.  "4>  '57 
Benneway,  152 
Bennewee,  158 
Bennisi^n.  184 
■Bensin.  68,  72 
"Sensing,  31,  33,  34,  68, 

116 
^Bensink,  28,  29 
"Tienson,  86 
Benton,  160 
Berrian,  92 
Berry,  70,  184 
Bertell.  114 
Best,  176 
Bethell,  182 
Bettany,  90 
Betts,  96,  98 
Bevier,    123,    186,    187, 

189,  igo 
Bicker,  182 
Biddle,  142 
Bidwell,  1-8,  173 
Bikker,  153,  157 
Bikkers,  68 
Binder,  35,  151 
Bird,  100,  182    -^ 
Birdall,  90 
Birdsill,  182 


Birney,  95 
Bishop,  191 
Black,  74 
Blackmore,  146 
Blackwell,  112 
Blaike,  184 
Blair,  184,  186 
Blank,  29,  31,  32,  34,  69, 

113,  117 
Blanshan,  58,  59,  83,  84, 

n8 
Blauvelt,  55,  184 
Blaw,  66 
Bleecker,  9,  90 
Block,  181 
Blom,  28,  20,  3J,   35,  67, 

87,  114,  156,  i6'j 
Bloodgood,  187 
Blydenburg,  32,  77,  78 
Bodyn,  155 
Boeickenhoven,  30,  153, 

156 
Boel,  67,  153 
Boelen,  29,  30,  35,  72, 

115,  151,  152,  ij6 
Boeljc,  35 
Boesy,  152 

Bogaard,  85,  86, 116,  165 
Bogaart,  30,  66,  70,  152 
Bogard,  152 
Bogardus,   66,   81,    156, 

165,  167 
Bogart,  8,  31 
Bogert,  29,  31,  35,  63,  67, 

69,  70,  115,  118,  152, 

i53i  155 
Bohaker,  182 
Boils,  114 
Boisson,  147 
Boke,  31,  151,  157 
Bokee,  68 
Bokkenhoven,  30 
Bolje,  71,  113 
Bolton,  139,  145 
Bond.  i8i 
Bondt,  155 
Bondy,  124 
Bonesteel,  17 
Bonnet.  62,  152,  156, 181 
Bonsall,  183 
Booth,  160,  181 
Bording,  65 
Bordsges,  151 
Bordsjer,  118 
Bordyn,  92 
Borel,  28 
Borell,  72 
Borris,  35,  118 
Bos,   33,   65,  67,  71,  84, 

113.  "4.  1171  '55 
Bosch,  33,  115,  153,  156, 

158,  166 
Botner,  182,  184 
Bound,  30 
Bours,  158 
Bouwaart,  33 
Bowden,  182 
Bo  wen,  93,  96 
Bowerman,  174 
Bowker,  183 
Boyd,  145 


196 


Index   of  Names    in     Volume    XXI. 


Boyer,  38.  181 
Boyesen,  45 
Boys,  167 
Braasjer,  67,  113 
<   Bradford,  26,  70,91,  124, 

191 
Bradt,  11,  28,  34,  117 
Braesjer,  65,  152 
Braisser,  155 
Braman,  182 
Brandt,  32,  193 
Branketon.  iSt 
Branthwaite,  183 
Bras,  72.  158 
Brasjer,  31,  32,  72 
Bratt.  28,  68,  115 
Brattle,  145 
Braymer,  181 
Bread,  87 
Brebuch,  184 
Bracken,  185 
Breeste,  65,  71 
Breested,  71 
-   Breestede,  58,  59,  157 
Brenan,  182 

•  Brestede,  30,  31,  65,   70 
-Brestee.  118 

Bresteed,  68 

Bresteedc,  153 

Brett,  51,  52,  '53 

Brevoort,  65 

Brewry.  88 
\  Brewster,  91,  146 

Bridgron,  185 

Briffgs,  1^6 

Brill,  183 

Brinckerhr>'.  .  ^s 

Bvinckerhfiff,  48,  52 

Brink,  168 

Brinkerhof,  69 

Brinkerhoff,  32,  55,  57 

Brinter,  182 

Brock,  146 
•    Brockden,  38 

Bruckholsl.  171 
^    Brodhead,  122,  165,  188 

•  Bromfield,  87 
Brook. 29 
BroDke  88,  181 
Brooks,  184 
Brouni:,  88,  158 
Brouw,  20 
Hrouver,     28,    31,   113, 

115,116, 154,157.165 
Brower,  67,  182 
Brown,  40,   91,  97,   134, 

137.    139,    144,    181, 

i8^  igi 
BruninErham,  iSi 
Brutell,  35 
Bruyn,  15,  33,  114,  122, 

190 
Bryant,  143 
Bryen.  32 
Brymner,  97 
Buchanan,  143 
Buchannan,  142 
Buckley,  39,  183 
Budd,  134,  135,  136,  137, 

139 
Buel,  146 
Bukby,  88 
Bullaine.  172 
Bulsin.  151; 
Bunduke,  89 
Bunker,  \6u 
Bunn.  88 
Bunyan,  169 
Burcham,  136 
y.      Rurchill,  184 
Burd,  37,  39 
Burger,    29.  31,  33,  34, 

71,  72,  114,  115,  JS3- 

154-  i55>  157 


Burhans,  gi,  143 

Burke.  86,  143,  "185 

Burling,  137 

Burnese,  184 

Burnet,  187 

Burns,  143,  182,  183      \ 

Burton,  88,  172 

Bush.  120,  183 

Bushel  1,  90 

Bushey,  127 

Bussing,     33,    69,     113, 

117 
Butcher.  39 
Butler,  93,  98 
Buys,   32,   52,     72,    116, 

118 
Byers,  1(17 
Byrns,  16,  24 
Byvank,  30,  34,   65,  6g, 

113,  114,  158 

Caar,  28,   69,    116,   154, 

166 
Cabbet.  8g 
Cadwallader.  87 
Cain.  181 
Caker,  167 
Caldwell,  182 
Calio,  35 
Caljer.'iiS 
Callio.  71 
Calls,  63 
Camble.  117 
Camdilje,  182 
Cameron,  183,  184 

Ca"'p.  09 

'  Campbell,  48,    74.    179, 

184 
Canklin,  71 
Cann,  183 
Cannell,  183 
Caiinon,  28,  34,  35.   65, 

68,  88,  114,  151 ,  154 

Cape,  91 
Capita,  39 
Caps.  171 
Car^'szen   164 
Care  \    40 
Carleton,  180 
Carman,  ^■^fi 


Clabb,  181 

Claese,  171 

Clapp.  95,  96,  182 

Clare,  89, 

Clark,  19,  14S,   181,  182, 

183.  184 
vClarke,  47,  48,  146,  183 
Clarkson,  32,  68.  72,  151, 

IQ3 

Classon,  182 
Clauw.  15 
Claw,  15 
Clay,  88 
Cleaves,  176 
Cleavland,  184 
Cleghorn,  181 
Clement,  82 
Clements,  135,  138 
Clerk, 90 
Clerke,  80,  90 
Cleveland,  143,  146, 159, 

160 
Clifford.  88 

Clinton.  97,  98,  188,  189 
Cloet,  171 

Clopper.  35,  70,  153,1:5 
Clatworthy,  115 
Clouryn,  157 
Clouwryn,  70 
Clowryn,  70 
Clute,  171 
Cobb,  88 
Cochran.  91 
Cocke,  88 
Coe.  87 
Coek,  ,  -    69.   115,   i!;i, 

152 
Loely,  35,  156 
Coens,  30 
Coesaart.  151 
Coevers.  154 
Colbrath,  91 
Colefa.x.  184 
Coles.  181 
|V:olevelt.  28 
Coljer,  165,  167 
Collier.  165.  174,  184 
Collin,  182 
Colt.  143 
Colvii-..  126 
Comegy.s,  171 


Carpenter,  63,  78,  8.^,  91,  I  Comfort,  35    157 
126, 135,  139. 183.  184  I  Conchein,  1S4 


Carpentier,  96 
Carskadon,  183,  i? 
Carson,  96 
Carter,  184 
Carteret.  40 
Cartwright,  13,  17 
Carver,  171 
Casey,  184 
Cash.  49 
Casprin,  39 
Castell,  90 
Catharien,  35 


Coni^-ane,  184 
I  Conintr,  152.  154,  156 

Coni:.    h,  72 

Conklin    138,  185 
■  Connolly.  91 
I  Connor,  185 
I  Conoly.  182 

Coo.  116 
I  Cook,  184 
I  Cooke,  49 

;  Cool,  157.  164,  166,  168 
■JrCoope.  181 


Cavclier,  34,  114,  157    *^Cooper,  7,  54,  91,97, 117. 


Chadwick,  182.  184" 

Chambers,  96.  i8i,  i£ 
j  Champion,  88,  89 
I  Chandler,  40 

Chapman,  90.  137 

Chardevyn,  69 

Charduvyn.  28 

Chardovin,  154 

Charlet  jn,  172 

Char.sley.  90 

Cheadwith,  39 

Cherry.  89,  90 

Chester.  23 

Childe,  116 

Childs.  31,  33,  82,  93 

Chilton,  118 

Church,  16,  24.  91,  93 

Cjoerts,  34 


^     H3 

Copp^e.  91.  140 
Cor,  8g 
Corcelicus,  35 
Corcoran.  93 
Cornbury,  193 
Cornelise,  164 
Cornelisse,  68 
Cornelissen,  171 
Cornelisz.  117 
Cornell,  63.  140,  143, 152 
Cornells,  152 
Comwaliis,  107 
Corselius,  116, 157,  166 
Corsen,  67,  155 
Corsile,  67 
Corsilius.     ;.  69,  115, 
Cortregt,  34,  1:5,  116 


y 


Corvan,  184 

Corwin,  38 

Costerne,  90 

Cotes,  90 

Cotton.  182 

Cottrell,  182 

Cotty.  89 

Cotwyn,  89 

Couwenhove,  33,  69 

Cove,  136 

Cowan,  37 

Co  wen,  88 

Cowles,  96 

Cowley,  87 

Cowon.  182 

C'owper,  143 

Cox,  68,  185 

Coxe,  36 

Cozzens,  143' 

Cozyn,  28,  114 

Cozyns,  113 

Crabb,  184 

Crabtree,  172 

Craffoort,  172 

Craigie,  91 

Crask,  88 

Creez.  88 

Cregier,  28,  30,  34,  70, 

^      151-  153,  154 

Cngier.  156 

Crimmins,  93 

Crimsheir.  91 

Crispell.  59,  83-86,  119. 

122,  123 
C.oi  kei',  139,  179 
Croinus,  157 
Crollius,  31.  70 
(  rook   32,  65.  71,  117 
C;Ooke,  117 
Cri.  ikes,  87 
Crorlun.  181 
Crosby,  54 
Crosman,  88 
Cross.  88 
Crowin,  183 
Crowinshield,  49,  loi 
Cruger,  67,  i4r,  142,  172 
Li  atchington,  89 
Cuddeback.  187 
Cunard,  1S5 
Cunningham     91,    i-',3, 

184 
Cunter,  184 
Cure,  28 
Curren.  t8i 
Curril.  i8t 
Cuthbert   0.     182 
Cutler,  -2 
Cutter,  146,  176 
Cuyler,  67,  171 

Daegett,  184 

Daille,  149 

Dal  and,  49 

Daly,  28.  34,  117 

Danelst  n.  32 

Darlinr  .  81,  96,  3:27 

D.-'  >-enpurt,  182 

D&vid.  132,  134 

Dc  vids,  33 

Dc    jdson,  91 

Davi...  33,  155,  158 

Davies,  74,  181 

Davis,  74.  76,  80,  82,  89, 

90.  146,  181,  183 
Davone.  184 
Dawson,  182 
Day,  64,  89,  90 
Dayz,  181 
Deacon,  125 
Dt  jting,  167 
D.Tin,  18,  5j,  186 
Dt   BenneviUe,  146 
D.  blett,  155 


Index   of  Nc.vies    ifi     Volume    XXI. 


197 


Debney,  1S3 

De  Bruyn.  14 

Decker,  no,  121,  173 

De  Cooke.  87 

De  Duytscher.  167 

D'Fergen,  183 

Defoe,  167 

De  Foer,  29 

De  Foreest,  35,  113, 116, 

152-  154 
De  Forest,   13,   16.  96, 

184 
De  Graaf,  20,  30,  167 
De  Graau.  114 
De  Grauw,  29,  155 
Degraaw,  28,  66,  70 
De  Graff.  120 
De  Groff.  67 
De  Haart,  115 
De  Harjette,  114 
D'Harriette,  157 
De  Hart,  114,  156 
De  Hcnneur,  171 
De  Kay,  66,  67 
Delamater,  97 
De  la   Montagne,   164, 

165 
De  Lancey.  1,45,  9?,  143 
Delang,  122 
De  Lanoy,   30,    32    114, 

118 
De  la  Rose,  171 
Delabal,  165 
De  -.ays,  72 
De  Mill,  29.  113 
De  Milt,  118 
Demler,  91 
De  Mot,  30 
De  Mott,  154 
Dencosel,  183 
Denemark,  114 
Deniston,  91 
Denniston,  91 
De  Noir,  117 
Denong,  33 
Depew.  168 
De  Peyster,  31,  34,  68, 

6g,  71.   72,    H3,   151, 

IS4,   -84 
Depuy,  122, 166, 187, 1S9, 

iqo 
De  Pyster,  29 
Derby,  49 
De  Riemer,  113 
De  Roussy,  91 
De  Sille.  46 
De  Sokch,  182 
D'Estaing,  130 
D'Estrange,  -.30 
De  St   Croix,  184 
Deudly,  171 
De  Veau.x,  63 
Devenport,  181 
Deventer,  115 
Deveport,  184 
Devereaux,  146 
De  Vine,  152 
De  Voe,  32,  114,  185 
De  Voor,   34,    113,   115, 

152.  153 
De  Voort,  114 
De  Vries,  171 
Dewey,  03 
De  Whit'h,  72 
De  Winter,  171 
De  Wit,  S9,  84,  97 
De  Witt,  185,  190 
Dey,  92,  186 
Deyo,  45,  119,  122,  124 
Dickens,  143 
Dickinson,  182,  184 
Dillingham,  137 
Dillon,  181 
Dingemans,  171 


I  Ellin.  158 

Elliot,  185 
!  Elliott,  91 

Ellis,  30,  70,  ii8,  182 

Ellison,  86,  125 
'  Elmendort,   58,    59,  61, 
I  188 

Elner,  156 

Elsmore,  88 

Elsewaert,  64 

Elseworth,  157 
I  Elswort,  32,  §7 
>'j  Elsworth,  28,  32,  6s,  67, 
I  68,  113,  no,  117,  156 

Elting,  46,  123 
I  Eltinge,  185 

Elwyn,  142 

Embree,  183 

Emmet.  66 

Englis,  91 

Enion,  90 

Ennes,  187 

Eno.  151 

Ensor,  182 

Ericsson,  91 

Erristyn,  35,  153 
i  Esselsteyn,      164,     165, 
I  166,  169 

Euster,  89 

Euwoutse.  29 

Evans,  83,   97,   98,  143, 
,^         14b,  184,  185 
,»f  Eve,  89 

Everett,  159 

Evers.  32,  116 

Everson,  43 

Everts,  61 

Evertson,  192 

Evins.  184 

Ewouts,  65,  72 

Eygenberg,  69 

Face,  go 
Fainford,  88 
Fairfax,  140,  n.'. 
Fairfield,  13,  17.  18,  21, 

173^  174 
Fardo,  185 
Fargee,  1  ,2,  134 
Farrer,  181,  182,  185 
Farrington,  143 
Faulkner,  183 
FayrcliflEe,  88 
Feake,  143 


1  Dingman,  25 
i  Dinkleter,  182 
Dircks,  165 
Disbrow,  13s,  139 
Dives,  87 
Dodge,  91,  191 
Doeckles.  172 
Domskin,  151 
Donington,  40 
Donskom,  151 
Doohage.  62,  64 
Doolhage,  64 
Doom,  69 
Dorland,  13,  18,  24 
Doty,  184 
Dougherty,  182 
Douglas,  172 
Dow,  113 
Dowdney,  183 
Dowers,  183 
Dowkins,  183 
Drake,  45,  182 
Dransfield,  87 
Dreake.  181 
Dresser.  183 
Drexel,  93 

Drinkwater,  32,  33,  72 
152 

Driver,  49,  183 

Drowne.  98,  143,  146 

Drummond,  66 

Du  Bois,  33,  52,  57,  91 
iig,  120,  121,  122 
156,  157,  186 

Duboys,  52.  57 

Dudley.  47 

Duffield,  74 

Du  Foir,  69,  116,  152 

Du  Four.  152 

Dumayn,  184 

Dumond,  123 

Du  Mont,  158 

i)u  Mot,  34 

Duncomb,  184 

Dunderdale,  162 

Du   'ap,  192 

Dunbcomb,  63 

Duportail,  108 

Duran,  181 

Durand,  124 

Dusinberry,  184 

Du  Voe,  35 

Du  Voir.  71 

Du  Voor,  68 

Duyking,  35,  65, 116,117,  1  Featherstone,  18 


118,  157 
Dwait,  155 
Dwight,  47 
Dyckman,  81.  82,  97 
Dyer,  28,  30,  32.  71,   152 
Dykman,  66.  70 

Eager,  97 

Eagles.  185 

Ean,  84,  85 
j  Eastman.  181 
I  Eaton,  98,  146,  148 
I  Echt,  154 

Edsall,  81 

Edson,  97 

Edwards,  47.  182 
;  Eeraerts,  171 
,  Egberts,  113 
I  Egleston.  140 

Egt,  33,  35,  36,  157 

Eichbaum,  37 

Ekkeson,  114 

Elam,  88 
I  Elbertse,  155 

Eldred,  90 
1  Eley,  181 

Eliot,   96,   98,   142,   145, 
146 
i  Ellesson,  33 


Fe^an,  181,  li 

Feildar,  90 

Fenton,  183 

Ferdon,  114 

Ferguson,  184 

Fernow,  170 

Ferree,  46 

Ferrie,  46 

Ferris,  97 

Feynhoul,  59 

Field,  36.  40,  93,  133 

Fielding,  116 

Fiele,  116 

Filkens,  65,   67,   70,  72, 

157 
Filkins.  114 
Fillmon  ,  127,  143 
Filly,  33,  155 
Filson,  144 
Finch,  182 
Finkle,  24,  177 
Finneton,  39 
Fischjer,  71 

Fisher,  -.7,  153.  154,  185 
Fishjer,    s5 
Fishsit,  113 
Fisjer,  29,  65,  67 
Fisk,  1251 
Fitzpatrick,  182 


Flacknell.  87 
Flamen,  68 

Fleming.  91 
Flewelhng,  182 

Flint,  49 

Florantine,  183 

Flower,  93,  140 

Fluell,  182 

Focken,  58 

Foeler,  153 

Foggo,  142 

Fokke,  157 

Fokker,  69 

Folman,  35,  71 

Foot,  7,  91 

Forbes,  159,  162,  181  " 

Ford,  igi 

Forrister,  182 

Forsyth,  179 

Forward,  93 

Foster,  75,  134,  161 

Fowler,    134,    136,    137, 
145,  182,  183 
I  Fox,  1^5,  193 
I  Fraley,  142 

Francis,  28,  70,  146 
1  Franklin,  142,   143,  189, 
192 

Eraser,  179,  184 

Freeman,  32,  89,  151 
I  Freer,  84,  ng,  120,  123, 
]         186 

Frelant,  33 

Frencis,  6g,  117 

Frieze,  96 

Frilick,  91 

Fnzell,  89 

Frothingham,  107 

Fuller,  88 

Fulpot,  33 

Furman,  91 

Fyn,  u6 

Gaasjeri,  67 

Gabriel,  93 
I  Gaelet,  28 
I  Gage,  105 

.Galbneath,  183 

JGale,  88 

Gilliot,  131 

Galloway,  154 

Galoway,  113 

Galpin.  134,  136 

Galpyn,  172 

Gamage,  73 

Gano,  91 

Gans,  183 

Gansevoort,  g,  ii,  12 

Gardiner,  45,  95 

Gardner,  S7 

Garlant,  172 

Garlin,  35 

Garrison.  142 

Gaserie,  152 

Gates,  108 

Gaunt,  87 

Gautier,  31 

Gautieu,  118 

Gayler,  146 

Gedfield,  139 

Geert,  31 

Genet,  169 

Gerbrants,   35,   65,    68, 
113,  117 

Gergus,  183 

Gerretse,  67 

Gerrils,  65,  117,  119 

Gerritse,  151 

Gerry,  140 

Gibbes,  90 

Gibson,  97,  98,  140 

Gilbert,  66,  89,  92,   125, 
151,  157,  184 

Giles,  92 


198 


Index   of  N'a?nes    in     Volume    XXL 


Gil!,  161 
Gillas,  185 
Gillespie,  184 
Ginnie,  87 
Glassop,  18 
Glenelg,  5 
Glover,  28,  183 
Goderis,  172 
Godrid^e,  172 
Goederes,  67 
Goelet,  29,  35,  115,   i5i\ 

152,  154,  155 
Goes,  II,  12,  13,  15,  17, 

19,  zo 
Goetchius,  63 
Golding,  183 
Gomez,  182 
Good,  89 
Goode,  142 
Goodson,  89 
Goodwin,  88 
Gordon,  184 
Gorham,  92 
Gorne,  151 
Gornne,  34 
Goudgfe.  183 
Gould,    76,    77,   80,   93, 

141 
GouU.  181 
Gourlay,  32 
Gouverneur,  32,  66,  69, 

117 
Gower,  183 
Graaf,  66 
Graaw,  66 
Graham,  181 
Grant,  13,  97,   143,  179, 

181 
Grau.  152,  153 
Graves.  181,  182 
Gray,   22,    47,    89,    171, 

I74.  177 
Green.  23,  24,  92,  146 
Greene,  90,  108,  142, 143 
Gregs:,  92 
Grevenraat,  66,  153 
Greveraat,  35 
Grietman,  115 
Griflfen,  89 
Griffin,  114 
Griffith,  19 
Groat,  22.  176 
Groesbeck,  9,  31,  157 
Groff,  182 
Grove,  88 
Grover,  108 
Guf'S'    187 
Gucssy,  88 
Guion,  92 
Gumaer,  193,  194 
Gunnell,  89 
Gurland,  172 
Gyre,  18 1 

Hacker,  92 
Hackett,  183 
Hackins,  172 
Hackney,  45 
Hadley,  82 
Haering,  153 
Haey,  172 
Hagaman,  120 
Hage,  63 
Hager,  63 
Haggoford,  181 
Hahan,  184 
Haight,    125,   135,    137, 

.83 
Haines.  183 
Hains,  181,  184 
Hakkett,  182 
Hale,  82,  92 
Hall.    36,    90,    96,   185, 

193 


Hal  leek,  94 
Hallet,  172 
Halliwell,  88 
Hallock,  78,  79 
Halsey,  92,  97,  143 
Halsted,  63 
Haltridge,  182 
Ham,  25,  72 
Hammersly,  66,  153 
Hamill.  24 

Hamilton.  143,  183,  184 
Hammerton.  88 
Hammill,  1S3 
Hamming,  34 
Hammon,  184 
Hammond,   76,   77,    78, 

79,  80,  90 
Hamtramcic,  92 
Hanch,  90 
Hanegar,  181 
Hanford,  184 
Hangegar,  182 
Haning,  153 
Hanks.  112 
Hanmor,  92 
Hansen,  65,  113,  164 
Harbert,  41 
Harbor.  40,  41 
Hardenberg,     65,     186, 

187,  188 
Hardenbergh,  171 
Hardenbroeck,   35,    65, 

67.  156 
Hardenbroek,     67,     68, 

113,  117,  ii8 
Hardenbroek,  183,  184 
Hardenburgh,  112 
Harder,  173 
Hardun.  90 
Hardwick,  184 
Hardwicke,  183 
Hardy,  92 
Haring,  67,  70 
Harison,  00 
Harper,  185 
Harris,  88,  96,  145 
Harrison,  143,  i3i,  182 
Harsing,  31 
Harsink,  157 
Hart.  26.  36-39,  96 
•  Jiartford,  88 
Harve,  67 
Harvy.  63,  89 
Harwood,  184 
Hasbrook.  140 
Hasbrouck,  45,  84,  119. 

123,  i8g 
Haskins,  96 . 
Hassarot,  172 
Hassin,  154 
Hassind,  33 
Haveland,  30 
Haviland,  135,  137 
■  Hawkins,  74,  75,  76,  77, 

78.  79,  80,  81 
Hawley,  16,  19,  193 
I  Hawthorne,  145 
Hay,  172 
Hayden,  181 
Hayes,  90 
Hayet,  89 
Hays,  172 

Hazard,  135,  136,  138 
Head,  4,  5,  6,  181 
Hearn,  140,   184 
Hedges,  96,  144 
Heermans,   29,    58,    59, 

60,  61,  85,  116,  119 
Hegeman,  33 
Hellake,  30 
Helleke,  152 
Hellen,  90 
Helling,  31,  72 
Henderson,  182 


Hendricks,  58,  165 
Hendricksen,  166,  184 
Hendriks,  32,  154 
Hendnkse,  117 
Hendriksen,  117 
Hendrix,  66 
Henigar,  181 
Henion,  34,  68 
Henley,  184 
Hennegar,  181 
Henning.  182 
Hennion,   28,    68,     154, 

157 
Henry,  92 
Henshull,  184 
Herbert,  40,  41,  43 
Hermans,  29 
Herrick,  20 
Herrin.  33,  158 
Herring,  92 
Herris,  35,  66,  158 
Hessel,  65 
Hewitt,  161 
Heyeks,  172 
Hibon,   31,   35,  68,  152, 

155'  158 
Hickey,  184 
Hickok,  89 
Hide,  88 
Hiele,  31 
Higgins,  87 
Hill,  183 
Hillebrant,  171 
Hilsop,  181 
Himes,  183 
Hinsdale,  149 
Hinsman.  172 
Hitchcock,  149 
Hite.  46 
Hitney,  182 
Hobart,  92 
Hockenhull,  184 
Hodge,  142,  150 
Hodges.  181 
Hoek,  35 
Hoes,  II.  12,  16,  22.  46, 

86,   87,   91,   98,  162, 

175.  192 
Hoffman,  84,  86,  181 
Hofman,   65,    n6,    122, 

153.  157,  166 
HolbuGk,  89 
Holden,  92 
Holland,  142,  143 
HoUax,  90 
'  Hollister,  107 
Hollitt,  36 
Holls,  60 

Holmes,  73,  182,  184 
Hoist.  69,  117,  154,  157 
HoLstead,  83 
Holt,  68 
Holton,  40,  93 
Homes,  88,  171 
Homnune,  183 
Honnoire,  171 
Honore,  171 
Honter,  30 
Hoogeland,  155 
Hoogland,  31,  6i,  158 
Hooglandt,  31,  32 
Hooglant,   32,    70,    114, 

IIS,  "7 
Hook,  151 
Hooker,  97 
Hooper,  89,  114 
Hoornbeek,  122 
Hope,  33,  174 
Hopkins,   140,  i68,  169, 

170,  192 
Hoppe,   28,   30,  31,   35, 

70,  117,  154,  184 
Hoppen,  151 
Hoornbeek,  186, 188, 190 


Hornor,  185 
Horsmanden,  162 
Horton,  136.  138,  181 
Hosack,  190 
Hoskes,  172 
Houghton,  3S 
Houseman,  183 
Houston.  182 
Houward.  70 
How.  88,  89 

Howard,  42,  91,  140, 145 
Howe.  92,  143 
Howell,  ^8,   74,   75,   76, 

78,  q6,  143,  183 
Hoy,  90 
Hubbard,  73 
Hubbell,  9:-. 
Hubbs,  136,  139 
Hubby,  139 
Hubert,  130,  131,  133 
Hudson,  87,  90,  172 
Huff,  53 
Huges.  172 
Huggeford,  182 
Hughes,  182 
Hugumen,   182 
Hullingden,  89 
Humey,  182 
Humphrey,  143,  182 
Hunt,    36,    63,   92,    138, 

144,  183 
H'.inter,  9,  34 
Huntington, 92,  96,  185 
Hurry,  91,  143 
Hnsted.  135 
Hatchings,  18: 
llutchins,  138 
H'.itchinson,  i8z 
Hutsen,  17* 
l^utton,  72 
Huwitt,  172 
Huyck,  21 
Huvke.  166 
Hyatt,  92,  135,  I37 
Hyer,  30,  31,  32,  34,  69, 

113,  114,  15s 

Idesen.  113 
Igenbergen, 28 
Imbroeck,  172 
Inglis,  184 
Ingraham,  73,  79 
Iredell,  183 
Ireland,  182 
Irwin,  183 
Ives,  19,  49,  150 

Jackson,  44,  74,  97,  140, 
143,    172,    183,    191 
Jacobs,  65,  67,  115,  157 
Tacobse,  152 
jagger,   139 
James,  93 
Jamin,  31 
Jampingh,  171 
Jans,  58,  64,  164 
Janse.  171 
Jansen,    30,   69,  72,   92, 

114,  122,    158,    171, 
172 

Janszen,  64 
Jarvis,  72,  92,  156,  184 
Jay,  11^,  146,  154 
Jeats,  32 
Jeffers,  62 
Jefferson.  143 
Jenings,  45.  46 
Jenks,  20 
Jenter,  35 
Jirokman,  182 
Jodry,  81 
Johns,  I 

John.son,  i'^,  19,  90,  94, 
y6,  155,  182 


Index   of  Najnes   m    Voliwie   XXI. 


199 


Johnston.  127,  181,  182 

Johnstone,  140 

Jones.  31,  35,  40,  82,  88, 

141,  142,  182,  185 
Jong,  66,  116,  152,  157 
Jongbloet,  171 
Jordan,   89,  181,  184 
Juryaens,  172 

Kaar,  28 

Kake,  184 

Kaljer,  31 

Kaljo,  33 

Kanklin,  71 

Karstang,  113 

Kay,  172 

Keator,  186 

Keeler,  138 

Kelby,  73 

KeHogg,  23 

Kelly  181 

Kendjall,  73 

Kennedy,  179,  182 

Kerby,  24,  182 

Kerfbyl.  70 

Kermer,  70,  117 

Ken     181 

Ketchani,  77,  95,  08,  181 

Ketchum,  136 

Ketelhuyn,  70 

Keteltas.  29,  158 

Keyser.  48 

Kierstede,  31,  33,  70, 
84,  117,  151,  152, 
167 

Kiersteede,  69 

Kil.  157 
^Kilfort,  172 
^ilvert,  172 

King,  49,  65,  88,  96.  145, 
183.  185 

Kingsland,  181 

Kip,  9,  28,  29.  30,  31, 
32,  33,  51,  58,  61,  66, 
68.  69,  84,  114,  "8, 
119,  151,  152,  154, 
156,  158,  166,  167 

Kirby,  90 

Kirk.  125 

Kirkland,  7,  125 

Kissam,  134,  136 

Kittenaar,  11 

Kittle,  39 

Klaarwater,  124 

Klock,  30 

Knapp,  136,  139 

Kneass.  39 

Knickerbocker,  61 

Knight,  96 

Kowwels,  88 

Kock,  157 

Koek,  151 

Koely.  68 

Konnig,  114 

Konnigh,  65 

Kool,  35 

Korsen,  29,  iis,  117 

Korsilius,  69 

Kortregt,  151 

Kosciusko,  109 

Koster,  171 

Kraft.  86,  167 

Krollius.  69 

Krom.  85,  121,  165 

Kulpeper,  171 

Kurtz.  39 

Kuyler,  118 

Kuyper,  28,  114 

Kwackenbos,  29,  67 

Kwakenbos,  28 

Laagedney,  182 
Laan,  30 
Labagh,  72 


La  Chair,  172 
La  Cost,  73 
Ladony,  114 
Lafayette,  54,  108 
Lake,  157 

Lakerman",  115,  156 
Latn,  113 
La  Maar,  70 
Lamb,  29,  32,   71,   141, 

142,  143,  154 
Lamberton.  171 
Lametre,  157 
Lammers,  66,  154 
Latnmerse,  158 
Lammersen,  33 
Lane,  79,  137,  185 
Langedyk,  66 
Langhorn,  17,  25 
Lanier,  146 
Lanoy,  69 

Lansing,  8,  9,  68,  170 
Lapum,  127,  128 
Larou.x,  30 
Lassen.  170 
Lassingh,  170 
Lathrop,  97,  98 
Laton,  70' 
Lammerse,  117 
Laurence,  29 
Laurens,  117,  159 
Laurier,  152,  156 
Law,  66.  89 
La  Wall,  64 
Lawrence,   17,   36,   ^ 

140,  156,  159,  185 
Lawrens,  31,  156 
Lawrier,  32,  68 
Lawson,  182 
Lear.  26 
Learmonth,  127 
Leaton.  158 
Leaycraft,  140 
Le  Bunnels,  184 
Lee,  39,  80,  89,   99,  104, 

140.  144 
Lefever,  187 
Leflferts,  31,  154,  158 
Leggat,  190 
Legran,  34 
Leishman,  127 
Leisler.  13 
Lemater.  29 
Le  Mestre,  130 
Lemoine,  190 
Lemontes,  30,  117,  155 
Lendrids,  151 
Lensleth,  72 
Lent,  32,  67,  138,  153 
Lenze.  182 
Leonard,  64,  184 
Lero,  152 
Le  Roux,  153 
Le  Roy,  46,  120 
Le  Savalje,  72 
Lesier,  67,  151 
Lesler,  152 
Lesscher,  35 
Lesser,  65,  72 
Leswalter.  35 
Leuwis,  68,  181,  184 
Lew^is,  16 

L'HoTDtnedieu,  76,  79 
Libbey,  73 
Lie.  29.   157 
Liefhaan,  70 
Lielte,  171 
Lievens,  118 
Liewes,  33 
Lieu  wis,  32 
Likeson,  182 
Lince,  115 
Linchs,  72 
Lincoln,  143 
Listnan,  118 


Litse.  II 
Livensen, 67 
Livenston.  66 
Livesay,  184 
Livingston,  55,  66,  6g, 

70,     117,    141,    153, 

154.  158,  170 
Lindsley,  96 
Linford,  89,  90 
Linn,  186 
Lintnow,  181 
Lockhart,  179 
Lockwood.      173,     182, 

183 
Loder,  76 
Loney,  25 
Loring,  114 
Lorrison,  36 
Lory,  156 
Loudon,  54 
Loufbourron,  182 
Louttit,  72 
Louw,  85,  119,  120 
Lovcll,  159 
Low.  28,  29,  35,  38,  67, 

89,     113.     118.    120, 

123,  14s,  153 
Loweli,  94 
Lowrie,  183 
Lucy,  193 
Luscomb.  49 
Lutterloh,  140 
Luurs.  157 
Lyllam,  88 
Lyman.  103 
Lyricii,  125 
Lynott.  185 
Lynse,  29,  ->  = 
Lynsen,  35,66,  71,  158 
Lyon,  139,  183 
Lyselaar,  32 
Lyslaer,  69 

Maas,  151,  183 
Mabee,  137 
Macaulay,  173 
Ma-'dougal  179 
MacCulloch,  179 
Mackay.  183 
MacKenzie,  4,  5,  179 
Mac  Lean,  48 
Macky.  171 
Maclay.  98 
Macquien,  16 
Macy,  75 
Madison,  143 
Magdaniel,  66 
Magee,  140 
Maghu,  182 
Magivira.  18 
Magkee,  1P2 
Mahu,  177 
Maihew,  172 
Maine.  182 
Maison,  171 
Makdanel,  154 
Makepees,  66 
Makginne.  63 
Makkentas,  33 
Maklien.  50 
Mallows.  182 
Man,  35,  66,  67,   71,   72, 
89,  92,  93,  95,    115, 

117.  155 

Manderbag,  153 

Mandeviel,  117 

Mandeville.  189 

Mangan,  183 

Mann, 95,  96 

Mansfiel,  158 

Mansfield,  140 
I  Manstild.  28 
I  Marc6lisse,  158 
'  Marcellus,  15,  22 


Marchant,  184 

Maries,  171 

Mariu^.  171 

Mario,  go 

Marquand,  93 

Marrit,  89 

Marschalk,   29,   30,   35, 

66.  69,  71,   115,    116, 

156,  158 
Marselis,  66 
Marsh,  79.  140,  182 
Marshall.  38.  76,  89, 140, 

146,  158,  172 
Martens,  31,  65,85 
Martense,  29 
Martin,  149,  183 
Martyn,  65 
Masier,  31,  66,  71,  153 
Masker,  67 
Mason,  90,  146,  171 
Mast,  89 

Masten.  119,  121,  122 
Masters,  123 
Mather,  40,  87,  112,   192 
Mathewes,  89 
Mathews,  184 
Matthyssen,  156 
Mattison,  37 
Maulin,  68 
Maxey,  184 
May.  87 
Maynard,  140 
McCoUester,  96 
McCoUum.  139 
McCoy,  1S3 
McCulloch,  173 
McDonald.  181,  182,  185, 
McDonnell,  183 
McDowall,  124,  125 
McGargor,  181 
McGil,  184 
McGinnis,  182 
McGrangham,  182 
McGregor.  162 
McKechnie,  185 
McKell,  183 
McKill,  184 
McLane,  140 
McLean,  182 
McMahon,  184 
McMaster,  142 
McNeil,  182 
McQueen,  181,  183 
McQuillin,  182 
McVickar.  92 
Meby,  64 
Megges.  89 
Mehu,  172 
Meigs,  146 
Meier,  183 
Mellen,  127 
Mellick,  94 
Melsbag,  70,  157 
Menema,  140 
Merrifield,  127 
Merrill,  183,  192 
Merritt,  134,  136 
Messee,  170 
Messcker,  63 
Metcalf,  49 
Metker,  63 
Meyer,  117,  155,  156 
Meyers,  31 
Meyndersen,  171 
Meynema,  52 
Michel veen,  70 
Middleditch,  145 
Miller.    31,   34,     39,   72,. 

123,   134,    154,    181,. 

183.  184 
Mills,  184 
Milton,  143,  193 
Minot,  no 
Minthoorn,  34 


200 


Index   of  Names    in     Volmne    XXI. 


Minthorn,  67,  70 
Miscrol,  6=;,  113 
Mitchell,  i"82 
Mitchill,  147 
Mollenaux,  182 
Monall,  182 
Montague,  117,  152, 153, 

158 
Montanje,    28,    29,   30, 

32,33.  35.69.  71.  "4, 

115,  ii6 
Monroe,  193 
Montcalm,  179 
Montgomerie,  52 
Montgomery,  107,    113, 

146,    IQI 

Moodie,  149 
Mooney,  181 
Moor  C7,  152,  11,8 
Moore,   13,   45,   91,  92, 
98,  143, 144,  184, 192, 

HI     '53 
More,  89 
Moreau,  172 
Morehouse,  184 
Morgan,  40,  43,  96,  112 
.,     '33;  '72,  184,  192 
Mcrrell,  i,)o 
Morris,  88 
Morrison,  97 
Morry,  88 
Morrys,  89 
Mors,  88 
Mortal,  182 
Morton,  144 
Moses,  49 

Moth.  114     ^____> 
Mott.  74,  183 
Moukler,  16 
Moulin,  153 
Mounsey,  185 
Mouris,  171 
Mouvverensen,  171 
Muckelvain,  182 
Muff,  184 
Mullennex.  183 
Mullford,  87 
Mulliner,  i8g 
Mulnix,  181 
Mundun,  153 
Munro,  183 
Munsell,  13 
Murphy,  181 
Murray,  73,  79,  143, 184, 


j  Noble,  157 
North,  90,  184 
Norton,    102,   126,    140 


Pels,  28,  29,  58,  59,  70, 
72,  86,  114,  itS,  iig. 


Murs,  183 

Myer,  28,  32,  33,  66,  6£ 
„    69,  70,  71,  72,  189 
Myers,  113 
Mynder.se,  176 

Nack,  113,  166 

Nahan,  185 

Nak,  113 

Nante,  90 

Nash,  90 

Nauthom,  181 

Navarro,  93 

Naxon,  34 

Naxscn,  154 

Neau,  162,  161 

Neby,  64 

Needham,  143 

Nestell.  140 
Newkerk,  188 

Newkirk.  60,  84,  85 
Newman,  88,  172 
Newton,  76,  78,  80,  146 
Niblo,  44 
Nicholls,  40,  182 
Nichollson,  89 
Nickeson,  184 
Niewkerk,  31 
Nobel,  151 


Norwood,  35,  68,  157 
Ncstrand,  182 
Nowland,  124 
Nugent,  182 

Oadby,  8g 
Oakley,  20,  137 
Odell,  83,  1S2 
Offhover,  182 
Ogden,  40,  140 
Ogelbe,  06 
Okie,  160 
Olfert,  34 
Olferts,  69.  155 
Oliver,  142,  144 
Olmsted,  75 
Olney,  96 
Onderdonk,  92 
Onkelbag,  28.  70,  154 
Oosterhout,  166,  167 
Oothout,  92,  115 
Op  Dyck,  95 
O'Reily,  182 
Orley,  88 
Osborne.  171 
Osburne,  89 
Oscanyan,  44 
Ostrander,  60 
Otlerberg,  35 
Ould,  90 
Outman,  114 
Ovens,  12,  128 
Overton,  74,  77,  80,  81 
Owen,  88 
Owens,  185 

Paces,  90 

Paersil,  165,  167  — 
Page,  89 
Palding,  113 
Palmer,  49,  i 

183 
Papineau,  5 
Pardon,  66 
Parent,  63 
Pareseite.  62 
Park,  135,  139 
Parker,  62,  123,  160,  162, 


•  135,  172, 


Parks,  176 

Parmentier,  120 

Parrott,  128 

Parry,  89,  90 

Parsel,  31  

Parsons,  124 
1  Pascal.  39 
I  Pascarin,  65 

Pastorius,  48 

Patcrson,  99-1 11,  140 

Patterson,   49,   99,   144, 

Patto,  33 
Paulus,  84 
Pawling,  71,  140 
Paxton,  181 
Payne,  88 
Peacock, 120 
Pearsall,  64,  183,  184  - 
Pearson,  119,  164,  165 
Pease,  121;,  126 
Peek,  30,  31,  65,  66,  136, 

152,  156 
Peeling,  121 
Peers,  30,  31,  69,  151 
Peggler,  90 
Peirce,  90 
Pel,  31,   32,   33,  71,  72, 

"4,   153,    154,    181, 
182 
Pelmith,  183 


)/Pembcrton,  140 
Perkins,  125 
Perrot,  184      ' 
,  Persel,  72,  152.  155   -. 
[  Persen,  121,  189 
.  Persman,  157 
!  Peterkin,  183 
j  Peters,  .40,  181 
Phenix,  114,  155 
Philips,  28,  184 
Phillips,  36,  39,  52,  [42 
Pliinde,  184 
Phoemy,  146,  193 
Phraner,  150 
Pickens,  j^ 
Pickle,  127 
Pier,  35,  167 
Pierce,  143 
Pierpont,  47 
Pierson,  143 
Pieters,  33,  69 
Pieterse,  32 
Pietersen,  118,  154,  157 

158,  172 
Pieterson,  116 
Pietro,  153 
Piggis,  «8 
Pike,  140 
Pilkington,  90 
Pillot,  181 
Pillots,  182 
Pinneo,  38 
Pintard,  71 
Pitcher,  c- 
Pitt,  71,  loi 
Plant,  185 
Plaskitt,  96 
Piatt,  140 
Ploeg,  121 
Plumb,  96 
Plummer,  189 
Plumsted,  146 
Poel,  30,  153 
Pokinhorne,  87 
Polhemus,  37,  38,  39 
Pomeryn,  115 
Pope,  143,  174 
Porcher,  89 
Post,  32,  71.  87,  137 
Postle,  89 
Potter,  145 
Potts,  45,  142,  i8i 
Poulse,  30,  72,  115,  118 
Poulus,  170 
I  Powell,  170 
Powers,  39,  57 
Pra,  116,  155 
I  Pratt.  90 
Prenten,  33 
Prescott,  184 
Preston,  18 
Prett,  171 
Price,  40,  141 
Prichard,  183   ' 
Prior,  141 
Prime,  14 
Procter,  96 

Provoost,  29,  30,  31,  33, 

66,  70,   72,  113,   115, 

116,    117,    118,    146, 

„      152,  :ss,  "58 

Pruyn,8-26,  87,  124-129, 

172-177     . 
Pruyme,  14        ^ 
Pryer,  70 
Pryne,  14 
Pryor,  183 
Prys,  67 
Pullman,  25,  90 
Pumpelly,  140,  193 
Purcell,  64 


Purck,  73 

Purdy.    133,     135,     ,36, 

138,  139,  183 
Purman,  88 
Purple,  00,  143 
Putts,  181 
Putnam,  107 
Pynchon,  144 

Quackenbos,  31,  67,  113 
Quakkenbosch,  153, 154, 

^      '57 
Quick,  168 

Quik.  34,    ir2,    15^,    ,55^ 

156 
Quillot,  12 
Quintard,  93 


Rab,  184 
Rdcy.  88 
Radcliflf,  142,  186 
Radly,  68 
Rainey,  127 
Ramsey,  183 
Rand,  180 
Randall,  90.  141 
Pankin,  184 
Ransom,  172 
Ransim,  172     , 
Rantzan,  172 
I  Rapelye,  52 
j  Raymond,  40,  47 
!  Re,  ,85 
Read,  93 
Recue,  90 
Redman,  181 
Reed,  184 
Reeder,  36 
Rees,  171.  172 
Ree^e,  79,  80 
Reeves,  73,  184 
Reid,  150,  181 
Remmersen,  115 
Remse,  30,  66 
Remsen.  157 
Renaudet,  32,  115 
Rendel,  72 
Rendell,  29 
Revo,  65 
Rewborow,  89 
Reyn,  115 
Reynders,  117 
Reyndertz,  116 
Reynolds,  89 
Rhee.  70 
Rhinelander,  64 
j  Rhyhart,   182 
Rice,  185 

Richard,  35,  67.  71,   157 
Richards,  9,  97 
Richardson,  88 
Richie,  24 
Rider,  138 
Riemer,  113 
Rietstap,  46 
Right,  155 
Riker.  92 

Rinckhout,  159,  if-    170 
Ritchie,  183 
Rivers,  89 
Robberson.  32 
Robblee,  183 
Roberts.  89,  90,  96,  184 
Robertson,  124,  182, 184 
Robinson,  89,  98,   143, 

160,  181,  182,  183 
Robson,  90 
Roby,  89 
Rochambeau,  to8 
Rock,  89 
Rockwell,  105,  no.  III, 

1 12 
Rockwood,  82 
Roebuck,  184 


Index    of  Names    in     J'o/unic    XX /. 


20I 


H  .elfse,  T13  I 

Rogers,  142,  181,  184 

Rol,  67 

K.0II.  70,  154 

Rolston.  80 

Rombout,  51 

Romeyn,  172  ] 

Romme,  31,  34,   67,  68, 
115.  151,  152,  157 

Rorayn.  34 

Rooke,  182 

Roome,  28,  32,  65,  72,  1 
113,  n6,  118,  156,  i 
183  I 

Roorbag,  66,  70,  72,  152, 

153 
Roos,  28,  72,  86,  15s 
Roosa,  59,  84,  85,   124, 

190 
Roosevelt,    34,    35.   68, 

153.  154'  156 
Rose,  89 

Roseboom,  9,  116 
Rosecrans,  167 
."iosekrans,  11  5,  166 
Rosevelt,  67,  85,  118 
Ross,  21,  173,  179.  183 
Roue,  87 
Royal,  67 
Roy  all,  30,  72 
Rue,  181" 

Ruland,  76,  77,  78,  80 
Rulev.  q; 
Rusht'in.  183 
Rusjf,  71 
Russell,  36,  38,  88,   126, 

182 
Rutgers,  28,  30,  32,  35, 

65,  113, 115, 116, 117, 

155, t58 
Rutse,  59 
Rutsen.  t88 
Rutter.L^^,  145 
Ryckman.  141 
Ryden,  71 
Ryer,  83 
Ryke,  65,  70,  115 
Ryken,  31 

Ryknian.  ^(3,  114,  154 
Ryme.  1S2'" 
Rynders.  69.  116 
Rynderts,  32,  69 
Rysdyck.  54,  55 
Ryverdingh,  171 
Ryzen.  172 

Sackett,  135 
Sage,  82,  Q3 
Sahlcr.  45 
Sailer,  90,  172 
Samcary,  185 
Sammis,  138 
Sammon.  116 
Sammons,  03,  114 
Samson.  T84 
Sanders.  70.  89,  go 
Sanderson,  141 
San ford.  182 
Sands.  28.  116,  151 
Sanford,  184 
Santfort,  70 
Sarra.  9? 
Sarris,  8q 
Saunders.  49.  ' 
Savage,  126 
Sawyer,  136,  139,  150 
Say  re,  143 
Scarlet.  172 
Schaats,  166 
Schepmoes.    60,  61,  84, 

167 
Schermerhoorn,  10.  114 
Schermerhorn  9,  10,61, 

■74 


Schilman,  156 
Schmit.  123 
Schooley,  181 
Schoonmaker,  122,  123, 

166 
Schorman,  62 
Schott,  165. 
Schouten,  66 
Schrick,  171 
Schuijler.  g 
Schultz,  59      ^ 
Schureman.  61,  62,   63, 

64 
Schut,  171 

Schuurman,  62,  143, 144 
Schut.  119 
Schuyler,  ij,  30,  31,  32, 

35i  59-  7"^.  7'  gi- 
ns, 116,  117,  140, 
155-  158 

Scott.   48.    64,   116,  165, 
177,  181 

Scovel,  24 

Scudder,  36,  37 

Scurman,  62 

Seaman,  183 

Sebering,  152 

Sebring,  29,   33,  34,  66, 
;i'  152 

.Seacord,  184 

Sesrrier,  151 

Sekkerly.  28 

Selby,  88 

Seller,  ^r 

Selover,  11^,  154 

Selyns,  91 

Sample.  182 

Senbech,  184 

Senger,  34.  68,  72 
1  Setuh   1R2 
I  Sevenhove,  158 
!  Seward,  150 
j  Seynor,  183 

Seys.  72 

Shannon,   177,  178,  179, 
184 

Sharduvyn.  28 

Sharpe.  162 

Shaw.  182 

Shay,  no 

Sheldrin,  115 
!  Shelley.  179. 
■  Shepherd.  38 

Sherman,  67,  127 

Sherwood.  137 

Shielield.  6- 

Shilson.  90 
I  Shoemaker.  184 

Showerman,  63 

Sibley,  126 

.Sickles,  175, 
,  Siedsl,  158 
I  Sikkels,  35,  65,  70 

Silk.  29 
illeck.  136 

Sills.  iS 
j  Silvester,  33,  90 
I  Simmes,  89 

Simmon,  13,  16,  17 
I  Simiin_,  88 

Simnnis.  31,  6g,  ri5 

Simons.  88 

Simpson,  133,  174,  181 

Sme.  13^ 

Sinkam,  3,  156 
j  Sipkens,  70 
I  Sjoert,  67 

Sjocrts,  34 
'  Si'iet,  113 

Skilman.  34 

Skingley,  90 

Skinna.  114 

Slagle.  39 

Slecht.  84.  i?i,  123 


Sleight,  84,  189 

Slone,  182 

Slot.  70 

Slott.  154 

Smalley,  104 

Smart.  90 

Smedes.  85,  187 

Smith,  28,  29,  31,  33,  36, 
58,  65,  66,  70,  71,  72, 
77,  81,  82,  88,  89,  90, 
92.  97,  115,  124,  125, 
129,  140,  141,  146, 
155.  182.  183,  184, 
186,  191,  192 

Sniffin,  139 

Snod  grass,  183 

Snoek,  153 

Snyder,  21,  65,  71,  116, 
153,  173,  184 

Snyer.  66.  67 

Soelsberry,  172 

Sols.  157 

Sopman.  118 

Southard,  183 

Southick,  185 

Sowerby.  81 

Spader.  42,  193 

Sparks,  159 

Spencer,  _§} 

Spiser,  183 

Spoor.  151,  157 

Spragg,  182 

Spratt.  153 

Sproull,  183 

Staats.  13,  15,  18.  70,  116 

Stake.  141 

Siamon,  184 

Stanford,  9^ 

Stanhopee.  88 
I  Stanton,  87,  140 

Staplefort,  171 

Staples,  88 

Stauber,  152 

St.  Clair.  39 

Stearns,  96 

Stedman.  126 

Steel,  16.  64,  124 

■■!>teele,  40,  64 

Steell.  40,  41 

Steger,  70,  183 

Stephens,  88  " 

Stephenson,  88,  90 

Sterley.  90 

Steuben,  108 

Stevens.  7.  16,25,  68,1155 

Stevenson.  36,  46,  184 

Stewart,  141,  179,  181, 
I  go 

Stiles.  143,  146 

Stillman,  150 

Stilhvell,  181 

Stinton.  88 

Stivens.  1S2 

Stockley.  88 

Stokes,  87,  88 

.Stone.  7.  47.  48 

Stoncrt.  157 

Storms,  128 

Storrs.  102 

Story,  171 

'^touher,  31,  69 

.Stout,  37,  39 

.Stoutenburg,  116,  151 

Stoutenburgh,  61 

Strachan,  141    . 

Stranahan,  146 

Strang.  130-139,  147 

Street.  183 

Slrcing,  130,  131 

Stren<;,  134 

Siring.  130 

Strong,  6,  192 

Strut .  182 

Stuart,  40, 93,  i8g 


Sturt,  88 
Sturtevant,  127 
Stuyvesant,  65,  83,  97 
Stymets,  29,  32.  68,  157 
Sullock.  i8i 
Sutherland,  ig2 
Suttle,  184 
Suylandt,  84,  85 
Swan,  g6 
Swart,   59,  60,   61,    120, 

121 
Swartwout,     141,     166, 

187,  189,  193 
Swayze,  185 
Sweet,  10,  21,  174,  175 
Swerver,  32 
Swisebaugh.  181 
Swords,  u2 
Sydenham,  4 
Sylvester,  145 
Symonse.  67,  154 
Symonsen,  T55 
Sys,  32 
Sytez,  141 

Tadis,  154 

Taggart,  124 

Takker,  137 

Ta!cott,8,  II,  100 

Tallmadge,  141,  142 

Tamson,  28 

Tanner.  112,  155 

Tappan,3g 

Tarp,  114 

Taylor,  87,  g7,  i3g,  143, 

1S3.  185 
Teller,  34,  6g 
Tempel,  172 
Tenbroeck,  28,   58,  85, 

q6,  g8,  141,  155,  156, 

185 
Ten  Broek,  30,  114,  115 
Ten   Eyck,   ii,   19,    30, 

33,  fo,  61,  66,  69,  97, 

151,  152,153,155,176 
Ten  Eyk,  34,  65,  67,  68, 

72,  182,  190,  192 
Terhune,  61 
Terjay,  152 
Terp,  29 
Terrel,  182 
Terry,  74,  75,  76,  g6 
Tevo,  155 
Teyton.  87 
Thatcher,  146 
Thatford,  13,  16,  24 
Theall,  139 
Thebou,  114 
Thomas,  22,  72,  73,  182 
^Thompson,  37,  143,  145, 
■"■    161  '  _. 

Thomsen,  32 
Thomson,  46,  68,  143 
Thons,  35-  65 

Thorman  28,  68  ^//' 

Thf)rmen,  31,  33 
Thorn.  78,  181,  183 
Tliorne.  172.  184 
Thornton,  89 
Thorp.  174.  189 
Thurman,  115 
Thys,  1 15 
Thysen,  66,  152 
Tiddel.  34 
Tiebout,  67,  69,  72,  115, 

141.  157 
Tienhove,  31 
Tienhoven,  157 
Tietsoort,  113,  152 
Tiffany,  96 
Tilley.  183 
Tillottson,  76,  78 
Tilly.  155 
Tittel,  151 


2o: 


Index    of  Navies    in     Volume    XXI. 


Tobey,  172 
Tolley,  185 
Tolman,  28 
Tong,  15s 
Tooker,  74,  75,  172 
Torren,  90 
Totten,  183 
Tower,  127 
Townlee,  159 
Townsend,  161 
-  Tracy,  16,  126,  127 
Trafford,  159 
Trarah,  183 
Trenchard,  98 
Trevor,  172 
Trindek,  182 
Tripet,  97,  146 
Trow,  1^6 
Trumbull,  141,  169 
Tubbs,  183 
Tuckerman,     97,     146, 

192 
Tupper.  20 
Turk,  28,  29,  30,  34,  70, 

71,  114,  it6,  117,  119, 

120,  155,  156 
Turnbull,  179 
Turner.  88 
Tyler,  96,  143 
Tyllsey,  88 
Tysen,  70 
Tyson,  40,  41 

Uit  Bogert,  114 
Uitten  Bogert,  114 
Underbill,  63 
Url,  183 
Ursern,  181 
Uytden  B  >gert,  30,  32 
Uytenboj  ert.  32 
Uyttenbcgard,  151 

Vail,  150 
Valentine,  63,  64 
Valentyn,  113 
Van  Aalsteyn,  11 
Van  A  ilstyn,  70 
Van  Aarnem,  156 
Van  Aken,  85,  120 
Van  Alen,  11.  13, 14,  15, 

19,  20,  129,  172 
Van  Alst,  152 
Van  Alslyne,    21,    172, 

173,  176 
Van  Arnem,  70 
Van  Balen,  157 
Van  Ball,  51 
Van  Beest,  164 
Van    Benschoten,     55, 

165,  166 
Van    Benthuysen,     34, 

61,  86,  119,  155 
Van  Bloemendall,  60 
Van  Bomrael,  97 
Van  Borsom,  20,  68 
Van  Bossem,  59 
Van  Bossen,  60 
Van  Broekel,  192 
Van  Brugh,  35,  65,  157 
Van  Buren,   u,  44,  69, 

84,  143,  174,  17s,  183 
Van  Bursum,  67,  114 
VaTi  Buskirk,  184 
Vail  Bussen,  153 
Van  Ceis,  32 
Van  Corlaer.   171 
Van  Cortland,  154 
Van  Cortlandt,  31,  34, 

51,  71,  112,  192 
Van    Cortlant,    29,  71, 

"3 
Van  Crys,  34 
Van  Cys,  34 
Van  Daleri,  118 


Van    Dam,   2S,    67,    71, 

114,  117,  153 
Van  de  Bogaard,  120 
Van  den  Berg,  59, 61,  68, 

119,   122,    123,    151, 

1521  157 
Van  der  Beck,    68,    70, 

118,  152,  156 
Vanderbilt,  93 
Vanderburgh,  141 
Van  der  Grist,  114,  156 
Van  der  Haan,  70,  156,  i  Van  Solingen,  158 

158  I  Van  Steenberg,  86, 

Van  der   Heul,  30,    67,    Van  Taarl,  70 


Van  Roen,  65 

Van  Schaack,  15,  19,  20, 

129,  172 
Van  Schaick,  30,  65,  71, 

158 
Van  Schie,  52 
Van  Seys,  113,  116,  117, 

118 
Van  Slyck.  59.  121,  170 
Van  Slyk,  28 
Van  Solinge,  66 


118,  156 
Van  der  Hoef,  70 
Van  der  Linde,  171 
Vanderlyn,  192 
Van  der  PoeK  12, 13,  14, 

15,  18.  19,  20,  114 
Van  der  Schuur,  67 
Van  der  Schuuren,  64 
Van  der  Spiegel,  32,  65, 

71 


Van  Taarling,   71, 

Vantassel,  181 
Van  Thienhove,  6i 
Van  Thuyl,  31 
Van  Tienhove,  35 
Van  Tilberg,  116 
Van  Tilburg,  29 
Van  Tissel,  116 
Van  Tuyl,  156 


Van  Deurse,  30,  67,  69,  1  Van  Valkenberg,  i 


"5 


Van  Valkenburg,  16, 17, 


Van,  Valkenburgh,  13, 

Van  Vegten,  33,  72,  85 

Van  Velsen,  164 

Van  Vleck,   14,  15,    19, 


33. 


Van  Deursen,  30,  35,  65, 

66,  69,  72,   114,   117, 

i^i,  154.  155 
Van  Deusen,  13,  17,  165 
Van  Deventer,  115 
Vande   Water,    34,   66, 

70,  113, 114,  116,  118, 

152,  is6,  158 
Van  Dyck,  11,  134,  136, 

154.  170 
Van  Dyk,  29,  66,  68,  72, 

152 
Van  Dyke,  141 
Van  Elslant,  171 
Van  Emburgh,  181,  185    Van  Vranken.  55,  56 
Van  Etten,  60,  165,   166    Van  Wagenen,   45,   46, 
V'ln  Gaasbeck,  86  58,  59,  60,  61,  85,  86, 


Van   Vlek,    22,    31 

114,  156,  158 
Van  Vlekker.  113 
Van  Vliet,  59,   85,    120, 

i?i,  123,  t86 
van  Vorst,   30,    32,   33, 


Van  Garden,  165,  168 
Van  Gelder,  28,  31,  34, 

67,  68,   69,    70,    113, 

114,  117,     152,    154, 

156 
Van  Heusen,  19 
Van  Heyningen.  60,119, 

i?o 
Van   Hoek,  65.   67,    ;ij 

11&,  155,  58  ;■ 

Van  Hoevenbargh,  141 
Van  Hoorn,   31,  32,  66, 

70 
Van  Horn,  158 
Van  Home,  67,  116, 153, 

Van  Houten,  70 
Van  Hyniugen,  70 
Van  Irnburg,  118 
Van  Keulen,  97,  98 
Van  Keuren,  18,  84,  97, 


97,  98,  118-124,   141, 

143,  145,  164,  167 
Van  Wickle,  112,  192 
Van  Wie,  121 
Van  Winkel,  156 
Van  Winkelen,  115 
Van  Woert.  65 
Van  Woggelom,  171 
Van  Wyck,  54,  115 
Van  Wyk,  31,  72,  158 
Van  Ysselstein,  171 
Van  Zandt,   30,  33,  39, 

66,  67,   69,  116,   isii 

153.  '55 
Varick,  185 
Varik,  152 
Vark,  68 
Vas,  52,  120 
Vaughan,  181 
Vaugton,  32 
Veal.  181 
Vedder,  22,  150 
Vercolge,  90 


lyerdon,  172 
""iVer  Duyii, 


Van  Kleeck,  167 
Van  Kortright,  164 

Van  Laar,  31.  68         r"^  Ver   Duyn,  30,   35,   67, 
Van  Laer,  171  .,         69.  116,  152,  164 

Van  Langestraat,  17,     *  Vermilya,  8r,  82 
Vaniaw,  185  ,  Vermilye,  81,  82,  66 

Van  Lint,  116  '  Vemilyea,  82 

Van  Mepelen,   29,  113,  I  Vernooy,  186,  188, 


•54 
Van  Nes,  170 
Van  Nist,  52,  53 
Van  Oort,  70,  154 
Van  Orland,  118 
Van  Patten,  84 
Van   Pelt,   30,  69,  114, 

153,  JS5 
Van  Ranst,  28,  33,  151 
Van  Rensselaer,  23,  45, 

46,  140 


100 
Verplatick,  53,  133,  135 
Verplank.  51,  53,  "54,  68, 

70.  71 
Vetch,  66,  is3 
Veurde,  114 
Vickerman,  181 
Viele,  93 
Viely,  66 
Vile,  29,  33,  114 
Vinhagen,  170 


Vinson,  90 

Vliereboom,  66,  114 

Vlydenberg,  153 

Voeshee,  116 

Von  Kobut,  33 

Vosch,  171 

Vos,  35,  116 

Vosburg,  to 

Vosburgh,  12, 19,  20,  21, 
22 

Vosburough,  141 

Vradd,  183 

Vredenburg,  28,  33,  67, 
I         72,  113,  116.  u8, 156, 

164,  168 
'  Vrelandt,  70 

Vrclant,  35,  153 

Wady,  181 
Wagget,  87 
Wagstoffe,  183 
Wakeley,  95 
Waldorf,  157 
Waldrom,    35,    66,    71, 

114,  1x5,    116,    154, 

156,   158,    166,    171, 

184 
Walgraaf,  67,  151 
Walker,  89,  96.  141 
Wall,  184 
Wallace,  184 
Wallworth,  88 
Walmsly,  117 
Walter,  28,  70 
Waiting,  28 

Walton,  67,  97,  117,  143 
Waltong,  30 
Walworth,  6 
Wamboom,  122 
Wanshaar,  158 
Warcupp,  90 
Ward,    88,  90.    96,  107, 

137,  181,  184 
Wariff,  185 
Waring,  137 
Warne,  43,  157 
Warner,  83 
Warnock,  182 
Warren,  159 
Warton,  172 
Warwicke,  87 
Washburn,  182 
Washburne,  126, 
Washington,  45,  48,  55, 

96, 107,  108,  HI,  142, 
,„    143,  169 
Waterbury,  182 
W^aters.  ji 
Watkeys,  183 
Watson.  168,   169,   170, 

171,   181,    184,    185, 

189 
Watt,  177 
Wattam,  16.  25 
Way,  182 
Wean,  181 
Weaver,  186 
Wc-bb,  169,  170,  172 
Webbers,  29,   115,    133, 

151.  156 
Webster,  i6q.  170 
Weissenfels,  141 
Wellman,  49,  90 
Wels.  152 
Welsch,  29,  71,  113 
Welsh,  184, 
Wendel,  34 
Wesley,  143 
Wesscls,  28,  31,  33,  35, 

65,  68,  71,   113,  115, 

117,  118,  153,  157 
West,  39,  146 
Weslbrook,  56,  ^^ 
Westfael,  167 


Index    of  Names    in    Volume   XXI. 


203 


Westfall,  166 
AVetmore,  134,  136 
Wet/.el,  141 
We  y  man   182 
W'naly,  go 
Wharton,  54 
VYheeler,  yg,  8j 
^vVhipplc,  95 
White,  66,  88,  89,  96.  q?. 

137,  141,  181.  ,03' 
Whitefield,  i«         ^ 
Whitlock.  42 
^Vhitney,  138,  193 
A'hittaker,  185 
Whittemore,  97 
Wicks,  73 
Wiggins,  i8i 
Wightman,  192 
Wikoff.  36,  37 
Wilberforce,  92 
Wilcoxson,  21,  175 
Wilding,  165 
Wilhelmus,  28 
Wilkinson,  90 


Willard,  102 
Willcocks,  88 
Willcox,  25 
Willeman.  157 
Willems,  84 
Willemse,  30,  35,  66,  71, 

153,  ii;i;.  !■-? 
Willet,,^/"     ■'' 
Willett,  140 
Williams,  83, 90,  96,  128, 

182,  184 
Williamson,  16,  81,  125 
Willis,  96 
Willsey,  21,  174 
Willson,  87,  88,  177,  183, 

184 
Wilson,   13,  22,  45,  46, 

49,   78,   93i    96,    98, 

143,    146,    177,    178, 

179,  181,  190 
Winchester,  146 
Windover,  32,  116,  157 
Wing,  88 
Winne,  11,  165,  171 


Winslow,  49,  93.  172 
Winthrop,  95 
Wist,  181 
Witlock.  172 
Witmot,  18, 
».  itvelt,  29,  157 
Woderspoon,  183 
Woederd,  33 
Woeders,  72  • 

Woertendyk.  69,  151 
Wolf,  183 
Wolfe,  103,  190 
Wood,  6,  15,  23,  35, 

118,   143,    155,    I 

183,  192 
Woodaard,  165,  166 
Woodard,  118 
Woodcock,  89 
WoodhuU,  96 
Woodley.  89 
Woodruff,  141 
Woods.  136 
Woodshaw,  89 
Woodward,  89 


Woolley,  184 
Woolsey,  77,  172 
Worden,  183 
«i      ^hmgtoi. 
Wotton,  183 
Woudberry,  171 
Wright,    16,  26,  89,  90, 

96,  124,  141,  184,  193 
Wynk  >op,    12,    61,   71, 

143.  '46 

Yarrington,  77 
Yay,  31,  34 
Ydese,  66 
Yeakel,  124 
Yeamons,  181 
Youmans,  183 
Yunior,  183 

Zantfoort,  115 
Zeeman,  171 
Zenfcr,  151, 153 
Zwa.'.p,  65 


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1.  FiSHKiLL    AND    Tts    Ancient    Church.       By   the    late    Rev.    Francis    M. 

Kipp,  D.D.,  ............     51 

2.  The  Heermans  Family.     By  G.  H.  Van  Wagenen, 58 

3.  The  Schuremans,  of  New  Rochelle.     By  Richard  Wynkoop,  .         .         .61 

4.  Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  the  City  of  New  York. 

Baptisms.     (Continued), 65 

5.  Brookhaven  (L.  I.)  Epitaphs.     From  W.  Kelby, 73 

6.  Inscriptions  from  the  Dyckman  Burial  Ground, 81 

7.  The  Crispell  Family.     By  Thomas  G.  E-vans, 83 

8.  Kingston  Church  Records, 86 

9.  Weddings  at  St.  Mary's,  Whitechapel,  London.     (Continued),     ,         .  87 

10.  Notes  and  Queries. — Proceedings  of   the  Society — Officers   of   the  Revolu- 

tion— Bishop  Moore — Dey  Family  Record — Statue  of  Columbus — Longevity 
— Narragansett  Register — Winslow  Memorial — Church  Family — Ackerman — 
Dutch  Rulers, 91 

11.  Obituary — James  Renwick  Gibson,  Jr., 94 

12.  Book  Notices — Guilford  Celebration — The  Stoiy  of  an  Old  Farm,  by  Andrew 

D.  Mellick,  Jr. — History  of  Utah,  by  H.  H.  Bancroft — Lion  Gardiner,  by 
Curtiss  H.  Gardiner — Descendants  of  Richard  Mann,  by  George  S.  Mann  — 
The  Op  Dyck  Genealogy,  by  Charles  Wilson  Opdyke — James  G.  Birney,  by 
William  Birney — American  Methodism,  by  J.  B.  Wakeley,  D.D. — The  Olney 
Memorial,       '............     95 

13.  Donations  to  the  Library, '97 

14.  List  of  Officers, 98 


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Portrait,  .............     99 

2.  Inscriptions   in  the    Graveyard  at    Morgan   Manor,   South   Amboy, 

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6.  Strang.     By  Richard  Wynkoop,         .........   130 

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Moore — Buffalo  Historical  Society — Certificates  of  Membership,     .         .         .   140 

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hampton.  L.  I.,  Diary  of  William  Pynchon — Bolton — Pocumtuk  Valley 
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DEVOTED    TO    THE     INTERESTS    OF    AMERICAN 
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October,    1890, 


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The  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Record. 


Publication  Committee  : 
Rev.  BEVERLEY  R.  BETTS,  Chairman,         Dr.  SAMUEL  S.  PURPLE. 
Gen.  JAS.  GRANT  WILSON.  Mr.  THOMAS  G.  EVANS. 

Mr.   EDWARD  F.   DE  LANCEY.  Mr.  WILLIAM  P.  ROBINSON. 


OCTOBER,   1890.-CONTENTS. 

PAGE 

1.  Biographical  Sketch    of   Rev.   Charles   W.  Baird,  D.D.      By  R.  W. 

With  a  Steel  Portrait,  ••........    147 

2.  Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  the  City  of  New  York. 

(Continued),    .         .  .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .151 

3.  Captain    Alexander   Forbes    and    his    Descendants.      By   Edmund  J. 

Cleveland,      .............  150 

4.  The  Negro  Plot  of  1712.     By  Chaplain  R.   R.   Hoes,  U.  S.  N.,       .         .  162 

5.  The  Vredenburgh  Family.     By  Gerrit  H.  Van  Wagenen.     (Continued),     .  164 

6.  Two  Old  New  York  Houses.      By  Col.  W.  R.   Hopkins,        .         .         .  168 

7.  Genealogical  Data  gathered  from  Albany  and  New  York  Records. 

By  B.   Fernow, 170 

8.  Pruyn  Family.     American  Branch.     By  J.  V.  L.  Pruyn.     (Continued).         .    172 

9.  Two  Quebec  Graves.     By  Gen.  Jas.   Grant  Wilson, 177 

10.  Memorial  of  New  York  Loyalists,  .         , 180 

11.  The  De  Witt  Family.     By  Thomas  G.   Evans.     (Continued),    .         .         .   185 

12.  Notes  and  Queries.     Letter  from  Quebec — The   Bradford   Family — Men's 

Wives — Memoir    of     Vanderlyn — South    Amboy     Inscriptions — Addresses — 
Franklin  Anniversary,  ..........    190 

13.  Book  Notices. — Matthew  Clarkson — The  Whitneys — History  of  Deerpark — 

The   Wight    Family — The  Hawley  Record — New  Brunswick    Reports — Mr. 
Moore's  Address,  ...........   193 

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From  Gen.  James  Grant  Wilson.  Jugements  et  Deliberations  du  Conseil  Sou- 
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line  Par  L'Abbe  H.  R.  Casgrain.  i  vol.,  8vo.  Quebec.  1889.— The  Cana- 
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and  By-Laws  of  the  Pennsylvania  Society.     Philadelphia,  1890. 

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Dutch  Church  in  New  York  City.     New  York,  1890. 

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Julia  Perkins  Cutler.      Cincinnati.  1890. 

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Exeter,  1888. 

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OFFICERS    AND   COMMITTEES    FOR    1890. 


President, Gen.  JAS.  GRANT  WILSON. 

First  Vice-President, Dr.  ELLSWORTH  ELIOT. 

Second  Vice-President, Dr.  SAMUEL  S.  PURPLE. 

Recording  Secret.ary, Mr.  THOMAS  C.  EVANS. 

Corresponding  Secretary,      ....  Rev.  ROSWELL  RANDALL  H(/ES. 

Treasurer, Dr.  GEORGE  H.  BUTLER. 

LIBRARI.4N Mr.  GERRIT  H.  VAN  WAGENEN, 

Registrar  of  Pedigrees, Rev.  ARTHUR  W.   H.  EATON. 

Executive  Committee. 
Dr.   Ellsworih  Eliot,  Mr.  Edward  Trenchard. 

Mr.  Gerrit  H.  Van  Wa(;enen.  Mr.  William  P.  Ketcham. 

Trustees. 
TER.M  Expires,  1891.  Term  Expires,  iSgs.  Term  Expires,  1893. 

Gen.  Jas.  Grant  Wilson.  Mr.  Jacob  Wendell.  Mr.  Charles  B.  Moore. 

Mr.  William  P.  Robinson.        Mr.  Henry  T.  Drowne.  Mr.  Edmund  A.  Hurry. 

Dr.  Samuel  S.  Purple.  Mr.  Thomas  C.  Cornell.  Mr.  Samuel  Rurhans.  Jr. 

Committee   on  Biographical  Bibliography. 
Mr.  Charles  B.   Moore.  Mr.  Theophyi.act  B.  Bleecker,  Jr. 

Mr.  Henry  T.  Drowne. 


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